EX-PRESIDENTS TO AID WTC EFFORT.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: RICHARD PYLE Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Gov. George Pataki delivered an optimistic progress report on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site Monday, saying the planned memorial to victims would get a boost from having four living ex-presidents serve as honorary members of the project's board.

``We're going to do this right,'' Pataki told reporters during a walking tour of ground zero, the 16-acre pit where construction already is well along on a new underground transport hub and other projects. ``It shows that this is not just New York rebuilding, it's America rebuilding ... it's important to send that signal to our country and to the …