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During the rough-and-tumble football season, the Calhoun Colts gather each Friday evening in the high school’s cafeteria for a meal prepared by their parents. Squad members’ plates overflow with spaghetti, ravioli, sausage and peppers, stuffed peppers, wings and chili.
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by Scott Brinton
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1/4/11
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Editor’s note: Tepfer is executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center.
With the holiday season upon us, we at the Community Parent Center believe it is important for parents to be extra careful when handing over the car keys to their teen drivers. The time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is one of the busiest for travel, and newly licensed teens do not have enough experience to navigate through heavy traffic and winter weather conditions.
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By Wendy Tepfer
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12/10/10
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Just push him!” the mother called out to a boy on her son’s soccer team. The boy she wanted pushed was a player on my son’s team. I felt I had to speak up.
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Scott Brinton
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11/25/10
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Fall is fast approaching. It’s not only back-to-school time, but also back-to-sports time, when thousands of South Shore children can be found on football, soccer, lacrosse and even baseball and softball fields.
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9/22/10
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Betty Milano, co-director of the North Merrick Summer Recreation Program, appeared a tad nervous as the drizzle started to fall on July 23. The balloon slide was already set up. The tables full of games of chance were out. And, most important, the children were already on the back field at Old Mill Road Elementary School, prepared for a morning of fun at the program’s annual Penny Carnival.
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Scott Brinton
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8/3/10
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Heroin addicts describe their first high as the ultimate escape, a 20-hour fix starting with a pleasure rush that races from the tip of the tongue throughout the body and steadily progresses toward hallucinations that transfix a user in a state of semiconscious euphoria.
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4/23/10
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Bullying is one of the most enduring problems in schools today across the country. It occurs when someone purposely and repeatedly says or does mean, nasty or hurtful things to another person who has trouble defending himself or herself. Bullying is a reality in the lives of many children--whether they are bullies, victims or witnesses.
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Wendy Tepfer
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10/8/09
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When we walked into the park, my grandson made the introductions. Only 2 years old, he’s on a first-name basis with all the VIPs on the scene. The VIPs are the nannies, of course, and he got big hugs from each of them, since they all freelance as baby-sitters, and most have fed him, bathed him and rocked him to sleep at one time or another.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/24/09
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