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The AlTAmonT
Enterprise
& Albany County Post
No. 30 Thursday, February 14, 2013
For 127 years Albany County’s independent newspaper
Schools grapple
with budget demands
At Guilderland Central
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND — Varsity
gymnasts — more than a dozen
girls wearing red shirts — stood
before the school board Tuesday
night to make a heartfelt plea:
Don’t cut our team.
“Our girls consistently place
second at sectionals,” said the
team’s long-time coach, Brenda
Goodknight. “I hope tomorrow
we’re able to win.” She added
that it is not the ideal preparation to come to a board meeting
the night before the sectional
championship to beg to save
the team.
“Good luck tomorrow,” said
the school board president as
the girls stepped away from the
microphone — a long red line —
and returned to their seats.
The gymnastics team is one of
more than 70 items on a list of
possible cuts for next year. School
leaders were asked to come up
with 5-percent across-the-board
cuts — about $400,000 more than
needed to close a $2.1 million revenue gap — to present last week
for community feedback.
About 50 people came to
Tuesday’s school board meeting
as speakers made their views
known. The tone was solemn
but not hostile as each speaker
pled his or her case. At the close
of the three-hour meeting, in
an impromptu session not on
the agenda, board members responded with their own budget
priorities. At the end, only two
people remained in the gallery.
(Continued on page 10)
At Voorheesville Central
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Anxiously waiting her time to perform on the ice, Ellen Harris, 15, of Slingerlands, looks at
the rink and listens as her coach, Maria Dollard, gives her some last-minute encouragement
on Friday afternoon. She skated to an Empire State Games Gold medal on the rink that was
built in Lake Placid for the 1932 Olympics.
Twins skate - their own way - to medals
sometimes, like when he takes my headphones,
By Jordan J. Michael
LAKE PLACID –– Ellen and Ben Harris, but I love him.”
Ellen used those same headphones earlier
15-year-old twins from Slingerlands, both skate
on ice. Ellen carves figures with grace while in the day, listening to “The Swan,” her theme
music, before skating her Gold medal perforBen sprints with force.
Years ago, Ellen and Ben learned how to mance at the 1932 Rink in Olympic Center.
She skated with poise,
skate side by side. They
nailing all her jumps,
chose different skating
spins, and combos.
paths, but spent last
After completing her
weekend together in Lake
Empire State Games
Pre-Juvenile Free Skate
Placid, competing in the
coverage on pages 12 to 15.
program, Ellen gave her
Empire State Winter
coach, Maria Dollard, a
Games. Ben watched Eltriumphant high-five.
len win a Gold in figure
She had the confidence
skating, and Ellen observed Ben win Bronze in short-track speed of a winner.
“Skating makes me feel good, makes me
skating.
“Oh, yes, our relationship is wonderful,” feel pretty,” said Ellen, glitter sparkling off
Ellen exclaimed with a hint of sarcasm last her cheeks with her blonde hair pulled back
Friday as Ben stood next to her. “We fight
InsIde
Opinion Page 2
News Page 6
By Tyler Murphy
VO O R H E E S V I L L E — T h e
Voorheesville Board of Education
on Monday listened to a
preliminary $23 million budget,
up 6 percent from this year,
while officials warned of fiscal
challenges and cuts in the
district.
Though it has yet to be approved
by the state legislature, Governor
Andrew Cuomo proposed an
executive budget in January with
a statewide bump in education
spending of 4.4 percent but under
the plan the Voorheesville School
District would see aid decrease
5.9 percent from the current
school year.
A one-time, $248,776 grant
received for the current year to
convert half-day kindergarten
classes to full-day classes, was
responsible for a large portion
of aid decrease.
While Superintendent Teresa
Thayer Snyder said officials
knew the non-recurring aid
would depress Voorheesville’s
budget figures in the coming
school year, she voiced concern
that state aid in the district
overall remained stagnant.
Snyder said Voorheesville’s aid
had remained about the same for
the last two years, since 2011,
while costs have gone up.
Spending up,
aid down
The preliminary 2013- 14
budget of about $23,170,530 is
about 5.95 percent more than
this year’s budget of $21,868,
403.
The district’s annual revenue
is about 23 percent state aid,
73 percent from local taxes,
and about 4 percent from other
sources.
At Berne-Knox-Westerlo
By Marcello Iaia
HILLTOWNS — District budget discussions began for BerneKnox-Westerlo this month, with
at least three of five board members saying they wanted no tax
increase.
At the Feb. 4 board of education meeting, Business Official
David Hodgkinson presented a
proposed budget of $21.6 million, which included a projected
$400,000 increase in state aid.
“That’s just the way that now
some of these projects are coming online and paying us aid
on. Foundation aid is flat, nothing really changed there,” said
Hodgkinson.
The Gap Elimination Adjustment law, passed in 2010 to
close the state’s budget shortfall,
meant BKW would be giving up
$1.6 million in state aid for the
district. Hodgkinson said the
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same amount is proposed this
year.
Superintendent Paul Dorward
noted that the legislature has
not yet acted on the governor’s
proposal, which includes a restoration of nearly $120,000 in
aid for BKW. Additional revenue
is expected from five to eight international students the district
plans to enroll next year, and is
not part of the current budget
estimates.
Revenue projections for the
2013-14 fiscal year were $154,000
short of the $21.6 rollover budget,
using a 2-percent increase to the
tax levy. Without any increase in
the levy, the difference — keeping
the same staff and programs —
could be around $370,000.
A state law, new last year, caps
tax-levy increases at 2 percent,
varying according to formula,
Sports Page 31
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The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, February 14, 2013
Take care with the lamp of technology
Some things can’t be put back in the bottle
J
eff Haas asked us not to use his son’s name or
picture in our paper. We admire him greatly for
standing by his son.
His son is the 14-year-old from Berne-Knox-Westerlo
who was all over the news recently because, Haas says,
after his cell phone was confiscated during a study hall
at school, the principal used it to access nude pictures
of the boy’s ex-girlfriend. The principal called the
Albany County Sheriff ’s Office.
The sheriff ’s office was wise not to arrest the
14-year-old. “I’m sure it was something very innocent and giddy,” said Inspector Mark DeFrancesco
of the girl, who is also 14, sending her pictures.
Schools should be a place where kids can learn
lessons without getting arrested.
We granted Jeff Haas’s request, although his son
said he saw no problem with his name and picture
being in the paper since everyone at school — those
in his world, in this time and place — knew who
it was.
The reason we withheld the name and photo — which
is rare for our newspaper— is we know that the Internet
has reach far beyond the here and now.
Most every week, we get calls from people who were
arrested in the past, sometimes decades ago, whose
crimes appear online at the local library’s website for
historic newspapers. The crimes appear instantly and
effortlessly for anyone typing their names into a search
engine.
We continue to report local arrests because we believe it
is important for the public to know both about the crime
in the community and also about the job being done by
the police they are paying. But it was different when the
week’s newspaper went out in the trash. Someone would
unearth the news of a long-ago arrest only if he were
purposefully looking for it, say, by going to the library
and ferreting out the information.
Just this week, we got a call from a woman who said
her chances at getting a job were stymied because of a
mistake she made when she was 17 and was arrested
for shoplifting at Crossgates Mall. That will now follow
her for the rest of her life.
So we think Mr. Haas is wise to protect his son
from something that might haunt him in a future
he cannot yet fathom.
For the very same reason, we can see why the
school principal had concerns. Mr. Haas likened his son’s iPhone to a diary. The parallel
works when it comes to Fourth Amendment
rights protecting citizens from random
search and seizure. Although there’s little
court precedent on the matter, on the face
of it, it seems like an illegal search if the
picture was not immediately visible on
the phone.
But where the parallel breaks down
is that the words in a paper diary, or a
nude picture pasted in a diary, are not
instantly and easily transmittable to a
wide audience the way cell-phone images
are. Would Tyler Clementi have jumped
to his death from the George Washington
Bridge in 2010 if his Rutgers roommate
had just seen him kissing another man,
rather than filming it and urging Twitter
followers to watch it?
Mr. Haas also said that boys will be boys
and likened it to kids of his generation
looking at pictures in Playboy magazine.
In even earlier times, issues of National
Geographic informed generations about the
naked human anatomy.
But, again, there is an important difference.
Those magazine images are of people who
are unknown to the curious young viewers.
That is very different from nude pictures of
a 14-year-old girl who walks the same school
hallways. It would have been unfair to her to
have such pictures transmitted about.
Mind you, we’re not saying they were. But we are
saying a school administrator is not out of line to
have concerns. We believe the correct course of action
would have been to have the boy and his parents meet
with the principal to look through the images together
to determine if any harm had been done.
There’s been a sea change in technology in the last
decade and schools need to be able to stay on top of the
waves. Kids need to be educated on what should and
should not be done. A 2011 Pediatrics article reported
that 1 percent of teens between the ages of 10 and 17
said they had appeared in or created sexually explicit
images or videos. An earlier survey, in 2008, by the
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned
Pregnancy and Cosmogirl.com found 20 per cent of
teens between 13 and 19 reported they had sent or
posted nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves. That’s a wide disparity, but, in any case, it’s
clear it is happening.
New York State was wise to enact the Cybercrime
Youth Rescue Act last year, to channel the flow of minors
involved for the first time in sexting crimes from family
courts to educational programs run by the state’s Office
of Children and Family Services, resulting in dismissal
of the charges.
The Internet age can be unforgiving and what is
meant as a Valentine for a boyfriend can end up as a
nightmare.
Research hasn’t kept up with the way social media is
changing our world. Certainly, it allows us to connect
The Internet age can be unforgiving
and what is meant as a Valentine for a boyfriend
can end up as a nightmare.
with people we wouldn’t otherwise know. But it can
also cut down on basic human interchange, society as
we once knew it.
Schools have a chance to pave the way. While BKW
doesn’t allow students to use cell phones, other districts,
like Guilderland, are pushing for wireless networks at
school that would allow mobile devices like cell
phones to be used regularly as a part of
instruction.
“The greatest and maybe
saddest irony is the majority of our students can
gain access almost
everywhere but
their learning
environm e n t ,”
Demian Singleton, Guilderland’s assistant superintendent for instruction, recently told the school board.
By 2016, he said, 85 percent of all broadband service
will be mobile instead of fixed.
”BYOD is very much a movement in education,” said
Singleton, referring to Bring Your Own Device. It allows
students to be “knowledge makers instead of recipients
of information,” he said.
We encourage local districts to involve parents,
students, and the school community at large in
forums to examine the new technology and how it
would best fit into the curriculum. The stance on
mobile technology at BKW as it now stands is not
clear with new iPads for elementary students but
a ban on iPhones.
“As society and technology change, so does literacy,” said the National Council of Teachers of
English. “Because technology has increased the
intensity and complexity of literate environments,
the 21st Century demands that a literate person
possess a wide range of abilities and competencies,
many literacies. These literacies — from reading online
newspapers to participating in virtual chat rooms — are
multiple, dynamic, and malleable…” Schools should lead
in teaching this new kind of literacy and the ethics that
go along with it.
