Sensory Friendly Screening of How To Train Your Dragon at Smith Opera House

NYS Assembly Leader Brian Kolb, along with The Autism Center at Ontario ARC, are sponsoring a free, sensory friendly movie screening of "How to Train Your Dragon" at the Smith Opera House on June 11, 12 p.m.


The environment is ideal for children with autism and other developmental disabilities because families will be able to watch the movie with relaxed light and low sound suited to meet their often sensitive audiovisual needs.  "How To Train Your Dragon" -- which is rated PG by the MPAA -- features the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard
 Butler, America Ferrara, and Kristin Wiig.

The Smith Opera House is located at 82 Seneca Street in Geneva.  For more information,  download our promotional poster or contact Noreen Quinn at (585) 919-2022 or nquinn@ontarioarc.org.

Thank you to NYS Assembly Leader Brian Kolb for his support and making this special event possible!

What is in store for Ron Wilson?

Ron has overcome many challenges through-out his life. Ron suffered from a brain tumor when he was younger. He went on to attend highschool and graduated. After graduation he started the HWS College Experience in April 2007.

While at the College Experience, Ron learned many social skills. Ron's favorite part of his college experience was meeting all of the HWS students. Ron audited college classes, attended many internships, and has blossomed into a responsible adult.
Ron is going to be graduating, Sunday, May 15th with the other college students. After that, Ron will be working at the Canandaigua YMCA, in the child-watch program. He is very excited to start this endeavor.

Congratulations Ron!!

 

Community Experience helps United Way

Matt recently began a new volunteer opportunity at the United Way on Parkside Drive in Canandaigua. Other individuals from Ontario ARC assisted at the United Way prior to Matt starting. Matt shreds old documents every Monday for 45minutes. Matt enjoys shredding and this is a new opportunity for him to give back to the community.

FLCC College Experience

Every year here at FLCC college, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) club hosts a day of celebration, called May Day, where the students participate in small activities, get to enjoy games and recieve free items. This years themes was a carnival. Alyse, Stephanie and Jeff are members of the CAB club here at the college and volunteered by handing out shirts and cups with coupons in them for free food. They worked along side other college students in getting the morning preparations completed for the celebration in the afternoon. The annual May Day celebration was a another big success this year and we are proud to have been apart of it.

FLCC College Experience

This year the FLCC College Experience wanted to give back to the college for Arbor Day. Through a little bit of planning and a lot of help, we planted a Blooming Plum Tree here at the college. Since the college is going through a remodeling phase, we thought we could help by beautifying the grounds. With special thanks to Ryan Smith, Ontario Arc's Rehabilitation Counselor who donated the tree and Al Stetler, FLCC Landscape Maintainer who assisted us with the placement and planting the tree, can be viewed from our window where we will be able to see it grow throughout the coming years.