From 9/8-9/20: Jodi’s Gym is offering FREE!
sample classes for new families.
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Rob Thomas to Perform at Open Door’s Biannual Concert in October
What: A Special, Intimate Concert with Rob Thomas 
Presented by the Open Door Foundation to benefit Open Door Family Medical Centers
Who: Performer: Rob Thomas
Emcee: Jimmy Fink, on air personality at 107.1 The Peak
Honorees: Girish Navani, CEO and co-Founder of eClinical Works
Isabel E. Beshar, Community Volunteer & Rhodes Scholar from Rye, NY
Where: The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
When: Thursday, October 9, 2014
6:30pm: VIP Cocktail Reception
8:30pm: Concert
Concert Chair: Sue Greene Fuirst (Chappaqua)
Tickets: Tickets are available exclusively online at: http://opendoormedical.org/robthomas
Ticket Price: $400 – Individual, includes cocktail reception and concert
$1,500 – Double Date Package includes 4 VIP Cocktail reception and concert tickets
$1,000 – VIP Roadie includes 1 VIP cocktail reception and concert ticket and 1 backstage pass to meet Rob Thomas following the performance
$5,000 – VIP Party Package includes 6 VIP cocktail reception and concert tickets and 6 backstage passes to meet Rob Thomas following the performance
$50-$175 – Concert Only
Information: Cristina Sanjuas, (914) 502-1414 or csanjuas@odmfc.org or visit http://www.opendoormedical.org/robthomas.
Presenting Sponsor: eClinicalWorks
Lead Media Sponsor: 107.1The Peak
Participating Sponsors: Hudson Health Plan; BioReference Laboratories
Supporting Sponsors: Monroe College; claim remedy; Heckman Consulting Group, LLC; Levitt-Fuirst Insurance; Cohanzick Management, LLC; Mogil Organization; Diamond Properties; Bessemer Trust
About Open Door Family Medical Centers
Open Door, winner of the 2012 New York Nonprofit Excellence Award, has received the highest Recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home™ (PPC-PCMH™) from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). This ranking distinguishes them from medical practices across the nation as less than 12% are presently eligible to achieve this advanced standing. For more than 40 years, the federally qualified community health center has served a multi-cultural community and has provided top quality medical, dental care and social services to the Westchester community, particularly the economically disadvantaged. Open Door has four centers in Westchester located in Ossining, Port Chester, Mt. Kisco and Sleepy Hollow. In addition, Open Door operates five school-based health centers in Port Chester at The Edison Elementary School, Park Avenue School, the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Port Chester Middle School and Port Chester High School. In 2013, 49,470 patients were treated at Open Door, making 210,615 patient visits. In the same year, 15,235 youth, 19 years-old and under, were treated. In 2012 Open Door, with partners New York Medical College and Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, launched the NYMC Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program along with a Dental Residency Program. The Family Medicine Residency is the first accredited family medicine residency to be established in New York State since 1995. In February 2013 Open Door opened an office in Brewster, NY, the first community health center in Putnam County. Funding for Open Door Family Medical Centers comes from local, state and federal grants as well as private foundations and individuals.
Chin Up, Mom and Dad!
Why Bicycle Helmet Safety is for Every Family Member
By Lydia Evans, MD
“Do as I say, not as I do” is an idiom that’s fodder for endless sarcastic remarks. It is clear that one of the most effective teaching tools parents have is modeling behavior. So I am totally flummoxed when I ride my bike on our beautiful local bike trails and see families out for a weekend ride.Why flummoxed? Because children, dutifully wearing their helmets, ride along wheeling and squealing, with their helmet-less parents trailing behind.
New York State requires helmets for riders under 14, but sadly, no such requirement exists for adults.
While statistics vary slightly depending on the source (U.S. Dept, of Transportation, NY State & the CDC), pedal cyclists deaths nationally range from 625-825 annually; over 500,000 injured require emergency medical attention. The vast majority of deaths (85-90%) occur in individuals 16 and older. In 2009, 91% of bicyclists killed were not wearing helmets. The most serious injuries amongst these victims were to the head. The estimated cost of caring for the injured, unhelmeted cyclists is $2.3 billion annually.
So what happens when you hit your unprotected head? While the skull is fairly strong and hard, the brain is soft (almost jello-like), and floats in cerebral spinal fluid. Inside the skull are many sharp ridges and edges.
When the head is hit, injury occurs as the brain is propelled back and forth against these protuberances (even if the skull itself is not fractured). The end result? Bruising and bleeding in the brain, and destruction of irreplaceable nerve cells.
I have ridden bicycles since childhood (yep, the classic picture of my poor father running alongside, holding onto the back of my seat until I finally “got it.”) I have suffered my share of road rash, but my helmeted head has remained unscathed. Bicycle falls are not just from motor vehicle collisions. An unseen small stone, wet leaves, or a tiny surface crack can send you and your bike flying. It only takes a second of inattention (“Oh, look at the deer,” and “What did you say, honey?”) and bang, you are on the ground.
