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Open Gardens: April 26 Rivendel, Ossining

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Calling all aspiring green thumbs and nature photographers. Get ready to be inspired at Rivendel, a picturesque, mature, rocky, un-mulched shade garden in Ossining, with a pond, stream, and greenhouse. As part of The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days, private gardens are open to the public throughout the spring and summer.

Throughout Rivendel’s few acres, design and appearance have been dictated by a difficult and daunting plot, which was tilled and toiled since the second half of the eighteenth century, by manumitted slaves, who went on to became among the earliest African-American land owners in the newly formed United States.

Their unique Heddy Burying Ground is visible in front and is accessible from Spring Valley Road, where parking is available. Terrain is steep in places. A Manhattan schist 150-foot cliff and woodland walk skirts the far side of the pond, also accessible from Spring Valley Road.

Rivendel is on Spring Valley Road (#106 on satellite maps) which runs parallel to and just north of Route 134, mid-way between the Taconic State Parkway and Route 9A. It is 1 mile west of the Teatown Nature Preserve. Admission is $10 and children under 12 are free. Photography is permitted and the garden is handicap-accessible. Additional information is available at gardenconservancy.org.

Sheep to Shawl: Philipsburg Manor Event in Sleepy Hollow POSTPONED

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EDITOR’S NOTE:  Please note that all of the Garden Conservancy Open Days have been canceled up through Mother’s Day at this point.

The Sleepy Hollow’s Philipsburg Manor for Sheep-to-Shawl event originally scheduled for April 18 and 19 had planned to include on-site activities include crafts for children, including a giant 20-foot diameter weaving project.  Fashionista visitors can check out Project Colonial Runway all while tapping their feet to a live bluegrass band.

Visitors to this event will be invited to follow the process of textile creation, from the sheep’s back to yarn, experiencing the entire process of turning wool into cloth, watching as sheep are shorn by hand, and taking a turn dyeing and weaving the finished product–all done just like it was over 300 years ago! Updates at hudsonvalley.org.

This is a view of the Sheep-to-Shawl event at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. on April 23, 2017. (Photo by Tom Nycz)

 

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 CLOSURES: a Survival Benefit with LIVE MUSIC FROM RED GRENADINE

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Red Grenadine will be performing at Lucy’s Lounge in Pleasantville on March 27, 8 p.m., to help raise funds toward cancer research. A $25 donation will be collected at the door. Come one, come all!  “We are participating in this fundraiser because it allows us to help support such a worthy cause while doing what we love to do,” Jenn Filardi, one of the lead singers of Red Grenadine, told the Inside Press.  

100% of the evening’s proceeds will go directly “toward cutting edge research at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.”

For more about Red Grenadine: https://www.theinsidepress.com/its-only-rock-n-roll-and-these-parents-love-it/

For more information about Cycle for Survival: https://www.cycleforsurvival.org

 

15th Annual A Tree Grows in Pleasantville Fundraiser Raises More Than $440,000

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Tree event honoree Judy Shapiro, of Armonk, with her husband Cliff / Photo BY Eduardo Patino

The benefit, now in its 15th year, supports JCCA’s Pleasantville Cottage Campus programs for vulnerable children with serious emotional and family problems. This year’s event focused on enhancing the well-being and safety of the children and young people who JCCA cares for. The costs of many of the services JCCA provides—tutoring, therapeutic arts, recreation and internships—are not completely supported through government reimbursement. Yet these are some of the very things that have the greatest impact on a child’s sense of self-worth and happiness, and help them feel loved and no different than children who are far more fortunate.

The event was co-chaired by Leah Alani, of Chappaqua; Alisa Gershman, of Briarcliff Manor; and Ali Rosenberg, of Mount Kisco. JCCA Trustee Stephanie Spiegel, of Chappaqua, was one of the original co-chairs of the first Tree fundraiser in 2006 and served as Honorary Co-Chair for the 2020 event.

Honorees were Steffi Green, of Chappaqua; Jen Krugel, of Chappaqua; Judy Shapiro, of Armonk; and Liz Templeton, of Chappaqua. All have been dedicated Pleasantville Campus volunteers for many years, volunteering alongside their own children and families, and provided countless hugs, smiles, and emotional support to hundreds of campus youth.

(914)Cares Inaugural Poverty Symposium Spotlights Those in Need

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The Westchester Poverty Symposium was an opportunity for individuals to come together to learn about innovative, community-driven partnerships focused on helping those in need. Elected officials, non-profit organizations and several school districts attended the sold-out event and learned actionable items to help the estimated 10% of Westchester residents living in poverty.

Mayor Andre Rainey (Peekskill),
Chairwoman of (914) Cares Jessica Reinmann,
Mayor Gina Picinich (Mt. Kisco)
Marie (Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year for NYS), Alyzza Ozer (CEO Boys and Girls Club Northern Westchester, Jessica Reinmann
Mayor Andre Rainey, Jessica Reinmann, Carola