NEW YORK TRIP Cassie Price Celebrates on ’Sesame Street’

This spring, Channel 13 announced that it was holding a special drawing to send a lucky North Texas youngster to New York City to help celebrate Sesame Street’s 20th-anniversary season. Like thousands of other parents in the Channel 13 viewing area, Lori Price wanted her child to have a chance to win the prize. She mailed off an entry form for her six-year-old daughter, Cassie.

Several weeks later. Cassie’s grandfaiher, Ray Long, called Price at work and asked whether Cassie was “available to go to New York.”

“The way he phrased it made me think Cassie had been chosen as a runner-up,” Price said. “In the back of my mind, I thought maybe she was the winner – but that doesn’t happen, does it?”

This time, it did. Cassie Price of Irving had won the drawing. In September, she and her mother represented Channel 13 at a once-in-a-lifetime party held on the Sesame Street set in New York.

Cassie’s prize, sponsored by American Airlines and JCPenney, made it possible for her to take her first airplane trip, stay at the Sheraton City Squire and meet other children from all over the country. Best of all, she got to mingle with the stars – furry, feathered and human -of the most acclaimed children’s show in the history of television.

’It was quite a weekend,” said Price, a video technology student at North-lake College who works at an Irving grocery store. “It was a an experience that I’m sure she’ll never forget.”