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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

02/06/11 Port Chester Trustee Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner Throws Village Minorities Under The Bus


THE VILLAGE IDIOT SPEAKS OUT
IN AN EFFORT TO GIVE
MICHAEL "MY FAMILY IS CASHING IN" CARVIN
A $200,000 PAY DAY

How Soon They Forget
: Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner Was Appointed To The Village Of Port Chester Trustees, Only Because Of The Voting Right Case


What A Sell Out: Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner wants to propose a resolution would set aside $225,000 to retain Michael "My Familiy Is Cashing In" Carvin, brother of Republican and Rye Town Supervisor Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin, at a rate of $750 an hour to fight the Department of Justice.

What kind of cockamamie plan does Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner have: To make the hardworking residents of Port Chester loose another costly Federal case, so the Republican's and the Carvin family can once again take the taxpayers to the cleaners

Here Is An Editorial From The Village Idiot Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner ....

The Port Chester Board of Trustees agenda for Monday contains a resolution to authorize the hiring of counsel to appeal the voting rights case. Judge Stephen Robinson found that our historical system to elect trustees violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The public will have an opportunity to be heard. I wanted to provide the facts that lead to my decision to support what two experienced voting rights lawyers have characterized as a powerful appeal with a substantial likelihood of success.

Prior to being appointed to the board in 2007, I believed that the establishment of voting districts — the typical remedy in Voting Rights cases — would not work. To divide a small village like Port Chester into districts is wrong. The only district the federal government could create with a majority of Hispanic citizen voting-age persons,..... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah ..... Lets Give the Carvins $200,000 Bucks .....Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah .......
.... I know firsthand since I, an African American who moved here in 1998 .... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah .....Lets Give the Carvins $200,000 Bucks .....Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah .......
......The decision to appeal is truly one of principle that transcends the cost of time and money. Port Chester's opportunity to appeal is now before us. We can remove the shameful and unwarranted stigma of the judge's ruling, which affects how others view us. .... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah .....Lets Give the Carvins $200,000 Bucks .....Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah .......
......I encourage the public to attend the Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 7. The vote will be momentous .... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah .....Lets Give the Carvins $200,000 Bucks .....Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah .......
......The ultimate decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will only further unify our community that stood together and endured the pressure of the federal government while standing up for principles that made this village and our country great. ..... .... Blah .... Blah ..... Blah .....Lets Give the Carvins $200,000 Bucks .....Blah ..... Blah ..... Blah .......
signed
Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner
Who Is Selling Out Port Chester On Behalf Of Michael "KaChing KaChing KaChing" Carvin and Rye Town Supervisor Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin
UPDATE:

02/08/11 Residents to Joesph "Uncle Tom" Kenner: Are You Crazy !!! Don't Appeal The Voting Rights Lawsuit !!!!


Trustees rejected Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner's idiotic idea of launching an
appeal on Monday night after a bipartisan move by Democratic Mayor Dennis Pilla and Conservative Party Trustee John Branca stepped in to delay on the vote.

Taxpayers in Port Chester may not like the federally-imposed cumulative voting system, but they sure in the hell don't want to pay for a costly appeal that is going to put $200,000 in the pockets of Michael "My Familiy Is Cashing In" Carvin, brother of Republican and Rye Town Supervisor Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin


An Out pouring of Port Chester residents who heard about Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner's
idiotic proposal came to Monday's meeting, despite the lack of official notice that the item was on the agenda.

Almost universally, the taxpayers slammed Joseph "Uncle Tom" Kenner and Michael "My Familiy Is Cashing In" Carvin $750 / hour payout, as they repeatedly said fighting the DoJ would be costly with little chance of success.

Mayor Pilla and Trustee Dan Brakewood pointed out that legal experts said the original fight would cost only $250,000, and "they were off my $1 million," Pilla said, referencing the $1.2 million in legal fees the village has already paid to fight the DoJ.

Still others said it was a retroactive attempt to claim unity and draw attention away from extremist TEA Party lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden's track record.

Extremist TEA Party lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden, who is running for mayor, inadvertently helped the DoJ make its case when he distributed fliers during the 2007 mayoral election that warned, "the Hispanics are running the show already"

The federal judge cited Extremist TEA Party lunatic Bart "The Bigot Didden's flier as one piece of evidence showing bias against Hispanic candidates in Port Chester.

