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Troop 240’s food drive for WHHS and nonperishable items in my living room right now. My biggest takeaway is that if you give With activities limited due to people a way to help, they’ll the coronavirus pandemic, West respond. I’m just overwhelmed Hempstead Boy Scout Troop 240 with the response.” had sought ways to give back to Canzoneri said she spread the people in need. Aware of the word about the food drive growing need for through email blasts nonperishable food, and social media. the scouts held a Her husband, Scoutfood drive June 1-10 master Joseph Canto s uppor t We st zoneri, said the Hemps te ad Hig h results also exceeded School’s food pantry. h is e x pe ctation s “We had heard amid other issues about so many famisuch as the pandemlies affected by the ic and Black Lives loss of jobs within Matter protests. The the West Hempstead food drive’s success, community,” said he said, proved that Assistant Scoutmasgoodness still exists. ter Mary Canzoneri, “For us to get this who proposed the JosePH kind of collection, it idea for the food really shows how CAnzoneri drive. “Whatever the much people out Scoutmaster, community asks of there really care,” us, we make it hap- Troop 240 Joseph said. “The pen.” care for our scouting Canzoneri kept a family and commubin on her front porch, in which nity, the generosity and the people dropped off food each day. thoughtfulness they’ve shown She said she received more than gave me a lot of hope. Drives like 100 nonperishable food items, this keep the scouts focused on much to her surprise. what’s really important in the “There’s so many variables to world today.” the loss of income right now,” Troop 240 Committee Chairshe said, “so I wasn’t expecting this huge pile of canned, boxed Continued on page 15
By nAkeem GrAnt ngrant@liherald.com
Courtesy Carole Trottere
At A news conference on June 17, double amputee Patricia Lewis thanked the Lakeview Fire Department for putting out her house fire.
A ‘humbling’ moment
Double amputee thanks Lakeview firefighters By nAkeem GrAnt and mike smollins ngrant@liherald.com, msmollins@liherald.com
Double amputee Patricia Lewis acted quickly when a fire started in her basement on April 10. She put on her artificial legs and got out of her Rockville Centre home before the Lakeview Fire Department arrived to put out
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the fire. Lewis, a registered nurse, thanked the Fire Department and Lynbrook Restorative Therapy for their efforts at a news conference on June 17. “It’s great that she recognized us, because we don’t often interact with the victims after the emergency,” said Lakeview F.D. Chief James Galia. “We come, we
mitigate the emergency and they go on to deal with the after-effects, and we’re on to the next emergency. I think it does a lot to boost morale.” Galia said that when firefighters arrived at Lewis’s home, the fire had begun spreading to the first floor. His crew, led by Assistant Chief Michael Joyce and Fred Continued on page 9
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or us to get this kind of collection, it really shows how much people out there really care.