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VOLUME 2: NUMBER 3
MARCH 2022
Not a Vacation Trip By Donna Thompson
Colorado wildfires.
On Dec. 31, when most area residents were getting ready to celebrate the New Year, Dan Enea was preparing for a trip to Colorado.
He had thought he’d be heading for Kentucky to assist victims of the tornadoes that had torn through that state, “but they switched me to Colorado.”
It wasn’t a vacation trip. Enea, who, in addition to being the owner of Mohawk Valley Funerals & Cremations on State Route 5, Little Falls, serves as disaster program manager for Territory 3 of the American Red Cross’s Eastern New York Region, was going to help with the organization’s efforts to assist victims of the
Enea initially wondered what was going on in Colorado. Then he turned on the news and Photo provided by Dan Enea - Local resident Dan Enea, right, takes his place with other American saw the footage of the Red Cross volunteers at the disaster response center in Boulder County as they prepare to meet wildfires that were forcing with and assist Colorado residents who were evacuated during the Marshall Fire. thousands of people to evacuees, but most had County. Red Cross as financial assistance, someplace to stay, so volunteers set up tables he said. flee their homes. the shelters were closed. and computers and He flew to Colorado, Enea spent most of his began welcoming those The Salvation Army and where he spent the first deployment in the Red impacted by the fire. The two weeks of 2022. He Cross disaster response center was prepared local United Way were was initially assigned to center in Lafayette, to offer spiritual and also on hand to assist and help provide shelter for Colorado, in Boulder mental support as well Please See FIRE Page 2
Main Street First develops program to help fill vacancies by Dave Warner
Aerial view of Main Street Little Falls in the late summer of 2021.
A number of people, both local, and visitors to the City have commented about the empty storefronts on Main Street. So, a committee of four individuals was formed from members belonging to Main Street
First, hoping to come up with an idea of what could be done proactively.
Neil Rosenbaum, one of the members of the committee stated, “We decided that there was something that could be done about it and the idea was that with all the other
things that are happening, relative to development in the City and in the County and Region...that having a place for people to mill around and shop seemed an important thing to focus on.” The group had several Please See VACANCIES Page 5
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