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JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Vol. 32 No. 4
Hate speech on full display Officials condemn appearance of white supremacist propaganda ‘saving’ white European peoples from pur por ted imminent extinction.” Local officials and residents The group’s primary mode of condemned propaganda fliers activism is the distribution of from a white supremacist group recruitment fliers, much like the that appeared at the Valley ones that appeared in Valley Stream Long Island Rail Road Stream, that link to its website. train station on “One of the Jan. 19. By Jan. 21, ways that white they had been supremacists rely removed. on to get their mesThe fliers prosage out is pretty moted the New Jerlow-budget, lowsey European Hericost,” Oren Segal, tage Association, vice president of which the Anti-Defthe Center on amation League Extremism at the considers a white Peter Belfiore/Herald ADL, told the radio supremacist hate station WNYC last StiCkERS FRoM A g roup, and feaweek, “which is tured slogans such white supremacist group create some fliers, as “Nationalism appeared at the train post them online could have prevent- station on Jan. 19. and encourage othed this” and “Free ers to download Kyle Rittenhouse,” them and post them on a local a reference to the white teenager telephone pole, maybe at a reliaccused of shooting and killing gious institution, to try to get as two protesters and injuring a much attention by relying literthird at an anti-racism protest in ally on paper to spread their Kenosha, Wis., last summer. message.” The ADL describes the New The fliers’ appearance has Jersey European Heritage Asso- been mostly isolated to neighborciation as a “small New Jersey- hoods in the tri-state area, based white supremacist group,” according to the ADL, including founded in 2018, which “espous- on Long Island, but they have es racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance under the guise of Continued on page 4
By PEtER BElFioRE pbelfiore@liherald.com
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too cold for a stroll? Not. A couple took a walk through Hendrickson Park last Saturday afternoon as the temperature began to drop below freezing.
Pet charity carries on after tragedy Paw It Forward continues despite death of co-founder By NiColE AlCiNDoR nalcindor@liherald.com
After her husband, her mother and a close friend died within eight months of one another last year, Valley Stream resident Danielle Scala-Nathans said she felt intense, ongoing feelings of sorrow. Despite the crippling grief that she said she still grapples with, Scala-Nathans said she has been able to cope with the aftermath of losing her loved ones by
dedicating more of her time to helping people and animals through a pet food pantry that she runs out of her basement. “Helping people and animals gives me a purpose in life,” Scala-Nathans said. “Oftentimes, pet owners will feed their pets instead of themselves when money is tight, so our charity works to feed the pets in order to allow the pet owners to spend their own money on feeding themselves.” She founded the pantry, Paw
It Forward, five years ago with her husband, Rob Nathans, as a charity to collect pet food donations and animal blankets, toys, treats, medication and bedding, among other supplies. The charity works to ensure that animals are not abandoned or sent to shelters because their owners cannot afford to feed them. It began as an effort to help people living in the South in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. However, Paw It Continued on page 16