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Featured
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Yucky
Trans Fats
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In the May 2008 installment of
Healthy North Fork Lifestyles by
holistic health counselor Erin Dunscomb, we’re
advised to steer clear of those bad, bad trans
fats!
While this pesky unnatural food
ingredient is in practically every processed and
baked good in the supermarket, it’s really
not good for us. Erin tells us what it is, why
it’s not good for us, and what we can do
to avoid trans fats.
In Healthy North Fork Lifestyles,
our new monthly feature, Erin Dunscomb has got
some simple ways for us to incorporate some healthy
habits into our busy lives and take advantage
of our region's healthy resources.
Please
visit the Family
Health page to read more.
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Galaxies!
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In
this month's installment of What's
Up At Custer, our Custer connection, David
van Popering, blows our mind with objects, space
and time of galactic proportions...
Go
to Math
& Science page.
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Is Organic
Really Better For You?
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What are you going
to do with that delicious fresh
spinach and arugula now available
at the local farmstands?
In her May installment
of In the Kitchen with Jeni,
our own chef of natural cuisine
has got a great recipe this month
for Warm Chickpea Salad with
Arugula & Spinach! Yum.
And Jeni's been
doing a little light reading about
organic food research. She has discovered
some good reasons to prefer organic
that you might not know about...
North
Fork Family Cuisine
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Teeny
Awards Heat Up!
Nominees for the
2008 Teeny Awards have been announced!
Who will win and receive awards at the
gala Tony-awards-style ceremony at the
Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
on June 8?...
The East End Arts Council
& Community School of the Arts
has announced an entire spring celebration
of creativity, including a new exhibition
called The Creative Process and
its best-ever, 12th Annual Community
Mosaic Street Painting Festival in downtown
Riverhead. For more info go to the
Arts & Culture
page...
The EEAC Community
School of the Arts is again offering
hand drumming classes to youth. But kids
aren't the only students at the School!
Parents can enroll
in music and art classes, too!
Art
& Culture
Coming
Up On the Calendar of Events
With spring
here, the Calendar of Events is becoming
a veritable hive of activity! Coming up
on the Calendar
of Events are:
Live
music at East Enders Coffee
House;
The Wine Press Concert
Series;
Arts in Southold Town music
concerts, including Judi
Collins;
a 10K kayak race in
Greenport;
Cutchogue-New Suffolk Library's
grand re-opening;
a baby animal day at
the county farm;
celebration of creativity:
new art exhibition at East
End Arts Council Gallery and
12th Annual Street Painting
Fest;
North Fork Audubon Society
events for children &
families;
Hallockville Museum Farm
events: Revolutionary War
Encampment, nature hikes,
tours, and more;
Custer Obervatory events,
plus they're open most Saturday
nights to the public for night
sky viewing in the observatory;
Southold Mothers Club
events, including tours of
local farms, parks, and businesses;
Blue Masques production of
the musical, Urinetown;
North Fork Community Theater
production of Gypsy;
Cornell Cooperative Extension's
2008 parenting and marriage
workshop series continues;
Long Island Science Center's
Sunday Science offerings;
Yahoo!
You're Invited to Join Our New Discussion
Group
Our Discussion
Group has moved to Yahoo, where the format
is friendlier and nicer. To
go to the NorthForkParents Discussion Group,
click here.
As a member
of the NorthForkParents Discussion Group,
you can post announcements, ask questions,
share recipes, coordinate get-togethers, broadcast
information, make comments, etc. If you've
never belonged to an online discussion group,
well, it's easy. And it can be very useful
indeed.
Discussion
Group
During these trying
economic times, who couldn't use some
calculators? The Family Finance page has
links to everything you need for whatever
level you're at: calculators, information,
educational tools, and more! There's even
information about how to teach your children
and teens about money.
Suffolk County has announced
a new program to help first time homebuyers
with a down payment on a home.
Family
Finances
Jump
on the Bandwagon!
Suffolk County
4-H is holding a fundraiser barn dance,
barbecue and auction called "Jump
on the Bandwagon!" on Sunday, July 28
at Martha Clara Vineyard to fund scholarships
and youth programs...
The good folks
at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk
County have announced their second annual
Good Earth Gala and raffle to benefit
their many programs ...
Community Action
in Southold Town (CAST) has announcements
about its Spring Break feeding program
and satellite locations for its food pantry
operations...
Community
garden plots are available at Hallockville
Museum Farm...
The Relay
for Life events of the American Cancer
Society are under way!
Community
Bulletin
NEW!
Parenting 631 Article: Adolescents
& Sleep
Is your child
getting enough sleep to be healthy and alert?
Experts say many adolescents aren't. In this
new article in the NorthForkParents Parenting
631 series, Donna Kirdahy of Cornell Cooperative
Extension gives us some tips on how to help
our kids get the sleep they need. To read
the article, click here.
For upcoming
parenting workshops at Cornell, click here.
