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Restoration at Strand bringing back former glory

teah@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — Clinton Community College, the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum and the Strand Center for the Arts have formed a collaboration to promote education in the area.

The three organizations came together to form the North Country STEAM Center — science, technology, engineering, arts and math — to expand services that they all provide.

“We all do outreach programs in the community,” said Paul DeDominicas, director of the Center for Community and

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Indian Lake, New York on Sunday, July 19 to promote the Adirondack Park as a tourism destination. At the event, Gov. Cuomo announced a massive ramp-up in downstate promotional efforts, including doubling the number of MTA buses advertising the Adirondacks in New York City. He’s pictured above preparing for a whitewater rafting trip down the Hudson River.

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Big plans afoot for Plattsburgh city planning

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teah@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — The City of Plattsburgh is seeking funding to further priority projects to enhance the overall experience of residents, visitors and tourists in the city.

“One of our goals is to make Plattsburgh more walkable and bicycle friendly,” said Bruce Lawson, director of community development. “This is important to all residents, visitors and tourists who want to ride or walk through our area.

“We’re trying to enhance those possibilities.”

Bruce Lawson and Mayor Jim Calnon hold up an idea of what could be done in the Saranac River. Ideas include a kayaking and fishing opportunities.

NEW BRIDGES Before the Saranac Street Bridge closed due to instability, it was initially car-friendly, but then it was solely used by pedestrians and bicyclists.

Initially, the city planned to spruce up the bridge, but it requires replacement.

“People used this every single day,” Lawson said. “We have to get it done.”

The bridge will be rebuilt to be utilized by pedestrians and bicyclists only and to further expand the Saranac River Trail.

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Gender neutral housing among big changes this fall at CCC

By Teah Dowling

teah@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — Clinton Community College will be starting off the fall semester with big changes, including gender-neutral housing.

“We’re implementing this because it’s something that is common in four-year institutions,” said Sarah Samson, director of Residence Life at CCC. “Also, it’s another option to please our students.”

With this gender-neutral housing option, students can choose a roommate regardless of their gender, gender identity or gender expression.

Currently, the college’s two residence halls — Champlain and Cumberland — are co-ed, but roommates of two rooms, who share one bathroom, are all the same gender.

Next semester, however, half of a floor in Champlain Hall, 12-14 rooms, will be reserved for those who wish to share a room with the opposite sex or an individual who is a transitioning gender.

“You can choose who you want to live with when you’re not living in college housing,” said Edward Klein, vice president for Student Affairs at CCC. “We’re providing that opportunity here, allowing us to treat students in more of an adult fashion.”

Any student who is at least 18 years old can sign up for this option by choosing the option on the housing license agreement.

Depending on popularity and demand, the campus might open an entire floor or, possibly, an entire residence hall, designated for gender-neutral housing.

CCC BOOKSTORE CCC recently partnered with the Follett Corporation to support the CCC bookstore.

“They seemed like the best fit for us to partner with to meet the needs of our students,” Samson said. “It gives them more options.”

With Follett support, the

bookstore has access to the largest inventory of course materials and a network of more than 7,000 publishers and providers.

These options include a growing rental library that saves students, on average, 50 percent or more compared to purchasing a new textbook.

The bookstore will deliver a risk-free rental experience, allowing students to highlight, take notes and easily convert the rental to a purchase should they decide to keep the text.

Rental offerings will be complemented by an extensive selection of digital learning technologies, including Follett’s proprietary BryteWave digital reader — enabling students to study anytime, anywhere.

“Follett is excited to join and support Clinton Community College,” said Don Germano, president of Follett Higher Education Group, in a statement. “We look forward to working with the college to explore and implement bookstore solutions that will help drive affordability, access and, ultimately, student success.”

OTHER CHANGES After 10 years, CCC will be switching from Sodexo over to Chartwells — a dining program that is more, according Klein, dynamic, ever changing and evolving.

Outside the residence halls, the school paved and restriped part of the parking lot. They plan to landscaping before the fall semester begins at the end of August.

Inside the residence halls, CCC is looking to repaint the first floor of each building. They’re also planning to put a garbage bin and a Zero-Sort Recycling bin in every room to promote recycling and give students an ecological footprint.

Most of the changes came to be after looking through surveys

and listening to the students.

“We take their feedback seriously,” Samson said. “We’re making changes so that when the students come back, they’ll see that we want to make a better environment for them.”

“It’s just listening to what students tell us and trying to address those concerns or issues that they have,” Klein said. “It’s all based on wanting to serve our student population better.”

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ood riddance.

The Confederate battle flag has been taken off the statehouse grounds in South Carolina. It’s been placed in a museum — where it belongs.

Last month, Gov. Nikki Haley, R-South Carolina, called for the controversial banner to be removed from the statehouse grounds, following the killing of nine black people at a church in Charleston. The white man accused of the mass killing embraced the flag.

“My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven,” Haley said.

We applaud this decision to remove the divisive symbol from a very public place in the heart of the South. But let’s also use it as a time to take stock of where we are in the North Country. Spend a few hours driving down a country road and chances are you will see the stars and bars unfurled on a residence or two.

The flag is seen by many as a sign of having a rebellious spirit. In popular culture, we have seen it displayed lightheartedly on the “Duke’s of Hazard” television show; Lynyrd Skynyrd and other musical artists have used it as well, conceivably meaning no harm.

But don’t forget the history. To defend the flag as solely a commemoration of Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War denies basic truths. It’s been used a rallying cry for segregation and white supremacist causes.

The flag was put up on the Statehouse in the early 1960s as a sign of defiance against the Civil Rights Movement. It was removed from the capitol dome in 2000 as an agreement between those who had differing views of the flag’s symbolism, but controversy continued to boil over the placement of the banner.

The Confederate battle flag’s popularity was also resurrected in part by segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. In 1948, Thurmond, who would serve as a governor and U.S. Senator during his long life, ran as a presidential candidate in support of “States’ Rights.” His run came after many southerners broke ranks with the Democratic Party, after a civil rights plank added at that year’s convention.

Some defenders of the flag say its use keeps alive an important heritage of the South. But any thoughtful reading of history reveals that “heritage” is linked to a time when the United States was embroiled in a Civil War — which was fought over slavery.

Haley said she understood people would disagree with the move to take down the banner, but argued it was in the best interest of South Carolina’s future. The statehouse belongs to all people — whether they be white, black or another race. In her well-reasoned argument, Haley seemed to acknowledge the debate would persist in private organizations and in neighborhoods throughout South Carolina.

“We respect freedom of expression, and that for those who wish to show their respect for the flag on their private property, no one will stand in your way,” Haley said.

While this publication wholeheartedly and vociferously defends every person’s right to free speech, we also recognize that just because someone has a right to display the flag, that doesn’t mean it’s a wise choice. That’s why it is terribly disheartening to see the flag raised in even one North Country yard or above even a solitary vehicle.

Lest we forget the sacrifices borne by previous generations: The Civil War ravaged the United States with more troop bloodshed than any other conflict before or since, with an estimated 620,000 men perishing from death in combat or disease.

The shocking violence and heartache it brought was deep and wide, in towns of all sizes across the country. Roughly one in every four soldiers who went into the Civil War would never make it back.

Combat deaths and deaths by disease numbered approximately 38,000 in New York — more than any other state, according to research shared on the Civil War Trust’s website.

For those who were lucky enough to return home, from the Civil War, they faced returning to lives in communities where they were unable to work in the jobs they had due to an array of health reasons. Those soldiers fought against troops who carried the Confederate flag.

That is history worth remembering.

Again, let’s take solace in the removal of the flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds.

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hether it is a child caring perspective into the drug development for an elderly parent who and regulatory review process. is suffering, a spouse reThe 21st Century Cures Act would ceiving disheartening news about the also advance personalized medicine health of their loved one, or a parent and make sure that patients can be tearfully listening to devastating news treated based on their unique characabout their child’s diagnosis, every teristics. single family in our district has faced In addition, the development of health challenges. modern health and medical apps holds The unfortunate odds for every tremendous potential for researchreader are that you, a family member, ers wanting to study real time patient Elise Stefanik or a close friend of yours suffers from data. This legislation breaks down Congresswoman in New York’s an incurable disease. This problem regulatory barriers for developers of 21st Congressional District medical apps so that these innovative stems from the staggering reality that while there are over 10,000 known dishealth tools can be better incorporated eases, we only have cures and treatments for about into clinical research.

500 of them.

Right now, research and treatment into rare disThis leaves those afflicted by diseases ranging from eases is made difficult by the small size of the popAlzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to cancer hoping for med- ulations affected and lengthy drug developments ical breakthroughs that can cure these diseases and processes. The 21st Century Cures Act creates new help improve standards of living for those suffering. economic incentives for researchers and innovators to The House of Representatives recently passed a develop treatments and cures for these diseases that very exciting and innovative plan to help our counwill help translate into more research and faster cures. try work to address these incurable diseases. And I Furthermore, I am very excited that this legislaam incredibly proud to have been a cosponsor of one tion includes a measure authored by Congressman of the most significant and hopeful bills in the 114th Chris Gibson that I cosponsored called the Tick-Borne Congress.

Disease Research Accountability and Transparency While medical science and innovation can often Act. Too often I speak with parents of children who make breakthrough discoveries that we hear and have been diagnosed with Lyme Disease across our read about on the news, the results of these achieve- district, and this important measure will help comments can take years or even decades to translate into bat this epidemic by establishing a working group effective treatments for everyday Americans who are to review available research into this disease and by suffering. requiring the Department of Health and Human SerThe bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, legislation vices to develop and submit a strategic plan to finally authored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred address it.

Upton, seeks to bring our medical infrastructure into And while legislation this sweeping often comes the 21st century through a series of investments and with a hefty price tag, through reforms to our medical reforms that will help speed the delivery of medical system, the 21st Century Cures Act will reduce our science to your doctor’s office. nation’s deficit by approximately $500 million over Working with scientists, researchers, patients and the next decade. innovators, this bold legislation was crafted to proThis exciting and innovative legislation was recentmote scientific research into these diseases while ly approved by the House of Representatives with an working to use best practices and new technology to overwhelmingly bipartisan majority in support. translate medical breakthroughs into new treatments For those suffering from incurable diseases and and cures. their families caring for them, more must be done to The plan begins by investing in more science and move our medical infrastructure into the 21st century research. By setting aside an “Innovation Fund,” the so that scientific breakthroughs can be seen at the pa21st Century Cures Act gives funding to the National tient level. The 21st Century Cures Act is a bold, exInstitutes of Health and the Food and Drug Adminciting plan that helps bring real cures and treatments istration (FDA) that is dedicated for the purposes of to doctors’ offices and patients across our district and 21st century scientific medical research as well as rethis country. searchers working on the next generation of drugs.

