🌱 Patch AM: Cranberry Lake Preserve Volunteer Day Brings Fujifilm Workers, $7,500 Gift To Parks Foundation

Good morning Harrison! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• Fujifilm volunteers spruce up Cranberry Lake and boost parks with $7,500
• K9 Vinn helps troopers uncover hundreds of heroin packets in Harrison

Also on today's calendar: Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: A passing afternoon shower, with a high of 84 and low of 59 degrees.
• Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 71, low: 57.
• Sunday: Chance of a little p.m. rain, with a high of 65 and low of 55 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Cranberry Lake Preserve Volunteer Day Brings Fujifilm Workers, $7,500 Gift To Parks Foundation (patch.com) — Residents may notice extra activity at Cranberry Lake Preserve in West Harrison, where Fujifilm employees spent a volunteer day improving trails, checking reforestation plantings, and building new benches for environmental education programs. The company and its workers also donated $7,500 to the Westchester Parks Foundation, supporting long-term preservation and accessibility of county parkland used by many Harrison families.
   

• Heroin Bust On The Hutch: K9 Vinn Sniffs Out Stash Of Packaged Narcotics, NYSP Report (patch.com) — Drivers on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Harrison were briefly pulled into a serious police operation when troopers stopped a vehicle and, with help from K9 Vinn, uncovered about 500 glassine envelopes of suspected heroin. A Massachusetts man was arrested on felony drug possession with intent to sell and is due back in Harrison Town Court later this month.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Harrison

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★ Featured events ★

Friday October 2
• Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know →
  Webinar - Online Presentation,
  2:30 pm
Saturday October 3
• Greenwich High School Homecoming Social →
  Bosco's Bar and Grill, 148 Sound Beach Ave, Greenwich
  6:00 pm
• Greenwich High School Homecoming Social →
  Bosco's, 148 Sound Beach Ave, Greenwich
  6:00 pm
Sunday October 4
• Open House - PreK-12 →
  King School, 1450 Newfield Ave, Stamford
  1:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers World Mission Sunday Open House →
  Maryknoll Society Center, 55 Ryder Rd, MARYKNOLL
  1:00 pm
• Westchester Philharmonic Presents "The Sum of All Things" →
  The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd, Harrison
  3:00 pm

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Other local events

Monday October 5
• Demystifying Medicare & Healthcare Coverage for Seniors →
  Harrison Public Library, 2 Bruce Ave, Harrison
  5:30 pm
Wednesday October 7
• Improve Your Posture with an HSS Online Program →
  11:00 am
• Staying Strong Through Midlife and Beyond: HSS Free Webinar! →
  6:30 pm
Saturday October 10
• Ian McKeever: Going Forth, Painted Panels & Other Works →
  Heather Gaudio Fine Art, 382 Greenwich Ave, Greenwich
  4:00 pm
Monday October 12
• Move with Confidence: The Nutrition Connection (In Person Class) →
  Hospital for Special Surgery Main Hospital, 535 E 70th St, New York
  10:00 am
Sunday October 18
• Demystifying Medicare & Healthcare Coverage for Seniors →
  Yonkers Public Library-Grinton I. Will Public Library, 1500 Central Park Ave, Yonkers
  1:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Kerry Kennedy Urges Students to Champion Human Rights at Manhattanville's Young Women's Leadership Summit —Victoria Hochman Read on Patch

• Looking for recommendations for a reliable, licensed local roofer who services the West Harrison / Harrison area for small repair work.
  I have an active leak with isolated nail pops and flashing points near my solar panels that need to be patched before winter. Strictly looking for a… (Nextdoor Justin - Rigene - Woodlands)

• Oak St. Health posted a job opening for Shift Supervisor in Harrison. Apply here.
• Convive Brands posted a job opening for Cook - LPQ in Rye. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Harrison here.

🗞 Nearby News

Rye Brook

• Re Firm Appoints Sales Leader (westfaironline.com)

White Plains

• The Battle of White Plains and Its Impact on American History (westchestermagazine.com)
• Therapy Dog Brigade Seeks Teams for Training (scarsdale10583.com)
• Young Professionals Trying to Help (westfaironline.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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