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Matt Larusso of the Cooperstown All Stars dashes for first base at Cooperstown All Star Village Monday June 14 against the California Tritons. The score was 15-2, but the All Stars got to test their mettle against national competitors.
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he new $120,000 floating docks were installed at Lakefront Park last week, and over the weekend renters boats began to fill up the slips. The project had been contemplated since 2011, when floods damaged the fixed docks and boats attached to them, according to Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh, who chairs the Park Committee. The 10-foot slips are larger and better able to accommodate larger craft. Rents were raised $50 to $500 for residents and $1,000 for non-residents, “still the best on the lake,” Tillapaugh said. IN HER HONOR: The Cooperstown Elementary’s third-grade track meet was renamed for Kathleen Galland-Bennett, a popular teacher who died of cancer last year, in ceremonies Thursday, June 2, at the school track. Photos at
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Local Fossil-Fuel Foes In Statewide Coalition By SAM ALDRIDGE
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Transwoman Feels Safe, ‘Blessed’ In Living Here By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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enise Wilkinson feels safe walking the streets in Oneonta. “I’m blessed,” she said. “I came out as a transwoman two and a half years ago, and I haven’t been harassed or chased once. I went to the DMV, got my licensed changed, no problem.” “That’s good to hear,” said Juli Grey-Owens, Please See TOWN HALL, A6
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Despite the Saturday, June 11, downpours that caused the Cooperstown Marathon’s cancellation, Joe Stephens of Brooklyn, completed the circuit.
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little rain wasn’t going to stop Tom Slicer, competing Saturday, June 11, in Race the Lake here, from achieving his dream of completing his first marathon. “I was kind of enjoying the rain,” Wendy Slicer he said. “It was more like a shower. hugs son Tom.
I was thinking ‘Anyone got a bar of soap’?” Though heavy rains caused the race to be cancelled just before the start of the half-marathon 9 a.m., Tom, then at the nine-mile point, soldiered on with a pack of runners. “It made me think of what the Marines go through,” he said. But as he reached Mile 21, village trolleys and Clark Sports Center vans Please See RACE, A2
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VIBBARD ACHIEVES: Ellen Vibbard, Cooperstown, was named to the SUNY Oswego Dean’s List. A junior, she is majoring in communication and social interaction.
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The Rev. Bill Delia, pastor of Cooperstown United Methodist Church, with his wife Regina and the Randios, his daughter and son-in-law from Balston Spa, accepted good wishes from members of his congregation and friends in the community Saturday, June 11, as he prepares to retire from the ministry. He delivered his last sermon Sunday the 12th, and the Delias have now moved to a condo they own, also in Balston Spa. Pastor Delia plans to complete his fourth novel, and the couple looks forward to enjoying a newborn grandchild. He will be succeeded in early July by the Rev. Tom Lebeau, pastor of Faith Methodist Church in Lancaster, outside Buffalo.
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RACE/From A1 came around to pick up remaining runners. “They made me get in the van,” he said. “It was a state of emergency.” “There was dangerous thunder and lightning, and our volunteers on Route 20 said there was hail,” said Doug McCoy, event director. “There was water 6-8 inches deep rushing across the roadways. Cars were pulling off the road because they couldn’t see.” Tom, 22, who just finished his freshman year in Recreation and Sports Management at SUNY Delhi, has made athletics his passion. “I was inspired by the movie ‘Forrest Gump’,” said Slicer. “I just felt like running. It’s something I do to help me relax, take my mind off stress.” A former Springbrook student, Tom, who is autistic, became interested in sports when he was 11 and he joined the Springbrook Scorpions Special Olympics basketball team. When he transferred to OHS in 2011, he made the varsity team, where he played for two years. He also ran the 800, 400 and the 4 X 800 meter relay track events. In April 2012, the son and mother published a children’s book, “The Basketball Journey of Thomas Slicer,” about his journey to become an athlete. “Basketball influenced me to go to college,” he said. “The book is about my struggles, and how hard I had to work to make the varsity team.” In 2015, he started running long-distance, starting with the SADD Run. “I’m not a runner, but I told him, ‘If you sign us both up and pay for it, I’ll run it with you’,” said his mom, Wendy. “It was brutal, and I was sore for a week!” But they continued running together, including the Pit Run, the Job Corps Mother’s Day 5K, the Tuff eNuff and Frostbite 5K. They also added biking to the mix, participating in Drops to Hops, and Tom participated in the Whiteface Uphill Bike Race in the Adirondacks. “A friend and I were camping, and it was so cold I couldn’t sleep the night before,” he said. “But I had a great time!” “The next thing I knew, he wanted us to do the RatSnake reverse triathlon,” said Wendy. “I’ve always wanted to do a half-marathon, so we signed up for that and the Syracuse halfmarathon. And then we thought, ‘Well, we’ll be that fit, so we might as well sign up for Race the Lake!” They will run the Oneonta Outlaws 5K in July, and Tom hopes to qualify for the NYC Marathon. “I have a childhood dream of being in the Olympics,” he said. “But right starters, I’d like to work at the YMCA, be a personal trainer.”
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A ALUTE TO THE 2016 CLARK SCHOLARS Jane Forbes Clark, The Clark Foundation president, has announced 193 students in 12 area school districts and ONC BOCES have been awarded first-year scholarships totalling $766,300. The scholarships are awarded based on academic achievement, citizenship qualities and service to their communities. Currently, 700 students attending college are receiving more than $3.9 million in such scholarships. Since the program’s founding in 1961, almost 11,000 students have benefited. CHERRY VALLEY-SPRINGFIELD
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Locally, Today, We Can Reduce Risk Of Guns, Pain Of Bias
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he nation’s latest mass shooting, at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., brings two issues to mind of some local relevance. • One, guns. There are 35,000 gun permits in our county of 61,676 people and 23,291 households, so this is not theoretical. It’s unlikely – not impossible, given the impact on public opinion of repeated massacres by lone gunmen – that strict regulation of purchase and ownership will happen in the U.S. Even if the politics
were to change, the Second Amendment is pretty straightforward: “The right to bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Still, were the Founding Fathers thinking about a single-shot Pennsylvania rifle, or an armored vehicle in every driveway? Is there any legal application for the AR-15 used in Orlando that enabled Omar Mateen to kill 50 people in short order? No state allows a hunter to use such a gun to take out anything close to 50 deer in a season, so what’s the point? Assault rifles were banned from 1994 to 2004,
with no ill effect on our democracy. It’s sensible that such a ban should be reinstated. But whether it is or not, we can act here in Otsego County and simply remove guns from our homes. While gun ownership is allowed, it’s not required. And it remains a fact that most people killed by guns are killed by an angry or disturbed relative, accidentally when guns falls into the hands of children, or through suicide. Our best hope to survive gun violence is not to avoid LGBT discos in Florida,
movie houses in Aurora, Colo., or elementary schools in Newtown, Conn., but to simply banish guns from our individual lives. • Two, sexuality. We don’t have to live too long in this world with our eyes open to recognize that human sexuality falls along a continuum. Masculinity and femininity aren’t cookie-cutter definitions. While how people act, all along that spectrum, can be immoral or not, biology is simple fact, to be accepted, not judged. It was heartening to read,
in Libby Cudmore’s story on the front page of this edition, that this may be happening locally. “I came out as a transwoman two and a half years ago, and I haven’t been harassed or chased once,” Denise Wilkinson of Oneonta told a Transgender Advocacy Coalition town meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church a few days ago. “I went to the DMV, got my licensed changed, no problem.” “I’m blessed,” she said. If that’s indeed the case, we’re all blessed. As individual human
beings in a rural county in Upstate New York, many things are beyond our control, but some things are not. One, we can remove guns from our homes and make our families safer. Two, we can accept that vagaries of gender are not a choice, and accept people who, for now, in our evolving culture, are judged on variations that are simple facts of life. Instead of just shaking our heads hopelessly at the Orlando tragedy, we can act; we can do both today. Let’s.
