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MAY 22 - 28, 2020
Crisis means nonstop work for Tom Suozzi or have died. He has donated masks and other personal protective equipBy his own account, U.S. ment to a variety of hospitals, Rep. Tom Suozzi is extremely including Glen Cove Hospital. busy. There’s his work in Wash- He has helped hand out donated ington, where he fights for food to families in the communifunding for New York, and his ty, and at the Glen Cove High many local responsibilities in School Food Pantry. He even had Glen Cove, too. his reading of the children’s During the corobook “Children of navirus pandemic, the Forest,” by Elsa there is another Beskow, recorded for level of urgency to local libraries, constituents’ including the Oyster requests. Some need Bay Library. Suozzi’s help comHe is an effective pleting applications leader during the for small-business coronavirus panloans. Others aren’t d e m i c, h e s a i d , re c e iv i n g t h e i r because his life expeunemployment riences have prechecks. One constitpared him for the uent said he had an challenge. Suozzi is idea for a drug, and an accountant and wanted help reach- TOM SUOZZI an attorney, and was ing the Federal Drug Glen Cove’s mayor A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . U.S. Representative and Nassau County Another was stuck executive. He also on a cruise ship and asked ran unsuccessfully for governor, Suozzi to help him get home. losing by a large margin, but no His family, another important matter. A self-described optimist, part of Suozzi’s life, has been he said the experience was a touched by Covid-19. His father- good one, because he learned in-law, Michael Wrotniak Jr., how the state works. died of the virus last month, and Asked if his life is difficult, his mother-in-law, Carol, had it, Suozzi said he has always worked too, but survived. Suozzi said he knows many people who are sick CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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Taking a break for a tune-up Sunny skies and warm weather in recent days led residents of the hamlet to head for one of their favorite spots, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. Whether they poked their toes in the Sound or took a bike ride, there was plenty to enjoy. More photos, Page 10.
North Shore college students wrap up their spring semester BY JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
Many college students could not have imagined finishing their semester behind computer screens at home, let alone graduating there. “To be able to walk across that stage and shake your professor’s hand, shake the dean of your college’s hand . . . it’s a real-
ly big thing,” said Danielle Sugar, 22, a University of Delaware graduate from East Norwich. “Yes, the university is trying to do a virtual celebration, and families are trying to make a big deal out of it, but it stinks. It will never be the same feeling of having your name called and actually feeling like I did this.” Sugar, like many other students, had lots of plans for her
spring semester. A pre-physician assistant major, she had enrolled in an elective anatomy course in which she would be able to dissect cadavers. Her extracurricular activities included a membership in the Pi Beta Phi sorority and her role as the Pre Physician Assistant Club president. In early March, the coronavirus pandemic forced students to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
y whole objective during the coronavirus has been about getting money for New York.