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Retired electrician Mark Gruber strolls among the 160 decorations he sets up each Christmas season at the family’s home on Hillside Drive.

City of The Hills NEW STRUCTURE, EC-DEC STAFFING LIKELY THURSDAY

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he decision on a new structure and consultant to shift Otsego County’s economic development efforts to a proactive stance was expected at an IDA meeting at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19.

County board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Mayor Dick Miller, Town Supervisor Bob Wood, and OCDC President Bob Harlem were invited to the meeting, to be chaired by Sharon Oberriter of Fly Creek.

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SUMMIT PLANNED: Neil Murphy, president, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, will keynote at an “Oneonta Sustainability Summit” that the city and town are sponsoring Saturday, March 1, at SUNY Oneonta. Hannah Masterjohn is chairing.

GARCIA RETIRES:

Huemac Garcia, Foothills executive director, announced he will retire at year’s end/DETAILS, A2 NO COFFEE: The City Council members’ Tuesday “Coffee at Collage” will not be until 8-9 a.m., Jan. 9, due to the Christmas season.

STATE OF STATE: The county’s State of State breakfast is 8-10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at Foothills.

Couple Builds Winter Wonderland On Hillside Drive

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t 5 p.m. atop Emmons’ Hillside Drive, something magical happens. A Ferris wheel takes teddy bears on a ride.

Mrs. Claus opens her Christmas cottage, and Nutcrackers keep watch over the manger.

This is Mark and Annette Gruber’s Christmas Wonderland.

“We’ll have carloads of kids come up and they’ll walk back and forth, just looking at everything,” said Mark, a retired electrician from Farmingdale, L.I.; the family moved Upstate in 2006. “I just love it. One year, our daughter Kaitlynn handed out candy canes to everybody.”

Christmas is in their blood: Mark is related to Franz Gruber, composer of “Silent Night, and the couple’s son Mark Jr. was born Dec.

IF YOU GO: The Gruber’s lights are on 5-10 p.m. every night at 151 Hillside Drive, Emmons.

Mark and Annette Gruber’s seven children enjoyed the family enthusiasm for Christmas decorations, and now the grandkids do.

1945 Gold 2-Peso Coin Mined From Salvation Army’s Kettles Pesos” and “Estados Unidos Mexicanos.”

The next day, the anonyhar’s gold in them mous donor “called to make thar kettles, sure we knew,” Salvation said Hopping.

Army Capt. EvWhile it’s elyn Hopping has not common in discovered, to her Otsego County, delight. it turns out it’s At the end of something of a a recent day of Salvation Army 18-year veteran tradition for gold Vera Stewart’s to turn up in the bell-ringing at the kettles. AcSalvation Army cording to news kettle at JC Penreports, a Krugney’s entrance to gerand (worth Southside Mall, about $130) a small gold coin turned up in a was discovered kettle in Kokoinside. Dated HOMETOWN ONEONTA mo, Ind., this 1945, the inscrip- Captain Hopping Please See and “Dos Pesos.” tion read, “Dos GOLD, A6

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23. “They sent him home from the hospital in a little stocking the nurses had made,” said Mark.

“The kids at home waited for us to get home on Christmas day before they opened their presents.”

The toy soldiers were his first purchase, 20 years ago. This year, nine snowmen and five penguins were added, which can be seen curled around Mrs. Claus’ cottage, a repurposed Little Tyke’s playhouse. “I was driving past it all summer, and I finally asked, ‘Hey, do you want to get rid of that’?”

He picks up many of his decorations at rummage sales and post-holiday closeouts. “I got the Please See LIGHTS, A6

Oneonta Hits Jackpot With State Ec-Dev $$ improvement, and $75,000 for a comprehensive downtown economic-development If the Village of plan.

Cooperstown was on the The Town of Oneonta gravy train when Goverreceived $500,000 toward nor Cuomo announced the the $9 million water plant in state’s economic developFortin Park and Southside ment grants in 2012, the city distribution system, the bigand town of Oneonta are all gest grant awarded in Otsego aboard this year.

County.

