Community Corner

Blood Drive, Music Workshop

A look at events going on in and around Massapequa.

Start your Thursday with this daily guide, where you will find five pieces of information you should know today, like events happening in town or topics being covered on the site. Have an event  that should appear in this column? Add it to the calendar

Blood Drive: The Town of Oyster Bay will hold a Blood Drive at several locations Thursday. Blood can be donated at the Town Hall South Conference Room, 977 Hicksville Road, Massapequa (9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.); Town Hall North at the Blood Mobile, 54 Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay (9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.); Hicksville Athletic Center, 167 Broadway/Route 107, Hicksville (2:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.); and the Department of Public Works War Room (Highway), 150 Miller Place (11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.). To qualify as a blood donor, a person must between the ages of 17 and 75 years old. Or 16 with parental permission and 76 or older with a doctor’s note. Donors must weigh at least 110 pounds and not have donated blood within the last 56 days.

Music Career Workshop: Singer-songwriter Patricia Shih offers a workshop on what it takes to break into the music industry at the Bar Harbour Library Auditorium at 7 p.m.

Strength Training: This course meets at Bar Harbour at 9:15 a.m.

Senior Program: There will be an aquatic class at Plainview-Old Bethpage Community Park as well as classes at Syosset Woodbury Community Park at 10 a.m., 11a.m., 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.

Concert: It's '80s night at "Music Under the Stars." as "Rubix Cube" and  Lisa Lisa perform at Ellsworth W. Allen Town Park in Farmingdale.

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