Daily Voice — Yorktown is celebrating Red Ribbon Week, a national effort to educate children about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, through Monday, Oct. 27. Red Ribbon Week has grown into the most far-reaching and well-known drug prevention campaign in America. It began to honor a drug enforcement agent who was killed in […]
Yorktown Patch – The Yorktown Annual Outdoor Movie & Concert will take place on Thursday, July 17 at 7:15 p.m.The Alliance For Safe Kids presents The Uncle Brothers Concert at 7:15 pm followed by a presentation of The Lego Movie beginning at dusk.This event is sponsored by Yorktown Parks & Rec, the Alliance For Safe Kids, the Yorktown PBA, The Yorktown Chamber of Commerce, the Law […]
Your Yorktown – The best barbecue, businesses and entertainment Yorktown has to offer was on display last Saturday at Jack DeVito Field at Yorktown’s 25th Annual Community Day, presented by the Alliance for Safe Kids. The free event featured the 9th Annual Taste of Yorktown, where local restaurants and amateur chefs competed in a cook-off […]
Daily Voice – The 25th annual Yorktown Community Day is coming on Saturday, June 7. The Alliance for Safe Kids, Yorktown Organizations United and the Town of Yorktown will host the 25th annual Yorktown Community Day from noon to 4 p.m. at Jack DeVito Veterans Memorial Field. The event will feature the annual Taste of […]
Yorktown-Somers Patch — Yorktown High School senior Samantha Greene has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award – the highest award in Girl Scouts – for her “Prescription Drug Awareness and Collection” project. The 17-year-old student has been a girl scout for 12 years and had previously earned Bronze and Silver Awards. Her leadership, Gold Award project consisted of more than 90 hours of […]
The Alliance For Safe Kids partnered with the Cortlandt Community Coalition to complete a community drug resource & information mailing to all of the Lakeland School District. Yorktown Senior Citizens and Yorktown and Lakeland High school students worked together to put stamps, return labels, address labels, collated and stuffed over 3,850 envelopes! Thank you to […]
Yorktown-Somers Patch — Twenty Yorktown establishments have passed an underage drinking enforcement detail after not selling alcohol to undercover, underage agents on Wednesday, Nov. 27, Yorktown Police Chief Daniel McMahon said. The enforcement detail, sponsored by the Alliance for Safe Kids, was part of a local, federally funded study to combat underage drinking. The Yorktown businesses that were checked and did […]
Daily Voice — Out of 14 Yorktown businesses recently subjected to a underage drinking check, not one sold alcohol to an undercover teen, police said. Undercover agents conducted checks at the 14 licensed locations around Yorktown and reported that all of the establishments refused to sell alcoholic beverages to the undercover agents during the test, […]
Yorktown Patch— Yorktown police officers conducted alcohol compliance checks on Aug. 7 at 14 licensed locations within the town of Yorktown with the help of undercover, underage agents. The effort, sponsored by the Alliance for Safe Kids, was part of a local, federally funded study to combat underage drinking. According to police, all 14 of the establishments refused to sell alcoholic beverages […]
Yorktown Patch— Yorktown teens, through the local non-profit Alliance for Safe Kids, have submitted an original video to the “Above the Influence” ad contest, which was accepted along with 53 others from across the nation. They’re getting close to the top spot in winning the competition but they need your help in order to surpass the front runner by […]