City Hall received more And Hartwick College than a half-million in three received $60,000 to help its grants announced when Craft & Food Beverage CenCuomo returned to The ter move forward, a project Egg Wednesday, Dec. 11: Governor’s Office photo that aims to assist a grow$200,000 to renovate the for- City Manager Mike ing hops and micro-brewery Long attended Govermer Java Island and Karma sector. nor Cuomo’s WednesSpa buildings on Main In contrast, none of the day, Dec. 11, announceStreet, $200,000 for facade Please See GRANTS, A7

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uemac Garcia, Foothills Performing Arts Center executive director over a threeyear period of stability and innovation, has announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31.

He will remain on the Foothills board and as a member will focus on fundraising and program committees.

“Huemac has been a strong contributor to Foothills’ success since joining the board in 2010,” said board president Carol A. Blazina. “We are grateful to him and I am delighted that

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anni Nicosia of Oneonta is one of two Herkimer County Community College women’s soccer players named to the Junior College Division III All-Northeast he has agreed to rejoin the Regional team of the Nationboard.” al Soccer Coaches AssociaSaid Garcia: “Foothills tion of America. has always been, for me, A freshman business an important symbol of the major, Danni played in 15 community’s vitality and games accumulating eight future. At this point in my goals and three assists. life, with other interests At 2013 OHS grad, she is competing for my time and the daughter of Charles and attention, it is important that Melissa Nicosia of Oneonta.

Foothills have the complete IN ASSOCIATION: focus of a new executive HOMETOWN ONEONTA Shiloh Chickerell and Robin director.

An elated Huemac GarFoster, both Veterinary Sci“I look forward to supcia, left, shares a laugh porting that person when he ence Technology students with concert sponsor from Otego, have been Ben Guenther after Gor- or she is selected.” named to SUNY Delhi’s After the first of the year, don Lightfoot packed a committee will be formed state Association of VetFoothills’ main theater for the first time in erinary Technicians for the to conduct a search for a March 2011.

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Huemac Garcia Plans To Retire As Foothills Executive Director

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“It’s especially meaningful when our patients understand the thought and work that went into making the blankets for them,” said Dr. Yoshiro Matsuo, attending physician. Donors included, seated, from left, Lara Woods, SUNY; Melissa Nicosia, SUNY Employee Assistance Program coordinator, and Gayle Heller, LPN. Standing, from left, are Regina Hitchcock, RN, OCN; Angela Thorn, Darlene Cruz, Dr. Matsuo, Judy Keator and Chris Conkling, regional cancer program administrator.

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Allister, Haniya and Leylani Wiltshire, Oneonta, decorate cookies at the Oneonta Family YMCA’s Family Fun Night on Friday, Dec. 13.

Southside Mall shoppers who braved the snow got a sweet surprise Saturday, Dec 14, in the form of a performance by the Sweet Adelines’ City of the Hills chorus singing Christmas carols and seasonal tunes. Pictured are, from left: Elaine Mattice, Karen Adolfson, Sue Dana-LeViness, Mary Johnson-Butler and Joanne Burdick.

Lily Flynn, Oneonta, meets with the man of the season at the Oneonta Boys & Girls Club annual Holiday Party on Saturday, Dec. 14.

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Rich and Prue Shelling, Oneonta, had one of the best jobs at The Farmers’ Museum’s Candlelight Evening on Saturday, Dec. 14: Doling out piping-hot wassail, the two volunteers were able to warm themselves by a roaring fire as temperatures dropped to 9 and winds blew.

County Rep. Gary Koutnik, Oneonta, at left, played Ebenezer Scrooge Sunday, Dec. 15, at a sold-out performance of Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” in The Farmers’ Museum’s Louis Jones Center. Scrooge’s nephew, center, is Jake Wansor, a SUNY Oneonta senior. And Steve Dillon, a founding member of the Oneonta Theatre Stage Players, Bob Cratchit. Danielle Newell produced the Glimmer Glass Theatre performance.

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Hall Of Fame Induction 2014 Looking A Lot Like Christmas

nduction 2014 is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. When you add in all the activities surrounding the 75th anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, it’s even moreso.

Former Yankee manager Joe Torre, chosen by the Expansion Era Committee during Baseball’s Winter Meeting in Orlando earlier this month, is potentially another Cal Ripken, Jr. With San Diego Padre Tony Gwynn, he drew 84,000 fans to Induction 2007.

It’s about stellar accomplishment, of course: With Torre in the dugout, the Yanks won six American League Pennants and four World Series. But as much or more, it’s about geography and the huge fan base that geography contains.

