Nine Days SOS for Wantagh New York
09/09/2008
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(PR) What started as an informal living room gathering of a few parents one evening launched as a full fledged 501(c)(3) charitable corporation, named Wantagh SOS (Save Our Students), just days later. Wantagh SOS's challenging goal is to raise enough funds to reinstate all student activities at all levels that resulted in cuts to student programs due to the contingency school budget. Wantagh SOS is very much an 'all hands on deck' grass roots organization that has already garnered significant support from local politicians and businesses, several leading community organizations, parents and students alike. Now, after raising over $530,697 - as of August 24th - they are producing a concert with a little help from their friends John Hampson (of Nine Days, hit song "Absolutely(Story of a Girl") - who is actually a Wantagh High School Teacher, and Paging Grace, one of the "best bands on Long Island" as voted for in the Long Island Press, who come from Farmingdale High School and dealt with austerity as students there several years back as well. - here are the details 
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