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The Altamont
Enterprise
& Albany County Post
No. 3
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
For 126 years Albany County’s independent newspaper
Karner blues raised in captivity let hope take wing
The Enterprise –– Michael Koff
Getting ready to take off: Chelsea Sendzik smiles farewell to one of the Karner blue butterflies she released Friday afternoon at
Blueberry Hill West in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. So far, in an effort to maintain the endangered species, about 1,500 Karner
blues raised in captivity have been released into the Pine Bush.
“He’s reachable”
Pucci slated for permanent
appointment as commissioner
By Jo E. Prout
ALTAMONT — Acting Public Safety Commissioner Todd
Pucci is now eligible to be appointed to his position permanently. With a fourth-place score of 88 on the Civil Service
exam for police chiefs, Pucci was in limbo while the village
contacted the top three scorers.
“One responded and he declined,” Pucci told The Enterprise
this week.
“It looks like pretty smooth sailing,” Mayor James Gaughan
said on Tuesday. “He’s reachable,” said Gaughan of Pucci.
The village is required by state law to hire a commissioner
from among the top three scorers who passed the required
exam and are interested in the position. The Civil Service list
became official July 11, and the village has 60 days, or until
Sept. 9, to hire or remove a person from the post.
Pucci will have to wait until the time is nearly over since
the village board will not meet in August. Gaughan said that
vacation schedules were already set, and that he would not
call a special meeting.
In his letter to the top three candidates, he said last month,
“I’m going to put in there a two-week time for them to respond.”
Candidates often take Civil Service exams for practice with
no intentions of moving to a new locale for the posted job.
Waiting until September to hear back from the other two candidates is “a formality,” said Gaughan. “It doesn’t matter.”
The mayor went on, “I’ve already informed the board.”
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Opinion Page 2
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By Anne Hayden
GUILDERLAND — Hope is
on the rise for the Karner blue
butterfly, a native species of the
Albany Pine Bush Preserve that
has been on the federal endangered list for decades.
The number of Karner blue butterflies in the preserve dropped
from millions in the 1940s, to
65,000 in 1980, to barely 1,000
in the year 2000. The population
would need to reach 3,000 in
order to be considered sustainable.
The dramatic reduction in
the number of Karner blues in
the Pine Bush is attributed to
decades of development wiping
out their natural habitat, which
includes native grasses and
lupines.
In an effort to re-populate the
preserve and get the butterfly off
of the endangered species list,
the Albany Pine Bush Preserve
Commission has been working
in conjunction with the state’s
Department of Environmental
Conservation and the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service
to practice “accelerated colonization.”
The process involves capturing
female butterflies from wild sites,
then raising the caterpillars that
hatch from their eggs in captivity
until they are adults. The adult
butterflies are then released into
restored habitats.
Habitat restoration is another
element of the re-population
effort. The commission’s conservation director, Neil Gifford,
said locust is being cleared out
“Exciting prototype”
High-tech group home to be built in Westmere
By Anne Hayden
GUILDERLAND — A home using smart
technology to help people with disabilities
live independently, one of the few such
group homes in the country, is planned for
Guilderland.
Living Resources, which provides a wide
range of services to individuals with developmental disabilities, wants to construct
a six-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom
house on Wendom Road in Westmere.
Living Resources is in the process of applying for grants to fund the approximately
$650,000 project.
The house would be home to six people
with developmental and physical disabilities,
who are already receiving services from Living Resources.
The six people to live in the home have
been selected, according to Frederick Erlich, the chief executive officer of Living
Resources; three are currently living in a
different group home, and three are living
with family right now.
“It would be a home built specifically for
the purpose of enhancing both independence
Community Calendar Page 16
and safety for people who have disabilities,”
Erlich said.
The benefit to the residents, most of whom
are in their 20s and 30s, would be the ability
to live in an environment that doesn’t have
the “nursing home” feel, said Erlich. The
residents will still pay for the services with
the Medicaid waiver program.
“There will be varying levels of support
available there,” he said. He described builtin remote and radio technology, as well as
a tele-health monitoring system that would
record health measurements and send data
wirelessly to doctors and other medical
staff.
“It would really be a ‘smart house,’ with all
the latest technology and green construction
that would provide energy savings as well,”
Erlich said. The model is based on the first
smart home built in the nation, in Colorado.
That home, built by Imagine! in 2003, offers
residents special task prompters and reminders, adapted web and e-mail programs,
and communication devices. It provides
staff members with an interface to share
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The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, August 4, 2011
Editorial
New jobs needed
to keep economy afloat —
IDAs must be accountable
A
mericans this week are well aware of the size of
our national debt, as the debate on raising the
debt ceiling has raged, and are equally aware that, in
the resolution, many worthwhile programs for poor
and middle-class citizens will be sacrificed.
Government at all levels needs to spend sensibly
if it is to provide useful services to citizens. Last
month, the New York State comptroller released
an audit that detailed problems with Industrial
Development Agencies.
The idea behind IDAs sounds noble. They are
meant to advance the job opportunities, health,
general prosperity, and economic welfare of
New Yorkers. They do this most often by offering financing for projects through the issuance
of bonds and by providing tax exemptions to
attract and expand businesses.
The town of Guilderland created an IDA in
1973. The town board appoints its members
but the IDA functions independently of the
board.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli audited
the 115 IDAs operating in the state in 2009
and, as we reported in a front-page story
last week, he found that Guilderland’s IDA
financed three projects in 2009 for a total
cost of nearly $21 million to be paid back.
The goal was to retain 209 jobs with the
projects and create 40 more jobs. Actually,
eight jobs were lost.
The three Guilderland projects were all
for nonprofit organizations — construction
of a facility for the Western Turnpike Rescue Squad; an update and expansion for the
YMCA, which runs a recreational facility in
Guilderland; and an update and expansion of
a building for the Wildwood Program, which
serves people with handicaps.
The projects were financed through the IDA
to receive tax exemptions.
“That falloff in the number of jobs isn’t that
significant,” Donald Csaposs, chief executive officer for the Guilderland IDA, told our reporter
Anne Hayden. Csaposs surmised the loss of jobs
— 48 fewer than had been planned for — could be
because of the poor economy in which not-for-profit
groups are struggling.
We have no problem with those organizations using
a system that is set up to allow them a tax break. But
something is wrong if taxpayers are footing the bill for
a program that is meant to sustain and create jobs and,
in this case, jobs are lost.
The amount of money at stake statewide is large. In 2009,
the total amount for 4,577 IDA projects topped $73.5 billion,
with tax exemptions close to $500,000. This was almost $8
billion more than the year before with half of that hike due to
one project, the Global Foundries U.S. microchip fabrication plant
assisted by the Saratoga County IDA.
Over the last decade, IDA debt has increased dramatically. At the end
of 2009, IDAs reported close to $23 billion in outstanding debt, up from
about $17 billion in 2003. The project with the single largest bond issue,
$943 million for the new Yankee Stadium, was from the New York City IDA.
In 2009, IDA-assisted projects employed close to 725,000 workers, a net gain
of over 200,000 jobs at an average cost of $2,429 per job gained. The median
range of salaries was from about $28,000 to $40,000.
The comptroller’s report highlights other statewide problems, too. Some areas
But DiNapoli’s analysis by county of net tax exemptions by IDAs and of job
have overlapping IDAs as well as Local Development Corporations that comgrowth did not show a positive correlation between the two. If the tax cuts aren’t
pete with each other. This makes it hard to establish a regional, coordinated
leading to job growth, they should not be granted.
approach.
DiNapoli’s report calls for better application and approval procedures for the
Funding does not necessarily reflect the size, density, or development needs
IDA projects, and better clawback provisions for projects that do not meet goals.
of the state’s communities, the comptroller found. While two of New York’s
A clawback provision in project agreements would allow an IDA to recapture
biggest cities, Rochester and Buffalo, don’t have their own IDAs, some small
benefits if employment or other goals of the project are not met.
villages and towns do.
“If a for-profit company were to come before
Some LDCs, DiNapoli found, have been
us and apply for financing, certainly we’d conused to circumvent state laws that direct losider a clawback provision, where basically, if
cal government finances. To stem this, he has
you don’t perform, you have to pay back some
advanced legislation to limit and regulate the
of the money granted in the tax breaks,” said
use of LDCs.
Csaposs.
Such transparency would not only inform citizens
One example in DiNapoli’s report of conflictSuch a provision should be part of every coning strategies hurting taxpayers is fairly close
but
also
make
project
managers
more
accountable.
tract. Otherwise, taxpayers lose out.
to home. The Montgomery county IDA provided
Forty-eight jobs fewer than expected should
tax exemptions to help the Beech-Nut baby food
not be shrugged off. Csaposs said, if there were
plant relocate from the village of Canajoharie to
a sharper decline, “…it might behoove us to sit
the town of Florida. While Montgomery County
down with the project managers and see if we
as a whole may have benefited by keeping Beechcould provide some sort of counsel.”
Nut, the move had “a significant and detrimental effect,” the report states, on
Csaposs also said he didn’t know the exact reason for the loss of jobs. Keeping
Canajoharie, which had built water and sewer systems to support the needs of
tabs to make sure goals are met should be part of the process.
the plant. Village taxpayers now have to pay for that infrastructure without
While the Guilderland IDA meets the letter of the law in publishing its mistax revenue from the Beech-Nut plant.
sion and annual reports on the town’s website, we urge it to go further and folClearly, a more coordinated and regional approach is called for.
low the comptroller’s recommendation to publish an annual report card, with
This year’s state budget allocates $130 million for projects to be selected by 10
detailed information on individual projects, such as job performance data and
newly created regional Economic Development Councils. Local private and public
tax exemptions granted.
stakeholders are to serve on the councils. They will have their work cut out for
Such transparency would not only inform citizens but also make project manthem. It is imperative that projects be thoroughly and carefully reviewed to see
agers more accountable.
that limited resources go to the projects that will reap the biggest benefits.
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The Beat Of History
To the editor
Thanks for a
stellar Festival of Writers
To the Editor:
Kudos to the Rensselaerville
Library trustees; staff; sponsors; and the many volunteers,
of all ages, who worked so hard
to make the Rensselaerville
Festival of Writers a success.
It took expert coordination and
collaboration to pull it off.
Festival-goers were treated
to programs with a stellar and
impressive lineup of novelists,
poets, and actors. Thank you to
all who were involved for this
wonderful gift.
Diana M. Hinchcliff
Rensselaerville
From the heart, one word says it all
To the Editor:
I would like to start by saying
since the night of July 23 at the
Maple Inn in East Berne where
many of you gathered with me
and my family to once again help
me through my medical problems
with once again your hearts, I
Capturing an era: Re-enactors, from left, Nancy Frueh, Bill Frueh, and Rod McCathran sing
songs from Civil War times during Sunday’s opening reception of an exhibition at the Saddlemire
Homestead. The display, curated by the Knox Historical Society, features native son Lieutenant
Michael Barckley and the 20 others from Knox who fought in the Civil War.
It is not “caring,” “medical,”
“medicine,” or any other kind word
you might normally use... It is a
word that describes from the deepest part of my heart, my mind, and
my thoughts and prayers.
All of you have done so much
for me that one word I realized
Having been born and raised here
in the Helderbergs and now working for
the Town of Berne Highway Department
(the totally best job there is) for all of you,
I already know how big your hearts are.
have over and over in my head
tried to write this letter. But
then I realized that it would be
in words longer than 10 sets of
encyclopedias, so I rethought and
I condensed it down to the following version.
Having been born and raised
here in the Helderbergs and now
working for the Town of Berne
Highway Department (the totally
best job there is) for all of you, I
already know how big your hearts
are.
My medical issue started on
Aug. 31 of last year. I have had
many types of treatments and
continue them now.
I have good days and bad days.
July 23, 2011 was without a doubt
one of the best of my entire life
and always will be. Therefore, that
is why I said I don’t need books
worth of words when I only need
a few. In fact, to be exact, I only
need one, which I will let you in
on at the end of this letter.
describes each and everyone of
you — in fact, what all of you have
done and continue to do.
This word means and helps
me through this ordeal more
than any hospital, doctor, cancer
center, therapist, nurse, surgeon,
treatments and medications, or
anything else on God’s Earth. That
one word is love.
Signed: A proud and happy
resident of The Helderbergs, home
to the most caring and precious
people on God’s little piece of
heaven on Earth.
John H. Bushnell Jr.
Berne
Editor’s note: John Bushnell’s
family hosted a dinner for him at
the Maple Inn in East Berne on
July 23 to raise funds as he battles
lung cancer. For the full story, go
online to www.altamontenterprise.
com and look under Hilltown archives for July 21, 2011.
HCRC seeks sponsors
Send a child back to school
with needed supplies and sneakers
Historic patriots: President Abraham Lincoln, re-enacted by Peter Lindemann, stands beside
his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon, played by Richard Christman, as they go over Lincoln’s
speech, delivered in Knox on Sunday as part of festivities launching a Civil War exhibit at the
Saddlemire Homestead.
To the Editor:
The Hilltowns Community
Resource Center (HCRC), an
outreach site of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, is
seeking individuals and organizations willing to adopt a student
and assist in sending him or
her back to school prepared to
learning. Arriving in school that
first day well prepared sets the
tone for success throughout the
school year.
HCRC is asking sponsors to
commit to providing each student a new backpack containing
needed school supplies and a new
pair of sneakers. Sponsors will be
provided with a list of supplies
each student is required to have,
shoe size, and color preferences.
Please call the Resource Center at 797-5256 if you or your
organization is interested in
sponsoring a student.
In addition, HCRC is conducting a back-to-school supply drive
throughout the townships of
Berne, Knox, Westerlo, and Rensselaerville. Community members
may help with the resource
center’s efforts by purchasing
a variety of school supplies and
dropping the items in bins at
various locations throughout the
Hilltowns.
Back-to-school items that
may be donated include boys’
and girls’ sneakers (all sizes),
pens, pencils, colored pencils,
crayons, markers, high-lighters,
pencil holders, pocket folders,
primary-school writing tablets,
three-ring binders, binder paper,
binder dividers, spiral notebooks.
composition notebooks, rulers,
protractors, calculators, erasers,
3x5 index cards, tissues, Post-it
notes, or small and larger ziplock bags.
Monetary contributions are
always welcome. Checks can be
made payable to HCRC and can
be sent to the Hilltowns Community Resource Center, Post
Office Box 147, Westerlo, NY
12193. Please call 797-5256 with
any questions.
Kathleen Speck
HCRC
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Deadline for letters is Tuesday at noon.
To the editor
My philosophy in simple terms, point by point
To the Editor:
Mr. Dudley, here is my response to your request for a letter
that’s a little simpler and doesn’t
have a lot of big “50 cent” words.
I have tried to capture the main
ideas in my longer letter without
watering down my points.
— 1. Racism does exist in
America and has since our
nation’s founding. Millions of
American citizens have felt it,
experienced it, or lost friends
and family to it. For them, racism is much more than a topic of
conversation;
— 2. Unions cannot continue to
be blamed for the poor economy
and businesses pulling out and
going abroad. While the last few
decades have seen a steady decline in union membership, have
we seen an increase in domestic
job opportunities? In that same
time period, corporate profits and
executive pay rose dramatically,
but did we see that same increase
in the pay received by the “Average Joe” or “Average Jane”?
— 3. Teachers and schools are
a symptom of our nation’s problems, not the root or the cause.
The loosening of our moral codes
and the decay of our religious,
social, and civic groups along
with our addiction to disposable
goods and credit cards continues
to take a toll on our society.
— 4. I was raised to believe
that it’s my duty to help someone
in need, whether I know them
or not. Entitlement programs, I
believe, are an extension of those
teachings. Only a fool would junk
a car that just needs a tune-up to
“get’ er” runnin’ right again.
A man’s age is no measure
of his experience as the size of a
field is no predictor of a harvest
to be reaped. Both age and field
size merely provide a rough idea
of what one can expect.
Hope my rewritten letter was
straightforward and simple
enough for you, Mr. Dudley.
Aaron Harrell
Guilderland
Tipping etiquette
Waitstaff paid less than federal minimum wage
To the Editor:
I’m writing today in hopes to
raise awareness about tipping
etiquette. The wait staff in our
diners and restaurants depend
on your tips (gratuity) for the
majority of their income.
I am familiar with the extent
they go to in order to provide
service to their customers. I am
appalled by some of the stories I
hear regarding tips left (or not at
all) after the server has gone to
extremes to cater to your dining
experience.
Put yourself in their shoes,
if you have any feeling in your
toes, after being on them for
what is often a more than
eight-hour shift. Deliver meals,
drinks, desserts, and extras, and
clean up after four people (usually requiring multiple trips to
each table and messy children),
only to have them leave you
some change.
Proper tipping etiquette is 15
to 20 percent of the subtotal of
your bill; some say of the total,
that is variable. If your service is
outstanding, please show it!
Your server receives less than
the federal minimum wage per
hour. Keep in mind that lessthan-adequate attentive service
on the wait staff ’s part should
also be a reflection of tip percentage left.
Servers and establishments
do not usually mind their tables
being used as a meeting area. A
cup of coffee may be less than
two dollars, but your tip should
reflect the numerous times your
server has given you the courtesy
to wait on you (with a smile),
which is often a more than an
hour span. Surely that’s worth
at least a dollar per person at
your table?
Next time you have the opportunity to have someone cater
to your dining needs, remember
how you would feel in their
shoes.
Jenny Laraway
Schenectady
University at Albany dormitories
would be the best use for the Harriman campus
To the Editor:
This is what I told the Albany
City Common Council on Aug.
1:
As president of the McKownville Improvement Association in
Guilderland for the past decade
and as a retired professor of
economics from the State University at Albany — I received my
Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse in 1963 and taught at the
University for 34 years — I am
concerned about the University
at Albany.
The university needs space to
compete—more and larger and
better dorm rooms for its students, more and better and larger
labs and offices for its employees,
more space for ancillary activities such as intramural sports.
Enrollment at the University
at Albany is about 18,000. Today’s students — at least some
of them—can afford high quality
living space and demand it. Other
universities offer such. Privatelyowned dorms are common—there
is one for Albany Medical College
students here in Albany.
Expansion of university facilities is beneficial to the city of Albany in multiple ways. However,
the city is holding it back because
it refuses to make the Harriman
campus available.
Yes, it is true that university
President George Philip has been
encouraged by Assemblyman
John McEneny to build parking garages on the university
campus thereby freeing up space
for more dormitories and other
facilities. While President Philip
does want a higher percentage
of University students to live
on campus, he considers parking garages unsafe unless well
policed and that makes them too
expensive, in his view.
The Harriman campus along
the Washington Avenue boundary and near the Patroon Office
complex is an obvious location for
new dorms. Privately financed
dorms located there would add
property tax revenues to the city
while adding almost nothing to
city costs.
If the Harriman campus is
not made available, the university could seek suburban
sites—such as McKownville in
Guilderland or Railroad Avenue
near Fuller Road in Colonie—for
the construction of new dorms,
depriving the city not only of the
increased property-tax revenues
but also other receipts such as
the sales-tax revenue shares that
are based on the population census. Alternatively, without more
dorm space, students presently
living in the city may increasingly move into suburban homes
and apartments that could also
cause city revenue losses.
The city has had a desire to
see the Harriman campus become another “Corporate Woods”
type development. For over a
decade, residents have read
about the Harriman campus
transformation into a corporate
office-building complex—but it
has proven to be a dream. The
Harriman campus is much like
urban renewal sites—where vast
tracts were made available for
commercial development and no
buyers came forth.
In the recent round of discussions over the dorm that is
under construction—Liberty
Dorm—I put forth the notion that
privately financed and taxable
dorms on the Harriman campus
near Patroon Creek office buildings would be a great solution—it
appeared that it was going to
happen—but then it did not. I do
not know why—but it did not and
the residents of Tudor Road have
suffered, and the residents of
McKownville have become even
more anxious about whether they
are next.
The highest and best use of
the Harriman campus is for university use. The university has
made it abundantly clear that
the Harriman campus is where
it wants to build. In my years
at the university, the commonly
held assumption was that the
university would use the Harriman campus for its growth. It
is now time.
It is time for this city council
to appeal to the governor and the
mayor to recast the Harriman
campus as the site for several
taxable university dormitories.
This council is giving up a lot if it
does not act. The city has already
given up a lot by not making this
happen a decade ago.
The more than 3,000 residents
of McKownville are asking you
to appeal to the mayor and the
governor. It is time to enter into
a new bargain with the university concerning the Harriman
campus.
