Annual Walking Food Tour by Dawn Montelle
WOW- This HHHTA 6th Annual Walking Food Tour had a whirlwind of stops! Our tour started with the meeting of our tour guides in Flushing at the public library! While waiting to meet up, we did some street vendor & Asian market shopping. While we are waiting to get started we sampled some pork buns [...]
Great Things from the HHHTA Committee for Social Justice(/b) by Debra Rothar
Greetings! It has been a long time since our last newsletter and the HHHTA Committee for Social Justice has great things to share. Since we returned full time from the pandemic, we have been hard at work advocating for social justice issues and increasing awareness among our members. Two years ago, we launched our annual PRIDE Campaign. HSE [...]
Attending My First SRP Conference by Cristina Lautenschlager
Being a building para representative of the HHHTA union I had the opportunity to go to Albany NY, On Friday November 4th-6th to the 44th Annual School Related Professional leadership Conference (SRP). This was my first time ever being invited to go. I had the pleasure of going with my fellow building union rep Dawn [...]
A Superintendent’s Conference Day Welcome by Sarah Baptiste
It has been a long 2 years, so there was an extra level of excitement in the air as the HHHTA’s Public Relations/Membership team was back in person to welcome all members to the 2022-2023 school year! Restarting the 6 year tradition put smiles on many faces as “Hellos” were said and summer stories/photos were [...]
Vanderbilt Elementary’s Walkathon Supports Local Veterans by Nicole Vance
In November, Vanderbilt's students and staff participated in their 2nd annual Healthy Steps to Honor Vets Walk to benefit the General Needs organization. Physical Education teachers John Schroeder and Kim Steffens taught lessons about Veterans Day and then the students took "healthy steps" during their Physical Education classes. The gymnasium's Hall of Heroes was filled [...]
Helping Our Long Island Homeless Veterans by Jacinta Perini
General Needs is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to serve Long Islands’ homeless veterans with dignity. The HHHTA has been raising money to help our veterans for the past few years. Last year, we raised over $3000 which was used for winter boots and clothing. We set a goal for the same amount [...]
HHHTA Supports the 2022 Run 4 Beigel by Theresa Napoli
On October 22, 2022, over 20 HHHTA members, family and friends came together on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to participate in the annual Run 4 Beigel 5K. Scott J. Beigel grew up in Dix Hills and was a Half Hollow Hills alumni and died a HERO! He saved 31 students during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas [...]
Welcome Back to all our HHHTA Members by Dawn Montelle
It was great seeing all of you at 2019 - 2020 Superintendent’s Conference Day Kick Off Coffee and Conversations! Once again, we held our LI Cares non- perishable food, health/ beauty and school supply drive and you (our members) really showed your support! Thank you. Our Count Me in Rewards table was visited by about [...]
Walking Food Tour by Heather Anderson
If you’ve never had the pleasure of taking part in an HHHTA Walking Food Tour, you’ve been missing out! This year a group of troopers (it was a cold, very damp, and windy October day) set out on a packed bus to discover what Williamsburg, Brooklyn had to offer. Upon arriving in Williamsburg, we [...]
