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HERALD Vol. 72 No. 29
Celebrating our independence
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Students ready for life after high school realized that students who had earned advanced Regents diplomas were not quite ready to Students who g raduated enter the job market or take on from Seaford High School last certain responsibilities, such as month are more prepared to speaking publicly or budgeting enter the next chapter of their money, he added. “You hear horlives, thanks to a c o u r s e t h at h a s ror stories about taught them valukids getting their able life skills. first credit card The course, and r unning up called Beyond Seadebt and not realizford High School, ing that is going to teaches students a impact your ability variety of tasks to buy a house,” t h at wo u l d g ive Wimmer said. them a leg up as Wi m m e r, wh o they enter adultteaches the course hood. Through this with co-instructor program, students Christine Caserta, are learning how to said Beyond Seaprepare for a job ford High School interview, manage runs the full school a business, and how on alternating MiCHAEl WiMMER year to live on their own. days and is split “ We b a s i c a l l y Co-instructor, into two classes. put together a cur- Beyond Seaford Students who sign riculum t h a t High School up for the course in attempts to help ninth or 10th grade (students) with whatever paths start in Beyond 1, where they they are going to go into,” learn important life skills such Michael Wimmer, one of the as public speaking, budgeting course instructors, said. and cooking. Beyond 2 builds Wimmer created the course upon the previous class, applyfour years ago, when students ing the skills learned to help were returning to the class- prepare them for college or job room after the pandemic. He
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Roxi, a 4-year-old English mastiff, was abandoned on the westbound Southern State Parkway on July 1. Town of Hempstead officials said they were looking for a permanent home for the dog, and law enforcement was looking for whoever left her on the side of the highway.
Finding a home for Roxi
At Wantagh animal shelter, Clavin and Donnelly pledge prosecution for abandonment of dog on Southern State By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
She was left alone, tied to a light pole on the westbound Southern State Parkway, near Exit 21, in Uniondale. All she had was a water bowl, and a note that read, “This is Roxi. A trained American Bullmastiff. She is four years old. She has been fed and given a flea bath, she may still have issues with them. See that she gets good care.” Roxi, later more accurately identified as an English mastiff, was abandoned on the parkway on the morning of July 1. State troopers retrieved her after responding to a call reporting a dog tied to a pole at around 5:30 a.m. They dropped her off at the Town
of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh, where she was examined by veterinarians who found her to be hungry and underweight, but otherwise in good health. “She’s nervous, but she’s very sweet,” Ashley Behrens, the acting director of the shelter, said. “Obviously it’s traumatic what she went through, so nervousness is to be expected.” Now Roxi is looking for a home, and law enforcement officers are looking for whoever left her on the side of the road. “We’re going to find a home for this dog and, working with our Nassau D.A., we’re going to find these culprits and hold them accountable,” Town Supervisor Don Clavin said at a July 3 news conference outside the ConTinuEd on PagE xx
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