An institution that has roots in community service and education through previous iterations dating back to 1907, held its 52nd annual meeting on Nov. 10 to celebrate the past year’s successes and plans for moving forward.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/18/21
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For the past year and a half-plus, the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence has been a hub of critical community activity from feeding thousands through Gammy’s Pantry and being a Long Island Cares site to now hosting a revitalized Nassau County Police Athletic League program.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/7/21
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As Guatemalan Fútbol League soccer games played on Sadie E. Scott Recreation Field, a long stretch of small tents dotted the Five Towns Community Center parking lot in Lawrence as the center’s Health & Prevention Services component hosted a health fair on June 26.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/8/21
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Updated March 29 at 11 a.m.
With rubber gloves on her hands and a facemask wrapped around her nose and mouth, Inwood resident Sasha Young handed out bleach, dish detergent and muffins to Five Towns residents, along with a diced pineapple snack cup, if they came with children, at the Community Center on Lawrence Avenue in Lawrence on March 27.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/28/20
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Shortly after her retirement from teaching at the Five Towns Community Center in July 2011, lifelong Inwood resident Helen Hunter received a phone call asking to fill-in for a day.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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2/6/20
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The Richard M. Brodsky Foundation, headed by Atlantic Beach residents Richard and Jodi Brodsky, donated $2,000 worth of toys to the Lawrence-based Five Towns Community Center’s Operation Head Start on July 3.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/18/19
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Five Towns Community Center celebrates the holiday
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The Lawrence-based Five Towns Community Center hosted a holiday party at its facility on Lawrence Avenue to benefit is various programs, including Head Start on Dec. 17.
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1/7/15
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Lorenzo Sistrunk, 39, of Hempstead, has been named the new executive director of the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence, and took up his new duties on Oct. 1.
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By Vanessa Parker
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10/8/14
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Updated Oct. 11 9:40 a.m.
The emergency lockdown procedures he learned as a student at Lawrence High School came in handy for Anthony Giglio on Wednesday when Neil Thompson, 33, entered the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence and said he had a bomb and was going to blow up the building.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/10/12
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After more than four decades of teaching at the Five Towns Community Center, Inwood resident Helen Hunter has decided to retire, leaving behind a legacy that very few can match.
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JUSTIN SACHS
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9/8/11
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