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New Generation Doesn’t Take Dangers Of Drug Addiction Seriously Enough Editor’s Note: Owen Moss, formerly of Oneonta, submitted this piece for publication after the League of Women Voters’ forum for 19th District Congressional candidates Wednesday, June 8. By OWEN MOSS
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ver the past year, our community has confronted the brutal heroin epidemic gripping our region. It’s been comforting to see folks fighting back – committing resources, money, and time to stop this awful addiction strangling our people.
Many of our leaders have passionately stepped up to the plate, and we appreciate their commit-
ment and leadership in this time of need. It’s also been sobering to hear the heart-wrenching stories of those affected; whether it’s a dad or mom, son or daughter or close friend destroyed by these nasty drugs, it’s clear that the families impacted by this disease are not alone in this fight. Far from it. At the same time, I’ve been disappointed at the tendency to sugar-coat many of the hard realties related to heroin and opioid addiction. While we’ve taken proactive steps to provide resources to our treatment facilities and law enforcement, the ability of these two forces to impact this epidemic
has its limits. I’ve found liberal estimates of heroin addiction recovery to hover around 30 percent, and anecdotal evidence has me believing it’s much lower than that. Of course, this estimate includes the thousands, if not millions, of lawyers, doctors and bankers who have also been impacted by opioid addiction and who have a much higher chance of recovery (because of family support, resources, and money). So of course, your average heroin addict with an unstable income, rough home life and limited family network of support, has a
very low chance of beating this disease. The likelihood that he or she will continue to use heroin, or worse yet, die from heroin overdose, is devastatingly high. For the past year, and in recent weeks especially, our law enforcement has hammered down on the heroin distribution chains in our region. But they are up against it. For every tag-team heroin dealing duo, with $10,000 in cash and a hundred $5 bags of heroin, there are hundreds of other supply chains flooding our heroin market. Most notably, the Mexican cartel. It’s well documented that Please See VOICES, B7
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Time Running Out On Animal Shelter Finances To the Editor: In light of the recent articles and letters to the editor concerning the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, I believe it is of the utmost importance to clarify the agency’s current situation. While it is certainly true that the SAS has, historically, been forced to operate on a deficit, long term that model is not sustainable. Mr. McBrearty’s letter in last week’s editions suggesting that individual donations, occasional fundraisers, and the volunteer efforts of The Better Exchange Thrift Shop, however welcome and essential, are sufficient to ensure our survival is economically
unrealistic. We are certainly fortunate to have a generous endowment from Louis Hager Sr., which combined with significant yearly grant support from The Scriven Foundation and local businesses and private citizens have been vital, although ultimately insufficient to balance our budget. Once Mr. Hager’s endowment is depleted, which our current deficit insures within the next decade, the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, since 1917 the only Shelter in Otsego County, will be forced to close. It is important for the community, and particularly the towns and county we
serve, to understand that the cost of running the Shelter is considerable – vaccines, food, spay and neutering programs, salaries, insurance, infrastructure maintenance and repairs. Animal cruelty and abandonment are currently managed by the SAS with no local government agency helping with those costs, despite the vital benefit to the community at large. Very often there is no financial recourse to pet owners, and with local agencies unwilling to help, and the Shelter’s commitment to a “no kill” policy, the cost falls entirely on our shoulders. If Otsego County wants to maintain the vital services of the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, funds must
be made available to help balance our budget and ensure our future. Our wonderful staff and volunteers, supported by our board, are committed to carefully managing our resources and creatively improving our fund-raising efforts, but we need help. The SAS is open to the public at 4841 Route 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. I encourage anyone interested in learning more to stop by and visit us. We will be happy to show you around, introduce you to our animals, answer any questions you have, and listen to your ideas. STACIE HAYNES Executive Director Susquehanna Animal Shelter
Once, Guns Were For Hunting; Big-Clip Assault Rifles Aren’t To the Editor: Nearly 20 years ago, I moved to Saranac Lake to work on renovating a camp on Upper St. Regis Lake. Across the street from my apartment was an old, established restaurant called the Belvedere, and on Friday nights I would treat myself to a pay-day dinner there. The Columbine shootings had occurred on the day of one of my Friday night dinners. On this particular evening, a grandfather, his son and two grandsons were at a table near mine and by their conversation, I could tell that they were a Saranac Lake family. The boys were about 10-12 years old and they were asking questions about the Columbine shooting. Their father answered the best he could, and then the attention shifted to the grandfather. His response really got my attending: “Used to be when you talked about guns, all you were talking about was hunting”. Surely after the Orlando tragedy, we can and must ban big clip assault rifles. If not, how many more tragedies will it take? MICHAEL WHALING Cooperstown
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To the Editor: This is a reaction to a letter written by Mr. Marshall in the May 26 edition. Paul I love you. But to say Donald Trump is a bully and will lead us into war is only an opinion by some. A record number of voters have turned out for Donald Trump. Not because we will bet our lives on the fact he will be a great president, but as I’ve stated before we need to take that chance. I cannot comprehend how American people are so turned off by a man’s tone, but are willing to vote for lawyer politicians who have been bullying the American people for decades. The same people that continue to allow corporations to pollute our world, poison our food and drinking water, run up a trade deficit of trillions, a budget deficit of $20 trillion, sending soldiers off to wars protecting poppy fields while we fight a war on heroin here at
home, giving rent, food, and cell phone money to people capable of working but just don’t need to because of a handout system created by this corrupt, crooked, useless bunch of lawyer degenerate politicians that have been allowed to get away with it for so long. The bottom line is they can’t make anything better and are only in politics because they are not capable of surviving in the business world unless a taxpayer is funding their clothing and food. … Anyone so ignorant, so blind, so fooled, to think a Clinton, a Bush, a Kennedy, or anyone like these people that have become extremely wealthy because of their contacts and connections with other heads of state, care a shred about the working American class, I just have no need to communicate with. SAL FURNARI Hartwick
Parade Is Source Of Pride, But Not Oldest To the Editor: Thanks for the press on our Fourth of July parade. For the future, our parade in Springfield started in 1914, and is not consecutive, as we had a couple years of cancellation, and one year not held due to war. We cannot claim “oldest parade in the country,” despite what the committee may have said, they can only claim that our parade was held in 1914 and we have had the 100th anniversary of the 1st parade. That’s it. MAUREEN CULBERT Vice President Springfield Historical Society Editor’s Note: Maureen referred us to a Web site reporting that the Bristol, R.I., parade is the oldest Fourth of July parade, held continuously since 1785.
