Clay Insider - October 2011

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Carl Sotherden remembers.

OCTOBER 2011

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Fall is in the air Photo by Sarah Hall

Apple pies line the bake sale table at the Clay Fall Festival Sept. 17 at the Clay Historical Park. The event featured classic cars, crafts, food and historical goods for sale, a petting zoo, horse and buggy rides, kids’ games and more. For more photos, see page 12.

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Out of the ashes It happens to all of us: We grow up, we move out and we leave our childhood homes behind. But what do you do when your childhood home doesn’t exist anymore?

On Dec. 21, 2010, a fire broke out in the family room of my mother’s house in Clay. Fire investigators determined that faulty wiring on a space heater sparked the blaze, which quickly spread from the room in the back of the house throughout the downstairs. My mother, who was home at the time, was able to get herself, my brother and the two dogs out. Within 10 to 15 minutes, fire crews from all over the northern suburbs were on the scene fighting the fire.

At first, we thought the damage wasn’t that bad. We assumed the fire was contained to the family room, possibly

the kitchen. We knew the two guinea pigs and the rabbit were gone; their cages were right where the fire had started. We thought the three cats had likely survived.

We weren’t so lucky.

While the actual flames had mostly been contained to the family room and part of the kitchen, the heat was so intense – reaching about 900 to 1,000 degrees, according to the Clay fire chief on duty (at this point, regretfully, I don’t remember his name) – that most of the kitchen had literally melted. When we walked through hours later, the countertops had dissolved into unrecognizable lumps, yet an open bag of potato chips remained – blackened, yet still identifiable.

There was also plenty of smoke, which permeated throughout the house. It was the smoke that caused the most dam-

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age, coating everything in the house with a thick layer of black ash. Nothing was spared, not even clothes tucked away in the back of a closet or buried in a drawer.

The fire chief called the house a total loss.

All of our Christmas tree ornaments, collected so lovingly over the years, one per child per year, melted and destroyed.

All of the photos, covered in soot. Our family pets, the cats who would crawl into our laps and bite our ankles as we walked by, did not survive the disaster. All of the

knickknacks, the books, the toys saved from our youth, everything that made our house a home, gone.

A total loss, indeed.

In the days and weeks that followed, my family was overwhelmed with simple kindnesses, from the generous and compassionate neighbors who flooded my living room with gifts for them to make sure they still had a Christmas to the stranger in the long-term hotel where they spent the first three weeks after the fire who See Ashes page 4

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REMEMBERING CLAY The Hafner Family homestead: Part II

Carl Sotherden reminisces

By Dorothy Heller Although he has been gone for several years and his wife, Martha, more recently, both were well-known residents of Clay and members of Immanuel Church. He was a farmer all his life and proud of it. We will learn of his birth, starting school and a small part of farm life, much in his own words and style.* “I was born in 1908 and have always lived in Clay. I still live in the house I was born in. In those days, it was no big deal to have a baby and most babies wee born at home so they could be with the mothers, I guess (A dry pun I’d like to throw in). I have been told that when my mother had her ‘tummy ache’, on the 27th day of May, she sent my sister, who was about 6 years old, to a field where my dad and a hired man were ‘hand-planting’ field corn, with a note to come to the house. The family doctor was notified and he came by horse and buggy to help Mom get rid of her ‘tummy ache.’ A 10-pound boy came to live with Mom, Dad, Marion and Maurice.

The doctor generally made four or five trips at $2 or $3 for a normal birth and there was generally a ‘midwife’ or hired girl to carry out the doctor’s wishes. The Mother was confined in bed much longer than at present.

“I might explain that most of the land hereabouts was divided into ‘family farms’ each consisting of about 50 acres. A ‘family farm’ was an operation which involved everyone in the family, raising most of the staples needed to be self-sustaining, i.e. corn, oats, winter wheat and hay; a well-planned vegetable garden, various types of berries, fruit trees, cherries, plums, prunes and pears; an acre or so of field pumpkins to feed the dairy cattle; maybe two or three acres of potatoes, cabbage or pickles as a cash crop.

As I began to get around the barn more, I remember we each had our chores and we were expected to do them on time.