We often hear about how Washington isn’t workThis legislation also removes barriers that cur- ing, but this bill is an example of Members of Conrently stand in the way between successful research gress working together. And more importantly, it is and achieving modern treatments at the patient level. a testament to a Congress that hopes and acts for a It promotes increased collaborative research of health brighter future. data and strengthens the FDA’s ability to use patient Elise Stefanik is the Congresswoman representing New experiences with clinical trials to incorporate their York’s 21st Congressional District.

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Open letter to Donald Trump

Call to lawmakers to support MEA

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

Dear Mr. Trump: Wow, you really have tried to stir up xenophobic enmity toward Mexican immigrants, legal and non-legal alike. But I don’t understand that while you were at it, you didn’t mention another group that commits a majority of crimes in the U.S.? Which group? White males. According to The Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, “Compared with assailants who kill but one victim, mass murderers are overwhelmingly likely to be male, [and] are far more likely to be white, and the numbers prove it.” So why, Mr. Trump, didn’t you take note of at least some of the white males who are (or were) mass murderers, serial killers, terrorists, mobsters, rapists? Here’s just quick sampling. It barely scratches the surface: John Dillinger, David Berkowitz, Albert de Salvo, Jim Jones, Ted Bundy, John Gacy, Caryl Chessman, Charles Manson, Ted Kaczynski, Eric Harris and Dylan Kliebold, Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh and John Nichols, Al Capone, John Gotti, James “Whitey” Bulger, Charles Ponzi, Adam Lanza, David Sweat and Richard Matt and Dylann Roof.

But wait. What about all those white collar criminals? What about some of the executives of bailed out banks, that brought the economy cashing down, for example.

Overwhelmingly white males. You never mentioned them. OK, a number of them got bonuses rather than criminals convictions, so I guess I shouldn’t mention them. And they may be your friends. Nevertheless you get my drift. What do you think we should do about white males in our country? Because they are U.S. citizens for the most part, of course we can’t simply send them back to the countries of their ancestors. We didn’t send Japanese Americans back to Japan during World War II. But we did incarcerate them in camps even though not one of them committed treason. So, how about putting all white males in encampments, at least until they repent? I know, I know, there are too many of them to do that, and besides, the richest among them are buying our government and our judges. So, Mr. Trump what would you do about white American males? Or rather, why don’t you stop negative stereotyping of Mexicans? And, just because I mention some white male criminals don’t start stereotyping white males either.

I am writing to urge the elected officials in the Northern New York area to support the Museum Education Act (MEA) introduced by Senator Betty Little (Senate Bill 5001) and Assemblymember Mathew Titone (Assembly Bill 8199).

New York State has more museums, historical societies, zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums than any other state, many of which are among the leading art, history, science, and natural history institutions in the world. As many as 60 million visitors, including over six million school children, visit New York’s museums and institutions each year, the economic impact of which is well into the billions of dollars statewide. However, many of these major tourist and educational destinations are struggling financially to keep their doors open and provide the services students and adult learners need.

Since 2008, school districts statewide have been forced to cut their budgets and many have unfortunately cut transportation budgets once used to transport students to their local and regional museums and institutions. This unfortunate reality has effectively cut-off many of New York’s students from learning field trips and, in turn, harmed the museums and institutions they once visited. The MEA will help end this practice and get our students and adult learners back to the museums and institutions eager to serve them, all at no cost to local school districts. And in doing so, it will strengthen the educational competitiveness of New York’s students and adult learners while strengthening the economy in the process.

The MEA is fully supported by the New York State Board of Regents and the State Education Department, as well as the Museum Association of New York (MANY). The bill would provide funding for museums in the form of competitive grants for curriculum-based educational programming, exhibits, staffing, and field trips.

I urge your readers to contact their local Senator and Assemblymember to urge their full support for Senate Bill 5001/Assembly Bill 8199. By doing so, they are supporting the education of New Yorkers and the museums that serve them.

Carol Rock, Secretary Babbie Rural & Farm Learning Museum

Monique W . Clague, Keene

News in Brief Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Committee GEPH to perform PLATTSBURGH — GEPH will be playing Saturday, July 25 at the seeks volunteers ROTA Gallery. For more information about the event visit facebook.

PLATTSBURGH — The Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Committee is seeking volunteers for numerous events and activities throughout the commemoration weekend Sept. 10-13.

“Volunteers are crucial to the overall success of the Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration,” said Sandra Geddes, the City of Plattsburgh promotion and events coordinator. “This event brings more than 10,000 people to the downtown city streets; our volunteers make it possible to provide the best quality events and entertainment to our guests.”

Volunteers are needed to assist with evening concerts, the popular Israel Green Tavern, the information booth, button sales, the Battle of Plattsburgh parade and the children’s old time village fair.

For more details on what each volunteer position entails, or to get more information about the commemoration event, contact Geddes at geddess@cityofplattsburgh-ny.gov or 518-536-7458.

Foundation of CVPH awards $10,000 in scholarships

PLATTSBURGH — The Foundation of Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital awarded $10,000 in scholarships to graduating high school students in Clinton and Essex counties. Each of the 13 recipients is pursuing a career in health care.

The Foundation of CVPH annually awards these scholarships to support local students who have decided on health care as a career choice.

This year’s recipients are Jasmine Hall, Au Sable Valley; Matthew Butler, Beekmantown; Abbey Snide, Chazy; Tara Danforth and Taylor Pitts of Northern Adirondack; Tianna Leduc and Brady Vassar of Northeastern Clinton; Cassidy Thompson, Peru Central; Emily Jefferson, Plattsburgh High School; Margaret Blake and Kayla Napper, Saranac; and Kasey Klingenberg and Dale Quesnel of Essex County.

Library to celebrate 75th anniversary

DANNEMORA — Dannemora Free Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary Saturday, July 25 at 40 Emmons St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eleanor Mayette, the library’s treasurer for many years, will be a featured presenter as she recalls and credits community members important to the library, recounts highlights and stories of the past and answer questions.

Other features include pages of the library’s early beginnings and continued activities displayed at multiple stations in the library as well as a list of best sellers for each of the 75 years from 1940–2015 with some of the books available for view and/or loan. Refreshments will be served. All tenants of the community center have been invited to open their doors to help Dannemora Free Library celebrate its diamond jubilee.

‘The Raid’ to be screened

PLATTSBURGH — 1954’s fact-based “The Raid,” the only Hollywood classic with a plot launched in Plattsburgh, screens on 16mm film Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Newman Center on 90 Broad St. across from SUNY Plattsburgh’s Myers Fine Arts. Local appeal and topicality spike this Civil War story whose opening Plattsburgh prison break, circa 1864, involves a rebel scheme intended to permanently hoist the Confederate flag in the North Country. The film stars Anne Bancroft, Van Heflin, Peter Graves, Lee Marvin and other greats. Admission is free, with donations welcome to defray operation costs. For more information, email serious_61@yahoo.com.

com/events/1620676701540247/ and to learn more about their music, visit youtube.com/watch?v=DNxxitAbW9g.

‘Paul Blart’ to be shown

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh Public Library will be showing “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” Saturday, July 25 at 2:30 p.m. The movie is rated PG.

Legion to host garage, craft fair

CHAZY — The Russell B. Childs Post 769 will be holding a one stop garage/craft fair Saturday, July 25 at the Chazy American Legion Post, across from Chazy Orchards, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be multiple vendors. Food will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free admission.

Roast pork dinner to benefit museum

LYON MOUNTAIN — There will be a roast pork dinner to benefit Friends of Lyon Mountain Mining & Railroad Museum Saturday, July 25 at the Lyon Mountain American Legion from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The price is $10 adults, $5 children 5 to 12, and under 5 eats free.

Everyone is welcome.

Skatepark to hold grand opening

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake SkatePark Grand Opening Celebration takes place Sunday, July 26 at the Midtown Lot, 155 Church Street, from noon to 3 p.m. Come celebrate the 5,200 sq. ft of smooth concrete skatepark. This is designed for skateboarders of all abilities. There will be music, free food and drinks, and skateboarding demo. There will be a free raffle for a complete skateboard, T-shirts and skate-stuff. There will be free helmets, courtesy of SL Kiwanis Club.

Rabin Memorial Golf Tourney planned

PLATTSBURGH — The 11th annual Mark Rabin Memorial Golf Tournament, organized by the SUNY Plattsburgh School of Business and Economics, will be held Wednesday, July 29 at the Westport Country Club. The tournament features a four-person scramble, with a maximum of 144 players, and is open to the public. School of Business and Economics students and graduates are invited to play in the event. All proceeds from the tournament will go to the Plattsburgh College Foundation and the Mark Rabin Memorial Scholarship in Marketing, which was established with the proceeds from the first 10 tournaments.

The registration fee is $49.99, which includes 18 holes of golf, golf cart, prizes and goofy hats for everyone, and a delicious buffet barbecue three-course dinner. There will be a $5,000 hole-in-one prize as well as the famous Sledgehammer Putting Contest, both sponsored

by Shumway Insurance Agency. Mulligan tickets and 50/50 raffle tickets will also be available for sale. The golf course restaurant will be open for lunch. The putting contest will begin at 10 a.m., shotgun start at 12:30 p.m., and dinner and awards begin at 6:15 p.m. Special prizes will be given to the top female and male for longest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt, and rookie of the year. For more information about sponsorships or to receive a registration form, contact tournament director, Nancy Church, at 564-4169, or via email at nancy.church@plattsburgh.edu. Registration forms and fees must be received by Tuesday, July 21 and can be mailed to Nancy Church at SUNY Plattsburgh, 101 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901.

North Countryman • July 25, 2015 | 5

Camping memories

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love music and enjoy a little trivia.

As the years roll by, though, many lyrics have escaped me like a slow leak in your car tire. When my busy head was searching for this week’s topic in the middle of the

by Gordie Little night, one word stepped front and center: Camping. So, let’s talk camping.

My troubled mind is more bizarre than that of the average bear. For some reason, it conjured up an old song that the vast number of my readers will not recollect. A few history buffs will be humming along with me, while the rest of you are left in the lurch.

It’s called “Tenting Tonight” or “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.” To set the record straight, it was written by a man named Walter Kittredge in 1863 and became popular with Union Army troops during the Civil War. My late mother had the sheet music crammed into the piano stool and we sat around singing it more than seventy years ago. That’s what families did after supper.

It was a sad song about war and death and homesickness and all the rest. But, it stuck in my young memory and has remained there.

My own tenting memories are far more pleasant and I’ll conjure up a few.

As a young lad, my brother Jim and I joined our parents in traveling to campgrounds in Beacon, NY as well as all the way up from Westchester County to the Mooers Campground here in northern Clinton County. The old canvas Army tents on wooden platforms had a special odor that is hard to describe.

And the services in what they called “the tabernacle” were full of fire and brimstone.

