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Teacher Appreciation Week Day 4: Honoring local educators

Several teachers have been recognized by students, co-workers and community members during Teacher Appreciation Week. Posted: May 6, 2021 5:51 PM Updated: May 6, 2021 6:22 PM Posted By: WKTV Brittany Roundtree Brittany Roundtree is a Science teacher at Donovan Middle School in the Utica City School District. She has been at Donovan for three years and has made a tremendous impact on her students. Along with teaching, she tutors and mentors students in STEM after school in hopes that someday, some of them will enter the fields of science, technology, engineering, or math. It does not get much better than having a teacher extend herself and expose us to further knowledge connected to the real world. Brittany is an inspiring educator as she is the only African American science teacher in the Utica City School District. Prior to teaching science, Brittany earned the honor of a master’s in business administration from Wilmonton University.

Utica s F T Proctor Park brings new life to former carriageways

Paths to walk and ride horse-drawn carriages on, just over the Starch Factory Creek, used to greet visitors to Frederick T. Proctor Park. The 8-acre triangular wedge, nestled between the creek, Bleecker Street and Masonic Care Community of New York, is now overgrown with trees and invasive species. Hints of the portion of the park’s former glory have been unearthed, which was originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.  Some long-time residents of the area remember something used to be across the creek, which was once spanned by a trio of bridges. Today, only one bridge built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940, crosses the creek. 

Jimmy Dongsavanh, son of a refugee, working dream job with Utica police

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a young Laotian named Vanh Dongsavanh made the brave decision to leave his ravaged homeland behind in hopes of finding a better life in the United States. In the early 1980s, he rode the first wave of refugees that entered the country and settled in Utica, one of the original resettlement cities that had been established nationwide.   After his arrival, he soon found work, initially at DeIorio’s Foods in Utica, and later as a packer and shipper at Meyda Tiffany in Yorkville, where he has remained for 25 years. Vanh met and married Michelle Tran, a refugee herself, and settled in East Utica. They had one child; a son, Jimmy, who grew up in the neighborhood and joined the Utica Police Department’s Community Outreach Team five years ago.   

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