Bronxville and Scarsdale region

The Junior League of Bronxville is holding two new member informational social and open houses for people interested  in finding out about the group and its mission.

The first is set for 7 p.m. Sept. 29, the other at 9 a.m. Oct. 4, both at the League’s Bronxville headquarters. Interested people can receive and invitation by emailing juniorleagueofbronxville@gmail.com. Include your contact information.

The organization does volunteer work in Bronxville, Eastchester, Mount Vernon, Tuckahoe and Yonkers. It has been a women’s volunteer group in the area since 1948, with a special interest in helping fight hunger and improving nutrition in its service area.

Good afternoon. We’ve had a busy four days participating in the coverage of Irene. That said, we have been commenting on the storm and its impact. Here’s a digest of opinion content published since Sunday:

Editorials
Get used to warnings, New York, Sunday, Aug. 28
Climate change may continue to prompt storms like Irene, we argue. We write:

… New Yorkers will have to get used to the uncertainty, the warnings, the abundance of caution. The reason: climate change and where we live and build. Legitimate scientists — as opposed to global-warming deniers — disagree on whether global warming will make for stronger and more frequent Atlantic hurricanes. What is beyond dispute, though, is that the damage risk has grown significantly, because of the flood — of buildings and people — to coastal areas. The growth comes as sea levels on the East Coast have increased about six inches more than the global average. …

Irene was more than we needed, Monday, Aug.29

Give recovery aid where you can, Wednesday, Aug. 31

Columns and Community Views
Suffern residents return to mess, Bob Baird, Tuesday, Aug. 30
Irene can act as a learning tool, Arthur H. Gunther III, Tuesday, Aug. 30
Chatter about Irene was more vigilance than hype, Phil Riesman, Tuesday, Aug. 30

This just came through the Bronxville e-alert system:

THE STORM HAS PASSED AND THE VILLAGE IS RETURNING TO REGULAR OPERATION.  THOSE OF YOU WHO NEED TO DISPOSE OF FLOODING DEBRIS CAN PLACE IT CURBSIDE FOR FREE PICKUP BEGINNING TODAY.  FOR FASTER PICKUP, PLEASE CALL (914) 337-7338 TO INFORM THE DPW OF YOUR PROPERTY ADDRESS.   YARD WASTE MAY BE PLACED CURBSIDE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SANITATION SCHEDULE AS USUAL.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION THE CHAMBER CONCERT WAS RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY EVENING 6:30 TO 8:30 PM ON THE WEST SIDE FEATURING MUSIC FROM PLAN B.

This came in overnight from the Columbus Day committee:

Lauren Piacquadio has been named Miss Columbus 2011 by the Columbus Day Committee of Eastchester-Tuckahoe.

A senior at Tuckahoe High School, Piacquadio will receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Generoso Pope Foundation, a sponsor of the committee. In addition, she will be honored at the committee’s annual scholarship dinner at the Fountainhead, New Rochelle on Sept. 16 along with this year’s Man of the Year, Augie DeFeo, and Humanitarian Award Recipient Vincent Petruccelli Sr.

Miss Columbus 2011 will also be featured on the Generoso Pope Foundation float in the Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City.

Got this in from the Bronxville e-alert system:

HURRICANE IRENE ALERT #7

CON EDISON COMPLETED WORK OVERNIGHT TO RESTORE POWER TO THE HOMES AND BUSINESSES THAT REMAINED WITHOUT POWER. IF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS STILL DOES NOT HAVE POWER YOU MUST REPORT THE OUTAGE TO 1-800-75-CONED. REPAIRS HAVE ALL BEEN COMPLETED TO LOCATIONS THAT HAD WIDESPREAD OUTAGES, ANY ADDITIONAL OUTAGES ARE INDIVIDUAL ISSUES.

THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE VILLAGE HAS EXPIRED. WE WILL CONTINUE THE SUSPENSION OF ENFORCEMENT OF OVERNIGHT PARKING AND THE USE OF GASOLINE POWERED LEAF BLOWERS. AN ADDITIONAL ALERT WILL REPORT TO YOU WHEN THESE RESTRICTIONS WILL BE REINSTATED.

PARKING METER ENFORCEMENT WILL RESUME ON THURSDAY 9/1 AT 8:00AM.

YOUR PATIENCE AND COOPERATION DURING AND AFTER THE STORM HAS BEEN GREATLY APPRECIATED.

CHIEF CHRISTOPHER SATRIALE

Jane Gaffney, center, talks with neighbors outside Ellen McMahon’s garden co-op damaged by Tropical Storm Irene at Brooklands at 1000 Palmer Rd. in Yonkers on Aug. 30, 2011. Resident Dorothy Flynn, left, was being assisted by her friend Joe Farleigh of Roxbury. Gaffney and other neighbors say the damage to their residences was avoidable if a nearby wall bordering the Sprain Brook was raised after their last big flood in 2007. ( Xavier Mascareñas / The Journal News )

Read the story by Ernie Garcia in tomorrow’s Journal News.

This came in from the Eastchester Library:

The library will be closed on Sept. 8 and 9 for the new electrical power switchover .
The library will re-open Sept. 10 at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.

Concordia College has hired longtime Bronxville resident Ellen Clarke de Saint Phalle as its new director of community relations.

(Ellen Clark de Saint Phalle. Photo courtesy of Concordia College)

de Saint Phalle has been director of the Friends of the Bronxville Public Library, a trustee of the Bronxville schools, co-chairwoman of the Women’s Auxiliary Board of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital and the board of trustees of the Children’s Storefront School in New York City.

She also has served as a member of the Wellesley College Development and Outreach council and has held positions at William Morrow and Random House publishing comanies.

Her new duties include managing the Business Breakfasts at Concordia program, the Books & Coffee program and the Jacobson Global Lecture Series.

“I am delighted at this opportunity to contribute to Concordia. As a Bronxville resident for 17 years, I know how lucky we are to have the college in our backyard. In my myriad volunteer positions, I have come to know Concordia as a valuable partner, eager and willing to extend itself to the greater Bronxville community,” she said. “The partnership is unique and in no small measure one of the reasons our village is special.”

Concordia College’s OSilas Gallery will be back into its fall swing beginning Sept. 8 with the opening of Lou Hicks: Contemporary Landscapes, an exhibit expected to run through Dec. 3.

(All to Red. Photo courtesy of OSilas Gallery)

A reception and gallery talk with the artist is set for 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at the gallery. It is free and open to the public.

Hicks, 80, specializes in expressionistic canvases larger than she is. According to the gallery, her work “employ(s) in fleshy oils a robust, masculine physicality alongside an inherent spirituality.”

Her style includes “surface manipulations of paint colors and alayers. Using a complex method of scraping and layering thick lush oil paint mixed with wax.”

(Yearning. Photo courtesy of OSilas Gallery)

Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m. weekends. The gallery is located in the library on the campus of Concordia College, 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville. Visit www.osilasgallery.org

The Bronxville School Board of Education meeting initially scheduled for Aug. 29 will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 1 at Bronxville Village Hall on Pondfield Road.

On the agenda: district goals/annual professional performance review updage; end-of-year financial report for the 2010-11 school year; facilities update.

The meeting is open to the public.