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Sanders supporters mobilize before New York primary Inside the North Country effort to notch New York for their Green Mountain neighbor

By Pete DeMola

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PLATTSBURGH — One year after announcing their campaigns, the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has reached New York shores.

Sharing cultures

The looming showdown between Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marks what observers say is the state’s first meaningful presidential primary since 1976.

Neither candidate has locked up enough support to win the nomination. With 291 delegates, New York has the nation’s second-highest total haul.

Sanders supporters are fired up.

Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders hope to deliver New York to the Vermont senator when voters head to the polls for the primary election on April 19.

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Stec blasts lack of transparency in budget process State lawmaker says use of emergency mechanism to bypass three-day waiting period is wrong

Syrian scholars are participants of McGill University program designed to offer tools for rebuilding stressed communities

KEENE VALLEY — Foreign scholars from an innovative program at McGill University will again share their voices with local residents.

Participants in the International Community Action Network spend two years in Pete Montreal obtaining social work skills deDeMola signed to foster change, instill social justice Editor and rebuild shattered communities.

Then they return to their homes in the Middle East, to countries gripped by war and conflict, and try to put these skills to use through grassroots efforts, including the establishment of outreach programs.

Adnan Mahameed escaped from Syria, walking days through ISIS-controlled territory to Turkey before touching down in Canada.

Mahameed told CBC News he was arrested three times by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad between 2011–2013 for participating in what he said were peaceful protests.

While incarcerated, he was tortured.

“They sent a message to my wife that I died in prison,” Ma-

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Participants in McGill University’s International Community Action Network program will discuss their first-hand experiences with war, and what they’re doing to aid reconstruction efforts, in a pair of lectures on Saturday, April 9 in Keene Valley and Sunday, April 10 in Plattsburgh.

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hameed told CBC. “But I’m still alive.”

The father of four is now enrolled in the program as the first scholar from Syria. Upon completion, the engineer-turnedactivist plans on setting up a service center in Jordan to help Syrian refugees.

But before he does so, he will share his story with North Country residents this week.

John Bingham, the event coordinator, said he hopes local residents will attend the events in Keene Valley and Plattsburgh and walk away with the message of hope.

It cuts both ways, he said. >> See Foreign Scholars | pg. 15

QUEENSBURY — State legislators are patting themselves on the back this week for passing a sixth on-time budget.

But Assemblyman Dan Stec (R-114th-Queensbury) is hopping mad about the process.

The state constitution requires lawmakers to allow three days to pass from the time a bill is introduced to when it comes up for a vote.

The so-called “message of necessity” mechanism allows Dan Stec addresslawmakers to skirt the process Assemblyman es the state assembly on Friday, in the event of an emergency. April 1. >> See Stec | pg. 15

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Reel Paddling Film Festival returns to Lake Placid Films to showcase canoeing, kayaking, paddling

WAITSFIELD, Vt — The Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT) and Adirondack Lakes and Trails are cohosting the Reel Paddling Film Festival Friday, April 8, at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.

The award-winning films tell stories about

canoeing, kayaking and the privilege of having wild places to paddle.

One of the feature films, “Paddle for the North,” tells the story of a six-man expedition team and their 1,500-kilometer journey through the Yukon and Peel river watersheds.

Other films include “Expedition Q,” “Nature Rx,” “Kayaking the Aleutians” and “Important Places.”

There will be a free raffle at intermission and a chance to get tickets for NFCT’s season-long raffles for a Northstar Polaris tandem canoe and a Placid Boatworks Spitfire solo canoe.

Lake Placid resident Danny Mongno, of Werner Paddles, will lead a short seminar about how to improve someone’s paddling stroke at 6:40 p.m. This presentation is free

and applies to both kayaking and canoeing.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and screenings begin at 7 p.m.

Film festival tickets are $12 in advance online at northernforestcanoetrail.org; in person or by phone at Adirondack Lakes & Trails Outfitters in Saranac Lake 891-7450 and Lake Placid Center for the Arts 523-2512, or $15 at the door. The student rate is $12.

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Spaghetti dinner, Chinese auction slated Au SABLE FORKS — The Au Sable Forks Volunteer Fire Department’s Women’s Auxiliary is hosting a spaghetti dinner and Chinese auction Saturday, April 9, at the fire station, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The auction items to choose from include overnight stays locally and in the Saratoga/ Albany area, overnight stay for two at the Akwesasne Resort and Casino, show tickets at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and The Egg in Albany, a barbecue grill donated by Sears, children and family recreational activities, packages for women, men and children, a variety of gift certificates, granite cutting boards and Adirondack style furniture. A fully stocked “Cooler O’ Cheer” will be raffled off. For more information call Jordan Hart at 534-9702.

Dinner, concert to benefit Reber Rock Farm

Arts Council accepting grant apps WESTPORT — Members of the Essex County Arts Council invite county groups to apply for its 2016 grant awards. Projects must have an arts and/or culture theme and must be open to the public. Application must be postmarked or emailed by Monday, May 2. More information is available at EssexCountyArts.org or by email EssexCountyNYArts@gmail.com.

WCS to hold kindergarten registration WESTPORT — Westport Central School will host kindergarten registration Tuesday, June 7. If a child will be five years of age before Thursday, Dec. 1, call the school at 962-8244 to register the child.

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LAKE PLACID — Sixty campers participated in the five-day long second annual Miracle on Ice Fantasy Camp this past week.

Campers, ranging from 28 to 68-years-old, came from as far away as Seattle, Washington.

While in the two-time Olympic village they spent the day playing hockey, hanging out with and listening to stories told by 16 players from the famed 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team.

The 1980 team players taking part in the camp include Bill Baker, Neal Broten, Dave Christian, Mike Eruzione, John Harrington, Steve Janaszek, Mark Johnson, Rob McClanahan, Ken Morrow, Jack O’Callahan, Mark Pavlich, Mike Ramsey, Buzz Schneider, Dave Silk, Eric Strobel and Mark Wells.

The squad’s assistant coach, Craig Patrick, was also in Lake Placid.

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WHALLONSBURG — The Whallonsburg Grange Hall will host a dinner and concert, with all proceeds going toward the reconstruction of the barn at Reber Rock Farm, the owners of which lost the new barn, calves, laying hens, tools, equipment, hay, and grain in a fire Saturday, Feb. 27.

The benefit will be held Saturday, April 16, with a farm-fresh dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Music celebrating the 75th birthday of Bob Dylan will follow at 7 p.m. The Wannabes, Alice’s Fault, and Ploughman’s Lunch will perform. A pay what you will donation will be accepted for the concert. For more information, visit thegrangehall.info.

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Tupper Lake resident promoted to one star general National Guard Col. Timothy LaBarge promoted to brigadier general NEWBURGH — New York Air National Guard Col. Timothy LaBarge, a Tupper Lake resident, will be promoted to brigadier general (one-star) during a ceremony Saturday at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Labarge, 32-year veteran of the Air Force and the Air National Guard, is currently the commander of the 105th Airlift Wing, a unit which flies the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane around the world.

Previously he served as the commander of the 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia. That unit flies the LC-130 ski-equipped aircraft which are used to supply science research stations in Antarctica and Greenland.

LaBarge, a graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, joined the Air Force in 1983 and was commissioned through the Officer Training School program.

Colonel LaBarge is a command pilot with experience flying the T-37, T-38, C-5, C-17, C-130 and LC-130 and has flown combat and combat support missions in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as polar airlift missions in support of Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica.

LaBarge is a graduate of the Air Force Squadron Officers School, Air Force Command and General Staff School, the Air War College, the Joint Forces Staff College and received a Master of Arts in Military Studies/Strategic Leadership from the American Military University.

LaBarge previously served in the 105th Airlift wing from 1992 to 2006 as a C-5 instructor and evaluator pilot, a squadron operations officer, the Chief of Standardization and Evaluation and the Chief of the Wing Command Post before moving into positions at Air Force Headquarters and New York Air National Guard Headquarters.

He also served as the New York Air National Guard Director of Staff, and was the principal advisor to the Adjutant General on a broad range of matters concerning the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard.

As commander of the 105th Airlift Wing, LaBarge oversees a wing of over 1,330 personnel with an annual payroll of $97 million, operating nine C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of Air Force missions worldwide, with a total local area economic impact of over $186 million and has coordinating responsibilities for a US Marine Corps Reserve tenant unit of 660 USMC personnel with 14 KC-130T assigned aircraft.

LaBarge’s awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal the Air Force Commendation Medal , the Combat Readiness Medal the National Defense Service Medal, the Southwest Asia Service Medal two bronze stars, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon, the Antarctic Service Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kuwait Liberation Medal Government of Kuwait.

LaBarge and his wife Petra have two daughters, Lyndsay and Emily, a grand-daughter Tayler and a grandson, TJ.

Col. Timothy LaBarge earns general’s star. He was promoted Saturday, April 2, in the Newburgh ceremony.

Bartender challenge returns to Basil and Wick’s Liquid Chef and Whiteface Lodge bartender Zach Blair to help judge contest, give bartending demonstration

By Christina Scanlon christina@denpubs.com

NORTH CREEK — When the BARRED! Adirondack Bartender Challenge returns to Basil and Wick’s April 9, there will be at least one familiar face in the crowd.

Liquid Chef and Whiteface Lodge bartender Zach Blair will be there but unlike last year, he won’t be competing. This round, he’ll be judging and giving the crowd a spectacular bartending demonstration, honed in part, in case he competed again this year.

He’s taken mixology to new heights, crafting his cocktails from information he gains from the customer, through a series of questions.

“Do you prefer sweet or savory? Tokyo or LA?” he said he asks, until he zeroes in on a custom drink about 15 questions later.

