Malverne/West Hempstead
HERALD Breakfast club returns to W.H.
Boy Scouts stay active in W.H.
teen honored for community service
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Vol. 27 No. 24
JUNE 11 - 17, 2020
Returning to normal
Showing love for the class of 2020
Malverne, West Hempstead businesses ready for Phase Two
West Hempstead High School senior Korrina Plair donned her mortarboard and thanked parents, teachers and administrators during the school’s car parade last Friday. More photos, Page 3.
By NakEEm GraNt and Scott BriNtoN
in-store sales; vehicle sales, leases and rentals; retail rental, repair and cleaning; and comngrant@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com mercial building management. After nearly three months of Myers, who is a real estate being closed as part of a state- agent, said that many businesses wide lockdown, businesses in like his thrive on face-to-face Malverne and West Hempstead interaction. While some people are itching to get back to work. have been able to work from We s t H e m p s t e a d home during the Chamber of Compandemic, he added, m e rc e P re s i d e n t businesses like real Marshall Myers said estate cannot surthat once more busivive that way. nesses reopen dur“Real estate is a ing Phase Two of contact sport,” Gov. Andrew CuoMyers said. “Being mo’s reopening plan, able to actually see getting local support the home in person will become more and the size of the vital than ever. rooms, you can’t do “The dust still DEirDrE BEll that virtually.” hasn’t settled, but I Owner, The updated have a feeling that Hair By Deirdre reopening timeline some of the small is the result of a conbusinesses aren’t tinued drop in new going to survive,” Myers said. coronavirus hospitalizations, “Those that remain need sup- intubations and deaths, accordport from local residents. Hope- ing to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. fully, they’ve been able to get When he announced on June 5 enough assistance to last this that barbershops and hair salons long. I’m hoping that with local would be included in the Phase support, they’ll be able to carry Two reopening, several local on.” hair stylists said they were excitLong Island’s Phase Two ed about returning to work. reopening, which was set to start Deirdre Bell, owner of Hair on Wednesday, included officebased work; real estate services; Continued on page 9
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just miss seeing my customers, so we can’t wait to see them again.
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Residents create petition to fire Malverne teaching assistant By NakEEm GraNt ngrant@liherald.com
A petition has circulated on Facebook urging the Malverne School District to fire Louise Piacente-Aguilar, a teaching assistant in the district. Residents called for Piacente-Aguilar’s resignation over a post she had made on Facebook last week that they considered racist. Piacente-Aguilar, who has worked in the district for 23
years, commented about demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on Memorial Day. She asserted that protesters, many of whom were black, should be run over repeatedly by police officers, stating, “They should have ran each and everyone of these animals over and than go back and forth over them to make sure they did not miss any.” More than 7,000 people had
signed the petition as the Herald went to press on Monday. District Superintendent Dr. James Hunderfund said the district was aware of Piacente-Aguilar’s “distressing” post. “The Board of Education and administration take this matter very seriously, and it is under investigation and being addressed through the legal process,” Hunderfund said in a statement. “This disContinued on page 9