WESTCHESTER’S OLDEST AND MOST RESPECTED NEWSPAPERS PRESORT-STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID White Plains, NY Permit #7164 Vol 108 Number 41 www.RisingMediaGroup.com Friday, October 11, 2013 Columbus Day Festivities: Can a Third Party or Write-in Celebrating Yonkers Style Candidate Win a Council Seat? Brandon Neider Jason Hungreder By Dan Murphy if I moved to New Rochelle and the first thing Can you win elective office in the City of I did was run for office with zero knowledge of Yonkers without running on the Democratic or any thing about the city. Let’s even be realistic, Republican line? when you say you want to lower taxes but increase When was the last time a minor party, or school funding greatly and bring back or add more Independent Party candidate won a seat on the services, you are just creating magic money or Mayor Mike Spano with Miss Columbus 2013 Francesca Annunziata and her parents, Joe and Yonkers City Council? Former City Clerk Joan you’re being a typical politician.” Lisa Annunziata. Photo by Ed Whitman. Deierlein could not remember a candidate for As a recent graduate of the Yonkers Public By Dan Murphy roots to Naples, Sicily and Frosinone, and is mayor or council winning without the Democrat Schools system, Neider said he wants YPS to Mayor Mike Spano and the Yonkers Co- the 50th Miss Columbus Yonkers. or Republican line. have additional funding and perform better, but lumbus Day Celebration Committee, led by The Columbus Day Celebration Commit- Former Mayor Angelo Martinelli may have residents have to be realistic on what can be pro- President Robert Ferrito, held several events tee held its annual dinner/dance before the pa- come the closest, forming a party line to run vided right now. “I want to lower taxes, but we last week leading up to the xxth annual Yon- rade at Westchester Manor. Honored at the din- against Republican Pete Chema and Democrat must be realistic when we say that; I guaranteed kers Columbus Day Parade held Sunday, Oct. ner were Francesco Colaiacovo, who received Terrence Zaleski in 1991. Zaleski won, but Mar- that I will push to cut ridiculous spending when I 86th. the Humanitarian Award; and Judith and Mar- tinelli got 30 percent of the vote on a third party come across it,” he said. Spano hosted an Italian coffee reception in laina Koller, who were Hall of Fame recipients. line. Many third party candidates have run for “I don’t owe party favors on either end, and the Mayor’ Reception Room on Oct. 2. There, Many Yonkers dignitaries and proud Yon- mayor in Yonkers in addition to Martinelli, in the I only represent one group and that’s the citizens he congratulated Miss Columbus 2013 Franc- kers Italian-Americans joined in the weekend- 1970s and 1980’s, but did not win. of this district and this city,” continued Neider. esca Annunziata, who was born in Yonkers and long celebrations, which was topped off by Can any of this year’s crop of six candidates “I’m a candidate who’s really integrated with the attended Ursuline High School, and is now a another great Columbus Day Parade along break through? community not the political system. That’s why senior at Iona College. Annunziata is fiercely Midland Avenue. Nineteen-year-old Brandon Neider is running I’m running for City Council, and why I believe proud of her Italian heritage and traces her See pictures from the parade next week. for City Council in the Fourth District (against I should be our City Council member for this dis- Republican Dennis Shepherd and Democrat Tim trict.” See more photos on page 10 Theotokatos). Neider, a graduate of Lincoln High Neider has received the endorsement from School and a student at Westchester Community Local 200 United Service Employees Interna- College, collected enough signatures – 600 – to tional Union. form his own party, which he calls the New York He gained a lot of press from other media what’s inside State Constituents Party, to appear on the ballot outlets over the summer, so we shied away from for City Council. covering his campaign. But we congratulate Nei- Neider’s petitions were scrutinized and chal- der most for collecting enough valid signatures lenged, but upheld by the Board of Elections. He and forming his own party line. That is a good ac- Get into the Halloween Seniors & Health Care said he is running because he doesn’t feel that the complishment for anyone at any age, and Brandon Spirit at HRM people of the Fourth District are being well rep- deserves his day in Yonkers Rising. Page 7 resented by either the Democrats or Republicans. Two candidates who are still running in No- Page 2 “I want to be a community-oriented council- vember had difficulties collecting enough valid man,” he said. “I’m running on a third party to