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Vol. 68 No. 49
Public or private, South Shore feels safe right now, as a parent, I think [Kellenberg] is doing an excellent job.” In recent months, the Herald Kellenberg is a co-ed private has taken closer looks at local Catholic high school in Unionpublic school districts that serve dale. This is the Barnjak triplets’ Seaford and Wantagh, and how first experience in a they have provided private-school setsafe environments ting. They graduated amid a resurgence from Seaford Middle in Covid-19 cases. School earlier this One of the keys to year. their successes has One of their been stringent social mother’s concerns at distancing. the start of the acaSouth Shore par- JIMMIE PRICE demic year was how ents whose children comfortable her chilChaminade parent are enrolled in pridren might be vate schools are also attending in-person pleased with the protective mea- classes. She also wondered how sures those institutions are tak- the transition would go if they ing. “I have three children at Kel- decided to learn from home lenberg Memorial High School,” instead, even temporarily. Seaford resident Laura Barnjak Robert York, Kellenberg’s said of her triplet freshman assistant principal for personnel daughters, Paulina, Gabriella and communications, laid out and Sophia. “At first I was very the school’s pandemic response, worried. The way I perceive it Continued on page 3
By J.D. FREDA
jfreda@liherald.com
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feel really lucky about where we live.
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St. WIllIAM thE Abbot’s social ministry, headed by Rosemary Graziano, aims to address the needs of residents from Seaford, Wantagh and Massapequa.
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Local social ministry is making a difference By J.D. FREDA jfreda@liherald.com
Last month, the Seaford Kiwanis Club organized a holiday food drive. Instead of donating to Long Island Cares, as the club did in 2019, it decided to stock the food pantry at St. William the A b b o t Ro m a n C a t h o l i c Church, in Seaford. The club claimed there was an immediate need in the community that needed to be addressed.
The church’s director of social ministry, Rosemary Graziano, has seen the need in Seaford, Wantagh and Massapequa grow over the past nine months. In fact, she has seen that need for nine years. She continues to address the calls for help in those three South Shore hamlets. “I had worked before with the former pastor, Robert Hayden,” said Graziano, 68, of Williston Park. “He was pleased with all that I had
done, and there were new programs that he wanted to bring on that I could help with.” St. William the Abbot is on Jackson Avenue in Seaford, just south of Sunrise Highway. It has partnered with Wantagh’s St. Frances de Chantal on several projects. There is no lack of need, according to Graziano. “Most people outside this community don’t understand that we have people right here Continued on page 4
Our COvid-19 traCker With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. the number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. data is obtained from the nassau County Covid-19 dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.