Baking for the Loaf and Laddle

Early this month, the HWS College Experience group made several dozen, gluten-free chocolate chip cookies. They donated them to the Granger Homestead, to be used for the Loaf and Laddle fundraiser, which is a lunch and dinner event.

The Loaf and Laddle is an event the Granger Homestead sponsors each year. They put together lunches and dinners for the people to purchase throughout the community. Because some of the individuals in the HWS College Experience are familiar with food allergies, they thought it would be nice to make gluten-free cookies.

Teamwork made the baking possible. The individuals were excited to deliver the cookies to the Granger Homestead, knowing they were helping someone else.

FLCC College Experience

Our friends in Student Life, here at the college, participated in raising funds for the annual polar plunge. Again this year, we were invited to partner with them in raising the money for the FLCC team. We jumped at the chance to help out! The Polar Plunge is held every year to raise funds for the Special Olympics of New York. With the team's hard work, we helped them raise $1140 this year. The polar plunge was held Sunday, February 13, 2011 at Charlotte Beach in Rochester, N.Y.

Community Experience joins Cobblestone Arts Center

Pictured below AchiAlisha Bellavia, Visual Arts Teacher and Tiffany P.

The Community Experience has been collaborating with Cobblestone Arts Center and the Pathways program every Friday for seven weeks. Cobblestone Arts Center is a non profit organization offering dance, theater, music, and visual arts to people of all ages and abilities. Throughout the seven weeks indviduals will be participating in yoga/dance, music, and art. In the final performance the group will be doing dance pieces from Grease, Michael Jackson and other artists. They also will be displaying art pieces replicating the styles of Picasso and Pollock and learning their history. Please join us and watch the performance on March 18th at 1pm at the newly remodeled space in Abbey's.

Resource Alert: Alternative Choices

As we gear up for the launch of The Autism Center at Ontario ARC, our staff are always on the look out for connections and materials that can provide a new avenue of resources for families. 

Such is the case with Alternative Choices  -- an independent health clinic in the Philadelphia-area.  Within the clinic is the Special Needs Families Resource Center directed by Dr. Robert Naseef.  Dr. Naseef is a nationally renowned autism expert and father to a young man with autism spectrum disorder.  His also the author Special Children, Challenged Parents and co-author of Voices from the Spectrum.  Dr. Naseef gives presentations all over the country and will becoming to Canandaigua soon!  Stay tuned for more details about this valuable training sponsored by the agency...