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.

The Museum of American Armor will mark the 76th anniversary of the D-Day invasion this weekend with the unveiling of a new permanent memorial.

Pronto of Long Island, a Bay Shore-based community outreach center that provides food and sanitary products for those in need, was the recipient of the more than $3,000 in proceeds from this year’s Bottles for Dollars program.

The money, allocated to Hempstead through the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, will go to Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside.

Islip officials would like interested students to write a paragraph about what Memorial Day means to them. Submissions will be shared on the town’s social media channels in a show of support for the nation’s military veterans.

The firm brought large trays of food, including salad, mac and cheese, sandwich wraps and side dishes to staff at Huntington Hospital in Huntington and St. Catherine’s Hospital in Smithtown, as an expression of appreciation for their work treating COVID-19 patients.

The Nassau County Police Department in Mineola received 20,000 of the masks and the Suffolk County Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services in Yaphank received another 20,000 masks.

Beginning this week, the Riptide and Jersey Mike’s are dropping off lunch at 15 long-term care facilities per week for the next four weeks. The sub sandwiches will feed about 800 staff members at different facilities each week across Long Island.

BAPS Charities prepared and delivered a total 300 packages of food to the Helping Hand Rescue Mission food pantry and Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital last week.

The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island donated 16,000 bottles of water to healthcare workers at two Long Island hospitals.

The money, donated to the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, will go towards assisting local restaurants that are providing meals to healthcare staff at St. Charles Hospital and Mather Hospital.

Despite the temporary closing of its branch lobbies due to the state’s PAUSE directive, a Long Island credit union was still able to continue a tradition of donating to The Interfaith Nutrition Network in Hempstead.