Island Dispatch, 2002-07-12

              Island DISPATCH The Farmer's Almanac predict**: Sunny /, * * i t ■* i ''' ' * i * Founded 1944 • Complete Community Coverage 57 Years As the Voice of Grand Island Award Winning Newspapers The Official Newspaper of the Town of Grand Island and the Grand Island School District Chamber Welcomes French Students Page 5 A Sucessful Keith's Classic Page 14 IMumc: (716) 773-7676 • I ax: (716) 773-7190 « K-Mail: NiTNi'\>s(^'lmuiUom Vol. 58 No. 20 July 12.2002  20 Pages  85c Board of education holds re-organizational meeting, follows it up with regular business meeting by Jon Sandino That famous saying, "You should never judge a book by its cover" or agenda in this case - proved true at the Grand Island Board of Education meeting Monday night. Upon entering, two agendas were sitting on a desk -the re-organizational and the regular business meeting agendas. Upon perusing through both agendas, it appeared the board would be hosting a very uncommon marathon meeting, but that was not true. It took only a tad longer than one hour for the board to cover all the items. The biggest news coming out of the re-organizational meeting was. the approval of a new board president and vice president. Former president Richard McCowan nominated Jeri Schopp for the president position. The motion received a second from Frank DeSignore.. The board unanimously approved the move. That was followed by newly sworn in board member Lee Cohen nominating David Goris as board vice president. That motion received a second from Mryna Blair. Beyond the aforementioned, the rest of the meeting proceeded in a normal fashion. Other appointments were made, the Island Dispatch and the Buffalo News were designated as the official paper of the school district, a petty cash fund .was estaWishgdr.aridJ.he mileage reimbursement rate was set at 36.5 cents per mile. Following the re-organizational meeting, the board jumped right What a patriotic celebration it was '■■ ■■— - uliiiliimimillimiiwmnilliwir i I im 11 ininTiiinMi mimi itwtt ■! h iimi n n Inr i » m«i«imirniimiiiiiiiMmiiii««iiwni What a wonderful Fourth of July si was on Grand Island The weatner was beautiful, the crowd was enthusiastic, the entertainment hved up to all the pie-hype, and nil of the happenings resulted in yet another day's worth of successful sesquicentennial events Tne day kicked off witn a kids race, the Dior Bcssel indepyndor.ee Dny Hun and the Town Parade Other events -luring the- day included the annual VFW Fourth of July Picnic, -no musical performances at Jackson Music and fireworks at dusk at Martin's Fantasy Island. Pictured here. Undo Sam, me Statue of Liberty and "Honest Ahe" were pan of this year's parade. Make sure to lock on page three o' today's Dispatch for a photo collage of the Fourth of July Parade and otnei events, (photo by Cynrli Stonebraker) Meet the face behind the official sesquicentennial logo photo and story by Jon Sandino Unless someone has been stuck in time, we all know Grand Island is celebrating its 150 th birth- day this year. „,.,More,.than a year ago, a committee was formed and a logo contest was launched. After] mulling over the many logos that were submitted, the sesquicentennial choose its official logo in late spring of 2001. For the past year the logo has appeared in the newspaper, on the news, on the Internet, on banners hanging all across the Island, on news releases, on merchandise, and probably numerous other places we are all unaware of. When the winning logo was selected, the individual who designed it was recognized, but since then we have heard little from or about the Island student who created what is now known as the official sesquicentennial logo. Now introducing Rob Hopkins, 17, a Grand Island High School senior to be in 2002-03, the young man behind the logo. Hopkins started working on the logo during his sophomore year at the high school. According to him, he was working on it as part of class project. At that time, little did Hopkins know a simple two-week class project would grow into something so big.' When he was informed he could enter the logo into the project, it was then he knew-- bigger things could be right around the corner. When asked what he thought his chances were iof winning the contest, Hopkins told the Dispatch "very good." Bob Hopkins, 17, shows of his artwork. Hopkins sesquicentennial logo was chosen as the official logo for Grand Island's sesquicentennial year. And he could not have been anymore correct. Now he gets to sit back and take pride in his work. continued on page 2 igp continued on page 2 US' MARTY'S TOWING, INC. 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