About 50 seniors at Valley Stream’s Charles J. Monica Senior Village apartments, who qualify for food aid through a state assistance program, have stopped receiving food shipments because a …
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By Nicole Alcindor
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2/13/20
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Monica Village resident Sadie Cantone, 86, decided that she didn’t want to wait until she died to gather all of her family and friends for a celebration of her life. She said she didn’t want to miss the party! So she held a Celebration of Life party at Pompei Restaurant in West Hempstead, with her family and friends in attendance.
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By Mary Malloy
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9/16/15
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The Kiwanis Club has been helping local communities since its founding 99 years ago in Detroit. In Valley Stream, its roots don’t go back quite as far, but the club has still provided decades of service.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/20/14
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The ladies of the Monica Village Crochet Club did it again. They raised enough money to donate pediatric trauma kits to a pair of Valley Stream schools, continuing a long-standing partnership between the seniors, the Kiwanis Club and the school community.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/24/13
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The brunt of Hurricane Sandy isn’t scheduled to hit the South Shore of Nassau County until this evening, but village officials and employees are already out in full force, gearing up for the impending storm.
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By Andrew Hackmack and Brian Croce
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10/29/12
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In the winter of 1912, the Titanic was still deemed “unsinkable,” the Yankees were still 11 years away from their first world championship and Lucille Ball still hadn’t celebrated her first birthday and was years away from explaining anything to Ricky Ricardo.
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By Brian Croce
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3/14/12
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Margaret Fenwick has lived through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement and so many more historical events. She made history herself last week, when she celebrated her 100th birthday, a feat achieved by less than 1 percent of the world’s population.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/18/12
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This time, the Valley Stream Kiwanis Club donated not one, but two pediatric trauma kits for local schools. Over the last five years, the community service organization has been providing these medical kits to elementary schools, one at a time.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/23/11
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Brooklyn Avenue became the latest local elementary school to receive a pediatric trauma kit, courtesy of the Valley Stream Kiwanis Club and Monica Village Crochet Club.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/22/10
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Pearline Barrow and Randolph Best were married at Charles J. Monica Senior Village in Valley Stream on July 17. The lovebirds were ready to take the plunge and dive into a new life as bright as the morning sunshine.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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7/28/10
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