Kaye and I have also tented with our family many times throughout our long relationship and marriage. I seem to recall spending a lot of time trying to waterproof the tent seams to keep rain water out. Once, at a campsite near Lake George, we went to sleep confident that the tent wouldn’t leak. That changed when I woke up a few hours later in a driving storm and felt for my trousers. They had soaked up about fifteen pounds of water. We scrambled into the SUV for the rest of the night.

From there, it was pop-up campers and they were only slightly better. On one memorable occasion on Cape Cod, I was jolted awake to the sensation that I was falling and ended up in my BVDs on the ground after the metal supports gave out under the bed. The neighbors cheered.

We spent over forty years at our all-time favorite place called Cole’s Creek on the St. Lawrence River between Massena and Waddington. Family, friends, music and marshmallows over open fires gave us magical memories enough for a lifetime.

Over the past 30 years or so, we graduated to tow-behind hard-sided campers with many home comforts. The sunsets there rival those we enjoyed in Hawaii and we have thousands of photos to prove it. Friends from the Plattsburgh area and many from other counties, states and Canada joined us each year for two weeks in July. Campfire stories, long walks, games of dominoes and hundreds of good books to read. How can you beat that?

While you are reading this, many of those same folks are camping at Cole’s Creek. We are not. It’s a lot of work preparing for the annual sojourn and we decided, after last year, to pack it in. We sold our truck and the camper and spend a lot of time reveling in the ambiance offered by our enclosed back deck along the beautiful Saranac River in Morrisonville.

Do we miss camping? Sure thing. As a matter of fact. We’re visiting our family and friends on the St. Lawrence right now for a couple days while sleeping in a nearby motel.

The times they are a changin’.

Let’s all sing the tenting song: “We’re tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home And friends we love so dear.”

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Restoration has Strand Theatre returning to former glory

By Teah Dowling

restoration process has been ongoing for years.

PLATTSBURGH — The Strand Center for the Arts is on its last phase of the Strand Theatre restoration project.

“The fact that we’ll now have this completely state-of-the art performing arts center with shows on a monthly, sometimes weekly, basis is the kind of thing that’s going to continue to track people downtown and make this the city center that it needs to be,” said Joshua Kretser, interim executive director of the Strand Center for the Arts.

This phase of the restoration includes lighting, sound and rigging equipment and other technical infrastructures, which is needed to attract and host premiere performances.

The backstage area, which has a lot of fly space, will be renovated so that the theater can have theatrical performances come in with set pieces of all sizes.

This part of the restoration started last month, but the entire

OTHER CHANGES Since that time, the Strand Center has received a new roof, electrical wiring, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, a sprinkler systems, seats and auditorium through restoration.

The most recent phase included renovations to the basement to add dressing rooms, main drape/valances and the installation of HD cinema equipment, including surround sound, HD digital projector and screen that fits the entire perineum of the stage.

Also, the Strand Center for the Arts is undergoing a big rebranding of the organization with a new logo, website and marketing.

All these additions and changes took, and are taking, place to fully restore the Strand Theatre to its former glory.

“Downtown was initially the hub of Plattsburgh until the highways were built and retail shifted uptown,” Kretser said.

“But nationally there’s a huge movement of people moving back to historic downtowns.”

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STRAND HISTORY The Strand Theatre was originally built as a Vaudeville Theatre in 1924.

Soon after it was built, Vaudeville slowly started to become a dying art and the theater changed hands a number of times.

Owners of the theater tried to sustain the performing arts, but it soon became a movie house and went through a few different reincarnations as movie houses until the Strand Center for the Arts, previously known as the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts, purchased it.

Although the Strand Center for the Arts purchased the Strand Theatre in 2004, they didn’t start restoration until 2007 due to fundraising.

“Our goal was to do this for the community as debt-free as possible,” said Leigh Mundy, secretary of the board for the Strand Center for the Arts. “That’s why it’s taken such a long time.”

The ceiling of the theater’s backstage is being renovated so that they can have theatrical performances come in with set pieces of all sizes.

Photo by Teah Dowling

MORE FUNDING So far, they’ve spent around $4 million on the restoration — approximately $3 million from natural preservation funds.

The Strand Center for the Arts needs $500,000 to finish the res-

The Strand Theatre is closely approaching complete restoration because of hard work and dedication from the Strand Center for the Arts, volunteers and people who donated.

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toration.

They’re not sure when the theater will be 100 percent finished due to funding. However, they will be 95 percent done by the time of Sept. 26 — the rollout to the first season and celebrate 90 years.

“The Strand Theatre for 90 years has been the entertainment hub of Plattsburgh,” Mundy said. “The Strand Theatre was everything to this community for the first 40 years of its life and we’re bringing it back.”

On the downside, once the building is complete, the Strand Center for the Arts will be approximately $400,000 in debt.

They need help.

To help the Strand Center for the Arts come out of debt and/or to complete the Strand Theatre, either sponsor one of 958 seats, with 300-400 still available that cost $150-$500 depending on location, or make a donation.

Tickets for the rollout event will be available soon. For more information about the theater or the center, visit plattsburgharts. org.

Second annual Citizen Soldier Youth Camp coming soon PLATTSBURGH — During the summers of 1916 and 1917, the Plattsburgh Barracks was a place of action and adventure.

This summer, Clinton County Historical Association campers will relive that electric excitement as participants in the Citizen Soldier Youth Camp.

During the course of the week, students will explore the socio-political events that led to the Plattsburgh Barracks becoming a central part of America’s military organization.

Campers will be immersed in what life was like at the Barracks for new officer candidates.

Campers will learn drill from that period with replica training rifles and discover the art of trench warfare as it was taught at Plattsburgh in 1917. Campers will receive period-enlistment paperwork, pay and enjoy period-food rations.

In the course of a week, campers will come to have a new-found appreciation for the pivotal role that Plattsburgh played during America’s involvement in World War I, as well as a deep respect for the courage and bravery of every man, woman, and child who lived through and experienced the “war to end all wars.”

The camp is instructed and designed by well-known re-enactor and educator, Matthew T. Hewson.

It will be held at the Clinton County Historical Association, located at 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh from Tuesday, Aug. 11 through Friday, Aug. 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The cost is $65 per camper. The camp is recommended for youth between the ages of 9 and 14.

Please call the Museum at 518-561-0340 to register your camper today. Spaces are limited.

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First ever Plattsburgh Brewfest making its way to City Beach Event to feature over 30 breweries, cideries and wineries

By Teah Dowling

teah@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — Beer, food and music: This is Tom Frey’s summer fun recipe for the Plattsburgh Brewfest.

The debut installment will take place Saturday, Aug. 1 at the Plattsburgh City Beach from 2 to 8 p.m.

Frey owns Elfs Farm Winery & Cider House, “The whole genus of it was to build up a community event,” Frey said. “It turned out to be the event of the summer.”

Over 30 breweries, cideries and wineries will be represented.

Frey originally spearheaded the event with the help of a committee of over 30 people in hopes to draw attention to the growing craft beverage industry situated near the Adirondack Coast.

Ausable Brewing Company will be showcasing their brew specialties, including their strong imperial pale ale made with New York ingredients.

This small brewery sells all of its products in house, so this is an opportunity for brew lovers to get a taste of something not from the brewery.

“People are going to the Plattsburgh Brewfest to taste beer, and as many of our customers will tell you, we have a really high-quality beer,” said Dylan Badger, co-owner of Ausable Brewing Company along with his brother, Dan. “It’s awesome.”

Badger explained that every one of their brews goes through a delicate process with immerse details, making sure the beer comes out clean, consistent and as good as they can make it.

For those who don’t have the taste for brews, wine and cider will be available, as well.

Frey will be showcasing his specialty wine and cider at the event.

Frey’s cider made with 100 percent Macintosh apples is de-

scribed as slightly sweet and lightly carbonated with three simple of ingredients: hand-picked Champlain Valley apples, yeast and potassium metabisulfite to maintain freshness.

“We grow everything on the winery,” Frey said. “We let the fruit talk.”

Though Frey plans on showcasing his own products, he’s looking at a bigger picture: creating this one-day event to link up and organize brewers for a future task.

Half of the proceeds from the event will go toward the Adirondack Garda for the Tour De Force, while the rest of the proceeds will go toward a not-yet formed not for profit known as the Adirondack Coast Craft Beverage Trail Alliance — a non-profit hoping to create a craft beverage trail.

In order to create this, the Plattsburgh Brewfest needs to be successful.

The one-day event will be able to host up to 1,000 to adults 21 and older. So far, 900 tickets have been sold, 400 more than what Frey imagined.

“It’s going to be fun,” Frey said. “This is a party...why miss a party?”

General admission is $35, which includes 15 sampling wooden tokens, a souvenir glass, admission to a concert with Lucid and three food tickets for one of the several local restaurants.

Restaurant vendors include Blue Collar Bistro, Blue Line Brewery, Conroys Organics, Texas Roadhouse, Buffalo Wild Wings and Smooth Moves.

Local beverage vendors include Plattsburgh Brewing Co., Valcour Brewing Company, Livingood’s Restaurant & Brewery, The Great Adirondack Steak & Seafood, Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Ausable Brewing Company and Elfs Farm Winery & Cider House.

Vermont vendors include Switchback Brewing, 14 Star Brewing, Long Trail Brewing Company, Harpoon Brewery and Woodchuck Cider.

For more information, visit plattsburghbrewfest.com.

Plattsburgh Brewfest will feature over 30 breweries, cideries and wineries. Pictured above: a glass of Elfs Farm and Winery & Cider House cider sits next to a new feature offered at the cider house: canned cider.

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Bon voyage! French students wrap up area visit French exchange students and American families share their experiences together

By Teah Dowling

teah@denpubs.com WEST CHAZY — A Bon Voyage party took place Saturday, July 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. to say au revoir to the French students who arrived in the area just three weeks ago.

As part of an exchange program by Vistas in Education, 12 French students — Lucile Henno, Clémence De Villartay, Mathis Comar, Emilie Lendais, Matthieu Jehanno, Charles Menouillard, Astrid Baillargé, Emma Bouffant, Alexandre Ribeiro, Charlotte Hiriart, Astrid Dischamps and Enzo Chassaing — decided to venture to the area.

The students, ages 13-16, flew over from different parts of France to Aéroports de Montréal where their host families from Beekmantown Central School District picked them up and brought them home from June 28 to July 20 under close supervision from Beekmantown French teacher Sharon Rorabeck and French graduate student Julie Diderotto from Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, who also experienced a fun time for her first time in New York.

“It was a really interesting experience,” she said.

Unlike Diderotto, who has participated in multiple exchanges, this is Rorabeck’s first time doing an exchange this long with French students coming here — other than before when she took students to France but only stayed five days.