— Illustration by Carol Coogan
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To the editor
County legislators want to make sure
the nursing-home decision is right for everyone
To the Editor:
In response to the letter from
Albany County Executive Daniel
McCoy published last week on
moving forward with the lease
agreement for the county nursing home:
This decision is one of the most
important decisions that will
ever be made in Albany County;
the nursing home is historic to
Albany and touches the lives of
so many.
As the letter indicates, the
county executive’s office has been
working with a for-profit organization, Upstate Services Group,
and has proposed to “lease” the
Albany County Nursing Home.
In regards to the county executive’s lease agreement, a lot is
still uncertain, many questions
are still unanswered, and no final
lease has been presented to the
legislature.
In recent weeks, the county
executive held five questionand-answer sessions. The open
forum allowed the legislators
to address questions they had
along with concerns they have
for the employees, patients, and
taxpayers.
The legislative body asked an
array of questions; some legislators who were unable to attend
the sessions submitted their
questions in writing with the
request to have their answers
returned in writing. That request
was refused.
In addition to the lack of
answers, the members of the
legislature requested copies of
the minutes that were taken during the Q&A sessions from the
county attorney and still have
not received those either.
When the proposed lease was
presented to the Elder Care Committee (on Jan. 28) and to the
Audit and Finance Committee
(on Jan. 30), it still had blank
pages, missing exhibits, and
iniquitous details. Negotiations
of this magnitude should contain
transparency and accountability
that involve the legislative body
and public input.
In order to “do what is right,”
it is essential that the county
executive’s office cooperate with
the legislature.
It is unclear if the nursing
home will remain a safety-net
facility under the new lease
agreement.
As the county executive mentioned, the nursing-home deficit
is estimated between $7 million
and $9 million annually; what
is confusing to all of us is, that
amount keeps changing.
Now is the time for the county
executive to coincide with the
legislative branch of government
to bring in qualified experts to
evaluate the finances and the
operation of the nursing home.
As many people would like a
conclusion to the nursing home,
it is not that easy — there is
entirely way too much at stake.
To move forward with this lease
agreement “as is,” is simply irresponsible. The legislative body
is in place to ensure whatever
decision is made, is the right
decision for everyone!
Frank J. Commisso
Majority leader
Albany County Legislature
Garrett Pitcher is a deserving young man
To the Editor:
Thank you, Altamont Enterprise, for Jordan J. Michael’s
story about our grandson Garrett Pitcher [Feb. 7, 2013: “BKW
1,000-point club: Pitcher joins
grandfather].
He is a truly deserving young
man who has done a lot for his
team and community, always
thinking of his teammates and
getting the win when he plays.
Sunday night, he scored 16
points in the first half, tying the
record made by his grandfather
[Ted Pitcher] of 1,024 points in
1955. Now, Garrett has 1,024
points.
Grammy Rita and I have
seen most of his games and we
are proud that he got his 1,000
points. Keep adding to it, Garrett. We love you.
Poppy Roy Wilcox
New Scotland
Back In Time. . .
1913
100 Years Ago
2013
Altamont Enterprise Feb. 14, 1913
Restoring Rubber: People using articles made of rubber that
frequently lose their elasticity through oxidation may restore
the material to its original condition by a simple process.
Soak the part in a mixture of one part of ammonia to two
parts water. This is said to be particularly well adapted to
the restoring of rubber bands, rings and small tubing which
are ready to become dry and brittle.
****
Boiled Cracker Pudding: One quart of milk, one pint of
pounded crackers, three eggs, one-fourth cupful of molasses,
one cupful of seeded raisins, one teaspoonful of salt, one
teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoonful of nutmeg,
one-fourth teaspoonful of cloves, one tablespoonful of melted
butter. Add cracker crumbs to milk. Beat eggs until light,
add salt and spices and combine with the crackers and milk
mixture. Add molasses, raisins, and melted butter and stir
until thoroughly blended. Tie the mixture carefully in a heavy
floured pudding bag. Place on a rack in a kettle of boiling
water, cover and boil two and one-quarter hours. Serve with
hot pudding sauce.
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Hard Questions: Oh, tell me, does the setting sun e’r feel
a sinking pain? Why is (inform a “Puzzled One”) a weathercock so vane? Do stars require a gun to shoot? What makes
a bucket pail? What tailor makes the chimney’s soot? Who
writes the comet’s tail?
And why are dogs so lovable, however much they whine?
Pray tell me Mr. Editor, what makes the fir tree pine?
Why is a vessel’s hind part stern? Who sings an old hen’s
lay? Please tell me for I’d like to know, who wears the close
of day? — London Answers
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Guilderland Centre: On Feb. 14th a valentine party was
given at the home of Raleigh Valentine Moffett in honor of
his 15th birthday. The young people, 26 in number, spent an
enjoyable evening playing games. A very interesting feature
of the evening was the cobweb hunt in which each met their
partner for supper, which was served at nine o’clock. The
“Fly” family was present. A number of presents, cards, and
valentines were received by the host. All were sorry when
leaving time arrived.
Dying interest rates bury Knox Cemetery
To the Editor:
The Knox Cemetery Association held its annual meeting on
Feb. 7. Before the meeting was
opened, there were discussions
concerning falling interest rates
and rising operating costs of the
cemetery.
During the past five years,
operating income from interest
on investments has dropped
from approximately $3,000 to
under $500 annually. Operating
expense of the cemetery is $4,500
to $5,000 yearly.
Since the cemetery has a lim-
ited area of investing monies, we
see no immediate improvement
in our financial situation, but
to request a personal contribution if you can afford it. Please
make contributions payable to
the Knox Cemetery Association
Inc. in care of: Knox Cemetery
Association Inc., care of Louis
Saddlemire, president, Post Office Box 14, Knox, NY 12107.
Other topics of discussion
were: updating of cemetery
by-laws and rules and regulations, road repairs, and memorial straightening and repairs.
For information concerning the
cemetery, call Louis Saddlemire
at 872-0586.
The following are current
trustees of the association: Richard Dexter, secretary; Joseph
Hughes, trustee; Jack Norray,
trustee; John Saddlemire, trustee, Louis Saddlemire, president/
superintendent; James Schager,
trustee; Marlene Schager, treasurer; Robert Stevens, trustee;
and Roger Van Wormer, trustee.
Louis Saddlemire
Knox
Governor’s budget proposal won’t help the hungry
To the Editor:
Anti-hunger advocates were
pleased that Governor Andrew
Cuomo‘s written State of the
State address included ten pages
devoted to the problem of hunger
and the need for action.
Unfortunately, hunger did not
make it into the actual speech he
delivered.
Anti-hunger advocates were
stunned when the governor’s
actual budget proposals eliminated direct funding allocations
for critical anti-hunger programs such as HPNAP (funding
for emergency food) and WIC
(Women, Infants and Children).
Instead, they were lumped together into a new “block grant”
with other programs in the
health department; the amount
of funding proposed for these
programs was a $13 million cut
from prior funding levels.
Since the Great Recession
started in 2007, the number of
people fed at emergency food programs (EFPs) has increased by
more than 60 percent, while state
funding has remained stable and
federal funding has been cut.
Two-thirds of the program said
that their funding from government and private donations has
dropped, while 90 percent saw
more guests this year. Even the
state agency that works with
EFPs had recommended a $10
million increase in funding for
emergency food.
A recent statewide survey of
such programs by the Hunger
Action Network found that 20
percent of the three million or so
guests are seniors, a big increase.
Unfortunately, the governor is
proposing to keep the same funding level for the Meals on Wheels
programs.
More than a third of the guests
at EFPS are the working poor.
Anti-hunger advocates were glad
that the governor proposed an
increase in the state minimum
wage to $8.75 an hour but were
disappointed that he failed to
support indexing it to inflation
like many other states do. Most
anti-hunger advocates have been
asking for a minimum wage
of at least $10 an hour, with
indexing.
The governor’s budget largely
ignored that much of the state is
still hurting from the Great Recession. Government at all levels
need to increase their investment
in targeted job creation and
overall spending to stimulate the
economy. The so-called recovery
has restored far fewer jobs than
any other “post-recession“ bump
in our history, and middle-class
jobs are being replaced with
poverty-wage jobs.
Mark A. Dunlea
Executive Director
Hunger Action Network
of NYS
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Back roads geology
Karst pools: Open water in the wilderness of winter, providing a haven of green
By Mike Nardacci
The air temperature was hovering around 10 degrees and the
highs had stayed in the teens for
days. At night in this part of New
York State temperatures were
falling below zero and in higher
elevations double-digit, below-zero
readings were reported.
The forests and fields of southern Albany County were barren
and frost-locked; in most places
there were only a few inches of
snow on the ground — and a lot
less where the frigid winds had
blown away whatever snow had
fallen, leaving the remnants of
dead plants encased in frozen
mud. Shining wanly through
icy clouds, the sun cast cold, pale
light on the landscape, leaving no
doubts that it was deep winter. Every pond and pool was frozen
over, and the few breaks in the ice
encasing streams showed bitterly
cold, black, churning water, moving with a sound like the shattering of glass.
And so the sound of a crowd
quacking ducks happily swimming
through open water, dipping or
diving now and then to feed, or
dropping out of flight and splashing in to join their companions,
was a genuine surprise. They
seemed to have no concern about
the frozen, desolate ground around
them or the numbing wind: They
had found open water and it offered not only a haven from the
bitter temperatures, it had food. It was a karst pool, and, even
in the deep freeze, its waters
remain above freezing. Minnows
and water bugs and a lonesome
frog may appear to a patient
observer and large areas of the
surface and the shallow mud floor
beneath may feature extensive
mats of watercress. While an occasional patch of thin ice may drift
along its surface like a floating
sheet of black glass, the pool will
remain mostly ice-free until the
onset of spring further warms its
waters and brings new growth on
its shores.
And yet, a few hundred feet
away even smaller ponds may be
frozen over to a depth of several
inches. If there is enough snow,
these frozen ponds may be almost
indistinguishable from the rest
of the wintry landscape, betraying their presence only with the
absence of the remnants of the
previous year’s growth — weeds
or cultivated crops — sticking up
through the snow pack.
So what allows one pool to remain an open haven for plant and
animal life both on and beneath its
surface while another is as frigid
and seemingly lifeless as a feature
on one of the icy moons of the giant
gas planets far from the sun?
Karst.
Karst seems to have derived its
name in the 19th Century from
the Karst Plateau, a region of
what used to be called Yugoslavia
and is today a part of Slovenia.
Geologists noted that the bedrock
there was mostly limestone, and
that acidic waters that fell from
the sky (picking up carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere) or formed
in pools on forest floors also rich
with CO2 derived from rotting
vegetation, had eaten away at
the bedrock.
