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May 14, 2011

• Government response to flooding .............p6• City and Town ...........................................p7• The trouble with quackgrass .....................p8• Going gluten-free ......................................p8• Our Furry Friends......................................p8• Farmers Market returns for season............p9• St. Mary’s makes $80,000 goal ...............p10• Petty ride for charity in Lake Placid........p14• What’s Happenin’....................................p26• Weekly Comics........................................p26• Puzzle Page .............................................p27• Death Notices ..........................................p28• Real Estate Transactions..........................p28• Classifieds/Automotive......................p29-32PAGE 18

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By Jeremiah S. [email protected]

PLATTSBURGH — The State University ofNew York at Plattsbur gh has of ficially with-drawn r ecognition of the Theta Kappa Betafraternity following a series of violations ofcampus regulations.

The fraternity was of ficially stripped of itsrecognition April 28 after campus judicial pro-cedures found the fraternity was r esponsiblefor hosting an activity which involved under-age individuals in possession of alcohol. Ac-cording to a press release issued by the univer-sity, the sanction means Theta Kappa Beta“must cease all operations as a college frater-nity and that all campus privileges have beenrevoked.”

The decision stemmed from a fall 2010 inci-dent in which underage fraternity memberswere photographed with alcohol at a fraterni-ty function. The decision was appealed bymembers of Theta Kappa Beta but that was re-cently denied, said William Laundry, the uni-versity’s vice president for student affairs.

“When a group is disciplined, you obvious-ly look at the incident at hand and it was themost recent incident that resulted in the sanc-tion being imposed — the withdrawal of their

recognition,” explained Laundry, who addedsimilar incidents date back several years forthe fraternity. “The members has the right toappeal the sanction, but when looking at themost r ecent incident and their r ecord, that’swhen the determination was made the sanc-tion was appropriate.”

Laundry said the decision is in effect untilthe last of the current members of Theta Kap-pa Beta have graduated or four years has goneby, whichever comes first. At that time, the fra-ternity can reapply for recognition.

“If that happens, then ther e’s a process forforming a Greek fraternal organization oncampus,” said Laundry. “It involves the Com-mittee on Greek Affairs and the Interfraterni-ty Council. It’s isn’t just filling out a paper andyou’re back in; you’ve got to go thr ough aprocess.”

The committee will r eview how the frater-nity has handled its loss of r ecognition, hesaid.

“They’ll look at if they have been tr ouble-some or if they have complied and basicallytraveled the straight and narrow,” said Laun-dry. “Will that happen? We’ll see.”

Interfraternity Council President Nick Lav-igne said he was saddened by the situation butsupports the university’s decision.

“Our fraternity and sor ority communityholds each other accountable and in living bythe values that are there for the purpose of be-ing better men and women,” said Lavign e.“People in the community were kind of upsetthey weren’t upholding their values.”

“It is fr ustrating and disappointing for agroup to lose their recognition, but it’s not theend of the world,” said Laundry . “We’ve hadother gr oups lose r ecognition ... and they’ve

made a c omeback a nd a re b igger a nd b etterthan ever.”

Should the fraternity continue to operate,members will be subject to college discipli-nary action, according to a statement from theuniversity. As a result, the Center for Sororityand Fraternity Life and the University Policeare asking students and the public to r eportany evidence of the fraternity continuing tofunction.

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The Theta Kappa Beta fraternity, which occupies this house on South Catherine Street, has been stripped ofits recognition by the State University of New York at Plattsburgh following accounts of underage posses-sion of alcohol and other conduct unbecoming of a sanctioned fraternal organization.

Photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau

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Lending some helping handsEfforts continued throughout the week to clean up from the devastating flood waters that have hit the region in recent weeks. Studentsfrom the State University of New York at Plattsburgh were among those volunteering their time at places like the Bay Harbor Apartmentscomplex on Margaret Street. Shown here, from left, are Katie Bergin, Joe Lonergan, Megan Clahane and Stephanie Rekemeyer.

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School districts acr oss the state ar epreparing for their annual budgetvotes Tuesday, May 17. Facing cuts instate aid and an increase in the overallcost of doing business, each districtbrought forth proposed budget thatwere ultimately appr oved for thisTuesday’s vote.

Here’s a breakdown of what is beingproposed in the ‘bur gh r eadershiparea:

Beekmantown Central School DistrictThe proposed 2011-12 annual budget

for the Beekmantown Central SchoolDistrict is $38,721,107, a 3.37 increaseover last year ’s budget of $37,458,259.The budget being put before voters uti-lizes $3.5 million in undesignated fundbalance to offset expenditures and willsee a n i ncrease i n th e t ax l evy — t heamount to be raised by taxes — over the

current amount by $2 million. Thebudget also results in an increase in thetax rate by $1.38 per $1,000 of assessedproperty value, with the new proposedrate being $16.84 per thousand.

The budget also calls for eliminatingsix elementary school level teachers,one foreign language teacher , one sci-ence teacher, one social studies teacher,and a part-time universal pr e-kinder-garten teacher. Other positions alreadyreduced or still planned to r educe in-cluded: two typists, two social work-ers, one account clerk typist, one part-time computer application teacher, onecomputer r esource teacher, one part-time school psychologist, one part-time teacher aide, and the dir ector ofcurriculum and instr uction. The posi-tion of computer lab assistant thatequates to three and a half full-time po-sitions ar e also pr oposed to be elimi-nated.

Superintendent Scott A. Amo saidthe district also offered an early retire-

ment o ption t o q ualifying e mployeeswith funding made available thr oughthe federal government.

Plattsburgh City School DistrictThe proposed 2011-12 annual budget

for the Plattsburgh City School Districtis $38,399,039, a 2.3 per cent incr easeover the current budget of $37,519,424.The budget being put before voters uti-lizes $1.9 million from its fund balanceand another $479,000 fr om its r eservefund to offset a “strong reduction” instate aid of $2,438,226 and other in-creases in the cost of doing business asschool district accor ding to superin-tendent James “Jake” Short.

The budget contains a 2.98 per centincrease in the tax levy from$18,755,740 to $19,314,881. The budgetalso contains a tax rate estimated at$21.53 per $1,000 of assessed pr opertyvalue. The current tax rate is $20.96 per$1,000 of assessed property value.

See BUDGETS, continued on page 21

School budgets to go before voters Tuesday

By Nancy Lee DestinySpecial to Denton Publications

PLATTSBURGH — Getready ... get set ... travel!

Summer travel is justaround the corner and twodestinations local author andtravel expert Steve Howellsays are important to consid-er ar e Boston and QuebecCity.

Howell’s new travel guidebook, "Photographic Boston,"hit shelves last week and"Quebec City Complete," anapplication he created for useon the iPhone and iTouch, isdue out any day now.

Photographic Boston, pub-lished by Countryman Press,covers tips for locals andtourists alike. The book in-

cludes Boston spring, sum-mer and fall photos, destina-tions fr om downtown toCambridge ar e some of thehighlighted places which in-spired Howell to take morethan 70 photos.

Howell said he took the ap-proach like a tourist, includ-ing as much of the city as pos-sible in his book. He poundedthe pavement, looked at mapsand used a Boston iPhone apppublished by Sutr o Media —the same company thathelped him publish his Que-bec City iPhone app.

“It’s affordable, an easy tocarry book that can almostdouble as a souvenir becauseeven if you’re not a photogra-pher it just has beautiful col-or photos,” said Howell.

Photographic Boston goesoutside the normal touristbox and explor es a dif ferentpart of Boston neighborhoodsthat you might not normallythink to go to in Boston, How-ell said, like the EmeraldNecklace — a series of nineparks designed by FredrickOlmsted, landscaper artistand architect of Central Parkin New York City.

The Emerald Necklace isstrung along for many miles,

starting with the formal gar-dens of Boston Common, theBoston Garden, the Common-wealth Mall, then to nearwhere the Boston Red Soxplay, then it gets into a mor enatural state and ends.

Howell visits the Harvar dUniversity-run horticulturalpark.

"Its landscaped and naturalsetting is gor geous," saidHowell. "You can climb theselittle mountains there and seethe skyline of Boston; it’s a lit-tle bit outside the city ofBoston."

South Boston destinationsinclude beautiful seasidescenery in the book and bigtouristy spots, and otherneighborhoods with over adozen entries in each chapter.The book includes 90 entries;including a side trip Salem onhow to hop on the commutertrain.

The T-subway stations, in-cluding stops, are covered aswell, to familiarize r eaderswith one form of transporta-tion available.

Howell covers tips on basicphoto shooting for the noviceto the expert. For example,how to get copyright or pressrelease info from the press de-

partment at fine arts muse-um, photo gallery includedhighlighting museums, whata visitor might expect, thebest time to visit, what type oflighting will visitors see, willit cost money.

“St. Patrick’s Day in Bostonis a hoot; don’t miss it," saidHowell. "Boston is the bestplace ever to be for St.Patrick’s Day."

Howell’s iPhone app in-cludes the restaurants andhistory of Quebec, Canadawith things to do, and thetasty cultural foods.

“It’s a big major metropoli-tan area and in 15 minutesyou can be in the middle of aforest; it’s amazing for thatfact. Quebec is so gor geousand it’s so green,” Howellsaid.

The app has at least 20 en-tries, and is less expensivethan a book at $2.99 and is al-ways up to date, said Howell.

"If a restaurant closes, I justdelete that entry ," Howellsaid. "You can’t do that with atravel guide book. W ith theapp you can delete entries,it’s so easy, and you can addcomments."

Local author and travel expert Steve Howell, at right, discusses his newtravel guide book, "Photographic Boston," with Gregg Twergo, a studentat the State University of New York at Plattsburgh where Howell is a pro-fessor.

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Weekend re-enactment to mark150th anniversary of Civil WarPortrayers ofhistory take to battlefield Saturday,SundayBy Jeremiah S. [email protected]

PLATTSBURGH — Thetradition of commemoratingthe Civil War reaches a mon-umental anniversary thisyear, and it’s one MatthewHewson i s l ooking f orwardto marking.

The West Chazy historicalre-enactor and his father, fel-low history buf f W ayneHewson, ar e the father -sonduo once again overseeingthe annual event this week-end on the gr ounds of theformer Plattsburgh Air ForceBase of f Washington Road.The two-day, free admissionevent — hosted by the Clin-ton County Historical Asso-ciation, 11th New York Battery Light Artillery andAlexandria Battery CSA — has taken some extraplanning this year to commemorate the start of awar that divided the nation, said Hewson.

“This year has been similar to past years in theway we went about planning the event. However,this year being the 150th anniversary, we wantedto go with a summer of 1861 theme and try to de-pict a good deal of early war scenes if we could,”said Hewson.

This year ’s event will focus on the first year ofthe Civil War and the events leading up to the first

battle of Manassas, Va. The battles, said Hewson,will depict small unit actions that occurred in themonth preceding Manassas.

Those attending this year ’s event can expect tosee r e-enactors portraying tr oops and civiliansfrom both sides of the Union and Confederate con-flict, said Hewson.

“Over the course of the weekend visitors will beable to see, smell, touch and if they ar e lucky, orbrave enough, taste what the Civil War was like inthe summer of 1861,” he said.

The weekend will consist of thr ee battles thatwill depict the skirmishes that broke out across the

border regions between the North and Southin the early months of the war, said Hewson.In addition to battles, visitors to the eventwill have the opportunity to see infantrydrills, cannon firing demonstrations, andspeak with re-enactors about local units andtheir history.

“We look forwar d every year to bringinghistory to life in Plattsbur gh,” said Hewson,“and we hope folks come down and experi-ence it with us.”

Hewson said the draw to the Civil War en-campment year after year is the ability forspectators to get a glimpse of what life waslike during a time when America was a nationdivided against itself. The event, he added, ismeant to give people a “newfound respect forthe men who fought and died 150 years agoin the Civil War.”

“We really love putting this event on andare so very thankful for the support we havehad in past years fr om the Clinton CountyHistorical Association, the r e-enactors, thepublic and everyone involved,” said Hewson.“We hope that the event will continue to growin the coming years and continue to pr ovidethe community with a valuable opportunityto become better acquainted with a piece oflocal history.”

“We can never control the weather and wehave our fingers cr ossed, but if the weatherdoes not cooperate we hope folks will throw

on the rain gear and come have some fun with uslearning about history anyway,” added Hewson.

The w eekend’s a ctivities w ill b egin S aturday,May 14, at 9 a.m. with the opening of the camps,followed by the first battle at 11 a.m. Demonstra-tions will continue throughout the day, includingcannon demos at 1:30 p.m. and a second battle at3:30 p.m. Camps will close for the day at 5 p.m.

On Sunday, May 15, camps will reopen at 9 a.m.with cannon demonstrations at 10 a.m. The finalbattle will take place at 1 p.m., w ith the eventwrapping up at 2 p.m.

Matthew Hewson from West Chazy, right, and his father, Wayne, arepreparing for this weekend's Civil War re-enactment on the grounds ofthe former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.

File photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau

All over the North Country, we’veseen more water than we can han-dle. The constant rain helped

flood aptly named byways like the RiverRoad, Old River Road and W ater Str eet;shoreline homes; parks; ferry stations; boatlaunches; and more … much more.

We’ve seen people boating wher e theynormally w ould b e w alking, b icycling o rdriving. We’ve seen bridges collapse, roadswashed out, cars submer ged, businessesclose and ferries discontinue service. We’veseen people hurt and almost die. And we’veseen strangers care for one another like fam-ily members.

On the whole, we’re pleased with the re-sponse from our local and state govern-ments.

At least, on the whole.Gov. Andrew Cuomo even came by for a

photo opportunity on April 29, visiting thecollapsed Broad Street Bridge in the Essex

County town of Moriah, wher e r esidentAnna Mayhood jumped fr om her SUV tosave her own life two days before.

We asked Cuomo if he had made plans tomeet “the woman who almost died here theother day” — Ms. Mayhood — and he saidno. Asked what he would say to her to en-sure her that New York state’s r oads ar esafe, he quipped, “Y ou ar e lucky; light acandle.”

Like a tr ue politician, he didn’t answerthe entir e question. In fact, we’r e disap-pointed he made a joke out of a questionthat included the wor ds, “the woman whoalmost died here.” He was trying to be fun-ny in fr ont of his friends and the TV cam-eras, but his brief lapse of judgementshowed a lack of r espect and compassionwith regard to a life-threatening situation.

Moreover, the governor blamed MotherNature, not a lack of r oad and bridge in-spections, for what happened at that his-toric bridge, which was said to have beenbuilt more than 100 years ago to cross overthe Lake Champlain and Moriah Railr oadtracks.

But give him credit; Cuomo did visit. He

came north to inspect the flood damage anddeclare a state of emer gency for EssexCounty when he could have easily stayed inAlbany to issue the order.

As he stood on the brink of the collapsedBroad Str eet Bridge — staring into thewreckage of asphalt, stone, timber and iron— we heard him utter these words under hisbreath: “Man, that’s a frightening drop.”

