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This Week Greenshow Open signups set
Tupper Lake, Placid theaters join forces
LAKE PLACID — Signups for the Greenshow Open will take place Friday, April 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The golf event will be held Saturday, June 1, at the Crowne Plaza Golf Course. All proceeds benefit the Aaron Greene Basketball Scholarship at Lake Placid High School. Entry fee is $65 per person includes greens fees, cart, prizes, free T-shirt, dinner. For more information, call Barb at 637-2030.
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Concert scheduled
LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid High School student, Georgie Rickard will present her Senior Piano Recital at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. The recital is part of Georgie’s Senior Project and is free and open to the public with a reception following in the lower gallery. There will be a donation basket at the door to benefit the Lake Placid Central School District’s music programs. Rickard’s performance will include the Sonate in D Major Hob XVI37 I. Allegro Con Brio, II. Largo e sostenuto ( D minor ), III. Finale. Presto ma non troppo ( D major ) by Haydn, Prelude and Fugue in B minor Book 2, by Bach, Impromptu in EFlat Major Op. 90 No.2, by Schubert and Toccata, by Tauriello. Rickard will be a piano performance major at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam ,in the fall of 2013. She will also be attending the Brevard Music Center’s Piano Institute located in Brevard, N.C., for her second summer. She is the daughter of Buzzy and Anne Rickard of Lake Placid.
Dewey Mountain Recreation Center volunteers Natalie Leduc and Rodger Dempster paint more red in the fundraising thermometer for the campaign to build a new base lodge. Three hundred generous private donors and businesses contributed $84,000 over the winter, thanks in large part to a challenge grant by the Uihlein Foundation of Lake Placid. With other generous offers of in-kind support, Dewey Mountain is now well-positioned to match a state economic development/parks grant, which it will seek this year in hopes of breaking ground in Spring 2014. Dempster built and painted the sign with help from Curtis Lumber in Ray Brook, which donated the wood. Dewey Mountain is a year-round intown recreation center owned by the Town of Harrietstown.
Daffest brings races, pies and more By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
SARANAC LAKE — The annual celebration of daffodils is once again ready to take place in Saranac Lake. Daffest will kick off this weekend, highlighted by the annual Daffest Derby, a competition of soapbox derby cars that runs on the LaPan Highway hill from the site of the overpass to the Harrietstown Town Hall. The derby will take place Saturday, April 27, with racing starting promptly at 11 a.m. There will be four age classes that will take their turns run-
ning down the hill in a race against the opponent and the clock. The event will kick off with a performance by the Lawn Chair Ladies at 10:45 a.m., while there will be a bake sale sponsored by the Petrova Parents Club at the event from 9 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. For regulations and entry, go to daffest.com or contact Bob Bevilacqua at Car Cuzzi Care Center, 891-8109. Events start Friday, April 26, with a walking tour led by Amy Catania, director of Historic Saranac Lake, at 1 p.m., starting at Riverside Park. The
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kickoff for Daffest will take place at Blue Moon at 4 p.m., followed by a wine tasting at Saranac Lake Discount Liquor at 5:30 p.m. The night will conclude with the Try Mine Pastry Contest at the Harrietstown Hall from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Judging for the best local pastry will be done by those in attendance as well as a panel of judges. At the same times, there will be a Daffest Derby reception and soapbox car equipment check at the site. On Saturday, the corner of Main and River Street will be abuzz with several events
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from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., including fair food for sale, fishing clinic, baking demos, wagon rides, face painting, music by the Lemon Drops from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and a pie eating contest from noon until 3 p.m. The Nonna Fina Wine Tasting will take place from 2 until 6 p.m., while there will be a roast pork dinner from 4 until 8 p.m. at the Adult Center. At 7:30 p.m., the North Country Jazz Ensemble will play at Will Rogers, while the Downhill Grill will host CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
keith@denpubs.com LAKE PLACID — Ten community theaters have joined together in an effort to prevent their extinction. The Adirondack North Country Association and local theaters are hosting a kickoff event for the “Go Digital or Go Dark” fundraising campaign Friday, April 26, from 5 to 6:15 p.m. at the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid. Joining the Palace Theatre in the campaign are The Hollywood Theatre in Au Sable Forks; the Indian Lake Theater; Ogdensburg Cinema; a trio of Strand Theatre’s (Old Forge, Schroon Lake and Plattsburgh); The Glen Drive In of Queensbury; Cinematheque in South Glens Falls and the State Theatre in Tupper Lake. The event is free with no RSVP needed. “Our small-town theaters are vital to keeping rural downtowns dynamic,” ANCA Executive Director Kate Fish said. “The campaign is a unique collaboration between 10 North Country theaters working together with the Adirondack North Country Association, the Adirondack Film Society and the state of New York to engage people from across the region to ensure that these theaters remain a special part of our small town quality of life.” Small local movie theaters have been seeking funding streams ever since they received word that they would have to change their theaters to all-digital equipment soon or no longer be able to show movies as the industry moves toward all-digital distribution. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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