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DemocratandChronicle.com Page 4B Monday, March 18, 2013 Biggest Loser Continued from Page 1B weather permits, jogs along the Erie Ca nal. Michaels, known for her no-nonsense, tough-as-nails approach to hands." Just a few simple changes make a difference, Chandrasekar said. Swap carrot sticks for chips, add an hour whip the adult contestants into shape, said via email that Chandrasekar has improved her fitness level tremendously in the past of physical activity to each day, and know that it's worth the effort. Over the summer, Chandrasekar applied to be a Biggest Loser teen ambassador and was few months. She eats healthier and is more active, Mi chaels said, but in particular, the bravery she has shown in confronting her family and baring her soul to America has been "Fm more energized, happier, healthier and more comfortable with myself." SANJANA CHANDRASEKAR Biggest Loser participant from Pittsford sekar said she focused on her goal of a healthy future.

Next, she will prepare for her SATs and getting into college. As a member of the Pittsford Sutherland's varsity tennis team, Chandrasekar said she's also excited to see how the training will transform her swing next season. And last fall, she won a $5,000 grant for her high school, which according to district officials was used to buy physical education equipment. The Chandrasekar family traveled to Los Angeles last week for Monday's finale, when the participants reveal a joint overall weight loss of more than 1,600 pounds, according to NBC. For the live show, all three teens will be center stage.

"Childhood obesity is a huge problem in this country," Chandrasekar said, adding that she thought NBC spotlighted the issue, which many people won't discuss. "If I can do it, they can do it too." VFREILEDemocratandChronicle.com Twitter.comvfreile her interests and goals, rather than focusing on what's expected of her, Drake said. Born in India, Chandrasekar spent several years in the Rochester region, then five years in Melbourne, Australia, before her family moved to Pittsford in 2010. An only child, Chandrasekar said her quest led her to address difficult topics with her parents Subramanian and Shanthi Chandrasekar. "We addressed issues that needed to be discussed, and because of that, our relationship is stronger than ever," she said.

"We're all getting healthy together and we're all better for it. I'm so proud of them." The family used to sit at home most evenings, even though they belonged to a local health club, Shanthi Chandrasekar said. "Now we go, and it's much more refreshing." Since September, the Chandrasekar family has exercised daily at a local YMCA branch. Chandrasekar lifts weights, runs on the treadmill and uses other cardio machines. Occasionally, she takes yoga and zumba classes and, when selected in the fall along with 13-year-olds Biingo Gray of New Windsor, and Lindsay Bravo of Fillmore, Calif.

As a result, Chandrasekar, an honor roll student, said she missed "a lot" of her junior year. She said her teachers and classmates have been supportive and her grades remained strong during filming, which ended in January. "She's a conscientious student, independent and a hard worker," said Drake, her counselor. "I was thrilled for her. This was a once-in-a-life-time event.

Her classes would still be here next year." deeply inspiring." "She has brought a new, fresh energy to the show and has not only motivated adults with her commitment and dedication, but has also demonstrated to her peers that change is possible," Michaels said. Chandrasekar said she enjoyed working with Michaels. "She's different in training the kids than how she treats the adult contestants," Chandrasekar said. "I felt like I was in good ft ine experience was a challenge, but Chandra- 3,411 wines in competition A record number of entries await the 13th annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competition next weekend in downtown Rochester. To date, there are 3,411 wines entered, representing 836 wineries across all 50 states, 21 countries and 12 Canadian provinces.

The event is set for March 23-24 at the Rochester Plaza Hotel, with the wine auction dinner featuring the winners to follow on May 4, also at the hotel. All proceeds benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times. There is talk of artwork in addition to plantings, and benches on which residents can sit and read in the shade. After the planting will come gardening classes and, organizers hope, hands-on arts and craft demonstrations out of which neighbors will create works to display at a new Project Scion Studio. "We want (the garden) to be a place where neighbors can gather and have a barbecue or neighborhood family night where people can relax, their stress level can go down, they can enjoy the beauty of the trees and the flowers," Coates said.

