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Break Dancer Finds Footing While Trying to Heal a Rift - The New York Times
01/21/2016 | News Articles | Share
“I fell right into it,” he said. “I started learning moves every other day.”
Mr. Diaz immersed himself in dancing to avoid what he said was a troubled home life. He was raised by a single mother who had a drug addiction and whose parenting style swung between neglect and antagonism.
“It was up and down, sad, angry, screaming,” Mr...
Food pantry collection drive launches in Yonkers - LoHud
01/15/2016 | News Articles | Share
In 2015, Feeding Our Neighbors raised the equivalent of 1.3 million meals, supported by $93,000 in cash donations and more than 17,000 pounds of food collected at ShopRite's Hudson Valley locations and 26 ShopRite supermarkets launched this year’s archdiocesan-wide Feeding Our Neighbors campaign Thursday.
The stores will participate...
Feeding Our Neighbors campaign launched - Mid Hudson News
01/13/2016 | News Articles | Share
NEW WINDSOR – Catholic Charities and ShopRite announced the beginning of this year’s “Feeding Our Neighbors” campaign. “Feeding Our Neighbors” is an annual food drive to support local food pantries and banks in the After-Holiday season when many of them have been depleted.
Representatives from Catholic Charities, ShopRite and Orange...
A Family Emerges Even Closer From Times of Darkness - New York Times
01/13/2016 | New York Times Neediest Cases | Share
Over the course of 10 months in the Negron household, starting in spring 2014, darkness became routine.
With the family’s electricity shut off because of nonpayment, the youngest child, Nelson, 13, used a battery-powered lantern on his short walk from the kitchen to the cluttered bedroom he shares with his two older brothers. An...
De Blasio holds out ‘hope’ for state partnership on homelessness - Politico New York
01/12/2016 | News Articles | Share
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced the formation of a task force made up of a “brain trust” of nonprofit homeless services providers to help the city with its plans to create 15,000 units of supportive housing for the city’s homeless and mentally ill over the next 15 years.
The task force is made up representatives of more than a...
After Disaster and Breakup, a Mother Strives for an Education - The New York Times
01/12/2016 | New York Times Neediest Cases | Share
Marlin Hernandez sat at the front of her classes to better understand her teachers because English was not her native language. If she still struggled with words or concepts, she sought tutoring. No matter how exhausted she was, Ms. Hernandez remained dedicated to her studies.
“I used to wake up at 6 o’clock in the morning, go to my...
Make Meals For Those In Need In Mount Pleasant To Honor MLK Day - The Daily Voice (Mount Pleasant)
01/12/2016 | News Articles | Share
MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. -- The UJA-Federation of New York Westchester Community and Volunteer Services and Engage Jewish Service Corps are holding a MLK Day of Service in Mount Pleasant on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday Jan. 18.
The event will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Sally & Anthony Mann Center in Mount Pleasant.
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New Pressures, and Commitments, After Fire Takes Family’s Home - The New York Times
01/11/2016 | New York Times Neediest Cases | Share
Tajiauna Spence and three of her daughters ate dinner at a McDonald’s in Chelsea late last month. Her grandson, Styles, was the center of the group’s affections as he played with his gloves and made random demands.
“I want my toy,” he said.
“You got to eat your food first,” Ms. Spence said. “Then you get the toy.”
A holiday...
Taking Control After a Tumultuous Childhood - The New York Times
01/10/2016 | New York Times Neediest Cases | Share
Before she even knew what the word “advocate” meant, Jasmin Gonzalez was doing it for herself and her three sisters. All four were taken away from their drug-addicted parents and placed into foster care when Ms. Gonzalez was 3 years old. Memories of abuse by her first foster parents remain vivid.
“I remember I was eating soup,” she said...
Catholic Charities Announces 2016 Caritas Award Honorees - Hudson Valley News Network
01/08/2016 | News Articles | Share
Goshen – Dr. Dean Scher, Executive Director of Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County (CCCSOC), and Board Chair Susan Murray-Tetz are pleased to announce the names of Catholic Charities’ 2016 Caritas Award honorees.
The 2016 Caritas Award honorees are:
- Most Rev. Dominick J. Lagonegro, Vicar of the Northern...
From Peekskill to Paris - America The National Catholic Review
01/06/2016 | News Articles | Share
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference ends tomorrow, and I am fixed on Paris and all it holds, both in peril and in promise.
In anticipation of the climate conference, or COP 21, I, along with my fellow Dominican Sisters of Hope, participated in a countywide climate rally, “Peekskill to Paris,” which our community co-...
