Wallkill Valley Times Apr. 12 2017 | Page 2

2 Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, April 12, 2017 IN THIS ISSUE Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8 Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 PUBLIC AGENDA THURSDAY, APRIL 13 Montgomery Town Board Audit/ Work Session, 7 p.m. Town Government Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. TUESDAY, APRIL 17 Town of Montgomery ZBA, 7 p.m. Town Government Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 Wallkill Board of Education. 7 p.m., Leptondale Elementary School. THURSDAY, APRIL 20 Valley Central Board of Education 5:45 p.m. Administration building, 944 Route 17K, Montgomery. BOCES vote and election and tenure review. HOW TO REACH US OFFICE: 300 Stony Brook Court Newburgh, NY 12550 PHONE: 845-561-0170, FAX: 845-561-3967 Emails may be directed to the following : ADVERTISING [email protected] CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS [email protected] TO REACH THE EDITOR [email protected] FOR THE SPORTS DEPARTMENT [email protected] PUBLIC NOTICES [email protected] WEBSITE www.timescommunitypapers.com The Wallkill Valley Times, (USPS 699-490) is a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday at Newburgh, N.Y. 12550, with offices at 300 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY. Single copy: $1 at newsstand. By mail in Orange, Ulster or Sullivan Counties: $40 annually, $44 out of county. Periodicals permit at Newburgh, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wallkill Valley Times, 300 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, N.Y. 12550 Depew’s deals paved the way for bigger things By JESSICA COHEN A s a Pine Bush High School senior in 1999, when Dan Depew might have been thinking about school work, football, or the prom, his mind drifted to problem-solving, he recalled—how to stock the cafeteria soda machine with healthy drinks and still have it fund school activities, for instance. And when the only bathroom at one end of the school was locked, he asked why and was told that hallway lacked monitors. So he suggested opening the bathroom, and if anyone made a complaint, it could be locked again. It stayed open without incident. Depew says he was neither popular nor a good student when he was elected student council president. Because of his dyslexia, which makes reading difficult, he got by in school by lis