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Acts of Kindness
Douglaston teen helps raise thousands for local food bank
BY JENNA BAGCAL
JBAGCAL@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@JENNA_BAGCAL
Aft er sustaining a tennis injury, a Douglaston
teen helped organize a pickleball
tournament to raise thousands of dollars
for a local food bank.
Alistair Wright, a junior at Locust Valley’s
Friends Academy, created the Rally for
Hunger tournament and raised $4,500 for
North Shore Soup Kitchen’s NOSH program,
which delivers weekly food supplies
to more than 500 families in Bayville, Glen
Cove, Roslyn Locust Valley and Sea Cliff .
Back in September, the avid tennis player
and member of his school’s tennis team
tore a ligament in his ankle while playing
the sport. Wright said that he “wanted to
make good use of my time” while recovering
from his injury.
He reached out to school faculty members
Erin Nolan and Rachael Arredondo,
who told him about a fi re at NOSH’s former
headquarters, causing the program to lose
essential equipment and food.
“I chose NOSH as the benefi ciary for a
fundraising event because through other
volunteer work I had learned how widespread
food insecurity is,” Wright said.
Th e Douglaston student chose pickleball
since it combined elements of tennis, badminton
and ping-pong, is played indoors
or outdoors on a badminton-sized court
and “can be played by anyone at any age.”
Wright collaborated with fellow tennis
team member Daniel Duke and school
friends Austin Notaris, Russel Notaris
and Quinn Dougherty to build a plan and
identify resources. Th e student contacted
the head of Robbie Wagner’s Tournament
Training Center, who agreed to donate his
training venue for the tournament.
He then created a Rally for Hunger website,
designed fl yers, spoke at churches to
drum up awareness and obtained sponsorships
from local businesses.
“I’m so impressed that such young people
Photo by Doris Meadows, volunteer publicist for NOSH
as Alistair and his Rally for Hunger team
recognized the need and stepped up with
such a well-thought-out and executed
event,” said NSSK/NOSH board member
and fundraising chair Renee Swanson.
She added that the organization was
grateful “at the number of people who have
come forward to recognize the importance
of our work and to raise funds for us.”
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