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Hoping to bring sports culture to O.B. schools practice with their teams. “Your athletic period is five days a week all school year When Carl Cruz moved with long,” Cruz said. “So you’re his family from Texas to Oyster talking about 180 hours that Bay nine years ago, he was kids in Georgia, Texas, Florida, under the impression that ath- Louisiana — all of those kids letics were handled the same from seventh grade to 12th way as in his home state. But grade are getting 180 hours of Cruz, a volunteer coach, said he extra work over our kids in the Northeast.” was stunned by the By contrast, differences in how when his oldest son, the district, and who ultimately state, approach transferred to and sports. graduated from St. One of the bigDominic’s High gest shocks, he said, School, started was being told by classes in Oyster other parents that Bay, he was enrolled “if your kid’s an in a general phys. athlete, you’ve got ed. period. to send them to pri- CARL CRUZ “ F i r s t d ay o f vate school.” Two of Parent and coach school, he calls me, Cruz’s six children he says, ‘Dad, you attend St. Dominic’s Elementary School, although need to call the school,’” Cruz he added that he is “waiting to recalled. “‘They’ve got me see what they have to offer in throwing Frisbees in P.E.,’ and sports at the seventh-grade I’m like, ‘What? I don’t understand.’” level when they’re older.” That moment set Cruz, a real In Texas, Cruz explained, athletics are deeply integrated estate agent by trade, on a misinto public-school life. Begin- sion to push for reforms. He ning in seventh grade, students argues that while academics who take part in sports are are rightly a focus in the Northenrolled in daily athletic peri- east, athletics are undervalued ods during the school day, in as tools for teaching discipline, which they train, lift weights or CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
By WILL SHEELINE
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Courtesy NOSH Delivers!
Members of NOSH’s youth programs volunteered to help set up for NOSH Delivers’ first Backpack Day at the Glen Cove VFW.
They helped kids prepare for classes, a backpack at a time By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
Families from across Bayville, Locust Valley and beyond lined up at the Glen Cove Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on Aug. 13 to take part in the first-ever Backpack Day by NOSH Delivers, an event that supplied nearly 500 children with new school bags filled with supplies. The nonprofit food pantry partnered with the Glen Head Country Club Charitable Foundation, which donated the backpacks, and Supplies for Success to make the day possible. Dozens of volunteers handed out backpacks organized by grade level, from
early elementary through high school, along with pens, pencils, notebooks and other essentials. Christine Rice, president of the board at NOSH, said the country club’s generosity provided the foundation for the program. “The Glen Head Country Club really provided the underpinnings, if you will, of this backpack event,” Rice said. “It was an overwhelming success, and we gave out probably in the area, close to 500 backpacks.” Families registered in advance to receive a backpack, but demand exceeded expectations. Rice added that the organization had families coming in as recently as the first CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
he town I grew up in, you wanted to play for your town.