ALBANY \u2013 The Empire State could officially designate Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day under legislation introduced by Albany pols looking to memorialize the iconic country star.<\/p>\n
The proposal, meant to mimic a similar effort in Parton\u2019s home state of Tennessee, would establish \u201c9-25\u201d as Dolly Parton Day, a nod to her her hit 1980 film and song, \u201c9 to 5\u201d to honor the singer\u2019s legacy and philanthropic efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe brought joy to millions, stood up for working people, championed the LGBTQ community and women\u2019s empowerment, gave millions of children the gift of reading, and did it all with an extraordinary spirit of kindness and generosity,\u201d state Sen. Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan), one of the bill\u2019s sponsors wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n
Some state lawmakers want to designate Sept. 25 as \u201cDolly Parton Day\u201d in New York. \u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
While Parton always called Tennessee home, she took up residences on Fifth Avenue and later on York Avenue.<\/p>\n
But State Sen. Jeremy Cooney (D-Rochester) who has annually pushed for state grants to help pump funding into Parton\u2019s \u201cImagination Library\u201d program, said that the country\u2019 star\u2019s impact on New York is far greater than the time she spent in the Empire State physically.<\/p>\n
\u201cDolly\u2019s impact extends far beyond her musical talent, with her Imagination Library providing free monthly books to over 170,000 children in New York, supporting childhood literacy and bringing joy to families,\u201d Cooney said.<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered state landmarks to be lit up pink in honor of Parton last week.<\/p>\n
State Sen. Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan) (pictured) and state Sen. Jeremy Cooney (D-Monroe). Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
Cooney has routinely pushed for funding for Parton\u2019s \u201cImagination Library\u201d program. @SenatorCooney\/Twitter<\/p>\n
\u201cShe spent a lifetime giving back to communities in need and her legendary career made the world a more hopeful place \u2014 we will miss Dolly and commemorate her love and light as New York illuminates pink in her honor,\u201d the governor wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013 The Empire State could officially designate Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day under legislation introduced by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,30608,426,57,9,11,10,49,51,50,18571,58],"class_list":["post-337503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany","tag-dolly-parton","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-senate","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}