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Host an award-winning Oscar-night party
It’s red carpet time. Hollywood is having a party and everyone is invited. Academy Awards night, Feb. 26, is a great occasion to gather up your pals for an evening of fun. more
The Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, headed by Executive Director Wendy Tepfer, hosted a forum on Wednesday, “The Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet,” which looked at the prescription-drug abuse epidemic now plaguing New York, including Nassau County.
Bellmore-Merrick Parent Center confronts Nassau’s pill epidemic
They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest. more
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Oh, to be able to see a year into the future
Ican’t help wishing it was November 2012, when the political world around us promises to be so much different than it is now. Just think: If the national elections were over, we would know a lot more about the future of our country and which party will control our lives. more
Instructor Chrissy Paraszczuk led the group in the zumba workout.
Dancing the night away for a cause
Residents of the Bellmores and Merricks danced the night away last Friday in support of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Wellness Council’s Midnight Madness substance-free post-prom party when the council hosted a zumba class at the Brookside School in North Merrick. more
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Randi Kreiss
Doubling down: Obama has my vote again
Have you heard the joke going around? “How can Obama ever get re-elected?” “He can kill bin Laden again.” more
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Life on the downgrade — what it means to you and me
We should have seen the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating coming –– last year. On July 13, 2010, Dagong International, a Chinese credit rating agency, lowered the U.S.’s rating from AAA to AA. Few in the West noticed. Some laughed. Clearly, though, Dagong’s calculators saw what we could not. more
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Calhoun couples were all smiles at the pre-prom party.
Calhoun seniors dance the night away at the prom
Seniors and their dates gathered at homes across Bellmore-Merrick to prepare for prom last Thursday. The Christophers of Merrick hosted a pre-prom party featuring several Calhoun High School couples, who gathered to chat over food with their friends and classmates as parents snapped photos. more
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Seniors enjoyed the tattoo artist at the Central High School District’s Midnight Madness in the early morning hours of June 24.
Post-prom party still a success despite funding cut
Lack of grant money couldn’t stop the Bellmore-Merrick Central District’s Midnight Madness. The fourth annual substance-free post-prom party, hosted by the Bellmore-Merrick Wellness Council, got under way last Thursday night at Zachary’s in East Meadow without a hitch. more
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Medicare, the GOP albatross
While the rest of the world sits back and watches the GOP presidential candidates battling it out, Sarah Palin was traveling, visiting New York and Donald Trump and then heading to New Jersey and, of all places — surprise, surprise — ending up in New Hampshire. more
May 26 event at Moolala to benefit post-prom party
Moolala, in the Merrick Commons Shopping Center, will donate a portion of its proceeds from every purchase on Thursday, May 26, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., to the Bellmore-Merrick Wellness Council’s fourth annual post-prom party, to be held in June. more
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