In the past year, he estimates he’s created about 2,000 original cocktails.

He’s a fan of classic drinks, though sticks to an occasional beer or bourbon for himself.

His craft though, is creating an experience along with the drink.

“I don’t always hit it out of the park,” he said, but more often than not, he’s made a great drink and a new fan to follow his work.

One time he recalled that wasn’t such a great time, was his own performance in BARRED! last year.

“I spilled my drink,” he said. He said he felt a bit out of his element, with the local competitors drawing from the crowd they were familiar with. The necessity of speed was something he hadn’t worked with before, either.

He’ll be able to put that experience to use Saturday, when he serves as a judge.

“I’ll see how they are using the materials…holding jiggers,” he said, in addition to assessing the flavors and presentations.

“Does it flow together?

There has to be balance,” he said.

Sisters Kim and Pam Ladd, authors of “Happy Hour in the High Peaks: An Adirondack Bar Guide,” initially decided to host the event in several territories, with a follow up grand championship. It was inspired by the Food Network’s reality television show Chopped, where competing chefs receive a supply of mystery ingredients they must use to create a finished dish.

Blair was just one of the competitors from all over the Adirondack region and as far south as Troy to attend. That attendance made duplicating the contest unnecessary.

In addition, Kim said Basil and Wick’s staff did such a great job, they decided to keep it at the one location.

One change the Ladds did decide, however, was to bump the event from the winter into the spring.

In addition to Blair, judges this time around are Adirondack Almanack founder and editor John Warren, SUNY Adirondack culinary arts instructor Kathy Waite and Essex County attorney Julie Garcia.

Judges will evaluate each contestant on presentation, technique, creativity and taste.

Prior to the competition, Blair will give his bartending demo.

The first-place winner will receive a trophy, $100 cash and bragging rights. Second and third place prizes will also be awarded.

Schroon Lake’s Mark Piper, musician and

voice-over professional, will emcee the competition.

Spots to compete were nearly filled last week, but there’s plenty of room for spectators, said Ladd.

The fun gets started at 2 p.m. April 9 and is expected to last until about 4:30 p.m. at Basil and Wick’s, 3195 state Route 28, North Creek. There is no charge for admission to the event. For more information contact Basil and Wick’s at 251-3100 or Happy Hour in the High Peaks at happyhourinthehighpeaks@ yahoo.com.

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Corruption of power

o what extent are the candidates, the parties, the endorsers and the media willing to go to influence the American electorate in order to achieve their aspirations in the upcoming elections?

To date, election year 2016 has been beyond comprehension, and it seems we are in store for many more unbelievable chapters before this story is complete.

Sadly it’s all part of the posturing for power and influence and we are all guilty of playing along.

With every Twitter message, political rally, news flash, poll, town hall, debate, private meeting, interview, broadcast and threat of suit or criminal charges we are hooked: hook, line and sinker.

For many years a significant portion of our population ignored the elections, not interested in getting sucked into the commotion, but given the state of the economy and the tumultuous world conditions, many are making an exception this year.

With the stakes now reaching a new high as a result of Justice Scalia’s untimely passing many have now come to realize we have three key branches of government hanging in the balance.

At stake is more than just the White House. Key issues of importance to you will all be in play. Issues such as the rising debt, abortion, woman’s rights, climate change, health care, immigration, veterans affairs, gun control, separation of church and state, unions, trade, voting rights, affirmative action, tax reform, military action and terrorist threats, make this an election where every vote could impact your life.

Is it any wonder those vying for power are pulling no punches and stooping to new lows or highs depending on your point of view?

It is possible we will see both conventions contested much to the delight of the nation’s media who in past years have greatly curtailed convention coverage?

In an election that began with the strong possibility of a dynasty race between another Clinton and Bush, instead we’ve seen theater, drama, record crowds, and surprises at every turn. Anything but the same old thing.

So impassioned has the debate gotten that many feel if their candidate isn’t chosen they will stay home. But with so much at stake and passions running so high are we more likely to see a three or four or even five party race all the way into the fall?

Let’s just hope whoever gets there has enough fight left in them to govern the country once they survive the election.

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EDITORIALS

On-time budget comes at what expense?

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or the sixth year in a row, state leaders have delivered a timely budget.

On Monday, after getting the greenlight from the state legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally signed two of his most carefullywatched initiatives into law, enacting a statewide $15 minimum wage plan and 12-week paid family leave policy.

While state legislators were familiar with the broad contours of the proposals, details remained scant until the eleventh-hour when the freshly-inked bills sailed across lawmaker desks.

With the April 1 deadline looming, lawmakers were expected to cast their votes within hours on legislation that will undoubtedly transform the private sector.

Bills ordinarily require three days of debate, a requirement embedded in the state constitution.

But a mechanism called the message of necessity allows the governor to force immediate votes on legislation.

That’s what happened last week… and what has happened each year for the past four years.

While vital to the sound operation of our state, passing an on-time budget doesn’t really necessitate Cuomo waving his magic wand — or in this case, pen — invoking his special powers.

Government watchdog groups have described the practice of prioritizing timeliness over policy details as “political theater.”

Assemblyman Dan Stec (R-114th-Queensbury) has also pointed out the

folly of shoving policy through, a process he said keeps pending legislation shielded from lawmakers, the public and the press alike.

We agree.

This isn’t the first time the governor has evoked this executive perk.

You might recall the SAFE Act, the gun control legislation the governor pushed through within weeks of a deadly 2012 mass shooting.

Lawmakers never had a chance. Three years later, details on the controversial policy continue to trickle out.

Gov. Cuomo deserves respect for righting a budget process that has historically been dysfunctional. And it should be noted that his predecessors have used the device far more than he has.

But we also think sweeping changes in state policy, especially when they’re hammered out by three men in a room, is problematic. Perhaps it doesn’t rise to the occasion of mustache-twirling villainy, but certainly is opaque and questionable — especially considering the fetid gutter that constitutes Albany politics.

The New Yorkers who have repeatedly raised concerns about these policies, which are now law, deserve better.

The Sun Community News Editorial Board is comprised of Dan Alexander, John Gereau, Pete DeMola and Keith Lobdell. We value your opinion and want to hear from you. Drop us a line on our new Facebook page, follow us on Twitter, or email us at johng@suncommunitynews.com.

LETTERS

Trump, a national obsession To the Editor: Donald Trump? There’s almost nothing else people want to talk about these days. Where’s this national obsession taking us?

People love the guy because he’s “not establishment.” Last week a writer enthused that he was the first such candidate in U.S. history. I don’t know where that leaves men such as Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Perot or Debs. Are Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders “establishment”, too?

Anyway, when Trump talks he sounds just like the rest of us, right? Or maybe the guy on the bar stool next to us just before the 2 a.m. call. But does that mean we want a president who curses, mocks and stammers disjointed, incomplete sentences in his public pronouncements?

Well, Trump embodies and channels our collective anger, doesn’t he?

I don’t know about you, but I seldom make my best decisions in anger.

It’s hard to believe that Trump is really the conservative he says he is, or even a Republican, since he’s never been one before now.

But, I admit, people can change. It’s just that he seems to be campaigning against the things he spent his life doing. If you close your eyes, it’s almost like he’s campaigning against himself.

And Mr. Trump, when you’re waving your “family” Bible at the crowds, couldn’t you please at least get one that doesn’t look like it’s still in the cellophane wrapper?

Last time I looked, it’s not just angry men who vote. If half of Republican women are going to refuse to vote for Trump (as a recent poll shows), because of the way he speaks about women, incites his supporters to violence, laughs at the lame, and ridicules decent people; then is it going to be possible for him to carry even a single state in November?

I can’t think of a better way to roll out the red carpet for President Hillary Clinton, who is otherwise the most beatable candidate in decades.

They say Hillary might even be indicted before the election. But Mr. Trump goes her one better. He already has a trial date set for committing fraud with “Trump University.” It’s scheduled to begin right after the primaries end. Perfect timing.

Trump is like a pied piper, leading us toward an election debacle that’ll likely cause the Republican Party to lose the senate and perhaps the house, too, and eventually lead to a Supreme Court almost entirely absent of constitutionalists.

I believe Trump’s nomination will spell the end of the Republican Party, which ultimately might be a good thing, assuming the Republic can survive long enough to weather the changing of the guard.

Maybe we need to think this through a little more carefully.

Jon Voorhees Indian Lake

Minimum wage hike will aid job growth To the Editor:

I’m writing this in response to the letter, “Minimum wage increase will curb job growth, kill small businesses” submitted by Fred Erickson, of Chestertown.

You sir, are 100 percent wrong: This will not kill job growth and it will not kill small businesses. If the small businesses were 100 percent ready for a day like this, then the owners would and can start paying that wage per hour.

Second, there has been a lot of misinformation that has been put out there by many people, including Rep. Elise Stefanik. This is to set the record straight about this issue and will give anyone a better fighting chance to get out of poverty and to get off of welfare.

Why is there 60 percent of the people on welfare without any hope of a better future: Is it because the jobs market is so bad? Why have people who cannot get a fair job get off of that and go without?

In closing, this will put more money back into the economy and it will also generate more jobs creation then ever before people.

The small business owners should have prepared for this day to happen, period.

Christopher “Hawkeye” Bennett, Olmstedville

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LETTERS

Sign petition to protect our borders

To the Editor: I am writing out of concern that America must be restored. It developed the strongest civilization in history, but is approaching collapse from diversity, migrants and outsourcing.

The methods keeping it strong have been lost.

Most migrants want free aid and state desire, even duty, to build their ways in America despite having a responsibility to assimilate. Most consider kids a method to gain aid, overwhelm America, and insert their ways.

Cities resemble foreign nations with 172 different cultures and languages.

Unlawful migrants cost $6.3 trillion yearly.