This process results in the
formation of vast caverns — subterranean stream systems — and
surface features such as sinkholes,
disappearing streams, and springs. And, although the type of locality
is far from New York State, karst
landscapes cover about 20 percent
of Earth’s surface and locally make
up large areas of both Albany and
Schoharie counties.
Liquid water has a high specific
heat, which means, essentially,
that it takes a very long time to
heat up when exposed to a heat
source, and a very long time to cool
down when that source is removed.
That is why that cup of scalding In the Albany-Schoharie region, if
hot coffee you have been served one were to average all the highs
may still be too hot to drink 10 and lows of the year, the number
minutes later. And it is why local would fall between 46 and 50 delakes such as Warner and Thomp- grees Fahrenheit, depending upon
the elevation
son may reat which the
main unfroreadings
zen even afwere taken. ter weeks of
They show the
As most
sub-freezing
of the caves
temperatenacity of living things
in these artures and
and offer promise
eas are at
why some
of the eventual relatively
years a large
high elevabody of water
passing of winter.
tions —hunsuch as Lake
dreds of feet
George may
higher than
not freeze
sea level (at
over at all.
When water sinks into the which the City of Albany is situground to collect in the water table ated) — the air and water temor flow through a cave, the ground peratures in our caves tend to
The Enterprise — Michael Nardacci
above acts as a natural insulator, fall around 48 degrees, with only
Rime ice cakes a small opening into a cave as the water vapor in
with the result that the water and minor fluctuations throughout the
the warmer air freezes on contact with the much colder surface
cave will assume the average tem- year. Hence, a cave that might
temperatures.
perature of the landscape above. seem a cool refuge on a sizzling
hot day in the summer may seem
toasty warm on a day in the winter when air temperatures flirt
with 0.
But, of course, this latter impression can be highly misleading
because that 48 degrees seems
warm only in comparison to the
frigid outside ambient temperatures. Still, the difference between
cave temperatures and outside
temperatures can be enormous in
the winter and, in places where
vertical surface cracks and fissures extend downward into a
cave, the much warmer cave air
may rise toward the surface.
Warm air is capable of holding
much more moisture than cold
air, and so on days when outside
temperatures fall to single digits
or lower, these cracks and fissures
may be coated with rime ice as the
warm vapor instantly solidifies on
contact with the frigid outside
rock and air.
The 48-degree temperature of
the cave stream is 16 degrees
above the temperature at which
water freezes and it can take a
long time to give up its heat and
solidify. Therefore, when water
flowing through a cave reaches
its resurgence point — the place
where it finally comes out of the
cave passage and again flows over
the surface — it may not freeze
for a long time as it flows toward
Flocks of ducks gather in a karst pool near Ravena, offering rest and food in the harsh weather
sea level.
conditions.
And, if that water happens
to collect in a pool near the resurgence, it may remain liquid
throughout the winter as the water that exits the pool is constantly
being replaced by additional flow
from the cave.
Hence, open karst pools like the
one on the edge of Joralemon Park
near Ravena — easily visible from
Route 102 — not only remain open
throughout the winter but permit
the continued growth of hardy
water plants. The karst pool near Joralemon
Park is fed by water emerging from
Hannacroix Maze Cave within the
park, and it features masses of
watercress, the dark green of its
foliage defying the harsh weather
conditions around it, and occasional patches of duckweed. Karst landscapes are often
invested with a certain romantic
quality, given the presence of
streams that flow briefly over the
surface and then vanish underground, ominous-appearing cracks
and pits in the bedrock that may
drop dozens or hundreds of feet
into blackness, and extensive cave
systems — universally evoking
mystery and awe.
But karst pools with their
relatively warm waters sustaining many types of plant and
animal life do not promote somber
thoughts or fear: They show the
tenacity of living things and offer
Masses of watercress, a delicate, lacy green in the foreground, grow on and under the surface of this
promise of the eventual passing
karst pool on the edge of Joralemon Park near Ravena. The bare branches of nearby trees are reflected
of winter and the return of new,
on the rippled surface of the water and the icy edge at top.
invigorated life with the coming
of spring.
5
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Opinion
Hannaford is a good neighbor
Caring community supports food pantry
To the Editor:
On behalf of the volunteers
of the New Scotland Community Food Pantry, I would like
to express our appreciation to
Hannaford Supermarkets for
its sponsorship of the Helping
Hands food boxes.
A box contained 26 ounces of
pasta sauce, a 5 ounces can of
chicken, a can of green beans, a
can of Tasteeos, a box of instant
oatmeal, a box of elbow macaroni,
a box of macaroni and cheese, a
bag of long-grain rice, and a can
of chicken-noodle soup.
Voorheesville Hannaford sold
203 boxes at $10 each that were
donated to the New Scotland
Community Food Pantry for
our clients. This outpouring of
support indicates a caring com-
munity of which I am proud to
be a resident.
It also shows that Hannaford is
a good neighbor. We thank them
for their continued generosity to
the New Scotland Community
Food Pantry.
Marguerite Teuten
Development Coordinator
New Scotland
Community Food Pantry
The Old Men of the Mountain
Memories of bygone places are different for
those who stay than for those who have moved on
By John R. Williams
Tuesday, Feb. 5, the Old Men of
the Mountain met at the restaurant of Mrs. K’s in Middleburgh.
The OFs noticed that, though it
is the dead of winter, the attendance at the breakfast does not
seem to have tailed off.
Thankfully, the OFs have been
joined by some new fellows from
off the Hill and off the farm
who have decided that enough
of the rat race is enough. When
the OFs who desert us in the
winter (for the warmer weather)
return, the OF contingent will
be considerable — a force to be
reckoned with.
The OFs talked about how
small farms (at least in the
Northeast) are dwindling down
to a precious few. Government
regulations make it so tough they
can’t compete.
This fact, according to the OFs,
has been known for a long time
and our state and federal legislators do not care at all that it has
been happening.
The OFs maintain that it is
big money all along that runs
the show. But one OF remarked
that it has been that way since
the Battle of Hastings. Another
OF said it is no more than the
advancement of time and the
development of technologies that
move things along.
With farming, it was speedier
transportation that started it all;
now it is the ability to preserve
foods for longer periods, and the
computer.
Wool can come from all over
the world, cheaper than we can
produce it here; blueberries are
brought in year ’round from all
over the world — oranges, seafood, you name it, the OF said,
it is summer somewhere and
climate-controlled ships as big as
small cities can haul this produce
from anywhere in the world in a
matter of days.
One OF said there has to be
something this country can do
to save the small farm. The OFs
did not mean gentlemen farms
but farms that families actually
had to make a living from.
A drive around the countryside
shows decaying barns, unattended scrub fields producing
nothing but weeds. You will see
old, once-beautiful farmhouses
falling into disrepair.
It is sad, plus it is costing us
four bucks just to take a little
20-mile ride, and that (in many
cases) is just getting someone
out of the city.
“Yeah,” an OF added, “and look
at the corn that is used for that
same 20 miles. That corn could
be put into corn meal, or feed,
or something that will sustain
life instead of just burning it up
like a gasoline additive. What is
wrong with this picture?”
The old homestead
This conversation led to the
OFs talking about going back to
the old homestead, and, as one
OF said, the old adage of not being able to really go back home
once left for awhile is correct.
It is hard. Houses have gone,
or have fallen down; what once
were stores many times now are
just empty lots. People that the
OF remembers have aged just
like he has, and they either have
moved on, or are not the same as
the OF remembered them.
The character of the town is
just not the same as when the
OF was in knickers.
The changes are more subtle to
the OFs that were born, raised,
and still are occupying the old
homestead. For the most part, the
changes are slow and absorbed by
the OFs who hung in there. Conversations between the
OFs who have left, and the OFs
who have stayed are interesting, especially when the OF
who has left asks about this or
that and the OF who has stayed
comments on what happened to
who, or what.
It is surprising that some
of the changes are so slow the
OF that has stayed has trouble
remembering, and sometimes
can’t remember at all what happened.
This leaves the returning or
visiting OF with a slightly empty
or nostalgic feeling, while the
OF that stayed just grumbled at
the changes but went with the
flow because he did not realize
there was even a change until
the visiting or returning OF
brought it up.
Rising prices,
falling patience
This brought up the same old
discussion of the cost of living
and how it has gone up at a rate
much faster than anticipated.
The OFs attribute some of it
to just numbers. The numbers
of illegal immigrants, and just
numbers of people who have
to be taken care of — the OFs
included.
One OF said he thought the
other OF was right. We are
beginning to grow like amoebas.
And then, he added, that, besides
the corn item mentioned above,
the cost of food and fuel, building
materials, entertainment etc.,
and then the government wants
to take away what little we have
left over to pay for education and
medical attention for 11 million
people who don’t legally belong
here.
“If these people are not documented, how can they be paying
taxes?” one OF said. The debate went on but enough
of that.
Hot topic
In our area (and a good part
of the country), we all know it
is winter and the OFs discussed
furnaces — i.e., what works
and what doesn’t. It was not
surprising that some of the OFs
made good heating decisions
and some didn’t. Some of the
OFs mentioned the old “octopus”
coal-burning hot air monsters
that were in their older homes,
which had to go.
Not many people burn coal
anymore but some thought that
maybe we should go back to
that.
When the OFs were burning
coal it served multiple purposes. Not only did the coal keep the
OFs warm but they were able to
spread the ashes on the walk so
people wouldn’t be slipping all
over the place.
Now the OFs have to use
chemicals, or salt to do the same
thing.
“Which is better,” an OF asked,
“to burn oil or gas, then have
to use another chemical in the
winter for safety, or to burn coal
which we have plenty of?”
Some OFs have these newer
high-efficiency furnaces that
atomize the fuel so that it burns
to the point that all the heat in
the oil is used, and the stacks
run cool enough so the OF can
put his hand on it.
Add that to the fact that the
OFs no longer have to shovel out
coal ashes and lug them outside
and it’s easy to see why the newer
furnaces have taken over.
Keeping warm in the winter
and cool in the summer is big
business and the older this OF
gets he says, the more he wants
to be at a pretty constant temperature. He continued, “When
I was on the farm, I could be in
a hay mow at 120 degrees and
not really mind it, or I could be
breaking a hole in the pond for
the cows to drink at zero degrees
and not mind it. Now, let the
temperature get below 40 and
I am freezing, or above 80 and
I am camped in front of the airconditioner.”
Those OFs who made it to Mrs.
K’s Restaurant in Middleburgh,
and glad most cars and trucks
have good heaters and air-conditioners were: John Rossmann,
Jim Heiser, Glenn Patterson,
Bill Krause, Steve Kelly, Roger
Chapman, Dave Williams, Otis
Lawyer, Mark Traver, Frank
Pauli, Harold Guest, Roger
Shafer, Robie Osterman, George
Washburn, Gary Porter, Mace
Porter, Jack Norray, Lou Schenck,
Henry Whipple, Don Moser, Jim
Rissacher, Ted Willsey, Elwood
Vanderbilt, Mike Willsey, Harold
Grippen, and me. All for one: As the snowstorm blustered outside on Friday night,
members of the Altamont Rescue Squad were cozy in the squad’s
building on Main Street in the village.