For this new experience, Diderotto stayed with Rorabeck, as they stayed on call 24-7 for any issues that might arrive, while the 12 students lived with their host families, after carefully matching each Beekmantown student with an exchange student based on age and interests, and explored different sights and tastes to experience a new culture.

“It’s a great cultural and language experience for my American students as well as for the French students who are learning English,” Rorabeck said. “It’s just amazing.”

French student Villartay discovered the differences

Twelve French students stayed with host families in the Beekmantown Central School District. Pictured above: the 12 French exchange students were paired with 12 Beekmantown French students based on age and interests.

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between politics and school systems from France to the U.S. and gained new knowledge of food, such as seafood, peanut butter and fluff and, her personal favorite, s’mores.

“It was a really good experience,” Villartay said.

“I learned a lot of new things and I discovered a new culture.”

Villartay went on to say how she had many first experiences here with the Kerr family, David, Melissa and daughter Hannah, including mini-golfing, fishing, boating and tubing in Maine.

“We had a lot of fun and she blended right into the family very well,” David said. “We hate to see her leave.”

Another French visitor Lendais said she enjoyed her experience with her host family, Blair, Kim and daughter Kirsten Villemaire, a student at Beekmantown who asked her parents to participate in this program.

‘Go Set a Watchman’ now available

PLATTSBURGH — The recently published novel by Harper Lee, “Go Set a Watchman,” is now available at Plattsburgh Public Library. Library patrons can now request this novel or eBook at plattsburghlib.org via their catalog in the “Books & More” section.

This book is a historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Originally written in the mid-1950s, “Go Set a Watchman” was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. “Go Set a Watchman” features many of the characters from “To Kill a Mockingbird” some twenty years later.

Sportsmen’s club to serve barbecue

ROUSES POINT — The Rouses Point Sportsmen’s Club Barbecue will be held Saturday, July 25. There will be raffles for an oak desk, handcrafted loon and a merchant donation raffle.

The menu includes chicken dinners, clams, hamburgers, hot dogs, Michigans, cheeseburgers, french fries, soda and beer. There will be live music by Overdrive. This is a full day event.

The Villemaire family and Lendais started their trip in Virginia Beach and ended it at home with a rodeo, boating on Lake Champlain, hiking through the Adirondacks and more.

Bouffant’s host family, Brad, Monika and daughter Clarissa Chambers, spent the three weeks exploring all the area has to offer, including the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, Adirondack Extreme in Bolton Landing and endless amounts of ice cream.

“I did a lot of things and I met a lot of very nice people,” Bouffant said. “It was very nice.”

Bouffant’s host family enjoyed spending as much time with her as she enjoyed spending with them.

“Time went by so fast,” Monika said. “It was such a good experience.”

“It was great getting to know Emma,” Clarissa said. “Now, we’ll have a connection for the rest of our lives.”

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Common Ground Alliance forum brings results, say officials

By Pete DeMola

pete@denpubs.com LONG LAKE — Sabattis Pavilion in Long Lake teamed with dozens of elected officials, entrepreneurs and citizens last week.

Some haven’t always gotten along, like the pro-business lawmakers who have historically jousted with green groups.

But they gathered together above the skyline for the Common Ground Alliance forum, the daylong event designed to hammer out constructive ways to enhance the quality of life in communities across the Adirondack Park.

Last week’s discussion centered around nearly a dozen groups discussing issues like funding wastewater infrastructure, combatting climate change, creating trail-town initiatives and attracting investment.

They talked recipes for maintaining attractive and livable hamlets, keeping schools open, cultivating communities through local food and elevating the status of working families.

Do their voices matter?

Absolutely, say state officials.

This collaboration isn’t typical in other regions, said Basil Seggos, Deputy Secretary for the Environment.

“When you see something like that happen, you have to listen,” said Seggos.

Acting DEC Commissioner Marc Gerstman said the collaborative efforts and partnerships on display reinforced Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s vision for the Adirondacks, one of partnerships and colloboration.

Issues discussed at past summits, including combatting aquatic invasive species, have risen to the top and have received both attention and state funding.

“It’s the best example of how the state can work with diverse local interests and environmental groups,” said Gerstman.

Ross Whaley, the former Adirondack Park Agency chair who MC’ed the event, said several action plans were possible depending on what the groups hashed out.

One avenue is to find an organization who is already pushing for those issues and link them together.

Another is to find cheerleaders to rally for the cause — including for each group’s self-proclaimed “fantasy solution” — while the Common Ground Alliance may take on something themselves (which is admittedly rare, Whaley added).

But the proposals and ideas generated during the day’s discussions will eventually make their way to Albany via two-page brief zipped off to state lawmakers, many of whom were in attendance, including Assemblyman Dan Stec.

Stec said it was an extremely efficient event.

“Anytime that you can get a good cross-section, or a good assurance of what’s important to the people that you represent, you have the confidence to move forward in Albany,” said Stec.

“This is a good way to gauge what the priorities are for folks in

Representatives from organizations and agencies from across the Adirondack Park gathered in Long Lake on Wednesday, July 19 at the Common Ground Alliance Forum, the day-long summit is designed to facilitate dialogue and find solutions for issues facing the region. Event MC Ross Whaley is pictured here addressing the group.

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the Adirondacks because you have people from all sectors.”

He ticked them off: environmental groups, business interests, landowner groups, local government and state agencies, all sitting side-by-side.

“They’re all having conversations with each other about a variety of subjects,” said Stec.

While he admitted that he can’t always help everyone, just knowing their priorities is important.

“It allows me to act more confidently.”

After the attendees delivered their reports, Sen. Betty Little said her head was reeling.

Little said she will continue to push for legislation to benefit her constituents, like the bill that will change how state school aid is allocated to towns with large percentages of Forest Preserve lands.

If passed by the legislature, Bill S822 would exclude the value of state forest preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks from use in the determination of state aid to school districts “We have a lot of support until it actually comes to voting on it,” said Little, who encouraged attendees to rally for its passage.

Hamilton County Chair Bill Farber hailed the spirit of cooperation.

“I’ve seen the good times and the better times,” he said. “I think we are on the right track.”

The melding of minds disproves the theory that local groups would rather fight than win, he said.

“We’re working together to find solutions rather than fighting over the petty differences that separate us.”

know a trombone from a treble clef.

The Professor also meets-and falls in love with-Marian Paroo, a willful, spinster librarian. The chance encounter befuddles his scheme to create a boy’s band. She ultimately changes his con man ways, giving Hill and the entire town a lesson on the joys of emotional risks. But in between, audiences will be treated to such classic songs as “(Ya Got) Trouble,” “Seventy-six Trombones,” “Gary, Indiana” and more.

“Music Man Junior”, is a version of the original Music Man, the winner of eight Tony Awards including best musical, author, composer and lyricist, written especially for young performers.

“Music Man Junior” is part of Adirondack Regional Theatre’s Young Director Series. The musical with a cast of actors aged 8-18 is directed by Peru High School senior Hannah Osborne.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.

Music Man, Junior. will feature Sam Perkins as Harold Hill, Sophia Defayette as Marian the librarian and James Matthews as Marcellus Washburn, with a large supporting cast of 31 very talented young actors.

Admission for the Peru and Chazy shows are $10. Donations are suggested for both the Rouses Point and Champlain Centre shows.

Adirondack Regional Theatre is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization.

Battle of Plattsburgh Parade information released

Volunteers are needed to assist with our safety team on Sept.

12.

Event Information and registration forms for the parade can be found under the Calendar of Events tab on the Champlain1812. com website.

For further information, contact the parade committee at bopparade@yahoo.com or call 518-562-4000 ext. 165 and ask for Vicki.

Adk Regional Theatre marching through the North Country ROUSES POINT — The Adirondack Regional Theatre presents ““Music Man Junior”” throughout the North Country Thursday, July 23 at the Samuel De Champlain Stage in Rouses Point next to the Rouses Point Civic Center at 6 p.m., the Peru Community Church’s Fellowship Hall, Friday July 24 at 6 p.m., at Amazing Grace Vineyard and Winery 9839 U.S. 9, Chazy, Saturday, July 25 at 6 p.m. The finale will be Sunday, July 26 at Champlain Centre Mall in front of J.C. Penny at 2 p.m.

Meredith Willson’s “Music Man Junior” introduces fast-talking traveling salesman “Professor” Harold Hill, who visits River City, Iowa where his strong personality and charisma enable him to persuade the small, turn-of-the-century town to adopt his revolutionary music program, the Think System, or face the moral decline of the town’s youngsters. Despite the fact he doesn’t

PLATTSBURGH — The 2015 Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration is Sept. 10-13.

The annual parade will be on Sept. 12 with a 1 p.m. start time.

The theme this year is “Return of Peace to the North Country” in recognition of the news of the peace treaty that arrived in February 1815 to the area.

“We are hoping several organizations and businesses will work on floats to showcase their organizations and the rich history The Adirondack Coast has to offer,” parade co-chair Vicki Giroux said.

More than 100 units are expected to take part with many new participants. The Battle of Plattsburgh Parade will feature several musical groups, including Her Majesty’s Royal Marine band, The Police Pipes and Drums of Plattsburgh, The Spirit of Scotland pipes and drums, The RCMP Pipes and Drums, The Cobourg Pipes and Drums, The Sailing Master’s and more.

The parade will also be joined by several Veterans’ Groups and filled with top notch music and organizations showcasing community spirit.

Muppets, Alexandra Terrible to be shown

PLATTSBURGH — Regal Cinemas Champlain Stadium 8 will be showing Muppets Most Wanted and Alexandra the Terrible for $1 as part of their Summer Movie Express Tuesday, Aug. 18 and Aug. 19 at 10 a.m. Visit champlaincentre.com for more information.

Emerald Trio set to perform

SARANAC — Emerald Trio with flute, violin/viola and piano will be held Sunday, Aug. 23 at the Saranac United Methodist Church from 4 to 5:45 p.m. The New York City-based musicians Karen Bogardus (flutes), Orlando Wells (violin & viola), James Matthew Castle (piano) work in New York’s vibrant musictheater scene, appearing in the orchestras of the hottest shows on and off Broadway. Emerald Trio performs a program of new works written especially for them by NYC composers: Carolyn Steinberg, Matt Castle, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Milica Paranosic and Davide Zannoni. The free concert is open seating. For more information, visit hillandhollowmusic. org.

Raku pottery firing to be held

PLATTSBURGH — The Strand Center for the Arts will be hosting a raku pottery firing workshop Tuesday, Aug. 25 in the parking lot. For more information, visit plattsburgharts.org.

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ELCS graduate takes third in national cooking competition

By Pete DeMola

pete@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN — A local culinary whiz kid whipped up a recipe for success at a recent national cooking contest.

Dominic DeMuro, of Elizabethtown, took third in the SkillsUSA National Culinary Arts competition held earlier this summer in Louisville, Kentucky.

“I felt pretty surprised,” said DeMuro, who won a state championship this spring. “I didn’t think I’d win.”

