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Kelly Leonard

Living Proof: An Evening of Hope & Healing to Raise Awareness About Suicide Prevention

April 21, 2018 by Kelly Leonard

The Living Proof Performers
PHOTO BY DAVID WHOLE

In early March at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, The Mental Health Association of Westchester (MHA), The Lagond Music School, and Music & Miles: Changing Minds joined forces to present a new multi-arts evening of energizing performances that shined a light on mental health issues and the power of the arts as a vehicle in sharing individual stories of healing in the face of adversity.

The evening of expressive arts benefitted the Miles Applebaum Music Scholarship Fund at The Lagond Music School and The Mental Health Association of Westchester. Performances included nine musical and dance presentations along with three “Voices of Recovery” monologues. Radio DJs Coach and Bruce Figler of 107.1 The Peak, a media partner of the event, emceed the evening.

Shari and Ed Applebaum of Armonk, Miles’ parents, were the event co-chairs. When asked what she wanted attendees to take away from the evening’s performances, Shari, who is also a Suicide Bereavement Specialist at MHA said, “A sense of hope and healing. No one goes through life unscathed. Everyone has something that they’re dealing with whether it’s a mental or physical health issue.”

The Miles Applebaum Music Scholarship Fund was established to honor and remember Miles Applebaum, a guitar student who studied at The Lagond Music School and later the Boyer School of Music and Dance at Temple University. Miles died by suicide at the age of 21 in 2014, and the Scholarship Fund was created to carry on his dream by providing aspiring musicians the opportunity to ignite their passion and study music at The Lagond Music School, a nonprofit musical haven for students of all ages.

Shari and Ed Applebaum
PHOTO BY KELLY LEONARD

The 2018 scholarship winners were runner-up Audrey Pretnar, a guitarist from Mohegan Lake and winner Liam Kharem, a drummer and bass clarinetist from Sleepy Hollow.

Close friends of Miles who performed at the event hoped attendees would come away with a new awareness and understanding for those dealing with mental health issues. Annabelle Hiller in her onstage monologue said, “We live in a world where sensitivity is defined as weakness. Emotions are amazing, even the sh*tty ones.”

A unique element of the evening’s performances was each of the musicians, singers, performers, and speakers had been touched in some way by a suicide or an attempted suicide. They shared their experience, strength and hope from the stage through their words and artistry with the audience.

Roseanne Lanna, Lagond Music School Co-Founder and Executive Director, who also served along with Charlie Lagond as Show Director, said she hoped the evening would offer a “sense of awareness, of noticing when family, friends, or neighbors are not acting themselves or acting out of the ordinary and to especially watch out for neighbors. We’re all connected.”

In her remarks from the stage, Shari Applebaum encouraged the audience in “taking the time to notice [others] and ask, ‘Are you OK?’”

The Miles Applebaum Music Scholarship Fund was established to honor and remember Miles Applebaum, a guitar student at The Lagond Music School and later the Boyer School of Music and Dance at Temple University.

To learn more, visit the websites of The Mental Health Association of Westchester https://www.mhawestchester.org, The Lagond Music School http://lagondmusic.org, and Music & Miles: Changing Minds https://www.musicandmiles.org.

 Bruce Williams
(L-R): Bruce Figler,
Rebecca Haviland, Chris Rodriguez AKA Coach
Living Proof Scholarship Winners
Liam Kharem, Audrey Pretnar

Filed Under: Cover Stories Tagged With: Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, fund, Lagond School of Music, Living Proof, Mental Health Association of Westchester, Miles Applebaum, music, Music & Miles, Scholarship, suicide prevention, Winner

‘Local Faces’ Campaign Unites Community and Merchants

December 1, 2017 by Kelly Leonard

Trish Kallman (Left) and Carolyn Simpson   PHOTO BY LORI LAZARUS

Last summer, studio portraits of local Chappaqua business owners and merchants started popping up on Facebook and Instagram with the caption: CONNECT THE FACE TO THE PLACE! Post your guess as to who it is and where they work. Write what you love about the place, share your favorite story! Help us spread positivity, loyalty and shopping local in our community!

The only clues in the photos were the merchants posed with items from their trade like flowers, bottles of wine, or cups of coffee. The one common factor in every portrait was a ball cap each merchant wore that read “Local Faces.”

The mysterious campaign was the brainchild of two local business owners, Trish Kallman of hip-kid and Carolyn Simpson of Doublevision Photographers. Their idea for Local Faces was to connect Chappaqua and Millwood residents with the faces and personalities behind local stores and businesses. The idea was born during a photo shoot with local kids who wore a cap that said “Local” on it to be featured in the hip-kid shop window instead of using vendor supplied photos of child models.

