WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS UNDERGROUND. From The Attorney General Press Office. November 28, 2006: In a news release yesterday, the Office of the  New York State Attorney General  and the Department of Environmental Conservation disclosed White Plains has been polluting the Bronx River with raw sewage (“fecal coliforms”) from its stormwater drains for an unspecified period of time, and that the City has agreed to pay $56,832 into an escrow account set aside by the state for cleanup of the Bronx River in other areas not under any state mandates for cleanup.  The city has, according to the settlement,  agreed to construct sewer improvements, including, but not limited to eliminating “cross-connections,” (where sanitary sewer content leak into stormsewer lines) and private connections, to eliminate the pollution at city expense by May 1, 2007.

The city may apply for reimbursement for the cost of the sewer construction needed from the escrow fund, but it is not guaranteed.  Agreements with other cities and villages polluting were announced as well.  The city also agrees to undertake a four year monitoring program to assure the sewage leakage has been eliminated. The details from the Attorney General Press Release:

 

“Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Denise M. Sheehan today (November 28)  announced agreements with four Westchester County municipalities to stop discharging raw sewage into the Bronx River from their storm sewers.

The cities of White Plains and Mount Vernon, the Town of Greenburgh, and the Village of Scarsdale have agreed to eliminate such discharges by May 1, 2007, and to monitor their storm sewers to prevent future discharges. In addition, the municipalities together will spend more than $150,000 to upgrade their stormwater systems, and pay civil penalties.

“I commend the communities who signed these agreements for doing their part to help reclaim the Bronx River and transform it from an abused waterway into a prized public resource,” said Attorney General Spitzer.

DEC Commissioner Sheehan said: “New York State has made significant progress in protecting and enhancing water quality by enforcing against polluters. The agreements announced today with four Bronx River watershed communities will further DEC’s efforts to protect and improve important natural resources in our urban areas.”

The agreements announced today mark continued progress in the Attorney General’s Bronx River Watershed Initiative aimed at reducing pollution of the 24-mile river that flows through Westchester and Bronx Counties.

The Attorney General’s Office provided notice to the municipalities of violations for sewage discharges on August 1, 2005. Since then, the four communities have investigated and eliminated sewage discharges from some of their sewer pipes, but other discharges have continued.

The settlement agreements are the culmination of months of negotiations to ensure that the remaining sewage discharges are identified and halted, and that the municipalities pay penalties and fund projects to reduce stormwater pollution. DEC referred the violations to the Attorney General’s Office and assisted in the investigations.

The discharge of untreated sewage to the river endangers human health and the environment and violates a variety of state and federal health and environmental laws. Discharges from the storm sewers of these municipalities, while small in comparison to those by the City of Yonkers which is subject to a court order to eliminate its pollution, contribute to health risks for river users. Hundreds of members of the public, including children, regularly boat, swim and fish in the river each year.

In addition to eliminating their sewage discharges, under today’s agreements:

• The Town of Greenburgh will invest $16,524 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $1,836;
• The City of Mount Vernon will pay a penalty of $5,400;
• The Village of Scarsdale will invest $78,975 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $8,775; and
• The City of White Plains will invest $56,852 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $6,318.

Previous settlements have been reached with the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Gardens, which have fully implemented measures to cut off their pollution of the Bronx River. Last month, the Attorney General reached an agreement with Yonkers Raceway to eliminate its sewage discharges into the river. In addition, the Attorney General’s Office obtained a court order in 2004, on behalf of the state and DEC, requiring the City of Yonkers to stop discharging untreated sewage to the Bronx River. Investigations of other Bronx River polluters continue.

Once cleanups under the Attorney General’s settlements and its lawsuit against the City of Yonkers are fully implemented, most of the Bronx River is expected to achieve compliance with water quality standards, thereby minimizing the health dangers to river users. Large reductions in stormwater pollution are expected as well.

The agreements with the four municipalities were negotiated by Assistant Attorney General Philip Bein and Environmental Scientist Patricia Primi of the Environmental Protection Bureau under the supervision of Bureau Chief Peter Lehner, with assistance provided by DEC staff.”