A Yankee/Torre fan will be able to get up on the morning of Sunday, July 27, drive to Cooperstown, take in the festivities downtown

and on the Clark Sports Center field, and get back home late that night.

• That’s just as well, because as soon as his selection was announced – the Expansion Era Committee also elected World-Serieswinning managers Bobby Cox and Tony LaRussa – phones immediately began ringing around the village.

At the Hall of Fame, seeking reserved tickets; at the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, seeking particulars; at individual motels and B&Bs, seeking accommodations. In every way, this is going to be a sellout, to the benefit not only of Cooperstown’s economy, but Oneonta’s, and every other local hub within 50 miles.

And the main attractions – the stars themselves – are yet to be announced. That will happen Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

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and MLB are all emerging from a difficult period with reputations enhanced.

(CTE, here we come.)

• Locally, the market has changed, too. Where Induction Weekend used to make or break the summer, now 13 weeks of Cooperstown Dreams Park’s youth tournaments, plus Cooperstown All Star Village on Route 205, West Oneonta, provides a reliable tourism foundation, Vinnie Russo will also tell you.

So where are we this Christmas, baseball fans?

We find ourselves still in a mecca of an enduring National Pastime, one with a re-enhanced reputation.

We have a more stable and broader-based tourism economy. And we can look forward to a stellar Induction class, plus the Boston Pops’ 75th anniversary concert Aug. 2.

Baseball did good by doing right. Merry Christmas.

THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS

nd she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

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the New Yorker for a half century and has a fan base of his own.”

• Sure, it’s been a bit of a dry spell the last few years, even though the inductees have been worthy, as the Baseball Writers Association’s voting process guarantees. Roberto Alomar’s ecstatic fans from Puerto Rico (2011), Rickey Henderson’s hilarious and touching acceptance speech Preston Mack/National Baseball Hall of Fame Library (2009), and the great affection Goose Gossage Joe Torre, who managed the Yankees to three World Series titles, will guarantee a big crowd at commands (2008) come to Induction 2014, with Bobby Cox, left, and Tony mind.

LaRussa attracting Atlanta and St. Louis crowds While Induction Weekend respectively. crowds since Ripken/GwThe favorites, the pundits downtown Cooperstown’s ynn have been in the teens say, are Greg Maddux and baseball merchants, deand 20s, hard work has Tom Glavine, both Atlanta clared the other day. been underway at 25 Main Braves. With Cox, who as St. Louis inductees and Major League Baseball manager took the Braves always draw a crowd, too, headquarters on Park Avto a World Series victory, Russo said, and LaRussa enue, rebuilding baseball’s that’s a critical mass to draw pushes that button. foundation for the post-stefans from that capital of (Roger Angell, who will roids era, steroids having Southern baseball, Vinget the J.G. Taylor Spink disqualified a generation’s nie Russo, Mickey’s Place journalism award, has headliners. proprietor and dean of written about baseball in The BBWAA, the Hall

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Star Light, New Life, Hope Is Born

he Christmas message seems almost too good to be true: God comes to US! The great God of the universe comes, not as a powerful superhero but as a vulnerable newborn baby, a baby born not in a palace or a temple but in a stable, a baby cradled not by princes or priests but by humble, ordinary people.

The story of Christmas tells us all we need to know about God. The

creator of all creation, the ground of all being, comes in person offering unconditional love, boundless hope, and peace beyond all understanding. This source of all life – of our life – pours out grace sufficient to overcome anything that would separate us from one another or from our God. In that grace, we find courage and strength for living, no matter what life may bring.

The signs of Christmas reveal God’s

The Rev. DOUGLAS DEER Pastor, First Baptist Church, Cooperstown

The Rev. DAVID W. MICKIEWICZ Pastor, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Oneonta

What Do We Value Most?

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t all began with the paying of a hotel bill. Pope Francis has certainly got Catholics and people beyond our faith community thinking about the values out of which we live our lives.

A hotel bill paid rather than presuming it was free.

A used Renault rather than a fleet of limousines. A common apartment with other people as a residence rather than a Renaissance palace.

Eating in a cafeteria with other people who work at the Vatican.

