Spotlight

A dozen scouts were given the town’s COVID-19 Youth Relief Effort Badge of Merit at the Baldwin Park event for making thousands of face masks for first responders and essential workers.

The grant money can be used for personnel costs, payment on new or existing debt as well working capital for items including rent, inventory, utilities, and legal and financial services and updated safety equipment procedures and protocols.

Little Shelter in Huntington is one of the many pet adoption centers participating in this year’s Clear The Shelters campaign.

The murals will be displayed in the main entrance of the new shelter, which is currently under construction in Bay Shore.

An 8-foot-high sculpture of a fawn is now on display on the lawn of the Greybarn apartment complex in Amityville, where it will stand for a year before moving out east.

The event, held in partnership with Island Harvest Food Bank and the Town of Oyster Bay, attracted dozens of contributors who drove through the parking lot to drop off their food donations to support local families in need.

Jefferson’s Ferry, the South Setauket-based not-for-profit life plan community, is offering two new scholarship programs for prospective students to attend the nursing program at Suffolk County Community College.

At the event, held Saturday, June 13 in the parking lot of NYCB LIVE, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, volunteers from the Nets front office were joined by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and other local officials distributed the free masks to senior citizens and veterans who drove through to receive them.

The Clean & Safe Travels vending machine, owned and operated by Chula Vista, Calif.-based Prepango, offers face coverings, sanitizer, wipes and more.

The grant was given by the COVID-19 Long Island Philanthropic Response Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation, according to a FCA statement.