Concert raises $75,000 toward 9/11 memorial

A new memorial to 9/11 victims is a step closer to completion, following a successful benefit concert that raised $75,000 for the cause. The indie-roots band Dispatch, preceded by local artists Caroline Jones and The Ian Murray Band, rocked the house at Garcia’s, an intimate venue inside the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y. A member of Dispatch, Pete Francis Heimbold, grew up in Riverside and went to Brunswick School.
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Concert raises $75,000 toward 9/11 memorial

Greenwich native Pete Francis Heimbold of Dispatch performs earlier this month at Garcia’s at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester to benefit the new Greenwich 9/11 memorial. Photo: Contributed Photo/Bob Capazzo, Contributed Photo Greenwich resident Ingrid Lenihan, left, looks at a rendering held by architect Nicholas Rotondi of the proposed memorial to Sept.
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Caritas of Port Chester Partners with Whole Foods for Charity

Whole Foods Port Chester located in the Kohl’s Shopping Center will donate 5 percent of all sales made between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Jan. 7 to Caritas of Port Chester, Inc. to help alleviate hunger in our area. Caritas of Port Chester, Inc., a 501 3 organization, is an outgrowth of the Social Outreach Services of Holy Rosary Church in Port Chester.
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Board Member Of Port Chester’s LWV Commemorated For Human Rights Day

New Rochelle resident Dr. Moshe Avital, a leading Holocaust author and scholar, shared his personal experience as an Auschwitz survivor and the meaning of the Holocaust in modern Western society on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at the countywide Westchester International Human Rights Day Commemoration at Greenburgh Town Hall. Joan Grangenois Thomas, president of the Port Chester/Rye Branch of the NAACP, was a special guest speaker at the commemoration, which was sponsored by the Westchester County Human Rights Commission, Town of Greenburgh, Yonkers Human Rights Commission and the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center.
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Sony Pulls Movie; Port Chester Will Have To Wait On ‘Interview’

Westchester residents who had been planning to spend part of their Christmas Day watching the debut of the controversial movie, “The Interview,” will have to wait. Sony Pictures announced late Wednesday that it has canceled the planned Dec. 25 release of the movie following a hacking attack and in the wake of threats against theaters that planned to show the movie.
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