5 Things

Good morning, Douglaston.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Patch will post a new batch of stories on the month's events at the end of each week.

Check back later this morning for a story on how people are celebrating the month across the nation and another on a recent breast cancer study.

Also, be sure to read the latest Notes from a Food Diva column by Carol Brock. This week's piece is about some of Douglaston's artistically inclined denizens.

Here are 5 Things You Need to Know Today:

1. Stop by the site throughout the morning and early afternoon for our breast cancer awareness stories.

2. At 8:30 a.m., read Notes from a Food Diva and, at noon, drop back by for Sold!, one of our weekly real estate columns. 

3. The Bayside Public Library is holding its program for children at 4 p.m.

4. Stop by Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament at 7 p.m. for !

5. The parents accused of abducting eight children during a visit to a Forest Hills foster care agency have waived extradition and are asking to be returned to New York. Check out NY 1's story.