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  • New January Play Date

    Our January play date has been rescheduled for January 28th at the Woodbury Gymboree from 2:00-3:30. Go to the Events tab and click on the link to attend.

  • Today’s Play Date Due to Weather

    Due to weather conditions today's play date has been cancelled.

  • Dates for group play dates!!!

    We have Gymboree play dates on our calendar once a month for 2012! All of these play dates will be held on SATURDAYS, from 2:00-3:30pm. Here are the dates and locations for the next six months: January 21st in WOODBURY, February 11th in EAST NORTHPORT, March 17th in WOODBURY, April 21st in OCEANSIDE, May 19th in WOODBURY, and June 16th in WOODBURY. Looking forward to seeing there!

  • Another Afternoon of Fun

    Really looking forward to our December play date on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 3 pm at the Gymboree Play & Music in Woodbury. To RSVP, click the events tab and click on the link. Hope to see you there!

  • November Play Dates!!!

    This month we have two more group play dates scheduled. PeerPals.org will be at the East Northport Gymboree on Saturday, November 19th and at Not Just Art in Oyster Bay for a Music Together class on Sunday, November 20th. Looking forward to seeing some old friends and meeting some new ones!

  • Oyster Festival Weekend

    PeerPals.org has a booth at this year's Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay, NY this weekend, October 15 & 16. Be sure to stop by to say hello if you are in the area. Our booth is on Audrey Ave. in front of the gazebo.

  • New Play Dates!!!

    There are four new Gymboree play dates on our calendar for 2011, and we are expanding to additional Gymboree locations! Our September and December play dates are going to be in Woodbury, October is scheduled for Oceanside, and November is scheduled for East Northport. Including these new locations will make our group play dates more accessible to our pals across Long Island. So mark your calendars: September 25th at 2pm...October 22nd at 4pm...November 19th at 2pm...December 10th at 3pm. When you are signed up as a pal, you will receive email invitations to all of our events.

  • Welcoming Our Newest Pals

    So happy to welcome new pals from Williamsburg, VA, Phoenix, AZ, Washingtonville, NY, and from across Long Island! Pals in Malverne, Mineola, Bayside, Forest Hills, North Merrick, West Hempstead, Port Washington, Oyster Bay and East Norwich are ready for some play dates. We will be announcing new Gymboree play dates soon. If you have any suggestions for where else you would like to attend play dates, please let us know as we are always looking for ways to improve our program.

  • Over 2,800 Households!

    Supervisor John Venditto's Oyster Bay Community Report arrived in today's mail and I could not be more excited! A photo from our Planting Seeds of Community dinner and a brief article are featured prominently. Supervisor Venditto, Councilwoman Beth Faughnan and Receiver of Taxes James J. Stefanich most graciously joined us that evening to honor Dr. Lippman and to show their support for the PeerPals.org mission. Now, thanks to this mailing, over 2,800 households in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York, will learn about us. Click here to see the report: Download File

  • Planting Seeds of Community Success!

    Our first Planting Seeds of Community dinner was a huge success! Last night was amazing thanks to our wonderful dinner chairperson, Cathy Welsh. From the raffle prizes to the silent auction down to the arrangement of the room, Cathy's attention to detail made for an event that was warm and welcoming. She set the tone for a fun night. Another reason the dinner was so memorable was our honoree, Nancy Lippman Israeli. We are so proud to have her as our first Community Champion. We are even more proud to have her dedication to our mission recognized by the Town Board of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, Assemblyman Charles Lavine and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy. I also want to thank Agnes Musi and Gail Singer, both mothers of pals in our program, who so generously shared their experiences with PeerPals.org. Lastly, a special thank you to all my volunteers that helped to make last night so special...Henry & Lorraine Pieloch, Eric & Christina Tosi, Michelle Hammel, Walter Hughes, Pat Malecki, Liz Gillen, Bill Rospars, Rogers & Tanya Rospars, Tim Welsh, Joe Rospars & Amelia Lester, Cyndy Kellogg, Joe Marmorale and all the friends of PeerPals.org that contributed to our raffle and auction.

