Hélène Byrnes generously devotes her time and energy to Rye’s youth through her various Board positions in the Rye Youth Council, Woman’s Club of Rye Children’s Philanthropy, Resurrection School PTO, the First Twig of Harrison and Kid’s SPACE. She has chaired many fundraisers from Family Portraits, Rug Sale, Designing Women and the Rye Youth Council’s own Dinner Dance and Auction. She has also been a part of the Cancer Care for Children Gala as well as the Jay Heritage fundraiser. She has been a committee chair of numerous events at all the schools her children have attended.. She has been a member of the Osborn Excellence Team, a Resurrection religious education teacher as well as working for four years on the annual Rye House Tour. As a Rye High School parent she organized monthly parenting group meetings since freshman year for the class of 2008 parents. She was manager of her son’s CYO basketball and soccer teams and coordinated various trips to England, Ireland and France for the Rovers club soccer team. She has been part of cultural exchange programs and opened her home to students from England, Indonesia and France. Her family also helped a New Orleans teenager affected by Hurricane Katrina by having her stay with them so that she attend school in the area. | |
Laura Slack has been very involved with educational and children’s causes since moving to Rye twelve years ago. She served three years as the Midland PTO Co-President after one year as Vice-President and many years of working on various Midland PTO committees. After her term as Midland PTO President, Laura became the President of SEPTA, the special education parent teacher association in Rye. She is also a member of the Woman’s Club of Rye Children’s Philanthropy Section. Laura was one of the founders of the Midland School Caring Committee. She helped create this committee in order to help families who were in the midst of difficulties such as a medical illness or emergency, a death in the family, or any significant hardship. Over the past six years, the Midland community has helped dozens of families in times of need. The success of the Midland Caring Committee spawned a similar committee, the Rye Middle School/Rye High School Caring Committee, on which Laura currently serves as Co-Chair.
Laura was elected to the Rye City School District Board of Education in 2006 and currently serves as its Vice President. In the past she has served on the Rye City School District’s Finance Committee, Communication Committee, Budget Analysis Committee, and Health and Safety Committee. |
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Rye Youth Lacrosse (RYL) was formed in 2004 with the mission of introducing the boys and girls of Rye to lacrosse, the fastest growing sport in America, in a supportive, positive and enthusiastic way. RYL is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit community-based program open to boys and girls in grades 1-8 regardless of ability or experience. Leah and Phil DeCaro, David Greenhouse, and Rob Santangelo formed Rye Youth Lacrosse in 2004 as Rye was one of the very few communities in the area without a youth lacrosse program. RYL first opened for registration in the spring of 2004 and offered a once-per-week program for boys in grades 1-6. Eighty-five boys participated in the program during the first season, and RYL was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response from the community. Equally important was the strong commitment of the volunteers to be involved in all aspects of the RYL program.Today, RYL's programs have grown to offer an intramural level program as well as a more intensive travel program. Last year, over 500 boys and girls played in RYL's various programs, which included 8 travel teams. Countless volunteers gave hundreds of hours of their time to RYL to coach, referee, organize, clean up and cheer! RYL strives to be a positive influence in the lives of each of its players. |
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