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Bulk Kale Mailing Permit No. 4 Carrier Sorted Chappaqua. N.Y. 18514 34; CHAPP Chappaqii 110351. JO30O 12 'AOUA LTPRAKV REEL E.V AVE €l it/ Serving the Town of New Castle rnal 30 Cents A Copy, $12.00 A Year Community Day, Sept. 19 Clowns, games, music Where can a family enjoy a memorial pig roast; listen to blue grass music; enter a pie baking contest; ride a cart drawn by a pony or goat and compete in field games? At the New Castle Community Fair on Sept. 19 at the Bell School field, of course. The theme of this year's tenth anniversary festivity is' 'Friends Are Special.\ The celebration will begin at 10:30 with a Tot Parade at the field. An American flag will be given to all children marching\ with a friend. The activities, which will con tinue until 4:30, include: a dance demonstration, and strolling clowns by Dance Emotions, Inc. of Chappaqua, amusement rides, booths filled with arts and crafts and flea market finds and soccor team demonstrations. A cook book of recipes from the pie baking contest will be on sale at the information booth. To register for the pie baking contest call 238-4272. Call 238- 8888 to sign up for booth space. Persons interested in joining the Community Day staff should call please turn to page 8 Proposed ordinance to mandate sidewalk repairs by property owners School Principal, Dr. DavidJackson Interview with Westorchard David Jackson by Nancy McCann A proposed ordinance requiring business and residential property owners to maintain and repair adjoining sidewalks will be dis cussed at the Sept. 8 Town Board meeting. Under the proposal property owners would be notified by the town to repair sidewalks within a specified period of time. If the sidewalks were not fixed by the deadline the town would hire a contractor to do the work and charge the owner for it. The proposal is a \mechanism to order repair\ said Deputy Supervisor Lois Mitchell. The town has received complaints School Principal, by Barbara Waugh \It's a myth that principals are overworked,\ said Dr. David Jackon on his first day in his new job as principal of the Westor chard Elementary School on Granite Road in Chappaqua. His point in making this seem ingly surprising statement was to emphasize that he is very serious about encouraging par ents to communicate with him.' 'I see parents coming in and giving us information on the school's needs\ to help the students. \Parents shouldn't be afraid to It's back to the drawing board on amendment to group home zoning by Nancy McCann The Town will go back to the drawing board on a proposed amendment to the zoning ordi nance requiring site plan appro val of group homes for the men tally retarded. The proposal \may not be practical at this time'' said Supervisor Charles Banks following an hour long discussion with Charles Await, the director of the Westchester County Development Disabili ties office at the New Castle Town Board work session on August 31. Under the proposal, the town please turn to page 2 Named by panel of college officers Horace Greeley H.S. is named one of top twelve schools in the country Chappaqua's Horace Greeley High School has been named one of the 12 top public high schools in the country by a panel of college admissions officers and education specialists. For a special report on \Choosing Grade-A Value in Education,'' Money magazine asked nearly 50 admissions officers, as well as educators at the Carnegie Foundation, George Washington University's Insti tute for Educational Leadership and the National Assn. of Secon dary School Principals, which public high schools they consi dered \best at giving students a boost toward the top colleges.\ The 12 schools most frequently mentioned, said Money in its September issue, \have gained reputations for academic excel lence comparable to the best private schools. They offer.- .gifted teachers, individual at tention to students, rich curricu lum and strong emphasis on preparation for college.\ Other schools on the \top 12\ list in the New York metropoli tan area are Scarsdale High School in Westchester, Green wich (Conn.) High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Great Neck (L.I.) North and South. Of Greeley's selection, Super intendent of Schools Bernard Haake said: \Greeley's inclusion on the list of the 12 best public high schools in the United States encourages us to do all that we can to retain and improve our system. Schools never stand still. They get better or worse, and we see improve ment as our only real option.