The flooding situation was just as fright-ening for local politicians, such as MoriahTown Supervisor T om Scozzafava, whopraised Cuomo for his support. The super-visor pointed to the DOT employees work-ing side-by-side with town highway crews.They were fixing the erosion — 4 feet of top-soil — that exposed a sewer main during theApril 27 flash flood. He said this kind ofstate-local cooperation wouldn’t have hap-pened a year ago under Gov . David Pater-son. And he’s right. Gov. Cuomo is showingleadership skills not seen in Albany sinceGeorge Pataki left of fice mor e than fouryears ago.

Locally, the response from town and vil-lage officials during the flooding crisis hasbeen tremendous. We’re proud to have lead-

ers like Keene Supervisor Bill Ferebee, whorisked his Jeep in rising water to help trans-port neighbors to safe ground. Let’s not for-get the firefighters, emergency technicians,highway cr ews, and the countless volun-teers who filled sandbags and manned RedCross shelters.

Times like these, we’r e pr oud to say welive in a small town, where neighbors lookout for one another . It’s good to see ourelected officials are doing the same.

Yet the flooding is still not over , andthere’s plenty more work to be done. The re-building will take many months and mil-lions of dollars. Let’s just hope the politicalleadership skills exhibited these past twoweeks are practiced consistently and are notsimply flashes of brilliance.

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Politicians showing leadership skills in flood

This editorial is the collaborative opinionof a board comprised of Thom Randall, Lind-say Yandon, Fred Herbst, Lou V arricchio,Keith Lobdell, Jeremiah Papineau, Andy Fly-nn and John Gereau. Comments may be di-rected to [email protected].

To make changes in ourcurrent health care sys-tem, we, as a nation,

first have to answer one verycritical question. Is health car ea right or a privilege?

If we decide that all U.S. citi-zens should have access to qual-ity and af fordable care, we ar etalking about a right. If we feelhealth care is something thatshould only be available tothose who can af ford it, then itbecomes a privilege.

Until we collectively makethat d ecision, w e c annot m akereal changes to our system.

Secondly, we need to define “insurance.”Currently, we consider the coverage we useto pay for our health care as a form of insur-ance. Insurance, however, is a pr oduct thatby its very nature should only be purchasedfor something that is unlikely to occur but,if it occurs, will be produce a financial hard-ship.

We also have to understand that for insur-ance to work, ther e has to be a sharing ofrisk. That means a large number of persons

have to buy coverage with theexpectation that few will needthe coverage.

A contr oversial part of thenational health care reform hasbeen the mandatory coverageclause. This, however, is neces-sary to make it financially sol-vent.

A friend who told me hefeels that clause is unconstitu-tional as the government can’tmandate us to purchase some-thing. I reminded him that wedo have pr ecedent for such amandate. In the past, the only

way that a building owner could have fir eprotection was to pur chase a policy fr om alocal fire company. If you did not have sucha policy and your home caught on fir e, thefire company would show up at you housebut not fight the fire unless you paid the pre-mium first. After the huge city fir es inChicago and San Francisco, it was decidedthat fire protection was to the benefit of alland a right so municipal fir e departmentswere set up. They would fight any fire. Youstill need to have insurance to cover the loss

caused by a fire but at least you can be con-fident that the fir e department will at leasttry to put it out even if you don’t have cov-erage. How do we pay for that pr otection?By our mandated taxes that fund the fir ecompanies.

If we look broadly at the health care serv-ices that ar e needed, they fall into thr eebroad categories.

First are those services that serve a collec-tive good for all of us — the public healthaspect. Included in this category are thingslike care of a mother during pregnancy to as-sure the health of the baby; labor and deliv-ery for newborns and well child car e, in-cluding immunizations. It also includes an-nual flu shots and other actions to r educecommunicable disease. In a br oader sense,it may also include scr eening for tr eatabledisease by doing things like mammograms,rectal exams and diabetes and blood pr es-sure checks.

The performance of this public health sec-tor is good for all of us and protects our col-lective health. It is something that everyoneliving in this country should have. This kindof care should be a basic right and provided

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May 14 - 20, 2011the ‘burgh editorial and opinion • 7

We began thespring seasonwith hopes of

warmer weather, new busi-ness moving into town and ageneral desire for a return tobetter times with new feel-ings of optimism.

That has changed formany town of Plattsbur ghand Champlain Basin r esi-dents and pr operty owners.Almost overnight and with-out warning Lake Cham-plain waters began rising tohistoric levels, bringing many to their kneeswith feelings of despair and discourage-ment.

The past few days I have been workingwith agencies and emer gency services tohelp monitor the developing situation andmanage the town’s infrastructure. We havealso provided assistance where possible butthe town cannot r everse the damage thathas been done. Until the lake r eturns to alevel below flood stage the crisis will con-tinue. There may be some assistance fr omFEMA, but that will not cover the loss manyhave experienced.

Our highway department worked dili-gently to repair the Cumberland Head Roadpreventing total er osion of the pavement.The W ater W astewater Department hasbeen manning our pump and lift stations in

an effort to maintain the flowof wastewater and stormwa-ter r unoff. We also acknowl-edge the ef forts by the citypublic works department andtheir challenge to keep thetreatment plant operating.

Cleanup will not be easyand new unknown pr oblemswill surface. The cost to prop-erty owners, business andmunicipalities will be signifi-cant. It will take a long timefor many to recover from thisevent. But, r ecover we must

and during that pr ocess we will must r e-member that our things can be replaced andwe will thank God that no lives were lost.

We will continue to work hard, make eco-nomic progress and seize the opportunitiesthat come our way . The r ecent events willbe a learning experience and we will be-come stronger as a result of the experience.During the coming months, it will be im-portant for families and friends to help eachother work through this period. It will taketime but this too shall pass and we will bestronger as a result.

For updates, information and to learnabout available r esources please go to theCounty website at www .clintoncounty-gov.com.

Bernie Bassett is supervisor of the town ofPlattsburgh.

April arrived withcold, wet weath-er which has

caused sever e pr oblemsand devastating damagethroughout the r egion andparts of the city especiallythe North Mar garet Str eetarea. The rain caused ar eaflooding and a r ecord highwater mark in Lake Cham-plain which has br oughtchallenges for the city as weclosed W ilcox Dock, ourcity waterfr ont ar ea, andmonitor the Saranac River . Hundr eds ofpeople have been evacuated and localbusinesses wer e closed. County and cityemployees have done an outstanding jobworking together through this crisis.

I personally had a very busy month. Iperformed a wedding ceremony for a cou-ple who I know very well. The cer emonywas special as they are wonderful people.I visited the government class of Dr . TomMandeville and answered many questionsfrom the students. I thor oughly enjoymeeting college students and always listento their concerns and perspectives. I wasinvited to speak at the Sunrise Rotary . Asusual, I enjoyed answering their questionsand discussing city business. They ar e awonderful group of people to work with.Mike Perrotte held his annual Champlain

Valley Motor Show at theCrete Center. This event wasa success as usual as Mike andhis staf f do a first-class jobwhatever they ar e involvedwith. I delivered a proclama-tion at the Military Apprecia-tion Day at the Cr ete Centerwhich was very special. I tru-ly appr eciate our veterans,active military personnel,and their families. The Half-Marathon was a success de-spite the cold, rainy weather.Mayor ’s Cup and Regatta

plans continue to move ahead. I am excit-ed this year with our schedule of eventsand as we get closer to the July 9th week-end more activities will be announced.

As May arrives, our outdoor work be-gins. Grass begins to grow and needs to becut, our parks and str eets need cleaning,potholes and paving pr ojects begin, side-walk replacement work starts, and specialevents begin to take place. We do our bestto make the city as presentable as possible.With the flooding situation, however , ourfirst priority will be to assist our residentsand businesses until Lake Champlain r e-cedes. I appreciate the patience of the com-munity as we do our best to work throughthis serious challenge. Thanks!

Don Kasprzak is mayor of the city of Platts-burgh.

City and Town with Don Kasprzak and Bernie Bassett

Welch From page 6for all and since we all share in thebenefit it should come out of thecentral treasury.

At the opposite extreme, there isthe need for catastrophic care. Thisincludes the head injur ed patient,the spinal cor d injury, those need-ing liver and heart transplants andother rar e but exceedingly expen-sive problems. The number of peo-ple needing such care is small, butthe costs ar e enormous. The onlyway to afford such care is to spreadthe risk acr oss the lar gest possiblepool of people. This kind of car eshould be covered by one very largenationwide “reinsurance” programthat everyone would pay into. T oqualify for care under this plan, onewould have to meet a “means test.”As an example, if the cost of care ex-ceeded twice your annual income,you would become eligible.

For all of the car e in between —the broken leg, the episode of pneu-monia or a gall bladder attack — itwould be appr opriate to considerregular health insurance. For eachof us, the decision of how much fi-nancial risk we can af ford woulddetermine what level of coverage

we may want to have. If we wished,we could pur chase coverage forany and all such care but would paya higher premium. Or we could optfor a lower level of coverage and as-sume greater risk ourselves. Insur-ance of this type also makes sensefor an employer to pur chase to besure the workers ar e cared for andreturned to work promptly after ill-ness or injury. This makes it a tr ueinsurance product. It also would al-low for pr emium adjustment forthose who choose to live a healthylifestyle versus those who decide totake greater personal risk.

We have a health care system thatis not working well. T o impr oveupon this, we need to develop asystem that will recognize that it isto our collective advantage to as-sure access for everyone. That willassure that the car e is appr opriateto the needs of the person andavoids unnecessary and expensivecare that does not add to length orquality of life. W e need car e andcoverage pr ovided by private in-dustry but contr ols placed by col-lective national decision making.

Dr. David G. W elch is a board-cer-tified physician specializing in physi-cal medicine and r ehabilitation wholives in Lake Placid.

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May 14 - 20, 2011 the ‘burgh8 • weekly columns

Ever wonderwhat all thebuzz is

about going glutenfree? W ell surpris-ingly, gluten is afood aller gen thataffects mor e of usthan you may think.Whether you have agluten sensitivity ,allergy, celiac dis-ease or just want toadd different wholegrains to your diethere are some options for you to ex-periment with.

Amaranth – This tiny seed has anutty flavor, is high in protein andhas 25 per cent mor e fiber thanwhole wheat. It contains highamounts of ir on, magnesium, zincand folate.

Buckwheat – A fruit seed relatedto r hubarb and it is not r elated towheat at all. It is a good sour ce ofprotein containing all eight essen-tial amino acids as well as magne-sium, fiber, calcium and iron. Buck-wheat also contains the entir erange of B-complex vitamins.

Millet – contains mor e pr oteinthan wheat, corn and rice. Millet is

good sour ce offiber, iron and B vi-tamins.

Quinoa – Some-times consider ed a“super grain,”quinoa contains alleight essentialamino acids andhas a protein profilesimilar to that ofmilk. It also hasmore calcium, ir on,and magnesiumthan whole wheat.

Teff – this is theworlds smallest grain, its key nutri-ents include protein, fiber, calcium,iron, vitamin B1, zinc, and copper.

You can find these grains in thehealth food section of most super-markets or health food stores. Moststores even have a gluten free sub-section.

Corinna Maggy is a National Acad-emy of Sports Medicine certified per-sonal trainer and corr ective exer cisespecialist offering private personaltraining, classes, and weight manage-ment programs. She can be r eached at605-3549 [email protected].

Discussing ‘gluten-free’The one never ending task a

gardener has is weeding.Weeds not only look un-

sightly in the garden, but they com-pete for nutrients and water, caus-ing poor gr owth of your flowersand vegetables. Of all of the weedsthat I fight in my gar den, the oneweed that is the most invasive, andannoying, is quackgrass.

Quackgrass (Agropyron repens)is a per ennial and a tr oublesomeweed. The Latin name means a‘sudden field of fire’ which atteststo its ability to take over lawns,fields and gardens. The plant is hardy to zone 3 andis actually native to Europe. It has been growing inthe U.S. for over 200 years.

Quackgrass is has thin, flat, green leaf blades thatare wider than the average blade of turf grass. Theplant does reproduce by seed, but is invasive due toits ability to spread through rhizonmes.

Rhizomes (under ground stems) ar e yellow towhite, 1/8 inches in diameter , with distinct jointsabout every inch. Each joint is capable of a new bladeof grass. The cr eeping r hizomes ar e so tough theycan grow through a potato tuber, or push up throughasphalt pavement! If left to gr ow, they will form adense mat 4 inches thick in the upper part of the soilsince one plant can pr oduce 300 feet of r hizomeseach year.

A rototiller should never be used in an ar ea withquackgrass as each chopped up bit of rhizome is ca-

pable of producing a new plant. Mulchshould be used as much as possible tosmother plants, but you can be assuredthat the rhizomes will creep along un-til there is an area in which it can sendup a shoot.

Rhizomes have to be hand dug asmuch as possible without br eakingthem off in the soil, then dried and dis-posed of. The main thing is to r epeat-edly eliminate the blades by slicingthem of f. Without photosynthesis theplant will not be able to stor e food re-serves in the r hizomes and will even-tually die. Never add newly dug plants

to your compost pile or you will have a quackgrassinfestation there!

Chemical control, with the use of a nonselectiveherbicide such as glyphosate, can be used withquackgrass. The herbicide should be applied whenthere is no wind and when there will be no rain for48 hours. The grass must be green and actively grow-ing for best results. Before applying, remember thatglyphosate is a non-selective herbicide that will killalmost any green plant it contacts. It is important tothoroughly read and follow the herbicide’s instruc-tions and apply glyphosate only to the plants youwant to eradicate.

Anne Lenox Barlow is a pr ofessional horticulturistwho enjoys gardening with her family in Plattsbur gh.She also chronicles her gardening experiences at her blogwww.northcountrygarden.wordpress.com. She can bereached at [email protected].

Quackgrass: one troublesome weed

Elmore SPCA

Our Furry Friendsis a weekly featurebrought to you by

Denton Publications.For more informationabout these and otherfine pets available for

adoption, contact: Adirondack

Humane Society134 Idaho Ave.,

Plattsburgh,561-7297

St. John Feral Cat Fund(Located in PetSmart

Adoption Center)67 Consumer Square,

Plattsburgh534-0824

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643-2451

OurFurryFriends Rogue

Max is a senior r ottweiler mix who enter ed theshelter as a cr uelty case after being seized bythe sherif f ’s department. He suf fers fr om hip

dysplasia and has a har d time navigating tiled floors. Heneeds lots of TLC. Max is neuter ed and up-to-date on hisvaccines.

Cheyenne is a beautiful 2-year-old gray and white long-haired female cat with a fabulous personality . She is verysocial but likes to have a private space where she can curlup and relax. She is spayed and up-to-date on her vaccines.

Blaine

BlueCallie

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Callie is a very sweet domestic short-haired calicokitty who was found as a stray in Plattsburgh. Sheis approximately 2 years old and currently in fos-

ter care while she awaits her forever home. Blue was rescued from an abandoned house in Mooers

and is pregnant. She was attacked by some other creatureand will be in foster care until her babies are born and oldenough to be weaned and she is nursed back to health.

Adirondack Humane Society

Blaine is a long-haired black and white cat that ar-rived at the shelter after being abandoned on adead-end road with his brother, Blaze. Both kitties

are shy and need some understanding that their liveshaven't been all they hoped for as they settle into a newhome. Both have tested negative for FeLV/FIV.

