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A.B. denies tennis center’s closure rumors center for six years, and has over 30 years of tennis experience. He taught the sport at the The Village of Atlantic Woodmere Club before it closed Beach is denying rumors that in 2020. the Atlantic Beach Tennis and The village board wrote a Pickleball Center is being shut letter to Morales, saying that he down without was “operating notice. without an amendMembers and ment” — a modifiresidents were concation to a license cerned when Eric agreement. He postMorales, director of ed the letter outside the facility, spread the center. word that the vil“The old mayor, lage would close it George Pappas, on Oct. 2. Many gave me the OK to showed their supoperate, because port for Morales at they were too busy a meeting with the dealing with the village board on Chabad,” Morales Sept. 29. said, referring to The center, at 60 the village’s legal The Plaza, has 120 entanglement with BARRy tennis members Chabad of the and 62 pickleball FRoHLINgER Beaches over the members, according Mayor, past three years. Atlantic Beach to Morales. He was worried, “The community he said, that memneeds the center, as ber renewals would not get out it is added value to the resi- on time, and that he would lose dents, and Eric Morales works business next year. very hard at accommodating “I asked again for the everyone.” said a member who amendment in March, and Papidentified herself only as Adri- pas told me don’t worry about enne W. “Paying members it,” Morales added. “I’ve never would be gypped, as we pay done anything wrong, and until the end of December.” signed something that was a Morales, 53, has overseen the Continued on paGe 7
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Geri Barish, executive director of Hewlett House, fourth from left, with her Wednesday group of double mastectomy breast cancer survivors at the organization’s 25th anniversary event.
Hewlett House celebrates 25-year breast cancer fight By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Breast cancer survivors, current patients, volunteers and local elected leaders joined Geri Barish, executive director of Hewlett House, at Hewlett House on Oct. 1 to celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary and the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Over the past two and a half decades, Hewlett House has treated over 42,000 people with breast cancer. It supports cancer patients at every stage of treatment and offers educational materials, 24/7 peer support and a network of cancer survivors and health professionals. The Hewlett family originally owned the
building, one of the oldest structures on Long Island, in the early 17th century, before giving it to what became the Hewlett-Woodmere School District. In 1996, the school district called then Nassau County Legislator Bruce Blakeman to ask for financial help, because the district couldn’t afford the upkeep of the building. It was proposed to be a museum, but the idea for a safe place for women battling breast cancer was born. Blakeman asked the school district to sell the building to the county for $1, and he reached out to Barish, a five-time cancer survivor, and asked her to take it over. “There is nobody like you in all of America, for your advocacy, passion and commitContinued on paGe 11
n terms of making sure these are open weather permitting, this is our commitment to the village.