Trade Winds

Long-missing revenues and customers returned for more small businesses in December, compared to last month, says Alignable’s Road To Recovery Report.

A La Mode Shoppe, a popular artisanal ice cream shop in Manhattan, will open a new location in East Hampton this spring.

The new 3,000-square-foot restaurant is located at 331 East Main St.

In just five years, the Cronins have taken a small business venture and turned it into a nationally recognized social enterprise.

Insatiable Eats will feature a variety of fresh pastas and Sicilian style sauces, pizza alla pala, and a bar gastronomica, along with a coffee bar featuring imported beans and a gourmet marketplace.

Blue Point Brewing is sponsoring its first annual Toast Your Hero hockey classic to benefit Project9Line and the Long Island Warriors.

Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk will host a food and clothing drive at its Ronkonkoma ReStore beginning next week.

Dozens of stores at the two retail centers will donate 25 percent of shoppers’ full-price purchases to participating organizations of their choice.

The menu at Playa Bowls features a variety of bowls created with acai, pitaya, coconut, oatmeal and kale and filled with combinations of fruit, granola nuts, honey and other toppings.

Customers can sell back “gently used” IKEA furniture for store credit and IKEA will offer the used furniture to other customers in its as-is section.

The grocery chain is the official supermarket of Long Island’s hockey team and will join them to help fight hunger.

The Rise Up initiative supports programs for runaway and homeless youth.

The new Aldi store, which will be the grocery chain’s ninth on Long Island.

The TangerFit Virtual 5K will take place from Sunday, Oct. 24 through Saturday, Oct. 30.

During the months of October and November, IKEA Long Island at the Broadway Commons in Hicksville is encouraging members of the community to donate non-perishable food products or new household items.

Sierra Sapack, a junior at Liberty University, took the top prize for her blue sock with hearts and a hand displaying the American Sign Language gesture for “I Love You.”

The Southampton showroom, which caters to designers, contractors and consumers, is Nemo’s second on Long Island.

The discount grocery chain will open Lidl food markets at 800 Montauk Highway in Shirley on Wednesday, Sept. 22 and at 531 Montauk Highway in West Babylon on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Through September 30, Club Champion will waive its usual $100 putter-fitting fee for any golfer who purchases a new putter or custom putter shaft with Club Champion installation.

The renamed Dan’s Pet Care, formerly known as Dan’s Dog Walking and Pet Sitting, will now offer dog walking, pet sitting, transportation services, grooming, dog adventures, training, boarding and daycare.

The two-day weekend event is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.