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Gala blessings AHRC New York City Foundation
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New York, January 11 — A star-studded lineup may be venerated at the 38th Annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner on Tuesday night time, February 6, at the Grand Hyatt lodge in the New York town to advantage AHRC the New York town basis which assists youngsters and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these are the award recipients: transfer-hitting local sons of Puerto Rico and perennial All-Stars – 4-time New York Yankees global series Champion Jorge Posada, and former Mets and Yankees outfielder and Houston Astros global series champion Carlos Beltran – will get hold of the Thurman LEGEND Award; and Yankees standout pitcher David Robertson, New York Mets infielder and Bronx product T.J. Rivera, and two-time the New York Giants great Bowl champion Justin Tuck will ever be supplied with the Thurman Munson Award.
The gala remembers the late brilliant Yankees captain and catcher Thurman Munson and has raised more than $15 million for the AHRC NYC foundation which helps packages that allow youngsters and adults with highbrow and developmental disabilities to lead richer, greater efficient lives. Thurman’s widow Diana Munson will attend her thirty eighth consecutive benefit, having been involved inside the dinner because its inception.
Preview New NYC Taíno Exhibition July 24
The Indigenous peoples of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are not extinct and they never were. “Todavía estamos aquí (we are still here)”: this is the powerful message of the modern Taíno movement and the foundation of “Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean,” a new exhibition presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center. It opens Saturday, July 28, at the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK TROOP 6000 NOW SERVING MORE THAN 500 GIRLS AND WOMEN ACROSS FIVE BOROUGHS
The de Blasio Administration today announced that Girl Scout Troop 6000, the first of its kind Girl Scout troop dedicated to serving girls and women in the shelter system as they get back on their feet, has expanded to 15 shelter facilities for families with children across all five boroughs, with more than 500 girls and women now participating in the leadership-and-community-development program.