White Plains and Valhalla region

Jamie Loeb of Ossining stops a serve to Ilyssa Schneidman of Ardsley due to falling leaves during day two-of-three of the Section 1 sectional girls tennis championships at Anthony F. Veteran Park in Ardsley on Oct. 29, 2010. Loeb won the match. ( Xavier Mascareñas / The Journal News )

See more photos from day two-of-three of the Section 1 sectional girls tennis championships at Anthony F. Veteran Park in Ardsley in a photo gallery, and go to LoHud.com to see more prep sports coverage.

Dan and Angella Henry, the parents of Danroy Henry, along with their children Amber and Kyle, speak before a crowd of 2000 mourners during a funeral for the slain Pace University student at the Boston Convention Center in Boston earlier today. Photo by Seth Harrison

Three busloads of Pace University students, including the entire football team, made the trip to Boston to attend the funeral of their former classmate and teammate. Look for the story in tomorrow’s edition of The Journal News and at Lohud.com. View a gallery of photos from the funeral of Danroy Henry.

This just in: Archbishop Stepinac High School’s award-winning Drama Club will present Arthurs Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and 6 and 3 p.m. Nov. 7 at the school’s Major Bowes Theater, 950 Mamaroneck Road, White Plains.
Tickets are $15 per adult, $10 for senior citizens and children under 12. For details, or group rates, call 914-946-4800, Ext. 243.

The show features students from Stepinac and other local schools, including Maria Regina High School of Hartsdale, Good Counsel Academy of White Plains, The Ursuline School of New Rochelle, White Plains High School, Harrison High School and Blind Brook High School.

“A View from the Bridge” is a two-act play by Arthur Miller set in 1950s New York, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie Carbone, the leading character with a character flaw that leads to a tragic ending.
Stepinac High School’s renowned Drama Club has performed a variety of dramatic plays and musicals including Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible;” “Jekyll and Hyde;” “Inherit the Wind” and “Singin’ in the Rain.” In addition, last year, Stepinac was one of 60 schools out of 1,600 invited to represent the United States at the American High School Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

As the Common Council reviews new plans for a city purchase of Ridgeway Country Club, the sellers are moving forward with their effort to snag a buyer.

CB Richard Ellis, Ridgeway’s brokerage firm, today is sending out requests to “a number of qualified and interested parties” for formal offers, said William V. Cuddy Jr., a company executive vice president. Potential buyers have until Nov. 9 to respond, he said.

Cuddy added that the city would be evaluated on the same merits as all other bidders and would not receive special treatment or have right of first refusal during the process.

“The level of interest we have is from the gamut of what we might expect, as well as what you might call outlier interest. It’s really wide-ranging,” he said, noting that some potential bidders are considering “untraditional” uses for the land.

He said plans to sell by the end of the year are still within range.

“Ridgeway is going to be sold and it’s going to be sold as quickly and as reasonably as we can,” Cuddy said.

Hyman Preter of Hartsdale holds a sign during a Tea Party rally. Hyman was among the 150 Hudson Valley residents that rallied outside the Westchester County Center in White Plains Oct. 28, 2010. Political experts are closely watching next week’s elections to gauge how influential the Tea Party has become in American politics. Follow this story in tomorrow’s pages of the Journal News and view a gallery of photos from the White Plains Tea Party Rally here on LoHud.com.

Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will host a Rally to Restore Sanity and a March to Keep Fear Alive, respectively, this Saturday at the Washington Mall in D.C. Are you making the hike up to our nation’s capital? Reporter Briggette Sayegh is looking for locals to talk to at the scene. If you would be willing to be interviewed, please e-mail her at bsayegh@lohud.com

This just in on behalf of Gilda’s Club Westchester, which provides free support, networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events for people whose lives have been touched by cancer:
GILDA’S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR BAR CRAWL, hosted by the Young Adult Leadership Council at Gilda’s Club
Westchester, 80 Maple Ave. in White Plains.

