As we headed back to the Guy Lombardo Marina in Freeport, navigating through Freeport waterways two days before Thanksgiving, the pile of trash on our boat was both gratifying and alarming.
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By Brian Croce
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12/3/14
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“There are different types of volunteers,” said Brain Levy of Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh. “There are the type that bring up ideas and say we should do something, but never go about doing it. Then there are people that actually go out and volunteer. Harvey and Rita Drucker are those type of people.”
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By Brian Stieglitz
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11/12/14
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“I don’t know,” replied Louisa Rodriguez, 44, when HOPEFitness Sports founder H.L. Greenberg asked whether she wanted to get out of her wheelchair and onto a stationary bicycle at …
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By Julie Mansmann
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11/5/14
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A dozen Merrick Girl Scouts from Troop 2547 spent the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 5, helping keep their community beautiful by planting flowers and cleaning up trash at Camman’s Pond Park in south Merrick.
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10/29/14
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A Bellmorite was recently named the Nassau County Bar Association’s Pro Bono Attorney of the Month for September. Scott Stone, whose practice is in East Rockaway, helps low-income tenants avoid …
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By Julie Mansmann
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10/9/14
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It began as a simple act of kindness — assisting elderly neighbors by providing transportation to and from medical appointments — that spawned an organization called Friends in Safe Hands, or FISH. This group is a non-sectarian network of concerned volunteers providing friendship and service to the elderly.
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By Laura Schofer
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9/24/14
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Girl Scout Troops 2124 and 2033 members got together on Saturday to make some seasonal adjustments to the Farm at Oyster Bay.
Valley Stream South High School student Allyce Yang, 16, built a cold …
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By Micah Danney
mdanney@liherald.com
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9/24/14
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The Mayor’s Youth Task Force of Rockville Centre announced the 2014 Volunteer of the Year, Caroline Cosgrove. This marks the first time that this award has been given. Caroline, who is in eighth …
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9/17/14
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For many local college students, attending graduate schools like Yale or Harvard would be a dream come true. One recent grad, however, is leaving her Ivy League dream behind to travel to Ecuador on a …
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By Brendan Murray
bmurray@liherald.com
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8/27/14
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According to a recent New York Times article, the number of volunteer firefighters is decreasing while the reasons why increase. Besides the apparent reason that the work is dangerous, the allure has diminished because of the amount of fund-raising required; the rise in two-income families, which makes spare time harder to find; and the increase in the scope of the work to vehicular entrapments and water rescues to name a few.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/20/14
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