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Donna Christopher

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Online Chess Popular In Pandemic. Here's Where Your Child Can Learn. Online chess has become so popular in this pandemic fetching the interest of budding young players so beginner lessons fill up quickly. One example is this week's beginner class offered to students at Toquam Elementary School Students. "We have 20 students on the waiting list," said the president of the National Education Chess Association, Alex Eydelman, instructor of the complimentary Zoom-based 30-minute virtual chess class. Among the world's oldest games, chess which originated in India more than 2,000 years ago, is a great game for anyone, any age, he said. Eydelman imp…

by Donna Christopher

04/29/2020

Politics

Fairfield County City Begins Testing For Nursing Home Workers Stamford has arranged for testing of asymptomatic healthcare workers at nursing homes in the municipality, including Cassena Care, Edgehill Health Center, Long Ridge Post-Acute Care, St. Camillus Center and The Villa. Testing will be offered to assisted-care facilities across Stamford. “This testing is part of the City’s larger initiative to provide testing for essential workers on the frontlines fighting this virus,” Mayor David Martin said announcing the testing on Thursday, April 23. “Workers at these institutions take care of the most vulnerable residents in our community. This ex…

by Donna Christopher

04/27/2020

Schools

Around Farfield Schools: Yee Ha! Virtual Gym, Covid-19 Grading, High Schoolers Help With PPE Yee Ha! Nobody can sit still for the "Cotton Eyed Joe," especially when you see Fairfield County teachers do their lively version of the line dance in a virtual physical education workout video they made for their K to fifth-grade students to do at home. Northeast Elementary School physical education teachers Jim Bradley and Laurie Doyle Lubowitz created this dance workout video for their distance learning students.Laurie Lubowitz Stamford's Northeast Elementary School teachers Jim Bradley and Laurie Doyle Lubowitz, in masks and socially distancing from one another, also dance the Cha-…

by Donna Christopher

04/23/2020

Politics

Around Fairfield County: Caravan Thanks Hospital Staff, Meals For Children, Volunteers Needed With a display of lights and sirens, first responders formed a parade to salute healthcare personnel, drawing mutual adoration from the staff at two major Fairfield hospitals to kick off this past weekend. Police, fire and ambulance crews, along with Mayor Joe Ganim, among other officials, joined a caravan of emergency vehicles Friday, April 17 in Bridgeport to drive past Yale-New Haven Health Bridgeport Hospital and Hartford Healthcare St. Vincent's Medical Center while hospital staff, some holding signs thanking the first responders, stood outside watching and waving. "They are…

by Donna Christopher

04/22/2020

Schools

Homeschool Lessons For Littlest Learners, New Daycare For Health Workers Have you ever made a painting float? Take a look at the magic here on Facebook, a fun post for some of Fairfield County's littlest learners, now home from a popular preschool. Jesse Lee Day School teacher demonstrates how to make a "floating painting" for preschoolers on the school's Facebook group page.Courtesy of Jesse Lee Day School You just need to draw a little figure on a plate with a dry eraser marker, pour water on it, then watch it float explains Sara Findlay on The Jesse Lee Day School Homeschool Ideas For Ridgefield Preschoolers, a public Facebook group which any preschool f…

by Donna Christopher

04/20/2020

Lifestyle

Vatican's Opening of Holocaust-Era Papal Archives Could Better Catholic-Jewish Relations A week before (COVID-19) dominated every headline, the Vatican announced it would open up the papal archives of the controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII. Over 150 scholars of "all faiths and nationalities" applied for review of these secret documents covering Pius XII's papacy from 1939 to his death in 1958. Historians have been particularly interested in studying the documents from the World War II period. While the Vatican was officially neutral during the war, there has long been public criticism that Pope Pius XII remained silent over the fate of the Jews and did not do enoug…

by Donna Christopher

04/17/2020

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Around Westchester Schools: Zoom In For College Admission Chat, Music Program Hits High Notes What now? many high schoolers and parents must be wondering about the college admissions process. A panel of experts will have answers in a Zoom discussion this month. An organization that helps students be ready, enroll in and complete college, Yonkers Partners In Education (YPIE) will host The College Landscape in the Time of COVID-19 on Tuesday, April 28 at noon. Underserved communities like Yonkers are being "hardest hit by the health crisis," according to YPIE, which partners with students to ensure they are ready for, enroll in and complete college. The video chat will provide …

by Donna Christopher

04/16/2020

Lifestyle

Quarantine Dating Catching On With Westchester Developer's App Everyone, even the most outgoing singles, experience some awkwardness on first dates. Talking to a stranger has uneasy silences. And then there's the fumble for the check. Who pays? And what about now, when you cannot even meet in person? How do you date when everyone is living life in isolation? Filter Off may have an answer for that. The dating app launched a year ago by a Westchester developer, has been catching on since the health pandemic began. Twenty-nine-years-old and single, Zach Schleien of New Rochelle said Filter Off, his video chat dating app, is hitting a high note wit…

by Donna Christopher

04/15/2020

Politics

High Percentage of Admitted Covid-19 Patients Leave Fairfield County Hospital With his ready demeanor and seated behind a desk, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim offered reassuring words to the public and called on the city's faith leaders to pray that evening in his Facebook Live broadcast Thursday, April 9. The mayor asked for "prayer and words of faith during a time that residents in our community are impacted by coronavirus. These are difficult and uncertain times, but our faith-based groups have and continue to be an integral part in spreading positivity and hope," in the virtual town hall he runs daily. "We will all pray for good health and strength for our city,…

by Donna Christopher

04/14/2020

Schools

#FoxesUp4Heroes Catches Fever With Sports Rivals In Westchester For Hospital Fundraiser Kids and furniture are keeping Westchester County coaches and student-athletes fit in quarantine. They're from rival sports teams and coming up with creative ways to take part in a workout challenge to raise money for Northern Westchester Hospital. The #FoxesUp4Heroes funder is to help pay for supplies for healthcare workers to care for their novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. It was organized by Fox Lane High School Director of Health, PE & Athletics Adam Lodewick along with coaches at the Mt. Kisco school. His own workouts involve bench presses, pushups and squats while us…

by Donna Christopher

04/10/2020

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