Mayor To Honor White Plains High Senior For Hispanic Heritage Essay

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- White Plains High School senior Raina Kadavil took second place recently in Optimum Power to Learn's sixth annual Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest.

by Justin Quinn

01/09/2014 4:00 a.m.

She will read her essay on Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, at a ceremony in the White Plains Administration Building on Friday, Jan. 10. She will also be presented with a laptop computer by Mayor Thomas Roach.

The event gets under way at 3:30 p.m. It is open to all students in grades six through 12 and takes place in the office of the superintendent of schools in the White Plains Administration Building at 5 Homeside Lane.

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