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By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com BEEKMANTOWN — The North Country has a few more families that will stay warmer this winter, thanks to an effort organized by the Beekmantown High School SADD Club. The club hosted a winter clothing drive over the past month which culminated last Sunday with a sale of clothing for $1 a bag. Club advisor Jennifer S. Duf fy said the idea for the sale was born through an annual giving tree she organizes to collect Christmas gifts for underprivileged elementary students and their families within the district. “The high school kids love it,” Duf fy said of the giving tree. “They don’t get
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Dr. Samer Siouffi and his wife, Beth Siouffi, dance their way into the winner’s circle at Dancing with the Plattsburgh Stars, a fundraiser for the Foundation of CVPH and Sunrise Rotary. The Siouffis won both the People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice Awards at the event, which had more than 300 people in attendance and raised several thousand dollars. Photo by Daniel E. Alexander
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Elmore SPCA moves into new, yet familiar location By Jeremiah S. Papineau
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PERU — Elmor e SPCA is home again. The animal shelter , which has been housed on Arthur Road for the past thr ee years, r eturned to its former T elegraph Road location this week, officially opening on Friday. “It’s gr eat to be back,” said Carol Solari-Ruscoe, secr etary of the nonprofit organization’s board of dir ectors. “It was always our plan to r eturn ... it just took us
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three years to do it.” The shelter was r elocated to Arthur Road when the physical conditions of the Telegraph Road began to deteriorate, said SolariRuscoe. “The [old] building was falling apart,” she said. “We had so many issues with sewage, water and a mice infestation. It was just a mess.” The or ganization couldn’t afford the “extensive r epairs” the building would need at the time, said Solari-Ruscoe, so the decision
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Judy Belrose, left, and Bonnie M iller, members of the Elmor e SPCA board of directors, examine the kennels installed in the shelt er’s newly-renovated Telegraph Road location in the t own of Peru. The shelter was moved to Arthur Road nearly four years ago because of a desperate need for renovations.
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