LONG ISLAND MEDIA GROUP
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South Bay’s Neighbor has been proudly publishing in the local communities since 1953. We continually strive to bring you local news and information from schools, librairies, local organizations and residents. We also support our local businesses who are a vital part of the communities we live in.
We wanted to make you aware of some exciting changes that are taking effect in September. We are converting our Islip, East Islip and South Bay Shore/
Brightwaters South Bay’s Neighbor Newspaper editions to our monthly South Bay’s Seasons Magazine. We have recently upgraded our magazine to a premium glossy cover and are direct mailing to many homes in each zip code, as well as some distribution through high traffic store locations. All our publications are also available online at www.longislandmediagroup. com. We will continue to publish the local community news in our magazines each month keeping you up to date on all local happenings. Additionaly, we will continue to publish 15 weekly editions
Islip Senior Advocate Schedule
Suffolk Legislator Tom Donnelly (D-Deer Park) is pleased to inform Islip residents about the local Suffolk County Office for the Aging Summer 2024 Senior Advocate Schedule. Senior advocates are County representatives who come out into the community and assist seniors with information gathering, completion of eligibility or recertification applications and referrals to appropriate community agencies.
“It is so important for us to provide our senior citizens with the assistance and information they need in ways that are most convenient to them. These visits allow our seniors to connect with our County’s senior advocates right in their own communities,” said Legislator Donnelly. “I hope all those interested in the services that the Suffolk County Office for
the Aging provides will take advantage of this opportunity.”
Senior Advocates will be visiting the following locations in the Town of Islip:
• Bay Shore Library, 1 S. Country Road, Brightwaters: Friday, September 20, 10 am –12 pm
• Bishop McGann Housing, 200 Bishop McGann Drive, Central Islip: Monday, September 30, 10 am –12 pm
• Brentwood Senior Nutrition, 16 Second Avenue, Brentwood: Monday, September 23, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
• Connetquot Library, 760 Ocean Avenue, Bohemia: Thursday, September 12, 10 am –12 pm
• Islip Library, 71 Monell Avenue, Islip: Monday September 16, 10 am –12 pm
•Advocates assist with the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP – formerly known as food stamps), Medicare Savings Program and Heating Emergency Assistance Program (HEAP) applications. They also can provide information on Medicare, answer questions and make recommendations and referrals. For more information about available services or directions to any of these locations, please call the Suffolk County Office for the Aging at (631) 8538200.
“For more than three decades, the Suffolk County Office for the Aging has been providing full and trouble-free access to critical services,” Donnelly said. “I am glad to see their great professional community outreach program continue and hope that every senior resident will make full use of it.”
of the South Bay’s Neighbor, 10 editions of our monthly Seasons Magazine, our Bethpage and Wantagh monthly newspapers in conjunction with the chambers of commerce, full line of print and deliver products including all types of menus and our South Bay’s Digital Marketing opportunities. We appreciate your support and look forward to serving your community for many years to come.
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AUGUST HAPPENINGS
SATURDAY AUGUST 31
7:30AM-1:00PM RUNNERS EDGE
MAIN STREET MILE
The 21st Annual Runner’s Edge Main Street Mile will begin with a Kid’s Fun Run at 8:30 a.m. on Main Street in Farmingdale, followed by a woman’s one-mile run at 9:00 a.m. and a Men’s one-mile run at 9:30 a.m. Hockey legend Pat LaFontaine will be on hand for the races, as well as a postrace blow-out at The Tap Room in Farmingdale beginning at 11 a.m. ! For more information, please call 516-420-7963
10:00AM-4:00PM END OF SUMMER FESTIVAL
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at 369 Green Avenue in East Meadow will host its End of Summer Festival (rain or shine). It will feature Ethnic and BBQ foods, live music, kids’ games, flea market, basket raffle, and $1,000 cash prize raffle. Admission is free. For more information, please call 516-483-3649, email htocem@gmail. com or visit www.htocem.org.
2:00PM-5:00PM
DAHLIA EXHIBITION AND PHOTO SHOW
The Long Island Dahlia Society will hold its annual Dahlia Exhibition and Photo Show at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Carriage House, 440 Montauk Highway in Great River. Show is free with entry in the park. For further information visit WWW. LongIslandDahlia.org
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UPCOMING SEPTEMBER EVENTS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 5
7:00PM LINDENHURST EVENING HOMEMAKERS GROUP
Join Lindenhurst Evening Homemakers Group at the Amityville Senior Center on Cedar St. Open to all members and newcomers 18 years old and up. Meet ups start at 7pm & new members should arrive 15 min. early. For more information, please call Lisa LeBrie at 516-413-7467
SATURDAY, SEPT. 7
6:00PM
QUEENS SOUND PRESENTS: "SONGS BENEATH THE TREES"
Our Lady of Grace Concert Series Presents an evening of serene melodies evoking a world of natural beauty. $10 Suggested Donation. Refreshments will be served. Our Lady of Grace, 666 Albin Ave. in West Babylon. For more information, please call 631-587-5185
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8
9:00AM-4:00PM
36th ANNUAL COPIAGUE KIWANIS CAR SHOW & MARKET PLACE
This event is proudly presented by the Copiague Kiwanis in collaboration with the Town of Babylon and will take place at Tanner Park. Get ready for a day filled with chrome, classic tunes, and family fun. For further questions, Phil Guerra can be contacted directly at 516-647-2754 or via email at philcarshow@optonline.net.
