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Knights of Columbus Council 3525 in the village of Champlain will host its first Northern Tier Food Drive Friday, Oct. 14, through Monday, Oct. 17, at Price Chopper on U.S. Route 11 in Champlain. The drive will collect monetary and nonperishable food donations for the Mooers Food Pantry. Darcy Castine, a volunteer with the pantry, is seen seated, joined, from left, by Knights of Columbus members Richard Favreau, Chris Trombley, Tom Trombley, Chuck Conner, Francis Mercaldi, and Bruce West. For more details, turn to page 9. Photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau
Dannemora Free Library gets breathing room with new space, director says
By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com ALTONA — When it comes to pr omoting small businesses, Suzie Thaller believes there’s always more that can be done. That’s why she and her companion, Jeff Rabideau, are forming an event that will showcase all they have to offer. Thaller and Rabideau, who have become known for putting on the Altona Outdoors Show for the past thr ee years – an exposition at the Rainbow W edding and Banquet Hall of sporting exhibitors, wildlife artists, furnitur e builders and other related organizations — have organized a new event known as the North Country Small Biz Show. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
Laura Pritchard, director of the Dannemora Free Library, stands in the library’s new location in the Village of Dannemora Office Building on outer Emmons Street. Pritchard said she’s finally starting to feel settled into her new location about a month after the move. Photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau
By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com DANNEMORA — Laura Pritchard feels right at home. The dir ector of the Dannemora Fr ee Library has found a place for every book in the library’s new location in the new Village of Dannemora Office Building on Emmons Street.
“It’s r eally wonderful,” Pritchard said of the new location. “W e have plenty of space.” The library was moved the last week of August fr om its former location in the Town of Dannemora Office Building on Cook Str eet. That location, said Pritchard, has only about one-third the space as the new location.
“We just have a lot mor e room,” said Pritchard. Having that r oom has allowed for Pritchard to not only bring along the thousands of books the library already has, but has given her the ability to do something she hasn’t thought of doing for some time — expanding the library’s collection. “We’ve already added over a hundr ed books in the last month,” said Pritchard. “Some books wer e donated, some were pur chased thr ough a grant through Sen. Betty Little. Some we pur chased our selves.” Pritchard has been focusing on expanding the library’s offering of young adult reading, which, in the pr evious location, only allowed for a bookcase measuring approximately 4 ft. wide by 6 ft. tall. Now , Pritchard has three additional bookshelves she hopes to one day fill to meet the needs of her young reader. “Just last week, I purchased six more young adult books,” Pritchard said, adding she’s
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seeking input fr om both her young adult readers and other patrons on what they would like to see offered in the library. Another benefit of the move, said Pritchard, has been improved access and parking. The former location had very little on-str eet parking available, which was also metered. “[The Cook Street location] made it har d for people with walkers, str ollers and wheelchairs because of the stairs,” said Pritchard. “People struggling with mobility had a hard time. We even had some patrons stop coming because they couldn’t manage the stairs.” While he didn’t stop coming to the library at its old location, Leigh W alpole of Dannemora said the stairs made it difficult for him to enjoy his trips to the library. “I’m not an invalid by any means, but sometimes I have shortness of breath,” said Walpole, who suffers from chronic lung disease. “And, that was
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engineers had each reported drive the Elantra at 45 mph around a 2.5 mile course. The same reported was then asked to drive the Focus (not the SFE model) at the same Since the arrival of CEO Alan Mulally in 2006, speed around the same course. All conditions Ford has set out to be the fuel economy with the cars were equal, except for the leader in every segment. That’s why drivers. An engineer in the backseat of each
So Ford proved its point to a group of automotive journalists.
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So by gosh, Ford is going to prove that it is After dozens of reporters drove the vehicles, the leader regardless of what window stickers the data was calculated and the results were or advertisers say. in. The average fuel economy earned by our During a media drive event at Ford’s proving group driving the Focus was 40.4 mpg versus the Elantra’s average of 37.8 mpg. grounds in Romeo Mich., this week, Ford
Ford’s redesigned Focus gets 38 mpg highway -- unless a buyer opts for the SFE package (40 MPG).
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Hyundai Motors Co. promotes that its redesigned Elantra earns 40 mpg on the highway. This must vex Ford Motor Co.
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