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Animals find homes for the holidays Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin announced the event’s kickof f at the MilFor those looking to bring a leridge Inn on Nov. 14, joined by pet home for the holidays, the Councilman Dennis Dunne, Town of Hempstead recently Town Clerk Kate Mur ray, launched a pet adoption initia- Yamali and employees of the tive at its animal shelter. Dur- restaurant and the shelter. In ing the event, called Home for addition to the waived adoption the Holidays, all fees will be fee and gift cards, Clavin said, waived for those the town will also who adopt animals offer free spaying from the facility and neutering, vacfrom Nov. 25 to Jan. cinations and 5. microchipping for The Milleridge the four-le g g ed Inn restaurant, in adoptees. Jericho, is partner“It’s such a good ing with the town nexus of creating for the event, offeran initiative to get ing $50 gift cards to these animals in the eatery for new loving homes, and pet owners. Butch making sure there’s Yamali, the restauno additional cost rant’s owner and a BuTCH YAMAli or burden on the member of the Owner, Milleridge Inn taxpayers,” Clavin Baldwin, Freeport said, “but also findand Merrick chaming a team like the bers of commerce, said that he Milleridge Inn that want to give and his team were more than back.” willing to help incentivize Melissa Nisita, executive adoptions if it meant that ani- assistant at the restaurant, mals in need of loving homes oversaw its involvement in the would find them. program. Nisita, who said she “This is good for the commu- has always been a dog lover, nity,” Yamali said. “It’s great contacted the shelter to propose because it gets these dogs into the additional incentive for somebody’s house.”
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Multicultural Night at Saw Mill Road Elementary School drew out a crowd of over 200 students and parents on Nov. 15, as the school community celebrated the diverse cultures that makes them unique. Sixth-grade students Rebecca David and Layla Khan participated in the festivities.
Celebrating diversity at Saw Mill Road
Multicultural Night unites students and school community By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Students at Saw Mill Road Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District embraced their community’s rich diversity during the second annual Multicultural Night — an event designed to celebrate differences and foster unity through acceptance and understanding. Organized by Saw Mill Road’s ParentTeacher Association, the Nov. 15 event featured food, music, presentations and more, highlighting the unique cultures that make up the student body at Saw Mill Road. Annie Karim, who’s a PTA co-president with Nicole Teague, introduced the idea of having a multicultural event at Saw Mill
Road last school year. Karim’s a first-generation Pakistani-American, and her children are first- and fourth-grade students at the school. “Multicultural Night was like my brainchild,” she told the Herald, “and really near and dear to my heart. I really wanted to hold this event at the school, so I planned it last year so that all students in our school could feel recognized and welcome and included — which is actually a big model for the school district as a whole.” Jeffrey Rosof, the school’s principal, and Daniel Madden, the assistant principal, were very receptive to Karim’s idea to put together a Multicultural Night at Saw Mill Road. At the beginning of the school year, Rosof CoNtiNuED oN pagE 6
his is good for the community. It’s great because it gets these dogs into somebody’s house.
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