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NEW!  FREE BLAST
It is our great pleasure to share with everyone the first edition of our FREE BLAST! The FREE BLAST will serve as means of ensuring everyone is informed of the many exciting initiatives and wonderful opportunities we have collectively created.  We will issue this information BLAST each month highlighting the successes and opportunities that we celebrate for the respective month.
 Speaker's Bureau

"FREE Your Mind" Speaker’s Bureau is a unique and innovative opportunity that FREE offers to its men and woman who receive services.
For more details click here. Speaker's Bureau Biographies

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 1st Annual Polo Match To Benefit Saddle Rock Ranch and Squadron A Foundation - Saturday August 7th, 2010

 

The 1st Annual Polo Match to benefit children and adults with disabilities will be held Saturday, August 7, 2010, 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Meadowbrook Polo Club in Brookville. The fundraising event will be hosted by our affiliated foundation, the National Foundation For Human Potential, to raise funds for therapeutic riding for children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities and disabled veterans. The family event will include an Argentinean style BBQ, wine, tango demonstration and the international spectator sport of polo. Tickets are $50 per person, $75 for couples and $100 for family packages up to a family of 5 with children under 12 years old free. Squadron A Foundation is a 501(c) 3 organization which promotes activities related to equitation, horse therapeutic riding and cavalry traditions. For more information, please contact the Office of Development at 516-870-1661, or email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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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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