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“LuHi was the perfect site to host the inaugural event of the season,” says FIRST Long Island representative, Janet Anderson. “They were a wonderful partner and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them to benefit the students of Long Island.”

“The LuHi community is still buzzing about the FIRST Tech Challenge event,” says Ed Parry, Director of Summer Programs. “They loved the atmosphere and the people involved. We look forward to hosting this event in the coming years.”

For more information on SBPLI or the FIRST Long Island Robotics, please visit www.sbplilifirst.org.

Piano Competition Launched A pair of Nassau BOCES Long Island High School for the Arts (LIHSA) piano students, Luke Gentil (Half Hollow Hills CSD) and Jeremy Kaplan (BellmoreMerrick CHSD), were featured performers at the Grace Music School’s official kickoff event for their Island-wide piano competition. The winner of the competition will earn $1,000 and will perform at Carnegie Hall.

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“Six years ago, I couldn’t imagine being where I am today. I can never repay CHI for the help they gave me and my family,” said Ms. Nielsen.

When Ms. Nielsen got to CHI, she was homeless, nine months sober, and traveling almost daily by bus to Stony Brook Hospital to care for her premature baby girl, who remained in the NICU for three months. She also has a son who was one year old, at the time, and daughter, then 10.

From emergency housing in Middle Island, CHI accepted her into the agency’s transitional housing in a home in East Patchogue. Due to the lack of permanent housing, CHI extended her lease at that home for almost two years, enabling Ms. Nielsen to care for her children and get back on her feet. This month Ms. Nielsen and her family moved into a new home, independent of CHI. Due to the help she received at CHI, Ms. Nielsen was able to become

the kind of parent she has always wanted to be. Her older daughter was being bullied at school. She was able to get her the help she needed, sending her to a therapist and addressing it with the school. That same daughter will graduate early from high school this June and has already been accepted to Jamestown College in the fall. Her two younger children are enrolled in their new schools and doing well. Her younger daughter, Rayna, has special needs and receives occupational and physical therapy, and schooling that meets her needs.

Now that both younger children are a little older and enrolled in school full-time, Ms. Nielsen is ready to start a full-time job. She is excited about the road ahead.

“From my CHI case managers I learned to set small goals and work my way toward them and that’s how I’ve accomplished a lot of things in the past six years,” said Ms. Nielsen.

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“I feel so grateful for my time at the CHI house in East Patchogue. I had never heard of a program like this that really turned my life around. I hope that house brings as many memories to the next family as it did for mine.”

Piano Competition Launched A pair of Nassau BOCES Long Island High School for the Arts (LIHSA) piano students, Luke Gentil (Half Hollow Hills CSD) and Jeremy Kaplan (BellmoreMerrick CHSD), were featured performers at the Grace Music School’s official kickoff event for their Island-wide piano competition. The winner of the competition will earn $1,000 and will perform at Carnegie Hall.

At the event, Mr. Gentil performed two of his original compositions, “Billade No. 2” and

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“We could not be more proud of these two flourishing musicians,” said LIHSA Principal Jack Lenson. “They are an excellent representation of the gifted youngsters that constitute our school.

They are the embodiment of Long Island’s up-andcoming artistic talent.”

WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA - Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory served as the keynote speaker for the National Wreaths Across America Day celebration at Calverton National Cemetery and presented a proclamation to the cemetery’s support committee on Saturday, December 17th.

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Unfortunately, as the numbers of homeless with special needs continues to grow on Long Island, there are no easy answers to the crisis. “The number of homeless households in Nassau and Suffolk Counties increased 25% in the last three years, from 548 households in 2013 to 682 households in 2016, according to the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless.” But the victories come one family at a time. And a formerly homeless family of four will be spending their first holiday season in their new home in Mattituck, thanks to their efforts and assistance from the nonprofit Community Housing Innovations (CHI).

Regina Nielsen and her three children moved in to their new home on December 1st, five and a half years after she and her family ended up in a CHI emergency shelter.

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The Ultimate Family Magic Show will be presented at The Parlor of Mystery at the South Shore Theatre Experience, 315 West Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst, at 7 p.m.

For information, contact 631.669.0506.

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A New Year’s Eve Celebration will be held at AMVETS Hall, 141 Carleton Avenue in East Islip, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

For information, contact 631.332.9643.

A New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance will be held at the Marconi Lodge, 333 Moffitt Boulevard in Islip, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. For information, contact 631.678.3220.

A New Year’s Eve Party will be held at the Brumidi Lodge, 2075 Deer Park Avenue in Deer Park, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. For information, contact 631.667.1912.

