My parents were worried the moment I laid eyes on the apartment for the very first time. It was the entire top floor of a car dealership just off what would eventually become Interstate 86, at the edge of the Finger Lakes region upstate. This would be my first apartment — my first home outside the family home where I grew up in Pennsylvania.
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By Michael Hinman
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10/26/23
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Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school.
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7/13/23
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If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . .
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By Arnold W. Drucker
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7/13/23
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Enjoy Greis Park and playgrounds with your family and raise money for Island Harvest at the Race for Hunger 5K Run/Walk on Oct. 27 at 9:45 a.m.
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10/24/18
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The Vineyard Church is hosting a 5K Race for Hunger on Sept. 9 at Greis Park to raise funds for Island Harvest, an organization that helps stock the church’s food pantry.
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By Melissa Koenig
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8/31/17
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Community members are invited to stamp out hunger this Saturday by participating in the nation’s largest single-day food drive. The collection benefits Island Harvest Food Bank — a …
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/12/16
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Long Islanders who want to participate will set out non-perishable food by their mailboxes on May 9, which will then be picked up by their letter carriers while delivering the day’s mail.
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5/5/15
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The recent vote by Congress to cut $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the food stamp program known as SNAP — over the next 10 years is alarming.
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10/10/13
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Answering a call to help end childhood hunger on Long Island, Lynbrook North and South middle schools teamed up with Stop & Shop supermarket to participate in a food drive challenge to benefit …
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By Mary Malloy
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2/27/13
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Asked what makes Island Harvest so successful, its president and CEO, Randi Shubin Dresner, answered with a single word: “Passion.”
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By David Weingrad
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12/22/12
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