BEN & JERRY'S PARENT COMPANY LOSES $2.5B AMID CALLS TO BOYCOTT

Unilever stock loses $2.5B amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s over tweet--Ben & Jerry’s parent company has lost roughly $2.5 billion in market cap amid calls to boycott the Vermont-based ice cream maker over a July 4 tweet condemning the US for existing on “stolen Indigenous land.”  MORE AT Ben & Jerry's boycott calls: Unilever stock falls (nypost.com)

HECKMAN MOTORS, 1958

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STUMBLED across these 1958 ads for Heckman Motor Sales Company. Click on the image.

For more about Heckman, click on the link for the 1966 obituary:

EverythingCroton: 1966, OBITUARY FOR CROTON'S HENRY HECKMAN

MAY 1956 - 600 WESTCHESTER VOLUNTEERS TAKE PART IN CD DRILLS AT CROTON POINT

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MAY 1956 - 600 WESTCHESTER VOLUNTEERS TAKE PART IN CD DRILLS AT CROTON POINT

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TOWN OF CORTANDT P.B.---TRAFFIC A MAJOR CONCERN FOR HOTEL PLANNED ON ROUTE 6

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Traffic a Major Concern for Hotel Planned on Route 6--July 4, 2023Rick Pezzullo

Residents recently expressed concerns that a 93-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel being proposed near King Buffet on Route 6 in Cortlandt will bring increased traffic to an already congested roadway.

The project from applicant Bilal Ahmad was first presented to the Cortlandt Planning Board in November.

“We believe there is a strong demand for this hotel,” said David Steinmetz, attorney for Ahmad, said during a public hearing last month “We want this to be an attractive building that doesn’t take over the viewshed.”

The 2.4-acre site, bound by Route 6, Jacob’s Hill Road and the Bear Mountain Parkway, is located across the street from where a new gas station and convenience store, that drew the ire of nearby homeowners, was approved by the Planning Board and is currently being constructed.  READ MORE AT Traffic a Major Concern for Hotel Planned on Route 6 | The Examiner News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT--NEWS 12---FORMER TEACHER, POPULAR SPORT ANNOUNCER AT COUNTY CENTER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD PORN CHARGES

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NEWS 12---FORMER TEACHER, POPULAR SPORT ANNOUNCER AT COUNY CENTER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD PORN CHARGES--Jul 03, 2023, 12:59pmUpdated 4h ago--By: News 12 Staff==A well-known sports announcer in Westchester County, known as the "Voice of the County Center," has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge.  Court documents show that Richard Leaf, 74, of Somers, pleaded guilty in Federal Court in White Plains last Thursday. Leaf was charged in 2021 after his computer revealed multiple pornographic charges. MORE AT Former teacher, popular sports announcer at County Center pleads guilty to child porn charges (news12.com)

BY SPECIAL REQUEST: THE 1967 CROTON CUB KART DERBY

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WITH THE NEWS THAT THE SOAP BOX DERBY IS RETURNING TO DOBBS FERRY (SEE LOHUD ARTICLE HERE)...the blog has had a request for.......

More from the days of the old fashioned cub kart derby races that used to be held down at the Starlight Drive-in in the sixties. Courtesy once again of the outstanding newspaper archives at THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. From 1967, click on the photos. 

You may also have an interest in more cub kart derby, also from 1967: http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/07/1967-croton-cubscout-derby-sunday.html

WOKE AND BROKE---TWO ITEMS----AUNT JEMINA AND BEN & JERRY'S FOLLOW-UP

ALMOST MISSED THIS ONE---A Lesson in Corporate Wokeness: The Disaster After Making Aunt Jemima a Pariah--Brad Slager 

Though it is finally cooling, lingering effects are still seen with the cultural furor surrounding the beer brand Bud Light. There were a number of missteps regarding the poor decision to involve transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, and one of the aspects that have come to light is how those in charge of the brand have been engaging in corporate woke culture.

Many have seen the video of Alissa Heinerscheid, the VP of Bud Light, laying out her intentions for the beer brand to use a lexicon of woke culture and insult her out-of-touch customer base. But she is not alone. Also involved in things was Anheuser-Busch's vice president of communications, Jennifer Morris. In a prior interview, she laid out some of the goals for the company as she envisioned things:

Anheuser-Busch is in a unique position to bring attention to DE&I issues in a way that brings consumers along on the journey to drive positive change and create a more equitable world…we can leverage our scale and resources to further conversations around DE&I and help consumers understand the difference they can make as individuals.

It will take a period of time to assess just how impactful this beer backlash will become. It might take a few quarters before the revealing figures are seen, and we can be sure that if they are in the negative, there will be little in the way of reporting. The media, understand, are in compliance with, and harbor support for, these virtue-signaling politics. This is revealed with the details surrounding a prior corporate woke decision.  READ MORE AT A Lesson in Corporate Wokeness: The Disaster After Making Aunt Jemima a Pariah (townhall.com)

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BOYCOTT CALLS---

Ben & Jerry's message generated a flood of negative responses on social media, with some calling it the company's "Bud Light moment," referring to controversy and subsequent boycott after the beer brand partnered with a transgender activist in April.  MORE FROM NEWSWEEK Ben & Jerry's Faces Boycott Calls Over 4th of July Message (newsweek.com)

See also Unilever stock loses $2.5B amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s over tweet--Ben & Jerry’s parent company has lost roughly $2.5 billion in market cap amid calls to boycott the Vermont-based ice cream maker over a July 4 tweet condemning the US for existing on “stolen Indigenous land.”  MORE AT Ben & Jerry's boycott calls: Unilever stock falls (nypost.com)

OOPS! RATES HIGHER NOT LOWER---WESTCHESTER POWER---EXAMINER NEWS---CONCERN RAISED OVER HIGH RATES FOR WESTCHESTER ENERGY PROGRAM

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EXAMINER NEWS

Concern Raised Over High Rates for Westchester Energy Program

Many residents who live in one of the 29 Westchester municipalities and have been enrolled in the Westchester Power Community Energy Program through Sustainable Westchester thought they were likely to get lower electricity rates.

But over the past year, those rates have been far higher than Con Edison’s rate for standard non-renewable power.

The program launched about seven years ago with the goal of delivering conventional and renewable energy at competitive rates and ultimately pricing out electricity produced by fossil fuels. Local communities buying electricity from Con Edison joined the program include Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Mount Kisco, New Castle, Pleasantville, Peekskill and White Plains, giving Westchester Power the ability to bid on market energy prices with ag­gre­gated buy­ing power. MORE AT Concern Raised Over High Rates for Westchester Energy Program | The Examiner News

and by special request---FROM NOV, 2022---THE "PAUSE" THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: AN UPDATE ON COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION FOR THOSE WHO NEVER OPTED OUT