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Main Street in Saranac Lake was crowded on Thursday, Aug. 4, as folks made their way to the annual Block Party. A number of vendors, stores and local organizations were also out offering games, food and rides to young and old. For more pictures of the block party, see page 16 or go to the Valley News page on Facebook.

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PLATTSBURGH — A city man has been arrested and arraigned on charges of second-degree mur der and first-degree robbery.

Dustin C. Hill, 21, Plattsburgh, was taken into custody by the Plattsbur gh Police Department Aug. 7

P L AT T S B U R G H — A Plattsburgh man faces a murder char ge after he allegedly r obbed and killed another man, dumping his body near a boat launch.

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WILMINGTON — Members past and pr esent fr om the 10th Mountain Division came together at Whiteface Mountain to remember comrades and heroes Aug. 3.

The annual 10th Mountain Division Memorial Cer emony was held at the base of the ski ar ea, with speakers fr om the curr ent membership of the division and members from its past.

“You honor us with your presence and we appreciate your service to our country,” William Garrison, president of the Northern Chapter of the 10th Mountain Association and veteran of the division when it was created in 1943, said to the Fort Drum soldiers in attendance.

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The magazine is one of the most wellknown r esources for healthcar e executives in the nation.

Rod Boula, hospital CEO, Jane Hooper, director of community r elations, and Br ett Sicola, director of information systems and support, were interviewed by Gienna Shaw, senior technology editor at the magazine, a few months ago.

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Above, Colonel Curt J. Ryan, Brigade Commander of the 10th Sustainment Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, addresses soldiers and veterans during the 10th Mountain Division Memorial Ceremony Aug. 3 at Whiteface Mountain.

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“When I learned that I was coming here, I immersed myself in the division’s history,” Ryan said. “In the spring of 2009, I got a chance to go to Italy and I walked the terrain in peacetime and stood wher e many of you veterans here today stood in a time of war . Our W orld War II veterans have set the standards for our curr ent soldiers to follow her e today.”

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nce up a time the Essex County Fair was held in Elizabethtown, next to Riverside Cemetery.

Hand Avenue was then called Fair Street.

In the 1850s one of the farmers who brought his sheep to the Fair in E-town was none other than John Brown, the famous abolitionist. The Fair outgrew its Riverside location and moved to Westport in 1865. This year is the 163rd for the Essex County Fair, and most E-towners will make the trip to Westport, August 10-14.

Many attractions have changed over the years, but there are still horse-pulling contests, and plenty of farm animals.

Despite the Westport location, Elizabethtown still plays an important roll in the County Fair. Bertha Rand, our Water Street neighbor, is secretary for the Essex County Agricultural Society, and she makes sure everything runs smoothly. 4H’ers Jenny McGinn & Jessie Spaulding will be showing their horseback riding skills in the ring, and Samatha & Cassidy Roy will give riding demonstrations on Ginger.

For 43 years the Elizabethtown Kiwanis have served their famous Bacon Burgers at the Fair. This year they’ve expanded their menu to include, pulled pork sandwiches

made by Joanne Baldwin of the Deer ’s Head, and strawberry shortcake dished out

by Danielle Bikowitz. She will teach her fellow Kiwanians how to serve the strawberry dessert. Next to the Kiwanis booth is Bub’s, where Mike McCarroll will serve customers pizza, calzones, and knots.

The popular Rock n’ Roll Band, E’town Express, with Rob Pulsifer, will perform on Friday night at 7 p.m. Local musician Brent Vosburg will be strumming his guitar along the fairway, so stop by his booth and check out his CDs. The always popular, Egglefield Ford Demolition Derby, will be held on Saturday at noon and 5 p.m.

New this year is the Roll Over Contest on Wednesday at 6:00pm.

Rides are FREE once you pay the $10 admission. Wednesday and Thursday, Senior Citizens (over 60) get a $2 food coupon with each admission. Thursday evening (3 p.m.-9 p.m.) admission is $25 a carload, (everyone seat belted, of course).

If farm animals, wild rides and cotton candy are not for you, the Elizabethtown Kiwanis is holding the annual Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Cobble Hill Golf Course. Call 873-2520 or 873-9208 if you want to play.

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appy Fair Week, everyone. Unfortunately, family obligations are taking me out of town this weekend, but here’s a shout-out to my fellow Dogwood Bread Company employee, Kalika Hopkins, who’ll be entering again this year. Good luck, Kalika!

Those who aren’t at the Derby on Saturday night will most likely be up at the Country Club, where, as I mentioned last week, the Depot Theatre’s 20th Annual Gala Benefit will take place starting at 6 p.m. This is the theater ’s major fundraising event each year, and the money they raise helps them produce all those wonderful shows that bring so many people to our fair town.

Did you know that the first Monday night of each show’s run is Name Your Price night? The creative minds up at the Depot want to make sure the experience they offer is available to all. Remaining Name Your Price nights this season are Aug. 15 for “Wicked City” (a spoof on hard-boiled mysteries), Aug. 29 for “Fully Committed” (a wacky one-man comedy),

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he NCSPCA would like to remind you to mark your calendar and save the date for Saturday, Aug. 27, when we will be having our Antique and Tag Sale at the Whallonsburg Grange to raise money for shelter expenses. The benefit will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

From 9 to 10 a.m., "Early Birds" can be admitted for $20 and get a head start on the shopping. Open admission is free and runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. From 3 to 4 p.m. prices will be reduced for a half-price extravaganza! This is NOT to be confused with a rummage sale; the event will feature furniture, china, glassware, antique kitchen tools, toys, Adirondack-themed items, rugs, photographs, and much, much more!

Coffee, soft drinks, and snacks will be available. It's sure to be an entertaining and enjoyable experience for anyone who loves antiques - or just shopping in general!

Our featured pet this week is Flo, a Domestic-Shorthair mix who is looking for a special place to call home. Pretty Calico Flo is blind; however, she is able to navigate her environment quite well and doesn't let her condition slow her down. She

Workshops for woodland owners scheduled WESTPORT — Many woodlot owners want to be mor e active in gathering logs or firewood from their property. Often there are too few acres or too fewtrees to attract a commercial-scale operation. In other cases, the owner just wants to be more closely involved in the selection, felling and movingof wood.

On Saturday, September 10th join Dr . Peter Smallidge of Cornell University Cooperative Extension for a small-scale woodlot and sugarbush management workshop. This workshop will focus on the skills needed toemain r safe and accomplish the goals. This workshop is sponsored by Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Essex and the local chapter of the New York Forest Owners Association.

The workshop will emphasize three areas: safety, silvicultur e, and technique. Participants will learn how to inspect equipment and tools, utilize safe practices, understand basic silvicultural principles, and make appropriate tree selection choices for multiple ownership objectives.

and Sept. 12 for the world premiere of “The Cabbage Patch” (a romantic comedy that’s a real crowd pleaser).

Another cool part of Depot programming is the Tonight Only series, which features special local talent appearing on selected Wednesdays. This week, on Wednesday Aug. 17 at 8 p.m., Chris Conte, bassist and crooner Chris Conte will perform jazz standards. For information on this or any of the Depot events mentioned above, call 962-4449 or visit depottheatre.org.

A different creative enterprise that brings people to town each summer is the Spirit of Place art exhibit and tour program, centered at the Heritage House, but taking in art studios all around Westport and neighboring communities. Their successful opening in July filled the Heritage House with a big crowd of local artists and art lovers. The art show and silent auction at the Heritage House will close on Aug. 23 at 3 p.m. Get in there and bid on some stunning art while there’s still time.

Congrats to this week’s Heritage House $50 raffle winner, Felix Haskins, and to last week's winner, Lillian Garvey Little.

loves to carry on a conversation and is a real social butterfly. Flo immediately runs to the front of her cage when she hears people coming to offer a big "hello!" She enjoys playing with toys as much as a good cuddle session. Flo needs to live in a home where she would reside indoors at all times. If you are looking for a cat with personality and charm, Flo may be just the friend for you!

Participants will learn how to cr eate a felling plan, observe directional felling techniques and observe and discuss the use of an ATV and arch for moving sawlogs and fir ewood. The course is designed for novice to intermediate woodland owners and anyone interested in learning about sustainable woodland practices. Participants should dress f or t he we ather a nd b e p repared f or walking on moderately rough ground. Hard hats are encouraged.

Registration is limited and r eceiving the $15 per person r egistration fee will r eserve your spot. Please send a check to Cornell Cooperative Extension Essex County, P.O. Box 388, Westport, NY 12993. Registration deadline is Sept. 8.

The workshop will last 4 hours starting at 8:30 a.m. in the town of Crown Point. Registration sign-in will occur 30 minutes befor e the workshop. The workshop will take place regardless of the weather. Please bring a pencil and clipboard; hard hats are encouraged but not required. Property location information will be sent to registrants.

For additional information or to r egister, please contact CCE of Essex County at 9624810 ext 0, or email at Essex@cornell.edu.

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e are not hearing the buzz of lawnmowers around the community, as most of our lawns are turning brown for lack of water. We are hopeful that the rain predictions will give assistance soon. It was another busy weekend with the downtown Essex days busy activities; many people came out to enjoy the outing. This summer we have noticed many bikers travailing through our community, this seems to be a popular route.

This past weekend we had large number of bikers go through with a motorcycle escort to block intersections for them to travel through safely.

Anyone that might be looking for slightly used treasures might want to check out the selection down at the old Ashline Fruit company site on the summer weekends.

They have lots of things to select from at reasonable prices.

A reminder that the Paine Library will be holding their annual used book sale this weekend. The serious buyers might like to attend the Friday, Aug. 12, preview of the books for sale from 5 to 8 p.m. and refresh-

ments are offered. On Saturday, Aug. 13, all books are on sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; come get your supply of winter reading materials.

I have been once again reminded of the strong loyalty that is handed down from Camp PoKo’s campers over the years. The campers have such a wonderful camping experience when attending as a youth; they tend to send their children here years later.

Many of these visiting parents come into our visitor ’s center to share their experiences.

Sad to report there was a fatal accident this past week on Willsboro Mountain, sympathy is extended to the family of Howard Swinehart, and the speedy recovery of his family that was also in the accident. We also extend speedy recovery to Ed Collins as he spent a few days in the hospital, we need you back out on your lawn observing life as it passes by your house.

Happy Birthday to Terry Ball Aug. 17, Vaughn Jaquish Aug. 17, Ashley Alden Aug. 19, Skiler Stafford Aug. 19, Darcy Hale Aug. 19, Bob Huestis Aug. 19,Tim Benway Aug. 21.

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ongratulations to the Village of Keeseville for the steady hard work which earned the village $50,000 in the Pepsi Refresh funding. This money will be applied to the ongoing renovations at the J.C. Park. People interested in helping out with the project should contact Tonia Finnegan. Contact the Village Office for more information. Now I must admit and call on readers to clear something up for me. I have recently seen the Park referred to as “Jay Cee,” “JC” and “J C.” Can anyone tell me which is correct and what is the history of the park? Again, very exciting to see a small community like ours get something of this nature and further exciting that good use will be made of the money.

The Keeseville Free Library opening reception for the local artists exhibition will be Thursday, Aug. 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the show will run in library from Aug. 11 until Sept. 9. The exhibition and sale will include local artists Anne Pember, Gail Kemp, Andrea Knight, Penelope Clute, Gary Bezio, and Jackie Sabrouin among others. The mediums included are oils, acrylics, pen and ink, pencil, pottery, fine

woodworking, textile, and photography.

Last year ’s show was my first to see and was very impressive.

There will be a ceremony at the Evergreen Cemetery coming up this month.

The cemetery has more than 55 Civil War veterans buried there. GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) markers are being placed on the gravesites of these veterans. Greg Furness furnished the first 16. The Keeseville BPOE #2702 and the Keeseville VFW Post 1505 have donated the remaining markers. The Woodsmen of the World have donated American flags to all of our deceased Armed Force Service members as well.

A special short presentation of these markers will be held near the flagpole on Saturday, Aug. 27 at 9 a.m. in the Evergreen Cemetery located at Main St., Keeseville. Hopefully, many people will come to honor those who served and sacrificed for the many freedoms that we are benefited with today. My own thank you to everyone who has taken the time or effort to acknowledge such deserving people.

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Elizabethtown highway super passes at 48 keith@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN — Former Elizabethtown Highway Superintendent Dennis Aubin was remembered as a

ed service to Elizabethtown,” M errihew s aid. “ He was her e thr oughout the time I have been supervisor, and he was elected to the position back when I was an assessor. It is a great loss to the community.”

Merrihew said that the town expressed their condo-

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“Under the terms of the current contract with the union, vacation, personal and sick time will be calculated as time worked,” County Manager Daniel Palmer said. “I have been here for 18 years, and it has always been a part of the contract.”

Palmer emailed Article 41 of the contract to the Valley News, which is in reference to overtime: “Except for those employees at the Horace Nye Home, as defined in Article 16 subsection A., employees (so entitled under the Fair Labor Standards Act) shall receive one and one-half (1 ½) times their normal rate of pay for approved hours in excess of forty (40) hours in any week.”

“The key wor ds are, ‘for approved hours in excess of forty,’” Palmer added. “In other wor ds, if the department head appr oves them to use vacation time, personal time or sick time, then anything in excess of 40 in the week becomes overtime.”

Palmer said that the agreement was put into the contracts to help employees receive fair wages.

“Employees, particularly in DPW in the summer , were r eally for ced to use

their vacation time,” Palmer said. “So in that case, an employee could be forced to take a couple of days vacation, then end up working 12 or 14 hours blacktopping in a town, but without this clause would have been paid straight time.”

According to Palmer, the matter comes down to the negotiated agr eement between the two sides.

“The Fair Labor Standards Act clearly says this is a matter of agreement between us and the Union,” Palmer said.

Palmer added that he could see how some people might take issue with the policy, but that it is part of the employee union contract.

“I don't know if it should be changed, but the r eality is I have an adopted contract that I have to abide by,” he said.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Douglas said that he has not heard a lot of complaint about the provision and, in the case of county employees working as election inspectors, they are only used if needed.

“I do not want to use the county employees out at sites where there are people who ar e lined up and willing to work,” Douglas said.

Douglas added that he was under a similar overtime provision when he was employed through the state correctional program.

“We had the same kind of policy there,” Douglas said.

“If we took time of f at the beginning of the week and then were called in for extra shifts, we would get the overtime.”

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Essex County Board of Supervisors members Gerald Morrow and Thomas Scozzafava, on each side, present Rich Redmond with a plaque honoring his accomplishments working with the county as a member of National Resource Conservation Services. Redmond, from Moriah, is joined by his grandsons, Kade and Logan Gilbo.

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ELIZABETHTOWN — Registration for the Elizabethtown-Lewis fall youth soccer season has begun.

Registration forms are available at both the Elizabethtown and Lewis town halls during normal business hours. All f orms s hould b e completed and r eturned at the first practice. Mor e information r egarding practices will be coming in the near futur e. Please contact Paul Pulsifer at 873-2682 or via Email at youth_commission@ hotmail.com with any questions.

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Elizabethtown Social Center, in conjunction with North Wind Tours, presents a trip to New York City to see the 3D Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes on Nov. 12 and 13.

Call the Social Center at 873-6408 or visit our website, elizabethtownsocialcenter.org, for information.

Register closed after Sunday, August 14 Self-Service Aug. 15-Sept. 1

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School Boar d of Eduction will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. in the confer ence room. Ther e will be a pr esentation regarding the 2 percent tax caps along with appointments and r outine board business. Everyone is welcome.

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of zero.

There were 66 bookings and 55 releases. This is a statistic that is newly kept track of. Each new inmate admitted to the facility requires a computerized booking, fingerprinting, photograph, search and change of clothing. Typically, it takes about one hour to book and process an inmate and about half an hour to release one.

There wer e 45 inmate transports, for a total of 2,976 miles, 427 of which were reimbursed by the U.S.

We appreciate the care given by Dr. Moisan and Dr. Rolland, also the Ambulance Squad. We are very fortunate to have such a hospital in our area and the support given to our family.

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There were 10 arrests.

There wer e 79 uniform tickets issues and two accidents investigated.

There were 23 documents served.

