Monday, April 13, 2009

NEW LITERACY IDEA READING, WALKING, NATURE TRAIL-- WHAT DO YOU THINK?

A great idea from Vermont: STORY WALK---combines fitness, literacy and fun. Pages of a childrens book are placed on a stake and the childrens book is spaced equidistantly along the length of a bike path or wooded trail. Each complete story walk consists of no fewer than 30 stakes The first story walk was installed at Montpeliers Hubbard park in Vermont. This would be a great initiative at town parks, or at the Greenburgh Nature Center.
What do you think of this idea?

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a good idea. Why? Unless our bike and/or walking trails are WIDE enough to handle children and adults that may gather and wait their turn to read these pages. It could lead to frustrated bikers and walkers trying to make their way around this potential gathering. Safety issue with bikers as well. Then you have children that read faster than others, parents that want to linger and explain every little detail to their little youngsters before heading off to the next one. I can imagine a pile up similar to miniature golf outing where every little kid gets a par 20 on every hole. This could lead to frustrated parents unwilling to wait, so they skip a page and go ahead, defeating the reading purpose. As for exercise, the slow walk and the duration to pause for reading would provide very little in terms of exercise. How do you protect the pages from weather ? How often will the story pages change ? never ? Who will change the pages ? volunteer or this will be an added cost to taxpayers ?

Anonymous said...

How about parking?
There is NONE at Taxter Ridge.
What about the REQUIREMENT under Finneran that the use of Town Parks be limited to TOV residents?
Greenburgh isn't rural Vermont, and the sooner our Supervisor begins to act like the Chief Fiscal Officer of a large suburban community, the better for all of us.

Anonymous said...

Paul, sounds like another brilliant idea and a huge waste of money. Are we not facing a fiscal crunch, a budget crisis, and how are we going to pay for this--close the TYCC??

Paul Feiner said...

This program will be implemented. When you see how successful it is and how inexpensive the program costs will be you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Anonymous said...

If, as you say, "This program will be implemented" then why bother asking us what we think?

Anonymous said...

Story walks are cute. A good manager will delegate this idea to the appropriate department to investigate and possibly implement. As supervisor of a major municipality, you have many more essential matters to look after.

Paul said...

Paul you know what I think . You have nothing better to do.You waste tax payer money with these foolish ideas when money for people is tight. Understand,cabiesh,comprende

Anonymous said...

Paul,

Instead of spending money on this, why don't you give back all the sewer hook in fees that the Town illegally kept from the taxpayers?

Anonymous said...

See if one of the schools or the library wants to sponsor this with the nature center. There are many resources available for organizing this popular activity. But like someone else said, this is not something that the town government supervisor needs to be working on.

Anonymous said...

Before any extras like this are considered, you need to take care of town finances - collecting from those who owe us, re-computing sewer bills, eliminating duplicate services and optional services, selling town-owned properties that could generate tax revenue, etc. These are the types of things we pay you to do.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps this nice idea will give all those Hartsdale parents who send their kids to private/parochial school a sense that they have a stake in this community and the local government acknowledges their existence in some limited, pitiable manner (while increasing taxes exponentially).

Anonymous said...

The town government shouldn't be involved with something like this, but please share this idea with the schools and libraries.

Anonymous said...

Tell me Mr. Feiner who will be paying for this.

I hope that you will not burden the unincorporated area .

We had enough of you BS programs.

Anonymous said...

Does the nature center need some more money to operate.

THis is the craziest idea.

Sell the property it too has become a burden on the taxpayers.

How many parks do we have throughout Greenburgh???
How many of them are used to capacity??????
How many of them are maintained according to the standards of the state?????
How much revenue is taken in each year????
Does the money received cover all the expenses which above all includes the maintenance????

If not start unloading some of them because they do not help the taxpayers at all.
Some of them are a waste as Taxter woods which has been the latest rape of the residents of the State,county and Greenburgh.

You want to get rid of county government you know what the State should get rid of Greenburgh since you have lost the ability to run this place in an honest manner.
You started out somewhat on a good level but now you have hit the bottom of the pit.

You don't give orders anymore you take orders.
This is what failure is all about.

Do you remember years ago you purchased a bridge that was going to where I don't remember,, well it was never erected how about using that bridge to try to make amends with the residents that you have screwed all these years.
Start working for all the people and not only for a chosen few.
You and you alone are to blame for the way we think today of our town government.
Our freedoms are being taken away a little at a time.
Our monies are going on things that we will never use like all the parks.
We pay for a center that has more problems than Wall Street.
This town will be bankrupt as soon as different law suits are implimented.One of the largest will be the Fortress church.
How did we get to this point.
Maybe if you had hands on rather than taking advice from those that want to do you harm we would be in a happy town instead of looking at the dark side .
It was written on another sight on this blog that Gold wants you to purchase another 60 acres of land in his community is that right.

Will he be paying for this.

The N.Y.State attorney general should investigate how the first purchase came about and if it was legal since it was told that Gold made some money under the table .
Who gave this man so much power to have you do what he requests.
What tax shelter did you give the Unification church to keep the true amount of the sale under wraps.
From what was said you made a great deal with this church because it was in Gold's back yard but yet the Fortress church you left the town wide open for a tremendous law suit.
I guess in your eyes Gold rules.
Look again Paul as to what has happened here in our town before it's too late.

Anonymous said...

You are just as crazy as we all thought.
How many ways must you screw arround with taxpayers dollars.

You brought in a program at the center that is not worth a dime and now you want to bring in this program at the nature center.
Paul we have better things to do and use our money.You have taken enough from us to satisfy yourself thinking that you are doing something for the public.
Stop this madness. We have had enough .

Anonymous said...

Apparently, this program was done in Montpelier with a tiny grant (it is extremely inexpensive) and enjoyed by people of all ages. There was no backup by readers since the books had minimal text to keep walkers moving along. It drew families with young children to the parks and paths, the books are geared to young children but selected to appeal to adults as well. It is a great idea, one well worth pursuing with the school and the library.

Anonymous said...

The bridge that was purchased but not used was bought by former Supervisor Tony Veteran. Shortly after Feiner took office he sold parts of the bridge.

Anonymous said...

Check who bought that bridge,

I'm sur that is was the present supervisor.

Anonymous said...

Dear 5:36 -
Montpelier VT is NOT ANYTHING LIKE GREENBURGH, NY!!!!
And, therein lies the core of the problem - if the Supervisor and friends wish Greenburgh to be like Montpelier, they can start by cutting the TDYCC budget to zero and allowing private, unsubsidized companies the right to conduct business. Montpelier discovered socialism didn't work as a form of municipal government more than 20 years ago - our leaders are still living in the past.

Anonymous said...

And who is going to make money off of this "tiny grant?" Did that person, by any chance, propose this idea?