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Parenting expert,
Nancy Olsen-Harbich of Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County
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Parenting
631
We've
all seen the "911" television
shows, the nightmarish children, the
clueless parents, and the know-it-all
nannies! How many of us have said, "Yikes,
that's a bit like our family!
Well,
forget Good-Gollywood, real help is
here. In our Parenting 631
series, regional experts give us the
real scoop on how to get our families
humming like fine machinery at home,
thriving out in the world, and giving
us cause for great hope.
The Parenting
631 series includes many articles
and interviews about a variety of parenting
topics.
Plus,
find out about upcoming workshops being
offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension.
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Parenting
Workshops & Articles
Sports
& Recreation: Summer Offerings Now Online!
New recreation
department spring/summer offerings are online!
Links to sport
clubs, leagues, parks, and more. Your guide
to basketball, cheerleading, football, gymnastics,
hockey & skating, lacrosse, little league
baseball, rowing, sailing, soccer, swimming,
tennis, and track & field.
Sports
NorthForkParents
2008 Summer Camp Guide Online
The NorthForkParents
2008 Summer Camp Guide is available
online! To go to the NorthForkParents
2008 Summer Camp Guide, please click
here.
We hope you find it useful in planning
a great summer.
New Additions
as of April 1:
Hallockville
Museum Farm Summer Camp 2008 has been
added to the lineup. Please see page 11.
There are more suggestions for summer
activities on the Notes page, see page
30.
Thank
You: I'd like
to thank camp directors for their participation,
which helps give parents a full picture
of what is available.
Also, thank
you to the Camp Guide's advertising
sponsors, which help make this guide possible,
including Apple Day Camp, Atlantis Adventure
Days, Camp Invention, Hallockville Museum
Farm, North Fork Early Learning Center,
and Peconic Dunes.
Registration
Discounts and Dates: For some camps,
there are discounts available for early
registration. Registration is already
under way for some camps, and there are
upcoming registration dates for others.
Older
Children: If you have children who
like camp but who are getting too old
to be campers, consider that they might
like to become counselors or counselors-in-training.
Contact the camps for additional information.
Guide
Format: The 2008 Summer Camp Guide
is again in pdf format, allowing you to
view it and print it. It's easy to navigate,
and it includes clickable links to web
sites and email addresses.
Downloading:
The Camp Guide is a fairly large file,
so please allow a few moments for it to
load into your browser. Also, if a lot
of people are trying to access it at the
same time, it may be necessary to come
back to it at a later time.
Disclaimers:
Please note legal notes, disclaimers,
and copyrights in this Camp Guide.
The long and short of it is this: All
of the contents are copyrighted by NorthForkParents
and may not be copied or reproduced without
express permission. NorthForkParents makes
no recommendations or assurances about
any of the camps included in the Camp
Guide, and NorthForkParents reserves
the right to include or not include any
camp without explanation. Please do your
own due diligence when making these important
arrangements for your children. It's also
possible that there are errors or omissions,
which are purely accidental. Okay?
Questions:
If you have questions or comments about
the camp guide, please email
me. I will try to answer them.
To
go to the NorthForkParents 2008 Summer
Camp Guide, please click here.
Where
the Wild Things Meet
Libraries are the
place to meet for the smallish set with their parents
and caregivers! You can find lots of programs for
little ones on library web sites, which are linked
from the Schools & Learning page.
Registration for current
programs at the libraries is happening NOW! Go to
the Schools &
Learning page to find library links.
Many of our local
libraries are now offering adult reading programs--with
PRIZES! If you're going to read some books over
the winter, you might as well be in it to win it.
See your local library for details.
Schools
& Learning
Local Weather
Link on Home Page
Now you can always find
the local weather report for our area from the National
Weather Service right here on the Home page of NorthForkParents.
We parents need to know what the weather is going to be
so we can plan accordingly. See the Local Weather link
above in the righthand side of the banner above.
New!
2008 Blank Monthly Calendars
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help you organize your household!--visit the Free
Downloads page for links to the NorthForkParents
monthly calendar and other useful planning worksheets. |
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Free
Downloads
Contact
Us
Please
contact us at info@NorthForkParents.com.
We try to answer questions, direct parents to resources
on our website and elsewhere, publish information, and
listen to feedback and suggestions.
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Best
Family Friendly Restaurant?
Take
the Poll &
Be Entered to Win
Prize Drawing!
One voter will be
randomly selected by the NorthForkParents publisher's
children and awarded a prize of a $50 gift certificate
to the restaurant with the most votes!
Poll
Question:
Which restaurant
does your family like the best--
and why?
Note: only
one vote per email address will be counted.
Thank you!
Voting Start Date:
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Last Day to Vote:
Thursday, June 5
Winning Restaurant and
Winning Voter to be Announced:
Thursday, June 12
Winning restaurant to
receive free advertising on NorthForkParents!
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