Two Lawrence Shoplifting Arrests + Viral Act Of Kindness

Morning, Five Towns! It's Friday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on around town today.

Two people were nabbed for shoplifting in North Lawrence. A Five Towns volunteer went viral on social media for helping a stranded stranger on the parkway. A proposed Inwood development may see four buildings demolished and a mixed-use building go up.

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First, today's weather:

Rain in the morning. High: 72, low: 61.

Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. Jerry Barmash reports that two people were charged with shoplifting in North Lawrence.
   Jamell Bing, 31, of Far Rockaway, was arrested for shoplifting at the Bay Harbour Mall on Rockaway Turnpike on Sept. 17 and on Sept. 21, Tareshe Allison Jabble, 50, of Far Rockaway, was accused of shoplifting at DSW Shoe Warehouse. (Patch)
2. Lisa Margaria writes how an act of kindness in the Five Towns went viral on social media. A Facebook post of a volunteer from Chaverim of the Five Towns and Rockaway — an emergency roadside-assistance nonprofit — who changed a stranger's tire on the Southern State Parkway last month went viral. Kasriel Zakutinsky, a Chaverim volunteer, spotted the driver and changed the tire before AAA arrived. (LI Herald)
3. Jeff Bessen explains how a Lawrence barbecue raised over $500,000 for the Israel Defense Forces. Ari and Ruth Jungreis hosted the event for Friends of IDF on Sept. 15. (LI Herald)
4. LI Herald looks at a proposed Inwood mixed use project will get a Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency deal. The developer wants to demolish four buildings and construct a new apartment complex with at Bayview Avenue and Russell Place. (LI Herald)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Hewlett Elementary School Summer Reading Celebration, Hewlett Woodmere School District.
• Ogden Elementary School Summer Reading Challenge, Hewlett Woodmere School District.
• Ogden Elementary School, 5th Grade Bubbles, Suds & Sweets Car Wash.

Five Towns Patch Notebook

• Woodmere Club developers Efrem Gerszberg and Robert Weiss were fined $1,000 by the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation for having an applicator improperly apply an herbicide to the golf course and another for improper record keeping. (LI Herald)

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