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Proposing a Covid-19 testing center Online petition highlights interest sizable portion of the population is African-American and Latino. At press time, Woodmere, which With the number of Covid-19 has a large Orthodox Jewish cases still rising in the Five population, had 318 cases of Towns, several civic leaders are Covid-19. Lawrence and North pushing New York state to set up Lawrence had 151, and Inwood — a testing site at the which, according Five Towns Comto the 2010 Census munity Center in is the poorest comLawrence. munity on Long On April 8, the Island — had 119. center’s board liaiRoughly 14 percent son, Pete Sobol, of Inwood’s 10,300 sent a letter to Gov. re s i d e n t s l ive Andrew Cuomo, below the federal writing, “The Five poverty level — an Towns Communiincome of 26,200 ty Center and its for a family of board would like four. to be considered SYD MANDElBAuM The campaign for the next testing CEO, for the testing site facility in Nassau has also gone Rock and Wrap It Up! County.” Sobol has online: Civic leadserved the center ers created a petiin several capacities, including tion on Change.org that had colboard chairman and executive lected nearly 1,900 signatures at director. The letter, he said last press time. Among them was Friday, was in the hands of close that of Cedarhurst resident Syd advisers to the governor. Mandelbaum, founder and CEO Sobol noted that the commu- of the Cedarhurst-based Rock nity center would be easily and Wrap It Up! “RWU has supaccessible to people who lack ported the Five Towns Commumobility in areas like Inwood nity Center since 1997,” Mandeland North Lawrence, where a Continued on page 9
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MARIoN & AARoN Gural JCC SHOP licensed master social worker Renee Russo “shopped” for food packages on April 3.
Helping those in need of food Community Chest partners with JCC, 5TCC By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com
Throughout its nearly 90 years, Community Chest South Shore has focused on helping others, and now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, that continues to be the charitable organization’s mission. Community Chest has teamed up with the Five Towns Community Center and the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC to help those in
need. People can apply for the organization’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, which offers financial assistance to residents of the Five Towns and sur rounding South Shore communities, and also take advantage of food assistance programs at the two centers. “Over the years, we’ve helped those in need in many different ways,” said Trudi Haber man, who oversees
Neighbors Helping Neighbors. “Right now we’re centering our help around those who are unable to put food on the table.” Haberman noted that Community Chest does more than help clients at the Community Center and the JCC. “We’re here to help anybody in the community that needs help, but we have to go through another avenue to do so since Continued on page 9
he at-risk community, if not tested, can set back the timing for reducing the curve.