The office handled $106,167 in civil monies, gaining $4,541 in revenue.

There w ere 1 5 i ndividual and 45 gr oup sessions at St. Joseph’s Rehab.

There wer e 12 public health education sessions focused on HIV/AIDS and STDs.

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Essex County Sheriff releases monthly figures LEWIS — The following is a summary of the activities of the Essex County Sheriff ’s Office for the past month. $102,808 in r evenue was generated by the jail, contributing to a year -to-date total of $810,900.

The average inmate count level was 72.4, with a high of 79 and low of 65. The federal inmate count average was 31.1, with a high of 35 and low of 31.

The o ther c ounty i nmate boarder average was 1.8, with a high of five and a low

The family of Stella Morris wants to thank the Elizabethtown Community Hospital and all the staff for the compassionate, professional care they provided for our Mother during her recent hospitalization. Everyone was so cheerful and kind and Mom loved her spacious room.

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Aubin, 48, died on Sunday , July 31, and was r emembered by those who knew him, including Elizabethtown Supervisor Noel Merrihew III. “He gave years of dedicat-

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f you know the person who produced your food on a first-name basis, you’re living the dream.

It’s National Farmers Market Week (Aug. 7-13), a time when the USDA secretary and the Farmers Market Coalition tout the political, economic and social benefits of farmers markets in the U.S. Let them say their piece; we’d rather just eat — maybe a little wood-fired bread from Wadhams smeared with goat’s milk cheese from Au Sable Forks, all washed down with a fruit wine made in Mooers.

From Warrensburg to Wilmington and Plattsburgh to Port Henry, we’re blessed with a variety of local food producers in the Adirondack region, much of it made in the Champlain Valley to the east and the St. Lawrence Valley in the northwest.

For many, a visit to the local farmers market is treated as a quick, weekly chore. In places where the myriad of 10by-10 tents are set up in fields and parking lots and along riverbanks, there’s usually a beehive of activity — locals and visitors looking for good deals, good eats and good company.

But in places like Saranac Lake, where the farmers market is located in the heart of the village at Riverside Park, the traveling band of agrarian gypsies becomes the center of the community activity for five hours every Saturday.

Spend the day, and you’ll see what we mean.

Two weeks ago, we did just that, and we were amazed at what we saw. It was Can-Am Rugby weekend. The village was packed with tourists, cars whizzing by the park on River Street. In the bubble of the farmers market, the traffic was a stone’s throw away, but there was no noise.

With the tents set up in an oval — the band shell at one end and a pair of towering white pine trees at the other — a picnic table in the center, surrounded by

green grass, was the center of town.

Heck, at the time, it was the center of the universe.

As vendors finished setting up, they were the first to make their rounds and buy some fresh produce, cheese and baked goods for breakfast. Then, over the next five hours, it seemed as though most of the community showed up.

A woman sitting in the band shell played folk and blues tunes, laying the perfect soundtrack for a day at the market.

Locals came by for a croissant and a conversation. The newspaper publisher stopped for fresh vegetables while taking her puppy for a walk. A mortgage broker ran across the grass after buying a dozen eggs. Teenagers cradled bunches of flowers in their arms. Artists, musicians, retirees, state workers, not-forprofit employees, small business owners, people from all walks of life were there, as were tourists, seasonal residents and boaters docking at the Lake Flower behind the tents.

This was a snapshot of the community at its finest. Flowers, cheese, produce and baked goods seemed to sell the best.

We guarantee this: The farmers market will make you smile. Grab a fresh sunflower. Eat a cheese and apple danish.

Stick a moose-shaped maple sugar lollipop in your mouth. Stop by one in your community this week, and you’ll see what we mean.

Introduce yourself, find out where the food comes from, and make some new friends.

Learn more about farmers markets in the Adirondack region online at www.adirondackharvest.com.

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A return to our core values

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portunity wer e willing to e need the govwork har d and sacrifice to ernment to make the most of it. They work for everyknew what they wer e workone while providing each of ing toward and were willing us the fr eedoms we value to pay the price to er ach their and opportunity to create goal. Handouts, fr ee rides, the type of life that fits each get-rich-quick schemes, and citizen’s personality. not pulling your own weight Every society has its overwere discouraged by society achievers and underachievas a whole, not celebrated or ers, and sometimes undercondoned as seems to be the Dan Alexander achievers become overcase today.

Thoughts from achievers and vice versa.

Things like work ethics, Behind the Pressline It’s called motivation, and courage, reliability, honesty, it’s what makes our world go around. Without motivation or a strong integrity, loyalty, faith and commitment sense of self drive, what will spur creativ- are values that were ingrained in our nature at one time. Is it any wonder , as we ity and production? strayed f rom t hose v alues, w e f ind o urLike it or not, this country is based on selves in the mess we’ve cr eated today. capitalism. Capitalism r ewards the risk From the time I was a youngster , it was takers and entr epreneurs and is the basis for many of the freedoms we enjoy. We’ve these values passed down fro m my parents always been a very competitive society , but and g randparents t hat w ere f orced u pon with advances in technology and a gr ow- them by the Great Depression. We can only hope these str ong moral values find their ing global economy , mor e countries have way back into our futur e as per haps a adopted a form of our economic system. byproduct of what we ar e about to go Combine that new aggressive competition through. with a less then united ef fort fr om this This country has always been at its best country and the r esults speak for themwhen we’r e all pulling in the same dir ecselves. We’ve lost our collective focus. tion, at the same time. Until we r eturn to At this point in time, given the r ecent the values that made us strong, get everydebt deliberations, downgrading of the one truly pulling in the same direction and country’s cr edit rating by S&P , the political blame game coming out of Washington, fairly sharing the bur den, eliminate the free rides/entitlements and see a return of and the stock market plunging over 600 honesty, integrity and respect, we are despoints as I’m writing this on Monday , I think we can all agr ee, that things ar en’t tined to flounder in blame, self-righteousness, and a widening of the financial diworking well at all. What absolutely does vide that is at the root of our issues today. need to work at this point is finding soluWhile the pr oblems ar e most appar ent tions to reach across the aisle without digright now at the federal level, it will begin ging in our heels. Do we really care who’s quickly to trickle down to the local level as right or wrong, or do we want our leaders to set a course correction to put some con- dollars become scarce and borrowing gets fidence back into our economy? Regard less even more difficult. As a nation, state and individual communities, we must all take of your personal perspective, I think most a more active role in voicing who we send of us would choose the latter. to elected office and how our tax dollars Vilifying the opposition in place of r eare spent. specting their position and seeking comI have no doubt our country will find its mon ground may seem the best course for those on the fringes of our political system, way thr ough this dif ficult period. Let’s hope the lessons we learn and scars we’ll but I’m convinced cooler headed centrists wear will help us build a better futur e for who make up the majority of our country must step forward and prevail if both sides our childr en and grandchildr en, giving them a better grasp on the hope and optican agree to reason fairly and think about mism our parents and grandparents gave what best for the country not what best plays to their corresponding political base. to us that we let slip away.

Dan Alexander is publisher and owner of This nation was built on har d work by Denton Publications. He may be reached at enterprising people — people who only dan@denpubs.com. wanted an opportunity, and with that op-

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A new economic vision for the Adirondacks: One park, one agency

By John F. Sheehan The Adirondack Council

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n designing the Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs) around the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo did what all other governors before him had done. He split the Adirondack Park into several pieces, connecting each of those pieces to a city and region outside of the park’s borders. This is disheartening.

The Adirondack Park is a distinct region with unique economic needs and opportunities.

The Adirondack Park has no cities. It has little in common with Plattsburgh and Watertown (North Country REDC), Utica (Mohawk Valley REDC) or the Albany/Saratoga region (Capital REDC). Strategies that make sense in a city don’t usually translate well in our rural and remote communities.

That is why the Adirondack Council — the park’s largest environmental organization — co-founded the Common Ground Alliance. It is also why the Council collaborated with the Adirondack Community Housing Trust and partially funded the third volume of an outstanding local community-planning effort known as Hamlets III, Planning for Smart Growth & Expansion of Hamlets in the Adirondack Park.

We are also asking for the state to create a

dedicated fund to assist local economic development planning efforts in Adirondack towns.

We also supported the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) plan to seek a single U.S. Census Bureau region for the Adirondack Park. Local, state and federal officials would have a much clearer picture of the park’s economic cycles and demographic changes than we do now. Because the park boundary crosses town and county lines, the census requires interpretation and often leads to disagreement about the results.

Having a single entity keeping track of what works and what doesn’t would eliminate false starts in Adirondack communities facing similar challenges. They don’t get that chance when the park gets paired with outside cities.

We are confident that the Adirondack Park leaders appointed to the three Regional Economic Development Councils will represent the park well. The REDC’s will see that there is merit in focusing on universal high-speed Internet access, renewable and biomass energy, small businesses incentives, nature-based tourism and recreation development in the Adirondacks. We expect they will seek help for “gateway communities” to use the park’s huge amounts of public lands, wild waterways

and public trails as an economic advantage.

Still, those representatives will have to struggle to be heard in a group whose primary focus is on more urban areas outside the Adirondack Park. Plans to create 10 jobs might have the same beneficial impact on an Adirondack town as 100 new jobs in a nearby city. Which project is more likely to get the REDC’s attention?

Long term, it would be better for the Adirondacks — both economically and environmentally — if there was one, statefunded economic development plan developed just for the Adirondack Park. It is our hope that Gov. Cuomo will recognize the Adirondack Park’s uncommon circumstances and develop a new, game-changing approach. There are many logical and financially beneficial changes he can make by rearranging some of his own agencies and refocusing their energies on vital issues.

There is no reason, for example, for the Department of Environmental Conservation to manage the Adirondack Forest Preserve from two regional offices, one of which is not even located inside the park.

This leads to inconsistent policies and confusion about why DEC exercises its discretion differently on the eastern two-thirds of the park’s public lands (Region 5) than it

does in the western one-third (Region 6).

The Adirondack Park Agency is the only state agency whose sole focus is on the park. Yet the agencies that were supposed to be integrated into the APA’s work — DEC, the Department of State and Empire State Development Corporation — don’t do the same. Each should have a full time effort focused on the Adirondack Park, perhaps in the same office complex as the Park Agency. They already occupy seats as agency designees to the APA. Isn’t it time to consider a one-stop-shop approach to achieve a more cost-effective and efficient delivery of state goods and services?

In fact, it makes sense to consider combining the work of all four into a single Adirondack Park Administration. Because the park is larger than most New England states, it should have branch offices spread around the park. This would curb the need for residents to travel long distances to attend public meetings, apply for permits or seek assistance with community-development grants and business loans.

The Park Agency/Administration would finally be able to serve the unique economic needs of the Adirondack Park communities. It would support sustainable, compatible economic development while protecting water quality, wildlife and the park’s wild character.

Development council editorial was premature

Biography would make good movie

To the Valley News: Your editorial regarding the North Country Regional Economic Development Council was on the mark in terms of noting the need for a distinct conversation r egarding the unique economic needs within the Adirondack Park.

However, it was pr emature in that it came ahead of the full story.

The North Country Chamber has been joined with other economic interests in the region in highlighting the findings of the Adirondack Park Regional Assessment and stressing the fact that past state economic development strategies such as Empir e Zones have lar gely been unhelpful in the Adirondacks as they have tended to str ess such things as manufacturing and lar ger job counts. W e have continuously advocated for the development of a strategy tailored to the Adirondack Park, citing a sense of ur gency given some of the tr oubling findings of APRAP in terms of community and economic sustainability in many Adirondack areas.

The governor ’s region-by-region approach finally provides an opportunity to address the different challenges and opportunities in all areas of the North Country , including the Adirondacks, and he is to be applauded for this sea change in how the state will determine and support economic development.

And while the council covers the br oader North Country region for many practical reasons, the first Regional Council meeting on Aug. 5 included two things of er levance to this topic: First, it was explicitly noted that the North Country actually consists of four sub-regions, the Adirondack Park being one. And the final plan must take note of the assets and opportunities in all four ar eas, seeing that all ar e included and then knitted together in a comprehensive strategy.

Secondly, a specific Adirondack Park subgroup is being created and will be headed by Bill Farber , chair of the Hamilton County Board of Supervisors and a recognized leader in advocating for Adirondack inter ests. It is hoped that this group will become a cross-regional gr oup, something specifically encouraged in the governor’s plans, bringing in voices from those portions of the park which are in the Capital and Mohawk Valley regions. This actually cr eates an opportunity for Adirondack needs and issues to be hear d not only through one regional council but three, which could prove advantageous.

And we see thisAdirondack Park sub-group carrying on as a working gr oup well beyond the initial cr eation of a first set of plans later this year, and becoming an on-going vehicle for strategic conversations, recommendations and advocacy.

The council’s working groups and other efforts will be quickly unfolding in the coming weeks, with an extr emely challenging timetable that r equires full completion of a five-year strategy by November that can then be competitive with the submissions from the

live a mundane life. I think that’s part of the reason I love biographies. Reading them, I can get all the action and adventure a nerd needs, from the comfort of the public library.

So I couldn’t help myself when I heard rave reviews of Issac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky. And when I say “rave” I mean worshipful. Famed novelist Graham Greene called the trilogy “among the greatest biographies in Jon Hochschartner the English language.”

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nine other regions. And there will be a number of opportunities announced for input, including an envisioned forum in the centralAdirondacks among other sessions and other means for active exchange.

Onward and upward!

Garry Douglas Co-Chair North Country Regional Council

Water rates should benefit taxpayers, not county To the Valley News: The July 13 (Lewis) Town Board meeting regarding water sales to the county has left many people wondering why this was suggested by the town supervisor to capping the water rate at the 1 million-gallon rate.

For many years, the Lewis water district suffered many water pains from the lack of water to high water tax rates. The district of only 125 households couldn’t afford to fix the system by itself until the state granted the district a grant of $1.6 million to fix the system. Then the public safety building was constructed which has had a very positive outcome of revenue for the water district.

Now, only thr ee years later , the supervisor wants to save the county $8,446 by asking the water district to pass along 800,000 gallons of free water to the county. This is more than what 125 households use in one year based upon an average daily use of 20,000 gallons for 365 days which is 730,000 gallons annually. This money of $8,446 should be used to eliminate the need to charge any water district resident the annual user fees. It could be used to eliminate the debt recently incurred for the most recent water project. The money could be saved for the future of the water district to drill new wells in case this should ever come to happen.

Thank goodness, Councilman Monty pointed out that if Mr. Blades used 1.8 million gallons of water would you be expected to pay the bill. The r esponse was “no.” What I am looking at is just trying to bring something to the table that's going to help the taxpayers of the county. That’s all I’m doing. Why is the supervisor not trying to bring to the table things that will benefit the people her e in the water district. Should the 125 households in Lewis be expected by the supervisor to save the county money? Mr. Blades made it quite clear he was speaking for himself and not for the county on this matter. Nothing like thr owing your own constituents under the bus to save money for

the county. To attempt to destroy a benefit enjoyed by the people in the water district simply undermines the willingness to improve the economic benefits water district r esidents are entitled to after years of suf fering. I, for one, found it appalling to make such a r emark. It may be time to start looking after the town of Lewis.

Anthony J. Glebus Former Town Supervisor Lewis

Golf outing a success To the Valley News: The first annual Br ookie's Pub Golf outing was held Saturday, July 30 at the Port Kent Golf Club and Community located in Port Kent.

Many thanks to all golfers and sponsors who helped make this event such a success.

Special acknowledgement to our sponsors: Reinhart Foods, McCadam's Distributing, Inc. and Keeseville Pharmacy.

Heartfelt thanks to Sean Loughan, Connor Good and Harmony Golf Club for their assistance with putting on this event. Generous donations fr om Plattsbur gh Distributing, McCadam's Distributing Inc., and many other individuals were greatly appreciated.

Proceeds from the event this year went to the Estus family. A fir e r ecently destr oyed their home and personal belongings.

Thanks to all who participated in any way and I look forwar d to seeing everyone again next Year.