History has proved all nations that did not enforce assimilation, accommodated minorities and turned diverse or multicultural taking infinite migrants who wanted their ways from anywhere have collapsed.

Outsourcing is ruining America by surrendering jobs. It destroyed 3.2 million in 2001 alone.

It is time to revive America using power of numbers on petitions.

I ask all citizens to help. I and a colleague have built many petitions like: Ban entry into America and close the borders to stop illegal immigration and, reverse and outlaw all American outsourcing, to recover jobs.

Please sign and spread each petition by Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

They are available on the petition2congress website and ALPHA00102 YouTube/Dailymotion pages.

Working together, We The People can revive the founding principles America was built on. This will restore U.S. greatness and the freedoms and happiness that we all enjoy.

Kyle J. Henrichs Anaconda, MT

Never Trump

To the Editor: I spent 24 years of service to our country in the USAF. I served for myself, family, and fellow Americans to keep the barbarians at the gates; protecting our freedoms of speech, religion, the press and the pursuit of happiness.

Today, I am exercising freedom of speech to declare to my fellow Republicans that I cannot support Mr. Donald Trump to represent our party in the coming race for president.

My greatest political disappointment was the defeat of Sen. John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. I was also very disappointed more recently when Mr. Trump disregarded Sen. McCain’s service by implying that he was not a war hero because he was captured by the North Vietnamese.

I realized that Mr. Trump, a man who has not served his country in any way, had no idea of how difficult it must have been during five years of captivity for Sen. McCain to remain a strong patriot who inspired the other captives.

Now that Mr. Trump has talked about leaving NATO and possibly allowing Japan, South Korea, and others to have nuclear weapons, I realize that he also has no idea about how to defend our country.

But it also really bothers me that he has a lack of respect and common courtesy for those who dare to disagree with him. I guess freedom of speech is not a high priority for him, unless of course it is his speech.

For me, our freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution and Bill of Rights are the most precious gift our founding fathers gave to us. Therefore if you choose to use your freedom to vote for Mr. Trump, I respect your right to do so, even if I disagree with you.

But I ask you, would Mr. Trump respect your exercise of such freedom if you did not support him? Or would you be just another person to disparage, call names, and crudely verbally attack, like Senator Rubio, former Governor Jeb Bush, Senator Cruz and so many women that I have lost count.

Exercise your right to vote as I will; but I will never vote for Mr. Trump, even if it means another Democrat in the White House.

Yes, I believe they will preserve our freedoms better than Mr. Trump will.

Joseph D. Dumoulin Lt. Col., USAF, Retired Jay

Thank you from the WPTSO

To the Editor: The Westport Parent Teacher Student Organization (WPTSO) would like to thank the entire community and businesses for supporting, participating and volunteering in our recent fundraising efforts: the Book Fair, the Fly Like an Eagle Fun Run, the Dance Party and most recently, the Volleyball Tournament.

All the funds raised from these events go directly to support and nourish all aspects of the educational and social environment at Westport Central School.

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Fear of violent refugees “unrealistic”

To the Editor: Regarding Bill Bendel’s letter, “Taking in refugees: Politically correct or just naive?”

Bill Bendel’s criticism of the Sun Community News Editorial Board’s editorial (“Taking in refugees will be good for the Adirondack Park”) is so far removed from reality, it would be more appropriate for The Onion.

In fact, his allegation about Dearborn, Michigan adopting Sharia law was lifted from the National Report, which prides itself on its outrageous fictional satire. I live in Old Forge and run a business here, and your editorial is spot-on.

Mr. Bendel, if you really believe everything you wrote, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that I’d like to sell to you-cheap!

While Al Baker’s similarly-critical letter is at least more based in reality,

he overstates, by a tremendous margin, the actual threat from foreign-born terrorists to American civilians.

If you look back over the past decade, the odds of being killed here by a foreign-born terrorist is significantly less than being shot and killed by a toddler, and would not come close to being among the top 500 causes of death in this country.

That threat has been hyped by our government-military-industrial-security complex, so it isn’t surprising that so many people, like Mr. Baker, have this unrealistic fear.

But there are thousands of things that Americans could do to make themselves safer in far more effective ways than blocking refugees from coming here.

It has been pointed out that there has been only one period in American history when undocumented immigrants posed a real threat to Americans who were already here, and that was when the original settlers came here from Europe!

Ray Smith Old Forge

Keep the arts alive!

To the Editor: I am the Arts Grant Coordinator for the Adirondack Quad-County Decentralization Grant Program administered by the Arts Center in Blue Mountain Lake and made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

I want to thank all of the organizations and artists who applied for the 2016 Decentralization Grant from Essex County. The Arts Center was able to award over $28,000 to 14 projects in Essex County for this granting cycle.

For a full list of the projects awarded, please visit our website at adirondackarts.org.

Please feel free to email me any time throughout the year with questions about fundable projects or for more information on the granting process at kathy@adirondackarts.org.

I’d also like to thank the Essex County Board of Supervisors for allowing me to acknowledge the program and recipients at a recent board meeting in Elizabethtown.

I’m looking forward to working with you all again on 2017 arts projects.

Keep the arts alive!

Kathleen Recchia DEC Grant Coordinator

Community theatre depends on community support

To the Editor: We at the Our Town Theatre Group would like to thank Sun Community News, the Lower Adirondack Region Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and Basil and Wicks, as well as all of our generous contributors and community business sponsors and supporters for making “Morning’s at Seven,” our first production of Our Town Theatre Group’s 20th Season, such a great success!

Community theatre depends on its community for survival and we’ve been very fortunate in having the help and support of so many wonderful people.

Mary Anne Gruen Our Town Theatre Group

Elizabethtown voters lack privacy

To the Editor: On Election Day, residents of Elizabethtown do not have privacy when filling out their ballots. The privacy of the voting booth, which voters in other towns have, is not available to voters in Elizabethtown, the County Seat.

Elizabethtown citizens vote in the town hall meeting room, which is too small to hold the standard, curtained voting booths. These curtained booths offer both privacy and prevent voters from being distracted by lines of people at the inspector’s tables.

Instead, in Elizabethtown, there are two small tables, side by side, near the back door. As people fill out their ballots, the public enters and exits through the door. Low plastic walls (chest high) on three sides separate these two polling spaces.

When a voter finishes filling in the ballot at one table, they must walk behind the voter who is still filling out their ballot at the next table. Ballots being filled out are visible to other people.

In addition, the low partitions expose the person voting to the line of people waiting to sign in. This voting in an open room, without privacy curtains, can make a voter feel conspicuous, rushed and distracted by others who are talking to the inspectors, and friends.

All voters should be able to vote behind a privacy curtain. 800 people are registered to vote in Elizabethtown, and over 500 show up regularly to cast their ballots. The lack of space and the resulting lack of privacy make it imperative that the Board of Elections relocate the voting place to a larger location in Elizabethtown.

There are other places in Elizabethtown big enough to accommodate the curtained voting booths.

Two possible locations are the Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School or the Elizabethtown Fire Hall. A public school is used in Ticonderoga and a fire hall is used Crown Point, so there should be no problem moving the polling place to one of these larger locations for the up coming elections.

If you want the same privacy, which is provided to other voters in other towns, call the Board of Elections at 873-3476 or 873-3478 and let them know how you feel.

Harry Gough Elizabethtown

COMMENTARY

Little Bits Kaye’s 90th birthday Gordie Little

Columnist

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or our family, April 14 will be tantamount to all the holidays together.

Catherine M. Little will celebrate her 90th birthday with family and friends at our house. I call her Catherine the great. She is my wife.

If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know about Kaye, born in a massive April snowstorm on property that is now Camp Jericho off the Rand Hill Road. I have always had the highest regard for the distaff side and I suppose it began with my mother who read the Holy Bible and the Reader’s Digest to me before I was weaned.

Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 3: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” My mother said “light” was my first word. I have embraced a brilliant portion of the light for the past 42 years since Kaye and I were married in the Old Base Chapel.

Most of you know her as the source of my strength. She accepted me into her arms and we melded our families into what I have referred to as a winning combination involving 13 children. We now celebrate 20 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren.

She takes little credit, but I sing her praises at every opportunity.

She has always been by my side in ways you might not know. She laid out my clothes each day when I worked on the radio. White shirt, necktie, sport coat, matching trousers and socks. They were all lined up on the bed every morning. She took pride in presenting me to the public on a pedestal that I didn’t always deserve.

When I began writing seriously, she critiqued every word and still does. She shuns the spotlight, while herself offering a bright source of my light.

Having been raised in a preacher’s home, I gained an early appreciation for the Holy Bible and grew up with the King James version.

Case in point? A passage in Proverbs that epitomizes the old saying, “A good woman is hard to find.” King James translated it as, “Who can find a virtuous woman?

For her price is far above rubies.”

A modern version reads, “A good woman is hard to find, and worth far more than diamonds.”

Today, I opened a Holy Bible given to me by my late father with his hand-written message inside: “Gordon, I couldn’t face up to life without the words of this book— read it carefully and prayerfully— Dad.” Yes, I have sung the “Hymn to a Good Wife” over and over and have embraced the modern translation that says, “Her husband trusts her without reserve, and never has reason to regret it. Never spiteful, she treats him generously all her life long.” I especially love the end: “The woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in the Fear-of-God. Give her everything she deserves!

Festoon her life with praises!”

I can’t think of a better way than to say it right here: Happy birthday, my darling and thank you for saving me from certain degradation.

Columnist Gordie Little may be reached at gordie@suncommunitynews.com.

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PROOF@ WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL. Fri. & Sat.: 7:00 pm Sunday: 2:00 pm

APR.

15 Fri.

APR.

17 Sun.

On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician.

Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions. $6 admission.

Details: Derrick Hopkins dhopkins@willsborocs.org.

86477

ZEUS ON THE LOOSE@CHAZY CENTRAL RURAL SCHOOL. Saturday: 7:00 pm Sunday: 2:00 pm

APR.

16 Sat.

AND

APR.

17 Sun.

Enjoy “make your own” sundaes with gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, compliments of Stewarts. Prometheus disappears from his torture rock & Zeus goes missing! Lots of zany Greek fun happens. All proceeds benefit the Senior trip, Class Day & graduation for class of 2016. Cost: $5 each, $15 per family. 86479

APR. BOB DYLAN 75TH 16 Sat. BIRTHDAY BASH@ WHALLONSBURG GRANGE HALL.

Saturday: 5:00 pm

Support Reber Rock Farm who lost the barn, tools, equipment, hat & animals in a February fire. Farm Fresh Dinner (vegetarian option available ) $10, $5 children under 12. Music of Bob Dylan with Alice’s Fault, The Wannabes, and Ploughman’s Lunch.

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CLASS OF 2018 APR. DODGEBALL 08 TOURNAMENT Fri. @WESTPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL. Friday: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm & 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Come play in an epic dodgeball tournament.

Grades 5-7 will play against each other at 3:30 and grades 8-12 will play at 5:00. Adults are welcome to play with the high school teams.

Winners will receive ice cream sundaes following the championship games. Teams: 3 boys & 3 girls. $5 per player. Concessions and refreshments sold. Spread the word!

Details & sign-up: email Mrs. Loher at lohere@westportcs.org 86485

ANNIE@ WESTPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL. Friday: 7:00 pm Saturday: 2:00 & 7:00 pm

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16 Sat.

Westport Drama Club presents Annie! the musical based on Harold Gray’s famous comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. Directed

by Diana McGuigan-George. Cast includes students from grades 5-12. Admission: $7 adult, $5 seniors, Children under 12 free.

Details: 518-962-8244 86475

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The Valley News Sun • April 9, 2016 | 7

Local school officials see pros and cons in state budget plan Axing of Gap Elimination Adjustment welcome, say officials, but problems remain in school aid formula

By Pete DeMola

pete@suncommunitynews.com

ELIZABETHTOWN — Area public school officials have offered a mixed verdict on the state budget.

Districts are slated to receive $24.8 billion as part of the 2016-17 spending plan, which was finalized last week. The 6.5 percent increase over last year is the “largest single investment in education in the history of the state of New York, period,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The controversial reduction known as the Gap Elimination Adjustment will be eliminated within one year.

Local districts have been complaining about the policy for years, arguing it has deprived them of much-needed state funds necessary to maintain programs and services.

But now that the policy has been given the deathblow — about $434 million was withheld from public schools since 2010 — local districts say it may be too little, too late.

“Westport was hopeful about the budget,” said Westport Central Superintendent Cynthia Ford-Johnston, “but the reality was not so promising.”

In the end, the district is expected to see only a reinstatement of some of its GEA — a total increase over the executive budget of $3,033.

Ford-Johnston said the number is insufficient to support the district’s needs. As such, the district is looking at a “substantial gap” between expenses and revenue.

Au Sable Valley Central is slated to receive $41,191, a figure

Area public school officials say the state budget, which contains a 6.5 percent increase in education spending, is a mixed bag.

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Superintendent Paul Savage called “relatively small.”

With the increase in foundation aid, the district will see an overall aid increase of 2.8 percent.

While district officials are pleased with the GEA restoration and slight bump in aid, said Savage, they were disappointed that districts with little GEA money remaining received a much smaller increase in overall aid.

“We do appreciate our local legislators listening to our concerns and for lobbying and ultimately increasing the amount of aid proposed by the governor,” Savage said. “Moving forward, there is much work that is needed to be done to ensure an equitable and fair aid formula for all school districts.”

Keene Central Superintendent Daniel Mayberry said while the district will be able to continue offering current programs and services for next year, there is no extra room for growth.

Willsboro Central faces a similar situation.

“We expect to maintain all our services, program and staff in the 2016-17 budget,” said Superintendent Stephen Broadwell.

Elizabethtown-Lewis Central will see a total aid increase of 5.8 percent once building aid is subtracted, or about $65,000.

But increases to state-based aid are often a mask, said Superintendent Scott Osborne, because districts, including ELCS, often spend more than they generate in revenues.

The restored GEA funds will be used to reduce some of the district’s $154,000 budget gap, Osborne said.

The superintendent said while he was pleased that school aid was up more than overall spending at the state level, he was wary that this might not be a sustainable practice.

“It’s a good budget, but we want to be cautious,” Osborne said.

Westport Central officials will continue to work on their budget plan this week.

Under consideration, said Ford-Johnston, is using fund balance to make up the gap, adjusting spending through attrition or program cuts or a combination of the two.

In addition to the traditional aid, the $147 billion state budget plan allocates $100 million to transform failing schools to community schools and maintains $340 million in annual funding for the statewide universal full-day pre-k program.

Savage said he was disappointed that AVCS didn’t make the cut for pre-k funding.

“That is discouraging because universal pre-k is an important and valuable program for our children and should be available in all school districts,” Savage said. “We certainly hope that will be the case in the near future.”

Voters will head to the polls to approve spending plans on May 17.

Assemblyman Stec blasts lack of transparency in state budget

By Pete DeMola

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QUEENSBURY — State legislators are patting themselves on the back this week for passing a sixth on-time budget.

But Assemblyman Dan Stec (R-114thQueensbury) is hopping mad about the process.

The state constitution requires lawmakers to allow three days to pass from the time a bill is introduced to when it comes up for a vote.

The so-called “message of necessity” mechanism allows lawmakers to skirt the process in the event of an emergency.

Stec, a Republican, scorched the Democratic-led Assembly for invoking the policy for a fourth consecutive year.

“They’re getting more daring in their use of it,” Stec said. “It’s intent is for emergency legislation, not, ‘Oh, we’re surprised April 1 is here!’”

The mechanism was invoked as the budget deadline approached shortly before midnight

on April 1.

Stec’s motion to delay the vote was defeated.

Lawmakers didn’t receive the 702-page budget until 11:48 p.m., Stec said — just four hours before the vote, and before legislators had a chance to read it.

The state budget consists of 10 separate bills, Stec said.

The debt service bill is usually fully-aged, he explained, including this year, when it arrived three days before deadline.

The other nine are a mixed bag.

But all of them required a message of necessity this year.

While legal, Stec said usage of the mechanism isn’t in “the spirit of the Constitution.”

“It’s not about a late night,” he said. “The public has a constitutional right to view legislation.”

Since taking office in 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made delivering on-time budgets a point of pride, bringing a degree of stabil-

ity to a process that was often months behind schedule under his predecessors.

This year’s $154 billion spending plan contained several pieces of legislation that required deep analysis, said Stec, including paid family leave and the minimum wage increase.

New York City will go to $15 per hour within three years, while upstate has until 2021 to get to $12.50, with future increases based on the economic climate.

Stec said lawmakers didn’t know the details.

“It wasn’t as simple as the number is $15,” Stec said. “They came up with a hybrid.”

The lawmaker said the lack of debate reminded him of the mystery surrounding the SAFE Act, the controversial gun control legislation passed in 2013 following the Sandy Hook mass shooting.

“People were angry and they should be,” Stec said. “It’s unreasonable to not allow the public access to these bills.”

Assemblyman Dan Stec addresses the state assembly on Friday, April 1.

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MCTA to host 5k, proceeds to benefit Moriah scholarship fund

By Mikaela Foster

mikaela@suncommunitynews.com

PORT HENRY — Runners and walkers take your marks, get set: It’s time for a 5K. Moriah Central School Teachers’ Association (MCTA) is sponsoring a 5K Walk/Run Event, Saturday April 16.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. in the Moriah Central School parking lot, the day of the race. Registration fee is $15.

The run is a scheduled event, whereas the walk is a “fun” event during which participants can choose to complete any distance up to a 5K. Both will start and finish at MCS and are slated to kick off at 9 a.m.

All proceeds benefit the MCTA Scholarship Fund for MCS graduating seniors who are chosen through a written application process.

Dean Fleming, the chairman of the scholarship committee, said they usually give $2,000-$2,500 in scholarships. The most prestigious scholarship given to the top candidate is the Ronald Fitzgerald Scholarship.

Fleming said last year they raised $1,100 from this event and hope to exceed that amount this year.

Leashed pets will be allowed to participate (for free) in the walk, Fleming said.

Other animals are also welcome as long as they are leashed.

“The whole goal should be to get people out to walk,” said Luis Garnica, a track coach. He also said if the animals are

itching to run with their owners, that’s fine too.

Running awards will be presented to top finishers. Water, fruit and snacks will be available to runners and walkers.

Fleming said the event is always a good time and will go on regardless of the weather.

“Rain or shine,” he said. “But it’s gonna shine!”

Any questions, email dfleming@moriahk12.org.

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2016 Tri-Lakes Valley News Spring Sports Preview

Saranac Lake Red Storm Depth a key for Red Storm baseball team

Golfers seek Section VII title

By Keith Lobdell

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By Keith Lobdell

SARANAC LAKE — As Yogi Berra used to say, it’s good to have deep depth.

That is something Saranac Lake varsity baseball head coach Mark Farmer is hoping his team will have in 2016, returning several underclassman who saw time and matured last season.

“We look to improve on our two win season and to be competitive within the league,” Farmer said. “We should have better depth this season. Our current roster has 11 juniors and 2 sophomores both played varsity last year as freshman.”

