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Vol. 27 No. 20
MAY 14 - 20, 2020
Baldwin couple survive Covid-19
MollY Miskiewicz, A social work graduate intern in Baldwin, runs a contact-free food drive for local residents.
extremely sick during the threehour lab, but stuck it out. Soon afterward, Alcindor, whose It was the middle of March daughter, Nicole, is a reporter for when Magalie Alcindor, a Bald- the Valley Stream and Lynwin resident, realized she had brook/East Rockaway Heralds, contracted Covid-19. developed a headache, and felt Alcindor, a docher body aching tor who teaches and a fever creepnursing at York ing in. College, woke up at “The tremen7 one morning, as dous headache she typically does, kicked in, and the to prepare for a virbody pain came tual 9 a.m. class along and the fever with her students. came along,” she “When I woke up said, “and the that mor ning, I headache felt like didn’t have any someone took a energy,” she said. “I sledgehammer and felt really, really they were pounddrained.” ing me on my head She lay back nonstop, continudown, and her felously.” l o w i n s t r u c t o r MAgAlie She can’t be cercalled her at tain how she conAlciNdor around 8 a.m. when tracted the virus, she hadn’t heard Baldwin resident bu t b e l i eve s i t from Alcindor. could have been “I told her, I from her husband, don’t know what’s going on, but Fitzgerald, a doctor at a local I’m not feeling like myself today; urgent care center, or from an I feel really tired,” she recalled. asymptomatic carrier at the “But I said, don’t worry, I’m school before it closed and going to drink coffee, I’m going switched to online classes. to get myself together, and then Because Fitzgerald was conI’ll meet you in the lab.” She felt herself becoming Continued on page 8
By Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
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Courtesy Molly Miskiewicz
Food pantries aid residents amid coronavirus pandemic By Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
Local efforts to support food banks have kicked up lately as Covid-19 continues to spread throughout the area. Molly Miskiewicz, a social work graduate intern in Baldwin, has been helping deliver essential items to anyone unable to acquire them, like food, water and clothing, since mid-March. She has also been running a safe, contact-free food drive,
for which she picks up donations from community members and delivers them to local food banks, including the one at St. Christopher’s Church in Baldwin. Miskiewicz said she has received a large number of donations so far. “We’ve collected thousands of dollars in donations just within a few weeks,” she said. “It’s truly incredible to see the community come together like this. The best of humanity is truly shining through
during this dark time.” To reach her, email mollymiskiewicz@mail.adelphi. edu or contact her via Facebook. She is also working with Bethany House, and is trying to involve more food pantries. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistics for 2018, more than 10 percent of households in New York are food insecure. In Nassau County, the problem is more pronounced, with Continued on page 4
he headache felt like someone took a sledgehammer and they were pounding me on my head nonstop, continuously.