The challenge saw 43 kids from across the country preparing a four-course meal under the same guidelines.

The final checklist incorporated elements of presentation, flavor, handwork and food safety.

First, DeMuro had to demonstrate his knack for knifery — how to expertly dice, chop and prepare.

There was chicken fabrication, or cleanly breaking the bird

into its parts, including removing skin from thighs and drumsticks, for instance.

All parts were broken down for use in the dishes, with the rest going towards stock.

Sanitation skills were also tested, a must after chicken prep, with points shaved off the final score if DeMuro touched the chicken bits before coming into contact with something else.

Ultimately, DeMuro opted for a pickled vegetable soup, a salad, and a pair of chicken entrees: the first, hand-seared chicken topped with a mushroom sauce with sauteed carrots on the side.

For the second, the ELCS grad decided on braised chicken thighs with roasted potatoes and oblique carrots.

Prior to the competition, he wrote down the menu in a notebook and examined the facility’s pantry and walk-in cooler to make sure all the ingredients were available.

Contestants were required to make two of each dish.

Judges would taste one, while the other was set on a hundredfoot-long table for viewing.

His soup took top honors, and the salad, second place.

DeMuro said while he was confident, at the same time, he often felt as if his competitors had an extra edge.

“I looked at their menus and they felt very elegant compared to mine,” he said.

Others had over-the-top stuff that fell through, DeMuro added.

DeMuro will attend the Culinary Institute of America in New York in October, where he will study advanced cooking skills.

The $13,500 in scholarship funds he won as part of the competition will aid him on his journey.

DeMuro said he would eventually like to become a chef.

He’s gotten plenty of practice at Latitude 44 in Plattsburgh, whom he credits alongside his teachers for helping to hone his award-winning skills.

“I’m just going to take it step by step as I go,” he said.

‘Warrior Runners’ take on mud and obstacles at Big Tupper

By Andrew Johnstone

andrew@denpubs.com TUPPER LAKE — About 45 minutes had passed since the first wave of “Warrior Runners” jogged up and away from the lodge area at Big Tupper before Joe Merrihew rounded the corner, pausing to fire a paintball gun at a heavily-padded human target some 50 feet away.

A minute later, he was crawling through a narrow set of culverts, his eventual exit preceded by a horde of flies disturbed by the Bloomingdale runner.

But it wasn’t over yet — back up the mountain he went, 10 minutes away from an eventual wall climb and first-place finish in the 4th Annual Tupperpalooza Warrior Run on July 18.

Hours passed before all of the 148 competitors completed the obstacle-littered, up-and-down mountain race course, ranging from Merrihew’s 54:47 to the final time of 3:05:28.

“We don’t mess around with the elevation gain,” said Adam Baldwin, the events coordinator for the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce. “We use a lot of our terrain as obstacles.”

Baldwin, who competed in the race its first three years and organized it for the past two, has a background in the Spartan Race series, an even more intense take on a gruelling racing style that’s been growing in popularity in recent years.

The Warrior Run — which Baldwin called “more of a dialeddown, local-friendly” take on such competition — was still no slouch.

Billed as a 3.5 mile course, it’s actually closer to 4, with a dozen obstacles along the way, from the “Prison Break” fence to a treestand-type climb.

And then there’s the mud: “Definitely thick and odoriferous,” explained Baldwin.

“It was tough,” said Gregg Defeo of Chazy, a competitor who had just completed a similar themed Tough Mudder race a month ago. “I wasn’t ready for this, but it was a lot of fun.”

Defeo was one of the scores of racers who stuck around after crossing the finish line, enjoying a post-race beer while the rock band Third Shift, and later Holographic Horse, jammed out on a trailer-turned-stage adjacent to the lodge.

Keith Bender, of Stamford, Conn., took a break from contact work he’s doing in the area to do the race for the first time. Having done triathlons in Lake George in the past, he spoke highly of Tupper Lake’s muddier cousin of a race.

“It was phenomenally well done,” Bender said in between an exchange of banter with another finisher. “Well-organized, nice family event.”

Competitors spanned an age range of nearly 50 years, from Lake Clear’s 9-year-old Gabriella Sawa to a handful more in their 50s.

About two-thirds of the racers tackled the course as a team, led by Tupper Lake’s Down N’ Dirty, whose top-three finishers — Mitchel Keniston, Mitch Harriman and Liam Lemere — averaged a 1:05.38 on the course.

But the first seven were all going at it solo.

Eighteen seconds after Merrihew crossed the finish line, Rochester’s Alex Izzo — looking the warrior part with a shoulder-covering tribal tattoo — capped off his second-place finish.

The only other racer to get under the one hour mark was Saranac Lake’s Hailey Bitner, first among females and third overall.

Sue Schofield (Tupper Lake), Kevin Karn (Buffalo), Alexander Dukette (Tupper Lake) and Ben Pokon (Lewis) finished fourth through seventh, respectively.

Though many were clearly fatigued, warriors spoke highly of the third running of the Tupper Lake event.

Team Shaheen’s IGA — Andrea Gerstenberger, Maureen Shaheen and Sophia Martin — Andrea Gerstenberger, of the Shaheen’s IGA team, called the Warrior Run a challenge that she’d do again — though perhaps with elbow pads next time around.

Shaheen, whose husband, his brother and cousin co-own the namesake supermarket, had done the race before, learning this time around to complete the circuit in kneepads.

NCCI benefit disc golf tourney slated

CADYVILLE — The NCCI third annual Disc Golf Tournament will be held Friday, Aug. 14 at the Cadyville Park from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The tournament is for all ages.

There will be two-person teams with three divisions of beginner, intermediate and advanced. Players decide what division they belong in. There will be prizes for the leading teams of each division. The evening will include music and karaoke provided by J Berry Entertainment, food and a raffle. To register, call 563-9058 or visit nccionline.com.

Saranac Lake’s Hailey Bitner emerges from a muck-filled culvert, part of the Tupperpalooza Warrior Run on July 18 at Big Tupper. Bitner finished first among female racers and third overall as 148 racers took on a mountain course that featured mud, obstacles, and even a paintball gun.

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“The cold water was refreshing,” laughed Shaheen as she and Gerstenberger recounted the highs (a chilly swim) and lows (the mud- and fly-filled culverts before yet another uphill climb) of the race.

When told that another finisher considered the Warrior Run, with all its elevation gained and lost, tougher than the Tough Mudder he had done, the two beamed.

Beside the race itself, the two touched on Tupper Lake and a growing sense of vitality in the village, evidenced in part by the scores of young people both in the mud and around town.

Baldwin said the same, highlighting that the idea behind events like the Warrior Run or the Tupper Lake Tinman is to bring people to a town that’s become increasingly touristfriendly.

“That’s the path we’ve taken the last couple of years,” Baldwin said. “All of these events, we believe, really help our economy.”

This year’s crowd, continued, was mainly from New York, though mixed within were competitors from Connecticut and, much further away, Dubai. In the coming years, Baldwin hopes, the race will begin to draw even more mud-trudgers from nearby states.

“I think it has helped Tupper Lake a lot,” Gertenberger said.

“You used to have to go to Lake Placid or out of the area for an event like this.”

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reo, an adoptbable cat from Elmore SPCA...

Domestic short hair, black and white, arrived July 8, eight pounds, four years old, female, special diet I/D food.

Oreo is a sweet girl that started out life like so many other cats...as a young stray trying to find a safe home.

She was taken in by a concerned citizen and brought to Elmore SPCA in 2011 where she was vetted and where she found a wonderful and loving home. Oreo was very well loved in her new home. After her Dad passed away her Mom lovingly took care of her, but now her Mom is ill and can no longer take care of her.

So, Oreo is now looking forward to meeting her new family. She has acclimated very well to life in the cat colony and has enjoyed being social with the other cats and the staff and volunteers.

Oreo is current on vaccinations, has tested negative

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for FeLV/FIV and is spayed. She is currently on a special diet of I/D wet food, but we are testing Oreo to see if she will tolerate other foods. Oreo is a great cat that is loving and friendly. Although her diet is a bit more expensive she is worth the few extra dollars a month with all the love and attention she will give you. Come in and meet this wonderful cat who is ready to meet her family!

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eus, an adoptable dog from Elmore SPCA...

Boxer, white and brindle, arrived June 18, 41 pounds, two-and-a-half years old, male.

Zeus is a great dog that was well cared for by his people. Unfortunately, he and his feline pal Izzy O’Malley, were left in a home when their people had a major change in their lifestyle. Zeus was a bit underweight when he arrived at Elmore SPCA and he gained 6 lbs in eighteen days and is now a much healthier 47 lbs. This guy loves to be around people and enjoys the company of most of the dogs he has met. He is full of energy, but loves to be pet and to cuddle.

Like any other boxer he is a bit rambunctious if he isn’t exercised. He is a very well mannered dog that has lived successfully with kids, cats and other dogs. He is current on vaccinations, has tested negative for heartworm and lyme and is neutered. He is ready to find his forever home!

RIDE FOR AN ANGEL: The Mountain Riders Motorcycle Club will host the Fallen Angel Ride on Saturday, July 25 to benefit Damien Sloan of Elizabethtown. Sloan, just 21 months old, is fighting a brain tumor. Ride registration is from 10 to 11 a.m. at Cipriano’s Riverside Lanes in Au Sable Forks. The 75 mile ride will be followed by a BBQ at the Mountain Rider’s Clubhouse in Wilmington: $15 for riders, $5 for passengers; $10 for BBQ walkins. For more info, contact Duct at 518-354-0332.

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Section VII baseball and softball players get All-State nod

By Andrew Johnstone

andrew@denpubs.com SECTION VII — The New York State Sportswriters Association released its All-State Softball and Baseball teams recently, with just over a dozen of Section VII athletes getting the nod.

Beekmantown’s Justin Stevens and Lake Placid’s Chris Williams both earned Second Team honors, the highest of any player in the section this spring. Stevens was a .521 batter for the Class B runner-up Eagles, including three home runs, while Williams’ 5-2 record on the mound was good for half of the Blue Bombers’ 10 wins this season.

Plattsburgh, Beekmantown, Peru and Lake Placid each placed a pair of players on the baseball All-State teams and Ticonderoga one. Northern Adirondack, despite its Class C title, was absent in the voting.

Softball, meanwhile, only saw four gain All-State honors, led by Ticonderoga pitcher Hannah Ross’ Third Team selection. Astasia Myler made Fourth Team in Class D while Madalyn Tucker (Northeastern Clinton) and Tori Trim (Saranac) made sixth and seventh, respectively, in Class B. Trim helped the Lady Chiefs to regionals this June, giving up just one run in a loss to eventual state champion Ichabod Crane. Trim was 19-5 in the circle this season, tossing 232 strikeouts on her way to a 1.34 ERA. Trim also joined Brette Campbell and Summer Gillespie as the three Saranac batters to go over .400 at the plate.

