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East Meadow girl, 12, uses Facebook to help Sandy victims

From left, Sydney Inger, 12, of East Meadow,

Photo credit: Brittany Wait

Sydney Inger is such an advocate for feeding her community that the 12-year-old made certain the leftover food from her future bat mitzvah is donated to a local pantry.

Since 2008, Inger has volunteered with Island Harvest, a Long Island-based hunger relief organization, collecting nonperishables at her school to bring to local food pantries.

“I kept seeing Red Cross commercials to raise...

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