Henrietta Cetas of Riverhead, pictured here at 98, will celebrate her 100th birthday May 12. (Courtesy photo)
Henrietta Cetas didn’t set out to become a music teacher. If not for the persistence of a neighbor’s child who lived across the street, she may have never discovered the joy she felt in helping to foster a love of music in so many children of all ages.
Music had always been an integral part of Ms. Cetas’ life. Her mother was musically inclined and insisted her seven children receive piano lessons. Her mother sacrificed what she could to come up with money for lessons, even during the era of the Great Depression when the family didn’t have much growing up in Alabama.
Henrietta Cetas of Riverhead, pictured here at 98, will celebrate her 100th birthday May 12. (Courtesy photo)
Henrietta Cetas didn’t set out to become a music teacher. If not for the persistence of a neighbor’s child who lived across the street, she may have never discovered the joy she felt in helping to foster a love of music in so many children of all ages.
Music had always been an integral part of Ms. Cetas’ life. Her mother was musically inclined and insisted her seven children receive piano lessons. Her mother sacrificed what she could to come up with money for lessons, even during the era of the Great Depression when the family didn’t have much growing up in Alabama.
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RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW
Iron Pier Beach in Jamesport. (File photo)
Riverhead Town’s beaches will be going high tech this summer, with Wi-Fi availability planned at all four beaches and beach stickers that will be linked into the town’s software system, according to parks and recreation superintendent Ray Coyne.
Wi-Fi is already active at South Jamesport Beach and the East Creek docks.
The parks department initially started out by just replacing the booths at all of the beaches, Mr. Coyne said.
“They’ve got to be about 25 to 30 years old,” he told the Town Board last Thursday. “They are breaking down, and the beach attendants don’t even use them anymore. They sit outside.”