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April 17, 2010
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Joyce’s Auto Body welcomes new owners
Gina and James Mitchell in front of J & G Auto & Towing with their children. Photo by Lindsay Yandon
By Lindsay Yandon
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Adirondack Tri-County Nursing and Rehab Center residents look forward to harvest By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — Volunteers came to the Adirondack Tri-County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (ATCNRC) on Monday armed with potting soil and seeds a plenty. They were there to help residents begin to plan their own flower and vegetable gardens. Members of the ATCNRC auxiliary and volunteer gardening group who came to support the residents included Judy Lapenna, Wanda Callihan, Noel Dingman, Kit Huggard, Georgine Rausch, Sharon Aleksejczyk and Jan Thurling. The planting is an annual event for the volunteers and is a collaboration between the two groups and the ATCNRC activities department in an effort to get residents outside and interested in gardening. “It’s an exciting event,” said ATCNRC landscape gardener Amanda Savarie. “The residents enjoy it and
the volunteers are great at what they do.” This is the first year that the planting will include vegetables that will hopefully be harvested and prepared in meals at the ATCNRC. “Our goal is for the residents to be able to use the vegetables that they planted,” said Savarie. Once seedlings are sprouting from Monday’s planting, they will be transplanted outside in to ‘Victory Gardens’. These gardens are raised container gardens that are accessible to those in wheelchairs. After the harvesting process takes place in a few months, residents will also sell their flowers and produce to staff and community members. “I have tried and tried to plant and all I ever get are weeds,” said one of the residents of her previous planting experience. The help from gardening volunteers will hopefully ensure that there is something to harvest in the fall, according to Savarie.
Amanda Savarie helps a Adirondack Tri-County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center resident to plant some vegetables on Monday. Photo by Lindsay Yandon
lindsay@denpubs.com BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — James and Gina Mitchell of Indian Lake gave a new name to an old business on Monday. They are the official new owners of Joyce’s Auto Body Inc. on Durant Road in Blue Mountain Lake. The shop will soon boast new letterhead and will be called J & G Auto & Towing Inc. Mitchell has been working at Joyce’s for the past six years until he began the process of assuming ownership from Ken Hinckley about a year ago. “He was tired of running two business,” said Mitchell. “It was getting to be too much for him.” Hinckley is also owner of Dunham Boat Service in Big Moose. When he offered the shop to his then employee, there was no hesitation, according to Mitchell. Despite the new name, the shop will still offer the same services. Mitchell will maintain the collision and mechanical repairs, free insurance estimates, NYS inspections, and 24-hour towing services. Mitchell was born and raised in Indian Lake and graduated from Indian Lake Central School in
Cuomo launches probe into green group’s land deals By Jon Alexander denpubs@denpubs.com
Aaron Fresca, the grandson of Greg and Carol Fresca of Minerva, was recently visiting from New Jersey with his parents. Here he stands with a '72 Volkswagon Beetle, partially restored by his grandparents and Fred Morse (also of Minerva). The car was painted to look like Herbie the Love Bug and presented to Aaron by his parents. Photo by Mike Corey
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ALBANY — The region’s largest environmental organization, the Nature Conservancy, is now under the microscope of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Following a New York Post article this week detailing that the state overpaid for forest preserve lands primarily in the Adirondacks, Cuomo has opened a formal investigation into how the Nature Conservancy values its massive holdings and who the $3.5 billion green group influences in Albany. Office of the Attorney General officials said Wednesday that Gov. David Paterson requested the inquiry after the New York Post reported the Conservancy recently reaped a 57 percent profit on land sold to the state that it had only owned for three years. And,
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