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LAKE PLACID Ñ Due to recent weather conditions ORDA has decided to postpone the Lake Placid Loppet and Kort Loppet until Saturday, March 8.
Racers take to the ice in Tupper By Keith Lobdell
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SARANAC LAKE Ñ Au BluSeed Studios presents Ò Live at BluStage: Emish,Ó Saturday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m., after the fireworks for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. Admission is $18 and $15 for BluSeed members. Reservations recommended by caalling 891-3799 or admin@bluseedstudios.org. For more, visit bluseedstudios.org.
TUPPER LAKE — It could be called NASCAR on ice. The Adirondack Motor Enthusiast Club (AMEC) is scheduled to bring automotive ice racing to Tupper Lake for the fourth time in their 60 year history this weekend, Jan. 25-26. Dave Burnham of AMEC said the group races six classes of cars on approximately .75 to 1.3-mile road courses from mid-January until early March. Ò We race all over the Adirondacks, mostly in the southern end,Ó Burnham said.
Celtic jam
SARANAC LAKE Ñ Saranac LakeÕ s Thursday night Ceilidh (kā’ lee) Session Players along with the Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce and Dockery Chiropractic are sponsoring a Celtic music jam session at the Harrietstown Town Hall in Saranac Lake during this yearÕ s Winter Carnival Saturday, Feb. 1, from 8 to 10 p.m. The carnival theme is Celtic Carnival and the group plans to play a number of tunes from throughout the six regions of the Celtic Nation. All musicians are welcome, and the public is invited free of charge. For more information or for a list of the tunes to be played contact Joe Dockery at 8912240.
Photoshow set
SARANAC LAKE Ñ North Wind Fine Arts presents the photography of Russ Hartung with an opening reception Feb. 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. at their 11 Woodruff Street location. The show will run through the month of February. For more information, visit northwindfinearts.com.
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Members of the Ice Palace Workers 101, or IPW 101, work on the construction of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Ice Palace Jan. 19 as a “frosty” model displays IPW 101 clothing. The Winter Carnival begins Jan. 31. Photo by Pete DeMola
Saranac Lake gears up for Carnival By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com
SARANAC LAKE Ñ For residents of this former logging town, some traditions never die Ñ theyÕ re just frozen in Flower Lake and thawed out each year for the east coastÕ s longest-running winter carnival. For 10 days, this small village seven miles from Lake Placid will host a constellation of over 100 events spread across the frigid landscape, including three sets of fireworks, parades, musical performances and demonstrations from a wide variety of local organizations, from woodsmen to women tossing custom-designed frying pans.
Beginnings
While it may be easy for newcomers to lump the carnival in with the flotilla of oneoff wintertime events that dot the North Country, the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival
has a long and storied history speckled with a cast of colorful characters and quirky traditions. Ò People tended to make their own fun, like stage sets for festivities,Ó said Harrietstown Historian Mary Hotaling on the roots of late-nineteenth century community events. Ò It was the way that people tended to entertain themselves.Ó The first record of a wintertime gathering in Saranac Lake was a blurb in the Feb. 25, 1897 edition of the Essex County Republican that mentioned a, Ò fancy dress gathering,Ó held by a group called the Pontiac Club. About 100 people attended, dressed in masquerade-type attire, to watch a hockey match. Little else is known and it wasnÕ t until the following year that the events morphed into a singular carnival that included a boys-only Ò prize fancy skating contest,Ó an exhibition by visiting professional figure skaters from Utica, a “hocking
match,Ó and the Ò grand illuminating and storming of the ice fortress.Ó Festivalgoers would pretend to storm the fortress like a castle, said Andy Flynn, former Denton Publications Asssistant Managing Editor who currently works for the Lake Placid News, whoÕ s become something of an expert on the history of the carnival. Ò Different groups would storm in from different angles,Ó said Flynn, author of Ò Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Memories,Ó describing an activity that was in fashion at the time. Flynn said the carnivalÕ s modern-day fireworks that draw upwards of 10,000 spectators still contain echoes of wartime displays. The crowd watches the opening fireworks from behind, he said. And during the closing, the public is assembled in the middle of the action. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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LAKE PLACID Ñ The Empire State Winter Games now have a major advertising partner. GamesÕ organizers announced Jan. 15 that Hannaford Supermarkets had signed a deal to become the first presenting sponsor of the Winter Games, which will take place from Feb. 6 through Feb. 9. Ò We are very pleased to be able to stand here with a great company like Hannaford,Ó said ORDA CEO Ted Blazer, a member of the ESG Organizing Committee.
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