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JUNE 23 - 29, 2022
A picnic to benefit Ukraine By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Elisa Dragotto/Herald photos
MARIA SZHERBA, FAR left, Halyna Fenchenko, Anna Kijko, Ivanna Duda, Tetyana Komzuk and Iryna Bodnar were on hand to serve homemade Ukrainian food at the Father’s Day picnic at St. Josephat’s, a fundraiser for Ukraine.
Ten Ukrainian police officers, trained in combat, ran for their lives near Lugansk in May as a Russian drone followed them. A helmet worn by one had already been shot off by the enemy as they dodged a barrage of shrapnel. Hearing the roar of bombs in the distance, the Ukrainian fighters were desperate to find refuge. When they spotted the door to an underground shed, they ran inside. As Michael, the last to enter, pulled the door closed, a bomb went off outside, causing the door to explode and fall onto him. Michael cannot share his CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Sea Cliff Youth Activities Board is up and running By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
After a two-year coronavirus hiatus, Sea Cliff ’s Youth Activities Board held its first major event on June 15 — an ice cream study break for local middle and high school students. It was the first large-scale program organized by the group in roughly 50 years. The Youth Activities Board was founded in the 1970s to oversee events for young people at the Sea Cliff Community Center, which no longer exists. The original organization ceased operation as well, although a provision for it remained in the vil-
lage charter. Then, in early 2020, local parents breathed new life into the board, and began to prepare a range of activities for the coming year. But then the coronavirus pandemic began. So the organization had to hold off until last Wednesday, when, during middle and high school students’ study period, it invited them to Roslyn Park. Amie Sanborn, a member of the YAB since 2020, explained that she and her colleagues felt that elementary school children had so many activities provided by the schools and village that the board wanted to focus on the
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t was amazing to see more than 130 kids come out, and it’s exactly the purpose of this board.
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Village liaison, Sea Cliff Youth Activities Board older students. “Our target audience is . . . our middle and high schoolers,”
Sanborn said. “We really saw a gap in community-based events and functions that were geared toward that age group. So the goal is to create safe spaces and unique social opportunities and various community connections for that particular age group.” According to fellow YAB member Alison Camardella, it is especially important to encour-
age community activities among tweens and teens. As president of the North Shore Coalition Ag ainst Substance Abuse, Camardella highlighted just how important it is to provide teens with alternative outlets to have fun in a safe environment. “Being the president of CASA, my mission is to reduce CONTINUED ON PAGE 5