Join the happy family
at the Altamont Rescue Squad
To the Editor:
If you had stopped by Altamont
Rescue Squad on the night of Friday, Feb. 8, you may have thought
that there was a party going on,
but really it was just ARS doing
what it does best — being prepared to take on anything!
With two full crews on duty
until midnight, the station was
full of EMTs, volunteers, and
one of the town’s paramedics.
The paramedic, Richard Reuther,
thought it would be a great idea
to build morale and encourage
the volunteers to staff an additional crew of first responders,
if we held a fun themed “Snow
Party” in response to winter
storm Nemo.
President Lillian Quinn and
Director Tyler Reinemann
shopped for the occasion to make
sure that Altamont’s responders were well fed! Reinemann
and Member Jill White grilled
hot dogs and burgers outside in
the snow while the two crews
ate chips, hummus, homemade
cookies, and many other delicious
things. In total, there were 14
members in attendance.
Turning a busy night into an
evening filled with good food,
laughter, and fun games like
EMS Monopoly, is one of the
many ways that the members of
the Altamont Rescue Squad stays
close. This fun-packed evening
was not only an example of the
rescue squad members being
ready to take on anything that
nature might throw at them,
but how much of a family it is
in EMS.
The Altamont Rescue Squad is
constantly seeking volunteers so,
if you are interested, please call
861-6715 for more information.
Maureen Ramirez, secretary
Altamont Rescue Squad
Food and games: Altamont Rescue Squad members enjoyed an
impromptu cookout on Friday night as well as board games while
crews were waiting to help those in need during the snowstorm.
Correction
In our Health & Fitness section last week, we ran a story on
Susan Miner preparing for her first triathlon at age 65, and
being coached by her 9-year-old granddaughter, Sarah. We had
Sarah’s last name wrong. She is Sarah Pickett.
6
Cell phones mark a generational divide, with students on one side, schools on another
By Marcello Iaia
BERNE — The touchstone of a
generation of Internet-connected
mobile devices, the iPhone was
first sold during the summer
of 2007. Around the same time,
Twitter was gaining traction as a
means for immediate and worldwide communication. Just a year
before, the social-networking
website Facebook started welcoming high school students.
When cell equipment was
installed in Berne in 2009, Facebook had 300 million users and
Apple had sold roughly 20 million
iPhones. Those numbers are now
well over 1 billion users, and 250
million iPhones.
For developing teenagers, this
world of mobile communication
is an established part of society.
Adults have to learn and adapt.
What isn’t established is its effect, if any, on perceptions or
realities of safety and privacy.
“I think it’s a completely different world,” said Jeffrey Haas,
who grew up in Berne.
Haas, an electrician, worked
on installing the infrastructure
for grounding and connecting
power to the cell equipment that
replaced the bell in the steeple
at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, a
few hundred feet from the BerneKnox-Westerlo High School he
had attended. That is what made
it possible to use cell phones at
BKW and elsewhere in Berne.
This past Christmas, Haas
bought his 14-year-old son an
iPhone 5. It’s the newest generation of a phone that is virtually
a pocket-sized computer. With
its many security features, Haas
said the idea was to monitor and
control his son’s use through his
own iPhone.
The Enterprise agreed to the
elder Haas’s request to withhold
his son’s name. (See editorial.)
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
“My intent is to get literate
“A completely different world,” said Jeffrey Haas about new technology. He thumbs through his
with that and use it for that,”
iPhone, sitting in his living room before the Superbowl. He and his son have quickly integrated their
said Haas. “The intent in allowsmartphones into their daily lives. The landline at home, Haas says, used to be the main mode of coming him to get the iPhone for
munication in the Hilltowns, where he grew up, but now it is mainly used for faxes.
Christmas is to exert my parental
authority.”
Almost a month later, the
A flat screen TV was on and someone over texting,” he said, the kids got caught playing docphone was taken away from flickering, and the sleek phone, rather than ending a relationship tor,” said Haas, adding that it
still should not be allowed. “If
Haas’s son. He said it happened recently returned from the Al- in person.
during a study hall and the bany County Sheriff ’s Office, was
The idea that uses of new every one of us had a camera,
phone had never left
media are different from we could push a button and
his pocket. The BKW
previous ones is a factor send pictures, then we’d have
Code of Conduct reof a person’s age, Susan C. sent pictures. We’re applying a
quires cell phones to
Herring wrote in a 2008 standard that we wouldn’t have
be turned off and put
paper titled, “Questioning held to ourselves.”
Haas’s son said he has noticed
away during school.
the Generational Divide:
They are to be used
Technological Exoticism seventh grade is generally the
“The stuff that he has on
only with permission
and Adult Constructions youngest point at which people
the phone is going to be
or for emergency calls.
of Online Youth Identity,” start social connections through
totally different than the
Haas was outraged
published in Youth, Iden- the Internet or cell phones.
and called a local teletity, and Digital Media. He got his first cell phone as a
stuff I have on my phone…
vision station. InterYounger generations who seventh-grader.
I don’t treat this as my personal
Teens entering high school are
views with Haas were
grow up with mobile mebroadcast across local
dia, she suggests, don’t at different stages of puberty, as
link to the world and he does.”
channels, on radio,
think of smart phones or connections between different
and covered in print
e-mail as new technol- areas of their brains are being
made, in a back-to-front direcover the last week of
ogy.
January. He claimed
“Peer groups and social tion, lasting into their twenties.
BKW Principal Brian
relations are arguably The pre-frontal cortex area just
Corey invaded his son’s
more influential dur- behind the forehead is responFourth Amendment
ing youth than at
right against unreasonable laid on the floor, charging.
any other life stage, and
search and seizure by going
The ninth grader spoke ca- young people use and
through the phone and calling sually about his use of the think about technology
the police after finding nude technology, and social websites, differently according to
pictures of his son’s ex-girlfriend, like Instagram, Facebook, and their cultural, economic,
also 14.
and family contexts,”
Twitter.
After a police investigation,
“I guess, if I didn’t have my wrote Herring, a profes“I guess, if I didn’t have
the iPhone was returned to the phone, I’d probably be bored all sor of information science
my phone, I’d probably
Haases and no charges were the time. It’s just something to at Indiana University.
made.
Haas’s son awakened
keep you entertained. It’s just
be bored all the time.
With a heightened concern over something you do,” said the his phone and displayed
It’s
just something to keep
school safety, some parents want younger Haas.
a list of texts on its glass
to equip their children with diHis English assignments are screen. It was a slice of
you entertained. It’s just
rect lines of communication. Oth- written and posted online, and a long list of texts, and
something you do.”
ers say mobile devices distract concise messages or questions a larger volume of such
and have no place in schools.
for a teacher are published to a interactions with his
“Our teacher said something Twitter page, all from his phone. friends, but they showed
one time, that, as long we were Haas’s son said he makes calls the small talk he atdoing work on it, he wouldn’t often, but his thumbs churn out tested to: “Hey what’s
care. And then I told him, you texts to friends more than he up, man?”
know, I would actually do that. speaks to them.
With regard to the
So I started taking notes in sci“I don’t see anything different sending of nude photos
ence class, and I started using between texting and talking to by e-mail, his father said the sible for regulation of judgment,
it in other classes,” Hass’s son someone in person,” he said. technology isn’t much different emotion, and attention. Its offset
said, sitting in his living room “I don’t see much difference, if than a hard copy.
development is associated with
on Superbowl Sunday.
“We all have that story, like teens’ tendencies to take risks
you were going to break-up with
or make decisions based on
emotion.
“I think, if the kids didn’t have
a smart phone with a camera on
it, then the odds of sending a
picture around would be greatly
reduced,” said the elder Haas.
He uses the camera on his
iPhone frequently for work, to
document that his a project is
completed, in case the valuable
copper wiring is stolen soon
after.
“I used to be able to not be on
call at work,” he said.
Before there was reception
in the Hilltowns, Haas said he
would use his landline, but the
convenience of having the phone
in his pocket means he interacts
with people a little more.
Growing up in Berne, Haas
said his circle of friends were his
neighbors. Now, teenagers can
interact all night through their
phones, regardless of the great
distances of the Hilltowns.
“I’m able to utilize it in my life
whereas he has to master it, and
it is his life,” Haas said of his
son’s future career. “The stuff
that he has on the phone is going
to be totally different than the
stuff I have on my phone…I don’t
treat this as my personal link to
the world and he does.”
His son has friends who are
older and who drive. Going
out might mean getting pizza
in Guilderland, playing video
games, or going to BKW basketball games.
“We like to go snowmobiling. I
honestly would prefer not to have
my cell phone on me when I go,”
said Haas’s son. “It just ruins the
experience if I have to stop and
check on people.”
Haas said he lives in the
Hilltowns because it is disconnected, a joy he didn’t appreciate
as much when he was younger
and looked forward to living in
a city.
“I just want to be on my quiet
little plot of land up here and be
left alone and I feel like my rights
were violated by the school,” he
said.
Inspector Mark DeFrancesco
of the Albany County Sheriff ’s
Office said a week after the
phone was confiscated that some
schools have zero-tolerance rules
for cell phones, and others use
them for classes.
“Child pornography doesn’t
have an age limit, but obviously
you have to take into account, I
think, when the laws were made;
there probably wasn’t even texting, let alone to this extent, with
pictures being e-mailed back and
forth,” said DeFrancesco.
For Jeff Temple, a psychologist
and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University
of Texas Medical Branch, the
technology itself is not driving
the problem of sexting, the sending of sexual media.
“I think that smart phones
and access to smart
phones…has certainly
made this an issue. I
think that we’ve always been, and every
culture is, a ‘You show
me yours and I’ll show
you mine.’”
It’s the access to the
technology that makes
a difference, not the
generations, according to Temple, who is
also vice president of
the board of trustees
at the Galveston Independent School District
in Texas.
“My guess is that all
schools are going to allow cell phone use and
that’s just going to be
part of the education
curriculum. That’s how you’re
going to ask questions and that’s
how you’re going to communicate
with the teacher,” said Temple.
7
Despite $90K shortfall, Berne-Knox-Westerlo holds on to federal food program
By Marcello Iaia
HILLTOWNS — Berne-KnoxWesterlo is hoping to make up
financial losses to its meal program while students adjust to
new rules. Like others across the
country, Berne-Knox-Westerlo
students have a distaste for new
federal dietary guidelines, and
food services director Deborah
Rosko has seen more bagged
lunches since the guidelines took
effect in September.
Described by district Business Official David Hodgkinson
as a “perfect storm,” a drop in
participation, rising food and
labor costs, and modest generalfund transfers have caused an
estimated shortfall of almost
The Healthy, Hunger-Free
Kids Act of 2010 directed the
United States Department of
Agriculture to update school food
programs in accordance with its
2010 dietary guidelines, which
are reviewed every five years
with the United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
An additional six cents per
meal is available when directors
are certified to be in compliance
with the new rules, which require
daily and weekly targets for meal
components. Rosko spends hours
each week on her computer,
reporting on the four different
menus she creates for different
age groups. It amounts to an ad-
“It’s a learning process.”
