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"You're a shining star. No matter who you are."

Legacy Gala 2016-Live Auction Highlight of the Day!

10/31/2016

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Nyack Center's Legacy Gala is this Sat. Nov. 5 honoring Donna Cox, Susan Wilmink & Thomas Schneck. A fabulous evening of live music, delicious food, decor by Festoon, live and silent auction, auctioneer extrordinaire Ned Kelly, desserts by Nyack's favorite french patisserie Didier Dumas all to benefit Nyack Center. 
​Dont' delay... we have been sold out the last 2 years!
go to www.nyackcenter.org to purchase tickets

#nyackcenter #legacygala #community



​To see recent article in the Journal News about the event, Nyack Center's mission and Make a Difference Scholarship go to-
www.lohud.com/story/life/2016/11/01/nyack-gala-promotes-community-prince-trib


Live Auction Highlight of the Day!

 
Ski & Stay Escape! It is time to meet Haystack Mountain and make it your own with this 3-Day Ski & Stay Experience at The Hermitage Club, a private, four-season community celebrating the outdoors and family fun.  This ultimate ski experience accommodates a family of four for 2 nights and 3 days at either The White House Inn, Inn at Saw Mill Farm or Snow Goose Inn (up to 2 rooms per night).  The lucky winner will have three days of access (from arrival day through departure day) to Hermitage Club top-notch amenities for 4 guests including:
 
·      Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding
·      Cross Country Skiing (XC Ski Rentals Included!)
·      Tubing and Ice Skating (skate rentals included)
·      Access to Clubhouse, Fitness Center and Family Center
 
Located in Deerfield Valley in Southern Vermont, members enjoy the finer things in life with NO LIFT LINES and UNCROWDED TRAILS, and other seasonal recreational activities. The 80,000 square foot newly built, clubhouse is impressive and equipped with state of the art fitness center, luxurious spa, fine dining and much more!  
 
Generously donated by Noemi & Michael Radziemski and The Hermitage Club
 
Value:  $3,000 Minimum bid: $800
Advance reservations required.  Not valid during holiday periods including Christmas Day through New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Weekend and Presidents Weekend) and special events weekends. 
 
Click here www.hermitageclub.com to view why this is the Best Ski Experience on the East Coast!

​…The Yankees Win!
– Any NY Yankees Fan will be on top with these two field seat tickets to a NY Yankee 2016 Season game - Section 121B row 12 seats 1 and 2.  Enjoy the tremendous views and all Yankee Stadium has to offer behind home plate. 
Generously donated by:  Anonymous Donor

 

One of our Legacy Honorees

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​Donna Cox
 
   This quote sits at the top of Donna Cox’s website: "The distance between mediocre and exceptional is measured in steps. Always take the extra steps and you will always be exceptional." It was the favorite expression of Donna’s Father, Donald Scruggs and continues to guide and inspire Donna both personally and professionally to try to make the world a better place – one step at a time.
   For 10 years Nyack resident Cox has sponsored the center's annual June event, "Men Cooking," one of the largest fundraisers for Nyack Center. Cox is a founding member of Rockland County's first LGBT Center; supports Gay Pride Rockland, People to People and the Steven A. Cox Foundation causes that promote social justice and equality.


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October 27th, 2016

10/27/2016

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​Q: What is the most important subject a witch learns in school?
A: Spelling.

Looking for something to do with your little ghosts and goblins after the Nyack Halloween Parade? Well, look no more!  Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Halloween Joke of the Day back by popular demand

10/25/2016

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Q: What do you do when 50 zombies surround your house?
A: Hope it’s Halloween!!

It is that spooktakular time of year! Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Nyack Center Halloween Joke of the Day

10/25/2016

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​Q: What do you do when 50 zombies surround your house?
A: Hope it’s Halloween!!

It is that spooktakular time of year! Sat, Oct. 29 directly after the Nyack Halloween Parade is MONSTER MASH at Nyack Center! Jen Laird White, Maria Lorenzini and Stephanie Hausner are all in for celebrity pie throw! Live music with Bossy Frog, fiendish food, goulish games! Free to enter $5 a plate of food and $5 for games.
#nyackcenter #monstermash #halloweenparade #visitnyack
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Peter Klose blogs on Nyack Center building community through...a place to depend on

6/28/2016

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​Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through…a place we can all depend upon for a community meeting room, a holiday reading, a friendly face, and place for respite.

