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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and the Friedberg JCC are teaming up to offer a summer camp for students entering seventh and eighth grades in September. At left were, from left, Alice Markinson, the JCC’s assistant director of early childhood education; Saul Lerner, the Central District’s director of health, physical education and athletics; Carlo Conte, the incoming Grand Avenue Middle School principal; Caryn Blum, the Merrick Avenue Middle School principal; and Joni Center, the JCC’s senior vice president for program services.

Bellmore-Merrick Central District, JCC offering summer camp

Finding the right summer experience for a middle school-age child is, no doubt, tough for parents. The Bellmore-Merrick Central School District and the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center, with offices in Merrick and Oceanside, are teaming up this summer to provide a reasonably priced, fun-filled camp for children entering seventh and eighth grades in September. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 4/25/12

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s director of health, physical education and athletics, discussed a program to bring CPR/AED training to students at Merrick Avenue Middle School with Jill Levine, center, executive director of Forever Nine: the Robbie Levine Foundation, and Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.

Giving Central District students the power to save a life

Within six years, every student in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District should know how to save a life with cardiopulmonary resuscitation or an automated external defibrillator. That’s the hope of Merokean Jill Levine, executive director of Forever Nine: the Robbie Levine Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises funds to equip school ball fields with AEDs and provide CPR/AED training to youth sports organizations. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 3/8/12

The nonprofit food-recovery organization Rock and Wrap It Up! is partnering with the Sands in Lido Beach and the Coral House in Baldwin to bring leftovers to the hungry. Above, from left, were Butch Yamali, owner of the Sands and the Coral House, Saul Lerner, a Rock and Wrap It Up! board member, and Syd Mandelbaum, the organization’s founder and executive director.

South Shore caterer joins Rock and Wrap It Up!

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s athletic director, learned recently that Butch Yamali, a Merrick Board of Education trustee and restaurateur, bought the Sands in Lido Beach and the Coral House in Baldwin. Therein, Lerner saw an opportunity to help feed the poor. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 2/14/12

Hofstra conference takes on dangerous driving

For decades, public health officials have hammered home a message –– smoking kills. They have done so in splashy advertising campaigns and in the halls of government. Any number of laws and … more

By Scott Brinton, Alex Costello and Jackie Nash | 12/14/11

Ellen and Sarah Tolle of Cedarhurst were among the dozens of volunteers who assisted at Rock and Wrap It Up's annual Thanksgiving feast in Rockaway Beach, which offers a hot meal to families in need.

Five Towners, Bellmore-Merrick teachers offer hope on Thanksgiving

Dozens of volunteers from the Five Towns and Bellmore-Merrick communities turned out on Thursday to help at Rock and Wrap It Up’s annual Thanksgiving feast at the First Congregational Church at Beach 94th Street in Rockaway Beach, which provides a hot meal of turkey and ham with all the trimmings to families in need. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 11/25/11

Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, was recently honored by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Council for her efforts to create the Driving in the Safe Lane Program, which is now in about half of Nassau County’s 57 high schools. She was joined here recently by Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s health and athletics director, who helped to create the safe-driving program.

Honored for promoting teen driver safety

The scenario is tragic, gruesome and perennial. A high school senior, all of 16 or 17 years old, gets a driver’s license. His or her proud parents hurry out to buy their child a new car –– perhaps a fast car. Within days or weeks, the teen is dead, killed in a fiery wreck. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/8/11

Patrick Chin, a Calhoun High School ninth-grader, and Chris Smith, a Kennedy ninth-grader, dashed after the ball during a soccer camp offered by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District this week.

Central students score with summer sports camps

The wind blew hard across the Kennedy High School athletic fields in Bellmore on July 28, and so the ball was tricky to play for the dozen participants in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s annual boys’ soccer camp. more

Scott Brinton | 7/30/10

The Central High School District will allow community youth groups to continue to use the football fields at Merrick Avenue and Grand Avenue middle schools through Oct. 31. Thereafter, the fields will be off limits to youth groups. The football fields at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools will be off limits this fall and beyond. Above, the Merrick Avenue Middle School football field.

Central District moves to limit field use

At a July 13 public meeting, the Bellmore-Merrick Central Board of Education announced that it would allow only Central District teams to play on its five main football fields, thereby prohibiting youth groups from using the fields for football, soccer, lacrosse and other sports. more

Scott Brinton | 7/15/10

Calhoun Coach Joe Corea, second from right, led the Colts baseball team to its second Nassau County Class AA Championship in eight years. He is pictured during a recent playoff game against Carey High School.

'Gentleman Joe' does it again

Thirty-eight years after Joe Corea began his four-decade career as Calhoun High School's head baseball coach, he can still rattle off most of the names on his starting lineup from his very first year -–– 1972. more

Scott Brinton | 6/9/10

Wendy Tepfer, director of the Community Parent Center, and Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, review plans for an anti-DWI production, "And These Our Friends," to be held May 20.

Parent Center, Central District taking on DWI

According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, more than 17,000 people die in drunk-driving crashes annually -- one person every 30 minutes. Officials in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and at the Community Parent Center take that statistic to heart, said Wendy Tepfer, the parent center's director. And so she teamed up with Saul Lerner, the Central District's health and physical education director, to bring an innovative anti-DWI program to Bellmore-Merrick next Thursday. more

Scott Brinton | 5/14/10