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emember Earth Day on April 24. Help clean up the sides of the roads.
Remember National Day of Prayer on May 6. This weekend brought us real April weather - very rainy and chilly. Maybe it will bring out the fresh new leaves and wild flowers. It is nice to see the daffodils in bloom in so many places. A Spaghetti Supper will be held by the Community Compassion of the Sodom Community Church on Saturday, April 24 at the Wevertown Community Building. Hours will be from 4 - 6 p.m. Take-outs are available. Cost is $7 for adults, $5 for children 6 - 12 and children 5 and under are free. The fund are to help local families at Christmas time. Many campers have been seen in the area. It is good to know it is almost summer and camp grounds are getting ready for the season. Be thankful for our area and that we do not live where near volcanoes and earthquakes. Our prayers are with the area. Eileen Cummings and Patty Roberts enjoyed the weekend in Pennsylvania and were thrilled to visit the Corning factory. Deaths We are sorry to hear about the death of Marion Millington. She has such a big family and many friends. She always had a great smile Happy Birthday Greg Nevins, Sheri Cleveland, Donny Bacon, Fletcher Conlon Sr, Bonnie Cleveland, Tabitha Straight, Alyssa Kramar and Rachel Allen Warger. Happy Anniversary Tim and Lois Allen.
Reader’s Poll Results Question:
Which season do you think is more lucrative to the local economy? Rafting:
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Johnsburg Goes to War: 1861-1865 M
any have heard of the 1st Battle of Bull Run. It was the first major battle in the war and quickly dispelled any notions that this conflict would soon be resolved. The 2nd Battle of Bull Run, however, fought 13 months later on the same battlefield, was far bloodier. Taking the brunt of the advance of Hood’s Division, the 22nd took horrific losses. Nineteen of their 24 officers present were either killed or wounded. In total, the 22nd NY lost 180 killed, wounded or missing out of 379 engaged. Fighting was so fierce that it is reported that when Company B ran out of bullets they began throwing stones at the enemy. Among the boys in blue killed that day was Nelson Ross of Johnsburg. In preparation for my September 2011 Tannery Pond Community Center Presentation I’d appreciate hearing if you have any pictures, diaries or information on the men in this week’s column or from prior columns. Please contact me at 215-3009 or pearsall.glenn@gmail.com. Glenn L. Pearsall Rist, John C. Born April 6, 1843 in Johnsburg, son of William and Nancy (Perkins). Enlisted Aug. 27, 1862 at age 19 in Johnsburg for three years as a private in
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Ross, Jacob Born in 1844 in Johnsburg, son of John and Betsey (Galusha). Served in Co. E of the 22nd NY Volunteer Infantry. Died of wounds, possibly suffered at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, on Oct. 12, 1862 at Smoketown Hospital and buried there.
Ross, James W. Born 1840 in Johnsburg, Jacob’s older brother. Served in Co. C of the 93rd. I assume he survived the war, but do not have discharge information. Ross, Nelson Brother to Jacob and James. Served in Co. E of the 22 with his brother Jacob. Killed at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run on Aug. 30, 1862 and buried near the battlefield. Ross, Rodney Born in 1839 in Johnsburg, son of Roswell Ross and his wife Harriet (Daniels). Enlisted in Johnsburg Aug. 11, 1862 and signed on as a private in Co. D of the 118th. Died of smallpox at Portsmouth, VA on June 27, 1864.
I can make flowers for the earth. Alexander Thomas - Kindergarten Johnsburg Central School
I would go outside with gloves and pick up litter. Zachary Phelps - Grade 1 - Newcomb Central School To help the earth I would pick up the garbage and grow a flower to help make the earth nice and clean. Jamie Sabattis - Grade 1 - Johnsburg Central School
If you want to get to a house that is close to your house, just walk and recycle. Carley LaRose - Grade 2 - Newcomb Central School I can help the earth by cleaning it. Don’t be a litter bug. If you don’t clean the earth it will die. Anthony Galle - Grade 2 - Johnsburg Central School I can conserve rain water and turn off the faucet when I’m not using it. Alyssa Comeau - Grade 3 - Newcomb Central School
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Rowe, James Franklyn Born Jan. 26, 1845 in Middletown, VT. Enlisted Dec. 3, 1861 in Johnsburg for three years and served as a private in Co. G of the 93rd. Discharged less than a year later - on Oct. 30, 1862 in Detroit, MI. Re-enlisted Feb. 2, 1864 in Co. B of the 17th Michigan. Discharged May 18, 1865.
