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3 Port ed board members seek re-election Greenstein, Weisburd and Johnson all to run unopposed in May vote BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Three members of the Port Washington Board of Education will be seeking re-election in May: Vice President Nora Johnson, Larry Greenstein and Elizabeth Weisburd. As of Monday’s filing deadline, no other candidates had joined the race, which means the three current board members will be running uncontested. Greenstein serves on the curriculum committee! and has been a member of the board since 2004. He previously!served as the president of a special education parentteacher association, which he said inspired him to advocate for students at the margins. “I thought at that point, the board really needed a voice for people on the edges,” he said of his decision to run for the board 14 years ago. “The kids who were outliers were sort of being left behind.”
Greenstein’s children went through the Port Washington schools and have! graduated. He said he gives the board the unique perspective of someone whose children are no longer in the schools and also advocates for students who might otherwise be forgotten. “We have more kids going to Nassau Community College than any other school, and a lot of them are the first people in their family to ever go to college,” he said. “That fact that we can instill that desire to continue their education is great and a sign we’re doing the right things.” As someone who advocated for special education in the past, he said that the district’s revamping of its special education program over the last decade is his proudest accomplishment. “The fact that we’ve gone from being sort of notorious in special Continued on Page 64
PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE
A child plants lettuce in a garden outside of Landmark on Main in Port Washington as part of a program by Plant a Row.
Plant a Row gets Port children into gardening BY LU K E TORRANCE
It’s good for the environment. It’s good for the community. And it’s good for you, he said. It is a message he wants Growing your own vegetables is good for a number children to learn at a young of reasons, according to Mar- age, which is why he’s helpvin! Makofsky of Plant a Row. ing children grow their own
garden just outside Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington. Makofsky, the chief vegetable garden executive for!Plant a Row for the Hungry, was inContinued on Page 65
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