Thanks A Lot Bart For Getting Your Wife And Child To Help Your Fold, Stuff And Mail Your Racist Flyer.

It Looks Like The Family That Hates Together Stays Together.

Village Resident And Taxpayer Tom Kissner Summed Up The Situation Beautifully ....

"In my opinion, the village of Port Chester has already spent entirely too much of the taxpayer's money on appealing this in the first place. While I'm well aware that the cumulative voting process is very unpopular throughout the village, I would like to suggest it has actually served the village very well. The board of trustees, for the first time, reflects the community that voted for it."

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

01/25/11 Port Chester Turns Out To Picket Bart "The Bigot" Didden In Front Of T And J Villaggio Trattoria On Westchester Avenue

Infamous Port Chester Racist Bart Didden's Struggling Mayoral Campaign Suffers A Couple Of Major Setbacks This Evening At The T&J Villaggio Trattoria.

First Foul Mouthed And Bloated Rye Town Conservative Chair Sam Terenzi Could Not Get Port Chester Conservative Party Members To Support Bart "The Bigot" Didden.

The Conservative caucus resulted in a vote for Former Port Chester Mayor John Branca over Bart "The Bigot" Didden.

The Conservative party leadership has been divided between hefty Sam "I Got Junk In My Trunk" Terenzi, the current Rye Town Conservative chair and Gene Branca, the popular and former longtime Rye Town Conservative chair

Mr. Branca is the son of former Port Chester Mayor John Branca.

Former Rye Town Conservative chair Gene Branca said he was proud that the “true Conservatives” had spoken and rejected Bart "The Bigot" Didden's campaign.

If That Wasn't Bad Enough Bad News For Bart "The Bigot" Didden....

Twenty picketers showed up with signs against former Westmore News columnist Bart "The Bigot" Didden.

The signs said things like “We don’t want a racist for mayor.”

The signs made reference to Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden’s infamous 2007 flier attacking popular two term Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla and Latino supporters of his earlier mayoral campaign.

The lewd and crude racist mailer assembled by Bart "The Bigot" Didden, his wife and child became important evidence in the Justice Department’s successful voting rights lawsuit against the village of Port Chester.

The Federal Judge strongly cited Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden's hate filled two page flyer when he ruled that Latino voters were effectively shut out of the trustee election process in Port Chester.

Sylvia Rodriguez, a Port Chester mother of three, who is studying for her bachelor’s degree from Fordham University carried a sign that read “Bart is proud to be a racist.”

Ms. Rodriguez said “We don’t think he cares about Hispanics,” and also said, “He doesn't want us to live here.”

Ms. Rodriguez also was critical of USA Alarm owner Bart "The Bigot" Didden’s recent comments made at a public debate in the trustee race.

The infamous racist and extremist TEA Party lunatic said he would “starve” Hispanic apartment buildings by targeting laundromats and other services that serve tenants of such housing.

Leonardo Coronado, 50, said he was protesting because “we need somebody who represents all of Port Chester we don't need discrimination here.”

Esau Rodriguez held a sign that said, “Bart does not represent you and me!”

Others read: “Port Chester deserves better than Bart.”

The twenty Port Chester protesters were confronted by Bart "The Bigot" Didden Supporter Town of Rye Supervisor Joe Carvin.

Fabiola Montoya said,“Racism and discrimination is everywhere."

Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin tried speak to the largely Hispanic group in Spanish by saying my wife is a minority and she says Didden's flyer was not racist, but an example of race baiting.

Huh ????

'It's race baiting, but it's not racist" ????

What kind of LSD are they putting in the Harvard educated fool's tea?
Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's bizarre argument in support of Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden is sort of like a pedophile saying, "Sure I penetrated the child, but it wasn't rape."

Many protesters in the crowd wondered if Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin had a bit too much to drink at T and J's bar and did not engage the lunitic Supervisor in further conversation.

Later inside the caucus at T And J Villaggio Trattoria the Rye town supervisor was fuming over the picketers’ use of the word “racist.”

Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin, a Republican who lives in an exclusive gated community in neighboring Rye Brook just doesn't understand that diversity has always been the strength of Port Chester.

Many First Generation Jewish, Irish and Italian families got their start in Port Chester.