$90,000 for the meal program.
The annual expenses are over
$400,000.
Budget estimates presented at
the board of education meeting
on Feb. 4 included a transfer of
$70,000 to bring down the food
services deficit.
School cafeterias often run in
the red, kept afloat by transfers
made from districts’ general
funds. Such transfers were not
made in years when BKW was
operating on a contingency
budget.
Other schools have dropped
the United States Department of
Agriculture’s food programs, like
the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast
Program, after new guidelines
emphasizing fruits, vegetables,
and whole grains, with limits on
proteins, sodium, and calories,
this year led to student grumbling and losses in participation.
BKW has seen an average drop
in participation from last year
to this year of approximately 64
elementary lunches and 37 secondary school lunches per day.
In that same period, breakfasts
dropped by 19 in the elementary
school, and increased by 7 in the
secondary school.
ditional $3,000 for BKW.
“And that 6 cents certainly
isn’t worth that 36-cent orange
that I’m buying. It’s like, it’s
hardly worth it,” said Rosko,
who chairs the state public policy
and legislative committee for
the New York School Nutrition
Association.
Rosko said that BKW raised
the price of paid lunches by 20
cents to $2.10 in the elementary
school and $2.20 in the high
school, but the increase does not
compensate for the larger cost of
more fruits and vegetables.
At some districts opting out,
students who pay for meals
subsidize the cost of those who
qualify for free and reduced-price
meals. Nearly a third — 32 percent — of students are eligible
for free and reduced-price meals,
based on family income.
Guilderland has 9.15 percent
of students eligible, and Voorheesville has 6 percent, where a
new lunch program without federal money began this month.
Hodgkinson said BKW would
be worse off without the federal and state reimbursements,
which are based on the number
of meals served.
Rosko has been BKW’s foodservice director for 24 years,
The hand that feeds: Brendon Chrysler, a Berne-Knox-Westerlo elementary student, reaches high
to receive a piece of pizza for lunch on Monday, as Alanna Yandon, left, waits her turn. Students are
required to take their fruit cup; the dough with some whole grains and cheese for a slice of pizza have
been reduced in order to comply with federal dietary guidelines in effect this year.
Not the apple of his eye: Apples await the pick of elementaryschool children, like Caden Doty, as they pass through the BerneKnox-Westerlo lunch line on Monday. Federal guidelines require
students to take more fruits and vegetables, but Deborah Rosko,
food services director at BKW, said students generally don’t like
being served less meat and grains. Costs of crops, like apples,
that have suffered from low harvests this year are one factor in a
“perfect storm” of expenses that Rosko said are contributing to a
fiscal decline for the school’s food services.
The tray for the day: Dietary guidelines set out by the United
States departments of agriculture and health require federal school
food programs to meet certain vegetable colors and amounts of protein, fat, sodium, and other nutrients as they plan their menus. The
guidelines emphasize fruits and vegetables over refined grains and
calorie-dense foods. Mackenzie Lawrence, a Berne-Knox-Westerlo
Elementary School student, has two portions of fruit on her tray,
along with mashed potatoes, considered a vegetable, and pizza.
“If they ate everything on
their plate, I think they
would be satisfied,
but you can’t go from a society
who has overeaten their whole life,
then suddenly, drastically change.”
and has introduced healthier
foods, like whole grains and dark
green vegetables, before the new
guidelines, which she said came
“too much, too soon.”
“I’ve made more lunches this
year than I ever have in my
life...because it’s not enough food
for my athletes,” said board of
education member Jill Norray
when Rosko described the new
guidelines at the Jan. 22 board
meeting.
Students are required to have
at least one half-cup portion
of fruit or vegetables on their
plates, and a cup of each must
be offered. Weekly calorie and
sodium amounts must fall within
designated ranges.
A high school lunch, for instance, must average 850 calories and 740 milligrams of sodium each week. The 2010 dietary
guidelines recommend 2,300 milligrams of sodium each day, and
1,500 for children. A moderately
active high school age female
should have 2,000 calories a day
and a high-school male should
have at least 2,400.
Sodium and calorie-dense
foods, like Rosko’s Buffalo
chicken wrap, are served infrequently.
“If they ate everything on
their plate, I think they would
be satisfied, but you can’t go
from a society who has overeaten
their whole life, then suddenly,
drastically change. It’s a learning process,” said Rosko, who
sometimes visits classrooms to
speak about nutrition.
In the past, Rosko has done
taste tests to introduce new
foods, carrying trays of food
samples as students file through
the lunch line, but she says the
time spent complying with the
new guidelines has left her looking for volunteers.
On staff development days,
Rosko and her staff cook and
serve omelets with home fries
and coffee for $3.50. She said the
net contribution from that to the
cafeteria’s bottom line is around
$300 a year.
She is now looking for opportunities to cater sports banquets
and recently prepared strawberry cheesecake sundaes for a
Valentine’s Day fund-raiser.
Rosko has a degree in hotel and
restaurant management from
Schenectady Community College
and worked several years as a
hotel chef and kitchen manger
at the Empire State Plaza.
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unless the school budget passes
by 60 percent or more. BKW has
had difficulty getting a simple
majority to pass budgets in some
recent years.
Hodgkinson said benefits are
driving the costs, along with a
$300,000 bond payment starting
next year, and a transfer increase
of $40,000 to maintain the meal
program.
The $18,000 of reserves used
by Hodgkinson in the current
“We’re shooting
in the dark.”
projection includes a bond payment of $14,000 to be made on
the Westerlo school building,
sold in 2010 to the town of Westerlo, and $4,000 to be used from
money set aside for the reduction
of property taxes.
Projections made last year
for 2013-14 included $224,000,
using $200,000 from the retirement contribution reserve, which
totals more than $400,000.
“If we change this to 224, then
we have more than enough for
this year,” said Dorward of the
amount used from reserves. He
wanted assurance that cuts to
programming and staff would
not be necessary.
Last year, a full-time English
teacher position was eliminated
and a French teacher’s hours
were reduced.
“I personally would not support anything other than a
zero-percent increase in the
levy,” said board member Helen
Lounsbury.
She added, as did other mem-
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projections at the Feb. 4 board of education meeting. It marked the board’s first major discussion on
the 2013-14 budget. The proposed state aid coming into the district this year is $1.6 million less than
last year, said Hodgkinson, part of a pattern of decreases.
bers, that the numbers could
change as the budgeting process
moves along. Voters will decide
on the budget in May.
“I think you’re using our reserves when I don’t think we
have to yet,” said member Maureen Sikule, who was willing to
consider a levy increase “someplace between zero and 2.”
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have no more in their fund balance than 4 percent of the next
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said districts should spend down
their reserves to meet the taxlevy cap.
Board member Jill Norray
staked the levy increase “somewhere around 2 percent,” and
was similarly insistent that
programming cannot be cut any
further.
“You don’t know how close you
are to rock bottom because we
don’t have the baseline budget,”
said Vasilios Lefkaditis, president of the board.
Lefkaditis has pushed for a
ground-up approach to construct-
ing the budget, rather than the
rollover of current expenses.
“When you’re struggling with
money, you need to figure out
what it costs to survive, and then
build from there,” Lefkaditis told
The Enterprise.
The board decided during its
January goal-setting meeting
that the business office would
outline a baseline budget by
the end of June, made from core
expenses and state mandates
for the district, to be used when
crafting the budget for fiscal year
2014-15.
“Last year, I voted against the
budget for that reason. We’re
shooting in the dark,” said
Lefkaditis.
Gerald Larghe and Lefkaditis
both said they wanted “zero
percent with an eye towards
increasing.”
At the meeting, parent Karen
White and technology teacher
Joshua Baker said using reserves
for a zero percent tax levy increase would be unwise.
“If there’s anything you’d be
able to give back to these kids
with a 1-percent budget, I think
you should consider it,” said
White.
Projections for the following
two years include 2-percent taxlevy increases.
For fiscal year 2014-15, state
aid was projected to be flat,
at 8.41 million, and $218,000
would be spent from reserves.
The appropriated fund balance
would be decreased from the
previous two years to $1 million,
with a projected deficit of almost
$730,000.
For fiscal year 2015-16, state
aid was projected to increase
by roughly $150,000, to $8.56
million, and reserves’ spending would come down again to
$18,000. The appropriated fund
balance would be $1 million, with
a projected deficit of more than
$1 million.
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...Voorheesville is ‘on the edge’
Since 2008, Voorheesville has cut
11 full-time teaching positions
and seven full-time teaching
assistant jobs, while enrollment
has grown by 52 students, to
1,175, about 4.4 percent.
“The outlook, if it keeps going
this way is bleak. Something
people should know is Voorheesville is not unique,” said
Assistant Superintendent for
Business Gregory Diefenbach.
“Unless things change, this is the
cliff schools are on. I didn’t get
into this profession to be so bleak
but we’re on the edge.”
Diefenbach said workers’ compensation and health insurance
for employees would increase
by 10 percent next year. He also
said insurance would increase
by about 6 percent; fuel by 12
percent; and spending on some
programs would have to increase, such as $40,000 more for
special education requirements
and $20,000 for transportation,
part of which will hire a needed
mechanic.
As utilities, health care, retirement, and other expenses
increase faster than state aid,
schools have had to make up
the difference by cutting jobs
and programs, reducing salaries,
drawing down reserves, or raising taxes.
If Voorheesville made no cuts
and attempted to fill next year’s
gap through taxes alone, speaking hypothetically, Diefenbach
said the district would have to
raise the tax levy by 7.58 percent.
“I can’t speak for the board of
education, but something like
that we wouldn’t even consider
it,” said Diefenbach, explaining
the figure was meant to illustrate
the district’s dilemma.
A 1-percent increase in taxes
raises about $156,000 for the
district, he said.
A new state law passed last
year limits the amount a school
district can increase tax levy
through a state designed formula; the cap can be surpassed with
60 percent of the public vote.
Though the law has been
commonly referred to as “the
2-percent tax-cap law,” said
Diefenbach, it’s actually a complicated calculation allowing for
exemptions. Though Voorheesville complied with the law in
the current year, it still increased
taxes by 2.43 percent and the
projected tax cap for the 201314 year could be as high as 3.8
percent.
“The tax cap has been introduced; this is the second year
it’s in place and it has been very
problematic,” said Diefenbach.
Unfunded mandates
and the GEA
Two of the major challenges
facing Voorheesville and many
school districts are unfunded
mandates and the gap elimination adjustment law.
Unfunded mandates are mandatory state and federal programs local schools must comply
with and pay for.
Diefenbach presented to board
members a list of dozens of unfunded mandates Voorheesville
pays for. The mandates include
several audits, performance
reviews, record-keeping, plan
preparedness, security, and
educational programming, to
name a few.
