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LI agencies that help families need your help
michael.amon@newsday.com; bart.jones@newsday.comLiz McDermott of the Education and Assistance Corp. arrived at her desk one day last week, checked her voice mail and listened in shock. "I had 400 voice messages about HEAP," said McDermott, director of programs for the Hempstead nonprofit. She was...Tags: Toy Industry, Long Island, Christmas, Home Heating, Freeport
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Owner opens Massapequa catering hall to the needy
michael.amon@newsday.comAfter reading about Long Island charities struggling with surging demand for Thanksgiving meals, Rich Bivona decided he could do more than cut a check to a soup kitchen: He would start his own. Bivona will open his Massapequa catering hall, Manor East,...Tags: Long Island, Massapequa, Thanksgiving, Charity, Turkey
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Lean times at the dinner table
michael.amon@newsday.comWhile the tough economy has hurt Long Island's middle class through shrunken 401(k)s, lost jobs and depleted home values, it's striking the poor hardest at the dinner table. High grocery prices are pushing more to apply for food stamps, a program growing...Tags: Government, Long Island, Thanksgiving, Foods and Beverages, Charity
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Food pantries struggle to meet Thanksgiving requests
michael.amon@newsday.comWhile the tough economy has hurt Long Island's middle class through shrunken 401(k)s, lost jobs and depleted home values, it's striking the poor hardest at the dinner table. High grocery prices are pushing more to apply for food stamps, a program growing...Tags: Government, Long Island, Thanksgiving, Foods and Beverages, Charity
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LI charities get big helping of food, donations
michael.amon@newsday.comOne man walked into the Mineola office of Island Harvest with a $10,000 check. Another struggled up the charity's staircase with two armfuls of food bags. A food drive outside a Plainview supermarket netted 158 turkeys. Long Islanders responded yesterday...Tags: Government, Long Island, Thanksgiving, Charity, Social Services
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LI Obama rally: Half of CSNY to headline
Spin CycleA big pre-debate Obama rally, sponsored by Nassau's Tom Suozzi and Suffolk's Jon Cooper, will be held tomorrow from 3 pm to 7 pm at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre (Parking areas 6 and......Tags: Jon Cooper, Tom Suozzi
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Crosby, Nash to sing at Eisenhower Park Obama rally
David Crosby and Graham Nash, two members of the famed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young band, will sing for Barack Obama in a concert and rally that will take place within a stone's throw of the presidential debate at Hofstra University tomorrow night, said...Tags: Barack Obama, Long Island, Hofstra University
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THE HOFSTRA DEBATE: Celebs come out for forum, Obama
Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tim Daly and Matthew Modine will host a luncheon and briefing about America's health care crisis at the Long Island Marriott Hotel in Uniondale this afternoon in conjunction with the presidential debate. The luncheon event,...Tags: Barack Obama, Bruce Hornsby, Matthew Modine, Long Island, Rachael Leigh Cook
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Nominate a volunteer for Long Island Hall of Fame
katti@kattigray.comI n the late 1980s, when the first Bush to reside in the White House launched his ambitious Thousand Points of Light Foundation for volunteers, Diana O'Neill took it upon herself to tell her boss at the U.S. Treasury Department - where she held a fairly...Tags: Woodbury (Oyster Bay, New York), Long Island, Massacres, Massapequa, Emergency Planning
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A thousand rally for Obama at Eisenhower Park
william.murphy@newsday.comAbout 1,000 union and political activists whooped and shouted their way through a late afternoon rally Wednesday in Eisenhower Park, less than two miles from the site of the presidential debate. "I don't think they can hear you at Hofstra. Is labor in...Tags: Government, Long Island, New York, Suffolk County (New York), Joe Biden
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Political, union activists rally for Obama near Hofstra
william.murphy@newsday.comAbout 1,000 union and political activists whooped and shouted their way through a late-evening rally yesterday in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, less than two miles from the site of the presidential debate. "I don't think they can hear you at Hofstra....Tags: Government, Demonstration, Long Island, New York, Suffolk County (New York)
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People on the move, Sept. 2
peopleonthemove@newsday.comNONPROFITS Lynn Drucker has been promoted to senior vice president for development and external affairs at Abilities in Albertson. The Merrick resident has served as vice president of development for the organization since February 2007. Before that,...Tags: Government, Long Island, State University of New York, Government Health Care, Management Change
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