While the Red Storm said goodbye to Nicholas McCabe and Jack Martin, Farmer is looking to a quartet of players to step up, including Drew Sturgeon, who missed much of last season with an injury, along with Joe Viscardo, Matt Kratts and Casey Sturgeon.

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake varsity golf team will once again rely on the deep pool of talent to vie for the Section VII golf championship.

“We expect to be in the mix,” head coach Chris Stevens said. “Our strength has been our depth in the roster, especially those competing for the fourth, fifth and sixth spots in the lineup.”

Stevens said the team will continue to work to cut down scores as well as be respectful on the course.

“Our goal each year is to produce well-mannered, polite golfers who respect the game and their fellow competitors if we win or lose.”

The team returns five golfers with sectional experience in senior captain Carley Sawyer (finished 11th last season), junior Tanner Courcelle (14th), senior Mike Rice (19th), senior Tristin Fitzgerald and junior Kyler Darrah.

Stevens is assisted by Jim Hayden.

Red Storm baseball

Red Storm Golf

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No.

Player

Pos.

Grade

Player

Grade

44

Curtis Bordeau

OF

11

Carley Sawyer

12

8

Dylan Farr

INF

11

Mike Rice

12

24

Connor Gibbs

OF

11

Tristin Fitzgerald

12

14

Aaron Hesseltine

INF

11

Tanner Manning

12

15

Matt Kratts

INF

10

Tanner Courcelle

11

22

Liam McCloskey

INF

11

Gunnar Cross

11

11

Brandon Meyer

INF

11

Kyler Darrah

11

10

Chace Riley

OF

11

Bill Bentz

10

9

Ben Salls

OF

11

Connor O’Brian

10

17

Nick Stevens

OF

11

Ray Amell

9

25

Derek Strack

INF

11

Zack Ellsworth

9

12

Drew Sturgeon

INF

11

Paige Foley

9

5

Casey Sturgeon

OF

10

Zack Gladd

8

13

Witter Swanson

INF

11

Logan Brown

8

20

Erik Viscardo

MGR

12

Sam Branch

8

6

Joe Viscardo

INF

11

Brady Yando

8

18

Kyle Woodruff

INF

11

Zack Churco

8

Coach: Mark Farmer

Ben Salis

Infield, offense key to a strong season for Lady Red Storm

By Keith Lobdell

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SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake varsity softball team believes it will have some punch in the lineup to begin the 2016 season.

“Our strength’s will be hitting, as well as having a pretty strong infield,” head coach Debi Yando said. “Lindsay Reeve is a great shortstop with a good arm and our hitting has looked pretty good so far.”

Coach: Chris Stevens

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The Valley News Sun • April 9, 2016 | 9

Lake Placid Blue Bombers Youthful tennis Bombers Bombers, Beavers join hope to make their mark on softball field in 2016

By Keith Lobdell

By Keith Lobdell

LAKE PLACID — Everything on the Lake Placid varsity boys tennis team says youth, from the fact they have no seniors to a second-year head coach.

“This year we have a fairly young team with some returning players,” head coach Tyler Chase said. “Sawyer Chase is a sophomore returning for his third season and will be playing at first singles. His abilities have improved dramatically and I am looking for him to be quite competitive at that position.”

Chase also said Kyle Kirby is returning for his third season and will be moving up the ladder into, possibly, a singles position. John Seemueller and Camden Reiley are returning for their second season.

“Our youngest addition, Tucker Jakobe, has shown promise and is likely to see some regular play time this season,” Chase said. “The ladder is still to be determined as there are several new members who, although young, have started to show some real potential. Blake Roy, Luke Favata and Will Gray are new to the sport, but are very athletic and will be able to scramble successfully around the court.”

Chase is hoping the overall result will be a competitive year in the CVAC. “We’re looking forward to an exciting and competitive tennis season,” he said.

LAKE PLACID — The defending Section VII/Class D champion is getting some help this season to defend its crown.

The Lake Placid varsity softball team is joining forces with the Keene squad, offering several players who have sectional finals experience twice in 2015-16 (soccer and basketball).

“We are all looking forward to this merger,” head coach Donna Moody said. “As a team, our expectations are to be competitive every time we step onto the field, to work hard each day to get better and to put ourselves into a position to compete for the sectional title.”

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Blue Bombers boys tennis Player

Grade

Kyle Kirby

11

Blake Roy

11

Will Gray

11

Sawyer Chase

10

Luke Favata

9

John Seemueller

8

Camden Reiley

8

Tucker Jakobe

7

Coach: Tyler Chase

Lady Blue Bombers softball Player

No.

Grade

Liza Amirault

17

12

Madison Gifford

18

12

Mia Kennedy

14

12

Morgan Meyer

11

12

Maria Paola

7

12

Cameron Shipman

8

12

Grace Sturges

2

12

Ainhoa Irerazal

12

11

Paige Megliore

4

11

Loucie Nhu Doan

5

11

Marta Padura

15

11

Irene Quesada

1

11

Bella Reid

13

11

Elaina Smith

10

11

Hanna Whitney

9

11

Emily Jesmer

19

10

Elly Smith

6

10

Coach: Donna Moody

SCHEDULES

Baseball

Monday, April 4...at Moriah, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 8...at AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 11...at Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 13...vs Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 15...vs Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19...at Saranac Lake, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21... at Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23... vs Plattsburgh High, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, May 3... vs Moriah, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 5... at Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10... vs Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 12... vs AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 14... vs Ticonderoga, 11 a.m.

Monday, May 16...at Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Henry McGrew

Softball (combined with Keene)

Saturday, April 9... vs AuSable Valley, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, April 12...vs Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 14... at Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 16... at Peru, 11 a.m.

Monday, April 18...vs Saranac Lake, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20... vs Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 22...at Plattsburgh High, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4...vs Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 9... at Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 11...at AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 13... at Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 16...vs Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Kamm Cassidy

Bombers seek golf repeat

By Keith Lobdell

keith@suncommunitynews.com

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid varsity golf program wants to keep their hands on the Section VII title.

“We return our top golfer in Bjorn Kroes, who was second in sectionals last season,” head coach John Glinski said. “Ryan Kane, Jared Smith and Drew Maiorca also return. We should have another strong season if we get scoring from the number 4, 5 and 6 positions.

Blue Bombers golf Player

Grade

Jared Smith

12

Kevin Geesler

11

Ryan Kane

11

Bjorn Kroes

11

Nick Lysek

11

Owen Magurk

11

Sean Moore

11

Drew Maiorca

10

Bryce Paries

10

Noah Tavares

9

Lars Kroes

7

Coach: John Glinski

Tennis

Wednesday, April 13...vs Northern Adirondack Friday, April 15...vs Northeastern Clinton Monday, April 18... vs Saranac Wednesday, April 20...vs Plattsburgh High Monday, May 2...vs Beekmantown Monday, May 9... at AuSable Valley Wednesday, May 11...at Peru

Track and Field

Thursday, April 14...vs EKMW, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21...vs Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3...vs AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 5... at Saranac Lake, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10... at Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 12.. at Saranac., 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 16...at Seton Catholic, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25...at Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Golf

Tuesday, April 19...vs Peru Thursday, April 21...at Moriah Monday, May 2...vs Beekmantown Wednesday, May 4...vs Seton Catholic Friday, May 6...at Saranac Lake Monday, May 9...at Saranac Friday, May 13... at Northeastern Clinton Monday, May 16...vs Ticonderoga Wednesday, May 18...at Plattsburgh High Friday, May 20...vs AuSable Valley

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Tupper Lake Lumberjacks Baseball

Tuesday, May 3... at Norwood-Norfolk, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 9...vs St. Regis Falls, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 7...vs Norwood-Norfolk, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12...vs Parishville-Hopkinton, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 15...at St. Lawrence Central, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 18... at Brushton-Moira, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21... at Chateaugay, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 28...vs Madrid-Waddington, 4:30 p.m.

Track and Field

Saturday, April 16...at Section X Relay Carnival at Ogdensburg Thursday, April 21...at Potsdam (Massena)

Thursday, May 5...at Gouverneur (Canton) Tuesday, May 10...vs Malone (Norwood-Norfolk) Friday, May 13...at Norwood-Norfolk Invitational Saturday, May 14...at Malone Invitational Wednesday, May 18...at Madrid-Waddington (Ogdensburg) Saturday, May 21...at Van Dusen Invitational at Ogdensburg Tuesday, May 24...vs Salmon River (Clifton-Fine)

Depth of roster has Red Storm set for season

By Keith Lobdell

Donald Duffy

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake varsity boys track and field program will have plenty of athletes to choose from in 2016 who are well rounded athletes.

“This season, we are focusing on continuing to foster a team of athletes who can compete well,” head coach Cy Ellsworth said. “Many of our 41 athletes see the value of track and field. We have skiers, rugby players and kids from all walks of life. We want them to become leaders and develop good life strategies.”

Ellsworth said the team has been working well in the preseason, but feels experience will be a weakness heading into the schedule.

“David Sullivan will be a player to watch in throws, plus several distance runners,” Ellsworth said.

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Gabriel Faubert

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Yando said the key for the season will be how the girls who toe the rubber in the circle develop.

“We need to work on pitching and the depth of our pitchers,” she said.

Lady Red Storm softball Player

No.

Pos.