Donald J. Reeb, president
McKownville Improvement
Association
Editor ’s note: McKownville
residents have recently become
concerned about the University
at Albany’s interest in purchasing
the Holt-Harris tract in McKownville. For the full story, go online
to www.AltamontEnterprise.com
and look under Guilderland archives for July 14, 2011.
Back In Time. . .
1911
100 Years Ago
2011
Altamont Enterprise August 4, 1911
Labor Day at Altamont, A Pleasing Program of Sports with a
Ball Game are Being Arranged: Everything points to the Field
Day to be given under the direction of a committee from Noah
Lodge, No. 754, F. & A.M. at Altamont, Labor Day, as a great
success. The special advantages offered by the fair grounds,
where it is to be held both for the field day of sports as well
as for the serving of dinners, which will be in the nature of a
barbeque, are at once apparent.
Among the attractions will be a ball game, probably between
Slingerlands and Voorheesville, two of the strongest teams in
this locality, and a fine line of sports.
Special excursion rates have been secured over the D. & H.
railroad, and every effort will be made to make it worth your
while to spend Labor Day in Altamont.
****
New Salem: Many improvements have been made in New
Salem this year, the latest being the rustic scheme at “Cold
Spring.” A railing has been erected of elm logs from the road to
the spring and the spring enclosed in a very artistic fence. At
the west end a seat has been constructed between the two large
trees. The steps leading to the spring have been repaired. This
new scheme is so well carried out that the whole now presents
a very pleasant scene to the eye. It has greatly improved the
celebrated cold spring.
****
Guilderland: The most exciting game of the season took place
on the local diamond last Saturday when the Isco team trimmed
the West Albany accountants by a score of 11 to 6. The Albany
bunch came out to win, bringing along Judd, who shut out the
home nine two weeks ago, just to help the other pitcher out if
he got into trouble.
The trouble came and Judd went in, and then there was more
trouble, the Iscoes taking a liking to his curves pounded him
harder than the first pitcher. The big feature of the game was
the triple play by Eddie Carpenter, he completing the play by
tossing the ball to first base. Eddie also made a double play
that brought the spectators to their feet. VanBuren, Coss and
Sharp did their usual heavy stick work and their fielding was
fast. The battery work of Olenhouse and Main improves with
each game. Next week the Iscoes play the Ten Broecks of Albany
on the home grounds. This will be a hard game as the Albany
nine won earlier in the season.
****
Health Hint For Today, Charcoal Cures Flatulency: Suffering
from flatulence after meals may be cured by the judicious use
of pure charcoal. A small quantity swallowed a short time after
meals will absorb unpleasant gases and aid digestion.
****
Helen’s Lawn Party: Mrs. Charles W. Frazier gave a delightful lawn party for her daughter, Helen, on Thursday afternoon
of last week. A merry time was had with games played, after
which dainty refreshments were served. Those present were:
Elizabeth DeSoto, Mildred Warrick, Eleanor Hay, Katharine
Chamberlain, Dorothy Bilyieu, Pearl Hier, Verna Arthur, and
Helen Frazier.
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Livestock at the Altamont Fair
is a way of life, a lot of fun, and a source of pride
To the Editor:
As patrons rush through the
livestock buildings at the Altamont Fair, many have no idea
how much work it is for the
exhibitor to bring animals to
the fair. You don’t wake up that
morning and decide you will
bring an animal to live at the
fair for a week.
It takes months of preparation.
The animals must be worked
with so that they are comfortable
around people and in the show
ring. They must be in good health
and have received vaccinations.
A veterinary examination has
to be performed and they must
receive a clean bill of health to
receive a certificate allowing
the animal to enter the gate. No
certificate? No entry!
They have been washed, their
hooves have been trimmed, their
fleece or coat may have been
trimmed, they must be loaded
up and safely transported, and
throughout the fair week they
must be fed and watered from
early morning to late night. If
it’s hot, fans may be brought in
and strung through the rafters
to keep the animals cool.
Oh, and in advance of the fair,
the barn has been maintained
and the pens set up by the exhibitors in preparation. Exhibitors
are keeping the pens clean from
the wee hours of the morning,
and may even need to milk their
animals such as dairy goats and
dairy cattle before sunrise.
In advance of show days, final
preparations are made to ensure
the animals are in top condition and able to compete, with
finishing touches made for their
comfort, convenience, and care.
Throughout the week, veterinarians patrol the buildings to
ensure the health and well-being
of each animal.
Exhibitors are frequently raking the aisles and keeping the
barns clean to optimize the fairgoers’ experience. Often exhibitors have other animals at home
and need to take care of them as
well as those at the fair.
Exhibitors often are balancing
careers, families, and time at
the fair, running back and forth
throughout the day.
So, if it is so much work and
expense, why do it, especially
since the premiums are typically
not that high? Simply stated: it is
a way of life, and a lot of fun.
The livestock barns are true
communities where people work
together in a common interest,
helping one another and learning
from one another while having
laughs along the way. It is a
place to make friends, to grow,
and to challenge oneself to be
better each year.
It is a source of pride to have
the best animal in the ring, or to
be commended for quality showmanship skills by the judge.
For 4-Hers, it is a chance to
demonstrate responsibility and
learn and improve, and to cel-
ebrate months of work toward
the culminating event of the fair,
with a chance to move on to compete at the state level. While it
may just be a simple ribbon to the
onlooker, to be awarded a ribbon
at the fair is truly an honor as
it represents so much hard work
the fair-goer never sees.
Every exhibitor, regardless of
where his or her animal places,
will remember fondly the tradition of the fair and recall many
precious memories for years to
come.
The next time you are rushing
through a livestock building,
slow down and stop and talk to
the exhibitors; you’ll learn a lot
about the animals and about
them. You might be surprised
at the engineers, executives,
physicians, educators, and administrators who are standing
shoulder to shoulder in the ring
on “vacation” at the fair, and by
the youngest exhibitors who are
still in elementary school who are
already winning ribbons. Teen
exhibitors may already have
many years of experience under
their belts and are proud to show
off their animals.
Our agricultural heritage is
indeed rich and very much worthy of celebrating. Come and see
us in the livestock buildings; we
look forward to meeting you!
To the editor
LEAP says thanks for
making Fox Creek 5K a success
To the Editor:
LEAP- Life Enhancement
through Activities and Programs,
a not-for-profit established to
raise scholarship money for children and veterans with special
needs for equine-based therapeutic and recreational activities
— again sponsored the Berne Fox
Creek 5K run/walk.
I’d like to take this opportunity
to thank everyone who came out
to help make the annual 5K run/
walk a success. A special thanks
goes to the town of Berne for the
use of the park, the Berne highway department for making sure
the road was secure for the run,
and Heldeberg Ambulance — it
is great to know such dedicated
folks are there if needed. Fortunately, there was only a minor
need. We appreciate your help.
Many sponsors helped to make
this event a success and I would
like to acknowledge those businesses: Hannay Reels, Inc.; Hon-
Clare Mertz, leader
Country Tigers 4-H Club
Voorheesville
Dee Centi-Jones
Old Men of the Mountain
“The Dee Jones Team”
Licensed Associate
Real Estate Broker
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Cell:
Talk of flying time, shoddy work,
strange bugs, tough choices, and fun cars
By John R. Williams
On Tuesday, July 26, the Old
Men of the Mountain met at the
Middleburgh Diner in Middleburgh.
To the OFs, even though the
daylight hours are longer, the
day goes by faster. The OFs agree
summer is short, and winter is
long.
It seems to the OFs that no
sooner do the highway departments put away the plows from
winter snows than the farmers
are cutting hay, and bang, it is
fair time! It’s time to be sure the
woodshed is full of dry wood and
wood is cut for next year. The
canning is nearly done, and the
house is made tight for the coming
of winter. One OF said it is not
one season being shorter or longer than the other it is the whole
d—- year that goes by faster the
older he gets.
Shoddy work
The OFs wondered out loud
how highway contractors handle
the end of their jobs. Many of the
OFs on the way to the Middleburgh Diner use routes 443 and
30. Where Route 443 used to
connect to Route 30, there was
a Y and the sign for Schoharie
was really nice with stone pillars on each end and flowers and
landscaping.
The state made the intersection
into a T. The job is done; the sign
is no longer visible. It is behind a
pile of rubble left by the contractor and this pile is now covered
with weeds.
The approach to the scenic
covered bridge that crosses Fox
Creek at this intersection is all
scarred and apparently an abandoned trailer was left there. The
OFs say, what a mess — it looks
awful and this is not the only
construction staging area that
was left like this one was.
The OFs are wondering if there
shouldn’t be a clause in the contract that these work areas are
to be cleaned and returned to the
way they were found. The OFs are
just asking.
Messing with
nature’s balance
Again, one OF in a discussion
with his daughter was commenting on how many strange bugs
are around, and how many there
are. The OF brought this up at
the breakfast to see if any other
OFs were experiencing the same
thing, and some were.
The daughter mentioned the
absence of bats is why there is
such a proliferation of bugs. One
OF said this shows it is not nice
when Mother Nature is messed
with. Each species depends on
the other species.
To completely eradicate one
bug (because to you it is a nuisance) may cause consequences
down the line that is never even
considered.
The absence of bats does not explain this type of problem though,
because it is the disease (white
nose) that is causing the decrease
in the bat population. However,
fewer bats — more bugs, and it
shows what can happen if we go
hog wild on eliminating a pest
completely
One OG said that intelligent
control is the way to go. Many
bugs are really harmful like the
deer tick, the elm beetle, and
now the emerald ash borer and
don’t forget the locust where huge
swarms can really affect the food
chain to the point of famine. The
mosquito and yellow fever were
also mentioned. These are only a
few insects that can cause some
real problems.
Tough choice
One OF brought up the old Army
truck-driver test with the question
on it that went something like this:
If you are driving a truck full of
20 soldiers down a mountain road,
and around a turn there is a little
girl playing in the road do you (A)
swerve to miss the little girl, go
over the cliff and kill yourself and
the 20 soldiers in the truck thereby
taking 21 lives, or (B) do you hit
and kill the girl and save those in
the truck? By so doing, you take
one life to save 21.
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Po’ Boys; Hannaford; Gade Farm;
Countryside Mart; Terrace Mountain; Backyard Sheds and Gazabos,
Inc.; Stewart’s; and Allu. Thanks
for your generous donations. Finally, to all who volunteered
their time to help plan and run
this event, we couldn’t have
done it without you. Traditional
Strings played wonderful music
before, during, and after the run.
It was great listening to such
nice music.
To all who ran, kudos to you! It
was a warm day and many came
out to run and we truly appreciate you spending your morning
with us. We hope to see you again
next year!
I hope I haven’t missed anyone
who was involved.
Britta Lovegrove,
LEAP president
Editor’s note: See story and
pictures on the sports pages at
the back of the newspaper.
Decisions, Decisions; some are
not easy.
Fun cars
Some of the OFs travel in style.
The Middleburgh Diner is a long
restaurant — one room long with
many windows that face the highway. This allows those who are in
the establishment to see who is
driving up.
The first group of OFs that were
in the restaurant noticed a carpool full of OFs arriving Tuesday
morning (a beautiful morning by
the way) in a convertible with the
top down.
One OF said, “Now that is the
way to travel.”
And another OF said, “Yeah, we
get about five real good days like
today to do that all year.”
And many of the OFs muttered
agreement with the statement
but really were wishing it wasn’t
so and deep down would like to
have a convertible.
Some of the OFs were reverting
to when they were younger and
did have cloth-top vehicles. One
OG said in the 1940s and ‘50s,
convertibles were a lot more common than they are today.
One OF said he had a four-door
Buick convertible with wooden
blocks that had to be placed in
a socket between the back, and
front doors to hold the center of
the convertible roof up when the
top was up.
That got the OFs to wondering
if cars were more fun then. Many
said, yeah.
Those OFs attending the breakfast at the Middleburgh Diner, and
most not showing up in convertibles
were: Robbie Osterman, Ted Pelkey,
Miner Stevens, Roger Chapman,
John Rossmann, Carl Walls, Steve
Kelly, Mark Traver, Glenn Patterson,
Frank Pauli, Henry Witt, Bob Benac,
Harold Eck, Duane Wagenbaugh,
Herb Sawotka, Harold Grippen,
Harry Coton, Jim Watson, Harold
Guest, Lou Schenck, Mace Porter,
Gary Porter, Arnold Geraldsen, Don
Moser, Jim Rissacher, Mike Willsey,
Ted Willsey, Gerry Chartier, Joe
Lubier, Bill Thorpe, and me.
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6
A family affair: Lysenkos volunteer at Appalachian clinic
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
VOORHEESVILLE — Dr. Steven Lysenko handed a mirror to
a woman who sat before him in
a dental chair.
“She cried when she saw
herself. She felt like she hadn’t
wanted to smile in so long,” said
Lysenko this week.
A long-time Voorheesville dentist, Lysenko had never seen this
patient before yet she hugged
him. The dental chair in which
she sat was one of 70 set up in a
tent on the fairgrounds in Wise,
Va. in the Appalachian Mountain
region of southwest Virginia.
“Music was blaring, people
were talking,” he said, describing
the carnival-like atmosphere.
Lysenko, his wife, Laurie, and
their two daughters were part of
an army of volunteers working
long hours for three days, from
July 22 to 24, to provide medical care for people who needed
it but couldn’t afford it. The
services — which, in addition to
dentistry, included visual, audiological, and general medical
care — were free.
Lysenko got interested in the
project from his older daughter,
Jennifer, a third-year dental student at Virginia Commonwealth
University School of Dentistry.
“She did this with some of
her classmates last summer
and found it very rewarding,”
he said.
Both the Lysenko girls are
going to be dentists. “I guess I
didn’t complain enough about
my work,” quipped Dr. Lysenko.
He hastened to add, “I love my
practice, staff, and patients.”
Lysenko, when he was his
daughters’ age, hadn’t planned to
be a dentist. He grew up in New
Jersey and majored in biology
Proud volunteers: The Lysenko family traveled from Voorheesville to help at a free clinic in Appalachia. They are standing tall in front of the poster at the entrance to the fairgrounds in Wise, Va. where
the clinic was held. Dentist Steven Lysenko, at left, and school psychologist Laurie Lysenko, at right,
flank their daughters — Jennifer, a third-year dental student at Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Dentistry, left, and Kristen, a Cornell senior now applying to dental school. “It was an amazing experience,” said Laurie Lysenko. She hopes their story might inspire others to volunteer.
and Texas. They traveled, some
of them, for days to get there.
They would camp in cars or pitch
tents.”
Lysenko himself tended to 12
to 15 patients a day. He and his
family woke up in their hotel at
4:30 a.m. each of the three days
to be at the fairgrounds by 5:30.
They worked each day for 12
hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
About 1,700 volunteers helped
by doing everything from serving
meals and caring for doctors’ children to taking care of paperwork.
Laurie Lysenko was one of the
volunteers who did administrative work.
“There was no technical equipment and no staff; it was very
primitive,” said Lysenko. “I had
what I could fit in my car.” This
included filling materials, hand
tools, and a curing light to harden
fillings.
“We saw all kinds of people,” he
said. Lysenko described a range
from a pregnant 17-year-old with
her upper front teeth missing to
elderly people who had “brokendown teeth.”
“Some people wanted to improve their teeth so they’d have
a better chance of getting a job,”
he said.
Lysenko also said, “People
were extremely grateful. They
RAM and MOM
The three-day event was run
by Remote Area Medical, known
as RAM, in conjunction with the
Virginia Dental Association. The
association’s website — www.vadental.org — says that one in five
Virginians live in an underserved
area — typically poor, rural
communities. The working poor,
the elderly, the disabled, or the
“I survived malaria, dengue fever, numerous
wild animal attacks and various encounters with
Longhorns and mustangs without the help of
a doctor. Others were not so lucky and
I buried a number of them.”
at Alleghany College, then went
on to Chapel Hill with the idea
of earning a master’s degree to
become a professor. Halfway
through, on the advice of a friend,
he took the Dental Admission
Test and did well. After graduating from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
in 1983, he started practicing in
Voorheesville.
“We’ve been very happy here,”
he said. His wife has been the
school psychologist at Voorheesville for 28 years.
Jennifer graduated from Voorheesville in 2005 and Kristen in
2008. Both girls went to Cornell,
where Kristen will start her senior year in the fall.
Her parents took her out to
dinner this week to celebrate her
good scores, like her father’s, on
the DATs.
All four of them piled into the
family’s car, packed with as much
dental equipment as could fit, for
the 14-hour ride to Virginia.
uninsured “are often left without
dental care to face extreme pain,
discomfort, and embarrassment,”
the association says.
Consequently, the Virginia Dental Health Foundation
launched the Mission of Mercy,
known as MOM, where patients
like those at the three-day clinic
the Lysenkos were part of, are
treated on a first-come, firstserved basis.
The Lysenkos met RAM’s
founder, Stan Brock, who was on
hand for the Virginia event.
“He’s an interesting character,”
said Lysenko, who remembered
Brock from his youth when he
would watch Wild Kingdom on
TV. “While Marlin Perkins was
talking about the alligators or
whatever, Stan Brock was the one
who would jump off the horse and
wrestle with the alligator or the
anaconda,” recalled Lysenko.
Brock is in his mid-seventies
now, said Lysenko, adding, “He’s
in great shape.”
Father-daughter teamwork: Kristen Lysenko , right, worked for three days as her father’s chair-side
assistant as, under primitive conditions, Steven Lysenko provided free dental care to people in need.
Nearly 2,000 patients traveled to the clinic in Wise, Va. for dental, medical, visual, or audiological care,
with the vast majority seeking dental treatment.
Brock’s father was a British
civil servant who was posted
to the British colony of Guyana
in South America. Stan Brock
worked as a cowboy on the Dadanawa Ranch in Guyana in the
1950s.
“A half century ago,” he writes
in a “letter from the founder”
on his RAM website — www.
ramusa.org — “I was living in a
part of the upper Amazon basin
where health care was a 28-day
march away on foot. I survived
malaria, dengue fever, numerous
wild animal attacks and various
encounters with Longhorns and
mustangs without the help of a
doctor. Others were not so lucky
and I buried a number of them.
“It occurred to me that designing an all-volunteer health and
veterinary care program for such
desolate places might make life
easier for a whole lot of people,”
writes Brock.
“Extremely grateful”
A whole lot of people came
to the July clinic in Wise. “We
saw 1,200 people the first day,”
said Lysenko. “They came from
miles around. Last year, people
came from 12 different states.
They came from as far as Florida
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W h i l e Je n n i f e r Ly s e n k o
worked on rotations with her
dental-school classmates, performing surgery, triage, and
sterilization, Kristen spent the
three days as her father’s chairside assistant.
“It was an eye-opener for her,”
said Dr. Lysenko. “I could explain
a lot to her.”
At the end of the grueling
three days, Lysenko said, he
was not tired. “No, every one
was energized,” he said. “We got
much more out of it than the
patients.”
RINGSIDE SEATS
7
BKW uses under-budget bids
as a cushion for new needed work
mate, some taxpayers had come
By Zach Simeone
BERNE — The Berne-Knox- to meetings and demanded that
Westerlo School District has dis- the board find cheaper ways to
covered an additional $230,138 make the buildings accessible to
of work to be done in its ongoing those with handicaps.
Some residents protesting tax
$12.7 million building project.
But, since project bids came in hikes last spring had advocated
at $1.4 million under budget last scaling back or scrapping the
summer, the district has more project, though state aid is set
than enough financial wiggle to pay for about 80 percent of
room to cover the costs, and the the overhaul, leaving taxpayers
school board approved a number to cover about $1 million of the
of change orders for the project total cost.
Having looked at a handthis week relating to the addiful of alternatives, the school
tional work.
“These are things that pretty board voted in May to proceed
much have to happen, but were with its original $12.7-million
not part of the original work,” building project, as approved
Superintendent Paul Dorward by district residents in a 2007
special election.
said this week.
Board members
“Change orders
agreed that the
come into play
district should
when there’s
stick to the
work happenplan that was
ing that’s bevoted on back
yond the origiin 2007.
nal bid.”
“There’s some
Several of the
Giving an
change orders
example on
asbestos abatement
approved MonT u e s d a y, h e
that needs to be done in day were relatsaid, “There’s
ed to general
some asbesthe gymnasium floor.”
construction,
tos abatement
and added up
that needs to
to an increase
be done in the
of $192,934,
gymnasium
bringing the
floor.” Asbestotal allowance
tos, once widely
for general conused for insulation, must be removed because struction, to be performed by
studies have shown that inhaling Bette and Cring, to $6,053,934:
— To remove the newly discovits fiber can cause serious illness,
ered asbestos in the secondary
including lung cancer.