signatures. avoid the restrictions that come with running for Jason Hundreger is running in November on one of the main parties…I’m running in this dis- the Working Families Party in the Sixth District trict because I care for it, I’ve put a lot into it even (against Republican candidate John Larkin). Hun- Support the Yonkers 55Plus Expo at Ridge Hill though I’m young, but before I even announced dreger was the Democratic nominee but failed to Film Festival my candidacy I knew our neighborhoods, our as- submit enough valid signatures to stay on the bal- sociations, and our district. lot as a Democrat. Page 6 Page 9 “I can’t see why someone would come in After getting knocked off the Democratic and attempt to represent something he has little ballot, Hungreder vowed to continue his cam- association to – if any,” he continued. “It’s like Continued on Page 4 Yonkers Stands Up to Domestic Violence with Annual Vigil Carol Bengis, back row third left, founder of the Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil; with, to her right back row, Michael Rotanelli, Council President Chuck Lesnick, Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett, Councilman Christopher Johnson, and volunteers from My Sister’s Place. Yonkers City Council President Chuck Council President Lesnick’s office, the vigil has The vigil drew many survivors and con- er, Deputy Mayor Sue Gerry, Council Majority Lesnick and Mayor Mike Spano sponsored the brought together hundreds of people over the cerned citizens to the Council Chambers to Leader Wilson Terrero, Councilmembers Chris- eighth annual Domestic Violence Candlelight years. “It is a testament to Carol’s dedication hear powerful messages from advocates of My topher Johnson and Michael Sabatino, and mem- Vigil last week, to help to cast a spotlight on do- to the cause, as both a survivor and an activist, Sister’s Place, Victims Assistance Services and bers of the Yonkers Human Rights Commission. mestic violence in order to eradicate it by em- that we have helped to save lives and spread the Safer teens. Participants were also joined by Representatives of State Sen. Andrea Stewart- powering abused women and children. word that this crime will not be tolerated,” said Westchester Deputy County Executive Kevin Cousins, and County Legislature Chairman Ken First created in 2006 by Carol Bengis, from Lesnick. Plunkett, state Assemblywoman Shelley May- Jenkins, also made remarks. PAGE 2 - YONKERS RISING - FRIDay, OCTOBER 11, 2013 Art Exhibit to Feature the Jen Chapin Trio Comes to Modernism of NY’s Rivers Urban H2o Music Series The Jen Chapin Trio Leon Kroll, Queensborough Bridge, 1912 Urban H2O is a “rockin’ roots and folk Concerts take place on the third Saturday pressed a vision that many artists clung music series” now in its fourth season, going evening of every month at Beczak Environmen- to decades after great physical change to strong, on the shores of the Hudson River in tal Center, 35 Alexander St. Ticket and $10 and the region’s landscape. Yonkers. The Jen Chapin Trio will perform Sat- include beer from event sponsor, Captain Law- Other artists, however, some from urday, Oct. 19. rence Brewery; bring your own mug! the Ashcan School, eagerly turned to- ward the Machine Age, and painted, not majestic mountain ranges, but arching bridges, swinging cranes and stream- lined ocean liners moving in and out of the city’s harbor. In hailing the new, these artists created a fresh vocabulary for their century. Industrial Sublime includes more than 70 works from museums around the country. The exhibition is co-curat- ed by Kirsten Jensen, and Bartholomew Bland, director of curatorial affairs at the Hudson River Museum. Industrial Sublime is accompanied by a fully- illustrated companion catalogue. The exhibition and its catalogue are the fifth in the Hudson River Museum’s series Georgia O’Keeffe, East River from the Shelton “The Visitor in the Landscape.” (c.1927 – 28) Experience Industrial Sublime four ways with artist-led workshops in three different mediums. Billowing smoke, booming industry, noble On Oct. 16, design and print “re- bridges and an epic waterfront are the landscape liefs” using patterns popular in paintings from the of New York changing and growing in the first 1940s with artist Pepe Coronado. Then, on Oct. 40 years of the 20th century. “Industrial Sublime: 23, collage a city with Courtney Wrenn using the Modernism and the Transformation of New York’s “wet-tear” paper montage process. Last, on Oct. Rivers, 1900-1940” will be on display Oct. 12 30, use watercolor to blend the natural elements through Jan. 17 at the Hudson River Museum in of the Hudson River with man-made buildings and Yonkers, showing the convulsive changes in the bridges led by Alison Moritsugu.