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Lowey Leads Rally Against Defunding Planned Parenthood This, Too WESTCHESTER’S OLDEST AND MOST RESPECTED NEWSPAPERS Vol 111 Number 40 www.RisingMediaGroup.com Friday, October 2, 2015 Veterans Welcomed at Eastchester Schools’ Fire Hugeunot Yacht Club Inspections ‘Unbelievable’ 400 Violations in 2014; No Changes This Year By Dan Murphy at a cost of $3,400 per year. While the cost to the Last week we reported on a tip we received taxpayers is minimal, the issue now is the quality, from a concerned Eastchester resident about the or lack thereof, for this vendor and the safety im- inconsistent and lackluster fire inspections per- pacts these inspections have on the students and formed by a private contractor in the Eastchester staff of the district. school district. This week, we have documents The commissioners of the Eastchester Fire obtained from FOIL requests and a video of a re- District, at its public meetings and in correspon- cent Eastchester Fire District meeting, which tell dence with the school district, have acted profes- the same disturbing story. sionally and have not politicized this matter. But This year, the Eastchester School District as their requests for additional information con- hired the same independent fire inspector who tinue to go unanswered, and as the school district in 2014 missed more than 400 violations to fire appears to be hiring the same private inspector, codes in the elementary and secondary public qualified and knowledgeable professionals in the schools in Eastchester. fire department and fire district are running out The violations were uncovered by the East- of patience. chester Fire District, who performed their own At its Sept. 10 meeting, Fire Commissioner fire inspections of the district’s buildings and Dennis Winter summed up what has occurred. classrooms and who, at no cost, provide the fire “Last year, in 2014, the Eastchester School Jeff White, Cmmdr. Sam Riti, Bob Sturtevant and Jon Larrick. Photo by Ed Whitman. inspections for the Bronxville and Tuckahoe District hired an independent contractor who school districts, and all private schools in town. completed the inspection of the 500,000 square By Sam Riti Administration hospital and members of the The Eastchester School District has declined the feet of space in the school district in one day. His The Hugeunot Yacht Club held its annual Post 40 AMVETS. offer to have the department perform the fire in- reports improperly identified the number of stu- Veteran Appreciation Day on Sept. 13 when it It was a beautiful day that started with spections of its schools, and instead has chosen dents by hundreds. honored veterans from Kingsbridge Veterans Continued on Page 10 to hire a private inspector at an additional cost to “After we filed a series of FOIL reports and perform the fire inspections. without getting a response from the school dis- Through a Freedom Of Information Law trict, the chief instructed his department’s inspec- request, Eastchester Rising has learned that the tors to go in. Fire inspectors found 400 violations school district has hired Qualified Fire Inspection schoolwide, and the chief met with the superin- Westchester Loves Corp., based out of East Northport, to conduct tendent and told him we would do the inspec- Pope Francis private fire inspections in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Continued on Page 5 Political Criticism of Pontiff Way Too Much Can Westchester Embrace Outsiders in Politics? By Dan Murphy So far, the leaders in the Repub- lican presidential campaign for 2016 have been political outsiders, with Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Dr. Ben Carson getting the support of more than 50 percent of Republi- can voters polled. More recently, with Trump’s support leveling out and with Car- son having to explain his comments about Muslims being unfit to serve as president, the attention and inter- est in many Republicans looking for change has turned to Fiorina. At the CNN GOP debate, Fio- rina said: “Jake, I’ll tell you why people are supporting outsiders; it’s Sister Noel Devine, far left, with Sister Bernadette meeting Pope Francis. because, you know what happens if someone has been in the system By Dan Murphy Central Park and his Mass at Madison Square Gar- their whole life? They don’t know The New York City visit of Pope Francis last den if they were lucky enough to have a ticket. how broken the system is. It’s not week took over the Big Apple and the American The Westchester connections to Pope Fran- that politicians are bad people. It’s media, with many Westchester residents enjoying cis’ visit were many, including the cross used as a that they have been in that system forever. The truth is 75 percent of the visit and participating in Francis’ ride through Continued on Page 8 the American people think the gov- ernment is corrupt, 82 percent of the GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina