Tonight’s game between Stony Point and East Greenbush Castleton was an awesome example of a defense, led by impressive pitching, holding tight to their lead. Both teams played well, but the intensity of the Stony Point infield was, well, intense. The photo below is cropped from a larger image in our gallery of the game, but I thought Rob McFadden’s adept fielding deserved a closer look. Good job, all.
Stony Point’s Rob McFadden fields a ground ball from East Greenbush Castleton’s Tucker McKeown in the 2010 New York State Little League Baseball Championship tournament at the West Nyack Little League field on July 29, 2010. Stony Point won, 6-0. ( Xavier Mascareñas / The Journal News )
Aradia Serra-Vandermark, 4, has her fingerprint taken during an Child Safety Identification Program at the Jawonio Early Childhood Education Center in New City July 29, 2010. Children were electronically fingerprinted and photographed and their vital statistics recorded on a computer disk, which is provided to parents or guardians. The information collected will become part of a national data base and used to help to locate a child in the event he or she goes missing. About 150 children and young adults participated in the event sponsored by Jawonio Center and The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York .
Kevin Gu of the Suffern Sea Lions Swim Club competes in the Boys 9-10 100 Meter Individual Medley final of the Rockland Summer Swim League Championships at the West Nyack Swim Club in West Nyack July 29, 2010. View an online gallery of photos from the Rockland Summer Swim League Championships and check LoHud.com for the final results.
Corey Palumbo is a Boy Scout in Troop 97 in New City. He is a Life scout which is the rank before Eagle Scout and is working on his Eagle project. Corey is attending the Boy Scout National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia with Jamboree Troop 119 from Rockland County from July 26 to August 4. This Jamboree is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in America. During the Jamboree he will be sending daily updates about what Rockland scouts are doing at the Jamboree. Here is his first posting from the Jamboree.
Thursday, July 29: Our day began at 5 a.m. We had the first arena show to go to. When the doors opened at 7 a.m. about 45,000 Scouts in the massive arena there was a pre-show hosted by Eagle scouts Barton Roberts and Alex Boylan. Four scouts were selected to play in a “Survivor” style game.
The show officially started at 9:15 with a fly-by of three F-16Cs. The master of ceremonies was the two millionth Eagle Scout, Anthony Thomas, who arrived in style pulling up in an M1126 Stryker Infantry Caring Vehicle. To start the show, 860 American flags representing each troop at the Jamboree marched to the front of the arena (pictured here).
During the show different speakers spoke about the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in America. Some of the people who spoke were Eagle Scout and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Sergeant Slam from WWE, Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and even the current Miss Virginia/Miss America Caraessa Cameron.
Performances also went on through the show. The Air Force Precision Drill team performed their routine which wowed every person in the arena. The largest wow factor of the performance was when all 16 of their guns with fixed bayonets went up in to the air simultaneously.
The Army Golden Knights Parashoot team also dropped in to the arena. The event was capped off by the firing of cannons by the United States Army Artillery Corps. and all of the special guests and military equipment was brought back to the stage.
The show took up all of the morning and by 2 p.m. most people just hung out around the central camp area just relaxing in the shade. It cooled off after dinner in the evening my troop played volley ball.
The third day was amazing and rumors are already starting to circulate about who will be at Saturday night’s show.
Corey Palumbo is a Boy Scout in Troop 97 in New City. He is a Life scout which is the rank before Eagle Scout and is working on his Eagle project. Corey is attending the Boy Scout National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia with Jamboree Troop 119 from Rockland County from July 26 to August 4. This Jamboree is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in America. During the Jamboree he will be sending daily updates about what Rockland scouts are doing at the Jamboree. Here is his first posting from the Jamboree.
Wednesday, July 28: The first full day began at 6 a.m. when I got out of the tent. Patrols were starting to cook and the bacon and eggs smelled great.
In the afternoon I began exploring with my friends. We rode each one of the bus lines to see what there was to do. The buses run regularly and are typically packed. We got lost riding the bus to one of the Trading Posts. Unfortunately we took the wrong bus and got easily confused when we got off and did not know where we were. When we finally arrived to the right Trading Post we got some snacks and walked back to camp along the road where hundreds of scouts lined the streets trading patches.