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
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Steam Engine – We understand that Mr. David Hath, Jr., of New Jersey, has discovered a new era in the economy of steam engines, applied to land as well as water carriage. His invention consists of a new application of new principles in the construction of the boiler or evaporator, which rapidly generated a very high temperature or expansibility of steam, without the employment of condensation; and dispensing entirely with the use of the fly wheel and lever-beam. An engine of a four horse power, charged with fuel, may be comprised in the space appropriated to the baggage of a stage; and may be lifted to on and off the carriage by four men with the greatest ease; which carriage he can drive by experiment at the rate of 15 miles per hour, on the bare road, without the use of railways, being regulated to ascend and descend hills with uniform velocity, and the greatest safety. June 20, 1816
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A correspondent writes us that active preparations are in progress for a general celebration by the citizens of Otsego, Montgomery and Schoharie counties, of the ensuing anniversary of our National Independence, at Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, the fifth of July next. Ward Hunt, Esq. of Utica has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration on that occasion. Sharon Springs is a locality delightful from its natural scenery and is acquiring a reputation as a Watering-place. A new Hotel of the largest class, which it is believed will afford accommodations to guests equal in comfort and elegance to any in the State, will be opened on the 5th. The festivities of the occasion will conclude with a Ball in the evening. We commend the Celebration to the favorable attention of lovers of their country, of literary and oratorical effort, and of all those who seek pleasure in gay and fashionable recreation. June 21, 1841
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The Art of Wife Preserving: A woman must make herself obvious to her husband, or he will drift out beyond her horizon. She will be to him very nearly what she wills and works to be. Unless she adapts herself to her husband, he will fall into the arrangement, and the two will fall apart. I do not mean that they will quarrel, but they will lead separate lives. They will be no longer husband and wife. There will be a domestic alliance, but no marriage. A predominant interest in the same object binds them together after a fashion; but marriage is something beyond that. If a woman wishes and proposes to be the friend of her husband, if she would be valuable to him, not simply as the nurse of his children, and the directress of his household, but as a woman, fresh, and fair, and fascinating, to him intrinsically lovely and attractive, she should make an effort for it. (Excerpt from an essay by Harriet Beecher Stowe) June 15, 1866
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Hartwick Seminary – The trustees of this institution have selected Rev. William Hull of Hudson as Principal, to succeed Rev. James Pitcher, who has given the best twenty years of his life in its service. Mr. Hull has for the past two years been President of the Board of Trustees of the Seminary and was also for many years its successful financial agent. Professor J.G. Traver becomes Chair of the Latin language and literature. June 18, 1891
June 14, 1916
75 YEARS AGO
The organization Friends of Democracy this week published a spine-tingling document on the activities, here and abroad, of the Gestapo, Hitler’s secret police. The 32page document is the first detailed exposure given Americans of the creeping organization in the United States of the dread Gestapo, according to L.M. Birkhead of St. Louis, the National Director. The report cites chapter and verse of the Nazi Gestapo’s infiltration into many walks of American life. “Nazism and the Gestapo are interchangeable terms, Birkhead said. “Friends of Democracy is convinced that these revelations will unite Americans to fight Nazism wherever its viciousness appears, so that never again can Gestapo terrorism take root in this land of freedom. Wherever Hitler’s gray-green legions goose-step triumphantly in the conquered countries of Europe, the road to treachery has been prepared by the Gestapo. Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo has become the most destructive agency in the world.” June 18, 1941
50 YEARS AGO
From 1855 to 1860, Cooperstown was the home of Edward Maynard in the residence located on the northwest corner of River and Main streets, formerly known as Water and Second streets and now owned by Dr. and Mrs. M.A. McIver. Edward Maynard was co-editor of the American Journal of Dental Science. Dr. Maynard attended the dental needs of several Presidents of the United States. For his work in the advancement of the science of Dentistry and for his inventions in the field of firearms, he received many honors. He was once designated court dentist to Emperor Nicolas I of Russia. He was the first to fill teeth with gold foil in 1838. June 15, 1966
25 YEARS AGO
Connie Tedesco, former postmaster in Hartwick, has been chosen to head the Cooperstown post office effective June 19. She was selected from several applicants by the U.S. Postal Review Board and the director of field operations. The Hartwick resident was a rural carrier, then Hartwick postmaster for three years. Tedesco replaces Roger Smith, who retired in May. Randy Hill was acting postmaster from May 1 until Tedesco’s appointment. June 19, 1991
10 YEARS AGO
Fall-like weather, a slick track and Dan Busby of New Paltz proved to be too much for Cooperstown’s Josh Edmonds to handle. During the finals of the 3,200-meter run at the New York State championship track and field meet – hosted by St. Lawrence University – Edmonds missed capturing a state title by 1.24 seconds, placing second to Busby with a time of 9:13.87. Busby crossed the finish a step ahead at 9:12. June 16, 2006
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Town Hall Gauges Transgender Issues TOWN HALL/From A1 executive director of the Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition (LITA). “If you sat through our Town Hall in Brooklyn, you’d see the other side – people who don’t know if they’ll have a bed, if they’ll be eating that night.” On Friday, June 10, GreyOwens led a Transgender Town Hall at the United Unitarian Universalist Church, aimed at gathering the transgender and non-gender community together to address its needs. Oneonta was one of several Town Halls across the state, including Rochester, Albany, Plattsburg and Brooklyn. “Our mission is not to tell you how things should be,” said Grey-Owens. “We want to hear what’s going on up here so that we can put together a legislative agenda and get our community taken care of.” The most difficult part, the participants said, was building a community in a rural setting. “We’re a small, spread-out community,” said Justine Woolner-Wise, an ally and
social worker at the Gender Wellness Center at Bassett’s Susquehanna Family Practice. “How do we help people get connected?” “We need to use other ways to create visibility,” said Panik EVlynn Bedlam, Oneonta. “I’m open in my art, and I’m trying to start a magazine. We need to use our local resources, and we need to be open. Passing can be coming hiding. We’re really not that much weirder than the college students.” Kathering Hawkins, Schoharie, also advised that community members make themselves visible in all aspects of neighborhood life. “Trans is not all that I am,” she said. “I’ve been very successful by not focusing on my transgender identity. I volunteer for everything. Involve yourself in the com-
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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016
Businesswoman Discovered Whole New Business Niche By Chance, Acted On It STAY/From A1 embraced the word “hospitality” as the mission of her career, she has brought that orientation to the business she founded, almost by accident, in 1998. Not only does she inspect properties to ensure they are “clean, clean, clean,” she trains
Cooperstown Stay’s “hosts” – people providing lodging – in the basics of hospitality. She instructs them to write welcome letters to all incoming guests, and to give them clear directions, (more important before the days of GPS, but still a nice touch.)
