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HERALD Embarking on a new journey
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Vol. 72 No. 33
AUGUST 8 - 14, 2024
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Serving with kindness at L.I. Cares through the special needs program, busy, when she passed This is part two in a series by the organization’s Huntingabout Seaford residents who ton location and saw it needed provide assistance at Long volunteers. After doing some research, Mirer found the food Island Cares. pantry to be a great outlet to Seaford resident Debbie keep Magilavy engaged and Mirer has displayed hard work active. Once they filled out the necessary paperwhile perfor ming work, the two have all of her tasks volunteered there with kindness at every week since the food bank run then a n d h ave by Long Island loved it. Cares. Their volunteer Mirer, who has work includes a volunteered with variety of different the organization’s tasks, such as inde pendent suprestocking shelves port services, a speand picking up cial needs program, d e l ive r i e s t o b e for 18 years, has placed in the stockteamed up with ro o m . T h e m o s t Matthew Magilavy, important part of who has autism, as their job, Mirer volunteers to assist said, is assisting clients at the food HARRiSoN SMiTH customers in a bank. mini-supermarket. L o n g I s l a n d Satellite and disaster The two would take Cares Inc. is a food relief coordinator, c u s t o m e r s d ow n bank with 200 sites Long Island Cares each aisle and scattered throughshow them the food out the U.S. and is dedicated to feeding individu- they have on their shelves. Mirer spoke fondly of Magials and families in their comlavy and the assistance he promunities. In 2016, Mirer was looking vides at the food bank. With for volunteer work to keep careful direction, Magilavy M a g i l av y, wh o m s h e m e t Continued on page 2
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lining up the perfect shot Dominic Romano played some ground-level table Hockey at Seaford Middle School at the Seaford Recreation program’s color war event on Aug. 1. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Town of Hempstead sues Florida sanctuary over unreturned dogs By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
The Town of Hempstead is taking legal action to recover four dogs from an animal sanctuary in Florida, claiming the organization violated the town’s agreement plan to care for them. The dogs were originally placed in the town animal shelter in Wantagh. On July 26, the town filed a lawsuit against PawsEver Home, a nonprofit facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to recover the dogs, which were transferred to the sanctuary by the town six months ago. The Town of Hempstead had given the dogs to PawsEver to provide them a better
life after years of unsuccessful adoptions. But in a June 17 letter addressed to Michael Breitsprecher, the sanctuary’s president, the town informed the sanctuary that it had terminated its agreement with PawsEver, and demanded that all town animals in its possession be returned. The Florida rescue began caring for the dogs after Breitsprecher signed an agreement in February to become a “placement partner” with the town animal shelter. The partnership, according to the agreement, is “a collaborative program designed to provide dogs and cats a second chance in a loving home and to increase the save Continued on page 4
hen Debbie comes in and organizes the stockroom, I think the work that she’s done in that sense is outstanding.