Kidney donor sought for Highlands Middle School Student

We have an Rosedale Residential Association family who is in need of help.  Natalie Ballin is one of our neighbors and a 13 year old student at Highlands Middle School.  Her health issues started in August of 2019 when she was diagnosed with Severe Aplastic Anemia which means her bone marrow stopped making blood.  Natalie developed bad complications from her treatments and her kidneys were damaged beyond repair. She is in desperate need of a kidney transplant.  Below is some information about donating a kidney and an abbreviated story about Natalie’s situation. 

  1. Anyone over 21 and in good health can be a donor.
  2. Donating a kidney would require about 2 nights in a hospital.
  3. After donating a kidney, a donor would go back to lead a normal life without restrictions.
  4. People can go to this website to find out more about Natalie’s story, see FAQ about kidney donation, and register to start the process

Helping Natalie:  https://nkr.org/QDR266

The Ballin Family is thankful for any help that anyone can offer in terms of finding a donor.  David Ballin (Natalie’s Father) can be reached at [email protected] if you have any questions on how you or anyone else can help.

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BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS ARE BACK! THERE’S NO SHOWS LIKE THE GREATEST BROADWAY SHOWS AT THE NEW WESTCHESTER THEATRE, CHAPPAQUA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.

WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE IMPRESARIO INTRODUCES WESTCHESTER’S HISTORIC TRADITION OF BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS APRIL 21. OPENING NIGHT: “MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET”

JERRY LEE, JOHNNY CASH, CARL PERKINS AND THE KING ARE BACK ON DECEMBER 4, 1956 the greatest jam session of all time in MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Photo by Jason Niedle

WPCNCR STAGE DOOR. By John F. Bailey March 15, 2022:

The greatest Broadway Shows of all time are back in Westchester at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center Opening Night April 21.

Bill Sutler and Bob Funking introduced millions of young people and thrilled theatregoers of all ages with their Westchester Broadway Theatre that gave hundreds of actors and actresses their starts.

This April, Mr. Sutler is bringing back a new, one-of-a-kind “Performing Museum of Broadway” which is now all-new in the posh Chappaqua Performing Arts Center at Chappaqua Crossing. The former Reader’s Digest Headquarters converted into a state-of-the-art theater with a proscenium stage which will deliver the greatest shows in show business in a real Broadway venue in the spirit of the WBT decades of recreating the Broadway magic without the big ticket.

The first show MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, literally has “the hits keep on coming,” a Gershwin Entertainment production recreates the night Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and The King Elvis Presley wandered into Sun Records in Memphis and wound up rock n rolling one-upping each other in a jam session that jumps. Shows begin April 21. They sing the hits they’re known for: Blue Suede Shoes, That’s All Right, I Walk the Line, Great Balls of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, and, yes Hound Dog. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Ghosts rock again.

This is no Juke Box Musical. A clever book winds an intriguing narrative leading into songs. It won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical and received two Tony nominations, one for Best Musical and one for Best Book of a Musical.

Coming up next is Menopause, The Musical and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA and coming this summer, individual entertainment nights.

The former Westchester Broadway Theatre was forced to close in 2020 due to covid and loss of their lease. Now, thanks to a covid-related grant to businesses suffering loss in the pandemic all refunds have been paid last fall to former ticket holders requesting refunds and Mr. Sutler is reestablishing the WBT tradition.

For information contact the box office at 866-806-5777, or go to www.ChappaquaPAC.org or write [email protected]

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SENATOR GILLEBRAND ANNOUNCES $640,000 TO WHITE PLAINS YWCA FOR EXTENSIVE RENOVATION OF CHILDRENS PROGRAM AND ESTABLISHMENT FOR CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE.

U.S. SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLEBRAND, HENRY CHAPMAN, ACTING PRESIDENT OF YWCA, CONGRESSMAN MONDAIRE JONES, 17TH Congressional District, and White Plains Mayor Tom Roach at presentation of the grant to White Plains Y Monday afternoon.
Senator Gillebrand explained the funds would fund the expansion of programs such as the Children’s Learning Center and Kids Connection classroom space which will benefit from the windfall created by the omnibus appropriations agreement. Part of the grant, according to Mr. Chapman, Acting President of the Y, said the program would help fund the planned Center for Racial Justice.

Chapman said designs for the use of unused areas of the Y to expand classrooms and establish the new Center would now be sought. He anticipated the project would take 2 to 3 years.
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