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SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
ACTIVISTS PROTEST NRA EVENT IN NHP
TOWN UNVEILS $105.72M BUDGET
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Panel at library discusses gun violence fixes
LUXURY LASHES
Great Neck event considered rebuttal to Friends of NRA fundraiser at inn BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Sergio Argueta, 40, can still hear the life-support beeps in his head from when his best friend was shot and killed when he was 19 years old. He can also remember how, in his role as a school social worker in Uniondale, he lost eight students to violence and nearly lost Marvin – a 14-year-old boy left paralyzed from the neck down after a driveby shooting. “This is what gun violence does,” Argueta, the founder and board president of S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, a nonprofit gang prevention and intervention agency, told the audience. Argueta’s stories of “broken systems” and lives lost were just some of what panelists shared about the cost and causes of gun violence at a forum at the Great Neck Library on Thursday night, which more than 40 people at-
tended. The panel, co-hosted by Moms Demand Action and Great Neckbased North Shore Action and moderated by state Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington), was meant as a sort of rebuttal to a fundraiser at the Inn at New Hyde Park being held by the Nassau County Friends of NRA the same night. Avalon Fenster, 16, the founder of March for Our Lives Long Island, said the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, was a strong call to action for her. But, she noted, gun violence has been a consistent issue and mass shootings make up only a small part of deaths. She said it is important to investigate the “fundamental causes” of violence, as well as recognize that a lot of communities have been ignored and educationContinued on Page 67
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Uliana Kebich applies lashes to a client at the KarinaNYC salon’s new location in Greenvale. See story on page 3.
Heights weighs future of its Planning Board BY T E R I W EST
executive session immediately following a public meeting in The Plandome Heights which the board seemed eager Board of Trustees decided to to begin such talks. In the public meeting on postpone discussion about potentially eliminating the vil- Monday night,! Mayor Kenlage’s Planning Board in an neth Riscica listed hassles
that would be avoidable if the Board of Trustees took over the Planning Board’s functions, including double fee approvals and training. Then, in an email Tuesday, Continued on Page 66
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