"We want to turn it over to them." BDSHARPi8DemocratandChronicle.com Twitter.comsharproc Garden Continued from Page 3B are landscape designers. He owns Waterford Tilling in Penfield. She is vice president of Zaret-sky and Associates in Ma-cedon. The group took on a similar effort, their first project, last year at Jay and Child streets planting 20 trees, 100 shrubs and 150 perennials on a double lot. Furgi-uele and Coates provided the expertise, other businesses and organizations donated goods, and neighbors volunteered to build and maintain the garden.

The lot at Dewey and Ravine is roughly half the size. But the plan is much the same. Frisk Continued from Page 2B Wild Wings volunteers Richard luli, left, and John Ninfo talk about the senses of a screech owl with students at School 9. JEFFREY BLACKWELL STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Birds Continued from Page 3B fourth-graders attended the bird show. Wild Wing volunteers bought four birds to the school, including Melinda the barn owl, a peregrine falcon, a hawk and a screech owl with one eye.

The raptor refuge is for birds who have been injured or for some season cannot live on their own in the wild. For the kids the presentation was a lesson about wild animals and the senses that help them hear a mouse in the snow as they fly above, or the speed of a peregrine falcon, which can fly at speeds of 220 mph. Fourth-grade teacher Ivelissa Viera said the students studied very hard about the birds before the presentation. "I think they came away with a very good experience. When we talked about what they were going to see they were very into it," she said.

"They were practicing their reading skills and at the same time it really psyched them up." JBLACKWELLSDemocratandChronicle Twitter.comjblack63 a public safety hearing. The case was first filed in 2008 on behalf of David Floyd, a freelance film and video editor, and three others. It has since been named a class-action lawsuit on behalf of everyone who may have been wrongly stopped. Floyd said he was stopped and harassed at least twice by police, once simply walking home and again outside his apartment. In both cases, he said, they had no reason to stop him.

The trial is expected to last more than a month and include more than 100 witnesses. Lawyers also plan to play hours of audio tapes made by Adrian Schoolcraft, an officer who was hauled off to a psych ward against his will after he said he refused to fill illegal quotas. His former bosses, including some reassigned after their statements were made public, are also expected. In addition to seeking broad reforms, the lawsuit also requests a court-appointed monitor to oversee those changes. Pert, a 24-year-old black man, says he has been stopped many times in his gentrified Harlem neighborhood, while his white neighbors are not.

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Call 585-743-1830 (24 hours) THEN AND NOW Take a look at this! You can see past and present photos of Elmwood Avenue, west of Mt. Hope Avenue, overlaid on each other, in the Retrofitting Rochester feature at Democratand Chronicle.com. The series showcases before-and-after views of our city's historic buildings and landscapes. Go to media.democratandchronicle.comretrofittingrochester and click on one of the icons to the left and slide the bar in the middle of the photo to compare photos of the landmarks as they appear now and in history. Hear narration from Emily Morry, an assistant researcher in the City Historian's Office, or read her explanation below the photos.

Watch for more Retrofitting Rochester features every Monday in RocNews. Retrofit Continued from Page 3B By the 1970s, such entertainment offerings proved as old-fashioned as the drinks the cocktail lounge once served in abundance. In an effort to rejuvenate the restaurant, the motel hired local groups such as Freedom Tree to perform top 40 playlists for patrons. The "Me" decade nevertheless found the mid- for your FREE booklet! century marvel falling behind the times and out of place. As a new crop of downtown hotels and airline motels provided the once-popular inn with stiff competition, the construction of Interstate 390 redirected much of the tourist traffic that routes 15 and 47 once saw on a regular basis.

In 1976, the Towne House sold a third of its property to the University of Rochester for the institution's computer center. Six years later, the school bought the rest of the building with the aim of converting the motel rooms into dorms. Although the university's enrollment remained consistent during the late 1970s, its demand for on-campus housing increased. As Donald K. Hess, UR's vice president for campus affairs, explained in 1982, students in the 1960s and early 1970s, "wanted to disassociate themselves from the mi EE establishment.

They didn't like the regimentation of dormitory living. Now they seem to want to live on campus again." Students who were assigned to the Towne House became the envy of many of their peers as each of their rooms came equipped with a television and private bathroom. Until last year, the building was home to 60 graduate students. Later this spring, it will be demolished to make way for the University of Rochester's College Town devel opment set to open in the summer of 2014. Consequently, the corner that initially accommodated tourists and later housed students will soon cater to both as the southwest corner of Elm-wood and Mt.

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