American people think these prob- lems have festered for 50 years in because no one will challenge the status quo,” some cases, 25 years in other cases…The border she continued. “You know what a leader does? This, Too, Was a has been insecure for 25 years, 307,000 veterans They challenge the status quo. They solve prob- have died waiting for health care… lems that have festered for a long time and they Moment to Remember “These things have gone on for so long Continued on Page 7 Lowey Leads Rally against Defunding Planned Parenthood Pope Francis in Central Park. Photo by Juanita Montalvo. By Eric W. Schoen tow. Strangers helping the parents carry the I knew it was a special day when I board- strollers up and down the steep subway steps. ed the subway at Dyckman Street in the In- Ladies with buttons on their blouses acknowl- wood section of Manhattan on Friday! edging who they were going to see. There was a 5-year-old child in a full And of course, teens in bright yellow body cast, obviously unable to walk and be- shirts proclaiming the name and location of ing wheeled in her stroller by her mother. She their hometown church. One shirt said “Ohio” was smiling at her mother and her mother was on it. They probably have never navigated the lovingly smiling back. There was also a lady complex New York subway system before, with metal crutches on both arms doing ev- but they were singing and smiling nonethe- From left are Congresswoman Nita Lowey with Nyack High School students Emma Han- erything she could to board the train and sit less. naway, Leah Brand, Emma Anderson and Sophia Carroll. comfortably in not-so-handicapped-friendly Where were all these 80,000-plus happy Congresswoman Nita Lowey led a rally Participating were PPHP President and subway seats. people going? They were headed to Central with Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic last CEO Reina Schiffrin, Vice President Joan Babies in strollers, their parents navi- Park to catch a glimpse of Pope Francis as week at the organization’s White Plains health Rosen, teen participant Louise Olay of PPHP’s gating the subway – which isn’t friendly to he passed by in his Popemobile in a stroll center. grownups, let alone a parent with baby in Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 6 PAGE 2 - RYE RISING - FRIDay, OCTOBER 2, 2015 Halloween in Sleepy Celebrate the Season Hollow Kicks Off Oct. 2 In a Jurassic World The Tunnel O’ Pumpkin Love. Photo by Jennifer Mitchell. Check out the Halloween train show beginning Saturday, Oct. 3 at Lasdon Park. The public is invited to enjoy a display of The Lasdon Memorial Garden will be trans- model trains rumbling through a Jurassic-themed formed into a prehistoric topiary garden with landscape and participate in a scavenger hunt or a many surprises, made possible by SavATree, wagon ride at the eighth annual Halloween train Inc., and Halloween wagon rides will be “haunt- show beginning Saturday, Oct. 3 at Lasdon Park, ed” by reptilian ghouls and will culminate with a Arboretum and Veterans Memorial. special Jurassic treat. “I encourage everyone to visit Lasdon Park The Garden Shop will offer refreshments, for this fun Halloween tradition in Westchester,” including “dino dogs” and “bronto burgers” said County Executive Robert Astorino. “This along with plants, pumpkins and gifts for sale. year’s imaginative, prehistoric-themed train The Westchester Veterans Museum will also be show and activities promise entertainment for the open during show dates. entire family.” The train display, movie and house admis- The program will take place Saturdays and sion is $3 per child and $7 per adult. The wagon Sundays, Oct. 3 and 4, 10 and 11, 17 and 18, and rides are $5 per person, and combination packag- 24 and 25, and Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, as well as es are available at $5 per child and $10 per adult. Columbus Day, Monday, Oct. 12, from 11 a.m. The program is presented by Friends of to 3:30 p.m. Lasdon and supported by American Petroleum The principal attraction of the event in the Equipment and Construction Company; Berger main house will be the huge railroad layout, fea- Hardware; Ledley Food Service; M&T Bank; turing Lionel trains traveling through haunted Merrill Lynch; NYSEG; Prospero Nurseries; Costumes and make-up are state-of-the-art at Horseman’s Hollow. Photo by Tom Nycz. scenery and a Jurassic world of dinosaurs, the SavAtree, Inc.; Westchester Tool Rentals; and latter being significantly smaller than the actual Whitehall Auto Service. behemoths of long ago. Lasdon will host its annual costume party for The main house will be transformed to the adults Friday, Oct. 30 from 7 to 11 p.m., featuring time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, with ex- food, drink and dancing to music provided by the hibits about the creatures presented along with Gerard Carelli Collective.
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