Community Corner
About Town: Weekend Events In and Around Rye
Hamptons-style 'Royal Pain' TV shoot, Rye PBA Blood Drive, outreach paper drive, Dinner at Noon volunteer call and seaside bird-watching.
A “Royal Pains” TV shoot turns Rye into the Hamptons, a Rye PBA Blood Drive, and from Outreach for DAYSTAR to Dinner at Noon, there’s lots going on in and around Rye over the next few days, even a Shorebird Extravaganza.
Friday
Rye becomes the Hamptons as becomes the set for an upcoming episode of USA Network TV series “Royal Pains.”
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The show has been renewed for an 18-episode season, and stars Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jila Flinct, Reshma Shetty and Wainwright House as a Hamptons mansion and the site of an international Hamptons Art Fair.
It’s a wrap for “Royal Pains” today although techies have been on the WH grounds since Monday getting the manse and its waterfront environs in a Hamptons frame of mind for the shoot.
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GIFT OF LIFE: “DONATE BLOOD NOW…PEOPLE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT.”
That is the bold face all capital letters in black type message –the word BLOOD is capitalized in red –behind the Rye Police Benevolent Association’s blood donor drive today from noon to 6 p.m. at the .
Further information: Rye Police Department: 967-1234; Rye Rec: 967-2533 or the New York Blood Center; 1-800-933-Blood (extension 2566); www.nybloodcenter.org. Ask about the Donor Advantage that enables you to earn points and save lives.
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OUTREACH FOR DAYSTAR: Rye’s Outreach Committee will be holding its “Paper Goods Collection Drive” for DAYSTAR today and tomorrow in the Church Vestibule, 910 Boston Post Rd.
And just what exactly is DAYSTAR and what paper goods do they need?
Good Counsel’s DAYSTAR home, located on the grounds of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, was founded in 1999 to offer shelter, food, health care and life skills to homeless pregnant woman with mental illnesses or addictions.
Their needs include paper towels, paper plates and paper cups, toilet tissue and more.
Saturday
Volunteers are needed for another Rye Outreach program –this one involving the final “Dinner at Noon” date at the Carver Center in nearby Port Chester.
Volunteers are needed to serve and make food donations including casseroles, salad fixing, fruit, juices and dessert. The hours for food donations begin at 10:30 a.m. The meals will be served until approximately 1 p.m.
Information: Marianne Egan: 921-1032;.jfempe@aol.com, or Sheila Bugniazet (967-5549; sbugniazet@aol.com.
Sunday
Rye’s "Shorebird Extravaganza” features guide-escorted bird-watching along its shoreline starting at 2 p.m. off Boston Post Rd. Participants are requested to bring binoculars and wear long pants with appropriate shoes. Hopefully the birds will show up as well.
