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The Village Foundation of East Rockaway, Inc. was recognized by the village for their fundraising efforts. Pictured from left were Legislator Francis Becker, Trustee Richard Gogarty, Legislator Howard Kopel, Director VFER Patty Renner, Vice Pres. VFER Camille Kalina, Trustee Ed Corrado, Director Harold Messerschmitt,VFER President Theresa Gaffney, Director Ed Zangrillo, Recording Secretary Valerie Zangrillo, Trustee Stanley Lombardo, Deputy Mayor Bruno Romano, Mayor Fran Lenahan and Councilman Anthony Santino.
Village Foundation raises funds for Sandy relief
The Village Foundation of East Rockaway (VFER), a non-profit independent charity, was also recognized at the Jan. 14 meeting. The Foundation’s members have been working since the hurricane struck … more
ROK’s co-owners, Mike Hawksby, right, and Bob D’Urso, center, addressed ERHS athletes on Dec. 7 with Craig D’Urso, the executive director of operations, before treating the students to pizza.
A weight off their shoulders
East Rockaway High School suffered extensive damage and lost a lot of equipment in Hurricane Sandy, including in its weight room, where students worked out … more
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The initiative was started by Julie Bergin, a Lynbrook resident and a West End Elementary School PTA member, with the help of her sisters Tina Horgan and Catherine Foley and her niece Kerri Horgan.
East Rockaway part of schools adopting schools
Since Hurricane Sandy hit in late October, there have been many heartwarming stories of neighbors helping neighbors, businesses, organizations and places of worship assisting their communities — … more
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Big music, big hearts
Pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Island Harvest have teamed up to raise money to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims. Enjoy an afternoon of Bach, Chopin, Moszkowski, Paderewski, and holiday selections at the … more
Baldwin opens its arms — and doors — to East Rockaway students
John, Lionel, Ethel and Drew Barrymore. Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Jamie-Lee Curtis. Henry, Peter and Jane Fonda. Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave — and don’t forget Long Island’s own Baldwin … more
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Thanksgiving Tradition volunteers donated 200 turkey dinners to the First Baptist Church in Far Rockaway.
Helping for the holidays
For the past 17 years, Woodmere Lanes Owner Nick Paxinos has been preparing and delivering Thanksgiving meals to St. Boniface Parish in Elmont and the First Baptist Church in Far Rockaway, but this year he’s also planning to serve those who are displaced by Hurricane Sandy. more
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Five Towns native Maria Cavallo Benkirane coordinated a Hurricane Sandy relief effort that will have a variety of supplies in Cedarhurst on Sunday.
Trucking in some relief from Florida
After speaking to her family, who is dispersed between Cedarhurst, Long Beach, New York City and Port Washington, and then reading comments on Facebook and viewing random online videos of the destruction Hurricane Sandy wrought in her native area, Boca Raton, Fla. resident Mara Cavallo Benkirane became determined to help. more
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A grass-roots movement in East Rockaway
When East Rockaway resident Elizabeth Daitz, the daughter of a firefighter, heard the many calls for rescues on the night Hurricane Sandy came to town, she was moved to action. “These … more
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This house on Shore Road and Surf Drive in Bellmore is an example of devastation seen all over L.I.
South Shore slowly comes back to life after Sandy
Part one in a series on how South Shore residents are coping in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. This week we begin in Bellmore-Merrick. In subsequent weeks we plan to spotlight recovery efforts in other communities. John Giammarino’s one-level house stood near the intersection of Bellmore Avenue and Clubhouse Road for 30 years. But only three years after the south Bellmore resident began renting the waterfront home, his landlord sent crews to rip out what was left of the walls. more
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Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow took on extra patients in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Area hospitals provide relief during, after storm
Days after the Hurricane Sandy tore through Long Island, its effects were still being felt, from long gas lines to thousands without power, and people’s day-to-day lives were changed. more
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