February 12, 2015
Alice’s Kids responded to a student referral from Riverside Elementary School on Old Mount Vernon Road with well-worn out shoes.
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Mount Vernon: Alice’s Kids Donates Items to Enhance Student Self-Esteem
As a seventh grader growing up in Long Island, current Mount Vernon resident Ron Fitzsimmons missed 60 days of school because he was too embarrassed to go. After his father abandoned them, Fitzsimmons’ family survived on welfare, but only just.
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