1. 12-12-12 is here. Today is the last day most readers will ever see a triple reptitive date. However, if you're 10, there's hope you could live to be 99 on 01-01-01.
2. The 12-12-12 Sandy Relief concert happening at Madison Square Garden tonight will be the biggest music event in history. The concert will not only fill the Garden, but will reach nearly 2 billion homes worldwide through television, radio and internet. If you weren't lucky enough to snag tickets, you can watch it online via streaming websites such as AOL and YouTube or catch it in a local movie theater, including Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas, 34 Main Street in Babylon Village, and National Amusements’ Farmingdale Multiplex, 1001 Broad Hollow Road (Route 110) in Farmingdale.
3. Lend a helping hand with Patch while tuning into the concert tonight. Patch will donate $1 to the AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund for every tweet sent with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds (up to $125,000). Your contribution will go toward medical and humanitarian aid, grants and programs to help Sandy survivors.
4. Deer Park Middle School students will be having a concert of their own tonight, as well. The Robert Frost Middle School Winter Concert will be held in the gym with the sixth grade students playing at 7 p.m., and the seventh and eighth grade students starting at 8:15 p.m.
5. There will be a North Babylon Board of Education meeting tomorrow at the high school, starting at 8 p.m.