Brooke Champine Brookie's Pub Keeseville

Poor taste To the Valley News: A month ago, when I saw the enclosed cartoon (“Ash Hole,” July 2, 201 1) I had a str ong visceral reaction. I set it aside to see if that reaction would mellow with time.A month later it has not. This one r eader thinks you owe every kind in the “Valley” an apology for your lapse in editorial judgement in slipping down and publicly displaying your high school potty humour in a community newspaper.

I’m a r egular and generally enthusiastic reader of each week’s Valley News, but in this case, shame on you.

Jon McBride Essex

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Kudos don’t get much better than that.

I’m now trudging through the approximately 1,500-page account. I don’t want to get bogged down in the politics. Rather, I want to say how surprisingly riveting it is —from a purely literary perspective. It would make a great movie!

It’s 1917. Picture Trotsky in the heady days of the October Revolution, delivering bombastic speeches before crowds. During the subsequent civil war, he criss-crosses Russia in his armored train, leading the Red Army.

After leader Vladimir Lenin dies, he loses the battle of succession to Joseph Stalin. He’s exiled to Mexico, where he romances the artist Frida Kaulo. And, finally, the film ends at his assassination — with an ice ax — by a Stalinist agent.

All in all, his larger-than-life story is made for the big screen. Hollywood should put it into production immediately! But who would play Trotsky?

Daniel Radcliffe of “Harry Potter.” With his round glasses, dark locks and intense stare, he’s a dead-ringer. Plus, as his lightning scar in the wizard films proved, he can convincingly fake a traumatic head injury. No one will doubt his performance when he comes face to face with some lethal climbing equipment.

Jim Cramer, of MSNBC’s Mad Money, would make an excellent Lenin. He’s got the gesticulating rants down pat. And with his facial hair and male-pattern baldness, we’d save a bundle in the makeup department. Throw him a newsboy cap and some lines about proletarian dictatorship and we’re good to go!

Despite having played a sociopathic killer in “No Country for Old Men,” Javier Bardem would have to step up his game to play the purge-loving Stalin. One might say the two don’t have a physical resemblance, and that’s true. But squint a little bit, imagine a walrus mustache on Bardem’s face and, voila: a murderous dictator! Only Super Mario, of countless Nintendo games, has an equal claim to the style. Besides, we need a real actor to round out these jokers.

So, Hollywood producers, why don’t you return my phone calls? I’ve got a movie to pitch you.

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Willsboro to hold special meeting Aug. 15, several items discussed

By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com WILLSBORO — It was just one of those Mondays.

Willsboro Supervisor Ed Hatch said that the town r eceived information on a number of issues the morning befor e its r egularly scheduled T own Boar d meeting Aug. 8, leaving little time to talk about the issues.

Therefore, Hatch called for a special board meeting to be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 15, to dis-

cuss the topics of funding for tennis court repairs, a potential truck purchase, union contract and bids for the work needed on the Heritage Center roof.

“Everything came in during the day today,” Hatch explained to the board. “I want to give everyone time to look over these things so we can better discuss wher e we want to go on each.”

Town Highway Superintendent Pete Jacques briefed the boar d on the situation with one of the towns trucks, a 2000 International.

“We put thousands of dollars

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into it to fix it up after the boar d tabled the resolution to buy a new one,” Jacques said. “Recently , we got wor d that the tr uck had a cracked frame. Legally , I don’t think you can use it.”

Jacques said that if the tr uck was out of commission, the town would either have to purchase a new truck or renting one from the county for $85 an hour , if a tr uck is available.

“I think that we should have the people at International look at it and tell us what they think,” Hatch said. “We can get another

opinion from them and if they give us the opinion that we have to r eplace it, then this would be classified under an emergency expenditure.”

The Town Boar d also appr oved a r esolution during the Aug. 8 meeting to pay $3,500 to Ronni Travers for work to update the current employee handbook. They also announced that they wer e looking for an alternate member for the Planning Board.

During the public comment period, Linda Therrien of the W illsboro Farmer ’s Market said that

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p.m. with silent auction at 6:30 p.m. Other performances ar e Aug. 12 and Aug. 18 at 7 p.m.; Aug. 19 and Aug. 20 at 8 p.m.; and Aug. 21 at 2 p.m. The Westport Marina/Galley Restaurant is corporate sponsor for the summer season. T ickets are $8 pre-paid; $10 r eservations/at the door .

Call 526-4520 or email tickets@ essextheatre.org. Also, Anne Marie Holzhauer is playing the role of Bella, not Belle.

ESSEX — Martha Loving Orgain will host a Lazur e Painting W orkshop on Satur day, Aug. 13, fr om 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm in Essex.

Martha is an artist, astr ologer, educator , and collot painting therapist having r eceived her training in the Netherlands. The workshop will cover lazure technique, color theory and practice, and participants will apply their new skills to a pr oject at the school. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the knowledge and skills to go home and do some lazuring of their own.

The fee for the one-day workshop is $75 per person, or $95 per person if you wish to purchase the br ush. Please bring your own lunch and snacks.

For mor e information, please call Robin Gucker at 569-4675. RSVP to Jo Arsenault at 963-7385.

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there would be an outdoor event coming up with Adirondack Farmer ’s Market Co-op dir ector Jane Desotelle.

“We will be going through some woodland areas and showing people what is edible and what isn’t in natur e,” Therrien said. “W e know that there are people who are interested in doing this. It’s nice to know what is in the woods and what you can and can’t eat.”

Therrien said that the event will take place in the next two weeks, and that those inter ested can call her at 963-4383 for information.

until 3 p.m. will be the fr ee general admission time, while 3 to 5 p.m. all items will be part of the half-price extravaganza.

Essex concerts continue

ESSEX — On Wednesday, Aug. 24, Essex Community Concerts will welcome Daniel Linder, an awar d winning pianist, to perform his interpr etation of classical masterpieces on the piano.

It is a return visit for Linder, who gave an excellent performance in 2009. Linder is a graduate of W estport High School who is now studying piano performance at Northwestern University. The performance opens at 7:30 p.m. at the Essex Community Churc h in Essex. Admission: $10 for adults; free for children.

For further information, please contact J. Van Hoven at 963 4084 On Thursday, Aug. 25, the Yale "WhiffAlums" will perform at the Mid Day Concert at 11:30 a.m. sponsor ed by Essex Community Concerts at the Essex Community Church. The "WhiffAlums" all performed in WHALLONSBURG — There will be a Anthe Yale University "Whiffenpoofs," a group tique and T ag Sale at the Whallonsbur g of outstanding student vocalists who comGrange to benefit the North Country SPCA bine l evity a nd t radition a nd h ave e nteron Saturday, Aug. 27, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. tained audiences for mor e than a century .

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Name Your Price Nights continue

The Depot Theatr e will continue to of fer its “Name Your Price Night,” pr ogram during the 2011 season.

Name Your Price Night is the first Monday of each production at the Depot Theatre , and patr ons ar e encouraged to name whatever price they feel is appr opriate to see the show “The Depot Theatr e is a

n o n p ro f i t , a n d w e ’ r e s u p p o r t e d b y a l o t o f d i f f e re n t s o u rc e s , ” C h r i s C a s q u i l h o , Managing Director of the Depot Theatre, said. “The Town of Westport owns our building, and we get a lot of inkind and discounted services from businesses. Our feeling is that if you can see the building, you should be able to enjoy what goes on there – so we want everyone to have a chance to come, and not have to decide between seeing live theatre and paying a bill or filling up their car.”

N a m e Yo u r P r i c e N i g h t started at the Depot in 2008, and has been underwritten

by Stewarts Shops, National Grid, W eichert R e a l t o r s / Ve n t u re N o r t h , High Peaks Carpentry , Rose and Kiernan Insurance, and other local and regional businesses. Name Yo u r P r i c e Nights for upcoming productions at the Depot ar e: August 15th for “W icked City” (a musical spoof on detective movies), August 29th for “Fully Committed” (an outrageous one-man comedy), and September 12th for the World Premier of the romantic mystery “The Cabbage Patch.”

All Name Yo u r P r i c e Nights are Mondays at 8 p.m.

Name Your Price tickets must be pur chased in person, ar e n o n - re f u n d a b l e , a n d e a c h person is limited to four tickets. For mor e information, call the Depot Theatr e box office at 962-4449.

A collection of fair memorabilia is on display throughout the rest of the Essex County Fair in Westport. The display was set up by the family of the late Irwin “Duffer” Borden, to whom the fair was dedicated to last year. Borden has a large collection of fair replicas, memorabilia and other items, only a portion of which are on display Aug. 10 through Aug. 14 in Floral Hall on the fairgrounds. Check out pictures and daily video blogs from the Essex County Fair at denpubs.com or on the Valley News Facebook page.

Photo by Keith Lobdell performance, Penelope the Clown, the Big Squirt, and fabulous bake WHALLONSBURG — The comsale. munities of the Champlain Valley are Admission is only $6 for adults and invited to a blockbuster celebration half-price for kids and includes at the second Annual Grange Block Whallonsburgers, corn and other deParty, starting at 2 p.m. on Sunday , licious local food. Pr oceeds benefit Aug. 21. the Get In on the Ground Floor CamThe event features food, entertain- paign, raising funds to r enovate the ment, kids games and fun for all ages. kitchen, bathrooms, and ground floor Music by Staber and Chasnof f, the meeting space at the Grange.

Green Beans, the Wannabes and othThe Whallonsbur g Grange Hall is er local gr oups plus a belly-dancing at the corner of Route 22 and Whal-

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lons Bay Road, 5 miles south of the village of Essex. Go to www .thegrangehall.org for info or call 9624386.

Turkey dinner in Westport WESTPORT — There will be a ro ast turkey dinner, Thursday, Aug. 18, at the W estport Federated Chur ch.

Serving starts 4:30 p.m. with takeouts available. The cost is $9 adults, $4 for children 12 and under.

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W E S T P O RT — T h e D e p o t Theatre, a nonpr ofit pr ofessional theatr e in its thirtythird season, will pr esent an evening of jazz standar ds performed by singer and bassist, Chris Conte, on We d n e s d a y , A u g . 1 7 , a t 8 p.m.

Conte has played bass and sung back-up vocals in two re c e n t D e p o t p r o d u c t i o n s : “Always, Patsy Cline” and “Riffin’ and Tappin’.”

Ti c k e t s a r e $ 1 2 , a n d a r e available online at depottheatre.org, by calling 962-4449, or at the door. Seating is limited, and reservations are encouraged. Chris Conte appears as part of the Depot Theatre’s “Tonight Only” series featuring local and r egional performers, musicians and storytellers on select Wednesdays thr oughout the summer . T o learn mor e about the T onight Only series, visit depottheatre.org/tonightonly.

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Local woman recalls life under Hitler and Stalin Germany, Europe Sapp will tell her story Aug. 13 at Underground Railroad Museum

By Jon Hochschartner jonh@denpubs.com

KEESEVILLE — Ingeborg Sapp, 78, has lived through the defining ideological battles of the twentieth century. And she’s going to tell her story on Aug. 13 at the North Star Underground Railroad Museum.

Sapp was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1932

as the Nazis rose to power. She doesn’t hide the fact that as she grew up she was swept into the reactionary wave.

“I couldn’t wait until I could join the Hitler Youth,” she said, adding that she did so around the age of 10. “I was absolutely enthralled by it.”

To be fair, everyone had to join the organization. But her enthusiasm was such that her father had to be careful around Sapp, for fear that she would report him. Her father never joined the Nazi party.

During the years of World War II, her father would follow the conflict on a lar ge map fixed to the wall. As it went on, Sapp remembers how

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the fronts came increasingly close to home.

In 1944, when she was 12, Leizpig suffered heavy bombing.

Every night, her family was forced to hide in their cellar. Her house was eventually str uck and partially destroyed — while she and her r elatives were inside. Their neighbors had to break down a wall to dig them out of the wreckage.

“It was a very scary time,” she said.

It was also a time of great scarcity. Both she and her father developed boils. A physician would tell them it was a result of malnutrition.

“There was a lot of this going on,”Sapp said.

“People were hollow-eyed.”

She still clung to the idea of a German resurgence. She tr uly believed Hitler had the wunderwaffe, or wonder weapons, that Nazi pr opaganda boasted were waiting in the wings.

But early in 1945, the residents of Leipzig began to hear the gunfir e of the fr ont, and knew that the Allied forces were close. American troops soon took Sapp’s town, bringing food with them.

“They gave us yellow cornmeal, which we had never seen before,” Sapp said.

The local Germans supplemented their diet with wild weeds and whatever else could be scrounged. The collapseof the Nazi state left her despondent.

“I was terribly disappointed,” Sapp said. “W e all were. But with our hungry bodies we didn’t have much time to think about politics. We just wanted the bombing to stop.”

In the summer of 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, Germany was split in two. W est Germany was handed over to France, Britain and the United States. While East Germany was given to the Soviet Union.

Suddenly, Sapp was living in a Stalinist satellite state. She r emembers, with a bitter laugh,

Russian soldiers parading about with armfuls of watches taken from the Germans.

Everyone she knew had a small garden patch that they relied on to survive. Black market dealings ran rampant.

Yet there was some, small, silver lining. When she was 16 or 17, in the late 1940s, she was able to join a r owing club. Under the pr evious regime, only the wealthy had this privilege. Her team grew increasingly competitive and was invited to West Berlin. There they saw a world outside the Iron Curtain.

“We saw for the first time what life could be like,” she said.

Soon, she’d leave East Germany for good. At 18, Sapp decided to cross into the west illegally.

A man br ought her and another woman to a cleared ar ea wher e he knew when the guar ds changed shifts.

“I could have been shot,” Sapp said. “The man took us to the bor der, pointed his finger , and said, ‘run.’”

And that’s what she did. Making it safely into West Germany, she settled in Frankfurt, wher e she had friends. She quickly found a job, and lived there for about 10 years.

In 1959 she met her husband, a scientist visiting from the United States. They left for North America and married the next year.

Surrounded by a for eign language, she suffered from culture shock. But as she and her husband embarked on a six week tour of his country, to see Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, she was impressed by the U.S.’s “vastness and beauty.”

Similarly, she admired America’s freedom of speech. But Sapp said she was shocked the government did not provide healthcare, something all three German governments she’d lived under did “from cradle to grave.”

Some 50 years later, Sapp lives in Plattsburgh and has a summer home in u Tpper Lake. She has two sons and five grandchildren. She still rows.

“I’m enjoying my life,” she said. “I’m trying to make everyday count at my age.”

Sapp will give a presentation about her life at 5 p.m. on Aug. 13 at the North Star Underground Railr oad Museum, 1 131 Mace Chasm Road, Keeseville. For mor e information, call 834-5180.

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Jay seeks donations for school, pantry drives

By Keith Lobdell

“The need was quite alarming when we first started this,” Douglas said. keith@denpubs.com “We have had a lot of items supplied, and we have even received cash donaAu SABLE FORKS — For the fourth year, the town of Jay is asking the com- tions which we go out and buy mor e supplies with.” munity to come together to help stuDouglas said that the drive is totaldents ha ve t he e dge t hey n eed w hen ly funded by donations, with no town they go back to school.

The Back to School Supply Drive will money used.

The town is looking for a number of run through Sept. 1, according to town school supplies, including backpacks, Supervisor Randall “Randy” Douglas. packages of #2 pencils, crayons, glue “It has been an overwhelming sucsticks, Elmer's glue, child safety sciscess,” Douglas said about the drive.

“We have quite a few people who have sors, regular scissors, colored markers, colored pencils, index car ds, r ulers, been donating to the drive. This has worked very well and we coor dinate pocket folders, loose leaf paper , composition notebooks, college ruled notewith AuSable V alley Central School books and Kleenex. and Holy Names.”

Anyone wishing to donate supDouglas said that the drive has continued because of the need for the sup- plies or a cash donation can do so at the T own of Jay Community Center plies each year.

until Sept. 1.

To register a student or child to r eceive school supplies for the 201 1 /2012 school year, please contact Douglas at 647-2204.

Jay pantry seeks donations The Food Pantry located at the Community Center in Au Sable Forks is reaching out for donations. Some items that would be of gr eat use ar e: pasta, spaghetti sauce, noodles, tuna, rice, soups, oatmeal and cer eal and juice.

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Chesterfield touts success at museum keith@denpubs.com CHESTERFIELD — The North Star Under ground Railroad Museum is now open seven days a week.

