Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’

CUNY Works: Volunteering for Sandy’s Victims

Written by NYPress on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Squads of CUNY students spent Saturday, Nov. 17, helping with cleanup and solace after Hurricane Sandy. Leading the College of Staten Island’s effort was alumna and graduate student Mary Beth Melendez, who is blind. CNN journalist Anderson Cooper had met her after the storm, when she was bringing homemade food to those in need. On
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Filling the Hunger Gap

Written by Paul Bisceglio on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

West Side Campaign Against Hunger passes goal in Thousand Turkey Challenge West Side Campaign Against Hunger stocked a special item in their pantry this past week: a whole lot of turkeys. The nonprofit, located in the basement of the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew at 262 W. 86th St., co-sponsored the second annual
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Ways to Help Fellow New Yorkers This Holiday Season

Written by NY Press on . Posted in Blog, News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

tgiving By Caroline Lewis Every year, around this time, people start thinking about all the turkey they’re going to eat, the days they will take off from work to be with family and other small gifts for which they are grateful, and they remember those less fortunate. Local soup kitchens and other downtown nonprofits prepare for
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How the film award season is akin to political campaigning

Written by admin on . Posted in On Topic OTDT

By Tom Hall On the Monday night following the long Thanksgiving weekend, New York City’s independent film community gathered in Lower Manhattan for the Gotham Awards, an annual fundraising event for the ever-vital Independent Feature Project [Full disclosure, I serve on the nominating committee for the Gotham Awards’ Documentary Film category]. The ceremony put the
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Extended Season of Thanks

Written by admin on . Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“Thanksgiving should be at least a week earlier,” my neighbor Karyn, a teacher, wisely opined. Too much is crunched into December. Personally, there’s also my birthday on St. Nicholas Day (a most kindly saint) and two family birthdays Dec. 30, and it’s also family reunion time. Too much to crunch into this column, too, but
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