Alumni Games, Local Fundraisers During Thanksgiving Week

Find out what's happening in and round Pearl River this week. 

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Monday, Nov. 25

• The Rockland County Legislature Budget & Finance Committee will review the Mental Health Department budget for 2014 during a meeting that begins at 7 p.m. at 11 New Hempstead Road in New City. 
• The Pearl River Public Library Board of Trustees meets at 7:30 p.m. in the library's community room. 

• The Orangetown Patriots will kick off fundraising to send two cheer squads to the national finals at 7 p.m. at T.F. Noonan's at 16 East Central Avenue in Pearl River. Admission is $20. Find out more here. 
• A joint meeting of the legislature’s Planning & Public Works and Budget & Finance committees is being held to review the proposed Capital Projects budget for 2014. The meeting starts at 7:10 p.m. at 11 New Hemstead Road in New City. The county’s public safety radio communications is also listed as an agenda item.  
• The Budget & Finance Committee is expected to meet immediately afterwards to discuss the salary reduction proposal for the county executive and county clerk’s positions for 2014. The measure put forward by County Executive–Elect and Legislator Ed Day calls for a 10 percent cut in both salaries. The committee is expected to set a date for a public hearing for a local law to amend the county’s Code of Ethics to allow electronic filing of financial disclosure statements.
• The Pearl River School District Board of Education meets at 7:30 p.m. in the district administration building on Crooked Hill Road. 

• The Rockland Road Runners 22nd Annual Turkey Trot at Rockland Lake State Park is expected to have more than 3,000 runners and walkers. Wheelchair races begin at 8:15 a.m. and runners at 8:30a.m. but participants must arrive before 7:30 a.m. in order to get parking. The race benefits the Marissa Fund to fight childhood cancer. Participants are asked to bring food donations for People to People. Go here for pre-race and day of race registration information.
  
• Pearl River will play at Nanuet in the Little Brown Jug Alumni Football game at 10 a.m. Read more about the Pearl River alumni athletic events this week here. 
• Emmett's Castle in Pearl River will serve its Thanksgiving Feast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday. Read more here. 
• There will be a Black Friday Giveaway starting at midnight at the Level 1 customer service desk at Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack. The first 250 people will spin the wheel to win prizes including gift cards with values ranging from $10 to $300.