“I started school in September 1914 and both our road [Rogers Corners Road], now Caughdenoy Road, and [Cicero-Baldwinsville Road] now Route 31 were dirt country roads. I believe it was in 1915 that they paved

Route 31. How I remember was that I was going to school and saw the laborers with the picks and shovels working on the project. Some of these laborers were inmates of the Onondaga County prison at Jamesville, and they were transported to their jobs each morning in an open truck with seats running lengthwise, one on each side. The two men who had charge of the truck were acquainted with our school teachers, Florence Strever and later Mrs. Fred Graves. One day all of us pupils piled on the truck to and had our picture taken.

“I also remember that they brought in the crushed stone and cement by railroad and unloaded the cars on the sidings at Clay Station. These materials were then drawn to the paving site by horse-drawn cump wagons. Some of these teams were owned by local farmers while some were Teamsters who followed the seasonal work throughout the year for hire. The dump wagons had trap doors on the bottom which the driver could release at the proper time and then by the aid of a lever and chain, they were able to pump them back in place for the next load. Much of the preparation of the road was done by pick and shovel, so it was a long and tedious job compared to today’s standards.

“Anyone brought up in those times, especially on a farm, learned early in life that money did not grow on trees and it was necessary that each one in the family should help in bringing home the bacon. If we received a gift, it just became natural that we showed we rally appreciated it. I remember when I was about 5 or 6 years old that my dad brought me home a new ‘flexible flyer’ steerable hand sleigh from Syracuse after he delivered a load of hay to the fire house on Wolf Street. He hid the Christmas present up in the hay mow, but somehow or other, I managed to find it before the holiday. I also recall seeing the price of $1.75, which at that time was a lot of cash for just one present.

“It seems only natural that we children should try to earn a little money on the side, if the opportunity presented itself. Harvey and Nettie Thompson who owned the farm across the road were elderly people living alone and many times I would help them do little odd jobs for which they gave me a nickel or dime, which looked big to me. I recall

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going over to hold the kerosene lantern for Nettie so she could see to milk the two or three cows they kept. This did not happen too often, only when Harvey, who loved to play cards with some of his buddies, forgot he had cows to milk and so the wife had to take over. He was generally chastised severely by Nettie, which straightened him up for a few weeks.”

There is so much more on growing up in the early 1900’s on a farm in Clay, which will be presented in the near future. *From the manuscript Reminiscing, by Carl A. Sotherden, Sr. Completed November 5, 1982.

Dorothy Heller is the historian for the town of Clay. She can be reached at historian@townofclay.org.

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Ashes pressed $60 into my mother’s hand after he overheard her talking to the desk clerk.

It made the loss more bearable.

Of course, when the structural damage is that severe, you can’t just clear away the debris and move right back in.

The house had to be stripped down to the studs and rebuilt. That meant that my mother, my brother (when he was home from school) and my two sisters, along with the two dogs, had to find a rental home in the interim. After much searching – after all, they’d need a home that would accept the dogs, one in Liv-

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From page 2 erpool where Kerry still attends school – they were able to find one in the same neighborhood as the home that was destroyed. In fact, it’s just a street over.

Kerry could even ride the same bus to school.

It was lucky, and they were grateful, but it’s not the same. It wasn’t their home.

My sister put it this way: “It’s like someone shoots your dog, then gives you a fish, and people keep saying to you, ‘Hey, at least you got that fish.’ I don’t want the stupid fish.’”

My family lived in the rental home for

eight long months, watching and waiting as their home – our home – was rebuilt from the ground up. Finally, Labor Day weekend, on Sept. 3, they moved back in.

More than nine months after the fire, my family is finally back home. The thing is, the home they once knew is completely different. Because the house was stripped down to the studs, my mother decided to make some changes to the floor plan, altering the layout of the house a bit. The rooms are different; they also had to get all new furniture and replace pretty much all of the house’s contents.

It’s strange, being in the new-old house. My mother is working hard to make it their home again, bringing her special touch to it; she’s quite a decorator, my mother, and she’ll get it in order pretty quickly. But I don’t know that it’ll ever be the same. I look at pictures and I’m struck by the fact that objects in the background simply don’t exist anymore.

I know my family will make this house a home just as they did before. What else can they do?

Maybe it’s not a total loss after all.

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One of the confections made by Charlotte’s Desserts founder Melanie Kayser-Brown, cupcake cones are a favorite at children’s parties. new recipes to her regular repertoire. For the holidays, in addition to her regular flavors – vanilla, chocolate, lemon, carrot cake and red velvet cupcakes with vanilla, chocolate, lemon, pistachio cream cheese and European chocolate buttercream icing – she’s creating gingerbread cupcakes with mocha frosting.

