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Turner to step down after 27 years on board Williston Park’s Henry Zanetti running to take place in Herricks BY S A M U E L GLASSER Henry R. Zanetti, a Williston Park resident and active Herricks PTA member, is running to fill a soon-to-be-empty seat on the Herricks school board, he said last week. Zanetti is looking to fill the vacancy left by Trustee Christine Turner, a former school board president who has decided to step down after 27 years on the school board. “I’ve done enough PTA and now I want to see what it’s like from the other side of the table,” Zanetti said in an interview Friday. Incumbent Trustee James Gounaris, first elected in 2011, said he plans to run for a third three-year term on the board. He served as school board president from 2013 to 2015. Zanetti is a retired U.S. Customs inspector who was chief of the cargo inspection branch at
John F. Kennedy International Airport. He has two children in the Herricks schools and has been active in the PTAs for a decade. As a member of the board, Zanetti said, he would have a duty to help foster communication between the district and the parents and voters. “It’s important,” he said. “You can always have better communication. I’m always interested in PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR hearing from other people along that line,” he said. Eileen Oliver (left), principal of the St. Aidan School in Williston Park, helps her students make Zanetti said the school board matzo dough during an interfaith Seder at the Schechter School of Long Island last Thursday. does “a good job” of abiding by the state’s cap on property tax increases, a law that has made the board “much more constrained and careful.” “There are big issues with state aid and how it’s allocated,” Zanetti said. “I’d like to see the board and district be active in lobbying the state Education Department to do right by our district.” Continued on Page 47 land in Williston Park, jokingly a Catholic school, were there BY N O A H told a crowd of eighth-graders to eat — and learn about each MANSKAR in the school’s gymnasium last other’s faith traditions — for the schools’ sixth annual inter“I can tell you that Jews Thursday. The 34 Schechter students faith Seder in advance of the eat a lot, for every holiday,” Esther Dubow, a teacher at the and 46 students from the start of Passover on Monday. Continued on Page 47 Schechter School of Long Is- neighboring St. Aidan School,
Schools break matzo, exchange faith traditions
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