So why doesn’t everyone wear a helmet? Some adults tell me that they “know how to ride” and won’t fall on the motorless bike path. Any experienced cyclist will tell you that this is a fallacy. I believe the main problem is that helmets can initially seem a little annoying. So is wearing a seatbelt or using sunscreen.But these minor inconveniences can all save your life. So please buckle up! This time…under your chin.
Dr. Lydia Evans has a private practice, specializing in both cosmetic and medical dermatology, in Chappaqua. Her last biking trip was with her husband through the back roads of southern Spain.
Sen. Latimer to Address Senior Citizen Questions
New York State Senator
George Latimer to Host Q&A Discussion with Senior Citizens
WHEN: Tuesday, August 12 at 2:30pm
WHERE: The Bristal at Armonk
90 Business Park Drive, Armonk
WHO: New York State Senator George Latimer (D-37)
WHAT: New York State Senator George Latimer will host a Q&A discussion on key state legislation issues facing senior citizens in Westchester County.
Honoring “Gabby” Gabriel Rosenfeld
By Grace Bennett
A village turned out for a service Sunday at Chappaqua’s Temple Beth El to honor the much beloved and colorful “Gabby” Gabriel Rosenfeld. New Senior Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe led the service and offered a moving tribute to one of the Temple’s founding members, lamenting only that he wished he could have met Gabby. So many came to pay tribute, yes, to his legacy of military and civic service (see end of article)–but even more so to his charitable nature, inquisitiveness and, most of all, his sense of humor (since his high school days); in Gabby’s case, a true talent too.
It was something he used, his son Eric Rosenfeld noted, to effectively diffuse tension in different situations, for example, in his role on the New Castle Zoning Board for 30 years (that service gives him the distinction of being the longest serving public official in the history of New Castle).
Additional family members, including Gabby and Louise’s daughters Leslie and Alison, and daughter in law Sally, shared a variety of special memories. Eric also read a letter honoring him from Secretary Hillary Clinton in which she recalled her privilege to have pinned him with a French Legion of Honor medal, awarded for his service in World War II.
Clinton expressed her regrets for not being able to attend and said she was writing with a “heavy heart.” “Gabby was a remarkable man and Great American,” Sec. Clinton wrote. “I consider myself lucky to have known him and always looked forward to our chats on Memorial Day. Gabby’s love of country, devotion to his fellow veterans and service to our country exemplifies precisely what is meant by the “Greatest Generation.”
Clinton had also called Gabby at the hospital in his last days, Eric said, and the two engaged in a warm, personal conversation.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey arrived to honor Gabby, and pay her respects to the family, at the outset directing her comments to Louise, saying, “Everywhere it was Gabby and Louise, Louise and Gabby.” She spoke further with affection about a community member and an “ardent Democrat” who won’t soon be forgotten.
As portrayed in an obituary in the New York Times, Gabby’s legacy was felt in his service “on the Boards of Northern Westchester Hospital, Katonah Museum of Art, A-Home, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, Neighbor’s Link, and the Chappaqua Women’s Shelter.” He was “a long time supporter of the League of Women Voters and New Castle Democrats. Kind, funny, WWII combat vet, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, French Legion of Honor, ardent Democrat, Chappaqua, Chappaqua, Chappaqua, community service, Memorial Day Parade, motorcycle sidecar-ist, boat modeler, landscaper, Erasmus Hall, Cornell, chocolate, Adventurer’s Club, Naval Order of the United States, Cautioneer, Rotary President and two-time Paul Harris Award winner, funeral director, stockbroker, business manager of The New York Cosmos, Bahamas, Westchester Municipal Planning Federation, National Maritime Historical Society, New Castle Historical Society, Southwest Harbor, corn, great laugh, noodles, people, fried clams, dogs, family, inspiration and influence to many. ”
0 plus year Chairman of the New Castle Zoning Board of Appeals. On the Boards of Northern Westchester Hospital, Katonah Museum of Art, A-Home, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, Neighbor’s Link, Chappaqua Women’s Shelter. Long time supporter of the League of Women Voters and New Castle Democrats. Kind, funny, WWII combat vet, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, French Legion of Honor, ardent Democrat, Chappaqua, Chappaqua, Chappaqua, community service, Memorial Day Parade, motorcycle sidecar-ist, boat modeler, landscaper, Erasmus Hall, Cornell, chocolate, Adventurer’s Club, Naval Order of the United States, Cautioneer, Rotary President and two-time Paul Harris Award winner, funeral director, stockbroker, business manager of The New York Cosmos, Bahamas, Westchester Municipal Planning Federation, National Maritime Historical Society, New Castle Historical Society, Southwest Harbor, corn, great laugh, noodles, people, fried clams, dogs, family, inspiration and influence to many. Services will be held at 1pm on Sunday, – See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=gabriel-i-rosenfeld&pid=172023732#sthash.6aw6YJcr.dpuf
