If you’re thinking about helping a local non-profit, thirty of them will be at Palisades Center tomorrow, many of them looking for volunteers. The Alzheimer’s Association, the Tolstoy Foundation Rehabilitation Center, United Hospice of Rockland and others will be in the East Court on Level One near H&M for the Palisades Center Non-Profit Fair. The event runs from noon until 4pm.
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Two Rockland Not-For-Profits Get $10K each from Blauvelt Car Dealership
Two of the groups that will be at Palisades Center’s Non-profit fair got a large donation from an area car dealer yesterday. Lia Toyota of Rockland celebrated its grand re-opening on Route 303 in Blauvelt yesterday, and gave BRIDGES and Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Rockland County $10,000 each. Lia’s General Manager John Vitro says giving money to BRIDGES was a perfect fit because his father is a retired veteran…
BRIDGES’ Executive Director Carlos Martinez says the money will help support services for veterans with disabilities…
Scott Milich is on Big Brothers-Big Sisters’ board of directors, and says the money will help them with several programs…
And that was Gillian Ballard, President of Big Brothers-Big Sisters. For information about them, visit BBBSofRC.com. For more information about BRIDGES visit their website, BridgesRC.org.
Free Paper Shredding and Fire Department Open House in Stony Point This Weekend
If you need to have any papers shredded, you can do that for free up in Stony Point tomorrow…
That was Stony Point supervisor Jim Monaghan. The event runs from 8-noon at Letchworth Village on Patriot Hills Drive. Then on Sunday the Wayne Hose Company Number One Fire Department is hosting its Fire Prevention Open House…
The firehouse is located on Central Highway and the event runs Sunday from 10am to 2pm.
Ramapo: Ballpark Lost Nearly $500K in 2018; 2019 Losses Likely to be Less
The ballpark in Pomona continues to be a drain on resources in Ramapo, but it looks like it’ll be less of a drain this year. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht says the stadium lost around $495,000 in 2018…
And that’s the forecast for 2019. The Boulders’ V-P of Business Development Seth Cantor is proud the Rockland Boulders baseball team that plays there is entering its tenth season next year…
The town is still waiting for a final report from a consultant who studied the ballpark and will be suggesting ways more money can be made from it. The park opened on June 16th, 2011.
RCC to Host “A Celebration of Coming Out” on National Coming Out Day Next Week
Rockland Community College is hosting “A Celebration of Coming Out,” on Tuesday, to celebrate national “Coming Out” day. RCC Professor Kay Copp Brown helped organize the event, and says it’ll include a student-led panel discussion and open dialogue in a safe, inclusive, and supportive space to explore LGBTQ experiences of coming out…
The event is free and open to anyone. It gets underway Tuesday, October 15th from 12:30 – 1:30 pm in the RCC Technology Center Ellipse.