RYE NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW
Local businesses donate consistently, throughout the years, to school fundraisers, silent auctions, and other charitable events and charities throughout town. The Rye Chamber of Commerce now asks Rye residents to "rise up" and support these businesses that play such an important part within the heart of our community. While residents cannot shop downtown currently, Rye's Up is a necessary opportunity to shop and save these local businesses online, all in one place. Please find all the ways you can shop local and support NOW below.
Field trip Idea for Families
Knapp House Milton Scavenger Hunt
What is your Favorite Store?
Nina and Ava recommend Longford’s Ice Cream.
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REVEAL HAIR STUDIO
Hair Video tutorial (glam at home)
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Rye heroes
Rye Y Executive Director Gregg Howells (right) donated five boxes of extra Rye Derby and summer camp t-shirts to Hope Community Services in New Rochelle, where they will be turned into masks for the agency's clients, volunteers and staff. The donation was organized by New Rochelle resident Eric Turkewitz (left), race director for the Paine to Paine Half Marathon. Turkewitz is collecting unused race t-shirts and coordinating efforts to provide more masks throughout the Sound Shore area. Howells remarked "We're happy to see these leftover t-shirts go to a good cause!"
Sew Happy and Rye Moms have made 2,000 masks for hospitals! To continue their production, they are looking for elastic of any width as well as light quilting cotton. Also, if you are an experienced sewing machine sewer and can help, we need your help. Mask instructions are available at at Sew Happy.
For donations and for fabric pick-up, please go to the side door of 2 Robert Crisfield Place and put or pick-up the materials in the appropriate bin.
Please e-mail Kim Mulcahy at kim@sewhappyusa.net or
Cliona Cronin at clionacronin@gmail.com with any questions.
The Carver Center is supplying food for a much greater number of people, they will accept donations of any kind. Their main fundraiser has been cancelled so times are very challenging. The Carver Center serves neighbors who have been particularly hard hit during this crisis.
Bread of Life, located in Rye, has a bin out front for drop-off donations (65 Orchard - bins are around the corner on Chestnut) and is also accepting monetary donations. For more details go to the Bread of Life website.
Caritas is also supplying food for a number of people.
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
Our first responders are in need of more N95/KN95 masks and other PPE supplies. RHS, RMS and Osborn mom, Molly Howson, is coordinating a collection effort to purchase more masks, sanitizer and gloves. If you'd like to contribute, no amount is too small!
To date, with the help of Rye families, we have been able to purchase 1,775 KN95 masks and 775 8 ounce bottles of hand sanitizer and 35 boxes of gloves.
Please Venmo Molly
directly at molly-howson and email at mollyhowson@yahoo.com with any questions.
Jo Bryan Photography
FOOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
As you know, medical personnel are working around the clock while local restaurants/eateries are suffering without business as usual. Erika Lee, a Milton and middle school mom, is coordinating a DOUBLY-BENEFICIAL effort and collecting donations to deliver meals FROM our local restaurants TO our local medical staff members. If you'd like to contribute, no amount is too small!
Please Venmo Erika directly at erika-lee-37 and email at spandoesq@aol.com with any questions. Anything you can do will help! All efforts will need to be maintained over the long haul, so please continue to donate
SKI GOGGLES FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS
RHS Mom, Jane Heap is helping a friend who is collecting used or new ski goggles for healthcare workers who currently have no eye protection as they treat COVID-19 patients. If you have, please drop off at 1 Platt Lane, Rye
CLOTHING DONATIONS
The Sharing Shelf of Westchester is temporarily closed, but once it reopens demand will be greater than ever for your children's new or gently used clothing. If you're cleaning out closets and drawers, please put the clothes in bags (garbage bags are fine) and save for The Sharing Shelf.
Do you know any Rye Heroes? Send your story, video and pictures to tony@coash.com
Help Support
the Rye Chamber of Commerce
All of us know about a lot of the non-profits in town.... Soul Ryeders, Rye Arts Center, Rye Nature Center (to name only a few) are well known for making a huge difference in our community.
What you may not know is The Rye Chamber of Commerce is also a non-profit, and is comprised of the owners of many Rye businesses, many of which we are missing so badly today!
They own the places where we work out, shop, grab coffee, and meet friends for lunch or dinner. It's made of people who have courageously taken steps to open their own business: your next door neighbor’s restaurant, your friend’s dream-come-true shop, and the owner of your favorite ice-cream or pizza shop! It's kind of like the heartbeat of our community. Steadily working day-to-day, always present--but hardly ever noticed.
Typically, it works under the radar, but each year, the volunteers of the Chamber put on Mistletoe Magic, the Sidewalk Sale, and present scholarships to Rye’s graduating seniors. The members collaborate with City Council, offer education and networking opportunities for businesses, and work to make Purchase Street the treasure that it is. It's the very fabric of our community!