“This was asbestos they found school gymnasium floor, the alin that area that was not origi- lowance for general construction
nally believed to be there, so it was increased by $57,750;
— For additional rock excavawould not have been covered in
the original bid, unlike other tion and removal, and structural
areas in the building, where fill, the total was increased by
they knew there was asbestos,” $130,074; and
— To remove contaminated
Dorward said.
District voters originally ap- soil, $5,100 will be spent.
The following change orders
proved the project on Dec. 18,
2007. This included adding a new were also approved:
— The cost of plumbing work to
cafeteria, kitchen, technology lab,
and computer classroom. There be done by Burniche Piping went
were to be two new locker rooms, up by $6,805, to $485,705; and
— The cost of electrical work to
and the gym would be extended
to make up for space lost in other be done by J. McBain Inc. went up
by $30,399, to $1,232,551.
parts of the reconstruction.
August Freemann, clerk of the
The reconstruction was needed
because the campus does not works for the building project,
comply with the federal Ameri- said this week that the reconcans With Disabilities Act. But, struction is projected to be comgiven the current economic cli- pleted by September 2012.
“He’s reachable”
...Pucci slated for permanent
appointment as commissioner
(Continued from page 1)
Gaughan said he is prepared, at
the September meeting, to recommend that the board permanently appoint Pucci. The board
can immediately vote to appoint
him, Gaughan said.
Pucci was appointed as acting commissioner by the village
board in December 2010. Former
Commissioner Anthony
Salerno had refused to say
whether or not he took a May
2010 Civil Service test required
for all those in charge of municipal police departments. Salerno
had been hired provisionally
with the requirement he pass
the exam.
Before that, Altamont worked
with Albany County’s Department of Civil Service to appeal
to the state’s Civil Service Commission to avoid the exam for
Salerno; the request was denied
in July 2009 as the commission
found a “lack of compelling evidence” and cited the “clear practicability” of the exam. None of
this was discussed publicly.
The village board named
Salerno “team leader” when his
provisional time as commissioner
ran out. The board gave Salerno
a 50-percent pay-rate increase
while reducing his hours, leaving him with a similar salary.
Gaughan was named provisional
leader. Salerno did not say why
he had not taken the exam for
five years, but he stated, after his
name did not appear on the Civil
Service exam results, that he had
previously planned to retire.
Public scrutiny and concerns
about village liability with the
mayor heading the department
last year led the village to begin
a new search for a commissioner.
At its October 2010 meeting, the
board revealed a new timeline
for placing a qualified person
in the commissioner post by
December.
Pucci, who had trained through
Altamont’s police department
and who has been a part-time
officer with Altamont since 1997,
was appointed then. He holds a
master’s degree in criminal justice from Boston University, and
a bachelor’s degree in criminal
justice from the University at
Albany.
Pucci works full-time in Altamont for $40,000 per year, and
continues his full-time work with
the Cohoes police department.
— Photo contributed by Dawn O’Neal
Just a “nerdy geek” who wants to know how the world works, Dawn O’Neal stands at Mountain
Lake Biological Station in 2006 as a 12-day-old dark-eyed junco nestles on top of her head. O’Neal
began her work on Monday as the new director of conservation education at the Edmund Niles Huyck
Preserve in Rensselaerville.
Huyck Preserve’s new education director
Dawn O’Neal wants to teach conservation
By Zach Simeone
RENSSELAERVILLE — Environmental biologist Dawn O’Neal
is in the midst of a transition this
week, from studying the effects
of pregnancy on the immune
systems in African buffalo, to
educational outreach at the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve.
“We’re just kind of nerdy geeks
who like to be outdoors and
want to know why the natural
world works the way it does,”
said O’Neal of environmental
biologists. And it’s that sort
of company she hopes to keep
at her new job as director of
conservation education at the
Huyck Preserve. She started on
Monday.
“We have lots of ideas about
what this position entails,”
O’Neal told The Enterprise. “A
lot of it has to deal with trying
to get the community involved in
field biology courses, and more
rigorous nature walks and stuff.
Getting people to understand,
not only ‘this is this kind of
tree,’ but also the natural area
and the biology of what were
looking at.”
She will also be looking at the
possible formation of a research
consortium with local universities, bringing in students to do
research at the preserve, and
creating field courses for college
credit. This new position at the
Huyck Preserve is funded by the
Environmental Protection Fund,
and a partnership between the
New York State Conservation
Partnership Program, the Land
Trust Alliance, and the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation.
O’Neal, 31, completed her
Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary
biology last year from Indiana
“I love this idea
of conservation
education.”
University. Prior to taking the
job at the Huyck Preserve, she
was finishing her work as a postdoctoral research assistant at the
University of Georgia, where she
studied the African buffalo. Her
thesis was titled Considering the
Roles of Climate Change, Winter
Habitat, and Immune Function
in a Differential Migrant.
“There’s been research suggesting that, when females are
pregnant, there are tradeoffs
in the immune system,” O’Neal
told The Enterprise. There are
two parts in the immune system, she went on: the humoral,
or antibody response; and the
cell-mediated, or inflammatory
response.
“The idea is that, when females
are pregnant, they downgrade
that inflammation response because it may be bad for the fetus,
but they up the antibody response
for various reasons,” said O’Neal.
“We were looking at tuberculosis
and intestinal parasites, and
tradeoffs in the immune system,
and how they handled those parasites, and how pregnant females
dealt with concurrent infections,”
she said of the African buffalo
that were studied.
O’Neal’s interest in taking this
position in upstate New York
stems from her undergraduate
work at Mountain Lake Biological Station just outside of Blacksburg, Va.
“I did a whole lot of field research there, and really got into
the field station sort of field ecology realm, and I really enjoyed it,”
she said. “So, when I saw this job
posting and saw they were looking for someone with field-station
background, I got really excited.
I love this idea of conservation
education. It’s one of my favorite
things about science.”
****
There will be a welcoming reception for Dawn O’Neal following the
Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve’s
annual Science Symposium, which
runs from 1 to 3:30 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Huyck Preserve,
located at 5052 Delaware Turnpike
in Rensselaerville.
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Blotters
Guilderland woman charged
with sexual abuse of 11-year-old girl
GUILDERLAND — A 55-yearold Guilderland woman was
arrested Tuesday for sexually
abusing an 11-year-old girl.
Reverend Carolyn Lorrain
Wilson was charged with seconddegree sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child, both
misdemeanors, after the victim’s
family contacted police, according
to Lieutenant Daniel McNally,
with the Guilderland Police.
The alleged abuse took place
over a period of weeks at Wilson’s
home in Guilderland Center
— the Park Guilderland Apartments, 461 Route 146, Building
4, Apartment 317, McNally
said.
Wilson uses the title “Rever-
end”, but is not known to be affiliated with any church, according
to a release sent out by the Guilderland Police Department.
McNally said she had no criminal record, and no other victims
had come forward.
She was sent to Albany County’s jail on $5,000 bail, which
had not been posted as of late
Wednesday afternoon, said
McNally. She is set to appear
before Judge Denise Randall in
Guilderland Town Court today,
Aug. 4, at 5:30 p.m.
Anyone with information
about similar incidents should
call Officer Nicholas Ingle at
356-1501.
— Anne Hayden
Quinn claims APD “out of control”
Video shows appropriate arrest
Left kids after crash, police say
Harder arrested under Leandra’s Law
GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland man was arrested on Tuesday in Albany, after, police say,
he drove drunk with two minors
in the car, hit a curb, and then
abandoned the damaged car with
the children still in it.
Matthew Harder, 41, of 108
Heritage Road, was reported
by a neighborhood resident, at
4:40 p.m. on Tuesday, for driving
erratically with two girls in the
car, according to a press release
from the Albany Police.
Officers arrived on the scene
and found Harder’s 2006 Mazda
sedan abandoned on Catherine
Street, where it had struck a
curb; Harder was observed walking away, near Morton Avenue
and Oneida Terrace, the release
said.
When police stopped Harder,
he admitted that he had been
driving the car, had an open
container of alcohol in the vehicle, and had his 13-year-old
daughter and her 13-year-old
friend as passengers at the time
he hit the curb, said the release;
no one was hurt in the single car
accident.
Harder failed a field sobriety
test and was charged with two
counts of aggravated driving
while intoxicated, one count of
driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, and endangering
the welfare of a child. He was
charged under Leandra’s Law,
which makes it a felony to drive
drunk with a minor in the car.
— Photo from Albany Police
Matthew Harder
Leandra’s Law took effect in
December 2009, and was named
after 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, who died in an accident
on the Henry Hudson parkway.
First time offenders charged
with driving while intoxicated
felonies can sometimes plead
down to a charge of driving while
ability impaired, a violation, but
Leandra’s Law allows defendants
to plead down only to a misdemeanor DWI charge.
Harder did not have a driver’s
license due to two previous
driving-while-intoxicated convictions, the release said.
He was arraigned on the
charges in Albany City Criminal
Court on Wednesday morning,
according to the release.
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“They threw me down on the
By Jo E. Prout
ALTAMONT — Local resident ground, OK…Then they handJames M. Quinn has alleged cuffed me and they dragged me
that Altamont Police violated over to their car,” Quinn told
his rights when they stopped The Enterprise on Friday. Being
him and arrested him last week. handcuffed, he said this week,
Altamont Police, with a video “really sent chills down my
recording of the incident to back spine.” The roughly 45-minute
them up, deny any wrongdoing. video does not show Quinn being
Quinn, 53, of 1057 Leesome thrown to the ground, nor does it
Lane, was arrested last Thursday show him being dragged.
Asked if he had acted erratinight, July 28, after failing twice
to signal a vehicle turn, first at cally, Quinn said, “After 15 years
the intersection of Western and of being pulled over, you start to
Maple avenues, and again at the get a little punchy. I am starting
intersection of Main Street and to get a little irrational.”
“He’s got a history with the
Maple Avenue.
Acting Public Safety Com- police,” Pucci said.
When The Enterprise asked
missioner Todd Pucci, who was
in the police car with Officer Quinn if he had been arrested
Gerardo Conti, said that Quinn before, he said, “Oh, yeah. Absowent up the S-curve on the Alta- lutely.” Asked why he had been
mont hill and drove off the road arrested, Quinn said, “That’s not
by two or three feet. The police important.”
The Enterprise reported on his
had followed two car lengths
behind, Pucci said, and stopped Nov. 24, 2003 arrest by Guilderhim on the hill “for the safety of land Police for assault. According
to the arrest report, Quinn was
himself.”
According to the video viewed involved in a domestic dispute
by The Enterprise, Quinn’s where he pushed the victim down
vehicle, a silver Dodge pickup the stairs, causing her to strike
her head; she had
truck, crossed the
a laceration above
white line, and then
her right eye and
drifted over the cencomplained of pain
ter yellow line before police pulled “He hit my officer in her right arm.
The arrest report
him over.
with the door.”
also said that po“He hit my officer
lice found a broken
with the door,” Pucci
table and a broken
said.
railing at the top of
Quinn told The
Enterprise that the officer told the stars and there was blood
him to get out of his truck twice. down the stairway. On Feb. 12,
Asked if he hit the officer with 2004, then-Judge Steven J. Sithe door, Quinn said, “He told mon in Guilderland Town Court
me to get out of the car. I opened adjourned the case in contemplathe door and he happened to be tion of dismissal.
Pucci said that Quinn could
standing right there.”
On the video, the door is have been charged for many
pushed open vigorously and hits reasons during last week’s traffic
Conti in the stomach and chest; stop, but that the department isConti remains calm. Throughout sued only two traffic tickets and
the arrest, until he is handcuffed, arrested Quinn for disorderly
Quinn swears repeatedly at the conduct, which requires a court
police, frequently using the f- appearance.
Quinn called the police departword, according to the video.
Conti attempted to administer ment the day following his arrest
sobriety tests, Pucci said, but and asked if his name would be
Quinn did not cooperate. The printed in the Enterprise’s “blotvideo shows Quinn refusing the ters” section.
He also called The Enterprise
tests and mocking Conti.
“We didn’t smell alcohol,” Pucci that day and said he’d like to
said. Quinn’s erratic behavior see news of his arrest printed
suggested illegal or prescription in the newspaper. “It’s a fun, fun
drugs, Pucci said. None were situation…” he said. “I think evfound at the scene when the of- erybody in the town would enjoy
ficers searched Quinn’s vehicle, seeing it. It’s basically a police
force out of control…. It’s been
he said.
“I’m not on any kind of drugs, this way since I got here in 1996.
at all,” Quinn told The Enterprise. It’s never going to change. People
“If I were on prescription drugs, have to just grin and bear it.”
Quinn told The Enterprise this
it’s none of their business.”
According to the video, Quinn week, “Police reports should be
lunged at Pucci when he asked made public. Let people draw
Quinn if he were on alcohol or their own conclusions. To be in
prescription drugs. The two offi- this incubator of fear, of this
cers then handcuffed Quinn, who police force, which is not very
then noticeably calmed down. He highly trained…If I deserved
was a “different person by the to get a ticket, OK, give me a
ticket. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
end,” Pucci said.
Quinn tells the story differ- I’ll deal with that. I’m not going
to be intimidated.”
ently.
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Cheryl Diaz Meyer takes pictures that tell stories and illuminate truth
By Saranac Hale Spencer
RENSSELAERVILLE — A
silent story can be the most stirring — pictures unfolded from
newspaper pages have framed
our idea of what war looks like
over the last century.
Cheryl Diaz Meyer has taken
pictures of today’s battles that
cast an unflinching eye on soldiers and citizens.
Photography is an extension
of the stories that she grew up
on in the Philippines, said Diaz
Meyer, who won a Pulitzer Prize
for breaking news photography
in 2004 for her coverage of the
war in Iraq. Her photos, along
with those of two other photographers, are on display at The Way
Out Gallery in Rensselaerville as
part of the town library’s Festival
of Writers.
Diaz Meyer’s family raised her
with stories of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, which
tempered her for the gravity of
war reporting.
“I just loved the art of storytelling,” Diaz Meyer said this week.
Photos were a way, she discovered,
that she could tell stories, “the real
ones,” she said.
As a student of photography,
Diaz Meyer wanted to tell the
stories of people who didn’t have a
voice. She did not expect to become
a war photographer.
When the occasion came, though,
she rose to it.
A war zone concentrates the
human condition and forces you
to consider your strengths and
weaknesses, to be honest about
life and death, she said. Putting
your life in serious danger forces
the questions — “What is the
meaning of life? How fickle is it?
How transient?”
“It’s not that I don’t fear death,”
she said of facing it so readily. “I
have made choices about living life
fully and, in covering wars, one
really, truly experiences the entire gamut.” The emotions on the
battlefield are so extreme, there’s
no parallel in everyday life. There’s
a certain amount of fulfillment in
living life so fully, she concluded.
“The terrible experiences are usually the ones where we grow the
most,” she said.
There was a time when she
might have had an answer for why
When the Republican
Guard called his family to pick him up from
prison, Ferasse Jasim,
22, was unconscious and
nearly dead. He had
been tortured for several months for evading
military service. He suffered beatings, electric
shock and then finally
was subjected to boiling water poured on his
hands and feet. He was
released with many other
prisoners around the city
just days before the U.S.
began bombing Baghdad.
When his sister Shaima
Jasim, 7, saw him, she
screamed in horror. The
skin slowly grew back on
his feet to cover the bone
that once was visible, and
he eventually regained
his strength.
Photo provided by Cheryl Diaz Meyer
the story was important enough
to risk her life, Diaz Meyer said
after reflecting; with irony, she
cited democratic principles. She’s
had a daughter since that time,
she said, and that has changed
her perspective.
“I just loved the art of
storytelling.”
In 2003, the first year of the war
in Iraq, Diaz Meyer covered the
invasion for the Dallas Morning
News as a journalist embedded
with a Marine Corps unit for a
month, and then as an independent journalist for a month.
Working independently, she
said, you’re not beholden to
anybody, “but you can’t see that
story from the inside.” She was an
outsider to the Iraqis and to the
American soldiers, which made it
hard to find depth.
She recognized the common crit-
In the midst of a dust storm in southern Iraq, Marine Staff Sergeant Brian Flaherty disconnects
a fuel bladder from a tank as the Marines march toward Baghdad in 2003.
Having driven into an ambush, this Iraqi civilian was trapped in his vehicle in 2003. Lt. Jeffrey Goodman, left, and Lance Corporal
Jorge Sanchez, right, drag him from the burning van. During fighting earlier that day, four Marines died and 17 were injured.
icism that journalists embedded
with the military lack objectivity,
allowing, “It’s not to say that you
don’t have some sense of gratitude,
and therefor, goodwill, to whoever
is hosting you.” But, Diaz Meyer
emphasized that the Marines who
hosted her knew that she had a
job to do and that there may be
stories they wouldn’t like.
She recalled vividly one of
those stories: After a tense day
at a checkpoint, a minibus came
through and did not respond to
warning shots. The previous vehicle had been trying to get ammunition through. The Marines
shot at the bus, ultimately killing
innocent women and children.
The coverage wasn’t favorable
to the Marines, but it showed
that human folly exists in war
as elsewhere in life. The people
fighting are human, she said, they
are tired and they have to make
split-second decisions that carry
enormous weight.
Her pictures illustrate soldiers
as soldiers, dragging an Iraqi civilian from his burning vehicle in
the heat of the desert, and soldiers
as human, with one young man in
solitary joy as he closes his eyes
to smell a rose.
“I look for situations that illuminate what I believe is the truth,”
Diaz Meyer said of how she tells a
story. Sometimes what she learns
as she goes can change the story.
Often, she said, it is the littlest
moments that give depth and
nuance to a story.
10
Brownies help furry friends at Guilderland shelter
By Jamie Devlin
GUILDERLAND — Brownies
in Troop 1092 chose to support
the Guilderland Animal Shelter as their community service
project this year. Their goal was
to help the animals stay safe,
warm, and comfortable while
living at the shelter, waiting for
a new home.
The girls asked their families,
friends, and classmates to help
by donating items that would
be useful and enjoyable to the
animals at the shelter. They
also asked Pets Supplies Plus
and their patrons to contribute
items as well.
The girls collected 43 pet toys,
38 cat-food items, 26 towels, 19
dog treats, 13 dog-food items, 10
blankets, two leashes, one dish,
and one bandana.
The girls also made cat-nip
sock toys and dog biscuits for the
shelter. And, to help the animals
with medical care, they donated
$100 from the hard-earned
money they generated from selling Girl Scout cookies.
The girls presented all of the
items that they made and collected to Rich Savage and his
furry friends at the shelter on
Friday, June 3. The girls had a
great time there, playing with
the animals and were thrilled
that they could help make a difference in their lives.
Editor’s note: Jamie Devlin is
the leader of Girl Scouts Brownie
Troop 1092.
— Photo by Sharon Ansell
Tragic trio: These kittens, like many others, are looking for a
foster home while they wait to be permanently adopted.
Guilderhaven seeks empty baskets
and volunteers with full hearts
By Sue Green
GUILDERLAND — It’s that
time of year we go on a hunt
for baskets: Baskets that came
at Christmas, Easter, Mother’s
Day, Father’s Day, for birthdays,
anniversaries, thank-yous or any
occasion — and are now empty in
the back of a closet somewhere.
If you have one of these empty or
not, please call me at 861-6861.
We also have another more
pressing need: volunteers! Guilderhaven with other animalrescue organizations and the
Mohawk-Hudson Humane Society is looking for committed
people — committed to extending
love, compassion, and socialization to a small group of deserving
felines.
The cats will be with you for
only a short while (as you prepare them for adoption), but the
experience will create a warm
feeling in your heart that will
last a lifetime. To take advantage
of this golden opportunity call
Sharon at 861-7247.
You can also help in the Altamont area, caring for shelter
cats and kittens. You must be 16
years old. Call me at 861-6861 or
Sharon at 861-7247.
Home Sweet Home?
— Photo by Diane Devoe
Good-deed do-ers: Brownies in Guilderland’s Troop 1092 visit Guilderland’s animal shelter to present gifts for the animals. From left, in back: Carli Rem, Ava Thomson, Shannon Deyoe, and Amanda
Devlin. In front, Caroline Johnson, Isabella Bartlett, Megan Hourithan, and Natalie Vogel.
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p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6.
The deadline for artwork
submission and delivery to the
society in Menands is Thursday,
Sept. 22. For information or
entry forms, call Nancy Laribee
at 434-8128, ext 206, or e-mail
nlaribee@mohawkhumane.org.