Kallman also recounts a customer who asked: ‘I’m looking for a gift and so-and-so told me that you had it. We were at the Mall, and they had the gift, but they said, no don’t get the gift here, Trish has it.’ “Oh, that’s so sweet,” Kallman says she thought. “The customer didn’t even call to see if I had the gift or that it was at hip-kid but that Trish had it. I thought that’s so cool they think of me by name instead of the shop name; it’s like a personal relationship with the customers.

“So then I started thinking of all the stores in town and how many of the owners and managers that I knew by name. I wondered if others had a similar experience. So Carolyn and I sat down to talk. I suggested, ‘How about doing something that doesn’t have anything to do with hip-kid, what about something that just features the different business owners in town, connecting the name to the face?’”

Originally Kallman and Simpson were just thinking about doing a gallery showing event, but then as they got started, the idea evolved and as Kallman notes, “We thought, wait, this could be a really fun kind of interactive Facebook campaign. So each day we posted a picture.”

“When we first started,” Kallman recalls, “we were concerned about how do we get everybody in this? We basically went door to door to the merchants with flyers. We did a sample shoot so merchants could visualize and see what it was going to look like. So we created a prototype to put on the flyer and said this is our idea. Some people got it and some people were like, ‘No, I’m camera-shy’ and some people needed a little more prodding. Then we worried about other businesses that weren’t right on the street so we tried to get as many mailing lists as we could pull to find them. This was a Chamber of Commerce sponsored event, and they sent out an email to their list.”

Simpson adds, “Trish and I came up with the name Local Faces because we wanted the name to brand what we were doing so people would connect the faces to the places. As we went door-to-door to businesses in Chappaqua and Millwood, merchants initially thought we were trying to sell something. We donated our time to do this because, especially with the construction in town, we wanted people to feel a connection and to help draw customers in. The photo sessions got really fun as we got to know so many of the merchants in town. The photos allowed people to see a whole other side of local business owners.”

“The campaign was more of a community event than a sales endeavor. We asked the participating merchants to invite their customers and clients to the Gallery Opening where we all could relax. It was all about building relationships…”

Kallman shared that they used the lounge space at hip-kid as a studio for the shoots. “It was really fun for us to work together and collaborate on this and bring our different interests to it. This really made it evolve and grow,” she says. “The Facebook and Instagram campaigns helped it take off and merchants started calling us asking, ‘Can we be a part of this?’ We realized this was really going to be something when people started reaching out to us. When we started posting the photos on Facebook and Instagram, we’d ask, ‘If you know of anybody that you want to be Local Faces please let us know.’”

Simpson adds, “For the Facebook campaign, we started posting every day and then we did a countdown leading up to the September gallery event. We also did some outtakes to post during the countdown. Part of the social media campaign was that people would comment about what they liked about the featured merchants and other people would see those comments, this helped build momentum throughout the campaign.”

After the Gallery Opening & Exhibition event at hip-kid lounge in September, Kallman and Simpson gave the merchants their framed photos. “Hopefully,” Simpson notes, “they’ll have it in their stores and it’s something they can look at with good memories. The campaign was more of a community event than a sales endeavor. We asked the participating merchants to invite their customers and clients to the Gallery Opening where we all could relax. It was all about building relationships and not about the transactions per se.”

As for what’s next for Local Faces, Kallman says, “We’re talking with the Town about it and the Chamber of Commerce to see if they want to do it again. Or if it’s something we want to bring to other towns…”

Simpson adds that it’s “just something to bring everyone together.”

To view and follow the Local Faces virtual galleries, visit: facebook.com/localfaceschappaquamillwood instagram.com/

 

Filed Under: Cover Stories Tagged With: Businesses, Digital Marketing Campaign, Local Faces, merchants, photography, Shop Local

Leone Dental Group in Armonk: A Dentist Visit That Feels Like a Day Spa

October 22, 2017 by Kelly Leonard

Dr. Frank
A cool, elegant marble reception area and warm, smiling faces welcome patients and visitors to Leone Dental Group at their new flagship location in Armonk Square. Creating a soothing and relaxed atmosphere that integrates the most advanced, state of the art medical and dental technology, Leone Dental Group aims to change a patient’s perspective of what going to the dentist means.

Dr. Frank and Dr. Lucy, who have been in practice for over 30 years and trained at New York University College of Dentistry, recently opened their new Armonk office designed by Frank, Lucy and their son Raphael.

“The integration of each practitioners equipment and work style influenced how we designed the facility. One key attribute that never changed throughout the design/building process was the importance of patient comfort,” noted Raphael.

