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HERALD Vol. 72 No. 29
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Students ready for life after high school room after the pandemic. He realized that students who had earned advanced Regents diploStudents who g raduated mas were not quite ready to from Seaford High School last enter the job market or take on month are more prepared to certain responsibilities, such as speaking publicenter the next chapter of their lives, ly or budg eting thanks to a course money, he added. that has taught “You hear horthem valuable life ror stories about skills. kids getting their The course, first credit card called Beyond Seaand running up ford High School, debt and not realteaches students a izing that is going variety of tasks t o i m p a c t yo u r t h a t wo u l d g ive ability to buy a them a leg up as house,” Wimmer they enter adultsaid. hood. Through this Wimmer, who program, students teaches the course are learning how to with co-instructor prepare for a job Christine Caserta, interview, manage MiCHAEl WiMMER said Beyond Seaa business, and how Co-instructor, ford High School to live on their own. Beyond Seaford runs the full “ We b a s i c a l l y High School s c h o o l ye a r o n put together a curalter nating days riculum that and is split into attempts to help (students) with two classes. Students who sign whatever paths they are going up for the course in ninth or to go into,” Michael Wimmer, 10th grade start in Beyond 1, one of the course instructors, where they learn important life said. skills such as public speaking, Wimmer created the course budgeting and cooking. Beyond four years ago, when students 2 builds upon the previous were returning to the class-
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A kickoff to summer reading Seaford resident Julian Cole, 5, playing a game of Cornhole during Seaford Public Library’s Adult Summer Reading Kickoff Party on June 28. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Finding a home for Roxi At Wantagh animal shelter, Clavin and Donnelly pledge prosecution for abandonment of dog on Southern State By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
She was left alone, tied to a light pole on the westbound Southern State Parkway, near Exit 21, in Uniondale. All she had was a water bowl, and a note that read, “This is Roxi. A trained American Bullmastiff. She is four years old. She has been fed and given a flea bath, she may still have issues with them. See that she gets good care.” Roxi, later more accurately identified as an English mastiff, was abandoned on the parkway on the mor ning of July 1. State troopers retrieved her after responding to a call reporting
a dog tied to a pole at around 5:30 a.m. They dropped her off at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh, where she was examined by veterinarians who found her to be hungry and underweight, but otherwise in good health. “She’s nervous, but she’s very sweet,” Ashley Behrens, the acting director of the shelter, said. “Obviously it’s traumatic what she went through, so nervousness is to be expected.” Now Roxi is looking for a home, and law enforcement officers are looking for whoever left her on the side of the road. “We’re going to find a home for this dog and, Continued on page 2
e basically put together a curriculum that attempts to help (students) with whatever paths they are going to go into.
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