A New Year’s Eve & Last Night of Hanukkah Party will be hosted by Congregation Beth Israel at 141 Hilton Avenue in Hempstead, at 8 p.m. For information, contact 347.631.1740.

Sunday, January 1st The Divine Liturgy for the Feast Day of St. Basil the Great and the Civil New Year will be celebrated at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, 369 Green Avenue in East Meadow, at 9:30 a.m. For information, contact 516.483.3649.

Tuesday, January 3rd

Americans for Legal Reform will meet at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library, 999 Old Country Road in Plainview, at 7 p.m. For information, contact 631.421.6390.

Wednesday, January 4th The Long Island Accordion Alliance will meet at La Villini Restaurant, 288 Larkfield Road in East Northport. For information, and a time, contact 631.261.6344.

The Rainbow Senior Center will host Paint Day at 293 Buffalo Avenue in Lindenhurst, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The painting will be a snowy winter scene. The cost is $20 to paint; all materials will be provided.

For information, contact 631.957.7526.

The Babylon Day Homemakers will meet in the pool building in front of the Town of Babylon pools, at 10:30 a.m.

For information, contact 631.661.0190.

Thursday, January 5th The Reading Specialists Council of Suffolk will present “The Essential Elements of the Common Core Aligned Reading Workshop, K-5” at the Vanderbilt School, 350 Deer Park Avenue in Dix Hills, from 5:30 to 7:45 p.m.

For information, contact 631.669.5964.

The Babylon Village Arts Council will present local poet Lisa James at Jack Jack’s Coffee House, 231 Deer Park Avenue in Babylon, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, January 6th

Hallelujah will be screened at the East Meadow Public Library, at 1 p.m. A Q&A session with Long Island archivist John Carpenter will follow. For information, contact 516.794.2570.

Next Fall will be screened at the Studio Theatre, 141 South Wellwood Avenue in Lindenhurst, at 8 p.m.

Also Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. For information, visit www.nextfall2017. brownpapertickets.com.

Saturday, January 7th The Islip ELKS Lodge #2533 will host a Basketball FreeThrow Contest for boys and girls ages 8 to 13 at 401 Main Street in Islip. Registration begins at 9 a.m.; the contest will start at 10 a.m. The contest is free of charge.

The Bethpage Colonials will be drumming for the veterans at the Massapequa Elks Lodge #2162, 2162 Veterans Boulevard in Massapequa, from 1 to 4 p.m. For information, contact 516.697.4686.

Sunday, January 8th The South Shore Audubon Society will host a Bird Walk at the West End of Jones Beach, beginning at 9 a.m. Bring binoculars. For information, contact 516.467.9498.

A NYS Defensive Driving course will be held at Temple Beth El of North Bellmore, at 9 a.m. For information, contact 516.972.0235.

A Winter Model Train Show & Exhibition will be held at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road in Freeport, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, contact 516.378.9594.

From the Garden to the Wall will be presented at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, at 2 p.m. The guest speaker will be Mary Ahern.

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Monday, January 9th A Mortgage Foreclosure Legal Consultation Clinic will be held at the NCBA headquarters, 15th and West Streets in Mineola, from 3 to 6 p.m. Also January 23rd. For information, contact 516.747.4070.

A Snowball Dinner will be held at the Westminster United Presbyterian Church, from 5:30 The Babylon Chorale will to 8:30 p.m. For information, hold auditions at St. John the contact 631.661.6740.

Baptist High School, 1170 Montauk Highway in West The Boxcar Lilies and Low Islip, at 8:45 p.m. Rehearsal Lily will perform at the will precede at 7:30 p.m.

Congregational Church of For information, contact Huntington, 30 Washington 516.445.5073.

Drive in Centerport, at 8:30 p.m. An open mic will precede Tuesday, January 10th at 7:30 p.m. For information, Western Suffolk BOCES will contact 631.425.2925. meet in the large conference

room of the Administrative Offices, 507 Deer Park Road in Dix Hills, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public.

The Faces of Poverty on Long Island will be presented at the Mid-Island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Road in Plainview, at 7 p.m. For information, contact 516.822.3535, ext. 354.

Wednesday, January 11th Auditions for “Red Scare on Sunset” will be held at the Levittown Public Library, 1 Blue Grass Lane, at 7:15 p.m. Also Friday, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

For information, contact 516.236.9202.

Thursday, January 12th A Senior Group Enthusiasts meeting will meet at the Woodbury Jewish Center, 200 South Woods Road in Woodbury, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Mr. Michael Kessler of the Jewish National Fund will be the speaker.

For information, contact 516.496.9100.

