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Students raise funds to fight L.A. fires By AiNslEY MARtiNEz amartinez@liherald.com
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Fifth-grader Gia Kolm, far right, helped a schoolmate put on a bracelet at Waverly Park Elementary School on Jan. 14. The Student Council organized a drive, selling bracelets for a suggested donation of $5 in a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Fire Department. Fifth-graders Elizabeth Graham, top, and Gianna Di Chiara manned the sales table with Gia.
Students at Waverly Park Elementary School, in East Rockaway, have raised $600 for the firefighters battling the destructive wildfires in California. The students, third- to fifth-graders, sold heart-shaped bracelets as part of a fundraising campaign to provide financial support to the Los Angeles Fire Department, which has been at the forefront of fighting multiple blazes in the region. “This is important, because they’re in need of more resources, ConTinuED on PAGE 10
Residents react to TikTok’s temporary shutdown after legal ban By AiNslEY MARtiNEz amartinez@liherald.com
When Chris Schacca, 38, clocked in for a shift at Jersey Mike’s on Sunrise Highway on Sunday, all he and his co-workers wanted to talk about was the pop-up message blocking content on one of their favorite apps, TikTok. “We were showing each other our screens and couldn’t believe it was gone,” Schacca
said. The message told users to “stay tuned,” but read, “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.” By Sunday afternoon, however, the app’s functionality retur ned, a few hours after then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would issue an executive order delaying the ban once he took
office on Monday — allowing access to its 170 million American users, but keeping the app unavailable for new downloads on Apple and Samsung devices. “Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President-elect Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!” the company announced in a statement to users. T he law, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024, passed
by Cong ress last April, required ByteDance, a Chinese technology company, to sell TikTok or face a ban. It gave the company 270 days, until Jan. 19, to sell the app to a U.S. or allied company. In 2020, in his first term, Trump said he had the same concerns about data integrity, and imposed broad sanctions against TikTok. But a federal court blocked the ban of the app, questioning its legality
and the grounds for enforcement. Nathan DeCorpo, an attorney in Lynbrook, said the law presents a legal “gray area,” especially because lawmakers have only recently begun writing legislation governing social media. And, DeCorpo added, it appears that the only ways to keep TikTok online are for Congress to pass a new law reversing the current one, or for the ConTinuED on PAGE 17