🌱 Center Moriches-Eastport Daily: Celiac Disease Awareness Month

Get on up, Center Moriches-Eastport! Diane Witek here to get started this Friday with everything you need to know going on today in Center Moriches-Eastport.

First, today's weather:

Cooler; a little p.m. rain. High: 59, low: 48.

Here are the top stories in Center Moriches-Eastport today:

1. You probably wouldn't know that May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month unless you can only eat gluten-free food. Ricci-Lee Hotz, a dietitian, provided a couple of tasty dishes for your gluten-free food diet. Enjoy! (Patch)
2. At the annual Brookhaven Chambers of Commerce Coalition’s Outstanding Member of the Year Awards Reception, "Stony Brook Medicine was among those recognized for its tremendous contributions to the community, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic." Stony Brook Hospital was a vital resource for health information and services and housed vaccination and drive-through coronavirus testing sites. (Stony Brook News)
   
3. Calling out all happy campers! Newsday provides a list of campsites in both Nassau and Suffolk where you can spend your days hiking, sightseeing, and your nights sleeping under the stars. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. Cesar Hernandez was six when he emigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador. He grew up with a serious illness, but still managed to graduate from Farmingdale State College. Hernandez is a Fulbright scholar studying neuroscience at a lab at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Congratulation Cesar! (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Center Moriches-Eastport:

• Play Hooray IN PERSON — Ages Birth-Entering Kindergarten — CMJ116 (Center Moriches). (9:45 a.m.)
• English as a Second Language Series (Center Moriches). (6 p.m.)

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• Mother's Day Brunch at East Wind. (May 8)
• Mother's Day Dinner at Desmond's. (May 8)
• Hire A Pro to Tackle Mom's To-Do List. (May 8)
• A Walk In The Dark - Fighting Childhood Blindness. (May 14)
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Announcements:

• National Football Foundation Honors Suffolk County Players. (Details)
• Behind The Scoreboard — Hockey Defense in Good Hands. (Details)
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You're officially in the loop for today. I'll see you soon!

— Diane Witek

About me: Impassioned Writer, Website Designer, Social Media Marketer and newly proclaimed Baker. Lover of nature and animals of all kinds.

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