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/ 2020 Continued from Page 5A posed of Curbeau, Linda Turner, Tam my Fingar, Kristin Snyder, and Mary Jo Allison and coached by Bob Church (himself a Hall of Famer), went an un defeated 26-0 that year and won the State Championship. Deb Curbeau has been inducted into the Penn Yan Athletic Hall of Fame, the Section V Hall of Fame, and the Univer sity of Delaware Athletic Hall of Fame. Curbeau currently coaches Penn Yan ’ s 8th grade Modified girls team, though she has coached at various levels in Penn Yan since joining the Penn Yan Central School District in 1991 The Mod ified team she helmed in ’ 91 went unde feated that year, and would go on in their varsity years to win the Section V title in 1995, the last time the Lady Mus tangs held the title since this year. Deb ’ s daughter, Jenna, is a senior at Penn Yan Academy, and was named to the Finger Lakes East All-Star Sports manship team this year. Jenna ’ s season included 151 points, 150 rebounds, and she led her team in both steals and blocks. Like her mom, Jenna is headed to the University of Delaware in the fall, where she hopes to be part of the bas ketball program and continue the legacy started by her mother. Jenna started her varsity career play ing for her mom. At that time, Deb was coaching the varsity team and brought Jenna up as an 8th grader, giving her a shot during a game against Newark. “ I subbed her in at the end of the first quarter and on her first touch she drove the left side and scored, ” said Deb. “ I ’ m pretty sure I shed a tear. ” Another vital player for the Mustangs this year was sophomore Sierra Harri son. Harrison led her team in points, fin ishing the season with a total of 250 points in the books and an average 10.4 points per game. Sierra was named to the 1st All-Star team for the Finger Lakes East and was the 2020 FLE MVP, an honor she shares with her mother, Kiki Seago. With 31 years separating the ti tles, they are one of the only mother daughter team of recipients of the Sec tional MVP title in the history of the league. Kiki Seago played two seasons for the Lady Mustangs from 1987-1989. During her time with the Penn Yan basketball program, Kiki recorded 598 points and 369 rebounds, and played on a team that won two sectional titles and made two trips to the State Tournament. Seago was a captain on the ’ 88- ’ 89 team that went 16-0 in the Finger Lakes East, 23-2 for the season, and won the Section V Class B title. In her senior year, Seago suffered a broken arm at the beginning of the season that caused her to sit for the first four weeks of the season. How ever, Kiki came back and was named to the FLE 1st All-Star team, the All Greater Rochester team, and was invited to the McDonald ’ s High School All-Star game. Seago was a multifaceted athlete while at Penn Yan Academy, also playing on the soccer team and the track team where she was one of the school ’ s all- time best in the Triple Jump. Kiki was inducted into the SUNY Cortland Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 and, like Deb Curbeau, is also a member of the Penn Yan Athletic Hall of Fame. Currently, she is in her 18th year in the Penn Yan Academy Physical Education program, and has coached on and off during that time. Both Curbeau and Seago expressed how important this season has been for them. Said Seago, “ To watch our daugh ters win a sectional title was the best! ” Local volunteers attack mask shortage Small, rural Yates County was one of the last two counties in New York to be reached by the Coronavirus, but that doesn ’ t mean our residents have been idle in preparation. Responding to a na tionwide shortage of manufactured sur gical masks, numerous women of our community have joined the effort of home seamstresses in making cloth face masks for hospitals, nursing homes, police and EMS workers, and in dividuals at risk. While not suitable for the sterile en vironment of an operating room, the ap proved design for multi-layer cloth masks does provide considerably more protection than no mask at all, and fur ther discourages the wearer from touch ing their face. As of Tuesday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention (CDC) is considering recom mending that all people wear exactly chronicle- express.com | this sort of mask. One of the first to organize the effort to meet the exploding demand was Anne Meyer-Wilber, who turned the ex isting members of the sewing ministry of Bluff Point Methodist Church, who were making dresses and shorts for the children of Haiti, to begin making face masks. Her friend Ann Shepardson of Dun dee, a retired teacher from Odessa- Montour who has costumed many shows for Dundee High School and the Penn Yan Theatre Co., has sewn 48 masks on her 80-year-old Singer, hin dered only by a shortage of 1/8 inch elas tic for the ear bands. She has sent masks to Soldiers & Sailors Memorial, Arnot- Ogden, and Monroe Community hospi tals, the Montour Rescue Squad, and to former students for elderly relatives. Hannah Gaston, the Coordinator of School Programs at Liberty Hall Mu seum in New Jersey, is working from her parents' home in Jerusalem. She and her mother, Anita, the Registered Nurse at Keuka College's Health Center, also working from home, decided to set a goal of 100 masks, using boxes of Anita ’ s collected material. Together they have sewn 39 toward that goal, sending off a package Monday to Hannah ’ s sister Ra chel, who is a Registered Nurse at Mary Imogen Bassett Hospital in Cooper stown. “ With our time at home, we wanted to do something to help people in the wider world, ” says Hannah. The effort really took off when Mary Sotir also joined the cause along with five of her Mennonite neighbors. With characteristic industriousness and commitment, these six women have sewn over 1,700 masks to date, sending them to Sunset House in Dundee, Wa terloo Nursing Home, the Canandaigua VA, Lakeview Health, Mosaic Health in Rushville, LifeTime Care in Dundee, and Geneva General Hospital. But perhaps their most appreciative recipients were the Penn Yan Police Department and the Yates County Sheriff ’ s Office, where Mary ’ s husband, Todd, had been a dep uty for many years. Perhaps no one knows better the im portance of masks than nurses. Barbara Jo Anderson, a Registered Nurse for 43 years in critical care, emergency, ICU, and cancer treatment and research cen ters, has delved into the different de WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020 | 9A signs, their advantages, and options for the over 100 masks she has sewn her self. In just over a week of sewing, ex perimentation, and research, she has refined her design for better coverage, breathing, and comfort. Coronavirus: June Regents exams will be canceled The June Regents exams will be can celed, Chancellor Betty Rosa said during the April Board of Regents meeting. This announcement came at the end of a laundry list of emergency amend ments being proposed to address the coronavirus crisis, none of which direct ly addressed the Regents exams. “ I know that most of you have noticed that during our COVID-19 regulations, we did not address the issue of the June Regents examinations, ” Rosa said. “ It is obvious from this statement that we will be canceling Regent exams. ” Rosa did not provide any further clar ification on what the guidance will en tail, only that they will “ focus on what is in the best interest of our students for the rest of this year. ” Tractor trailer accident in Penn Yan A tractor-trailer accident occurred in Penn Yan at 6:15 p.m. April 9 on Liberty Street and Route 14A just north of Sol diers & Sailors Memorial Hospital. Penn Yan Police report the driver, Rene Banke, 59, of Rochester, was driv ing north when he lost control of the semi, going off the road, striking a utility pole and several trees, and losing its cargo. Penn Yan Fire Dept., Municipal Utility crews, and Featherly ’ s Garage re sponded to clear the scene, replace the shattered pole, and remove the tractor trailer. The highway remained closed until 3 a.m. No injuries were reported. Banke was charged with failure to maintain lane. New York shutters golf courses, boat launches as coronavirus deaths grow New York quietly put golf courses on the non-essential business list Thurs day, a move that will force them to shut ter at least until April 29. New York has banned all non-essen tial businesses from operating until the end of the month as coronavirus cases See 2020, Page 10A
