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Pacesetters set the course for 2013 UW campaign. PAGE 5
By Shaun Kittle shaun@denpubs.com
SAVING THE PLANET
PLATTSBURGH — The cases are real. The people are real. The rulings are real. But this isn’t an ordinary courtroom — it’s Youth Court, a program that gives youthful offenders a second chance. “Youth Court is truly fueled by the youth,” said Susan Taskin, Youth Court’s project coordinator. “We follow these cases from beginning to end.” In Youth Court, offenders age 16 and younger can
City of Plattsburgh plants a tree in memory of man. PAGE 10 NEW LAND TRUST
Youth Court accepts applications from anyone in Clinton County age 13-18. Its members include: Back row: (left to right) Zachery LaForest, Matt Rine, Leagon Carlin and project coordinator Susan Taskin. Front row: Amy DeMane and Hannah Racette. Photo by Shaun Kittle
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Poet from Brazil makes stop in North Country By Stephen Bartlett
Fall festival planned at new land trust.
stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — In Salgado Maranhao’s mind, “madmen laugh in the shadows of the mist.” Rattlesnakes represent the beasts, the people surrounding us in the world the award-winning poet from Brazil shares. And always, “The breath of rhythm’s second chance,” awaits the hands that call it their own. Recently, the poet and visiting Presidential Scholar gave a bilingual reading of his book, “Blood of the Sun,” with Dr. Alexis Levitin of Plattsburgh State. They are traveling to 50 universities over three months to share the work of Maranhao, who is also a songwriter. Maranhao began his life in rural Brazil, a part of the country without a hospital or schools, where the young man would find work picking corn, beans, rice and cotton in a dry region where crops struggled to grow. His white father was descended from a wealthy family whose plantations had once been worked by slaves. Alexis Levitin (left) and Salgado Maranhao at a poetry reading in Plattsburgh.
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