A Division of Cornerstone Family Healthcare
Join Dr. Peter Michael Varunok, a private practice gastroenterologist, for an overview of Hepatitis C and new medications that can cure it. Dinner is included.
Sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Please RSVP to Robert Cuozzo at (973) 714-8532 or by email at robert.cuozzo@gilead.com by March 20, 2016.
There are only a few tickets left for HVCS’ Drag Brunch 2016! This event has sold out every year and we expect the same situation for Sunday’s big show. If you’ve been waiting, now’s the time to hop on over to Eventbrite to snag your tickets!
And, to add to the fun, our friends and supporters at Big Gay Hudson Valley hope YOU the audience will have just as much fun as our drag-tastic performers! They’re giving away two pairs of tickets to their upcoming event to the two “Best Gender Bender Looks” at Drag Brunch. Don your best gender-switcheroo outfit or bend your gender outfit to the extreme and you might win a pair of tickets to see “Nasty Drew & That Harder Boy: The Mystery of the Family Jewels” in Rosendale on Saturday, April 16th. Outfits will be judged by our performers TRIXIE STARR, JOJO GERARD, ANITA LAY and AVI MUNSTER, so dress to impress!
Learn More About BGHV’s upcoming show:
Great jumping catfish! Someone has snatched Lady Dubois’ cherished family jewels! Never fear, stripper sleuths Nasty Drew and That Harder Boy are on the case. Watch as they hunt for clues, ward off menacing suspects and loosen up a few buttons of their own on their search to find the dastardly diamond deviant.
Presented by Big Gay Hudson Valley and GayHudson.com, Nasty Drew & That Harder Boy: The Mystery of the Family Jewels is written and produced by Chris Harder (who you may remember from BGHV’s annual burlesque cabaret, HUNG With Care). This queer and campy “whodunit” play features some of NYC’s hottest names in burlesque, drag and circus performance.
Learn more and watch the trailer online at www.BigGayHudsonValley.com/NastyDrew
Fighting the war against hunger, one bowl at a time ~PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 13TH ANNUAL EMPTY BOWLS BENEFIT DINNER!!!
This year’s Empty Bowls dinner will be on Friday, April 15th, 2016. It will be held from 5:00 – 7:30 PM in the cafeteria at the Rondout Valley High School in Accord, NY (on Kyserike Road, 1/4 mile off Route 209).
Empty Bowls is an annual benefit dinner held in Accord, New York. Empty Bowls raises money for starving families throughout the Hudson Valley. At Empty Bowls you can purchase a ceramic bowl made by local Rondout Valley High School students and professional artists. Once purchased, you can choose from a wide variety of soups and ice creams to fill your bowl with. All soups, ice creams, breads, and beverages are generously donated by local businesses throughout Ulster County. In past years Empty Bowls has managed to raise over ten thousand dollars!
Proceeds will be given to four local food pantries. The pantries being sponsored this year are the Rondout Valley, Rosendale, Rochester, and HVCS of Kingston Food Pantries. It is with the aid of these pantries that many families throughout Ulster County are able to experience the gift of food, a gift that many of us often take for granted.
Every little bit counts. Every dollar, every bowl, every person. In order to win the war against hunger we must all join the fight together. It takes an individual to make a difference; a group of people to make an impact; a community to change the world. So come and join the Empty Bowls community. United we will fight the war against hunger, one bowl at a time!
Join local author M. Miench for a charity benefit book signing on Saturday, March 26, 2016 at Locks That Rock in Wappingers Falls, NY. Miench will be on hand to autograph copies of her new book “Love Came Walking In,” which will be available for $15.00. $5.00 from every purchase will go to HVCS.
When Paige lost her husband, Dennis, five years earlier, she was left a single mother of a 10-year-old daughter, Lessie, now 15, and an 8-year-old son, Alec, now 13. Dating was something her sister, Casey occasionally talked her in to, but she had no interest and always managed to compare her dates to her late husband.
