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Department of the Interior - Secretary Ken Salazar talks with Matt Lauer about the Future of Ellis Island.

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• U.S. Interior Secretary Salazar tours Ellis Island
  New U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently toured the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island  with U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in order to examine the possibility of reopening Lady Liberty’s crown and restoring the closed portions of Ellis Island. On the tour, they climbed to the statue’s crown and viewed the dilapidated portions of Ellis Island, which used to contain a health facility in which immigrants were screened.
  
  
• PVH Commits to Donate At Least $1 Million to the National Park Service and Save Ellis Island Foundation In the Name of ARROW® Apparel
  February 2008 - Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (NYSE: PVH) announced today that it has joined in partnership with the National Park Service and Save Ellis Island, Inc. to further advance the campaign to help rescue the historic buildings on the South Side of Ellis Island.
  
  
• Historic Ellis Island Ferry Building To Be First South Side Building Open to Public in Over 50 Years
  April 2007 - Today, Save Ellis Island, Inc. (SEI) and the National Park Service (NPS) announced the completion of a project to restore the historic Ellis Island Ferry Building, the first building to be opened on the New Jersey portion of Ellis Island. Work on the exterior began in 2000; interior restoration started in 2006.
  
  
• J.M. Huber Makes Donation to Aid Save Ellis Island Stablization Effort
  November 2006 - In recognition of its immigrant heritage and the significant role Ellis Island played in American history, the J.M. Huber Corporation has makes a donation to Save Ellis Island. 
  
 
• Ellis Island Featured During OHNY Weekend 2005
  November 2005 - Ellis Island was one of 150 sites visited by participants in the Open House New York Third Annual OHNY Weekend, presented by Target.

 

• Save Ellis Island Awarded National Endowment For The Humanities Grant
  May 2005 - Grant money will help fund the first permanent exhibition interpreting the hospital complex on Ellis Island.

   

• Unilever Volunteers Make A Difference
  May 2005 - Saturday, May 7th, 2005 was a cold and blustery day on Ellis Island, but that didn’t stop more than 450 volunteers from completing critical service projects to benefit the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island National Monument. 

   

• Helping the Gateways to America - Tauck’s first “bi-coastal” Volunteer Day
  September 2004 - On Friday, October 29, 2004, we will host our 4th Annual Fall Volunteer Day - with Tauck volunteers working in both New York and California!

 

• Budd Schulberg Will Be Honored at Tribute Event Hosted by Save Ellis IslandSeptember 2004 - Lifetime Accomplishments of Gifted Author, Screenwriter, Producer, and Son of Ellis Island Immigrant Celebrated at Special Dinner.

• Siperstein’s Paint And Decorating Centers And Pittsburgh Paints® Make Donation To Aid Save Ellis Island Restoration Project
  June 2004 - In celebration of Siperstein’s 100th Anniversary, Siperstein’s Paint and Decorating Centers and Pittsburgh Paints® have made a donation to be used for the interior renovation of the Ellis Island Ferry Building.

   

• Save Ellis Island Statement to the Public
  April 2004 - Recent news surrounding the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) has prompted confusion between their efforts to reopen the Statue of Liberty and the activities of Save Ellis Island.

 

• Plan to Restore Ellis Island is “Preferred Alternative” of National Park Service
  August 2004 - The National Park Service has presented a unique and ambitious plan to preserve, protect, and make publicly accessible an endangered part of Ellis Island.

   

• NJ Company Makes First Corporate Donation To Aid Save Ellis Island
  August 2004 - In recognition of its immigrant heritage and the significant role Ellis Island played in American history, the J.M. Huber Corporation has donated 72,000 pounds of their specialty wood product, PerformMAX 500™, for the stabilization of the deteriorating buildings on Ellis Island. Without stabilization, these historic resources will be lost.

   

• SAVE ELLIS ISLAND! RECEIVES $10,000 GRANT
  August 2004 - Save Ellis Island has received a $10,000 grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to help finance the final design and implementation of an exhibit that will tell the story of the health screening process for immigrants and the millions who were subsequently treated in the Ellis Island hospital complex. 

   

• Ellis Island Restoration Project Kicks Off The Timberland Company’s 30th Anniversary Celebration
  September 2003 - More than 250 volunteers lend their time and skills to renovate one of the most endangered historic landmarks in the United States.

 

• General Management Plan Launched by National Park Service
  July 2003 - The National Park Service Planning Website for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
  
  
• Travel Industry Cleans Up Ellis
  June 2003 - More than 300 members of the travel industry pitched in to help clean-up the south side of Ellis Island

   

• Ellis Island Ferry Building Exhibit
  July 2002 - The Ferry Building is the first of the buildings on the portion of Ellis Island under New Jersey sovereignty to be restored.
  
 
• Paul W. Zuccaire Foundation Presents Save Ellis Island With Research Grant
  August 2004 - The Paul W. Zuccaire Foundation has presented Save Ellis Island with a $12,000 grant in support of research for the Ellis Island Ferry Building exhibit, scheduled to open in Spring 2004.