Contributors honored at HAFTR dinner
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Alissa and David Hersh, both doctors and parents of four children who attend the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), were the guests of honor at the school’s 37th annual dinner held last Saturday in its the sports complex in Lawrence.
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3/25/15
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Waltzing their way to self-confidence
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Fourth-grade students from Ogden Elementary School recently concluded a 10-week, 20-session ballroom dance program through Dancing Classrooms Long Island: Transforming Lives One Step At A Time, a social development and arts-in-education residency program that aims to help young people develop a positive self-image and essential life skills such as confidence, respect for others and social awareness.
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3/18/15
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Lawrence School District will get a $2.6 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that will cover 90 percent of the cost of building repairs to the high school, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/16/15
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Oneg Shemesh performs at Kulanu in Cedarhurst
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Kulanu Center for Special Services hosted popular Israeli musician Oneg Shemesh who played songs by the late Shlomo Carlebach and his own compositions at a performance in Cedarhurst last Sunday in celebration of Jewish Disabilities Month.
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2/25/15
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Comics perform for a school cause
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Laughter was in the house at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club in Lawrence last Saturday when the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools Endowment Fund held its night of comedy.
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2/4/15
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Craig Hodges hoops it up at HAFTR
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Three-time NBA champion Craig Hodges, who also won the league’s three-point shooting contest at the All-Star game — 1990, ’91 and ’92 — visited the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway last Sunday.
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2/4/15
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Making music at Lawrence High School
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Lawrence High School’s Christina Mazzitelli Academy of Fine and Performing Arts held its annual winter concert with the band, chorus and orchestra playing a variety of musical selections in the school’s auditorium on Jan. 22.
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1/28/15
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Danger Will Robinson: Robots at Hewlett High School
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Hewlett High School hosted the NYC/Long Island FIRST Tech Challenge qualifying tournament last Sunday. Fifteen high schools and organizations and 19 robot teams took part in the day-long event.
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1/21/15
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Legislator Solages and Santa Claus visited The Crossroads School
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Three days before Christmas, County Legislator Carrie Solagés (D-Elmont) handed out donated toys and other gifts to the children of the Crossroads School for Child Development on Henry Street in Inwood.
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1/7/15
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Reuniting at LWA’s homecoming
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Homecoming at Lawrence Woodmere Academy included two soccer games, rides and games, class booths, a variety of food and an alumni reunion on Oct. 18.
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10/29/14
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