“Although most are supported
by the majority of the educational community, the reality is that
each mandate requires a variety
of resources: administrative,
clerical, and financial,” wrote
Snyder and Diefenbach in their
joint report to the board.
“Audits, for example: We have
an external audit, internal audit,
claims audit, Medicare audit, an
IRS audit, an audit by the state
comptroller’s office,” said Diefenbach in response to a board
member’s query.
Presenting a 2012 survey by
the New York Association of
School Business Officials, Diefenbach reported that, on average,
unfunded mandates cost schools
3.29 percent of their budgets or
an average of about $1.6 million
per district.
The report said the three most
expensive unfunded mandates
for all schools are the Annual
Professional Performance Reviews, where teachers must be
evaluated in part by student
test scores; the Triborough
Amendment, which allows school
employees to get contractual
raises even if their contract has
expired; and Wicks Law, which
requires government construction projects, over $500,000
upstate, to have separate contractors for plumbing, heating,
and electrical work. The three
programs account for a third of
all unfunded mandate spending,
over $383 million statewide, the
report stated.
While Diefenbach said some of
the unfunded mandates represented important programs, he
said schools should be allowed
to address them locally, which
would make spending more efficient depending on each district’s
needs.
Another issue Diefenbach
raised with the board was the
Gap Elimination Adjustment
law introduced when David Patterson was governor, which took
back aid to close the state budget
gap and was initially intended to
be a temporary measure.
“Basically, the law takes money
and redistributes it throughout
the state. It takes a piece of everybody’s state aid,” said Diefenbach. He said Voorheesville had
lost between $2 million and $3
million to the adjustment since
it was implemented.
“This is a horrible thing school
districts are facing, and I’m not
saying poorer schools shouldn’t
get help, but how the distribution goes and how it’s handed
out needs to be looked at,” said
Diefenbach.
Snyder pointed out that the
amount was about the same as
Voorheesville’s aid shortfall in
the last two years.
“If they just gave us that back,
we wouldn’t have to be making
decisions about budget cuts,”
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to use the 790-seat venue, along
with any other related costs such
as custodial, technical or foodservice support.
Though the district failed to
make any money off the recent
performance Snyder said the
media attention from the show
had resulted in “an enormous
number of calls” about renting
the space.
On April 12 and 13, the Northeastern District Barbershop
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— Passed a resolution in
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Bye. Bye has served the district
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could change.
“When we first started the
process, we assumed we’d get 0
percent. It’s early, we’re starting
to put things together, but really
we’re waiting to see what happens,” she said.
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In other business the board:
— Heard from Snyder, that
reported the district broke even
in revenues from the Broadway
tribute band, Beatlemania Again,
that performed Feb. 2 at the
Lydia Tobler Theater.
The district has been exploring alternative revenue options
to help avoid cuts to educational
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Claire Levy, a member of Guilderland’s varsity gymnastics team, tells the school board, of which her mother is a member, about the importance of the sport as her teammates,
all dressed in red, the school color, listen. Cutting the gymnastics team would save $11,147. It is one of a long list of possible cuts being considered to close a $2.1 million revenue
gap.
...A long, lithe red line of varsity gymnasts plead their case to school board
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The superintendent, Marie
Wiles, will present her budget
on Feb. 28. The board then must
adopt a final spending proposal
for the 2013-14 school year before
the budget goes to public vote on
May 21.
Cutting the gymnastics team
would save $11,147 and only four
Suburban Council schools still
have varsity gymnastics teams,
participants at last week’s budget forum were told. (To learn
more, read an in-depth Feb. 7,
2013 story — “GCSD to citizens:
‘What should we cut?’” — online
at www.AltamontEnterprise.com,
which lists the proposed cuts and
the rationale behind them.)
The gymnasts told the school
board Tuesday of the opportunities the sport had given them, not
just for competition but for everything from fitting into high school
to pursuing college goals. Sidney
Snyder told of how volunteering
to teach at gymnastics camp
led to her getting a job. Several
mentioned their competition at
the state level.
Last year, Guilderland’s team
ranked fifth in the state.
There is no modified or juniorvarsity gymnastics team at
Guilderland, and several of the
athletes talked about mentoring
younger team members.
Steve Wider, a 2004 Guilderland graduate who serves as
assistant coach, told of how the
girls set up 100 pounds of equipment before each practice and
endure quarter-sized blisters.
“Imagine the courage it takes
to be upside down 10 feet in the
air,” he said. “Every day, these
girls fall over and over again but
they always pick themselves up
and get it right.”
Coach Goodknight said she
had been on Guilderland’s gymnastics team in the 1980s and
went on to be captain of the
team at the University of Albany,
where she earned her bachelor’s
degree.
She noted that the team’s
booster club had purchased
equipment used by the town
of Guilderland’s recreational
program.
“We are not a struggling
program,” Goodknight told the
board, noting she has to make
cuts every year to keep the team
at 16 athletes.
Finally, Lori McCutcheon, the
mother of one of the gymnasts,
noted how students at Westmere
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Monica Kounter and Elizabeth
Bunday urged the board not to
outsource physical therapy. At
the close of the meeting, the
board’s vice president, Gloria
Towle-Hilt, said that she thought
the “personal relationships” that
physical therapists on the staff
build with students is important
“Imagine the courage it takes to be
upside down 10 feet in the air.”
Elementary, where she worked as
a substitute teacher, were excited
to use the gymnasts’ equipment.
The effect of the team goes “beyond those on the roster,” said
McCutcheon.
“The older girls take the
younger under their wing,” she
said, noting the gymnasts are
positive role models for young
female athletes.
She said that her seventhgrade daughter had learned
to set both personal and team
goals and had gained athletic
skills and confidence by being
on the team.
“Please do not cut this wonderful sports program for girls,”
McCutcheon concluded. “It’s a
legacy and a Guilderland tradition.”
At the end of the night, several
of the board members said they
supported keeping the gymnastics team. Board President Colleen O’Connell said she would
e-mail information to the board
members, once she hears back
from Athletic Director Regan
Johnson, on how much of his recommendation was based on the
fact only four Suburban Council
gymnastic teams remain.
for their progress and that would
be lost with outsourcing.
Rose Levy said the change
“wouldn’t be much of a savings.” Contracting for physical
therapy services would save
about $9,000.
Two Westmere kindergarten
teachers, Jennifer Krell and Amy
McFarren, spoke out against the
kindergarten students.
McFarren calculated that the
reduction would total 36,000 lost
minutes of help that students
need to thrive.
Five board members — TowleHilt, Levy, Barbara Fraterrigo,
Christine Hayes, and Judy Slack
— urged keeping current number of kindergarten teaching
assistants.
Student Paul Pernacchia
spoke with delight that he might
be able to study Italian next year.
He noted that 50 percent of New
York’s population — including
his father — has Italian heritage. After learning some basic
phrases from his father, he tried
teaching himself, which was difficult, he said.
“When I heard they were to
offer Italian in the high school, I
was pumped,” said Pernacchia.
Two board members were less
enthused. O’Connell and Allan
Simpson, while not opposed to
Italian, worried about starting
a new program. In recent years,
Guilderland has offered French,
Spanish, and German.
When students were polled on
their interests, about 60 wanted
to study Italian. One section is
planned, for which students will
be chosen by lottery, said Wiles.
Since a current teacher is certi-
“The hard part for us is the transition…
There’s serious mourning that’s
happening in the school.”
recommendation to cut eight
kindergarten teaching assistants
to save $232,200 next year. “Peer
interactions are not always
safe or appropriate,” said Krell,
noting that one person can’t
adequately oversee 22 or more
fied to teach Italian, there would
be no added costs for next year.
Fraterrigo said she was “delighted” that Italian would be
offered. She recalled, years earlier, when the board received a
petition with 700 signatures,
requesting Italian be taught.
Fraterrigo, vacationing out
of town, participated in the
meeting through a computer
hook-up. She initiated the board
members’ sharing their thoughts
on the proposed cuts so that the
superintendent would have “a
feel from us.”
Wiles said that, as in previous budgets, each item would
be weighed to see which is “least
damaging” to students. Guilderland, faced with stagnant aid
and increasing costs as well as
a tax-levy cap last year, has cut
about 120 jobs in the last three
years.
“There is no magic to it,” said
Wiles.
Advisory period
High school math teacher
Mark Rudolph spoke passionately to the board about the value
of the advisory period that was
cut this year.
With class sizes up and teachers pulled in all directions, he
said, “This year is the most difficult” in his 15-year career.
The 85-minute advisory period
had been part of the high school’s
block schedule. Every other day,
it allowed students and teachers
across the school to be free at the
same time so that students could
make up work, get extra help, or
participate in club activities.
Without the advisory period,
Rudolph said, there was no time
to ask thought-provoking questions. In the shorter, after-school
periods, he said, “I find myself
shoveling out information,” often
with only about three minutes for
each student.
The “cherished” conversations
are gone and he hasn’t gotten to
know the strengths and weaknesses of his students, he said.
Rudolph reported that students
say “they feel misplaced” and
both students and teachers are
frustrated as student-teacher
bonds are suffering.
Responding to concerns raised
by Rose Levy, the board spent
about an hour discussing the
advisory period.
Wiles estimated that eliminating the advisory period saved
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...As GCSD works to close $2.1M gap, teachers, parents, students speak out
roughly a million dollars. The
current district budget is $89
million.
With the elimination of the advisory period, an after-school period was instituted and learning
centers were set up for students
to get help during study halls.
Levy said that, two weeks ago,
she casually asked a teacher how
it was going without the advisory
period. Levy forwarded many of
the e-mails she received on the
subject to the other board members, saying that teachers are
concerned with students’ struggling. “I didn’t feel anyone was
complaining,” said Levy.
She asked if the scheduling
change had helped balance class
sizes, as predicted, and if it had
allowed students to take more
courses.
Thomas Lutsic, the high school
principal, said the change did
help balance class sizes by allowing more scheduling flexibility.
Aaron Sicotte, an assistant
principal, said that just over
10 percent of Guilderland High
School students this past semester took an eighth course. In
years past he said, no one had
been able to. “I imagine not a
third of our students requested
an eighth course,” he said.
Sicotte, echoing Rudolph’s
comments, said of cutting the
advisory period, “Everybody
saw it as a loss. The reality is,
we can’t schedule it…without a
whole lot more staff.”
He also said, “The reality is
we were one of very few schools
in the state to have an advisory.”
Yet other schools have robust
clubs and students working
with teachers outside of class,
Sicotte said.
“The hard part for us is
the transition…There’s serious
mourning that’s happening in
the school,” he said.
Lutsic said that the high
school’s building cabinet is
monitoring the situation and
exploring alternatives. “We’re
open to solutions. We’re open to
input,” he said, calling it “a work
in progress.”
Kerry Dineen, a music teacher at Pine Bush Elementary School,
told the school board on Tuesday that she is “very discouraged,”
not just with budget cuts but with the way cuts are being made
at a “flat 5 percent.” She said that “doesn’t create a level playing
field.”
