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“Operation Home Front” to kick off Saturday in West Nyack

April
4

The West Nyack Free Library is planning a program on Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The program is called “Operation Home Front” and it encourages people to get involved in two programs sponsored by the United Service Organization. There’s Operation Phone Home, which distributes free phone cards to members of the armed forces, and United Through Reading, in which soldiers read a children’s book, record it on a DVD and send it to a child.

Veterans and current members of the armed forces will speak at the event about how the public can get involved. For more information, call the library at 845-358-6081.

To read more about veterans affairs, visit the At Ease! blog.

Posted by Amy Padnani on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pm |


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Peace through jobs

February
1

I wrote in today’s newspaper about Kate Buggeln, a Grand View resident who has been doing some amazing work in Rwanda and Afghanistan with the Business Council for Peace. Kate works overseas to help women in conflict and post-conflict areas start and develop new businesses. Here is a video showing Kate during a recent trip to Rwanda: Peace through jobs

Here is the story that ran in today’s newspaper: Grand View woman fosters peace through jobs

For more information, visit www.bpeace.org.

Posted by Hannan Adely on Friday, February 1st, 2008 at 5:27 pm |


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