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Local United Way seeks to raise $775,000
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK
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Backwoods Pondfest returns next weekend Music festival returns for fifth year Sept. 9-10
Local band “Lucid” will be among the more than 20 acts performing at this year’s Backwoods Pondfest in Peru. Lucid will play both nights at the two-day festival next weekend. Photo by Andrew Wyatt courtesy of Backwoods Promotions Inc.
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PERU — Backwoods Pondfest is back and better than ever. The annual music festival is marking its fifth year and is doing it by adding more bands to its lineup and adding a second stage to the venue, said Chris Boire, one of the event’s organizers. “We are so excited this year,” said Boir e. “W e say it every year, but we keep upping the band budget and increasing the talent. Ther e is not one band that I want to miss on either stage.” The two-day music festival — Friday, Sept. 9, and Saturday, Sept. 10 at Twins Pond Camp-
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site — will consist of more than 20 bands from across the region and beyond, said Boire. Bands include Dumpstaphunk, Chali 2na, Rubblebucket, Spiritual Rez, Ulu, Kung Fu, Hot Day at the Zoo, Twiddle, Thunder Body, Gordon Stone, Bearquarium, Capital Zen, Ikebe Shakedown, Sophistafunk, T imbre Coup, Tim Herron Corporation, Shameless Strangers, Aqueous, Roadside Mystic, SwitchaRoo, Dynamic Operations and Lucid, which will serve as the event’s host band, playing both nights. “We have such a gr eat lineup fr om start to finish so it should be a good year ,” said Katie Bazzano, one of the fes
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Above: Classes at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and Clinton Community College started up again this week, with students becoming a familiar sight once again in the ‘burgh. Here, SUNY Plattsburgh student Maureen Mott breaks for a picnic with her family during Moving In Day at the college campus last Saturday. She was joined, from left, by her mother Wendy Mott; her father, Tom Mott; and her mother’s boyfriend, C.J. Bowman.
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PLATTSBURGH — The United Way of the Adirondack Region is setting its sights a little higher this year for the nonpr ofit organization’s annual fundraising campaign. Gerald H. Morrow, chairman of this year ’s campaign, said the amount the local United Way hopes to raise this year has increased from $750,000 to $775,000. The incr ease, said Morr ow, is based on the gr owing economic need in the organization’s service area, which spans Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties. “I’m 1 10 per cent confident,” Morrow said of the team being able to meet the new goal. “I have no doubt that the North Country will come through. They always do.” The campaign team — which consists of volunteers fr om throughout the tri-county region — exceeded last year’s goal, proving it can be done and pr oviding the team with the energy it needs to do even more for the 39 partner agencies the local United W ay helps, said Morrow.