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The Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center is urging local schools to sign up for State Farm’s “Celebrate My Drive” campaign, a teen driver-safety program for which schools can win thousands of dollars in grant money and possibly a concert with The Band Perry.
Celebrating teen driver safety in the Central District
The message is simple –– Keep two eyes on the road, two hands on the wheel. Sadly, however, it’s too often ignored by teen drivers, with tragic consequences. Last year the State Farm insurance company began its “Celebrate My Drive” campaign to telegraph such messages to young people. Now the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center is urging students from the Central District’s five schools to join in the effort. more
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Wendy Tepfer, front, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, is among the leaders sponsoring the first Bellmore-Merrick Drug Takeback Day on Sept. 27. She was joined at a meeting of the Bellmore-Merrick Heroin Task Force last Friday by, from left, Donna Nogid, legislative assistant to Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg; Pat Gleiberman, young adult librarian at the Bellmore Memorial Library; and Lisa Finn, director of clinical services and community outreach for Phoenix House.
Bellmore-Merrick Parent Center, heroin task force sponsoring drug takeback
Every day, 2,500 teens across the country, ages 12 to 17, get high off prescription drugs, and 70 percent of them obtain their narcotics from family members or friends –– most often by swiping them from bathroom medicine cabinets, according to Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center. more
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Coaches Tom Simone, Todd Knowles, Luke Tarantino, Kelly McArdle and Joe Lanzisera stood behind players Kaitlin May McArdle, Sydney Lamagra, Makayla McNulty, Julia Tarantino, Brianna Morse, Hannah Aievoli, Kirsten Knowles, Jessie Lanzisera, Jenna Giliberti and Christina Burns at Wright Park in Dunkirk, N.Y., where New York’s Little League tournament took place this year.
Softball team is among top four in state
The Lady Rebels, a North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League travel softball team, were contenders in New York’s Little League tournament again this year after winning district and section championships. more
An emotional Marine Cpl. Kevin Vaughan, who lost a leg in combat, saluted his country when he came home in 2012. Now the nonprofit organization Building Homes for Heroes is constructing a specially designed house for him.
Serving America's wounded warriors
Marine Cpl. Kevin Vaughan came home from the war in Afghanistan in March 2012 after losing his left leg to a roadside bomb. Raised in Merrick, the Mepham High School graduate was given a hero’s homecoming by his community: a parade that stretched up Jerusalem Avenue and led to his childhood home. more
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Beatrice Brown, a Kennedy High School senior, was recently named to the National Association for Music Education All-National High School Concert Band.
Kennedy High School flutist named to All-National Band
Beatrice Brown, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, was recently selected to take part in the National Association for Music Education All-National High School Concert Band. Brown, a flutist, is the first Kennedy student to be selected for the honor and the first instrumental student selected in the district’s history. more
David Seinfeld, formerly the principal of Calhoun High School, is now the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s assistant superintendent for instruction.
A familiar face is now the Central District's assistant superintendent
Of all the moments in a school year, David Seinfeld, former principal of Calhoun High School, now the Bellmore-Merrick Central District’s assistant superintendent for instruction, said he loves the half-hour after graduation most of all. He enjoys watching families snapping photos of and hugging their proud graduates. more
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Kennedy Sports Boosters gears up for 2014-15
Kennedy Sports Boosters was reinvented this past school year. A small group of interested parents, led by Bob Pizzimenti, began meeting and discussing how to best serve the school’s student athletes in a supportive role. Over the past year Kennedy Sports Boosters grew from eight to 130 members. more
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Merokee Drive, near Newbridge Pond, flooded last week.
Rains cause heavy flooding in Bellmore-Merrick
Parts of Bellmore-Merrick were underwater last week, when a rainstorm of historic proportions caused flooding across the area. The National Weather Service issued flash-flood warnings for much of … more
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The American Legion named Tim Messmer, second from left, the New York State Eagle Scout of the Year. He was congratulated by, from left, his father, Jim Messmer, a Troop 577 assistant scoutmaster; Frank Colon, the North Bellmore American Legion Post 1749 adjutant; and Charlie Kulins, the scoutmaster.
Teen named N.Y.’s Eagle Scout of the Year
Tim Messmer passed Bellmore Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2770’s hall on Bedford Avenue daily when he attended the nearby St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Regional School as a child. He didn’t … more
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Playing dodge ball to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation
For the second straight year, Jake Silverman, a Kennedy High School rising senior, recently organized an event to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. more
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