-Peter Klose, Esq
Attorney, Rockland Rowing Association Board Member, and Nyack Center supporter


Nyack Center is so grateful to the Rowing Association  Board, members and supporters for their contributions to Nyack Center through the years. For 10 Years the Rowing Association has raised funds for Nyack Center with their annual Pull for Purpose Rowathon. Each year they raise over $10,000 to benefit Nyack Center's programs. Since its inception, River Rowing has held rowing workshops and classes open to Nyack Center children including those at Camp Nyack!

River Rowing Association is now the Rockland Rowing Association!  The  mission remains the same, to improve the lives of our community members through rowing.   Go Rockland! Find out more at www.riverrowing.org and like them on Facebook.


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Peter  in center is pictured her with the Rockland Rowing set up crew for 2016 Rowathon!

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Our beloved Bill Irwin blogs on Nyack Center building community through...20 years

6/14/2016

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​During our twenty years in Nyack — so many days like this:
 
I go by the Nyack Center to rehearse, or start setting up for an event.  
 
The day programs are under way — there are kids playing, being led through games in the big room on the main floor, while we try out a dance routine on the stage.  
 
A class (or two) is going on in back  — cooking, ESL, tax preparation — and you can feel the evening’s event — whatever it may be — starting to take shape.  Food arriving, people bringing things in.  The staff telling people things they’ve had to tell them many times before.  In a while volunteers will start setting chairs . . ..  Someone will be speaking, singing, dancing — working toward some consensus — before long in the big room.
 
I will so miss the Nyack Center when we move back to NYC as we plan to do.  It’s been a favorite Nyack place for me over the last 20 years — the center of this town
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—   Bill Irwin 
American actor, clown, comedian and friend
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2 years ago Bill and his amazing wife Martha Roth were honored here at our Legacy Gala. They are community treasures who have given so much to our community. They have supported our events, children, families at Nyack Center and so many other community non-profits. We wish them the best as they embark on their new journey. They will be missed. Of course Martha and Bill  will always have a welcome home here at Nyack Center.
With Love,
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Kim Cross, Executive Director

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Bill is pictured on the right with another honoree, Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky performing an original song!
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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...events           by Dr. Lori Martin

5/24/2016

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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...events, which create opportunities for residents to share proud traditions and shape the future.  Nyack Center is the site where people historically pushed to the margins are welcomed and celebrated. Nyack Center embodies many of the qualities that make Nyack a community that people far and wide always consider home.  It is fitting that Nyack Center is located in the heart of our beloved community because Nyack Center represents the soul of the community.

​Dr. Lori Martin
Associate Professor at LSU
Author
Native Nyacker  



Bench by the Road 2015
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Dr. Lori Martin is the author of "The Ex-Slave's Fortune: The Story of Cynthia D. Hesdra." It was the story of Cynthia Hesdra that inspired Nyack's Bench by the Road project.

The Nyack bench  is 15 in a series of benches throughout the United States. 
The Toni Morrison Society's "Bench by the Road" project was inspired by comments the writer made about the lack of recognition for the history of enslaved Africans. "There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves," Morrison told The World magazine. "There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath, or wall, or park, or skyscraper lobby. There's no 300-foot tower, there's no small bench by the road. ... And because such a place doesn't exist ... the book had to." Nyack's Bench by the Road was  dedicated to Cynthia Hesdra last May 2015.

Link to lohud video of the dedication day-http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/18/toni-morrison-speaks-at-bench-dedication/27562767/

​Who Was Cynthia Hesdra?-reprinted fom Nyack Sketch Log
Cynthia Hesdra was born a slave in Tappan, New York in 1808 to John and Jane Moore. Cynthia’s father, one of the wealthiest men of his time, owned and operated a mill in Sparkill. He also constructed mill wheels that were said to have produced blankets for soldiers fighting in the Civil War.
She eventually met and married a man by Edward Hesdra, the son of a white Virginia planter and a free black woman from Haiti. After their marriage, the couple purchased Cynthia’s freedom. The two settled on Amity Street in New York City. Cynthia operated a successful laundry business in New York City and she owned several properties there.
Eventually, she took her trade to Nyack, NY, where she also accumulated property and operated a business. Among the many properties owned by Cynthia and Edward, was a house located near the intersection of Route 9W and Main Street in Nyack that was part of the Historic Underground Railroad. The Hesdras were rumored to have been in charge of the station between Jersey City, NJ and Newburgh, NY. The house was destroyed during the period of Urban Renewal in the 1970s.