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signed, and of appropriate qual-
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exhibited with ease and simplicity, and with little potential for
damage to the piece. Also, all art
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biography in a format decided
by the artist. In addition, all art
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Business Corner
Six lauded for Business Excellence
The Schoharie County Chamber of Commerce has selected
these winners in its sixth annual competition for Business
Excellence:
— Emerging Business of the
Year: Jack Miller Tractor and
Truck of Schoharie;
— Non-Profit Organization of
the Year: Landis Arboretum of
Esperance;
— Family-Owned Business of
the Year: Scott and Kathy Kelley
of Kelley Farm and Garden, Inc.
in Cobleskill;
— Young Entrepreneur of the
Year: Andrew Noble of Noble Ace
Hardware in Cobleskill; and
— Woman-Owned Business
of the Year: Angela Kogler of
Upstate NY IT.
In order to be considered, all can-
didates must be members in good
standing of the Schoharie County
Chamber of Commerce, have been
in business at least three years,
demonstrate a commitment to
ethical business practices, have
a commitment to employee support and development, and demonstrate corporate citizenship or
community leadership including
chamber activities.
The awards will be presented
at the chamber’s annual summer
barbecue fund-raiser on Wednesday evening, Aug. 24, at The Olde
Tater Barn, 138 Tater Barn Road
in Central Bridge.
Tickets cost $30 for chamber
members and $40 for the general public and can be obtained
by calling the chamber office at
827-3900.
Westerlo highway detour
By Zach Simeone
HILLTOWNS — Drivers approaching Westerlo by way of
Route 85 will be forced on a detour until the end of next week,
according to a spokeswoman at
the New York State Department
of Transportation.
“This is actually a project to
reconstruct the road and put in
some drainage improvements
on Route 85 between 157 and
443,” said Carol Breen, a DOT
spokeswoman. The work began
on July 18.
“It’s expected to be closed until
about next Friday,” said Breen.
“After that, they’ll still be doing
some cleanup work, but they’ll
at least be able to re-open the
road.”
This work, Breen said, is one of
several ongoing projects to reconstruct pavement. She was unable
to obtain a cost breakdown for
these projects on Wednesday.
“The signed detour we had is
supposed to take you on Route
157, to 157A, to 443, and back
to 85,” Breen said.
American Red Cross holds blood drive
The American Red Cross will
hold several community blood
drives during the month of August. To make an appointment
to donate blood, call 1-800-RED
CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or log
onto redcrossblood.org.
These are the dates, times, and
locations of the local drives:
— Saturday, Aug. 13, from 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at the Voorheesville Fire
Department, 12 Altamont Rd. in
Voorheesville;
— Thursday, Aug. 18, from 1 to 6
p.m. at the Duanesburg Reformed
Presbyterian Church, 6512 Western Turnpike in Duanesburg;
— Saturday, Aug. 20, from 7:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at St. John’s
Lutheran Church, 140 Maple Ave.
in Altamont;
— Saturday, Aug. 20, from 9:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Bethlehem
Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave.
in Delmar;
— Saturday, Aug. 27 from 8
a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Guilderland
YMCA, 250 Winding Brook Dr. in
Guilderland;
— Monday, Aug. 29, from 11:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the University
at Albany Campus Center, 1400
Washington Ave. in Albany; and
— Monday, Aug. 29 from 2 to 7
p.m. at the Lynnwood Reformed
Church, 3714 Carman Rd. in
Guilderland.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Service with a smile: Associate Manager Jeremy Thompson, left, and Manager John Thivierge,
showcase some of the selections they carry at the newly opened shop, The Meat House, in Stuyvesant
Plaza. Owner Kevin Wickert said the store carries “everything you can imagine.”
New at Stuyvesant Plaza
The Meat House sells fresh, exotic, and local fare
By Anne Hayden
GUILDERLAND — After working for General Electric and owning a slew of hair salons, Kevin
Wickert decided to franchise a few
branches of The Meat House.
Wickert’s newest location for an
upscale butcher shop is in Stuyvesant Plaza; he has two others, in
Saratoga and Clifton Park. The
Guilderland store has been open
for just over one week.
“We’ve been very well received.
We’ve had as many customers
in the store in the first week
as we typically have in our
Saratoga store, which has been
open for more than a year,” said
Wickert.
The chain started in 2003 in
New Hampshire, he said, founded
by Justin Rosberg and Jason
Parent, lifelong friends who had
already spent years in the restaurant business and wanted to bring
back the “old-fashioned” style of
personalized food service.
What sets The Meat House
apart from supermarket deli sections is the selection of local and
quality meats and other products,
Wickert said.
“We try to carry as much local
product as we can, and we have
everything you can think of,
including exotic meats,” he said,
listing venison, bison, and elk as
just a few of The Meat House’s
offerings. The shop also carries
organic and grass-fed meat.
Wickert said that a majority of
the meat the store sells is fresh,
and never frozen.
“There are six butchers working at any given time, and the
customer service is top notch,”
said Wickert, explaining that all
employees go through a rigorous
six-week training program, and
many already have a background
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“Customers are always welcome to sample our products, and
we suggest food pairings and do
custom orders,” Wickert said.
The prices, according to Wickert, are “absolutely competitive”
and sometimes even lower than
supermarket prices.
He had worked for General
Electric for years, and started a
chain of hair salons, but decided
in 2010 that he wanted to take
a different business direction. A
friend told him about The Meat
House, and he inquired about
starting a franchise in the Capital
Region.
“I’ve opened three locations
now in one-and-a-half years, and
I plan to stay in this for the longterm,” concluded Wickert. “It’s
just a fun business with a lively
atmosphere.”
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Library Notes
Berne
Altamont
By David Warner
How do you throw a boomerang away? That’s a question
that might be facing the Explorer Group in next week’s Read
Around the World program at
the Altamont Free Library. The
Explorers, ages 4 and up, will be
having a look at Australia next
week, and making boomerangs.
We hope they want to keep them.
The group meets on Tuesday,
Aug. 9, at 10:30 a.m.
“How do you
throw a boomerang
anyway?”
The Geographers, ages 7 and
up, will also be down, down
under, in Australia. They’ll be
learning about a traditional
Australian art form that shows
both the inside and the outside
of an animal. These travelers
will gather on Tuesday, Aug. 9,
at 1:30 p.m.
The Trekkers, ages 10 and up,
will be visiting Indonesia, a nation of islands, half of which are
north of the equator and half of
which are south. They will be
learning the art of batik painting, and using waxes and dyes.
Interested tourists will need to
bring an article that’s 100-percent cotton to decorate. This will
definitely be an experience to dye
for. Be here on Wednesday, Aug.
10, at 1:30 p.m.
Hooray for the Blues
This summer season’s everpopular Tuesday evening concert
series comes to a conclusion on
Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m. when
hometown guitar artist Kyle
James Miller performs from
the Gazebo in Orsini Park. The
alternate site, in case of inclement weather, is the Altamont
Community Room in the Main
Street Fire House. Do not let
such a possibility deter you. Last
week’s Big Band and Swing concert was forced to move indoors,
and concert goers testified that
the show was a most enjoyable
one, with lots of dancing and
prancing.
Book club
The Adult Fiction Book Club
will meet on Monday evening,
Aug. 8, at 7 p.m., to share their
thoughts on the classic English
novel Far From the Madding
Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
Forever blowing bubbles
As part of our end of summer
reading celebration on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the village
community room, join us for a
fascinating interactive show
featuring bubbles. The star of
the show is bubble builder, Jeff
Boyer.
Learn the science behind
bubbles and how bubbles can
be softer and even taste better.
Bubbles are beautiful, too. Have
you ever seen a pyramid-shaped
bubble? How about a cube-shaped
bubble? Or bubbles within other
bubbles? Or bubbles walking a
tightrope? You might even find
yourself inside a bubble.
The bubble bonanza begins
at 2 p.m. At its conclusion it’s
drawing time. Kids, make sure
you get all the tickets you
earned. Make your choices. And
do a lot of heart-felt hoping.
Along with the drawing, we’ll
put the topping on the afternoon — ice cream sundaes for
all! What a sweet way to close
up the summer.
— Photo by Judy Petrosillo
A journey to Africa was taken on July 28 by kids in the Berne library’s One World Summer Reading
Program. They are modeling the African masks they made.
By Judy Petrosillo
Konnichi wa is hello in Japanese. For the Berne Public Library’s last week of the summer
reading program, our imaginary
travel takes us to Japan and
other Eastern Asian countries.
Asian week starts with a teen
program at the library on Friday,
Aug. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m. Try out
the sport of sumo wrestling along
with its rituals. Taste different
teas from around the world during intermission.
On Saturday, Aug. 6, is a
great time for your family to
learn more about the Japanese
culture. Our special presenter
spent a year in Japan. Everyone
is welcome to this interactive
program which begins at 11
a.m.
Game night
The Adult Game Night is Sunday, Aug. 7, at 7 p.m. They may
be playing Chinese checkers, but
most likely it will be The Settlers
of Catan. If you are interested in
playing competitive board games
with other adults, this is the
program for you.
Summer reading program
The Wee Read SRP meets on
Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. Join
Kathy to hear stories about
Japan, China, and Korea. Make
a Korean drawstring bag called
a jumenoni. This program is
designed for preschoolers and
their caregivers.
Concert
On Wednesday, Aug. 10 is our
last Music in the Park concert
for the summer. Enjoy this free
outdoor concert from 6:30 p.m. to
dusk. Just A Bunch of Guys will
be entertaining you this week.
This is a great opportunity for
the community to come together
for some great music and fun.
Refreshments will be available
for purchase.
Intermediate reading group
The One World SRP is on
Thursday, Aug. 11 at 11 a.m.
Intermediate readers are invited
to meet Kathy for a program on
“A great time
for your family to learn
more about the
Japanese culture.”
— Photo by Judy Petrosillo
Penny Auction: On July 29, kids at the Berne library each had 50 tickets to bid, as the girl at center
is doing, on items of interest while the girl in the foreground takes a close look at one of the offerings.
“All went home with some great things,” said the library’s manager, Judy Petrosillo.
Bethlehem
By Louise Grieco
On Thursday, Aug. 11, at 2
p.m., come to the Bethlehem
Public Library for Story Towers
with the Tang Museum. Make
your own colorful 3D story tower.
For kids in grade 1 and up. Call
439-9314 to sign up.
Stories on the Green
On Saturday, Aug. 13, at 2:30
p.m., bring a blanket; library
community room is the rain
location. This program is for
families.
Footprints to the future
On Monday, Aug. 15, at 2:30
p.m., come to the library to
learn how people around the
world have been recycling since
Medieval times. Learn about
green living, past and future,
from the people of the 4H. For
kids in kindergarten through
grade 5. Call 439-9314 to sign
up.
Teen movie
On Monday, Aug. 15, at 6:30
p.m., the library’s teen movie is
the audience’s choice. For kids in
grade 6 and up.
Think you’ve never seen
Europe
Think again!
On Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 10
a.m., the Five Rivers folks will
introduce everyday plants and
animals that came to America
with the immigrants. All ages
are welcome.
Cupcake cram
On Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 2:30
p.m. we will decorate and devour
crazy, crafty, cute or creepy cupcakes. For kids in grade 6 and up.
Call 439-9314 to sign up.
Asia. Learn about a Buddhist
wall gazer and make a Daruma
doll out of a CD.
Board meeting
The library Board of Trustees
meets on Thursday, Aug. 11. A
second meeting is also being
scheduled for Aug. 25 to approve
the construction grant for the
new library. Both meetings start
at 6:30 p.m. and are open to the
public.
Reading program wrap-ups
The last day to log in reading
time for the summer reading
program is Thursday, Aug. 11.
The Family Finale is on Friday,
Aug. 12 at 6:30 p.m.We hope
all will participate in the final
adventure of the One World,
Many Stories, Summer Reading
Program. Play games, pick up
gifts, and win some prizes. This
event will take place at the Berne
Senior Center.
For this week’s adult reading
program, choose a book set in
China, Japan, or Korea. Sunday,
Aug. 14 will be the last day to
enter book reviews. This is also
the date of our pot-luck dinner
from around the world. Bring a
dish from a foreign country to
share with the group.
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Library Notes
Voorheesville
By Maura Lynch
The Voorheesville Public Library’s Together at Twilight concert series concludes on Wednesday, Aug.10, at 6:30 p.m., when
we welcome Marty Wendell.
Wendell is a straight-from-theheart singer/songwriter recently
added to the Rockabilly Hall of
Fame Legends list. He has toured
with Johnny Cash and recorded
in Memphis’ legendary Sun Studio. Bring your blanket or chair
and your dancing shoes too! Join
your neighbors and friends for
Together at Twilight. As always,
in the event of rain, we’ll just
bring the party inside.
Stories and art
Get on your jammies and come
to the library. How often do you
get to do that? Teens will read
stories for young children up
to second grade. We’ll end the
evening with a fun art project.
Pajama stories with Teen Readers will be on Tuesdays, Aug. 9,
and 23, at 6:30 p.m. No sign up
is necessary.
Reading takes you places!
On Monday, August 8 at 2 p.m.
we’re going to Australia! In this
program for grades K-2, we
will explore Australia through
stories and a unique aboriginal
art project.
Monopoly tournament
Do you want to be the top hat or
the iron? That’s right, a Monopoly Tournament at the library!
All are welcome from grade 4
to adult, for an afternoon of fun
playing everybody’s favorite real
estate game. Be the banker!
Build on Boardwalk! There’s no
sign up, just drop in on Friday
Aug. 5, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Middleburgh
In danger of getting wet: Samantha Latella is ready to be dunked as a boy throws a ball towards
the target to put her into the cold water below. Family Fun Day was put on by the Guilderland Public
Library.
Westerlo
By Sue Hoadley
On Saturday, Aug. 13, at 11
a.m. the Westerlo Public Library
will have the monthly writers’
workshop. Do you have stories
in your head that you’re having
trouble getting on paper? Take
your writing to the next level
with local author and screenwriter Christopher C. Corry
as he helps writers of all skill
levels craft their stories into the
written word. Corry will share
techniques and tips on becoming
a better writer and address the
unique challenges of writing for
print, screen or stage.
The first meeting on August
13 will determine the skill level
of each participant and set a
schedule and direction for the
monthly workshops. Participants
are asked to bring in something
they have written – finished or
in progress – to share with the
group.
For more information, contact
the library at 797-3415 or director@westerlolibrary.org.
Trustee meeting
On Monday, Aug. 15, at 7 p.m.,
the library trustees will meet.
This meeting is an open public.
Summer reading program
It’s not too late to submit
minutes read for credit for the
Summer Reading Program. Keep
reading and report your minutes
by Aug. 23 for free books, gift certificates, from Stewart’s Shops,
and fun drawing prizes.
Children’s programs
Toddler and preschool story
time meets Wednesday mornings
at 11 a.m. Miss Lee presents
stories, songs, games, and movement activities for toddlers and
pre-school aged children.
More info
For more information, contact
the library during business hours
at 797-3415 or visit westerlolibrary.org.
High five for reading: During Saturday afternoon’s Family Fun Day at the Guilderland Public
Library, Southpaw, the mascot of the Tri-City Valleycats, read to some of the kids who came by and
listened. The event also featured a book sale.
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By Anne LaMont
On Aug. 8, at 6:30 p.m., the
Middleburgh Library presents
the Reel Film Festival, The
Future of Food. This film is not
rated. The film investigates what
is behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods
that have quietly filled United
States grocery store shelves for
the past decade and an exploration of alternatives to large-scale
industrial agriculture.
Art Start
On Aug. 9, at 11 a.m., get ready
for a fun time with your little one
as we explore the world of art
with hands on activities. Perfect
for 3- and 4-year-olds with a
caregiver’s help.
Baseball and
Civil war discussion
On Aug. 9, at 7 p.m., Civil War
aficionado Dave Hubbard will
detail the effects of baseball on
the Civil War and how the War affected the game. This program is
part of our series celebrating the
150th Anniversary of the Civil
War. Registration is Required.
Family film
On Aug. 10, at 1 p.m., the library will show White Lion rated
PG. A young African boy named
Gisani finds himself destined to
protect a rare and magnificent
white lion cub named Letsatsi
who is cast from his pride and is
forced to survive on his own.
Animal program
On Aug. 11, at 11 a.m., enjoy
One World – Many Animals.
This program is dedicated to the
learning and loving of animals
from around the world. Jason
Reilly of Green Meadow Farms
teaches the audience about
each animal but gives everyone
the opportunity to pet them in
colorful tubs for a safe and easy
experience. This program is for
all ages. This program is part of
our Summer Reading Program,
One World, Many Stories.
Science in the Summer
On Aug. 11 at 1 p.m., come
to the library for this hands on
science fair, sponsored by the
Mohawk Valley Library System
and the GE Elfun Society. This
program will introduce you to
the fun of science experiments.
This is part of our Summer Reading Program: One World, Many
Stories. For kids going into kindergarten and up. Registration
is required.
Concert
On Aug 25, at 7 p.m., enjoy The
Squid Jiggers. The Squid Jiggers
are a Maine-based folk duo comprised of musician-entertainers,
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Senior News
Altamont
Canasta Cats: Altamont Seniors and regular card players — from left, Noma Bocket, Miriam Flower,
Eileen McKenney, Bea Smith, and Anna Marie Seiz — got together at Gibby’s Diner in Delanson to
celebrate Miriam Flower’s birthday.
By Eileen McKenney
Altamont seniors had their
regular Tuesday gathering this
week. We were fewer in numbers
but lively and sharing in enthusiastic conversations.
We were visited by three volunteer emergency medical technicians; members of the Altamont
Rescue Squad, who checked blood
pressures for all who responded
to the invitation. This is a firstTuesday-of-the month occasion,
and is conducted before lunch.
This service is appreciated and
can be very helpful especially
when higher-than-normal readings indicate the necessity of
checking with our doctors. The
volunteers were friendly and professional in their service to us.
Lunch consisted of seafood
salad on croissant, three-bean
salad, and a dessert of multiflavor sherbet, and vanilla ice
cream, with a tasty cookie treat.
Bingo followed lunch at St. Lucy’s
Parish Center, and canasta took
place at the Brandle Woods
gathering room. Included in
this issue of The Enterprise, is
a photo of our Canasta group
you may enjoy seeing. That’s the
five of us, on a recent lunch out,
honoring Miriam Flower on her
birthday.
Coming up
Next week, Aug. 9, the lunch
menu will be tossed salad and
pizza. The program will be another visit by Donald “Soul Man”
Hyman, hosting a luau party,
performing the “Sounds of Summer!” Sounds intriguing.
Happy birthday, Rose
Rose Cargill, a very special
long-time member of our Seniors
group, and currently at Mercy
Care facility in Guilderland, will
be observing her birthday this
week on Aug. 6. We miss her,
and know she would appreciate
receiving a phone call, or card.
Her phone and mailing information is available. Call me, at
861-6658, if you would like to be
in touch with her.
See you next time. Peace.
Helderberg
Donald “The Soul Man” Hyman will return to the Altamont Seniors luncheon for a “Sounds of
Summer” Luau Party at 1 p.m. on Aug. 9. He donates much of his time in the summer to performing for
groups such as the Seniors. Last summer, Hyman produced and directed his play about Billie Holiday
at the New York State Museum. Raised in Brooklyn, many of his summer concerts feature songs from
his youth like “Under The Boardwalk” and “See You in September.” He looks forward to returning to
teaching this fall at The College of Saint Rose. “Teaching is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,”
said Hyman. A first-place winner in the National Veterans Creative Arts Awards for his rendition of
Wilson Pickett’s dance classic “In The Midnight Hour” led to an invitation to participate in a PBS special in October being filmed in Arkansas. Hyman wants to go as a tribute to his vocal coach of many
years, Reverend Ed Rossman, who died in June.
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The menu being served by the
Helderberg Senior Services at the
Hiawatha Grange on Route 32 in
Dormansville next week is:
Monday: Liver with onions
and mushrooms, mashed potatoes, green beans, and pudding;
Tuesday: Tuna salad, macaroni salad, lettuce and tomato,
carrot and raisin salad, roll, and
Jell-O with sliced banana;
Wednesday: Pork shops, apple
sauce, mashed potato, peas and
onions, and lemon pie;
Thursday: Fried chicken,
boiled potato, cauliflower augratin, and fruit cocktail;
Friday: Shrimp scampi over
pasta, juice, tossed salad, and
ice cream.
