The Blue Star Youth Movement
Founded in 2001, the goal of the Blue Star Youth Movement is to provide a safe place for teens and children to develop self-expression through creative arts, with adult guidance and companionship. Programs and workshops seek to support, add value to, and enhance the life experience of children at a crucial time of their growth into adulthood. Teachers and parents volunteer their time to share their expertise and lead afterschool programs, field trips, and community service projects on a biweekly basis.
Blue Star Afterschool Club Activities taking place at Hilltop Hanover Farm
Blue Star Youth Movement
Activities take place monthly, with a focus on arts, nature, environmental education, and community service-oriented events designed for children ages 8-14. Advance registration is required.
Sunday, April 25 - 12 Noon - Annual Trash Clean-Up Along The Croton Reservoir! This is the 29th annual community event, and for the Blue Star, it will be the 10th year in a row that we have engaged in this community service project! We meet at the corner of Croton Ave. and Baptist Church Rd. in Cortlandt Manor, and the DEP provides us with trash bags, gloves, and T-shirts. They also control the traffic and pick up the trash bags we collect. It's a great team effort, and afterwards we go and celebrate with pizza at a local park. All ages are welcome to come along and help too. This event is free! SGITW donates the pizza.
Friday, June 4 - Saturday, June 5 - Kawing Crow Awareness Center, Greenfield Ctr., NY - Blue Stars are welcome to join in for the third annual Earth School camping trip with Vince Walsh. Two days of camping and wilderness skills workshops, swimming under a waterfall, and eating way too much and loving those mosquitoes. It's primitive camping for sure (no bathrooms or running water), but there's nothing like the fireflies on the boardwalk at night or the songs around the campfire or making marshmallow taffy and s'mores. Ages 8 and older are welcome. There is a $60 fee per family, which covers the camping and workshops for two days, one night.
Tuesday, June 15 - 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Verplanck - “Classroom on the Waves,” aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater! This will be our fourth year making this amazing, beautiful, and educational trip. There is a $20 per person fee to participate in the 3-hour sail, which includes all kinds of great activities to promote environmental awareness, sustainable living, and understanding of the historic value of the Hudson River. This trip is open only to children 8 years and older. Parents are welcome.
Adopt A Chicken Project
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You can help to take care of a chicken at Hilltop Hanover Farm by donating just $5 a month to Something Good in the World! Your $5 contribution to the Adopt-A-Chicken Fund will be used to feed and maintain our flock of free-ranging, organic chickens, cared for entirely by the children and families who attend our educational programs. Your donation is tax-deductible, and in return for your gift, you will receive a photo of your adopted chicken, its name and address so that you can write to or visit your chicken, and you'll receive regular reports on how your chicken is doing. If you commit to $5 a month for one full year, you will also have the privilege of collecting your very own free-range, organic eggs from our hens! To register your intention to adopt a chicken, please contact Barbara Sarbin, Educational Program Director,
Something Good in the World at Hilltop Hanover Farm, 1271 Hanover St., Building A, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Email: somethinggooditw@aol.com. Phone: 914-217-9249.
For more information contact Barbara Sarbin at 914-217-9249
Or by e-mail: somethinggooditw@aol.com
A "Youth Movement" benefit concert took place on April 10, 2006. To view documantary about this event click here.