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Friday, July 30, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 31
HEALTH & WELLNESS
TOWN, COUNTY TO BOYCOTT BEN & JERRY’S
LAVINE WARNS CUOMO ON AIDE’S COMMENT
PAGES 19-23
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Noted Viscardi leader leaves for new post John Kemp developed international reputation leading Albertson center BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y John D. Kemp, president and CEO of The Viscardi Center, which provides a lifespan of services for the disabled, will resign those positions effective Oct. 31 to become president and CEO of The Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Ala. Kemp, who was born disabled, joined The Viscardi Center, located in Albertson, in 2011 as the fourth top executive in the nonprofit organization’s 69-year history. He steps down after a decade of leading the center, which educates, trains and prepares people with disabilities to enter the workforce. The Viscardi Center has been a pioneer in disability leadership not only in Albertson but the entire world. During its infancy, the original site was one of the first U.S. businesses to be staffed by people with disabilities when it was operating out of a garage in West Hempstead, helping disabled veterans become assembly and
factory workers for several large industries including Grumman, GE, IBM and the Department of Defense. Today, the school located in the center enrolls more than 180 severely disabled students K-12 with nearly an 86 percent graduation and college acceptance rate. For adults and adolescents, transitioning planning services are available for testing and job placement. The programs place over 100 people yearly in integrated employment while also providing advocacy and support beyond participants leaving the center. Chairs of the boards for the center, Henry Viscardi School and Abilities Inc.— Russ Cusick, Beth Daly and Candida Cucharo — said they will hire an outside firm to work with them on a nationwide search for a replacement. If the process is not completed by Nov. 1, then Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Sheryl Buchel will replace Kemp on an inContinued on Page 26
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE CUNHA
Manhasset resident James Farrell was one of five people, including his brother Michael, to die in a car crash in Quogue on Saturday evening.
3 Manhasset men killed in Quogue car crash BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI
ing in the hired vehicle, local police said. Approaching midnight on A man driving along a a winding strip of the Montauk narrow highway in Quogue Highway last Saturday, the crashed head-on into an on- driver veered on the two-lane coming Uber, killing three road and collided with a Toyyoung Manhasset residents rid- ota Prius carrying the Manhas-
set passengers, according to Quogue police. The drivers of both cars were also killed, raising the death toll to five. Among the fatalities were Ryan Kiess, 25, and brothers Michael Farrell, 20, and Continued on Page 26
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