When Cynthia Hesdra died on February 9, 1879, she was reportedly worth $100,000, the equivalent of 3 million in contemporary dollars. In 2010, Piermont Ave. between Hudson and Depew was renamed Cynthia Hesdra Way.  

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Artist and Event Organizer, Bill Batson pictured with Dr. Toni Morrison.
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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...the arts

5/17/2016

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When we first moved here in 2007 I enrolled my daughter Nancy in African Drum lessons after school. We needed something for her to do after school, and this looked really unique. She loved it! Not long after that, we attended Monster Mash, and felt we'd really landed in the perfect town. 
 
The next year in 2008 I volunteered to run figure drawing sessions through Hopper House for a few years. Hopper House was a great space, but was renovating and we could no longer be housed there. 
Nyack Center has given us the perfect space for us to continue our sessions. We've been able to flourish as a non-profit collective, and provide a place for young and old to grow their creative selves, as well as high-schoolers who need to develop their portfolios for college applications in the creative fields. 
Drum lessons, films, dancing, tutoring, concerts, winter indoor farmer's markets.. it all happens in Nyack Center.  Such a versatile, giving place-aptly in the heart and IS the heart, of our community. 
 
Thank you, Nyack Center.

Janet Hamlin
Artist and past Nyack Center Board Member



June 5th Save the Date!!!!!

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Nyack Center more than a community building, a place for building community through...Caring and Vision

5/10/2016

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While working with Nyack Center through Please Pick Project, I have had the pleasure of watching everyone on the Nyack Center staff take sincere joy in the positive experiences of the students that thrive there.  The best kind of community is built at Nyack Center—one founded on love, caring, creativity and vision. Nyack Center has the caring and vision to do what’s good for kids, families and neighbors; thus, they cultivate the greatest good in our kids, families and neighborhoods.  I’m proud to be part of the community that they are building. 
Suzanne Foley
Please Pick Project
Follow Please Pick Project on Facebook
Click link button below to see Suzanne's Ted Talk
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From Please PIck Project-Getting ready to start some cool organic gardening workshops at The Nyack Center after-school program! Plus, we're very excited to introduce a garden-to-table Please Pick culinary program for summer campers at Nyack Center. Thanks to our friend Maria and several local chefs, including Brian from O'D's Tavern, campers will visit the gardens in our edible town and learn how to create healthy, restaurant quality food!
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Rowathon 2016

Thank you to everyone who rowed, donated and cheered on our rowers at Rowathon 2016 this weekend! We are grateful to event sponsors and partners Rockland Rowing for making the event such a success! 

Mulch Madness 

Huge shout out to our mulchers Glenn Meyerson, Nick Howard, Jill Lobo and Jen Smith! Mulch was delivered last weekend and will continue this week. We couldn't do it without the amazing team of our Corporate Sponsor Superior Waste & Carting!

Men Cooking-June 5, Save the Date

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Nyack Center at 25 with Earl Miller

12/8/2015

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A number of years ago I attended an emergency meeting hosted by Nyack Center. This community summit featured village leaders of government, schools, law enforcement, and community activists. The standing room only gathering focused on serious incidents that were threatening the safety and stability of the entire community. The intense exchange of honesty shared that evening, facilitated a rare dialogue between voices representing the unique perspectives of the village's ethnic, cultural and social-economic diversity. For me, that experience highlighted Nyack Center as possibly the one locale comfortable enough for these disparate neighbors to negotiate their heartfelt concerns and share a commitment for finding resolutions.  Nyack Center is truly the village of Nyack's center, not only because of the multitude of programs, meetings and events conducted in its multi-purpose edifice; but also because of the place it holds in the hearts of people across this complex community. 
 
Congratulations Nyack Center on twenty-five years!
 
Earl Miller, Nyack College
Executive Director for Community Relations
Two Term Nyack Center Board Member

Join us as we celebrate another milestone-
Readings and Music in a Holiday Spirit
celebrates its 20th year
Sunday December 14 at 7pm.
Event sponsor Docuware
Tickets at www.nyackcenter.org

​#everychildmatters #nyackcenter #holidays


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