I can pick up garbage to save the ozone layer, plant trees and grow vined fruit to give us more oxygen, and turn out my light for one minute to save electricity. Kevin - Grade 3 - Johnsburg Central School We did a town trash clean-up last year. If we did that again I think that could help the earth and our town. Jordan Bush - Grade 5 - Newcomb Central School REMINDER: Earth Day celebrated its 40th Anniversary on April 22.
Hornbeck worthy of support for APA seat
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2nd Lt. James McCoy, the only officer of Co. B of the 22nd to survive the 2nd Battle of Bull Run. Among the officers killed that day was Capt. Robert McCoy, commander of Co. B and James' brother.
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I can rake my yard. Cassie Dunbar - Kindergarten - Johnsburg Central School
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Cheerful Crickets succeed in raising funds To the News Enterprise: I would like to extend a thank you to Lindsay Yandon of the News Enterprise and the owner and entire staff at Marsha's Restaurant in North Creek for their assistance in our fund raising efforts to keep our Cheerful Crickets Nursery School program open for the remainder of the current school year. Cheerful Crickets is a long-standing non-profit nursery school run by volunteer parents, serving the entire region. Cheerful Crickets has provided a quality pre-kindergarten experience to our youth as preparation for public school. Due to the economic downturn, enrollment has dropped, in recent years, to the point where continuing this year was impossible without significant fund raising efforts. The shortfall to complete the year was almost $4,000 - a very significant portion of our budget. Most of the Cricket parents met in early February and all agreed that a quality pre-kindergarten experience was too important for our children to miss. We decided to roll up our sleeves and work hard to earn the budget shortfall through a series of fundraisers. Over the course of the past two months, we held a series of fundraisers including many generous donations, a coin drop, a 50/50 raffle, a bake sale, and the dinner at Marsha's restaurant. Combined, we where able to raise all of the funds needed to meet expenses for the school to continue through mid-June as planned. Our efforts would have been literally impossible without the help of the News Enterprise through their series of stories and community announcements and the most generous efforts of Marsha's Restaurant. These experiences over the past two months exemplify all that is great about our small community coming together again and again for each other. Thank you to all who helped. With gratitude, Children and parents of Cheerful Crickets Nursery School
To the editor: Peter Hornbeck is a “classic Adirondacker” and is the right person to replace Art Lucci on the Adirondack Park Agency Board of Commissioners I have known Peter almost from the day he brought his family to live in the Park. I have paddled rivers with him, hiked mountains with him, watched him work in his third-grade classroom, and sat with him in discussion at community meetings. He is thoughtful in his dealings with people, skilled with his hands in his business and he deeply respects the land and the history of where he raised his family and makes a living. There is no question in using the phrase “classic Adirondacker” because in a later century he did exactly what the Morehouses, Dunkleys, Sullivans and Ordways (settlers of this region) did 200 years earlier. He prepared himself with useful skills, although he wasn’t a farmer, blacksmith or woodcutter, and decided to migrate into the Adirondacks to stake out a life for himself and his family. The anti-APA politicians say the APA opposes economic development. Peter’s story of four decades living in the Park proves them wrong. He left teaching after 20 years at Johnsburg Central to devote full time to developing his boat-building business. He provides excellent jobs to Park residents, and his boats are being paddled in waterways across the U.S. and Canada. State Sen. Betty Little's attempt in the state Senate to block Hornbeck’s appointment to the APA board is a gross disservice to the residents of the Park and other New Yorkers. Betty Little knows nothing about life or making a living in the Adirondack Park, and she has no stake in the Park beyond the Republican votes she harvests up here. Sustaining Adirondack Park, a great experiment in land preservation now in its second century, is the reason New Yorkers, nearly 40 years ago, established the APA. This agency’s job is to assure the human communities and the natural communities found in the park’s wilderness are each given protection to live in harmony. Who better to undertake this job than someone who has and is doing this now? Peter Hornbeck respects and completely understands the importance of the work he would be doing as an APA commissioner. I recommend to the state Senate his timely confirmation. Bob Nessle Johnsburg