\ Indicators of quality in a high school, according to Money, are: Average Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, pupil-teacher ratio, per-pupil expenditure, and percentage of graduates who go on to college. call\ and need not apologize for taking a principal's time, he remarked. Dr. Jackson succeeds Imogene St. Paul, who retired last fall. He was selected from more than 150 applicants in a process that involved interviews both here and with the appropriate people in Rochester, NY where he was an elementary school principal. \I'll be at the front door to meet the children when they come to school that first day,'' he promised, as he expressed con- confidence that he would soon get to know all the students under his care. His plan, in addition to personally welcoming the youngsters as they begin their first day back in school, is to visit every class room that day so that the students can get a closer look at him. Library an integral part Rather than a mandate for change, Dr. Jackson says that his role will be to \carry on the quality instruction\ and eventu ally make whatever improve ments are possible after he has had a chance to thoroughly familiarize himself with the workings of his new school. Changes are not made in a vacuum, he pointed out, but through an orderly process involving more than just the principal issuing an order. He expressed the feeling that for children to achieve they should have a \personal invest ment in the process;\ that they should read with interest and be able to bring to their reading a critical judgment of what they have read. As part of the reading please turn to page 5 Pines Bridge Rd. open for traffic Pines Bridge Rd. The Pines Bridge Road, the access road for commuter park ing which leads to Washington Avenue, opened Monday, August 31, for commuter traffic. Temporary paving will be installed this fall and final pav ing added next year after the new parking lot construction is completed. about the \crumbling and dete rioration of sidewalks in the business district.\ Prior proposals were not passed because of their impact on private homeowners. \The town did not want to place a burden on the resident,\ ex plained Mrs. Mitchell. But, the town can't be \overly concerned with that aspect of the problem,\ she added. Most of the sidewalks are confined to the business districts of Chappaqua and Millwood. The town hopes to keep the ordinance \as simple as possi ble,\ said Mrs. Mitchell. \We want to improve the situation.\ Planning Board report Grand Union gets O.K. to expand by Nancy McCann The Chappaqua Planning Board approved an application to expand the Grand Union Shop ping center at the intersection of King Street and Route 117 at a public hearing at its September 2 meeting. A 3,594 square foot addition will be added to the west end of the Grand Union which now covers 12,000 square feet. A drive-in window and office space totaling 3,575 will be added to the Bank of New York building which will be relocated at the western end of the shopping center. Conditions of approval Planners placed several stipula tions on their approval including a condition that the shopping center's facade be approved by the Architectural Board of Review. The Architectural Board of Review recommended that the brick exterior of the stores have an \integrated look\ said project architect Paul Barella. However, each business would like to be distinguished from the other, he told planners. The State Department of Transportation must also ap prove the site's exit and entrance routes. An existing entrance on King Street will be moved to line up with Poillon Drive. A new entrance onto Bedford Road will be constructed at the northern end of the site. An existing Bed ford Road exit will be moved south and will permit two way traffic flow. Other conditions imposed by planners include resurfacing the please turn to page Interview with Robert Haigh 'The writing program will get top priority in all Chappaqua schools' by Barbara Waugh \The number one concern, the top priority in every building (in the district), on every grade level\ will be improving the writing skills of all the students in the Chappaqua schools, as serted Robert B. Haigh, Director of Curriculum for the district. This emphasis is the result of five or six years of growing dissastisfaction by the commun ity with the ability of local child ren to express themselves in writing. In response to this concern the Board of Education formed a Task Force \to evaluate student writing directly and to examine the schools' official expectations for student writing.\ Deborah O'Keefe was the chairperson, Herbert Lieber- man. Jeanette Moss and Nell Taylor served on that commit tee. These four are all local parents. Professionally they have experience in editing, fic tion, magazine and journal writ ing, secondary and college teaching and business adminis tration. The School Board ap pointed Barbara Porter as liai son to the Task Force. Thomas Cardellichio represented the administration and teachers. Mia Fienemann, a sociologist and Chappaqua parent was asked to help with statistics. Seniors not included The work of high school juniors was examined, \not to focus on the high school, but to reveal the end product of the whole Chap paqua writing program\ the Task Force report explained. The writing assignment was given in June so the Task Force felt seniors could not be included because \their attention wand- . ers away from schoolwork at that season.' The students had a 45-minute period to write to a mythical family planning on moving to Chappaqua. Though statistics were provided for those who might want to use them, it was please turn to page 6
