Greetings, Little Neck! This is your Five Things you need to know, bringing you all the news happening around the neighborhood:
1. Howard Beach, Queens hosts hundreds of participants who walked to raise money and awareness for Juvenile Diabetes. Quick fact: 25.8 million American are Diabetic, and only 5% of them are type 1, or Insulin dependent. Yours truly is one of them.
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2. National unemployment rate creeps to 9.1%. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) increased by 361,000 to 6.2 million in May, according to findings released Friday by the U.S Department of Labor.
3. Politicians trading barbs. Council Member Halloran speaks out at a town hall meeting.
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4. This week at the movies, Patch movie guru, Nathan Duke rates the highly anticipated
5. Are you addicted to Facebook? Many of us are, it’s a fun way to keep in touch and get the word out. That’s exactly what happened this weekend, as a young German girl mistakenly invites 1,500 friends to a party – and they all show up.