Community update

Rockville Centre events and activities Aug. 30, 2012

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:00 pm

Online fundraiser for local transplant recipient Kathy Burns, a local art teacher who received a multi-visceral organ transplant, just returned with her husband, Brian, from her 6-month visit/check-up in Pittsburgh, where her surgery took place. She is doing remarkably well; the transplant team is very happy with everything. Her next visit is scheduled in six months. Brian would like the community to know that there is an online fundraiser/auction taking place now to help the family through the financial troubles it is presently experiencing due to Kathy’s medical bills and related costs. Many items are being auctioned off and there are golf trips, getaway weekends, jewelry, dinners at local restaurants and much more. The online site is kathyburnsmvt.com. (The mvt stands for Multi Visceral Transplant.) The Burns family’s home address is 329 Cedar Street, South Hempstead, N.Y. 11550. The family also wants to thank the community for all of its assistance, help, prayers and for the many, many ways that local residents have helped them through these difficult times.

Courtesy Brian Burns

On the board

Board of Trustees Briefing

Aug. 30, 6 p.m., Village Hall

Board of Trustees Meeting

Sept. 4, 8 p.m., Village Hall

Planning Board Meeting

Sept. 18, 7 p.m., Village Hall

Zoning Board Meeting

Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. Village Hall

Community Events

Open House

On Sept. 5 from 4:40 to 6:30 p.m., the Mothers’ Center of Southwest Nassau will host an open house at 100 Main Street, East Rockaway. Learn what the Mothers’ Center has to offer you and your children. For more information contact Michelle at (516) 599-7788 or kweeny74@yahoo.com and visit www.MCSWN.weebly.com.

Final “Nutcracker Ballet" audition

On Sept. 6, Leggz Ltd. Dance will hold its final auditions for classically trained males and females

ages 7 - adult for the full length “Nutcracker Ballet” with the RVC Guild for the Arts South Shore Symphony Orchestra. Professional principal performers are paid. Call (516) 766-7171 for an appointment. There is a $20 audition fee and auditions will be held at the Leggz studio, 486 Sunrise Highway, Rockville Centre.

Defensive Driving Class at the Church of the Ascension

A National Safety Council defensive driving course for insurance and point reduction will be given at the Church of the Ascension, 71 North Village Ave. on Sept. 8 from 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. For information and to register, call (631) 360-9720. The cost is $45.

Eagle Scout Centennial Parade

Long Island’s Boy Scouts of America will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eagle Scout Award with a parade and ceremonies on Sept. 8 in the village where, in 1912, Arthur R. Eldred was the first Boy Scout to earn the rank of Eagle Scout. The Theodore Roosevelt Council of the Boy Scouts of America is sponsoring the Eagle Scout Centennial Parade that will step-off at 10 a.m. Units of Long Island Boy Scout Troops, BSA leaders, Eagle Scouts and local officials will march the parade route from Randall Ave. Parking Field 2 to Arthur R. Eldred Park at corner of North Centre Avenue and Parkwood Court where a commemoration ceremony will take place. For information about the parade, ceremonies and other anniversary activities, visit www.trcbsa.org or call (516)797-7600.

Casting call: Open audition

for classically-trained dancers

and singers

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