All meals will be served at
noon. Call ahead at 797-3652 for
reservations.
Funding is provided by the
Albany County Department for
the Aging and the New York Office for Aging.
Guilderland
The Guilderland Senior Services is offering the following
activities the week of Aug.8.
Monday: Scheduled shopping,
Aerobics at 9 a.m., OsteoBusters
at 10:30 a.m., Senior Fitness
at 10:30 a.m., OsteoBusters at
1:30 p.m.;
Tuesday: OsteoBusters at 9
a.m., luncheon fish fry or cold
plate at 11:30 a.m., special drawing at noon, bingo, games and
billiards at 12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping, line dancing at 9 a.m., OsteoBusters at 10:30 a.m., senior
fitness at 10:30 a.m., needlecraft
at 1 p.m., and OsteoBusters at
1:30 p.m.;
Thursday: Scheduled shopping, OsteoBusters at 9 a.m.,
aerobics at 9 a.m., Mahjongg at 1
p.m., and Pinochle at 1:15 p.m.;
Friday: Scheduled shopping,
painting at 10 a.m., Bridge at
10:30 a.m., quilting at 1 p.m.
Irish party
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, Guilderland Seniors will attend a “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Party”
at Gavin’s Irish Country Inn in
East Durham, featuring jackpot
bingo, Irish tunes by Jimmy
Walsh, and lunch. The bus will
depart from the 20 Mall parking
garage at 9 a.m. and return at
approximately 4 p.m.
The cost per person, including
bus transportation is $44.
Transportation to and from
your home is available for Guilderland residents.
Please indicate lunch choice:
chicken parmesan or corned beef
and cabbage.
Make checks payable to “Town
of Guilderland” and send them
to: Town of Guilderland Senior
Services, Post Office Box 339,
Guilderland, NY 12084.
Theater trip
The Guilderland Seniors will
see Always...Patsy Cline on
Thursday, Sept. 15, at the MacHaydn Theatre in Chatham.
The show is a tribute to country music’s legendary star as
it might have been told by her
pen pal, Louise, and is filled
with down-home humor and her
greatest songs including “Walkin’
After Midnight,” “Crazy,” Sweet
Dreams,” and “I Fall to Pieces,”
and many more.
A bus will leave Guilderland
Town Hall at 11 a.m.
The lunch will precede the
show at the White Stone Café.
The cost is $41 for lunch and
the show plus $5 for transportation on the day of the trip. Checks
may be made payable to “Town
of Guilderland.”
Mammography
A mobile mammography
screening, co-sponsored by the
town of Guilderland and Bellevue Hospital will take place on
Thursday, Sept. 8, from 10 a.m.
until 2 p.m. at the town hall.
Please call Mary Ann at 3561980, ext. 1095, to schedule an
appointment.
Call the senior office at 3561980, ext. 1048 for any questions
or information.
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Senior News
Summer Fun In Salem Hills
Hilltowns
By Linda Carman
Recently, I attended an advisory meeting for the Albany
County Department of Aging.
One of the projects that we
covered was a survey that the
department is going to circulate.
We are trying to figure out how
to get the surveys out to the seniors in Albany County. We came
up with several ideas and one of
them was churches.
One of the questions that was
asked was about eating healthy
meals three times a day. I then
mentioned that the Berne Reformed Church has a “Not Eating
Alone Tonight” program that it
offers on the third Monday of
every other month. This program
started out with maybe 20 people
and now has grown to 80.
This is just a donation dinner
that is served through the ministry of the church. The church
doesn’t make any money and
sometimes it doesn’t break even.
But, it has become quite the social event of the Hilltowns.
The seniors not only get a
nutritional meal, but they are socializing with friends and many
new friends. Afterwards, they
are encouraged to stay and play
cards, bingo, or scrabble.
Isn’t this just the best idea to
promote a night of being cared
for and at the same time getting
out and having fun? Three cheers
to the church and the wonderful
people who serve.
Some department members are
coming to the next supper to see
how it works and we hope they
will spread the word to other
organizations.
We want a
local farmers’ market
Also, we discussed farmers
market coupons. I asked why the
Hilltowns don’t receive any and
their answer was we don’t have
any farmers’ markets up here
[There is a farmers’ market in
Rensselaerville.]. Mmmmm, can’t
we go to Altamont, Voorheesville,
or Rensselaerville? We have to
travel for everything else.
Last week, I attended a meeting in Berne and asked about
having a farmers’ market up
here. One person replied that my
seniors couldn’t afford his prices.
So, he takes his merchandise to
Delmar.
Everybody is gung ho on
having the Hilltowns’ products
available, so people will come
up here and buy and enjoy the
scenery. But there is nothing
to buy because they are taking
their products elsewhere. I don’t
understand it.
In the meantime, I will shop at
Price Chopper and get fresh vegetables that come from Shaul’s
farms from Middleburgh and get
my 10 cents off for gas. I did go
over to Brian Whipple’s tonight
and got sweet corn. It was very
good.
Remember
If you don’t learn to laugh at
troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re
old. (I’m laughing right now, just
thinking about it!)
On top of the world: Patrick Guiry, left, and his brother, Ryan, sit atop new playground equipment in Voorheesville’s Salem Hills
on Monday morning. The development was built in 1967 with 20 acres of common area but hasn’t had new playground equipment
for decades. A ribbon-cutting and celebration, with pizza and soda, will take place on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
Family fun: Chris Guiry, vice president of the Salem Hills Park Association, left, watches as his sons, Patrick and Ryan, along
with their mother, Sheila, show off one of the new pieces of playground equipment Monday morning in Voorheesville. It took three
semi trucks full of wood chips to carpet the new playground to protect kids.
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Farmers Market from 3:30 to
6:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 68 Maple Road, Voorheesville. Vegetables, fruits, baked
goods, treats, meats, cheeses, live
music, art, take-out meals, and
more. Featuring knife sharpening
on Aug. 5.
First Friday Hike, Ferocious
Antlions: Join us for a walk to discover the amazing world of antlions,
a unique insect in the Pine Bush.
We will walk to a variety of different habitats to explore antlion pits
and be able to investigate larva up
close and personal. Don’t miss this
opportunity to explore an interesting detail of the Albany Pine Bush
Preserve. Please remember to wear
walking shoes, long pants, and bring
drinking water. Meet at noon at the
Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center,
195 New Karner Road, Albany. Free
and open to the public, registration
is required; call 456-0655.
Dynamic Speaker Earl Wallace,
author of The Three-Dimensional
Leader: Negotiating Your Mission,
Resources, and Context, will speak
at the Medusa Firehouse at 28
Main St., at 7 p.m. The free event
is sponsored by the Rensselaerville
Tea Party.
Saturday, August 6
Wednesday, August 10th: Viking Night
Chef ’s Table Included with Swedish night specials:
Beet and Apple Salad, Smoked Trout on rye toast points, Smoked Salmon
with a vinaigrette and honey dill sauce, Swedish meatballs, and more!
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Clarksville Heritage Day: The
Clarksville Historical Society will
host a celebration, to include a car
show, crafts, demonstrations, exhibits, a bouncy-bounce, drawings,
airbrush body painting, and more.
There will also be music provided by
Kevin Hotaling, a buffet breakfast, a
lunch, and a lobster and clam bake.
Most activities will be held at the
Clarksville Community Church.
Indian Ladder Trail Guided
Walk: Descend the cliff on this scenic trail and learn about the cultural
and geologic history of the Helderbergs. Wear sturdy shoes and meet
at the Indian Ladder picnic area near
the park office at 10 a.m. There is
a $6 vehicle entrance fee. Call 8720800 for more information.
Nature Exploration at Five Rivers: An exploration of nature, geared
for parents and child interaction, will
be conducted at 10 a.m. at 56 Game
Farm Road. During this elementary
investigation, center naturalists will
lead participants along gentle center
trails in a search of squirrels, birds,
and rabbits, as well as common
signs of the season, such as animal
tracks and nests, plus nuts, cones,
and berries. The program is open to
the public and free of charge. Parents and children must accompany
each other. Call 475-0291 by Aug.
3 to register.
Stream Study at Five Rivers: An
interactive exploration of the ecology
of the Vlomankill geared for parent
and child interaction will be conducted at 2 p.m. at 56 Game Farm Road,
Delmar. During this elementary
study, center naturalists will lead
participants in an in-depth investigation of the aquatic insects and other
fauna of the Vlomankill, a picturesque wooded stream which bisects
the center property as it flows to the
Hudson River. Special attention will
be paid to “indicator species” such
as mayflies and caddisflies, which
are only found in streams with high
water quality. The program is open to
the public and free of charge; parents
and children must accompany each
other. Space is limited; call 475-0291
by Aug. 3 to register.
Application Deadline for Miss
Altamont Fair Pageant: Submit
applications by 3 p.m. Go to www.
altamontfair.com.
Art Exhibition and Lecture hosted by Five Rivers, held by the Taiwanese American Cultural Society of
the Capital District of New York, Inc.
The exhibition of nature-inspired art
works will open with an illustrated
lecture by Dr. Lawrence K. Wang,
entitled “History Review Through
Collection of Chinese and Taiwanese
Coins: at 1:30 p.m. The installation
will be on exhibit through Friday,
Aug. 26 and is free and open to the
public. The visitor center is open
daily Monday through Saturday
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
70th Anniversary at Camp Medusa: Located on Camp Medusa Road,
this camp is owned and operated by
the Hudson-Mohawk Association of
the United Church of Christ. Anyone
who has ever come to this beautiful
camp in the woods is invited to attend
on Saturday or camp from Friday to
Sunday. There will be a carnival for
the kids, activities, lots of food, and
a chance to visit with old friends. For
more information and to sign up, call
722-8126.
Rensselaerville Market: On the
lawn at Conkling Hall, Methodist
Hill Road off of Route 351from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Fade or Shade: Did you ever wonder how animals stay cool in the summer? What animals live in the Albany
Pine Bush and how do they survive
the heat? If you are adventurous then
come join us for a 1.5 mile hike over
rolling terrain as we explore a variety
of habitats, the animals that live
there, and how they stay cool. Meet at
the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center at 1 p.m. The fee is $3 per person
or $5 per family and registration is
required; call 456-0655.
Buffet breakfast at the Onesquethaw Fire Companies’ Clarksville station. All you can eat for $8,
starting at 7:30 a.m. and running
through 10:30 a.m. Kids 5 and under eat free.
Sunday, August 7
Family Nature Hike: This family
friendly hike will leisurely explore
the Nature Center Trail with a side
trip to view Thompson’s Lake. We
will check out the new trail signs
and see what’s interesting along the
trail. 10 a.m. at the Thacher Nature
Center. Call 872-0800 to register.
Brooks BBQ: The Westerlo Fire
Company is sponsoring a Brooks
BBQ from 11 a.m. on. Chicken and
ribs will be available. The Westerlo
Fire Department Auxiliary will also
have strawberry shortcakes available. It will take place at the town
park in Westerlo, on County Route
401.
The Saddlemire Homestead will
be open from 2 to 4 p.m. featuring
exhibits of yesteryear, including a
new Civil War commemorative exhibit. A musical program entitled
“Church in the Wildwood” featuring
old time and country gospel music,
such as might have been sung at
camp meetings, will be presented
from the porch, rain or shine. Bring
your chair and enjoy the music
and exhibits, free of charge. The
Saddlemire Homestead is located
at 2190 Berne-Altamont Road in
Knox. Call 439-7236 for more information.
Canal Street Station Sunday
Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Fresh produce from Heritage
Farms, fresh baked breads by the
Rolling Pin Bakery, homemade jams
and jellies from Fancher’s Creekside Farm, gourmet cheese spreads
from Worldlings Pleasure, hot dogs,
ice cream, and more. Canal Street
Station is located on Route 20, two
miles east of I-88 Exit 24. For information, call 355-6536.
Pine Bush Slideshow: The Albany
Pine Bush Preserve represents one
of the best remaining examples of
an inland pine barrens ecosystem
in the world. Join us on an inside
visual journey into the Pine Bush to
explore what makes this ecosystem
so unique. The Albany Pine Bush
and its natural forces of fire and ice
have shaped this ecosystem yesterday and today. We’ll also explore the
unique diversity of life that depends
on the pine barrens for its survival.
Meet at the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New Karner
Road, at 2 p.m. The fee is $3 per
person or $5 per family and registration is required; call 456-0655.
Wednesday, August 10
The Halfmoon Button Club will
meet at 11 a.m. at the Bethlehem
Public Library. Bring a brown bag
lunch to eat at noon. A presentation
on calico and china buttons, and a
business meeting, will follow. For
more information, call 393-3156.
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Wednesday, August 10
Colors of Summer luncheon
sponsored by the New York Capital
District Christian Women’s Club.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at
the Guilderland Elks Lodge, 3867
Route 146. Audrey Fisher of Living
Waters Photography will be showing her works of art; Arnold Seim, a
well-known performer in the area,
will be entertaining with his musical abilities on the piano; and Nancy
Jensen, from Skaneateles, will tell
how she found victory through life’s
many crises. The cost is $14 and
includes a turkey salad wrap. Call
869-0642 or 235-4297 to register no
later than Aug. 5.
Thursday, August 11
The Paul McKenna Band presented by Old Songs, Inc at 8
p.m. at 37 South Main St., Voorheesville. Featuring this traditional
and contemporary Celtic quintet
from Scotland. Tickets are $20; call
765-2815.
Brooks BBQ at the Hamilton
Union Presbyterian Church, 2291
Western Ave., from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
$10 for a chicken dinner. Drivethrough only. For more information,
call 456-5410.
Friday, August 12
Poetry at the Arboretum: Featuring many poets, including some
local poets, as well as musical
interludes by Jim Williams. 7 p.m.
at 16 Maple Ave., Slingerlands. An
arboretum tour will take place at
6 p.m. A display and book sale of
many of the reading poets will also
be a feature of the event.
Farmers Market from 3:30 to
6:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 68 Maple Road, Voorheesville. Vegetables, fruits, baked
goods, treats, meats, cheeses, live
music, art, take-out meals, and
more. Featuring Chet Boehlke Jr.
Photography on Aug. 12.
Saturday, August 13
Program on Underground Wildlife at Five Rivers, 56 Game Farm
Road, Delmar, at 10 a.m. A familyoriented study of animals that spend
part of their lives underground will
be conducted; center naturalists will
provide an interactive introduction
to fossorial creatures such a chipmunks, woodchucks, and moles,
and then lead participants on an
outdoor search along gentle center
trails to learn more about local diggers and the animals that depend
on them. The program is open to the
public and free of charge. Call 4750291 for more information.
Dragonfly Census at Five Rivers, 56 Game Farm Road, Delmar,
at 2 p.m. Alison VanKeuren, a
dragonfly expert with the Audubon
Society of the Capital Region, will
lead a field foray along center trails
in search of foraging dragonflies.
The basics of dragonfly identification and natural history will be
covered. Dragonflies are sensitive
to environmental degradation and
are excellent bio-monitors of water
quality. In the 15 years of this annual survey on center grounds, 15
species have been recorded. The
program is open to the public and
free of charge. For more information, call 475-0291.
Rensselaerville Market: On the
lawn at Conkling Hall, Methodist
Hill Road off of Route 351m from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wild and Wacky World of Ponds:
Come and explore the wonderful
world of water at the Albany Pine
Bush. We will observe different habitats, participate in pond sampling,
identify various organisms, and
discover the intricate balance of this
amazing ecosystem. Dress in footwear and clothing you don’t mind
getting wet and dirty. Meet at the
Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center
at 11 a.m. The fee is $3 per person
or $5 per family and registration is
required; call 456-0655.
Stained Glass Workshop at Thacher Nature Center, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m, on Aug. 13 and Aug. 20.
Create your own beautiful piece of
stained glass artwork with artist
and instructor JoElla Casse. Learn
techniques of using mosaic stained
glass to create a transparent glass
on glass piece. Participants may
make either a small or larger piece
of stained glass. Appropriate for ages
14 and up. No experience necessary.
Tools will be provided for use. Participants should bring safety glass and
wheeled glass nippers if possible.
Participants should be prepared to
attend both sessions. Registration
required. The fee is $35 for a small
piece, and $50 for a large piece. Call
872-1237 to register.
Village Wide Garage Sales in
Medusa from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maps
will be available at the church hall
on Route 351. There will be many
sales throughout the village and
surrounding area. There will also be
a large rummage sale at the church.
If you have not been to the Museum
of Medusa History, it will open in the
historical Medusa Church.
Sunday, August 14
Commemorative Service of Huntersland Christian Church at 1 p.m.
on Huntersland Road at the Schoharie
and Albany County line. We will dedicate our newly acquired 1889 pump
organ. Refreshments will follow.
Discover the Pine Bush: An
extraordinary journey into the Albany Pine Bush, the best remaining
example in the world of an inland
pine barrens. Our experts will guide
you through this one mile hike over
rolling sand dunes where you will
discover Pine Bush natural history,
seasonal surprises, and transformations. Please remember to wear sturdy
walking shoes, long pants, and bring
drinking water. Meet at the Albany
Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 1 p.m. The fee is $3
per person or $5 per family and registration is required; call 456-0655.
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Fridays are free at the Albany Institute
Worship at Polekat Park
dollar for non-members. Visitors
may also peruse the sidewalk
sale hosted by the Museum Shop,
weather permitting (time subject
to change).
Fridays will also feature dropin docent tours. Between 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m., docents will be wandering through the Albany Institute galleries, available to answer
questions and provide brief tours
of the current exhibitions, including the 2011 Exhibition by Artists
of the Mohawk-Hudson Region.
BERNE — The Helderberg
Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Berne will hold its annual worship
service at Polekat Park on Sunday,
Aug. 7, at 10:30 a.m.
Polekat Park is in Berne, off of
Tabor Road — watch for a sign on
your left as you go up Tabor Road.
Following the service is a potluck lunch; please bring your table
service and food to share.
Every Friday in August, the
Albany Institute is offering free
admission to all visitors during
regular museum hours (from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.), as well as some
“Free & Freezy” activities.
From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.,
visitors may stop by the Institute
on their lunch breaks to enjoy
a freeze pop in the Sculpture
Garden. The treats are free for
Albany Institute members when
they present their membership
card, and will be sold two for a
Youth Chorale holds auditions
The Capital District Youth
Chorale, now in its 29th season,
is accepting appointments for
new member auditions.
The singers meet weekly at the
University at Albany’s Performing
Arts Center and performs at least
six local concerts per year. CDYC
has earned 10 Superior ratings in
music festivals in New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida,
and Pennsylvania, and in Canada.
They have also performed in
Carnegie Hall, twice at Disney
World by audition, as well as
the Shrewsbury International
Festival in England.
During the 2011-12 season
they will perform for the sixth
consecutive year with the Albany
Symphony at the Palace Theater
in December. Fall plans also include October performances with
Albany Pro Musica and other
community choirs for a program
at Proctor’s Theater called “The
Capital District Sings.”
The 110 singers rehearse on
Saturdays between 9:30 a.m. and
noon in the Performing Arts Center,
room B-78. The group is divided
into three ensembles, choristers for
students in fourth through sixth
grades; junior chamber choir for
students in sixth through eighth
grades, and senior chamber choir
for students in ninth through 12
grades. The Senior Chamber Choir
includes changed voices.
Auditions will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27. The first rehearsal
is Sept. 3. A limited number of
scholarships are available.
Contact the parent coordinator Doreen Wright at cdyc123@
gmail.com for more information
or to schedule an audition.
vice. She has published journal
articles related to Jewish text
and to pastoral issues. At her and
other area synagogues, she has
been especially involved in creating innovative worship services
for adults and children.
Before coming to Ohav Shalom,
she earned a master’s degree in
social work and worked in the
field of mental health and served
for seven years as the staff Jewish chaplain at Albany Medical
Center. At Ohav Shalom, she
has led in the establishment of
a support group for those facing
illness and bereavement.
RENSSELAERVILLE — Rena
H. Kieval, who has served for
many years as a spiritual, educational, and pastoral leader at Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany,
will take the pulpit of the Rensselaerville Presbyterian Church
Sunday, Aug. 7 at 11 a.m.
Following the theme of these
summer services at the 19thCentury church, “Staying Centered in the Midst of Turmoil,”
her sermon takes the title,
“Building Sanctuaries in Time,
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survivors of brain injuries, their
families and friends.
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offer services for individuals with
brain injuries.
