Giving Back
By SOPHIA CASELNOVA
March 29, 2023
YORKTOWN, N.Y. - United for the Troops prepared its 30,000th care package to ship overseas for active military service members. The Yorktown community, local officials, and members of the organization gathered at a packing facility in Carmel to mark the occasion on March 5. The ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - LLS Student Visionaries of the year, Gabriella Rado and Caroline Majano, along with their fundraising team at Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School, raised over $40,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and people with blood cancer in their 7-week campaign that began on Jan.
YORKTOWN, N.Y. - A Yorktown girl has broken her own record raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation this past year. Isabella Sibiski, a 10-year-old Yorktown resident, collected 5,643 letters for Santa last year for the Macy’s letter collection campaign. Macy’s donates $2 for every card ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Naturally, the folks from the Somers Land Trust would prefer to be in the great outdoors, but for this one special occasion they were happy to be able to gather inside. After the pandemic struck, the nonprofit, all-volunteer organization wasn’t able to hold an in-person annual ...
SHRUB OAK, N.Y. - Feeding Westchester’s Mobile Food Pantry will be coming to Shrub Oak on Thursday, March 2, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. This specialized 26-foot refrigerated truck brings a “market on wheels” to underserved communities so that fresh, nutritious foods can be delivered directly to those ...
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - The SPCA in Briarcliff Manor removed approximately 100 cats from a Yorktown home on Jan. 31 and is currently accepting donations to help them. The cats were discovered following a wellness check at a home on Cordial Road in Yorktown where two people were found ...
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - Feeding Westchester has announced the dates for their upcoming Mobile Food Pantry events. On March 2, April 6, and May 4, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., this specialized 26-foot refrigerated truck brings a “market on wheels” to underserved communities so that fresh, nutritious foods ...
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - A GoFundMe page has been established to help the family of a Putnam Valley girl who suffered a severe brain injury after in a September car accident that took the life of a Mahopac man and injured two other teens. Emily Quinn, 15, is on a long journey to recovery after the ...
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - Earlier this month, a young pup named Maverick came through the doors of a Westchester Veterinary Associates facility. Struggling to eat, the weeks-old dog was diagnosed with an extremely rare medical condition that would cost about $10,000 to remediate. The financial cost ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - The Somers Lions Club is pleased to announce the winners of the recent Illuminate Somers contest. On Dec.16, hundreds of Somers residents took a tour of holiday decoration displays around town in their cars, led by the Somers Highway Department. They received hot chocolate, maps ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - The Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) Westchester-Fairfield region has chosen two juniors at Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School in Somers to be its 2023 Visionaries of the Year. Gabriella Rado and Caroline Majano of the Class of 2024, will chair school's regional LLS fundraising ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Kaethe Bierbach grew up in Chappaqua, spent 30 years as an administrator at the Thomas Watson Research in Yorktown and moved to Somers in 2019. She also joined the Presbyterian Church of Mt. Kisco in 1979 and has long been part of the social justice aspect of the congregation’s ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - The Somers Special Olympics team was chosen as the Training Club of the Year by the Hudson Valley Special Olympics organization. The team was recognized for its enthusiasm, dedication, participation, and support of Special Olympics. Pioneer team members, coaches, and volunteers ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Two local organizations that have been waging separate, but parallel and equally passionate, campaigns in the war against substance misuse are joining forces. Drug Crisis in Our Backyard, a nonprofit offering education and resources for folks struggling with addiction, was started ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Heritage Hills residents demonstrated their belief that the Christmas and Chanukah season is the season for giving, as a lively crowd gathered in the Heritage Hills Activity Center on Dec. 10 for the Toys for Tots Holiday Extravaganza. The price of admission was a new toy to be ...
MAHOPAC, N.Y. -- My family used to start each day by asking each other if we were going to make it a great day, what we would do to improve ourselves that day and what we could do to improve the life of someone else. On Nov. 5, it was the day to honor someone else. The day didn’t start like a ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Whether she’s dressing up as Mrs. Santa Claus to buoy community spirits, bringing a love of reading to the next generation, helping fellow seniors navigate their elder years, or acting as a faithful steward of local history, Somers’ Doris Jane Smith makes a lasting ...
BEDFORD, N.Y. - In the community spirit of giving, Temple Shaaray Tefilla of Bedford uses their kitchen and social hall with volunteers from churches, other synagogues, and the Muslim Society of Westchester to prepare meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other occasions for families in need. Each ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Since 1966, the Somers Lions Club has joined with our community, raising funds to help those in need. In the past year the club has donated money, in-kind service, and help to members of our community who need a hand up. Through Somers Cares, Somers Angels and hands-on repair ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - On Veterans Day, Girl Scouts and Daisies from Troop 1465, Troop 2219, and Troop 2765 paid a special visit to show their appreciation for those who served our country.
SOMERS, N.Y. - Somers Boy Scout Troop 228 recently dedicated a Memorial Tree at the Amawalk Firehouse in remembrance of the lives lost during the Covid pandemic. The tree is a Swamp White Oak, and was transplanted from another Troop 228 Eagle Scout service project in Anglefly Preserve. White ...
PAWLING, N.Y. - A simple gesture like a high-five or a warm smile can have a powerful effect on another person’s emotional state—and ordinary people can be agents of change. Spreading this message is one of the objectives of Shane’s Imagine-Nation, a non-profit organization that was founded by ...
WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - For the past year they’ve opened their arms to welcome strangers, displaced victims of war in faraway lands. Now, as the volunteers of ReSET Westchester mark their first anniversary helping homeless, tempest-tossed refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, the organization is ...
SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. - The South Salem Presbyterian Church will hold its Chip Andrus Chili Cook-Off from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter’s Longest Day fundraiser. The church is located at 111 Spring St. “The South Salem Presbyterian Church ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Join in for this wonderful Guiding Eyes for the Blind presentation which will include information on how a puppy becomes a guide dog, what volunteer opportunities are available and what a guide dog can do for a person with vision loss. Families will have time to ask questions and ...
On Friday, Oct. 21, prior to the Senior Game against Sleepy Hollow, the Somers football team sent out another set of Tuskers to read to the second graders at Primrose Elementary. This time, however, the team got to five classes in the grade, leaving a smile on the students’ faces, and more ...
SOMERS, N.Y. – If you hate litter, do something about it. That’s the rallying cry of Keep Somers Beautiful, a community group dedicated to keeping the town cleaner and greener. As the first Keep America Beautiful affiliate in Westchester, KSB is calling on all residents, businesses, clubs, ...
Come join us and fill up your soup bowl to help raise funds to feed those in need, Hillside Food Outreach home delivers healthy, nutritious food to all those in need of assistance with food who cannot access food pantries and who also need healthy food to help with medical conditions that are ...
SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. - Rock n’ Rescue proudly announces that somewhere between 50 -100 dogs, cats, guinea pigs and bunny rabbits will be on their way from the Bowling Green Warren County Humane Society in Kentucky. The final number won’t be determined until the end of the week as the shelter will ...
MAHOPAC, NY - Register now for the Putnam/Northern Westchester Women’s Resource Center (WRC) Annual 5K Walk to End Violence fundraiser on Sunday, September 18, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park, in Yorktown. This year’s event will honor Joseph and Jean Tock for their continuing support ...