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Body Wise Connection Holds First Annual Bike Wise

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On Saturday June 2, Body Wise Connection, a non-profit organization promoting healing through movement, will hold its first annual BIKE WISE, charity bike ride through the North County Trailway. Participants may join the 6 mile family ride beginning at 10 am or the 25 mile ride beginning at 9 am from the Rte. 117 Bike Trail Parking Lot in Pleasantville.

The Bike Wise event is $25 per person or $50 per family. All donations are tax deductible and water and snacks will be provided along the route. Yorktown Cycles will be hosting a refreshment pit stop as well as offering 20% off tune ups for bikes brought in before May 15 and 10% off merchandise (not including bikes) for all Body Wise Connection riders.

Bike Wise will take place rain or shine. All riders must wear bike helmets to participate in the family ride or the 25 mile ride.

The Body Wise Connection program offers closely guided supportive and hands-on instruction to enhance recovery for clients as they face the overwhelming realities of Breast Cancer diagnosis and treatment. Joy Puleo, Founder and Educational Director reports the organization is currently working with clients at Northern Westchester Hospital and Mt. Sinai’s Dubin Breast Center using Pilates, Gyrotonic, CoreAlign and Yoga movement modalities.

For more information and registration contact bodywiseconnection.org or e-mail bodywiseconnectionbikeride@gmail.com.

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“I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And just because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Helen Keller

Bet Torah Nursery School Reading Buddies

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“Reading Buddies” is the new read-aloud initiative at the Nursery School started this year through PROJECT SEED.  Joanna Segal, a long time member of Bet Torah whose three children attended Bet Torah Nursery School, is helping pilot the program along with Jo Kellman, early childhood specialist and Project SEED coordinator.   Joanna  reads in two classrooms, a threes class and a fours class for approximately one half hour in each room.

Research tells us that reading to young children is an extremely fruitful way to introduce them to the world of books.  During “center time”, Joanna is seated in the “library area” of the classroom.  Two or three empty, children’s chairs await the children who will choose that center.  Children select the books they hope Joanna will read.  As the book is completed, a chair is emptied and ready for the next Buddy.

Joanna Segal reads with Jack Bender and Gabe Goldman

As Joanne and Jo pass parents and children at entrance and dismissal times, there are warm “hellos” and smiling faces as folks greet Joanna in the hallways.  Joanna worships at Shabbat services and is familiar to parents and children who are also attendees.  Reading Buddies provides another opportunity to strengthen extended family bonds.

If you are interested in becoming a Project SEED Reading Buddy this year or in the fall, please see Director  Mindy Citera to make plans to become part of this new initiative at Bet Torah Nursery School.

Project SEED (Supporting Children’s Early Emotional Development) is a collaboration between Westchester Jewish Community Services and the Jewish Education Project with additional funding from private donor families.

Mount Kisco Child Care Center Launches Spring Challenge Grant

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Beginning May 1 and continuing through May 31, Mount Kisco Child Care Center (MKCCC) announces the launch of its Spring Challenge Grant.
Families, current donors, and members of the community are invited to contribute to the Center.

During this period, all monetary contributions received by the Center will be matched by MKCCC Board Member, Founder of the Saw Mill Club, and Co-Founder of Curtis Instruments, Dr. Curtis Beusman. The Center’s goal to raise $25,000 will be doubled by Dr. Beusman’s contributions bringing the total amount to $50,000.

 “We are honored by Dr. Beusman’s generosity,” said MKCCC Executive Director, Dottie Jordan. “We thank him for his steadfast support throughout the month of May as well as for his contributions to the Center since he joined the Board in 2009.”

Funds raised through the challenge will be allocated toward the Center’s Scholarship Initiative. Well known in the community for its quality childcare, MKCCC provides tuition assistance to children in need would not otherwise be able to enroll. Children are able to participate in the Center’s award-winning, innovative programming, while allowing parents to find employment and feel confident their children are cared for in a safe and nurturing environment.

“Mount Kisco Child Care Center is an unbelievable organization that continues to impress me,” said Dr. Beusman. “From its forward-thinking programs to its personable staff and teachers, the Center is a fixture in the community.”

Contributions to the Center can be made in person or by visiting www.mkccc.org.

MKCCC is located at 95 Radio Circle, Mount Kisco, NY. For additional information, please visit www.mkccc.org or call (914) 241-2135. Follow MKCCC on www.facebook.com/MKCCC and www.twitter.com/MKCCC10549 for the latest news and updates.

About Mount Kisco Child Care Center: Mount Kisco Child Care Center is a licensed nonprofit, non-sectarian NAEYC accredited childcare facility that has served the working families of Northern Westchester since 1971. MKCCC provides exceptional and affordable, early-care and education to a diverse group of children three months to five years. The Center’s expanded school-age program serves children up to 12 years of age.

Axial Theatre to Stage Westchester Premiere of The Clearing

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Francesco Compari and Mark Gorham in Jake Jeppson's, The Clearing Photo by: Gertjan Houben

Entering Our Second Week!!! Thursday-Sunday, April 26-May 13th , Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 7pm

“In The Clearing – Jake Jeppson’s play about siblings and secrets, now in a stunning premiere at Pleasantville’s Axial Theatre – the Ellis brothers couldn’t be less similar….Axial’s creative departments have all outdone themselves, making The Clearing one of the most complete and well-mounted productions in memory at Axial.” -Peter Kramer, Journal news

For the the full review, click here: A Family Enters ‘The Clearing’

A special offer for our email-subscribers…THIS WEEKEND ONLY, buy two tickets, and get a third one FREE! Invite a friend or two, and join us for a powerful night of theatre. To take advantage of this special deal, use the password: BUDDYBUY with purchase of tickets.

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All Tickets $20 For tickets, log on to: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/231403 or call (800) 838-3006

The Clearing: by Jake Jeppson Directed by Josh Hecht

Featuring Francesco Campari, Allison Daugherty, Mark Gorham, Gene Gallerano, Brian McManamon

The Clearing tells the story of two brothers who climb to a clearing at the top of a gorge: a place to tell stories, to escape their dysfunctional mother, and to honor a buried secret from their childhood nearly two decades later. The sanctity of the clearing is challenged when a new lover enters their lives.

St.John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave., Pleasantville, NY 10579

For more information, please respond to this e-mail, call 914-286-7680, or visit: www.axialtheatre.org

Holocaust Center’s Survivor Legacy Education Project

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A New Program of the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center

First-hand, personal testimony from Holocaust survivors and liberators–the victims of and witnesses to the Nazi brutality–is one of the most critical and impactful educational tools available to educate students, teachers and the community-at-large about the dangers of bigotry and hatred.

Now, 67 years after the end of World War II, these eyewitnesses are aging and declining in health and numbers. The opportunity to personally hear and witness their stories ultimately will come to an end. Today’s students and teachers will be the last generation privileged to meet and interact with a survivor in their classrooms.

To preserve their testimony for future classroom use, the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center is partnering with schools in Westchester to create the Survivor Legacy Education Project, a video archive with teachers’ guides centered on the school presentations of local Holocaust survivors and liberators. Each participating school has agreed to host a taping of the survivor with students and teachers and to “adopt” the survivor’s story as the basis of its Holocaust and human rights curriculum.

HHREC would welcome tax deductible donations in support of the Survivor Legacy Education Project (www.hhrecny.org), or by mail HHREC, 4 West Red Oak Lane, Suite 330, White Plains, NY 10604, 914 696-0738.