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In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, News 12 spoke with Sister Mary Stephen who said she always wanted to be a teacher and is proud to be an educator.

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And as you're out driving on the local roadways, we know it is going to be cold Christy. When do you think the temperatures are going to warm up just a little bit? I mean, as we enter into a weekend, they pick up, but that comes with some rain, unfortunately, but we see that our radar over the past six hours is showing some flurries really over across the area. But that is going to be continuing through today and tomorrow, really mostly northwestern New York and Pennsylvania are seeing the snow, but we can't rule out flurries throughout the day today as well as to tomorrow. We see it coming across and that comes with some bitterly cold temperatures across the area. And this is our, feels like versus our regular temperatures, regular temperatures on the left over here in our blue cold feels like temperatures. So what you need to know is these frigid temperatures continue. This is later in our evening tonight, around dinner time, we're seeing temperatures in the upper twenties and low thirties, but feeling like they're in the twenties, 22 in Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. And that is going to drop even more. As we head into our overnight hours, this is 1045 starting to get into the teens in some spots. Brewster seeing 17 and it's gonna be even colder for tomorrow. So you're gonna wanna keep that in mind for your commute tomorrow morning. This is 6 a.m. feeling like 16 out there. So definitely bundle up and be prepared if you're heading when you're heading out the door. And then by your afternoon, those temperatures still stay pretty cold with some wind gusts of around 20 miles an hour. And we can't rule out some accumulation really northwestern Ulster County, seeing between one and three inches, really not much and flurries passing throughout the rest of the day and we see some rain chances pick up for Friday. But with that, our temperatures are also on the rise thankfully and it's really a turnaround from today. Don't be fooled by this temperature. It's feeling like the twenties out there frigid and then a really big switch into Friday. Our temperatures jump up and some rain can return for your weekend. Let's take a look at your 10 day forecast. Now, we've got a frigid and cold Wednesday for you with some gust winds and temperatures are on the rise into the weekend with some chance for rain for your Friday and we're back to seasonable temperatures through next week.

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93-year-old nun shares experience working in Westchester school for over 50 years

Our teacher appreciation week coverage concludes today with a special educator serving one Westchester School for more than five decades. Sister Mary Stephen Healy has been the principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School for all that time. And now she is with us to talk about what it's like to work in that environment for more than half a century. Good morning sister. Good morning, Tara. Tell me a little bit. I am wonderful now that I'm with you, tell me a little bit about your desire to get into education. Why this calling as well. Well, I guess uh I'd have to say I always wanted to be a teacher. OK. All my life and that was my chief thing was I really wanted to correct papers. I thought that was the greatest part of being an educator was to correct papers. So that's where I started. And then I um met the sisters of the divine compassion and they were teachers. And so I entered that community. And so here I am today a proud principal at our Lady of Mount Comma School in Elmsford and Taro. We really believe that we provide a Christ oriented environment with combined with excellent academic education. So we've been very much affected by the pandemic. And so um my hope is that we will see an increase in our enrollment this year. Um I am a sister of divine compassion and that's really my chief desire is to pass that legacy on and truthfully my teachers live that for me. So I have no worries that that will continue and I have the greatest kids in the whole world and um my alumni are extremely supportive of us. So um we hope that uh we will continue here. We're, we're putting up some pictures. I know you can't see right now, but we're taking our own walk down memory lane of your time at this school. And uh we see you in costume. Uh We see you out there dancing, we see you having fun. Uh You are breaking maybe what people who don't know uh about catholic education. Kind of the, the preconceived notions they may have. You are breaking those barriers every day. It seems. Yeah, that's one of my pleasures too is dancing. You're lucky. I'm not making you stand up and give us a twist right now. Uh What do you want me to do? Oh, 12. Let's go. Oh, yes, Mary Steven. I love you. Uh As Teacher Appreciation Week is winding down, what is your message to your teachers, to young educators? To those you hope are going to shape the mind of the students that you love so much. Uh I guess my thing is that they are, they are privileged people who have an opportunity to make a change in someone's life. And so, um I hope that our youth will consider being teachers. I don't think there's any other vocation in life where we can touch as many people and uh have an effect on them. You are 93. That is the hope You are 93 years young. Uh forgive the question. Is retirement in the future or is this your destiny for life? Well, as long as the Lord wants me, you're right. Um As long as my health continues, I love what I do. And uh so I hope uh I hope I'll have some more years in education. We hope that too. When I called your office to set this up, I have to tell you the woman who picked up the phone as lovely as can be said to me. She is the amazing sister Mary Stephen Healy. Amazing in every sense of the word you can see. They make me look good. Thank you for your dedication to education and for the time with us today. Thank you. Thank you.

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