Yorktown and Cortlandt region

Yorktown’s Justin Mabus lunges over the goal line for a touchdown during a Section 1 Class AA football semifinal at New Rochelle. New Rochelle won 21-16.

See more photos of Yorktown at New Rochelle football

Jamie Loeb of Ossining stops a serve to Ilyssa Schneidman of Ardsley due to falling leaves during day two-of-three of the Section 1 sectional girls tennis championships at Anthony F. Veteran Park in Ardsley on Oct. 29, 2010. Loeb won the match. ( Xavier Mascareñas / The Journal News )

See more photos from day two-of-three of the Section 1 sectional girls tennis championships at Anthony F. Veteran Park in Ardsley in a photo gallery, and go to LoHud.com to see more prep sports coverage.

Yorktown’s Leo and Elks clubs have joined forces to help raise funds for children with disabilities.

Together, they’ve planned a pancake breakfast open to everyone in order to raise money for charities benefiting children with disabilities. The breakfast will be held on Nov. 7 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Yorktown Elks Lodge, 590 Waverly Rd.

Children 3 and under eat free, ages 4-12 are $5, and 12 and up are $8. Tickets may be purchased in advance from the Yorktown Leos or at the door.

All proceeds will go to charities for children with disabilities, including the Special Olympics, which works to provide an opportunity for those with disabilities to participate in sports and their community. Also, they work to change the attitudes of people towards those with disabilities for the better.

For more information, e-mail Al Avitabile at al@davitsalesinc.com.

The Yorktown Veterans Day Parade is set for Sunday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m.  in Shrub Oak.

The parade begins lining up at 1:30 p.m. at Lakeland High School and marches down East Main Street to the John C. Hart Memorial Library for a concluding ceremony.

Anyone who would like to take part or learn more can contact Paul Martin at 914-245-8903 or by e-mail at prm3@hotmail.com. Or call Bill Lewis at 845-528-7987 or e-mail at blbb64usmc@yahoo.com.

File photo: U.S. Army National Guard Major Tracy Morgan, principal of the George Washington Elementary School who served two tours in Iraq was the honoree and guest speaker at the Shrub Oak Veterans Day Parade Nov. 8, 2009.  (Ricky Flores/The Journal News)

The local band Tossing The Apple Core and Yorktown High School student Melissa Frabotta will share the stage together at Peekskill’s 12 Grapes restaurant Nov. 7.

12 Grapes, at 12 N. Division St., was awarded “Best New Live Music Spot” by Westchester Magazine ‘09.

The performance runs from 6-8:30 p.m. There is no cover charge. For more information, go to www.12grapes.com or email ttacbandbiz@aol.com.

Teacher Michelle Reuter’s students organized a blood drive in the main cafeteria at Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School Monday, Oct. 18 in the school’s main cafeteria.

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Kindergarteners from Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in the Lakeland School district, parade Oct. 29, 2010 during the third annual Word-O-Ween event.

The entire school celebrates words and vocabulary by either creating a hat or costume depicting a word each student finds interesting. According to principal Patty McIlvenny, the idea was inspired by author Debra Frasier’s award winning book, ” Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster.” To see more photographs from the Word-O-Ween parade go to LoHud.com and check out an upcoming video of the event. ( Joe Larese / The Journal News )

It will be even easier for Yorktown residents to be on the move now that bike racks, designed and built by students at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES’s Tech Center and commissioned by the town have been installed in several areas around town.

The functional art pieces were placed this week near the track behind the Yorktown Community & Cultural Center, at Town Hall and outside Starbucks and at Railroad Park, both on Commerce Street.

BOCES graduate Alexa Picone of Yorktown created “Chain Reaction,” a sculptural rack that looks as if it could have a place at Storm King. Yorktown’s Sabrina Bababekov, who also graduated in June, brought practicality and art together when she designed her rack around a trash pail.

Plaques will be placed near all the racks, recognizing the students who designed them as well as the students who worked on creating them.

The multicolored pieces were put in place by the Yorktown Parks Department and Highway Department. They were a collaborative effort of the Tech Center academies: Advertising Art and Digital Design students designed the racks, Welding students built them, Carpentry students built the flower box on top of one of the creations, Masonry students cemented the box, and Auto Body students put the paint and finish on them.

Photos: Top, courtesy Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES; Ossining senior Dana Robins, left, and Alexa Picone show off “Chain Reaction,” which Picone designed, at its unveiling June 8 (Brian Howard/The Journal News); and, left, some of the other 13 racks that were commissioned by the town.

Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate has posted a new video featuring several recognizable local figures extolling the town’s virtues as a place to live, work and play.

Councilman Nick Bianco, Peter Pratt’s Inn owner Jonathan Pratt and John C. Hart Memorial Library Director Patricia Baressi are among those who appear. The two-minute video highlights various locations in town, from the Shrub Oak Deli to the Downing Ballfields and Sparkle Lake.

While it’s clearly a sales pitch for prospective home buyers, it shows the town in its very best light.

Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will host a Rally to Restore Sanity and a March to Keep Fear Alive, respectively, this Saturday at the Washington Mall in D.C. Are you making the hike up to our nation’s capital? Reporter Briggette Sayegh is looking for locals to talk to at the scene. If you would be willing to be interviewed, please e-mail her at bsayegh@lohud.com