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Adam In Albany: Join Me in My Summer Reading Challenge

Posted on June 28, 2003 by John Bailey

WPCNR’S ADAM IN ALBANY. By 89th Assembly District Assemblyman Adam T. Bradley. June 27, 2003:Summer is here and children across New York are enjoying the long, hot days. But just because the school year is over doesn’t mean that reading and learning should wait until the fall. I am calling on children and parents to participate in my Summer Reading Challenge, a program designed to encourage children to continue reading throughout the summer months.
Children who read with a parent for 15 minutes a day, for at least 40 days during July and August, will earn a New York State Assembly Excellence in Reading Certificate.

In today’s world, reading is often overshadowed by television, video games, and the Internet. It’s time that kids and parents rediscover the simple joy of reading. The challenge will help our children develop a love of books and improve their communication skills – as well as help them meet high educational standards. It will also provide families quality time together, which can often be difficult to find these days.

My Summer Reading Challenge is a wonderful way to keep kids reading for a lifetime and to establish a solid foundation for learning. Your local library is a good place to start the summer reading program. Libraries play a crucial role in our communities, and they deserve the resources needed to encourage learning in New Yorkers young and old. To ensure that public libraries are able to provide this invaluable service, I fought for additional library funding. This year, we successfully restored the governor’s proposed $13.3 million cut to public libraries.

My Summer Reading Challenge and support for public libraries are part of my ongoing efforts to focus on children, and ensure that they are reading and learning so that they are able to meet our ever increasing educational standards. Remember to drop in at your local public library and explore the fascinating world of reading, along with the many other significant services they provide. It is more important than ever to give our children a solid foundation now so they may be successful in the future.

Students and parents interested in taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge can write me at 4 New King Street, Town of North Castle, White Plains, NY 10604 or call my district office at (914) 686-7335.

All’s Well That Ends Well: 500 Graduate One Day Late at Eastview/Highlands

Posted on June 27, 2003 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. June 27, 2003: In an intimate, one-hour ceremony at Eastview School and a simultaneous ceremony at Highlands Middle School, White Plains Eighth Graders graduated today at high noon ceremonies hastily and smoothly improvised by the School District after the cancellation of their Thursday graduation at the County Center due to a failure of a circuit breaker at the Westchester County Center. The Eastview exercises were complimented by parents for the “home town” feeling, prompting many this reporter talked to to say the exercises should be done at Highlands and Eastview every year.

CONGRATULATIONS! Eastview Eighth Graders receiving their Middle School Diplomas at Eastview earlier this afternoon. Left to right, Dr. Joseph Casbarro, representing the School District, Peter Bassano of the Board of Education, and Dorothy Schere President of the Board of Education.
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INVOCATION: Eighth Grader Joseph Costable delivered the invocation saying it was “The Best of Times, it was the worst of times,” noting the historical events his class has been through, and ending noting that “of the best of times, they have had the better.”
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS: William Roscoe Lewis, President of the Student Organization, detailed a long list of accomplishments and activities the eighth grade experienced this year and spoke for many of the graduates, concluding his speech, saying, “High School, here we come.”
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LOOKING BACK ON MEMORIES, TIME FOR DREAMS: Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Services, Dr. Joseph Casbarro, thanked the parents and guardians for patience and understanding throughout the Westchester County Center power failure and cancellation of ceremonies yesterday. Casbarro asked students to raise their hands to show who came from Church Street School, Mamaroneck Avenue School, Post Road, Ridgeway and George Washington, and the parents and guardians looking on were impressed how balanced a representation of the five elementary schools there was. Casbarro encouraged them to remember their times at the elementary schools, saying now that they were entering high school, it was the time to dream…and that only they could make those dreams come true.
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PRINCIPAL ADVISES BALANCE:
Joseph Cloherty, Prinicipal of Eastview, advised the students that achieving balance among disciplines and appreciations was a goal of education, and that they should strive to achieve that balance as they continue their academic careers.
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After presentation of diplomas, Mr. Cloherty said, I present you with the White Plains High School Class of 2007.

“POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE” was played on solo trumpet by Laura Mazziotti, and Ms. Mazziotti also performed the recessional. Here the graduates prepare to march out into the sunshine.
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The big old auditorium, lonely on graduation days for many years, had taken on a splendid appearance. It seemed brighter, warmer (literally and figuratively), as if cheered that its students had brought the old hall a warmth it had not enjoyed in decades. All attending appeared genuinely pleased at how the impromtu (though you would not know it thanks to the efforts of the administration and staff), ceremony was conducted. Even the sound system performed perfectly.

It was a graduation these Eighth Graders will always remember.

Power restored to County Center as of 4:45 P.M. High School Graduation is “On.”

Posted on June 26, 2003 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. June 26, 2003″ Westchester County Communications spokesperson Donna Green told WPCNR moments ago that power has been restored to the Westchester County Center and that the White Plains High School Graduation is “on” as scheduled this evening.

Green said “this was not a Con Edision issue, but an equipment issue. From what I understand some circuit breakers tripped the system. Con Edison crews were helping working on the problem.”

Green said the problem probably occurred slightly before eighth grade graduates started arriving at the County Center at 2 P.M. today, but had no other details at this time.

2,000 Swelter at Middle School Graduation That Wasn’t.County Center Loses Power

Posted on June 26, 2003 by John Bailey

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. June 26, 2003: The White Plains Middle School Graduation was cancelled this afternoon at 3:25 P.M. when maintenance crews could not restore power to the venerable Westchester County Center. A sweltering crowd of about 2,000 persons crowded in front of the center for about an hour and a half, awaiting word as to when they could enter the center, only to be informed at 3:25, one-half hour after the ceremonies were to begin that the graduation was cancelled.

THE GRADUATION THAT WASN’T: Power to the County Center, officials said to the crowds through poorly audible bullhorns, was expected to be restored by 5 P.M., at which time a decision would be made as to whether tonight’s White Plains High School Graduation scheduled for 7:30 would be held. An announcement was scheduled to be aired on local media outlets and Channel 77 regarding the High School Graduation at that hour.
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Superintendent of Schools for White Plains, Timothy Connors, told WPCNR the cancelled graduation would take place tomorrow at noon at Highlands and Eastview Schools respectively. The graduations would only be open to parents, he said. Connors said he had no idea what caused the power failure. White Plains Fire Chief, Richard Lyman, on the scene, told WPCNR he did not have information as to what the problem was either. One graduate to be was overcome by the heat to this reporter’s knowledge.

WEARING CAPS AND GOWNS and no place to graduate. Eighth grade students from Highlands and Eastview with parents and relatives from afar, lingered in caps and gowns milling for an hour and a half in hopes County Center crews could return the juice to the County Center.
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