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Volunteer at L.I. Cares talks of key mission that she’s spent at the food bank in Bethpage. She discovered the organizaSeaford resident Lorraine Jewel truly understands the tion through volunteers on crucial need for food pantries Facebook, and the topic and and thus providing humanitari- assignments intrigued Jewel to an aid, experiencing the critical lear n even more. She then reached out to a endeavor first-hand. friend who knew Jewel volunteers someone working at at Long Island the food banks to Cares Inc., a food provide a better bank with 200 sites insight into how scattered throughthey operate. Jewel out America and said she soon realdedicated to feeding ized this was somei n d iv i d u a l s a n d thing she wanted to families in their become involved in. communities. The Her work as a food pantries openvolunteer at the ly embrace commuorganization’s food nity volunteers to pantry involves a assist them in delivvariety of different ering the needed t a s k s, i n c l u d i n g services to feed the helping customers h u n g r y o n L o n g loRRAiNE JEWEl to shop for food at a Island. Through Volunteer at Long mini-supermarket. this par tnership, Island Cares Inc. Jewel takes them volunteers have met down each aisle and new people, traveled to different places, and opened shows them the food they have the doors to explore new ideas. on their shelves, but first the These activities have come to volunteers need to know how alter the outlook of someone’s many family members they’re ability to act and give back to buying for to break down how much food they can buy. The the community. Jewel is one many volun- task is not always the easiest, teers at Long Island Cares, dis- but it’s necessary to have playing unfailing devotion to her work in the year and a half CONtiNueD ON PAge 9
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Courtesy Town of Hempstead
Friends and family members of the late NYPD sergeant and 9/11 first responder Al Morabito, as well as elected officials, gathered on the corner of Locust and Oakland avenues in Wantagh last Saturday for a street-renaming ceremony in his honor.
Honoring the legacy of Al Morabito
Wantagh street renamed for Sept. 11 first responder By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
From now on, anyone who walks down to the corner of Wantagh’s Locust and Oakland avenues will be reminded of Al Morabito, a retired sergeant in the New York City Police Department and a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001, thanks to a new street sign with his name on it. The sign unveiling took place last Saturday, when dozens of friends, family members and neighbors gathered at the corner where Morabito lived for a ceremony presented by Town of Hempstead officials. They were joined by members of the NYPD’s Ceremonial Unit and the Highway Patrol, in which Morabito served before he retired in 2006.
U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, State Sen. Steve Rhoads, County Legislator Michael Giangregorio, Town Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Murray and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll attended the gathering. Clavin noted that it is the responsibility of local gover nment to recognize and remember heroes in the community. “He was a hero, and he was very, very special,” Clavin said of Morabito, “and that’s the legacy you’ll be able to have right here.” Clavin added that Town Councilman Christopher Carini, who died unexpectedly on July 14 while visiting family in Florida, had worked closely with the Morabito family to make sure the event would take place. Morabito spent 40 years in the NYPD. He joined the department in 1966, and was CONtiNueD ON PAge 7
hey work very hard on reaching out to different organizations and getting food that’s low in sodium or gluten-free.