No matter what flavor, Kayser-Brown said her cakes stand above the rest.

“Once you taste it, you’ll see,” she said.

“It’s so original. It’s so good. It’s like nothing you’ve ever tasted before.”

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“She would make pastries in her kitchen, and I would watch her bake,” Kayser-Brown said. “Then she would bring them into the local village and sell them. As I got older, she taught me how to make them.”

Those recipes would become the foundation of Charlotte’s Desserts, the business Kayser-Brown started out of her Clay home in June of 2010. Mostly, she makes gourmet mini-cupcakes, focusing on quality ingredients and flavor. She said flavor is something missing in many baked goods.

“I used to go to the supermarket bakery, and all you’d taste was just pure sugar,” Kayser-Brown said. “There was no real flavor there. So I went back to my grandma’s old recipes.”

Kayser-Brown adapted those recipes, taking some of the sugar and oil and using the purest ingredients – high-quality vanilla and cocoa, organic eggs, whole-grain flour, applesauce, real butter. The end result was a better-tasting cake.

“I’ve gotten feedback from about 2,000 people,” Kayser-Brown said. “Of that, only two said they didn’t like them. I think that’s pretty good.”

And it’s not just mini-cupcakes. KayserBrown and a partner have started selling cakes – Kayser-Brown does the baking and her partner, the decorating.

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The event is planned by a Liverpool Dollars for Scholars board sub-committee chaired by Janice Harvey and Rob Just, with support from other board members and the Dollars For Scholars Student Group led by LHS teacher Lynette Avery.

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FOCUS Program at Liverpool High School sophomore Kevin Solano, left, and freshman Codie Addy work together to dig a hole for one of the trees the school planted in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Students from the FOCUS Program at Liverpool High School recently planted two serviceberry trees in front of their school building in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The trees were planted in memory of those who lost their lives 10 years ago and in honor of those who risk their lives each and every day to make sure their communities are safe. “It is important to understand what people have given,� said FOCUS resource

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Your school tax bill, explained Tax receiver This is where you need to send your tax payment by Oct. 6. You can also make your payment in person. This will vary depending on the town in which you live.

Your name and address If there are any errors, contact your tax office immediately.

Any exemptions If you qualify for a STAR exemption, that information will be found here. Basic STAR is available for owner-occupied, primary residences where the resident owners’ and their spouse’s income is less than $500,000. It exempts the first $30,000 of the full value of a home from school taxes. Enhanced STAR provides an increased benefit for the primary residences of senior citizens (age 65 and older) with qualifying incomes. This exempts the first $60,100 of the full value of a home from school taxes. If you think you qualify, see your tax receiver.

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levy, which is the total amount to be raised through property taxes. This amount fluctuates annually. There are several steps involved in determining the tax levy.

First, the school district develops and adopts a budget. Revenue from all sources other than the property tax (state aid, sales tax revenue, user fees, etc.) is determined. These revenues are subtracted from the original budget and the remainder becomes the tax levy.

Taxable value This is the total taxable value – in many cases, the assessed value – of your home. f you have questions about this value, contact your town assessment office.

Tax levy change This represents the change in the tax levy from the previous year. It is impacted by factors like changes in the amount of state aid to a district or population fluctuations.

Tax rate The tax rate is set by your school district. It is the amount of the tax levy that is raised through the property tax.

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Total due and due date Your total school taxes due. You must pay this amount, in person or by mail, by Oct. 6. If you do not pay by that date, a late fee will be assessed. If you do not pay by Oct. 31, you must make your payment to Onondaga County.

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Upcoming events Saturday, Oct. 1

Pet Food and Supplies Drop-A-Thon and Silent Auction. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humane Association of CNY 4915 ½ West Taft Road. Donations of pet food and snacks, clay litter, litter boxes, toys, other cat and dog supplies, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, unscented dryer sheet, and monetary donations are welcomed.

Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8

Attic Treasures and Rummage Sale. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the United Church of Christ in Bayberry, 215 Blackberry Road, Liverpool. All types of gently used clothing and shoes and will be available as well as all kinds of household and Christmas items. Hosted by the Women’s Fellowship of UCC. For more information call the church at 652-6789.