Three years ago, Jason broke off his engagement with Martie after he discovered she’d been unfaithful to him for most of their relationship. Having lost all interest in long-term relationships, he was now resigned to the life of a bachelor. He didn’t feel he was missing out on much. He had a big family with two sisters, one brother, six nieces and nephews, with another on the way, so far. They were close and he wasn’t looking for more.
When love walked in on Paige and Jason, it wasn’t going to be easy … for anyone. As their attraction grows, Paige finds herself trying to reconcile with her memories of Dennis, and Jason with Martie. Carl, Jason’s older brother, sees himself in Paige’s resistant daughter, Lessie, which stirs up the demons of his turbulent past and his still strained relationship with his father; his adoptive father, not his biological father, the Bastard. Even Jason’s parents are not immune as Paige and Jason’s quest brings them back to the days when love walked in on them. And through it all, standing off to the side, is Paige’s quiet but insightful son, Alec, being the voice of reason.
Available in Digital Format.
Kindle at Amazon.com
Nook at BarnesandNoble.com
Author M. Miench
With a background in communications and literature, and a fascination with why people do what they do, are who they are, it all comes together as M. Miench creates realistic characters who lift off the page and into your imagination. She invites you to travel within and take the journey with them. As their stories conclude, please don’t imagine that the tale ends there. You are encouraged to envision the stories beyond her pages. For just as in life, the stories go on … in your own imagination.
As the new year gets going (is it already mid-January??), we’re turning up the heat on preparations for the 2016 Hudson Valley AIDS Walk–and RUN! We’re excited to announce the return of several loyal event sponsors who have made the commitment to helping us end AIDS in the Hudson Valley.
Thanks to Stop and Shop on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie for signing on as our Healthy Snack Sponsor. Employees will be on site that morning with plenty of fresh fruit, water and granola bars for hungry walkers and runners! Stop and Shop also provides financial support.
Welcome back to the Crafted Kup (Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie) as our official Coffee Sponsor! Enjoy free refills of gourmet java from a great local small business.
Superior Sounds returns as our own version of the AV club, providing sound and DJ services. They’re huge supporters of HVCS and we’re huge fans in return.
Last but certainly not least, we welcome longtime supporter Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union as a Walk/Run sponsor. 
They’ve sponsored other events in the past, so they’re still a returning sponsor but NEW to the AIDS Walk/Run!
Now’s a great time to sign up as a walker, a team or as a runner: get a jumpstart on training on our Walk/Run page!
The fifth annual DRAG BRUNCH returns on Sunday,March 20th with hostess TRIXIE STARR! Choose from a delicious German brunch menu and enjoy fun andgames from 11 am to 2 pm, special performances by JOJO GERARD, ANITA LAY, SONNY SHORES, and AVI MUNSTER, and music by SUPERIOR SOUNDS. Your $30 prix fixe includes a $20 donation to HVCS, plus your brunch entree and unlimited coffee, tea and soft drinks.
This event has sold out for the past few years, with only 75 tickets available. Get your tickets now to make sure you’ve got a seat at the most fun Sunday brunch of the year!
Tickets are available online at http://dragbrunch2016.eventbrite.com.
EventBrite charges a $2.64 fee per ticket. Paying this fee means that 100% of your ticket price will to go support our programs and services.
Performers:
Trixie Starr (Photo by JR Mac Photography)
JoJo Gerard
Anita Lay
Sonny Shores
Avi Munster
Visit our AIDS Walk & Run page for more information.
SUNY New Paltz presents “Testing All Queens! An HIV Equal Event” on Saturday, December 5, 2015 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. The event features dinner, a drag show and a fundraiser with proceeds going to HVCS. A special guest speaker from Love Heals starts off the program, and the Queens and Kings of New Paltz close things out with a drag show. Music provided by Superior Sounds.
Suggested donation: $5 for students, $10 for non-students and community members.
Come have Thanksgiving Dinner with the CHAPS staff on Thursday, November 19th, 2015 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm at The Mosaic Center, 137 South 4th Ave., Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 10550.
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