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Living In The Five Towns
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The Cedarhurst-Lawrence Memorial Day Parade returned after a one-year hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Woodmere Fire Department held its traditional chometz (non-kosher food for Passover) burning one day before the eight-day Jewish holiday began.
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Tony Nave cooked the hamburgers at Inwood Day.
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Isaac Ross, 7, won the kids Fun Run that was part of the Beit Halochem International 5 Town 5K in North Woodmere Park.
With the release of the Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines, life was slowly moving back to “normal” as mask mandates and social distancing guidelines were lifted. Then, just as fast as activities returned and businesses reopened with a pre-Covid flourish, the delta variant struck and coronavirus cases began rising again. For the Five Towns, which consists of Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Inwood, Lawrence and Woodmere, and the area that includes with Atlantic Beach, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett Neck, Meadowmere Park, North Woodmere and Woodsburgh, life was a mixture of getting vaccinated, seeing the children off to summer camp and then being worried if the spike in infections would affect your family and friends. The 2020-21 school year blended in-person and remote learning; however, the end of the school year was a touch more normal, as graduations were held and there were many less of the drive-through celebrations that marked 2020. The 2021-22 school year began in much more typical fashion, with in-person instruction and fewer safety protocols, but masking indoors was required to keep children younger than 12, who cannot yet receive the vaccines, along with others who are medically compromised, safe. Desk shields were mostly gone, but social distancing was recommended. Sports were back and so were the traditional homecomings during the football season. The Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence continued its unrelenting quest to help its surrounding communities as Gammy’s Pantry, run by Inwood resident Sasha Young, offered food, clothing and other universally needed items. Continued on next page
