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Village hosts event to prevent drug abuse, raise awarness B y Sa r a h Minkewicz Thomas Ventura was a star athlete at Kings Park High School and dreamed of playing lacrosse in college, but a drug addiction cut his life short. “We all talk about where addiction ends and mine ended terribly,” Thomas’s mother, Linda Ventura, told a packed Flower Hill Village Hall last Wednesday. “We need to talk about where it begins,” she said. “And we need to as communities, we need to start putting prevention into place. We need to start empowering our kids at a young age with coping skills with the ability to communicate these types of feelings.” Ventura was joined by Patchogue resident Nora Milligan, Nassau County Detective Pamela Stark, and Anthony Rizutto from Seafield Addiction Facility at a discussion on the rise of heroin and substance abuse on Long Island at an event hosted by the Village of
Flower Hill, the Women’s Club of Flower Hill and Manhasset Casa. Officials said the event was to encourage conversation, promote awareness and find solutions to a growing problem facing Long Island. Ventura said on March 14, 2012, while on her way to work in New York City, she received the call that her 21-year-old son had died from a heroin overdose. “My phone rang and it was my youngest son and I can still hear his voice in my head because it was chilling,” she said. “He was 18 years old and he found his brother in the bathroom dead from a heroin overdose and he is screaming ‘my brother is dead, my brother is dead, Thomas is dead,’ and I’m on the Long Island Rail Road.” Ventura said that before her son became addicted to drugs he had bright future, played sports and enjoyed joking around with the family. “He loved to tease his sister Continued on Page 72
John Benvenuto, Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Don Benvenuto with the petition that was circulated to Villa Milano’s customers.
Villa Milano serves up support for Sixth Precinct b y C h r i s A d am s
Near North Hempstead Town Hall, the Villa Milano Italian restaurant in Manhasset is in the “center of the action,” said Donald Benvenuto, the coowner. And he was part of the action when he recently collected 350 signatures on a petition opposing the merger of the third
and sixth police precincts. Since the decision was made in 2012 to merge eight Long Island precincts into four, residents have protested the action, which according to Benvenuto has resulted in underpatrolled neighborhoods. “This is a neighborhood where everyone is concerned, and being here 31 years I feel a part of committing myself to the
community. We need the police forces,” Benvenuto said. Benvenuto was against consolidating police forces from the start, he said. Since he began the petition, he said, the response from residents has been positive. “Most of them didn’t even know that they had closed the sixth precinct, and they were shocked. [Residents] were very Continued on Page 72
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