Since guests send their checks to Cooperstown Stay, if any concerns arise, she gets the calls. “We are a rural setting,” she said. “The challenge is helping metropolitan people to live in the country.” For instance, to anyone living around here, bugs are no mystery; but guests from the Southwest, where it’s so dry there are few insects, might be unfamiliar with window screens and surprised to find moths draw drawn to lit bulbs on a summer’s evening. Lonetta calls these situations “little molehills,” and she savors resolving them. Trim, focused, full of energetic resolve and supremely organized, you would think Lonetta Swartout was born for the often fast-paced, detail-oriented business she runs. In reality, the work never even occurred to her until
1998, when – anticipating the record crowd for the 1999 Induction of George Brett, Nolan Ryan, Robin Young and Orlando Cepeda – she created “a little web site, a very basic one,” to help baseball fans find a place to stay. Most of the calls she received weren’t from Induction-goers, but from Dreams Park families, and she had a “eureka!” moment: “It was: ‘Oh, my goodness, there are so many people looking for lodging – and not enough hotel rooms’. I found myself asking everybody I ran into if they had rooms.” That year, she placed 30 customers. And every year since, it’s multiplied. “I felt there was really big potential – I did the math.” Plus, Dreams Park families were so enthusiastic, so happy to be here, she was soon confident
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the pioneering youth baseball camp was no passing fad. There are two competitors in the market now, but Cooperstown Stay, the first Dreams Park rental agency, became the dominant one, and remains supreme 18 years later. “The (hosts) who stay with us maintain high standards of customer service and a quality offerings that’s it in a nutshell,” Swartout said. Lonetta was born and raised in Antwerp, in the North Country, graduated from the newly regionalized Indian River Central School, worked her way through Cornell, then joined Jordan Marsh’s executive training program in Boston. She furthered her education in Europe in 1969, fascinated by the European perspective on the events of the year – the moon landing (she was in Italy at the time), Woodstock and anti-Vietnam War student protests. Back home, she became proprietor of The Parsonage B&B in Waterbury, Conn., and later taught school in Litchfield. In 1991, she arrived in Cooperstown with her two children, Natasha and Brent (she now has two grandchildren), joining New York Central Mutual as its executive trainer. She remained there until February 2001, when the press of her new business required her full attention. As someone who’s benefitted from the Dreams Park phenomenon, Swartout has had a front-row seat on the resulting economic benefits. Property owners benefit, she said, using their rental revenues to keep up their homes, pay off second mortgages on what become retirement homes, send the kids to col-
lege, or simply enjoy the added income cushion. Contractors, electricians and plumbers benefit as they get properties in shape for guests. Then the maintenance sector – lawn care, cleaning and property management – profits from the rest. As Cooperstown Stay took off, and quickly, Swartout embraced technology to help her keep up, contracting with a webmaster and a programmer. Her website, as with every other aspect of her business, is tightly organized: See for yourself at www.cooperstownstay.com – there are photos of every property (always taken in the summer), organized by one-bedroom, two-bedroom and so on. Another section lays out the terms and procedures. Another section lists places to eat and other offerings visitors may want or need over their weeklong stay. Lonetta wants feedback, and provides an online survey to all guests – an astonishing 45-48 percent respond. She reads every reply herself. “Less than half of 1 percent complain about the places where they stay,” she said. Happy customers fuel the business: 38-40 percent of customers are referred to Cooperstown Stay by friends who came to Dreams Park in previous years, or by coaches, she reported. When the summer’s over, Lonetta Swartout’s work is not at an end. In September, she settles accounts with hosts. In October, Dreams Park sends out confirmations to teams coming the following year, and all four lines ring constantly. “October is our busiest month,” she said. Almost two decades in – Dreams Park itself is 20 years old this season – Swartout loves everything about what’s she doing. “I love being in business for myself and making decisions to make things happen.” And her customers: “They come here for a family event – it’s not spring break in Fort Lauderdale. They’ve been a wonderful group of people.” And she’s bullish about the future: “There will always been a need for a good, clean, clean, clean place to stay.”
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Actor and activist James Cromwell’s deep baritone revs up activists in the state Capitol.
Grassroots Activists Unite In New Statewide Coalition UUAW/From A1 member Bob Eklund, a member of Solutions Grassroots Project, who attended the press conference on the “Million Dollar Staircase” in the state Capitol. Eklund, who will serve on UAFF’s coordinating committee, added, “This coalition will go a long way to educate New Yorkers about the issues at hand.” More than 10 people spoke, including actor and activist James Cromwell, whose movie credits include “Babe” and “The Green Mile.” He boomed in a resonant baritone: “We need a revolution because we need our human rights.” Cromwell, among other speakers, lambasted Governor Cuomo, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and President Obama as profossil fuel. He said that federal subsidies for fossil-fuel companies amount to $5 trillion. “The crazy people are running the asylum,” he said. Other speakers included Suzy Winkler of Burlington Flats, a member of People, not Pipelines, and Mohawk Valley Keeper. She express optimism about UAFF, but acknowledged
the opposition is formidable. “We have to try. People are exhausted, but we’re finding a way,” she said. Winkler Bob Eklund spoke against Dominion Transmission’s plans for a 200mile-long pipeline and three new compressor stations across the state. Called the New Market Project, it’s “a scheme to keep our state shackled to fracked gas well into the future,” she said. The press conference featured three main anti-fossil fuel movements, We Are Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes region; People, Not Pipelines in the Leatherstocking Region, and Protect Orange County in the Hudson Valley. “All of these regions are connected, so it makes sense that they would form a coalition,” said Eklund. Pramilla Malick of Protect Orange County, who organized the press conference, said, “Air and water do not respect borders.”
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hat a week it was. On Friday, June 10, 1966, Terry Lifgren submitted an application to Astrocom Electronics, which the father whom he’d only met once before had founded in 1961. “I needed a job,” he explains. On Monday, June 13, 1966, Lifgren, now the company’s president/ Photo courtesy Astrocom CEO, began Young Terry Lifgren, recently work on the arrived at D.K. Lifgren Drive. production line, assembling patch cords, the connecting wires on those old-fashion switchboards. Even today, connectors of various types are Astrocom’s specialty. On Wednesday, June 15, 1966, he took a halfday off to attend his graduation at Broome Tech in Binghamton. IBM, dominant in the Binghamton area, had offered the whole class jobs. But, Terry reasoned, “10 years from now I’ll be a number, not a name.” And on Saturday, June 18, 1966, he married Betsy, his wife of 50 years and mother of their three children. Since Terry wasn’t yet 21, that first week – 50 years ago this week – he had to ask his newfound father permission to wed. (The father assented.) Finding a father. Finding a job. Graduating. Marriage. Terry Lifgren was raised on a truck farm in Bovina Center, in the “center of the universe” of Please See LIFGREN, B3
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n between farm chores and lesson plans, the Higgins girls – Siobhan, 14, Patricia, 12, Keely, 10, and Anna, 8 – are finding the scoop on Briar Creek Road. “One of the criticisms of home-schooled children is that they don’t have deadlines,” said mom Katie. “We made the newspaper project so that they’d learn that they need to get things done on time.” The Briar Creek Times, Otsego County’s
newest weekly paper, is researched, edited, printed and distributed by the Higgins family to over 20 subscribers in five counties. “Our first paper was all made up stories,” said Patricia. “We thought we’d do it for a few weeks, but people started asking about it. We’ve been writing it for four months now.” The girls then switched to true stories, interviewing neighbors, writing reviews of concerts and shows they attended, and reporting on their lessons for the week. They Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life covered the “Meet the Candidates Night” on Clockwise from left, sisters Siobhan, Tuesday, May 3, and the “Stop the ConstituKeely, Patricia and Anna are the Please See PUBLISHERS, B2 county’s newest news powerhouse.
