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Friday, April 9, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 15
LEGISLATORS WRITE TO A.G. PAGE 8
FLOWER HILL OKS YEARLY BUDGET
FATE OF MARIJUANA IN NASSAU UNCLEAR
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Box truck
crash kills two
Morning accident shuts down LIE BY R O S E W E L D ON Two people died when a Boar’s Head box truck crashed into an overpass on the eastbound side of the Long Island Expressway early Monday in North Hills, the Nassau County Police Department said. Around 5:05 a.m., a box truck with Boar’s Head branding was traveling on the LIE near exit 36 when it left the roadway and struck the overpass for Shelter Rock Road. In addition to police, the 3rd and 5th companies of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department, as well as the department’s ambulance unit, responded to the scene. The driver and passenger of the box truck, both male, were pronounced dead at the scene by police medics. Their names and places of origin have not yet been revealed. The crash closed the expressway’s eastbound side between the New Hyde Park Road and Shelter Rock Road exits for sevContinued on Page 32
PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON
Shayna Blumenfeld of Port Washington, center, and friends with a few of the blue pinwheels they placed at the Mary Jane Davies Green on April 2. The pinwheels were placed in honor of the seventh birthday of Kyra Franchetti of Manhasset, who was killed in a murder-suicide at 2 years old, and also recognizes National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.
Port teen leads pinwheel planting in parks to honor Manhasset’s Franchetti BY R O S E W E L D ON
what would have been the seventh birthday of a Manhasset A Port Washington teen- girl. Shayna Blumenfeld, an ager led the charge with a local nonprofit to promote National eighth-grade student at Weber Child Abuse Prevention Month Middle School and youth ambasin North Hempstead parks last sador for the child safety advoweek, and to commemorate cacy group Kyra’s Champions, led the group in planting 744 blue pinwheels at the Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset and Blumenfeld Family Park in Port Washington. The idea combines
the blue ribbon that represented child abuse with the modern Pinwheels for Prevention campaign headed by Prevent Child Abuse America. Blumenfeld became involved with the organization when she heard Kyra’s Champions founder Jacqueline Franchetti of Manhasset speak last year, spurred on by an interest in politics. “We connected over the summer,” Blumenfeld said. “I got
to hear her talk at Zoom meetings and I thought she was really, really incredible.” Franchetti then recruited Blumenfeld to co-chair the event. As part of her role, Blumenfeld attended planning meetings with the Town of North Hempstead, assembled and sent packets of pinwheels across the state, and even staked out the parks ahead of time. Pinwheels were planted last Continued on Page 42
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