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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

Save the Date: Kids’ Kloset Fashion Show March 8th

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Strike a pose! Junior models from ages 5-15 will traipse down the runway all in the name of raising critical funds for Kids Kloset, a North White Plains non-profit that donates clothing and footwear to local children in need. Since the non-profit opened their doors in 2011, they have packed over 19,000 “Bags of Love” containing a week’s worth of new or gently used, stylish, well-fitting and seasonally appropriate clothing and footwear. They have also distributed more than 5,000 winter coats and thousands of diapers through their recently launched program Baby Bank. The event will be held at the Willow Ridge Country Club from 4-6:30 p.m. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit 914cares.org/kids-kloset/.