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SUMMER MUSIC: The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival’s presents the Schubert Trout Quintet Father’s Day Concert, featuring a father/daughter duo on violin and piano. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at The Otesaga in Cooperstown. Info, tickets, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org. FISH WITH DAD: Annual Trout Unlimited Father’s Day Fishing Clinic event in Hodges Pond; children’s instruction and gifts between 2-3 p.m. All families invited. Fishing licenses not required. Worms will be furnished and rods available if needed. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, June 19, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Afterwards, head over to Wilber Park for a free Father’s Day concert with Maestro Rene Prins and Thomas Slavinsky. 3 p.m. Upper Pavilion, Wilber Park.
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comics and makes puzzles. “Deadlines are important so that you don’t keep writing on and on,” said Patricia. Briar Creek Times issues
are often based around what the girls learned in their homeschooling classes that week. “May 23 was World Turtle Day, so we interviewed our neighbor, Bill
Holstrom, a former reptile handler at the Bronx Zoo,” said Patricia. “It shows what we’re learning,” said Keely. “Last week, we read ‘The Great
War’ by Jim Kay, about World War I, and we all had to write an essay and do a painting to summarize what we learned.” And like any good newspaper, there’s plenty of advertising to support local businesses, ranging from a Help Wanted for window washers (Contact: Your Mother) to ads from the Otego Farmer’s Market and neighbor Elizabeth Nields’ clay workshops. They’ve even run personals ads, like the one for a local Single Young Male Ringneck seeking a fellow pheasant companion. Letters to the Editor are always welcome, as are contributions. “Sometimes I submit stories, but they don’t make it!” said dad Dennis, a retired SUNY Oneonta math and computer
science professor. “Someone wrote in to ask where cruise ships dump their waste, so we’re researching that for World Ocean Day,” said Patricia. Now that the weather is warming up, the lessons can go outside as well. “Last week, Keely and I photographed wildflowers and made a Wildflower Bingo game,” said Anna. “It gave them a chance to spend the day with the camera,” said Katie. Their stories are due Friday by midnight, and Katie lays out the paper on the computer. Saturday morning they deliver and mail copies. “We’ll usually get there around lunchtime, so people can eat their lunch and read the paper,” said Katie.
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As Presidential Administrations Changed, So Did Astrocom Strategy LIFGREN/From B1 cauliflower production. By age 13, he was packing cauliflower on his future father-in-law’s farm. Later, he worked for Todd’s in Stamford, and was in awe to see how much more efficiently the grocery supplier could vacuumpack the product, (and, by refrigerating it, escape the tyranny of demand and supply). His mother was Derwood “D.K.” Lifgren’s first of four wives, and as a boy, Terry never remembered meeting his father, who had also been raised in Bovina Young Terry Center. When starting out at Astrocom. he was 13, a newspaper article reported Astrocom’s founding; Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life the mother kept the news from the Astrocom CEO Terry Lifgren walks the production line where he began working 50 years son, but he picked it up around ago this week. He remembers his starting salary: $87.12 a week. town. While a student at Broome end,” he said. “Do you know anything about to close the deal on buying a comTech, Terry hitched a ride with a • quality control?” pany, and needed someone to sign classmate to Albany, and the two That Monday morning, 50 “I said I’d be willing to give it a the checks while they were away. stopped en route at Oneonta’s years ago this week, he may have try,” Terry remembers responding. • Brass Rail, (most recently Rail worked on a patch cord for HeadAnd, in his new job, he wrote a This may sound like advanceBenders on South Main). After a set, Electrical, Model 10118, Mili- quality control manual that served ment by happenstance, but listenbeer or two “to build my courage,” tary Type H-158/AIC, Astrocom’s the company for the next three ing to Terry Lifgren’s recitation, he called Astrocom, then in Dietz most common product line. The decades. you get the sense his father knew Street, “and asked to speak to my cord was similar to that used by a The son found that would be what he was doing, giving all that father.” Ma Bell operator in the old days to the model for future promotions. added responsibility to his steady, “Where are you?” the father make connections. Three or four years later, the dependable son. asked. Then, “I’ll be there in two Terry Lifgren remembers what production manager quit. “I didn’t “He was stern, even-tempered, minutes.” he was paid: $87.12 a week, and know anything about it,” he refun-loving,” remembered Rob Learning the son was Albanyhe and Betsy, for their first seven members, “but I said I would try.” Robinson, who was Otsego Chambound, the father said, “I’ll fly you years together, lived up Route 28 Then, one day in the mid 1970s, ber of Commerce executive directhere,” and they drove out to Forin Twin Spruce Trailer Park. Two father and sons passed each other tor in 2001 when Terry Lifgren tin Field, Emmons, (now the Town of their children, Douglas, now 48 on the hallway leading from the was Chamber board president. of Oneonta’s Fortin Park.) and Astrocom operating manager, executive offices to the plant. The “He liked to have fun. He joked “If you don’t graduate college, and Kimberly, 47, were born there. father turned around and called around,” said Robinson, clarifying I can probably get you a job on Third child Jeffrey, 43, came later. back to his son, “By the way, at the seeming contradiction. “But the production line,” the father Terry and Betsy still live in lunch today Henry and I made when it was important, he was said. “If you do finish college, I the Portlandville neighborhood, you vice president.” (Henry L. stern as he had to be, and moved can probably get you something although now in a house they built Hulbert, the Oneonta lawyer and things forward.” better.” for themselves. civic leader, was an investor in the The father-son combination The flight to Albany took 20 One day, after two years, the company.) guided Astrocom over its three minutes. Landing, father gave son quality control manager quit, and The son later learned his father most prosperous decades. As a a $20 bill. “Have a good weekthe elder Lifgren asked his son, and Hulbert were headed to Japan military contractor, Astrocom
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served the Defense Department, first, during the Vietnam War. All of Astrocom’s products fulfilled a simple but essential job, according to Ed May, the company’s information technology director, “the interface between the man and the machine.” The Reagan Administration goal, “fill the warehouse enough to mobilize an army for two years,” was even more of a boon to Astrocom, as employment at the low-slung Colliersville plant – it’s on D.K. Lifgren Drive – expanded to 300 employees. In March 1987, 27,000 “end items” left the plant. “That’s the most product we ever shipped in one month,” Lifgren said. With the warehouses full and the Cold War over, military provisioning plummeted in the George H.W. Bush Administration, and the workforce dropped to 50 people working three days a week, the CEO recounted. With the Clinton Administration, “the landscape totally changed,” he continued. Bases were closed, and – with news reports of $640 toilet seats and $500 hammers pummeling the Pentagon – a whole acquisition process was rethought. Previously, Lifgren said, all military supplies were processed through the DLA – the Defense Logistics Agency in Philadelphia. It would solicit and award bids, then distribute supplies worldwide. The new acronym was COTS – commercial off-the-shelf. In effect, as May put it, the Defense Department “issued a credit card to every Army base.” If a base needed 10 uniforms, it would call the approved supplier and order them. “I had only bid on 10,000 things,” said Lifgren. “I didn’t know how to bid on 10. I realized we had to do something.” • These radical changes happened at a time of transition at Astrocom Please See LIFGREN, B4
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NY’s Minimum Wage Vs. Kansas’ Latest Challenge For Astrocom LIFGREN/From B3 as well. Founder D.K. Lifgren fell ill in 1992 and, after a lingering illness, passed away in 1996. The final mantle of responsibility fell on his son’s shoulders – he also had to buy the business from the estate. Terry’s son, Doug, joined the company about this time, bringing an approach the father described as, “If it ain’t broke, break it,” and come up with a better solution – ideal for the changing business climate. To adapt, Lifgren brought in Symix, a consulting firm that introduced the company to ERP – computerized enterprise resource planning – and concepts like “lean manufacturing” and “just in time delivery” to maximize efficiency. Rethinking the manufacturing process stabilized the
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D.K. Lifgren, Astrocom founder, behind his Jetson-style desk in the 1960s, the Space-Age decade.