Board member Catherine Barber asked if block scheduling —
with a few, long periods each day
rather than many short ones — is
popular among schools.
“It’s a mix,” said Lutsic, noting
a schedule like Guilderland’s was
most popular in the late 1990s.
Sicotte noted that, in the past
four years, Guilderland High
School has looked at schedules
twice. “There’s no perfect high
school schedule,” he said. He
also said that Guilderland is
“fairly unique” in offering learning centers.
“We’ve got a lot to learn,”
he said, noting the cabinet is
reluctant to make wholesale
changes.
“It wasn’t a choice we wanted
to make…If you’re used to driving a luxury car, stepping back
to an economy car is difficult,”
said Slack. “We have to recognize
the realities of where we are…
Let’s make the best of what
we’ve got.”
Process and philosophy
Two of those addressing the
board Tuesday night raised procedural concerns.
Kerry Dineen, a music teacher
at Pine Bush Elementary School,
said she was “very discouraged,”
“It wasn’t a choice
we wanted to make…
If you’re used to
driving a luxury car,
stepping back to
an economy car
is difficult.”
Paul Pernacchia tells the school board on Tuesday that he would
love to study Italian when he gets to the high school. “When I heard
they were to offer Italian in the high school, I was pumped,” said
Pernacchia. Two school board members raised concerns about
starting a new program.
Mark Rudolph, a Guilderland High School math teacher,
expresses concerns over the cutting of the advisory period this
year, a move which the superintendent estimated saved about $1
million on an $89 million budget. Without the advisory period,
Rudolph said, there was no time to ask thought-provoking questions. In the shorter, after-school periods, he said, “I find myself
shoveling out information,” often with only about three minutes
for each student.
Learning centers were set up
in the high school so that students could get help from teachers, not necessarily their own,
during study halls. The math and
science learning centers are used
“quite a bit,” said Lutsic, and
the English and social studies
centers not as much.
Levy cited an e-mail from a
teacher saying just two students
had come to one center all year.
“Now they’re sitting there for 80
minutes doing nothing,” she said
of teachers, noting time is not
being used effectively.
Also, Levy noted, each teacher
at a center isn’t equipped to help
with every subject so, for example, a student may not be able to
get help in biology at the science
center if the teacher staffing the
center knows only physics.
Lutsic urged “giving it more
time.”
not just with the cutting but with
the way cuts are being made at
a “flat 5 percent.”
She said that “doesn’t create a
level playing field.”
Dineen called the proposed
cuts to kindergarten teaching
assistants ridiculous and irresponsible and said, “As a district,
we haven’t set priorities.”
Criticizing recent and proposed cuts in music, Dineen,
noting research that shows the
importance of music education,
concluded, “If we were a datadriven school, as we claim to be,
we’d be investing in music.”
At the end of the meeting,
several board members talked
about the importance of music.
Lori Herchenhart, instructional
supervisor for music, had explained during last week’s forum,
that, to come up with the require
5-percent cut, she had wanted
to save the teaching posts so
she cut equipment, repairs, and
conferences for a total savings of
about $34,000.
She also proposed cutting a
tenth of a post in sixth- and
seventh-grade music to save
$5,150, and half a post for instrumental lessons at the high
school, to save $25,750.
Fraterrigo on Tuesday night
commented that it is “shortsighted” to eliminate the budget
to repair instruments.
Jennifer Charron praised
the recent pops concert, noting
such performances are free to
the public. “These students are
the reason we’re a top music
district,” she said.
Towle-Hilt said she is concerned that music has “taken a
number of hits.” She said, “It is
such a shining star and affects
so many kids.”
“What is really valuable in
terms of our graduates and
where employment is?” asked
Barber. She said that math
and science would give graduates more options and that the
United States is “not stacking
up that well” in those fields. “It
seems like we’re narrowing options at high levels,” she said.
O’Connell countered that
middle-school students don’t get
to take accelerated courses in
English and social studies like
they do in math and science.
“We still need people who
speak in public, who can write
for websites or something more
old-fashioned,” she said.
Timothy Burke addressed the
board, saying he was pleased
to see such a crowd but it was
“almost too late.”
He criticized the recent urgings of Guilderland school leaders to advocate for the district by
pressing the governor for more
state aid to schools.
“The only solution is not requesting more money,” Burke
said. “Other districts need it far
more than we do,” he said, naming some that are in “desperate
straits.”
Burke said the solution comes
down to collective bargaining,
compromise, and higher taxes.
He spoke of the “noose collective bargaining has around our
neck” and said that temporary
concessions can be a “big threat,”
dropped at any time.
Referring to the assistant
superintendent for human
resources presiding over an annual awards ceremony for staff,
Burke said at first he thought it
was nice she “gives everyone a
hug and kiss.” Then, he thought,
“Oh, my god, she sits at our
bargaining table.”
Burke concluded that going
“hat in hand” to the governor is
fruitless. “When you ask these
kids…to write letters, you send
them on a fool’s errand,” he said.
Rather, what is needed, Burke
said, are concessions “that are
real and permanent.”
Soon after, Wiles gave a report to the board on two recent
regional gatherings on school
funding. The first, on Jan. 31, in
East Greenbush, was attended
by 1,500 people from 47 school
districts, she said, and focused
on three things — ending the
gap elimination adjustment,
which takes money from each
district’s aid to balance the state
budget; attaining adequate and
equitable funds from the state;
and securing meaningful mandate relief.
The second meeting, on Monday, in Niskayuna, featured a
“how to” approach to achieve
those goals, she said.
Wiles concluded, addressing
those at the meeting as well as
those listening to the broadcast,
“If you have not yet written your
advocacy letter, do so. It does
make a difference.”
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...Good skates: Harris twins take to the ice with different forms, winning ways
into a bun. “I don’t necessarily
like all of the attention on me,
but, when my program is over
and everyone claps, it makes me
feel pretty good.”
Ellen looked nervous before
her routine, fidgeting her hands
and shaking a little. She had
practiced her program countless
times, but said that her memory
isn’t perfect.
“My hands were sweating, but that’s normal,
it’s OK,” Ellen said after her
skating was over. “I don’t want
to mess up.”
Some figure skaters get anxious to the point of nausea, but
Ellen has never dealt with that
extreme. Her mother, Cathy Cenci, said she’s nervous whenever
she watches Ellen skate.
“I give these skaters a lot of
credit,” Cenci said. “I don’t know
how they get out there in front
of everyone.”
Cenci used the word “lovely”
to describe how her daughter
skates. Ellen flashed a huge
smile and put her arm around
her mother.
“She skated beautifully,” said
Cenci. “She did so very well.”
Ellen was pleased with her performance, too. The previous day,
during practice, she fell and hit
her head and shoulder, but she
said she was fine on Friday.
“The Swan” is a slow, graceful
classical music number. Ellen
doesn’t like to skate to fast, jittery music. “I like that slower
style,” she said. “I like pretty
music. I tried staking to fast
music, but it doesn’t work.”
A group of younger girls also
representing the Albany Figure
Skating Club at the Games, came
to greet Ellen after her winning
Skating away from the competition: Ben Harris, of Slingerlands, skates away from some of his competitors last Friday in the 500-meter speedskating event at the Empire State Games in Lake Placid.
“You couldn’t really see anything,
but this is Lake Placid and it’s snowing.
This is pretty cool.”
Racing through the flurries: Last Friday evening, Ben Harris,
15, of Slingerlands, competes in the 500-meter track event on the
Olympic Oval in Lake Placid during last weekend’s Empire State
Games. Harris won Bronze in the 500-meter Scholastic Men’s short
track on Sunday.
Graceful landing: During last Friday’s Pre-Juvenile Test Track
Free Skate event at the Empire State Games, Ellen Harris lands
a jump. She beat out four other competitors to take home a Gold
medal.
program. They were really excited to see her, and she seemed
like a star.
Speedster
Ben Harris won Bronze in
the Scholastic Men 500-meter
short-track speed skating final
inside Olympic Center over the
weekend, but he was part of a
snowy scene during the longtrack races last Friday outside
on the Olympic Oval.
It was bitterly cold, and heavy
snow was starting to envelop the
speedskating oval. Ben had
racing glasses, but it was still
hard for him to see. He raced in
800, 500, and 100 preliminary
heats.
During Ben’s 500-meter heat,
he fell around the second turn.
However, he finished the race
with a smile. Ben prefers shorttrack, and this was just his
second time competing in longtrack.
“I was on my outside left edge
and I was about to cross over,”
said Ben after the race. He was
using his short-track boots and
blades. “I must have hit a dig in
the ice,” he said. “Skating in the
snow is pretty fun.”
It was a winter wonderland.
“You couldn’t really see anything, but this is Lake Placid and
it’s snowing,” said Ben. “This is
pretty cool.”
Ben’s name is on a plaque
for Most Improved Skater from
2011. Win or lose, he’s forever
engrained in Lake Placid.
Speed skating is all about
technique, Ben said. “You can be
the most physically fit man out
there, but, if you don’t have the
correct rock or bend in your boots
or blades, it’s impossible to do
well,” he said. “I have potential,
so I’m pursuing this sport.”
Custom boots can cost upwards
of $1,300, and custom blades up
to $300. Ben got his blades from
a friend who stopped skating, so
they were relatively cheap. Ben
sharpens his own blades.
“After this, I’m definitely going to sharpen them,” Ben said
of preparing for his short-track
races on Saturday. “The ice out
here is grueling, gritty, and all
screwed up.”
The long-track races continued despite the snowstorm, and
Ellen, fresh off her Gold medal,
stood outside in the frigid cold to
cheer on her twin brother. But,
Ellen did find time to take a shot
at her brother.
“All you’re doing is skating in
circles,” she said to Ben. “Figure
skating isn’t as fast, but it takes
a lot of control and skill.”
What if the twins switched
skates?
“She’d be a lot better at speed
skating then I would be at figure-skating,” Ben said. “It’s the
blade difference; I just couldn’t
do it. I’d be falling forward and
backward.”
Also, Ben would have to dress
fancy for figure-skating, which
is something he would rather
not do.
“I’d whup his butt in this,”
Ellen said.
Ben Harris rolled his eyes and
walked away. Ellen followed.
Figure skating results
Here are the results of local figure skaters who were representing the Albany Figure Skating
Club at the Empire State Winter
Games last weekend:
–– Clare Crosland, Delmar,
second place, Beginner Free
Skate;
–– Kate Molinsek, Delmar,
third place, Beginner Free
Skate;
–– Ryan Vis, Delmar, second
place, Pre-Preliminary Boys Free
Skate; and
–– Jing Jing Wu, Delmar, third
place, Preliminary Well Balanced
Free Skate.