  • The play date is coming!  The play date is coming!

    Come join us on Saturday, March 12th at the Gymboree Play & Music in Woodbury, NY. Looking forward to seeing some old friends, and making some new ones! Click "Read More" below to RSVP to the play date.

  • Time Flies!

    Our next group play date is fast approaching and the Planting Seeds of Community Dinner is just 45 days away! Emails about our Gymboree play date have been sent to all of our pals here on Long Island. If you live in Nassau or Suffolk and want to join us on Saturday, March 12th, click the blue sign-up button. The planning for our first fundraiser is in full swing! Gail Singer, of ModPatrol.com, designed beautiful invitations and more than 300 have been sent. We are still collecting items for the raffle that will take place at the dinner. Special thanks to Nintendo and Sunglass Hut for their generous donations. Click "Read More" below to RSVP to the play date or the fundraiser.

  • Two More Play Dates

    Two new play dates have been scheduled for our Long Island pals. Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 12th and Saturday, May 21st. The play dates will be held at the Woodbury Play & Music at 3 o'clock. Click Read More below to RSVP

  • Planting Seeds of Community

    I am proud to announce the Planting Seeds of Community Dinner will be honoring Dr. Lippman as our Community Champion. It will be held at the Fox Hollow in Woodbury, NY on April 7, 2011. You can click on the Events tab at the top of our web site for information about becoming a sponsor, attending or making a donation. We will be holding a raffle that evening and are accepting donations of goods or services to be raffled off. If you are able to make a donation for the raffle, please email me: julie@peerpals.org. Our first raffle item arrived last week from Different Roads to Learning! Founded in 1995 by the mother of a child diagnosed with Autism, Different Roads to Learning carries over 500 products carefully selected to support the Autism Community. You can visit their website at www.difflearn.com or check out their blog post about PeerPals.org at http://blog.difflearn.com Thanks to their post, we now have a family in Tucson, AZ signed up to become a pal!

  • January Play Date and April Fundraiser

    Happy to report another successful play date at Gymboree! Thanks to all our families that came out to play and make some new friends. Special thanks to the volunteers that came to play, too! Play dates are being scheduled for every other month. These are made possible through the generosity of our donors. PeerPals.org relies on donations to run our programs and to spread our mission to more communities and more families. To this end, we are having our first fundraiser on Thursday, April 7th...mark your calendar...more details to follow!

  • January Play Date…Sign up today!

    Our next play date is scheduled for Saturday, January 22, 2011. Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and to welcoming some new pals and volunteers.

  • Group Play Date Success!

    Special thanks to our dedicated volunteers for helping to make our latest group play date a success! We had 18 children attend and have already scheduled the next play date for January 22, 2011.

  • New Play Dates Scheduled!!!

    Two new group play dates have been scheduled at Gymboree Play & Music in Woodbury, NY. Please join us on Saturday, November 20, 2010, or Saturday, January 22, 2011. The play dates are scheduled for 3:00 pm. Space is limited, so be sure to sign up early.

  • Back to school!  Back to work!

    September is my favorite month! I have always been enamored with school supplies and think that may have played a role why I became a teacher. Whether as a student or a teacher, I also loved the new school year and all the possibilities it held. Now I embrace back to school for a whole new set of reasons...the kids are out of the house and I have more time to spend working with families and PeerPals.org. To that end, my goal for this month is to have our brochures placed in a dozen pediatricians' offices. Our family's doctors, Pediatric Health Associates in Plainview, NY, are the first. If you have a suggestion for a doctor you know that might be interested in sharing the message of PeerPals.org with their patients, please pass along their name.

  • More Play Dates Being Scheduled

    Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Peer Pals is ready to schedule three more group play dates! We want to include as many pals as possible, so be sure to have you child signed up.