For a transcript of the agreement between the city and the Attorney General’s Office, go to http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2006/nov/WhitePlainsAOD.pdf

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WPCNR THE FEINER REPORT. By Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner (EDITED). November 28, 2006: More pressure will be placed on the White Plains Hospital Center Emergency Room if state plans for hospital closings are carried out. (The White Plains Emergency Room now has waits of hours for walk-in minimum trauma patients). Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner reports:

Residents of the river villages must work hard to save our health care facilities. Two major health care centers in Hastings and Dobbs Ferry are in danger of being closed. Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry and Andrus Retirement Nursing Home in Hastings could be forced out of business if a state commission charged with reorganizing NY’s health care system gets its way.

  The Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry has served our community since 1893 when the first hospital at Dobbs Ferry was built. This hospital has provided outstanding personalized care to many residents of the River Villages. This hospital is loved by many patients – because of the individualized attention received. Unlike larger medical centers – patients are treated like family and neighbors by the staff and medical professionals.  The hospital provides patients with high quality care.

  The Greenburgh Police Department has used the hospital. In 1997 we expanded our area’s emergency ambulance program. A police office who is a trained paramedic is brought to the scene of every serious emergency ambulance call. Many patients who live in the River Villages are brought to the Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry. Countless lives have been saved as a result of the outstanding medical attention given to the patients.

  The State Panel is also recommending that Andrus on Hudson close down their nursing home and convert the nursing home into an independent living center.  The nursing home provides important medical services to the frail elderly and meets an important community need.

  If these two important medical centers are forced to close the quality of medical care in our community will be impacted. I have advised the Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry and Andrus of my interest in working with them on an aggressive lobbying initiative to reverse the recommendations of the state panel.

  It’s my hope that the entire Westchester delegation to the NY State Legislature will work hard to save the Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry and Andrus on Hudson Nursing home.

 

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WPCNR BUMPER-TO-BUMPER. By Clark Kent. Special From The Daily Planet. November 28, 2006: So Lois Lane was tossing and turning last night in the Fortress of Solitude in the White Plains southend, “where all is quiet, the yards are big, and the children pass their state achievements,” turns and asks me, “Superman? What’s that drilling?” “With your superhearing, I can’t believe you don’t hear that.”

I opened the window and sure enough, there was a rat-a-tat-tat rumble, pound, scraping sound in the direction of I-287 North of the WPCNR headquarters. “Sounds like the DOT is at it again, Lois, this is a job for Superman.”

 

Why You Couldn’t Get to Sleep Last Night: “Concrete Compression” on the infamous I-287 Entrance Westbound entry ramp in White Plains. The giant dentist’s drill onthe backhoe was pounding the cavities out of the ramp at 12 midnight. The chimpanzees that plan the scheduling at the Department of Transportation have struck White Plains again. Photo, WPCNR News

Checking with White Plains Police Headquarters, the desk told me, “We know of no construction going on. I’ll give you the DOT.” The WPPD deskmate calls the the DOT which picks up in Albany and they ring the night supervisor, the phone just rings and rings. Finally I call back the White Plains Police to make an official complaint: “I want to make an official complaint about the noise coming from I-287.” The White Plains Police say that is the Westchester County Police jurisdiction. She gives me the Westchester County Police.

Their Westchester County Police desk man gives me the Westchester County Police Dispatcher. She checks it out while I am on hold. She reports: “The DOT has permission from the (DOT) engineers to do some concrete compression on I-287. They are scheduled to be doing it until 1:30 A.M. They have permission from the DOT Engineers. We’re getting a lot of other complaints”

This sounds like a job for Superman, I think, so I take to the night about 11 o’clock, and head for I-287 off Exit 8-A where the construction might be. Making several passes over I-287, I drive under the overpass right by The Westchester Mall (in White Plains). Note to the White Plains Police: Exit 8A is in White Plains.

Those Who Drill By Night — Don’t Have to Sleep at Night. The DOT Boys Pound away on the I-287 Overpass at midnight in White Plains, keep a good portion of the city awake. Photo, WPCNR News

As I drive under the underpass, I notice a backhoe on the ramp and suddenly  see it’s menacing arm DRILL the overpass, creating a shuddering RAT-A-TAT-TAT creating sparks and a thundering, echoing catastrphic sound and shaking above my automobile. I had located the midnight driller that could be heard all over the southend of town. We thought it might be a Stepinac prank. But no, it was the good old DOT carrying out another well-thought out plan.

