WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. OCTOBER 27, 2008: The Mayor’s Open Space Advisory Committee will meet at 7 PM tonight at City Hall. When last the group convened, there was discussion on possible city-owned properties that might be sold, which, if they have arrived at a decision, would be referred to the real estate committee. At the last month OSAC meeting, it was stated by Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel that presently the city could not commit financial resources for further open space purchase due to the uncertain economic future.
Down Residents Meet Monday Focusing on WP Real Estate Today
WPCNR MAIN STREET JOURNAL. From Rob Tamboya. October 26, 2008: The White Plains Downtown Residents Association will meet Monday evening at Vintage Cafe, 171 Main Street at 7:30 P.M.. focusing on real estate in the downtown. We have been doing much better than most areas of Westchester County. Regardless if you own or rent, or if you think it is a good time to sell, move, or perhaps someone told you it’s a buyers’ market, it is hard to get a fixed rate mortgage, WDRA will present three speakers to clear up your mind.
Ann Bernstein, a top producer with Houlihan-Lawrence Realty will be discussing tends in the White Plains real estate market, and what we all should know and do in this market.
Dean Curtis, a mortgage broker in Bronxville will give a speech about mortgage financing and what’s great about our city in relation to other parts of the state and the country.
Susan Fitzpatrick, property manager for the Ritz-Carlton will be our last speaker, and she will talk about how the Ritz is coming along, and their plans to be outstanding neighbors.
Everybody back on the Ice! Good Ole Ebersole Opens.
WPCNR ICE STREET. October 25, 2008: Everybody got back on the ice at Ebersole Ice Rink, a White Plains tradition for 53 years with skating lessons beginning Saturday, with skating lessons for Tots, Alpha, Betas and Gammas and children of all ages. The White Plains Figure Skating Club began Tuesday. Ebersole is also home to the White Plains Plainsmen hockey clubs and the White Plains High School hockey team – one of the few high school teams with its own hometown rink.
Welcome Back! Kristen Fuerst, Ebersole Skating School Director for 12 years, reports 350 boys and girls have already signed for skating classes at Good Ol’ Ebersole, and there is still time for parents to sign their kids up at the White Plains Department of Recreation and Parks Headquarters. Private lessons are also given at the rink by the Skating School Instructors. Contact Rec & Parks at 422-1336, for the Skating School Booklet, or the skating school at 948-6696, for information on Advanced Figure Skating and contact Libby Hollahan for information on the White Plains Figure Skating Club.
The rink’s “family” astmosphere is where White Plains kids grow up. It’s safe. It’s run by people who have been there for years. Marty Peck, with Pam Peck above has run the skate rental concession since the rink opened in 1955.
Mr. Peck told WPCNR he started his Skating Shop right at the rink where the locker rooms are now. He says he now sees little girls he rented skates to coming back to the rink with their daughters and sons. He says it seems like just yesterday. Skates cost just $7 a session.
Lou, the friendly man who handles admissions has been checking in the ice princesses and princes of the ice in for 48 years.
The Ebersole Snack Bar is renowned for its superbly medium burgers for $3, hot dogs for $2 and Fries for $1.75 (crispy, toasty and addictive!), plus capachino for a $1.75 you can’t beat that.
Run with savvy, welcoming atmosphere by Matt Hansen, the rink never changes. One of two outdoor rinks in Westchester County the air is fresh wholesome and on cold winter’s nights it’s invigorating!
Ebersole is a place where all the kids meet and the parents, too, get together on the lesson nights, Saturday mornings and at the private sessions. It’s the closest thing White Plains has to a community center for all. Friday nights on teen nights, kids from all grades and neighborhoods come together to skate, and under the knowing hand of the rink staff can bring over a hundred teenagers together without having a regiment of police on hand. It is a testimony to the way the rink is run.
Juliana Bailey, aged 9 in 1998 at Ebersole with pal, Amy Reinthaler, 13. Great friends, despite the difference in age, the two went on to skate for their colleges on syncrhonized skating teams, competing on a national level. Photo, Kristen Fuerst.
