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‘Giving U Moore’ provides 150 plates for holiday By MoHAMMAD RAFIQ mrafiq@liherald.com
Courtesy Candist White
Anderson Estrada, left, and Rev. Ron Wells prepare Thanksgiving meals in the Moore 4 You Center kitchen during the third annual Giving U Moore on Thanksgiving event.
Moore 4 You Community Development Center in Freeport once again opened its doors on Thanksgiving Day, hosting its third annual Giving U Moore on Thanksgiving celebration. The annual gathering has quickly become a cherished tradition for families, volunteers and neighbors seeking warmth, connection and a holiday meal. The Nov. 27 event, held at the center at 90 Mill Road, provided more than 150 plates, offering guests a restaurant-style experience complete with sit-down service, to-go meals, and tables filled with familiar faces. For the group’s director and CEO, Candist White, who took over for her mother Gail White Moore who first started the initiative that became Moore 4 You in 1998, the goal has always been to make a Thanksgiving meal accessible to all. “This was our third one,” White said. “It’s for everyConTinUEd on pAGE 8
Arti Grover’s lifetime of sculpture cruises into view By MoHAMMAD RAFIQ mrafiq@liherald.com
At age 93 — soon to be 94 — Arti Grover is finally doing something she has rarely allowed herself to do: share her art with the world. The Long Island Arts Council at Freeport is presenting a sweeping exhibition of Grover’s sculpture, carving and figurative work at the Art Alcove in the Freeport Recreation Center for the month of December. The show spans half a century of creativity, from early clay figures to masterful pieces shaped from alabaster, wood and bronze. A public reception
will be held on Dec. 11, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For Grover, born Rosemarie Terzi in Little Neck in 1932, the exhibition is both a homecoming and a revelation. Although she has been a sculptor for decades, most of her pieces have lived only in her home and in the hands of her family. “I’m excited,” she wrote in an email. “I’ve mostly kept my artwork within the family and at home, so this exhibition is something new for me. I want to thank the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport — especially Robyn Workman, who made this show happen, and Larry Dresner, the Executive Direc-
tor, who mounted the show beautifully.” Workman, the treasurer at the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, who curated the exhibition, said she felt it was long overdue. “I am so glad that we are getting a chance to share Arti Grover’s artwork with the community,” she wrote in a text message. “She has been a part of Freeport’s Nautical Mile history for so many years. But few people know what a talented artist she is. I am so glad that she is finally being celebrated in her own right. Thank you to the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport for recognizing Rosemarie Grover.”
Dresner echoed that praise. “She is an amazingly versatile artist who creates in painting, sculpting and wood carving,” he said of Grover.
A fire that started with a bar of soap Grover’s artistic beginnings were humble — and, as she recalls, a little disastrous. Her
earliest memory is of a firstgrade soap-carving assignment that went terribly wrong. “I simply wanted to compete, to keep up, and to make things as beautiful as my classmates,” she recalled. “When I was in grade school, I used to take small bits of clay and shape them into tiny figures, then ConTinUEd on pAGE 10