WHAT: Come to the best Halloween party in town and support Gilda’s Club Westchester.
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 30, 2 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Pre-party at Gilda’s Club Westchester clubhouse: 2 to 4 p.m.

– Ron Blacks: 4 to 5 p.m., 181 Mamaroneck Ave – Elements: 5 to 6 p.m., 161 Mamaroneck Ave. – Brazen Fox: 6 to p.m., 175 Mamaroneck Ave – Porter House: 7 to 8 p.m., 169 Mamaroneck Ave

REGISTRATION: Purchase a bracelet for $20 in advance by calling Gilda’s Club at 914-644-8844, visiting www.gildasclubwestchester.org, or purchase at the door for $25.

At the 20th annual Brotherhood Breakfast this morning, E. Barbara Wiggins, who lives in White Plains, and The Thomas H. Slater Center in the city, were honored for decades of public service.

Each received The Harold Fitzpatrick Community Leadership Award: Wiggins for her work as a board member of the YWCA of White Plains and Grace Community Church, and the Slater Center for its youth-centered programs, including homework help and music instruction.

“People have to see that you have to be willing to do things for others and not expect anything in return,” Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said during the breakfast at The Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown. “People are hurting. A helping hand at the right time, that can made a difference in someone’s life.”

David Ford, chairman of the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center, and New York Affordable Reliance Electrical Alliance, a coalition of business, labor and environmental groups, were also honored.

The breakfast was hosted by the African American Men of Westchester and The Business Council of Westchester.

Read more about this story in tomorrow’s The Journal News.

Photo: E. Barbara Wiggins, center (Dwight R. Worley / The Journal News)

Give & Grow, a new program introduced into the Hudson Valley region served by The Journal News, is designed to benefit local charities and nonprofit organizations. The program pairs them with local creative agencies and graphic arts firms that will provide their services pro bono to create advertising messages in support of the organization of their choosing. The purpose is to get their message out to the thousands of daily readers of The Journal News by way of free advertisements in the newspapers.
The Journal News has teamed up with the Advertising Club of Westchester, which has promoted the concept to its membership and furnished the judges. Judges will select three outstanding entries among all the submissions for recognition at a special awards event. “We are so pleased to have been asked by The Journal News to participate in this unique endeavor in support of our area noniprofits and delighted by the enthusiastic response and the high caliber creative produced by ACW member agencies.” said Rodica Ceslov, president of the Advertising Club.
A dozen firms have responded to the challenge in support of 14 different organizations — Visual Language LLC, The Byne Group, Wild Frog Studio, TFI Envision, Berlin Productions, Froehlich Bonini Associates, DesignWorks NY LLC, The Journal News Ad Design, CRM Associates, Create & Associates, Harrison Edwards, and Anne Kasdin Advertising.
The organizations for which creative work has been submitted for this initiative are: Midnight Run, SPCA of Westchester, Nyack Hospital, The Anne Frank Center USA, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Research Foundation, Vision Aware, JA of the Hudson Valley, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, New Rochelle Humane Society, Food Bank for Westchester, Neuberger Museum of Art, and Gilda’s Club.
For more information, e-mail info@acw.org, call 914-202-3116 or visit www.acw.org.

This just in: “For Those Who Have Served,” the first inter-hospice countywide program, will commemorate Veterans Recognition Month and honor Westchester County residents who have served in the United States Armed Forces, Thursday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Marriott hotel in Tarrytown. The program will feature a discussion about Medicare and VA benefits; a remembrance and recognition ceremony; and a musical tribute by the Somers High School Chamber Group.

The event is being co-sponsored by Westchester County’s hospice organizations: Hospice & Palliative Care of Westchester; Hospice Care in Westchester & Putnam; Jansen Hospice and Palliative Care; and Phelps Hospice.
Attendance is free, but registration is required due to space limitations. For additional information, or to register, call William Dawe at 914-682-1484, Ext. 148.