SHS Baseball Team Reaches Semifinals
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Andrew Halperin stops a home run with an amazing catch. Raiders line up for the national anthem before the game. Nate Ware slides into second for a double. Ben Brody congratulates Jack Callahan for 6 shutout innings. Evan Maroney smacks a double in playoff win.
SFCS Gala Honors Scarsdale Business Community
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Amy Smith, Maryellen Saenger, Jay Genova, David Duffy, Eric Kelly, Joan Caputo, Justine Carino Sitting: Lauren Pomerantz, Emily Vallario, Jenna Horowitz, Judy Levin, Shirley Azoulai, Joanne Ricciardella, Allison Hartman Janice Starr, Diane Greenwald, Denise Koslowsky and Dara Gruenberg
The gala raised needed funds to support SFCS, a voluntary, not-for-profit family counseling agency that has provided service since 1920 to those who live or work in the greater Scarsdale area. The mission of the Agency is to be a center for family growth and learning, a place where families, couples and individuals can find help with the normal problems of daily living, as well as crises; to enhance the functioning of the family and its individual members through family life education; to stimulate social thinking and action to better social conditions; and to cooperate with other organizations for this purpose. Contributions are still welcome; please call SFCS at (914) 723-3281.
Andy and Carrie Banks with Jeff Koslowsky
Bravo to the Models!
SFCS Board: Top Row Bill Miller, Ed Feinberg, Fran Galloway, John Werner, Michael Duncanson Jane Nusbaum, David Lee, Harriet Sobol, Patricia Waldeck, Elise Flagg, Cynthia Samwick Deena Rosenthal, Janice Starr, Marcia Helbling, Joy Brownstein, Kathy Steves, Susan Greenberg, Denise Koslowsky, Joan Weiner
Reclaiming South Fox Meadow Brook
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Cynthia Roberts. Trustee Deb Pekarek, Jon Leslie and Madelaine Eppenstein Mayor Dan Hochvert and Luckner Metellus from the Scarsdale Parks Department.
The "trib" that is the focal point of this planting effort is South Fox Meadow Brook which is a tributary of the Bronx River. The brook runs through the Harwood Park wetland. Prior to initiating the reclamation program three years ago, the Harwood wetlands area had been used as a site for piling snow cleared from Village roads during the winter and was otherwise generally notable for the benign neglect with which grass, shrubs and trees on the site grew, decayed and fell. Harwood Park is neglected no longer. Three years ago, using the South Fox Meadow Brook as a focal point, an initial effort was made to reclaim the banks of the brook and the surrounding wetland by planting hundreds of trees and shrubs donated by NYDEC.
The results of that first effort are clearly visible in the growth of the plantings from 2014. NYDEC has been enthusiastic about Scarsdale's planting effort and according to Madelaine Eppenstein of Friends of Scarsdale Parks, NYDEC contacted the FOSP this year to see if Scarsdale was interested in doing additional plantings. The answer was an equally enthusiastic "yes" and organizing today's event was undertaken by Brian Gray, Superintendent of the Scarsdale Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation.
Mayor Dan Hochvert, long a FOSP supporter, and Trustees Finger, Pekarek, Ross, Samwick and Veron participated in the planting at various times during the day joining the more than 100 resident volunteers and Village staff who toiled in the balmy April air for the benefit of the Village.
Article and photos by former Scarsdale Mayor Jon Mark
Community Garden Celebration and Donations Needed for Grad Bag
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The SHS Garden Club is celebrating its 10th anniversary!
The main mission of the Scarsdale High School Garden Club, lead by teacher Mrs. Favretti, has remained the same all these years: to provide healthy organic food to local soup kitchens and food pantries (this year, Grace Church and Eastchester Community Action Program). Each year since 2011, they have achieved their goal of at least 1500 pounds of food donated. Students in the garden club prepare fresh veggies. Join as a club volunteer!
At the same time, the garden is an outdoor classroom and gathering place. At least one teacher in each department (and in some departments many more) uses the garden for instruction.
The club would like to invite the whole community to consider volunteering in the garden in the summer months. They have had volunteers ages 5 to 95, and many in between. The summer months can be tough for the garden, but with volunteer help the club can get through and not waste food that can be donated. They need weeders and harvester/donators!
Everyone is also welcome to enjoy the Annual Volunteer Appreciation Potluck Picnic and Work Day, May 20 from 10-3 at the SHS Garden and room 2N5. Sign up by contacting Maggie Favretti, mfavretti@scarsdaleschools.org, 914-721-2567. If you are a Yale alum, please also register through Yale Day of Service online!
Grad Bag is looking for donations!
Grad Bag is a green initiative to re-use dorm supplies. They collect, clean, package and re-distribute dorm room items to soon-to-be college students who don't have the means to buy these things on their own.
Grad Bag is collecting used dorm room items and college graduation is around the corner. Do you know a college senior (or any student) who is moving out of a dorm room? Don't throw those XL bed sheets away!
They collect directly at colleges in addition to local efforts. Grad Bag is currently looking for gently used linens, storage boxes, lamps, etc. They will take used camp bed linens and blankets as well.
For more information please contact: liz@gradbag.org or tara@gradbag.org and check out their website, www.gradbag.org.
Food Scraps to Free Compost
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Michelle Sterling and Ron Schulhof with residents shoveling compost.
The compost give-away was a tangible, beneficial return from the food scraps recycling pilot program that began in January 2017. Under the voluntary program, participating residents collect food scraps at home in small plastic buckets. The collected food scraps are then taken by the residents to the Secor Road Recycling Center to be dumped into large bins designated for the purpose. A contractor picks up the food scraps from the Recycling Center and carts them to a composter out of town. The compost given away today was the product of that process. Reception of the program has been strong with hundreds of residents now participating and depositing more than a ton of food scraps at the Recycling Center per week. The response to Saturday's free compost was also enthusiastic. The Recycling Center opened at 8:00 am with a line of cars waiting to pick up compost. By 10:00 am more than half the compost had been picked up to be spread by residents on home gardens and lawns.
Residents not yet participating in the food scraps recycling program and who wish to do so, can purchase a home collection kit for $20 (cost) at the recycling center. More information about the food scraps recycling program can be found here.
This article was contributed by former Scarsdale Mayor Jon Mark. During his tenure, Scarsdale enacted Westchester County's first food scrap recycling program.