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Kevin Spacey, Olympian Allyson Felix present volunteer awards to two Long Island students
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Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Olympic gold medal sprinter Allyson Felix are accustomed to receiving awards, but on Sunday night, they presented them to a group of young volunteers that included two Long Islanders.
In February, Samuel Lam, 18, of Old Westbury, and Cory Nichols, 12, of Oceanside, earned the title of New York State’s top high school- and middle school-level youth volunteers...
Read more »Returning to 'home away from home' at Sandy-ravaged Oceanside Senior Center
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When superstorm Sandy ravaged the Oceanside community, Corinne Puglisi, 82, was not only displaced from her house in Bay Park, but also her “home away from home,” the Oceanside Senior Center, which was shut down for six months.
Like Puglisi’s Oceanside Harbor Drive home, the Town of Hempstead’s Oceanside Senior Center, at 2900 Rockaway Ave. and 40 neighboring senior housing units had...
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