As of  12:30 the drilling has started again. It’s louder than blasting which they do during the day, which I have never heard.

Citizens inconvenienced by this night rumbling (that can be heard 2 miles away through closed windows), according to the Westchester County Police  should contact the “Head of Traffic, Division of Traffic of the Department of Transportation” and tell them this is ridiculous and they should not schedule “concrete compression” from 10 P.M. to 1:30 A.M.

One again, those same chimpanzees in the DOT Engineering Department who gave you the stop sign entrance onto I287 for three months, where you had to make a full stop and enter 60 MPH traffic have created an avoidable inconvenience (the cacaphonous drilling) that is keeping not only Lois Lane up tonight, but every commuter who is a light sleeper in North White Plains, the White Plains Downtown and the White Plains Southend, not to mention Valhalla and Harrison.

I can hardly wait until they start working on the new Tappan Zee Bridge and giving us a new I-287, after they finish the I-287 they are working on now. Hey, Eliot, put all the Democrats who want jobs in the DOT on January 1 — they couldn’t do any worse — or could they? You’d be doing New York a favor.

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. By “Red Light” Bailey. November 25, 2006: The shootout was tied 1-1 after three shooters a side had taken their shots after  50 minutes of play and six shooters.

 

 

Conroy Slips his backhander in past Horace Greeley Goaltender, Dylan Picker for the Shootout Clincher. Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

 Tim Conroy started skating slow cruising in head-to-head with Greeley goaltender Dylan Picker with a chance for sudden victory.  He conned Picker to his forehand about 15 feet out drawing the netminder sprawling forward, then deftly sweeping to his backhand in Andy Bathgate style, Conroy slipped the puck cleanly alongside the goaltender’s sprawled right leg into the center of the net for the winning goal. Pandemonium! The Tigers leapt the bench and raced to join Conroy after the coup de grace for a mass hug in front of the stands. The Tigers were 3-0, and looking good.

The Equalizer: Rui Encarnacao(9) behind the net has just cruised past after Phil Segona, farside has jammed in Rui’s rebound to tie the score with 1:50 in regulation. Picker looks into his net at the puck. Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

The two hundred fans for the nightcap of the White Plains Tigers Invitational Hockey Tournament had seen the Tigers Phil Segona tie up the game jamming a rebound home after Rui Encarnacao’s flip over aimed over the goalie’s shoulder had hit his armboard and dropped the puck in front between the tender’s legs.  Segona, right on Rui’s tail in a superb trailing effort, rapped it between the goaltender’s legs for the tying goal at the 13:10 mark of the final period with 1:50 to go– one of the few rebounds Picker had allowed.   Encarnacao had corralled a loose puck in center ice and broke alone on a breakaway swooping in on left wing  with Segona trailing on right wing, beating the defenders playing catch up.

 

Goal Disallowed.

 

The Tigers Matt Goldstein got caught retaliating on a heavy check with 1:21 to go in the third period, and on the ensuing power play a Quaker low on the box rifled a shot across the goalmouth behind Tiger Goalie, Mike Cambareri, but a Quaker was sprawled in the crease and the goal was disallowed to the disbelief of the Quakers.

 

NO GOAL! NO GOAL! Referee disallowing Greeley goal with 13 seconds to go in regulation because the across-the-goal-mouth shot was put in by a player in the crease. The Photograph appears to show the player is definitely in the crease. Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

This was a honey with great goaltending by the Tigers’ Mike Cambareri who kept the Tigers in the penaltyfest with 43 saves, including 3 breakaway saves in the second period, and two stops in the shootout. Dylan Picker was Patrick Roy-look-alike in goal for the Quakers denying the Tigers point blank consistently. It was a game that built and built in intensity with both teams throwing everything at each other.

 

Cambareri Big Time in Period Two

 

 

Cambareri was spectacular in the second period where the Quakers  leveled 17 shots at him in 15 minutes, and scored 3 times. The second period began with the Tigers trailing 1-0, the result of a first period short-handed goal by Greeley’s Cole Cherney who snared a loose puck behind the Tiger net and jammed it in around the left post behind Cambareri. Though the Tigers threw 11 shots at Picker in the first, it remained 1-0 going to the second period.

