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BOCES students get surprise visit from Scooby-Doo, win $2,500 grant
Photo credit: Brittany Wait
Samantha Heins and her classmates sat anxiously in a room waiting to be lectured by their principal about bullying.
Instead, a 6-foot-tall Scooby-Doo and others walked in holding balloons and a large $2,500 check.
Heins was among the 13 Eastern Suffolk BOCES students told Tuesday they had won first place in the 3rd annual Mutt-i-grees “America Adopts” National PSA Contest.
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Read more »Hempstead Town Animal Shelter to host educational tours
Photo credit: Newsday, 2010 / Thomas A. Ferrara
The Hempstead Town Animal Shelter will host two free educational tours Saturday, April 20, to give residents an up-close look at the daily operations of the shelter.
The tours will be given at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the shelter, 3320 Beltagh Ave., Wantagh. The town’s mobile vet clinic will also offer tours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Shelter staff will give lectures on pet care and the adoption...
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