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Gloria Mangiamele, a 93-year-old Avon Circle resident, picks ripe tomatoes from the new community giving garden at the Rye Brook Senior Center on Sept. 17. An AARP grant funded the project to bring fresh vegetables and a sitting space to the facility.

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Keeping spry with fresh veggies

AARP grant brings beauty and nourishment to the Rye Brook Senior Center with new community garden

Life now flourishes in a spot that once rarely saw it at the Rye Brook Senior Center on Garibaldi Place. A Community Challenge Grant of close to $5,000 from the AARP allowed Rye Brook Senior Center staff to not just beautify the building’s patio adjacent to the main hall but turn it into a space that helps the residents served by the facility.

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