The Lake Placid softball team joined Northern Adirondack baseball as the only other Section VII champion not to place any athletes on an AllState team.

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Blake Altizer

P, Peru Class A Fifth Team

Justin Stevens

P/C, Peru Class B First Team

Dan Hartman

IF/OF, Beekmantown Class B Second Team

Ryan Trudeau

Chris Williams

C, Plattsburgh Class B Seventh Team

P, Ticonderoga Class C Third Team

P, Lake Placid Class D Second Team

Madalyn Tucker

Tori Trim

Hannah Ross

U, Northeastern Clinton Class B Sixth Team

Alex Price

U, Saranac Class B Seventh Team

Gerritt Rietsema

SS, Beekmantown Class B Fourth Team

P, Ticonderoga Class C Third Team

P, Plattsburgh Class B Sixth Team

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Astasia Myler

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Doiron, Sweet survive heat for ACT International victories

PLATTSBURGH — A pair of stock car drivers made a bit of history at Airborne Park Speedway on Sunday, July 19, as the track played host to the “ACT International 500” weekend event promoted by the American-Canadian Tour (ACT). Joey Doiron of Berwick, ME and Nick Sweet of Barre, VT outlasted temperatures above 90 degrees to each win 200-lap races paying $10,000 to the winner.

Doiron dominated the first-ever Airborne appearance for the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models. He won going away, despite a leaking left-front tire that went completely flat in the final 15 laps. He outdistanced an entertaining fight for the runner-up spot between a trio of Airborne favorites in Brian Hoar of Williston, VT, Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, QC, and Brent Dragon of Milton, VT. Hoar, the 1999 Airborne track champion, notched his best PASS finish in second place, with Laperle third. Dragon, a three-time Airborne champion, also posted a career-best with PASS in fourth, followed by Jeremy Davis of Tamworth, NH. Glen Luce, Mike Rowe, Bobby Therrien, Travis Benjamin, and Ben Rowe completed the top 10 finishers in order.

Sweet was a surprise entrant into the ACT Late Model portion of the event; after spending time with wife Kristin, who is expecting the couple’s third child soon, Sweet arrived at the track late Saturday afternoon, just before qualifying heats. With

no practice time, he was still able to win the pole position for the main event and then outlasted a strong contingent of Canadian drivers on Sunday for the victory.

Alex Labbé of St-Albert, QC finished second after a long battle with Sweet, with Wayne Helliwell Jr. of Dover, NH third, Québec City’s Jean-François Déry fourth, and local driver Brandon Atkins of Au Sable Forks, NY fifth. Double-duty racers Laperle and Hoar were next in line, followed by Dany Trépanier, Patrick Cliche, and Jimmy Hebert.

Several drivers were treated for dehydration and heat exhaustion during the day, though no serious situations were reported. The South Plattsburgh Fire Department, Varin’s Ambulance Service, and other departments were on site throughout the event and helped many drivers recover.

Pierre Hébert of St-Hyacinthe, QC won Saturday’s 25-lap RevStar SpeedSTR Midget race. Sunday’s RevStar Slingshot races were won by Manuel Messier of Ste-Madeleine, QC and Alexandre Lizotte of Princeville, QC. Airborne Park Speedway returns to action on Saturday, July 25 at 7:00 p.m. with the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series presented by Yandow Sales & Service and John Deere. Double points will be on the line for the J&S Steel Modified, Key R-D Trailer Sales Renegade, and Busch Beer MiniModified classes at the Mid-Season Championships event. Special admission at the gate is just $8 for adults and free for kids age 12 and under; gates

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UNOFFICIAL RESULTS Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model Feature (200 laps) Pos.-(Car No.)-Driver-Hometown (73) Joey Doiron, Berwick, ME (37VT) Brian Hoar, Williston, VT (91QC) Patrick Laperle, St-Denis, QC (55VT) Brent Dragon, Milton, VT (09) Jeremy Davis, Tamworth, NH (7L) Glen Luce, Turner, ME (7) Mike Rowe, Turner, ME (5X) Bobby Therrien, Hinesburg, VT (17) Travis Benjamin, Morrill, ME (4N) Ben Rowe, Turner, ME (60) D.J. Shaw, Center Conway, NH (2M) Matt Matheson, Geary, NB (71) Raphael Lessard, St-Joseph Beauce, QC (8F) Tate Fogleman, Durham, NC (00) Bryan Kruczek, Newmarket, NH (28) Mark Lundblad, Center Conway, NH (97NH) Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, NH (35) Derek Ramstrom, West Boylston, MA (80) Donald Theetge, Boischatel, QC

Heat Winners: Donald Theetge; Joey Polewarczyk Jr.

American-Canadian Tour Late Model Feature (200 laps)

Pos.-(Car No.)-Driver-Hometown (40VT) Nick Sweet, Barre, VT (48QC) Alex Labbé, St-Albert, QC (27NH) Wayne Helliwell Jr., Dover, NH (21QC) Jean-François Déry, Québec, QC (4NY) Brandon Atkins, Au Sable Forks, NY (91QC) Patrick Laperle, St-Denis, QC (37VT) Brian Hoar, Williston, VT (19QC) Dany Trépanier, St-Édouard, QC (5QC) Patrick Cliche, Lévis, QC (58VT) Jimmy Hebert, Williamstown, VT (50ME) Jeff White, Winthrop, ME (41QC) Jonathan Bouvrette, Blainville, QC (97NH) Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, NH (17RI) Ray Parent, Tiverton, RI (80QC) Donald Theetge, Boischatel, QC (5VT) D.J. Shaw, Center Conway, NH (38QC) Gaetan Gaudreault, Québec, QC (11QC) Claude Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC (77QC) Charles Harvey, Terrebonne, QC (5CT) Dillon Moltz, Waterford, CT (68VT) Brooks Clark, Fayston, VT (99QC) Brandon White, Kahnawake, QC (16ME) Travis Stearns, Auburn, ME (29NH) Aaron Fellows, Croydon, NH (9ME) Emily Packard, East Montpelier, VT Heat Winners: Patrick Laperle; Alex Labbé; Wayne Helliwell Jr. Consi Winner: Jean-François Déry

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Get back to nature and be happy!

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n recent days, I’ve spent a fair share of time in the woods and on the mountains. Despite the discomfort of a few off and on rainstorms, combined with a few, fresh crops of mosquitoes and no-see-ums, most of the mountains I climbed have not grown much taller than they were when I was young.

However, wherever I traveled, it was immediately apparent the traffic on the trails has significantly increased, even on the less known peaks.

Although the High Peaks Wilderness Area has always been a major attraction for climbers seeking to knock off a few 46’ers, those lofty mountain peaks with elevations of 4000 feet or more, a majority of the lowly, lesser peaks have been largely overlooked and underutilized.

However, there has been a lot of change within the climbing community in recent years, in terms of numbers, approach and well, courtesies.

Trail runners regularly tackle several High Peaks in a single day, with 16-24 mile round trips featuring elevation gains of over 6,000-7,000 feet. Often they exit the woods, in the same manner they arrive, wearing a headlamp, and a small pack.

Despite the new, hardy, hard core, crew, I also found a few hikers climbing Cascade Mountain in flip-flops, and another couple attempting to push a baby stroller on the trail to the summit of Mt. Baker. It takes all sorts to raise a child, or climb a mountain.

The new breed of ultralight, trail running, mountain maniacs would likely have been scorned by many of the old guides and climbers, who went to the woods primarily for adventure, and relaxation.

Les Hathaway, a popular Saranac Lake guide of the 40’, 50’s and 60’s, claimed he stuck to just one particular section of the Big Woods of the Adirondacks, which primarily encompassed the forests and lakes of the Saranac Lake region. Hathaway ex-

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plained, “‘There’s maybe only a couple hundred square miles I know. But Mister, I know’ em and, every rock and stump on ‘em… the trouble with people today is they’re so busy coverin’ ground, they ain’t got the time to notice what’s covering the ground they’re covering!”

As the number of marathon climbers, trail runners sand peak baggers has increased in recent years, so too has the popularity of taking on the shorter, easier, less traveled peaks, as evidenced by the Saranac Sixer’s campaign, and the response to the lower elevation peaks that are encompassed within the CATS trail system in the Champlain Valley region. All of the CATS summits are below the 4,000+ feet standard of the High Peaks..

While the lower peaks may not be as tall, tough or steep as the fabled 46er’s of the High Peaks region; the view from a mountain summit is always well earned, and appreciated.

There is also the special charm when you have a mountain summit alone to yourself, with your head in the clouds and the world at your feet!

The Saranac Sixer’s campaign has certainly inspired many neophytes to take to the mountains. While most folks may know where to climb, there’s often an apparent lack of consideration about how to climb, which includes such accepted courtesies as stepping aside for faster climbers, speaking in low tones, moving off the trail to take a break off, or simply acknowledging a fellow climber.

While the lack of such simple courtesies may not be so apparent in the parking lot, it’s often amplified later on the trail, due to the stress of traveling through steep, muddy, buggy, and unfamiliar terrain.

Unfortunately, the lack of consideration for fellow travelers is often magnified when fellow travelers are perceived as being too slow, too fast, or too loud. Regardless of perceptions, there is no excuse for being rude.

We typically take to the woods to get away from it all in our efforts to reduce the stress of everyday civilization. However, it often becomes painfully obvious that there are different strokes for different folks, and it takes only one such traveler to ruin the experience for many.

Unfortunately, the majority of Americans no longer consider outdoor recreation and wilderness travel to be a normal part of everyday life. As a nation, we have become increasingly detached from the outdoors. Traditionally, outdoor travelers learned how to conduct themselves in the wilds from a mentor.

Usually, it was their father, a friendly Uncle or a trusted family friend. However, in recent years there has been a major break in the old, green line. Not only has the change affected the way

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Mostly the traditional rules included a collection of common sense ideals, such as speaking in a low voice, packing out what you packed in, stepping aside to let faster travelers pass, and not throwing stones off the summit. However, common sense no longer appears to be as common as it once was.

Researchers have determined that people who are regularly exposed to natural scenes are happier and more comfortable; and their physiological well-being also responds positively to regular outdoor travel.

When humans travel and play outdoors, they are in fact going back to a more relaxed and peaceful state. Despite over 2000 years of civilized living, nature is still a primary ingredient in our makeup, and it only takes a few steps off the beaten path to rekindle natural instincts that are hidden inside. of it!

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residing in Ray Brook. Contact him at brookside18@adelphia.net.

Meadow Hackett of Raybrook, enjoys the view from the summit of Hurricane Mountain near Elizabethtown. Although the peak is not considered a High Peak, it offers outstanding vistas of the High Peaks to the west and the Champlain Valley and Green Mountains of Vermont to the east.

