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Kids collect for Sandy-affected infants

Students from kindergarten to the second grade decorated

Photo credit: Handout

Tobi Phillips knew that making a difference in the wake of superstorm Sandy would be so simple, a child could do it.

So she put her own students up to the task.

Phillips, who founded Village East Gifted, an after-school enrichment program in Huntington, was inspired to get her students involved in the Sandy relief effort by her own daughter, Rachael.

After Hurricane Katrina, Rachael,...

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