9:30AM 9/11 REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
The Farmingdale United Methodist Church, 407 Main Street, will hold a Remembrance Service on the 23rd anniversary of 9-11. Following the service everyone is invited to honor the day by placing ribbons around the Memorial Tree dedicated to Lt. Christopher P. Sullivan, FDNY, who generously led our Nursery School children in fire safety. All Farmingdale firemen/emergency responders and their families are invited to attend, as is the general public. Please join us.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12
7:00PM LONG ISLAND IN THE MOVIES
The Seaford Historical Society will host a presentation by Greg Blank about Long Island in the Movies, at the Historical Society Museum. The Museum is located at 3890 Waverly Ave. in Seaford. Members Free. $5 fee for nonmembers. For more information, please call Judy Bongiovi at 516-660-2275
CALL FOR TIME
GENERAL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP & LOSS OF ADULT CHILD GROUP
The General Support Group is open to anyone who has suffered a loss at least three months prior to the start of the group. The Adult Child Group has a no wait requirement. Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited. The groups will be offered at St. John Nepomucene, 1140 Locust Ave. in Bohemia. Please call to reserve your seat, 631-589-0540, ext. 250.
Registration is open for the St. Jude Walk/Run Long Island presented by Tweezerman during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month at 8:30AM EST on Saturday, September 21st at Marcum Mellville Offices and Park. The St. Jude Walk/ Run provides supporters of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® a chance to take action and walk or run in person and virtually to raise funds and awareness for St. Jude. Thanks to generous
supporters, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. This year’s St. Jude Walk/Run series is nationally presented by Window World, Marcum Foundation and Kia. For those attending the St. Jude Walk/Run in person, there will be food trucks, family entertainment and a St. Jude patient family speaker who will share why the community’s support
means so much to families like theirs. St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Fundraising events like the St. Jude Walk/Run unite individuals across the country to support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children. ® Everywhere. Register or learn more at stjude.org/ walk<LongIsland>. St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital® St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.® It is the only National Cancer Institutedesignated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely
considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and it won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St.
Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
POWER WASHING
Suffolk County Police Department Unites Narcan
Training With Purple Rock Project At Bay Shore Alive At 5, Training
The Suffolk County Police Department and the Purple Rock Project joined together on August 13 at Bay Shore’s Alive at 5 street event and trained more than 220 people in the use of Naloxone (Narcan) and distributed 450 doses of the life-saving antidote to opioid overdose.
SCPD Emergency Medical Service Officers
Jason Byron and Alex Trzepizur conducted the Narcan trainings alongside a “memorial rocks and informational” station run by Purple Rock Project founder and parent Carole Trottere. The Purple Rock Project (PRP) supplies purple painted rocks to that can be inscribed with the name of a loved one lost to overdose. The rocks are then exhibited at the Suffolk County Environmental Center at the Scully Estate, Tree Memorial and Serenity Garden, 550 South Bay Avenue, Islip and other locations as a reminder of how many Long Islanders have died from O.D. and fentanyl poisonings.
“Writing a child’s name on a rock may seem like a small thing, but I think it is a way of saying to the world that their child was once here,” said Trottere, who lost her son Alex in 2018.
“One young woman said she had so many names to write on a rock that she “ran out
of room.”
Throughout the Alive at 5 event attendees were educated about Narcan and the risks associated with illicit drug use. Byron also talked to many young teens and adults about the 911 Good Samaritan Law, which allows people to call 911 without fear of arrest if they are having a drug or alcohol overdose that requires emergency medical care or if they witness someone overdosing. Sergeant Joseph Steigele and Police Officers Jesse Levy and
Town Of Islip Youth Bureau's School Supply Drive Returns
The Youth Bureau’s Annual School Supply Drive is in full-swing, collecting donations for families in our community.
Supplies of all varieties are being accepted, including colored pencils, markers, crayons, glue sticks, folders, binders,
loose leaf paper, pens, pencils, highlighters, calculators, backpacks and protractors.
Donations can be dropped off to Islip Town Hall, located at 655 Main St., Islip, and to Islip Town Hall West, located at 401 W. Main St., Islip.
Karl Allison from SCPD Community Relations Bureau from Community Relations Bureau were also on hand to help with the Narcan training and answer questions.
The Behavioral Health Unit, Sgt. Christopher Ingoglia, Police Officer Bridget Topping and Police Officer Gina Lauricella, assisted with the distribution of the Narcan.
If you are interested in sponsoring a community event, contact the Community Relations
Bureau at SCPDCRB@ suffolkcountyny.gov
If you have lost a loved one to O.D. or fentanyl poisoning, and you would like to incorporate a Narcan training into a memorial event for your child, or loved one, please contact Police Officer Bridget Topping at bridget. topping@suffolkcountyny. gov
For more information about The Purple Rock Project visit our Facebook page.
NARCAN TRAINING WITH PURPLE ROCK PROJECT - Here members of the SCPD conducts the Narcan trainings alongside a “memorial rocks and informational” station run by the Purple Rock Project. From left are Police Officer Jesse Levy; Sergeant Joseph Steigele; Police Officer Gina Lauricella; Police Officer Bridget Topping; SCPD Emergency Medical Service Officers Jason Byron and Alex Trzepizur; and Police Officer Karl Allison.
Photo by Carole Trottere
