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Yonkers Rising - Friday, March 6, 2020 Let’S Make Medicine Will a Leaning Tower of Pizza Here in the USA Again Topple Chabad of Yonkers Purim? WESTCHESTER’S OLDEST AND MOST RESPECTED NEWSPAPERS PRESORT-STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID White Plains, NY Permit #7164 Vol 114 Number 10 www.RisingMediaGroup.com Friday, March 6, 2020 YPS Superintendent Quezada Plastic Bags are Gone… Gets Five-Year Extension Plastic Straws are Next YPS Improvement & Achievements Continue Yonkers Leads the Way L-R: YPS Superintendent Dr. Edwin Quezada, Mayor Mike Spano, Council President Mike Khader, Councilwoman Tasha Diaz, County Legislator Ruth Walter and City Councilman John Rubbo with students from School 15. YPS Superintendent Dr. Edwin Quezada with students from Gorton High School at their recent FLIGHT graduation. Beginning March 1, single-use plastic kers City Council and signed by Mayor Mike The Yonkers Board of Education unani- its Feb. 26 meeting. straws will no longer be made available at food Spano mously appointed Dr. Edwin Quezada to a new “One of the trustees’ legislated duties is to and beverage establishments located in Yon- “In Yonkers, we are doing our part in being five-year term as superintendent of schools, employ a superintendent of schools who will kers, unless upon request by customers. The ban stewards of the environment and reducing the effective Feb. 1 through Jan. 31, 2025, during Continued on Page 8 comes into effect as the city’s Plastic Straw-Free negative environmental impacts resulting from Yonkers legislation recently was passed by Yon- Continued on Page 7 Westchester Prepares Exchange Club of Yonkers For Legal Marijuana Welcomes Dr. Liotta Left to right: Exchange Club Treasurer Majid Haddad, Judge Thomas Quinones, Captain Bryant Pappas, Exchange Club Vice President Angela Labreglio, Dr. Alfred Liotta, Judge Tom Daly and attorney Verris Shako. A majority of New Yorkers support legalization of recreational marijuana. The Yonkers Exchange Club welcomes its ment, and a counselor on cases of teen suicide newest member Dr. Alfred Liotta who was the with the Archdiocese of New York. By Dan Murphy linois California and Colorado, to see what works guest speaker at its previous meeting. He was Liotta was recently inducted into the Legalizing recreational marijuana is coming and what New York State could use for its law. sworn in by Judge Thomas Quinones. Liotta is Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame for closer and closer to reality in New York State. Cuomo has also hired a cannabis policy advi- the author of several books on teen grievance, his record of lifetime community service. He “If the Legislature passes a bill I will sign it,” sor, Norman Birenbaum, as the state gets closer to the counselor for the Tuckahoe Police Depart- Continued on Page 7 said Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently. “I also want to passage, if all sides can agree to include it in the make sure it is done correctly – we want a goal of state budget due April 1, and if they can agree on social equity, we want to make sure young people where the tax revenues should go. can’t get it. We want to make sure there are advan- “This is the right thing to do for public health tages to communities that have been oppressed.” and public safety,” said Birenbaum, who added Yonkers Readies for Cuomo is currently touring states that have that New Jersey has the issue of legalizing rec- legalized marijuana, including Massachusetts, Il- Continued on Page 8 St. Patrick’s Day Parade First Coronavirus Case in Westchester A search for a coronavirus vaccine has begun. By Dan Murphy not know because he did not travel to countries On Tuesday, March 3, Westchester County where the virus has spread. confirmed that a resident had contracted the The individual who has tested positive is By Dan Murphy Walsh, Richard McSpedon, Sean Mayer, Timo- coronavirus. The individual, a 50-year-old at- an attorney in New York City. He and his wife The countdown has begun for the xxth thy Hodges and William Saich. torney, is now being treated at a New York City have four children; two are in Israel, one is a annual Yonkers St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Here’s some brief information on the grand hospital. college student in NYC and one is a student at McLean Avenue. This year’s grand marshal is marshal and her aides: The way in which the individual, who the Riverdale Academy in Riverdale. The fam- Patricia McCrudden, and her aides are Annmarie Patricia Jean Donovan McCrudden’s Irish lives in New Rochelle, contracted the virus is Continued on Page 9 Acosta, Fr. William Cleary, Joan Henchy, Nancy Continued on Page 8 PAGE 2 - YONKERS RISING - FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020 Let’s Make Medicine Will a Leaning Tower of Pizza Here in the USA Again Topple Chabad of Yonkers Purim? Sholom Ber Wundsbacher reads the traditional handwritten Megillah scroll at the Chabad of Greystone Purim party with others reading their own Megillah on Purim. Photo by Robert Kalfus. By Robert Kalfus dren include face painting, a balloon artist and a The Chabad Jewish Center/Greystone Jew- magic show; and for adults, a wine and cheese Almost all medical masks are made in China. ish Center of Yonkers invites the public to its tasting provided by Yonkers’ own “The Cheese annual Purim celebration, which commemorates Guy” Brent Delman. The Megillah reading will the Jewish people’s victory in the year 356 BCE precede a kosher dairy Italian-style Purim buf- By Frank Spotorno & Dan Murphy in 25 years… because it’s cheaper to make in over the plot of the wicked Haman, viceroy of fet. Twenty-fi ve years ago I formed an organi- China. the Persian empire, to destroy them. Purim starts Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz, director of the zation called Bring Our Jobs Home, after travel- Over the years and decades, many have Monday, March 9, after sunset, and continues Chabad of Yonkers, welcomes all to the Purim ing the country and fi nding thousands of facto- said, “Let these jobs go – they will never come through Tuesday, March 10. celebration. ries in the mid-west closed, with the jobs sent home.” Well it now looks like we need to bring On March 9 at 7:25 p.m., the public is in- “We look forward to Purim all year long, overseas – most to China. Not only did I want to our pharmaceutical factories home to be pre- vited to hear a reading of the Megillah, a hand- as it is the most joyous day on the Jewish calen- warn Americans about the lost jobs that happen pared for the worst. written scroll from which the Book of Esther is dar,” said Hurwitz. “We celebrate the day with when we offshore our jobs to China, but also the This was part of the reason I supported read aloud, recounting the entire Purim chronol- gifts of food, charity, reading the Book of Esther, national security impacts of building everything President Donald Trump in 2016, because he ogy. Additional copies of the Megillah will be dressing in masquerade and festive celebrations. in China. also wanted to bring our jobs home. Peter Na- provided with English translation. There is no We look forward to a joyous celebration! Please Like all Americans, I pray that the Coro- varro, Trump’s trade advisor, says the time is charge and all are welcome to attend and relive come dressed in Italian-themed costumes.” navirus will not have a drastic impact on the now to bring our U.S. pharmaceutical supply the miracle of Purim, at 600 N. Broadway, Yon- There is a suggested donation of $18 per health and well-being of all of us, and everyone chain back home. kers. person, or $54 per family, and co-sponsorship across the globe. But I am worried that if the “We’ve offshored far too much of our sup- The annual Purim celebration starts March are welcome at $180, or “gold sponsor” for virus continues to spread, we will be unable to ply chain, not just for Corona, but also for the 10 at 5 p.m., with this year’s theme being “Pu- $360. For more information or to RSVP, call come up with the medical supplies and medi- essential medicines we need.” The bottom line, rim in Italy.” People are encouraged to dress in 914-963-8888 or visit www.JewishYonkers. cines we need to treat the disease. he said, is that “this administration is moving theme-appropriate costumes. Activities for chil- com. How could the mighty USA be unable to as rapidly as possible to make sure our supply treat its own residents during a pandemic? Be- chain is secure and so that the American public cause we no longer make enough face masks or is safe and the U.S. economy is secure.” generic medicines in this country. They are all Navarro said the immediate focus is to made in China, and nothing is being exported in fi nd protective gear like facemasks and to help China because of the Coronavirus. the development of vaccines and drugs to treat The ports are fi lled with boats that have not the virus. “U.S. biotech companies are already YPD Off ers $5K Reward in been emptied and factories have been close for working on a vaccine, bur are still months more than a month now. And all face masks and away,” he said. Kentrail Newton Homicide Case medicines made in China are being used for the I’m a critic of free trade when it is not fair, Chinese to treat the virus. nor free for the USA. We have all our eggs in For three decades American companies one basket, and we need to diversify now and have been exploiting human rights, paying in- for the future.
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