Sloatsburg Library Manager Annmarie McAnany has made a helpful Friend of the Library in NY State Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester).
Presented a new American flag to the @SloatPubLibrary that’ll soon be flying high over @Sloatsburgny @FiOS1NewsLHV pic.twitter.com/xOtzdkyv7K
— David Carlucci (@davidcarlucci) December 24, 2015
This past Wednesday, December 23, Senator Carlucci visited the Library to deliver a new American flag to via the Senator’s “Operation Raise the Flag” program which collects old and damaged flags throughout the district and replaces them with colorful new ones.
Surrounded by Library Trustees, staff and Sloatsburg Mayor Carl Wright, Senator Carlucci handed McAnany a new flag during the ceremony.
I want to thank the Board of the @SloatPubLibrary and my partner in gov’t @Sloatsburgny Mayor Wright @FiOS1NewsLHV pic.twitter.com/Znh2aNciL3 — David Carlucci (@davidcarlucci) December 24, 2015
Bradley Winograd played delivered a pure trumpet cover of the the Star Spangled Banner.
Thank you Bradley Winograd for playing the Star Spangled Banner today @SloatPubLibrary @FiOS1NewsLHV @Sloatsburgny pic.twitter.com/UC8HUfxFng
— David Carlucci (@davidcarlucci) December 24, 2015
Sloatsburg Mayor Carl Wright with NY State Senator David Carlucci and family, and other veteran angels, all lending a hand at the recent veterans holiday food drive at the Sloatsburg Municipal Building.
Sloatsburg Library Trustee Darrell Frasier and McAnany visited Senator Calucci in Albany in March, along with other NY legislators, to advocate for local library issues and funding opportunities. The visit came after Sloatsburg qualified as an emergency shelter — if it only had a generator. The senator’s office directed the Library toward helpful grant opportunities and a scheduled delivered a the Library’s new emergency shelter generator is expected any day now.
The Senator’s office has been a helpful advocated for the Village with the NY Department of Transportation regarding a traffic study of Rt. 17 and the Village Center which includes a proposed crosswalk at Rt. 17 and 1 Liberty Rock Road at the Library.
Sloatsburg recently fetted veterans for the holidays with the second in a series of dinner gift baskets. The December 19 veterans holiday food giveaway included a Christmas Turkey with fixins. The Sloatsburg Volunteer Fire Department pitched in along with the Veterans Angels Association, a Rockland County group that helps provide holiday meals for the veteran community and assists provides PTSD, Mobility Assistance Service dogs for Veterans of the US Armed Forces.
(Fios1 local news segment on the Sloatsburg Public Library ‘Raise the Flag’ program with Senator David Carlucci)
