Making a presentation at Tuttles Bar and Grill were the Emerald Guild Supers for Solace House with a very large check. I will give a little inside information on what Solace House are doing to help others. They believe, rightly, that suicide is preventable and strive to make their services easily accessible and barrier-free. They seek to break down the stigma of mental health and suicide by creating an environment where people are comfortable seeking help for themselves, talking about their thoughts and feelings, and supporting and seeking help for suicidal loved ones.
At Solace House, they make it their mission to provide free, accessible, professional counseling and support services to anyone in emotional crisis. Solace House opened its doors in 2015 when Ireland’s Senator Joan Freeman established a one-year pilot program in New York City, bringing this service’s first US location from Ireland to Long Island City, Queens located in the New York Irish Center building. After a very successful one-year pilot program, and as the demand for our services grew rapidly, they became a permanent life-saving program, offering free services to adults, adolescents and children in New York. They proudly opened their second New York center on McLean Avenue in Yonkers in September 2017. To make an appointment with Solace House call (718) 482-0001.
I have to hand it to the Emerald Guild Society for the charities they sponsor with no bragging or boasting and that is why I am highlighting them for what they do. The Emerald Guild Society, founded in 1992, is an association of Irish and Irish-American Building Managers brought together by their common heritage and their employment in the property management field. While there had been an informal network of Irish Superintendents for many years in New York City, it was decided by the Guild’s founders to organize into a club for the mutual benefit of all and specially to help with opportunities and advancement in their industry. The members range from recently arrived immigrants working in starter buildings to experienced building managers running some of New York’s largest apartments complexes and the most prestigious address.
Their goals are to support colleagues in the apartment building industry to provide the best possible service with integrity and professionalism, to foster sense of community and a spirit of cooperation among the members. I myself can vouch for that as I know quite a lot of them and let me tell you, we in the Irish community should be so proud of the work that they do and the great thing about it is they were all immigrants like myself and became managers of the most famous buildings in New York City the hub of the world.
The beautiful thing is that they all work together and they help each other out to solve any problems that one might have in any way. Congratulations to all the members associated with the Emerald Guild Society from all at The Irish Examiner here in New York, keep up the good work.
This came to me from University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I Jenkins, CSC, who said that he joined with the campus community in mourning the passing of two first-year students who died after being struck by an automobile at Ironwood Road and Bulla Road, about a mile east of the campus.
“On behalf of the entire Notre Dame community, I express our deepest condolences and pray that our students’ families and friends may find God’s grace and solace after so shattering a loss,” Father Jenkins said. “We also pray for a full recovery of our student who remains hospitalized as a result of the accident.” We also wish the student speedy recovery.
Here is maybe the first function for George Heslin as the new Executive Director of the New York Irish Center. The history of the Irish celebration of Halloween brought to life in the front window of the New York Irish Center. Visitors will be treated to an interactive installation and discover the deep roots of Halloween in Irish history and folklore. Trivia, games, and history, compiled by Turlough McConnell, accompany the haunted windows all in a Covid-safe, socially distanced manner. Open daily! The installation will be viewable until October 31 from 3 pm to 10 pm each day. When you stop by, post on social media with the hashtag #HalloweenThroughTheWindow.
See you all next week when I am hopefully Out&About again…