Being on an American Cancer Society Relay Recess team is an amazing experience, and I hope you'll join me!
Picture yourself surrounded by
your friends and teachers and the air is filled with the sound of
laughter as our school celebrates those who have fought cancer,
remembers the loved ones we've lost, and fights back against a disease
that has taken too much from too many.
It would be an honor to have you
on our team for this year's Relay Recess event. |
April 18, 2013
Relay Recess of CES June 5, 2013 10am @ CES,MHMS & MHHS
April 16, 2013
Two robberies on Columbia Turnpike reported
EAST GREENBUSH — Town police are asking the public's help in their investigation of two similar armed robbery cases.
Both cases happened at night and targeted people walking on Columbia Turnpike.
At 10:30 p.m. Friday a group of about ten friends were walking on the turnpike near the Funplex when they were approached by a man with a gun who demanded they give him "what you got", police said.
Both cases happened at night and targeted people walking on Columbia Turnpike.
At 10:30 p.m. Friday a group of about ten friends were walking on the turnpike near the Funplex when they were approached by a man with a gun who demanded they give him "what you got", police said.
April 13, 2013
For Immediate Release
STRIDE, Inc. 476 North Greenbush Rd. Ste. 9 , Rensselaer NY 12144
EMAIL: mwhitney@stride.org WEB: www.stride.org
Contact: Mary Ellen Whitney- (518) 598-1279
For Immediate Release
WellPoint Foundation Employees help Clean up the SCORE Center
(Chatham NY) STRIDE Adaptive Sports
has a year under it’s belt in developing the 85 acre facility formerly
Girl Scout Camp Sha-Te-Muc located in Chatham, NY. The facility, now
called STRIDE Center for Outdoor Recreation and Education (SCORE
Center) is used as a retreat for youth with special needs, and Wounded
Warriors and their families to enjoy in educational programs including
camping, hiking, archery, fishing, snowshoeing, cross country skiing.
The 2500 square foot lodge offers a large space for trainings seminars
and retreats.
On
Saturday, April 27 employees from WellPoint Foundation, a division of
Empire Blue Cross will assist STRIDE in spring clean up for the second
year. Approximately 40 employee volunteers will be clearing trails
throughout the 85 acres; building wheelchair ramps, and cleaning up the
lodge and out buildings. “We are thrilled to have this kind of support;’
says Mary Ellen Whitney, CEO for STRIDE, “such a large group of
committed professionals who give up a weekend to support this kind of
endeavor shows the commitment of our community.”
Tenting
pavilion areas have been named on the property; including ‘Yellow
Ribbon Pavilion”; “Purple Heart Pavilion”; and the games and flagpole
cabin is now called the “Gold Star Field”. STRIDE has been fortunate to
have the support of many Scout troops in the region, who choose Eagle
Scout projects at SCORE. Last year fire pits, new signs, a wheelchair
accessible dock and a wheelchair accessible trail was created. Underway
this year are more projects which include a 9 hole disk golf range; a
competition level archery range, raised bed gardens and a professional
horseshoe pit. Spring and summer enrichment programs are now being
scheduled.
STRIDE’s
mission is to educate and empower individuals with special needs in
life-changing sport and recreation programs to sustain healthy, active
and fun lifestyles. STRIDE is a volunteer organization with all sport
lessons being taught by highly qualified volunteers, and STRIDE serves
our Wounded Warrior community with rehabilitative sport and recreation
programs to help them adjust to life and helping them adapt to their
permanent injuries that they sustained during recent conflicts overseas.
April 12, 2013
NY District Mulls Action for Nazi Assignment
By CHRIS CAROLA Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. April 12, 2013 (AP)
A high school English teacher faces disciplinary action for giving a writing assignment that asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany, Albany school district officials said Friday.
Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said administrators were discussing what official action the unidentified 10th-grade teacher at Albany High School will face for the assignment given to students on Monday. It could range from a letter of counsel to dismissal.
-Provocative assignment - I equate it to being a member of a debate team and having to speak in favor of a topic you find distasteful, unsavory or even sickeningly repugnant. I think I want to find out exactly what the teacher's intention was before completely flying off the handle. It has certainly been made clear that teaching according to the "norm" doesn't always spark intelligent, meaningful reflection. Racism needs to be examined up close, dissected and rejected with a deep-rooted clarity. Perhaps (s)he was trying to help them see the brutal ugliness up close - from an unlikely (uncomfortable) perspective to make it more real.
Read the note "Please remember - your life (here in Nazi Germany in the 30's) may depend on it.- Csager
Comedian Jonathan Winters dies at 87
(CNN) -- Jonathan Winters, the wildly inventive
actor and comedian who appeared in such films as "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,
Mad World" and "The Loved One" and played Robin Williams' son on the TV
show "Mork & Mindy," has died. He was 87.
Winters died Thursday
evening of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California,
according to business associate Joe Petro III.
Winters was known for his
comic irreverence, switching characters the way other people flick on
light switches. His routines were full of non sequiturs and surreal
jokes.
[Robin] Williams, in particular, often credited him as a great influence. Indeed, he was greatly
admired by comedians in general and was awarded the Mark Twain Prize --
which goes to outstanding humorists -- in 1999.
"Genius" was a common touchstone as comedians reacted to Winters' death.
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