Mini Park Alert #2

A Rhinebeck man was arrested Friday afternoon after a brew in the park turned into resisting arrest.

The 55-year-old was sitting on a bench under the gazebo at the Rhinebeck Mini Park on North Park Road drinking beer around 1:45 p.m. Police arrived responding to a report of a suspicious person. When they tried to arrest him on an open container violation, he allegedly “refused by flailing his arms and pulling away from the officers,” Rhinebeck police reported.

Officers pepper sprayed him and eventually arrested him. He was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of an open container of alcoholic beverage, both violations and with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor. He was arraigned before the Red Hook town justice and sent to Dutchess County Jail on $2,500 bail.

The Journal typically does not identify those charged with misdemeanors or violations.

The Mini Park Alert!

It seems that he Mini Park in town is the hang out park… After school you see kids swarm there to meet.

I’m not too sure what the attraction is for middle & high school kids to be there – Must be the swings!

Warning !

There has been reports of kids getting roughed up, and pushed around the park.

Wondering why The Village/Town of Rhinebeck doesn’t have an after school type program in place-something for kids to do in the months before the Rec is open… Something more then sports…

 

Milaners Youth Group!

Milaners Youth Program is a youth-led program that provides participants and adult mentors with opportunities to serve Milan residents in need, as well as the greater community of Milan, and will also result in building of
character and a sense of civic duty in our young people, fostering a sense of community in Milan, and increasing participants’ marketability to places of higher learning and/or employment.

  Are you interested in helping others, leaving your community better than you found it, making new friends?

Then the Milaners Youth Group is looking for you!

 If your a student in the Rhinebeck, Red Hook or Pine Plains School Districts, or a concerned parent that lives in the Milan area and would like to be a part of our community projects please contact us -

Jay McCaughey 845-756-3235

 Milaners4Milan@gmail.com 

We are thankful for your support.

My Favorite Dream “A Virginia Tech Tribute”

 

 

 

Tanner Blankenship, wrote this tribute song and made this video, right after the tragedy. He also performed this song on the Mornin Thang show on K92 radio station in Roanoke, VA, a week after the tragedy. He’s also going to be on K92 again in the am (4/16/08). It’s a great song, not just for VT, but for anyone that’s lost a friend.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKm8Ccy4IE

Youth Fest DC Fairgounds May 17th-2008

A message from the Heart Safe Club -

Northern Dutchess Hospital has partnered with The Heart Safe Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to making our communities Heart Safe,to significantly increase the number of people in our community trained in the life saving skill of CPR.

www.maggieomalley.org/heartsafe.htm

Please join the Milaners Youth Group in support of the Heart Safe Club at the Hudson Valley Youth Fest.

Mass CPR Training – May 17th

11:00am -12noon

Dutchess County Fairgrounds.

Registration fee $10.00

Mass CPR training event at Hudson Valley Youth Fest, Dutchess County Fairgrounds, utilizing “CPR Anytime Kits”. Anyone interested in Sponsoring or Participating in this event is requested to contact

Need more info call: 845-876-5976 or Heartsafeclub@frontiernet.net

Workplace bullying is prevalent and painful

Just so you know… You find bulling everywhere!

Sadly, one of the more common difficulties that brings individuals to my office is workplace bullying. This type of bullying is far from rare and can have devastating effects on those targeted, including emotional, medical and financial consequences.

Read On: www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/COLUMNISTS05/802240315/1010/NEWS06

Halloween Parade October 28th – BOOOO

Halloween Parade October 28Th – Rhinebeck.

2:00pm Step off at the town hall.

Schools in, and so are the bullies!

Bullying and Harassment Parent Information Night

Mon, Oct 22, 2007

 845-758-2241.

Red Hook High School

103 W. Market St.

Red Hook,

Parent crusades against bullies.

Dover Middle School students listen to tragic story

By Leigh Gomez
Poughkeepsie Journal

DOVER PLAINS – John Halligan fantasizes about traveling back in time to address the period when his son was bullied – maybe then the 13-year-old wouldn’t have committed suicide.

In his campaign to deter children from bullying, the Vermont resident shared the story of his son – Ryan Patrick Halligan – with Dover Middle School students recently.

“Around fifth grade, there tends to be a ‘meanness-switch’ that turns on in children,” Halligan said.

The young boy was placed in special education because of his difficulties with speech and language skills. That was the first time he was bullied.

“I was relieved when Ryan entered the sixth grade; he was no longer in special ed,” Halligan said.

The bullying did not stop there. A fellow student verbally tormented him daily.

“One night in December 2002, Ryan said, ‘Dad, I hate school. I never want to go back there again. Can you home school me? Can we move?’ ” Halligan said.

The father suggested he turn to school officials for help, but his son declined for fear it would make things worse.

Ryan Halligan learned how to defend himself instead through kickboxing.

In February 2003, the youth fought the bully and left the fight unscathed, Halligan said.

“My son told me he got a few good punches in; the boy would probably never bother him again,” Halligan said.

Later, he befriended the bully, who would play a key role in his state of depression.

On Oct. 7, 2003, Ryan Halligan committed suicide at his Vermont home.

“I wanted to know why,” Halligan said.

He accessed his son’s America Online account, and the story of ongoing abuse, which his son kept a secret from his parents, unfolded.

Ryan Halligan confided in his new friend, the bully, that he had an invasive procedure done [similar to a colonoscopy] because of a severe stomach ache, Halligan said.

“The bully spread a rumor that Ryan was gay because he liked the examination,” he said.

Halligan also learned a girl pretended to like his son via AOL Instant Messenger and rejected him when classes resumed.

“I want every bystander to make a commitment to not stand by and let bullying happen,” Halligan said.

After hearing the story, several students and teachers returned to their classrooms teary-eyed.

“This makes me look at bullying differently,” sixth-grader Katie Drake, 11, said.

Seventh-grade students Lauren Emerson, Emily Anttila and Jillian Mitschow said the same bullies in their school torment students almost every day.

“From now on, when we see things happen, we won’t just stand around; we’ll say something,” Ashley Haviland, 12, said.

The Count Down!

First Day Of School  Thursday -  September 6th……