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HERALD VOl. 72 NO. 27
Outdoor concerts announced
Honoring our nurses
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JUNE 27 - JUlY 3, 2024
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It will be a run to remember Wantagh school district announces 9/11 Memorial 5K fundraising event The foundation has worked with the Wantagh district in the past. In April 2023, students from the high school took part As the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the Wantagh in the foundation’s Soaring school district looks to find Valor program, traveled to the ways for students never to for- National WWII Museum, in get what happened on that trag- New Orleans, to tour it and speak with veteric day. At a May Board ans who served in of Education meetWorld War II. ing at the high Last August, the school, Principal d i s t r i c t wo rk e d Paul Guzzone and with the foundation Assistant Principal a g ain, this time Christopher Widinviting high mann announced school juniors to the Wantagh Warthe National Seprior 9/11 Memorial tember 11 Memori5K, a fundraising al & Museum in run that will take Manhattan, to place on Sept. 22. l e a r n ab o u t t h e According to Guzattacks and the saczone, the race will rifices of those who PAUl GUzzONE help fund programs died that day. for students and Principal, Wantagh According to staff to recognize High School Guzzone, the trip the events of Sept. was a memorable 11, 2001. experience for all “This is too important of an those who took part. “It was event that occurred to not have really life-changing, quite honsomething on campus here for estly,” he said. “Those are my remembrance,” Guzzone said. words, but also the words of The run, according to Guz- our students that went as well zone, will be a partnership with as the parents.” the Gary Sinise Foundation, a After the Manhattan trip, public charity that organizes Guzzone said, the high school numerous programs to honor faculty formed a committee to veterans and first responders. Continued on page 5
By CHARlES SHAW
cshaw@liherald.com
Courtesy Wantagh school district
Movin’ on up Members of the Wantagh Middle School Class of 2024 — the future Wantagh High School Class of 2028 — celebrated their moving up ceremony on June 11. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Learning shocking tricks of the trade
Students master circuitry in new electrical training course By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
An electrifying course at Seaford High School is teaching students essential trade skills that will benefit them regardless of what profession they pursue in the future. The high school’s Electrical Training Center celebrated its first graduating class on May 23, as nine seniors in the new program received certificates verifying that they had completed the course after 450 hours of onsite training throughout the school year. The course is a partnership between the high school and the Electrical Training Center, a Copiague-based facility that specializes in electrical and heating, ventilation and air conditioning education. Robert McLaughlin, the training center’s assistant director, said the goal of the program is to introduce students to skilled trades. “Some of these students have never worked with hand tools,” McLaughlin said, “so a big part
of our training is to get them acclimated with construction, and then learning how to use hand tools.” Graduating from the inaugural course are Even Alfago, Justin Cettina, Kyle D’Aniello, Cole DePaolis, James Dillon, Michael LoBasso Jr., John McCormack, Ella Tietz and Michael Wittenstein. Cettina says the program was everything he expected, and plans to use his experience to get a job after high school. Wittenstein, meanwhile, said the program helped him build problem-solving skills. Students learn at the high school under the guidance of instructors from the center. The program, according to McLaughlin, teaches the basic theory and skills needed to understand how electricity works. They learn circuitry and wiring, along with how circuit boards and fire alarms function. Xavier Arthur, the center’s instructor supervisor, said students in the course learn in different Continued on page 2
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his is too important of an event that occurred to not have something on campus here for remembrance.