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Donation gives students a taste of the outdoors By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Courtesy Harmony Heights Day School
Students and staff at Harmony Heights Day School joined Global Industrial employees to build and install benches with umbrellas, a shed, and other equipment that the company donated to the school.
Students at Harmony Heights Day School have a new place to learn, socialize and receive therapy outdoors after employees of Global Industrial, an industrial commercial supply company based in Port Washington, spent July 17 transforming the school’s East Norwich campus in a daylong volunteer project. The effort, part of Global Industrial’s Partnerships with Purpose corporate stewardship program, included the installation of outdoor furniture, construction of a storage shed, upgrades to Harmony Heights’ art room, new maintenance equipment and other improvements designed to expand students’ therapeutic and educational opportunities. School leaders said the project far exceeded their expectations. “Ever since I started here, my dream was to, like, have this outdoor space utilized a lot better,” Principal Tatiana Pejkovic said. “It was kind of just a ContInueD on paGe 10
Suozzi calls for an extension of Salvadorans’ TPS By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi is urging the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans nationwide, saying that many of the immigrants he first came to know as day laborers when he served as Glen Cove’s mayor in the 1990s have since become homeowners, business owners and parents raising families on Long Island. In a virtual news conference on July 13, Suozzi, a Democrat representing Long Island’s North Shore and northeast
Queens, called for the administration to extend TPS for Salvadorans and establish a permanent pathway to legal status for recipients who have lived and worked in the United States for decades. Roughly 60,000 Salvadoran TPS holders live in the New York metropolitan area, according to advocates who took part in the news conference. Suozzi said that his support for Salvadoran immigrants dates back to his years as mayor of Glen Cove, from 1994 to 2001, when many newly arrived immigrants from Central America gathered on street corners seeking work.
“Those folks that have been here since the 1990s and have had legal status since 2001 under TPS . . . now have their own businesses,” he said. “They own their own homes. Their kids went to school with my kids. They’ve lived great American lives. And they’re central parts of the fabric of our communities.” Many of the people he met while serving as mayor, Suozzi said, have spent more than two decades building lives on Long Island, which makes the prospect of losing their legal protections especially troubling. “The idea of taking away their status now and subjecting
them to possible deportation is not only inhumane, I would argue it’s un-American,” he said. Nabil Azamy, an organizer f o r t h e G l e n C ove R a p i d Response Network, said in a written statement to the Herald that Congress and the administration must create a permanent solution before Salvador-
an TPS protections expire. “For many of these individuals, TPS is the only thing standing between them and deportation,” Azamy wrote. “Ending TPS doesn’t simply strip a status — it removes the one barrier keeping people who have lived here lawfully for decades out of ICE custody,” he added, ContInueD on paGe 7