WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. JULY 7, 2010:
As of 9 A.M. this morning with the temperature at 90 degrees in the shade, Con Edison Storm Map shows 55 White Plains customers without power, and across Westchester County, there are 1,568 Con Ed customers without power among the 346,452 customers the utility serves.
In White Plains, a cooling center is open at 65 Miller Place, (the Senior Citizen Center) for use by the general public. City pools at Kittrell and Gardella are open until 9 P.M.
WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PAST. From The WPCNR NEWS PHOTO ARCHIVES. JULY 5, 2010:
Yesterday, WPCNR showed you photographs of the environmentally distasteful state of Silver Lake today. Before it was turned into Liberty Park in 2003 at a cost of $600,000, Silver Lake was far more appetizing to the eye, as witness the photographs below.
When White Plains holds its “Clean and Green” event on Mamaroneck Avenue July 17, they would do well to focus on what is the matter with Silver Lake and how can we bring the lake back so people can use it! Is it the way Liberty Park is configured that is causing it to beceome “Slime Lake” every summer? Are the carp reportedly stocked in the lake last fall not doing their job? Does the Lake need aeriating fountains? What? This natural resource is an obvious place to start to become cleaner and clearer, certainly not greener!
SILVER LAKE, WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK
BEFORE
FORMER COUNCILMAN BILL KING CLEANING SILVER LAKE OF JUST DEBRIS IN MARCH 2002.
THE FALLS AT SOUTH END OF SILVER LAKE, JUNE 2003 AFTER LIBERTY PARK OPENED
WHITE PLAINS SHORELINE WHEN LIBERTY PARK OPENED, IN JUNE 23, THE SUMMER OF 2003 — IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THIS TODAY– IN THE SAME TIME OF YEAR.
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NORTH END OF SILVER LAKE AUTUMN, 2002
COUNCIL TOURS SILVER LAKE, OCTOBER 29, 2002: L boat, Tom Roach, the late Robert Greer;R.boat, Legislator Bill Ryan and Rita Malmud. Their vision of Liberty Park has been lost as the ecology of the lake has been mysteriously altered by undetermined forces of nature if you see the photographs of Silver Lake shown yesterday.
Former Councilman Glen Hockley, left and Councilman Benjam Boykin afloat on the shimmer of Silver Lake in autumn, 2002. It does not shimmer today…and is a disgrace to look at (see set of July 4, 2010 photos below)
WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR Roving Photographer. JULY 4, 2010:
Last fall, city officials of Harrison and White Plains said that carp were being stocked in Silver Lake in northeast White Plains between White Plains and West Harrison to feed on the algae that was according to authorities causing the stagnant growth in the Silver Lake waters. Well either not enough carp were stocked, or they have not been eating the plants, because Silver Lake today is very uninviting and appears to be a stagnant pond on July 4, 2010.
Liberty Park, created five years ago at a cost of $600,000 of city money is today littered with goose droppings. The pier on Silver Lake is warped and dangerous, and Silver Lake itself is very unappetizing. This nitrogen rich environment is now pouring into the headwaters of the Mamaroneck river daily.
SILVER LAKE 2010
AFTER
NOT THE GREEN YOU WOULD WANT.
THE PRISTINE FALLS OF 2003 HAVE TURNED INTO GREEN SLIME.
WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. July 3, 2010:
The White Plains Board of Education will hold its annual Reorganization Meeting Tuesday where re-elected Board Members Sheryl Brady and Charles Norris will be sworn in, and new officers of the Board will be elected, followed by its regularly scheduled first meeting of the year.
New Assistant Principals at Post Road School and George Washington School will be officially appointed. Carmen Soto will be installed at Post Road School, as assistant to Principal Theresa Niss. Brendan McCarthy will assist Principal Terri Klem at George Washington School.
Still to be hired for the new school year are an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction (replacing Margaret Dwyer) and a new Principal for White Plains High School (replacing Ivan Toper.
Representatives to the School Board Finance Committee, Steven Rabinowitz and Timothy Donohoe are expected to be reappointed to the committee which aids in making advisories on the budget to the Board.