Town of Chesterfield Supervisor Gerald Morr ow told boar d members at the Aug. 2 r egular meeting that due to the interest in the new museum, the or ganization running it has decided to no longer be closed on Mondays, now welcoming tourists daily.

“There have been so many people at the door on Mondays asking about the museum, they ar e now open seven days a week,” Morr ow said.

The museum was cr eated jointly w ith the help of the town, Ausable Chasm and the North Country Underground Railroad Society.

Morrow said that under an agreement between the town and the historical society, the town receives half of the donations made to the museum

Murder Continued from page 1 only hours after the body of 32-year-old Jason Larabie, Plattsburgh, was found next to a parked vehicle near a public boat launch shortly before 6 a.m.

According to a pr ess r elease fr om the department, officers responded to a 9-1-1 call of an unresponsive male at the boat launch of f Cumberland Avenue at appr oximately 5:44 a.m. The r eport states Hill allegedly met Larabie in the area of the foot bridge which cr osses the mouth of the Saranac River .

The two then walked over to the victim’s vehicle wher e it is alleged Hill struck Larabie before robbing him. “[Larabie] was mur dered and then r obbed,” s aid Police Chief Desmond Racicot.

“The defendant had his arm around [Larabie’s] neck and choked him until he was dead.”

Hill allegedly stole money from Larabie’s wallet and then threw the wallet and its contents into the Saranac River before he fled on foot.

On Monday afternoon, Racicot said other details of the incident are not being released as the investigation is ongoing.

“We’re not commenting on what the motive might have been,” Racicot said. “The in-

for help to finance and maintain it.

“There is no set admission, so it r uns on donations,” Morrow said. “W e r ecently got the check for July 1 through July 31, and it came in at just over $1,300. The idea with this was to be able to r un this center without costing the taxpayers money other than the funding fr om The North Star Underground Railroad Museum in Keeseville has had a the state grants, which very successful opening season, expanding its hours and planning for would have gone to another Photo by Keith Lobdell town if they had not come to the winter season. us.” for the summer.” of wells that ar e located at Morrow also said that the Morrow said that, accord- the museum are too contamtown is working with Ausing to Ausable Chasm, a pair inated to be used. able Chasm, which has been providing water and sewer services along with general Authorize maintenance over the sumOPEN RS HEAP De d U O H aler 4 2 mer, to pr ovide water and A Division Of Countryside Management Corp. sewer to the museum for the (800) 411 - F UEL or (518) 873-329 7 Farm Diesel • F uel Oil • K erosene winter months. call for current prices or visit our web site!

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Larabie was known locally as a employee at the Grand Union stores in Peru and Au Sable Forks, as well as working as a substitute teacher in the AuSable Valley Central School District.

District Attorney Andr ew J. W ylie said Hill was arraigned in Plattsbur gh City Court late last Sunday night before acting justice Mark Rogers. The case was adjourned until Aug. 10.

“It’s my understanding Judge Rogers appointed Bill Meconi as assigned counsel,” said W ylie in an interview Monday afternoon. “[Hill] was r emanded to jail without bail.”

Wylie s aid a n a utopsy o f Larabie was performed by Dr. Michael Sikirica, a chief medical examiner fr om Rensselaer County. The pr eliminary r esults showed Larabie’s death was caused by asphyxiation due to strangulation.

(Editor’s Note: Denton Publications went the press prior to Hill’s W ednesday appearance in city court. Details of his appearance and other information from the case will be posted on our website, www.denpubs.com, as they become available.)

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Such is the case with the Port Kent Water District project in the town of Chesterfield, a ccording to supervisor Gerald Morrow.

“The pr oject is on Work continues on the Port Kent Water District plant. The district work should schedule,” Morr ow be completed on time, according to Chesterfield town officials. told members of the Photo by Keith Lobdell Chesterfield town board at its r egular meeting all the lines looped so ther e the water district project for are no dead ends and the waSteven E. Fuller Excavation Aug. 2. “This is an $8.1 milout of Keeseville. lion project, and it looks like ter pr essure is good throughout. AES is working “I am sur e that you all we ar e going to have about with us on the cost for the heard about the tragedy we $300,000 left over.” pipe and to see if we can get had down ther e,” Morr ow Morrow said that he is this done.” said when discussion on the hopeful that the left-over Morrow also briefly project began. “It’s a shame funds will be used to work touched on the July 18 acci- - terrible.” on impr oving the water Morrow said that work pressure quality in some ar- dent that claimed the life of was halted on the site for a eas of the district by looping 46-year-old Michael B. Loyer of South Burlington, Vt., week while investigators lines that curr ently have who was killed when he was from the Occupational Safedead ends. pinned down by an auger ty and Health Administra“I w ould l ike t o s ee t hat while working for T rench- tion and State Police looked money used in Port Kent to less T echnologies of New into the accident. improve the system,” MorEngland, a subcontractor on row said. “We want to have

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www.thevalleynews.org Left, Entries submitted to the Horticulture division in "the Adirondack Palette", a show organized by the Essex County Adirondack Garden Club. The show held at Heaven Hill Farm in Lake Placid.

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Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau joined Mt. Pisgah Manager Charlie Martin at the village-owned ski hill Wednesday morning as a massive tractor trailer rolled into the parking lot below the base lodge.

The semi was weighed down with tons of steel that will soon become towers for the mountain’s new ski lift.

“The steel for the towers is on this shipment,” Martin said. “The electr onics, the motor, and all of the active devices all goes through customs because that’s designed and built in Austria.

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The new lift should be up

He added that Scheefer ’s Adirondack Builders is building the race building free of cost.

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The lift costs about $374,000 – the electr onics cost an additional $89,000 and a new race building at the hill’s base is valued at approximately $70,000.

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Saturday, Aug. 20, the artists will be fr ee to choose their own painting locations.

Sunday, Aug. 21, is the Show and Sale in the Harrietstown Town Hall from noon to 4 p.m. Artists may each submit thr ee framed works, completed during the Plein Air Festival, for the exhibit. Ther e is no admission fee and most of the pieces exhibited will be for sale. Maryland painter Stewart White, who was the 2009 Grand Prize winner of the Plein Air Easton event, will be our jur or of awards.

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SARANAC LAKE — The Adir ondack Plein Air Festival will take place in Saranac Lake Aug. 18 through 21.

Artists fr om all over the northeast will converge on the ar ea for three days of outdoor painting. Spectators are encouraged and invited to come out and watch the artists at work - taking a blank canvas or paper and turning it into art.

Unlike artists who work in their studios, who might take days, weeks, or months to complete a work - plein air artists work hard to render their work of art as rapidly as possible, often completing it in one sitting. Their skills lie in selecting good, interesting subject matter and using their chosen medium quickly and effectively.

Thursday, Aug. 18, will be the “Paint the Town,” event. All the artists will be painting within the village of Saranac Lake. Each will be asked to cr eate and donate one small piece for a Silent Auction, which will be set up in the Adirondack Artists’ Guild Gallery at 4 p.m. The auction will conclude Sunday at 3 p.m.

On Friday, Aug. 19, the artists will be out at the Paul Smiths College VIC to paint for the day. The hiking trails at the VIC of fer a wide variety of subject matter: babbling brooks, marshland, bogs, massive white pine trees, forested trails, the butterfly garden, and views of St. Regis Mountain. There are many gr eat painting ar eas just minutes from the parking lot. Spectators are encouraged to come out and both enjoy the trails and to watch the artists at work. Some com-

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World Championships for bobsled, skeleton coming LAKE PLACID — The combined bobsled/luge/skeleton track at Mt. V an Hoevenberg in Lake Placid will host to the 2012 FIBT World Championships, Feb. 13-26.

“We’re excited to have these athletes and the world championships back in Lake Placid,” New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) chairman Pat Barr ett said. “This race is not only a crowning achievement for the athletes, but also one for the track, staff and region, as we continue to showcase this facility as one of the best in the world, one that these athletes want to compete on year after year.”

In 1949, Lake Placid became the first village outside of Europe to host a world championship event. Since then, the two-time Olympic village has staged eight world championship races, most r ecently in 2009, when Steve Holcomb (Park City, Utah) piloted his four-man sled to victory, claiming the United States’ first four -man cr own since 1959.

This winter’s world championship is coming to Lake Placid one year sooner than expected. Lake Placid was originally awarded the 2013 Worlds, during the 2009 FIBT Congress, but switched races with St. Moritz, Switzerland, which was scheduled to host the 2012 event.

“The change was made because of team travel to Sochi, Russia for international training in 2013,” ORDApresident/CEO Ted

Blazer said. “The FIBT felt that it would be easier for teams to travel to Sochi for Olympic training fr om St. Moritz, rather than Lake Placid.”

The Mt. Van Hoevenberg track will begin gearing up for this race and the winter season when it opens for sliding, weather permitting, Monday, Oct. 10. Last season the track was open fr om Oct. 15, 2010 to April 10, setting the mark for the longest season in the world. There were also more than 27,000 athlete trips down the track.

Training for the FIBT W orld Championships begins on Tuesday, Feb. 14. Racing begins Friday, Feb. 17, with the first two of four runs of the women’s bobsled race. Runs three and four ar e slated for Satur day, Feb. 18, along with t he first two uns r of the men’s two-man bobsled race. The two man race concluded Sunday, Feb. 19, with heats three and four.

The men’s and women’s skeleton events are slated for Thursday and Friday , Feb. 23 and 24, while the four -man race highlights Saturday and Sunday’s, Feb. 25 and 26, race schedules. Runs one and two are slated for Saturday and the final two r uns ar e scheduled for Sunday.

For mor e information on the 2012 FIBT World Championships, log onto www.fibt.com. For mor e information on ORDA’s Olympic venues and events, visit www.whitefacelakeplacid.com.

On Aug. 2, the Willsboro Ladies’ Golf Association hosted its 49th annual Invitational Tournament. Teams from Moriah, High Peaks, Westport, The Barracks, and Ausable Golf Clubs joined members of the Willsboro Ladies’ League. Arlene Davis of the WGC chaired the event with Mona Cross, Jane Jaquish, and Mary Ellen Wukovits serving on the executive committee.

The first place team consisted of Mona Cross, Graclee Gratto, Bev Hickey, and Jana Atwell.

Second place were Sue Baker, Stephanie Snow, and Joan Gibbs.

Third place honors went to Yvonne Minard, Maureen Ecclesine, Etta Moredock, and Donna Changelo.

Renee Lewis won closest to the pin on the second hole, Anne Porter closest to the line on the fourth fairway, and Rebecca Palmer longest drive on the sixth hole.

Roy wins second straight, gains Airborne modified point lead SOUTH PLA TTSBURGH — Martin Roy swooped ar ound leaders Gr eg Atkins and Leon Gonyo with nine laps to go and went on to his second straight DIR Tcar Modified win on Della Auto Group Night at Airborne Speedway Aug. 6.

The 30-lap main event was a br uiser that took nine cautions to complete. Clean restarts wer e the issue. The race was r edflagged after three laps when Matt Woodruff got up on the wheel of Cam Grady’s machine and slammed into the turn four wall.

Woodruff was not seriously injured.

Roy started 15th in a 28-car field, gained some spots early by attrition, and then passed a trio of cars on the backstr etch as they were navigating a back marker to move into eighth on Lap 10. At that point, the top5 running order was Atkins, Gonyo, Jimmy Ryan, Mike Reyell and Craig Reyell.

George Foley got up to second with a late charge in the outside lane.A final caution on Lap 26 gave him a shot at the win, but Roy pulled away at the dr op of the gr een and won by thr ee car-lengths. Atkins held of f a late charge from Vince Quenneville to claim fourth. Positions 6-10 went to Mike Phinney, Andy Heywood, Jimmy Ryan, Pierre Berthiaume and Chris Cayea.

On Lap 21, Gonyo was sizing upAtkins for a possible pass for the lead, when Roy moved farther outside to pass them both. “It was a crazy race,” he said. “I tried to wait for a while for the trouble to stop. ” The former track champion had spent the

afternoon qualifying for a NASCAR Canadian Tire event at T rois Rivier es. “It was important for me to get back to Airborne tonight and try to keep racing for the championship. Thanks to all the fans who come out and support the track. ” Defending Ernie's Discount T ools Modified champion Patrick Dupr ee began the night as the point leader , but he suf fered electrical problems in his heat race and started at the r ear of the field in a back-up car that was soon sidelined with a br oken panhard bar.

Roy now leads Dupree 460-448 with three point races remaining. Foley is in third place another 14 points back.

Robin Wood, Jamy Begor and Bucko Branham finished nose to tail in the J&S Steel Sportsman feature. Wood took the lead on a Lap-10 r estart and dr ove to his sixth win.

Nick Heywood and Dave Rabtoy finished 45. Earlier, Begor won the six-lap $250-to-win Sportsman “Dash for Cash.”

Point leader Kevin Boutin of Fairfax, VT held off Robbie Favreau to win the Renegade feature. The pair traded the lead several times while r unning door to door - Boutin inside, Favreau outside. Lance Rabtoy was a close thir d. Josh Allen and Robert Gor don were next in line. The Renegade “Dash for Cash” was won by Josh T erry of Morrisonville.

Erick Sayles of Lake Placid took the Mini Modified checkers with Kris Clark of Keeseville a car-length away.

Marvin, Ed Marvin, Mike Dunsmor e, Connor Marvin; Ike Tyler, John Stahl, Dave Kirkby, Lee Nichols SCHENECTADY — Jacqueline Hoey of Net Division — 1, Ken Alterie, Eric, McAu Sable Forks shot her personal best 77 in Cauliffe, Brandon Jaquish, Roger Jaquish; 2, the 14th Annual Schenectady Gazette CapiMary Bryant, Marie Bryant, Terry Lydamore, tal District Junior N.I.E. Golf Championship, Shawn Lydamore; 3, Kaitlin Egglefield, Dan held Aug. 5 at Schenectady Municipal Golf Egglefield, Roy Gibbs, Geor ge Goodman; Course in Schenectady. Hoey finished third Donese Java, Jason Java, Sarah Java, Bill Java with r ounds of 37 and 40, 3 str okes behind Men’s Longest Drive — Steve Duso Bailey Cocca of Latham who won with a 74 Women’s Longest Drive — Colleen Belzer and Grace Ziamandanis of the Slingerlands Closest to the pin — Jason Java. who shot a 76.

Hoey finishes third at tourney

Golf winners named PORT HENRY — The Mountain Lake Services Foundation held its 10th annual Helen F . McDonald Memorial Golf Classic, sponsored by Glens Falls National Bank and Mineville Oil Company, recently at the Westport Country Club.

Winners for the 201 1 Helen F . McDonald Memorial Golf Classic were: Gross Division — 1, Pete Gilbo, Brian Cross, Nick Anderson, Stan Gilbo; 2, Smitty

Campbell Tourney winners named WILLSBORO — On July 7, the W illsboro Golf Club hosted the Ellie Campbell Golf Tournament to benefit the Paine Memorial Library in Willsboro.

The event is named for the late Ellie Campbell, who, as a member of the Golf Club, began the tournament many years ago.

Campbell and her husband Dwight, who was the pro at WGC, spent many years during the summer season at Willsboro.

The first annual Brookie's Pub Golf outing took place on Saturday, July 30, at the Harmony Golf Club in Port Kent. The scramble format was won by the team of, pictured from left, Clayton Barber, Jr., Kevin dennis, Gary Dennis and Isaac Robinson. Second place went to Mike Snow, Kurt Provost, Rick Thomas, and Randy Yelle. Special contest winners were, Fred Hoffman, Dana Harnish and Betsy Moore. Winners of the skins contest were the team of Willie and Debbie LaDuke along with Phil and Betsy Moore; the team of Mike Snow, Kurt Provost, Rick Thomas and Randy Yelle; and the team of Jay Champine, Brooke Champine, Pat Bordeau and Dick Thomas.

Keene softball player Olivia Jaques of Lake Placid (left, with teammates Mia Murphy and Nicole Piazza) played summer travel softball with the West Albany Lady Wraith, which just returned from the Asssa World Series in Salisbury, Mary. They did not win any games, but it was an opportunity not many kids get. There were only five teams from New York State in the event.

