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Sports
Thursday evenings in North Creek will now include Cruise Night.
New Adirondack Attic book highlights Johnsburg area history.
Lake Placid stuns the Lady Orange with a come from behind win.
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Terry Martino, APA executive director, to visit North Creek
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Search and rescue dogs bring their work into the classroom By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com
By Lindsay Yandon
JOHNSBURG — Students at Johnsburg Central School recently took a break from their end-of-the-year preparations to spend some time with German Shepards Cash and Inca, search and rescue dogs from the Champlain Valley Search and Rescue K9 Unit. The dogs, along with their handlers Christopher Bressett and Patty Warrington and Champlain Valley Search and Rescue members Lizbeth and Robert Ordway met with Susanne Hayden’s fifth grade students. Aside from meeting the dogs, students were familiarized with wilderness tips from Bressett, team leader. “It always surprises me how much students in this area already know,” he said. “They grew up around wilderness and safety almost comes naturally to them.” The Champlain Valley K9 Unit is a non-profit team which specializes in training dogs and support personnel to search for and rescue lost or missing persons within a 100-mile radius of Keeseville, NY. “As an active K9 team we are specifically trained to assist with land and water searches, as well as natural or manmade disasters in which people may be trapped or missing,” Bressett said. Champlain Valley K9 also has made a strong commitment to community service in the way of education and helping youths gain necessary confidence and
lindsay@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — Adirondack Park Agency executive director Terry Martino, accompanied by public relations director Keith McKeever, will make a personal public appearance in North Creek the evening of June 16 at Tannery Pond Community Center, 7 p.m. The program is sponsored by the North Creek Rotary Club and hosted by the Gore Mountain Region Chamber of Commerce. “This is a convenient opportunity for locals to meet Terry, who I consider a breath of fresh air within the APA,” said North Creek Rotary member Edward Milner. “We need to know her better as a friend and advocate for responsible efforts to strengthen and grow our economy.” Martino and McKeever will arrive in North Creek at 4 p.m. and meet with local business owners and rotary and chamber members to explore the progress of both the Interconnect project and North Creek’s Main Street. Among the topics of conversation slated for Martino’s evening presentation is her reaction to the findings of the Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project (APRAP). “For our region to truly benefit from the APRAP research, we need more focused effort on how to build and sustain park communities,” said Martino. “The report clearly states ‘The obvious need to merge long-term economic revitalization and environmental
See MARTINO, page 2
A Johnsburg Central School student takes a moment to pet Cash, the search and rescue dog that recently visited JCS with the Champlain Valley Search and Rescue K9 Unit. Photo by Lindsay Yandon
See DOGS, page 2
Newcomb Central School hosts Russian educators Teachers and students experience Russian education system first-hand By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com NEWCOMB — Newcomb Central School was invaded last week in the best possible sense of the word. The school and community were host to a group of educators from Russia who were visiting the United States as part
of the Open World program. The Open World program is sponsored by the open World Leadership Center and administered by the Academy for Educational Development. They aim to foster global understanding of education in various countries all over the world. While living with host families in Newcomb, edu-
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cators met with teachers and students in local schools including Newcomb, Johnsburg and Minerva. They took part in roundtable discussions regarding the mutual problems and issues involved in both education systems as well as the commonalities between the two. “Our goal is to build a
Educators Mariya Slabospitskaya, Larisa Gilmzyanova, Olga Tyshchenko, Olga Kravchuk, Matalya Yakashevish with facilitator Evgeniya Leonovitvh, translator Elena Razenho and Newcomb Central School Superintendent Skip Hults. Photo by Lindsay Yandon
See RUSSIANS, page 8
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