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Susan Habel, Commissioner of Planning Announces Her Retirement.

Posted on June 7, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. JUNE 7, 2012:

The White Plains Commissioner of Planning for the last ten years will retire effective August 8, the Journal News reported today.

Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel. speaking Monday evening at the Common Council meeting. No announcement of her impending retirement was made at the meeting by the Mayor or city officials. She will retire in August.

Habel has been with the city since 1985 when she joined the Planning Department, and was appointed Commissioner in 2002 under the Joseph Delfino administration, replacing Michael Graessle. Habel crafted the zoning that transformed the city downtown from 2003 to 2008 in what was known as the “White Plains Renaissance.”

Mayor Thomas Roach gave this quote to the Journal News on Habel’s legacy:

“Sue has been an invaluable resource to the city of White Plains and to me personally. Her dedication is apparent. She literally lived her job. She leaves behind a legacy of strong work and a city changed for the better.”

Why Did the Geese Cross the Road?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by John Bailey

TO RENT VACANT OFFICE SPACE, OF COURSE!

WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. June 6, 2012:

Our Roving Photographer captured this tour of a inquiring family of Canadian Geese this afternoon crossing busy Mamaroneck Avenue.

Johnathan Denet, A Good Samaritan, and owner of Westchester Gutter Supply (914-552-8134)stopped his van (left), exited his vehicle and halted traffic to aid the inquiring visitors, at his own risk.

JONATHAN DENET, WHAT A GUY!

Mr. Denet said he saw several cars whiz by, honking at the geese and had to do something. “I’ve always been an animal lover and I didn’t want to see them hurt.”

Mr. Denet’s brother is a White Plains Police Officer.

WPCNR is pursuing an inquiry at City Hall to see whether the city is going to install geese crossing lanes at key intersections.

POLICELAND : FLEET & EQUIPMENT DEMO DAY TURNS PLAYLAND INTO A VERY SAFE PLACE

Posted on June 6, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR ROVING PHOTOGRAPHER. JUNE 6, 2012:

Playland hosted the ninth annual Fleet and Equipment Day Tuesday, and hundreds of police officers, law enforcement managers came on down to watch state-of-the-art police cars, hazardous devices robots, surveillance equipment and land-sea-rescue units were demonstrated.

Officers could also get to try out the very hot police cruisers on the Playland obstacle course. The squeal of peel-outs and short-stops, tight turns and prowess of the officers at the wheel was better than “Law and Order.

Westchester County Educational Safety Training sponsored the Trade Show all morning long.

68 Years Ago Today They Hit Omaha Beach

Posted on June 6, 2012 by John Bailey

WPCNR MILESTONES. June 6, 2012:

Sixty-eight years ago this morning, thousands of troops stormed the beaches in Normandy, France in the largest invasion in history.

The bloody assault against a heavily defended coastline, requiring incredible courage and sacrifice by allied troops, landing craft, paratroops, signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich and the regime of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

The quiet beaches of Normandy today. The hundreds of rows of white crosses in cemetaries around the little town bear silent eternal vigil to the sacrifice of those brave men and women who fought, died, and triumphed this day 68 years ago today.

We can in no way, or through any motion picture know what any veteran experienced. The veterans who still are with us do not like to talk about their combat experiences. And they do not.

One veteran of D-Day, asked what he thought of Saving Private Ryan and the realism of it, said the real D-Day was worse. However, veterans we have interviewed remark that they think of their combat experience every day. It is always with them.

It is inconceivable to me that I could ever be able to do what these men and women did. I would like to hope I could. However, the veterans have.

They left ordinary lives as office workers, factory workers, farmers, accountants, and what have you and were able to go to war and “rise to the occasion,” or as they say today, “step it up to the next level.” The highest level.

Few of them are left now. But today their sacrifice should be remembered.