5 Things for the Week Ahead

The week is packed with things to do. Here's 5 worth a second look:

Free SAT Practice Test, Monday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. White Plains High School, 550 North St., White Plains, NY. How would you score ? Find out with this free practice test. To register or find out about other upcoming practice tests in White Plains please visit www.kaptest.com For more information, call 914-419-7377.

Free Workshop: Business Law and Taxes, Wednesday, January, 30, 1 p.m. 120 Bloomingdale Rd., White Plains, NY . In the Business Law & Taxes workshop, you will learn: Which business structure to use and why; Cost of forming corp., LLC, etc.; Necessity for written partnership or shareholders agreement; Tax deductibility of home office expenses; Limited liability protection with corp.or LLC; Lease provisions to look for; Employee vs. independent contractor; Necessity for liability insurance coverage and hiring an insurance agent; Selecting an attorney. For more information, call 914-948-3907. 

The French and Indian War, Wednesday, January 30, 1 p.m. 897 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon, NY. Talk and discussion about the Great War for Empire: The French and Indian War. For more information, call 914-667-4116.

Book Author Ken Budd Discusses Volunteering Around the World, Thursday, January 31, 5:30 & 7 p.m. 2 Clinton Pl., New Rochelle, NY. Ken Budd will speak about travel, purpose, and his critically-acclaimed book, The Voluntourist—A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem, at 5:30 p.m. and again at 7:00 p.m. at the headquarters of Cross-Cultural Solutions in New Rochelle. Book sales will go to the CCS Franco Lalama scholarship honoring the Port Authority employee who lost his life on 9/11 leading the evacuation of engineering offices in One World Trade Center. The scholarship is being created with money from the book; all of Ken's earnings are going back to the places and organizations where he volunteered. 

The Panoramic River: The Hudson and The Thames. Saturday, February 2, 12 p.m. Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY Cost: $5. From London to New York, The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames at the Hudson River Museum shows new ways of seeing two iconic rivers ─ the Hudson, America’s “first river” and England’s ancient Thames. The ever fascinating panoramic image, aerial or birds-eye views, presented  in over 100 works by18th and 19th-century paintings by English topographical view painters and America’s Hudson River School painters. For more information, call 914-963-4550.