Weekend Reading

Reading

Check out this infographic "9 Shocking Facts" about the food industry. If you want to learn more, rent the movie King Corn this weekend.

The FDA says, um, no, that stuff's not sugar. Read more about the corn lobby and HFCS.

If your kids liked our quinoa sample day, you may want to read this NYT piece on the best ways to prepare it.

More information about sunscreen! Teaching your kids to use sunscreen when they are young - like using seatbelts - is critical to forming the habits they'll need when they are teenagers.

Local Fun

Celebrate the last day of school - the Civic Association's annual Ice Cream Social is tonight at 6pm in Spooky Park.

The Planting Fields is having a Family Fun Night tonight (Friday) - music and lawn games.  Also - next Thursday they are hosting summer theater with a free production of The Producers.

On Saturday afternoon, the Long Island Children's Museum continues their Get Up and Go series with a presentation on how animals eat healthily and then make a animal-shaped snack of tortillas.

Sunset Serenades begin next Thursday - Memorial Park, 7pm - thanks to the Civic Association.