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🌱 Patch AM: Could you be the living kidney donor a Massapequa neighbor needs?

And check out 44th Annual WICC Greatest Bluefish Tournament on Earth with $25,000 Grand Prize on the Massapequa Patch calendar

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Hi there, Massapequa! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Could you be the living kidney donor a Massapequa neighbor needs?

Also on today's calendar: 44th Annual WICC Greatest Bluefish Tournament on Earth with $25,000 Grand Prize and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 82 and low of 70 degrees.
  • Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 79, low: 69.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 79 and low of 68 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Massapequa woman turns to public in search for new kidney (news12.com) — A Massapequa woman, Caryn Berge, is urgently searching for a living kidney donor so she can avoid years of dialysis while she waits on the deceased-donor list. After a previous transplant and a serious bout of sepsis, she's already completed all her medical testing and is asking healthy locals to consider donation and contact her directly by email.
   

📸 Around Massapequa

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Massapequa

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Other local events
    Thursday August 27
  • Freestyle At The Yard →
    The Boat Yard, 1 Ocean Pkwy, Massapequa
    6:00 pm
    • Sunday August 30
  • Blessing Of The Backpacks →
    Community UMC, 100 Park Blvd, Massapequa
    10:00 am
    • Wednesday September 2
  • Summit Lane Back-to-School Night
    East Broadway School Seaford, NY 11783
    6:30 pm
    • Thursday September 3
  • Freestyle At The Yard →
    The Boat Yard, 1 Ocean Pkwy, Massapequa
    6:00 pm
  • Gardiners Avenue Back-to-School Night
    East Broadway School Seaford, NY 11783
    6:30 pm
  • Northside Back-to-School Night
    East Broadway School Seaford, NY 11783
    6:30 pm
  • MHS/AHS Fall Parent-Athlete Night @ MHS Baldwin Auditorium
    MHS AMES CAMPUS MHS Baldwin Auditorium
    7:00 pm
    • Friday September 4
  • HS Senior Breakfast
    Plainedge Public Schools 241 Wyngate Drive , North Massapequa, NY 11758
    6:45 am
  • Gardiners Avenue Back-to-School Carnival
    East Broadway School Seaford, NY 11783
    5:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday August 27
  • DAHS Varsity Volleyball Practice
    Levittown UFSD Levittown, NY 11756
    8:00 am
  • Gardiners - Kindergarten Orientation
    Levittown UFSD Levittown, NY 11756
    9:00 am
  • Abbey Lane Kindergarten Orientation
    Levittown UFSD Levittown, NY 11756
    9:30 am
  • East Broadway Kindergarten Orientation
    Levittown UFSD Levittown, NY 11756
    9:30 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Wantagh

  • Motorcyclist killed in crash on Wantagh State Parkway (newportdispatch.com)
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Farmingdale

  • US Flight Training Group Adds 2 Piper Archers and Prepares Second Campus in 2026 (afm.aero)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells. (Thank you Jean D. for sending it in!)
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