Dr. Frank is one of only 426 Diplomates of the American Board of Oral Implantology in the nation and a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. The ABOI/ID Diplomate designation symbolizes the highest level of competence in implant dentistry.

Many dentists try their hand at implant dentistry due to the way the procedure is marketed to dentists by implant companies. Frequently, Dr. Frank is called upon to remedy mistakes or issues arising from complications due to practitioners not formally trained in the advanced science behind implantology. Because implant dentistry is a true dental specialty, only a trained and knowledgeable professional should practice it. Leone stocks a large variety of implant sizes, brands and types because simply put, one size does not fit all.

“If you have been told that it can’t be done or you are not a candidate for dental implants such as having a bone deficiency, it is time you scheduled a consultation with Dr. Frank,” Raphael recommended.

Dr. Lucy, an advanced general and cosmetic dentist and member of both the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and Facial Esthetics, combines artistry and dentistry to give her patients a true smile makeover. This combination of treatments, unique in a dental practice, offers advanced cosmetic dental and facial esthetics (Botox and Juvederm fillers). The result is a complete smile makeover that will help patients look years younger in just a few visits.

Leone Dental Group believes in a dynamic process of dental care, each treatment tailored to patient needs, as each individual has her or his own unique set of health concerns. Leone doesn’t have a cookie cutter process or time limits for patients and emphasizes the importance of practicing a higher form of healthcare.

For patients who are apprehensive, the Leone Dental Group offers different modalities of sedation to ease anxiety throughout treatment. Nitrous oxide and IV sedation are available. 3D and 2D high-definition x-rays with minimal radiation are among the array of advanced tech they utilize.

Dr. Lucy

A fee-for-sevice provider, Leone Dental works with patients’ insurance providers to get patients reimbursed for the maximum amount their plans allow. Family owned and operated, Leone Dental Group is not affiliated with any corporate dental chain so it has the ability to service clients based on patients’ needs and not an umbrella corporate policy.

Leone Dental Group aims to give their patients smiles that radiate confidence, brilliance and distinction.To learn more, visit leonedentalgroup.com, follow facebook.com/leonedentalgroup and instagram.com/leonedentalgroup. To schedule a complimentary consultation, call 273-2333.

Filed Under: Lifestyles with our Sponsors Tagged With: dental office, dentist, Leone Dental Group, Office, Pretty

Four Questions for ‘Top Laser Expert’ Josh Fink, M.D.

June 3, 2017 by Kelly Leonard

Dr. Josh Fink in his Mount Kisco office

Considered by many of his colleagues a top laser expert in Westchester County, Josh Fink is double board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary diseases, and is also a Fellow of the American Society of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. In addition to his laser and cosmetic practice based in Mount Kisco, Dr. Fink is the Director of the Clinical Trials Program at Northern Westchester Hospital, where he and his team of Clinical Research Coordinators oversee all new and investigational therapies. Previously, he dedicated years of his professional life caring for the sickest of all patients in the Northern Westchester Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, where he performed most of the ICU procedures.

“Community is everything,” says Dr. Fink who makes sure that he donates to such causes as Force Blue and Operation Enduring Warrior, which are two Veteran causes he deeply cares about.

What draws clients into see you?

One of the most beautiful things about medical aesthetics is that it combines both Science and Art. As we age the brow sort of flattens a little bit, the cheeks splay outwards and we develop a jowl line. Face shape changes from heart shape to trapezoid. Part of that is due to collagen loss, loss of the elasticity of the skin and fat pads start to shrink as we age, asymmetry becomes more exaggerated.

I like to tell people to think of their facial structure as a table and tablecloth. The table is bone structure, fat, and volume while the tablecloth is the way it looks–wrinkles, pores, redness, and brown spots. We treat both the table and the tablecloth.

We’re known best for fillers and “neuro-modulators.” Things like Juvederm, Voluma, Restylane, Dysport and Botox. I have a background in art and think most fillers require the most artistic expression of any non-surgical based procedure. Lasers are fairly straightforward, fillers and the way you use them and the combination of fillers is very much artistry.

How do you customize your approach to each client’s needs?

I’m not likely to use long-lasting fillers on someone who has never had one before, as they may not like the look. So I may want to give them something that’s on the shorter lifespan of fillers and recommend coming back again in six months and we can do something that lasts a little bit longer. I suggest they grow into it and see if they like it. It’s a smart way of doing it.

There is no one size fits all. So if somebody comes in and says I want to have a pair of Angelina Jolie lips, but the problem is they don’t have the natural spacing for that to be done. We’re all cut slightly different. So when we do filler work, which is really the artistic part of esthetics, one size does not fit all.

