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Working the facemask giveaway were from left Jessica Dennehy, Community Center Executive Director K. Brent Hill, Erika Kirchner, Diane Kirchner, Sasha Young, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Sarah Hayes, Marianella Mena, Pattie Slaton, Tzigane Morris and Edward Dennehy.
3,000 facemasks distributed in Lawrence
Vehicles were lined up around Mott and Lawrence avenues as free facemasks donated by the Mad Men Barbershop in Wantagh owned by the Dennehy family were distributed in packs of 10 to 300 motorists outside the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on May 7. more
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Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Home in Woodmere hosted a celebrations of its health care workers highlighting its nurses.
Five Towns Premier celebrates its health care workers
National Nurses Week was commemorated by the Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation & Nursing Home in Woodmere with a sweet and siren-aided outdoor celebration on May 7, for all the work by health care workers and first responders during the coronavirus pandemic. more
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Marion & Aaron Gural JCC SHOP licensed master social worker Renee Russo “shopped” for food packages.
Helping those in need of food
Throughout its nearly 90 years, Community Chest South Shore has focused on helping others, and now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, that continues to be the charitable organization’s … more
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Five Towns civic leaders are asking Governor Cuomo to consider using the community center in Lawrence as a testing site.
Proposing a Covid-19 testing center
Several Five Towns civic leaders have joined forces and sent Gov. Andrew Cuomo a letter requesting that Covid-19 testing center be opened at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence. more
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Sh’or Yoshuv Institute in Lawrence, which donated 25 ventilators to the Northwell Health System, is a possible location for an ad hoc hospital.
Sh’or Yoshuv Institute in Lawrence could be a makeshift hospital
Sh’or Yoshuv Institute, an Orthodox Jewish school in Lawrence, donated 25 ventilators to the Northwell Health System, and its Cedar Lawn Avenue building has been proposed as a possible location for an ad hoc hospital where mild cases of Covid-19 could be treated. more
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An emergency food drive to benefit people because of the Covid-19 health crisis is being held by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky.
Kaminsky hosts emergency food drive through
Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the Five Towns, will hold an emergency food drive to benefit families within the 9th Senate District. Suggested donations include gift cards, fresh, canned or boxed food, toiletries and personal items and cleaning supplies. more
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Sanitary District 1 will provide what it is calling 'enhanced curbside collection' for chometz on April 8 and 9 in place of physical locations because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
No Sanitary District 1 chometz drop off locations in the Five Towns
Sanitary District 1 Superintendent George Pappas said that after consulting with “many community leaders, and out of an abundance of caution,” there will no drop off locations at local Long Island Rail Road stations and synagogues of chometz, not-for-kosher items for Passover, because of the coronavirus pandemic more
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Lawrence native Harvey Sheff was a star basketball player for the now closed Hebrew Institute of Long Island and at Yeshiva University.
Lawrence native Harvey Sheff dies at 59
Lawrence native Harvey Jay Sheff was known as a mensch, a Yiddish word that encapsulates a person’s capacity for being all the things we admire: smart, athletic, considerate and polite. more
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Inwood resident Sasha Young, left, distributed food to other Five Towns residents at the Community Center in Lawrence on March 27.
Five Towns institutions and oganizations help residents through coronavirus pandemic
Updated March 29 at 11 a.m. With rubber gloves on her hands and a facemask wrapped around her nose and mouth, Inwood resident Sasha Young handed out bleach, dish detergent and muffins to Five Towns residents, along with a diced pineapple snack cup, if they came with children, at the Community Center on Lawrence Avenue in Lawrence on March 27. more
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Hewlett resident Blair Longaro created the ‘Feeding local heroes and friends’ group that has purchased and delivered more than $7,000 worth of food to businesses and service-oriented entities.
Feeding local heroes and friends on the South Shore
Support for restaurants in the Five Towns and other South Shore communities has blossomed in a brief time to hundreds of contributors paying for meals – breakfast, lunch and dinner – to be delivered to essential businesses and services, ranging from doctors’ offices to CVS, hospitals, and police precincts, amid the coronavirus outbreak. more
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