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Your complete source of things to see and do in the North Country Friday, July 24

ESSEX — Bluegrass Gospel Project. Essex Community Concerts. Carol Williams, organ concert. Essex Community Church. 7 p.m. $10 adults, $5 under 12. Reservations recommended. Details: essexcommunityconcerts.org.

SARANAC LAKE — Adk Health Foundation Golf Tourney. Crowne Plaza Resort, Golf Club, Links Course. 7:30 a.m. or 1 p.m. $400 per team. Luncheon 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Details: adirondackhealth.org, 897-2597. Deadline Friday, June 19.

LAKE PLACID — Body Bliss Retreat for Ironman Community. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 1 to 6 p.m. $60. Details: lakeplacidarts.org/performances/body-bliss.

18+.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Story/crafts. Elizabethtown Library. 10 to 11 a.m. Children ages 3-6, with adult. Details: 873-2670.

LAKE CLEAR — 2D or not 2D/ Art pieces opening reception, Shawn L Halperin.

Pendragon Lobby Gallery. 5 to 7:45 p.m. Exhibit through Monday, Aug. 10. Open to public. Details: pendragontheatre.org, shawnlewishalperin.com.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

ROUSES POINT — Farmers’ Market. Rouses Point Dodge Memorial Library. 3 p.m.

PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Regional Theatre Shakespeare Troupe: “Hamlet”.

Details: adktheatre.com, adirondackregionaltheatre@hotmail.com.

PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Coast EVP Corporate Beach Volleyball Challenge.

Plattsburgh City Beach. $100 per team of 4. Register: evptour.com, 1-773-387-1198.

Saturday, July 25

UPPER JAY — “Every Hero has a Story, discover the Superhero in You” Summer Reading Program. Wells Memorial Library. Ages K-6. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Details: 9462644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

CHAZY — Steven Engelhart, ‘The importance of preserving our nation’s built environment’. Alice T. Miner Museum. 7 p.m.

WESTPORT — Westport Federated Church Women Craft, Food Sale. Westport Federated Church. 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Lunch 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Regional Theatre Shakespeare Troupe: “Hamlet”.

Details: adktheatre.com, adirondackregionaltheatre@hotmail.com.

LAKE PLACID — Answer the Muse Concert. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 7 p.m. $15 to $20. Details: lakeplacidarts.org/performances/answer-muse-concert.

WESTPORT — Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program training. Westport Heritage House. 10 a.m. to noon. RSVPs Wednesday, July 22, 576-2082 ext. 120, jane. raffaldi@tnc.org, walk-ins welcome. Details: adkinvasives.com.

PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Coast EVP Corporate Beach Volleyball Challenge.

Plattsburgh City Beach. $100 per team of 4. Register: evptour.com, 1-773-387-1198.

PLATTSBURGH — GEPH concert. ROTA Gallery. Details: facebook.com/ events/1620676701540247, youtube.com/watch?v=DNxxitAbW9g.

LYON MOUNTAIN — Roast pork dinner. Lyon Mountain American Legion. 4 to 6:30 p.m. $10 adults, $5 children 5 to 12, under 5 free.

PLATTSBURGH — “The Raid”. Newman Center. 7:30 p.m. Free. Details: serious_61@yahoo.com.

DANNEMORA — Dannemora Free Library 75th anniversary celebration, Eleanor Mayette. 40 Emmons St. 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

ROUSES POINT — Rouses Point Sportsmen’s Club Barbecue. All day.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Sinfonietta. Keene Valley Congregational Church.

7:30 p.m. Details: 708-5607. Details: 523-2512, LakePlacidSinfonietta.org.

WHALLONSBURG — “Introduction to Pickling, Canning”, Jori Wekin. Whallons-

burg Grange. 9:30 to noon. $5 pp. Details: admin@thegrangehall.info, 963-4170.

Sunday, July 26

SARANAC LAKE — Ironman Lake Placid. Details: See Race Schedule. Details: 8685920.

PLATTSBURGH — North Country Mustang Club 15th annual All Ford Car Show.

Plattsburgh Waterfront Parking Lot. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. $20 registration fee, Spectators free. Details: 236-6080, northcountrymustangclub.org.

SARANAC — Saranac Green Market . Picketts Corners. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Sinfonietta, “Miniature Romantics”. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 7:30 p.m. Details: 523-2512, LakePlacidSinfonietta.org.

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake SkatePark Grand Opening Celebration. Midtown Lot, 155 Church St. Noon to 3 p.m.

ESSEX — All Saints Church Boys Choir. St. John’s Church. Morning Euchrist: 9:15 a.m. Evensong 4 p.m. Details: 962-8642.

Monday, July 27

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — Monday Night Lecture: David Campbell, “Perennial Gardening in the Adirondacks: Hardy Plants for a Harsh Climate”. Museum Auditorium, 9097 St. Rte 30. 7:30 p.m. Free museum members, students, children, $5 nonmembers.

ROUSES POINT — Preschool story time, Miss Sara. Every Monday. Rouses Point Dodge Memorial Library. 10 to 11 a.m.

Tuesday, July 28

ELIZABETHTOWN — Summer performances, Brent Vosburg. Elizabethtown Social Center lawn. 6:30 p.m. Rain or shine.

UPPER JAY — Arts & Crafts Workshop, Adirondack Shakespeare Company. Wells Memorial Library. All ages. 1:30 until 2 p.m. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1. net.

MOOERS — Republican Party meeting. Town Complex. 7 p.m. Open to public.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, exhibit. Upper Jay Art Center. Open to public.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

Wednesday, July 29

WILLSBORO — ‘Kids Night Out’, T-ball, baseball, softball. Willsboro Central School.

Grades K-12. 6 to 7 p.m. Details: Jennifer Leibeck 963-8040, Leibe2@aol.com, Krissy Leerkes 572-0315, krissygay1@yahoo.com.

PLATTSBURGH —Mark Rabin Memorial Golf Tournament. Westport Country Club. Open to public. Registration $49.99. Details: 564-4169, nancy.church@plattsburgh.edu. Registration deadline: Tuesday, July 21.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, exhibit. Upper Jay Art Center. Open to public.

Thursday, July 30

ESSEX — Point Counterpoint: Chamber music, Essex Community Concerts. Essex Community Church. 11:30 a.m. $10 adults, $5 under 12. Details: essexcommu-

nityconcerts.org.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, opening reception. Upper Jay Art Center.

Open to public.

WESTPORT — Soundwaves Concert: Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band.

Ballard Park. 7:30 p.m. Details: soundwaveswestport.tumblr.com.

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

ESSEX — Essex Community Concerts Mid Day Series “Point Counterpoint Students Perform Chamber Music”. Essex Community Church. 11:30 a.m. $5 donation.

KEENE — Meadowmount in the Valley. Keene Valley Congregational Church. 8 p.m. $10 pp, Students free. Details: 576-2225, eastbranchfriendsofthearts@gmail. com.

Friday, July 31

UPPER JAY — “At Home in the Adirondacks: Works in Oil by Heidi Gero” display.

Wells Memorial Library, 12230 NYS Rte 9N. “Early Morning Union Falls” raffle. Details: 946-2644, wellslib@primelink1.net.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, exhibit. Upper Jay Art Center. Open to public.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Library Association summer book sale. UCC Church Hall. Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ROUSES POINT — Farmers’ Market. Rouses Point Dodge Memorial Library. 3 to 7 p.m.

PLATTSBURGH — Giovanina Bucci concert. Champlain Wine Company. 6 to 8 p.m.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Story/crafts. Elizabethtown Library. 10 to 11 a.m. Children ages 3-6, with adult. Details: 873-2670.

WESTPORT — “New York Water.” Depot Theatre.

Saturday, Aug. 1

ESSEX — “Downtown Essex Day”. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details: Essex Day Committee 963-7494, thecupolahouse@gmail.com.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Library Association summer book sale. Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WESTPORT — “New York Water.” Depot Theatre.

SARANAC LAKE — Buddhist Retreat, Joel Baehr. 154 Margret St. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free, donations accepted. Details: 891-3652, joelbaehr.com.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, exhibit. Upper Jay Art Center. Open to public.

Sunday, Aug. 2

SARANAC — Saranac Green Market . Picketts Corners. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WESTPORT — “New York Water.” Depot Theatre.

SARANAC LAKE — Celtic Music Night. First Presbyterian Church, Great Hall. 7 p.m. Details: 891-3401, 359-2623.

UPPER JAY — Sheila Pritchard art show, exhibit. Upper Jay Art Center. Open to public.

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BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — Monday Night Lecture: Anne Diggory, “Painting the Adirondacks’. Museum Auditorium, 9097 St. Rte 30. 7:30 p.m. Free museum members, students, children, $5 nonmembers.

ROUSES POINT — Preschool story time, Miss Sara. Every Monday. Rouses Point Dodge Memorial Library. 10 to 11 a.m. WESTPORT — “New York Water.” Depot Theatre.

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STEAM Center From page 1

Workforce Development at CCC. “The idea of partnering across the organizations strengthen the type of outreach we can do and expand access to folks.”

Currently, they’re putting together a grant application, which should be completed in the next few weeks, for part of the North Country’s overall plan for the Upstate Revitalization Initiative.

This initiative is a funding competition that focuses on seven upstate regions (Capital Region, Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mid-Hudson, Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier and North Country) and awards three regions with $500 million each with the most compelling arguments.

Once the application is complete, the three locations will start discussing on what each of them will do with their share of funding. Some have already started getting ideas.

CLINTON’S IDEA Clinton Community College, which is the lead agency on the grant application, is still contemplating ideas on what they’ll do if this works out.

CCC does know, however, that it will be focused on STEM pro-

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“That is something that we have expanded and will be expanding over the years,” said DeDominicas.

The main focus for CCC right now is getting the application completed. The other two locations, however, have been thinking about their options.

MUSEUM IMPLEMENTS The Champlain Valley Transportation Museum has been doing STEM programming for years. However, if they receive the grant, it would expand their services and programming.

“We don’t want to be solely a museum,” said Amy Bonn of the museum. “We want to be out in the community partnering with schools and civic programs, anywhere we might be able to do STEM programming.”

The museum hopes to create an on-site area for more STEM programming and activities on the second floor of the children’s museum, as well as a laboratory in a small building adjacent to the museum.

Besides on-site, the museum hopes to deliver its programming in a number of , including after school programs, half day programs, summer camps, winter camps, clubs and online.

“We should be nurturing and celebrating the talents of our students,” Bonn said. “We want kids from across our region to

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STRAND PLANS As the leading organization out of this collaboration for the arts, the Strand has many different ideas to put the arts, the “A,” into STEM. The Strand’s portion of the North Country STEAM Center would be providing both on-site and remote arts education activities and instruction.

“We can’t fully articulate the entire picture,” said Joshua Kretser, interim executive director of the Strand Center for the Arts and the Strand Theatre.