Rogue is a long-haired gray cat that came to the shelterlooking pretty ragged but has slowly come to be a beauti-ful girl who needs a home. She spends a lot of time loung-ing. Rogue has tested negative for FeLV/FIV.

May 14 - 20, 2011the ‘burgh to your health/on your plate • 9

Pinwheels for PeaceLaurie Booth-Trudo with the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country shares a pinwheelwith Cooper and Camden Sweeney of Peru during an event held at Champlain Centre in PlattsburghApril 28. Booth-Trudo and representatives from Early Advantages, a program of Behavioral HealthServices North, and the Child Advocacy Center were giving out pinwheels as symbols of a call for peaceas part of Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Photo by Damian Battinelli Photography

Clinics scheduled in Clinton CountyPLATTSBURGH — Dates for the upcoming Clinton County Health Department clinics are as

follows:Immunizations will be administer ed at the second-floor meeting r oom of the Old Court

House, 133 Margaret St., Friday, May 20, from 9 to 11:30 p.m. Additionally, immunizations willbe administered from 1 to 3 p.m. in the same site.

A lead-screening clinic will be held at the Old Court House, Thursday, May 19, from 9 to 10a.m. In the same location, a W ell Child Clinic will be held fr om 10 a.m. to noon, and an HIVtesting will be held 1 to 2:30 p.m., both on May 19.

To schedule appointments, or for more information, dial 565-4848. If time permits, walk-inswill be accepted. At the time of appointment, payment will be expected in the form of cash orcheck.

New vendors to add tomarket atmosphereBy Mary WeinsteinSpecial to Denton Publications

PLATTSBURGH— The Plattsbur gh Farm-ers and Crafters Market will kick of f its 2011summer season this Saturday, May 14.

The market, located in the Durkee Str eetparking lot, will r un Satur days fr om 9 a.m.until 2 p.m. through Oct. 9, and Wednesdaysstarting in June.

Market organizer and maple vendor Patri-cia Parker is excited for the onset of the sea-son, particularly with the added vendors forthis year.

“We ar e filled to capacity , but now we’r ealso renting like six spaces on the end—we’regrowing,” said Parker.

Among the seven added vendors ar e awooden toy purveyor, a new wine vendor , aquilt vendor, and a meatstick merchant.

Parker is particularly excited about the ad-dition of a meat vendor , which will featur epork.

“We have a person who raises their ownpork and chicken, and eventually as the sea-son wears on — there will be lamb and duck,”she said. “We’ll also have mor e of a variety;we not only have like six vegetable gr owers,with their own special brand, but also fourbakeries.”

Also in the vein of diversification, Parkeremphasized “something r eally gr eat” as theinclusion of a gluten-free baker.

Phil Favreau, who has been the lone winevendor at the market for thr ee years, wel-comes the company of the Hid-In Pines Vine-yard of Morrisonville.

“There going to be two wineries downthere, myself and Mr. LaMoy,” said Favreau,referring to Hid-In Pines owner and operatorRichard LaMoy . “I’m very happy to have

him.”Like Parker, Favreau welcomes the diversi-

ty.“He makes a very dif ferent wine than I do

— it’s not a competition at all,” he said.LaMoy was attracted to the market because

of its wide exposur e, having previously soldvegetables there.

“I found the market had good exposure, sothat's what I’m looking to capture here.”

Like Favreau and Parker, LaMoy is not wor-ried about competition, but instead wishes toexpose patrons to new experiences.

“There will be free wine tastings, so peoplecan try some of the wines that they many nothave tasted before,” LaMoy conveyed.

Ken Gadway, the awar d-winning, Adiron-dack wood turner , will also be featur ed as a“kick-off.”

“He’s going to bring the lathes and he willactually be demonstrating the entir e time,”said Parker. “That’s going to be a treat for theday.”

In addition to the added purveyors, theWIC Program’s weekly free sample is an en-ticement which will attract shoppers.

“The first week their going to be making amaple item,” tempted Parker.

The market has also come be known as aunique social outlet, said Parker.

“We are more of a social event for a lot ofpeople,”she asserted. “I love going to thefarmers market, and seeing all the people Ihaven’t seen since last year.”

Favreau mirrored Parker ’s sentiment, not-ing his overall enjoyment as a participant.

“There are so many nice people, people thatreally care about what they’re buying, and thefood their eating,” said Favreau.

“It’s a very good experience, and we’vebeen very happy to be part of it,” he added.

For more information about the PlattsburghFarmers and Crafters Market, visitwww.plattsburghfarmersandcraftersmar-ket.com.

Farmers market to reopen thisSaturday with more vendors

By Mary WeinsteinSpecial to Denton Publications

PLATTSBURGH — The Advocacy and Re-source Center will host its first “Kite Flight forAutism” and a Car “Show & Shine” this Sat-urday, May 14, at the PARC Oval.

The event, which r uns from 10 a.m until 3p.m., is designed to raise awareness and fundsfor the new autism program. All funds go to-wards “First Step for Autism,” the new pr o-gram designed to provide services for familiesand childr en impacted by autism spectr umdisorders.

Theresa Garr ow, executive dir ector of theClinton County Advocacy and Resource Cen-ter, said this is a particularly important cause.

“Certainly autism is a rising concern for

many families; ther e really is a r eal need forservices for children with autism,”noted Gar-row.

First Step for Autism facilitates testing forchildren to determine if they are on the autismspectrum, explained Garrow, a service whichtypically “comes out of parents’ pockets.”

“What happens is that there has to be a psy-chological assessment performed, and a pedi-atrician or psychologist has to sign that off —well, that's not funded,” emphasized Garrow.“We try to do these fundraisers so that parentsdon’t have to do that type of thing out of pock-et.”

Not only ar e these services generally notfunded, facilities which perform these evalu-ations are also limited in the North Country ,claimed Garrow.

“There's no one in the area except for us that

can provide that type of process, so that's whywe do these — we think it’s a very worthycause,” she said.

For Br enda Garner , coor dinator of thisweekend’s event, this is also an important is-sue.

“I do fundraising for not for pr ofits, andcauses I truly believe in,” she said.

Participants of all ages ar e encouraged toengage in the many activities at the event,which include, food, vendors, games, a carshow, bike r odeo, appearance by Pipsqueakthe Clown, and fingerprinting and DNA by thePlattsburgh office of Woodmen of the World.

“It’s just a r eally great community event,”emphasized Garner.

Kite flight workshops will be of fered bymembers of New York Kite Enthusiasts, whoare also bringing some of their own large kites.

“You have no idea how big these kites are —it’s breathtaking,”said Garner.

As part of a local school project, Momot El-ementary School students in grades 4 and 5will be judged for their kite creations during akite decorating contest. Prizes will be awar d-ed by WPTZ Newschannel 5 personality JimMoore and Press-Republican editor Lois Cler-mont.

In addition to sponsorship fr om Nisculpa,Stewart's, and the ARC foundation, kite dona-tions wer e pr ovided by the ARC and localbusinesses. Additionally, 100 kites wer e do-nated by Les Cerfs-volantstylistes, a nonprof-it organization from Canada.

“It should be a fun day for everyone,” saidGarrow.

For more information about this Saturday’sevent, contact Garner 578-4882.

Kite-flying event to help those with autism spectrum disorders

May 14 - 20, 2011 the ‘burgh

St. Mary’s Academy, a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade parochial school located in the village of Champlain, will remain open after morethan $80,000 in donations was received by the school.


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Councilors vote for hold on LED signsPLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh councilors voted unani-

mously in favor of a six month moratorium on light-emit-ting diode (LED) signs, which have begun to appear in thecity, primarily in the Cornelia Str eet business district. Themoratorium was at the request of the Zoning Board of Ap-peals, who seek to update the city’s or dinances on digitalsigns, and whose chairman addressed the issue at a publichearing April 26. There was concern the signs made the arealook a bit too much like Las Vegas.

Peru officials finalize historical signsPERU — With the public comment and viewing period

over May 6, officials will start to settle on the final versionsof eight historical signs which document Heyworth/MasonPark’s past. The signs primarily focus on Native Americans;mills, as well as other early industries; A. Mason and SonsLumber Mill; Heyworth V illage in modern times, and the1998 flood. The signs are the work of Adel Douglas, Peru’sgrant coordinator, Carol and Ron Allen, town historians,Maja Smith, of the Lake Chaplain Basin Pr ogram, in addi-tion to a number of volunteers.

Home invader denied appealPERU — Jennifer Macduf f, now 20, who or chestrat-

ed a robbery in July 2009, was denied appeal of her sixyear jail sentence. Macduff had argued that because hercounsel was inef fective, her plea was involuntary . Indenying their appeal, court justices noted she had nev-er sought to withdraw her plea and that her sentencewas a good deal shorter than the maximum allowable.

Councilors apply for fountain grantPLATTSBURGH — City councilors voted unani-

mously to apply for a grant, thr ough the state’s MainStreet Program, which would provide roughly $38,000to build a fountain in Trinity Park. The structure wouldbe roughly eight feet high and eight feet in diameter .Officials hope it would bring visitors to the ar ea andthus help local businesses.

Chazy hires new codes officerCHAZY — The new codes-enfor cement of ficer here is

Frank Slycord, who holds the same job in Elizabethtownand Peru. Of the twenty candidates who applied for the po-sition, he was reportedly the only one to meet Civil Servicequalifications. The Chazy position pays $8,755 annually .His office hours will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from4:30 to 6:30 p.m., and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

Owens thanks those who helped kill OBLPLATTSBURGH — Legislation has been intr oduced on

the House floor by local Congressman Bill Owens to honorthose who took part in the mission to assassinate Osama binLaden. Owens said those involved needed to be thanked fortheir role in the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda.

Cornell cooperative gardening classPLATTSBURGH — Brief demonstration classes will

be hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension MasterGardener volunteers on Thursday nights thr ough thegrowing season. The fr ee classes will be held at thegazebo beside the Plattsbur gh Community Gar den atMelissa L. Penfield Park, Boynton Avenue. They will beheld each month through September, on the second andfourth Thursdays, fr om 7 to 7:30 p.m. For mor e infor-mation, call 561-7450.

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CHAMPLAIN — St. Mary’sAcademy will remain open.

The pr e-kindergarten thr oughsixth grade parochial school over-seen by St. Mary’s Church was fac-ing a challenge by its leadership toraise $80,000 by June 1. However,the school has met the challengeahead of schedule, said principalSister Marie Cordata Kelly.

“I wasn’t sur e we’d raise the$80,000,” admitted Kelly, who wasfaced with the challenge in Febru-ary. “It was so much. But, I askedpeople to pray for what God want-ed for the school and this is appar-ently what he wanted. I’m just inawe.”

Donations began to trickle inshortly after the challenge wasraised and soon, the trickle be-came a steady flow , said Kelly . Thesteady flow was the helped by large out-pourings of support in the form of lar g-er donations in the amounts of $5,000,$9,000 and then $10,000.

“That’s when I realized we were goingto make it,” said Kelly.

Reaching the goal in a little less thanthree months was nothing short of a mir-acle, said Kelly.

“I think only God could do that,” shesaid. “God and a community that cameforward to show how they feel about thisschool.”

The school was in its dire financial sit-uation after the chur ch had a decline inenrollment, resulting in $50,000 worth ofdebt needing to be r olled over onto theschool’s 2010-11 budget. Now that themoney has been raised, a contingency

fund has been established tohelp the school stay out of sim-ilar financial situations in thefuture, said Kelly. However, theschool is not out of the woodsyet.

“We still need to increase ourenrollment,” said Kelly.

The number of students cur-rently enrolled at the school isjust more than a hundr ed, shesaid. In order to continue on thepath of a healthy financial sta-tus, those numbers must in-crease by another 15 studentsfor the 2011-12 school year.

The school, to that end, willhost a series of open houses be-ginning next week.

“We want people to come inand see what we’r e all about,”said Kelly , who touted theschool’s high standards for ed-ucation and safe envir onment

as r easons why par ents should enr olltheir children at St. Mary’s.

Open houses will be held 9 a.m. to 2:30p.m. Monday, May 16; Tuesday, May 17;Thursday, May 19; and Friday , May 20.St. Mary’s is located in the village ofChamplain at 1 129 State Route 9, but isbest accessible from its Pine Street side.

For more information, call the schoolat 298-3372.

Community saves St. Mary’s AcademyParochial school will remain open, focus now put on enrollment

In Clinton County

St. Mary’s benefits stillbe held this weekend

Save Our School fundraisers to benefit St. Maryʼs Academyare still in the works. The next is “Moonlight Bowling” planned forthis Saturday, May 14, across the border at the Salle De QuillesRené Inc., 437A St-Jacques, Napierville, Quebec. The eventthere will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. and cost $10. Shoe rentalswill be included. A classic rock concert by “Hands of Fire” will beheld there at 9:30 p.m.

For more information, call 581-0199.The Rainbow Wedding and Banquet Hall, 47 Woods Falls

Road, Altona, will host a Zumbathon this Sunday, May 15. Theevent will begin with registration at 1:15 p.m., with Zumba work-outs to be held from 2 to 4 p.m.

The cost of admission will be $10 per adult, with children 12and younger admitted free. Spectators are welcome. The eventwill also include 50/50 drawings, raffles and entertainment byXtreme DJ Sound Service.

For more information about that event, call organizer Rebec-ca Boire-West at 493-7556 or e-mail [email protected].

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In Clinton County

Class focuses on raised-bed gardenDANNEMORA — A class focused on raised-bed gar-

dens and square-foot gardening will be hosted by Cor-nell Cooperative extension. The class will be held May21, from 10 a.m. to noon. Upon r egistration, the loca-tion of the class will be revealed. It costs $5 per family.One must register prior to May 16. Space is limited. Formore information, call 561-7450.

Council voting change defeatedPLATTSBURGH — A proposed change to the manner

in which the City of Plattsburgh Common Council castsit votes, that would rotate the voting order, was defeat-ed May 5. The Council vote ended in a tie, which wasbroken by Mayor Donald Kasprzak with a no vote.Kasprzak said he thought the change might allow foragenda manipulation of certain votes.

Peru provides absentee ballotsPERU— Absentee ballots for the May 17 School Board

election and budget vote ar e available at Per u CentralSchool District. If voters would like the ballot mailed,applications must be received before 4 p.m. on May 10by the district clerk. When that date is passed, votersmust personally go to the district clerk’s of fice to r e-ceive an absentee ballot. The deadline at which com-pleted absentee ballots have to be r eceived at the of-fice is 5 p.m. May 17.

Airport security line approvedPLATTSBURGH — Legislators in Clinton County

have decided to add an additional security line toPlattsburgh International Airport. This was in responseto prolonged days resulting from bottlenecks at the onesecurity line the airport has pr esently. The str ucturalchanges required to accommodate another line ar e es-timated to cost the county $60,000. Deputy County Ad-ministrator Rodney Brown hoped the project would befinished by mid-summer.

Utility billing deal offeredROUSES POINT — Residential customers who have

a 12-month clear r ecord with the V illage of RousesPoint Municipal Electric Department will once again beoffered a budget billing arrangement. Under the deal,customers would be able to pay their estimated yearlyutility bill in 11 installments, with May available to rec-tify overpayment or underpayment. If one would liketo participate in this program, call 297-5502, ext. 315 orext. 332 prior to May 31.

