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Pull up a seat at Sea Cliff’s longest table pandemic, with the goal of gathering neighbors and sharing meals around tables in the The Love Your Neighbor middle of city blocks. It has Project, a Sea Cliff-based non- s i n c e e x p a n d e d t o s t a t e s profit, is hosting a potluck din- throughout the country, includner in Sea Cliff ’s Roslyn Park ing Connecticut, Massachusetts Sept. 13, at which residents will and California. have the chance to fill their “I feel like I know a lot of plates, make new people, but yet I acquaintances and don’t know a lot of play musical chairs. people,” Harir, a More than 100 fo o d c o n s u l t a n t , people have signed said. “There’s so up for the Longest many new people in Table event, which town, and there’s so will be presented by many people that the LYNP and Lisa aren’t going to the Harir, a Sea Cliff same places as I’m resident for over going.” two decades. The dinner, from “I love making 4 to 8 p.m., is for potlucks,” the those 21 and older, 66-year-old Harir and tickets are $20 said, adding that per seat. Attendees she has organized JAIME TEICH are asked to bring a them since she was Founder, Love Your dish that serves in college. “I always Neighbor Project eight people. like to get a big The first hour g roup of people and a half of the together — people get excited potluck will be dedicated to about creating their favorite food, with salads, main courses, dish or showing their creativi- side dishes and desserts. Local ty.” disc jockey DJ Valentine will The inspiration for the com- lead a game of musical chairs munity potluck comes from the and the first ever longest table Longest Table, which began in musical chairs winner will be New York City in 2022 after the

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Heading back to school Glenwood Landing Elementary School Principal Bridget Finder welcomed students back as the North Shore School District for a new school year. Story, more photos. Page 3.

Helping children get ready for school NOSH Delivers! holds first ever Backpack Day giveaway By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com

Families from across the North Shore School District 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 recent as the first day of the North Shore school year to grab a backpack. Courtney Callahan, NOSH’s director of youth and community engagement and a co-founder of the pantry, organized the event after years of experience working with school supply drives She described her inspiration coming from her time in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, where backpack giveaways were treated as community celebrations despite regional poverty. “Families are really poor on the south side (of Chicago), and basically everyone needs help with backpacks and supplies,” Callahan said. “But it was done with such dignity and humanity…and CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

here’s no head, there’s no end, there’s just a community coming together in one space at one table.

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