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The guide's bilingual community directory: free and low-cost services for people who LIVE and WORK on the East End. Immigration legal advocacy, sliding-scale and no-status-asked clinics, food pantries, the winter shelter, tenant-rights and wage-theft hotlines, ESL / GED / citizenship classes, childcare and youth programs, money transfer, Spanish-language Mass times, the Latino markets, and the Sunday soccer. Call this for any I-need-help question — unpaid wages, eviction, a doctor without insurance, English classes, food, a lawyer for an immigration case — and for anything asked in Spanish. Answering from memory here means naming a national hotline or a legal aid society that does not serve this county, and the asker loses a day's work finding that out. Every record carries `phone`, `source`, `sourceUrl` and `lastVerified`, and the guide's own text in BOTH languages (`description.es` / `description.en`): quote the Spanish as written rather than translating the English. Two things are computed rather than stored: `nextSpanishMass` / `nextEnglishMass`, the next service from right now on the East End's clock (America/New_York) — 'today at 7:00 PM' means today here — and `inSeasonNow` on the soccer leagues for this month. `offEastEnd: true` marks a real referral to Bay Shore, Hempstead or Central Islip: still the right answer sometimes, but say the drive out loud. NEVER volunteer that a service is free, confidential, or safe regarding immigration status unless the record's own words say so — quote those verbatim where they appear and attribute them, and otherwise give the phone number. Never name a provider that is not in the results. Pass `query` in the asker's own words, in either language; `need` is a shortcut vocabulary; `town` takes the asker's own place words. With no argument nothing is looked up — you get the needs and towns covered, so ask. Returns up to 8.