HIT: To Joe Alberici, the head coach of the Army men's lacrosse team and an Auburn native, who this year, earned coach of the year honors in the Patriot League.
Alberici has worked extremely hard to get into his current coaching job, and he's obviously taking full advantage of the opportunity.
The sports world is full of Cayuga County natives who are making their hometowns proud, and Alberici is a shining example.
MISS: To what seems like a new rash of local child sex abuse arrests.
Police agencies have reported multiple cases in recent weeks, and this follows a similar period at the beginning of the year when we saw a disturbing number of these types of arrests.
Few crimes are as despicable, and we can only hope this is a result of improved enforcement and not an actual increase in this type of activity.
HIT: To the Cayuga County Arts Council, which hosted a seminar over the weekend to help artists learn how put together business plans and market themselves.
It's often said that a thriving arts scene can be a key component to a healthy economy because people want to live and work in such communities. Such a culture can only exist, however, if those artists have an opportunity to make a living with their talents.
This was an excellent idea by the arts council, and we urge it and other organizations to continue with these types of efforts.
HIT: To the Auburn chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions and all other local groups that have organized educational events aimed at discouraging drinking and driving.
Auburn SADD held a mock DWI on Monday night for the community that gave its audience a graphic look at the potential effects of this crime. We also thank all of the agencies that came together to participate.
The community certainly hopes and prays for a safe prom and graduation season, but we also hope these types of messages resonate throughout the year, not only for students, but also for adults who get the behind the wheel when they shouldn't.
The sports world is full of Cayuga County natives who are making their hometowns proud, and Alberici is a shining example.
MISS: To what seems like a new rash of local child sex abuse arrests.
Police agencies have reported multiple cases in recent weeks, and this follows a similar period at the beginning of the year when we saw a disturbing number of these types of arrests.
Few crimes are as despicable, and we can only hope this is a result of improved enforcement and not an actual increase in this type of activity.
HIT: To the Cayuga County Arts Council, which hosted a seminar over the weekend to help artists learn how put together business plans and market themselves.
It's often said that a thriving arts scene can be a key component to a healthy economy because people want to live and work in such communities. Such a culture can only exist, however, if those artists have an opportunity to make a living with their talents.
This was an excellent idea by the arts council, and we urge it and other organizations to continue with these types of efforts.
HIT: To the Auburn chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions and all other local groups that have organized educational events aimed at discouraging drinking and driving.
Auburn SADD held a mock DWI on Monday night for the community that gave its audience a graphic look at the potential effects of this crime. We also thank all of the agencies that came together to participate.
The community certainly hopes and prays for a safe prom and graduation season, but we also hope these types of messages resonate throughout the year, not only for students, but also for adults who get the behind the wheel when they shouldn't.
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Farmer's Gal wrote on May 7, 2008 12:16 PM:
I was recently reminded of an incident from my childhood in which I was physically (though not sexually) abused by a gym teacher when I was about 10 years old. He hit me in the face with a medicine ball (very obviously on purpose), then refused to let me go to the bathroom to clean up the blood coming out of my nose. I went anyway, and this man came barging into the little girls bathroom, grabbing me and dragging me, literally kicking and screaming on my back down the hall back to class -- all the while grinning and laughing with obvious sadistic pleasure. My mother could not get any action out of the school, and in her position as a recently abandonned single mom, she was in no position to try a lawsuit. So she pulled me out of gym class and I went to the Library during that period instead. The principal was a very nice man, but he had one quirk -- he had gone all the way through school from elementary on with this gym teacher. He covered up for him. After I was removed from the class, the gym teacher started picking on a friend of mine who was the same physical type (small, slight, dark-haired with glasses) and personality (a little shy -- you'd never know it today).
Years later, that gym teacher went to jail for child molesting. He was a sadist who got off on hurting delicate little girls, but his life-long buddy covered it up for him.
That's just one small incident, and it obviously didn't impair me horribly for life (I was an athlete as well as a librarian), but I am quite sure there are lots of horrible things that have gone on that the public never heard about to the degree we do today. "