The day will feature music, a
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...Karner blue butterflies raised in captivity let hope take wing
sion does not release butterflies
to the same site more than once,
of areas that are being burned
in order to insure that the entire
in the Pine Bush, and lupine is
population doesn’t exist in one
being re-planted there. Those
small area.
burn sites are later used to
In 1991, when Gifford started
release some of the butterflies
with the commission, there were
raised in captivity.
The Karner blue eats blue only nine sites in the Pine Bush
lupine, and its survival is di- where Karner blues lived, and
rectly linked to the plant. Black now, with land preservation,
locust is a non-native, invasive acquisition, and habitat restoratree that pushes out the native tion, there are over 40.
“The butterplants that the
flies are a long
butterflies need
way from being
to survive.
“The numbers are
sustainable, but
The commisthere is a big imsion was awardvery encouraging.”
provement,” said
ed two grants,
Kathy O’Brien,
both from the
with the endanfederal Fish and
Wildlife Service, to help with the gered species unit of the state’s
habitat restoration and the accel- Department of Environmental
erated colonization. The grants, Conservation.
Gifford said that, although 3,000
awarded in 2002 and 2005, total
is the number that is considered
$464,289.
As of 2009, the number of sustainable, the commission’s goal
Karner blues in the Pine Bush is to have a population of 17,000.
remained below 1,000. Gifford To be off of the list of endangered
estimated that there are now species, the population must be
roughly 2,700 Karner blues liv- 3,000 or higher for a total of four
ing in the pine barrens, although out of five years. Gifford said
the exact numbers for 2011 have 17,000 would be a safe cushion to
not been calculated. Gifford said prevent a big fluctuation one year
the commission had released from disrupting the pattern.
“I don’t anticipate that we will
almost 1,500 butterflies within
need to do the accelerated colothe past three weeks.
“We started releasing butter- nization for more than another
flies into the wild from captivity five years in order to reach that
in 2009, and without the addition number,” said Gifford.
“The Pine Bush has great
of any new animals to the release
sites, the populations have re- potential,” concluded O’Brien.
mained the same,” said Gifford. “The numbers are very encourHe explained that the commis- aging.”
Ready for my close-up: A female Karner blue butterfly rests on the hand of intern Chelsea Sendzik,
a senior at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks. On Friday, she released Karner blues at the
Blueberry Hill West release site off of Pitch Pine Road in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Friday was
the fourth and final day of releasing butterflies that had been reared in captivity.
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At Guilderland’s Night Out
Serious Lessons and Fun Times
Practice makes perfect: New York State Dive team member Jeff
Levin from Troop G demonstrates in the Tawasentha Park pool
with help from dive team member Derek Cerza what the police
dive teams wear and how they search for people and evidence.
The demonstration was part of Tuesday evening’s Guilderland
Night Out.
A little tiger cub: Chloe Caro, 8, is having her whole face painted the colors of a tiger by Sam Davis during Guilderland Night Out at Tawasentha Park. Tuesday’s free event was part of a national
movement. The night included music by The Refrigerators, food vendors, and many demonstrations
by police and rescue groups.
Clear! On Tuesday evening at Tawasentha Park, Josh Rosenberger
from the Altamont Rescue Squad stands in an ambulance to show
kids what and how a defibulator is used on patients suffering heart
problems.
Taking a bite out of crime: New York State University Police/ Albany officer Edward Meyers demonstrates with the help of Guilderland Police dog Rocky, as they show how a dog takes down a criminal.
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Butterflies Flutter By
In awe: This explorer, at the Butterfly Station on Friday afternoon, puts a butterfly on her
finger and goes to show her mother. The station at Farnsworth Middle School is free and open
to the public, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Aug. 12.
Peering through the flowers, inside the net of the butterfly house, this little girl, with a
painted butterfly on her cheek, tries to get a Monarch to alight on her finger as it sits on a
milkweed. The garden at the Farnsworth Middle School Butterfly Station features native plants
like milkweed that attract and sustain butterflies. Students give daily free tours through the
garden, describing the life cycle of butterflies. Visitors may also see a butterfly breeding room,
a museum, and craft room.
Student News
Grads
Dean’s list
These local students recently
earned degrees:
— Kimberly Ann Candeloro,
the daughter of Nicholas and
Carol Candeloro of Guilderland,
earned a bachelor of science
degree in nursing, magna cum
laude, from Endicott college in
Massachusetts;
— Andrew Guilz, son of
Roland and Janine Guilz of
Guilderland, has graduated
with a bachelor of arts degree in
mathematics from the University
at Albany, earning summa cum
laude honors. While at the university, Guilz was awarded the
Mayfred Dutton Lucas scholarship for academic achievement
in mathematics in his graduating
class and was also named to the
Presidential Honor Society. He
will continue his studies at the
University at Albany, pursuing
a master’s degree in secondary
education; and
— Shelby-Lyn Matthews,
of Berne, graduated from Morrisville State College with a
degree in equine science and
management.
These local students have
been named to the dean’s list or
received a similar honor from
their college or university by the
Spring 2011 semester:
— Ryan Winne, a 2007 Guilderland High School graduate,
at the Watson School at the
State University of New York at
Binghamton;
— Sean Simmons, of
Schenectady, at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass.;
— Meghan Leddick at The
College of Saint Rose. In addition
to carrying a full course load,
Leddick works as a preschool
teacher at the Pumpkin Patch
Day Care Center in Guilderland and is also a volunteer
firefighter;
— Allison M. DeRizzo of
Altamont, a 2010 graduate of
Guilderland High School, at
Boston University;
— Amanda E. Best, of
Schenectady, at Fairfield University in Connecticut where she
was a sophomore, in the College
of Arts and Sciences;
— Christopher Britten, a
May graduate from Schenectady,
NY at St. Bonaventure University, where he was a theater and
undeclared arts major;
— Rachel Natalie of
Schenectady at Morrisville State
College;
Siena grads
These local residents graduated from Siena College in May:
— Nicole Bouvier, of Altamont, earned a degree in sociology;
— Vincent Fioravanti, of
Altamont, graduated cum laude
and earned a degree in accounting;
— Cory Gillespie, of Altamont, earned a degree in environmental studies;
— John Shultz, of Altamont,
graduated summa cum laude and
earned a degree in biology;
— Mark Bellinger, of Guilderland Center, earned a degree
in marketing and management;
— Joseph Dolce, of Rensselaerville, earned a degree in
management;
— Kyle Billings, of
Schenectady, earned a degree in
chemistry;
— Lisa Chen, of Schenectady,
earned a degree in accounting;
— John DeMatteo, of
Schenectady, earned a degree
in physics;
— Cortnee Gillson, of
in biology;
— Claire Leonard, of
Schenectady, graduated magna
cum laude and earned a degree
in economics;
— Krista Lupi, of Schenectady,
earned a degree in accounting.
Lupi also earned a degree in
marketing and management;
— Stacie Mihok, of
Schenectady, graduated magna
cum laude and earned a degree
in psychology;
— Pe t e r R a p o n i , o f
accounting;
— Mackenzie Watroba, of
English;
— Gregory Eckl, of
in history;
— Jennifer Joslin, of
accounting;
— Brian Litz, of Schenectady,
graduated summa cum laude
and earned a degree in management;
— Davia Litz, of Schenectady,
earned a degree in mathematics
education;
— Jessica Muscanelli, of
sociology; and
— Joseph Struffolino, of
management.
Awards and
achievements
recently distinguished themselves;
— Victoria D. Deluise of
Schenectady received a merit
scholarship to attend the State
University of New York College
at Oswego;
— Renée R. Lafreniere of
at Oswego;
— Brittni T. Switser of
at Oswego;
— John E. Evans of Guilderland received a $5,000 Deans’
Award, which recognizes past
academic achievement and potential for success, from the State
at Oswego where he has reserved
a place in the incoming freshman
class for the fall semester;
— Kelsie Forte of Guilderland, a student at The College
of Saint Rose in Albany, was
honored for publication of an
article in the college’s Journal of
Undergraduate Research;
— Milvia Mendez of
Schenectady, a student at The
College of Saint Rose in Albany,
received the Viola MacDonald
Award for Excellence in Hispanic
Studies, presented to a junior
Spanish major who has shown
excellence in Spanish studies
(with a minimum grade-point
average of 3.8) and who has
demonstrated support for and
involvement with the integration of Hispanic culture in the
community at large; and
— Michelle Pahl of Altamont,
a student at the College of Saint
Rose in Albany, received the
Graduate Honors in Childhood
Education Award, based on criteria specified by the department
in which the graduate student
studies.
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Student News
Saint Rose grads
These local residents earned
graduate degrees and certificates
of advanced study as members of
the Class of 2011 at The College
of Saint Rose in Albany:
— Michelle Pahl, of Altamont,
received a master of science in
education;
— Samantha Carey, of Voorheesville, received a master of
business administration;
— Patricia Rivers, of Voorheesville, received a master of
science in education;
— Elizabeth Coalts, of
Schenectady, received a certificate of advanced study;
— Lisa Stanco, of Schenectady,
received a certificate of advanced
study;
— Ellen Lowen, of Schenectady
received a certificate of advanced
study;
— Elizabeth Mosher, of
Schenectady received a certificate;
— Angela VanNostrand, of
Schenectady, received a master
of arts;
— Elizabeth Leonard, of
of arts;
— Brandon Richey, of
of science;
— J o n a t h a n Ta r i o , o f
of science in education;
— Calyn Wissick, of
— Rebecca DeNyse, of
— Megan Hopkins, of
— Leslie Eliashuk, of
— Rebecca Spuzy, of
— Jennifer Raguette, of
— Chad Christensen, of
— Michelle Rost, of
— Amy Haskins, of
— Kate Nichols, of
of science in Education;
— Sarah Hunt, of Schenectady,
received a master of science in
education;
— Ashleigh Santabarbara,
of Schenectady, received a master
— Dianne Rafalik, of
of science in education.
Bachelors
These students earned undergraduate degrees:
— Michele McDonald, of
Altamont, received a bachelor
of fine arts;
— Cassandra Hallenbeck,
of Altamont, received a bachelor
of science;
— Chelsea Reamer, of Berne,
received a bachelor of science;
— Vanessa Reynolds, of
East Berne, received a bachelor
of science;
— Kelsie Forte, of Guilderland, received a bachelor of
arts;
— Shannon Slattery, of
Guilderland, received a bachelor
of science;
— Dean Leber, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— Andrea DeFeo, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— Erika Alberry, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— Sarah Stark, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— Alison Vogelien, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— Lynne Washburn, of Voorheesville, received a bachelor of
science;
— M a r i a Va c c a r o , o f
Schenectady, received a bachelor of arts;
— Elizabeth Mosher, of
Schenectady, received a bachelor
of arts;
— Marissa Crary, of
Schenectady, received a bachelor of arts;
— K e l l y We a v e r , o f
of science;
— Kelly Dermody, of
of science;
— Lauren Dyer, of
of science;
— Reece Berberick, of
of science;
— Nicole Connelly, of
of science;
— James Saburro, of
of science;
— M i c h a e l P r z e k o p , of
of science.
Potsdam honors
The State University of New
York at Potsdam recently honored students who excelled academically in the Spring 2011 semester, by naming 880 students
to the President’s List, including
these local students:
— Nicole Marcucci, a childhood/early child education major
from Altamont;
— Michelle Cillis, an art studio major from Voorheesville;
— Christopher Hammer,
an art studio major from Voorheesville;
— Douglas Roest, a psychology major from Voorheesville;
and
— Hannah Rosen, a literature/writing major from
Schenectady.
To be on the President’s List,
each student must have satisfactorily completed 12 numericallygraded semester hours that
semester with a minimum grade
point average of 3.5 or higher.
Dean’s list
Potsdam named nearly 400
students to the dean’s list, including these local students:
— Stephen Travers, from
Guilderland, a musical studies
major;
— Michele Priess, from
Schenectady, a business administration major; and
— Cecilia Snow, a music education major from Schenectady.
Hartwick
grads
Brockport
honors
graduated from Hartwick College
in Oneonta:
— Roxanne Becofsky of Altamont, daughter of Wendy and
James Becofsky, has graduated
with a bachelor of arts degree
in art;
— Seth Canetto of Altamont,
son of Lisa Cowan-Canetto and
Jude Canetto, has graduated
with a bachelor of science degree
in business administration;
— Jennifer Kaye of Altamont,
daughter of Marie Kaye and
Richard Kaye, has graduated
business administration;
— Stephen Lyons of
Schenectady, son of William and
Christina Lyons, has graduated
mathematics; and
— A n d r e w Pa r i s i o f
Schenectady, son of Adam and
Christine Parisi, has graduated
with a bachelor of arts degree
in geology.
The College at Brockport, State
University of New York, recently
honored these local students for
the Spring 2011 semester:
— Anna Rosenberger of
Guilderland, was named to the
dean’s list;
— Chelsea McCann of Guilderland, was named to the dean’s
list with honors;
— Nathaniel Wood of Voorheesville, was named to the
president’s list;
— Mark Trova of Schenectady,
was named to the dean’s list;
— C a r a l y n Wa l l i s o f
Schenectady, was named to the
dean’s list;
— Emily Baldwin of
dean’s list with honors;
— Morgan Bernat of
dean’s list with honors;
— Craig Lynch of Schenectady,
was named to the president’s
list.
— Dana Saragaglia of
president’s list.
To achieve the honor of being
on the president’s list, a student
must earn a grade-point average of 4.0. Students who earn a
GPA of 3.70 to 3.99 are named
to the dean’s list with honors,
while students who achieve a
3.49 to 3.69 are named to the
dean’s list.
Oswego interns
These local students took
part in internships this summer
through the Experience-Based
Education Program at the State
of Oswego:
— Steven A. Frey of Guilderland, a junior broadcasting
and mass communication major
interned at Your News Now in
Albany;
— Alissa M. Hatch of Voorheesville, a junior art major
interned at Live Nation in Saratoga Springs; and
— Alaxander J. Resila of
Schenectady, a senior broadcasting and mass communication
major interned at WTEN News
10 in Albany.
The Experience-Based Education Program at Oswego places
students in internships and
career awareness opportunities
that allow them to earn college
credits.
Anniversary
Raymond C. Decker and Joan T. (Goergen) Decker
on their wedding day.
Deckers celebrate
50 years of marriage
VOORHEESVILLE — Raymond C. Decker and Joan T. (Goergen)
Decker were married in a small, lovely ceremony in Voorheesville
on Aug. 12, 1961.
“They are currently retired and living in Voorheesville in the same
house my PaPa Goergen built,” said their daughter, Renee Newpher.
Signing her congratulation from “Renee, Jodi (from heaven), and
Dean,” she concluded “We love you both very much.”
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Across
1. Links numbers
5. Auctioneer’s last word
9. Fedora feature
13. Guitarist Clapton
14. Creme-filled snack
15. Mars or Mercury
16. Russo of “Get Shorty”
17. Fourth digit, left hand
19. Big wigs
21. Puzzle
22. Place for a boutonniere
23. Social group
24. Fume
26. 2011 Tony Award for
Best Play
30. TV studio sign
31. NY Yankees Roger
32. “___ be my pleasure!”
33. Menu option
34. “Frasier” character
35. Old dagger
36. Boy in Johnny Cash song
37. Lugs
38. Three-star officer: Abbr.
39. Radio hosts’ medium
41. Long-necked waders
42. Frozen treats
43. Phony
44. St. George’s foe
47. Abalone eater
50. Circus big wig
52. “Look what I did!”
53. Sleeping disorder
54. Swiss peaks
55. Leprechauns’ land
56. Bit of sweat
57. Plane part
58. Historic Scott
Down
1. Short wave?
2. Atlas stat
3. Whitey Bulger, e.g.
4. Plot outline
5. Put in order
6. Bay window
7. Telescope part
8. Husky
9. _____ Mussolini
10. Actress Diana
11. Gossip tidbit
12. “___ Breckinridge”
15. Washington and Shore
18. Wheel maker
20. Rich Little, e.g.
23. Cabby’s customers
24. “Stars and Stripes
Forever” composer
25. Tedium
26. Charles’s princedom
27. Drummer-songwriter
from England
28. Dutch painter Jan
29. Paradises
31. Backbiters
34. Catholic devotion
35. Imitated a peacock
37. Puget Sound city
38. Danish toy company
40. Like George
Washington
41. Raspy
43. Attention-getters
44. Colorless
45. Ready for picking
46. Kournikova of tennis
47. W.W.II battle site
48. Falco of “The Sopranos”
49. Big name in mapmaking
51. ___ Miguel
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One of life’s greatest pleasures
is to wake up slowly in a cushy,
comfortable bed with the trees
blowing softly and birds singing cheerfully just outside your
window. Then, after a nice, long
full stretch, you can hop out of
bed and face anything that the
day has to offer you. Today, however, was not going to be started
with pleasure! It actually started
with pain!
My eyes popped open and I
bolted from the bed to massage
a sharp piercing pain in my big
toe! After walking around the
bedroom and then rubbing the
offending toe, the pain began to
subside.
There was a nagging feeling
that it would start again. But,
with the passage of a little time.
the pain went completely away
and I forgot all about it.
When you have a pain like
that, you would like to know
where it came from. Was it because I had done more walking
the day before? Or was it because
of the shoes that I was wearing?
Perhaps it was gout and I would
have to expect the pain on a more
frequent basis?
First to be eliminated was the
walking! I spend a lot of time
on my feet and have walked the
malls with many of my friends
Second to go was the idea of
gout. I have had my annual
physical and was given a clean
bill of health. That left only my
shoes!
All of a sudden, my head
started to spin. Which shoes? My
flats? My high heels? Or perhaps
my walking, jogging, or running
sneakers? At least this is summer
and I can disregard snow shoes
or boots.
Now my mind was beginning to
wander. Have you ever watched
the television series, Sex and
the City? The star has a strong
attraction to shoes. She has been
shown stopping in a shoe store
to admire a pair that was in the
window and walking out with
that $700 pair of shoes.
The prices of shoes that were
on that show always amazed me,
and I thought perhaps they were
inflated in order to shock the
viewers. Then, the Today Show
last week, featured a woman who
had a collection of shoes that was
worth about $500,000.
She was a professional poker
player and every time she won
she treated herself to a new
pair of shoes. They were all very
expensive and at times ran into
the thousands of dollars.
While the hosts were talking
about the collection, they all
asked how many pair of shoes
each had. They had between
60 and 100 pair of shoes. The
men did not have as many, but
admitted to an unusual number
of ties!
Someone had done a study and
found that the average woman
spends about $25,000 on shoes
in her lifetime. Since most of
my shoes are BOGO (Buy one,
Get one), that must mean that
someone else has a collection
worth about $49,000.
Finally, I decided that the best
solution was to forget about the
shoes and treat myself to a pedicure. They bathe your feet with
scented oils, massage the ankles
and calves, trim your toenails,
and even paint your nails! That
sure sounds better that trying to
figure out where the pain came
from in the first place.
Concert in the park
On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Kyle
James Miller will be featured
in Orsini Park as part of the
Altamont Free Library’s concert
series. The performance is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., weather
permitting.
I bolted from the bed
to massage a sharp
piercing pain in
my big toe!
According to the library’s announcement, Miller will present
original songs and will be singing
the blues. And, as a special treat,
you will get to hear his original
songs from his new CD before it
is released.
This is a family event — bring
along your chair or a blanket for
your own comfort. In the event of
rain, the concert will be held in
the Village Community Room.
A free will donation will be accepted during the concert to help
cover the costs of the concert.
Butterfly House and Garden
The Butterfly House and Organic Garden at the Farnsworth
Middle School are now open
through Aug. 12, from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
The Butterfly House is a
“community center for ecological restoration.” It is staffed by
students. Guided tours are conducted by the students.
The public is invited to visit
the garden where fresh produce
is grown and sold to the general
public as well as given to the
local food banks.
Volunteers needed
The Organic Garden, sponsored by the students of the
Farnsworth Middle School, is
looking for adult volunteers.
Assistance is needed from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m. on the following
dates; August 16, 17, 24, 26, 31
and Sept. 2.
Interested people are asked to
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More than three dozen members and friends of the Albany,
Rensselaer, Schenectady District, Order of the Eastern Star,
attended and supported the
Pilgrimage Day in Oriskany.
This annual event was held this
past weekend with members in
attendance from all over New
York State.
According to June Pelham, the
craft-supply booth, sponsored by
members of the A-R-S District,
was once again a success. Pelham
expresses her appreciation to all
from the district who worked in
the booth on Friday and Saturday, sorting, organizing, selling,
and packing up after the sale.
Susanne Peckham, District
Deputy Grand Matron, also expressed her appreciation all who
worked and participated in the
weekend festivities.
