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Since 1974, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, also known as ARF, has placed over 30,000 cats and dogs with loving families across Long Island and beyond, changing their lives one connection at a time, according to Kim Nichols, ARF's executive director and CEO. Nichols joins the editors on 27Speaks to talk about ARF's work and the nonprofit's 50th anniversary.

On this week's edition of 27Speaks, reporter Cailin Riley and co-publisher Gavin Meny join the editors to offer a preview of The Summer Book, the name given to the issue of The Express Magazine that drops just in time for Memorial Day weekend each year.

As far as Anita Fuellbier is concerned, Stage 4 lung cancer picked the wrong body. She is a fighter. She takes risks. She has fierce love for her two daughters, her job and her place in her community. And she is currently six months into her projected year and a half to live — though, following an experimental clinical trial, that timeline may have shifted. Anita joins the editors on 27Speaks this week to discuss her cancer journey and share her positive outlook.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. joins the editors on 27Speaks to discuss a range of issues, including the fate of the historic windmill on the Stony Brook Southampton campus, affordable housing initiatives, water quality, school aid and his last budget process before retiring.

John Reilly, a physician assistant from Shelter Island, spent the first half of March on a medical aid mission to Ukraine. As a volunteer with Global Care Force, for two weeks Reilly was part of a medical team that traveled to small towns and tiny villages, delivering routine health care to Ukrainian citizens in the midst of the war with Russia. The experience deeply affected him, and this week, Reilly joined the editors and senior reporter Stephen J. Kotz to talk about what he witnessed during his time in Ukraine and share his insight into what he learned from his first-hand visit to the war zone.

Rock Steady Boxing is a non-contact, boxing-inspired fitness program for people with Parkinson's disease to improve balance, gait and quality of life. Michelle Del Giorno, the owner of Epic Martial Arts in Sag Harbor and the head coach at Rock Steady Boxing Sag Harbor, joins the editors on the podcast to share how, over the past seven years, more than 250 students have passed through the program, a national affiliate taught locally through Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease at Del Giorno’s dojo and in Hampton Bays with Seth Greiner and Breahna Arnold, as well as on Zoom.