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At G.C. rally, unified support for Ukraine By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Courtesy Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center
Children in the audience at the Polish National Home last Sunday were asked to come to the stage and light candles in memory of the lives lost in the war in Ukraine.
Hundreds of Long Islanders packed the Polish National Home in Glen Cove last Sunday to call for an end to the three-year war in Ukraine — not on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms, but in a way that holds Russia accountable. The event, sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, featured Ukrainian citizens, elected officials and community leaders, who spoke about the devastating human toll of the war and the need for unwavering American support. Jolanta Zamecka, the center’s vice chair, emphasized the war’s catastrophic effect on Ukrainian children, many of whom have experienced such severe trauma that they have begun to “show signs of premature aging,” Zamecka said. “Three years ago, my grandson Jack came to CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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enough so you’d believe in pushing young athletes to be yourself.” It was this mix of better not just in sports, but toughness and encouragement also in life. “He was tough, but Allen Hudson still remem- that, by all accounts, made loving, demanding,” Hudson, bers the moment Jon Dolecki Dolecki beloved and respected who’s now Glen Cove High’s changed the way Hudson saw at the high school, an unforget- principal, said. “He was your himself as an athlete. As a shy table coach and mentor as well typical old-school coach, but it worked. You could tell that he ninth-grader, he played on Glen as an educator. Dolecki died on Feb. 18, at liked you. He enjoyed what he Cove High School’s junior varsity basketball team — one of age 77. He suffered a heart did.” Dolecki’s legacy as a coach is two sports, along with baseball, attack at Glen Cove Hospital, following a recent battle with reflected in the lives of the that Dolecki coached. On the court, Hudson strug- pneumonia and early-stage players he mentored. “I learned so much about life from him,” gled to assert himself. “He Alzheimer’s disease. Over his 34-year tenure as said former player Adelki Paupulled me to the side and said, ‘Why aren’t you shooting the Glen Cove’s varsity baseball lino, who graduated in 1999 and later became Dolecki’s assiscoach, he led the team to 532 or ball? You’re here foronline a reason,’” Apply at mptrg.com/heraldwrap call 516.715.1280 Hudson said of Dolecki. “That wins and the school’s only state tant coach. “A lot of my coachchanged everything for me. He championship, in 1986. But for ing values I’ve learned from had that ability to push you just Dolecki, coaching was about him. He expected a lot of us,
but he was preparing us for life.” Paulino, now a New York City teacher and coach, credits Dolecki’s influence for his approach to coaching today. Born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, Dolecki graduated from Cliffside Park High School in 1965. A talented right-handed pitcher, he played collegiate baseball at Appala-
chian State University, in Boone, North Carolina, in the ‘60s. Dolecki accepted a teaching position at Glen Cove High in 1971. “He got hired late in the summer, almost in September, and I thought he would just stay for a year,” his widow, Irene Dolecki, said. “But he
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