Lyon Mountain sleeps through quakeLYON MOUNTAIN — Lyon Mountain was hit with a

2.6 magnitude earthquake May 7 . Only one person re-ported feeling the insignificant, 2:45 a.m. shaking, ac-cording to the U.S. Geological Survey . Ther e was nodamage reported.

‘Restrepo’ to be viewedWHALLONSBURG — On Satur day, May 14, the

Champlain Valley Film Society presents "Restrepo," theriveting you-ar e-there film following one platoon ofAmerican GIs in an Afghanistan valley that's beencalled the most dangerous place on Earth. Directed bySebastian Junger, author of “The Perfect Storm.”

Rated R for language. T ickets are $5 for adults andunder 18, $2. The movie starts at 8 p.m. at the Whal-lonsburg Grange Hall.


BEEKMANTOWN — The Beekman-town Gateway Welcome Center has r e-opened.

The of ficial “I Love New York” wel-come center — situated of f the south-bound lane of Interstate 87 south of theChazy exit — opened its doors May 9 af-ter a five-month closur e. The centerclosed in December after funding for itsoperation was eliminated fr om the2010-11 state budget.

Ron Ofner, executive dir ector of theAdirondack Regional Tourism Council,which oversees operation of the center,said the r eopening was cr edited to ef-forts of people like state Sen. ElizabethO’C. Little, R-Queensbury , and NorthCountry Chamber of Commer ce pr esi-dent Garry F. Douglas in pushing for es-sential funding to be r estored in thestate budget.

“Sen. Little was very influential inthis as chair of the senate tourism com-mittee,” said Ofner. “And, Garry Dou-glas, for the last year and a half, hasbeen pushing for funding to keep thecenter strong.”

The center’s first day back in businesssaw a “good r ush of people” stoppingin for information about things like lo-cal restaurants, attractions and lodging.

“Almost 100 per cent of them wer eCanadian visitors,” said Ofner.

The center ’s r eopening comes at atime when the Canadian dollar is slight-

ly stronger, said Ofner , who said he ishoping to see more traffic here consist-ing of our neighbors to the north. Thepast few months of the center beingclosed r esulted in the tourism councilbeing unable to educate travelers aboutwhat is of fered acr ossthe state — particular-ly the Adirondack Re-gion, said Ofner.

“Certainly, wemissed out on that op-portunity,” he said.“People were continu-ing on their travelswithout stopping inthe North Country ,which is unfortunate.”

However, not allhope is lost. Accordingto Ofner, approximate-ly one-thir d of thosewho visit the center ar e coming fr omCanada and have never been to NewYork State. Now, when they visit, that’swhen the council can spr ead the wor dabout local businesses and attractions.

“We can point them to places in thePlattsburgh area or along the Northwaycorridor like Lake Placid and LakeGeorge,” said Ofner , who added he is“excited” that the center has reopened.

Eric Tremblay of Montr eal, Quebec,was among the Canadian visitors to thecenter reopening day, also excited to seethe center back in business.

“I usually come her e every secondmonth or so,” said Tremblay. “It’s a

great place to stop when traveling toNew York City or if you want the latestinformation. There ar e a lot of mapsavailable and the staff is always useful.”

Ofner said he is glad to have back themajority of the staf f that ran the center

before it closed in De-cember. The center em-ploys four full-time andone part-time employ-ee. One full-time posi-tion was eliminated,though Ofner said hefeels the center ’s cur-rent staf f can meet de-mands.

“We have a very expe-rienced staff,” he said.

Though Ofner saidthe contract for the cen-ter was renewed for thecoming year “contin-

gent upon available funding,” he feelsthe need for the center has been demon-strated.

“I can only assume that as we contin-ue to perform the services as well as wehave in the past, and if we continue tohave a supportive senator, we should bein good shape,” said Ofner.

The center is curr ently open sevendays a week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,and may be reached by calling 846-8016.More information about the center andattractions in the Adirondack Regionare available on the T ourism Councilwebsite, www.visitadirondacks.com.

Welcome center back in business

Douglas Yu, an employee of the Beekmantown Gateway Welcome Center, speaks with Eric Trem-blay of Montreal, Quebec, one of several Canadian visitors to the center when it reopened May 9.


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Did you know?The Beekmantown Gate-

way Welcome Center, on anannual basis:

• sees approximately115,000-118,000 visitors

• fields approximately40,000-50,000 requests forinformation

• receives 12,000-14,000phone calls

Interstate 87 stop reopens after five-month closure

By Mary WeinsteinSpecial to Denton Publications

PLATTSBURGH — As part of theevent r oster for the Friends of PointeAu Roche State Park, Judy Heintz led abird walk May 7.

Heinz, who has has been birding “onand off” for more than 30 years, notedPoint Au Roche as a “pretty good bird-ing place, for people who like to golook at birds.”

Having traversed the ar ea severaltimes alr eady this season, Heinz hasseen as many as 76 species.

“I’ve scouted, so I had an idea wheresome species ar e hanging out," shesaid.

Participants met at the Natur e Cen-ter on Camp Red Cloud Road andwalked Pointe Au Roche for more thantwo hours.

Although not as bir d-dense asHeintz’s typical outings, participantsenjoyed seeing and listening to several

species, including sparr ows, r obins,wrens, blackbir ds, cowbir ds, chick-adees, warblers, swallows andnuthatches.

Even at the onset of the walk, watch-ers encounter ed the Phoebe, distinc-tive for its bobbing tail.

The highlight of the excursion oc-curred when Heintz and fellow bir derHal Higden spotted a r ed-breastedMerganser, which Heintz happily not-ed as the “coup of the day.”

Plattsburgh r esident Keitha Farneyenjoyed the trip, differentiating it fromher own habitual experience “back-yard birding.”

“It's a whole different thing to find-ing [birds] in the field,” she said.

Recent flooding pr evented partici-pants from venturing too far , a condi-tion which Heintz also noted is af fect-ing the wildlife.

“Birds ar e always an indicator ofhow the envir onments going — it'sgood to keep good records,” she said.

Among the bir ds viewed whichseemed affected by the weather condi-tions were mallards, who participantswitnessed swimming in a pond whichwas formerly a road.

“The mallards are having a hard timewith dabbling," Heintz noted, ruefully.

Higden, who Heintz lauded as“much mor e of a bir der, ” acknowl-edged he has been bir ding for“decades,” largely at Pointe Au Roche.

As a park advocate and a birder, Hig-den is “trying to encourage people touse the park in the best ways” whileutilizing “very little support staff.”

Participating in the walk, saidHeintz, was an important way to raiseawareness about the envir onment andearn support for the Friends of PointeAu Roche — a non-profit organizationformed to "protect, preserve, and pro-mote" the park.

For information on futur e bir dingevents, or events hosted by Friends ofPointe Au Roche, call 563-0369.

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Alleged wire thieves arrestedSCHROON — Thr ee people of the capital ar ea

were arrested April 29 for allegedly stealing copperwire. The trio was arr ested on Fraternaland Rd. at6:44 p.m.

Christian T. Butler , 18, of Albany, was char gedwith thir d-degree grand lar ceny and thir d-degreecriminal mischief, both felonies.

Nelson G. Sager, 38, of Albany, was charged withthree felonies; third-degree criminal mischief, thirddegree grand lar ceny, criminal possession of aweapon; and a misdemeanor , two counts of sev-enth-degree criminal possession of a contr olledsubstance. Police also issued him two tickets forpossessing a contr olled substance in the incorr ectcontainer.

Ronald J. Endres, 37, of Rotterdam, was chargedwith thir d-degree criminal mischief and thir d-de-gree grand larceny, both felonies, and two counts ofseventh-degree criminal possession of a contr olledsubstance, a misdemeanor . Police also issued himtwo tickets for possessing a controlled substance inthe incorrect container.

Boat safety course to be heldPLATTSBURGH — The Champlain Sail and Pow-

er Squadron will be conducting a basic boating safe-ty course (America's Boating Course), on Saturday,May 14, and Sunday, May 15, at the Lodge at Gan-der Mountain Sports in the Champlain Center Mall.The course will be approximately 8 hours in lengthand run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday andfrom 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, with a breakfor lunch each day.

Although all instructors are not paid for teachingboating safety courses, ther e is a char ge of $35 forbooks and materials. A reduced price is available fortwo people who wish to share course materials. Formore information contact Dave Robertson,Squadron Education Officer, at 643-9262.

Presentation on abolitionist CHAMPLAIN — “Noadiah Moor e: Fr eedom’s

Herald” will be presented by historian Don Papson,founding pr esident of the North Country Under-ground Railr oad Historical Association, at theSamuel de Champlain History Center , 202 Elm St.,7 p.m. on W ednesday, May 18. The public is wel-come to attend.

Moore and his wife lived in Champlain prior tothe Civil W ar, during which time they shelter edfugitive slaves in their home. Moore was a leader ofthe local Liberty Party, founder of the Clinton Coun-ty Anti-Slavery Society, in addition to being an anti-slavery lecturer.

Explorers Program seeking kidsPLATTSBURGH — The Northern For est Explor-

ers Program has announced its Adirondack summerschedule. For youth ages 10-14, the Northern ForestExplorers Program takes participants on 5-day pad-dling trips. A session will run in the Old Forge/EastBay region from July 11 through July 15. A sessionwill r un in the Long Lake r egion fr om July 18through 22. And a session will r un in the T upperLake/Saranac Lake region from July 25-29. The costis $100 per student; financial aid is available. Spaceis limited. Applications are due Friday, May 27, andare available by contacting Youth Program DirectorRoger Poor at (603) 801-9597, or [email protected].

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SARANAC — The Saranac VolunteerFire Department is bringing somelaughs to town to raise a little moneyfor their membership.

“A Huge Night of Comedy withDave Reilly” will be hosted at the au-ditorium of Saranac High School, 60Picketts Corners Road, this Satur day,May 14. The event will feature headlin-er Dave Reilly , a stand-up comedianwho has brought his routine to venuesacross the Northeast and other placesacross the country.

“We’re excited to have him, especial-ly for what will be our one majorfundraisers this year,” said fire depart-

ment member CoralBanker, who is coordi-nating the event withfriend and fellow fir e-fighter W ayne Emer-son.

Proceeds fr om theevent will augment thedonations the depart-ment r eceives sporadically that helpcover the costs of training and addi-tional expenses incurr ed by fir efight-ers.

“We don’t generate a lot of moneyother than donations in memory ofsomeone or thank you donations, sothis is basically our income. It’s themoney that belongs to our membersthat we use for things that ar en’t cov-ered by the money that’s raised by tax-

es,” explained Banker.Performances by co-

median Joey Scarpelliand acoustic soloistRob Hamm will helpround out the show ,which is expected tolast three hours. Doorsopen for the event at

5:30 p.m. The show will begin at 7 p.m.The cost of admission is $25. The

show is open to those 18 and older;those younger must be accompaniedby an adult.

Tickets for this Satur day’s show areavailable at the Saranac Country Storein Saranac and Tina’s Shear Magic Sa-lon Dannemora or by calling Banker at492-2014 or Emerson at 293-8131. Tick-ets may also be purchased at the door.

Check him out!Want to know more

about comedian DaveReilly? Check out his website, www.davereilly.com.

Night of comedy aiming to help local firefighters this SaturdayComedian Dave Reilly to headline fundraising event

In Clinton County

‘Friends’ get in touch with nature

Church holding flower sale, orders due by SundayPERU — A flower sale is being hosted by the Peru Community Church Ladies Guild. Four-inch geraniums, in an as-

sortment of colors, in pots, can be purchased for $1.50. Impatiens, also in an assortment of colors, in a six-pack, may bepurchased for the same price. Or ders must be placed befor e May 15. They will be pr epared for pickup at the Fellow-ship Center, May 20, between 2 and 6 p.m. To place an order, call 643-8641.

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‘Good Scout Breakfast’ slated May 24PLATTSBURGH — The Adirondack District Boy

Scouts of America will host a Good Scout Br eakfastOn Tuesday, May 24, at American Legion Post 20, 162Quarry Road. The event will be held from 7:30 to 8:30a.m.

Breakfast will be complimented by a pr ogram andceremony. Bernie Bassett and Roger Van Guilder willchair this year ’s fundraiser with special commentsfrom Bob Parks, president and publisher of the Press-Republican. Eagle Scout Joe Kwarta will also addr essthe breakfast gathering.

For mor e information or to confirm attendance,contact Bassett at 562-6813, Van Guilder at 569-9299,or district executive Patrick Ryan at 561-0360.

NAC to host string band concert May 25ELLENBURG DEPOT — The Canal Str eet String

Band will perform in the Norman C. Kavanaugh Au-ditorium of Northern Adirondack Central School,5586 U.S. Route 11, Wednesday, May 25.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. The cost of admis-sion will be $10 for adults and $5 for senior citizensand students.

For more information, call 578-7261.

Ceremonies planned for Memorial DayROUSES POINT — American Legion Post 912 will

observe Memorial Day Monday, May 30, with its an-nual ceremonies.

Post members will meet at St. Patrick's Cemeterybeginning at 9 a.m. and travel to Maple Hill Cemeteryat 9:20 a.m. Cer emonies will also be held at St.Joseph's Cemetery at 9:40 a.m. and Dodge MemorialLibrary at 10 a.m.

A light luncheon will be served at 11 a.m. at Amer-ican Legion Post 912, 29 Pratt St.

All ar e invited to join in all or part of the cer e-monies.

Fourth of July planning continuesROUSES POINT — The Rouses Point 4th of July

Committee is inviting anyone who would like to par-ticipate in the village’s 51st annual parade to contactthem. The group is also looking for interested vendorsto set up on Rouses Point Civic Center gr ounds onLake Street.

This year ’s theme is the “Honoring our Patriots”and again being sponsor ed by Montgomery Hose,Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1.

Festivities will be held Friday, July 1, through Sun-day, July 3. The street parade will be at 6 p.m. Sundaywith fireworks scheduled at dusk. Pre-registration isrequired for the parade and for vendors.

For more information, contact Geri Favreau or Car-ol Hanfield at 297-5502.

Mike Mannix golf tourney June 26PERU — The fourth annual Mike Mannix Golf

Tournament will be hosted at the Adirondack Golfand Country Club, 88 Golf Road, Sunday, June 26.

The event will again benefit Hannah's Hope forGAN, a nonpr ofit organization funding r esearch forgiant axonal neuropathy.

For more information, including the cost to r egis-ter and tee-off time, contact Carrie Favaro at 293-7643or 645-2252. Details may also be found on the Han-nah’s Hope Fund website, www .hannahshopefund.org.

News of the WeekIn Essex County

TICONDEROGA — The PreventionTeam, in partnership with the state Of-fice of Alcoholism and SubstanceAbuse Services, r ecently sponsor ed atraining in Lake Placid to address falseidentification and using the cyberworld to police under -age alcohol is-sues.

Kristy Sprague, Essex County dis-trict attorney, welcomed the partici-pants fr om Essex, Clinton, Franklinand St. Lawr ence counties and the St.Regis Mohawk Nation. The almost 30attendees r epresented tribal police,county sherif f departments, local lawenforcement, the state police, campuspolice fr om four colleges and a localcommunity coalition.