Olivia Atkinson

17

2B/OF

Andrea Boon

11

P/OF

Morgan Farmer

12

P/OF

Brana Fenton

19

2B/OF

Iris Gliniski

8

C

Katie Holvick

6

P/OF

Caitlin Kellam

2

OF

Kendra Martin

18

2B/OF

Natalie Munn

25

1B

Lindsay Reeve

30

SS

Lauren Reeve

7

CF

MaKayla Schmidt

16

3B

Coach: Debi Yando

Softball schedule

Tuesday, April 5...at Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 7...vs Plattsburgh High, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 9... at Beekmantown, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, April 12...vs Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 14...at Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 18... at Lake Placid, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20...at Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2... vs Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4...at AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 6...at Plattsburgh High, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 9... vs Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 11... vs Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 13...at Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 16... vs Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

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Wyatt Foley Ben Goff Anderson Gray Bryce Hartman Adam Hesseltine Devin Kidd Joseph Larabie Tyler Martin Bennett Martino Griffin Molloy Easton Moore Abraham Newton Logan Pruner Austin Reynolds Charlie Segard Jake Spadaro David Sullivan Silas Swanson

Anderson Gray

Red Storm boys track and field

Phillip Buck

Garrett “Fox” Thurston David Tracy Zachary Tracy

Jackson Carlisto

Patrick Wamsganz

Jacob Alberga

Louis Catania

Patrick Alberga

Dzihad Cecunjanin

Michael Amell

Colden Celeste

Nathan Baldwin

Lauchlan Cheney-Seymour

Adam Branch

Colton Clement

Owen Wilson Perry Winch Ethan Wood Owen Yando Coach: Cy Ellsworth

Lady Red Storm hope track will give them the edge

By Keith Lobdell

Samantha Mertz

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Maddie Grimone

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hurdles

Kaylee McLean

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SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake varsity girls track and field team will seek to earn extra points on the track as they enter the 2016 season.

“We are well-rounded, a bit stronger on the track,” head coach Jason Wamsganz said. “The girls are working very hard during the preseason and leadership is a strength.”

Wamsganz is assisted by Bill Peer and Nathan Boyer-Rechlin.

Madelyn Munn

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sprints, jumps

Taylor Nolan

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Sierra O’Mahony

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Kiki Walker

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sprints, jumps

Abbie Wolf

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Hannah Brogan

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Madison Moon

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throws, jumps

Sarah Shipman

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Lady Red Storm track and field

Anna Ellithorpe

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Edina Cecunjanin

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Grace Clark

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Jenna Morgan

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sprints, jumps

Faith Rothaupt

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Molly Bell

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Oliva Bell

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Kellie Claremont

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Haily Cornell

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Frannie Newman

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Emma Peer

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Serena Stevens

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Susan Stevens

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Justina Hewitt

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Jaclyn Latourelle

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Chloe Peer

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Kate Stevens

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Eliza Cowan

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Hannah Latour

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Jada Meadows

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Randi Rondeau

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Maria Rothaupt

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Brittany Shumway

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Logan Hochwald

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Coach: Jason Wamsganz

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The 2015/2016 All Valley varsity boys basketball team Starters • Coach: Jamie Douglass Captain

Kobe Parrow AVCS

Lucas Cross Willsboro

Sean Lincoln Willsboro

Nate Manning AVCS

Anderson Gay Westport

16.6 PPG, 11.8 RPG

7.0 PPG, 5.8 RPG, 2.6 SPG

12.2 PPG, 7.4 RPG

9.0 PPG, 6.0 APG, 4.5 RPG

17.5 PPG, 6.0 RPG

Reserves

Joel Martineau AVCS

Alex Knapp AVCS

Joel Morris ELCS

Sam Huttig ELCS

Damian Brown Keene

11.6 PPG

9.2 PPG, 6.9 RPG

9.3 PPG, 3.7 SPG

10.4 PPG, 3.9 RPG

12.0 PPG

Blake Roy LPCS

Mike Rice Saranac Lake

Thomas Mero Westport

Sam Napper Westport

Zach Pierson Willsboro

11.9 PPG, 10.1 RPG

15.7 PPG, 6.9 RPG

6.1 PPG, 5.0 APG, 8.0 RPG

12.6 PPG, 11.0 RPG

9.8 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 2.5 SPG

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Section VII leagues announce end-of-season awards ELIZABETHTOWN — Coaches in the Mountain and Valley Athletic Conference and Champlain Valley Athletic Conference have named their All Star teams for the 2015-16 season.

The CVAC announced three teams for both divisions, while the MVAC did a first and second team for Division I and Division II.

MVAC boys - Division I MVP: Anderson Gay, Westport Coach: Jim Spring, Willsboro

Philip Yang - Seton Catholic Stuart Baird - Lake Placid Blake Roy - Lake Placid Sam Huttig - Elizabethtown-Lewis Zach Pierson - Willsboro

MVP: Hanna Whitney, Keene Coach: Donna Dixon, Seton Catholic

First team

CVAC boys

MVP’s: Adam Jaquish and Taylor Slattery, Moriah Coach: Brian Cross, Moriah

Third team

First team

MVAC Scholar athlete award

MVAC girls - Division I

Second team

Second team Trina Bigelow - Willsboro Lauren Rossi - Lake Placid Sam Bashaw - Seton Catholic Ellie Storey - Westport Chloe Mitchell - Westport

Rylee Hollister - Northeastern Clinton Austin Myers - Saranac Mike Rice - Saranac Lake Joel Martineau - AuSable Valley Mitch Senecal - Plattsburgh High

Thomas Mero - Westport Sam Napper - Westport Kevin Murray - Seton Catholic Joel Morris - Elizabethtown/Lewis Sean Lincoln - Willsboro

Gretchen Zalis - Seton Catholic Elaina Smith - Keene Hannah Schwoebel - Westport Cameron Shipman - Lake Placid Hailey Moore - Seton Catholic

Lake Placid - Lauren Rossi – Senior, Matthew Le - Senior

State champ tops list of local All-State soccer stars Wills, Follmer key parts of PHS title run, Morris key in finals run with Griffins

Trevor Wills, PHS

Noah Mohr, LPCS

Alex Follmer, PHS

Jaso Hannula, LPCS

Joel Morris, Griffins

Wills had key scores in both the state semifinal and championship game. Perhaps the most memorable was teaming up with teammate Hans Kurzmann for the opening goal of the Class B title game against East Aurora, only 34 seconds into the game.

Wills, a senior, led the Hornets with 39 points, scoring 15 goals while recording nine assists on the season.

Mohr was the anchor of the Blue Bombers defense from the net position, as the senior helped to lead the team to the Section VII/Class C championship game.

Follmer was tied for second on the team in points, as the senior combined six goals and 12 assists for 24 points. He was a captain for the state championship Hornets.

Only a sophomore, Hannula is one of the top defenders in Section VII, protecting the turf around his second team mate in Mohr to keep opponents away from the back of the Blue Bomber net.

Morris helped lead the Griffins to the Class D state title game, leading the region in goals and points in earning the Northern Soccer League Division II MVP award.

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Third team

Fourth team

Fifth team

SLCS SCHEDULES

Baseball

Monday, April 4...vs Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 6...at Plattsburgh High, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 8... vs Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 11...at Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 13...vs Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 15...at Moriah, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19...vs Lake Placid, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21... vs Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23...BYE Tuesday, May 3...at Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 5... vs AuSable Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 7... vs Plattsburgh High, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, May 10... at Northern Adirondack, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 12... at Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 14...vs Saranac, 11 a.m.

Monday, May 16... at Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Golf

Tuesday, April 19...vs Moriah Thursday, April 21...at Seton Catholic Monday, May 2...at AuSable Valley

Wednesday, May 4...vs Plattsburgh High Friday, May 6...vs Lake Placid Monday, May 9... vs Peru Wednesday, May 11... at Beekmantown Friday, May 13...at Saranac Monday, May 16... BYE Wednesday, May 18...at Ticonderoga

Track and Field

Thursday, April 14...vs Peru, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19...at Plattsburgh High, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21... vs EKMW, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3...vs Beekmantown, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 5...vs Lake Placid, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10... at Saranac, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 12...vs Ticonderoga, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, May 16...vs Northeastern Clinton, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse

Monday, April 4... at Ogdensburg Thursday, April 7...vs Potsdam Monday, April 11...vs Salmon River

Thursday, April 14...vs St. Lawrence Central Thursday, April 21...at Canton Tuesday, May 3...at Potsdam Monday, May 9...vs Massena Friday, May 13...at St. Lawrence Central Tuesday, May 17...vs Canton Wednesday, May 18...vs Ogdensburg Friday, May 20...at Massena

Girl’s Lacrosse

Tuesday, April 5...at Heuvelton Friday, April 8...at Massena Tuesday, April 12...at Ogdensburg Friday, April 15...at Potsdam Tuesday, April 19...at Salmon River Tuesday, May 3...vs Massena Thursday, May 5...vs Ogdensburg Thursday, May 12...vs Salmon River Friday, May 13...vs Canton Monday, May 16...vs Heuvelton Thursday, May 19...at Canton Friday, May 20...vs Heuvelton

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EYE ON THE ARTS

Passion

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an Gogh once said that it is “good to love many things … whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

Passion is essential to more than art: it is essential to living a fulfilled life. To be passionate is to be driven to do more, driven to be more. And while staying home is comfortable and relaxing, it oftentimes takes more to get inspired.

It takes venturing out; it takes experiencing something new or something unique and broadening one’s interests. One of the great things about the Adirondacks is the plentiful opportunities around to do so. Here are a few events happening around the area this week. Attend one and who knows – passion may be inspired where you once thought there was none.

The Adirondack Shakespeare Company will return to The Upper Jay Art Center with a performance of “The Merchant of Venice” on April 9. “The Merchant of Venice” follows a merchant in 16th-century Venice who must default on a large loan provided by an abused Jewish moneylender. The play was first performed in 1605. The ADK Shakespeare Company was formed in May of 2008. Since then, co-founders Patrick Siler and Tara Bradway have worked to grow the Shakespeare project into a flourishing not-for-profit, professional theatre company serving the Adirondacks. The company’s performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and free for children under twelve. For more information, contact the Upper Jay Art Center at (518) 946-8315.