 

The Second Period saw the Tigers tie it up on a feed from Matt Altieri to Ryan McGhee skating across at the top of the circle left to right, rifled one on a clear shot at Picker and it entered lower right corner to tie it 1-1 at 2:11 of the Second Period. The Tiger penalty killers, Charlie Pavarini, Jamie Fairhurst, Phil Sigona Rui Encarnacao and Tim Conroy frustrated the bigger, but not as fast Quakers, killing off two penalties back to back, allowing only one shot on goal from the 10 minute mark to the 7 minute mark.  When Rui Encarnacao scored with another quick low right corner shot at 9:04 of the second period, the Tigers had a 2-1 lead.

 

 

Rui Encarnacao (9) has just fired in a flaming forehander that has caught the lower right corner on a screen shot for a 2-1 Tiger lead in the second. Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

Then the Quakers stepped it up a notch

 

C. Belles scored on a breakaway to tie at 10:59and Cherney on a great effort on a rebound in a melee to the left of Mike Cambareri, and whipped it behind him into the far left corner to make it 3-2, Greeley at the 13:47 mark. This was after concentrated pressure by the Quakers, who dominated the last five minutes of the second period.

 

White Plains superior speed produced another equalizer in the last 10 seconds of this rouser of a period. Steve McCarrick fed Tim Conroy who swooped into leaving three Quakers down ice. Conroy fed to Rui Encarnacao who, skating left to right across the goal mouth just about between the  circles shot as he was falling and fired, skated around the net, and when Picker failed to cover the bound slipped it behind him on the right side to tie it 3-3 at 14:47 of the Second Period with 13 seconds to go.

 

The second period showed heavy hitting as the bigger, rangier Quakers were bumping the elegant swift skating Tigers who had been having their way getting down into the Quaker ice. Not in the last half of the second period. Nine penalties were called in the last 10 minutes of the period.

 

Breakaway Goal Almost Stands Up

 

The Tigers came out flying in the third period on a power play but got caught pinching for the go-ahead goal when a puck came flying off a Tiger leg on a slapper and ricocheted into center ice. Cole Cherney snared it  with John Amodeo on right wing with him. With only one defender to beat, Cherney passed to Amodeo who beat Cambareri cold, lower right corner for the go-aheader at 2:40 of the Third Period. It was 4-3, Chappaqua. Thirteen penalities were called in the third period…9 on Horace Greeley and 4 on White Plains. There was hooking, slashing, roughing, interference, check from behind. The action was gritty, tough, fast and high energy. End to End action with the Tigers finally scoring on Segona’s rebound off the Encarnacao steal when the Tigers were on a power play due to a check from behind by Belles at the 12 minute mark.

 

8 Tiger Power Plays in the Final Stanza. 

 

Greeley stymied 8 Tiger Power Plays in the third period with heavy hitting, brutal, deft stickwork and looked like they were going to stop the 9th  until just 1:50 was remaining in the game. Encarnacao’s alert steal in center ice and Segona following the play  as Rui flew past the slow Greeley defenseman and closed in. Rui shot high on the right side hitting Picker high. He failed to smother!  Picker deflected, but could not smother and Segona’s stick bladed it in to tie it up. The Tigers threw 17 shots at Picker in the third, but the 18^th went in to tie 4-4

 

The overtime was cautious ending in a 4-4 tie. In the shoot out, Cole Cherney lead off for Chappaqua. Pavarini closed his shot on the right post padding it aside. Phil Segona skated in on Picker. Picker covered his head-on shot. Ian Steinberg closed on Pavarini and again Mike smothered the low left shot to the right. Pavarini refused to commit.

 

Second up for the Tigers in the shootout was Rui  Encarnacao who beat  Picker who committed to soon on Rui’s forehand as the boards shuddered with Tiger fan approval.

 

Belles whose penalty gave the Tigers the extra power play in the third period, was Greeley’s last hope he got Mike to commit and scored. With six shooters gone by it was now, “next goal wins.”

 

Tim Conroy took the ice and with his Andy Bathgate style won the game deking Picker to come out and whisking the backhand past him. The rest as they say was history.

