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Rockland Group Basis Pronounces 2023 Signature Awards Reception Honorees
The Rockland Group Basis (RCF) will honor Tina Campbell, Alison Crowther and Suffrage Ahead Fund Committee Members at its Signature Awards Reception on March 30, from 5:30 to eight:00 pm on the Crowne Plaza Lodge (Atrium Space), at 3 Govt Blvd in Suffern, NY.
The occasion celebrates people who’ve made a constructive influence on the group by means of philanthropy, which this 12 months consists of two extraordinary feminine fundholders in addition to a fund devoted to feminine empowerment.
This 12 months’s honorees are:
- Tina Campbell, Group Council Fundholder, TriState Grasp Networks
Tina launched the Group Council to boost the group’s mission of “constructing a gaggle of entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders who’re learning-based and community-minded.” Her imaginative and prescient was to deliver collectively member specialists and volunteers with a ardour for group outreach and create a grassroots effort to attach with these in want. Grasp Networks hosts a wide range of occasions all year long, every of which has a group assist part.
- Alison Crowther, Fundholder of The Welles Remy Crowther Purple Bandanna Memorial Scholarship Fund
Alison established the Welles Remy Crowther Belief in September 2001 to honor and preserve her son’s reminiscence alive by means of good works benefiting younger folks. The Welles Remy Crowther Purple Bandanna Memorial Scholarship is a tribute to the braveness and heroism of 24-year-old Welles Remy Crowther (“The Man in The Purple Bandanna”), who rescued many on 9/11 earlier than he in the end perished. The scholarship is awarded to a deserving high-school graduate selecting to pursue a profession in hearth and emergency companies or health-related companies.
- Suffrage Ahead Fund Committee Members Joe Allen, Cristina Biaggi, Harriet Cornell, Lilian Morvay, Robin Rosenberg, and Paulette Ross, Chair
Suffrage Ahead was based in 2020 to mark the a centesimal anniversary of the nineteenth modification, which affirmed girls’s proper to vote and granted them the ability to form coverage. The Fund’s Committee members take an lively position in serving to to additional Suffrage Ahead’s ongoing mission to empower girls and create consciousness amongst all folks of feminine energy and resiliency.
Tickets for the occasion value $150 per particular person and can be found https://rocklandgives.org/signature-award-2023/ . Attendees are handled to hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, dessert, complimentary wine or beer; the occasion additionally features a silent public sale, prizes, and extra!
The Basis additionally introduced that will probably be donating 10 p.c of ticket sale earnings again to every of the funds to strengthen their dedication to enhancing the group by means of philanthropy.
RCF is looking for occasion sponsors in addition to journal adverts for the occasion, providing a wide range of sponsorship and promoting packages. For sponsorship questions or further info, contact: Cara Kuo, cara@rocklandgives.org.
Dominican College New York Secures $1.98 Million Federal Grant For Enhanced Expertise
Dominican College New York has been awarded a $1.98 million federal grant to offer the campus group with enhanced expertise, elevated broadband entry, and extra IT coaching and assist. The grant is a part of the Biden Administration’s Web for All initiative and comes from the Division of Commerce’s Nationwide Telecommunications and Info Administration (NTIA).
Final week, the NTIA introduced that 61 minority-serving faculties and universities throughout the nation acquired grants by means of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. Dominican College New York was the one establishment of upper schooling in New York State to obtain a grant, in accordance with the College.
“We’re so grateful to have secured this grant which can allow us to fund technological enhancements on campus and can enormously improve the academic expertise of our college students,” stated Sr. Mary Eileen O’Brien, O.P., Ph.D., President, Dominican College New York.
The undertaking entitled “DU Connections: Constructing Broadband and IT Capability” has a lot of elements.
- Wi-fi entry on the Dominican College campus shall be improved with the addition of wi-fi entry factors.
- The College will buy hotspot entry gear, Wi-Fi extenders, and headphones to be lent to college students for long-term use.
- Extra IT workers members shall be employed to supply technological coaching and assist to college students, school, and workers on inside techniques equivalent to Jenzabar, Blackboard, the DUNY app, and different software program packages that assist the academic mission.
- Video cameras and podcasting gear shall be bought to facilitate experiential studying with expertise on campus and improve distant studying.
- Extra pupil interns shall be employed within the IT workplace to supply further help to the DU group and to strengthen their abilities.
These actions shall be developed and administered by a undertaking management workforce that shall be led by Russell Diaz, Chief Info Officer.
American Dream’s Water Park Reopens After State Investigated Helicopter Accident
The Dream Works Water Park at American Dream has reopened after the New Jersey Division of Group Affairs (DCA) investigated an accident that injured 4 folks after a big helicopter fell from the ceiling and right into a pool within the indoor water park.
The DCA’s investigation of the helicopter’s elements discovered that harm on the wire rope that held up the helicopter was a “direct contributing issue to the reason for the wire rope’s failure” and the ornament has since been completely eliminated,” stated DCA spokesperson Lisa Ryan.
Inspectors stated the ornamental helicopter was in any other case sound and secure for use.
“Upon evaluation of the experiences and the engineering agency’s findings, DCA has licensed the abatement of violations issued from the State Building Workplace and from the Amusement Experience Security Unit. All points of interest situated within the waterpark at American Dream have been launched by DCA to proceed operation to the general public,” Ryan stated.
Authorities stated not one of the accidents had been life-threatening.
Dental 365 Expands To Pomona
Actual Property Dealer Samuel Hartstein of Gemstone Realty Group LLC has signed a brand new tenant at 14 Thiells Mt Ivy in Pomona for a 1,914 square-foot house for a dental workplace, Dental 365.
David Townes of Cushman Wakefield represented the owner.
Dental365 supplies handy and inexpensive dental take care of all the household, in accordance with the corporate’s web site. Dental365 has a number of areas all through New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. There’s a location at 195 South Most important Road, New Metropolis and at 1 Crosfield Ave in West Nyack.
Gemstone Realty Group LLC additionally represented Williamsburg Pediatrics in a 2,800 square-foot ten-year lease at 14 Thiells Mt. Ivy in Pomona. That is Williamsburg Pediatrics’ seventh location, and second in Rockland County.
David Townes Cushman & Wakefield represented the owner, Pyramid Building Group.
