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INSIDE TODAY CREATING DANCE GUIDELINES

SPORTS, 1B
School to form dance committee
By JULIE SHERWOOD
jsherwood@messengerpostmedia.com
CANANDAIGUA — In
the latest in the “Foot-
loose”-type saga at CA,
news spread quickly
Wednesday that
Spiller gets Canandaigua Academy
starter nod has postponed Friday’s
dance over concerns about
Rookie C.J. Spiller will be the school’s policy ban-
the starting running ning students from danc-
back for the Buffalo Bills
this season.
SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION
YOUR LIFE, 1C
ing back-to-front, or
“grinding.”
If Academy dances are to
continue, a committee be-
ing formed next week must
come up with “a suitable
r e c o m m e n d a t i o n ,”
stated Academy Principal
Richard Faccio in a memo
on the school’s website
(www.canandaiguaschools.
See DANCE, 9A
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SUBMITTED PHOTO
A photo of the Academy
parking lot after stu-
dents walked out of the
school dance last Friday.
PERSONNEL

Back-to-school guide DAlobbies

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FIRST DAY for more
ocal students across On- tenance, mulling capital projects thing remains constant:

A home ahead
of its time
L tario County this week have
headed back to school. And
across the county, districts are
and introducing character educa-
tion programs.
Schools are doing more with less
Investing in our kids is key.
Welcome back to school to stu-
dents, teachers and support staff.
attorneys
grappling with funding issues and — as are families — in these tur- We hope it’s the beginning of a suc-
A Brighton home was By MIKE MASLANIK
recently named to the
athletic fields and buildings main- bulent economic times. But one cessful and productive year for all. mmaslanik@messengerpostmedia.com
National Register of
Historic Places. HOPEWELL — A coun-
ty subcommittee is looking
BUSINESS, 6B into a request for two new
attorneys for the Ontario
County District Attorney’s
Office.
At a
county
Public
Safety
Commit-
tee meet-
ing, Dis-
A smaller, trict Attor-
ney R. Tantillo
sleaker iPod JACK HALEY/MESSENGER POST Michael
Students head for the main entrance on the first day of school today at Canandaigua Academy. Tantillo put in a request for
Touch screens, video-
calling and of course two entry-level assistant
music are just some of district attorneys. Tantillo
the features packed into said the new attorneys
the newest line of iPods. would take some pressure
off his office, which has its
TOMORROW hands full with criminal
cases and appeals.
“My concern is not size,
my concern is the impact
this will have on my staff,”
Tantillo said.
The issue The stories The littlest scholars After a discussion about
In Canandaigua, an issue
Canandaigua students and Canandaigua kindergarten students the needs of the District
about dancing (see above sto-
teachers today are returning to the took a trial bus run last week in prepa- Attorney’s Office, the com-
ry) has administrators and many
classrooms, and students coun- ration for their first day of school, mittee voted to refer the
students at odds. Additionally,
tywide are gearing up for anoth- which is Monday, Sept. 13. Some 255 matter to Management
Remembering er school year. Skies were gray this
the school will next week contin- students will make up the class of and Compensation, a sub-
ue to address whether to keep
9/11 morning and temperatures were
football at Evans Field. In Naples,
2023, which seems like a long time but committee of the Person-
chilly — in the low 60s — making parents and teachers can attest — it nel Committee chaired by
a $21.7 million capital project will flies by. The number of students signi-
it a good day to spend indoors, Supervisor Kris Singer, R-
go before the voters in Decem- fies a continued decline in enrollment
WEATHER studying. But it is expected to Canadice, which includes
ber. numbers.
warm up gradually.
See photos of the bus run, page 3A
64/50 See weather, page 6B See story, page 3A See REQUEST, 9A

FRIDAY:
Mostly sunny SNAPSHOT: QURAN BURNING
Forecast, 6B
Remembering
Safety concerns rise over religious protest 9/11
INDEX Are you planning a Sept. 11
The issue What’s at The plea The reaction memorial or commemora-
Business 6B Obits 4A tion? We’d like to let our
Classified6-8C Opinion 6A President Barack Obama stake Obama urged the Rev. Conservative radio and readers know what’s hap-
Comics 5C Sports 1-5B added his voice to the Terry Jones to “listen to television host Glenn pening around the area on
chorus of opposition to a Officials fear the burning those better angels” and Beck wrote in an Internet
Lottery 3A TV 4C could spark anti- the anniversary of that
small Florida church’s call off his plan to engage blog that burning the fateful day. Send informa-
intention to burn copies American violence, in a Quran-burning Quran is like burning the
including against sol- tion about your event to
of Islam’s holiest text to protest this weekend. flag or the Bible — some- Linda Barry: lbarry@mes-
mark the 9/11 terrorist diers, a concern shared thing people can do in
See story, page 7A sengerpostmedia.com.
attacks. by the U.S. commander the United States, but
in Afghanistan. You can also submit pho-
shouldn’t. tos from your event to the
same address.