Gratitude is also extended to
Shirley and Arnold Hamm and
Beverly Harrington who transported the unsold items back to
the Albany area.
Again this year, Audrey Branion, of Van Rensselaer Star in
East Greenbush, arranged for
28 friends to enjoy dinner together at the Armory Grill in
Amsterdam following Saturday’s
event.
Altamont Fair
It’s time to start thinking
about the Altamont Fair held
on the fairgrounds in Altamont.
Fair dates are Tuesday, Aug. 16,
through Sunday, Aug. 21.
The $15 admission ticket is
an all-inclusive ticket. For $15,
you gain admission to the fairgrounds, unlimited rides, and
the opportunity to see all of the
shows.
The $15 admission fee is for
all patrons 36 inches tall and
taller. Children under 36 inches
are admitted free. Only persons
over 36 inches will be permitted
on the unlimited rides.
Anniversaries
Happy-anniversary wishes are
extended to:
— Jean and Tom Schuhle
celebrating their special day on
Aug. 6;
— Tommie and Bill Panepinto
on Aug. 7; and
— Lisa and Gregory Peck on
Aug. 10.
Birthdays
Happy-birthday wishes are
extended to:
— Melissa Delacey, Jessica
Lynch, and Kara Munroe on
Aug. 5;
— Rose Cargill, Jenn (Levin)
Gerber, and Alice Riddet on
Aug. 6;
— Wendy (Giambo) Arseneau, Mark Naginey, Andrew
McKnight, and Joyce Omilin on
Aug. 7;
— Ernie Cardone, Amy Ciupek,
Elizabeth (Nitzky) Egan, Becky
Godfrey, Elizabeth Marks, and
Barbara Peters on Aug. 8;
— Karen Grimm on Aug. 9;
— Wallie Best, Diann (Culella)
Booth, Don Filkins, and Ben
Jacklet on Aug. 10; and,
— Susan Mudgett on Aug.
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By
Lora
Ricketts
872-1691
The Town of Berne Historical
Society met at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 25, at the Berne Town
Park for a bus ride to historical
places in the town. Twelve people
were in attendance.
Ralph Miller gave some history of the Reformed churches
in Berne before we embarked on
our trip. The Reformed church
was built in the center of town
in 1765 by the Beaver Dam. By
1830 the church had 305 families
and 1,700 members.
Berne was known as Rensselaerville until 1790. Berne was
then known as Beaver Dam and
Mechanicsburg. East Berne was
known as Philly.
The first Reformed church near
Beaver Dam was built from logs.
In 1795, Beaver Dam separated
from Rensselaerville and was
named Berne.
The first stop for our bus was
the Hunsinger Farm. This was
a church farm. It was sold in
1930 when the pastor’s house
was built in Berne.
The two Berne churches were
rejoined in 1965. When West
Berne closed, it had 71 families
and 110 people. Berne had 110
families and 150 people.
In 1791, Van Rensselaer had
deeded that farm to the church.
Van Rensselaer leased all his
farms. The original survey map
in 1787 showed the land was split
up with 160 acre parcels in Berne
and 120 acre parcels in Knox.
Van Rensselaer advertised in
New England to get more people
to come to the Hilltowns. One
of these farms was the Deitz
farm where Morris Morrow now
lives.
The settlers got seven years of
free rent but it took a long time to
clear the land and the soil wasn’t
producing well. The farmers
couldn’t pay and got behind.
The Van Rensselaers gave the
land to their sons. One son got
Albany County. He tried to collect
the back rent and this caused the
Anti-Rent Wars.
Deitz Massacre
Our second stop was the site of
the Deitz Massacre in September
1781. Johannes Deitz and seven
members of his family were massacred by the Tories and Indians.
Johannes Deitz; his wife, Marie;
their four children; and a servant
girl were massacred. Captain
William Deitz was captured and
taken to Fort Niagara where he
later died.
Our third stop was the Willsie
Farm on Willsie Road. They were
some of the earliest settlers.
Our fourth stop was the Deitz
Farm on Willsie Road. There is
the site of a cellar and in May
lilac bushes blossom to mark
the site of the yard. None of the
Deitzs are left and there is an old
Deitz cemetery on the property.
Our fifth stop was the Von
Haugg house on Willsie Road. It
is the birthplace of Judge Joseph
Bradley, who had humble beginnings and went on to fame.
Also on this property lived part
of the influx of people from New
England, such as the Harts and
Whipples. They made money by
creating charcoal. This was one
way to get rid of the wood when
clearing fields.
Famous son of Berne
Judge Joseph Bradley was a
friend of the Reformed church
minister. He became a United
States Supreme Court judge.
When James Tilden of New York
and Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio
were vying for the presidency,
there was a dispute about the
electoral votes.
Tilden had won the popular
vote while the electoral vote was
nearly tied, then contested due
to fraud. A 15-man commission
created by Congress was to settle
the matter.
The commission was split on
party lines. Judge Joseph Bradley made the deciding vote — for
Hayes.
Our sixth stop was to see the
two tombstones on the side of
Cole Hill Road. They are the
great-grandparents of Ralph
Miller. Eli Miller and Anna Barton Miller are buried there. Their
house was where the road is now
and the road was on the other
side of the tombstones.
During the Revolutionary
War, Berne was split right down
the middle, half Tories and half
Patriots. The Patriots were
punished for not being loyal to
the Crown.
Our seventh stop was the site
of the first Lutheran church next
to Frances Miller’s house. We
then passed the old schoolhouse
next to Ethel Snyder’s house.
Our eighth stop was the Senior Center. It was originally
the Grange Hall given by the
Komjathy’s with the deed stating that no alcohol could ever be
served there!
There originally were three
hotels in Berne. It was the midway place between Albany and
Schoharie.
Many mills
There was a carding mill; a
cheese factory, which produced
400 pounds of cheese a week as
a way to use the milk from the
farmers; and the Simons Ax Factory, which only lasted four or five
years but those axes were used in
every forest in the world.
There were two or three barber
shops; a department store; and
Settler’s Store, which was always
a store and is now Fox Creek
Market. This was our tenth stop
and we walked down to the pocket
park and viewed the water, which
was used to run the cheese factory
and the ax factory.
Our ninth stop was White
Sulphur Springs, which brought
people from Albany and New
York City to its resort. There was
a pool and picnic area.
We learned some facts about
the Miller Farm. In 1933, Ralph’s
grandfather purchased the farm.
In 1937, Ralph’s parents, Hubert
and Frances, moved in. In 1941,
his parents built a 50-cow barn.
And, in 1969, they built the blue
barn which held 135 cows.
The Lutheran Church in Berne
was the meeting place to plan for
the Anti-Rent Wars. There were
also doctors’ offices and lawyers
offices in early Berne.
Many students
There were 1,700 students in
the Berne School in 1816. The
students declined to 200 at one
time. There are 1,300 now.
The first graduating class was
the year 1932-33. There were
12 in the 1937 graduating class
and 20 in the 1940 graduating
class.
George Warner from Berne
fought in the Civil War. He came
home in May 1862, and died in
August 1862. He wrote the book
No Sabbath on the Battlefield.
We discussed the decline in
dairy farming but Berne is still
a wonderful place to live. We
enjoyed two hours of touring the
town with Ralph Miller as our
very informed narrator.
We returned to the Berne town
park and enjoyed sampling each
other’s special dishes. It had
been a sunny morning and, as
we finished eating, the rain came
down, sometimes in torrents.
If you’d like to learn more
about Berne history come and
join us at our monthly meetings.
The museum is still open on
Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. until
Labor Day.
Golfing For A Cause
With the Helderbergs as a backdrop, the Community Caregivers raised $25,000 as 142
golfers in three divisions played in its Seventh Annual Golf Outing at Orchard Creek on June
20. Elaine Roemer headed the committee that planned the event, staffed by volunteers. Sponsors
included Adirondack Environmental Services, State Employees’ Federal Credit Union, Blasch
Precision Ceramics, the Times Union, Atlas Copco, Wells Fargo Advisors, Orange Motors, Price
Chopper, and Albany Medical Center.
An Ounce Of Prevention
— Photo by Jerry Houser
Trapping the ash borer: Blaine Ellis, in foreground at left, and Amy Chianucci of the State’s
Department of Environmental Conservation pause as they install an emerald ash borer trap
in a green ash on July 26 at the Guilderland community gardens. Community gardener Fred
Tresselt, behind them, looks on. The emerald ash borer is responsible for the death of many ash
trees in numerous states and has recently been identified as close as Orange County. Infestation
requires the removal of infected trees.
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Funraising!
They couldn’t believe their eyes: Kids watch in awe as Dean Davis juggles a jungle carpet python
during his show called “Animals Nobody Loves” Friday evening in New Salem. He also showed a
tarantula spider, an American alligator, and a green iguana. For decades, Davis has been a popular
attraction at the annual Punkintown Fair.
Shooting for gold, goldfish that is. Four-year-old Andrew Cillis
tosses a ping-pong ball, with encouragement from his mother, towards one of many tiny fish bowls at the 69th Annual Punkintown
Fair Friday evening in New Salem.
With a wide smile, this girl careens down the long, wavy slide, beating the rains Friday evening at
the Punkintown Fair. The annual fund-raiser for the New Salem Volunteer Fire Department ran for
three nights.
Flying high: During the 69th Annual Punkintown Fair in New
Salem Friday evening, these kids enjoy themselves spinning
around in flying saucers before it rained. The fair featured many
rides and carnival games.
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Mountain Management LLC.
Arts of Org filed with NY Secy of
to: 40 East 88th St., Suite 10-E,
(37-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of ICLOUD
WIRELESS RESTAURANT SYSTEMS LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on MAY 12, 2011, office location:
Albany County, NS is designated
as agent upon whom process
may be served, NS shall mail
service of process (SOP) to NW
Registered Agent LLC @ 1773
Western Ave Albany NY 12203,
NW Registered Agent LLC is
designated as agent for SOP at
1773 Western Ave Albany NY
12203, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(39-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of AC
Construction Consulting LLC.
Arts Of Org. filed with Secy. Of
lawful activity.
(57-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Patricia V. Saunders MD,
PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
SSNY designated agent of LLC
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Corporation Service
Company, 80 State St, Albany, NY
12207. Purpose: Medicine.
(33-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Manida, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(52-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Tinton, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
lawful activity.
(53-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Bryant, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
lawful activity.
(54-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ACB Investor, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
lawful activity.
(56-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 623 Commonwealth, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
mail process to: 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 1008, Albany, NY
lawful activity.
(59-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Manida, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(60-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Tinton, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(61-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Bryant, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(62-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Commonwealth, LLC. Arts Of
(51-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Wissman, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(63-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ACB
Investor, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(64-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of AC Construction Consulting LLC. Arts
Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State
of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/10. Office
(65-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Hello
Humans LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(71-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of HMS
Maiden LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(72-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of I Live
North America LLC. Arts Of
lawful activity.
(73-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Icrave
Yogurt LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(74-52-5)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of FASTTRAK CONTRACTING, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 10/19/2010,
office location: Albany County, NS
is designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, NS shall
mail service of process (SOP) to
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW
Registered Agent LLC is designated as agent for SOP at 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(13-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of a Limited
Liability Company (LLC) Name:
Jake’s Auto Repair LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with The
Secretary of State of New York
Albany County, SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail a copy
to: C/O Jake’s Auto Repair LLC,
PO Box 3836 Albany NY 12203,
Purpose: Any lawful purpose,
Latest date upon which LLC is to
dissolve: No specific date.
(14-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of RD Capital Group, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(15-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Rhona
Bitner, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(16-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of River
Bridge Tower LLC. Arts Of Org.
as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
Washington Ave., Ste. 1008,
Ste. 1008, Albany, NY 12260.
(17-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Simply
Fido LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
lawful activity.
(18-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Sky
High Realty Group LLC. Arts Of
lawful activity.
(19-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of VLC
West Village LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(23-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Addis
Properties LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(24-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Hotel
Acquisitions LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(25-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Stonewater Associates LLC. Arts Of
to: 1 Winthrop Rd., Chappaqua,
lawful activity.
(26-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of iStock
Online LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
(27-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of YI French
Pastries, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
lawful activity.
(28-1-6)
27
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of RP Supplies, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
(29-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of JJ 88
lawful activity.
(30-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Seagram
Properties, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(31-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of A & N
Realty Management, LLC. Arts Of
Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY
Albany County. SSNY designated as
Registered Agent upon whom process may be served: 99 Washington
(32-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 230 East
Laundry LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(33-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Prospect
Parking East LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(34-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of KIA Consulting LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
(35-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Black
Iris Acquisition Fund I LLC. Arts Of
Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY
Albany County. SSNY designated as
(36-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker
Architects invites bid proposals for
the following:
Rensselaerville Presbyterian
Church Steeple Restoration
Funding for this project comes
in part through an NYS EPF grant
administered by the New York State
Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation (OPRHP).
Under Article 15A, Executive Law,
the State of New York is committed
to providing Minority and Women
Owned Business (MWBE) equal
opportunity to participate in government contracts. The following goals
have been set for this project: 8%
of the contract value for MBE’s and
7% of the contract value for WBE’s.
The successful bidder may be
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required to furnish an EEO policy
statement and reports showing the
participation of various business
enterprises of subcontractors and
suppliers on the contract.
Contractors must be able to demonstrate successful completion of
restoration projects of similar scope.
Qualified contractors may obtain
project documents at the office of
the Architect, Mesick Cohen Wilson
Baker Architects, 388 Broadway,
Third Floor, Albany, NY 12207 upon
deposit of $60.00 for each copy
made payable to the Architect. Bidders must notify MCWB within 48
hours in advance of their intent to
visit the site during the Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday August
25, 2011 at 2:00pm at Conkling Hall,
located directly behind the church,
Methodist Hill Road, Rensselaerville, NY. Proposals will be received
at the offices of the Architect until
2:00pm Friday September 2, 2011
at which time all bids received will
be opened and read aloud.
(26-2-4)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Stanford
Designs LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(44-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Diamond Capital LLC. Arts of Org.
South, Ste 1001, New York, NY
(45-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: ROOFOPTIONS, LLC.
Articles of Organization were filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 07/01/11. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to the LLC, 10520 N Baehr
Rd Suite A, Mequon WI 53092. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
(10-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Doppelgang Media, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(12-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 29-12 LIC
LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with Secy. Of
State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/11. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
lawful activity.
(13-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Hi-Fi Marketing Group LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(14-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qualification of M & M
Ocean Property, LLC. Authority filed
with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY)
on 6/22/11. LLC Formed in (NJ)
process to: 99 Washington Ave., Ste.
1008, Albany, NY 12260: Registered
1008, Albany, NY 12260. NJ address
of LLC: 5 Fox Hunt Ct., Far Hills, NJ
07931. Arts. Of Org. filed with NJ
State Treasurer, 225 W. State St.,
Trenton, NJ 08608. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(43-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of DCTO
Properties LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(15-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 969-975
Beech Street LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(16-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of The
Broadway Bean LLC. Arts Of
(17-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 54 Second Ave Bean LLC. Arts Of Org.
(SSNY) on 6/24/11. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
(18-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Procare
USA LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
(19-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of New
Golden Key LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(20-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Milos
Partners, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(21-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 14901496 Hicks LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(22-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Culture
Curators LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(23-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Mixscan
State of NY (SSNY) on 7/12/11. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: 99 Washington
(24-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Talbert
& Talbert LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(25-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Perdomo,
Klukosky & Associates, LLC. Arts
of Org. filed with NY Secy of State
Albany County. SSNY is designated
mail process to: 11 Broadway Ste
615, New York, NY 10004. Purpose:
(29-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Royal Israel Express (USA) LLC. Arts of Org.
County. SSNY is designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1008 39th St., Brooklyn, NY
(30-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: Guillermo Brown Enterprises
LLC. Articles of Organization were
filed with the Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 7/19/2011. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
has been designated as agent of the
may be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to the LLC, 11325
Seaview Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11239.
Purpose: for any lawful purpose.
(31-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: 22 E 96 ST Property LLC.
Articles of Organization were filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 10/22/10. Office location: Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the
may be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to the LLC, c/o Allen Koss, Esq. 500 5th Ave, Suite
3130, New York, NY 10110.
(1-3-8)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of BIZODO
process to: 1501 Broadway, 22nd
Fl., New York, NY 10036. Last
date to dissolve is 12/31/2099.
(2-3-8)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of EHL
Funding LLC. Arts of Org. filed
St., S 33C, New York, NY 10016.
(3-3-8)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of EatNap
process to: 1275 E. 5th St. Apt. 2A,
lawful activity.
(4-3-8)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that Time
Warner Entertainment-Advance/
Newhouse Partnership (d/b/a Time
Warner Cable), has filed with the
New York State Public Service
Commissioner a request for approval of its cable television franchise in the Town of Guilderland. A
copy of the materials constituting
the application will be available for
public inspection at the office of
the Town Clerk, the Commission
and the Company during normal
business hours. Interested parties
may file comments or objections
with the Public Service Commission, Office of the Secretary, 3
Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
12223-1350. The renewal may not
take effect without prior approval
of the New York State Public Service Commission.
(5-3-4)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Oxford
II Realty LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(37-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ARS
Property Solutions, LLC. Arts of Org.
mail process to: 1751 2nd Ave., Apt.
22T, New York, NY 10128. Purpose:
(3-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Harvard
II Realty LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(38-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Yale Realty LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with Secy.
lawful activity.
(39-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
West 1St St LLC. Arts Of Org. filed
(40-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Little OG
State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/11. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: 99 Washington
(41-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ATCS
PLC, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with
process to: 2553 Dulles View Dr.,
Ste. 300, Herndon, VA. Purpose:
(11-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Noumak
lawful activity.
(42-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ALG
Expert Consulting LLC. Arts of Org.
mail process to: 401 E. 89th St. Apt.
18B, New York, NY 10128. Purpose:
(46-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Cooper
Group LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/6/11.
process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr. Ste
204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose:
(47-1-6)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Ming
Health, LLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on March 30, 2011 office location:
Albany County, NS is designated
as agent upon whom process may
be served, NS shall mail service of
process (SOP) to NW Registered
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, NW Registered Agent LLC
is designated as agent for SOP at 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, purpose
is any lawful purpose.
(1-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of BK 28
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy
of State (SSNY) on 7/22/11. Office
to: 19 W. 44th St. Ste 1507, New
York, New York 10036. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(4-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 919 Prospect Avenue LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 2 W 45th St.
Ste 1704, New York, NY 10036.
(5-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Center
for Anxiety, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
mail process to: 116 W 23rd St., 5th
Fl., New York, NY 10011. Purpose:
(6-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Hansan
Analytics LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 279 Central
Park West 3B, New York, NY 10024.
(7-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Inspire
Real Estate LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with NY Secy. of State (NYSS)
it may be served. NYSS shall mail
process to: 90 State St. STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
(8-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Ebisu LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 3/31/2011,
office location: Albany County, NS
is designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, NS shall
mail service of process (SOP) to NW
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered
Agent LLC is designated as agent for
SOP at 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, purpose is any lawful purpose.
(9-2-7)
LEGAL NOTICE
Village of Altamont
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that
the Annual Financial Report for
the fiscal year ending May 31,
2011 has been filed with the Office of the State Comptroller. Also,
the report has been filed with the
Village Clerk where it is available
for inspection by any person interested therein.
Dated: August 1, 2011
Catherine M. Hasbrouck
Treasurer
Village of Altamont
(6-3)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Limited
Liability Company (LLC). Name:
KRI Real Estate Management.
Articles of organization were filed
with Secretary of State of NY
(SSNY) on January 7th, 2011.
Office Location: Albany County.
LLC upon when process against it
may be served and a copy shall be
mailed to United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave,
Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.
(7-3-8)
LEGAL NOTICE
Availability for Inspection
of Albany Guardian Society
Annual Return
The annual return of Albany
Guardian Society for the tax
year ended December 31, 2010,
is available for inspection at its
offices at 12 Corporate Woods
Boulevard, Albany, New York, during normal business hours upon
request for such inspection made
within 180 days of this date by any
citizen. The Foundation’s manager
is Richard Iannello. The telephone
number of the Foundation is 518434-2140.
(8-3)
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that
a license for On Premises Liquor has been applied for by the
undersigned to sell Beer, Wine
and Liqour under the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Law 60 STATE
STREET, ALBANY, NEW YORK
12207 for On Premises Consumption.
