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DECEMBER 10 - 16, 2020
Vol. 68 No. 50
Teens keen to fulfill dreams Charitable duo take matters into own hands for annual toy drive one step further. They reached out to members of their neighborhood and school community, Matthew Sheintul and Emily using social media, and created Fagan, seniors at Seaford High an Amazon “wish list” link feaSchool, decided in turing holiday toys mid-October that and other items. they wanted to help Others have also their community. added items since They saw an opporOctober. The goal tunity to give back, was to collect as by helping the John many gifts as possiTheissen Children’s ble for families that Foundation with its are struggling this annual Holiday Toy w i n t e r, a n d t h e & Fund Drive. Comteens’ plan was to munity members make the process as who take part usualeasy, accessible and ly either donate a user-friendly as posfew toys to the charisible, even for people ty or spend time in EMIlY FAgAN who may not be as t h e fo u n d at i o n’s Seaford H.S. senior technologically Wantagh headquarsavvy. t e r s, h e l p i n g t o “One of the main unbox incoming gifts and orga- things that popped in my mind nize them. when thinking about doing this Sheintul and Fagan took it Continued on page 3
By J.D. FREDA
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Courtesy Mary Kate Tischler
MARY KAtE tISChlER and her daughter, Ruby, have created Seaford’s Sharing Table, where locals can come and either give or take as much as they would like.
Take what you need, whenever Seafordite starts ‘Sharing Table’ to give back By J.D. FREDA jfreda@liherald.com
If you have driven, biked or walked down Narragansett Avenue in Seaford in the past two weeks, chances are you’ve come across the Sharing Table — a small, tidy operation where people can either give, or take, whatever they need. Mary Kate Tischler, of Seaford, is the creator of the goodwill exchange table, and serves as resident host. After
seeing a similar idea in a magazine, Tischler bought the initial lot of canned goods, other non-perishable food items and toiletries. She put them on a standard six-foot by three-anda-half-foot folding table outside her house on Narragansett on Nov. 22. Her goal wasn’t overly specific, she said. She just wanted to take advantage of the community’s proclivity to give by creating a place to do so without any pressure. The table remains outside, day and night, for
community members to add to — or to take advantage of when needed. “It seemed like a very effective and easy way to help people locally,” Tischler, 46, said on Monday. “That Sunday, I just woke up and my daughter and I had no plans. I said, ‘Let’s do this today.’ I didn’t know if it would actually work.” The initial supply that Tischler purchased was Continued on page 15
here are families that have to focus more on other financial needs at the moment.
Our COvid-19 traCker With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. the number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. data is obtained from the nassau County Covid-19 dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.