I ran the V.F.W. Loyalty Day Parade for a number of years for the Westchester Council.

Janet T. Langsam, executive director of the Westchester Council for the Arts, said the council was not pleased with the late budget but was surviving.

(Many of the choral groups in the county receive a grant each year from the Westchester Council of the Arts through its Arts Alive program.)

Crate and Barrel is donating 10 percent of its sales through March 15 to the Westchester Council for the Arts.

Again considering costs as a major factor, and working from a list supplied by the Westchester Council on the Arts, the group last year searched for a place to call home.

Illness and a spring snowfall had kept other members of the Westchester Council away from a special tour of the county jail and penitentiary complex here that morning.

Sources of financing include Federal and state grants, money from the Westchester Council for the Arts and individual and corporate gifts.

"The Westchester Council for the Arts suggested Masters School," said Sydnie Grosberg, assistant artistic director.

At a special meeting called last week to discuss the referendum, the board of the 30-year-old Westchester Council on Crime and Delinquency voted to oppose the bond issue.

Financing was provided by the Westchester Council for the Arts and by patrons of the Katonah Museum.