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Valley Stream’s Grace Landisi is turning 100 and her enduring appreciation for the American flag. Together, the couple raised Va l l e y S t re a m re s i d e n t four sons, Anthony, Joseph and Grace Landisi is preparing to Gerard, as well as Thomas, who celebrate a milestone that few passed. “My children are my greatreach—her 100th birthday. Born Sept. 6, 1925, in Mas- est accomplishment, my happipeth, Queens, Landisi lived est memories, spending time through a century of change with my family,” Landisi said. “One of the happiwhile keeping famiest memories is my ly, tradition and joy son Joseph taking at the center of her me and my whole life. family to Italy. It She grew up in was a fabulous Queens in a large trip.” household with six Angela Ruisi, a brothers and a sisclose family friend ter, raised by their who met Landisi parents. Those through a friend early years in a bus- ANGELA RUISI who worked as her tling family helped Family friend aide five years ago, shape the values said Landisi has that have guided become “like a grandma” to her her throughout her life. More than 47 years ago, Lan- and even reminds her of her disi and her husband, Tom, own grandmother. Ruisi has shared many spechose Valley Stream as their home, seeking a better life for cial moments with her, from their family in a place they had dog park outings to holiday traheard was welcoming and com- ditions. Each year, the two bake munity oriented. The couple Christmas cookies and decorate Easter eggs together. They shared more than 70 years of marriage until Tom’s passing have spent Halloweens dressing during the COVID-19 pandemic up in costumes, with Landisi five years ago. Tom was also a taking turns as a punk rocker, a soldier, a role that strengthened witch and even Barbie alongLandisi’s deep love for America COnTInuED On PAGE 10
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Courtesy Sheera Greenberg
Ilana Goldberg, center, broke the Guinness World Record for Most Decimal Places of Pi Recited in One Minute on Aug. 3, rattling off 426 digits. With her were, from left, the independent witnesses, Ari-Ben Kirschbaum and Eliza Miranda, HAFTR math teacher and chair Tamara Farber and Winslow Mentor.
Do you know your pi digits? She recited 426, very quickly. By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Ilana Greenberg, 17, of Valley Stream, broke the Guinness World Record for the Most Decimal Places of Pi Recited in One Minute on Aug. 3, rapidly reciting 426 digits from memory. Greenberg recently graduated from North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, in Great Neck. She was the class of 2025’s valedictorian, and is now beginning her freshman year at Yale University. “I’ve always loved math and the STEM subjects” — science, technology and engineering as well as math — and particularly during the pandemic, I got a renewed interest in it,” Greenberg said. “I had a lot of
extra time on my hands, so I decided as a personal challenge, to start memorizing the digits of pi” — the mathematical ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Under strict guidelines from Guinness, Greenberg’s feat was required to be monitored by four independent witnesses whom she had never met. They included Tamara Farber, of West Hempstead, and Hewlett residents Ari-Ben Kirschbaum, Winslow Mentor and Eliza Miranda. “I was very, very thankful and appreciative that we found four total strangers who were willing to come out and help us do this,” Greenberg said. “It was very nice to meet them, too, and have this event.” She was blindfolded while reciting the COnTInuED On PAGE 13
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e are all excited and completely blessed.