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Vol. 33 No. 44
oCToBER 27 - NoVEMBER 2, 2022
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Meet two new V.S. women of distinction Althea Brown, Julie K. Eason, Rose Nacincik, Karleen (Leveille) Robinson and Nancy YoungEight local women, including fert, each making a significant two from Valley Stream, were effort to create positive change recently honored for making a in their communities. significant effort to Freire has been c re at e p o s i t ive working at Key Food change in their comValley Stream since munities with 2012 and is in charge Women of Distincof customer service tion awards in a cerappreciation day, emony held at which she organizes F ranklin Square to give back to her Public Library. customers who supThe ceremony, port the store. now in its ninth “My colleagues year, was held in and I organize Cusperson for the first tomer Appreciation time since 2019. The Day every year once event is usually held a year in the sumin March but was mer,” said Freire. d e l aye d d u e t o “The event is held in Covid-19. the store parking lot The event recogand is made up of all nized women who vendor brands demdisplayed outstand- KAREN FREIRE o n s t r at i n g t h e i r ing leadership and Honoree, products, providing h i g h l i g h t e d t h e Women of items to raffle for g r a s s ro o t s wo rk free, and a variety of Distinction they have accomdifferent free foods. plished in Michaelle We offer different C. Solages’ 22nd Assembly Dis- activities for children to interact trict. with.” This year’s honorees from According to Freire, it’s Valley Stream were Lynette Bat- important to give thanks to the tle and Karen Freire. Joining community, the lifeline of the them were Elizabeth Forbes, Continued on page 10
By KEpHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
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Courtesy Helene Williams
opERA CoMposER lEoNARD J. Lehrman and his wife and collaborator, soprano Helene Williams, will launch a newly edited online version of their ‘Sacco and Vanzetti’ opera.
Composer to launch virtual ‘Sacco and Vanzetti’ opera By JUAN lAsso jlasso@liherald.com
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f you ask Valley Stream opera composer Leonard Lehrman how he crafted his grand American opera, “Sacco and Vanzetti,” he’d tell you he finished what Blitzstein started nearly 40 years ago. The late opera composer Marc Blitzstein had an ongoing fascination with one of the
most controversial episodes in American history: the trial and execution of anarchists and Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti. Both were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree in 1920. Since then, the trial has been widely considered by historians as unfair for its shoddy police evidence and the court’s ethnic prejudice against the RVC, MER, LYN, VAL
two men. Blitzstein’s fascination spurred him to take the duo’s story on stage through his eponymously named opera — a dream of his that would ultimately be cut short when he was murdered in Martinique in 1964. Afterward, the opera languished for years, according to Lehrman, mainly because many composers found his Continued on page 4
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y advice to other women is to aim to continue to grow . . . to give back to the community that has helped shape and mold them.