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February 9, 2013

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Gore Mountain Region Chamber gets new director PAGE 3 IN INDIAN LAKE

Adirondack weather was in the forefront this week on the Weather Channel cable network. Above, Weather Channel reporter Stephanie Abrams interviews Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee Chairman Jeff Dickson Tuesday morning, Feb. 5, live on the air at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid while lugers practice on the track for the World Cup luge races this weekend. The Weather Channel also interviewed Olympic Regional Development Authority spokesman Jon Lundin and USA Luge assistant coach Duncan Kennedy. Abrams spent Monday learning how to luge with USA Luge team member Erin Hamlin, of Remsen, and reported live Tuesday from 5:30 to 11 a.m. Photo by Andy Flynn

Weather Channel visits the Adirondacks LAKE PLACID — In terms of publicity, the perfect storm has hit the Adirondacks. Extreme Winter Weather Week on The Weather Channel (TWC), combined with wintry conditions and a number of events taking place in the area this week, has brought the cable network to the region. TWC held a live telecast on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from Mount Van Hoevenberg, outside Lake Placid. The crew, including Wake Up With Al co-host Stephanie Abrams, will report from

the combined luge, bobsled and skeleton track from 5:30 to 11 a.m. The venue will host World Cup luge racing on Friday and Saturday. Scheduled guests included Duncan Kennedy, of the USA Luge coaching staff; Jon Lundin, PR coordinator of the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA); and Jeff Dickson, chairman of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee. The segments incorporated live interviews with recorded segments at the Saranac Lake Ice Palace, dog sled-

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ding on Mirror Lake and more around the two communities. TWC made its base in Lake Placid, and spent the weekend and Monday shooting numerous activities. Among the highlights was a learn-to-luge piece that will find 2009 World Champion Erin Hamlin, of Remsen, coaching Abrams on the fine art of luge. A very busy week in the Northern Adirondacks, with the involvement of Empire State Winter Games organizers, ORDA, USA Luge and the Saranac Lake CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Couple dies in mobile home fire on Pratt Road PAGE 7 AT SCHOOL

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Hudson River Rafting guide gets one year in jail By Katherine Clark

PINEWOOD DERBY DAY

This Week

Time for another Valentine Hit Parade NORTH CREEK — “Valentine Hit Parade II,” a romantic musical concert and champagne reception to benefit the Adirondack Community Outreach Center (ACOC), will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Tannery Pond Community Center. Carolyn Bischoff, Beatriz de Mello, Marion Moore, Melissa Mulvey, Lis, Megan and John Ormsbee, Jeffrey Schanzer, Bernadette Speach, Dan Studnicky and Emily Stanton will be performing a potpourri of romantic tunes including: Caldwell What You Won't Do For Love; Roger and Hart My Funny Valentine and Puccini’s Drinking Song to name a few, followed by a scintillating reception to romance the night away. The Copperfield Inn will serve a few pre-theater dinner specials after 5 p.m. in Trapper ’s Tavern, and following the concert many local restaurants and board members are donating a sweet, savory or wine for the reception. Tickets are $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Send checks made out to the ACOC to: PO Box 301, North Creek, NY 12853. For more information, please contact Carolyn Bischoff at 2519808.

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katherine@denpubs.com INDIAN LAKE — A Hamilton County judge Feb. 1 sentenced a North Creek whitewater rafting guide to one year in jail for negligible homicide after a woman died during a rafting trip in September. Rory Fay, 37, who was a New York registered rafting guide with the Hudson River Rafting Company, was sentenced by Hamilton County

Judge S. Peter Feldstein after he pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated, and criminal negligence. Fay was sentenced for criminally negligent homicide, a felony, carrying a sentence of six months in jail and 5 years probation; driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor carrying a sentence of one year in prison; and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, a misdemeanor carrying a sentence of 180 days in jail. District Attorney Marsha Purdue said Fay will serve his time in jail concurrently, not consecutively, meaning the

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maximum sentence at the Hamilton County Jail is one year. Time served will also count toward his sentence. Fay has remained in police custody since Sept. 27, and with good behavior, he could be released as early as June, according to Purdue. The charges stem from the drowning of 53-yearold Tamara Blake, of Columbus, Ohio. Blake and another passenger were riding with Fay on the Indian River at about 10:20 a.m. on Sept. 27 when Fay and Blake fell overboard. Fay was able to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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