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Look what’s
happening
AprIL Courtesy Five Towns Kiwanis
The Five Towns Kiwanis Club donated facemasks to the health care workers at LIJ Valley Stream Northwell Health.
Courtesy Sasha Young
At least 3,000 donated facemasks were distributed at the Five Towns Community Center. From left Jessica Dennehy, Community Center Executive Director K. Brent Hill, Erika Kirchner, Diane Kirchner, Sasha Young, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Sarah Hayes, Marianella Mena, Pattie Slaton, Tzigane Morris and Edward Dennehy.
LIVING IN the
Five towns
A MAY Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
In lieu of its annual Memorial Day Parade, the Inwood community celebrated essential workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic..
JuNe Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Five Towners took part in a march through Cedarhurst and Lawrence to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
cross the Five Towns, living has changed dramatically in the past several months, from schools and businesses closing in March to the four-phase reopening of the economy that continues. For the uninitiated, the Five Towns are Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Inwood, Lawrence and Woodmere. The area also includes Atlantic Beach, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck, Meadowmere Park, North Woodmere and Woodsburgh. School buildings shut down, which caused disruption to the school year and compelled districts and private schools to transform rapidly from in-person instruction to remote learning, a combination of which will be used as the new school year unfolds. Instead of the usual late winter, spring and summer events that are synonymous with living in the Five Towns, there were collections and donations of facemasks, gloves and hand sanitizer, along with organizations helping to feed essential workers and those in need after many lost their jobs. The Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence is now a beehive of activity, from Gammy’s Pantry, run by Inwood resident Sasha Young, offering food, clothes and other items for free, to the pantry becoming a Long Island Cares site that also provides free food. In Hewlett, Blair Longaro organized Feeding Local Heroes and Friends, which had ordinary people ordering food from restaurants that was then delivered to hospital workers, police officers, firefighters and pharmacists. The Marion & Aaron Gural JCC partnered with ComContinued on next page
