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Lynbrook, E.R. Catholics react to pope’s death old, and she helped the family make it to the front of the line. “A few of the elderly women He became an ordained Jesu- we met pushed us towards the it priest at 33, and was the first barricades in hopes Arianna pope from outside Europe in could be blessed by the pope,” centuries. And Pope Francis, Baal Depalo said. Shortly afterward, Francis who died on Monday at age 88, got out of his was known for his human touch. “pope-mobile,” Baal “He was a first Depalo recounted, in a lot of ways: the picked up Arianna f i r s t Je s u i t a n d and kissed her on Latin American the forehead. priest,” the Rev. It was a particuChuck Romano, of larly special St. Raymond’s moment, she said, Church on Atlantic because it occurred Ave n u e i n E a s t on the Catholic holRockaway, said. “He iday Ash Wedneslived a simple lifeday in Febr uary style . . . He lived a THE REV. CHuCk 2016. very uplifting and RoMANo “He had all of us edifying life that we St. Raymond’s in tears,” she said. bring to our own Church, East “It was the greatest church.” honor, especially Rockaway Jaymie Baal because this pope D e P a l o, o f Ly n has been unlike any brook, visited Italy in 2016 on a other pope.” family trip with her parents — Jesuits are known for highwho had never been out of the lighting humility, aiding the country. She is Catholic, and poor and having respect for her parish helped the family indigenous people. take part in the people’s audiIn a statement after Franence, where hundreds gather in cis’s death on Monday, Bishop Rome for a chance to meet the John Barres, who leads the pope. Her daughter, Arianna Archdiocese of Rockville CenDePalo, had just turned a year
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Casey Kennedy, left, Reagan Davis, Colin Kennedy and John Kennedy potted plants on April 21.
Planting event highlights initiative
Lynbrook residents get their hands dirty for Arbor Day By AINSlEY MARTINEZ amartinez@liherald.com
With soil-streaked hands, children knelt down to pot trees at an Arbor Day celebration on Monday hosted by the Lynbrook Recreation Department. The event, held at Greis Park, was part of the village’s initiative to plant 10,000 trees this year, including varieties of flowering cherry trees. “It’s such a positive and fun event,” Phil Healy, the village’s director of public works said. “Trees and people have been connected since the beginning of time.” The trees were from Shades Tree Nursery in Jamesport, one of the few wholesalers of pre-potted trees on Long Island. While children and adults experienced what Healy calls the “joys of planting” by potting trees to take home, the trees planted
by the village will already be potted, so crews can take their time placing them around the area. “Trees are really heavy, and in previous years, people would throw their backs out,” Healy explained. The cherry blossom varieties will also grow at a slower rate, and are smaller, allowing the allotted infrastructure to remain intact, Healy said. Arbor Day originated in Nebraska on April 10, 1872, when journalist and politician J. Sterling Morton proposed a treeplanting holiday to the State Board of Agriculture. The Nebraska State Historical Society estimates that more than a million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day. The Nebraska Legislature made Arbor Day a legal holiday in 1885, setting the date ContinueD on pAge 4
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