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Free naloxone kits available Life-saving drug can bring patient back from an overdose By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER

TICONDEROGA | With starting speed, a hit of naloxone can rush to receptors in the brain of a dying drug user and shove aside the opioids than are shutting down the central nervous system. Like that, the previously comatose patient is breathing again, alert and sober.

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Nurse Manager Julie Lamotte displays a naloxone kit at the Ticonderoga hospital. The kits are now available free of charge in UVM health centers in Elizabethtown and Ti. Photo by Tim Rowland See NALOXONE » pg. 3

FILMS THAT PLAY POLITICS Mini-film fest features activist documentaries By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER

SARANAC LAKE | Three documentaries from Vermont filmmakers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller — whose work highlights activism and social justice — will be shown in Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake theaters over the Columbus Day weekend. A salt conference at Lake Placid heard about the dangers of using too much salt to melt snow.

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Annual summit: Need for salt reduction in Adirondacks By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER

LAKE PLACID | Wegmans is an upscale supermarket chain with exacting standards and some pretty fi rm ideas about snow removal in their meticulously groomed parking lots. “They didn’t even want their customers walking through slush,” said Phill Sexton, founder of an environmental consulting firm. But there was another problem. Especially with the onset of climate change, winter storms can fluctuate wildly, and the company was spending anywhere between $3 million and $10 million on snow removal. In an industry operating on razor-thin margins, such a broad financial unknowable was not acceptable. “They need to know what they

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can charge for a can of beans,” said Sexton, founder of WIT Advisors. The supermarket can’t go around raising prices on that can just because of a hard winter. A major cost of snow removal is salt, and while Wegmans hasn’t eliminated salt application, it has controlled costs by scaling back said. It is an instructive anecdote for the Adirondacks, where a growing coalition is seeking to reduce the amount of road salt because of its environmental impact. Last week more than 150 people attended the 5th Annual Salt Summit in Lake Placid, a confab sponsored this year by the Ausable River Association, The FUND for Lake George, AdkAction, and Lake Champlain Sea Grant. A pilot salt-reduction project in Lake George has reduced salt applications by 50 percent, and a

similar effort is now being waged in the heart of the Adirondacks, with 24 jurisdictions signing a memorandum of understanding pledging to reduce the amount of salt spread on highways, parking lots and sidewalks. Mirror Lake, the scenic backdrop to an untold number of “selfies” in the resort town, is of particular concern to conservationists because it’s a basin that collects salty runoff not just from highways, but from a dense collection of homes and businesses. According to a study by the Ausable River Association and Paul Smith’s College, warm, oxygen- and nutrient-rich waters at the surface of Mirror Lake are increasingly blocked from their seasonal decent to the bottom by the cold water below, which has grown too dense with salt to rise.

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The documentaries of Vermont filmmakers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller will be featured in Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake over the Columbus Day weekend.


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