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LWV Cable Shows Feature Promising High School Students and New Rochelle's Sister City

The League of Women Voters of New Rochelle cable show, “City People and Issues” features one program with three promising high school students on one show, and another about the city’s sister city exchange with La Rochelle, France.The programs are shown on Cablevision’s Channel 76, on Mondays at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. Programs will rotate every other week.

New Rochelle high school seniors Ben Helfand and A.J. Barbaria attended the state LWV Students in Albany 4-day program and Simone Wein was one of four New Rochelle young women attending a League program in which they interacted with women who are elected officials. The students discussed their experiences with host Ina Aronow talked about how politics and government interacts with their futures. The program will be shown Mondays, May 21 and June 4 and 18 at 7 p.m. and on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. on, May 23 and 24 and June 6, 7, 20 and 21.

Peter Korn, former New Rochelle City Manager and Chair of the La Rochelle Sister City Committee, describes to Haina Just-Michael the history of the persecuted French Huguenots from La Rochelle who settled in New Rochelle 325 years ago and the interactions between the two cities that have been taking place. The program will be shown Mondays, May 28 and June 11 and 25 at 7 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays, May 28 and June 13, 14, 27 and 28 at 9:30 p.m.

The programs are recorded in NRTV studio in New Rochelle City Hall. For further information, call 636-6271.

Running and Winning Forum

Four young women from New Rochelle High School participated in the LWV Westchester forum Running and Winning, a workshop aimed at increasing the number of women who aspire to run for elected office. The 4 women pictured, left to right, are Nicole Giuliani, Mackenzie Lipman, Ghipsel Cibrian, and Simone Wein.

The seniors were among 28 students county wide who heard Madeleine M. Kunin, the first woman governor of Vermont, and a dozen local elected women officials encourage them to run for public office some day. The officials argued that a woman’s perspective was essential and that running for office locally was the most effective way to make changes to improve their community. The teens then broke into groups to plan their own political campaigns.

The students were chosen by their teachers as potential leaders who would benefit from the day long program, “Running and Winning,” sponsored recently by the League of Women Voters of Westchester, the American Association of University Women, and the White Plains YWCA, with generous funding from the Westchester Community Foundation and the Kalyan Sundaram Foundation.

CALENDAR

Cable TV interviews See dates and details at left.

June 13 Annual Dinner Meeting with speaker Bob Marrone, host of WVOX-AM's Good Morning Westchester Details below

Coffee and Conversation Dates
Watch for fall line-up of guests

LWVNR Annual Dinner Meeting June 13

Come to the meeting and help shape the local LWV agenda for next year. How can the LWV best promote its mission of informed citizen participation in government in New Rochelle and beyond? Invitation and packet for members to come. The guest speaker will be Bob Marrone, host of Good Morning Westchester on WVOX-AM.

June 13, 6:30pm, Juliano's Restaurant, 700 Main Street, New Rochelle. Dinner $35. Reservations: Joan Alexander, 373 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, 10804, 715-3916.

Not a member? Call Joan and make a dinner-only reservation or tell her you'd like to join and help support the League mission.

Students in Albany 2012

Ben Helfand, left, and A.J. Barbaria, New Rochelle High School seniors were sponsored by the New Rochelle LWV to attend the 2012 Students Inside Albany Conference in March. .

They were among 54 high school students throughout the state who participated in the intensive four day training experience designed to immerse students in the process by which public policy is proposed, enacted and changed in the New York State and give them the tools they can use to influence and affect this process.

While in Albany, the students heard from a variety of speakers including elected officials, journalists, good government organizations, and LWV experts, who spoke on varying topics from lobbying to an overview of NYS government, and from transparency in government to the role of media in politics, and much more.

Your Home, Your Health, Your Taxes, Your Vote

Video on  protecting our drinking water and recreational waterways from the dangers of pollution. A copy of the video and written materials was distributed to every Westchester public library. For info on the video contact Westchester LWV