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Just got this from the New Rochelle PTA Council: Johnny Appleseed Day is March 11, and for the last three years New Rochelle seniors and youngsters have been getting together to celebrate the day with intergenerational fun and games. New Rochelle’s PTA Council and Office for the Aging are teaming up again this year to co-sponsor the “Appleseed Arcade” on Sunday, March 14, a free event from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Hugh A. Doyle Senior Center, 94 Davis Ave. (at the end of Maple Avenue).
Seniors and children will be paired to participate in craft projects, arcade games (bingo, ring toss, shuffleboard) and an apple race. There will also be an ice cream bar where they can “Make a Sundae for Your Senior and Yourself.”

Although the event is free, pre-registration is required, and space is limited. Registration will begin at 1:30 on the day of the event. To register in advance, or for more information, contact Tom Crossman, executive director of the New Rochelle Office of the Aging, at 914-235-2363, or your child’s PTA. “The real “Johnny Appleseed,” John Chapman, was a man with a vision,” says Beth Levy, co-chair with Robin Frankel of PTA Council’s Community Service committee. “He planted the seeds for a better future for the people who came after him, and that’s what we hope we are doing, helping these children nurture an appreciation for their elders.”

Postal carrier Gary Gee tries to stay dry while delivering mail during a rain and snow storm on Wendt Avenue Feb. 25, 2010 in Larchmont. Check out more weather coverage at www.lohud.com and click here to look at a gallery of storm photos.

Photo: The Sachem Trio is Pam Sklar, flutes (second from right); Christopher Dean  Sullivan, bass (far left); and  Bob Meyer, drums (right). The guest pianist is Earl  Brown (second from left)

Professional flutist and composer Pamela Sklar will pay a visit to the Ossie Davis Theater in New Rochelle this Sunday for a performance that will include her original jazz-Native American composition, “A Tune For America.”

Sklar will be performing with The Sachem Trio, an offshoot of the Earl Brown Quartet. The trio is comprised of Sklar on flute, Christopher Dean Sullivan on bass and Bob Meyer on drums.

Sklar frequently performs in the New York area and has toured as a flute soloist in Paris, Italy and Japan.

“Playing in the New York area is great. It gives me the chance to play with people I really respect,” she said.

Sklar grew up in New Rochelle and said she still feels a close connection to the area.

“A Tune for America” is comprised of two parts. Part one, titled “Earth,” features the flute; part two, titled “Sky” features the bass flute and piccolo.

“I was just sitting in my house and it kind of just came to me,” said Sklar recalling her inspiration. “It was sort of like I felt something and then could musically articulate it.”

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The League of Women Voters Rye Brook Candidates Form is postponed to March 3 because of today’s snowstorm. The forum was planned for tonight at Blind Brook High School, which is closing early today.

The forum on Wednesday, March 3, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the high school, 840 King
Street.

This is Rye Brook’s first contested election in six years. Three candidates — Moge Agahian, Toby Marrow and Jeff Rednick — are running for two open trustee seats.

For more about the league covering Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester, visit the chapter’s Facebook site.

SCORE Westchester, Counselors to America’s Small Business, will provide free counseling to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs in New Rochelle by appointment Thursdays at 9 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. The sessions take place at the office of the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce, 459 Main Street. Call  chamber executive director Eli Gordon at 914-632-5700 to setup an appointment. Visit www.scorewestchester.com for info.

While you’re preparing to hunker down for the storm today, consider adding this to your list of things to do: bookmark this page so you’re ready to compete in our Express “Unofficial Mayor” contest on Monday. If you compete every day through March 5, you’ll have the chance to win a mini laptop computer, be a guest blogger here for three months, and be profiled in our Sunday Express as the person who knows the most about, and is the most connected to your community.

And here’s why it’s important to enter right away. We’re going to hold this contest three more times this year. At the end, our four Grand Prize winners will compete to be the ultimate Unofficial Mayor!

Get all the rules and details here.

Billy Maselli of Pelham, center, fights for the puck with Jake Warren of Sleepy Hollow/Irvington, right, during their Section 1 division 2 hockey quarterfinal at Sport-O-Rama in Monsey. Sleepy Hollow/Irvington won 2-0.

See more photos from the game

Port Chester’s effort to teach voters about the cumulative voting, the new system for electing village trustees, gets going Saturday with a meeting at the Senior Community Center.

The information session will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the center located behind village hall, 222 Grace Church St. The organization FairVote will help explain the process to be used for the June 15 special election and in trustee elections thereafter.

A federal judge found that Port Chester’s old at-large system denied Hispanic voters a means to fully participate in the election. Now all six trustees will be elected at once, rather than two at a time. Under cumulative voting, voters will be able to cast their six votes as they wish, devoting all six to one person or spreading them among several in any combinations.

A court-ordered education plan calls for a series of forums in English and Spanish leading up to the election. The dates and details of those forums will be tracked at the Port Chester Votes web site. Brochures are also being circulated to explain the changes.

As promised, Scarsdale resident John Walter, President and CEO of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) shaved off all of his blond hair today  at George’s Hair Salon in New Rochelle as part of LLS’s new Totally Baldacious (www.totallybaldacious.org) campaign. With the help of friends, family neighbors and business associates he has raised more than $30,000 to help fund cancer research and patient services.

The group sent us some before and after shots. Before:

And… drumroll please… After!

“Totally Baldacious!,” which has run through the month of February (www.totallybaldacious.com) is a a LLS fundraising campaign where guys (and girls) can shave their head; gals (and guys) can lighten or color their hair; already bald guys can wear a temporary tattoo on their head and guys with beards or moustaches can shave or color them. Visit http://totallybaldacious.llsevent.org/CEOJOHNWALTER to view Walter’s page.

A memorial service for Craig King, the former New Rochelle development commissioner who died last month, has been canceled. The service had been scheduled for Saturday at Avalon-on-the-Sound.

The family issued this statement: The family of Craig King expresses their gratitude for the tremendous outpouring of love and respect they have received from Craig’s friends and colleagues over the past few weeks. In light of the magnitude of well wishes they have already experienced, the memorial service scheduled for February 27 has been canceled.