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Weekend Planner: Live Blues at Cedar Beach, Bone Marrow Drive for Gabby

This weekend is packed full of events including the Cedar Beach festival, Country Fair in Miller Place and an important Bone Marrow Drive for one-and-a-half-year-old Gabby Mongillo.

The 22nd Annual Cedar Beach Music and Arts Festival

When/Where: All day Sept. 22 and 23 at Cedar Beach.

What: Hosted by the North Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce, the 22nd Annual Music and Arts Festival will feature 30 bands on two stages including Kerry Kearney and Friends, Dead Ahead, Jellyband, Little Cliff and the Cliffhangers and many more. Besides the great music there will be many different types of food vendors, from BBQ to Crab Cakes, Fish tacos and much more.

Price: $5

Miller Place-Mount Sinai Historical Society Annual Country Fair

When/Where: 10 a.m., Saturday at the William Miller House.

What: The annual Country Fair returns to the William Miller House with a Civil War encampment, open hearth cooking/tasting, candle dipping, a period gun display, blacksmith, potter, wampum bead making, farm tools and equipment in old LI barn, textile talk, apothecary, traveling wilderness museum, and the circa-1720 house tour.

Price: $5

First Annual Sound Beach Pet Adopt-A-Thon

When/Where: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m, Saturday in the Hartlin Inn parking lot.

What: The Sound Beach Civic Association will host the first annual Pet Adopt-A-Thon, where local rescue organizations are coming together to give attendees the opportunity to meet animals available for adoption, support responsible pet ownership and learn how to care for your pet. There will also be music, pet portraits, kid crafts and more.

Price: Free

Help Save Gabby Bone Marrow Drive

When/Where: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sunday at the Rocky Point Fire Department at 49 Route 25A in Shoreham.

What: Gabby Mongillo is one-and-a-half years old, and the young girl adopted from Yemen by a local family suffers from Acute Myeloid Leukemia and is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant.

Matthew McGuire, whose son Liam has had his own battle with leukemia, is organizing a bone marrow drive to help find a match for Gabby.Registering as a bone marrow donor takes no more than five minutes, but could be the difference in Gabby's life.

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Janet May 22, 2013 at 04:52 pm
Bravo MP Majority, very well said.Teachers are the most protected job on the planet. Now if theyRead More could only earn that money by producing results in the classrooms like they used to. But I also blame the absent NO vote. They need to be sent a message-we need a majority no vote but that will never happen. Glad I am out of here in 2 years. Can't imagine trying to live here and pay these taxes on social security and my 401K that tanked in 2008 while I was making up the teachers loss on their pension and paying my health insurance & theirs at the same time. So boo hoo teachers you have to spend money on the kids while I spend money on you.
MP Majority May 17, 2013 at 01:41 pm
Spoken like a true teacher. Did you know that the average school teacher is only paying 15% of theRead More actual cost of health care premiums for themselves and their families, when Medical healthcare insurance premiums are rising at an alarming 17% per annum? Do you realize that teachers are paid an additional stipend if they work more than 3 consecutive periods in a day? Are you aware that teacher pensions were protected during the stock market crash of 2008, when the average person's 401K was totally at risk? Perhaps if teachers realized how good they have it - look at the BIG picture and outside of their bubble - then they would complain less. Oh and yes, we need our loftily-paid Administrators to kick in some of the salaries, to help pay for stuff. Hard to believe the school districts' mantras that "it's all for the kids".