These are the choices, not of a person who wants to make an impression, but rather the preferences of a person who has made a choice for Gospel values.

Francis has opted for a simpler lifestyle.

The question is not whether to spend or to hoard. The question is how we spend and why? What

do we value most?

A vocation ties every part of a person’s life together into a whole. Our vocation as Christians includes our daily, practical decisions – not only how we make money but how we spend it. Many of us have very developed consumerist habits well-trained from an early age by advertising in all its insidious forms. These developed consumerist habits of ours can be broken however and replaced by Christian values but only by a deliberate effort of selfdenial.

Francis’ remarkable choices are the result of his long habits of making do with less.

As we Christians mark the birth of God in the flesh on the Feast of Christmas, isn’t this what God did by relinquishing dignity, power and divinity and doing with less for us?

true intentions. Star light breaks through the darkness, new life comes into the world, and hope is born to all people. All who come to the stable – lowly shepherds, visiting Kings, even people like us – are made new, made whole, made more than we ever imagined.

May the Christ Child of Bethlehem come to you this year and may He find room to be born in your heart.

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he sentimental song “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” colors our singing of “0 Holy Night, the stars are brightly shining.” Or “Star of wonder, star of night ...” The Hallmark atmosphere would be ruined by messages about Hell on Christmas Eve. Yet the story about Herod’s slaughter of the innocents is the background for what happened on Christmas. Many people now assume Hell is not all that bad a place - they expect that if they end up there, they’ll see all their friends, picturing it as a drunken New Year’s Eve party. But the Bible’s picture of Hell is of utter darkness.

A place of loneliness, fear, complete despair, “Where the darkness lasts forever.”

(Ps.49: 19) Against this backdrop, Christmas Eve is set like a twinkling star. Isaiah

prophesied, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. They lived in a land of shadows, but now light is shining on them.” (ls.9:2) A star would break the spell of inky blackness.

The true star on Christmas Eve was baby Jesus. In the manger we find the star of Jesus contrasted with the void of life without him; the light shining in the darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.”

Twinkle, twinkle, Bethlehem’s star, What a wondrous light you are.

Come to live and come to die, Then rise again to live on high!

Twinkle, twinkle, Bethlehem’s star, God’s own light, that’s who you are.

LETTER

Clark Foundation Recognizes Cooperstown’s Needs To the Editor: I would like to respond to the letter written by Mark Rudy and published in the Dec. 6 edition of your newspaper. While I appreciate Mr. Rudy’s noting my family’s long-standing commitment to the betterment of Cooperstown and the surrounding region, I do feel it is important to clarify a few items he shared in the letter.

First, he notes that either The Clark Foundation or I own 10,000 acres of land in and around Cooperstown. The

foundation owns approximately 3,000 acres of land with the express purpose of protecting Otsego Lake and the headwaters of the Susquehanna River.

The amount of property I personally own is considerably less than that.

Second, while The Clark Foundation is a tax-exempt organization and much of the land owned by it could be exempted from paying property and school taxes, the foundation chooses to pay taxes on the property it owns, and in 2012 we paid just over $300,000.

This is in addition to the amount of tax I pay as an owner of private property.

The various entities founded and/or controlled by my family, whether forprofit or non-profit, all recognize the need to be supportive of the village and its needs. This is manifested not only in service and programs provided by them year in and year out, but in the taxes we pay.

Sincerely yours, JANE FORBES CLARK President

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013

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THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS pastor JACK KLOSHIEM Community Baptist Chapel, Toddsville

125 Years Ago

promise is only as good as the one making it. A quick glance through Scripture shows the depth of, not only of the promise, but of the Promise Maker.

In the wake of Adam’s sin in the garden, God promised One to come, who would “crush the head of Satan.” Some generations later, God promises that the One would be born through the family of Abraham. And even though Abraham messes that up, we learn that the promise is not dependent on man’s faithfulness, but on God’s. The promise is renewed many generations later under King David.

But over time, Israel ceased to be a nation and the promise seemed dead.

Then, out of the darkness, a child is born. Angels were proclaiming the birth to shepherds. Wise men were watching the stars for a sign. God’s plan was continuing, unhindered by human effort or error. The One, born of a woman, from the family of Abraham, and in the line of King David. Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us, was here!