John Nemeth will perform at Saranac Lake’s BluSeed Studios on April 11. John Nemeth, winner of the 2015 BMA’s Best Blues/Soul Album, has been described as one of the “new faces of soul and blues.” Nemeth has been nominated for over 14 awards. The concert starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $18 for non-members. Reservations can be made by calling BluSeed Studios at 518891-3799 or by emailing admin@bluseedstudios.org.

The Champlain Valley Film Series will screen “BROOKLYN” at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall on April 9. The Academy Award-nominated film follows the deeply moving, passionate love story of a young Irish immigrant in 1950s Brooklyn. This one-time screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for minors. For more information, contact info@ cvfilms.org.

On April 14, the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls will host a concert by Canadian folk band Ozere. Ozere takes equal inspiration from chamber groups and folk bands, combining bluegrass, Celtic, jazz, Klezmer, Afro Cuban and classical music to create a unique sound.

Drawing comparisons to the Goat Rodeo Sessions and Tin Hat Trio, Ozere has garnered much acclaim following the release of their debut full-length album,“Finding Anyplace,” in October 2015. Tickets to the show are free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This concert is part of the Folklife Concert Series, produced by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, and made possible in part by the Friends of Crandall Public Library and the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program. For more information, contact the library at 518-792-6508.

Ahead of Mother’s Day on May 8, the Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh will offer two crafting classes for children. The first class will show attendees how to make a clay flower pot using the slab and mold technique. This class, ages five and up, will be held on April 10 at 9 a.m. Reservations are $35 and include all materials. The second class will focus on paper sten-

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cils, wallpaper and craft foam. It will also be held on April 10, starting one hour later at 10 a.m. Reservations for this class are $45 and also includes all materials. For more information, or to reserve a spot in one of these classes, contact the Strand at 518-563-1604.

The Ticonderoga “Best 4th In The North” Committee, a subcommittee of the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership, will hold their annual Best 4th Fundraiser at The Pub in Ticonderoga on April 9.

Guest bartenders will take over the bar from 6 to 9 p.m., with all tips going to benefit the Best 4th in the North celebration.

The night’s schedule currently includes Mickey Fitzgerald and Toby Herbert from 6 – 6:45 p.m., Francine Burke and Beth Ross from 6:457:30 p.m., Bob and Tom Dedrick from 7:30 – 8:15 p.m., with Eric Rich and Corey Thompson closing. During the event, the committee plans to announce the 2016 Grand Marshal. The Best 4th In the North Celebration attracts many visitors to the Ticonderoga area every year, which supports local businesses and the local economy. The 2016 Best 4th In The North Celebration will take place July 1-4, 2016 with a grand fireworks display, parade, DJ, live music, food, vendors, rides, games and more. The celebration costs $30,000 every year, much of the funding coming from the committee’s fundraising efforts. For more information, visit best4thinthenorth.com or contact the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce at 518-585-6619.

From April 9 – 23, The Shirt Factory Gallery in Glens Falls will have on display an exhibit featuring four diverse artists. The exhibit combines art by painters Betsy Brandt and Laura Von Rosk with work by sculptors Russell Serrianne and Dolores Thomson. An opening reception will be held on April 9 from 5 – 7 p.m. For more information on the reception or the exhibit itself, call the Shirt Factory Gallery at 518-636-5939 or visit shirtfactorygallery.com.

Piano by Nature will present two performances of Mark Shilansky’s “Fugue Mill” at the Historic Hand House in Elizabethtown. Mark Shilansky’s “Fugue Mill” weaves jazz through the fabric of Americana, world, and classical music, creating a complex yet attractive blend of musical and improvisational styles. Members of the group combine their wide-ranging experience playing with such artists as Luciana Souza, Esperanza Spalding, and Darol Anger into a musical mélange that explores diverse idioms, linked through improvisation and groove. The first show will be held on April 9th at 7 p.m., the next on April 10th at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for all students 15-and-under. For more information, call 518-962-8899 or visit pianobynature.org. www.suncommunitynews.com/A&Efor the latest events

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Stec

From page 1 Stec, a Republican, scorched the Democratic-led Assembly for invoking the policy for a fourth consecutive year.

“They’re getting more daring in their use of it,” Stec said. “It’s intent is for emergency legislation, not, ‘Oh, we’re surprised April 1 is here!’”

The mechanism was invoked as the budget deadline approached shortly before midnight on April 1.

Stec’s motion to delay the vote was defeated.

Lawmakers didn’t receive the 702-page budget until 11:48 p.m., Stec said — just four hours before the vote, and before legislators had a chance to read it.

The state budget consists of 10 separate bills, Stec said.

The debt service bill is usually fully-aged, he explained, including this year, when it arrived three days before deadline.

The other nine are a mixed bag.

But all of them required a message of necessity this year.

While legal, Stec said usage of the mechanism isn’t in “the spirit of the Constitution.”

“It’s not about a late night,” he said. “The public has a constitutional right to view legislation.”

Since taking office in 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made delivering on-time budgets a point of pride, bringing a degree of stability to a process that was often months behind schedule under his predecessors.

This year’s $154 billion spending plan contained several pieces of legislation that required deep analysis, said Stec, including paid family leave and the minimum wage increase.

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to $12.50, with future increases based on the economic climate.

Stec said lawmakers didn’t know the details.

“It wasn’t as simple as the number is $15,” Stec said. “They came up with a hybrid.”

The lawmaker said the lack of debate reminded him of the mystery surrounding the SAFE Act, the controversial gun control legislation passed in 2013 following the Sandy Hook mass shooting.

“People were angry and they should be,” Stec said. “It’s unreasonable to not allow the public access to these bills.”

Foreign Scholars From page 1

“Our caring for what they’re doing gives them a huge boost of additional hope,” Bingham said. “We listen, and it motivates them even more.”

Teenagers, too, will share their first-hand accounts in a splinter session designed for their American peers.

Children, often left out of the conversation, have the power to be some of the most important instigators of change, Bingham said.

The presentation comes nearly three months after a group now known as the North Country Refugee Collaboration Project formed to discuss how the region could aid victims of the ongoing Syrian conflict.

“That desire to help is definitely in the North Country,” Bingham said.

Rebuilding the Lives of Refugee Families: Saturday, April 9 at the Keene Valley Congregational Church, from 4 to 5:30pm and Sunday, April 10 at Temple Beth Israel in Plattsburgh at 2 p.m.

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Bernie

From page 1 Volunteers trickled into a downtown cafe on Saturday morning. A field organizer greeted them, registered their names and assigned them a “turf ” — a neighborhood containing the names of registered Democratic voters.

The goal? Engage the voter. Assess which way they’re leaning in terms of candidate preference, and get them to pull the trigger for their candidate — Hopefully Bernie.

Notching the Empire State in the win column, say supporters, will allow the candidate to rack up delegates — which are awarded proportionately in the state — and deal a stinging setback to Clinton, who is far ahead in the pledged delegate count, on her adopted native ground.

“We believe in Bernie and his message and are trying to promote his message the best we can,” said Adam Guillette, 25, an organizer for the group Upstate NY for Bernie Sanders.

Guillette cited issues like social justice, single-payer health care and the need to regulate the financial industry as being magnets that attracted previously disaffected voters to Sanders’ campaign.

The Morrisonville resident also cited the candidate’s refusal to budge for issues of political expediency and accept corporate contributions.

“I feel like that encourages a lot of us who have given up on politics,” Guillette said.

Although the race has been raging since last April, North Country volunteers first came together during the petition process in January.

The effort was spearheaded by Maria Dezotell, a long-time Sanders supporter who will serve as a delegate during the Democratic National Convention in July.

At first, she said, the goal was identifying and registering voters.

The group exchanged contact info and began planning fundraising and voter registration events, including a march and “Honk for Bernie” event.

They met with students and targeted local high school seniors who were eligible to vote.

Dezotell collected data, which she uploaded onto the national party’s voter database, of which she has access due to her delegate status.

“My relationship with Bernie justifies the real reason why I am a delegate and put time and effort for his campaign,” said Dezotell, an award-winning science teacher who met the senator after her team won a contest sponsored by his office.

Dezotell, who lives in Keeseville, continues to work with his Vermont office on education and sustainability issues.

Several weeks ago, with the race a little more than five weeks away, the Sanders campaign sent in a field staffer to help with organizational efforts, one of eight in the state.

Now it’s about knocking on as many doors as possible and getting out the vote.

“This is the first campaign where people are the organizers in their own communities,” said Dezotell. “I’ve seen a lot of enthusiasm and creativity, from canvassing and organizing debate watch parties to phone banking and face banking.”

GRASSROOTS About a dozen volunteers milled in the cafe before hitting the streets. Each received a complimentary Bernie button, a list of talking points and a canvassing partner before heading out.

Organizers flagged seven urban turfs containing registered Democratic voters; 11 in suburban and rural areas. Each contained 50 voters. Teams were then dispatched to make contact, including volunteers who traveled across Lake Champlain from Sanders’ native Vermont.

Steve Norman, a Burlington-based legal aid lawyer, has been canvassing for Sanders since 1983.

“This is a great chance to take part in a presidential campaign,” he said.

Earlier this year, Norman canvassed for the senator in New Hampshire, where he bested Clinton by 22 percent points.

So did Andrew Pezzulo and Kate Isham, a pair of Vermont residents who were given three hours to scour a center city stretch.

They studied their voter maps. Canvassing is easier in the country, said Isham, 30, an administrative assistant for a nonprofit mental health agency, because more responses are generated. City folks are less likely to be talkative. (But you have to drive everywhere, she noted.)

Downtown Plattsburgh is tough turf, the pair discovered.

Doors are recessed in business facades and behind industrial garages. Victorian mansions are subdivided into grotty student housing. All have flights of steep, winding stairs.

