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IN FOCUS
WDFH's local public affairs discussion program,
hosted by Jane Botticelli and Vinny Cohan, with guest
Gary Cahill, publisher and reporter for The Gazette in
Croton-on-Hudson.
Enter the following address into your podcatching
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hosted this
week by Jane Botticelli
Briarcliff Manor People's Caucus has selected
two candidates to run for
two vacancies as Village Trustees: Robert Meyer and Anthony
Capasso.
The groundbreaking for Phase 1 of "The Club" in
Briarcliff Manor, a luxury residential development for senior citizens,
took place. The project is anticipated
to be completed in 2013.
The Ossining Town Board has selected Northern Wilcher to
fill a seat which had not been filled due to a tie vote last November
between Mr. Wilcher and David Krieger.
Mr. Krieger was appointed to fill a seat on the Ossining Planning Board.
hosted this
week by Vinny Cohan
Two area residents are among the dead in Haiti.
Cortlandt resident Hedi Annabi, 65, head of
the U.N. Mission in
Port-au-Prince, and Luiz Carlos DeCosta, a Brazilian native, U.N.
staff member, and resident of Ossining,
were killed when the U.N.
headquarters collapsed during the earthquake on January 12.
Numerous local organizations have mobilized to collect money,
clothing, and supplies to aid the situation in
Haiti. On January 24, a benefit concert at
Maryknoll organized by the Dominican Sisters of Hope, featuring Pete
Seeger and Tom Chapin, raised over $20,000. On
Saturday, January 30, from 8:30 pm to 11:00
pm, an Evening with Various Art and Artists will be held at the
Black Cow Coffee Company in Croton-on-Hudson, with all proceeds from the
event going to Doctors Without Borders to support Haiti relief efforts.
More details are available from the Black Cow
at (914) 271-7544.
This week, the Briarcliff People's Caucus will choose
two candidates from a slate of three to run for Village Trustee in
March. Voting is open to all Briarcliff
residents and will be held in the Briarcliff Youth Center from 3:00
until 9:00 pm on Wednesday, January 27.
Four Ossining High School seniors —
James Emerick, Camilia Linneman, Lingze Ouyang, and Sarah
Shiovitz — are among 300 nationwide
semifinalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search.
Since 1998, Ossining High
School has produced 29 semifinalists in this highly prestigious
pre-college science competition.
hosted this week by
Vinny Cohan
A pre-trial hearing began last week in the case of
Werner Lippe, the 68-year-old Cortlandt resident indicted in the October
2008 killing of his wife. The hearing
will determine if an alleged confession by Mr. Lippe can be admitted
into evidence in the upcoming trial. A
decision is expected this week. Lippe
reported his wife missing on October 4, 2008,
and has been incarcerated in Westchester County jail since his arrest on
October 30, 2008.
In a memorial service at Scarborough Presbyterian Church
on Saturday, January 9, over 600 attendees paid their respects to former
Ossining Town Supervisor Martha Dodge, 51, who passed away on December
27 after a battle with cancer. Friends and
family are making memorial donations to the Ossining Volunteer Ambulance
Corps, PO Box 523, Ossining, NY 10562.
On Saturday, January 9, the Winter Farmers'
Market kicked off its season at the Briarcliff Congregational Church in
Briarcliff Manor. This is the second year of
the winter market, and, along with one in Mamaroneck, is one of only two
active winter farmers' markets in Westchester.
Briarcliff Manor's non-partisan People's Caucus will
hold its nominating meeting for Village Trustee candidates at 8:00
pm on Wednesday, January 13, at the Briarcliff High School.
All village residents of voting age are
eligible for nomination. A "meet the
candidates" meeting is scheduled at the same location on the following
Wednesday, January 20. If necessary, a voting
meeting to select the slate will follow on Wednesday, January 27.
hosted this
week by Jane Botticelli
This week, we report on the
New Years' Day swearing in ceremony of Ossining Town and Village
Officials, which was held at the Ossining Community Center at 12:00
noon. The ceremony also included a
remembrance of Martha Dodge, former Town Supervisor of Ossining, who
died of cancer on December 27, 2009.
And in Croton, there was a
swearing in ceremony of their E.M.S.
personnel and tour of their new location in the house of Linda
Fiorentino, who ran the coffee concession at the Croton train station
and passed away in 2008. There are recent
reports that the house is haunted by benign and protective spirits.
RECOVERY TALK
WDFH's pioneering program about resilience in
recovery from illness, addiction, trauma, and more, hosted by Robyn
Leary.
Enter the following address into your podcatching
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The wisdom of harm reduction in addiction recovery
On this week's new edition of
Recovery Talk: Raymond P. was a street drug user and
abuser and an alcoholic. In the
1980’s he got clean for ten years with the
help of a harm reduction community-based agency,
but then relapsed. On this edition of
Recovery Talk, Robyn Leary and Raymond P. discuss
his difficulties in addiction-recovery, his relapse,
and why harm reduction is so important to the recovery movement.
How one young man
recovered from a massive stroke in his early twenties
(encore presentation)
On this week's edition of
Recovery Talk, we’ll hear the story of Tim Podell, who suffered a
massive transischemic stroke at the tender age
of 24 – yet miraculously recovered.
Podell is a well-known
New York producer of children’s video magazines in which he visits
today’s leading children’s authors, showcasing them in their natural
habitats: kitchens, dens, and other personal
locales. Mr. Podell is
an almost-fully-recovered
stroke victim. Tune in and learn what it
takes from the heart and from the body to recover from such a
devastating event.
New technologies in
neuroscience step to the forefront in treating depression,
post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, and Parkinson's disease
(encore presentation)
Dr. Ross Hoffman, a
former cardiologist, is Robyn Leary’s guest on this edition of
Recovery Talk. Dr. Hoffman left a lucrative heart practice seeking
a solution to one of his children’s neurological problems. He
wound up developing an electrical brain stimulation device that’s used
on the skull via electrodes and delivers direct electrical stimulation
to the brain, which, in the end, resets abnormal brain signals. This is
big news for those who suffer from depression, PTSD, Parkinson’s disease
— even traumatic brain injury. Tune in and stimulate your brain.
Socrates —
the first psychiatrist — with a mission to recover and care for the soul
(encore presentation)
On this edition
of Recovery Talk, Dr. Mehul Shah, assistant professor of philosophy at
Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, discusses Socrates and
how this ancient Greek scholar’s historic method cared for the mind and
the soul, not to mention the birth of Western Philosophy.
Join Robyn Leary for some heady chat.
SMART recovery
(encore presentation)
This week’s guest
on Recovery Talk is Dr. Thomas Horvath, a clinical psychologist
and president of Practical Recovery. He’s also the author of Sex,
Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate. He has been President of SMART
Recovery since 1995, which is the subject of this interview. SMART
stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training; it’s a science-based
network of support groups dedicated to abstaining from any addiction.
Tune in. Learn something; get SMART!
Midnight Run documentary
(2006), also broadcast nationally on the Pacifica program Sprouts
and on other community radio stations in the U.S.
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