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December 19, 2009
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Pearsall Foundations announces 2009 grant awards Received a record amount of applications By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com JOHNSBURG — The Trustees of the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation have announced the recipients of their 2009 grant awards. They received a record-setting amount of applications at 74. Given the need, the trustees voted to increase the value of this
year ’s grants. “We are dedicated to improving the quality of life for year round residents of the Adirondacks and we saw a greater need this year,” said trustee Glen Pearsall. “We judge recipients based on how they accomplish this.” Pearsall is one of four trustees along with his wife and two children. They fulfilled the need, either in whole or in part, of 28 of the
organizations who applied this year. Recipients of their 2009-2010 grant funding year include: Programs and not-for-profit organizations being funded this year include: * Wildlife Institute of Eastern New York for their “Adirondack Animals” programs in elementary schools within the Adirondack Park. * Wells Memorial Library Asso-
ciation to expand their print collection. * Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Warren County for their youth programming * First Night Saranac Lake for family entertainment. * North Country Public Radio for their “Natural Selections” programming. * Adirondack Museum for their “Cabin Fever” series. * Pendragon Theatre for a fallwinter production brought to Tan-
nery Pond Community Center and Indian Lake Theatre. * Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Essex County for volunteer training and recognition. * Seagle Music Colony to bring staged children’s operas to various Adirondack communities. * Protect the Adirondacks! for their Adirondack Park Sustainable Forestry Project. * North Creek Depot Museum for Johnsburg School Days
See GRANTS, page 2
Indian Lake students honored by Hamilton County
The News Enterprise is now on Facebook
By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com
By Lindsay Yandon lindsay@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN — Readers of the News Enterprise can now stay in touch with their editor and receive instant breaking news updates on Facebook. The page will be regularly updated with breaking news, posts to the editor ’s blog and poll questions. Facebook, the popular social networking site, allows for users to become “fans” of the page. “Fans” will have the opportunity to interact with other readers as well as receive instant updates to their computers or cells phones in between the publication of print editions. The page is linked to the Denton Publications online news feed and breaking news stories will be automatically posted there. The News Enterprise’s Facebook page can be accessed through its Denton Publications website, www.newsenterprise.org. The page is accessible to non-Facebook users, who wish to only check updates and not interact through posts. The News Enterprise page already has over 100 “fans” and is rapidly growing while connecting a newspaper, which is decades old to its readers through one of the newest and most popular sources of technological networking. Facebook, which began as a site aimed toward college age students is now
See FACEBOOK, page 12
the county’s share of Gaslight Village. They also talked about lowering their own pay, as well as the county’s non-union employees, by 5 percent. The latter idea failed because it would create a disparity between those workers and CSEA union employees which have so far refused to reopen contract negotiations and reduce a pending pay increase. The supervisors voted to not include anticipated revenue for the proposed sales tax hike in their 2010 budget, which is still under development. A state deadline of Dec. 20 is looming for the spending plan, which
INDIAN LAKE — Fifth grade students at Indian Lake Central School received awards recently from the Hamilton County Soil and Water District upon their completion of an essay contest. On Sept. 24, the students attended the 30th Annual Lynn Galusha Memorial Conservation Field Day in Lake Pleasant. The event was attended by 103 local students, who interactively learned about subjects ranging from forestry aquatic bio-diversity. “Students were asked to write about their favorite presentation of the day and explain how they view things differently now that they know this information,” said Indian Lake Superintendent David Snide. The judges received entries from fifth graders all over Hamilton County and of the 32 entries, Andrew Brown of Indian Lake was the overall winner with his essay on storm water pollution prevention. He received a free 4-H summer camp session donated by Cornell Cooperative Extension. On Nov. 10, representatives from Hamilton County Soil and Water District visited the fifth grade classroom to present award certificates to all of the students who participated. Along with Andrew Brown, Taylor Carroll received a second place ribbon
See TAXES, page 12
See ESSAY, page 4
Select students from Minerva Central School participated in the North Creek Christmas parade accompanied by principal Heidi Kelly, fourth grade teacher Kathy Halloran and music teacher Sabrina LaPointe. Students who participated were Ava Anderson, Meghan Dunkley, Jordan Charbonneau, Alexandria Johnson, Blake Piper, Andrew Piper, Grant Printy, Amber Vanderwarker, Shane Vanderwiele and Bethanie Viele. The trip was planned as part of Minerva Central School’s ongoing initiative to give back to the community in the form of service to others. Photo Courtesy of Minerva Central School
Public decries sales tax hike plan By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com QUEENSBURY — About 100 people attended a special meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors convened Dec. 10 to consider a proposed sales tax hike, and every citizen stepping to the microphone but one voiced objection to the measure, which was endorsed in concept last week by the board. More than a dozen speakers attacked the proposed raise in sales tax from 7 to 8 percent, calling for further cuts in county programs. The show of indignation over a sales tax increase prompted the board to set
an additional budget-cutting meeting for Tuesday, and at that six-hour meeting, a variety of reductions were made totaling about $700,000, county offi-
“You never saw a project
you didn't like, now you're at the bottom of the barrel.”
— George Weinschenk
cials said late Tuesday. Among the concepts discussed, they said, were privatizing either or both the county airport and the county’s Countryside Adult Home, and selling