“Underage drinking is a concern na-tionwide,” said Doug T erbeek, execu-tive director of the Ticonderoga-basedPrevention T eam. “Although someNorth Country rates have shown a de-crease in r ecent surveys, in generalbinge drinking rates ar e higher thanstate averages. Under-age drinking isa causal factor in a host of seriousproblems, including homicide, sui-cide, traumatic injury , dr owning,burns, violent and pr operty crime,high risk sex, fetal alcohol syndr ome,alcohol poisoning, as well as the needfor treatment for alcohol abuse and de-pendence. Young people who begindrinking before age 15 ar e four timesmore likely to develop alcohol depend-ence and are two and a half times morelikely to become abusers of alcoholthan those who begin drinking at age21.”

The morning workshop was “Deal-ing with False Identification.” Inspect-ing government-issued identificationis one major mechanism for insuringthat buyers meet minimum age r e-quirements. The instructor was R. J. El-rick. He is a 29-year veteran of law en-forcement in Vermont having served asthe dir ector of theVermont PoliceAcademy, an electedsheriff in RutlandCounty and a munic-ipal police of ficer.Participants wer einstructed in r ecog-nizing and validat-ing legitimate formsidentification andcurrent trends in theproduction of fraud-ulent identification.

The afternoon workshop was “Polic-ing the Cyber World for Under-age Al-cohol Issues.” Key points cover ed inthe training included the fundamen-tals of the internet, how social net-working websites function, how to ac-

cess these websites for the purpose ofgathering information r elated to un-derage alcohol problems and what canbe done with the information gleanedfrom the searches. The presenter, Jared

Olson, isIdaho’sfirst traf ficsafety r e-sourceprosecutor(TSRP) em-ployed bythe IdahoProsecut-ing Attor-neys Asso-ciation. Ol-

son has a criminal justice master ’s de-gree from the University of Cincinnatiand his juris doctorate fr om the Uni-versity of Idaho.

According to data from OASAS, un-der-age drinking cost the citizens ofNew York $3.5 billion in 2007. These

costs include medical car e, work loss,and pain and suffering associated withthe multiple pr oblems r esulting fr omthe use of alcohol by youth. This trans-lates to a cost of $1,802 a year for eachyouth in the state. Youth violence andtraffic crashes attributable to alcoholuse by under -age youth r epresent thelargest costs for New York State.

The training was supported byOASAS and Enfor cementTrainers/Consultants from the Under-age Drinking Enfor cement T rainingCenter, under a grant from the federalOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delin-quency Prevention’s Enforcing Under-age Drinking Laws program.

This law enfor cement training ispart of a series of events and awar e-ness-raising initiatives to celebrateThe Pr evention Team’s 25 years serv-ing Essex County families, schools andcommunities.

For more information contact DougTerbeek at 585-7424.

Team addresses under-age drinking

Doug Terbeek serves as executive director of the Ticonderoga-based Prevention Team, which re-cently sponsored training in Lake Placid to address false identification and using the cyber worldto police under-age alcohol issues.

“Underage drinking is a concernnationwide ... Although someNorth Country rates have showna decrease in r ecent sur veys, ingeneral binge drink ing rates arehigher than state averages.”

Doug TerbeekPrevention Team Executive Director

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Paterson to address‘11 graduating classBy Chris [email protected]

PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College officials an-nounced that former Gov . David A. Paterson willspeak to the 2011 graduating class this weekend.

Paterson — who will deliver his remarks at 11 a.m.Sunday, May 15 — became New York’s 55th governorafter another contr oversial figur e, Eliot Spitzer , wasforced to resign amid a prostitution scandal. He servedjust two years in the Executive Mansion, taking officein 2008 and finishing in 2010.

But in just two years, Paterson made a name for him-self, delivering scathing remarks about the state Leg-islature while fending off allegations that he attempt-ed to cover up an assault case involving one of his topaides.

Paterson rose to public of fice in 1985 as a 31-year -old state senator serving a district in Harlem. At thetime, he was the youngest senator in Albany and laterbecame the leader of the Senate’s Democratic minori-ty. He was elected lieutenant governor in 2007 and be-came the state’s first black governor after the Spitzerresignation.

Dr. John W. Mills, president of Paul Smith’s College,notes that Paterson — who is legally blind — has over-come a variety of obstacles throughout his life.

Mills said Paterson was thrust into a high-profile po-litical role at the beginning of the nation’s worst eco-nomic downturn since the Great Depression.

“I know our graduates will benefit fr om hearingsomebody with such a rich life story ,” Mills said in aprepared statement

College spokesman Ken Aaron said that a graduatewith a personal connection to Paterson helped organ-ize the appearance.

“We’re really excited that the governor is going tobe coming here,” he said. “He’s got a fascinating lifestory, be it his tenure as governor to his position in thestate Senate. He’s overcome a lot of obstacles in his lifeand we think he’ll have a terrific message to share withour graduates this May.”

“The Adirondacks ar e a special place and it is apleasure to return,” Paterson said in a statement pro-vided by the college.

In Franklin County In Essex County

By Keith [email protected]

LAKE PLACID — With the roarof the engines, the Kyle Petty Ridefor Charity Motor cycle ride leftthe High Peaks Resort in LakePlacid, heading first for Corningand eventually to Florida.

The night before, Petty receiveda check for $6,500 through the Re-sort’s fundraising event, held inthe Dancing Bears Lounge.

“I had a number in mind ofwhat this night would raise, andthis number is definitely bigger ,”Lori Fitzgerald of High Peaks Re-sort said.

Petty was pleased with the do-nation, and with the week that heand his team had spent in LakePlacid.

“We have had a good week thatwas topped of f with this dona-tion,” Petty said. “About a thir dof the group came in on Wednes-day, and I was able to get here onThursday. It has been a great time,and everyone has enjoyed it.”

Petty said that he hoped to r e-turn to the area for either anotherride or to participate in the GeoffBodine bobsledding event, whichorganizers hope will be back onthe Mount Van Hoevenberg trackin 2012.

“Now that I know about thisplace and what is going on, I’llhave to come back,” Petty said. “Iasked Geoff if I would be able tobring my bike for the bobsled-ding, but he said it’s probably nota good time for that in late Janu-ary and February.”

Petty Ride for Charity sent off in Lake Placid

By Keith [email protected]

ELIZABETHTOWN — A plan to have the clerk of the Es-sex County Boar d of Supervisors assigning counsel forthose in need of r epresentation in family court has beentabled for the moment.

County Chairman Randy Douglas said at the May 2 meet-ing of the board that the county had to come up with an up-dated policy on assigning counsel before they could moveforward with their resolution.

“We are supposed to have an assigned counsel plan forthe county,” Douglas said. “The curr ent one is outdated.When (county attorney) Daniel Manning gets back fr om aconference, we will go over the curr ent plan to update itand then I will call for a special board meeting to approvethe new plan and move forward with this resolution.”

The boar d passed a r esolution thr ough the W ays andMeans Committee that would assign the duties of admin-istration for assigned counsel for family court from the of-

fice of Judge Richard Meyer to the clerk of the boar d’s of-fice.

Douglas said that the special boar d meeting would beneeded because Meyer ’s of fice stated that it would nolonger be able to do the job as of April 30.

“This puts us under the gun,” Douglas said.Once passed, the responsibility would fall on clerk to the

board Deborah Palmer to assign counsel in all family courtmatters where counsel was needed.

The boar d also appr oved a r esolution to allow EssexCounty Sheriff Richard Cutting to set up a budget fundedby a Homeland Security Grant for the purchase of a ReconScout XT from Recon Robotics.

The grant will also pay for training on the equipment.“There is a lot of training that is covered with the grant,”

Cutting said. “This is a r obotic device that will be able tobe deployed for surveillance, bomb detection, hostage sit-uation and other needs. It is basically something that canbe used in areas where you do not want to send a live per-son into.”

County to hold on family court assignments

Kyle Petty poses with Saranac Lake Police Officers John Gay and Geoffery Carmichael before startingout on the Petty Ride for Charity May 7. Photos by Keith Lobdell

NASCAR commentator and former driver Kyle Petty receives a check from the High Peaks Resort for$6,500 from Ginny Morrison, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lane Hospitalities. The donationwas part of a reception held for Petty and his Victory Junction Camp charity May 6.

Former Gov. David A. Paterson, seen in this file photo, will addressthe graduating class at Paul Smith’s College this weekend.

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The budget eliminates more thantwo administrative positions, 10 in-structional positions and three full-time and thr ee part-time studentsupport staff members.

The budget will allow for thecontinuation of the elementaryband and strings pr ogram, theOdyssey program for gifted and tal-ented students, for eign languageprograms, full-day kinder gartenclasses and the district’s pr e-kindergarten program.

“We d o h ave a n umber of p osi-

tions that ar e being r educed andcuts, but what we’ve presented is abudget for the community to voteon that still maintains pr ogramsthat we have hear d over the yearsare near and dear to their hearts,”Short said in an April interview.

Peru Central School DistrictThe pr oposed 201 1-12 annual

budget for the Peru Central SchoolDistrict i s $ 41,586,4538,399,039, a1.81 percent decrease over the cur-rent budget, amounting to a reduc-tion of $764,662.

The budget contains a 2.9 percentincrease in the tax levy fr om

$14,489,598 to $14,909,796. Thebudget also contains a tax rate esti-mated at $18.29 per $1,000 of as-sessed property value. The curr enttax rate is $17.77 per $1,000 of as-sessed property value.

According to superintendent A.Paul Scott, the district board of ed-ucation invited employees to sug-gest ways to reduce costs, receivingmore than 130 suggestions. Cost re-ductions for July 1 forward, saidScott, are distributed across all sup-port operations, instr uctional pr o-gram and central of fice ar eas. Re-ductions include subscriptions toBOCES services by an estimated

$300,000; cross-campus expendi-tures of materials, supplies andcontractual services; the number ofschool bus r uns and drivers; thenumber of teacher aides, teachingassistants and monitors; the num-ber of full-time clerical positionsand full-time custodial positions;and costs for buildings andgrounds appr opriations. The ac-tions taken by the boar d also in-clude increasing class sizes slightlyin grades 3-12, r esulting in a needfor fewer faculty members.

In a statement fr om the superin-tendent, Scott noted the r eductionin state aid for the past two years re-

sulted in many aspects beingweighed by the board.

“The multi-year r eduction ofstate aid to Per u CSD has r esultedin lar ger class sizes [in] kinder-garten thr ough 12th grade, fewersecondary grades course sections,somewhat fewer extra-curricularactivities for students, reduced ad-ministrative staf fing, r educed in-structional staf fing and r educedoperations staffing for the studentsand community we serve,” statedScott. “Per u CSD employees ar estriving to make the best of this sit-uation for our school communityand our students.”

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Robinson to wrestle collegiately at the University of BuffaloBy Keith [email protected]

PERU — It’s a program that is on the rise,sending six wrestlers to the NCAA DivisionI wrestling tournament this past season.

Now, a four-time New York State Champi-on is hoping that the University at Buf faloBulls program will help him r each his nextgoal: National All-American.

“I’m hoping to be pretty competitive in Di-vision I and hoping to make it to the NCAA’sin my first year and place right of f,” ArikRobinson, Peru’s wrestling star over the past

five seasons, said about his decision to signwith Buffalo.

Robinson signed a letter of intent to wres-tle for the Mid-American Confer ence Uni-versity May 5, of ficially joining teammatePatrick “Pappy” Hogan as a Division I ath-lete (Hogan had pr eviously accepted an of-fer to wrestle for the Ivy League’s Harvard).

“We are using this day to celebrate the ac-complishments of out two great wrestlers inPappy and Arik,” said Athletic Director Lar-ry Ewald at the pr ess confer ence wher eRobinson signed his letter of intent to grap-ple for the Bulls. “We don’t get that happen-ing around here too much.”

Indians head coach Mike Hogan said thatthe commitments of Robinson and his sondoubles the amount of Division I athletes tocome out of the program from two-to-four.

Robinson said that the key factors in hisdecision were his confidence in the coachingstaff and the depth of the program.

“They have great coaches and a couple ofguys at 125 that I can work with to help makeme a gr eat wr estler in college,” Robinsonsaid. “I saw that they had thr ee other guysthere. I look at it as it is going to be a har d-er way for me to get onto the mat for theBulls and get me to be a better wrestler.”

Currently, the Bulls r oster features fresh-

men Max and Mike Soria along with redshirtfreshmen Sean W alton at 125. The Soriabrothers wrestled previously for Kings Parkin NYSPHSAA Division I with Max finishingin thir d place and Mike finishing in fifthplace at the 2010 NYSPHSAA wrestlingtournament, while W alton wr estled forPalmyra-Macedon, who finished second at125 in the 2009 NYSPHSAA state tourna-ment and thir d at 1 19 in the 2008 tourna-ment.

Robinson finished his career with a recordof 180-10, winning one state title at 96, oneat 103 and the last two at 112.

Chazy baseball team takes advantage of Beagles miscues in winKyle Bissonette scatter ed seven hits and

two unearned runs over a full seven inningspitched to get the Eagles past the BeaglesMay 9 to win 13-2.

Bissonette also had two hits at the plate,along with Kaleb Snide and Michael R ybaadded two each. Ricky Osier hit a triple andAustin Santor recorded a double.

Dave Quaglietta had two hits for the Bea-gles.

NAC 4, Saranac Lake 3Kyle Patnode scored the winning run on a

walk-off error in the bottom of the seventhas the Bobcats edged past the Red Storm May2.

Troy Labombard went 3-for-3 at the platewith a double and one r un batted in for theBobcats, while Nick Ger o recorded the winin relief of Josh Powers.

Tyler O’Neil collected both hits for the RedStorm, including a double. Brian Fortunestruck out 10 over the first five innings,while Jon McCabe took the tough loss on themound.

Beekmantown 2, Ticonderoga 1Chris McDonald scor ed the first and last

runs of the game as the Eagles won a pitch-er ’s dual against the Sentinels May 2.

Tavon For d-Relation surr endered onlyfour hits and gave up one unearned r un inthe win, while McDonald scored to open thescoring in the top of the thir d inning andthen scored the winning run in the top of theseventh.

Peru 5, Lake Placid 3Justus Ruff did it on the mound and with

the bat for the Indians, collecting thr ee hitsand earning the win in relief against the BlueBombers May 2.

Nick Demarais started for the Indians, andWill Flynn picked up the save in r elief. Thetrio combined for 14 strikeouts.

Jared McLean had two hits for the Indians,including a double.

Chris Orsi str uck out six batters in seveninnings in the loss, allowing six hits. Orsi,

Ryan Meyer, Daryl Brier and Mario Gonza-lez each had a hit for the Blue Bombers.

PHS 22, Moriah 2The Hornets wrapped out six extra base

hits and scor ed in five of the seven inningsplayed in beating the Vikings May 2.

Robbie Knowles (thr ee hits) and JakeRichards each had a pair of doubles, whileRichards str uck out six batters in five in-nings on the mound to get the win.

Timmy Curran and Brian LaT ulipe (twohits) also doubled for the Hornets. AnthonyPorcelli, Casey Buck and Kristian Shermaneach collected a pair of hits in the win.

