LMC-TV to Celebrate 20th Birthday at "Sunny Award" on October 19

by Tom Murphy

(October 8, 2003) On Sunday, October 19, Larchmont Mamaroneck Community-TV is celebrating a big birthday – its 20th year of providing local access television to Larchmont and Mamaroneck.

The party will coincide with the annual "Sunny Award" taking place at the Mamaroneck Beach and Yacht Club. The “Sunny” is named after LMC-TV past president, the effervescent Sunny Goldberg.

This years honorees are three local leaders who have nurtured LMC-TV since its inception in 1983. To represent the Eighties, former Larchmont Mayor Miriam Curnin heads the list. She is followed by former Village of Mamaroneck Mayor Joe Lanza who supported LMC-TV during the Nineties, and Town of Mamaroneck Supervisor Valerie O'Keeffe, who has been providing continued stewardship into the Twenty-first Century.

LMC-TV has evolved over the years to become a vital link for obtaining information about local government and community activities. Originally, LMC-TV covered just one municipal meeting per month. Now it covers over one hundred meetings a year. It also provides access to any local community group who wishes to inform the public of its mission, function or need. Access to local channels is available to anyone who lives or works in the community.

In its twenty years, LMC-TV has always depended upon the hard work of hundreds of volunteers for its success. Volunteers tape many of the community events and local board meetings, and more hands are always needed.

LMC-TV’s live broadcasts of local board meetings help inform the public and inspire participation in local government. It’s not unusual to have a citizen show up at a public meeting to join a discussion he or she had been viewing at home on TV. This is the kind of retail democracy LMC-TV seeks to promote in order to increase the quality of political discourse and the openness of government.

For more information about volunteer opportunities or the Sunny Awards, call 381-2002 or e-mail: lmc-tv@LMC-TV.org

Tom Murphy is a long-term resident of the Village of Mamaroneck

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