The Yonkers Police Athletic League (PAL) Located in the Iris & Martin Walshin Center, has been bringing the police & kids together for more than
50 years. We provide programs and an open gym for community youths. Through sports & educational/cultural activities, police officers work with children, guiding them toward a mature and responsible adulthood.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Stramlined Site!
Thanks to suggestions from Chris, John
& Charlie I have found the time to streamline our site. Please keep the photos of our events coming so that everyone can
enjoy them.
The Yonkers
PAL has our own Chris Palandra who has answered the call to be a hero! Chris is having his head shaved to stand
in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures. We at the PAL are lucky to be
able to help form young minds into productive adults. Please support Chris with a donation to the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
Put The Yonkers PAL/Chris Palandra in the memo area. Let's all help Chris support this wonderful charity!
Bingo will not be held
on January 24th. The Yonkers PAL will be holding Bingo on February 4th, February 18th, March 3rd & March 24th. Hope to
see you there.
While I'm writing this
2:30 am Saturday morning my desktop temperature says it's 37 degrees outside at Leake & Watts, about half a mile from
my house. The temperature at the PAL, a little over a mile north of me is at the same time reading 39.6 degrees. How do I
know the temperature at the PAL 2:30 am? Just scroll down near the bottom of this page. You see the PAL Ham Radio & Computer
Science classroom has mounted a weather station as well as weather cameras aiming at the sky on the roof. In the future the
cameras will be online just as the weather currently is. For now, stop by any day we are open and marvel at views you will
not get with buildings and trees in the way. I'm sure I'll be updating this blog soon. Incase you do not have the
time to get on until after the upcoming holiday from everyone at the Yonkers PAL, have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Lot's
have gone on at the PAL since my last Blog. Sorry, but my big mouth is going into overdrive to get this all in.
The Superbowl NY Giants played basketball against the Yonkers PBA It was a great night at the PAL and our PAL kids
were not left out. A few of the PAL Board of Directors bought tickets and left them at the door for kids to watch the game.
Way to go PAL!
Family Bingo night has taken off and growing at a fast pace. There is a web site online
with all of the info needed to get you there and have a ball! There are 50/50's, Raffels of wine and sports related items
too. Visit www.FamilyBingo.org for info.
The Toughman Finest and Bravest
Boxing competition of fall 2011 is now history. The PAL was packed with friends huggung friends they had not seen in a while
and a show was had like no other! I can't wait for the next one.
We have renovated the computer
classroom only to have some of the ceiling fall in from a very bad leak durring Hurricane Irene. Well the leak and ceiling
are repaired and the room is looking good! I have to thank my son Michael Rapp, Jr for never saying no to any and all requests
to do work at the PAL!
We also had an outage of all internet services in the entire PAL building last weekend
after the Toughman boxing event. We replaced the main firewall in the computer room with a state of the art
router that will give us much faster service and stronger protection from hackers. That got the computer room online again,
but the rest of the PAL was still out. Way too large of an amount of walking for my disability so I enlisted the help of a
good friend Tony Lisnak who helped troubleshoot. It turns out TWO PAL routers that cover the office, upstairs as well as WiFi
in the gym were also not working. We relocated a router we use to distribute internet through the classroom to replace the
failed routers and service has been restored. This week the permanent replacement will be installed and the kids will get
the old router back reopening our classroom once again.
Finally, the computer / ham rado classroom has become
an overnight sensation. We have had between 6 to as many as 24 kids using the room in one day. Each child has there own account
to log on and is taught how to maintain the computer so that they walk away with the ability to properly operate a computer.
The Yonkers PAL building is a converted 1916 National
Guard Armory. The large footprint and it's spacious interior allow many diverse projects to be run for our youths
at the same time. This behemoth of a structure is the Second largest building in Westchester, just after the County Center!
Above is a "site
counter". It is a tool that records the region a person logs on a views our site from. Well here's a site going places!
Just look where our site is going to. It's gone to almost 1600 Visitors from over 34 Countries. This is only since I opened
this site last October, 2010! I wonder how we do once we are really trying?
The Majestic Yonkers PAL Building.
National Guard, New York Over the Entrance
Looking West over the Hudson River to New Jersey
Looking out at just part of our center
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Rapp of Yonkers Amateur Radio & Computers KidZ, inc. Located at The Yonkers Police Athletic
League 127 North Broadway Yonkers New York 10701
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