Our eye gravitates towards symmetry, it’s really important. So we’ll measure angles and ratios because in beauty there’s science and in science there’s also math. So there is math to what we do, and we’ll actually measure out angles to see where we think what needs to be done and sometimes not often, but 20% of the time, someone will come in and I will say, I don’t think we should do anything with you. I think you look great.

What tends to be your clients’ biggest fears and concerns about any particular procedure?

Bruising. But people do bruise and bruises do go away. I think the biggest concern aside from the practical is they don’t want to look fake. We take care of hundreds of people in this community and I’ll ask [prospective clients], tell me the last time you saw somebody walking around here that looked that way. The nice thing about my practice is, people we’ve treated in the past, we’re still treating. I think to the credit of the practice, when we’ve had people who’ve gone to other locations I’d say half of them end up coming back here because the artistry is different. You can take the same doctors, the same fillers, and get completely different looks.

What are your best tips for optimal skin care?

Moisturizer and a sunblock are the most crucial. Everybody wants to look good when they need to look good but that requires you to do some maintenance along the way. You’re not going to take someone who is 55 and make them look 30, nor should you try. We want them to look really good for their age and that is something that I think can be done.

So stay out of the sun, don’t smoke, hydrate, wear your sunblock; avoid highly restrictive diets if not medically necessary (they can cause hair loss and acne), eat a rainbow of foods of all colors; good skin care products aren’t cheap, cheap products aren’t good and expensive products aren’t necessarily any better. So know your skin care products that you’re using.

There is a commitment that you make to your skin care because what you do when you come here is important but what you do every day that you’re not here is just as important if not more.

Filed Under: Lifestyles with our Sponsors Tagged With: Best, doctor, Dr. Josh Fink, Laser, Laser Expert, Mount Kisco Doctor

John Ehrlich, Ellie Loigman Chappaqua Interfaith Council Honored by Chappaqua Rotary Club

April 24, 2017 by Kelly Leonard

The Chappaqua Rotary gathered in March at its annual Charter Night Celebration at Crabtree’s Kittle House where outstanding community and student leaders were honored and recognized for their contributions in service. Three major awards were presented including the Paul Harris Fellow, named for the founder of the Rotary. This year’s Paul Harris Fellow was awarded to Rotary member and past president John Ehrlich, lauded for his tireless work on behalf of the New Castle community and the Rotary.

(L-R): Don Roane Past President; John Ehrlich receiving the Paul Harris Award/Recognition; and David Shields, President

Ehrlich has been a Chappaqua Rotary member for over 15 years and has worked on many of the Rotary events including leading two very successful blood drives. It was estimated Ehrlich’s efforts brought in in excess of over 1,000 units of blood. During his acceptance remarks Ehrlich noted, “If I can ask you to remember one thing, it’s not about me, it’s about we. It’s not what we have it’s what we can give. And what I love about this club, what I love about each of you is what we can all do together.”

Chappaqua Rotary presented its annual Community Service Award to the Chappaqua Interfaith Council. Club President Dave Shields said this year’s presentation was in recognition of the Council’s efforts to promote understanding, tolerance and acceptance through faith based initiatives.

The members of the council are Baha’I, Chappaqua Friends Meeting, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church of St. John and St. Mary, First Congregational Church, Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, and the Upper Westchester Muslim Society.

Representatives of various faiths that participate in the Council, including Jewish, Christian and Muslim congregations were present to receive the Award.

Other dignitaries and community leaders including Westchester County Legislator/Board Chair Michael B. Kaplowitz and Town of New Castle Supervisor Robert J. Greenstein were also present to honor the Council in this particularly relevant and timely mission.

HGHS Senior Ellie Loigman with County Legislator Mike Kaplowitz

Horace Greeley High School senior Ellie Loigman was honored with the Student Jill Goodman Community Service Award. Loigman is the current President of SHARE (Students Have a Responsibility Everywhere), Greeley’s oldest and largest community service organization involved in over a dozen charitable organizations. She also served as the Executive of the Horace

Greeley Scholarship Fund, Chairman of the Spelling Bee (which hosted over 200 participants and raised over $20,000), and as a member of Protégé Cares at Lighthouse Youth Theater that performs at local charity events.

Harvard bound in the fall, Loigman noted during her acceptance remarks, “I look forward to many more volunteer opportunities to come in college. I want to thank the Rotary Club for the award, Ms. Mullen and Ms. Devane the advisers of SHARE for making my experience so rewarding, and the other presidents and members of SHARE who bring so much to Greeley and to the town of Chappaqua.“

Filed Under: Chappaqua Community Tagged With: Chappaqua Interfaith Council, Chappaqua Rotary Club, Ellie Loigman, honor, John Ehrlich

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