Pride Of Lyons

Dobbins Drugs

Monica Mason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:06:44 +0000

Sean Dobbins is the owner and manager of Dobbins Drugstore. Dobbins provides healthy products for the community. The business has been open since 1943. Twenty people work for him. You need pharmacy skills for this job. He has worked here for 15 years. The best part of his job is the positive people of the community. What he finds rewarding about this job is running the business.

Greco Jewelry

Temetria Kemp — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:05:56 +0000

As part of Pride of Lyons, we interviewed Greco`s Jewelry store to ask questions about the business. Greco`s provides gold and silver. Greco`s been in business since 1947. Greco`s is a family business. To work at Greco`s you have to be a diamond setter and watchmaker. Greco’s reward is to make a lot of money. To be a jeweler you need to go to a jeweler school.

The Dollar & More Store

sbalch — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:05 +0000

The Dollar and More Store is a long time business in downtown Lyons. The owner’s name is Craig LaRussa .This store is a variety store. The store has been open for 14 years. Four people work with the owner. The skills you would need to work here are working with people and basic math. You need a high school education to work here. The owner has worked here for 14 years. The store owner said he enjoyed meeting new people and that it is rewarding. The best part or responsibility to the store owner is helping people.

County Clerks

Jessica — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:53:03 +0000

Have you ever wondered what happens at the county clerks office? Well Leaps Pride of Lyons students found out. They started out by interviewing the county clerk and asked him a few questions. Here are a few of the questions we asked.

Q:”WHAT IS THE CLERKS NAME”

a:”Mike Jankowski”

Q:”How many people work with you”

A:”Approximately 18 people”

There were many other questions answered and asked . One important question that was on our minds was what would happen to the information if any of it was lost? All the information is on the computer, so if it was lost for any reason how could they get it back? “Well”he said “that question is asked a lot and the answer is that they also have it on micro film and CD document if needed”. We also found out that that the people who are going to handle confidential documents have to go through and take a test. Only the people with the top scores have a chance to get the job. The people with the highest scores are run past the manager Mike J. and he makes the final decision on who gets the job. The requirements for being able to work here is to have at least a GED and some type of education in law. You also need to be pretty good with your social skills and good at problem solving .

Court House

Hunter — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:43:46 +0000

The owner of the Wayne County Courthouse is Wayne County itself! There are two different courthouses in Lyons. One particular courthouse is the new one and it has been around for about ten years compared to the old courthouse that has been in used since 1854. About 43 people work in both courthouses combined.

In the new courthouse there are five courts total, but there are only four courts that can hold juries. On the other hand there is only one courtroom in the old courthouse. The courtroom inside of the old courthouse is mostly only used for graduation from drug court. They hold this type of ceremony in the old courthouse because they think it is a special ceremony and should be held in an important place.

In order to become a judge for the courts you have to be an attorney for at least ten years. The type of education you need for this job is that you need to go to law school and pass a bar to become a judge. Ellis Bozzolo is the chief clerk and has worked in the Lyons Courthouse for three years and altogether he worked twenty years in many different courts. Judge Kehoe says that everything that he does at his job is very rewarding. During this job you have to have the responsibility to listen closely to the evidence that is being held.

McDonalds Restaurant

epotter — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:37:32 +0000

One of the most popular restaurants in Lyons is McDonalds. The McDonalds brothers, Dick and Mac started this business in 1940 in San Bernardina, California but later sold it to Ray Kroc in 1955. This particular McDonalds has been in Lyons for 23 years. During the summer time there is a minimum of 40 to 52 people working there. In the winter time, there are less employees working there because some of the student employees leave for school.

To be a manager at McDonalds the employee must take college level classes. You don’t need a diploma to work at McDonalds. You only need to take the college classes if you would like to be a manager. With being a manager you may receive some benefits such as a 401k plan and/or a medical plan that can be available. This medical plan is expensive, however. The crew are also eligible for medical benefits, but it is expensive as well.

Christa Davis is the manager that talked to us about McDonalds. She has been a manager for one year as of August first. The managers have to make sure there are enough workers and enough food. They have to fire people, suspended people and make sure everything runs smoothly. The manager makes sure that the customer is satisfied with the food. The food comes from Rochester, and you may be surprised to learn that all the food is brand named food. Many families dine at the McDonalds restaurants and enjoy their service.

Lock 27

mholloway — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:13:30 +0000

The village of Lyons has an important lock system. This system is called Lock 27. The owner of the locks is the State of New York they also manage the locks. The locks help provide transportation to the travelers on the canal.
Lock 27 has been around for almost 100 years. This lock opened in 1913 and is still in good condition. There are 3 full time workers on lock 27 and only 1 part time. There are some important skills and education that you need to work at the locks. Some skills that you need are mechanic engineering and electrical experience.
Our tour guide, Mr. Albanese, has been working at the locks for 25 years. He thinks the best part of working at the locks is the retirement deal, meeting new people, also to be working outside.
The locks have a very interesting system. This system is when people are on the canal and are going to have to go through the lock. They have to rise or lower the water to let the boat safely with out falling over a waterfall. When a boat is coming near a lock there is a light signal that is either red or green. When the light is red you have to wait until the light turns green that means you have the right away. When the lock doors open it is very important that you are not playing around you might fall in and will be pulled under the current and will drown.
When there is a boat coming from a lock to another the lock works will communicate with each other by using a phone or walkie-talkie to let each other know to be prepared for the boat.
Lock 27 is the 27th lock out of 57.

Story by Marissa Holloway and Kristina James

Mr. Albanese shows us the engine house.

Original instruments in the engine house.

Mr. Albanese explains to us how the locks function.

Low Bridge! Everybody Down…

Lock 27

Opening the Locks

A Boat going east through the locks.

Visiting the Old Court House

jmoon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:44:25 +0000

The students in the LEAP summer program visited the old Wayne County Court House.

is Sitting in the court house listening to the history of the building.

Theme Directory

Finger Lakes Time — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:11:13 +0000

It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the plugins directory, we’ve wanted to have those same benefits in a theme directory. Today is the day we start making that happen, with the introduction of wordpress.org/extend/themes/.

Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “extend” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.

We’ve gone through great lengths to make this as painless as possible for theme authors. You don’t need to know anything about Subversion (our back end magic takes care of all that for you), just login with your WordPress.org username and password and go to the upload page. From there you upload your regular theme zip file and we take care of the rest.

Once you upload your new theme we do a few automated checks for some of the requirements for each theme. If we find one that you missed we’ll provide you an error and description of what needs to be fixed. When a theme upload has been accepted we’ll send you an email and put it in the queue to be reviewed, to make sure we didn’t miss anything. After the theme has been approved you’ll get another email letting you know that the theme is now live.

That catches you up to where we’re at today. When you finish that theme you’ve been slaving over, upload it to the new directory and let us know what you think. Since so much has changed since the old theme directory we’re starting fresh from zero. If you’ve got specific questions or suggestions contact us and we’ll do our best to get them answered.

Hair Loft

jmoon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:20:58 +0000

On July 15th the LEAP program’s Pride of Lyons interviewed Valarie Vanstean at the Hair Loft to ask her questions about her job as a hair dresser. We asked the following questions of owner: Denise Eaton

How long has this business been open? 31 years.

How many people work for you or with you? 2 people.

What kind of skills do you need to work here? Licensed hair dresser and needs 1000 hours of school to graduate.

How long have you been working here? 31 years.

What do you find rewarding about your job? The flexibility in schedule and getting to know people.
Written by: Jordan Moon and Katie Furfaro