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EditorialÂť Skateboard parks: Build it and they will come
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LAKE PLACID Ă Essex County WIC Clinics will be held in Lake Placid at the Thomas Shipman Youth Center Tuesday, May 5, from 9:30 a.m. until 2:15 p.m., and Tuesday, May 26, from 1:30 to 6 p.m. They will be in Au Sable Forks at the Town Ambulance Building Wednesday, May 6, from 9:30 a.m. until 2:15 p.m. They will be in Elizabethtown at the Public Health Building Thursday, May 7, from 8 to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, May 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. They will be in Keeseville at the United Methodist Church Thursday, May 28, from 9:30 a.m. until 2:15 p.m. Call to schedule anâ appointmentâ orâ fiândâ outâ more information at 873-3560 or 569-3296.
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Several dozen splashers participated in a polar plunge on Sunday, April 26 in Essex to benefit Planned Parenthood. Photo by Pete DeMola
Gardening event melds mundane with the mysterious By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com WESTPORT Ă As the North Country struggles to slough off the rough edges of winter, volunteers across the region are giving local green thumbs a heady dose of intellectual fertilizer. Essex County hosts 21 master gardener volunteers, or MGVs, professionals who advise the public on gardening and horticulture. They gathered at the Essex County Fairgrounds last week to share their expertise. Linda Gillilland, the Cornell CooperativeâExtensionâoffiâcialâwhoâorganizedâtheâ event, attributed its genesis, in part, to the perennial questions that bloom each year. This was a way to tackle the most frequently-asked topics, like clearing away old wivesĂ tales. Kathy Linker spent the morning explaining which bugs are helpful and which are destructive. The gypsy moth, for instance, is one of the most pestiferous insects in the hemisphere, spreading a plague of defoliation across the land after a feckless Frenchman CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Wild edibles can be found everywhere you look, Pat Banker told attendees at a lecture last week in Westport. Pictured above are some common plants she plucked from her yard in Paul Smiths. The event, which was organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension, also featured seminars from Master Gardener Volunteers and activities for local 4-H chapters. Photo by Pete DeMola
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LAKE PLACID Ă The Lake Placid Public Library will hold its budget vote Tuesday, May 12, at the Lake Placid Public Library, 2471 Main Street, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. School district voters will also be asked to select four (4) candidates to fulfiâlâ twoâ vacantâ fiâveâ (5)â yearâ terms, as well as one expired fiâveâ (5)â yearâ termâ andâ oneâ newâ fiâveâ (5)â yearâ term,â Julyâ 2015â toâ Juneâ 2020,â forâ theâ Lake Placid Public Library Board of Trustees. To be eligible to vote, an individual must be a United States citizen, a resident of the Lake Placid School District for at least 30 days, and be eighteen (18) years of age. Any taxpayer in the School District may obtain a copy of the amount of money, which will be required for the ensuing year for library purposes, during the seven (7) days immediately preceding the Budget Vote. For further information questions regarding the library budget, call 523-3200 or visit lakeplacidlibrary.org.
Skate park taking shape By Andrew Johnstone
Library to hold budget vote
In Saranac Lake
SARANAC LAKE Ă A skatepark project over a decade in the making is coming to fruition in the heart of Saranac Lake this spring. The Saranac Lake SkatePark Committee, founded in 2004 with the task of replacing the existing skatepark behind the village police department, lockedâupâtheâfiânalâamountâofâ funding needed this April to begin pouring concrete in the Midtown Lot between Broadway and Church St. The $7,500 matching grant from the Cloudsplitter Foundation pushed the project to its $330,000 goal, said Skate Park Committee chairperson Peggy Wiltberger, who explained that the group intended to get construction underway this year whether funded by grant or loan. Ă It feels really good,Ă Wiltberger said. Ă We knew coming into this we had a loan ... but we still needed to fundraise the balance to cover the loan that some people had put up.Ă The grant was just one piece of a sizable fundraising puzzle. Local skateboarders raised approximately $60,000 over the years through events ranging from car washes to hotdog sales and even a skateboard video premiere. Some 20 grants, including one for $25,000 from the Tony Hawk Foundation, totaled about $78,000. The biggest slice of the pie, meanwhile, CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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