company – its workforce has been at about 75 for years now. There was work, but fun, too: going five stories underground into the top-secret Wright-Patterson AFB testing facility, flying the company planes – until Judge Molinari’s son was
killed in a crash at Oneonta Municipal Airport in 1984; the company sold its plans – pursuing an interest in NASCAR. He also served for years on Wilber Bank’s Milford advisory board. And his family was growing. Kimberly is now a
speech pathologist in Syracuse public schools. Jeff is an executive at a Colorado ski resource. Terry and Betsy have eight grandchildren. The current challenge is the Cuomo Administration’s determination to raise the minimum wage to $15 – $12 Upstate. In Kansas, where one of Astrocom’s two biggest competitors operates, the minimum remains $7.25, as it is in New Jersey, (although there’s a push to raise it to $15 there.) Still, Terry and son Doug, a Cooperstown resident, continue to seek a competitive edge. Fifty years – but the commemoration Thursday, June 16, was to be low-key, as is the CEO’s style. Perhaps, he said, something more formal may be organized in the fall.
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ART IN BLOOM – 5 p.m. The Oneonta Garden Club annual show floral arrangements interpreting selected artwork from exhibition at the Cano Mansion Show. Also Sat. and Sun, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. CANO, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. SPORTS BANQUET – 5:30 p.m. dinner in cafeteria; 7 p.m. awards in auditorium. 57th Annual Cooperstown Central School All Sports Banquet. Chicken Dinner $10, reservations to Susan Mulligan. Cooperstown Jr./Sr. HS Cafeteria 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. WRESTLING FUNDRAISER – 7:30 p.m. doors, bell time 8 p.m. East Coast professional Wrestling announces Greg “The Hammer” Valentine visits in fundraiser for local wrestling club, the Gorilla Grapplers East Coast Pro Wrestling Showcase. Tickets $15, 412. Oneonta Outlaws Axel Cross v. “Vicious” Van Valley (Milford v. Chris Ambrose
and more local ties! The Holiday Inn, 5206 NY-23, Oneonta. CARMEN – 8 p.m. Powerful, contemporary interpretation from Detroit’s Operamodo of Bizet’s ravishing lyric masterpiece. Set in a women’s prison, the heroine is sung by a countertenor who portrays one of drama’s ultimate femme fatales as a transgender woman in a relevant and fearless take on this enduring classic. Also June 18, 19. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.
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Legal notice NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT, CHRISTIANE HAGEWOOD Nature of this action: foreclosure action involving real property commonly known as 2444 County Highway 8, Otego, New York 13825 seeking a judgment of foreclosure and sale for the amount due and owing to the Plaintiff, CNB Realty Trust, as assignee of NBT Bank, National Association, under the Note and Mortgage with a current principal balance of Seventy Three Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Seven and 88/100 Dollars ($73,997.88) together with interest, late fees and other charges. STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO SUMMONS Index No.: 2016-28 Date Filed: 01/14/16 _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ CNB REALTY TRUST, as assignee of NBT BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -againstCHRISTIANE HAGEWOOD AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF VIVIAN BAKER JOYCE; OTSEGO RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE, INC.; and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, said individuals being fictitious and intended as possible occupants of the premises which are the subject matter of this action, and whose identity is unknown,
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Hartwick College reminds community members of their responsibility to obtain a Land Use Permit before using the College’s property. This standing policy was enacted several years ago. Hartwick College is redoubling its efforts to protect its property, area wildlife, and the interests and safety of its students and neighbors. This impacts the use of Hartwick’s entire 425-acre campus, including the College’s upper campus surrounding Table Rocks and Strawberry Field. The College has enhanced its efforts to limit unauthorized access to its upper campus with measures including restrictive barriers and the posting of additional No Trespassing and other warning signs. Therefore, any individual who is not a student, employee, or guest of Hartwick College must apply for and be granted a Land Use Permit from the College’s Office of Campus Safety if they wish to use campus property. Where granted, permits are issued without cost. Previously issued permits, dated September, 2011 to present, will be honored. Use of Hartwick land for ATVs, snowmobiles, motorized vehicles including off-road vehicles, off-road motorcycles, hunting, logging, camping, campfires, bonfires, unauthorized parties or consumption of alcohol or drugs is strictly prohibited. Any unauthorized use of the college’s land will be treated as unlawful, and the college will pursue appropriate remedies against violators. The property is closed to all permit holders at dusk. Any additional mountain bike trails will need to be approved. Only mountain bike trails that presently exist shall be used. A Hartwick College Land use permit DOES NOT grant anyone permission to enter private properties that boarder Hartwick land. Anyone found to be trespassing on bordering private lands from Hartwick property, without that property owners express permission will forfeit their Land use permit and all privileges associated with the Land Use permit. Dogs should be leashed and owners are responsible for picking up and disposing of their dog’s waste. Property Use Permits can be obtained free of charge at the Campus Safety Dispatch Desk, Dewar Hall, 4th floor, on the College campus. Questions about permits and use of the College’s campus should be directed to Tom Kelly, Director of Campus Safety. He can be reached at 607-431-4111 or kellyt@hartwick.edu. Report violations to Campus Safety 607-431-4111 or Environmental, Health and Safety Manager Gary Ballard at 607-431-4098 or ballardg@hartwick.edu.
