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VOL 40 NO. 11 SERVING BETHPAGE, ISLAND TREES, OLD BETHPAGE, PLAINVIEW, SEAFORD AND PLAINEDGE FORTY CENTS
Get Ready for the Green!
The Cycling Murrays. Left to right: Jannah on a unicycle, Don and
Jean on the quadricycle, Tegan on a 5 foot tall giraffe unicycle, and
Tara on a unicycle.
The New York City Fire
Department Pipe Band will lead the
Bethpage Fire Department and
Auxiliary members in the line of
march in this year's St. Patrick's
Parade. The Tara Pipe Band and
Amityville Highland Pipe Bands will
be back again along with the
Monahan Pipe Band, a new band
from Staten Island.
Nassau County Mounted Police
will be at the head of the parade
followed by the Bethpage High
School Drum and Bugle Corps. Bill
McCabe, the Grand Marshal, former
Grand Marshals and elected officials
from Nassau County and the Town
of Oyster Bay will be followed by a
number of attractions.
This year's parade will also
feature the award winning Cycling
Murrays. This talented family of
cyclists has received the "Best
Novelty" and "Best Crowd Pleaser"
awards, just to name a few.
Scouts, students from LaSalle,
antique autos, an assortment of fire
apparatus and, of course, the famous
Canine Brigade will all be there
again along with some historic
figures from the past.
St. Patrick promises a fine day
for the parade. It's a great day in
Bethpage -- for the Irish and all their
friends. Come on out to see the
biggest, best St. Patrick's Parade
Bethpage St. Patrick's Parade Route
Sunday, March 3, 2002—Stepping off at 1:45 PM
Bethpage Schools' Web Site
Keeping Community Informed
You would expect the Bethpage
School District, a leader in computer
technology, to have an outstanding
web site. If you visit the district's
web site at
www.bethpagecommunity.com/Scho
ols you will find a highly functional,
user-friendly site that provides a
plethora of valuable information
about all that the Bethpage School
District has to offer.
"Our web site was launched
three years ago and has grown
tremendously over time thanks to the
collaborative efforts of many
people," said Bethpage Schools
Director of Technology Terrence
Clark, who serves as the district's
web master. "Students have worked
with me over the past few years to
post and refine different aspects of
the site. Faculty members have
added their own pages to the site as
well. Parents have created PTA sites
and update them on a regular basis.
There are many other community
members who often pass along a
news article, a photo, or a tidbit of
news about our schools to share with
the world."
Students like Paul Furey
contribute by taking digital pictures
around school and creating web
pages about a school event or for an
pages, alumni news, maps and
directions, and valuable links for
students, parents, and faculty
members. An important function of
the web site is to allow secondary
students to log on to the district's
ClassLink server and access their
files and applications from their
home computer (including
applications they do not have at
home). Among the newest additions
to the site are streaming video of
students in the news, the Adult
Education section, a gallery of
student artwork, and an informative
presentation on the K-12 science
program.
Mr. Clark is working on a few
new features, including a children's
guide to Bethpage with an
interactive map, a revamped
physical education and athletics
page, and a new Special Education
Parent Teachers Association
(SEPTA) page created in
conjunction with SEPTA parents.
"By creating this site, we can
provide easy access to a wealth of
information on Special Education,"
said Bethpage Schools SEPTA
President Anna Israelton.
"Knowledge empowers parents - the
more we understand, the more we
can help our children."
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HTML coding and linking these
pages to the district site. The result
is a site that includes information
about all the schools in the district
from the perspective of both
students and adults.
Newsday rated
www.bethpagecommunity.com/Scho
ols as one of the best school sites on
Long Island. The site includes news
updates on school events, an online
calendar, presentations on
curriculum issues, faculty web
"Our goal is to create and
maintain a site that is relevant to
students, parents, and teachers,"
added Mr. Clark. "We believe this
can be a valuable communication
tool for the entire community."
The Bethpage School District
site can also be accessed from the
www.bethpagecommunity.com
homepage. In addition to a link to the
school district site, the community
page also contains links to the
Bethpage Chamber of Commerce,
the Bethpage Library, and other
important local sites.