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Volunteers make snowflakes for Sandy Hook students
As customers of a hip Valley Stream coffeehouse sipped hot beverages and nibbled on baked goods Sunday afternoon, a pile of snowflakes accumulated on a table near the back of the building.
The snowflakes were paper, however, not precipitation. Taking part in a larger international effort called “Snowflakes for Sandy,” about 50 parents and children used scissors to carve coffee filters into...