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🌱 Patch AM: How are Great Neck students turning discarded oyster shells into art?

Also check out Summer Breeze Blowout with The Everly Set on the Great Neck Patch calendar

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Good day Great Neck! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

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  • How are Great Neck students turning discarded oyster shells into art?

Also on today's calendar: Summer Breeze Blowout with The Everly Set and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 80 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 81, low: 70.
  • Thursday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 81 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• LI oyster farm, arts group give shells new life (libn.com) — A Long Island oyster farm and arts alliance are turning thousands of cleaned oyster shells into free or low-cost art materials for schools, museums, and nonprofits, including Great Neck Public Schools. The Creative Reuse Project keeps shells out of landfills while giving local students and artists an unusual medium, with plans to grow carefully as funding and logistics allow.
   

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    Tuesday September 1
  • Ready, Set, School!
    Westbury Memorial Public Library Children's Programs at the Meeting Room 445 Jefferson Street, Westbury, NY 11590
    4:00 pm
    • Thursday September 3
  • Board of Education Business Mtg 8PM
    Carle Place School District 168 Cherry Lane, Carle Place, NY 11514
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🗓 Events Nearby

    Tuesday August 25
  • SM New Student Assessments (thru 8/26)
    Great Neck UFSD SM
    9:00 am
  • Hanging for Body of Work
    The Art Guild 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset, NY 11030
    10:00 am
  • Oyster Bay Library →
    Nassau County, NY Calendar
    12:00 pm
  • Board of Education Meeting
    Sewanhaka Central High School District Sewanhaka High School, 500 Tulip Ave, Floral Park, NY 11001, U
    8:00 pm
    • Wednesday August 26
  • Grade 6 Orientation
    North Shore Csd Sea Cliff, NY 11579
  • NSAS WALK Welwyn
    North Shore Audubon Society Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Rd, Glen Cove, NY 11542, U
    7:30 am
  • NSAS WALK Jamaica Bay NWR
    North Shore Audubon Society Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd, Broad Channe
    8:00 am
  • HS Mineola EAST
    Mineola Public Schools 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501
    8:30 am

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  • North Shore cable project raises underwater concerns (newsday.com)

Roslyn

  • Neighboring beach club welcomes Atlantic Beach club members displaced by tornado damage (news12.com)

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