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COMMUNITY UPDATE Infections as of May 27
2,093
Infections as of May 23 2,079
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VOL. 69 NO. 23
JUNE 3 - 9, 2021
Seaford plays dominoes with cereal boxes Beth Escobar, who runs the pantry with her sister, Jeanne Rodrigues, and her best friend, The Seaford Harbor Parent Claudia Brunie, said she was Teacher Association has a whole happy to get the phone call from new twist on donating food: play- PTA members who wanted to ing dominoes with boxes of cere- make a donation. al. One hundred boxes led right Bellissimo and the PTA raised to the Seaford-based the idea with SeaFor the Love of ford Harbor ElemenPete’s Pantry. tary School students A Google search and their families in reveals that school late April, and she districts across the said it was well country have been received. “We’ re taking part in the always looking for Cereal Challenge, in something for the which boxes of cerekids to do,” Bellissial are lined up like mo said. “Unfortudominoes, and then nately, with Covid, tipped over in a casthe kids aren’t able cading collapse. The to participate and do cereal is then often as many fun things SHANNON donated to charity. as they’re normally “Everybody is CONATY able to do. So it was into social media, combining the fun and I happened to PTA president activities for the notice it on Facekids and at the same book that some other schools time doing something good for were doing this,” said Tina Bel- our community.” lissimo of the Seaford Harbor Seaford Harbor students PTA. “I’ve been a fan of Pete’s brought in 100 boxes of cereal, Pantry, because it’s a local Sea- and on May 26, teachers lined up ford pantry. And I said, you know the boxes and took videos of what, this would be really won- themselves playing dominoes. derful because they do outreach Later that day, the boxes were to not only Seaford, but all the taken to For the Love of Pete’s surrounding areas.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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A Memorial Day salute Attendees at Monday’s holiday ceremony at the Seaford American Legion watched the gun salute, which honored the fallen.
A new name for an itch that’s not new to doctors: ‘maskne’ By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Nancy Widman said that when she first noticed the rash on her neck, she didn’t think anything of it. But it got worse, spreading down her throat onto her chest. Widman’s doctor attributed her condition to the cloth masks that she had been wearing to avoid getting Covid19. She recommended that she switch to paper masks, and gave
her a prescription for medication. “She told me it was definitely from moisture from my mask, and gave me cortisone cream and prednisone,” said Widman, who lives in Salisbury. Dr. Paul Mustacchia, an internist and the chair of the Department of Medicine at Nassau University Medical Center, said he was familiar with mask-related acne, which was renamed “maskne” during the pandemic.
“When I first heard the new name, I did a double-take,” he said. “The name has no scientific relevance.” Maskne occurs when people wear tight-fitting masks for long periods of time. A mask creates a moist environment from breathing, talking or sweating, which can block pores, creating acne or other skin conditions, including allergic contact dermatitis, rosaCONTINUED ON PAGE 5
ereal is really the one food that is the least donated, due to it being really expensive.