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Vol. 69 No. 26
Nashville-themed nights in Wantagh
Student snags acting award
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JUNE 24 - 30, 2021
Vessel capsizes amid boating safety presser said at the podium. “We’re pulling two people from the water right now.” Roughly 100 feet Two Seaford residents were behind him, flashing lights could rescued from the water off Want- be seen illuminating the water, agh Park on June 16 after their and the Marine Bureau boat 14-foot Capri sailboat capsized. pulled the sailboat in. Joan Imbro and Robert DiehlDiehlmann, 65, said he had mann were unharmed, and had been operating the vessel in the to laugh when they vicinity of the Bellwere pulled to the more Channel Wantagh Park dock: when it overturned. Ironically, the NasHe and Imbro fell sau County Police into the water, the Marine Bureau had Marine Bureau was come to their resdispatched to the cue during a news site, they were safeconference about ly brought aboard boating safety. Marine 1 and their At approximatesailboat was towed ly 10:55 a.m., police in to the marina. responded to a They declined medreport that a strong ical attention at the patricK rydEr gust of wind had scene. overturned a small Commissioner, After the duo vessel with two peo- Nassau County Police came ashore, Imbro ple aboard, a police said that Diehlreport stated. mann was an “expeCounty Executive Laura Cur- rienced boater.” Diehlmann said ran and County Police Commis- he got his first boat at age 25, and sioner Patrick Ryder appeared at is typically on the water every the Wantagh Park marina week. He noted that he had been around 11 a.m. for a conference sailing for about an hour before on boating safety procedures. the emergency call was made by Just before Ryder spoke, an a passerby, and added that the ambulance appeared at the scene water was warm. to respond to the emergency call. Diehlmann’s advice to boat“This is not staged,” Ryder Continued on page 12
By KatE NalEpiNSKi knalepinski@liherald.com
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SEaford rESidENtS GracE Bennett and Phillip Cohen danced to the music of the band Our Generation last Saturday night.
Community kicks off summer Seaford Saturday Nights offers sense of normalcy By Mallory WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
Community members gathered last Saturday night for the kickoff of the Seaford Chamber of Commerce’s annual Seaford Saturday Nights series. Food trucks and craft vendors lined the Seaford Long Island Rail Road parking lot for the event, which ran from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. It featured music by the Long Islandbased cover band Our Genera-
tion as well as children’s activities, like gaga ball, which is similar to dodgeball. “The Seaford Chamber of Commerce has really done a lot these last couple of years to bring these types of events to Seaford,” Hempstead Town Councilman Chris Carini said. “The chamber called me right away, and tons of people called my office. They’re excited to get back out. People are ready to put this [pandemic] behind them at this point.” Seaford Saturday Nights
was the brainchild of chamber members Donna Jebaily and Celia Hanney in 2019. “We saw that other people were having food-truck events in the area, and we said, ‘You know what? Why don’t we do something here in Seaford?’” Jebaily recalled. “So we decided to do it. We came up with the name Seaford Saturday Nights, and here it is. It’s like a big block party.” While Jebaily focused on Continued on page 16
e’re approaching one of the busiest boating seasons of the year.