Many local merchants donated prizes for the event. Ann Choate served as chair with assistant from many friends and supporters of the library. Lynn Gepper and Gert Grady provided refreshments for the participants.

In the W omen’s division, the first place team was won by Renee Lewis, Alice LeClerc, Maureen Perry and Etta More dock.

Second place winners wer e Mona Cr oss, Arlene Davis, Jane Jaquish, and Kristin Morgenstern.

In the mixed division first place was won by the S. Chzmyine, Darwich, Bezio team.

The team of M. Drily, A. Kobek, and M. Taptole placed second.

The winners of the men’s division wer e the team of T. Smith, Ron Bruno and Roger Jaquish. The G. and B. Kings won second place honors. Thir d place went to Mike, Eric, and Pat McCauliffe and B. Jaquish.

Special Awards were won by: Rick Cross and Claire Stilwell for closest to the line; longest drive was r ecorded by Kristin Mor genstern and Eric Arnold. Eric Arnold won closest to the pin as did Etta Moredock.

MVAC names scholar athletes

WILLSBORO — The Mountain and Valley Athletic Confer ence announced its spring sports scholar athletes. They are as follows: Chazy - Senior Ricky Osier and senior Emily LaPierre Elizabethtown-Lewis - Junior Br ock Marvin and sophomore Cheyenne Sousie Johnsburg - Senior T ravis Plansker and junior Ashlee Hitchcock Keene - Senior Emma Gothner Minerva - sophomore Austin Williams and junior Tara Galusha Newcomb - Junior Mor gan W inslow and junior Marlena Peter Schroon Lake - Junior Matt Savarie and senior Ashley Subra Westport - Senior Kevin Russell and senior Molly Rascoe Willsboro - Junior Eric Manning and junior Hannah Bruno

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Obituaries/Death Notices Dennis Lee Aubin, 48 Aug. 16, 1962 - July 31, 2011 LEWIS/ELIZABETHTOWN — Dennis Aubin, 48, of Johnson Lane in Lewis passed away peacefully among family and friends at his home on July 31, 2011. He was born in Elizabethtown on Aug. 16, 1962, the son of Claude and Sonja (Cassavaugh) Aubin.

Dennis enjoyed NASCAR, hunting and fishing. His gr eatest joy was spending time on h is p roperty w hile building his home with friend Todd Stevens.

Dennis was Elizabethtown Highway Superintendent for 20 years.

Dennis is survived by his par ents, two br others and their wives, W esley (Kar en) of Lewis , Leslie (Linnie) of Huntington, Vermont, twin sister Denise of Westport, companion Pam Cr owningshield McGrath and her two childr en, thr ee nieces, one nephew, and special friends Ron and Suzie Dubay and their family and Loren Henrichs.

He was pr edeceased by his sister Cindy Lou, grandparents Floyd and Hattie Cassavaugh and Claude and W ilhelmina Aubin and canine friend, Brandy.

At Dennis’ request, family and friends may gather to share memories at his home, 94 Johnson Lane, Lewis on W ednesday 12-3 p.m. and Thursday 4-7 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Lewis Fir e Department, Fir ehouse Lane , Lewis, NY 12950; Elizabethtown Fire Department, PO Box 457, Elizabethtown, NY12932; or Hospice, PO Box 192, Port Henry, NY 12974 Arrangements have been entrusted to W.M.Marvin’s Sons Funeral Home in Elizabethtown, NY .

Online condolences and memorial candles may be offered at www.wmmarvins.com “Hear me, my chiefs!

I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun stands I will fight no more forever.”

Chief Joseph-Nez Perce

Barbara E. Gough, 87 Nov. 8, 1923 - March 12, 2011 WESTPORT — Barbara E. Gough, 87, of Horace Nye Home and formerly of Westport died March 12, 2011.

She was born Nov. 8, 1923 in Westport, the daugh-

ter of Hubert and Laura (Braman) Gough.

She was a longtime member of the Westport Federated Church, the Westport Historical Society and the Westport Library Association.

She is survived by two nieces; Karen (Marshall) Crowningshield of Whallonsbur g, NY , Deborah Perkins Gough of Arlington, V irgina, two gr eat nieces and several cousins.

A memorial service will be conducted by Rev .

Leon Hebrink, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, 2 p.m. at the Westport Federated Chur ch. Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Westport.

Donations in Barbara’s memory may be made to the Westport Federated Church, P.O. Box 386, Westport, NY 12993 or to the Westport Library Association, 4 Harris Lane, Westport, NY 12993.

Arrangements ar e with W .M.Marvin’s Sons funeral home in Elizabethtown. For online condolences please visit www.wmmarvins.com.

Stella O. Morris, 98 Dec. 8, 1912 - Aug. 2, 2011 ELIZABETHTOWN — Stella O. Morris, 98, passed away peacefully on Aug. 2, 2011, at the Elizabethtown Community Hospital, with her loving family at her side. She was born on Dec. 8, 1912, the daughter of Clarence and Edith (Strong) Osborne in Westport.

Stella graduated fr om Westport Central School, and went on to graduate from Crane School of Music in Potsdam., with a teaching degr ee in Music. She was married to John A. Morris and together they raised four children in Elizabethtown.

Her g ift f or m usic w as r eflected i n m any w ays throughout her lifetime. At a young age, she played piano for silent movies in Westport. She also played as a member of her husband John’s band, and for many community events. Stella dir ected the Congregational Chur ch of Christ choir and was the church organist for many years, as well as being a long time member of the Pleasant V alley Chorale.

She enthusiastically passed her love of music on to her children and grandchildren.

With an agile and cr eative intellect, Stella was a voracious reader, and also wrote many stories and poems based on her life experiences. She also enjoyed doing crossword puzzles and the daily “Jumble”. Her mind remained sharp to the end.

Stella was pr edeceased by her par ents, her husband, sisters Ruth Keefer and Harriet Clark, their husbands S tephen K eefer a nd R aymond C lark, o f Westport, brother-in-law and sister -in-law, George and Arma Morris of Elizabethtown, son-in-law George Shepard, and a Grandson Brian Shepard.

She is survived by a large and loving family: son Michael (Car ol) Morris, daughters Priscilla (John) Chesnut, Judy Shepard and companion Bill Aubin, and Candy (Jay) Kohen; grandchildr en Michael, Ben, Mark and Matthew Morris, John, Shar on (Hau-

WORSHIP IN YOUR COMMUNITY AU SABLE FORKS St. James’ Church - Traditional Anglican Worship. Fr. David Ousley, Vicar and Rev. Patti Johnson, Deacon. Services: Wed. 6:00 p.m. - Healing Prayer and Holy Eucharist. Sun. - 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist.

Phone 518 834-9693 United Methodist Church - Main Street. 647-8147.

Sunday 11 a.m. - Worship Service. Email: afumc1@frontiernet.net Holy Name Catholic Church - Rt. 9N, Main Street, AuSable Forks, 647-8225, Rev. Kris Lauzon Pastor, John J. Ryan - Deacon, Daily Masses Monday @ 5:15 p.m., Tues. - Fri. @ 8 a.m., Sat. 4 p.m., Sun. 9:15 a.m. Confessions (reconciliation) one half hour before weekend masses.

BLACK BROOK St. Matthew’s Catholic Church - Black Brook, Silver Lake Rd., 647-8225, Rev. Kris Lauzon - Pastor, John J. Ryan - Deacon, Masses Sun. 11 a.m.

Confessions (reconciliation) one half hour before each mass.

CLINTONVILLE United Methodist - Rt. 9N. 834-5083. Sunday, 11 a.m. Worship Service. Pastor Rev. Joyce Bruce.

ELIZABETHTOWN St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church - Court Street. 8736760. Father Peter Riani., Mass Schedule: Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m., Weekdays: Consult Bulletin. Thursday 10:15 a.m. Horace Nye Home. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

Website: http://ccsespn.-grainofwheat.net Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) - 10 Williams Street. 873-2509. Sunday, Holy Communion 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Healing Prayer Service: Every Wed. 6:30 p.m. Men’s Group: Every Fri. 7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Rev. David Sullivan or Ann Marie Speir. All are welcome.

Email: goodshepherd-etown@charter.net Web: www.etowngoodshepherd.org United Church of Christ (Congregational) - Court Street. 873-6822. Rev. Frederick C. Shaw.

Worship Service: Sun. 11 a.m.; Sunday School ages 4 - grade 6. Nursery service Email: FShaw@westelcom.com ESSEX St. Joseph’s Catholic Church - Rt. 22. 963-4524.

Father Joseph Elliott, Pastor.

No Mass in Essex from Columbus Day to Memorial Day, closed for the Winter.

Essex Community United Methodist Church - Corner of Rt. 22 and Main St. 963-7766. Rev. John E. Hunn. , Sunday Worship - 10:15 AM, Sunday School - 10:15 AM, Pre School Play Group Thursdays 10-11:30 AM Sept.-May. web page: essexcommunityhttp:// unitedmethodistchurchny.net/ St. John’s Episcopal Church - Church Street. 9637775. Holy Communion and Church School, Sunday 9:15 a.m., Morning Prayer, Wednesday 9 a.m. Community Potluck Supper, Tuesday 6 p.m. Old Testament Bible Study, Wednesdays 10 a.m., Rev. Margaret Shaw. Email: stjohnschurch@willex.com Foothills Baptist Church at Boquet - 2172, NY Rt. 22 in Essex. Formerly Church of the Nazarene.

Wednesday Night Service at 6 p.m. Worship services are Sunday 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Sunday school 9:45 a.m. Family Christian movies on the second Sunday of each month at 6:30 p.m., and Hymn sing on the 4th Sunday of each month at 6 p.m. Email: foothillsbapt@netzero.net HARKNESS Harkness United Methodist Church - Corner Harkness & Hollock Hill Rds., Harkness, NY. 834-7577. Rev. Edith Poland. Sun. School 8:30 a.m.; Worship 9:30 a.m. ediepoland@aol.com JAY First Baptist Church of Jay - Rev. Joyce Bruce, Pastor. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

KEENE St. Brendan’s Catholic Church - Saturday Mass at 4

p.m., Sunday Mass at 11:15 a.m.; Pastor: Rev. John R. Yonkovig; Pastor. Rectory Phone 5232200. Email: stagnesch@roadrunner.com St. Hubert’s All Souls Episcopal Church - Sunday Holy Eucharist 10 a.m., June 27 through September 12. Varying roster of priests celebrate communion each week.

Keene Valley Congregational Church - MainStreet.

576-4711. Sunday Worship Services 10 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m;. Choir Wednesday evening 7 p.m. and Sunday 9:15 a.m.

KEESEVILLE Immaculate Conception - St. John the Baptist - 1804 Main Street, 834-7100. Monsignor Leeward Poissant. Ant. Mass Saturdays - 4 p.m. - St. John’s. Sunday Masses; 8 a.m. & 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception during the winter months. Email: rcckparish@charter.net St. Paul’s Episcopal Church - ClintonStreet, Keeseville. 563-6836. Sunday Service 9 a.m.

Rev. Blair Biddle.

Keeseville United Methodist Church - Front Street, Keeseville. 834-7577. Rev. Edith Poland.

Sunday School 9:45 p.m.; Worship 11 a.m.

834-7577. Email: ediepoland@aol.com The Good Shepherd Church of the Nazarene - 124Hill Street, Keeseville, NY. 834-9408. Pastor Richard Reese. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Tuesday Prayer Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.

Independent Baptist Church - Rte. 22 & Interstate 87, P.O. Box 506, Keeseville, NY. 834-9620.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 7 p.m., Prayer Meeting & Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m.; Youth Group Sunday 7 p.m. Website: office@ibck.org Email: office@ibck.org Front Street Fellowship - 1724 Front Street, Keeseville, 834-7373. Pastor Warren Biggar.

Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m., Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Tuesday: Home Prayer Groups 7 p.m. (Call for locations).

Thursday: Ladies Bible Study 2:30 p.m. in Keeseville, 7 p.m. in Plattsburgh (Call for locations). Friday: Celebrate Recovery 6 p.m.; Kingdom Kids 6:30 p.m.; Youth Group 6:30 p.m. Website: www.thebridgekeeseville.com Email:vikki@thebridgekeeseville.com LAKE PLACID New Hope Christian Fellowship Church - 207Station St., Lake Placid, NY. A full gospel church.

Rev. Richard Ducatt, pastor. Services are Sunday 10a.m. and 6:30p.m. Fellowship prayer, Tuesday 6:30 p.m. and Thursday Bible

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Stella will be long and lovingly er membered, not only by her family, but also by all of her the community she loved and to which she gave so much during her long and fr uitful life. She truly made a difference, and will be sor ely missed by all of those who considered her a matriarch of the Town of Elizabethtown.

Calling hours were held Thursday Aug., 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at W .M.Marvin’s Sons funeral home in Elizabethtown. A funeral were held, Friday Aug. 5, at the United Chur ch of Christ in Elizabethtown.

Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery in Elizabethtown.

In Lieu of flowers donations in Stellas memory may be made to the United Chur ch of Christ, 7580 Court St., Elizabethtown, N.Y. 12932 For online condolences please visit www .wmmarvins.com.

Susanna Zetzel Aug. 4, 2011 ELIZABETHTOWN — Susanna Zetzel, for mor e than thirty years a resident of Hurricane Mountain in Elizabethtown, died Aug. 4, 2011 at her home in Manhattan after a long illness.

A graduate of Wellesley college, she studied Classics at Yale and, as a Marshall Scholar , at Oxford. She taught at Indiana University , Mount Holyoke College, and Cornell University.

The daughter of the late Bernar d and Elizabeth Stambler, she is survived by her husband of 36 years, James Zetzel; by her brother Peter Stambler of Philadelphia; and by two nieces and four gr eatnieces.

Burial will be in Lor d’s Cemetery in Elizabethtown 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Donations in lieu of flowers to Elizabethtown Community Hospital.

Agnes M. Macey, 93 SARANAC — Agnes M. Macey, 93, passed away July 28, 2011. Funeral services wer e held Aug. 2 at Our L ady o f V ictory C hurch, P lattsburgh. B urial was in St. Peter's Cemetery . Brown Funeral Home, Plattsburgh, was in charge of arrangements.

Bryan W. Boisseau, 54 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bryan W. Boisseau, 54, formerly of Keeseville, passed away July 28, 2011. Funeral services were held at the convenience of the family.

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WILLSBORO — Howard L. Swinehart, 84, passed away Aug. 1, 2011. Funeral services were held Aug. 7 at St. John's Episcopal Church, Essex.

Marie A. Guay, 50 MOOERS — Marie A. Guay, 50, passed away Aug. 1, 201 1. Funeral services wer e held Aug. 5 at St. Joseph's Church, Mooers. Burial was in the parish cemetery. Hamilton Funeral Home, Mooers, was in charge of arrangements.

Lloyd G. Lapham, 86 PLATTSBURGH — Lloyd G. Lapham, 86, passed away Aug. 3, 2011. Funeral services were held Aug. 6 at St. Alexander's Chur ch, Morrisonville. Burial was in the parish cemetery. Brown Funeral Home, Plattsburgh, was in charge of arrangements.

William B. Grimet, 50 KEESEVILLE — William Bret Grimet, 50, passed away Aug. 3, 2011. Funeral services were held Aug. 9 at Keeseville United Methodist Church. Burial was in AuSable Chasm Cemetery . Hamilton Funeral Home, Keeseville, was in charge of arrangements.

Vernon J. Taylor, 89 PLATTSBURGH — Vernon James Taylor, 89, formerly of Rouses Point, passed away Aug. 4, 201 1.

Funeral services wer e held Aug. 9 at Holy Angel's Church in Altona. Burial was in Holy Angels Cemetery, Altona. Brown Funeral Home, Plattsburg h, was in charge of arrangements.

MOOERS FORKS — David R. Barcomb, 49, passed away Aug. 5, 201 1. Funeral services wer e held Aug. 9 at Ross Funeral Home, Mooers, which was in charge of arrangements.

James LaFountain, 75 PERU — James LaFountain, 75, passed awayAug. 5, 2011. Funeral services were held Aug. 9 at St. Augustine's C hurch, P eru. B urial w as i n t he p arish cemetery. Hamilton Funeral Home, Per u, was in charge of arrangements.