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OBITUARIES Sean Ronald Streek, 47; Served In Army, County Probation Office COOPERSTOWN – Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday for Sean Ronald Streek, 47, of Cooperstown, who died unexpectedly Saturday night, June 11, 2016. He was born March 25, 1969, in Cooperstown, the son of Ronald Max and Robelle Edith (Polson) Streek. A 1988 graduate of Cooperstown Central
School, Sean attended the Otsego Nazareth College and later Sailing Club earned a bachelor’s degree on Otsego from SUNY Oneonta. Lake. In 2009-10 he served in Sean is the Army, and for a time survived by was a probation officer for his wife, Otsego County. Betsy Streek; In his leisure, Sean enSean Streek a daughjoyed sailing, and on the day ter, Sydnie he died was part of the NiStreek; two step-children, agara Frontier 2016 District Matt and Jenny Burch; his Thistle Regatta, hosted by mother and father, Ron and
Susie Streek; three sisters, Sandy Toms of Virginia, Annette Voreyer and husband, Robert, and children, Nicholas and Thomas, of Greenwich, Conn., and Patricia Klink and husband, Michael, and children Haley and Westley, of Lebanon, Ind.; his mother and father-in-law, Linda and Bob Schuermann; and a brotherin-law, Matthew Schuer-
mann and wife, Maureen, and their family. The service will be at the First Presbyterian Church, with the pastor, the Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes, officiating. Military honors will be accorded by the state Military Funeral Forces Honor Guard. He will be laid to rest at a later date in Hartwick Seminary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to a trust fund to be established for Sean’s daughter, Sydnie Streek. Please direct donations to Carol Waller, 205 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
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Shirley married Robert A. Bridger in Middlefield. They co-owned and operated Genter Farms on Continental Road in East Springfield until Bob’s passing, at which time she continued working the farm with her son Gary. The farm was purchased 51 years ago this month from Mrs. Choate, and it had been Bob and Shirley’s home since September 1957. She belonged to many farm organizations, and was also involved in numerous school and church functions. In particular, she was known for the many pies she baked for the Fourth of July pie booth. A life-long avid reader of newspapers and farm-related publications, Shirley also read a tremendous number of books. Survivors include her sister, Janice Sperbeck; daughters Mary (Ray) Roberts and Sharon (Ken) Smith; son Gary; sister and brothers-in-law Beverly and
Arthur Blessin, and Milton Hart, as well as 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and one great-greatgranddaughter. In addition to her husband, Shirley was predeceased by her parents; two brothers, Donald and L. Herbert Salisbury; three children, Robert A. Bridger, Jr., JoAnne Herklotz and Richard A. Bridger, as well as by a grandson, Mark. A graveside service is planned at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Springfield Center Cemetery (corner of Routes 80 and 20), with the Rev. Ron Fralick officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Springfield Fire Department, 5733 State Hwy 20, East Springfield, NY 13333. Arrangements have been entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.
Philip Ford, 84; Ran Burner Service CHERRY VALLEY – Philip Arthur Ford, 84, proprietor of Phil’s Burner Service for many years, passed away Monday, June 13, 2016, at the Palatine Nursing Home, with his wife by his side. He was born Feb. 28 1932, in Fairfield, Conn., to Arthur Ford and Helen (Lockwood) Ford. Phil met his wife, Daisy while serving in the Air Force at Carlswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas. They were married in February 1958 at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church and enjoyed 58 years of
marriage. They had three sons; James, who predeceased him in 2013. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, John (Amy) Ford of Hartwick and Joseph (Rebecca) Taylor of Santa Rosa, Calif., and five grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at the Ottman Funeral Home. A remembrance Mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 17, St. Thomas the Apostle, with a luncheon to follow next door at Kateri Hall.
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as the appetite for Mexican brick-marijuana diminishes with the development of lab-grown, high potency cannabis in the U.S., the cartel has discovered a burgeoning and more profitable distribution market for heroin and fentanyl. It only takes one cartel member with 50 golf-ball sized bags lodged in his stomach to flood an entire region for a short time. We have almost no ability to track or mitigate this type of movement. Additionally, we’re already at capacity for resources, and we will need continued support from state and federal partners to keep our heads above water. About a year ago, I heard a local D.A. state that they “wished cocaine would make a comeback,� because the heroin stranglehold on this community is just too strong. It’s far too cheap and far too accessible. Ponder that statement for a second and you’ll realize just what we’re up against. When I was a senior in college a roommate of mine gave me a Vicodin. I was stressed out in the library studying for finals, and he came right up behind me and dropped it in my hand. He’d done this for my buddies but never to me. My friends and I thought these “gifts� were a way for him to pay us back for all the money he had stolen, but we could never prove this. It seemed like in his mind some sick justification after the fact, because his gifts would ebb and flow and always came mysteriously after one of my buddies would say, “hey where’d my 40 bucks go?� This individual, as you may have already guessed, had a very serious addiction to pain killers. He would buy large amounts of Percocet and Vicodin, crush them, and snort them throughout the day. He told me once that Perc 80s were the best because he could get well over 10 lines out of one pill. He would always tell me this in casual conversation and I would play it off as such, but I was blown away at how harmless he thought it all was. This mindset, even among those who aren’t completely addicted or reliant upon these drugs, is what struck me most when I first went off to college. It’s also what I think that most folks over 40 fail to understand about today’s world – drug cocktails, mixing prescription pills with alcohol, snorting crushed painkillers – is far, far more common than anyone perceives. Most alarmingly – this is seen as “harmless� and “fun� by many of today’s youth. This is an area where we can really make a difference. Most folks struggle to comprehend that our most powerful and effective opiate medications are the chemical equivalent of heroin. For the last decade, the American Medical Association and Big Pharma have done all they can to suppress the very clear evidence that these opioids are highly addictive, and have a direct link to heroin
use and addiction. Only recently have they quietly recognized this disturbing fact. And while these medications often serve as legitimate sources of pain-relief for our nations chronically ill, we’re only beginning to comprehend the negative consequences of giving everyone a two month prescription of Oxycodone for moderate pain. We’ve made a choice to liberally treat pain in this country, but have failed to grasp the negative consequences of such a decision.
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e’re battling a prevailing and prominent appetite among our youth for prescription meds because they think it’s “cool.� You don’t have to be a scientist to understand this; just ask any addict how they got started and there’s a good chance they will say with those “helpful� pain meds. It’s now estimated that 4 out of 5 heroin addicts started with prescription pain-killers. They’ll only turn to heroin when they can no longer afford these medications that sell for upwards of $100 on the black market. On top of that, we’re battling a prevailing and prominent appetite among our youth for prescription meds because they think it’s “cool.� Ask any kid about heroin and they’ll picture a junky on the street corner shooting up and say it’s nasty and disgusting. But this question doesn’t illicit images of drunk kids at a party “crushing Oxy’s� and getting “faded.� (if you don’t know what this means, you’re probably in that crowd I mentioned above). These young, inexperienced minds are failing to make this connection, and by the time they’ve popped their first pain med, for many it’s too late. That’s why we as a community need to do a better job of making this connection for them, and drilling it over and over again. This “cool� behavior – often explicitly pushed in today’s music and social media culture as hip and trendy - needs to be unambiguously linked to heroin addiction. I believe strongly that it’s our obligation to educate our youth about this connection; to make the image of the dope fiend on the street corner, a scary, but realistic outcome of opioid use. Because as we know, this is never how it starts, only how it ends. I didn’t take the Vicodin that day. In fact, when I got back to my apartment, I showed one of my buddies what I was given and he popped it in his mouth immediately. “Thanks dude, I needed that,� he said. I was glad that I had the will and innate disgust to turn away that pill, but I’m no saint, and after researching and understanding this epidemic, I’m
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not immune to the gripping addiction that comes from these drugs. That’s what scares me most, and a stark reality that we need desperately to recognize: the high from these drugs is too GOOD and too POWERFUL. Yes, I said it, and although I’ve never taken one of these medications in my life, I believe strongly that this is true. I vividly remember an interview I was required to read for my sophomore “Crime� seminar, a sociology course that explored the struggles of career criminals. A heroin addict was asked to describe the high and he said, “if you offered me seven women to take to bed tonight or a bag of dope, it wouldn’t be a tough choice for me, I’d pick the dope every time, it’s that good, that euphoric.� Please don’t take my words as a dismissal of the important and integral work of our treatment resources and law enforcement. I believe passionately that we need to do all we can to support their mission, and make sure that they can have a positive, long-lasting impact on our region. But as I listen to folks talk about the battle we’re facing, I get worried that it’s often reduced to “we’ll just treat the sick and lock up the bad guys and it will be alright.� Or, “just make sure we have enough Narcan and we’ll be alright.� It’s just not that simple or easy. There are other prevailing forces at play, and I think it’s critical that our community understands the scope of this battle. Oftentimes, we find comfort in outcomes-based, reactionary policy, but we can’t miss our chance to be truly proactive and out front. I think our focus should start with our burgeoning youth; doing all we can to make sure that they never become addicts in the first place. Equip them with the education and resources to understand the epidemic and its reach, and scare the living daylights out of them when it comes to prescription pain-killers and their clear connection to heroin addiction. Far too many bright young minds are experimenting with drugs that they perceive to be harmless and fun, and ending up on a dark and narrow pathway to addiction and disease. It’s a sad reality that we desperately need to fight. Last week one of my best friend’s from high school died of a heroin overdose. It tore my community apart. We’re all heartbroken. He was a good kid with a heart bigger than most and he deserved a long, healthy life. But his story is all too similar. It’s the one I keep hearing over and over again. A good kid with demons he couldn’t beat; a good soul strangled by the crushing strength of opiate addiction. A healthy young mind that didn’t know how and where innocent experimentation would end. I’m sick of this story. I want it to end. I’m committed to this cause and passionate about battling this epidemic. It’s ruining the fabric of our community, and we must make it stop. Let’s start by fighting for our kids.
