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Albertson VFW honors vets on Memorial Day Fire Department, state and town officials attend annual ceremony BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Albertson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post Commander John J. Incremona places a flower at a memorial outside the post’s headquarters it Memorial Day ceremony.
Members of the Albertson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5253 saluted both fallen and surviving members of the U.S. armed forces Monday during their annual Memorial Day ceremony and parade. The morning began on the front lawn of the post’s headquarters, where post members and politicians spoke surrounded by family and Albertson Fire Department members. “Today, Memorial Day, our nation honors all our veterans of all wars,” said master of ceremonies An-
thony Catalono, who served in World War II. “The real heroes are our fallen comrades buried in our national cemeteries here and abroad. They gave their lives for their country so we could enjoy the freedom we have today.” He encouraged those in younger generations to maintain the significance of Memorial Day, rather than letting it get buried in festivities that come with summer kicking off. Quartermaster Mark E. Washburn lowered the flag to half-staff in honor of members of the services Continued on Page 109
Man traps woman, kids in car: police BY T E R I W EST A man was charged with unlawful imprisonment Tuesday after a police investigation
concluded he was responsible for holding a woman and three children in a car and refusing to release them, according to Nassau County police.
Officers were called to a Mobil gas station on Glen Cove Road in Roslyn Heights Tuesday afternoon where a witness reported a woman in a car holding a sign that said “Please call 911, CALL 911,” according to a police report. Police determined that William Jamal Wilkinson, 36, forced the woman and
her three children into the black 2005 Ford Taurus, the report said. Two of the boys in the car were 3 years old and the other was 13. Police did not release the name of the woman. Wilkinson, of Ridge, was arrested at 1:27 p.m. and charged with four counts of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, two of endangering the welfare
of an incompetent physically disabled person in the first degree, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of marijuana. The gas station is located at 449 Glen Cove Road. He was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.
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