THE WORLD READS WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER — 8,324,077 VISITS IN ONE YEAR | 2,905,611 VISITORS VISIT 8,324,077 TIMES 3 TIMES EVERY DAY IN ONE YEAR. HIGHEST ACTIVITY IN WPCNR HISTORY.White PlainsCitizeNetReporter lifted its worldwide visits from unique visitors to wpcnr.com to 8,324,077,a 1,306,419 increase in visits in one year from 7,017,658 visits to the site last year which covers White Plains and Westchester County. The 8,324,077 visits were made by 2,005,611 unique visitors who visited wpcnr an average of 3 visits a day. ON JULY 20- -2026 visitors have accessed wpcnr and made 3,072 visits an average of 1.6 visits. In the last week 33,495 individual vistors made 54,458 visits, averaging 1.6 visits. In the last month, 152,940 visitors recorded 229,338 visits (1.5 visits)

Police Seek Witnesses to Hit & Run on Maple Ave Thurs.

Posted on October 10, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From Department of Public Safety. October 10, 2008: White Plains Police are seeking the driver of a silver SUV that struck a White Plains resident at 9:51 p.m. last night at Maple Avenue and South Lexington Avenue.

. The victim is a 39 year old White Plains resident and is in critical condition at the Medical Center with head injuries.

A witness describes a small S.U.V. possibly silver in color fleeing the scene eastbound on Maple Ave.

We are asking for any possible witnesses to come forward to assist in the investigation. They should contact the White Plains Police Detective Division at 914-422-6200

The Step Up Girls Come Through!

Posted on October 10, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR SLATER CENTER CHRONICLE. October 10, 2008: The Thomas H. Slater Center recently held two fundraising events as a part of its Step-Up! Girls Program to promote the “Big Give” project, based on Oprah Winfrey’s reality show “The Big Give.” The announcement was made today by Heather Miller, Executive Director of the Center.

Step Up! Girls, funded by the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services, began in February 2008. Currently, twenty-two girls, ages 14-17, are registered with the program which meets twice weekly. In April, 10 girls traveled with Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity on a five day college tour, visiting thirteen colleges. Other activities include life skills development, academic assistance, employment assistance, among others. Step Up! Girls is modeled from the White Plains Youth Bureau’s Step Up! Boys, a program which is being duplicated by many communities.

Ms. Miller offered the challenge to the girls to use a $500 donation to raise additional funds and decide on a charity to donate the proceeds. The girls chose the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Hurricane Relief Efforts for Haiti as the recipients of the donation.

Step Up! Girls held a fashion show that featured local designers, Lou Torres-Gardner, Zebulon Crawford and Tara deVere. The models, many of who was Step Up! Girls themselves were likened to the best of the models on television series “American Next Top Model” and the designers to the best of “Project Runway.” “The audience of over 100 was enthralled and awed by the professionalism and expertise of the young people, both the models and designers,” said Miller.

The girls raised $3000, between the two events. Proceeds from both events will be split amongst the two charities.

Donations are still being accepted and checks should be made payable to the Thomas H. Slater Center/Big Give, and sent to 2 Fisher Court, White Plains, NY 10601.

Donors may also drop off non-perishable donations and items for the hurricane relief efforts for Haiti at the Center.

For more information on the Step Up! Girls program, please contact Martha Leonard or Naiyma Ford at (914) 948-6211 and/or [email protected], [email protected].

WP Advanced Placement Course Students Grows 4 X State Trend. Beat State Avg

Posted on October 9, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. From WPHS Guidance Center. October 9, 2008 UPDATED October 10, 2008: Lesley Tompkins, Director of Guidance and Counseling for White Plains High School delivered a report on Advanced Placement Programs (enabling students to obtain college credit based on successful passing of Advanced Placement Exams) Monday evening to the Board of Education showing the number of WPHS students taking the courses accelerated at four times the rate of the rest of the state. White Plains students also scored higher than the New York State Average in the passing score range.

Ms. Tompkins, speaking with WPCNR Thursday, said that with 67% of the 416 students taking Advanced Placement Exams in 2008 passing with a 3,4, or 5 score that meant 278 of them received some level of college credit. She explained that the total college credits for these passing scores depends on the school.

Between 1993 and 2008, the report shows, White Plains increased from 116 students taking 154 exams in 1993 to 416 students taking 716 exams in 2008, an increase of 259%. By contrast the number of students taking AP tests state wide increased only 145%. (A total 46,231 New York State students took69,386 exams in 1993 grew to 113,368 students taking 193,014 exams in 2008)

Ms. Tompkins said “The AP program in White Plains is thriving. Depsite the significant increase in the number of students taking APs and the number of APs offered, when you examine the reference tables, there is not a significant decline in the percentage of students scoring a 3,4 or 5 on the exams. In many of the tests we consistently score higher than the global averages in this range of scores. In 2007 when scores of all students in New York are considered 67% of White Plains students scored a 3,4,or 5 on the exams, while 65% of all New York students was the average. In seven of the past 11 years, White Plains achieved at a higher level than the New York State average in this score range.”

Advanced Placement Courses are usually taken in the Junior year, however Ms. Tompkins did not have the advanced placement students broken down by class.

Credit Crisis Spawns Internet Scams.

Posted on October 9, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR SERGEANT JOE FRIDAY REPORTS. From Don Hughes October 9, 2008: A frequent contributor to WPCNR, Don Hughes advises that communications from banks received by e-mail may be covers to access personal information, and not from your bank at all:

The current financial crisis has provided a fertile new area for scam artists. They are blasting out e-mails claiming that it necessary for you to provide account and other personal details to the firms new owners for verification purposes. Some of the scams are quite well done, even including links to legitimate web pages.

Do NOT respond to these requests. Financial institutions would ask for such information via regular mail, not e-mail.

Here is a link for an example claiming to be from Chase: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10057180-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1009_3-0-20s