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Upcoming Events

Pancake Breakfast and Blessing of the Backpacks

Aug30

Students will receive a blessing for strength, focus, joy, safety, and success for the new school year. A Pancake Breakfast will follow the service

Where

Community United Methodist Church

100 Park Blvd.

Massapequa, NY

Phone

516-541-7008

Price

free

9/11 and Walls of Honor Ceremony

Sep9

25th Anniversary of Attacks on America to Include Musical Interludes, Religious Readings and Reciting of Names on September 11th Memorial & Walls of Honor. Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino and the Town Board invite residents to the Town’s Annual September 11th Memorial Ceremony. The town’s 9/11 Memorial – featuring a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center – is inscribed with the names of residents lost on September 11, 2001. The Walls of Honor monument expands each year with newly inscribed names of those who lost their battle with 9/11-illness caused by exposure at Ground Zero.

Where

Tobay Beach

Ocean Parkway

Massapequa, NY

Phone

516-797-7925

Price

free

DogFest Long Island

Oct10

Games, speakers, children's activities, service dog demonstrations, music and more, donations will be accepted, benefits service dogs to help people with disabilities

Where

Marjorie R. Post Community Park

451 Unqua Rd.

Massapequa Park, NY

Price

free

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