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i-tri continues to thrive and grow because of the amazing generosity of our local community!  Last night was the first of four family nutrition/cooking sessions.  Last year Wellness Foundation of East Hampton sponsored our nutrition education component taught by their Executive Director, Jennifer Taylor.  Although these sessions were fantastic, the timing (during lunch) wasn't the greatest and because the information was not making it home to mom & dad (who ultimately make the food purchases) the girls did not seem to make any significant changes in their food choices.   This year we wanted to try something different- what if.. we brought the girls and their families together and did some hands on nutrition education and cooking together AND what if... we filmed the classes and put them on youtube and our local TV station LTV...  Of course that was the DREAM and from that vision came the miracles that made last night possible.  The East Hampton High School offered us their state of the art Family/Consumer Science room, complete with brand-new Viking stoves, two former Springs alumna along with film teacher Jeremy Quitko are filming and editing the series into a "cooking show" and will arrange for it to be shown on LTV and on youtube,  the Wellness Foundation has again generously sponsored Jennifer Taylor to create and teach the program and Cirillo's Market IGA in Amagansett is DONATING ALL OF THE FOOD!!!  Not to mention the fact that 23 busy, hard-working families made the effort and came and filled the room with eager smiles!  I love when a DREAM comes TRUE!!!