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SADD...
Making People Happy
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By Ken Kraska
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On Sunday, June 13 the Kings Park High School
students along with their SADD advisor Gail Martino and Art
Honor Society advisor Stephanie Montecalvo, were on a mission. The
group was collecting supplies to send to our servicemen overseas and
for those wounded and recuperating at the Walter Reed Medical
Center in Washington.
The "Stuff a Bus" campaign turned out to be a success
and the students were able to make a worthy collection of goods and
raise some money to defray the shipping costs.
You can always expect good
things...
From good people... Thank You! |
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Reminiscing... |
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Roselle Lauth & Theresa Schmitt
(LEO PIX)
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Two very nice ladies made a
surprise visit to the Kings Park Heritage Museum. They came to
visualize and verbalize about the Stattel exhibit. Mrs. Loseele
Lauth and Mrs. Theresa Schmitt, sisters, their mother was Mary
Stattel and the exhibit was a lasting gift from their cousin
Florence Stattel. The ladies made the exhibit come alive with their
remembrances of life on a farm. The museum hopes to keep in touch
with the two as they gather additional artifacts for the Stattel
presentation.
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A
Walk in a Park... |
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(L to R) Charles Gardner, KP Chamber President, Msgnr.
Manley, St. Joseph's Church.
Leo Pix |
St. Joseph's Church in the
spring looks and feels like a sanctuary park. A bright fresh
atmosphere prevails because of well developed and well managed
landscaping. All of this adds to the area's beauty. The Kings Park
Chamber of Commerce recognized this effort by presenting the church
with a commemorating plaque.
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Special Guest Reader |
Press Release
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Legislator Lynne
Nowick (center) reads to a group of students at Indian Hollow
Elementary School. From left, a few the students are Matthew
Sweeney, Daniel Bernstein, Jessica Ditkowsky and Nicole Vavoules.
Joining Legislator Nowick were Mrs. Laurie Foster (back row,
left) the Librarian at Indian Hollow as well as Principal Laurie
Foster (back row, right). |
Smithtown, NY:
Suffolk County Legislator Lynne C. Nowick recently visited Indian
Hollow Elementary School in Commack to participate in National
Library Week. Legislator Nowick entertained the students by reading
from the book House Mouse, Senate Mouse by Peter M. Barnes to
a group of students. The students asked Legislator Nowick about how
laws are made and what the job responsibilities are for a
Legislator. After discussing the role of a Suffolk County
Legislator, Legislator Nowick answered the students’ questions about
her responsibilities. |
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We Value Our Bus Drivers |
By Maureen Rossi |
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I attended the Kings Park Budget hearing on Tuesday, June 8th
at KPHS. Although arriving late after coaching my high school
softball team for St. Josephs CYO, I heard various discussions about
recent cuts for the Budget Revote. There were about 70 members in
the audience in addition to the Kings Park administrators and Board
of Education. Standard banter occurred about the current state of
economics, teachers pension funds and questions regarding budget
cuts, primarily late bus services. The bus drivers were well
represented at the meeting and disheartened by the cuts in late-bus
services.
Although I am the President of the Kings Park Council
of Schools, an organization, which includes members of all the PTA
and parent organizations in the district, I cannot speak on their
behalf.
I speak on my own behalf when I say, as a mother of two
children in the district and as a parent who moved to Kings Park for
the schools, I value and trust the bus drivers of the district.
Their role is one of the most important roles in the district. They
keep our children safe. You cannot educate children who don’t
arrive to school safe. Our bus drivers are invaluable members of
the Kings Park School district. Day after day, they load thousands
of children onto their buses and take them to and from their
destinations in a safe manner. We are blessed to have them at the
helm. We have an outstanding team of bus drivers.
I will say that I am sorry that the late bus services
have been cut. As a person who hails from several generations of
strong union supporters, I hear the cries of the Kings Park bus
drivers and I sympathize with their situation. However, I believe
in my Board of Education and I support their decisions. The Kings
Park voters spoke loud and clear when they voted our school budget
down. Our Board of Education spent months preparing the lean budget
that went up for vote on May 18th. Unfortunately, after
the budget defeat, the board had to go back to the drawing board and
make judicial cuts in the budget, cuts that would least affect the
academic growth and outstanding reputation of the Kings Park
District. They chose to cut the late bus services and despite my
respect and gratitude for our bus drivers, I support their decision.
These are difficult times we find ourselves in both as a community
and as a nation. We must stand together, despite the obstacles and
support education in the Kings Park Community because a vote for the
budget is more than a vote for education, it’s a vote for the entire
community. I thank every single bus driver who takes our precious
children safely to their destinations. Let’s get this budget
passed and then work together for solutions for the future. |
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