Baldwin
HERALD local marks 92 years
longtime BHs employee retires
raising spirits with signs
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Vol. 27 No. 21
MAY 21 - 27, 2020
Civic group, businesses thank Sani 2 Meals donated to essential workers Avenue offered to make breakfast boxes for them. The team delivered a hot The Baldwin Civic Associa- breakfast to the essential tion teamed up with the Long employees at around 5 a.m. Island Bagel Cafe in Baldwin to before they started their rounds. deliver breakfast to Julius Jones, managworkers at Sanitary ing partner at the District 2 on May 14 Baldwin Bagel Cafe, to recognize their and his team preefforts throughout pared about 20 indithe coronavirus panvidual bags of egg demic. s a n dw i c h e s a n d “There has been delivered them — quite a lot of justifiwith the help of able recognition for chef Jose Sandovar the health care — with hash workers and first browns, orange juice responders over the and coffee. past two months,” When Jones conCivic Association ta ct ed t he B CA, Vice President SteG re e n f i e l d s a i d , ven Greenfield said. “Our executive com“We also wanted to steVe mittee immediately express gratitude to sciortiNo thought of the hardunsung essential Owner, Delicious working crew at workers in our comSani 2.” Moments Caterers munity.” “We wanted to do The civic group something special was searching for a way to say for essential workers and the thank you to Sanitation Depart- sanitation department, or anyment workers who have been body in the Baldwin area,” Jones picking up the trash throughout said, adding that delivering the pandemic, Greenfield said, and the Bagel Cafe on Grand Continued on page 3
BY Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
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AlfoNso MArtiNez, left, Our Holy Redeemer Church’s human services director, and pantry volunteeers accepted gift cards from Jenny Jorge, right, Gala Fresh Farms’ vice president of operations.
Gala Fresh donates $2,500 to Freeport food pantry By Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
Freeport’s Gala Fresh Farms Supermarket donated $2,500 worth of gift cards to Our Holy Redeemer Church food pantry in Freeport on May 14 to support local residents in need during the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of people — six feet apart to practice social distancing — lined up outside the food pantry, at 37 South Ocean Ave., and down the
block to collect boxes of food for themselves and their families. Some also took extra boxes of food for people who are in isolation, organizers said. Jenny Jorge, vice president of operations at Gala Fresh, who was there to donate the gift cards, said she hoped to inspire others to contribute as well. “Maybe people who are in a good position — who aren’t dealing with some of these financial burdens — can see
the work that’s being done right here with so much need, to be able to say, ‘OK, let me see what I can do or what I can give to be able to help people,’” Jorge said. “The $2,500 is a small contribution to what is really needed, which is for the community to come together and help him collect the food to be able to give out to that line of people outside,” she added, referring to Alfonso Martinez, the human services Continued on page 3
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hey’re out every day, regardless, picking up our trash, and I just felt they should be recognized also.