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Jeanne Muchnick

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Jeanne Muchnick, Daily Voice Deputy Editor, Content, has covered everything from baby advice for Parents Magazine to travel finds for The Rough Guides to human interest features for The New York Times to lifestyle insights for prevention.com. She has been a Senior Editor at top national women's magazines including Woman's World and Woman's Day and was instrumental in the launch of Gannett's InTown, Rockland and Putnam magazines. She is also the author of Dinner for Busy Moms, a 2010 Mom's Award winner. Among her favorite things to write about: Her neighbors and surrounding communities. So email her and fill her in on what's happening near you. And, follow her on Instagram @dailyvoicefeatures.

Jeanne was formerly a deputy editor at Daily Voice.

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Events

Dig In: Stamford Celebrates Earth Day With Recycling Event FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Earth Day, celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, will be upon us April 22. A host of events, neighborhood cleanups, volunteer projects and family activities are taking place across Fairfield County during the weekends that bookend it. Here's a sample of events: April 18, Stamford: The "Recycle-O-Rama" Earth Day Celebration" takes place at the St Cecilia Church/School parking lot, where you're invited to start your spring cleaning. Donations of gently used items from doors, furniture, and appliances to unwanted paper, sports equipment, clothing and electr…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/17/2015

Events

Westchester Celebrates Earth Day With Variety Of Events WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Earth Day, celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, is upon us -- it's April 22 -- and there are a host of events, neighborhood clean-ups, volunteer projects and family activities taking place during the weekends that bookend it. Here's a sampling. April 18, Ossining: At Green Ossining’s 5th Annual (free) Earth Day Festival, you'll learn how to live a more sustainable life, visit artisan vendors, and enjoy food and live music on the Hudson River. Go Green: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Engel Waterfront Park, 160 Westerly Road, www.greenossining.org/. April 18, Lar…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/17/2015

Lifestyle

Have You Done Your Spring Cleaning? Larchmont Expert Offers A Checklist LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Spring has sprung and with it, so has that annual tradition known as spring cleaning. Leslie Josel, the principal of Order Out of Chaos, a Larchmont-based organizing consulting firm who advises clients from throughout the county, offers the following tips. Give away two items each day for 15 days. If you have cast offs or if something no longer serves a purpose, consider a trip to your local donation store. Stick to the “get one-toss two” rule, then you should actually reduce the clutter in your home. A floor is not a shelf. Take five minutes each day to do a clean…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/17/2015

Events

White Plains-Based ArtsWestchester Hands Out '50 For 50' Awards TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- More than 400 people attended the ArtsWestchester 2015 Arts Awards Luncheon April 16 at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown. The event, sponsored by First Niagara, was a celebration of the 50 area "outstanding" artists and two deserving arts patrons who have made significant contributions to Westchester County. New Rochelle resident Tony Aiello, a reporter with CBS News was the emcee. ArtsWestchester’s “50 for 50” Winners includes a wide range of discliplines, everyone from filmmakers and poets to visual artists, choreographers, composers and performing artists. Man…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/17/2015

Neighbors

Somers Holocaust Survivor To Speak In Mahopac For Remembrance Day SOMERS, N.Y. -- Susan Lowenberg, who was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power, doesn't like to talk about the Holocaust, but knows she must. "The memories are very painful," she said. "I've been spending all my life trying to forget them." On the other hand, the Somers resident recognizes the importance of telling her story. And so, on Sunday, April 19, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Thursday, she will be among a group of congregants at Temple Beth Shalom in Mahopac sharing her story. The abbreviated version: She was interned at age nine a…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/16/2015

Neighbors

Stamford Holocaust Survivor Says 'Not Hating' Helped Her Live STAMFORD, Conn. -- When Judith Altmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and longtime Stamford resident, tells her story, audiences are always clamoring for more. Altmann, who was born in Jasina, Czechoslovakia, was sent to a host of concentration and labor camps, including Auschwitz, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bergen Belsen, with a death march along the way. She tells her stories at various organizations. Her next talk is Sunday, April 19 at Congregation Sons of Israel in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and Monday, April 20 at 4:30 p.m. at Fairfield University's Egan Chapel (Admission is free; …

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/16/2015

Events

Armonk Camp Is Site Of 'Shop For A Cure' Charity Event ARMONK, N.Y. – The Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (TBDA) and the Lyme Research Alliance (LRA), two of the most influential voices on Lyme and tick-borne diseases, will be hosting their third annual "Shop for a Cure" event April 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Armonk's Breezemont Day Camp. The nearly 30 women’s, children’s and home vendors participating in this year’s fundraiser will be donating all proceeds to TBDA/LRA in support of its research and education initiatives. In addition to the merchandise that will be for sale, there will also be a raffle. “The Shop for a Cure event is a grea…

by The Daily Voice

04/16/2015

Neighbors

On Remembrance Day, Yorktown Resident Shares Thoughts As Child Of Survivor YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- Sheri Gordon Handwerger calls herself a "third generation survivor." That's because the Yorktown Heights resident grew up with maternal grandparents and a mother who survived the Holocaust. And while it shaped their lives, it also shaped hers. "I felt robbed of my family," she said of growing up in Riverdale, just one street shy of the Yonkers border. "I had three uncles I never met, as well as a host of other relatives I never knew." To this day, she says she would never buy a German car such as a Mercedes or BMW. "I just won't," she said. And while she …

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/16/2015

Neighbors

New Rochelle Holocaust Survivor Reminds People 'Not To Forget' NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Moshe Avital's life could fill volumes...and it does. The Holocaust survivor, who divides his time between New Rochelle and Israel, has written 15 books, most about Jewry, Zionism, Jewish education, the Holocaust and the Bible. And, at age 86, he's still going. But the number that gets him the most is 11. He was the youngest of 11 growing up in Bilke, a village on the Eastern part of the former Czechoslovakia, and one of his immediate family's only survivors (two other siblings survived). And now, thanks to his three daughters, he now has 11 grandchildren, who he …

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/16/2015

Neighbors

Hastings Holocaust Survivor Stresses The Importance Of Remembering HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- Ed Lessing, who survived the Holocaust by posing as a Christian stable boy, first on isolated Dutch farms and later, in the woods as part of an armed resistance group, will be spending Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday telling his story yet again, to an audience at Temple Beth Am in Yorktown Heights. The sought-after speaker -- he has been a primary keynote for the Hidden Child Foundation/ADL, is on the Speaker's Bureau for the Holocaust & Humans Rights Education Center in White Plains and speaks to numerous Tri-State area schools and synagogues-- said i…

by Jeanne Muchnick

04/16/2015

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