All of humanity has looked to God for salvation because God promised it. And not only promised it, but God has faithfully brought it to reality. Jesus was not only born, but He died in our place to bring us forgiveness for our sin through faith in Him. God is faithful. When He says, “whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life,” we can trust Him. Have you?

First Baptist Church Elm Street, Cooperstown Rev. Douglas Deer 607-547-9371 Sunday, December 22

College Training for Women: The women gain the day. The authorities of Columbia College have consented to an “annex,” by means of which young women may have the same instruction as young men receive at Columbia. There will be a separate building for separate classes, but the curriculum will be the same for both sexes. With the fall of conservative Columbia, the propriety and desirability of college education for such women as desire it may be regarded as having passed beyond the stage of controversy. Separate colleges for women have been established, to which the objection may be made that their schemes are apt to be rather for “female education” than for a general education in all respects equivalent to that given to young men, and that they have a social isolation not altogether desirable. Against the co-education of the sexes in the same classroom there is a strong prejudice and some valid grounds of objection. The “annex system,” or a separate provision in the same institution for affording to women the same means of study, the same instruction, and the same testimonials of proficiency and achievement as are afforded to the other sex, seems to be the most rational and satisfactory solution of the problem, and it bids fair to be a successful one.

December 1888

100 Years Ago

The proposal of George I. Wilber to donate the sum of $29,000 for the purchase of acquiring that portion of the Walling property lying north of a continuation of the southerly line of Center Street for a park and playground for the city, previously presented and approved by the board of public works, was formally and unanimously rati-

7 pm “Stockings on Heaven’s Mantel” Children’s Story: “No Room in the Inn”

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services Tuesday, December 24

7 pm Candlelight Worship with Children’s Christmas Pageant 11 pm Candlelight Worship with Holy Communion

All Are Welcome!

Cooperstown UMC 66 Chestnut Street Cooperstown, NY Rev. Bill Delia, Pastor

First Presbyterian 25 Church St. Cooperstown 607-547-8401

Sunday, Dec. 22 10 am Worship “A Song of Joy Arises” Jubilee Band will play

3 pm & 7 pm “Amahl and the Night Visitors” Celebrate the season with this Christmas classic for all ages.

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Christmas Eve Tuesday, Dec. 24

4:45 pm - Carol Sing

5 pm - Candlelight Worship with Christmas Pageant

10 pm - Candlelight Worship with Communion “Before the Marvel of This Night” The Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes, Pastor

60 Years Ago

A program on Americanism, directed

by Mrs. Foster Crosby, highlighted the Christmas party of Sidney Chapter, DAR Wednesday in the Community House. Mrs. Crosby, in a reading on Communism in this country, described a devotee to Communism as a fanatic who lives only for his party, placing that above everything. She urged Americans to exert themselves to spread Americanism so others may realize how necessary freedom is in our way of life. Howard Dunbar, faculty member of Sidney Central School, introduced members of his Americanization class who have come to us from foreign shores. Among those introduced at the gathering was Miss Eva Sjagren, who came from Helsinki, Finland in January 1950. Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Kaiser emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany

in November 1952. Mrs. Hedwig Riesen came from St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1922.

December 1953

40 Years Ago

The Cost of Living Council granted a 23 percent jump in the price of domestic crude oil Wednesday, setting up another big round of increases in the retail cost of gasoline and home heating oil. The $1-a-barrel increase will push the after-tax price of gasoline to 44.6 cents per gallon compared to 37.2 cents average for regular gasoline last January 10. The price of home heating oil will go up to 30.7 cents, up from a January average of 19.4 cents. At the same time, President Nixon proposed an excess profits tax to prevent oil companies from reaping huge windfall profits from the soaring prices on scarce petroleum products.

An additional two-cent increase for home heating oil approved by the council two weeks ago goes on top of the hike granted Wednesday and would raise the consumer price ultimately to 32.7 cents.

December 1973

20 Years Ago

The Oneonta Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, has established a scholarship to assist elementary teachers in the Oneonta City Schools in obtaining further study to improve their professional performance. The scholarship honors the memory of LouElla Gridley, a member of the chapter and an Oneonta teacher. Gridley attended Oneonta Normal School from 1927 to 1930 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hartwick College in 1932. She received a Master of Arts degree from Albany State Teacher’s College in 1938.

December 1993

All are welcome!

