Hall of Fame Weekend
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City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 1, 2014
Complimentary
Too Tiny To Live, But Not Forgotten
Mary Laden holds a tiny bonnet created by Holy Sews.
Oneonta Women Sew Layettes, Knit Bonnets To Properly Bury Preemies By LIBBY CUDMORE
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eflecting on the work she does for the Holy Sews ministry, Helen Reilly
tears up. “When I think about how what I’m making is the only outfit this little baby will ever wear, I still cry,” said Helen. “You have to not think about it,” said Madeline Bagnardi,
another parishioner at St. Mary’s Catholic Church who participates in the effort with Reilly. Oneonta’s Holy Sews provides hospitals and funeral homes Please See SEWS, A3
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28 JETS ON TARMAC – COUNT ’EM
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Sid Parisian shows off this year’s prize – a custom-painted Harley Davidson Switchback – in the annual Law Enforcement Benefit Ride Raffle outside of Brooks BBQ. The 17th annual ride, which benefits the Ricky J. Parisian Scholarship Fund, leaves at 11 a.m. sharp Saturday, Aug. 2, from the state police barracks on Oneida Street.
SUNY Prepares For Fitzelle Hall Ribbon-Cutting
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ith some excitement, SUNY Oneonta is planning a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Aug. 25, on Fitzelle Hall, which it is calling a “centerpiece” of the campus. After two years of $28.5 million in renovations, Fitzelle is the “largest, most technologically advanced and greenest academic building.” It will house the Division of Education and departments of Mathematics, Philosophy, Africana & Latino Studies and Psychology. BASEBALL ORIGINS: With baseball on everyone’s minds right now, Tom Heitz, former Hall of Fame librarian, will deliver a talk, “Prehistoric Baseball,” 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, at the Swart-Wilcox House. FAIR SONGS: The City of the Hills Sweet Adelines, including two of their quartets, will be singing at 5:30 Friday, Aug. 1, in the Grange Hall at the Otego County Fair, underway through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Morris.
Ten corporate jets are visible in this photo, which Dennis Finn took from the air. In all, 28 jets and two planes used the Oneonta airport on Hall of Fame Weekend.
Baseball’s Heroes Fly Into Oneonta Airport By LIBBY CUDMORE
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f you saw Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan or contender Don Mattingly at the 75th Induction Weekend in Cooperstown, you can thank Dennis Finn and the Oneonta Municipal Airport. Over the weekend, 28 corporate jets, plus two private planes, landed and took off, said Finn, city Airport Commission chairman. “This is our busiest time of the year,” he said, and this Induction Weekend was the second busiest, after the Ripken/Gwynn event in 2007. The jets began arriving on Thursday, June 24. Some dropped off their visitors; others, like the New York Yankees’ Falcon 900 – the biggest plane on the tarmac – parked for the weekend. “We had to buy a special bar to tow it,” said Finn. “A scratch would cost us a quarter million!” Springer’s, the Oneonta Kubota dealer, provided a tractor to help tow the aircraft. “When Please See AIRPORT, A7
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or more on the Induction, from the CBS “This Morning” interview with Jane Forbes Clark to photos of MLB stars signing autographs, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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Against a backdrop of corporate jets, city Airport Commission chair Dennis Finn says usage for the Hall of Fame’s 75th Induction proves the facility’s utility.
Induction Business ‘Inundates’ Oneonta, With More To Come By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary weekend didn’t just stay confined to the streets of Cooperstown.
“It had a very positive impact on our local merchants,” said Barbara Ann Heegan, executive director, Otsego County Chamber. “The restaurants were filled, the mall was very filled.” “We were super busy,” said Red
Caboose owner Tim Masterjohn, who also serves as the board president of the newly formed Destination Oneonta. “When you have that many people coming into an area, it’s inevitable that hotels and restaurants will be packed.”
The induction of former Yankee manager Joe Torre, a local favorite, plus Atlanta Braves pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, and manager Bobby Cox, and White Sox Frank Thomas and Please See BUSINESS, A7
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