Westchester Blogs: How To Contribute to Midnight Run, Mobile Devices and Attention Spans

Here's a roundup of popular blogs from Westchester readers, published recently.

Leave your thoughts and opinion here, or head to the individual blogs to join the discussion. 

From Ossining-Croton Patch: How to Contribute to a "Midnight Run" for New York City's Homeless

Donations of clothing, goods and food can be given to organizations now driving at night and on weekend mornings to Manhattan. 

"Midnight Run" volunteers are also sought to deliver assistance and relief to New York City's homeless poor. 

During the next 30-day period, the Midnight Run volunteers that will provide help to New York City's hopeless poor are identified below. About 150 organizations including churches, synagogues and schools support Midnight Run, headquartered in Dobbs Ferry.

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From Ossining-Croton Patch: Croton's Down to Earth Farmers Market: Farmers Are Harvesting Now

In a recent conversation with Dan King of Rexcroft Farm, he shared that he's been "farming since I've been able to walk." Now the benefits of his expertise on the land are available to the shoppers of Croton every Sunday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Rexcroft Farm is a seven-generation farm that grows food and raises animals with great care for the environmental and its living beings.

These days, the crew at Rexcroft harvests kale, broccoli, collards, and summer squash - just to name a small sample of their produce. They also come to the market every week with pasture-raised beef, pork, and poultry.

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From Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch: Are Mobile Devices Destroying Our Attention Spans?

There was a time period when people would just sit down at meetings and talk to one another, and not just stare blindly at our mobile devices. Not while intermittently looking at their smart phone or tablet and being constantly distracted by Twitter feeds or texts.

A time when, as Louis CK so crudely put it, people just lived their lives. A time when people didn’t have mobile devices to draw their attention away from one another and could instead focus on conversations and business and such. I imagine that Mad Men wasn’t too inaccurate in their depiction of, well, living life in the 1960s.

And yet, imagine the world that we live in right now. Even as I am writing this, I’m probably being distracted by websites, text messages and other obligations that are completely unrelated to what I am writing about — but wait, I am writing about distraction. Fitting.

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From Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch: Caravela, a Tarrytown Dining Destination for 27 Years, Closes

Caravela, a long-time Tarrytown dining destination celebrated its 27th anniversary in April of this year but it has since closed. It was the first restaurant to serve Portuguese food in Westchester County. 

The restaurant was founded by Fernando Cabral who left his home on the northern coast of Portugal at the age of 15 to work at busy cafés in Lisbon and arrived in America in 1980. 

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