School Supply Drive for Pine Ridge and Hot Cocoa for PCF

Pine Ridge Reservation School Supply Drive: Lakota Children's Enrichment announces its fourth annual Fill a Backpack/School Supply Drive for the Children Of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Why a school supply drive this time of year? Because some schools start running low on supplies around now and your efforts can make a difference.

The items will be distributed by teens from the Scarsdale Congregational Church Youth Action Committee (YAC), under the supervision of Reverend Frances Grenley. YAC members are devoting their Spring break to service on the Pine Ridge Reservation and will bring the goods to students at Pine Ridge Schools.

Now through March 15, LCE is collecting new:

· Backpacks (new or barely used)
· Spiral notebooks, composition notebooks, graph paper
· Calculators, rulers, compass and protractors
· Pens, colored pencils, markers, crayons
· White board pens
· Sharpies

They will also accept new or barely used running shoes, sports equipment (basketball is particularly popular) and popular children's books (especially picture books and books in series).

The local drop off is at the Parish House, Scarsdale Congregational Church, One Heathcote Road (red brick building at corner of Heathcote, Post and Crane Roads).

Pine Ridge is the home to the Oglala Lakota and encompasses Shannon County, one of the nation's poorest counties. Although roughly the size of Connecticut, there is only one bank, one hospital, no department stores and many homes do not have ready access to water or plumbing. Teen suicide, diabetes and alcoholism are reported at epidemic rates and some schools experience drop out rates as high as 70%.

With the steady support of the Scarsdale community, over the last few years LCE has sent over $150,000 in supplies and assistance to families and schools, and has sent over 9,000 books to the Pine Ridge Reservation.

If you do not have the time to shop, then please consider making a tax-deductible donation and let them do the shopping. To learn more or get involved, visit http://lakotakids.blogspot.com.

Hot Cocoa Fundraiser at All Good Things

Evan and Josh Greenberg will hold their annual Hot Cocoa sale for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation on March 9th and 10th at All Good Things at the Golden Horseshoe at 1074 Wilmost Road in Scarsdale.

Last year they raised over $3,500 for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation and hope to top that this year. Evan, age 11 and Josh, 9 have been holding the event for six years.

This year includes gifts donated by many Scarsdale stores as well as raffle items from the Mets, Yankees, Giants, Jets, Rangers and Knicks.