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For these 2 seniors, nothing but A’s By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
Courtesy Wantagh High School
Skylar Mondelli and Gabriel Avitabile are Wantagh High School’s class of 2025 valedictorian and salutatorian.
Skylar Mondelli and Gabriel Avitabile have worked hard to excel as Wantagh High School students, which has paid off big time in their senior year. With a weighted grade point average of 108.526, Mondelli will be the class of 2025 valedictorian, while Avitabile will be its salutatorian with a 108.293 GPA. Achieving the title of valedictorian has been a goal for Mondelli since she was a Wantagh Middle School student. Around that time, her mother Continued on pAGe 7
Chabad fundraiser clears $420,000 for 2025 programs By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo jdalessandro@liherald.com
The Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh recently held its fifth annual “Be a Match — Spark the Light” fundraising campaign, bringing in more than $420,000 to benefit community members in need. “We live in a great community, the people are very generous and charitable,” Rabbi Shimon Kramer, the Chabad’s director, said. Kramer and his wife, Chanie, organized the fundraiser, which was held from Dec. 17-19, to cover the cost of the Chabad center’s operations for
2025. The fundraisThe Chabad cener attracted almost ter is a nonprofit 5 0 0 d o n o r s, wh o dedicated to helpcontributed to the ing community t h re e - d ay c a m members through paign. spiritual guidance, “It’s not only the education and amount that was social services given, we’re also around the clock, impressed by the RABBi SHimoN from finding docamount of people KRAmER tors and hospitals who gave it in three Director, Chabad of to connecting peodays for charity,” Merrick-Bellmoreple with financial Kramer said. “It’s a Wantagh advisors. g reat feeling to The initial goal know that there are of the event was to so many friends out there that raise $300,000 within the threevalue the importance of being day period, but two families, here for others during this holi- Alan and Tatyana Forman, and day season.” E l i e z e r a n d Ye t t a P u t t e r,
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verybody should consider doing their part.
matched each donation. Alan Forman is a Bellmore-based entre preneur who founded Altronix, a global electronics manufacturing company. “We’re very, very grateful that the community got together and everybody contributed in whatever they had,” he said. “We’re glad that it went the way it went.”
Forman said he was motivated to combat hunger in the local community and to support Chabad’s educational programs. “His school is unparalleled,” he said. “The enrichment and the education and the socialization and the values that they’re taught definitely will pay Continued on pAGe 11