Filling those needed backpacks
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More than 500 Orthodox Jewish schoolchildren will receive backpacks filled with a variety of needed school supplies as volunteers ranging from kids to grandparents packed the knapsacks at the United Jewish Appeal Federation-New York Supplies for Success event at Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett last Sunday.
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8/19/15
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Netting fun in the sun on the beach
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Cedarhurst-based Rock & Wrap It Up! and Let All the Children Play were the beneficiaries of the $700 raised through the 34th annual Sunny Atlantic Beach Club charity volleyball tournament on July 26.
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8/12/15
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Third Battalion shows its muster
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For three days junior and senior firefighters from the 3rd Battalion fire departments that includes Lawrence-Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Inwood, Meadowmere Park, Woodmere and Valley Stream showed off their skills and equipment at a trio of events.
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8/12/15
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Having fun for a serious cause
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A total of $45,000 was raised at the annual Rock and Wrap It Up! Golf outing to benefit the Cedarhurst-based poverty think tank’s “Get in the Game: Fight Hunger” theme for this year’s event that took place at the Seawane Country Club in Hewlett Harbor on July 20.
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8/5/15
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NCJW hosts student school shopping
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Up to 650 children shopped for items such as notebooks, winter jackets and sneakers at the third annual National Council of Jewish Women’s Peninsula and South Shore sections’ Back 2 School Store at Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook last Sunday.
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8/5/15
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Inwood club hosts free kids tennis
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Inwood Country Club hosted the annual United States Tennis Association Long Island Region Kids’ Day on July 21 sponsored by the USTA LI Region and the Inwood Charities Fund, Inc.
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7/29/15
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Atlantic Beach salutes former mayor
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Village officials and residents honored Stephen R. Mahler, who served as mayor of Atlantic Beach for 18 years —1996 to 2014 — at a dinner at the Ocean Club in Atlantic Beach on July 22.
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7/29/15
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Rolling River Day Camp sits on five acres along Mill River, which snakes through East Rockaway and Bay Park on the way to East Rockaway Channel. The river can be a friend. It forms an idyllic backdrop for a camp replete with swimming pools, playgrounds and ball fields. It can also be a foe. During a nor’easter in 2010, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the river inundated much of the camp, wreaking havoc.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/28/15
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Q: I was attending a meeting of my local Zoning Board, and the Board members left the room to have a private discussion about the case they were hearing. Aren’t Zoning Board …
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By A. Thomas Levin
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7/28/15
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Rockville Centre will be hosting fire departments from across the area for the 2015 Nassau County Parade and Drill Tournament on Saturday, July 25.
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