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‘Hunger in America is the ultimate obscenity’
My parents were worried the moment I laid eyes on the apartment for the very first time. It was the entire top floor of a car dealership just off what would eventually become Interstate 86, at the edge of the Finger Lakes region upstate. This would be my first apartment — my first home outside the family home where I grew up in Pennsylvania. more
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Easy summer living? Not for some children.
Summer leaves some school-aged kids scrambling to find a healthy meal, since they can’t depend on the federally subsidized breakfast and lunch programs at their school. more
Honor Harry Chapin’s legacy with action to end hunger
If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . . more
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Trinity St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Hewlett, is helping those in need with its Little Pantry and the take-one-leave-one approach.
Hewlett church's Little Pantry fills a big need
Trinity St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Hewlett, has a take-one-leave-one food pantry — named the Little Pantry — designed for quick and low-key pickup for those in need. The … more
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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky attained $30,000 for Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! Above, Rock and Wrap It Up! founder and CEO Syd Mandelbaum helped Sasha Young unload food at the Five Towns Community in April.
Cedarhurst and Lawrence-based nonprofits each receive a $30,000 grant
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) helped secure a $30,000 grant for the Cedarhurst-based anti-poverty think tank Rock and Wrap It Up! and the Five Towns … more
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Donated food from several groups and individuals at the Gural JCC’s Sustenance Hope Opportunities Place.
Collaborating to combat hunger
To combat hunger and poverty in the Five Towns, a number of organizations have teamed up to form the Five Towns Anti-Hunger Task Force. more
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Y.Y. Polansky, left, and his younger brother, Tan, enjoyed their free food at the Peninsula Public Library on Monday.
Long Island Cares and Peninsula Public Library battle hunger
Hoping to combat hunger and the issues that accompany it, the Peninsula Public Library in Lawrence once again is teaming with Long Island Cares this summer to serve children 18 and under lunch in three locations. more
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Woodmere native Allison Shearmur was one of the “Brecker Quads” and became a film studio executive responsible for such hits as “The Hunger Games” and the “American Pie” movies.
Allison Shearmur, 54
Before Allison Ivy Brecker was Allison Shearmur and left the Five Towns for Hollywood, she was famous. As the third of the “Brecker Quads” quadruplets born to Woodmere residents Martin and Rhoda Brecker, she and her siblings, Lisa, John and Jodi, were in several television commercials and print ads for Beech-Nut baby food. more
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After eating, children watched as a worm crawled across a tree.
Library serves up brunch
To help ensure that children up to age 18 are eating, Peninsula Public Library has once again partnered with Long Island Cares to provide free meals to kids every Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. through Sept. 1. more
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The United States Postal Service delivered more than 100,000 brown paper bags across Long Island this week to accommodate donations to the collection, which benefits Island Harvest Food Bank.
Stamp out hunger on Saturday
Community members are invited to stamp out hunger this Saturday by participating in the nation’s largest single-day food drive. The collection benefits Island Harvest Food Bank — a … more
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