If granted the funding, while one portion would go toward staffing, a big portion of it would go to create additional classroom space by connected the Strand Center for the Arts and the Strand Theatre.

They’re looking at implementing a catering kitchen to be used for both educational purposes (culinary arts classes) and community events.

“Each one of us has a different component,” said Leigh Mundy, secretary of the board for the Strand Center for the Arts. “The big idea is to get new staff that is focused on this outreach programming into all communities into Essex, Franklin and Clinton counties.”

News in Brief Wine Company to host Giovanina Bucci

PLATTSBURGH — The Champlain Wine Company will host local musician, Giovanina Bucci Friday, July 31 from 6 to 8 p.m.

This will be Giovanina’s last performance in Plattsburgh. The Champlain Wine Company will be selling wine and hard cider by the glass as well as house-made sangria and wine slushies throughout the evening.

Open house slated for supply company

PLATTSBURGH — The Concrete Building Supply will be holding an open house Saturday, Aug. 1 at 1024 Military Turnpike from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Everyone will be able to tour the facility and see how they make septic tanks, distribution boxes, retaining walls and concrete blocks of all sizes. There will be a 50/50 raffle for a chance to win a fire pit, pavers and more. Food and refreshments will be available. Meet manufacturers, contractors and vendors. Brows their huge selection of overstocked, discontinued and discounted inventory. There will be a sand pile for the kids that they will randomly toss coins in for a coin hunt. All Proceeds will benefit the North Country Honor Flight.

Farmer’s Market to present Kids Day

PLATTSBURGH — Kids Day will take place at Plattsburgh Farmers’ and Crafters’ Market in the downtown Durkee Street Parking Lot Saturday, Aug. 1 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will

be kids activities and giveaways. For more information, call Pat at 310-0719 or Bonnie at 493-4644.

CHAZY — Bring the entire family for an old-fashioned ice cream social Thursday, Aug. 6 at the Chazy Public Library with entertainment provided by the Champlain Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines and the Underground Jazz from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

The rain date is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 7.

senior residing in Clinton County.

The cost for this day trip is $65 for the lunch and tickets to the play. The bus will be leaving the mall parking lot at 9 a.m. and return at 5 p.m.

Pre-registration and pre-payment are mandatory before Monday, Aug. 3. People may register by calling or stopping by the Recreation Office at 562-6860 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. There are a limited number of spaces to be filled on a first come-first serve basis, so call early. For any questions, feel free to call the Recreation Office.

Local Artists opening reception slated

Babbie Rural to showcase harvest

Ice cream social concert planned

PLATTSBURGH — The opening reception of the Louise Patinelli, Jackie Sabourin and Lora Van Noord exhibit will take place Friday, Aug. 7 at the Strand Center for the Arts from 5 to 8 p.m.

This is a free reception to view new artwork by local artists. Visit plattsburgharts.org for more information.

Town to sponsor Dinner Theater trip

PLATTSBURGH — The Town of Plattsburgh is sponsoring a trip to the Lake George Dinner Theatre Wednesday, Aug. 12. The group will have lunch at the Holiday Inn Turf and enjoy the play “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” a comedy. Folks will have a choice of chicken marsala, broiled salmon, medallions of beef or vegetarian pasta and will need to pick one when calling in to register for the trip. This day program is open to any

PERU — Babbie Rural and Farm Learning Museum will be showcasing a hay and grain harvest with antique equipment Saturday, Aug. 15 and Aug. 16 at the museum at 250 River Road. For more information, visit babbiemuseum.org.

Strand to hold ArtQuest clay workshop

PLATTSBURGH — The Strand Center for the Arts will be showing ArtQuest trains, plains, birds and butterflies clay techniques Monday, Aug. 17 at the center from 9 to 11 a.m. This is a one week kids’ workshop for ages 5 to 12. For more information, call 563-1604 or visit plattsburgharts.org.

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SUNY Plattsburgh over to Pine Street and ends at the Max Moore Memorial Treehouse.

With the replacement of this bridge, the Saranac River Trail will connect to downtown Plattsburgh, and from there, it will connect to another new bridge being put in at the end of Durkee Street — connecting downtown to the marina area.

DURKEE STREET In 2003, the city began discussing on what to do with Durkee Street.

Though the new offices placed on the corner of Durkee and Broad streets add something, they want to add more.

So far, there’s been a lot of interest in doing something in the river, such as kayaking by building fingers of rocks out into the river.

The current parking lot would be turned into a gathering area, with the Farmers Market having its own designated area along the waterfront.

The parking lot would then be stacked, possibly with housing or a hotel on the top to add more living space to downtown.

“We would like to get into a situation where you could really live in downtown Plattsburgh and walk every place you need to go,” Mayor James Calnon said. “It’s part of being an authentic downtown.

“We’re really trying to get back to how life was when much of this downtown was built with a lot of services and a lot of pedestrian traffic.”

MARINA AREA The Plattsburgh City Marina opened last month with two goals in mind: economic development and revenue.

Since its opening, Mayor Calnon said the ma-

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rina has been doing well. But they would still like to incorporate more into the area near the marina.

The Plattsburgh Wastewater Treatment Plant is currently situated in that area.

Mayor Calnon said the city is looking for ways to keep the noises and smells into the surrounding area in attempts to making it more of a center of activity.

“Most cities would die to have this beautiful waterfront,” Lawson said. “We’re blessed with wonderful natural assets and it’s an awesome resource that we have available.”

The city is currently debating what to do with the free space, including keeping it open but adding more seating and picnicking opportunities, adding housing, adding commercial options or possibly putting a new recreational center there.

RECREATIONAL CENTER Leaks in the roof of the 41-year-old Crete Civic Center still have officials debating the future of the facility.

After a detailed inspection of the roof showing that it should be replaced within the next two to three years costing around $800,000 to $1 million, the city is contemplating all its options.

The City of Plattsburgh is looking on whether to repair the roof, demolish it and build a new facility at the site or find another location in the city.

Also, it’s undecided whether the new recreational center will be a city facility or a regional facility.

“We don’t want to be afraid to make a decision because it’s a big decision to be made,” Lawson said. “We’re going to make it wisely and understand that it’s a 50-year decision.”

“The weight of these decisions mean that we don’t want to rush,” Mayor Calnon said. “No shovels are going to hit the ground for awhile.”

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BULL RUN ENERGY 249 Thompson Road, 6TC-86447 NC-06/27-08/01/2015Mooers, New York LLC. Authority filed with SLEEP MEDICINE OF 6TC-86556 12959. the Sect of State of NY ENTERPRISES, THE ADIRONDACKS, TMU (SSNY) on 7/6/15. NY NC-07/25-08/29/2015 LLC, a domestic LLC, PLLC 6TC-89053 Office Loc: Clinton NOTICE OF FORMATION filed with the SSNY on County. LLC formed in NOTICE OF FORMATION of a domestic Profes- 4/20/15. Office location: DE 6/19/15. SSNY has OF LIMITED LIABILITY sional Limited Liability Clinton County. SSNY is been designated as COMPANY (LLC) NAME: Company (PLLC): designated as agent agent of LLC upon LCV Maintenance LLC DATE OF FORMATION: upon whom process whom process against it Articles of organization The Articles of Organiza- against the LLC may be may be served and shall filed with Secretary of tion were filed with the served. SSNY shall mail mail process to: Bull State of New York New York State Secre- process to Tammy M. Run Energy LLC c/o 200 (“SSNY”) on June 9, tary of State on June 11, Utley, 7130 State Rte. 9, Bellevue Pkwy, Ste 210, 2015 office location Plattsburgh, NY 12901.

2015.

Wilmington, DE 19809. Clinton. “SSNY” is des- NEW YORK OFFICE LO- General Purpose.

Cert of Form filed with ignated as agent of the CATION: Clinton County NC-07/18-08/22/2015DE Sec of State, 401 LLC upon whom pro- AGENT FOR PROCESS: 6TC-88507 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, cess against it may be The Secretary of State is UKIE'S GROCERY, DELI DE 19901. Purpose: any served. “SSNY” shall designated as Agent & REDEMPTION CENlawful activity. mail a copy of any pro- upon whom process TER, LLC Articles of NC-07/18-08/22/2015cess to the LLC at 27 against the PLLC may be Org. filed NY Sec. of 6TC-88340 Maryland Road Platts- served. The Secretary of State (SSNY) burgh NY 12903 DAVID WEINSTEIN LLC. State shall mail a copy 06/12/2015. Office in NC-07/18-08/22/2015Art. of Org. filed with the of any process against Clinton Co. SSNY desig.

SSNY on 06/01/15. Of- 6TC-88001 the PLLC to 142 Boyn- agent of LLC upon fice: Clinton County. NOTICE OF FORMATION ton Avenue, Suite B, whom process may be SSNY designated as OF PRAY'S FARMERS Plattsburgh, NY 12901. served. SSNY shall mail agent of the LLC upon MARKET, LLC PURPOSE:To engage in copy of process to 132 whom process against (PURSUANT TO SEC- any lawful act or activity.

Irish Settlement Rd., it may be served. SSNY TION 203 OF THE LIM- NC-06/27-08/01/2015Plattsburgh, NY 12901, shall mail copy of pro- ITED LIABILITY COMPA- 6TC-86450 which is also the princicess to the LLC, 14 NY LAW) pal business location.

Bush Court, New City, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVPurpose: Any lawful purNY 10956. Purpose: Any EN that the Articles of pose.

Organization of Pray's lawful purpose.

NC-7/25-08/29/2015Farmers Market, LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION NC-06/13-07/18/20156TC-88958 (the “Company”) were OF LIMITED LIABILITY 6TC-84989 filed with the Secretary COMPANY (“LLC”) of State of the State of Name: Tails & Nails Pet NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HAPPY HAVEN New York on April 27, Spa, LLC Articles of Or2015. ganization filed with the FARM, LLC Secretary of State of (PURSUANT TO SEC- The Company is being TION 203 OF THE LIM- formed for any lawful New York (“SSNY”) on ITED LIABILITY COMPA- business purpose and 04/28/2015 Office Locashall have all the pow- tion: Clinton County. The NY LAW) “SSNY” is designated as NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- eres set forth in Section 202(a) – 202(q) of the agent of the LLC upon EN that the Articles of New York Limited Liabil- whom process against it Organization of Happy ity Company Law. may be served. “SSNY” Haven Farm, LLC (the Company) were filed The office of the Compa- shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: with the Secretary of ny is to be located in the State of the State of New County of Clinton, State 994 Hardscrabble Rd., York on July 1, 2015. of New York. The Secre- Cadyville, NY 12918.

The Company is being tary of State has been Purpose: To engage in formed for any lawful designated as the agent any lawful act or activity. business purpose and of the Company upon NC-07/04-08/08/2015-

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