The pair ascended a cigarette-scented stairway; the floor marred with scorch marks and bottle caps.

“Who let you in the building?” asked a man who appeared to be renovating an empty apartment.

“It was open,” Isham brightly said.

The volunteers scanned their list, made sure they had the pronunciation of the occupant’s name correct, and climbed another flight of stairs.

They knocked.

A young woman cracked the door.

“We’re with Bernie,” said Isham. “We’re just asking about which issues people care about.”

The door opened wider.

The woman rubbed sleep from her eyes: “Where do you vote?” she asked.

“If you go to berniesanders.com, you can enter your zip code and find your polling place,” Isham said.

The girl silently scanned the campaign literature, thanked the pair and shut the door.

Muffled music rang out from behind a neighboring door. So did the smell of marijuana smoke.

Saturdays are tough, Isham said. Everyone, even college students, are likely outside, enjoying the warm spring weather.

Pezzulo left a flier on the door: “Stand with Bernie,” read the headline. “A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little.”

Pezzulo, 66, estimated he’s knocked on 1,200 doors since getting involved in politics. Canvassing is easier than manning a phone bank, said the algebra teacher, because voters are generally less likely to be rude when they’re looking someone in the eye.

And Sundays are easier than Saturdays, he said.

The pair continued, navigating mystery addresses, broken doorbells, litter-strewn parking lots, dark alcoves — even mocking “Bernie Sanders sucks!” calls from a sullen teenager in a downtown sports bar.

“I can give you some literature so you can learn more,” said Pezzulo.

“Trump! Trump! Trump!” said the teenager.

Isham was nonplussed. By law, volunteers are allowed to talk to voters. But it’s not a good use of resources to debate them, she said.

The pair tallied the results on the list. Another group of volunteers will make second contact

Sanders campaign volunteers Andrew Pezzulo and Kate Isham canvassed for voters in Plattsburgh on Saturday, April 2.

for those who aren’t home, she said.

Signs supporting Sanders weren’t uncommon on city streets — nor were passerby who said they supported the candidate.

But the goal is to identify possible supporters — not those who have already made their decision, said Isham.

Isham and Pezzulo studied the list. One address could only be entered by going through a food co-op.

They entered and navigated through a warren of rooms and doors. Isham opened one door and ascended the stairs before gingerly opening another.

“I’m not feeling too well, but I’m going to vote for Bernie,” called a man.

“I’m sorry for going in your house,” said Isham, shutting the door.

Back outside, a young man approached.

“Are you Joseph?” he asked.

“We’re with Bernie,” said Isham.

“Oh hell yeah,” he said.

The man drifted off in search of Joseph.

After penetrating another labyrinth, a cloud opened up and rain fell.

“For a city turf, I think it went very well,” Isham said.

Urban residents, she said, are less likely to talk.

“They seemed friendly and glad to hear from us.”

“We just have to keep going back until they’re home,” said Pezzulo.

FINAL STRETCH Organizers are confident that Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, will win the state.

A Quinnipiac poll released last week showed Clinton with a 12-point lead.

“We’ll erase that quick,” said Guillette.

On Monday, Clinton campaigned in Albany. Later that evening, the campaigns agreed to a debate, scheduled for April 14 in Brooklyn.

Dezotell said while her canvassing has revealed widespread support for Sanders, the ultimate vote will likely be cleaved along the upstate-downstate divide.

Clinton remains better-known in New York City than Sanders, in part, because she represented the state for eight years as a senator, Dezotell said.

“If Bernie takes the time to campaign there, and gets his word and name out, then New York is his,” said Dezotell, citing a rally in the Bronx that drew 18,500 supporters last week. “If you compare this number with Hillary’s rally attendance of 600, you see the difference — it’s Bernie’s message that goes to the people’s hearts, souls and dreams for a better America.”

Sanders is far behind Clinton in their race to accumulate the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

Pundits have said while a loss wouldn’t significantly alter Clinton’s delegate lead, which numbers about 700 once so-called superdelegates are added, it would trigger questions about her appeal to progressive voters.

Volunteers appeared undeterred by the odds.

In addition to New York, delegate-rich California remains open, said Dezotell, and organizational efforts in both states are still gearing up.

Dezotell thinks Empire State voters will warm to Sanders as he spends more time in the state, while Guillette believes next week’s debate will further buoy the Vermont senator’s chances.

Isham said she tried not to think too much about the polls and the horserace.

She’ll likely return to the region at least once before the primary on April 19 — perhaps Saranac Lake, where a number of events are scheduled this Saturday, including an event at the Waterhole.

“I just focus on doing the best we can,” she said.

LOCAL SUPPORT Local Democratic committees said they were steering clear of endorsements.

Clinton County Democratic Committee Chair Marty Mannix said the committee hadn’t discussed it yet.

“No one brought it up yet,” he said. “We usually don’t get into endorsements when we have contested primaries.”

Essex County Democratic Committee said they will stay neutral.

“We have two good candidates,” said First Vice Chair Margaret Bartley. “Some people support one, some support the other.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, is Team Hillary. The New York governor immediately endorsed Clinton after she announced her candidacy last April. Clinton appeared with him on Monday in New York City when he signed paid family leave and $15 minimum wage bills into law.

Momentum, say Sanders supporters, will continue to sizzle until voters head to the polls on April 19, the only state that has a nominating contest on that day. People-powered events are planned for Plattsburgh on April 16 and in Westport the following day.

Neither Sanders or Clinton have announced North Country appearances; nor have the three remaining Republican candidates, including frontrunner Donald Trump, who has opened up a monster 36 percent point lead over Ted Cruz.

Dezotell said support for Sanders is part of a broader movement.

“Return the government and the democracy to us, the people, and take money out of politics,” said Dezotell. “Who doesn’t resonate to his message?”

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The lure of a fish

T

he day started out with snow, 3.5 inches in Saranac Lake and a heavy dusting in Wilmington, great weather to stock some Brook Trout, Salvelinus fon-

tinalis.

We met at the Two Fly Shop in Wilmington. From there we headed out a mission, the undertaking of getting native brookies planted in cold oxygenated water streams that will support them year round. Brookies like colder water temperatures better than brown trout, and some of our streams reach the higher end, critical temperatures for brookies; once again, it’s all about maintaining and protecting cold water streams, so they stay cold water streams.

Tom Conway of the 2 Fly Shop helped organize the stocking effort, to assist the Essex County Fish Hatchery manager Chris Barber and Lance Baker to get the job done. Fish heads do that, we help out!

John Ruff, John Starfish, Dave Brookman, Tom Conway, 2 fellows from the Town of Wilmington, Bill Skufka and Eric Bruce, and myself, helped get the first batch of speckled beauties to 3 different brooks in town.

About 1,500, one year old trout were released in the brooks and spread out along numerous pools in the streams. That is where the help has added value. If the driver had to stock alone, he would tend to place many of the fish near the road access points and bridges. One man can’t efficiently climb up and down on the truck; carry the fish back to hidden pools and spread the fish out along the stream. With the additional help, we can run buckets of fish back into the woods to deep pools and scatter trout along a stretch of stream. Plus, it’s not smart to leave a truck alone, along the road, safety is always a concern.

With the warmer winter we just had, we are hoping that the hold over rate for trout should be at a higher level than the past two long cold winters. Anchor ice didn’t form in many places, leaving the pools open for trout to survive. That may mean more and larger fish this season. A stream junkies dream!

When the season opens April 1st, the lure of trout will be

A bucket of year-old brook trout await release in local streams. The fish were raised at the Essex County Fish Hatchery in Crown Point.

Photo by Rich Redman

Jimmer Sherman works airbrushing trolling spoons in his Moriah home recently.

Photo by Rich Redman

on my mind.

Speaking of lures, there is a creative metal spoon maker in our area. But first, I must ramble on about how all of this got started.

Historically speaking, one of the first spoon lures made, was from an actual spoon. The story goes that a fellow was fishing out of a boat and dropped a spoon into the water. As it slipped under the surface and fluttered down towards the depths, he noticed its twisting and fluttering action, and saw a fish approach it. The idea was spawned, with some modifications, like removing the handle, the inventor attached a hook and the first spoon style lure was invented.

Now back to our local spoon maker.

In Moriah, Jimmer Sherman has taken on the task of making trolling spoons. Sitting at his desk, he takes the metal spoon blanks, which he purchases and creates his own masterpieces of art with an airbrush and dipping. Using high tech tools such as an old comb, which he says he no longer needs due to a lack of flowing locks; he paints patterns, like his perch

model that are exceptional.

Colors like pink, greens, silvers, along with orange, blues and other hues are masterfully painted on the metal blanks, creating some beautiful fish imitations and general fish catching lures. Once the paint dries, he adds the rings and hook to complete the work of art. His candy box of lures is filled with some fantastic light weight trolling spoons for salmon, trout and other Adirondack and Lake Champlain cold water fish.

As a stream walking fly guy, I don’t use spoons much, but I have been known to fall off the fly wagon and cast a spoon in early spring from the shores of Lake Champlain. In early spring the salmon and trout are near the surface and casting from shore with a tempting casting spoon can get you a beauty of a fish.

Jimmer makes trolling spoons which are designed to be trolled behind a boat or canoe. It makes me think about breaking out the old canoe for a trolling trip or two. His lures are lighter than what I normally use from shore, but he is leaning toward painting up some heavy weight casting spoons if the demand is there.

So if the lure of the fish has you, it doesn’t matter if you fish a brook or stream with fly rod, hit the ponds with a canoe, fish the lake from shore or troll from a boat, just have fun and enjoy life while you can.

Rich Redman is a retired District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and an avid outdoorsman. His column will appear regularly. He may be reached at rangeric@nycap.rr.com.

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