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Vol. 69 No. 44
october 28 - NoVeMber 3, 2021
Camera Club members get the big picture devote to it as I would’ve liked to have,” he said. Hunt, who specializes in zoo In 1952, on his 16th birthday, photography, said he prefers Dick Hunt, of Levittown, was shooting in black and white. He given a camera by his aunt. “[It] has visited the Bronx, Prospect was a used camera, but still Park, Queens and Staten Island worked just as well,” Hunt zoos to take photos, and usually recalled. stops by one or another of them Hunt, now 85, eight to 10 times a developed a lifelong year. passion for photog“Zoo photograraphy, and recently phy requires a lot of celebrated his patience,” he said. 31-year-long mem“Some people will bership in the Wantjust go into the zoo agh Camera Club, and snap a photo of which he’s served as bArbArA each animal and president a number move on, but I’ll go of times throughout crANe to the lions to take a President, the years. photo, and I’ll stay For over half a Wantagh Camera there for three hours century, Hunt and waiting for the pose Club other club members with the right light.” have met regularly T h e Wa n t a g h to discuss photography and Camera Club, which has about assess one another’s work. The 18 members, meets once a month club, one of nearly 20 across at the Wantagh Public Library. Long Island, was established in Print photos are on display at 1970 and is still going strong 51 each meeting, and members criyears later. tique them. They also meet on Hunt joined the club in 1990, Zoom, and go over the digital after retiring from the Western images that they will enter in Electric Company. He said it was competitions. hard to balance photography The club is a member of the with his New York City-based Photographic Federation of career and raising a family. “I Long Island, a nonprofit comdidn’t have enough time to Continued on page 4
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Courtesy Julianne Keym
KeNdAll Koppe, lucAs Azan and Andrew Keym of Wantagh sported costumes for the Haunted Dojang at Wantagh Champions Taekwondo’s annual two-day “Kick or Treat” event last weekend.
Scaring for a good cause
Haunted Dojang makes its chilling return by KAte NAlepiNsKi knalepinski@liherald.com
Killer clowns romped around a bloodstained carnival. Four-legged demonic creatures, bathed in strobe lights, chased children as they screamed. This all unfolded inside a portion of Wantagh Champions Taekwondo last weekend. The dojang, or studio, on Wantagh Avenue, which traditionally serves as a place of solace for its attendees,
appeared quite the opposite on Saturday and Sunday, converted into a walk-through haunted house for Champions’ annual two-day “Kick or Treat” event. Instructors, students and former students donned costumes and jumped out from behind curtains in a Halloween-themed maze. Master and dojang owner Frank Guerrini said the Haunted Dojang started in 2012 as a student-exclusive event. Some students didn’t attend classes on Halloween,
since they were trick-or-treating, so the Haunted Dojang became a seasonal alternative. About six years ago, the studio moved to its current location, which offered more room to “get creative,” Guerrini said. “The Keym family has been huge in really upgrading the quality of the event.” Julianne Keym of Wantagh, an instructor, took the Continued on page 3