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fied by the common council at the meeting held Tuesday evening.

The new Belasco play wherein Frances Starr is leading lady is “The Secret” an adaptation from a successful French play, and it had its first presentation at Detroit on Monday of last week. The part taken by Miss Starr is Gabrielle Jannetot. After last week in Detroit and the present in Baltimore, Mr. Belasco will take his play to New York where it will be presented at the Belasco Theatre on December 23 following David Warfield’s engagement in “The Auctioneer.” Oneonta friends of Miss Starr will be interested to know that she has given up her Albany home and with her sister, Mrs. Gladwell, have taken up their residence at 158 West 18th Street in New York. (Ed. Note: Frances Starr was familiar to Oneontans having grown up in the city before embarking upon a notable stage career with David Belasco’s company) December 1913

St. Mary’s Catholic Community

10 am Service, Sermon: “Joseph Didn’t Wear a Bathrobe” 4 pm Decorate Cookies, Supper, & Caroling around Town

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013

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Gold Coin Helps, But Salvation Army Must Still Serve 500 Families This Christmas GOLD/From A1 season for a fifth year in a row.

The Frederick (Md.) News-Post reported an unspecified gold coin worth $1,300 – maybe a U.S. “Double Eagle” – showed up in the kettle outside a Giant supermarket, and the corps’ Lt. Mike Michels there said four or five turn up there annually.

Similar occurrences were reported this year in Lake Zurich, Ill., Murray, Ky., and Charlotte, N.C., where a rare “Walking Liberty” turned up.

The “dos pesos” coin is “not rare, but valuable,” said Chris Crisler, proprietor of Christopher’s Coins on Chestnut Street.

He has three in the store. They contain about $60 in gold (10 ounces), and retail for $85 – $95 with tax, he said.

In 1945, the Mexican government franked 140,000 of the pieces.

Between 1952 and 1971, the government decided to “restrike” the original mold, and another 4.5 million

were produced, Crisler said. So the coin’s collectible value is not what it might have been.

No matter, said Captain Hopping, who was particularly appreciative, since 2-3 weeks before Christmas, the kettles were running about $11,000 behind the same time last year, when a total $64,000 was collected. The army has six kettles in Oneonta, two in Sidney and two in Cooperstown (outside Price Chopper and Tops.)

Since Thanksgiving was a week late this year, that lag is due in part to the shorter Christmas season, she said.

Regardless, the need is there: Last year, the Salvation Army served 450 families; this year, 500 families are seeking yuletide help. In all, Hopping said her local corps expects to serve 1,700 individuals.

To help, drop off presents or donations at 25 River St., or call 4325960 to arrange a pick-up.

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Vera Stewart, foreground, who has been manning a Salvation Army kettle for 18 Christmas seasons now, brought home the gold “Dos Pesos” from her post at the entrance to JC Penney. Her fellow bellringers are, from left, Jonathan Hatch, Marion Michel, Sharon Cowan, Leslie Michal and Savannah Barrow.

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Lights Astound On Hillside Drive LIGHTS/From A1 trees on the front steps at BJ’s Wholesale Club,” he said. “They were $80, down from $350. They’re my favorite, they make music, and I got them at the right price.”

“Until we get the electric bill,” Annette joked.

And when they’re broken, the retired repairman can fix them up as good as new.

“I’ll go into a lot of stores and they’ll have pieces that have, over the season, lost light cords, gotten broken — I buy them cheap, repair them and add them to the

collection!”

And though their seven kids are all grown up, their daughter Amy brings their 4-year old granddaughter Amber up for Christmas to enjoy the lights. “Last year she went around to every figure, patted them all on their heads and said, ‘Hi’!” said Annette.

But this year’s display isn’t the last Gruber plans to buy. “I still have lots of room,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, but I do it so that people can come up and have a big smile on their face.”

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That turns out to be the When I leave the Christ out of Christmas case this year, too, as Elise In vain is my holiday mirth.

Johnson-Schmidt, the CornFor the Christ, God’s gift to His children ing architect who was a key player in the just-completed Is the Christ who brought Christmas to earth. $8 million Bresee’s renovation, said the $200,000 for God forgive me the thoughtless omission, 225 and 229 Main St. fell far I would not that Christ should depart. short of the $432,000 that had been sought.

