Franklin Square/Elmont
HERALD Car flips over in Franklin Square
Elmont residents learn to grill
NyRa releases fall schedule
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Vol. 22 No. 36
SEPTEMBER 3 - 9, 2020
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Fall H.S. sports are postponed Players and coaches react The plan, according to Pat Pizzarelli, executive director of athletics for New York state’s mkoenig@liherald.com Section VIII — Nassau County — E l m o n t M e m o r i a l H i g h is to fit all three sports seasons School and H. Frank Carey in between January and June, coaches had been gearing up for when, it is hoped, the Covid-19 the fall sports season all sum- threat will have declined. Pizzamer, and were ready to start the relli said that Section VIII would season at the end create its own o f S e p t e m b e r, contingency plan, when a committee and aimed to limit of Nassau County season overlaps to school superinone week, at most. tendents an“We’ll look to nounced that high get started Jan. 4 school sports with the traditionwould be postal winter sports, poned until Jan. 4. including basket“My first ball and wresthought was, tling,” he said. ‘Drat,’” Har ris Each season Jay HEgi Insler, Carey’s wo u l d b e c o nv a r s i t y c r o s s - Varsity football coach, densed to approxicountry coach, Elmont Memorial High mately nine said. He had been School weeks, with fall looking forward sports contested to seeing his athin the second sealetes in person for the first time son and spring sports in the since schools closed in March, third season, as usual. There and had spent the past few would be protocols in place for months sending them articles busing, locker rooms, athletic about nutrition and safe running trainers, coaches and fan attenpractices, and overseeing a vol- dance, according to Ed Ramirez, untary workout program online. the athletic director in the BaldStill, Insler said, he under- win School District. stood why the superintendents The decision to postpone the voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to season came just two days after postpone the fall season. “Safety Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced is the most important thing,” he that lower-risk high school fall said. Continued on page 5
By MEliSSa KoENig and ToNy BElliSSiMo
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ife is full of competition, and the competition right now is to beat the virus.
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iMaNi MuRdoCK, PRESidENT of Breaking the Cycle at Clark Atlanta University, left, and Chadiva Smith designed posters before the “Stop Killing Us” march on Aug. 30.
Marching for Black lives
Elmont native’s organization expands to N.Y. By MEliSSa KoENig mkoenig@liherald.com
“This march is for you,” Markeena Novembre told Elmont Memorial High School students last Sunday night, as she led nearly 30 Black Lives Matter protesters down Elmont Road for the inaugural Breaking the Cycle’s New York chapter event. Novembre, a 2014 graduate of Elmont High, founded the organization in January 2016
at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, to help Black children succeed and give Black communities a voice. It has since expanded to include several statewide chapters, with some at a number of historically Black colleges and universities, and now that she has graduated from Clark Atlanta University and returned to New York, she decided it was time to form a chapter here. “It’s about time that we make noise for Black lives,”
said Novembre, noting that Elmont is a predominantly Black community. The inaugural event was originally designed to honor Black women, she said, but after a Kenosha, Wis., police officer shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back seven times and left him paralyzed from the waist down, Novembre decided to turn it into a “Stop Killing Us March” for all the Black victims of police brutality. Continued on page 3