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Classic cars keep a legacy rolling By DENIVIA RIVERA Intern
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Volunteers and car owners came together at the inaugural Bill Bongiorno Car Show at Seaford High School on Oct. 4, held to raise funds for scholarships for students pursuing trade school education.
Seaford High School hosted the first annual Bill Bongiorno Car Show on Oct. 4, raising funds for scholarships that support students pursuing a trade school education. The show was held in honor of Bongiorno, an alumnus of the high school who died in February at age 76 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2024. His wife, Catherine, said he had a special place in his heart for Seaford, and that the scholarship creatCOntinued On page 10
Learning new skills and giving back in Temple B’nai Torah garden By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
For the past three years, the garden at Temple B’nai Torah, in Wantagh, has helped people with special needs develop valuable vocational skills — and the plants they grow are donated to a good cause. Every Tuesday from May through November, volunteers in the temple’s garden learn the basics of growing vegetables and herbs. The project is a partnership between the temple and AHRC Nassau, a Brookville-based nonprofit that supports children and adults with developmental disabilities
across Nassau County. Behind the initiative is Carol Meyerson, a temple member and an employment training specialist at AHRC who, three years ago, sought opportunities in the community where people could volunteer as a ste p toward full-time employment. The garden, Meyerson said, offered meaningful volunteer work in the form of hands-on tasks that people with special needs could learn. “We thought this would be a perfect marriage,” Meyerson said, “and it’s really extraordinary what they learned in the three years.” Also helping lead the initia-
tive is Rona Kauffman, co-chair of the temple’s Social Action/ Social Justice Committee, which focuses on supporting community members in need. The garden was created in the summer of 2020, Kauffman said, to help address food pantry shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It was very hard for those pantries to keep food on the shelves,” she recalled, “and it was even harder to get seeds back then if you wanted to do gardening, so we thought it would be a perfect time to start a garden.” Temple volunteers transfor med an abandoned play-
ground in the parking lot into a quarter-acre garden. Members donated tables and chairs to create a welcoming space for visitors, the temple purchased raised garden beds and volunteers contributed additional materials. Some of the old playground equipment remains, now integrated into the garden, which is sustained through
community donations. Volunteer Susan Salem has helped teach others how to grow and care for the plot. It produces a variety of vegetables and herbs, she said, including carrots, radishes, squash, beets, lettuce, eggplant, turnips, cucumbers, tomatoes and beans, all of which help feed vulnerable families on Long COntinued On page 9