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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, August 28, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 26
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PUBLIC AGENDA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Gardiner Town Board. 7 p.m. Town Hall,
Route 44-55, Gardiner
Town of Shawangunk Planning Board, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 14 Central Ave., Wallkill.
Montgomery Village Board, 7:30 p.m.
Village Hall, 133 Clinton Street.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Climate Smart Gardiner Task Force. 7
p.m. Town Hall, Route 44-55, Gardiner.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Montgomery Town Board, 7 p.m. Town
Government Center, 110 Bracken Road,
Montgomery.
Shawangunk Town Board, 7 p.m. Town
Hall, 14 Central Ave., Wallkill
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Walden giveaway donates 600 backpacks
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Event organizer and sponsor Dickie
Baxter started his count down on-stage
as children lined up on the grass at
Wooster Grove Memorial Park in Walden.
Clutching paper tickets, kids eagerly
waited for Baxter to end his countdown.
“Three . . . two . . . one!”
One by one, kids turned in their
tickets for backpacks loaded with school
supplies. They unzippered the backpacks
and peered inside, smiling at the contents.
Volunteers handed out approximately
600 free backpacks filled with school
supplies to area children last Saturday
for the 11th annual Backpack Giveaway.
Baxter estimates between 100 and 200
more will be given out at another giveaway
event in Maybrook on Aug. 29.
Any backpacks that are not given
away will be donated to local churches
and nurses offices, Baxter said.
Fidelis Care donated the backpacks,
sponsors collected the school supplies
and more than 30 volunteers stuffed
backpacks the week before the event.
Children also received free haircuts
from The Barber Lounge in Walden and
Fox Hill supplied free face painting and
crafts.
Backpacks were available to anyone,
regardless of socioeconomic background.
The annual event combats bullying
by providing a place for kids of all
backgrounds to gather together, play and
make new friends before school starts,
Baxter said.
Other contributors included Licensed 2
Sell, All in One Catering, Wallkill Valley
Federal Savings and Loan, Walden Savings
Bank, Walden Police Department, Walden
Recreation and Parks Department,
Walden Rotary Club, Montgomery Self
Storage, Hunter Insurance and Orange
County Transport.
Members of Fox Hill Communities give free face painting.
Liya and Jason attend the backpack give-
away. The Barber Lounge of Walden gives kids free
back-to-school haircuts.
Pacella said the routes and stops
were designed to save time and to put
buses at the capacity allowed by state
standards. Routes were designed using
the transportation software Transfinder
and the help of the Arthur F. Mulligan/
Birnie Bus Company, which was hired to
replace First Student Bus Company last
year.
Pacella estimated the district
eliminated the use of six buses at a
savings of between $550,000 and $600,000,
although bus routes were still being
designed as of Aug. 21.
Safety was taken into account only
at the bus stops, not on the route that
students must take to walk to the bus
stop. While the bus stops were designed so
Pine Bush redesigns
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Pine Bush Superintendent of Business
Michael Pacella announced a redesign of
the district’s bus routes at a school board
meeting on Aug. 20.
“It was a complete redesign of bus
routes,” Pacella said.