A Feast of Sight and Sound

AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BREAKFAST IN BRONXVILLE
 
By Susan Johnson 
January 22, 2024 – Bronxville, NY
 
Despite the winter’s first big freeze, the Reformed Church of Bronxville was packed for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast on January 15th, hosted by the Eastchester Community Action Partnership (ECAP) under the auspices of its Director Denise Chin.
 
Through its Foundation, the Rotary Club of Bronxville was a primary sponsor of the event.  Bronxville Rotary Club President Louis  Maggiotto said, “As we join together this morning to pay tribute to one of our greatest Americans, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we reflect on one sermon Dr. King preached, in which he said, ‘All life is interrelated… somehow, we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality  tied in a single garment of destiny.’  As we mark the life and legacy of Dr. King, the Bronxville Rotary Club recognizes a mutual destiny  shared with our neighbors. We commit ourselves to working with ECAP towards improving the lives of all those in their communities and  the lives of all the people of our world.”
 
 
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ROTARY CLUB OF BRONXVILLE FOUNDATION SPONSORS 
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BREAKFAST

By Susan Johnson
January 3, 2024 -- Bronxville NY
 
Through its Foundation, the Rotary Club of Bronxville will be the primary sponsor of the 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. BreakfastMonday January 15, 2024,  hosted by the Eastchester Community Action Partnership (ECAP), Denise Chin, DirectorAll are invited. The event will be held at The Reformed Church of Bronxville, 180 Pondfield Road.  Doors open at 8:15 am; breakfast service begins at 8:30 am and the program starts at 9 am. Tickets are $35. For more information, please call ECAP (914) 337-7768.
 
 
This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Belinda Miles, President, SUNY Westchester Community College. Social Justice Award winners this year are Maxwell Pearce and the Asbury Crestwood United Methodist Church in Tuckahoe. Mr. Pearce, a professional basketball player-ambassador known as “Hops Pearce” for the legendary Harlem Globetrotters team, known for its showmanship and fun antics. Having served as brand ambassador for several high-profile companies, he is also an accomplished mixed media artist weaving together the worlds of activism and sports in his hometown of Tuckahoe, NY, to increase local youth’s exposure to passion beyond sports.  He and volunteers from the Church are very active in ECAP’s after school program.
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Wildlife Poachers become Business owners! Our club project in Africa

Posted by Martin Schulman
Bronxville Rotary Club and RI International grant helps fund COMACO, a joint project with the WCS, to convert illegal wildlife poaching to legitimate businesses, harvesting honey and other products and bringing it to market. Thousands of lioves, changed by thousands of hives! Wonderful work by PP Doris and PDG Bob Benson of Bronxville New York Club, District 7230.
 
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DESTINATION COLLEGE and our Rotary Club

 
Our 2017-18 co-recipient of funding for ongoing Literacy and Education support is Destination College.
Please take a moment to view the attached video, you will recognize some very familiar faces of our Bronxville neighbors, mentoring and volunteering to assist local, neighboring student-athletes in their quest for college acceptance.
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Bronxville Rotary Club Foundation sponsors King Breakfast 2018

As in years past, your Club Foundation has included among its grants a small award to sponsor the  Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr breakfast on the anniversary of his birth. You may know, this holiday is dedicated as a Day of Service, which dove-tails neatly with our Rotary objects of service.
 
This year, County Executive George Latimer [Rotarian from Rye NY club] delivered the keynote address to those gathered at the breakfast, held at the Bronxville Reformed Church. Among our members who attended, a consensus that this speech was both heartfelt and moving, deserved to be sent to all of us. Here then, is the transcript of this address given on Monday, January 15, 2018 by George Latimer:
 
Keynote Address
George Latimer, Westchester County Executive
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day Event
 January, 2018
 There is a song that was popular over 25 years ago – perhaps you remember it – a soulful song by a man named Marc Cohn; the song is called “Walking in Memphis”. It sets a scene of Memphis that the tourist board would love – the lyrics tell of the singer walking with his “feet on Beale Street, the home of the Delta Blues”. He sings of Rev. Green – Al Green of 1970’s music fame. There was catfish on the table, gospel in the air; the singer saw the ghost of Elvis up on Union Avenue – followed him up to the gates of Graceland, and saw him walk through. WC Handy. Blue suede shoes. The wide Mississippi.
Several summers ago, I had the opportunity to be in Memphis. Yes, I walked on Beale Street, and, I confess, I went to Graceland. I saw the Peabody ducks march across the lobby of that grand hotel; and I saw the massive presence of Fed Ex headquarters at the Memphis airport.
And I visited something not mentioned in the song.
I visited The Lorraine Motel.
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Rotary Clubs meet Amarok Society Founders

This Society teaches women, who then teach five others within their village. This spreads valued education basics at a much faster rate with little or no costs, among the people suffering from the harshest levels of poverty and lack of formal education.
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Career Bridges presents: A Night of Opera and Broadway Song

For fifteen years, Career Bridges, a foundation established and administered by Barbara and Rotarian David S. Bender has provided financial assistance, guidance, coaching and counseling to aspiring professional opera and classic singers.
On Thursday, March 16, 2017 Barbara and David brought us together with seven of these young professionals for a Night of Opera and Broadway Love Songs.
The cast:
Melanie Ashkar
Robert Balonek
Teresa Castillo
Shana Grossman
LaMarcus Miller
Jon Tetelman
The repertoire:
Bizet, Donizetti, Mozart, Verdi, Victor Herbert, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mitch Leigh, Steven Sondheim, Kurt Weill..
 
It was truly an amazing evening and the audience was overwhelmingly gratified and entertained! Much applause is given to the artists, the Benders, our Social Committee and Board of Directors for a program that rewarded and fulfilled the dreams of all Rotarians.
 
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