NCCS 15, AVCS 0Matt Letourneau collected thr ee hits, in-

cluding a double, while driving in four runsas the Cougars blanked the Patriots May 2.

Logan Miller added a triple as part of athree-hit performance, while Steven Car deradded a triple and Jamie Davison collecteda double and a single.

Liam McDonough pitched a solid six in-nings for the Cougars, with Carder finishingout the game.

Austin House collected three hits, includ-ing a double, for the Patriots, while T.J. Burladded two hits and Kodie Simpson, DaveWarner and Shane Douglas saw time on themound.

Saranac 15, Peru 2The Chiefs scor ed six r uns in the second

inning and finished the game with nine runsin the final two innings to pull away from the

Indians May 5.Ben Weightman and Jake Liberty each had

a pair of hits, with Weightman hitting a dou-ble. Matt McCasland added a triple.

Kasey Favreau limited the Indians offenseto six hits, while striking out 13.

Will Flynn had a double and triple for theIndians, while Mitchell Cunningham addedtwo singles.

Schroon Lake 4 Chazy 3Jeff Armstrong got a measur e of r evenge

against the Eagles in knocking in the win-ning run on a walk-off single as the Wildcatscame back to win May 5.

The Eagles had scor ed a walk-of f victoryagainst Schr oon in the season opener forboth teams.

Ricky Osier had a pair of triples for the Ea-gles, but was unable to keep the lead on themound while striking out seven.

Kaleb Snide and Michael R yba each hit asingle and double, while John T regan hadtwo hits.

Chazy 3 Willsboro 2The Eagles played more cardiac-stopping

baseball May 6, scoring twice in their last at-bats to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 walk-of fwin against the Warriors.

Kyle McCarthy tied the game for the Ea-gles in the bottom of the seventh on a throw-ing error, while Nathan Reynolds scored thegame-winning run, also on an error.

McCarthy, Reynolds and Craig Botten hadthe lone hits for the Eagles, while John Pol-lock drove in both of W illsboro’s runs witha double in the fourth inning.

Kyle Bisonette worked out of tr ouble inthe top of the seventh to earn the win in r e-lief of Reynolds, while Patrick W ells hadthree of the Warriors six hits.

Peru 2, AVCS 1Patriots pitcher Sawyer Taro gave up a

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Chazy shortstop Ricky Osier tags out a Beagles runner as shortstop Kaleb Snide backs up the play.Photo by John Gereau

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Peru 3, PHS 2PHS 11, Peru 0

The Lady Indians scor ed two r uns in thefifth inning to earn a close win in game one,while the Lady Hornets scored early and of-ten to split the doubleheader between thetwo teams May 7.

Taylor Rock's drove in all three runs in thefirst game for the Indians, while Dani Day-ton earned the win on the mound.

In game two, Kristin Fisher shut out theIndians in on four hits, while Alexandra Be-trus hit two singles and a triple with one RBI,Megan Jubert had a single, triple and onesteak and Karlie Neale had two hits and runsbatted in.

PHS 18, Lake Placid 2The Lady Hornets scor ed 10 r uns in the

sixth inning to pull away from the Lady BlueBombers May 2.

Kristin Fisher str uck out nine batters inearning the win, while Megan Jubert hadthree hits with a double and a triple whileCharisse Abellard also collected three hits.

Danielle Balestrini had two hits, includinga triple, for the Blue Bombers, while JennaMcGreevy also got two hits.

Chazy 20, Keene 8The Lady Eagles scored in each of the first

six innings in beating the Lady Beavers May2.

Hannah LaTour had a pair of extra-basehits (double, triple) while Astrid Kempainenadded a double with a single.

Brianna Rotella and Lindsey Hack alsoconnected for two hits, while Emily Keable

struck out five to earn the win.Anna Kowanko connected for a pair of

hits, while Alex Dumas hit a double andAmanda Boyle struck out eight in the loss.

Peru 14, Saranac Lake 11The Lady Indians scor ed all of their r uns

in the first five innings and then held on tobeat the Lady Red Storm May 5.

Taylor Rock had two hits, including atriple and dr ove in thr ee runs for the Indi-ans, while Rachel Collier and Br eanna Mar-tineau each collected two hits, BriannaPadron drove in two runs and the duo of Kel-ly Kezar and Dani Dayton threw for the win.

Megan Moody had thr ee hits for the RedStorm, with Gabby Lewis and Br ookeFitzgerald hitting two each.

NAC 11, Lake Placid 10A seventh-inning rally came up short as

the home-standing Lady Blue Bombers fellby one run to the Lady Bobcats.

The Bobcats were powered by a balance at-tack with two hits fr om Emily Garrand,Bethany Dr own, Nicole Durnin, winningpitcher Brittany Charland, Elle W arick andJesslin Golovach.

Mackenzie Kemmerer went 3-for-4 with adouble for the Blue Bombers, with HaleyBrandes and Alexis Nichols adding two hitseach.

Schroon Lake 7, Chazy 2The Lady Eagles scor ed a pair of r uns in

the seventh innings, too late as the LadyWildcats scored a victory May 5.

Hannah Latour , Amber Polomsky and

Lindsey Hack each had a single for the Ea-gles.

Westport 24, Johnsburg 7Allison Sherman hit a double as part of a

three-hit ef fort as the Lady Eagles scor edeight runs in the first and sixth innings to getpast the Lady Jaguars.

Brendee Russell and Ellexus Vaughn bothhit doubles and scor ed three r uns. MallorySudduth, who took the win on the mound,and Willa McKinley also had two hits apiece.

Willsboro 11, Chazy 2Hannah Bruno tossed a one-hitter (Kristen

Doran single in sixth) as the Lady W arriorsscored a win against the Lady Eagles.

Emily Sayward had two hits in the win, ina game where neither team had more than asingle.

Canton 4, Saranac 0 Saranac 7, St. Lawrence 4

The Lady Chiefs split a pair of games in anon-league doubleheader, falling to Cantonbut defeating St. Lawrence.

Chazy 8, Westport 6A two-r un seventh inning rally by W est-

port was not enough as Chazy scored a tworun win in the battle of the Lady Eagles May9.

Astrid Kempainen and Emily LaPierr eeach had thr ee hits for Chazy , while EmilyKeable had two hits and took the win on themound.

Brandee Russell had thr ee hits for W est-

port, with Allison Sherman, Allexus Vaughn,Molly Rascoe, Aisleigh Fr um and MallorySudduth recording two hits each.

PHS 8, Ti 3The Lady Hornets scor ed six r uns in the

third and fourth innings to get past the LadySentinels May 9.

Kristin Fisher earned the win on themound while also driving in a pair of r unsfor the Hornets. Charisse Abellard had adouble and a r un batted in and the duo ofSamantha Malcolm and Fisher each had twohits.

Saranac 2, AVCS 1The Lady Chiefs scor ed two r uns in the

third inning to beat the Lady Patriots May 9.Kourtnie Campbell str uck out eight and

gave up only four hits to earn the win, whileCourtney Pfeiffer had two hits, Emily V anndoubled and Olivia Furnia tripled for theChiefs.

Brittany Friedrich allowed only five hits inthe loss, striking out four.

Kelly McBrearity drove in the lone run ofthe game for the Patriots on a single that fol-lowed an Emily Plumadore double.

Beekmantown 20, Moriah 3Kendra LaFountain connected on a three-

run homer and Danielle Schwartz had athree-run triple to lead the Lady Eagles pastthe Lady Vikings May 9.

Emily Raville had thr ee hits, includingtwo doubles, while T aylor Manor collectedthree hits with a double and two r uns-bat-ted-in.

Peru softball team splits with PHS in battle for CVAC top spot

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first inning single and IndiansPitcher Will Flynn gave up a pair ofhits in the seventh.

Other than that, it was a com-bined no-hitter in between.

However, it was Flynn and com-pany that would pull out the 2-1win over the Patriots May 6.

Justus Ruff scored both runs forthe Indians after being walked inthe first and sixth innings.

T.J Burl and Kyle Miller hit back-to-back singles in the seventh in-ning for the Patriots, with Millerdriving in Austin House for theirlone run.

Flynn finished with 17 strikeoutsand the lone hit in the game for theIndians, an RBI double.

Beekmantown 4, NAC 3

Frank Buksa two hits including atriple and two r uns batted in tolead the Eagles past the BobcatsMay 6.

Josh Powers provided the Bobcatoffense with a two-r un homer inthe fourth inning. He also hit adouble.

Eric LaBonte r ecorded eightstrikeouts in the win for the Eagles.

Saranac 14, Moriah 2The Vikings held a 2-0 lead head-

ing into the bottom of the third in-ning when the Chiefs scor ed fourtimes, continuing to scor e in eachinning afterwar ds in picking upthe win May 6.

Ben Weightman pitched a com-plete game with 12 strikeoutswhile adding an RBI single. KaseyFavreau and Brady Burleigh eachdrove in two r uns, while ZachVaughan contributed two doubles,

Jordan Gillespie two singles andMatt McCasland hit a triple.

Plattsburgh 13, Lake Placid 6CJ Worley homered for the Hor-

nets as they beat the Blue BombersMay 6.

Eric Philips dr ove in a pair ofruns, while Joe Tolosky and MitchKilkeary each had doubles.

Donald Herzog had thr ee r unsbatted in on two hits for the BlueBombers.

Chazy 9, Schroon Lake 2Josh Peete scatter ed four hits in

even innings and struck out four asthe Eagles scored a win on the hal-lowed turf of Doubleday Field inCooperstown, home of the Nation-al Baseball Hall of Fame.

Kaleb Snide tripled, singled anddrove in two runs, while John Tre-

gan added two hits and three runsbatted in.

Ticonderoga 12, Beekmantown 5

The Sentinels scor ed all of theirruns in the first four innings, in-cluding a six-r un fourth, as theydefeated the Eagles May 8 at Dou-bleday Field in Cooperstown,home of the National Baseball Hallof Fame.

Austin Bradish had two hits, in-cluding a home r un, to go withthree runs batted in.

PHS 16, AVCS 4Will Love allowed only two hits

and fanned seven batters while col-lecting two hits at he plate, scoringfour times, to lead the Hornets pastthe Patriots May 9.

C.J. Worley and Brian Latulipe

each dr ove in four r uns. Worleyhad a double and triple.

John Sikandar and T .J. Burl hadthe two hits for the Patriots, bothsingles.

NCCS 18, NAC 10The Cougars scor es 12 r uns in

their last three at bats to come frombehind against the Bobcats May 9.

Steven Car der was a home r unshy of the cycle with three hits, in-cluding a double and triple, whilebringing in three runs.

Logan Miller, Brandon Spooner,Matt Letourneau, and Dalton Cas-tine also had three hits each for theCougars, While Jamie Davisonpicked up the win on the mound.

Josh Powers had two doubles forthe Bobcats, while Garrett Gero hita double.

Nick Ger o, Kyle Patnode andJosh Rabideau had two hits apiece.

May 14 - 20, 2011 the ‘burgh24 • the locker room

Ethan Votraw and Lucas W ood each shotrounds in the sub-40s as the Hornets sweptthe Indians May 2.

Votraw carded a 38 while W ood scored a39. Connor Benoit, Gus Rietsema, CobyDergham and Mitchell Maggy also scor edwins for the Hornets.

Bobby Wilkins fired a low-round 47 for theIndians.

Lake Placid 3, Beekmantown 3(Lake Placid wins on strokes, 188-190)

Will Tennant fired a match-low 43 at theAdirondack Golf and Country Club as theBlue Bombers squeaked past the Eagles by amargin of two strokes May 2.

Ryan Cartier shot a 44 as low man for theEagles.

Saranac Lake 5, NCCS 1Pat McHugh and Michael Phelan scor ed

wins in the top two matches as the RedStorm took all but one point against theCougars May 2.

McHugh fired a match-low 41, while Phe-lan shot a 42 in the win. Devin Darrah shota 45 in his win, while Kyle Dora (50) andBlake Gregory (51) also won their matches.

Bobbie Dietsche shot a 44 in earning thelone point for the Cougars. Nolan Ried shota 45 in falling to McHugh.

Saranac 6, Ticonderoga 0Three Chiefs br oke 50 in a sweep of the

Sentinels May 2.Wes Aubin and Camer on Keysor each

carded rounds of 48, while Nick Lees scoreda 49 in the victory.

Saranac Lake 4-½, Seton 1-½A day after shooting a 39, Michael Phelan

carded a 38 as the Red Storm scored a 4½-1½win over the Knights May 3.

Pat McHugh (41), Mark Clark (41) andDevin Darrah (45) also scor ed wins for theRed Storm, while Kyle Dora matched Seton’sSabby Barie with a 51.

Dave LaFountain carded a 58 to score theKnights lone win.

Peru 4-½, Saranac 1-½Bobby Wilkins carded a 44 and Ian Fisher

scored a 45 as the Indians got past the ChiefsMay 5.

Tyler Langley (51) and T yler Lezma (49)also scor ed wins for the Indians, whileCameron Keysor (41) scored the lone win forthe Chiefs and Jor dan Wright halved withthe Indians’ Matt Nugent, 54-54.

Lake Placid 6, Seton Catholic 0Dustin Jacques carded a 40 to lead the Blue

Bombers to a sweep of the Knights May 5.

Will Tennant (46), Kiefer Casler (48), An-thony Kor dziel (47), Dylan Smith (47) andWill Gronlund (51) also won their matchesfor Lake Placid.

Sabby Barie had a 47 for the Knights.

Saranac Lake 3, PHS 3(SLCS wins by strokes, 174-176)

Dustin Fischer car ded a 37 as the RedStorm scor ed a two-str oke win against theHornets after a 3-3 draw in medal play May6.

Fischer scored a win in his match for theRed Storm, as did Pat McHugh (45) andBraxton Tissot (48).

Ethan Votraw (42), Gus Rietsema (39) andConnor Benoit (46) tallied wins for the Hor-nets,

AuSable Valley 6, Peru 0John Hickey shot a 35, while Zack Snow

added a 37 as the Patriots swept past the In-dians May 6.

Sean Pulsifer and Sean Harrigan eachscored 40 for the Patriots, while JamieLaFountain scor ed a 41 and Jacquie Hoeycarded a 48.

Bobby Wilkins shot a 44 for the Indians.

Seton Catholic 6, Moriah 0Will Pellerin car ded a 44 as the Knights

picked up their first win of the seasonagainst the Vikings May 6.

Sabby Barie (48), Nic Favreau (54), DavidLafontaine (55), Kyle Vandenbusch (56) andDevin Luck (54) also won.

PHS 5, Saranac 1A pair of Hornets shot rounds in the sub-

30s, while two mor e hit 40 in a victoryagainst the Chiefs May 9.

Connor Benoit carded a 36 in the win forthe Hornets, while Lucas Wood shot a 37 andthe duo of Gus Rietsema and Ethan V otraweach tallied a 40. Andre Poirer (46) also tal-lied a medal win.

Nick Dr own (53) r ecorded the lone tallyfor the Chiefs.

AVCS 6, Beekmantown 0Five of the six Patriot golfers shot a round

under 50 in beating the Eagles May 9.John Hickey (41), Zach Snow (45), Sean

Pulsifer (45), Sean Harrigan (49), JamieLaFountain (46) and Jacquie Hoey (51) eachwon.

