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News Nearby: Three Village Teen Helps Fight Malaria

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From Miller Place-Rocky Point: Rocky Point Drive-In Still Sparks Nostalgia

Robert Fazzalaro said that if he hit Lotto, he'd reopen the drive-in movie theater in Rocky Point. Danielle Moore said, "we would totally go! Love drive-ins." And Laura Tallon Witt said it would be "awesome" to have a drive-in movie theater around here again.

Post a picture of the old Rocky Point drive-in on Facebook and you'll get a ton of comments and memories. Many of them involved reopening the movie theater if only the person had some sort of windfall.

From Three Village: From Three Village to Senegal: Teen Helps Fight Malaria

The ScreenSaver Foundation, an organization that aims to stop the spread of malaria in Senegal, has its roots right here in Three Village.   

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Sixteen-year-old Emily Holtzman, a rising junior at Ward Melville High School, recently returned from a trip to the tiny village of Croisement Peulh, in Senegal, where malaria is the number one cause of death. She is the founder of The ScreenSaver Foundation, a non-governmental organization that combats the mosquito-borne illness by installing screens in windows.


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