The Rye Town Supervisor said the Port Chester protesters actions were "totally un-American,”

It looks like Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin has never heard of the First and Fourth amendments of the United States Constitution that he swore to protect and defend when he became Rye Town Supervisor.

Joseph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin is just starting to come to grips with the fact that Didden's vitriol is going to destroy Port Chester, a community that has always proudly been known for welcoming immigrants.

Maybe, someone should remind Joesph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin that School board member Blanca Lopez was a target of Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden's hate filled flier.

Maybe, someone should remind Joesph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin that Didden's hate filled flier targeted Latinos, and said “the Hispanics are running the show already.”

Didden's racist two page flier was used as evidence of racially based campaigning in Justice Department’’s successful voting rights lawsuit against the village, a case that forced a change to the trustee election system.

But none of this is important to Rye Town supervisor Joe Carvin, because his family is getting ready to make $200,000 off the backs of Port Chester taxpayers.

Joesph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin is pushing Port Chester to set aside the money and pay his brother Michael "Ka Ching Ka Ching Ka Ching" Carvin $750 an hour to assist in the appeal of the voting right's case.

$750 / Hour !!!! For Rye Town Supervisor Joesph "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin's Brother?

The Republican Party insiders are getting ready to once again rape the Port Chester taxpayers again, as the Westmore Snooze turns a blind eye.

But who would expect the newspaper founded by Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel to stand up for the hardworking homeowners of Port Chester.

But There Is Some Hope .....

But Is Bart "The Bigot" Didden Slowly Starting To Reject His Racist Views????

To Didden's credit he did call his involvement in producing the hate filled flyer with Former Port Chester Board of Education President Dominic Bencivenga And Former Port Chester Trustee John Crane as “wrong”.

Diddeen said of the picket "I understand how some people feel it was insensitive. I've come to regret my participation. We learn from our mistakes.”

But is this just clever words and political spin from Didden???

Didden, then turned around and said the hate filled flyer was "not racist." Didden continued “It may have been insensitive, but racist, no.”

It Appears that Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden still refuses to accept that a Mayor takes an oath to represent all the residents of Port Chester.

Bart "The Bigot" Didden and his hate filled flyer became part of a national controversy of voter rights and cost the Port Chester millions and now Rye Town Supervisor Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin's family wants to be the next set of heartless Republican's to get rich off of the Port Chester Voting Right's case.

Port Chester tax payers can't afford Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden and his out of town supporters Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin and Michael "Ka Ching Ka Ching Ka Ching" Carvin.

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01/25/11 Where The Hell Is The Westmore News? Port Chesr's US Senator Want To Seek Criminal Prosecution Against A Village Bussiness




Politicians outraged by National Collector’s Mint, fake 9/11 10th anniversary commemorative coins 


BY Jennifer H. Cunningham 
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 


Tuesday, January 25th 2011


Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler want to seek criminal prosecution for the ‘phony’ 9/11 commemorative coins. Smith for News Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler want to seek criminal prosecution for the ‘phony’ 9/11 commemorative coins. 


Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler want to cashier a company they say is peddling bogus 10th anniversary 9/11 coins. “I think there should be criminal prosecution here,” Schumer said. 


“I think people like this should be behind bars.” National Collector’s Mint, a private Port Chester company that has nothing to do with the US Mint, is selling 9/11 commemorative Liberian dollar coins claiming to be clad in “priceless silver recovered from Ground Zero.” 


Schumer and Nadler said the origin of the silver cannot be verified. 


They said they want the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on the company. 


In a statement, the company said the silver was "bought from a company who received it through one of the banks who stored silver bars, coins, etc. in its vaults under the WTC."


"We have lawyers' letters and a complete chain of custody for the materials," said National Collector's Mint.


A TV ad for the $30 coin - $35.95 with shipping and handling - also suggests it has a federal okay, though it does not and is competing with an upcoming official silver medal to help finance the 9/11 memorial.


"Every dollar spent on the phony coins peddled by National Collector's Mint is $2 that could have gone to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum," said Nadler.


The company said "we don't understand" the assertion that each coin diverts $2 from the memorial. It said it has donated $2 million to 9/11 charities.


The pols said that while the coins are breathlessly advertised as clad in 14 mg of gold - 0.0005 ounce - and 14 mg of silver, that only adds up to about 60 cents' worth of precious metals.