Friday, Oct. 14 and Saturday, Oct. 15

St. Rose of Lima annual Parish Harvest Festival. 4 to 10 p.m. at St. Rose, 409 S. Main St., North Syracuse. $10,000 raffle; tickets available starting in September. Contact the parish office at 458-0283 to purchase your ticket. Adult volunteers, CCD student volunteers, frozen turkey donations, attic treasure donations, raffle donations and use of a moving truck, UHaul truck or van needed; call the parish office at 458-0283 to help. Visit StRoseNY.com for more information.

Saturday, Oct. 15

Clay VFD Fire Prevention Open House. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Clay Volunteer Fire Department Headquarters, 4383 Route 31, Clay. Event is held in conjunction with National Fire Prevention Week.

Sparky the Clay Fire Dog, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department, New York State Police, NOVA, NAVAC, Jerome Fire Equipment Company, Wilderness Search and Rescue and the Dive Team. Fire trucks, live demonstrations, handouts and refreshments. For more information call 652-4242 or 652-4747.

Ongoing

Chorus members invited. The North Syracuse Community Singers, directed by Josephine Federico, is seeking new members. The group will resume rehearsals in September and meet weekly throughout the school year. Rehearsals are typically held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays at the North Syracuse Community Center, 700 South Bay Road. All are welcome. There is a nominal registration fee. For further information you may call 457-5010 or the North Syracuse Parks and Recreation department at 4588050.

Preschool openings. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Preschool accepting 2011-12 school year registrations for two-, three- and five-day programs for 3- to 5-year-old children. Call 6529364.

Volunteers

Drivers needed. B’ville Meals on Wheels desperately needs drivers. Even once a month would be greatly appreciated. Call 638-2171.

Girl Scout volunteers. Girl Scout volunteers are needed. Give your time to a group of girls at the age of your choosing (kindergarten through 12th grade) for as little as once a month. Call 857-4666.

Videographers. B’ville PAC-B (cable access Channel 98) is in need of volunteer videographers.

Coverage of local events including government and school meetings needed to broadcast on Channel 98. Call 638-2768.

Editor’s note: Send your event notices to the Clay Insider, 2501 James St., Suite 100, Syracuse, NY 13206. The fax number is 434-8883. Send e-mail messages in the body of the email and not as an attachment to editor@eaglestarreview.com. Notices must have the date, time and location of the event. For further information, call 434-8889 ext. 310.

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By Matthew Liptak There will soon be a Walgreens in the town of Clay. Construction on the 14,820-square-foot store is well underway at the corner of Taft and Buckley roads. �We look for the best corners in America to build our stores and to offer very convenient pharmacy and retail services,� said Robert Elfinger, spokesperson for Walgreens. “We’re looking at expansion in the northeast as well as California. Those are probably the areas where we are seeing the most opportunities to grow our business.�

The company currently includes 7,742 stores with growth at 2 to 3 percent a year, Elfinger said.

The original design for the store at Taft and Buckley was not seen as aesthetically pleasing enough, but the Clay planning commissioner said a nicer-looking design with a peaked roof, more windows and brick facing was approved. “Our planning board wanted a nicer design for that store than the average Walgreens,� said Commissioner of Planning Mark Territo.

The town board originally approved the construction of the facility in 2009, authorizing a special permit for a drive-through pharmacy. The developer then went through the planning board for necessary approvals. That process was completed two years ago. Construction, however, just began this summer. Territo believed the delay in construction from 2009 until now was due to the poor economy. “From what we understood it was just the economy,� he said. “They (Walgreens) just kind of sat on their approval but waited till the economy got better for them.�

Photo by Matthew Liptak

Construction is well underway for a new Walgreens at the corner of Taft and Buckley roads in Clay. The 14820 square foot building is due to be completed by the spring.

The store is expected to open in the spring of 2012. The new Walgreens would be at least the fourth pharmacy within one mile of the North Medical Center on Taft Road, including Kinney Drugs, Rite Aid and Wegmans.

There is no significant change expected in the traffic at the intersection.   Â

News from the Baldwinsville School District

School district to survey stakeholders

By Kelly Cary Between Oct. 3 and 14, the Baldwinsville Central School District will ask parents, students (fourth through 12th grades) and staff members to participate in a survey to determine their perceptions of the district.

District administrators and the Board of Education value stakeholder opinions and feedback. The results of the survey will assist the district in long-range planning,

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as well as in identifying areas for continuous improvement in order to provide all students with a successful learning experience.

