The Rotary combined community service with a friendly barbeque, beautifying the new park.
Several Rotarians and their families participated in the building of the Arthur J. Jones Memorial Playground at the intersection of Sherman Place and Park Avenue.
The Arthur J. Jones Memorial Park was created in tribute to Arthur Jones, who died on September 11, 2001, and whose wife, Carol, still lives in Ossining with their four children. The entire project is being financed through private and corporate donations.
June 16th, 2005
Rotary had costumed characters all day at the Village Fair, posing for free photos with the kids.
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March 16th., 2005
The Ossining Rotary Club contributed not only cash to the Science Fair, we also provided an official Judge, who reported that he liked the first graders' projects the best.
March 9th, 2005 Linda Atkinson, actor, director and screenwriter, described the privately funded Rehabilitation Throught the Arts
program at Sing Sing Prison. The prisoners put on two plays a year and attend
acting and playwriting classes. Ms. Atkinson explained that the program results in a recidivism rate for the graduates of 2%, compared to
a 60% rate for non-attendees. Dino, one of the graduates of the program, will be
seen in the new movie, The Producers as one of the dancers.
The young men and women of the OHS Interact Club dedicated last Sunday to staffing tables set up in front of CTown, Mrs. Green's and the Ossining Public Library. Together they sold greeting cards (see below), blue ribbons and donated baked goods.
In total, they took in $2000 in sales and donations from the supermarket and library patrons.
With a $500 contribution from the Rotary Club and a matching grant of $2500
from Habitat for Humanity, the total raised by Interact was $5000,
which will be used by the local Habitat for Humanity group in Asia to
build 100 houses.
January 26th, 2005 The Ossining Rotary Club was one of one hundred
in the nation singled out for the honor of a visit from the U.S. bell as it makes its way toward the Centennial Rotary International Convention Convention in Chicago.
December 15th, 2004. The Rotary Club made its annual contribution of toys and gifts to St. Matthew's Head Start Program and
Day Care Center.
November 3rd, 2004. The Ossining Rotary Club awarded Interact $400 to be used to buy breast cancer awareness
bands from The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The bands will be
resold to OHS students and the proceeds used by Interact to fund other projects.
Mary Beth told us of her year in Namibia and Bangladesh. In Namibia, the Catholic
Action Center registered over 17,000 orphans living on the streets, and Mary Beth
worked with 135 of them, organizing games, crafts, singing -- even a scavenger hunt.
In Bangladesh, the most densely populated country in the world, Mary Beth was welcomed
into Muslim, Christian and Hindu homes. There she discovered a group of women
who make wonderful hand crafted cards, which are available for sale at only $2 each
by writing to jpsenter@agnionline.com.