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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

April 25: PWEF Benefit, Kids' Nutrition And Port Writes

Happenings around Port Washington.

1. There's a shopping even to benefit the Port Washington Education Foundation at Lord and Taylor in Manhasset. Each $5 ticket entitles the ticket-holder to a 25 percent discount on one item and a 15 percent discount on remaining items all day long. 2. There's a kids' nutrition workshop at The Dolphin Bookshop. 7 p.m. Learn more. 3. Brush up your financial know-how at the Port Washington Public Library. 7:30 p.m. 4. Port Writes: Michael Chaplan facilitates a writers workshop at Port Washington Public Library. 8 p.m. 5. Get all your Port Washington news sent directly to you. Sign up for our daily newsletter.

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The Dolphin Bookshop, Health Series: Kids' Nutrition Workshop, and Port Washington Public Library

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

PWEF Education Support Center Pursues the Artist Within

Students visited by an author and a teacher.

This winter, the PWEF Education Support Center invited two guests to share their artistic passion and highlight the importance of the arts in our lives. Local author, Dan Paisner, and artist and retired Port teacher, Seth Ehrlich, shared an afternoon with the support center’s 40 third-graders talking art and encouraging each to pursue their artist within.  Paisner’s visit was timely, as the PWEF Support Center students are writing their own stories and crafting hand-made books. Paisner has co-authored or ghostwritten more than 50 books with well-known politicians, entertainers, athletes and business leaders as well as not-as-famous people who have very interesting stories too. He revealed the biggest secret about writing, noting it isn’t …

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The New PWEF.Org Answers: Who? What? Why?, Film Based on Port Resident Nets Academy Award Nomination, Port Washington Public Schools, and 1 more ›

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

PWEF Celebrates 10th Birthday

Test your Port trivia knowledge at the PWEF birthday bash

Save the date. Saturday, Jan. 21 marks the 10th birthday bash for the Port Washington Education Foundation, the nonprofit that enhances educational opportunites for all Port Washington public school students. The event will take place at H on The Harbor. This year's party theme? Port Washington trivia. The PWEF asks: "Which rock and roller played an impromptu gig at Campus Drive and Port Washington Boulevard during the spring Port Promenade in 1976 (or so)?” Also: “In which Port Washington pub did the Mets celebrate their 1986 World Series win?” Answers to these trivia queries will be available at the birthday bash, where guests can test their knowledge by playing the "Port Game Show." Also on tap for the evening: cocktails and desserts, …

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PWEF Grants Help Students in Port Washington and H on the Harbor

Monday, September 26, 2011

PWEF Grants Help Students in Port Washington

Grants are awarded to benefit students in all seven schools in the district.

This year, students in the Port Washington school district will glean lessons from way beyond the classroom. Music students from grades 4-12 will work with the Dallas Brass Band. At-risk and ESL students will be linking math ideas to real world-scenarios though a program called "Connecting Community to Curriculum." And there's more. All students in the district will learn in an outdoor classroom environment at a refurbished Guggenheim Preserve. And young elementary students attending Manorhaven Elementary School will have oppporunity to build cognitive, social and fine motor skill through a mobile Smart Table Interactive Learning Center. These programs and more are made possible through the Port Washington Education Foundation. Celebrating…

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Manorhaven Elementary School and Schreiber High School

Monday, November 8, 2010

PWEF Awards Grants for School Programs

Nearly $60,000 in grants was awarded this year.

At a time of spiraling educational costs and shrinking budget increases, teachers are still tasked with the challenge of keeping coursework varied and interesting, all the while meeting state requirements. And while there's no shortage of ideas to inspire students, funding innovative programs can be problematic. That's why so many in the community value the support from Port Washington Education Foundation (PWEF). Since 2001, the the PWEF has supplied grants that supplied educational opportunities to students in the district. It held its 9th Grant Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Slade Performing Arts Center at Paul D. Schreiber High School. PWEF has awarded more than $475,000 for programs and projects throughout the last nine …

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Schreiber High School, John Philip Sousa Elementary School, South Salem Elementary School, and 3 more ›

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Saturday’s Amazing Race Went Full Sprint

The PWEF’s fundraiser served up fast-paced fun, food and plenty of laughs.

The competition was on when 125 contestants competed up and down Main Street in the Port Washington Education Foundation's first-ever Amazing Race fundraiser, raising dollars for district-wide education programs on Saturday evening. Forty-five minutes after the contestants surged down Irma Avenue, the team dubbed the "Super Six" crossed the finish line at Om Sweet Om. The winning team's secret?  "We sprinted the whole time," said team member Trudy Grieco. Grieco and her teammates Pam McDonough, Susie Beil and Linda Caruso were one of 16 teams that paid $75 a head to tackle a series of challenges at participating merchants along a stretch of Main Street and Port Boulevard. The event offered other forms of sponsorship opportunities, and …

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Om Sweet Om Yoga, Sweet Comfort Bakery and Cafe, Castle Repair, and 4 more ›

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Main Street Readies for First-Ever “Amazing Race” Fundraiser

PWEF teams with local businesses, raising dollars for educational iniatives.

How fast can you make a pizza box? On Saturday, participants in the Port Washington Education Foundation's (PWEF) first-ever "Amazing Race" fundraiser will tackle this task along with a slew of other challenges dreamed up by Port Washington businesses. Linda Columbo, owner of Frank's Pizza is betting that she can best all comers. "I can make one in 30 seconds," Columbo said. "It will probably take them three to four minutes. And they have to be careful not to rip them."  Frank's Pizza is just one of 14 local businesses sponsoring the race, which is loosely modeled after the hit TV show "The Amazing Race." Like the show, participants are grouped in teams that compete against the clock to take on a series of challenges along a set route. The…

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Frank's Pizzeria, Om Sweet Om Yoga, and Linda's g2g

Thursday, April 29, 2010

PWEF Celebrates Lee Aschenbrenner Day

Port Washington Education Foundation honors Lee Aschenbrenner, a devoted volunteer and educator who passed away last August, with a special program at the library.

The Port Washington Education Foundation (PWEF) celebrated Lee Aschenbrenner Day at the Port Washington Public Library this week, honoring a beloved volunteer and educator who devoted himself to the children of Port Washington. PWEF dedicated the afternoon's program to Aschenbrenner, a former principal at Flower Hill, before it closed, and Manorhaven elementary schools, and a devoted volunteer at PWEF's Education Support Center, who passed away in August 2009.  "Anything to do with children and education, he was a leader, and we wanted to honor him," said Ellen Fox, the foundation's vice president of special projects.  Fox said Aschenbrenner helped out at the center in many ways, "from pouring apple juice to taking students to the bathroom…

Friday, February 12, 2010

Rock and Rolling for a Cause

Battle of the Bands raises money for the Port Washington Education Foundation.

The gauzy guitar licks of Eric Clapton's "Mainline Florida" set the night of music in motion. As the Polish American Hall filled with the sound of classic rock, Port residents turned out in droves for the Port Washington Education Foundation (PWEF) and its Battle of the Bands fundraiser last Saturday night. The PWEF is a community organization that provides grants for innovative educational projects in the Port Washington Union Free School District. Since its inception in 2001, the foundation has awarded more than $400,000 in grants throughout the district's seven schools.  "The foundation raises money for school projects that are not part of the school budget," said Amy Bass, PWEF founding member and now President Emerita. "And it's more …

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