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A school trip with war heroes Wantagh High students reflect on life-changing WWII museum visit that the veterans had fought in a war at their age, and agreeing that the stresses of school pale in Twenty Wantagh High School comparison. students said they experienced At the May 4 Wantagh Board the honor of a lifetime when of Education meeting, students they accompanied the country’s reflected on the trip and recoggreatest heroes to the National nized the veterans who were World War II Museum. Juniors paired with them. Christina and seniors were West described her paired with World experience on the War II veterans for a trip and her time trip to the museum, spent with veteran in New Orleans, Clifford Doering, a April 19-21. Marine who served Sponsored by the in the Third Gary Sinise FoundaAmphibious Battaltion, the Soaring ion during the Battle Va l o r p r o g r a m of Okinawa. brings World War II “He’s probably ve t e r a n s t o t h e the most interesting museum that was and amazing person built in their honor. CHRIstINA I’ve ever met in my Wantagh High Prinentire life,” West cipal Paul Guzzone West said of the veteran. said the opportunity student “During our time became available to together, he told me students in March, about a stay on the and within 48 hours of the ship for four long months. He announcement, 53 students sub- described how there was no mitted essays expressing their fresh food or water, and the only desire to attend. source of bathing was to go in Each veteran was paired with the saltwater or try to wash with one student from Wantagh High the freshwater coming from the School and upstate Lake George faucets when they would clean High School. Students said the dishes.” trip helped them put their own On their second day in the lives in perspective, recognizing Continued on page 23
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Christmas in May? Scott Lannan, 47, known around Wantagh and Seaford as Santa Claus for cycling through town dressed as if for a sleigh ride, joined hundreds of runners in the half marathon event at the Long Island Marathon last Sunday.
Varsity pitcher is one of a Kind Senior hurls perfect game in Locust Valley win By MICHAel MAlAsZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com
Seaford High School senior Billy Kind said he was so excited that he couldn’t fall asleep just hours after pitching a perfect game in an 11-0 win over Locust Valley on April 25. For his achievement, Kind was named Newsday’s Athlete of the Week on April 28. “I was definitely in shock,” Kind said. “It was unreal, because I kept thinking about how many things happened in the game — my teammates saved me a few times, for example. So many things could have happened or gone wrong, but they
didn’t. It was perfect.” Kind struck out five batters in the game, and threw only 70 pitches. “He’s everything that you could possibly ask for from a frontline pitcher,” Mike Milano, Seaford’s baseball coach and a history teacher, said. “He gives you everything he’s got. . . . He’s physically gifted. He’s a big, strong kid with great legs for the position, great arm action and a great work ethic.” Kind, who attended Seaford’s Harbor Elementary School, has played baseball since he was 3. He played competitive baseball from a young age, bypassing the kinds of youth clubs where a tee is Continued on page 4
e’s probably the most interesting and amazing person I’ve ever met.