Peru 4-1/2, Lake Placid 1-1/2Bobby Wilkins fired a 42 for the Indians in

beating the Blue Bombers May 9.Matt Nugent carded a 46, while Tyler Lan-

gley (48) and Ian Fisher (52) also won.Miles Lussi shot a 49 for the Blue Bombers.

Hornets sweep past Indians Knights earn track and field winsZach Ziemer scor ed wins in the 3,200-r e-

lay, 200, 1,600-r elay and 400 as the Knightsswept the Blue Bombers and Patriots May 3.

Justin Br esette scor ed wins in the 3,200and was part of the winning 3,200 and 400-relays. Barrett Waling won in the 800, 1,600and 1,600-relay.

Paul For d won the 1 10 hur dles, 400 hur-dles and high jump for the Patriots, whileJames Rock claimed the high jump and triplejump.

For the girls, the Lady Knights split a pairof meets, beating the Lady Blue Bombers butlosing to the Lady Patriots

Margaret Champagne earned victories inthe 800, 3,000 and 3,200-r elay for the LadyKnights, while Paige Spittler (3,200 r elay,400) and Melissa Whyman (1,500, 400 hur-dles) scored two wins each.

Sidney Flint won the four events (100, 200,long jump, triple jump) for the Lady Patri-ots, with Alexis Hamilton winning the 100hurdles and 400-r elay, while RaychelAgoney won the discus and shot put.

Saranac Lake 74, PHS 58 Saranac Lake 67, PHS 55

Dylan Dawson scor ed wins in the 1,600,1,600 relay, 400 relay and 800 to lead the RedStorm in a sweep of the Hornets track andfield teams May 3.

Justin Curtis won the 1 10 hur dles, triplejump and long jump for the Hornets.

In the girls meet, Nickie T rudeau (1,000-relay, Hur dles, 100) and V anessa Salamy(1,000-relay, 100-hur dles, triple jump)scored three wins for the Lady Red Storm.

Emma Deshaies and Gracie Chisolm wereeach part of the winning 3,200 r elay team,while Deshaies added wins in the 400 and800, and Chisolm finished won the 1,500 and3,000.

Saranac 122, NCCS 10 Saranac 96, NCCS 32

Maxine Rock placed first in the 400, triplejump, 200 and 400 r elay as the Lady Chiefsbeat the Cougars May 3.

Connor Christopherson finished first inthe 400 hurdles, 110 hurdles and the 200 forthe Chiefs boys team in beating the Cougars,as well.

Mallory Honan won in the 100 hur dles,400 hur dles and long jump for the LadyCougars.

AVCS 66, Beekmantown 63Beekmantown 82, AVCS 59

The Patriots scor ed wins in each of thefield events in beating the Eagles May 5.

James Rock won the long jump and triplejump as well as the 1,600-r elay, Paul For dscored a victory in the high jump as well asthe 110-hurdles and Garth Benway won theshot pout and discus to help the Patriots toa three-point victory.

Jacob Montefusco (1,600-r elay) andAlexander Conner (400) also scored wins forthe Patriots.

Colin Quackenbush won in the 3,200-r e-lay and 800 for the Eagles, while James Bish-op won the 3,200-relay and 200.

In the girls events, the Lady Eagles wer eled by Mikaela Fr echette, who won in the100-hurdles, 400-hur dles, high jump andsprint relay.

Jess Huber (100, 200, long jump), KaileVillemaire (3,200-r elay, 400-r elay, 400) andGrace Kelly (3,200-relay, 400-relay, 3,000) allscored three wins, while Stephanie Clookeywon in the 3,200-relay and 1,500.

Raychel Agoney won the shot and discusfor the Patriots, while Sidney Flint won thetriple jump.

Peru 72, Seton 43 Peru 81, Seton 34

The Indians track and field team sweptpast the Knights May 5.

Travis Turgeon won the 100, long jumpand 200 for the Indians, while Shawn Hen-drix won in the 110-hurdles and triple jumpand Erik Pr ovost won in the 400-r elay andshot put.

For the Lady Indians, Lindsay Lamicawon the 100 and 400-hurdles along with be-ing part of the 400 and 1,600-r elay teams.Ashley Carpenter won in the 100, 200, longjump and sprint r elay. Lea Perry won the400-relay, 1,600-relay and high jump, whileAshley Leta (1,500, 3,000) and Chelsea John-ston (discus, shot put) each won twice.

Zach Ziemer (3,200-relay, 400, 1,600-relay)and Barr ett Waling (3,200-r elay, 800, 1,600)scores three wins each for the Knights, whileJames Downs won in the 3,200-r elay and1,600-relay for the boys and Margaret Cham-pagne won in the 3,200-relay and 800.

PHS 103, EKMW 24 PHS 72, EKMW 56

Halie Snyder had thr ee first place finish-es for the Lady Emus, but it was not enoughto get past the Lady Hornets May 5.

Four Lady Hornets scored a pair of wins,including Emma Deshaies (3,200-r elay,1,600-relay), Emy Russell (100-hur dles,1,600-relay), Kadijah Br own (200, highjump) and Jackie Moore (shot put, discus).

For the boys, Tre Bucci scored wins in the100, 400-relay, 800 and 1,600 relay to lead theHornets.

Andrew Favr o won in the shot put anddiscus as well as the 3,200 relay, while JustinCurtis (1 10-hurdles, high jump), Jor danKnight (1,600 r elay, 400 r elay) and DavidFerris (3,200 r elay, triple jump) each wontwice.

Halie Snyder won in the 100, 400 relay and400 for the Emus, while Julia Cox won in the1,500 and 800 with Jessica Caner winning inthe long jump and triple jump.

Roger Cline earned a win in the 400 andJack Newberry won in the 3,000.

Without a mentor, orthe mentorship op-portunities pr o-

vided through such traditionalchannels as scouting or 4-H,many rural youth will continueto lack the ability and knowhow necessary to ef fectivelyenjoy their surroundings.

If they are disconnected fromnature, they will becomestrangers in their own land,and they will r emain so. Theywill suffer, and the communitywill be all the poorer as a result.If they don’t use it, the place will never car-ry any value.

I fear this may be the first generation of ru-ral “indoor children”, detached and lar gelydisconnected from the abundance of naturalpleasures r eadily available in their ownbackyard.

It should be obvious, butlocal youth must come torecognize the AdirondackPark is a very special place.There is a reason the regioncontinues to attract overten million travelers everyyear, and they must under-stand.

We must learn to putaside the negative rhetoric,and all the sorry, old, anti-enviro-maniac nonsensethat has plagued the regionsince the 1880’s. I know, I’ll

take a lot of flack for saying so; but isn’t itabout time to move on and to recognize whata tr uly incredible place we’ve got. Need areminder? Take a trip of 100 miles in any di-rection, you’ll be happy to return home.

An old saying sums the mentality up pret-ty well, “A man is not without honor, lest it

be in his own hometown.”I believe similar sentimentsholds true in the common-ly voiced, local view of theAdirondacks, “A Park isnot without honor, lest it bein your own backyard.”

If this type of mindset isever to be over come, theremust be a mor e concertedeffort, on a local communi-ty level, to instill our localyouth with a greater appre-ciation for their surr ound-ings. We learn to love whatwe enjoy, but only if andwhen we have the means toenjoy it.

I believe the most ef fec-tive method to ensur e thelong-term vitality of ourcommunities is to pr ovideour youth with the means and methodologyto fully enjoy their surroundings.

I’ll use another analogy to illustrate mypoint. I never knew how good a cherry pie

could taste, until Itried one. Then, Iknew I had to learnhow to bake one.

Comparably, I neverrealized how manyAdirondack adven-tures wer e available,until I learned to pad-dle a canoe, and cast aflyrod. If we pr ovidelocal youth with theskills necessary to ful-ly utilize the localwoods and waters,there would be far lesschance of the ‘braindrain and brightflight” thr eateningour communities.

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residingin Ray Brook. Contact him at [email protected].

Alas, I have r e-turned fr om yetanother success-

ful week-long fishing tripdeep within the Adiron-dack wilds. I timed this oneperfectly with ice out andmy cr ew was r ewardedwith plenty of spunkyspring br ookies for our ef-fort.

This was my annual tripinto the St. Regis CanoeArea, an outing that has be-come a tradition for half adozen of my fishing chums and I. Last yearwe celebrated my Dad’s 75th birthday there.This year we dubbed the trip “Spirit of 76”in recognition of his B-day, even though hewas unable to tag along because of workcommitments.

Rest assur ed, you wer e ther e in spirit,pop.

Probably a good thing he missed this oneanyway. While we caught a ton of fish, theatmosphere was dampened by five straightdays of rain. Seriously , it started pouringlast Sunday and did not stop until it turnedto snow Thursday . Ponds ran high andbrooks and rivers were roaring.

We’d head out in our canoes just longenough to get soaked, return for dry clothesand head out again. At one point, my buddyjoked that he could have stood in an ice coldshower with his pack on for a day and comeout dryer. We’re actually contemplating us-ing that as a training exer cise prior to nextyear ’s jaunt.

There’s a thought — br ook tr out bootcamp. Force cadets to march 5 miles throughthe for est carrying a Radisson and a 60-pound r ucksack full of food and fishingequipment, while swatting black flies fr om

their foreheads without dr op-ping the 30-packs fr om undereach arm.

Only a select few will makeit, but they’ll be rewarded withwashing meals of coldSpaghetti O’s down withfrozen beer after sleeping onthe ground in a paper-thin bagin near sub zer o temperaturesduring driving rain and gale-force winds.

For those who ar e inter est-ed, I’ll have a sign up sheettacked to my door.

Youth bowhunting bill on governor’s deskIn other outdoor news, the state is poised

to ink a bill allowing junior bowhunters tohunt big game at 12 years of age with adultsupervision. The current age restriction is 14years.

This is an important piece of legislation asit has been pr oven that intr oducing ouryouth to the sport of big game hunting at anearly age incr eases the likelihood of themparticipating for life.

I also personally believe that bowhuntingis an excellent way to intr oduce the youngto hunting as it teaches patience and safety.

The bill has been passed by the state Sen-ate and Assembly and now awaits only thegovernor ’s signature to become law this biggame season. Outdoor groups, such as NewYork Bowhunters, ar e ur ging sportsmen towrite or e-mail Governor Cuomo in favor ofthe law . T o e-mail the governor , go tohttp://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php

Youth fishing derby slatedThe Willsboro Fish & Game Club will host

its Mary R yan annual youth fishing derby

May 15 from 9 a.m. to noon with pre-regis-tration is at 8:30.

The event is aimed at those ages 3 to 15and ther e will be prizes and r efreshments.There is no cost.

For more information call Jim Hotaling at963-7430.

Spring Break Out Ride setThe Hague Fish & Game Club has sched-

uled its Spring Break Out Ride for Saturday,May 14. This event, which includes an ATVand horse ride, will start at the clubhouse at9:30 a.m. The fee this year is $15 as the club

members will head onto the T&T lease andback onto club property.

All ATV riders must wear helmets andprovide pr oof of insurance. Refr eshmentswill be available, a horseshoe tournamentwill start after lunch and music will beplayed into the night. Club of ficials wouldalso like to r emind members that dues ar edue by July 1.

John Ger eau is managing editor of DentonPublications and an avid outdoorsman. He canbe reached at [email protected]

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I just returned from a week-long fishing trip in the St. Regis Canoe Area where the fish hit quite well despitethe torrential rain. Not surprisingly, we found water temperatures and hatches to be running a few weeksbehind this year.

Brook trout boot camp

Thinking of the next generation

Ned Kanze of Bloomingdale, hoists a nicesmallmouth bass taken last summer alongthe Raquette River.

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ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 561-8142.ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT-BREAKFAST. Elks


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of Clint on County Senior C enter, 5139 N.Catherine St., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. 563-6186, ext. 102.


8 p.m. 561-3091.ACCES-VR (FORMERLY VESID) ORIENTA-

TION. 1 to 2 p.m., at One Work Source, US Oval.

T h u r s d a y . M a y . 2 6 . T h u r s d a y . M a y . 2 6 . JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-

tre M all, 60 Smithfield Blv d., 4:30-6:30 p .m.Reading for children up to age 16 with free bookprovided. Host ed at cent er cour t. w ww.jour-neyintoreading.org.


F r i d a y . M a y . 2 7 . F r i d a y . M a y . 2 7 . CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-


ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.


ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

S u n d a y . M a y . 2 9 . S u n d a y . M a y . 2 9 . ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-



RSVP PERFORMS. Senior Citiz ens C ouncilof Clinton County, 5139 N. Catherine St., 11 a.m


8 p.m. 561-3091.RSVP PERFORMS. Senior Citiz ens C ouncil

of Clinton County, 5139 N. Catherine St., 11 a.m.

W e d n e s d a y . J u n e . 1 .W e d n e s d a y . J u n e . 1 .ADIRONDACK JAZZ ORCHESTR A PER-

FORMS. Olive R idley's, 37 C ourt St., 8-10 p .m.324-2200.

T h u r s d a y . J u n e . 2 .T h u r s d a y . J u n e . 2 .JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-



F r i d a y . J u n e . 3 .F r i d a y . J u n e . 3 .CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-

brary, 19 Oak St., 2 p.m. 536-7437.“ W H AT ’S E AT I N G G I L B E R T G R A P E ? ”

SCREENING. North C ountry C enter f or I nde-pendence, 102 Shar ron Avenue. 1 t o 3:00 p .m.518-563-9058..

ANNUAL PICNIC ALGONQUIN CHAP. ADKMOUNTAIN CLUB. Rust and beige building onthe hill above the parking lot, Cumberland BayState Park, 5 p.m. Bring place setting, beverage,dish to share. Grills available. $4 parking fee.

ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

S a t u r d a y . J u n e . 4 .S a t u r d a y . J u n e . 4 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.NORTH COUNTRY SQUARES DANCE CLUB

MEETS. Clinton C ounty Fairgrounds, 84 F air-grounds Road, Morrisonville. 7 p .m. Caller BobLaBounty and cuer Walt Wall. 561-7167 or 492-2057.

S u n d a y . J u n e . 5 . S u n d a y . J u n e . 5 . ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-



M o n d a y . J u n e . 6 . M o n d a y . J u n e . 6 . SCRABBLE GAME. Seniors Citizens Council

of Clinton County Senior Center, 5139 N.Catherine St., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. 563-6186, ext. 102.

HERSHEY TR ACK AND FIELD GAMESFOR YOUTH. Saranac H igh School Track andField Complex at 4:30. Boys and g irls age nine

to 14. Br ing bir th cer tificate. No spik e shoes .565-4750.

T u e s d a y . J u n e . 7 . T u e s d a y . J u n e . 7 . TRIVIA NIGHT. Geoffrey's Pub, 5453 Peru St.,

8 p.m. 561-3091.

T h u r s d a y . J u n e . 9 .T h u r s d a y . J u n e . 9 .JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-



COA S T G U A R D A U X I L I A RY / P L AT T S -BURGH FOTILLA 15-08 MEE TING ANDCLASS. South P lattsburgh Volunteer F ire D e-partment, 4244 State Route 22, 7 p.m. Classes inseamanship and crew qualification. New mem-bers welcome. 293-7185.

