Jeff Lewis

The RCC Senior Club is holding their monthly meeting Friday. Acting club President Lou Morris says the group will learn how to live to be 100 years old by eating healthy…

The meeting is this Friday at noon on the second floor of the RCC Student Union building, not at the Tech Center as it usually is. For more information and to learn more about the group, call 845-540-9739 or visit their website, http://rocklandcountyseniorclub.org. If you go you’re asked to bring a non-perishable food item for the RCC cupboard.

A blood drive is coming to Orangetown this week, and a local lawmaker is encouraging as many people as possible to come out and help replenish the blood supply. Rockland State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District says despite the county-wide blood drive this summer, the supplies continually need to be stocked some more…

That’s Friday, October 18th, from 8am to 3:30pm. Call Nyack Hospital at 845-348-8511 to find out if you qualify and to register, or you can call Senator Weber’s office at 845-623-3627. Good Sam’s Breast Center also offers free screenings for those that qualify. For more information about the Good Sam Center for Breast Health, click here. To donate blood on Friday with the Blauvelt Volunteer Fire Company, click here to register. It’s taking place this Friday from 1:30pm to 7:30pm at the firehouse located at 548 Western Highway in Blauvelt.

Several rescue teams from Rockland and Westchester rescued a 21 year-old man who survived a jump from midspan of the Tappan Zee Bridge Sunday afternoon. That’s according to DailyVoice.com. The man was suffering from bruised ribs and hypothermia when he was taken from the Hudson River by rescue swimmers of Marine 5. The Irvington-on-Hudson man was taken to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. No update on his condition.

A free, virtual presentation to help people understand and help deal with teens and their mental health is coming later this month thanks to the Rockland chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the West Hudson Psychiatric Society and other organizations. Dr. Laura Antar is a New City psychiatrist specializing in anxiety and depression, and she says the October 24th presentation by clinical psychologist Dr. Alec Miller, will focus on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for adolescents… 

NAMI Rockland’s free “Breaking the Silence” public forum called “Making Sense of Teens, Screens, and Family Life through the Lens of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy” is a two-hour presentation being held online on October 24th at 7PM. For more information and to register for the event, click here.