 

Tiger Paws: This was big league hockey in every way…Tiger speed is blazing (all must be of French Canadian ancestry, with a lot of Montreal Canadien in them)…they are fast on their blades and tough in the corners. In the two tough wins this weekend they out forechecked and worked the corners against big tough players, and for the most part, refused to lose their poise…They are much more fun to watch than the Rangers, Islanders and Devils.

 

Saves: Mike Cambareri stopped  43 shots, Dylan Picker, 38…There were 28 penalties in this hockey game , 17 on Greeley, 11 on White Plains. The penalties increased as the game went on…6 were called in the First Period. 9 in the second period, and 13 in the third period… In other tournament action Saturday, Ryetown-Harrison beat Brewster, 5-3; Ryetown plays Stepinac Sunday at 4:15 today. Stepinac defeated Somers/North Salem, 6-0; Monroe-Woodbury downed Mahopac, 4-2 and will face White Plains Sunday night at 8:15 P.M. for the Invitational Crown. Mahopac plays Horace Greeley at 6:15 P.M.

 

Three Stars of the Game: Star # 1  Horace Greeley’s Cole Cherney (2 Goals, 2 Assists); Star # 2: White Plains Rui Encarnacao (2 goals, 1 Assist) and Star # 3: White Plains Tim Conroy (Game Winning Shootout Goal)

 

 

Tigers Celebrate! Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

 

Hockey Night in White Plains. Photo,WPCNR Sports

 

 

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. November 23, 2006 UPDATED WITH GAME STORY PIX 11:30 PM EST: Stepinac scored on sustained drives the first three times they had the ball against White Plains in this morning’s annual Turkey Bowl Game between the cross-town rivals, building a 24-0 lead at the half behind halfback Rashaad Slowley’s three touchdowns to post Stepinac’s first win in four years in the longtime rivalry, snapping a 4-game White Plains Turkey Bowl win streak.

Backfield In Motion: Stepinac Junior “Rocket Rashaad”  Slowley (anything but) carrying the ball about to angle to the right and go in for a touchdown in the First Quarter, to start the dominating peformance of  The Crusaders. Photo, WPCNR Sports

Key Third for the Tigers: The Tigers were moving the ball in the opening series and on this third down play a pass complete to Bobby Thompson was just short of a first down. An in motion penalty on the 4th down go-for-it forced the Tigers to punt. Photo WPCNR Sports.

 

Rashaad Slowley the 6 foot, swivel-hipped Crusader back highlighted four Stepinac touchdown drives with key runs of 15-yards and scored all four Crusader touchdowns as the bigger harder-hitting Stepinac line swept away Tiger defenders on play after play in a game played on a muddy, tractionless(at least for the Tiger defense) gridiron, windswept goopy and merciless. In what is likely the last game played at Parker Stadium in this series on this field as White Plains knows it, this was no classic, and sounded the end of natural grass football in White Plains. (The field will be converted to synthetic Field Turf over the summer and new metal bleachers installed.) Perhaps this is a good thing noting the condition of the field at gametime.

 

Stepinac dominated the Tigers in this one marching down the field the first three times they had the ball, and scoring three 2-point conversions to boot.

 

Illegal Motion Penalty Stops Tiger Mo

 

It did not start out that way. White Plains elected to receive the kickoff  and Matt Robles returned the ball to the WP 20. Robles next carried the ball three times for 4, 2, and 14 yards for a first down on the 40. White Plains managed another first down at the 50 and on 3^rd and 5 a pass to Bobby Thompson was just short of a first down at the Step 42. It was 4^th and 2 and the Tigers were moving the ball. This was the highlight of the game for the Tigers. As they took set positions, the Tiger left end moved and the linesman tossed the yellow flag. Illegal Motion. Five yard penalty. The Tigers were moved back to 4^th and 7 on the 48. John Perez with the wet football punted just 13 yards and Step took over at the 35.

 

The Crusaders began to move and did not stop moving it until midway in the third quarter.

 

Rashaad Slowley took over. He cruised to a first down, 20 yards to the Tiger 40, then another first down at the Tiger 30. Matt Robles stopped the Crusaders momentarily by tackling Maurice Easterling in the backfield giving the Tigers what appeared to be a chance of stopping the drive. On the next play a face mask was called on the Tigers and that put the ball on the 9 for a first and goal to go. The two penalties appeared to take the heart out of the Tigers right there. Rashaad Slowley ran for two yards then slanted in around right end inside the goal line end zone pylon for six points with 1:34 to go in the quarter. Joe Collins caught three receivers in the end zone and completed to Easterling for a 2-point passing conversion and it was 8-0. That was where the First Quarter ended.

