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Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s director of health, athletics and driver’s education, served as a keynote speaker at a Long Island Youth Safety Coalition conference, “Drunk, Drugged, Drowsy and Distracted: Using School and Community to Create Comprehensive Solutions to Dangerous Driving.” He was joined here recently by Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.
Hofstra conference takes on dangerous driving
For decades, public health officials have hammered home a message –– smoking kills. They have done so in splashy advertising campaigns and in the halls of government. Any number of laws and ordinances prohibiting smoking in public venues have been passed as a result. These efforts, officials say, have paid dividends. more
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Ellen and Sarah Tolle of Cedarhurst were among the dozens of volunteers who assisted at Rock and Wrap It Up's annual Thanksgiving feast in Rockaway Beach, which offers a hot meal to families in need.
Five Towners, Bellmore-Merrick teachers offer hope on Thanksgiving
Dozens of volunteers from the Five Towns and Bellmore-Merrick communities turned out on Thursday to help at Rock and Wrap It Up’s annual Thanksgiving feast at the First Congregational Church at Beach 94th Street in Rockaway Beach, which provides a hot meal of turkey and ham with all the trimmings to families in need. more
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Put education before artificial turf
New York state recently imposed a 2 percent tax-levy cap on school districts, forcing them to pare spending by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, unless they can win 60 percent of the vote to override the cap. more
Gabbie Toback, a junior at Calhoun, won two individual events at the Nassau County championships and was part of a record-setting relay.
Bellmore-Merrick Sharks thrive in pool
Building off of a big finish in 2010, the Bellmore-Merrick District girls’ swimming and diving team continued to reach new heights. more
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The Grand Avenue Middle School chorus performed at the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education last Wednesday in honor of School Boards Recognition Week.
Middle school students thank Central Board of Education
School Boards Recognition Week, sponsored by the New York State School Boards Association, was held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, and as is tradition in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, students from Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools attended November’s Board of Education meeting to honor school trustees. The Grand Avenue chorus sang for the board, and Merrick Avenue students recited a poem that they had written, as well as offered gift baskets to each trustee. more
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Instructor Chrissy Paraszczuk led the group in the zumba workout.
Dancing the night away for a cause
Residents of the Bellmores and Merricks danced the night away last Friday in support of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Wellness Council’s Midnight Madness substance-free post-prom party when the council hosted a zumba class at the Brookside School in North Merrick. more
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Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg was re-elected with more than 70 percent of the vote.
In Bellmore-Merrick, county, town incumbents win re-election
With more than 70 percent of election precincts reporting on Tuesday night, it appeared that Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg, a Democrat from Merrick, would cruise to victory over challenger Dr. Fred Jones, a Republican from Merrick. Denenberg had garnered 5,640 votes to Jones’s 2,012. more
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Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, was recently honored by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Council for her efforts to create the Driving in the Safe Lane Program, which is now in about half of Nassau County’s 57 high schools. She was joined here recently by Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s health and athletics director, who helped to create the safe-driving program.
Honored for promoting teen driver safety
The scenario is tragic, gruesome and perennial. A high school senior, all of 16 or 17 years old, gets a driver’s license. His or her proud parents hurry out to buy their child a new car –– perhaps a fast car. Within days or weeks, the teen is dead, killed in a fiery wreck. more
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Auditor: Rough waters ahead for Central District financially
Alan Yu, a certified public accountant with Cullen & Danowski in Port Jefferson Station, offered a sobering view of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s finances during a Board of Education meeting last Wednesday. more
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Kennedy Alumni Association board members and alumni, from left, Maury Josephson, Harry Tsotsos, Mark Meyerowitz, Ronald Steiger, raffle winner Lisa Samuels Schneider, Gary Morganstern, Howard Kaden, Eileen Connolly and Craig Maltz at the association’s multi-class reunion kickoff event at Mulcahey’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh.
Kennedy alumni mount unified front
More than 300 Kennedy High School graduates spanning five decades gathered on Oct. 21 at Mulcahey’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh for a night of drinks, music and fundraising, while catching up with old friends. The multi-class reunion was the kickoff event for the newly formed Kennedy Alumni Association. more
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