"The amount of silver and gold advertised is correct," the company said.


In 2004, the company paid more than $2 million in refunds and penalties over "deceptive" ads for a "Freedom Tower Silver Dollar."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/25/2011-01-25_2_pols_dropping_dime_on_phony_911_coins.html#ixzz1C5MsVo00


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Friday, January 21, 2011

1/21/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
UPDATE: Authorities Warn of Icy Roads, Trains Running on Normal Schedules
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Update, 5:56 am: Delays on I-95 in Port Chester-Rye after an accident just west of the Boston Post Road exit. State traffic authorities and police warn of ...

Blog Posts About Port Chester, NY
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Port Chester village trustee Sam Terenzi has heard yet another appeal for professionalism in his treatment of village employees - this one from the local NAACP.
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By Bob Wirz
It was staged in Port Chester, NY this week. The unusual part was that the organizer, long time scout Mike DeAngelo, who issued the invitations, passed away suddenly less than two weeks ago. A scout friend, David Scrivines, ...
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1/21/11 PORT CHESTER PATCH: "MLK Day Parking Tickets Become Political Fodder Ahead of Mayoral Race" and more from Port Chester Patch

News

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MLK Day Parking Tickets Become Political Fodder Ahead of Mayoral Race
Two trustees call on the mayor to have parking tickets dismissed–two days after the entire board agreed to dismiss the tickets.
By Nik Bonopartis | Jan 21, 2011

Announcements

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1/21/11 PORT CHESTER TOPIX MESSAGE BOARD: Inside: Bartaco in Port Chester

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Port Chester - News January 21, 2011

Inside: Bartaco in Port Chester (Metromix Hudson Valley)
Bartaco in Port Chester - no, not Bar Taco; it's one word - the new spot owned by Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer of Barcelona, the wine and tapas bar with six locations in Connecticut, opened last week on the Byram River where Ebb Tide used to be.
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HARRISON: Hillary Ghitelman of Harrison, a senior at Gettysburg College, recently participated in the fall 2010 production of 'My Fair Lady.' The theater arts programs at Gettysburg offer a variety of creative and technical experiences, including: acting, directing, play writing, design history and literature of theater and the relationship of ...

Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Raw Port Chester News Feed

News Reports About Port Chester, NY
Police seize more Port Chester files
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PORT CHESTER — The Port Chester Police Department took boxes of documents from Village Hall on Wednesday after serving a subpoena for records in the ... 
Port Chester Offers $500 Reward for Graffiti Arrest and Conviction
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By Nik Bonopartis | Email the author | 6:30pm Port Chester authorities want to catch whoever's responsible for recent graffiti in town, and they're offering ... 
Winter Concert a Showcase of Talent by Port Chester High School Students
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By Christine Loughran | Email the author | 6:29pm The telltale signs of a typical holiday season in Port Chester: stockings are hung, trees and menorahs are ... 
The SSC X3 Are Coming! Gang Marks Territory with Graffiti in PC
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By Nik Bonopartis | Email the author | 1:09pm At least half a dozen spots throughout Port Chester have been tagged with graffiti referencing gangs from ... 
Girls basketball: Briarcliff defeats Greeley 70-65 in OT; more games ...
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Croton-Harmon 52, Port Chester 24: At Port Chester, Grace Mulligan scored 20 points. Haley Clarke added 13. Jessica Fitchben led Port Chester with eight. ... 

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The Port Chester Police Department took boxes of documents away from Village Hall on Wednesday after serving a subpoena for records in the departments of public works and finance, Mayor Dennis Pilla said. ...
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Schedule/scores: Dec. 22 | Varsity Insider
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PORT CHESTER BRIEFING: Christ's Church's Outreach Extends Far Beyond Its Walls

This Just In To The Port Chester Roundup Newsroom .....
Port Chester News - December 23, 2010
Christ's Church in Rye is going above and beyond the call of duty this holiday season.
This week Rye Middle School Assistant Principal Joe DeRuvo played Santa. Reach Out Rye held its holiday toy drive to benefit children at run by Clover DeGallerie's Second Chance Ministries at 45 Traverse Avenue in Port Chester.

