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The Real Deal: A Different Kind of Party Totally Necessary

Posted on June 6, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR’S THE REAL DEAL By The Wedding Jeannie, Jeannie Uyanik of Cap and Gown Weddings. June 7, 2008: Given that we plan parties all the time, it’s rare when we see something completely new or totally out of the ordinary. But today I learned you can make even the scariest events fun; I attended a Mammogram Party. The idea sounded interesting to say the least, but it was proposed by my ObGyn, Dr. Claudia Holland (and a past client of our firm’s) and when it’s the woman who delivered your child, that’s an invitation that you don’t refuse.

The Wedding Jeannie

Jeannie Uyanik

Wedding Planner to the World

WPCNR Columnista

Dr. Holland is a firm believer in early and frequent mammograms and because the idea conjures much stress and even more procrastination, she offered to help minimize the pain by having a few of us go together. And from there the idea of the mammogram party was born.

Three of us were invited and greeted with coffee and pastries. Changing into our robes made it seem like more of a spa day than a necessary and lifesaving exam. The professional and very kind associates at the top notch facility where we had the mammograms, made the event a breeze. While there are many great facilities throughout New York City and the tri-state area, our mammograms were completed at:

Columbia-Presbyterian Eastside

16 East 60^th Street

Suite 350

New York, NY 10022

To schedule an appointment, call: (212) 326-5552

http://www.cper60th.org/imaging/mammo.html

The results were produced in minutes for some of us, and we were all given clean bills of health within an hour. We continued the party at a celebratory lunch.

Should you not be so fortunate to have your physician insist on attending your exam, you can still be a trend-setter. Plan a mammogram party. Get a group of friends, family or associates together and make back to back appointments.

As I learned today from one of the attendees at our “party”, sometimes you have to have multiple exams in a day, if the first tests are not clear, and having backup there waiting for you in the reception area provides a feeling of comfort and a needed distraction. There is no need to go it alone. I certainly would not have been so eager or quick to get this done had I not had a big push and a lot of support.

And once the mammograms are completed, have the real party start off premises and plan a girl’s brunch, lunch or cocktails to mark the momentous occasion and the steps to take better care of our health. But most importantly, if you are required to have a follow-up, when you learn this, at least you are surrounded by people who care for you and will support you no matter what the outcome might be.

D-Day was 64 Years Ago Today.

Posted on June 6, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR MILESTONES. June 6, 2008:

Sixty-four 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, involving 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, and the rows of white crosses in cemetaries around the little town bear silent vigil to the sacrifice of those brave men and women who fought, died, and triumphed this day 59 years ago today.

We can in no way, or through no 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.

Yorktown Closes Out Tigers as Fastpitch Season Ends

Posted on June 5, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR Sports. June 5, 2008: This just in from Yorktown. Yorktown High bats did in the White Plains Tigers today, with explosive hitting, while the Tigers failed to solve the Huskers pitcher. Yorktown moves into the Section 1 Class AA Final against the winner of the Arlington-North Rockland tilt. This will be the opportunity for a second consecutive Section 1 Title for the Huskers

White Plains finished at 14-9 on the season, after catching Scarsdale for a share of the League 1-A Championship. With only two seniors graduating the Tigers can look forward to a bright 2009.

Selection of Tappan Zee Bridge Rapid Transit Combo Delayed for Weeks

Posted on June 5, 2008 by John Bailey

WPCNR TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE NEWS. June 5, 2008: The Project Director of the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 Corridor Project, charged with the evaluation and recommendation of the best solution to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge, told WPCNR today that a decision on the best transit alternatives to replace the 49 year-old bridge (undergoing repairs as needed) will be delayed “for weeks.”

Mr. Anderson (shown here at a February 2008 meeting, said his people were checking figures going over alternatives and their data and were not as far along as they had hoped in coming to a final recommendation (on transit mode selected for the bridge makeover – commuter rail, bus rapid transit, light rail). He gave no reason for the delay. He said no decision had been made.

Originally in February, Anderson had said a final decision on how to replace the aging bridge with a combination of transit possibilities was going to be made in May.

Details of Implementation Not Considered at this Time

Two weeks ago, Anderson told Don Hughes of the North Broadway Civic Association (who has been following this issue), that reconstructing the current bridge to accommodate commuter rail did not make sense because, Hughes recalls, the bridge foundations would have to be rebuilt, and it would be cost-prohibitive if commuter rail connection with Metro North at Tarrytown was desired.

Hughes also said Mr. Anderson told him that a decision on the bridge transit option combination would be made without considering or worrying about the execution of “the details” (location of stations, I-287 lane construction) of accommodating the transit options (commuter rail, bus rapid transit, or light rail) on the Westchester I-287 corridor.

Anderson, Hughes told WPCNR said those “details” would be worked out once the transit alternatives had been selected. Anderson indicated to Hughes a number of alternatives and combinations of commuter rail, light rail and bus rapid transit had surfaced and, they had decided to make the rapid transit decision first as to what would be accommodated on any new bridge.

Presently no decision on the transit combination has been made, Mr. Anderson told WPCNR today, and he had no timetable as to when a decision would be made.

The Schedule

In February a timeline called for “Announcing Preferred Transit Modes” in May 2008, with “Final Alternatives in Draft Environmental Impact Statement” to be promulgated by the end of June, with an Open House scheduled for June. From what Mr. Anderson said today, the schedule is delayed indefinitely.

In February, documents presented at the series of Scoping Sessions on the Tappan Zee Corridor project indicated a final preferred alternative would be arrived at late 2009.

The identity of the Preferred Alternative was to be announced in May 2009, with Draft Environmental Impact Statement published in June 2009, with hearings on the DEIS extending to 2010. The publishing of the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the “Preferred Alternative” was to happen in February, 2010 with a decision to be made April, 2010.