Scouts try to gain a set only to trade it away for a rare patch or two. My friend Brendon Kelly told me about good trades and bad trades. He also showed me how people will steal the patches from you and how to tell if they are fake or not. Brendon said “the only way to describe patch trading is intense.”
Back at camp the chili was being prepared to for dinner. While the food was only OK, everyone was so hungry we finished all that we made anyway. Later in the evening, I played ultimate Frisbee and won the game for my team with an amazing catch in the goal.
After Frisbee we set up three tables outside of our campsite and the best trader in our troop, Will Badinelli monopolized the trading in our troop and got everyone full sets of patches and rare patches.
At the end of the night we spilt the patches evenly. The first full day at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree was very exciting and the next nine days seem like they are going to be great.
Danielle McEwan, a former North Rockland bowler who is entering her sophomore year at Fairleigh Dickinson University, at the family owned business Hi-Tor Lanes in West Haverstraw July 28, 2010. McEwan was recently named to the Junior USA bowling team, one of only six bowlers in the country to be selected to this 21-under team. At right, McEwen works out. Get to know more about McEwan Junior USA bowling team in an upcoming sports article by Vincent Z. Mercogliano on LoHud.com.
The five representatives that went to the White House to mark the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities are back and delighted to have part of the celebrations.
Jawonio’s communication director Diana Hess led the five-member team that had been invited by Kareem Dale, special assistant to the president in the White House Office of Disability Policy. Joseph Borno, 27, and Hemant Mhatre, 42, both consumers, and two members members of Jawonio staff, Gary Rao and Stephen Barlaam went along to take part in the ceremony.
“We really saw some major history happen and we were thrilled to be part of it,” said Barlaam.
The group went to Washington D.C. on Monday, attended the ceremony in the afternoon, stayed overnight in D.C. and returned home Tuesday.
Borno, who lives in a Jawonio apartment and is part Jawino Advocacy Group, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, described the experience as “spellbinding and amazing.”
As part of the celebration, President Obama signed an executive order increasing federal employment for people with disabilities.
“The best part was watching my colleagues watching the President and taking it all in. We felt a lot of team pride,” said Hess.
Spring Valley’s Union Road will be reopened to traffic for the first time in nearly two years on Friday.
Village officials are planning a ribbon-cutting for the temporary bridge recently installed at the intersection of Union and Morris Road, Mayor Noramie Jasmin said today.
The road has been blocked off in both directions at Morris because of the closed bridge.
The temporary bridge is part of a multimillion-dollar drainage project by Spring Valley and Rockland County government to end decades of flooding that has plagued residents along Stonehouse Drive, Morris Road and Francis Place.
The Spring Valley Board of Trustees last week approved an $800,000 bond to finance drainage improvement work in the Stonehouse Drive area. The work involves installing a new network of catch basins and modifying the storm-drain system.
The county’s portion of what’s called the Pascack Brook Improvement Project involves installing a new culvert and enclosing the brook to contain floodwaters.
The total project is expected to cost the county about $10.5 million, of which $7.8 million has been bonded.
This is a busy weekend for summer-theater festivals, those shows that appear every late summer, populated by youngsters home from college or awaiting another school year. Below this is a sampling of theater offerings across the Lower Hudson Valley in the next few weekends, in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties…
A three-performance day?
Saturday is shaping up as one of those days that theater kids in Croton will be talking about for years to come.
“Remember back in 2010 when we did two performances of ‘Rent’ and one performance of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ in one day?” they might say. “That was a crazy day.”
On Tuesday, the Editorial Board hosted an Editorial Spotlight panel on drunken driving. The discussion, one year since Diane Schuler’s drunken, wrong-way crash on the Taconic River Parkway claimed eight lives, focused on what has transpired in the time since. Here’s a highlight reel:
To watch the entire hour-long session, navigate to lohud.com/editorialspotlight and select the video from the on-demand menu.
Stony Point’s Rob McFadden fields a ground ball from East Greenbush Castleton’s Tucker McKeown in the 2010 New York State Little League Baseball Championship tournament at the West Nyack Little League field on July 29, 2010. Stony Point won, 6-0. ( Xavier Mascareñas / The Journal News )
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