Peter Riani, Pastor. Residence, 873-6760.

Mass schedule: Sun., 8:30 a.m. Weekdays: consult bulletin. Email: allrises@westelcom.com WILLSBORO Congregational United Church of Christ - 3799Main Street, P.O. Box 714. Worship and Sunday School at 9:15 a.m. Pastor Jan Jorgensen, church: 518-963-4048, home: (514) 7218420.pastorjorgensen@gmail.com United Methodist Church - Rt. 22. 963-7931.

Sunday Worship Services 9 a.m.; Sunday School 9:30 a.m. After school religous education program 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. on Thursdays (Only when school is in session) St. Philip of Jesus Catholic Church - 3746 Main Street. 963-4524. Father Joe Elliott, Pastor.

Saturday Mass @ 4 p.m. & Sunday Mass @ 10 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:15 p.m.; Sunday 9:15 a.m.

WILMINGTON Calvary Baptist Church - Rt. 86. 946-2482. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. (classes for all ages); Morning Worship 11 a.m. & Evening Service 7 p.m.; Bible Study & Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p.m.

St. Margaret’s Roman Catholic Church - Mass Sat. 6 p.m., Sun. 7:30 a.m. Rev. Kris Lauzon Pastor, John J. Ryan - Deacon, Confessions 5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Whiteface Community United Methodist Church - Rt.86 and Haselton Rd. The whiteface Community UMC & Pastor Joyce Bryson invite you to join us for worship at 10:30 a.m. followed by a time for coffee & fellowship. Visitors welcome. Sunday School begins at 9:15 a.m. and child care for children up to age 7 is provided during worship. Church Office open 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tues. - Fri. Office telephone 946-7757. Riverside Thrift Shop located in the Methodist Barn open 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Wed. & Sat. Call 946-2922 for questions concerning Thrift Shop. The Ecumenical Emergency Food Shelf and Outreach Program is located in the Rubin Sanford Building next to the church and is open Thurs. 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Call 946-7757 with questions concerning our fuel assistance program. Senior Lunch Program Tues. & Thurs. 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Call 946-2922 during that time only for assistance.

Wilmington Church of the Nazarene - Wilmington, NY. 946-7708 or 946-2434. Marty J. Bausman, Pastor. Sunday School and Adult Bible Study 9:45 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening Worship and Praise 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday - Family Night at Church 7 p.m. (Adult Bible Study, King’s Kids - ages 3-12, Teen Group - ages 13-17). Email: mbausman@whiteface.net 7-16-11• 77130

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p.m., Sunday Mass 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Father Mark Reilly, Pastor, 27 St. Bernard Street, SL, 891-4616,www.stbernardssaranaclake.com Episcopal Church of St. Luke - 136 Main St., SL, 8913605. Sunday worship services at 7:45 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., led by the Reverand Ann S. Giallard, www.stlukessaranaclake.org High Peaks Church - ABible-believing, non-denominationalchurch.

97 Will Rogers Srive, SL., 891-3255 Saranac Lake Baptist Church - 490 Broadway, SL, 891-5473 First United Methodist Church - 63 Church Street, SL., 891-3473 Adirondack Alliance Church - 72 Canaras Ave., SL, 891-1383. Sharing the hope of Christ, building relationships with god. Sunday worship 10:00 a.m. with nursry care available.

First Presbyterian Church PC(USA) - 57 Church Sreet, Saranac Lake, NY, 518-891-3401, Rev. Joann White. All Are Welcome Here!

9:45am Sunday Worship. Sunday School for All Ages. Nursery Care. 11:00 a.m.

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Handicap Accessible & Hearing Assistance. www.saranaclakepresbyterianchurch.org TUPPER LAKE United Community Church - 25 High Street, Tupper Lake,359-9810 Holy Name Catholic Church - 114 Main Street, Tupper Lake,359-9194 St. Alphonsus Church - 48Wawbeek Avenue, Tupper Lake, 359-3405.

WADHAMS United Church of Christ - MainStreet. Reverend Michael Richards, Pastor. Sunday Service 4 PM; Food & Fellowship followed by discussion and/or Bible Study. Phone 518-962-8930 www.westportmarina.com/WadhamsUCC WESTPORT Federated Church - Main Street. Westport Federated Church: Sunday Morning Worship Celebration at 9:00 am including Children’s Church; Bible Study at 10:15 am. Thursday evening Bible/ Book study, Parsonage at 6:30 pm. Pastor Leon Hebrink, 962-8293 www.westptchurch.com “Following Jesus In The Company of Friends.”

Westport Bible Church - 24 Youngs Road. 962-8247.

Pastor Dick Hoff. Sunday Morning Worship 9:15 a.m. & 11 a.m.; Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Sunday Evening 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday Night Prayer 7 p.m.; Teen Club Saturday 6 p.m.; Olympian Club Sunday 5:30 p.m. (Sept. - May) Email: westportbiblech@westelcom.com The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Rt.9N. 962-4994. Branch Pres. Curtis McMillion.

Sacrament Meeting 10 a.m.; Sunday School 11:20 a.m.; Priesthood & Relief Society 12:10 a.m.; Primary 11:20 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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WILMINGTON — Dr. Ernest V. Orsi, 88, passed away July 31, 2011. Funeral services were held Aug. 4 at St. Mar garet's Roman Catholic Chur ch, Wilmington. Burial was inAscension Cemetery, Airmont.

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For more information call 518-523-3652.

Lake Placid Baptist Church - Leading people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ Worship service Sunday 10:15 a.m., Rev. Derek Spain, Pastor. 2253 Saranac Ave., LP 523-2008, www.lpbaptist.org.

St. Eustace Episcopal Church - Worship services Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.; Tuesday 5:15 p.m. Holy Prayers; Wednesday 5:15 p.m.

Holy Eucharist & Healing 2450 Main St., LP, 523-2564,www.steustace.org.

St. Agnes Catholic Church - Saturday Mass 5:30 p.m., Sunday masses 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., 169 Hillcrest, LP, 523-2200.

Rev. John R. Yonkovig Adirondack Community Church - Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here. 2583 Main St., LP. 523-3753, www.adkcomchurch.org.

Pilgrim Holiness Church - 6057 Sentinel Road Lake Placid, NY 12946. Tel. 518-523-2484 Pastor: William S. Saxton Sunday School - 9: 45 AM Sunday Worship - 11:00 AM Sunday Evening Service - 7:00 PM Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study - 7:00 PM www.lakeplacidpilgrimholinesschurch.com LEWIS Elizabethtown Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Rt. 9 West, Lewis, NY. Sunday Public Talk 10 a.m. followed by Watchtower Study 10:35 a.m.; Tuesday 7 p.m. Bible Study & Theocratic Ministry School & Service Meeting. For further information contact Brian Frawley 518-873-2610.

First Congregational Church - Lewis, 873-6822. Rev. Frederick C. Shaw. Sunday Services 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Email: Fshaw@westelcom.com PORT HENRY Lake Champlain Bible Fellowship - Adult Sunday School 9:00-10:00 a.m., Coffee fellowship 10:00-10:30 a.m.; Worship service starts at 10:30 a.m.; Nursery and 3-6 Sunday School provided during worship service; VOICE Youth Group for teens; Variety of bible studies and groups available that meet weekly. FREE community movie night the first Saturday of every month at 7 p.m. Visit our website to see what is showing 6 Church St., (518) 546-4200, www.lcbible.org, Pastor Tom Smith.

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Paul Smith’s College to work with Domincan Republic institution PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith's College will shar e its expertise in sustainable forestry and ecotourism with an institution in the Dominican Republic as part of a new agreement.

Under the memorandum of understanding with Escuela de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (EMARN)-the School of the Environment and Natural Resour ces-Paul Smith's will send students and faculty to the Dominican Republic in January , wher e they'll be hosted by the school and work on joint projects in the surrounding area.

In exchange, Paul Smith's will host students and faculty fr om EMARN in a For est Ecology class in the Adirondacks next June.

Brett McLeod, a professor in Paul Smith's School of For estry and Natural Resour ces who helped arrange the agreement, said the Officials from Paul Smith’s College sign the memorandum of understanding with Escuela de Medio Ambipact will help each institution br oaden its ente y Recursos Naturales. students' horizons.

McLeod said. “That's something we're lookThe agreement comes at a time when the “They have an interest in developing stuing to develop here as well, so our students Dominican Republic is trying to r eshape its dents who are more worldly and understand have more international exposure.” tourism model, said Patricia Abreu, the nanatural resource issues in a global context,”

tion's vice minister of international cooperation for the Ministry of the Environment.

Tourism is one of the country's largest industries, she said, but visitors often see only resorts once they arrive.

“We're not just a beach and sun destination,” Abreu said. “The tourists don't get a chance to know the people-they are confined to four walls, buffets and a swimming pool.”

Officials with both schools expect students in Paul Smith's r ecreation, adventure travel and ecotourism pr ogram to help develop a plan to attract more visitors to other attractions in the Dominican Republic, such as hiking or horseback riding thr ough the countryside. Paul Smith's faculty may also present lectures at EMARN. The partnership took root three years ago, when a former dean, Andrew Egan, participated in a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) pr oject in the Dominican Republic and visited EMARN. The relationship has continued since then.

North Country School pilots online algebra class

Rapters up close at presentation

LAKE PLACID — While classr ooms at North Country School are mostly quiet during summer months, a second floor oom r has hummed on recent mornings with the familiar murmurings of students and teacher at work.

“Wait, wait, let me do it,” a student exhorted her teacher and classmates. “Nobody help me. This is MY binomial, and I know how to square it.” She proceeded to work her way through the problem correctly, without assistance.

Though this exchange could have transpired in any algebra class, this was something different. The student was in Italy, her classmates in South Kor ea, and the teacher at North Country School.

Through special video confer encing software, all could see and hear one another , with the images of students and teacher displayed on each one’s computer scr een. Students could also see the classr oom whiteboard as their teacher, former NCS Head of School and math instr uctor Roger Loud, worked at the boar d, questioning and prompting his char ges. A moderator familiar with the technology coord inated the electronic logistics.

Begun the last week of July , the fully accredited course meets for 90-minute sessions, five days a week, over six weeks. What makes the NCS program different from others is that it’s fully synchr onous, to use the industry language, meaning that students and teacher can interact with one another in real time. Each class session is also recorded then posted online so students can go back and watch a lesson or parts of it later if they need more time to digest the material. Students complete homework on their own and take tests they receive via email as PDF documents.

Now semi-r etired, Roger Loud has mor e than 50 years experience in education. He taught and was head of school at NCS for 22 years and later served as math department

have something like that in mind as they pilot this summer ’s algebra class as a potential model for a lar ger online learning effort.

“We envision connecting multiple schools and of fering a variety of classes to take topnotch instr uction to students the least likely to encounter it,” said T odd Pinsonneault, dean of curriculum at NCS and moderator of the online algebra class. “For students in r emote rural ar eas or places short on Roger Loud teaches the online algebra class through North Country School. resources or chair at Northwood School in Lake Placid, those just physically r emoved fr om school where he still teaches pr e-calculus and the for whatever reason, this could be an option advanced placement calculus courses. Loud, for taking courses not otherwise available to who does not use a personal computer or them. They also get the added benefit of keep an email address, was at first skeptical learning from teachers of Roger Loud’s calof the online learning environment. iber.”

Loud said that the interactive natur e of the With the softwar e accommodating up to software is key. six video feeds and 100 audio feeds, the pos“Because I can see and talk to students, sibilities for scaling up ar e exciting. Plus, and because they’re willing to yak back and this week Pinnsoneault completed a successforth, we can have the discussion that is part ful test run of moderating the class r emoteand par cel of a healthy classr oom,” said ly from a location in New Hampshire —provLoud. “You set up a classroom like this, and ing feasible the idea of coor dinating fr om a student home with the chicken pox can still here in Lake Placid a class of students fr om participate.” all over taught by a master teacher still Administrators at North Country School somewhere else.

Zoli Continued from page 1 Witherbee Auditorium at Camp Dudley on Sunday, Aug. 21, at 1 p.m., as the guest speaker for the fifth annualAuthor Address, put on as a fundraiser for Literacy V olunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties.

Literacy V olunteers Executive Dir ector Maria Burke said that while Zoli is not an author, they felt he was the perfect fit for the annual discussion given the local impact his work has.

“He is not an author, but this was a chance to have him come and speak that we could not pass up,” Burke said. “This is a historical event for the r egion, and Ted is also an alumni of Camp Dudley, which will be holding their alumni weekend at the same time, with this being the final event.”

Zoli is a 2009 r ecipient of a MacArthur “Genius” awar d and has built bridges all over the world, focusing on beauty and strength.

Zoli plans to speak on the colorful history and construction of this vital link of Lake Champlain infrastructure.

Tickets will be $15 per person and $25 per couple. For more information, contact Literacy Volunteers at 546-3008 or email Burke at director@literacyef.com.

Ted Zoli will speak at Camp Dudley on Aug. 21.

L A K E P L A C I D — T h e A d i ro n d a c k Mountain Club pr esents “Adir ondack Raptors, up close and personal,” with Steve and W endy Hall, who r un the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation Center in W ilmington, on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 8 p.m. in the Adirondack Mountain Club’s (ADK’s) High Peaks Information Center, located at Heart Lake in Lake Placid. This pr esentation is fr ee and open to the public.

For mor e information about ADK’s programs, contact the ADK North Country of fice in Lake Placid at 523-3441 or visit online at www.adk.org.

Auditions for ‘Little Mermaid’ LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is excited to announce the return of Missoula Children’s Theatre free summer r esidency pr ogram and workshops.

On Monday, Aug. 15, at 9:30 a.m., open auditions will be held for “The Little Mermaid.”

The Arts Center invites all children that have completed kindergarten up to grade 12 to audition. Missoula Childr en’s Theatre (MCT) will cast 50 to 60 area students to join in an intensive week-long pr oduction process. Auditions will start promptly at 9:30 a.m., doors will open at 9 a.m.

Due to the nature of these auditions, children arriving late will not be able to participate. The auditions will last appr oximately two hours, and childr en must be present for the full audition process. Casting and r ehearsals will begin immediately.

Among the roles to be cast are: The Little Mermaid, Celia, her thr ee sisters, Delia, Amelia, and Ophelia, Gil, the Merboy next door; the Royal family including, the Prince, the King and the Queen; the poetic Town Criers, dynamic Scouts, snoopy Seasiders, and galloping Seahorses.

The theatr e camp will culminate with performances on Satur day, Aug. 20, at noon and 3 p.m. To register for workshops or for more information, call the Arts Center at 523-2512 or visit www .LakePlacidArts.org.

Larabie Continued from page 1 per Lake.

Larabie’s father, Mike, works at the post office in Tupper Lake. He’s also commander of the Tupper Lake Honor Guard. Larabie graduated from Tupper Lake High School in 1997.

A brief investigation led to the arr est of 21-year-old Dustin C. Hill of Plattsbur gh.

He was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree robbery.

Police say Hill met Larabie on a foot bridge that crosses the mouth of the Saranac River. The two men walked to Larabie’s parked vehicle, where Hill allegedly struck him and strangled him to death.

Hill then took the victim’s wallet, stolen the money inside, and discar ded it in the Saranac River befor e fleeing the scene on foot.

Hill was arraigned in Plattsbur gh City Court Sunday night and r emanded to Clinton County Jail without bail.

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Adirondack Museum gives Jerry Jenkins top Adirondack award ‘Adirondack Atlas’ author

honored at ceremony

By Andy Flynn

andy@denpubs.com BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Museum Aug. 4 honor ed Jerry Jenkins for his many contributions to the Adirondack Park — as a botanist, naturalist, geographer and author — by awar ding him the annual Harold K. Hochschild Award.

Since 1990, the awar d — named after the museum’s founder — has been r eserved for community leaders who advance the region’s culture and quality of life. A host of guest speakers at the award ceremony testified how Jenkins fits this role and why he deserves the award.

“What Jerry has accomplished was to put the Adirondacks on the global map,” said Timothy Barnett, vice pre sident of theAdirondack Nature Conservancy.

