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Civic business beauty contest has a winner a community member, as a business owner, as a leader in the community is extremely East Meadow’s first-ever important.” Every holiday, Mary Anne business beauty contest, a unique one, came to a conclu- decorates the windows of their sion at the beginning of the building with unique accessomonth, announcing its finalists ries, like signs and flags. “We do little things like that to help and the ultimate winner. our culture along,” In May, Friends James said. for a Beautiful East “We have a lot of Meadow unveiled a windows, and I like new initiative to to fill them in,” transform the comMary Anne added. munity into some“It’s just nice to t h i n g g r e e n e r, hear the positive cleaner and more feedback when peoglamorous. The ple are sitting at the advocacy g roup’s light or driving by, new contest, Most and they enjoy seeFAB 2026, invited MARy ANNE ing each holiday local businesses to SkiNNER decorated.” refresh, renovate Owner, Lauren Maslov is and decorate, with A&C Pest the owner of Piettheir efforts voted Management ro’s, an Italian reson by community taurant on East members. The winner of the contest Meadow Avenue. Her business was A&C Pest Management, was one of many that took part and the runners-up were Piet- in the contest, and beautificaro’s of East Meadow and Long- tion has been an important part of the history of Pietro’s. champ Photography. “I bought the business from James and Mary Anne Skinner, of A&C Pest Management, my dad five years ago,” Maslov say they take pride in their said. “[I] reinvented the buildbusiness’s family spirit. “We ing to kind of still look the way got some really cool people that it used to back in the day, but work for us,” James said. “I do just with a fresher appearance, think leadership by example as Continued on page 9
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Ralph esposito, chairman of the nassau County Firefighters Memorial endowment association and director of the nassau County Veterans Service agency, spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony for a revamped 9/11 memorial in eisenhower park.
County breaks ground on upgraded 9/11 monument By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Nearly 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Nassau County elected officials, police officers and firefighters recently broke ground on an upgraded 9/11 memorial in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. The memorial, which will feature new stonework, will pay tribute to volunteer fire service members who died in the attacks, as well as those who have died since then from illnesses related to rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. Michael Uttaro, Nassau County’s chief
fire marshal, said the groundbreaking represented “an unwavering commitment to ensure that the remembrance of the heroes that were lost on that fateful day… are never forgotten. “It’s more than just words,” Uttaro added at the July 9 event. “It is a promise, and it is a promise that needs to be kept today and for generations to come.” Inside the park, an existing memorial along Park Boulevard, near Field 6/6A, features the names of 19 victims who died on Sept. 11 and 30 additional names of those who have succumbed to illness. All names featured are from Nassau County fire servicContinued on page 12
e have a lot of windows, and I like to fill them in.