 

Slowley Turns Into Ray Rice.

 

Rashaad Slowley continued his Ray Rice impersonation in the second quarter as the Tigers went three and out, again punted poorly and Stepinac started up again from their 41. Slowley ran the ball swiftly slipping tacklers to the Tiger 43. Greg Datino cruised to the Tiger 30. Slowley then bounced off tacklers at the line of scrimmage, slipping around two Tigers in the center of the line and started stepping up the gut for 21 yards to the Tiger 5. He scored two plays later to make it 14-0 with 8:39 to go in the half. And again Quarterback Collins passed for a 2-point conversion to make the score 16-0.

 

BOOM! And it’s 22-0 At the Half. Rashaad Slowley into the end zone for the third Crusader Touchdown at the end of the First half. Photo, WPCNR Sports.

 

Slowley scored on another touchdown following yet another mispunt recovery, and this time Collins ran the ball in for 2 points, making it 24-0 at the half. The third quarter found Slowley scoring again after a Tiger fumble late in the third quarter on a 2 yard run.

 

The Stepinac line was blowing the Tigers off the ball on the slow track all morning and after the first touchdown drive the Tigers could do nothing on offense. The Tigers end the season at 2-8, the Crusaders, 4-7. It was Stepinac’s first win in the series since 2001, their 10^th win over all against 26 defeats. The Crusaders truly dominated this game, the two crucial penalties not withstanding. Had the Tigers made that 4^th and 2 in the first quarter instead of the unfortunate illegal motion penalty, the game might have been closer, but not the way Mr. Slowley was running today. The only time Stepinac punted, they did that well, too.

 

Honorees

 

The Tigers Bobby Thompson and  The Crusaders’ Ryan Hoffer were chosen as recipients of  the sportsman awards at the close of the game.

 

Bill Flooks, far left, and Greg Drummond, far right being honored before the kickoff as Dedicatees. Photo WPCNR Sports.

 

Bill Flooks and  Greg Drummond of White Plains were honored  as the Dedicatees of today’s Turkey Bowl for their long unselfish service to Archbishop Stepinac High School and the White Plains High School football program, respectively and  their  tireless, generous community service.

 

White Plains High School Alumni Association Gives $10,000 to the WPHS band for new uniforms.  To right are members of the Board of Education: Michelle Tratoros, dark coat, Peter Bassano (blue cap), and Bill Pollak (yellow cap). Photo, WPCNR Sports.

 

The White Plains High School Alumni Association awarded a $10,000 check to the White Plains High School Band for new uniforms for the “Best Band in All the Land” just prior to their spectacular halftime show performed in a driving rain on a muddy field.

 

“WP” Forever. The Best Band in All the Land playing the Alma Mater at start of the game in panchos and berets, Looking sharp in the monsoon. Band Director Leslie Tompkins is perched precarious on a wet ladder to conduct the musicians. Photo, WPCNR Sports

 

 

The show was easily the best program Leslie Tompkins the Band Director and her stalwarts have ever marched at Parker Stadium performing  pinwheel formations, creating a steamboat with turning wheels to “Rolling on the River” and dancing as their brass section played “Thriller.”

 

A crowd of around 1,500 fans from the community filled the old concrete bowl for the last time, and fans from both schools were totally impressed by the band which looked as good as a Big Ten Marching Band today in miserable marching and playing conditions

 

So another football season ends with the pleasant memories of a Tiger team that did not turn in a great record, but there were those names and moments to remember: Matt Robles nearly running the Tigers to victory over Mount Vernon and touchdown saving tackles week after week, Savaugn Green’s acrobatic clutch catches, Ray Mitchell’s go-to work, Paris Young  Conner Spellman amd George Don Pierre’s valiant efforts on comeback drives, Joseph Petit and Bobby Thompson never-give-up leadership. Paul LaBarbera’s standing in and engineering chances to win. Mike Howard’s “step up leadership.” It was a season of more bad breaks and the most bad officiating this reporter has seen in seven years of writing WPHS football, but the team, the attitude, the heart was always there.