Not only the Christ at the Yuletide, Johnson-Schmidt has been But all of the year in my heart. acting on behalf of the develauthor unknown oper, LCL Associates, whose principal, David Lubin of Elmira, owns the Oneonta Hampton Inn as well as the Rudy’s Liquor Store two downtown properties in question. “We were hoping and the Lemister family to begin right away,” said the Cooperstown architect.

Nonetheless, she said, COB 76148 Holiday Ad — Size B: 9.5”w x 6”h, bw additional money may be accessible through another Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development MEMBER FDIC Council program. And City Manager Mike Long also referred to that money: After a disappointing showing last year, Long obtained a lion’s share of an additional $8.6 million allocation distributed in September.

As for this round, Long said “six buildings requested a little over $400,000. We were able to get half of that,” which makes him optimistic looking ahead.

Long attended Cuomo’s Dec. 11 announcement, as did Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who chairs the county Board of Representatives, and Carolyn Lewis, SUNY Oneonta’s economic development officer.

Mayor Dick Miller also found much to be positive about, both in the allocation for the downtown and beyond. He observed that Delaware County, which is in the Southern Tier REDC, We just wanted to take a minute to spread some holiday cheer and a whole lot received $6.9 million, inof happy. So, from all the smiling faces at Community Bank, Happy Holidays. cluding money for a shovelready building in Kortright and a revitalization program PERSONAL BANKING • BUSINESS BANKING • WEALTH MANAGEMENT communitybankna.com in Walton. “Looking at Oneonta as part of both counties, we will benefit 76148_COB_HolidayAd_B.indd 1 12/10/13 10:17 AM from that activity there,” he said.

He also noted that the lion’s share of the Mohawk Valley allocation went to Oneida County, where the state is expanding its nanotechnology initiative through SUNY IT in Utica-Marcy.

“We’ve got to find a way to benefit from all that money that’s going into Oneida County,” he said.

He was also energized by the $75,000 for the downtown plan, noting the Clarion, Muller Plaza, Bresee’s and other initiatives identified in the 1990s have been successfully completed.

He said there’s interest in building another hotel, there’s an opportunity to do something on the nowcleared land between Stella Luna and Foothills, and there’s interest in rethinking what might be done with Clinton Plaza at Main Street’s west end.

“We don’t have a big idea,” said Miller, revisiting an earlier stated theme.

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We have a list of people we know All written in a book And every year at Christmas time We go and take a look And that is when we realize That those names are a part Not only of the book they’re written in But of our very heart For each name stands for someone Who has crossed our path sometime And in that meeting they have become A treasured friend so fine Once you have met some people The years cannot erase The memories of a pleasant word Or of a friendly face

So when we send a Christmas card That is addressed to you It’s because you are on the list Of folks that we are indebted to You are one of many folks who Over time we’ve met And happen to be one of those We do not want to forget Whether we have known you For many years or few In some way you have a part in Shaping things we do This, is the spirit of Christmas, that Forever and ever endures May it leave its richest blessings In the hearts of you and yours.

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IN MEMORIAM Lydia Louise Armstrong, 77; ‘Nana’ Ran Daycare Center

Lois Muehl, 87; Dairy Farmer Enjoyed Cooking For Crowds ONEONTA – Lois J. Muehl, 87, who operated a dairy farm in Emmons with her late husband, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at the Albany Medical Center after a brief illness.

Most recently, she had lived at The Plains at Parish Homestead.

Lois was born on April 15, 1926, in Cobleskill, the daughter of the late John and Leonia (Walker) Jennings. She married Michael J. Muehl on June 8, 1946.

In 1952-79, Mike and Lois farmed in Emmons while raising six children.

In addition to her farming duties, she was a waitress at Brooks’ House of Bar-

B-Q for 26 years.

Lois had many interests, including quilting, reading, knitting and sewing.

She was a Lois Muehl wonderful baker and cook who welcomed everyone to her table; no one left hungry.

