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Mike Stevens New Head Coach of Tiger Football. Coach Santa Is Assistant

Posted on June 13, 2005 by John Bailey

WPCNR PRESS BOX. By John F. Bailey. June 13, 2005: White Plains High School Athletic Director Nick Panero announced Monday night at the Board of Education meeting that Mike Stevens, longtime Assistant White Plains Football Coach would be taking over as Head Coach of Tiger football for the 2005 season.

Mike Stevens, left, was named new Head Coach of the White Plains Football Tigers Monday Evening, replacing Head Coach, Mark Santa-Donato, right. The two are shown with Penn State’s legendary Coach Joe Paterno in 2003, celebrating Spencer Ridenhour’s joining the Penn State Program. WPCNR Photo Capture from White Plains Football Website.

Mr. Panero told WPCNR that Mark Santa-Donato, Tiger mentor since 1992 would continue to coach the football team in an assistant’s role. Mr. Panero said Coach Santa-Donato was stepping down to a supporting role because with his daughter Marlee in college he felt he could not devote a full seven days to football during the season.

Coach Santa-Donato, a fixture in White Plains was named Head Football Coach in 1992. He was Section I Football Coach-Of-The-Year in 1995 and League AA-South Coach-Of-The-Year in 1993 & 1995. Coach Santa-Donato gained his 75th victory as Head Coach at White Plains High School on Thanksgiving Day 2003. He led his 2003 team to their 3rd straight Secton I Bowl appearance (School Record) and 2nd straight Section I Bowl victory (School Record). The 2003 team’s 10-1 record was only the 2nd time in White Plains Varsity Football History that a team won 10 games.

What has impressed this reporter most about Coach Santa-Donato’s teams is their discipline, poise, and sportsmanship. They respond with maturity and respond to adversity well. They are never really out of a football game and are always a threat to rally and pull one out at the last moment. Santa-Donato has developed some great players, most recently: Ike Nduka, Spencer Ridenhour, Marcus Walton, Tommy Lee, John Corretti, Evan McGuire, Ryan Smalls, Gary Morello, just two name a handful of the greats this reporter has seen play and in the process turned them into great young men.

Bloomingdale’s Says Thank You: Gets $1.7 Million Cert ;$7.3 Million Total in 05

Posted on June 13, 2005 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. June 13, 2005, UPDATED 9:36 A.M. E.D.T. June 14, 2005: The Board of Education voted last night to accept their legal counsel recommendation of acceptance of a certriorari settlement the city has made with Bloomingdale’s on Bloomingdale Road in White Plains. The Board approved a $1,701,524 tax refund for Bloomies, in addition to a $114,870 cert to CVS and a $1,724 cert to Parsons LLC, bringing the latest certriorari hit total to $1,818,119.85.

The $1.7 Million giveback to Bloomies by the School District, translates by WPCNR’s estimate to approximately a $422,000 payback in addition by the City of White Plains from its tax roll. The tax years for which the refund was accumulated were from 1999 to 2004 according to the School District Business Office Tuesday morning. The Bloomies cert reduces their assessment permanently by $1.7 Million for at least two years.

$7,326,090.28 In Refunds in First 6 months of 2005

According the School District Business Office, the total tax givebacks by the school district the first six months of 2005 approved by the Board of Education this year total $7,326,090.28. According to Jackie Mackin of the Business office the district is working with the courts to see whether or not this sum has to be paid by June 30. The district has so far paid $3,426,420 of the $7,326,090.28 the Board as approved in settlements to Westchester One, Gateway, and Nordstroms, the biggest winners in the certriorari casino. The District is attempting to negotiate without interest a delay of the remaining $3,799,670 in refunds still due past June 30.

The 7.3 Million in refunds is permanently lost from the school district assessment role, for the next two years. The latest Bloomies certriorari still leaves the district assessible roll at a value of $304 Million, not $302 Million as previously reported. (The Bloomingdale’s certriorari, the business office reports, was included in the $304 Million assessibles figure given in the 05-06 School District Budget.)

Ms. Mackin grimly reported the district expected to have to approve two more large certriorari settlements in the next two months.

As is their custom, the Board of Education, when voting to approve the Bloomingdale’s certriorari settlement on the televised portion of last night’s meeting, the Board discreetly did not announce the amount of the certriorari, the business receiving it, or the effect on the district.

Brownouts Plague White Plains Overnight and Into Monday.

Posted on June 13, 2005 by John Bailey

WPCNR SOUTHEND TIMES. By John F. Bailey. June 13, 2005: Brownouts hit about 200 Con Edison customers in the Highlands area Sunday evening at 10 P.M., and were restored within two hours according to Chris Olert, a spokesperson for Con Edison today. Brownouts continued to be reported during Monday morning to WPCNR in the Copper Beech Circle area, Old Mamaroneck Road and Gedney Way. Mr. Olert said he had no explanation for the brownouts and that he would have to check. The tenuousness of power reliability continued the Con Ed trend in White Plains established last summer and earlier this spring of power troubles on over 85 degree days. Today’s high (in the shade), was only 88 degrees at 2 PM. The power wavering can cause damage to your high tech equipment.

WPCNR asked Aaron Wordin, the WPCNR staff technologist what he recommends to cope with the Con Ed power unreliability that is happening with more and more regularity. Here is his report:

In service to your readers, here are some tips re: PCs and power:

1. Most so-called “Surge Protectors” just give you extra outlets. To really
protect your equipment from brownouts and power spikes, purchase something
called a UPS unit – Uninterruptible Power Supply. It’s essentially a quality
surge protector and high-tech battery rolled into one. In addition to
smoothing out power nasties, it can provide up to twenty minutes’ worth of
steady juice to your PC and monitor (don’t connect your printer, especially a
laser printer – it will drain really fast, then!), giving you enough time to
save your current documents and do an orderly shutdown.

2. Don’t put your air conditioner in the same outlet as your computer – each
time it turns on, the sudden uptick in current draw can hurt the PC.

3. If you feel comfortable opening up your PC, pop the cover and use one of
those dusting cans to remove buildups of dust – too much of it can act as an
insulator, causing your computer to overheat inside, damaging the components.

4. If there’s an impending thunderstorm, give your PC some real protection and
simply unplug it from the wall, and disconnect your phoneline (if you use
dialup) and your cable or DSL modem if you have high-speed access.

—- Aaron

Fort Hill Players Auditions for Don’t Drink the Water This Evening.

Posted on June 13, 2005 by John Bailey

WPCNR STAGE DOOR. From Fort Hill Players. June 13, 2005: Fort Hill Players announces auditions for Woody Allen’s hilarious comedy DON’T DRINK THE WATER They couldn’t wait to get in. Now it’s hilarious trying to get out!

It’s 1962, and the iron curtain is at large. Watch the crazy antics as an incompetent diplomat has a catastrophe dropped in his lap. American tourists suspected of being spies,
a lunatic priest who thinks he’s a magician, communist agents determined to get inside the embassy,
and an assistant who thinks he’s the Wright Brothers!

Auditions:
June 14, 16
Time: 7:30 pm
Rochambeau School
228 Fisher Ave, White Plains