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Port Chester Offers $500 Reward for Graffiti Arrest and Conviction

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Port Chester Offers $500 Reward for Graffiti Arrest and Conviction
Village authorities hope the reward is incentive for witnesses to come forward with information.
By Nik Bonopartis | Dec 22, 2010

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Port Chester Roundup At Google Groups: Police: Port Chester man arrested for having sex with Stamford minor

A Port Chester, N.Y. man was arrested late last week on charges that
he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, police said.

Axel Oswaldo Ramirez, of 126 Boningo St., Port Chester, was charged
with second-degree sexual assault, Capt. William Mullin said.
Police were called on Friday when the father of the 13-year-old girl
came home and found Ramirez and his daughter together, Mullin said.

While the girl was not forced to have sexual relations, Ramirez was
arrested because the girl was too young to give her consent to have
sex, Mullin said.

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Port Chester Roundup At Google Groups: Rates going up for water customers in Port Chester

United Water Westchester is raising its rates for 12,500 customers in
Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester. The new rates, which the New York
State Public Service Commission announced Thursday, will take effect
Dec. 22 and climb over the next four years.

"The commission has recognized that it is never a good time to raise
customers' rates, especially in these times of economic difficulty,"
Commission spokesman James Denn said, "(but) it was needed to ensure
continued delivery of safe and reliable water supply."

On average, United Water customers currently pay $568 a year for their
water. Under the new pricing plan, that bill will climb 5.7 percent to
$600 the first year; 5 percent to $630 the second year; 4.8 percent to
$660 in year three and, finally, another 4.5 percent, to $690, in the
fourth year. With a 2 percent surcharge, conceived as an answer to the
rising price the company pays New York City for water and applied over
the first three years of the plan, customers can expect to tack
another $21 onto their annual bill.

The new rates will earn United Water about $693,000 more per year.
According to Denn, that money will be applied to maintaining and
repairing an aging infrastructure and buying increasingly expensive
water. United Water doesn't own any water sources; instead, it buys
water from neighboring municipalities that do. In July of this year,
New York City increased the cost of the water it sells by 25 percent.
Denn said $1.5 million is earmarked to repair pipes and valves over
the next four years. An additional $7 million will be used to replace
leaking pipes.

"Without the rate increase, the infrastructure, the pipes become older
(and) it leads to reliability problems," Denn said.

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Port Chester Roundup At Google Groups: Rock star: Actor-singer-storyteller Lou Del Bianco of Port Chester

He's such an exuberant performer, it's hard to believe singer-actor-
storyteller Lou Del Bianco was once painfully shy.
In fact, the Port Chester native says, growing up with six sisters
made it hard to get a word in at all. He spent much of his childhood
talking into a tape recorder, creating characters — a skill that
ultimately led to a thriving career on the high-school stage.

For the past 25 years, Del Bianco has focused primarily on young
audiences, presenting his original one-man shows all over the country.
With all the advances in technology, children's attention spans are
far shorter than they used to be, he says. Kids have also grown more
jaded.

"It's made it a challenge for me to strike a balance between giving
them something that has quality but at the same time is hip enough
that they'll accept it and won't reject it,'' he says.

Del Bianco, a Parents' Choice Award winner, has released seven CDs.
His latest album, "Make a Good Choice,'' is a character-education
program he also presents in local schools.

Although he's spent the better part of his career as a kids' performer
— writing as many as 75 original songs — he's recently gone back to
his acting roots, with portrayals of historic figures for older
audiences.

Want to learn more about this lifelong Port Chester resident? Go to
his web site (www.findlou.com), or just read on.

1. His grandfather, Luigi, was a principal carver on Mount Rushmore, a
role for which he was largely uncredited. Del Bianco has written a
screenplay about his grandfather's experience on the mountain and is
currently shopping it around. "I'm looking for angels and investors
who would want to tell this very positive story with this very
positive Italian-American image to counter all the 'Jersey Shore' and
other disturbing stereotypes that the media keep putting out there."

2. His mother named him Louis, but relatives prefer the Italian
version. "In my family, in town, I'm known as Luigi because of my
grandfather. People of my parents' generation will say, 'Hey, Luigi,
how are ya?' "

3. His height got in the way of a Broadway career. Del Bianco, who is
6-foot-4ÿ, says leading men are rarely over 6 feet tall. As a
storyteller and performer, height is a non-issue. Del Bianco has
portrayed Paul Bunyan, Abraham Lincoln and a character called Ollie
the Too Tall Elf.