The survey is centered on the researchbased nine characteristics of high performing schools: ď ĄClear and shared focus; ď ĄHigh standards and expectations for all students; ď ĄEffective school leadership; ď ĄHigh levels of collaboration and communication; ď ĄCurriculum, instruction and assessment aligned with standards; ď ĄFrequent monitoring of learning and teaching; ď ĄFocused professional development; ď ĄSupportive learning environment; and ď ĄHigh levels of family and community involvement.

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ensure statistically reliable results. The WSWHE BOCES will receive and tabulate all survey information.

At the end of September, the district will mail a survey to each household with a child in school. The survey will include a pre-addressed (addressed to WSWHE BOCES), postage-paid envelope to return the survey. It will take no longer than 30 minutes to complete. All answers are confidential and anonymous. The district is asking parents to return the survey by Oct. 14.

Students in fourth through 12th grades will be surveyed electronically, in school, between Oct. 3 and 14. Staff will be able to access the survey on the WSWHE BOCES website with a password, which the district will provide. The district will also provide staff with a link to the survey on the district’s website.

It will be available from Oct. 3 to 7.

Results of the survey will be available on the district’s website as well as published in a future issue of the district newsletter, once they have been tabulated.

Kelly Cary is the school information officer for the Baldwinsville Central School District.

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Simmons Bedding Company and Raymour & Flanigan, the nation’s seventh– largest furniture retailer, this week surprised Moyers Corners Fire Department’s volunteer firefighters by outfitting Station One in Clay with 10 new ComforPedic Loft™ memory foam mattresses, helping firefighters who “work hot” to “sleep cool” thanks to the cooling properties featured in the mattresses’ proprietary ComforPedic Loft™ NxG Memory Foam.

“We’re honored to give back to Onondaga County firefighters who fearlessly protect our community,” said Neil Goldberg, president and CEO of Raymour & Flanigan. “We hope these new beds provide firefighters at Station One with comfortable and rejuvenating sleep and serve as a reminder of our ongoing gratitude for their dedication.”

The mattresses, from Raymour & Flanigan’s Mill Ridge ComforPedic Loft collection, feature NxG Memory Foam

Photo submitted by Suzy Bowen

Peter Dewey, senior strategic account manager for Simmons Bedding Company (back center in black suit) and ComforPedic Loft, surprised firefighters at Station One with a “mattress makeover” on Monday, Sept. 12.

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Volunteer firefighters along with Butch Webster, vice president of Simmons’ Specialty Sleep division (in gray) and Patrick Judd, director of bedding for Raymour & Flanigan (kneeling in front) gather around the new ComforPedic Loft beds in the bunking room at Station One in the Moyers Corners Fire Department. which dissipates heat through improved airflow and responds quickly to your movements for ultimate comfort. Additionally, the mattress sets are designed to provide enhanced durability and support over the life of the mattresses.

Representatives from Raymour & Flanigan and Simmons made the surprise delivery on Monday, Sept. 12, and Raymour & Flanigan removed and properly disposed of the station’s old beds. Student residents of the station’s Bunk-In Program will enjoy four of the new mattress sets in their living quarters, while the other six will provide restful sleep for volunteer firefighters in Station One’s main sleeping room.

“ComforPedic has a continued dedication to community investment, and we’re glad to extend those efforts to the greater Syracuse area,” said Anne Kozel, Simmons’ Specialty Sleep brand director. “We’re proud to help provide these volunteers with the cool, refreshing night’s sleep they deserve.”

The “Work Hot, Sleep Cool” Firestation Makeover is part of the 20-week ComforPedic Loft roadshow tour, Simmons’ mobile showroom which will travel more than 10,000 miles to showcase the new ComforPedic Loft line to 35 retailers across the U.S. For more information on Raymour & Flanigan, visit www.raymourflanigan.com.

To learn more about Simmons Bedding Company and ComforPedic Loft, visit simmons.com.

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TOP LEFT: Carol Bell peels and slices apples for fritters – a favorite treat – at the Clay Fall Festival at the Clay HIstorical Park on Sept. 17. ABOVE: Jeff the Magician works his magic for a crowd of kids at the Clay Fall Festival. BELOW: The smell of roasting rotisserie chickens welcomed visitors. BOTTOM: Margaret Currier of Phoenix demonstrates caning a chair at the Clay Fall Festival. Currier, who learned the art through an adult education class, has been caning chairs for about 30 years.