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Doo-Wop Fundraiser
Friday, December 7

Volunteers Sought for Breast Cancer Program
Upcoming Events

First Presbyterian Church Services
Ongoing Events


Friday, December 7

Doo-Wop Fundraiser

An Evening With the Stars: Doo-Wop Fundraiser to help support the games for the physically challenged will be held on Friday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. at Bethpage High School. Featuring Winnie Winfield, Lenny Dell and the Dimensions, Continentals, Cathy Jean, The Fireflies, The Jarmels, and Classic Sounds. Tickets are $25 each, reserved seating only. Free parking. Go to www.larentr.com or call 631-873-8817 for more information.


Upcoming Events

Volunteers Sought for Breast Cancer Program

If you've had breast cancer and want to pay it forward become a hotline volunteer. Women and men who are breast cancer survivors and others who are concerned about breast health issues can become volunteers at the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program in Garden City. Volunteers can help by doing fundraising and publicity, as well as by answering hotline calls. Hotline volunteers provide emotional support, information and referral services to callers with breast health concerns. Although the program is housed on Long Island, hotline services and telephone counseling are available to callers throughout New York State. The next five-session training cycle will be starting at the end of September 2012 at the Adelphi University School of Social Work in Garden City. For more information call Caroline Mulcahy at 516- 877-4315. To reach the Hotline from anywhere in New York State, call 1-800-877-8077.

Creative Cups

The popular, life-affirming event of the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, is returning and people are invited to participate by becoming a sponsor. Submitted creations will be included in the auction/gala (to be held on March 14, 2013 at Adelphi University in Garden City). Creative Cups celebrates the lives of those living with breast cancer and those lost to this terrible disease. For more information, visit www.adelphi.edu/creative-cups or call 800-877-8077.


Ongoing Events

First Presbyterian Church Services

•Sunday services at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.
•Holy Communion: First Sunday of the month
•Education: Sunday School at 10 a.m.
•Little People Academy Preschool, call 746-1138
•Women’s Group: Saturday at 9:00 a.m.
•Men’s Group: Saturday at 7:15 a.m.

First Presbyterian Church, 182 First Street, Mineola. Rev. Chester J. Easton, Pastor. Call the church office at 746-7419 for more information. Office open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.

At The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour

•Noah's Ark Preschool has several openings still available for the 2012-2013 school year.
•Nursery program is for 3 year olds and is held on Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
•Pre-K program is for 4 year olds and is held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
•Mommy/Daddy and Me program for 2 year olds on Thursdays from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Call the church office at 516-746-3824 for registration forms and more information or to schedule an open house visit. The church is located at 132 Jefferson Ave., in Mineola.

Free Breast Cancer Support Groups

The Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer program is offering new support groups. There is no cost for any group; however pre-registration is required. Additional groups are formed upon request, including groups for men with breast cancer and family members. All groups meet at Adelphi University School of Social Work in Garden City. For more information call Sandi Kafenbaum, LCSW, at 516-877-4314, or the Breast Cancer Hotline at 800-877-8077.

•Support group for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer will meet weekly for eight weeks from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

•Support group for women post treatment will meet weekly for eight weeks from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

•Support group for young women with breast cancer will meet weekly for eight weeks from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

•Support group for women with metastatic breast cancer will meet weekly for eight weeks from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

•A telephone support group for women with breast cancer will be held weekly for eight weeks from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Furniture Needed

The A.T. Stewart Exchange Consignment Shop, 109 Eleventh St., Garden City, is looking for furniture to add to its inventory. The shop can use cocktail tables, end tables, consoles, chairs of all types, dressers, dining room tables, breakfronts, servers, secretaries, mirrors, etc....it's all in demand. If you have a particularly large piece, take a picture, and show it to Kris or Jill at the shop (516 746-8900). Consignees get 50 percent of the selling price. Parking is convenient because the shop is located on the lower level of the Garden City Historical Museum.

News

Dinner and dancing benefits Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Night on the Town began about eight years ago, when the Church of St. Aidan in Williston Park was looking to raise money. Mineola resident Harry Zapiti stepped in.

 

He brought the idea to St. Aidan’s board. All Zapiti wanted was the support.

East Williston resident stumping for greener future

The future is green and Wheatley School student Graham Turk is making it a point to remind you, one less plastic bottle at a time.

 

Turk’s environment-friendly initiative, the ReFill Project, which started in 2011 at the Wheatley School, seeks to reduce the use of disposable plastic water bottles in schools. Last year, the East Williston resident headed the installation of two water refill stations in the Old Westbury school’s halls.


Sports

Travel Soccer Tryout Dates Announced

The Mineola Athletic Association’s soccer program will be holding its annual tryouts for their travel soccer teams in early June.  Boys and girls in the U10, U11, and U12 age groups are invited to tryouts on Monday, June 3 and Thursday, June 6. 

 

All interested athletes are encouraged to attend both try-out sessions, which will be held at Wilson Park on Field 3 (behind the pool and at the end of Liberty Avenue).  For more information on practice times, age qualification, commitment, etc. please visit the MAA Web site at www.mineolaaa.org

Ashley Stavish, 17

MHS Girls Lacrosse

Ashley Stavish is a member of the Mineola Girl’s Lacrosse team.  Ashley has been a four-year member of the varsity team and is a co-captain. In 2012 she was voted by Nassau County Girls Lacrosse Association to be an All Conference player.


Calendar

"Miles For Melanoma" - May 19

Clothing Drive - May 20

Golf And Tennis Tournament - May 23


Columns

Building Better Legislators
Written by Michael A. Miller, Millercolumn@optimum.net

Quietly Vindicated
Written by Mike Barry, MFBarry@optonline.net

Health Insurance Crisis Still Here
Written by Michael A. Miller, Millercolumn@optimum.net