4.He's got a bad case of arachnophobia. Once, he got laughed at by a
truck driver who saw him flailing his arms at a red light, terrified
of a spider on the dashboard.

5. TV executives found Del Bianco too manly for children's
programming. "I had Disney and Nickelodeon interested in me years ago,
but they didn't know what to do with me. I actually have a quote from
someone that said, 'He's too big and masculine. He'll scare the kids.'
Isn't that hysterical?"

6. He loves John Wayne movies, which often surprises people. "He was a
really bad actor and he was known for his conservative politics, and
I'm very liberal and artistic."

7.Even a pastry from the finest bakery has less appeal than a Hostess
cupcake. Del Bianco claims he's addicted.

8.He has no sense of direction. "I get lost easily. I have a GPS, and
that's why I got one. Once I went through the same tollbooth four
times."

9. He can play songs like "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with his teeth. No, he
doesn't hit a spoon against his teeth — he chomps down and the tune is
instantly recognizable. "I can't explain why I can do it, why I can
think of the note, clap my teeth and that note comes out... I'm
chomping in exactly the same place, but the tone is changing to what
I'm thinking of. For some reason, I'm able to translate from thought
to music with my teeth."

10.He's married to his best friend and muse. Del Bianco's wife is
Camille Linen, a former Port Chester High School teacher who uses the
arts to teach English to non-native speakers.

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For 17-year-old Danny Ullman, being charitable is a tradition that extends beyond the holiday season.


At 17, Blind Brook senior Danny Ullman embodies the holiday spirit more so than many people his age.
Ullman has already established his own charity,Hearth for All, dedicated to combating homelessness in the New York area.
The organization has already held one major event this year called Sleep for Solutions to raise awareness and money for its cause. However, Ullman is just getting started. Hearth for All also has organized its second annual Scarves for Shelters program, which will provide hundreds of scarves to shelters and disadvantaged residents in Westchester County.
Ullman started Scarves for Shelter last December with the help of Blind Brook teacher Jane Romm and a large donation from Rye Brook resident Sally Sedler, whose family ran a garment company called Day of the Unicorn.
Romm, who runs the community service program at the high school, said she received hundreds of bolts of cloth from Sedler's company that could be made into scarves. The donation came about after Sedler's son, Jordan, contacted Romm and said the family had plenty of unused cloth sitting in a warehouse.
Romm went to the family's warehouse in Mount Vernon and brought back enough cloth to make 5,000 scarves. She distributed the cloth to several organizations in Blind Brook, including three synagogues and churches, as well as to troops overseas. She also gave the cloth to Ullman's Scarves for Shelter program, which began because of the donation.
With the help of volunteers, Ullman said he took five huge bolts of cloth, cut them to make a few hundred scarves, which he then distributed to homeless shelters throughout the county, including Port Chester's Don Bosco Community Center.
Ullman said several friends and family members will volunteer to help him cut and make the scarves this year. The scarves will be distributed this week, he said.
 "We might end up doing a batch around Christmas and then again later on in January." 
Ullman also will donate scarves to his school's Midnight Run program, which delivers meals and clothing to homeless people in New York City. He said the next Midnight Run event is scheduled for Jan. 14.
Romm said Ullman believes in giving, not only during the holiday season, but whenever possible.
"Danny has a heart of gold. He completely understands the incredible rush we get for doing things for others," she said. "He's one of those kids that does community service because it makes him feel good to give back. He doesn't do it to be acknowledged. There's no ulterior motive. He doesn't do it because he wants to get into college. It's just who he is."
Ullman said while donations are always a great holiday gift to local charities, it's also important that people give their time to those in need.
"Giving does not only involve money," he said. "There are several ways you can give—you can give old clothes you have or toiletries. Then there's also giving time, where you can donate your time to a local homeless shelter and help them serve food one night in a soup kitchen."
"In a period of time when so many are so fortunate to experience so much, it's necessary to give back to help others who might be less fortunate," Ullman said. "It's the spirit of the season."
For more information on the Scarves for Shelter program and Hearth for All, visithttp://hearthforall.org/ 

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