BULL AND BUDDHA ALBANY,
LLC
D/B/A BULL AND BUDDHA 60 STATE STREET ALBANY,NEW YORK 12207
(9-3-4)
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Classified Ads Info
Rates:
$15.00 First 20 words or less
35¢ for each additional word over 20.
$9.50 each consecutive Repeat
Deadline: Wednesday, Noon – Firm
Ad copy may be e-mailed, faxed or mailed along with payment to:
The Altamont Enterprise, P.O. Box 654, Altamont, NY 12009. In case there is a
question, please include a daytime phone number. Ads may also be brought
in to the office at 123 Maple Avenue. All ads must be paid in advance by cash,
check, money order or Visa and Mastercard. No ads will be taken over the
phone, but credit card payment may be made by phone at 861-6641.
All ads also appear on our website www.altamontenterprise.com
for sale
HELP WANTED
QUEEN SIZE MATTRESS &
FRAME, Nordic track ski exercise
machine; large 8 point buck head
mount; Seigler kerosene parlor
stove; Craftmens l0” table saw.
872-0047 3-1t
NOW HIRING! Start your own
Direct Selling business for only
$10! Join my team and have fun
while earning cash. It’s not your
Grandmother’s Avon anymore!
Call Jessie Beauharnois 248-9933
for more information. 2-2t
CLEAN RYE STRAW AND
SEED, call 355-8972 2-2t
SAWMILLS from only $3997
-MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY
with your own bandmill -Cut
lumber any dimension.In stock
ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD:
www.NorwoodSawmills.com/300N
1-800-578-1363-Ext:300N
(NYSCAN)
WANTED
WANTED: buying all kinds of toys
– Cap Guns, Marbles, GI Joes,
Trucks, Cars, Airplanes, any kid
related items. ONE item or an
Attic Full. $Paying Top Dollar$
Dan 872-0107.
tf
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE.
Used riding mowers, snow blow
ers, rototillers. Cash rew ard.
872-0393.
32-tf
BUYING COINS - Gold, Silver &
ALL Coins, Stamps, Paper Money,
Entire Collections worth $5,000
or more.† Travel to your home.†
CASH paid.† Call Marc 1-800488-4175
(NYSCAN)
firewood
ALL HARDWOOD, cut split, Dlvd,
NYS Heap accepted; 872-1702, 3554331 3-2t
$185 CORD or $525 20 yd Roll Off
Can. We accept check, credit cards
and NYS HEAP. (518) 296-8377.
40-TF
GOT WOOD? WE DO! Full cord
hardwood, $205. No delivery charge.
Also available, brush hogging, land
clearing. Call for info. NYS HEAP
approved. 872-2883 41-tf
ANTHONY
THE WASHERMAN
Washer & Dryer Repair
Altamont • 356-1311
HELP WANTED
Home heating oil
delivery driver,
hazmat, air brakes,
clean class B license.
Knowledge of Hilltowns
helpful, busy winter,
light summer.
518-768-8300
Countryman
home
improvement
vinyl and Wood
replacement
Windows
Vinyl Siding,
Entry & Storm Doors,
Storm Windows,
Bathroom Remodeling
872-0610
BusinesS
opportunities
Extra Income Opportunity
Do you love candles? Start earning income right away - No start
up fee! Contact Melanie at (518)
872-0051.
3-2t
garage sale
Toys, books, sporting goods,
f u r n i t u r e, m o r e. 8 / 5 - 8 / 6 .
8 am - Noon. 90 Locust Lane, East
Berne.
3-1t
5 MILES W OF ALTAMONT,
1752 Rte 146, Sat & Sun, Aug. 6 & 7,
10 – 4. Framed pictures, furniture,
glassware, electronics, material,
comforters, dolls & bears 3-1t
MOVING SALE: GUILDERLAND, 3115 Spawn Road, (off
Carman Rd.): Saturday, Aug 6,
9 – 3, couches, sofa bed, exercise
equipment, coffee/end tables,
dinette set, oak wall unit, beds,
mens suits (44 long) & much more.
3-1t
Furniture, household items,
childrens items, books and more.
96 Maple Rd., Voorheesville, Sat &
Sun. 8/13 & 8/14 - 9 to 5.
3-2t
Services Available
instruction
autos
DRAKE Home Repair and Improvement. Windows, Doors, Siding,
Carpentry, Ceramic Tile. No job too
small. 518-641-9066.
3-2t
AIRLINES ARE HIRING- Train
for high paying Aviation Career.
FAA approved program. Financial
aid if qualified- Job Placement Assistance. CALL Aviation Institute
of Maintenance (866)296-7093
(NYSCAN)
DONATE VEHICLE: receive
$1000 grocery coupons. National
animal welfare foundation support no kill shelters help homeless
pets free towing, tax deductible,
non-runners accepted 1-866-912give.
(NYSCAN)
HOME HEALTH AIDE and/or
house cleaning services. Experienced, reliable, affordable. Flexible
hours, daily, weekly, monthly. Call
Joanne 518-768-2236. 3-1t
House cleaning, petsitting, child
or adult day care services available.
Personal assistance including shopping and errands. Call 355-0989.
2-2t
HANDYMAN LOCAL, all carpentry, hard/soft landscaping; painting;
upholstery repairs, masonry, concrete, cleanouts, pressure washing.
All tools and resources avail. Fair
and free estimates. Veteran owned,
call 542-4501. 1-5t
ALL STAR PAINTING AND TAPING: interior/exterior, fully insured,
free estimates; call Joe 872-0762
52-9/1
MPR EXCAVATION, LLC. Drainage, septic, and water installed. Land
clearing and clean-up. Pumping out
and cleaning of ponds. Concrete
break out and removal. Driveways
installed, foundations dug, and
grading of land. Demolition of old
barns and homes. Call the office at
895-5341 17-tf
THE MAINTENANCE DEPT.
expert lawn tractor and snowblower
repair. Over 35 years experience.
Full line of new and used parts. Call
Bill 872-0393.
14-tf
VINNICK CONSTRUCTION:
New construction, additions, remodeling, kitchens, bathrooms, replacement windows, fully insured. FREE
ESTIMATES. Call 861-8688. 19-tf
J.C. LOCK SERVICE. Residential,
commercial, rekeying, lost keys, safe
opening, locks, dead bolts. Ph: 3662337.
(Dec 29)
ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE
from home. *Medical, *Business, *Paralegal,*Accounting,
*Criminal Justice. Job placement
assistance. Computeravailable. Financial Aid if qualified. Call 888201-8657www.CenturaOnline.com
(NYSCAN)
CDLA Training- Enjoy new
challenges, excitement, travel,
and job security. Become a professionl driver at National Tractor
Trailer School, Liverpool or Buffalo branch www.ntts.edu 1-800243-9320
(NYSCAN)
HIGH TENSILE
FENCING SYSTEMS
Free Estimates • Supplies • Custom Construction
$$ CASH $$
PAID
for your
junk cars, trucks
and scrap metal
Bob • (518) 365-7777
• (518) 872-9321
MOTHER/LITERACY TEACHER has openings for pre-k and
school-aged children. Walk to village
library and parks, homework/school
support, reasonable. 861-6371
2-4t
Oil Change
Brakes • Exhaust
Tires & More
Mark’s
Auto Repair
“Quality Service at a Fair Price”
Livestock Fences—Electric and Non-electric
Valley View Farm. W. Berne
John O’Pezio • 872-1007
Childcare
(518) 872-0731
Please Leave Message
Mark Dibble Sr.
2915 Berne Altamont Rd.
Berne, NY 12023
CLEAN OUTS
Attics, cellars, barns, old
junk or wood or full house
clean outs.
Reasonable rates.
Fully insured.
(518) 365-7777
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As a contact sport
Chess is popular in Mongolia, says Henner, reporting on the international scene
By Peter Henner
This is the first chess column in
two months because I was in Mongolia, working as a legal advisor to
the Center for Human Rights and
Development, a Mongolian not-forprofit organization committed to
fighting for environmental protection, especially from improper mining practices, and combating human
trafficking. For those interested in
my activities, please see my blog:
peterinmongolia.blogspot.com.
I had hoped to connect with
Mongolian chess players. Chess is
very popular in Mongolia, and the
country has about 50 internationally rated players out of a population of 2.8 million, which is more
rated players per capita than the
United States. About 40 percent
of the rated players are women,
probably the highest percentage
in the world.
However, the only chess that I
was able to play was against the
chess hustlers in the main square of
Ulan Baatar. A friend took two videos of a game that I played “Chess,
the musical” and “Chess as a contact
sport” and posted them on You-
Tube at http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wvfk4zuPLL8 and at
h t t p : / / w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m /
watch?v=GWE2EaZ1bsU.
Capital District Chess League
The strong Schenectady A team
won the league. The Albany A team
recovered from its upset loss to the
Albany B team (formerly known
as the Guilderland Dutchmen) to
finish second. The B team lost its
last two matches to finish with a
4-3 record.
The final standings:
— 1. Schenectady A, 5 ½ - 1 ½
(20.5 game points);
— 2. Albany A, 5-2 (17.5);
— 3. Schenectady Geezers,
5-2 (17)
— 4. Saratoga A, 4 ½ -2 ½
(16.5);
— 5. Albany B, 4-3 (13.5);
— 6. Uncle Sam, 3-4 (13);
— 7. Saratoga B, ½ -6 ½ (7.5);
and
— 8. RPI, ½ - 6 ½ (6.5).
Summer is a relatively quiet
time for chess in the Capital District. The Schenectady, Albany,
and Saratoga club championships
will not start until the fall. The
Albany-Schenectady match, which
was revived last summer after a
several-year hiatus, has been tentatively scheduled for Sept. 15.
However, Proctor’s has been hosting a chess-in-the-park event on
Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
and on July 28, the Schenectady
club hosted an unrated speed chess
tournament (Game in 10 minutes),
which attracted six players, and was
won by Phil Sells with a perfect 5-0
Chess in Mongolia: Peter Henner, left, plays against chess
hustlers in the main square of Ulan Baatar.
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record, ahead of me, 3-2; Timothy
Wright, 2 ½ - 2 ½; Tom Clark (a
visitor from California), 2 ½ -2 ½;
Richard Chu, 1 ½ - 3 ½; and Corey
Northrup, ½ - 4 ½.
Aaron competes for
World Junior Champ
Schenectady’s own Deepak Aaron,
a rising young master, is competing
in the World Junior Championship
in Chennai (formerly known as
Madras), India. He is seeded 65th
out of 124 players, and lost his firstround game to one of the higher
rated players in the tournament,
Grandmaster S.Lopez.
International chess
One of the major chess events
of the summer is the international
tournament in Dortmund, Germany, which typically invites some
of the strongest players in the world.
This year’s event was a double
round robin, with five players rated
over 2700, and the one local player,
the German Georg Meier, rated
only 2656.
The tournament was won by
former world champion Vladimir
Kramnik for the 10th time, with a
dominating score of 7-3, 1 ½ points
ahead of the entire field. In his last
round game against the American
Hikaru Nakamura, Kramnik sacrificed a knight for a speculative and
unsuccessful attack, something he
probably would not have done if
he had been worried about scoring
a point.
Nakamura
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champion Anand and Chinese
player Wang Hao, and definitely
someone to watch in the future.
The Ukraininan Ponomariov
and the teenage Dutchman A.
Giri tied for third and fourth
with 5-5, and Meier finished sixth
with 3-7.
This week’s problem
The Estonian Paul Keres was
one of the strongest players in the
world from the late 1930s until
the late 1960s, and was one of five
players to contest the 25-round
match tournament to determine
the world championship in 1948.
The tournament was won by
Mikhail Botvinnik, who held the
title, with several interruptions,
until he was finally defeated by
Tigran Petrosian in 1963.
Keres had been suspected of
collaboration with German occupying authorities during World
War II; there is a continuing
chess controversy as to whether
he was ordered by the Soviet
chess authorities to deliberately
lose to Botvinnik in 1948, to ensure that the politically correct
and popular Botvinnik would
win the tournament (Keres lost
4 of his 5 games to Botvinnik,
winning only the last, after the
tournament had been effectively
decided).
In the 10th round of the tournament, Botvinnik capitalized
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Fox Creek 5K participants beat the heat as they run and stroll
BERNE — Temperatures went
above 90 degrees on July 23, but
that did not thwart the dedicated
runners who participated in the
13th annual Fox Creek 5K in
Berne.
The race is a fund-raiser for
Life Enhancement through Activities and Programs (LEAP),
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with special needs, and veterans
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The event had 42 participants.
Winning the race with a time
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of Westerlo. Bill Tindale, 38, of
Altamont, finished in second
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Alanna Almstead, 34, of Valatie, was the first woman to
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The youngest runner in the
field was 10-year-old Matt Payne,
of East Berne, who finished in
a time of 33:07 just ahead of
his mother. John Ladley, 69, of
Staten Island, was the oldest participant, finishing with 43:13.
Here are the remaining results:
— Tom Tift, 53, Averill Park,
fourth, 21:05;
— Bill Bennett, 31,
Schenectady, fifth, 21:14;
— Bill Warnken, 41, East
Berne, seventh, 21:56;
— Tom Hotaling, 43, Delmar,
eighth, 22:24;
— Lukus Becker, 14, Berne,
ninth, 23:03;
— Hank Tripp, 32, Glenmont,
tenth, 23:32;
— J o e Ya v o n d i t t e , 6 2 ,
Schenectady, twelfth, 24:05;
— Joel Willsey, 54, East Berne,
thirteenth, 24:26;
— Andy Joslin, 38, Westerlo,
fifteenth, 25:04;
— Drew McArdle, 50, Delanson, eighteenth, 25:56;
— Austin Burnham, 16, Slingerlands, nineteenth, 25:58;
— Mike Gross, 17, Guilderland
Center, 21st, 26:08;
— Tim Doherty, 58, East
Berne, 23rd, 27:04;
— Cassie Schultz, 24, Westerlo,
24th, 27:07;
— Donna Charlebois, 53, East
Berne, 25th, 27:11;
— Jim Hamilton, 56, Berne,
26th, 27:21;
— Chuck Batcher, 64, East
Berne, 27th, 27:47;
— Roxann Jansen, 37, Berne,
28th, 29:13;
— Joe Hein, 61, Altamont,
29th, 30:33;
— Anne Payne, 49, East Berne,
32nd, 33:08;
— Alice Carpenter, 61, Delmar,
34th, 35:57;
— Becky Gross, 39, Guilderland Center, 26th, 48:35.
With time to spare, Lyle Schultz, 29, of Westerlo, catches his
breath after crossing the finish line for first place in the Fox Creek
5K on July 23 in Berne. Schultz finished with a time of 19:21,
which was 58 seconds ahead of Bill Tindale, of Altamont, who
came in second.
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32
SPORTS
After completing first Ironman,
McKenna is now confident, not cocky
By Jordan J. Michael
LAKE PLACID –– Competitors
in an Ironman race push themselves to the limit by swimming
2.4 miles, biking 112 miles, and
running a full marathon of 26.2
miles. Such a feat seems almost
impossible, but it has been made
into a professional sport.
On July 22, Brian McKenna,
a software developer from Voorheesville, was one of 1,100 people
to participate in the Ford Ironman Lake Placid for the first
time. The 140.6-mile race had
2,700 overall challengers and
McKenna finished in 11 hours,
20 minutes.
“I wasn’t fearful,” McKenna said
this week. “The nerves weren’t really there, but it was a big piece of
candy to chew. I tried to not waste
any time.”
McKenna, 31, told The Enterprise that his goal was to finish
in 11 hours after training since
October. He got the urge to try
an Ironman competition after
completing a few half races and
volunteering for the Lake Placid
event last summer. McKenna’s
younger sister, Lindsay, got him
into triathlons three years ago.
“I decided to take the next step
after witnessing all the emotions
as a volunteer,” said McKenna of
watching the athletes last year.
“I always knew what an Ironman
was and I believe I had told people
before that I’d never do one. But,
I’m a goal-driven person.”
An Ironman is more than just a
target. It is a physical and mental
trial, where ambition overcomes
pain. Some participants don’t finish and there have been reports
of deaths.
“I’ve heard horror stories,”
McKenna said. “I saw at least 20
people getting sick on the side of
the course. You give up a lot of
yourself, but keep your head up
and move anyways. It’s definitely
an adventure.”
The male record is 7:41:33
hours, held by Andreas Raelert.
Chrissie Wellington has the female record at 8:18:13 hours. The
Ironman has a 17-hour limit.
“Some people dedicate a whole
year to training and they come in
at 16:40,” said McKenna. “It’s really inspiring to see them brave it
all. A finish is a finish. Same smile,
same medal, and same pain.”
Beginning to end
McKenna swam for Voorhees-
other bikers passing him a “meet
and greet,” saying, “There’s some
strong cyclists out there.”
McKenna went on, “I didn’t pass
anyone, but the professionals go
flying by.”
Heading back to town for another transition, McKenna said the
end of the cycle felt like the Tour
de France, even though he’s never
been. “Streets are packed,” he said.
“I’m sure it feels the same.”
Every step of the last 26.2 miles
on foot was “very difficult,” he
said. He compared the feeling to
“You don’t really have feeling
in your legs, but your mind is making them move.”
ville and Penn State University,
so he wasn’t too concerned with
the 2.4-mile swim on Mirror Lake.
He and his friend, who also swam
at Penn State, lined up towards
the front of 2,700 people and the
cannon went off.
“It was serene,” McKenna said
of the swim. He was the fourth
amateur to exit the water. “I was
astonished by the crowd when I
left the water. It’s a long transition to the bike and everyone is
cheering loudly. It hits you.”
Getting on his bike at the
Olympic Oval, McKenna climbed
out of town and onto the hills of
the Adirondacks for a 112-mile
ride. What he liked about the trip
was the way it was broken up ––
climbs, descents, and flats weren’t
all mixed together. “There was a
six-mile descent that was pretty
fun because no one was around
me,” he said.
Even though McKenna was in
ninth place out of the water, he
ended up around 380 after the bike
portion ended. He called all the
a long flight on an airplane. “It’s
bad, but bearable,” he said. “It’s
generally uncomfortable, but not
demoralizing.”
It took about a mile into the
run for McKenna to get his legs
back after sitting on a bike for so
long. “You don’t really have feeling in your legs, but your mind
is making them move,” he said.
“You look funny and then the legs
come around with patience and
persistence.”
In the end, he was sustained by
his preparation.
McKenna was in Lake Placid
for a week leading up to the Ironman. On July 22, he woke up at
4:30 a.m. and ate an energy gel,
and a bagel, and drank a couple
of cups of coffee. Upon the start
of the race, McKenna would be
going without any solids for at
least 12 hours.
Packing gummies, energy gels,
and high-calorie drinks onto his
bike, McKenna said he ate at
least 100 calories per hour. His
calorie intake for the day was
up to 3,500 when he started the
marathon run.
“Nothing was tasty, but it gave
me a good balance,” McKenna
said. “I couldn’t actively swallow
anything when I was running.”
With one mile left to run, McKenna knew he was about to finish
the greatest test of a lifetime. He
Last leg: Brian McKenna, 31, of Voorheesville, was one of 2,700
people to compete in the Ford Ironman Lake Placid, the oldest
Ironman competition in the Continental United States. Here,
McKenna is in the middle of his marathon run, which is the final
leg of the event. It was his first Ironman.
entered the Olympic Oval with
eyes wide open, taking it all in.
“It was nice to not be running
anymore,” said McKenna of the
ending. “I can’t really describe
the feeling. I just hope a lot of
people attempt this and feel it for
themselves.”
McKenna was very resourceful
with his training and it led to a
respectful rookie Ironman time.
“I went for quality over quantity
and took heart-rate data,” he said.
“You have no idea if two hours a
day can translate to 12 hours a
day, but somehow it did.”
Completing an Ironman has
made McKenna happier about life
and less doubtful in any situation,
he said. It took massive amounts
of preparation and the task itself
was overwhelmingly mental.
“I’m very confident, but not
cocky,” McKenna said. “It’s a
crutch to lean on. Another notch
in the hat.”
Swimmers’ paradise: The Ford Ironman Lake Placid on July 22
started with a 2.4-mile swim through Mirror Lake. Voorheesville’s
Brian McKenna, who swam for Penn State, was the fourth amateur
(ninth overall) to exit the water. He finished the entire 140.6-mile
race in 11 hours and 20 minutes.
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A long ride: Voorheesville’s Brian McKenna (right) swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles, and ran 26.2
miles during the Lake Placid Ironman on July 22. Here, McKenna cycles up the legendary Papa Bear
hill in the Adirondacks during the bike portion of the event, as the crowd looks on.

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