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Raising money during a pandemic Thursday, Lom said, to raise funds, as well as a car parade — the date and details to be deterLosing the ability to gather in mined — at which people will be person has drastically reduced able to sponsor cars in memory fundraising opporof Holocaust survitunities for nonprofvors who have died, it organizations that or in honor of those are desperately in still living. need of money. With “We’ve had to be that in minds, many very creative in nonprofits on the terms of what we do North Shore have and how we connect found creative ways with people,” Lom to raise money in said. “We’ve also safe, socially disbeen doing a lot of tanced, often online direct appeals to ways. people via email, “We are not able social media, things to do any of our inlike that, because person fundraisers, it’s very difficult for which are the us and all nonprofits source of a large right now. We’re percentage of the constantly thinking funds that we use to DEBORAH LOM of and discussing be able to do our stu- Holocaust Memorial ideas [for] how we dent and adult procan engage with & Tolerance Center g ramming,” said potential and curDeborah Lom, the rent donors.” director of development at the Asked about the importance Holocaust Memorial & Toler- of supporting an institution like ance Center in Glen Cove. “What the Holocaust center, Lom said we’ve been doing is transitioning that it isn’t just dedicated to preall of our programs to a virtual serving the memory of the trageformat, and we’ve been doing dies of the Holocaust. “Our missome virtual fundraising.” sion is to use history and the lesThe center planned to host an sons of the Holocaust to connect online chair yoga session on CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
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Courtesy Tammy Lanham
THE REV. TOMMY Lanham, the minister of Glen Cove Christian Church, said he had many fallen trees on the church’s property.
Isaias packs a blustery punch, downing trees in Glen Cove By SCOTT BRINTON and JENNIFER CORR sbrinton@liherald.com, jcorr@liherald.com
Tropical Storm Isaias, a swift-moving tempest that slammed Nassau County on Tuesday, knocked down more than a thousand trees and some 338 electrical and phone wires, County Executive Laura Curran said at a news briefing Wednesday morning. No fatalities were report-
ed, Curran said. T h i r t y c o u n t y c rew s worked through the night and into the morning, removing fallen trees and storm debris from county roads, which, she said, were mostly passable. There was relatively little rain, but the storm brought sustained winds in the 30- to 50-mph range, with gusts in excess of 70 mph, which caused some trees to fall onto homes.
Chief William Whitton of the Glen Cove Police Department said that most of the city was still without power on Wednesday morning, and there were many trees down as well. “Cool story — the trees all around our church and home have fallen all over the property,” said Tammy Lanham, whose husband, the Rev. Tommy Lanham, is the pastor CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
e’re constantly thinking of and discussing ideas [for] how we can engage with potential and current donors.