Good ole Ebersole, as this reporter has written many times, is where kids learn confidence through working on their skating, admiring older girls who have gone before them do their twizzles, wallys, crossovers, loops, lutzs and the ultimate – landing the first axle. All aspire to the coveted black White Plains Figure Skating Club jacket. As grow up at The Eb, the young become the older girls whom the skating school employs as teachers and the Ebersole tradition carries on year after year.
Two for the Ice for Life : Juliana Bailey, 18, left with 22 year old Amy Reinthaler, right, 10 years later, last Spring at the Nashville Synchronized Skating Midwest Championships. Ms. Reinthaler pioneererd Synchronized Skating at the University of Notre Dame. Ms. Reinthaler was a mentor whom Ms. Bailey looked up to for leadership and guidance at Ebersole Rink when they both skated there. Once you skate together, you’re friends for life — and you get all those great college skating warmup jackets, too!
It’s the way Ebersole has been for 53 years.
More on The Lady.
WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE By John F. Bailey. October 23, 2008: Nineteen days Before last Sunday’s fatal hit and run accident in Haviland Lane in White Plains, Sheldene Campbell, the person charged with leaving the scene of that fatal accident, was involved a police chase through three New Jersey communities.
New Jersey Police monitored Ms. Campbell on a controlled pursuit from Old Tappan through the New Jersey communities of Park Ridge, Montvale and ending in Woodcliff Lake, a distance of about 10 miles Tuesday September 30, between 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM, September 30, according to Woodcliff Lake Police Chief, Anthony Jannicelli, speaking to WPCNR today.
Ms. Campbell was charged with Driving Under the Influence in the New Jersey pursuit, when a drug expert observed her behavior as consistent with drug induced symptoms, according to the Chief, toxicoilogy results are being awaited. The Chief said he immediately directed his arresting officers to notify White Plains Police of the New Jersy incident this past Monday, upon learning of the White Plains fatality.
Woodcliff Lake Police Chief William Jannicelli told WPCNR News today his department first became aware of Ms. Campell when she had put her grandmother and 9 year old son out of her car in Old Tappan when Tappan Police reported that incident over the universal dispatch system in effect in Bergen County. He said Old Tappan has charged her in relation to that case.
Jannicelli said, Campbell’s subsequent progress through the three towns was followed on the police central dispatch system, and during Ms. Campell’s “erratic” driving, citizens reported to police she had run over a person’s lawn and a jogger reported just missed being hit by the red SUV Ms. Campbell was driving at the time. Jannicelli said his officers saw Ms. Campbell turn onto the Garden State Parkway where they apprehended her.
In the car with Campbell, the chief said was a three year old girl, her daughter. The chief reported Ms. Campbell upon her arrest , was given a breathalyzer test, which was negative, however a drug expert suggested she be sent to Bergen Regional Hospital for evaluation. Jannicelli said they are awaiting toxicology tests back. Campbell, he said spent a week in Bergen Hospital.
A spokesperson for the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office asked if the warrant on Ms. Campbell that emerged Tuesday, had anything to do with the Woodcliff Lake incident, said he could not confirm whether the warrant as reported by the Journal News, was related to the incidents in Old Tappan and Woodcliff Lake. Previously the District Attorney’s office contacted by media would not disclose the nature of the warrant on Ms. Campbell.
A call is in to Old Tappan Police to see whether the warrant was issued by the Old Tappan Department.
Ms. Campbell’s unexplained reckless driving from Old Tappan to Woodcliff Lake occurred 19 days before the fatal hit and run accident in White Plains Sunday.
White Plains Police Wednesday afternoon say they are continuing to investigate the fatal accident Sunday in which pedstrian Marie Bucci, 65 died and in a separate incident, Roseanne Schiavone, 45, was injured.
White Plains Police have said that at this point they do not have information on what Ms. Campbell who is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident in connection with the accident, was doing in the Havilands Lane area. The Police say there were no other persons with her in the car at the time of the White Plains accident. They report no alcohol was involved.