F r i d a y . J u n e . 1 0 .F r i d a y . J u n e . 1 0 .CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-


ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

S a t u r d a y . J u n e . 1 1 .S a t u r d a y . J u n e . 1 1 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.MEMORIAL BUTTERFLY RELEASE. Melissa

Penfield Park, 11 a.m. Butterflies cost $17. 561-8465.

S u n d a y . J u n e . 1 2 .S u n d a y . J u n e . 1 2 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-



M o n d a y . J u n e . 1 3 . M o n d a y . J u n e . 1 3 . SCRABBLE GAME. Seniors Citizens Council

of Clint on County Senior C enter, 5139 N.Catherine St., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. 563-6186, ext. 102.

T u e s d a y . J u n e . 1 4 . T u e s d a y . J u n e . 1 4 . TRIVIA NIGHT. Geoffrey's Pub, 5453 Peru St.,

8 p.m. 561-3091.

(All events hosted in Plattsburgh unless otherwise stated.)

May 14 - 20, 2011the ‘burgh 27

By Mel Rosen

ACROSS1 Do what Michelle Wie did

before age 16

6 Lentil housings

10 For example

13 Muzzleloading aid

19 Out-of-this-world type

20 Beige relative

21 Beverage ending

22 Protected, in a way

23 “How’s your Ticonderoga

stock?” answer?

27 Rally attendance fig.

28 Join in the fun

29 Busy mo. for a CPA

30 “... __ quit!”

31 Old Glory detail

33 Ancient Phoenician sea-

port

34 Deliverer of text mes-

sages?

37 “__ in victor”

38 Melodic passages

40 Eroded

41 Faith-based group

42 “How’s your Johnson &

Johnson stock?” answer?

46 Fondue needs

47 Old frosh topper

48 Sightings

50 Words after shake or

break

54 One playing for time

56 “¿Cómo __ usted?”

57 Shtick

60 Baseball commissioner

Bud

62 Stashes

63 Villa d’Este city

65 “How’s your Ginsu stock?”

answer?

71 Classic Ford

72 Janvier, across the

Pyrenees

73 Arrive home, in a way

74 Program file suffix

75 Beaut

78 Boxer’s attendant

80 Began a round, with “off”

81 Mallomars maker

83 Draft, as a contract

85 Stop legally

88 “How’s your Moët &

Chandon stock?” answer?

94 Slimy mud

95 Be indisposed

96 Airport near Tokyo

97 Ranch addition?

98 Weather page datum

99 H.H. Munro’s pen name

102 “... like __ of chocolates”

103 Joplin work

104 Bowl highlights: Abbr.

105 Statistical group

108 Like Gershwin’s piano

concerto

109 “How’s your Aqua Lung

stock?” answer?

114 Refrain from the song

“Hot Hot Hot”

115 Success

116 Cartoonist Goldberg

117 Sleep lab phenomenon

118 Settled in

119 Record

120 Affect strongly

121 “The Glass Bead Game”

author

DOWN1 Views wide-eyed

2 Fake fat

3 Migratory duck

4 TiVo button

5 Not procrastinating

6 Bothersome

7 Brownish hue

8 Hang loosely

9 Fiji’s capital

10 Gunpowder ingredient

11 Bother

12 “To be sure!”

13 Like bodybuilders’ mus-

cles

14 Love abroad

15 Kvbrick opvs?

16 Go longer than planned

17 Just as planned

18 Refrains

24 Calif. daily

25 Ode writer’s Muse

26 Traditional straw mats

32 Elephant predator of myth

35 What mares eat, in song

36 “Putney __”: 1969 film

39 Deli choice

40 White poplars

41 Emergency letters

43 __ yoga

44 “And seem to walk on

wings, and tread __”:

Pope

45 Piña colada ingredient?

46 Grain threshers

49 J.D. holder

50 “Shoot!”

51 Fine china

52 Say nothin’, say?

53 Cave

55 Surrey town in which

George Harrison lived in

the ’60s

57 “The Man Who Fell to

Earth” star

58 Paris’s __ la Cité

59 Ready to hit the hay

61 Actress Sarah Michelle __

64 Battery unit

66 Ticket souvenir

67 Battery terminal-related

68 Corp. shuffling

69 Spin doc

70 “My Fair Lady” composer

76 It may be poetic

77 Two seater, maybe?

78 Disappear

79 Making a mess of

81 “Sorry, lassie!”

82 City SW of Bogotá

84 Pro bono TV ad

85 “The Sage of Concord”

86 Revival claim

87 Wing-tipped shoes

89 Arraignment answers

90 Angelico’s address

91 Freudian principles

92 Penitents

93 Like many muni bonds

95 Exaggerated

98 Told too often

99 Teapot part

100 Perp’s story

101 Hall of Fame slugger

Ralph

106 Ballpark figs.

107 Talk effusively

110 Hi-tech worker

111 Sharp punch

112 Ipanema’s locale

113 Vane dir.

This Month in History - MAY 14th - The first U.S. space station, “Skylab” is launched. (1973)

16th - Charles Hires invents Root Beer. (1866)

17th - “And They’re Off!” as the first Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs. (1875)

20th - Hubble Space Telescope transmits photograph’s from space (1990)

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in boldborders) contains every digit, 1 to 9

S O L U TI O N S T O L A S T W E E K ’ SP U Z Z L E S!

MARKETWOES

Death noticesLouis L. Trevino, 88

MASSENA — Louis L. T revino,88, passed away May 1, 2011. A fu-neral service was held May 5 at thePhillips Memorial Home, Massena.Burial will be in Massena CenterCemetery, Massena. Phillips Me-morial Home was in charge ofarrangements.

Mary A. Kingsley, 75PLATTSBURGH — Mary A.

Kingsley, 75, passed away on April30, 2011. A funeral service was heldMay 7 at the Lifeway CommunityChurch, North Bangor . Burial wasat Sunnyside Cemetery . The FlintFuneral Home, Moira, was incharge of arrangements.

Thomas W. O'Hearn, 82PLATTSBURGH — T homas W.

O'Hearn, 82, passed away May 3,2011. A private funeral service washeld at the R.W . W alker FuneralHome, Plattsbur gh. Burial was inSt. Peter's Cemetery . The R.W .Walker Funeral Home was incharge of arrangements.

Betty Bacon, 62ALBANY — Betty Bacon, 62,

passed away on April 17, 2011. A fu-neral service was held May 7 at theJay Baptist Church, Jay. Burial wasin the Jay Central Cemetery, Jay.Zaumetzer-Sprague FuneralHome, Au Sable Forks, was incharge of arrangements.

Janet M. Tucker, 78WILLSBORO — Janet Marie

Tucker, 78, passed away T uesdayMay 3, 2011. A funeral service washeld May 7 at Calvary Cemetery ,Willsboro. Huestis Funeral Home,Willsboro, was in char ge ofarrangements.

Esther M. Burleigh, 78PLATTSBURGH — Esther Mary

Burleigh, 78, passed away May 2,2011. A funeral service was heldMay 5 at St. John's Chur ch, Platts-burgh. Burial was in Mt. CarmelCemetery. Heald Funeral Home,Plattsburgh, was in char ge ofarrangements.

Martha S. Coon, 86PLATTSBURGH — Martha S.

Coon, 86, passed away May 3, 2011.

There was no public funeral serv-ice. Burial will be private and at theconvenience of the family in theBath National Cemetery , Bath.Hamilton Funeral Home, Peru, wasin charge of arrangements.

Austin L. Davis, 83PLATTSBURGH — Austin Loren

Davis, 83, passed away May 2, 2011.A funeral service was held May 6 atthe Peru Community Church, Peru.Buria; was in God’s Acre Cemetery.Hamilton Funeral Home, Peru, wasin charge of arrangements.

Roger D. Hemm, 68PERU — Dr. Roger D. Hemm, 68,

passed away April 30, 201 1. A fu-neral service was held May 6 at theHamilton Funeral Home, Per u.Hamilton Funeral Home was incharge of arrangements.

Stella M. Lashway, 92PLATTSBURGH — Stella M.

Lashway, 92, passed away April 29,2011. A funeral service was heldMay 5 at Holy Angels Church, Al-tona. Burial was in Holy AngelsCemetery. Br own Funeral Home,Altona, was in char ge of arrange-ments.

Carol C. Buchanan, 85WESTPORT — Car ol C.

Buchanan, 85, passed away April28, 2011. Per her request, a celebra-tion of her life will be held thissummer at the Depot Theatr e,Westport, date to be announced ata future time. W.M. Marvin's Sons,Elizabethtown, was in charge ofarrangements.

Jennifer L. Muncil, 38SARANAC LAKE — Jennifer L.

Muncil, 38, passed away May 2,2011. A funeral service was heldMay 6 at the Fortune-Keough Fu-neral Home, Saranac Lake. The For-tune-Keough Funeral Home was incharge of arrangements.

Carol H. Benson, 82LAKE PLACID — Carol H. Ben-

son, 82, passed away Feb. 11, 2011.A funeral service was held May 7 atSt. Agnes Church, Lake Placid. Bur-ial was in the St. Agnes Cemetery.The M.B. Clark Funeral Home,Lake Placid, was in char ge ofarrangements.

Florence L. Tropper, 101LAKE PLACID — Flor ence L.

Tropper, 101, passed away Monday,May 2, 2011. A funeral service washeld May 5 at the M.B. Clark Funer-al Home, Lake Placid. Burial will beheld at the convenience of the fam-ily at the United Hebr ew Commu-nity Cemetery. M.B. Clark FuneralHome was in char ge of arrange-ments.

Francis J. O'Shaughnessy, 92LATHAM — Francis J.

O'Shaughnessy, 92, passed awayMay 4, 2011. A funeral service washeld May 9 at Our Lady of the As-

sumption Church, Latham. Burialwill be in Calvary Cemetery, Wills-boro. D ufresne & C avanaugh F u-neral Home was in char ge ofarrangements.

Karen L. Bourdon, 45CONSTABLE — Kar en L. Bour-

don, 45, passed away May 2, 201 1.A funeral service was held May 9 atthe Chur ch of the Sacr ed Heart.Burial was in Cavalry Cemetery .Phillips Memorial Home, Massena,was in charge of arrangements.

Cora C. Strattan, 74NORTH W ALES, Pa. — Cora

Cross Strattan, 74, passed awayMay 4, 2011. A funeral service washeld May 9 at the Joseph A. FluehrIII Funeral Home, New Britain, Pa.Burial was private. The Joseph A.Fluehr III Funeral Home was incharge of arrangements.

Edward L. Bashaw, 88PERU — Edward L. Bashaw, 88,

passed away May 3, 2011. A funer-al s ervice w as h eld M ay 7 a t t heHamilton Funeral Home, Per u.Burial was in God's Acre Cemetery,Peru. Hamilton Funeral Home wasin charge of arrangements.

Roy E. LaFountain, 78TUPPER LAKE — Roy Eugene

LaFountain, 78, passed away May4, 2011. A funeral service was heldMay 9 at Holy Name Chur ch. Bur-ial was in Holy Name Cemetery .Stuart-Fortune-Keough FuneralHome, Tupper Lake, was in chargeof arrangements.

Nelson L. Durocher, 87SARANAC — Nelson L.

Durocher, 87, passed away May 5,

2011. A funeral service was heldMay 9 at the Church of the Assump-tion, Redfor d. Burial was in theparish cemetery. Hamilton FuneralHome, Per u, was in char ge ofarrangements.

Olive B. Grabowski, 89PLATTSBURGH — Olive B.

Grabowski, 89, passed away onMay 5, 2011. Funeral services wereprivate. Burial was in Cold SpringCemetery, Cold Spring. R.W. Walk-er Funeral Home, Plattsburgh, wasin charge of arrangements.

Roger A. Mason, 62CHAMPLAIN — Roger A. Ma-

son, 62, passed away on May 6,2011. A funeral service was heldMay 13 in Osceola Memorial Gar-dens, Kissimmee, Fla.

Margaret M. GirardOAKTON, Va. — Margaret Mary

(Abrams) Girard, 86, passed awayMay 4, 2011.

Ann Debarbieri, 58NEW RUSSIA — Ann Debarbi-

eri, 58, passed away May 3, 2011. Afuneral service was held May 10 atSt. Elizabeth's Chur ch, Elizabeth-town. W.M. Marvin's Sons FuneralHome, Elizabethtown, was incharge of arrangements.

Rita M. Boyer, 78MORRISONVILLE — Rita M.

Boyer, 78, passed away Friday, May6, 2011. A funeral service was heldMay 9 at the Brown Funeral Home,Plattsburgh. Burial was at St. Pe-ter ’s Cemetery . Br own FuneralHome was in char ge of arrange-ments.

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2010 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GLS 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 8,924 mi.

2009 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 16,226 mi.

2009 NISSAN FRONTIER KING CAB SE 4x4, V6, Air, Fully Equipped, 25,628 mi.

2009 NISSAN MAXIMA SV 4 Dr., V6, Auto, Air, Leather, P/Sunroof, Fully Equipped 31,106 mi.

2009 NISSAN ROGUE SL 4 Dr., Auto, AWD, Fully Loaded, 40,708 mi.

2008 NISSAN SENTRA 2.0S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 53,354 mi.

2008 ALTIMA COUPE 2.5S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, P/Sunroof, Fully Equipped, 23,596 mi.

2008 SATURN VUE XR AWD 4 Dr., V6, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 47,725 mi.

2008 NISSAN VERSA 1.8S 4 Dr. Sedan, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 43,822 mi.

2008 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 52,136 mi.

2008 NISSAN VERSA 1.8SL H/B 4 Dr. Sedan, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 52,878 mi.

2008 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5SL 4 Dr., Auto, Leather, P/Sunroof, Fully Equipped, 31,479 mi.


2008 NISSAN SENTRA 2.5 Spec V 4 Dr., 6 Spd., Pwr. S/R, Fully Equipped, 26,580 mi.

2007 NISSAN XTERRA S 4X4 V6, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 51,839 mi.

2007 NISSAN XTERRA S 4X4 V6, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 47,007 mi.

2007 TOYOTA RAV4 AWD, 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 50,754 mi.

2007 NISSAN SENTRA 2.0S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 37,545 mi.

2007 NISSAN VERSA 1.8S 4 Dr., Auto, Air, PW, PL, HB, 25,000 mi.

2007 SUBARU IMPREZA WAGON I AWD 5 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 53,677 mi.

2007 NISSAN FRONTIER KING CAB SE 4x4 V6, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 57,834 mi.

2007 HONDA CIVIC LX 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 40,328 mi.

2006 FORD FOCUS ZX4 SES 4 Dr., Auto, Air, P/Sunroof, 63,086 mi.


2005 HONDA ACCORD LX 4 Dr., Auto, Air, Fully Equipped, 55,115 mi.

2005 CHRYSLER T&C TOURING V6, Auto, Air, Fully Equipped 75,097 mi.

2002 DODGE NEON SXT 4 Dr., Auto, Ai, Fully Equipped, P/Sunroof, 45,472 mi.

1999 PONTIAC FIREBIRD COUPE 2 Dr., V6, Auto, Air, T-Tops, Fully Equipped 57,865 mi.

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