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September 13
Charity News
Sweet Charities
by Jessica Mackin-Cipro Deadline for submissions is Thursday at noon. Email to jessica@indyeastend. com. Let’s Get CrackinG Fighting Chance, a free cancer counseling center on the East End, will host Let’s Get Cracking, a lobster bash at Duryea’s Lobster Deck in Montauk on Friday. Seatings are at noon and 1:30 PM. The cost is $60 and all proceeds support the work of Fighting Chance. For reservations call 631725-4646. ELIH Charities On Saturday and Sunday Eastern Long Island Hospital presents its North Fork Tennis Open, hosted by the TWIGS branch of the ELIH auxiliary at the tennis courts at Peconic Landing in Greenport. On Sunday, the Eat for Change fundraiser will be held at Chipotle Mexican Grill in Riverhead from 4 to 8 PM. Fifty percent of proceeds will be donated to ELIH.
On September 23 and 24 it’s the Dream Green Extravaganza with 65 cash prizes. Top prize is $50,000 and the cost is $100 per raffle
ticket. The drawing will be held on Sunday, September 24, at 4 PM at the Dream Green booth at the East End Seaport Museum Maritime Festival in Greenport. For more info on all events, call 631-4775463. Evening by the Sea Hampton Bays Rotary will host its 11th annual “Autumn Evening by the Sea” fundraiser on Thursday, September 21, from 6 to 8 PM at Oakland’s Restaurant. The event benefits a water-related charity each year, with last year’s proceeds creating life-ring stations along the Shinnecock Canal in a joint project with the Rotary Club of Southampton. This year’s focus is raising money for the purchase of water filtration straws to be distributed by Rotary member Jennifer Sheipe Halsey. Halsey travels to Ghana for her personal charity mission “Giving HOPE to Ghana,” and her team will distribute the straws on their next visit. Admission is $45 per person and includes open bar and ample appetizers. Those unable to attend
may purchase raffle tickets offering a $2000 grand prize and dinner for two at 12 local restaurants as a second prize. For tickets visit the Hampton Bays Library, Carolyn’s Good Ground Cleaners, or download a reservation form at www.hamptonbaysrotary.org. Diabetes Research Institute Hit the pedals and enjoy a beautiful scenic tour by joining Empire Ride for the Diabetes Research Institute, which is participating
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in the Massapequa Park Bicycle Club Tour of the Hamptons on Sunday, September 24. Funds raised by participants will support the Diabetes Research Institute and its mission to find a biological cure for diabetes. This scenic ride, from 7:30 AM to 5 PM, will begin at Southampton High School. The tour has routes of 25, 50, 70, 100 miles, and two 25-miles guided rides. Register online for $45 and create a personal fundraising page at www.RidefortheDRI.org to generate support from family, friends, and colleagues.
Coastal Cleanup Day
By Kitty Merrill
Saturday is International Coastal Cleanup Day. Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island Chapter has an ambitious goal. They want to pick up as much trash as possible at as many beaches as possible between Montauk and the Moriches Inlet. Grab a friend or two, and go to your favorite beach prepared
to collect some trash. But don’t throw it away! One week later, on Saturday, September 23, Surfrider is screening the film A Plastic Ocean at Southampton Arts Center. They plan to have all of the trash collected from International Coastal Cleanup Day on display. If you participate in the cleanup, admission to the screening is free. Visit the chapter’s Facebook page for details.
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