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Girl Scout inspires others to help out helping kids for all the right reasons,” Silberger said. Faith, a member of her high Wantagh High School junior school’s Kiwanis Key Club, Faith Stallone has demonstrat- began to raise money for Camp ed that providing service to her Kiwanis in July, when she community is not difficult if decided to promote a poster with infor mation on Camp it’s done one step at a time. Faith, a member of Want- Kiwanis and a QR code to send agh’s Girl Scout Troop 3305, donations. She promoted her recently raised $1,070 to help poster at the Thursday Night send an underpriviLive events, a series leged child to Camp of summer block Kiwanis, a summer parties on Railroad camp in upstate New Avenue in Wantagh, York that provides hosted by Mulcahy’s recreational and Pub & Concert Hall. educational proShe also promoted grams for children her poster at her and adults with church, the Good developmental disShepherd Lutheran abilities. The camp Church in Levitis part of Kiwanis MARgARET t ow n , d u r i n g i t s Inter national, a summer food truck global organization SilBERgER events. of volunteers who President, Kiwanis “It was a really help improve chil- Club of Wantagh good experience,” dren’s lives and comFaith said, “because munities through service and I got to feel that I was helping charity. someone. And not even just During a Sept. 3 meeting of helping one person, I was helpthe Kiwanis Club of Wantagh, ing someone give back, because Faith delivered the check to its they might have such a good club president, Margaret Sil- experience that they’re able to berger, who said Faith’s com- give that experience to somemitment to service completes a one else when they’re older.” cycle of young volunteers helpSending a child to Camp ing other children in need. Kiwanis is just one of many “There’s nothing like kids Continued on page 5
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Hundreds arrived at Seaford High School for the Seaford 9/11 Memorial Candle Lighting Ceremony. the event was to honor the memory of the five alumni, as well as the rest of the victims, who died from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Somber tribute, 23 years later
Hundreds gather for Seaford’s 9/11 memorial ceremony By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
Seaford hosted its 23rd annual 9/11 Memorial Candle Lighting Ceremony on Sept. 11, and hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of Seaford High School to honor the lives lost that day. The event was hosted by the Seaford High nonprofSchool 9/11 Memorial Committee, a nonprof it that was established to honor the memory of five Seaford alumni and all of the others who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The Seaford victims were brothers Thomas and Timothy Haskell, John Perry, Robert Sliwak and Michael Wittenstein. Perry was a New York City police officer; the Haskells were city firefighters; and Sliwak and Wit-
tenstein both worked for Cantor Fitzgerald in the north tower. In 2002, the 9/11 committee helped build a memorial at the high school, with plaques dedicated to the five men. Since it was built, community members have gathered there each year for a candlelight ceremony to pay their respects. This year’s event began with a presentation of the American flag by the Nassau County Police Department Color Guard, escorted by the department’s Emerald Society Pipe Band and Honor Guard. They marched down Seamans Neck Road and up to the steps of the high school, next to the memorial. Former Seaford High Principal Raymond Buckley welcomed the crowd, thanking the Continued on page 10
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