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The Town of Ramapo Holds 1st Annual Haitian Heritage Night

By dskriloff on November 2, 2012 Local

BY CANDACE RIVERA The Town of Ramapo held their first annual Haitian Heritage Night, Wednesday night at the Ramapo Town Hall. Guests enjoyed Haitian food, music, and poetry. The festivities also included speeches from two young Haitian natives now living in Rockland County. Lotechine Brevil, an eighth grader at Pomona Middle School, spoke about the day […]

THE MASS OF REMEMBRANCE

By dskriloff on February 16, 2012 Local

Two years after the earthquake in Haiti, where 316,000 people died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless, St. Peter Church and School remembered and prayed with survivors, family and friends in Rockland County. A day following the two year anniversary, January 13, 2012, St. Peter School’s children offered “The Mass of Remembrance” for the victims […]