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Mark your calendars - Sunday, 7 April from 9 am to 12 noon, for our biggest event of the year - The 24th Annual Pancake Breakfast. As in earlier years, St. John's Riverside Hospital will be hosting our event. While it is called the Pancake Breakfast, it is much more than that. For the nominal $10 admission you get not only a full all-you-can-eat breakfast, but can also win a large number of prizes, from Large-Screen LED TV, restaurant food vouchers, baskets of cheer, and many more. More prizes added as they come.
There will be 50/50 raffle and door prizes. You can ensure your place in the event by getting your tickets in advance.
We are grateful to many local businesses and individuals who have donated prizes or money towards the event. Our biggest sponsor is the St. John's Riverside Hospital which hosts the Breakfast. The funds raised at this event will go towards scholarships for deserving Yonkers High School students going on to college, providing grants to community organizations for projects like traveling farm visits, Summer Day Camp for underprivileged children, Fitness through walking, Community Gardens program, Planting gardens with youths with emotional/physical disabilities and incarcerated youths/adults, Kinship Summer Youth Program (for children who are being raised by grandparents), and Art therapy after-school program for children.
If you or your business are interested in "having fun, doing good", by donating to the Club Foundation taking out an ad in the event pamphlet or by making a prize available, please contact us at info@yonkersrotary.org . All donors will be recognized at the event and year-round on our website.
The first phase of a great Winter Basketball and Anti-bullying program for 4th to 7th graders has just concluded. Sponsored by our Club, in partnership with the Yonkers Police Athletic League and YMCA, the program met for the last 6 Saturdays of 2018. The last session of the Winter season was celebrated with a Pizza Party and certificates were handed out to the participants.
After months of behind-the-scenes work, getting the young people lined up, informing them about Rotary, Interact and the great potential of Interact, PDG Greg Arcaro and former Club Secretary Peggy Murphy, supported by Sacred Heart High School Faculty Anne Murphy, the Club was officially chartered. Following receipt of all the required paperwork, District Governor Krishnan Chittur approved the application and forwarded it to Rotary International. Rotary International President Barry Rassin signed the Charter on 7 December. 
The first of two outdoor courts in Yonkers will be at Barton Park later this fall with a second basketball court in the works to be rebuilt in the spring of 2019. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be scheduled at the completion of the courts.
Our Club and friends of Rotary, together donated 32 turkeys to the underprivileged children at the Eugenia Maria de Hostos Micro-Society School in Yonkers. Club Member Barbara Hanna was able to get the turkeys at a steep discount from our local ShopRite and deliver them to the School. The recipients of the turkeys were chosen by the teachers and designated as "winners" in a turkey raffle.
