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Did you schedule your Colonscopy?  March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Don’t hesitate--JUST DO IT!  Did you attend the Free Memory Screening Event or the First Step to Starting a Business seminar or the 8th Annual John’s Pasta Party?

Below are some pictures from John’s Pasta Party, a successful fundraiser hosted by the South Shore Rotary in memory of John Dressler to help support students with cancer stay in school.  If you would like to make a donation to the John Dressler Scholarship, you can send a check payable to the South Shore Rotary Foundation to P.O. Box 061068, Staten Island, NY 10306.

 




People ask me, “How can I receive the “Weekend Events” blog.  If you enjoy reading my “Weekend…

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In the 1950’s, my Dad would take us children to Sailors Snug Harbor (now called Snug Harbor Cultural Center), where aged, retired seamen "snugs" resided.  I vividly remember cattle, horses and other animals in the fields that abut Henderson Avenue in Randall Manor.

We never went into any of the buildings, which  were the living quarters, a hospital, morgue, chapel, among others. Dad would engage the “snugs” in conversation as we sat with them on benches around the grounds of the Harbor.  I can still hear the snugs’ voices as they entertained us with stories of their lives at sea which sounded so exciting, especially to someone young and impressionable, like me. After I watched old movies like “Moby Dick” “Captains Courageous” and “The Caine Mutiny”, I…

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