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Plan proposed to help 5TCC Gural JCC offers a renovation partnership to share campus center has been headquartered since 1972. It is run in partnership with the county, and leases The Five Towns Community its building from the county. The Center’s future is in doubt. Its 50-year lease, signed in 1974, is lease is due to expire in 2024, and expected to expire next year, Nassau County issued a request with no extension offered. The for proposal in January for the RFP sent out by the county on future use of the Jan. 2 sought peoLawrence Avenue ple or entities to facility and its provide youth-oriproperty. But there ented activities may new life for and services at the the center after all. facility and A proposal from upgrades to the the Marion & gym and athletic Aaron Gural JCC, field. seeking to partner According to with the 116-yearthe letter from the old community Gural JCC, it center, was anallow the KeViN THoMPsoN would nounced at a Feb. center to continue 23 Five Towns cenoffering its activiter board meeting. ties and services, but in a more “Our proposal brings togeth- modern facility at its current er two tenured and respected location. organizations that currently “Our plan is to provide the serve the greater Five Towns,” Five Towns Community Center a the letter stated, “who will col- beautiful self-contained renovatlaborate and share one commu- ed space of approximately nity campus. This ‘coming 7,500-square-feet with its own together’ of two unique social main entrance and lobby,” the service organizations will only letter stated. “This would ensure benefit the residents of the that the Five Towns Community greater Five Towns.” Center continues to operate The county owns the proper- independently and provide the ty, at 270 Lawrence Ave. in Law- programs and services they currence, where the community Continued on page 6
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Courtesy Hindy Ginsberg
HiNDY GiNsbeRG will take part in the 2023 Jerusalem Marathon on March 17, honoring her sister, Devorah Schochet, a Woodmere resident who has been living with ALS for 10 years.
Running long to fight ALS
Family supports Woodmere’s Devorah Schochet by HeRNesTo GAlDAMeZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Woodmere resident Devorah Schochet was given two to four years to live in 2013, when she was first diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Valentine’s Day was the 10-year anniversary of that diagnosis. Schochet, 48, has the unflagging support of, among others, her sister, Hindy Ginsberg, 39, and her mother-in-law, Rivka Schochet, who have turned her disorder into a cause. “There are so many things you can do to bring awareness,” Rivka said. “One of those things is run-
ning in marathons!” Hindy and Rivka plan to take part in the 2023 Jerusalem Marathon on March 17, an annual 26.2-mile run that passes historical sites around the Israeli city. Rivka will run a 10K race that is also part of the event. “We run to try and inspire other people to help people with ALS,” Rivka said. “To appreciate our health and the ability to do simple things.” ALS became synonymous with the Yankees legend who contracted the disease in 1939. Gehrig died two years later, at age 37. An estimated 31,000 Americans are living with the disorder, and about 5,000 are diagnosed every Continued on page 11
he lives of many Five Towns residents are in serious jeopardy.