Good Life; positive achievements by mid-Hudson Valley residents for March 12
Saint Rose students help New Orleans rebuild
Thirteen students attending The College of Saint Rose in Albany spent an alternative spring break in New Orleans helping citizens of the city continue to rebuild in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Among them are Ashley Graham of Poughquag, Connor Hicks of Saugerties and Kerry Peterson of Red Hook.
The students are volunteering with lowernine.org in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the hardest-hit parts of the city. They are helping homeowners rehabilitate and build homes in what remains the most devastated neighborhood in New Orleans.
This is the ninth consecutive year Saint Rose students have given vacation time to help with hurricane relief. All students volunteer their time; they are not paid for their work nor earn any class credits.
The students left for New Orleans March 2 and returned to Albany March 8.
Lowernine.org trains residents and volunteers in the hurricane-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward in the skills necessary to bring this century-old historic neighborhood back to life.
Camp Restore in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward served as the students’ “home away from home.” Camp Restore has served the New Orleans area since fall 2006. In partnership with more than 60 other nonprofit organizations, Camp Restore connects thousands of volunteers each year with the full spectrum of service opportunities in New Orleans.
Hyde Park Rotary donates dictionaries to school
The Hyde Park Rotary annually donates dictionaries to all third-grade students in public and parochial schools.
This year, the Rotary donated 250 dictionaries valued at approximately $425 to the Hyde Park Central School District.
The Rotary recently visited Netherwood Elementary School in Hyde Park and donated a dictionary to each third-grade student.
Poughkeepsie mentions
in Lee Child’s ‘Tripwire’
Ralph Ferrusi of Stormville sent Poughkeepsie mentions to Good Life that he found in Lee Child’s 1999 book “Tripwire.”
Ferrusi wrote that the book mentions Poughkeepsie twice. On pages 68-69, the dialogue reads, “Croton-Harmon trains were no good. They terminated too far south. He needed Poughkeepsie at the minimum.”
On page 202, it reads, “He was heading north on Route 9, and he had a Hertz map open beside him which went up far enough to show him Brighton was halfway between Peekskill and Poughkeepsie, over to the west, right on the Hudson.”
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