Exodus will be screened at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, 999 Old Country Road in Plainview, at 1 p.m.

For information, contact 516.313.0131.

An Oldies but Goodies Night will be held at the Marconi Lodge, 333 Moffitt Boulevard in Islip, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. For information, contact 631.669.7275.

The Board of Trustees of the Islip Public Library will meet in the conference room at 71 Monell Avenue in Islip.

For information, and a time, contact 631.581.5933.

Friday, January 13th A Chinese Auction will be held at the Lindenhurst High School, 300 Charles Street in Lindenhurst, at 6:30 p.m.

For information, contact 631.671.2805.

Saturday, January 14th Breakfast and Birding will be presented at the Connetquot River State Park Preserve, Sunrise Highway in Oakdale, from 8 to 11:30 a.m. For information, contact 631.581.1072.

Sunday, January 15th Le Petit Salon de Musique will be presented at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook, 380 Nicolls Road in East Setauket, at 2 p.m.

For information, visit www. lepetitsalon.org.

The Kennedys will perform at the Long Island Museum’s Gillespie Room, 1200 Route 25A in Stony Brook, at 3 p.m. For information, contact 631.632.1093.

Ongoing Events Elf, Jr. will be presented through December 29th at the BayWay Arts Center, 265 East Main Street in East Islip. For performance dates and times, and ticket information, contact 631.581.2700.

A Scarf, Hat, Mitten & Glove Collection will be held through January 8th at the Northport (151 Laurel Avenue) and East Northport (185 Larkfield Road) Libraries. For information, contact 631.261.6930 or

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Send Coming Events to: South Bay’s Neighbor Newspapers, 565 Broadhollow Road, Suite 3, Farmingdale, NY 11735; Fax to: 631.226.2680; or E-mail to: editorsb@southbaynews.com Events must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the date and will run in the calendar on a space available basis. For further information, contact: 631.226.2636, extension 275.

Holiday Wishes from Mary Martin & Dinah Shore will be presented through January The Smell of the Kill will 11th, at the Ward Melville be presented from January Heritage Organization’s Cultural 6th through January 21st

at the South Shore Theatre Experience, 315 West Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst. For performance dates and times, and ticket information, contact 631.669.0506.

The works of watercolor artist Essie Freilach will be on display through January 27th at Apple Bank, 91 Route 111 in Smithtown. For information, contact the STAC

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When you look back over the course of your life, there are often certain places that seem to stand out as the setting for your most treasured memories.

For me, that place was always my grandparents’ house.

From holiday gatherings to backyard barbecues, childhood sleepovers to Yankee baseball game viewing; countless events were centered on that old beloved split level. My grandparents had moved there in 1960, one of the first of their family to have had the opportunity to “move eastward” to the country-like expanses of Long Island from the cozy

confines of Long Island City.

With them came my then eight year-old mother and my four year-old uncle, followed a number of years later by my aunt; and thus the perfect “starter” home became the setting for the decades of memories which followed, not only for them but for the next generation as well – myself included.

Little did they know that the nearly vacant block they moved onto would grow into the close-nit community it is today, filled with neighbors and friends, and even a few family members, on the surrounding streets.

Fifty-six years later, the house that became a home

to us all is no longer “in the family,” passed on to another young couple, moving from the city, looking to begin their lives in the suburbs in much the same way that my grandparents had all those years ago. Sure, it was only a house; but it served as so much more to all those who had the pleasure of stepping foot across its threshold.

And so, with the end of 2016 comes the closing of yet another chapter for my family. Life goes on, to be sure; but some things leave a sizable imprint so that life – as it was known, and lived – is never quite the same.

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Eighth Graders at Saints Cyril and Methodius School in Deer Park have ample opportunity to flex their creative muscles while developing team-building skills and learning to work cooperatively within a group.

Mrs. Judy Keeler, veteran SSCM Middle School teacher uses a studentcentered reading strategy called Literature Circles.

Student teams work together to select a book that they will read and then each student takes on a specific role in the “Lit Circle,” allowing the group to work together to analyze the story line and present their take on the piece of literature they’ve read.

Mrs. Keeler introduces the concepts to the students as 7th graders and as they become more experienced in this highly interactive and collaborative method of bringing literature to life, the students’ presentations surely gain momentum.

Their sometimes heated debates and active involvement in showcasing the story line for their fellow students are clear evidence of how engaged these young adults are in the reading process, something often lacking in Middle School students today.

SSCM’s Lit Circles allow young minds to think analytically about the

works they are reading.

Further, for these students preparing to make their way to high school within the coming year, the process also allows them to take responsibility for their own learning and take ownership of the outcomes of their study habits and collaborative work - life skills they will take with them into their careers and use for years to come.

