JANUARY 2013
TIOGA COUNTY COMMUNITY PRESS
Local Elementary Students Win Poster Contest
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Tioga County winners (left to right) Savannah Blasdel, Joshua Snell, Ashlen Croft, Paige Robinson, Zoe Lunduski and Cora Smith were presented awards for their creative entries in YES! Safe Choices for Kids’ Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest. Over 1,000 elementary school student artists from Broome, Chenango and Tioga counties entered the YES! Safe Choices for Kids Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest held this fall. The 31 winners were recognized recently at a reception held at the State Office Building in Binghamton. In Tioga County, winning posters were designed by Savannah Blasdel of Apalachin Elementary, Madison Howey, Josh Snell, Jayda Vargason and Mercedes Allen from Tioga Elementary, Ashlen Croft, Paige Robinson and Lea VanAllen of Lincoln Street Elementary and Cora Smith and Zoe Lunduski of Chemung Elementary. “It’s great to see kids demonstrating the importance of staying drug free through this poster contest,” Senator Libous said. “If children can learn about the dangers of drugs and alcohol at an early age, they’ll make safer choices with their futures.”
Each of the young artists was presented with a personalized certificate and Toys “R” Us gift card. Red Ribbon Week is one of the oldest and largest drug prevention programs in the nation. The tradition of displaying Red Ribbons is a symbol of intolerance towards the use of drugs. Students used their creativity and knowledge about the dangers of alcohol and drugs to design original artwork for the YES! Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest. YES! Safe Choices for Kids is a partnership between Senator Tom Libous and Lourdes Hospital. YES! works to help kids in our area learn skills they need to resist using alcohol and drugs. YES! also provides parents with useful tips and fun activities they can use as starting points in talking about substance abuse with their kids. Visit www.YesSafeChoices.org for more information.
American Racing and Entertainment Donates more than $700,000 to Charities in 2012
American Racing and Entertainment, which runs Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs in Upstate New York proudly, announced last month that total contributions to charities in 2012 reached in excess of $700,000. A few of the highlights for charitable donations in 2012 included concerts at both properties where all ticket proceeds benefited local Veterans groups around the area. Tioga Downs was able to raise more than $39,000 for Veterans in the local area from the Oak Ridge Boys concert proceeds, while Vernon Downs raised more than $36,000 from their America Concert. Tioga Downs, Vernon Downs, and Jeff Gural, Chairman of American Racing and Entertainment together donated $200,000 to aid in the Hurricane Sandy relief effort in New York and New Jersey. Jeff Gural, Chairman of American Racing and Entertainment also donated 2,300 tickets to the Bruce Springsteen concert held at Vernon Downs in August
to the USO. The tickets, which were valued at over $200,000 were distributed to soldiers at Fort Drum in the New York National Guard and Coast Guard. The donation was the largest, personal one time donation to the USO in the last 15 years. “Giving back to the surrounding communities is one of our main focuses for Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs. We host benefit concerts every year to support our Veterans, which I believe are often unappreciated for their efforts to all of us Americans. I am also proud of our customers, employees, and our company for being able to help raise $100,000 per property to aid in the Hurricane Sandy relief effort and help those families impacted by the destruction” said Jeff Gural, Chairman of American Racing and Entertainment. For more information on Tioga Downs or Vernon Downs call 888-WINTIOGA, 877-88-VERNON, or go to www.tiogadowns.com and www.vernondowns.com.
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