NYSUT and WGTA at the Fair: Union again hosts a booth
NYSUT Communications / WGTA Webmaster - August 15, 2012

New York State United Teachers will once again be well represented at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, Aug. 23-Sept. 3.

The NYSUT booth - staffed, as always by members from Syracuse region locals INCLUDING the WGTA - will again be housed in the Center of Progress Building. The WGTA will be staffing the booth on August 29th.

Three of the 2011 WGTA volunteers working the NYSUT
NYS Fair booth were Val Socha (various elementary buildings),
Pat Ranieri (Onondaga Road) and Christine Rust (Stonehedge).

Volunteers working the booth will greet thousands of New Yorkers, and share with them back-to-school giveaways such as pencils and rulers. Also available this year will be materials dealing with the issue of bullying. The materials are designed for students, parents and teachers.

NYSUT members are encouraged to identify themselves, sign in at a special "members table" and avail themselves of some of the member-only materials at the booth.

The union's secretary-treasurer, Lee Cutler, is scheduled to be on hand on opening day.

For more about the Fair, go to http://www.nysfair.org/.