Saints Cyril and Methodius School will be hosting an Open House on Sunday, January 29th, 2017. For more information or to schedule a private tour before then, contact the school at631.667.4044.

Over the course of three days, Mr. Frank Romeo, Bay Shore High School Class of 1967, provided students and staff of Bay Shore High School with a first hand account of his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Mr. Romeo’s presentation commenced on December 5th where students and staff were invited to participate in a museum walk-through/ presentation documenting Mr. Romeo’s experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Using art and artifacts indicative of the time period to tell a story, Mr. Romeo, along with other Vietnam veterans, produced the artwork that was on display.

Mr. Romeo’s story continued to be told when he invited students to hear him speak more in depth about his journey as a soldier on December 6th and 7th. Mr. Romeo entertained any questions that students had regarding his experience as a soldier

and struggles with P.T.S.D. at the December 6th and 7th presentations.

As a way of giving back to Mr. Romeo and the generosity he has shown to the students and staff of Bay Shore High School, he was invited to attend a luncheon in his honor on the last day of his presentation. At the luncheon, students posed questions for Mr. Romeo and had the opportunity to hear some of his personal struggles with P.T.S.D. On the evening of December 5th, members of the Bay Shore community rallied together to experience the story of Mr. Romeo. Mr. Romeo graciously shared his experience during the Vietnam War with members of the Bay Shore community through a museum walk/open forum discussion.

Mr. Romeo’s compelling experience during the Vietnam War sparked the interest of community members, which led to an

open discussion, geared at questioning the morality of war and the steps we can take as Americans to resolve our differences overseas.

A collaborative effort was made by community members to come together and discuss the realities of the Vietnam era. Frank Romeo comments, “The men I served with in Vietnam are mentally still there. It is up to you and me to share the experiences of the veterans of the Vietnam War to ensure that their legacy is not forgotten.”

Mr. Romeo’s story will echo for generations in the minds and hearts of the individuals who had the pleasure to encounter his experience.

The Bay Shore School District thanks Mr. Frank Romeo for sharing his story and making history come alive and the Bay Shore Schools Arts Education Fund for sponsoring this event.

Bay Shore-Brightwaters Library The Bay ShoreBrightwaters Public Library will present the following: Inside Showcase Bob Simmons will be displaying Stone Art Plus - sculptures using unusual stones that he collected. *** Outside Showcase Bay Shore resident Kenneth Tooker will display a self-designed and hand-crafted collection of model work boats of the Great South Bay.

*** Gallery Area Artist Joan Strauss’ beautiful paintings in mixed mediums will be on display. *** Intermediate Bridge Tuesdays, January 3rd through February 21st, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon The fee for the class is $45. Class size is limited.

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Arrange for transportation in advance. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an average of 304 people die in drunk-driving crashes in the days surrounding Christmas and New Year’s Eve each year. Before heading out on New Year’s Eve, celebrants should ensure their safety by arranging for transportation to and from the festivities. Choose a designated driver to drive throughout the night, or agree to utilize a taxi or shuttle service if everyone plans to consume alcohol. Men and women who volunteer to be designated drivers should be especially alert on the roadways, preparing to drive in potentially inclement weather and

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For millenia, people around the world have commemorated the arrival of a new calendar year by adhering to various traditions.

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Resolutions are promises to oneself geared around personal fulfillment and betterment.

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An important part of the festival was the crowning of a new king.

Special rituals also affirmed a connection to the gods. The Babylonians made promises to the gods, which included vows to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts.

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Julius Caesar wanted to honor January’s namesake, Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.

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Eventually, these resolutions were funneled into prayers and fasting when Christianity was adopted by the Roman Empire.

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During this time, knights took a “peacock vow” at the end of the Christmas season. Each year, these knights would reaffirm their commitment to chivalry.

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Developed by the nonprofit Ida Institute, Ida Telecare is a combination of interactive tools and engaging videos that help you identify your communication needs and concerns. These tools can help you get the most from time spent with your hearing care professional and provide ongoing support post-appointment.

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Santa Comes to Town were able to take part in a different activity, including candy cane golf, bowling, face painting and bean bag throwing, as well as enjoying cookies and drinks. At the stroke of 7 p.m., Santa himself arrived and more than 200 youngsters lined up to sit on his lap and tell him what they hoped he would bring as presents before taking photos with their families; some even

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“Our high school students had a great time and enjoyed playing with the little ones and planning this very special evening,” said Guidance Director Israel Malinowitzer. “All the children were very good this year and they told Santa that they will have a glass of milk for him when he arrives.”

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