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Food drive challenge for Lynbrook middle-schoolers
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan
“What does it feel like to be hungry?,” asked Randi Shubin Dresner, president and chief executive of the food bank Island Harvest, to a gymnasium filled with 300 students from Lynbrook North and South middle schools.
“Your stomach feels empty and really hurts,” answered Vincent Kelleher, 12, a seventh-grader at Lynbrook North, where the event was held. “If I didn’t have any food I wouldn’t...
