🌱 Planes Overturn At Calabro + Tornado Clean Up + LI Woman Shot

Hello, people of Patchogue! Debora Whitehead here with a fresh edition of the Patchogue Daily.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and windy. High: 51 Low: 33.

Here are the top stories in Patchogue today:

1. Planes Overturn At Calabro Airport. On Saturday afternoon, several small planes were blown over at Brookhaven Calabro Airport in Shirley. The parked planes were no match for the strong winds and were flipped onto their sides. (News 12 Bronx)
2. LI Woman Shot By Ex-Boyfriend. Police are searching for the ex-boyfriend of a 23-year-old woman after he shot her during an altercation in Yaphank on Tuesday night, Suffolk police said. The woman was transported to an area hospital where she was treated for "non-life-threatening injuries."(Patchogue Patch)
3. Cleanup Efforts Continue As Tornado Confirmed To Have Touched Down. The National Weather Center has confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down in Shirley and then traveled to Manorville. In Shirley, the 95 to 105 mph winds ripped through the area, leaving a path of destruction behind. (News12)
4. SEPA Mujer, a Patchogue-based nonprofit serving immigrant women throughout Suffolk, enlisted its members to spread the word about the benefits of vaccines to relatives, friends and neighbors, and it trained volunteers of its 24-hour hotline to talk about vaccines, said Martha Maffei, the group’s executive director. Immigrants can get information in their native language and, the non-authorized to live legally in the United States, who typically aren’t insured or eligible for government benefits, volunteers reassured them that the vaccine is free, she said. (Newsday)

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Today in Patchogue:

• Picture Make-Ups — Patchogue-Medford High School. (All Day)
• Virtual: Yin Yoga. (8 a.m.)
• Job Fair. (10 a.m.)
• Healthy Libraries Program. (4:30 p.m.)

Patchogue Patch Notebook

• Patchogue-Medford Library had an art reception for the exhibit "Places We've Been" last Sunday, Nov. 14. (Facebook)
• Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts is alerting the public about websites trying to scam customers by selling fake tickets. Some of the websites are: Ticket Smarter, Seat Geek, Vivid Seats, Tons of Tickets, Ticket City. (Facebook)
• Troop 47, Patchogue: "Troop 47, Patchogue had a great weekend hiking in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. We learned a lot of history and got to see some amazing sites, and we got to log some big-time hiking miles." (Facebook)

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— Debora Whitehead

About me: Debora Whitehead is a dedicated wife and homeschooling mom from Coram, NY. She has a Bachelor Degree in Education and loves to teach and write. Her passion for the community reflects on her volunteering work at the 'Mariposa Ministry", a non-profit family assistance program. One of her strongest believes is Jesus Christ and when she is not Parenting, Teaching or reading, she is writing. One of her favorites quotes is " The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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