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Give Back with a Backpack

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While many, if not most, people think of Westchester as an affluent county, there are thousands of youth that suffer from poverty and homelessness. Each year, WJCS-Westchester Jewish Community Services, one of the largest human service organizations in Westchester, partners with county synagogues to provide Westchester children from low-income backgrounds with new backpacks that are filled with supplies and an Old Navy gift card to buy a first day of school outfit.

“For more than 15 years, WJCS has led a Back-to-School Drive to ensure that children, whose parents cannot afford to purchase school clothes and supplies, feel ready to start the school year,” said WJCS CEO Seth Diamond. “This has been a long-term commitment for WJCS. With this season’s drive, we will have provided 10,000 Westchester children with school supplies.”

To help support WJCS, in August, the UJA-Federation of New York in Westchester hosted Supplies for Success: Give Back with a Backpack at Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester. Children and adult volunteers assembled backpacks with back-to-school supplies for schoolchildren in grades K-6 from under-resourced communities in Westchester.

8th Annual Fundraising Swim at Chappaqua Swim & Tennis Raises More Than $72,000 for Swim Across America

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For the eighth consecutive year, swimmers at Chappaqua Swim & Tennis (CST) made waves against cancer, raising over $72,000 for Swim Across America Long Island Sound. Swimmers of every age – 126 in all! – participated in the annual summer fundraising event, which took place on July 28.

Proceeds from the swim will support the Swim Across America Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, pediatric oncology research at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and patient services with Westchester-based Cancer Support Team.

Global Lyme Alliance Shop for a Cure

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The Global Lyme Alliance’s 2nd Annual Shop for a Cure May event was a fun morning of shopping and an informative Q & A presentation about preventimg tick-borne illnesses. Pictured are moderator Dr. Tania Tyles Dempsey (left) and event organizers Alyssa Sokoloff (middle) and Robin Jacobs (right). To learn more about Lyme disease, visit www.globallymealliance.org. – Stacey Pfeffer, Editor

Nothing Sweeter: The 82nd Annual Strawberry Festival

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There was fun anticipated for all on June 1; there’s also nothing sweeter than the sound of children of all ages enjoying carnival games and rides. And for 82 years, this time-honored tradition has been upheld in Chappaqua at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin’s Strawberry Festival. Live music, a petting zoo and vendors including those selling strawberry shortcake round out the fun-filled day. For so many area residents, it’s always a great way to start your summer fun and stock up on scrumptious strawberry jam.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin

191 South Greeley Avenue

Chappaqua

COMPLICIT: A May 9 Film and Discussion at ChappPAC

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The documentary Complicit will be shown on May 9 at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center. The filmmaker, Ruth Kalish, will provide a post screening talk. A representative from HIAS will also speak about current immigration and refugee policies and issues.

Complicit follows the story of the SS St. Louis, which left Germany in 1939 and was refused safe haven from Cuba, the U.S., and Canada and had to return to Germany (the film Voyage of the Damned follows this story). In this documentary, the film puts the Roosevelt Administration on trial for their complicity in not allowing refugees to seek safe haven in the U.S.

Reduced price student tickets are available “in the hope that you will bring your children,” stated  Michele Gregson, a founding member of the Friends of the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center.

See link for tickets below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For tickets, please use the following link “and share with your friends!”

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4208627