Glen Cove Week in Review

Here are the top stories that took place in Glen Cove in the past week. 

• Children at the Glen Cove YMCA Summer Day Camp Tuesday welcomed Gabriel Cordell, a 42-year paraplegic who completed a 3,100 mile wheelchair cross-country wheelchair journey one day earlier.  Cordell began his trip at a YMCA in Burbank, Calif., and returned to his native West Hempstead on Monday after 99 days of travel, which is the subject of an upcoming documentary, "Roll With Me: A Journey Across America."
• The bookkeeper of a Locust Valley architectural firm has been charged with stealing more than $866,000 from her employer over a six-year period by forging checks with the signature of one of the firm's partners, and then cashing those checks to pay for luxury vacations, fancy restaurants and shopping sprees.
• Pirate Brands, LLC, the maker of "Pirate Booty" snacks based in Sea Cliff, was sold Monday and will lay off all 55 employees by October. 
• An effort by the Korean-American community to remember the so-called "Comfort Women" of the WWII era is being promoted by Assemblyman Charles Lavine. Recently, Lavine, D-Glen Cove, presented David Lee, President of the Korean-American Public Affairs Committee with a proclamation from the state Assembly. Thousands of women from South East Asia were compelled to become sex slaves for Japanese military personnel under brutal conditions. 
• Nassau County executive candidate Tom Suozzi, County Leg. Delia
• DeRiggi-Whitton and Glen Cove Mayor Ralph Suozzi, along with  area Democrats opened campaign headquarters in Glen Cove. Joining them were candidates for county, town and city races.