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Family and Friends Night!

Please join us on Thursday, September 23rd for our Family BBQ Night, being held at our Bethpage Facility from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.   There will be a special presentation of "Free Your Mind", our Speakers Bureau.  Please bring your family and friends as its going to be a great night!  RSVP by Thursday, September 9th, to our Office of Development 516-870-1583 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Participants Of Art Exhibits Part Of The FREE Family

Congratulations to Laura, who attends our PROS program and who works with the Art Therapy Department at FREE.  Laura's artwork was chosen to be displayed at the Smithsonian Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC as part of the ANCOR 40th Anniversary Party on September 13, 2010! 

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Congratulations also to Diane, who attends our Fancy FREE Day Hab program.  Diane’s work, entitled  “Early Development”  has been selected by CARF to be displayed in their International Headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, as part of a permanent exhibition!  Diane also works with the Art Therapy Department here at FREE.

 

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On Main Street, Business Skills in Store

Carolann Lyons eagerly pointed out some of the choice items displayed prominently on shelves and tables, meticulously straightening handbags and glasses as cameras followed her about the store. She took a moment to tell Nassau County Legis. David Mejias (D-Farmingdale) that the watch set he was holding cost $24 but she could offer him a discount. And did he know that they also do gift wrapping?

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Can-Do 'Guys and Dolls'
Enabling the disabled onstage
Opening night is still six months away, but Michael Brennan is focused on the lyrics to “Fugue for Tinhorns” as if the curtain will rise in a few hours. Flanked by two other young men in a classroom in Old Bethpage, he clutches a Daily Racing Form, a prop he’ll use in the opening number of “Guys and Dolls,” and begins to sing. “But look at Epitaph . . . he wins it by a half!”
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The Sky's the Limit

From high heels to high notes, the FREE players rise to every challenge in 'Guys and Dolls'

Barbara Sharkis' friends and family measure her development as an actress in steps - currently being taken in 3-inch heels. Sharkis is a group home resident with obsessive-compulsive disorder, one of 50 actors with various disabilities who are performing "Guys and Dolls" at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in Commack. Last Saturday was opening "night", a 3 p.m. matinee before a crowd of several hundred.

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