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Senior Health Fair And Open House
Date: Monday June 20th • Time: 1:00 – 4:00 pm Zumba • Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Please Join us for a Senior Health Fair and Open House. Complimentary tours available. Stick around and enjoy Zumba with Zoe Curtis. The Plains at Parish Homestead an Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care community.
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FOR SALE: A Nova patio furniture grouping in very nice condition (well cared for): a glass top table w/white trim, 4 stationary chairs, 2 swivel chairs, 2 chaise lounges 2 end tables light blue w/white. For pricing information call 607-547-8162. Any fair offer considered. 3ClassJune24
Cooperstown multi-use commercial /w Main St. & Doubleday lot access. Optional 1st floor double retail space, outdoor courtyard. 2nd floor: 4 private rooms/ offices. Restrooms/central air/alarm/phone. Call to discuss ideas/options. Kathy Fistrowicz 607-267-2683 TFN
K. Kawai five-foot ebony grand piano, like new, will sacrifice. Phone (607) 432-1403. 3ClassJune17 WANTED TO BUY
Mr. Baseball wanting to buy pre-1975 sports cards and non-sports cards. (203) 5570856, cell (203) 767-2407. 3ClassJune24 STUDENT HOUSING 4 Bdrm, partially furnished, full kitchen & bath, large common areas. Close to park and colleges. $1,400 mo. Available 8/1. (607) 287-0322. 3ClassJune24 APARTMENTS FOR RENT Apt. for rent. Two bedroom, one bath, over 1,000 sq. ft. in two-family house. Tranquil country setting. Hardwood floors, gas fireplace, jet tub, 1.5 miles to Village of Cooperstown. 1 yr. lease, #1,200./mo. plus utilities. Call (607) 547-8886. 3ClassJune15 HOMES FOR RENT Beautiful 2BD, 2BA home in West Laurens. Wood stove, oversized 1 car garage and sits on 2 acres. No large dogs, no cats. Available May 1st. (607) 267-4214 3ClassMay6 Available April, Spacious 3 or 4 BR, 2 Bath, Kitchen w/Island, Den, LivRm w/ Fireplace, Dining & FamRm w/Pellet Stove, Enclosed Porch, Garage, 15 Acres, Located 3 Miles From Cooperstown. $1900. Mo. + utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ (607) 267-2683 (cell) TFN
Oneonta Retail Space For Lease! Over 8,000 square feet of space featuring loading dock with overhead door and warehouse area, plus a light and bright retail space second to none in the downtown lower hub of the city. $2950 per month. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC for details at 607-4324391. TFN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY TURN-KEY BUSINESS! Established clientele with 3 income streams. Owner retiring. Great Opportunity in the City Of Oneonta. For More Info Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-2871559 TFN LAND FOR SALE FINANCED READY TO BUILD LOTS FOR SALE: Prestigious Winney Hill Commons address can be yours! School, tennis court, pool all walk-able, along with gorgeous views! Shovel ready lots feature underground utilities and public water/sewer/natural gas. Owner financing: $35,000 price, $5,000 down, $30,000 @ 5% for 5 years $566 per month. Call today, build your future home tomorrow! Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-2871559 TFN
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Sunday, June 19
CARMEN – 2 p.m. Powerful, contemporary interpretation from Detroit’s Operamodo of Bizet’s ravishing lyric masterpiece. Set in a women’s prison, the heroine is sung by a countertenor who portrays one of drama’s ultimate femme fatales as a transgender
Star Spangled Banner; Father’s Day Festival March; Home Circle Overture, The Beatles Remembered, Gershwin In Concert, Big Band Classics and more. Free, all welcome. Upper Pavilion, Wilber Park, Oneonta. CONCERT STRINGS – 3 p.m. The Capital String Trio and Afternoon Tea, a free event in honor of Artworks benefactor William Isaac. Bring the whole family. Cherry Valley Artworks concert at The Star Theater. Cherry Valley. Info, www.cvartworks.org, (607) 264-3080.
woman in a relevant and fearless take on this enduring classic. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 institute Street, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700. FATHER’S DAY CONCERT – 3 p.m. Maestros Rene Prins and Thomas Slavinsky direct The
SCHUBERT – 7:30 p.m. Schubert Trout Quintet Father’s Day Concert. Also features works by Gaubert, Mahler and Schulhoff. Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at The Otesaga Resort Hotel, Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest. org, 1-877-666-7421.
Monday, June 20
CANAL CRUISE LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. luncheon, noon talk. All-inclusive, $11.50. Info, reservations, Cooperstown Area Christian Women’s Club (gentlemen welcome), Nancy (607) 264-3402, Dotty (315) 8226391, Cindy (315) 691-3706. Tally-Ho Restaurant, 159 E. Main St., Richfield Springs.
SUMMER SOLSTICE – 5-7 p.m. Short walk on the longest day of the year at Fortin park to the confluence of the Susquehanna River and Charlotte Creek, through small but diverse wetland. Meet at Fortin Park, at the end of Youngs Road in Town of Oneonta. Free, all welcome. Pre-register at http://occainfo.org/program-andevent-sign-up-form/ SPAGHETTI DINNER – 5-7 p.m. Boy Scout Spaghetti Dinner. 410 Adults/ $8 kids 12 and under. Homemade sauce, sausage and meatballs, garlic knots, salad, dink, dessert. Take outs available! Cooperstown Vets Club, 60 Main St., Cooperstown. MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADUATION – 6 p.m. Oneonta Middle School Graduation. 130 East St.,
Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-5262.
Tuesday, June 21
MOBILE LIBRARY – 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tues. & Thurs. monthly. Cybermobile visits West Oneonta, Oneonta, Fly Creek, Schuyler Lake, Mt. Vision & Wells Bridge Tues. monthly. Info, (607) 7238236 or Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) CONCERT – 8 p.m. “The Last Waltz Live,” featuring live performances of hits from the 1978 concert film featuring The Band. Bring donations of non-perishable goods for local food pantry. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta, Info, tickets www. oneontatheatre.com
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