Jenkins is an ecologist with the W ildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Adirondack Program, based in Saranac Lake. He has almost 40 years of field experience working in the Northern For est, including mountain landscapes in New York, Vermont and Maine.

“The Adirondacks ar e filled with Ayatollahs and icons, and Jerry certainly fits the icon version,” Barnett said, adding that he’s had the privilege of knowing all kinds of visionary icons in the Adirondack conservationist movement, such as Clarence Petty, Greenleaf “Greenie” Chase and Ed Ketchledge.

“The difference is that Jerry is a universal man,” Barnett said. “Jerry Jenkins has made the biology of the Adirondacks available to the Northeast, the country , the world. And that has been an incredible contribution.”

Over the course of his car eer, Jenkins has conducted biological inventories for The Adirondack Chapter of the Natur e Conservancy, chr onicled the envir onmental history of acid rain with the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation, and interpr eted historical changes to bor eal lowland ar eas in the Adirondacks with WCS. Jenkins first arrived in theAdirondack Park in 1982, when the Adirondack Park Agency hired him to complete a biological survey of Spring Pond Bog near T upper Lake. At the time, it was on private land and ther e was a proposal to harvest sphagnum moss from the bog. Thanks, in part, to his work, the Adirondack Natur e Conservancy now pr otects the land.

“Out of that came Jerry’s explanation of mosses and grasses and liverworts and things that most of us don’t even look at, and that brought the attention of not only the APA ... but eventually the Natur e Conservancy into helping protect that area,” Barnett said.

Jenkins reflected on that project during the award ceremony. He was 38 years old at the time.

“I went in ther e, and I was just amazed,” Jenkins said. “I barely knew the Adirondacks at that time. I found a mile-long bog filled with wonderful, wonderful things. I came

“Adirondack Atlas” author and botanist Jerry Jenkins gives remarks at the Adirondack Museum Aug. 4 after he was awarded the museum’s annual Harold Hochschild Award.

Photo by Andy Flynn

back out after a week or so camping next to it, my eyes wer e spinning. I went in to the agency that hir ed me and said ‘Y ou’ve got a mile-long bog filled with wonderful rar e stuff. How many others have you got?‘ And they said, of course, ‘We have no idea.’”

Jenkins was intrigued. APA staff suggested

Frank Orsini and George Wilson play a fiddle tune at the Adirondack Museum Aug. 4 during the Harold Hochschild Award ceremony. The award’s recipient, author/botanist Jerry Jenkins.

Photo by Andy Flynn

AARCH trips still have openings

Keeseville. The race will begin at 9 a.m.

LAKE PLACID — The following trips offered by Adirondack Architectural Heritage still have space available: Early Industry and Architecture in Gloversville on Saturday, Aug. 13 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; fee is $30 for AARCH and Chamber members and $40 for non-members); The Clarks of Willsboro Point on Saturday, Aug. 20 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; fee is $35 for AARCH and $45 for non-members); and 200 Years of Farming on Thursday, Aug. 25 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; fee is $35 for AARCH and $45 for nonmembers).

For more information, contact 834-9328.

Kiwanis golf tourney at Cobble

MLS Triathlon set for Sept. 10 KEESEVILLE — The 13th Annual Mountain Lake Services Triathlon will be held Saturday, Sept. 10, in Keeseville. This popular event featur es paddling, r unning and biking. There will be an Iro n course and a Recre ation course. Individual Ir on and Recr eational categories run all three legs. Iro n and Recreational Teams may consist of two to four people.

Pre-registration for the event can be done by calling 546-3051 ext. 314. Registration on the day of the event will begin at 7:30 a.m. at Camp Whippoorwill on Fr ontage Road in

he visit naturalist “Gr eenie” Chase at his home near Saranac Lake. And he did, spending a couple of days picking his brain and looking at maps and photographs. There was no biological map of theAdirondack Park. But Jenkins was in luck; Chase had the map in his head.

ELIZABETHTOWN — The 201 1 Kiwanis Golf Tournament will be sponsor ed by the Elizabethtown Kiwanis Club and held on Saturday, Aug. 20, at 10 a.m. at the Cobble Hill Golf Course in Elizabethtown.

Format is thr ee-person scramble, with an entry fee of $60 per player or $180 per team.

Entry fee includes 18 holes golf with cart, lunch and r efreshments on the course. The event is limited to 18 teams. The deadline to register is Aug. 18.

There will be cash prizes for the top three places. Call 873-2520 for more information.

Annual luncheon for garden club WESTPORT — The Elizabethtown-Westport Gar den Club will hold its 24th annual luncheon-fashion show, “Bouquet of Fashion,” at 10:30 a.m. W ednesday, Aug. 17, at the Westport Hotel.

Fashions ar e by the Bessbor o Shop in Westport. Tickets are $20, with r eservations required by calling 962-8348.

Lemmo to give Australia lecture SARANAC LAKE — On August 13 at 7:30

p.m., “Ausome Australia!,” a slide presentation by photographer Gerry Lemmo will be shown at Saranac Village at Will Rogers. Join him on a trip through northern Queensland and visit tr opical rainfor ests, waterfalls, pastureland, the dusty Outback and the Great Barrier Reef.

Lemmo’s photographs have been feature d in many books, calendars and magazines including National Geographic, Adirondack Life and Adirondack Explorer. He has also worked with the National Audubon Society, International Paper, The Nature Conservancy, General Electric, the San Diego Zoo, The London T imes and the National W ildlife Federation. Gerry has visited six continents and has a collection of over 70,000 photographs; some which have been seen in over twenty countries.

This program is open to the public and donations will be accepted. Refr eshments will be served. For mor e information, contact Debbie Kanze at 891-7117.

Art Farm set for Aug. 19 opening WESTPORT — The monumental junk sculpture “The Angel of Inerrancy Conveying Well-meaning Souls to Hell” by Edward Cornell was r eturned to its home on the Crooked Br ook Studios Art Farm outside Wadhams.

The Angel was featured in the exhibit “In-

“And I started to put that down on paper,” Jenkins said.

Now, almost 30 years later , Jenkins noted two major accomplishments in the Park. First of all, about 1 million acr es of land that was previously unprotected is now under conservation ownership or easement.

“But the other equally amazing achievement ... is that simultaneous with that we built a much mor e detailed map of the Adirondacks that we had ever had befor e,” Jenkins said. “W e helped to know what we had, how it was arranged, why people thought it was important ... We’re still learning. We have that map in amazingly good shape.”

As map maker, Jenkins worked with Andy Keal and the WCS to co-write “The Adirondack Atlas,” published in 2004, which off ers a detailed geographic portrait of the 6-millionacre Adirondack Park. W ith about 750 maps and graphics, the authors cover 130 topics.

“Up until 30 years ago,Adirondack conservation was navigating by guess and by golly ,” Jenkins said. “Now it least it has a map.”

By making the Adirondack map, Jenkins said he wasn’t trying to tell people how to manage the Park.

“A scientific map does not dictate how you act or how you pro tect,” he said. “It says, ‘This is here, this is there, and this is what it looks like.’ It doesn’t say what you should do. Navigation is still the job of the pilot and the navigator and the cr ew, but the navigator without a map is impossible.”

In his latest book — “Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability” (2010) — Jenkins explores the impacts of and potential solutions to climate change in the Adirondack region in the 21st century.

“The climate change century will change not the layout of the map, but the meaning of everything,” Jenkins said during the awar d ceremony, “and it will change our pr otection laws.”

Wrapping up his remarks, Jenkins summed up his 30 years of experience in the field by looking towar d futur e challenges in the Adirondack r egion as they r elate to climate change.

“We have an enormously dif ficult century coming up that will try us all and will try our kids, our grandchildr en, every institution,” Jenkins said. “And so I would like you all to remember how much the conservation and science communities have accomplished in 30 years time because, unfortunately, we have to do twice that in the next 30 years and ther e will be no stopping.”

The list of speakers on Aug. 4 included Michael Lombardi, the museum’s interim director; Nancy Keet, chairwoman of the Hochschild Award Committee; Sheafe Satterthwaite, lecturer at Williams College; Cali Brooks, executive director at the Adirondack Community Trust; Robert W orth, honorary trustee at theAdirondack Museum; Stephanie Ratcliffe, executive director at The Wild Center; Bill W eber, of the W ildlife Conservation Society; and Geor ge Wilson, pilot and musician, who performed a couple fiddle tunes with former band member Frank Orsini. side the Landscape” at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

“It’s good to have her home and in such fine shape after her travels. And she’s here in plenty of time for r e-opening the farm to visitors on Aug. 19,” Cornell said.

For further information, please call Cornell at 962-4386 or email cornelle@ westelcom.com.

Community Yard Sale in Au Sable Au SABLE FORKS — The Sixth Annual Community W ide Yard Sale, sponsor ed by the Au Sable Forks Revitalization Gr oup, will be held on Saturd ay, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Participating villages include Au Sable Forks, Jay, Upper Jay and Black Brook. Maps and directions will be available at local businesses, libraries, post offices and at the Yard Sale sites displaying an of ficial Revitalization Sponsor sign.

AARCH golf tourney scheduled TICONDEROGA — AARCH will be hosting its Third Annual Golf Benefit onAug. 29, at T iconderoga Country Club. Registration deadline is Aug. 15.

There will also be a Chinese Raf fle with lots of great items.

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A happy snapping turtle poses for the camera, before escaping to the depths after a long battle.

Photos by Joe Hackett

You caught what?

This dragonfly took the topic of flyfishing too seriously, when it attempted to capture an artificial fly on the water.

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ver the course of my career as a guide and angler, I have had numerous opportunities to witness some strange catches.

As can be expected, I’ve seen a fair number of old boots and shoes, dragged up from the depths.

I’ve also caught a wide assortment of other unexpected items, including a toaster, a transistor radio and leather wrapped, steering wheel.

I’ve caught a bat, or it caught me, while I was flyfishing at night. I even caught, and released, a dragonfly that had picked up my dry fly.

However, when a young guest recently caught a whopper of a tail, it topped my list of angling oddities.

It happened on a local pond, as we were about to quit after a long, slow day of bass fishing. In a last ditch effort; I decided to have the youngster troll a Hula Popper behind the canoe, on a long line.

He followed my instructions, and unspooled about 50 yards of line, and gleefully giggled every time he would chug the popper. He was content just to yank the line, and watch the splash and hear the pop of the plug. Fish or no fish, he was having fun!

But, as we neared the shore, his lure disappeared. There was no splash, no slash, no noise, or any other type of commotion. It appeared that the lure has simply sunk below the surface.

The youngster yanked on the rod, to set the hook, and nothing happened. His line was taunt, but it did not appear to be a bass.

I turned the canoe around, and paddled back to see what he had snagged on. However, as he reeled in line, there was no fish fighting to get free.

In fact, it appeared he had snagged a sunken log.

As we got closer, I picked up his line, and gently pulled the catch to the boat. Hand over hand, as I gathered in his line; I could see the yellow Hula

Popper coming up from the depths.

But, as it came to the surface, the catch became evident. It was a huge trophy, at least a twenty pounder.

But all I could think of was, how to safely release this monster.

It was by far, one of the largest snapping turtles I had ever seen, with a long neck, a big beak, and a moss covered shell. It had chomped down on the Hula Popper, sideways, and I wasn’t about to stick my fingers anywhere near it.

Fortunately, just as I was about to reach out with a pair of needle nose pliers, the turtle opened it’s mouth, and spit out the mangled lure. Slowly, it turned and returned to the depths. We shared a good laugh, and we had a great tale to tell.

The episode reminded me of an incident that a fellow angler had once shared with me. The calamity had soured him on fishing for many years.

As a young angler, he often accompanied his grandfather on charter trips, to fish off the coast of Maine for cod. As always, they trolled live baitfish on long lines, behind the boat.

When he felt a tug, he reeled in the line and yanked hard to set the hook. To his dismay, his line did not connect to the sea. Rather, it was up in the air, where a big gull was floundering around, with a large hook embedded in its wing.

He described the scene as sheer mayhem, with the ship’s captain barking orders, as two mates worked hard to haul in a squawking, flapping, fighting mad bird.

“There were feathers, and blood, everywhere.

The gull raised a ruckus.” he related, “And the mates were obviously quite annoyed having to deal with the mess. When it was all over, I never wanted to go fishing again. Although I offered a variety of excuses, I think Grandpa knew the real reason.”

“However,” he continued, “After decades of turning down Grandpa’s annual invitations, I finally accepted when he offered me a canoe trip to the far north of Canada.”

“We paddled and portaged through a number of small lakes, and as we walked along a carry trail, a flock of Canada geese came winging our way, right down the path, just barely over our heads. We could have swatted them with a paddle.

But Gramps, never missed a beat. He looked up at the big birds, and with a wide grin, exclaimed, “Damn, I wish I’d had my rod handy. We laughed long and hard, and I never missed out on another opportunity to go fishing with him.”

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residing in Ray Brook. Contact him at brookside18@adelphia.net

hen I was a kid — way before the World Wrestling Foundation, E.T. or even Star Wars — the Saturday evening entertainment wasn’t a night out at the movies, it was watching black bears gorge themselves on table scraps at the Newcomb dump.

Back before it became politically incorrect to heave your bags of trash into the big crater in the earth, dumps in locales like Newcomb, Long Lake and Tupper Lake were legendary for nightly visits from bruins who became supersized on discarded leftovers.

We’d kick back in ratty lawn chairs and watch them for hours as house flies buzzed around their tiny clamshell ears. We’d give them names like Bone Crusher, Pizza Face and Budweiser.

Oh how we’d chuckle.

Locals would recognize them year after year and would speak about them over morning coffee.

They’d say things like, “Pizza Face looks like he’s a muffin over 600 pounds this year.” And, “I nearly smacked Budweiser this morning with my pickup.”

Even more fun was watching the visiting flatlanders who — forgetting the fact that Budweiser, Pizza Face and Bone Crusher were wild creatures capable of swatting them off the planet like a black fly — would attempt to feed them by hand or get close enough to add one to the background of a family portrait.

I once saw a guy nearly lose Editor’s Note: The following is a firsthis hand in an attempt to feed a hand account written by my son Harrison, marshmallow to one absolutely age 10, with help from my daughter Malehumongous bear as his three na, age 8, about an encounter they had with young children looked on in a wild bear at their home in Schroon Lake. horror. Of course, we later They titled the piece, “The Sunday Bear.” named the bear Marshmallow.

Oh, those were the days.

Today, things are different.

Dumps are now transfer stations (just exactly where do they n Sunday morning, me, my transfer all that great bear food mom and my sister were to anyway?) and bears have walking to the car to go to been forced to fall back on their church. Mom stopped us as we apnatural instincts for food. proached the car and low and behold Of course, being the oppora bear had gotten into our car. It tunists they are, bears will most looked as if the bear climbed into the likely always step on the toes of car through the window. There were humans now and again. paw prints all over the car door. My Such was the case last weeksister said that she thought the bear end when my kids, Harrison had a cub, because there were small and Malena, discovered that a and big paw prints. bear had climbed into the family Last week, we lost our cat named car while it sat in the driveway Bitty Boo. We think the bear had of their Schroon Lake home. something to do with that. She just The only real casualty was a wandered into the woods and has not tube of sunscreen and container come back yet. of baby wipes the bear took a That same morning after the bear hankering to — but I’ll let my got into the car, we figured out that he kids tell you the full story. Their or she had bit into the new can of sunversion is attached to this colscreen and it squirted all over the inumn. side and outside of the car. He or she Great job on the story, by the also bit into the tip of our mother ’s way, guys. I think we should car seat. One other thing that the bear call the bear “sunscreen.” (I can almost demolished was a whole conpicture them giggling on the tainer of baby wipes! Those things couch at that one.) were all that were inside the car that Senior wildlife biologist Ed night.

Reed said the number of nuiIt was very fun to tell friends about sance bear complaints in DEC the creature, but we sure hope he's Region 5 has been very low this gone away. year, at just 20. Most have been reports of raided garbage cans and bird feeders.

“Normally we have more like 150 complaints by now,” Reed said.

