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Bruins capture AAA title Baldwin High School’s girls’ basketball team captured the Long Island Class AAA title March 11 with a 54-46 victory over Walt Whitman at Stony Brook University. Story, more photos, page 8.
Bethany House fashion show raises funds, awareness By AllYSoN FERRARI aferrari@liherald.com
Bethany House held its 23rd annual fashion show at the Rockville Links Club last week, raising funds to support its mission of ending homelessness on Long Island. A Baldwin-based nonprofit, Bethany House focuses on helping women, and women with children, who are homeless move from uncertainty to stability. It currently runs three emergency shelters, and will soon open a fourth, in Baldwin and Roosevelt, as well as affordable apartments in Bellmore for women who have long-term
housing vouchers. Acc ordin g t o Execut ive Director Katie Swanson, Bethany House serves about 40 families at any given time in its shelters and housing programs. “Once you’re a part of Bethany House, you’re always a part of Bethany House,” Swanson said. The annual event, on March 11, brought together supporters, volunteers and community leaders for an evening of fashion, fundraising and storytelling highlighting the organization’s mission. Among the attendees was U.S. Rep. Laura Gillen, who said she has discussed with the organization
what they could do together to end homelessness on Long Island. “There is no reason, on Long Island, in a county like Nassau County, that people should be living on the street,” Gillen told the Herald. “Organizations like [Bethany House] make it possible for people to turn around their lives. It’s really important to support all the great organizations that address not only homelessness, but food insecurity, and making sure that people get the help they need.” Gillen said she is focused in Congress on doing everything she can to reduce the cost of living for Long Islanders.
“We’ve seen the greatest cut to Medicaid in our nation’s history,” she said. “We’re facing a r e a l c o s t - o f - l iv i n g c r i s i s, between housing, health care and utilities. When you have par tner org anizations like Bethany House, that are trying to pick up the slack because of the cuts that have been implemented by this administration,
it’s really important to support them.” This year’s fashion show raised $20,000 to help support Bethany House’s mission. Swanson said that fundraising events like this one provide critical flexible funding that allows the organization to support families in ways governContinued on page 10