A member of St. Mary’s Church, she served on the bereavement committee. In her younger years she was active in the PTA. In addition to her husband of 67 years, now residing

at The Plains, survivors include her children, Michael Linda Borfitz and husband Harmon, of The Villages, Sumter County, Florida, Andrea Anne Mack and husband Barry, of Plattsburgh, Mark Muehl and wife Priscilla, of Fairborn, Ohio, Drue Muehl and wife Kathy, of Millport, Chemung County, Alex Muehl and wife Annmarie, of Harpursville, and Gretchen Louise Reamy and husband Christopher, of Centreville, Va. Also, 16 grandchildren, six great grandchildren; brother, Henry Haslun, Jr. and wife Carol, of Middleburgh, and several nieces

and nephews.

Lois was predeceased by her parents, her brother George Jennings and her step-father, Henry Haslun, Sr. A funeral mass was Monday, Dec. 16, at St. Mary’s, followed by interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army, 25 River Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 or the Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

ONEONTA Ryan, Luis, Oscar, – Lydia Louise Monique, Jenny, ChaPaffenroth Armsity, Peter, Michelle, strong, 77, who ran Kerry, Amanda, Nana’s Daycare for Robert Jr., Saman25 years, passed tha, Chelsea, Dylan, away unexpectedly Kourtney, PeggyTuesday, Dec. 10, Lynn, Kristina, Si2013. erra, Taylor, Cassidy, She was born Aundrea, Joseph, Linda Lydia Louise WaDamon, Danica, ger-Wilsey on May Armstrong Cody, Lexzy, Sava11, 1936, in Hamden. nah, Kaite, Wade, Tabitha, Lydia was a mother, Crystal, James, Ashley, Joey, grandmother, foster-mother Brittney, Michael, Richand childcare provider. She ard, Kaylynn, Cassandra, ran “Nana’s Daycare” from and Dustin. Special foster her home in Oneonta for children, Donna Hyatt and nearly 25 years. her 3 children, Bridget (Jim) She is survived by her Bredin and their 7 children husband, Charles Armand Bethany Kenney and strong; children, Roxane her 2 children; in addition (Roger) Carpenter, Peter 27 Great-grandchildren.

(Mindy), Robert (Marge), She was predeceased by John (Stacy) Paffenroth; one son, Richard Paffenroth. iewicz, St. Mary’s pastor, Karen (Randy) Olmsted, A memorial service was officiating. Burial followed Shawn (Kelli) Paffenroth, held Saturday, Dec. 14 at the in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Charles (Jessie), Kim Milford Center Community Emmons.

(Cathy), Tim (Linda), Tracy Bible Church, Oneonta.

Memorial contributions (Dawn), Duane (Judy), and Arrangements are enmay be made to Lower Norma Armstrong. Grandtrusted to Lewis, Hurley & Deck Events, c/o Diane children, Shane, Robert, Pietrobono Funeral Home.

Russo, 6 Parish Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820 Arrangements were entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

Joseph A. Chicorelli, 86; D&H Retiree Owned Race Horses

ONEONTA – Joseph A. Chicorelli, 86, a World War II Army veteran and D&H retiree, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 at Fox Hospital.

He was born on July 4, 1927, in Oneonta, son of Eugenio and Alessandra (Pallotiolo) Chicorelli. He married Nancy Mans on Aug. 26, 1952; she predeceased him on Aug. 23, 1980.

Returning from World War II, he worked for LaMonica Enterprises before joining the Delaware & Hudson in 1960; he retired in 1989 after 29 years.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Church, the Sixth Ward Athletic Club and the VFW. He was an avid bowler, and over the years he owned race horses.

He is survived by his children, Theresa Schaffer and husband, Jeffrey, of Cairo, Andrea Crimmins and her husband, David, of

Palenville, Green County, and Maria Struble and her husband, Karl, of Oneonta; his grandchildren, Joseph Chicorelli and his fiancé, Ashley Wolcott, Brittany Westcott, Bekka Struble, Kristina Bove and her husband, Vince, and Katherine Nelligan and her husband, Josh; three great grandchildren Noah Chicorelli, Myra Bove and Easton Nelligan.

His brothers and sisters, Anthony Chicorelli of Maryland, and Raffaela Chicorelli, Mary LeoGrande, and John Chicorelli and his wife, Nancy, all of

Oneonta, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins, and a brother-in-law, Maurice Mans and his wife, Janice, of Churchtown, Columbia County.

He was predeceased by his parents, and a brother, Alexander Chicorelli.

The funeral was Tuesday Dec. 17, in the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, with the Rev. David Mick-

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