Reed attributes the low number of complaints to above average natural food sources for bears, like berries, apples, black cherries, acorns and beechnuts.

Bear complaints normally rise during years when food sources like these are scarce, often during very dry spells.

That was not a problem this spring, and the natural food offerings have bears fat and happy and out of the back yards of most of us.

Unfortunately for hunters, seasons of My son, Harrison, inspects a black bear I took in 2003, not far above average sources from the site of a recent encounter my kids had with another of food usually mean bear, which they wrote about above. below average bear harvests during the early and regular season, as the bruins become hard to locate and pattern.

We shall see if that trend holds true when the early bear season in these parts opens Sept. 17.

In the meantime, I know one bear that shouldn’t be burning the roof of its mouth anytime soon.

That one was for you, Harrison and Malena.

By Harrison and Malena Gereau

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John Gereau is managing editor of Denton Publications and a very proud father of two aspiring authors. He can be reached at johng@denpubs.com.

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Friday, Aug.12 PAUL SMITHS — Mindfulness meditation yoga walk with Mary Bartel. VIC. 10 a.m. - noon. Pre-registration required. $25. 327-6241.

WILLSBORO — Preview book sale. Paine Memorial Free Library. 963-4478. 5-7 p.m.

WILLSBORO — Local school history presentation. Willsborough Visitor's Center. 7 p.m.

KEESEVILLE — Fish Fry Friday, Elks Lodge 2072, 1 Elks Lane, 5-7:30 p.m. Take-outs available. Fish or shrimp. $6.95.

834-2072.

ESSEX — Lost in Yonkers theater performance. Masonic Lodge. 7 p.m. $10.

SARANAC LAKE — Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Pendragon Theatre, 15 Brandy Brook. 8 p.m.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

SARANAC LAKE — Chamber Music Concert. Saranac Laboratory, 89 Church Street. 7:30 p.m. Free. 891-1757.

Saturday, Aug.13 ESSEX — Martha Loving painting workshop. Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $75. 865-5330.

WILLSBORO — Book sale. Paine Memorial Free Library.

963-4478. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

JAY — Roy Hurd with Frank Orsini and Meadow perform.

Village Green. 6:30 p.m. Free.

SARANAC LAKE — Australia slide presentation. Saranac Village at Will Rogers. 7:30 p.m. 891-7117.

SARANAC LAKE — Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Pendragon Theatre, 15 Brandy Brook. 8 p.m.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

LAKE PLACID — Story time. The Bookstore Plus. 10 a.m.

LAKE PLACID — Brian J. Heinz book signing. The Bookstore Plus, 2491 Main Street. 3-5 p.m. 523-2950.

PAUL SMITHS — Native American themed stories and music by Joe and Jessie Bruchac. Whispering Pines Amphitheater, VIC. 2 p.m.

AUSABLE CHASM — Ingeborg Sapp speaks of living under Hitler, Stalin. North Star Underground Railroad Museum, 1131 Mace Chasm Rd. 5 p.m. 834-5180.

LAKE PLA CID — Final concert of season. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 7:30 p.m. $22. 523-2512.

LAKE PLA CID — Adirondack Raptors presentation by Wendy Hall. High Peaks Information Center. Free. 8 p.m.

Sunday, Aug.14 LAKE PLACID — Post 326 American Legion Open Golf Tournament. Craig Wood Golf & Country Club. 7 a.m. $45.

523-9811.

LAKE PLACID — Author signing. Bookstore Plus. 3-5 p.m.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

Monday, Aug. 15 LAKE PLACID — ”Little Mermaid” open auditions for children. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 523-2512.

LAKE PLACID — Story time. The Bookstore Plus. 10 a.m.

JAY — Weeklong childrens’ French foreign language camp. Amos and Julia Ward Theatre. 10 a.m.-noon. $25 for Aug. 15-19. Ages 6-9. 647-5661.

WILLSBORO — Visit to Underground Railroad Museum carpool. Willsboro Heritage Center Museum. Noon.

KEENE VALLEY — Guns and Roses: Fort Ticonderoga and the King’s Garden. Keene Valley Library, 1796 Route 73.

7:30 p.m.

KEENE VALLEY — Gene Pasymowski: Guns and Roses, the Fort Ti Gardens. 7:30 p.m. KV Library, 576-4335.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

Tuesday, Aug. 16 LAKE PLACID —Tempest outdoor concert. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 7:30 p.m. $10, $8 for children 12 and under. 523-2512.

WEST CHAZY — Summer Reading Program, Dodge Library, 9 Fiske Road, 3 p.m. 493-6131.

SARANAC LAKE — Beginner African drumming class.

Mountains in Motion, 30 Bloomingdale Ave. 6-7 p.m. $12.

791-9586.

UPPER JAY —Writer’s collective. Wells Memorial Library.

7 p.m. 946-2644.

SARANAC LAKE — Beginner African dance class. Mountains in Motion, 30 Bloomingdale Ave. 7-8:30 p.m. $15. 7919586.

Wednesday, Aug. 17 WESTPORT — Jazz crooner performs. Depot Theatre. 8 p.m. $12. 962-4449.

Thursday, Aug. 18 WESTPORT — Story hour, Westport Library, 6 Harris Lane, 10 a.m. Free. 962-8219.

LAKE PLACID — Story hour, Lake Placid Public Library,

2471 Main St., 10:15 a.m. Free. 523-3200.

WESTPORT — Roast turkey dinner. Westport Federated Church. 4:30 p.m. $9 Adults, $4 children 12 and under.

ESSEX — Lost in Yonkers theater performance. Masonic Lodge. 7 p.m. $10.

SARANAC LAKE — The Mousetrap. Pendragon Theatre, 15 Brandy Brook. 8 p.m.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

Friday, Aug. 19 LAKE PLACID — Tea time with Tim artist Q&A. Lake Placid Center for the Arts. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

LAKE PLACID — Mixed media art demonstration. The Bookstore Plus, 2491 Main Street. 3-5 p.m. $5. 523-2950.

KEESEVILLE — Fish Fry Friday, Elks Lodge 2072, 1 Elks Lane, 5-7:30 p.m. Take-outs available. Fish or shrimp. $6.95.

834-2072.

ESSEX — Lost in Yonkers theater performance. Masonic Lodge. 8 p.m. $10.

WESTPORT — Wicked City performance. Depot Theatre. $25. 8 p.m. 962-4449.

Saturday, Aug. 20 WILLSBORO POINT — Local architecture tour by Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 834-9328. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. $40.

ELIZABETHTOWN — E'town Kiwanis Golf Tournament.

Cobble Hill Golf Course. $60. Three person scramble. 10 a.m.

873-2520.

KEENE VALLEY — Jazz Workshop by Eli Yamin Trio. Keene Valley Congregational Church, Route 73. Free. Registration required. 4-5:30 p.m. 576-9124.

CLINTONVILLE— Zumbathon to benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. AuSable Valley Middle High School. 4-7 p.m. $10 Zumba or $15 for Zumba and picnic. 637-7209.

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40 Escalate 41 Orb’s partner, in British iconography 42 “Friends” Emmy winner 44 Defames 47 Brings up 50 Birth name of Smallville’s most famous resident 53 Let loose, in a way 54 Garden party?

56 Wacky 58 Chevron feature 59 Giggle 60 “Alas” and “Ah, me”?

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Expose Astronaut Shepard Geckos that don’t set their alarm clocks?

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This Month in History - AUGUST 14th - Japan surrenders, ending World War II. (1945) 16th - Gold is discovered in the Klondike. (1896) 17th - Construction is started on the Berlin Wall.

(1961) 18th - The 1,000 Islands bridge, connecting the US and Canada is dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (1938)

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FAMILIES FIRST in Essex County, Inc., is seeking two part-time AmeriCorps Members to assist program staff in developing and implementing groups that focus on selfesteem, social skills development while encouraging physical activity and healthy eating habits. Additionally, the members will work to increase awareness of mental health services throughout Essex County by developing and implementing an outreach campaign that will focus on medical providers, service agencies and residents.

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‘10 DODGE DAKOTA QUAD CAB 4X4 Stk#929C Loaded w/ V6, big horn, pkg., alloys and more..................$23,988*

‘08 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LIMITED Stk#983P 1 owner, loaded w/ hemi, leather, sunroof, only 39,922 miles.............$24,988*

‘08 RAM 1500 QUAD CAB 4X4 Stk#1010P. Loaded w/ Big Horn Pkg., Hemi, Full Power, Hitch & More, Only 25,846 miles .......................................................................$25,988*

‘10 RAM 1500 QUAD CAB 4X4 TRX Stk#11070. Off Road, Loaded w/ Full Power, Bedliner, Running Boards, Only 9,376 miles .......................................................................$25,988*

Payments include all available rebates. Must qualify for military, lease conquest or returning lessee. 39 months, 32,500 miles with $2,999 down plus first payment, tax and fees. Security deposit waived for well-qualified customers. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excess wear and tear, plus tax & fees. 25¢ a mile over 32,500 miles. Expires 8/19/11.

73736

• 7 Year/100,000 mile powertrain limited warranty • Lifetime Certified Upgrade Plans • 24-Hour Roadside Assistance • Free 3-Month Subscription for SIRIUSXM® Satellite Radio

‘08 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN SE

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Automotive

Need an auto? Need someone to take that auto off your hands?

Find what you’re looking for here!

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AUTO ACCESSORIES TIRES FOUR Snow Brigestone Blizzak WS50 M&S P195-65R15 steel belted radial, mounted on Chrysler Cirrus rims, 1/2 tread left, $98. 518-668-5272.

TONNEAU COVER for a small truck $99.

518-523-9456

AUTO DONATIONS A-1 DONATE YOUR CAR! Breast Cancer Research foundation! Most highly rated breast cancer charity in America! Tax Deductible/Fast Free Pick Up. 800-771-9551 www.cardonationsforbreastcancer.org CARS/TRUCKS WANTED! Top $$$$$ PAID! Running or Not, All Years, Makes, Models.

Free Towing! We’re Local! 7 Days/Week. Call Toll Free: 1-888-416-2330 DONATE YOUR CAR. FREE TOWING. “Cars for Kids”. Any condition. Tax deductible outreachcenter.com, 1-800-597-9411

DONATE A CAR - Food on Wheels. Helping seniors less fortunate. Free tow within 3 hours.Serving the community since 1992.

Two week vacation package. www.foodonwheels.org or visit us at 1-800-364-5849.

DONATE A CAR - SAVE A CHILD’S LIFE! Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch: Helping Abused and Neglected Children in NY for over 30 years. Please Call 1-800-252-0561.

BOATS

FARM EQUIPMENT

1980 18 1/2’ Century Cuddy Cabin, 120 HP, I/O, trailer, GPS, fish finder, down rigger & more. $3900. 518-963-8220

1964 FORD 4000 4cyl., gas. Industrial loader & Industrial Front End, 12 spd.

Sherman Transmission, pie weights, 3 pt. hitch & PTO. $5600. 518-962-2376

DONATE YOUR VEHICLE UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION. Free Mammogram www.ubcf.info RECEIVE $1000 GROCERY COUPON 1-888-4685964

UTILITY TRAILER 10’ USED TO HAUL 2 BIKES, HAS RAMP AND TIE DOWNS, LIKE NEW $1000.00 919-271-9819 LOCATED IN CHESTERTOWN SAILFISH SAILBOAT -- HULL ONLY! (wooden). No sails, boom, or mast included. In decent condition. $90. Call 518-942-5933.

WANTED JAPANESE MOTORCYCLES KAWASAKI 1970-1980 Z1-900, KZ900, KZ 1000, H2-750, H1-500, S1-250, S2-250, S2350, S3-400 CASH. 1-800-772-1142, 1310-721-0726 usa@classicrunners.com

CARS FOR SALE

REC VEHICLES SALES/RENTALS

2002 CHEVY Malibu, good condition, snow tires $2,900 OBO, 518-420-2206.

New 2011 Ford Fusion SE

$

Stk#SEM368

MSRP......................$23,535

Essex County Fair Special!

Offer ends 9/5/11

0

%

for 60 mos.*

19,985

New 2011 Ford F150 XLT 4x4

Stk#SEM448 MSRP...........................................$36,955 Ford Retail Customer Cash............-$2,000 FMCC Bonus Cash...........................$1,000 Dealer Discount.............................-$1,400

$

Essex County Fair Special!

Offer ends 9/5/11

32,255

TRUCK OR VAN FOR SALE 2000 FORD Truck 4WD Ranger V6, Standard Transmission, Supercab 4D, 171,306 mileage. $3,000 OBO. 518-5947206. Located at 5687 Military Turnpike.

MOTORCYCLE/ ATV

DONATE VEHICLE: RECEIVE $1000 GROCERY COUPONS. NATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION SUPPORT NO KILL SHELTERS HELP HOMELESS PETS FREE TOWING, TAX DEDUCTIBLE, NONRUNNERS ACCEPTED 1-866-912-GIVE DONATE YOUR CAR\’85 To The Cancer Fund of America. Help Those Suffering With Cancer Today. Free Towing and Tax deductible. 1-800-835-9372 www.cfoa.org

1988 FLEETWOOD Pace Arrow Class A Motorhome, 34 ft., Recent Upgrades, Excellent Condition. $9,500. 518-963-8338.

2000 FREIGHTLINER FLD120. Rebuilt radiator to rear. 2,500 watt inverter and refrigerator. Asking $10,000 or best offer. Call (518) 546-7120.

1994 PROWLER tag along camper.

Like new. Everything works like new and no leaks. Call 518-894-3968. Book value almost $5,000 asking $4600. MUST SEE

1998 LAYTON 27’ 5th wheel, bunks, sleeps 8, xlnt condition. $6800 OBO. 518-534-1278.

ROADTREK 210 and Car Dolley on Chevy 3500 Extended Cab. Many Extras, Excellent Condition, 9,000 Miles. Asking $45,000. 518534-6092.

99 RANGER 4x4, V-6, auto, PS, AC, Stereo/CD, 130K, bedliner, fiberglass cap w/ sliding windows, nice, clean. $4595. 518576-9042

Fishing for a good deal?

Catch the greatest bargains in the Classifieds 1-800-989-4237

New 2012 Ford Focus SE

MSRP......................$20,080 FMCC Bonus Cash........-$500 Dealer Discount...........-$585

$

Essex County Fair Special!

Offer ends 9/5/11

18,985 Stk#SEN037

New 2012 Ford Escape XLT 4x4

MSRP...........................................$27,245 Ford Retail Bonus Customer Cash. -$1,000 Dealer Discount.............................-$1,000

$

Essex County Fair Special!

Offer ends 9/5/11

25,245 Stk#SEN035

*Subject to FMCC approval. All customers may not qualify.

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2011Chrysler 200 Limited

2011Chrysler 200Touring

Stk#AL222, Black, 3.6 V6 Engine, Leather, Sunroof, Fantastic Stereo withNavigation

Stk#AL210, Deep Cherry Red, 3.6 V6 Engine, Leather, Sunroof, Outstanding Stereo with Navigation

Stk#AL189, Black, 3.6 V6 Engine, Cloth Seats, Sunroof, Terrific Stereo with Sirius Free for 1 Year

$$

2011Chrysler 200 Limited

$$

24,995

$$

28,525

873-6386 873-6386• www.adirondack auto.com

873-6386 1998 Ford Ranger

2006 Dodge Dakota SLT 4x4 4 Door, V8, PW, PL, Moon Roof, Red, 64K Miles

V6, Auto, X-Cab, AC, 107K Miles

4,800

$

2007 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT 4x4 Hemi, Auto, 4 Door, PW, PL, Gold, 39K Miles

$

20,800

Loaded, Leather, Sunroof, 98K Miles, One Owner

$

12,800

2006 Dodge Caravan SXT 87,875 Miles

9,800

2008 Pontiac G5 GT 4 Cyl., Auto, Sunroof, 1 Owner, 59K Miles

17,800

2004 Buick Rainier CXL

$

74236

Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY

Dealer #3160005

$

*Tax, title, registration fee additional. See dealer for complete incentive details.

Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY

DEALER #3160005

28,525

$

8,800

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2003 Subaru Legacy Wagon LL Bean Edition, Sunroof, 131K Miles

$

7,800 74184