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Skates and latkes for the Jewish festival Chanukah on Ice, a unique annual Long Beach tradition, took to the Emile Francis Ice Arena on Dec. 29, and participants skated, ate and laughed to celebrate the holiday. Rabbi Eli Goodman helped lead the festivities, and DJ Chef provided the eats.

“I want to major in engineering, so I’m more focused on STEM classes,” Brenner Long Beach High School has explained, referring to science, announced the top two students technology, engineering and in this year’s senior class: Dan- math. “I really like calculus. I iel Brenner is the valedictori- really like physics. I think an, and LiLin Garfinkel is the they’re very interesting and they’re math-heavy, so I find salutatorian. Brenner, 17, was bor n in that cool.” O u t s i d e t h e cl a s s ro o m , China, where his father was Brenner is a memworking for Lockber of the National heed Martin as a Honor Society, and radar engineer. He vice president of grew up admiring the Tri-M Music h i s d a d ’s wo rk , Honor Society — which sparked his despite the fact that interest in engihe didn’t learn to neering. His family p l ay a m u s i c a l moved back to the instrument until United States when DANIEl BRENNER 2020, when the he was 12, landing Valedictorian coronavirus pani n I s l a n d P a rk , demic hit, and he where, in a sign of found himself things to come, he was the valedictorian of Island Park Middle bored. He was playing catch with his mom one day, he School. “That was really early to be recalled, and just said, “I want r a n k i n g p e o p l e, ” B re n n e r to learn an instrument.” He decided on the alto saxojoked. When he got to Long Beach phone, because it “sounds High, he started taking Interna- c o o l . ” H e t a u g h t h i m s e l f, tional Baccalaureate classes, watching YouTube videos to intending to work toward an IB learn the fingerings. He joined Diploma. It was no surprise, the high school band later than given the influence of his most of the other student musifather’s work, that he concen- cians, but he has more than trated in the sciences. Continued on page 5

By BRENDAN CARPENTER

bcarpenter@liherald.com

just worked my best. I just tried my hardest.

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St. James Episcopal welcomes new vicar, Michael Delaney By ANGElINA ZINGARIEllo azingariello@liherald.com

St. James of Jerusalem Episcopal Church, on West Penn Street, announced the appointment of the Rev. Michael F. Delaney as its new vicar, effective Dec. 1. Delaney, 68, previously worked within the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, which spans Nassau and Suffolk counties as well as Brooklyn and Queens. Most recently, he served as chaplain to the Right Rev. Lawrence C. Provenzano, bishop of Long Island and canon liturgist for the diocese. Delaney’s decade of service also included roles as pastoral associate and vicar at the

Cathedral of the Incarnation, in Garden City, where he managed liturgical ministries and stewardship initiatives and formed a Pastoral Care Team. “I told them that I wanted to come to St. James in Long Beach,” Delaney said. “And it was like, why do you want to go there? And I said, because it’s a block away from the ocean and it’s a parish that I think has lots of possibility, and that’s what I’m really looking for in my life, is actually coming to a place where I can grow with a congregation, discover what it really means to be the Episcopal Church in this day and age, and I think the people here at St. James are pretty Continued on page 11