We’re now slightly over a week into our 2011 mustache campaign, and I have come to the realization that I am just not a hairy man. Eleven months out of the year I suppose I would view this as a …
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Billy Kupferman
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11/25/11
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On the eve of our fifth annual mustache season, I must admit that I was all smiles in anticipation of the hairy mission I was about to embark on with my fellow “growers.” The mission I speak of …
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By Billy Kupferman
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11/17/11
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When Long Beach resident Billy Kupferman first began teaching in Garden City, he was overwhelmed when he learned that two third-grade students had cancer.
“They’re both in seventh grade now, …
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By ANTHONY RIFILATO
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11/3/11
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A 6-year-old boy was injured at the annual Kids’ Fest open house last Saturday when he was hit by a canopy blown about by gusts from a helicopter landing in the Recreation Center parking lot.
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Aaron Axelson
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9/21/11
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On Aug. 9, the East Meadow Kiwanis Club presented seven local students with scholarships worth $4,500.
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8/26/11
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Kids Night at the Bandshell is an annual summer tradition but this year’s event added a new twist. Mayor Ed Fare and three local school superintendents joined the Valley Stream Community Band for its performance on Aug. 2.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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8/10/11
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Several hundred members of the Rockville Centre Soccer Club participated in the annual Kids Helping Kids free summer program at Skelos Sports Complex that wrapped up last week. As parents watched and visited with each other on the sidelines, teenage players worked with and taught younger players from 4-8 years old, four nights a week, for two weeks at the end of July. The older players helped their younger counterparts develop their skills in an atmosphere that this year’s organizer, Jen Kahn, described as low-key, relaxed and fun.
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8/3/11
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At 7:30 p.m. on July 28, a trio of 12-year-olds take to the airwaves. Jordan Bernhardi gives the weather. Luciano Cirelli gives some sports scores, and talks about a New York Islanders trade with the New Jersey Devils.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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8/3/11
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Do you know a guy with a duck? The Lions Club does. From now through Kids Fest on Sept. 17, Lions Club volunteers will be selling ducks for diabetes, to raise money for various diabetes and …
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7/20/11
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The joke’s on me. In the 1990s I wrote an April Fools’ Day column about outsized, outrageous and off-the-charts summer camp programs for kids.
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7/7/11
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