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Peekskill Rotary 2022 Cherry Blossom Festival

Peekskill Riverfront Green Park
Date: April 30, 2022
Time: 10:00am - 5pm

The Rotary Club of Peekskill will hold its Annual Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at the Peekskill Riverfront Green. It is our hope that you will be able to join us in celebrating the beginning of spring, when the 100 cherry trees we planted along the riverfront walkway start to bloom. This festival is for people of all ages.

Plant sale, raffles, craft vendors, food trucks and children's activities.

Event Details

Serving Our Community Since 1919

Service Above Self

We meet In Person

Thursdays at 12:15 PM

American Legion Post 274

936 McKinley Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
United States of America

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Dry Stone Walling 3-Day Class

Offered by The STONE Trust April 30, May 1 and May 2, 2022

2022 Workshop Description

The long term goal of this partnership with The Stone Trust is to develop a repeatable vocational training program that can help young people develop skills in and assess their interest in dry stone walling as a career path.

There is no cost for our students as it will be covered by a donation from the Lanza Family Foundation, Manzer's Landscape Design & Development, Inc. and The Peekskill Rotary Foundation.

Objectives Include:

Involving the local Rotary and interested community members in the training program.
Constructing an example of high quality stonework on a public site to develop community awareness of dry stone walling and of an intended program to train local youth.
Contribute to the cherry blossom weekend event.
Advance the training of local masons.
Educate the first tranche of local students.

2022 Scholarship Applications

The Scholarships and Awards Program of the Rotary Club of Peekskill has as its primary objectives recognizing the achievements of students graduating from Hendrick Hudson, Peekskill and Walter Panas High Schools; and encouraging higher education for young people in the Peekskill and Cortlandt area. The club’s scholarships and awards support study in a wide range of post-high school study in 4-year, 2-year and vocational programs. Distinctive to the Rotary program is the focus on service to community, school and family among criteria for selection, in addition to academic achievement. This criterion is founded on Rotary’s motto of Service Above Self.

2020 Scholarship Awards

Zoom meeting screen shot with student scholarship winners.

Peekskill Rotary Club awards yearly scholarship awards via zoom! This past May and June, during Don Rizzo’s Presidency of the Peekskill Rotary Club in its’ hundredth year, scholarships were given to students with a virtual zoom call. The scholarships are presented to deserving students by the Peekskill Rotary Club every year.

Gift of Life Operations

Surgery For Two Children This Month

Mother wearing surgical mask holding infant.

The Peekskill Rotary Club sponsored two children to have heart surgery through Gift of Life, Diego (pictured with his mother) and Derick.

New Member Dr. David Mauricio

School Superintendent Joins Peekskill Rotary

Dr. David Mauricio wearing his new white Rotary hat.

Dr. David Mauricio joins the Rotary Club of Peekskill during our Zoom meeting on May 7, 2020. Dr. Mauricio is the acting Superintendent of the Peekskill City School District. He is pictured here wearing the signature white Rotary hat that new members receive when they join our club.

New Members Ridvan Foxhall and Moises Muniz

Peekskill Rotary Welcomes Its Newest Members

Ridvan Foxhall wearing new white Peekskill Rotary hat.

Moises Muniz holding up his Peekskill Rotary new member packet.

Moises Muniz was inducted at our April 16, 2020 meeting and Ridvan Foxhall was inducted on April 23, 2020. This was the first time that Peekskill Rotary has welcomed a new member during on online meeting. How we handle the traditional method of acquiring signatures on the new white hat remains to be seen.