The Return Every Adult and Child Home (REACH) registry is a database maintained by the Nassau County Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence unit at the police academy in Massapequa Park that tracks children and adults with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, autism, Down syndrome, mental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries that renders them unable to communicate when they go missing. more

The Center for Adult Life Enrichment hosted its annual open house last Sunday at its current home in the historic Carriage House on the campus of Hewlett High School off East Rockaway Road in Hewlett. It featured entertainment by the Stardust Singers, who are mostly CALE members, and refreshments. more

On May 7, 170 Lawrence School District students—107 from the high school and 63 from the middle school—walked with Christopher Pendergast, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease to raise money and awareness for the disease. more

Merrick Herald Life Senior Editor Scott Brinton, third from right, who is an adjunct journalism professor at Hofstra University, recently brought his Issues in Science Reporting students to a cleanup in the Merrick woodlands off the Meadowbrook Parkway to help out and report on the event. More than 50 volunteers attended the cleanup. more

The Center for Adult Life Enrichment, which is based in the carriage house on the campus of Hewlett High School, hosted its annual open house last Sunday. more

Students from the Life Skills class at Lawrence High School under the guidance of special education teacher Diane Ronen and with the help of music teacher Alan Katz are banging on drums for a portion of their school day. more

My parents are 95 and 91, and we never had “the talk.” Well, we did have a talk once — the other talk . . . more

CALE celebrates 65th anniversary Founded in the Woodmere home of Harriette Wolff on Burton Avenue in 1949 — it was formerly the Five Towns Senior Center, and first formed as the Golden Age Club — the Center for Adult Life Enrichment (CALE) marked it 65th anniversary with gala luncheon at the Seawane Club in Hewlett Harbor. CALE, now housed in the carriage house on the campus of Hewlett High School, boosts more than 300 members from the Five Towns and surrounding communities and offers a variety of programs ranging from college-level lecturers to concerts, health seminars, exercise, creative writing sessions, book discussions and trips. more

Whenever members of the Center for Adult Life Enrichment (CALE) are too ill to attend the programs and activities the senior-oriented organization offers at its home in the carriage house on the Hewlett High School campus, 67-year-old Harriet Orenstein of East Rockaway takes careful note. more

Voting for Fertig To the Editor: Our once-great state has reached that crucial juncture where people of all ages have begun to leave homes and neighborhoods they have loved for most of their lives. more