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Empire State Games
Adirondack women’s hockey, Tullock glide to Gold
Intensity: On Friday morning, Susan Tullock, of Guilderland,
took to the ice along with her teammates as they successfully
competed to defend the team’s Gold medal from last year’s Empire
State Games. Here, Tullock looks to make a play during the first
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Adirondack led, 10 to 0, after time to practice before the
LAKE PLACID –– The Adiron- the second period. During inter- Games, but the team already
dack women’s hockey team spent mission, the referee asked the has enough capacity to succeed.
most of last weekend thrashing scorekeeper if there were a mercy There’s a purpose to every posopponents on its way to a success- rule. The other referee chimed in, session.
“You just have to get to the puck
ful Empire State Winter Games saying, “Just start the clock fast
first,” Tullock said. “We’re going
Gold medal defense. Over five and stop it slow.”
The Adirondack team is formed in deep every single time.”
games, Adirondack scored 43
With 2:30 minutes left in regufrom a cluster –– Canton, St.
goals while allowing only five.
The celebratory ride started Lawrence, Clarkson, Potsdam, lation play, Long Island scored
last Friday morning with a 15- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, its lone goal. An Adirondack
to-1 whiplashing of Long Island, and Union College –– of hockey defender slid behind goalie Chand closed with a 5-to-2 victory talent. Most of the Adirondack antel Johnston to try and stop
over Western. Silver medalist women played college hockey at the puck, but was too late. There
would be no shutout, but the 14New York City gave Adirondack a very competitive level.
“We play hockey the same way, goal lead was more than safe.
a fight, losing by two goals.
“If you’re domiGuilderland’s
nating, you can be
Susan Tullock and
more creative,” said
coaches Jim Joyce
Rosoff. “It depends
and Corey Rosoff
on who you’re playhave been with Ad“Even though the score is out of hand,
ing.”
irondack for at least
The rink was
10 years while the
we don’t do silly things.
quiet minus a loud
team has stacked
We’re trying to improve our skills
Long Island husGold and Silver medand play as a team.”
band barking from
als. Year after year,
the stands. When
Adirondack is the
the buzzer sounded,
cream of the hockey
Adirondack skated
crop at the Games.
off as humble win“Eh, a little crazy,
ners. The team won
huh?” said Tullock
its remaining four
after the lopsided
game against Long Island. She’s whenever or whoever we play,” games and kept the Adirondack’s
one of the core veterans along- said Tullock, who played Divison Gold.
“This is fun,” Tullock said.
side Danielle Lennox, Andrea I at Boston College, graduating
Kilbourne-Hill, Christin Powers, in 1995. “Everyone has a good “I get to play with unbelievable players. I like watching
and Jessica Nugent. “We just amount of knowledge.”
The forecheck was working what they do because they do
play well,” Tullock said. “Even
though the score is out of hand, very well against Long Island. it well.”
Women’s hockey has grown imwe don’t do silly things. We’re Adirondack puts two players on
trying to improve our skills and the puck, and a third player is re- mensely since Tullock graduated
sponsible for the puck if the first from Boston College. Adirondack
play as a team.”
Long Island was giving Adiron- two can’t get it. The puck stayed reaps the benefits when Division
dack tons of space on the ice to on the Adirondack players’ sticks I players graduate and join the
team.
pass the puck around. Also, the for most of the game.
“The talent pool has doubled
“We spend at least 10 seconds
goalie was struggling.
“We’re just trying to win the talking about our forecheck with speed and everything,” said
periods,” said Rosoff, who previ- before every game,” Rosoff said. Tullock, who plays in a men’s
ously coached boys’ hockey at “It’s our players’ skill level that league from time to time. “There’s
Plattsburgh High School for 20 creates the forecheck. It’s pretty really no advice at this juncture,
but the veterans try to keep the
years. “Once these ladies hit the simple: Pressure the puck.”
Adirondack didn’t have much team on track.”
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Leading the rush up the ice is Susan Tullock during team Adirondack’s 15-to-1 win over Long Island
during the first game of the Women’s Hockey event at the Empire State Games held this past weekend
in Lake Placid. Tullock, of Guilderland, came home with Gold.
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14
From A Single Blade...
Roosa Takes Second In 20K
Getting ready: On Saturday morning, Darwin
Roosa, of Altamont, waxes
his cross-country skis in
preparation for the 20K
Classic Empire State
Games event at Mount
Van Hoevenburg in Lake
Placid.
Grace on ice: During her routine, Gina DiNapoli, of Delmar,
places her right fingers on her right skate blade as she bends
with her left arm fully extended while balancing on her left
blade. She performed in the Senior Ladies 6.0 event Saturday
afternoon at the Empire State Games in Lake Placid.
She Skates Her Way...
Game face: Gina DiNapoli, of Delmar, competes in the Senior
Ladies 6.0 event on Saturday afternoon in the Lake Placid
rink built for the 1980 Olympics.
An uphill trek: Darwin Roosa, of Altamont,
climbs the hill on the
cross-country track at
the Olympic Sports Complex.
...Into The Top Four
Splitting the air: Gina DiNapoli jumps in the air as she
performs her routine during last Saturday’s Senior Ladies
6.0 event in the Empire State Games figure-skating event.
DiNapoli finished fourth.
Classic form: Darwin Roosa glides through the snow on his way to capturing a Silver medal in
the Men’s 20K Classic on Saturday afternoon with a time of 1:34.45 at Mount Van Hoevenburg
in Lake Placid.
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‘The kid is fearless’ says Ben Irving’s slopestyle ski coach
decent runs, but the ending of doesn’t kill the budget.”
those runs were unfortunate. The
WILMINGTON –– Freeskiing
Urban Rails
bindings were, in a sense, too safe
has taken the slopes by storm,
Irving and his friends call
for this situation. It was a hard their local ventures Urban Rails,
and Ben Irving is right in the
lesson learned.”
thick of the snow. As a fifthwhich would most likely be the
Irving was hoping to make a name of the film if it were ever
grader, he watched the Winter
name for himself at the Games. finished. Jost said he messed
X-Games and was immediately
He’s trying to accumulate enough around in Burlington, Vt. when
hooked. Irving, now 15, wanted
points this season to attend the he was attending the University
to land the big tricks like the
United States of America Snow- of Vermont.
athletes he saw on television.
board AssociaDuring that initial viewing of
“You have
tion nationals
one of the world’s most important
to talk to
in Colorado.
freeskiing competitions, Irving,
the right
“A lot of the
of Altamont, saw skiers like
people,” Jost
“Steezy,”
time, I clear
Simon Dumont and Tanner Hall
said of pullis another way of saying
my mind and
landing mesmerizing stunts on
ing tricks on
don’t think
skies with curves on both ends.
“dope” or “rad” or “epic.” public or priof anything,”
At last month’s X-Games, Irving
vate propersaid Irving of
watched as Henrik Harlaut won
ty. “I mean,
approaching a
a Gold medal with his “nose butyou can just
jump. “I just know what I need go for it, but you’ll probably be
ter” maneuvers.
to do. It’s all in my muscles. Ev- told to leave.”
Irving was influenced by Harerything is there; I just need to
laut while practicing his nose
Freeskiers share the same doremember.”
butter 540 last Saturday at
it-yourself outlook as snowboardMrs. Irving said that she’ll ers. They hock shovels on their
Whiteface Mountain in preparadrive her son “just about any- shoulders and hike to that pertion for Sunday’s Empire State
where” to compete, or to check out fect spot to build a jump. They do
Winter Games slopestyle event.
local spots where Irving and his it for love and adventure. SnowHe landed the trick the previous
buddies can build jumps or pull boarders and freeskiers share a
weekend at Windham Mountain
tricks. Irving said his friend’s culture of being unordinary.
during another competition.
mother works at Siena College,
A nose butter is when the skier
“We’ll get looks from the older
so he’s been eyeing rails there. folks, like, ‘What are they doing?’”
leans on the tips of his skies,
He wants to make videos of his said Irving, who wears baggy,
starting to spin before leaving
freeskiing endeavors.
the jump. Snow sprays as the
stylish gear. “We don’t get a lot
“I have enough confidence in of respect from the traditional
skier flies through the air.
The Enterprise — Jordan J. Michael
Ben’s athleticism and ability to skiers.”
Making the X-Games is a
High as the trees: Altamont’s Ben Irving gets huge air while
support him and not be nervous
tough goal to achieve, but Irving
“All one love”
practicing last Saturday for the Empire State Winter Games slopeabout him getting hurt,” said
has a lot of time ahead of him.
Snowboarding slopestyle comstyle skiing event at Whiteface Mountain. Irving, 15, attempted a
Mrs. Irving. “I don’t get overly petitions came before freeskiing
“I want to have all of that
540-degree spin here, and then competed on Sunday. An equipment
invested. I want him to have fun. ones. Where would freeskiing be
coverage and meet super good
problem with his bindings tarnished his chances of a medal.
He’s learned a lot, and has goals. without snowboarding?
people,” said Irving on Saturday,
Everything is OK as long as he
sitting easy on a chair inside
“Who’s to say?” said Jost. “EvWhiteface’s lodge. “I want to Washburn would need a good
eryone started picking up snowconsider myself in that realm, waxing for Sunday.
boarding and taking it to new
having people watch me on TV. It
limits, and then skiing started
“It’s amazing for shredding,”
would be the coolest thing.”
to sneak back in.”
Jost said of the fresh snow. Out
Jonny Jost, Irving’s coach, re- West, it’s all powder all the time.
“First, skiers stole tricks from
members, when he was growing “It’s been an amazing morning,
snowboarders,” Irving added.
up, watching skiers like Seth but the park is slow,” he said.
“Now, snowboarders are stealing
Morrison and Shane McConkey. “We’re trying to dial in on the
stuff from us.”
Morrison and McConkey were speed.”
Freeskiers and snowboarders
the first skiers to become popular
share the terrain and a state of
For the slopestyle competition
for vastly pushing the limits.
mind.
at Whiteface on Sunday, skiers
“They did the craziest things on were judged on maneuvers per“In the end, its all one love,”
skies, like hucking entire cliffs,” formed from three jumps and
Jost said.
said Jost, who was raised by ski two separate rail/object sections.
It’s all about landing that
patrollers in
huge
stunt.
Jost said that the
Old Forge. “I’ve
“I love how stoked everyone is
judges would be
been skiing
when they land that new trick,”
looking for ski“They did the
since I could
Irving said. “When you land
ers who can spin
walk. It’s been
something you’ve never landed
both ways off of a
craziest things
part of my life
before, it’s the best feeling.”
jump.
on skies,
since day one.”
When a stunt is visually apIrving told The
By trade,
pealing in freeskiing, it’s usually
like hucking
Enterprise that
Jost is a big
referred to as “steezy,” which is
he wanted to land
entire cliffs.”
mountain skianother way of saying “dope” or
switch, or backer, but he can
“rad” or “epic.” Jost thinks that
wards, off the first
throw down
Irving’s style is pretty steezy, as
rail, then ride in
Flying off the rail at Whiteface Mountain last Saturday is Ben
tricks when he needs to. He’s backwards for a 540 off the first
well as that nose butter 540 he’s
Irving, of Altamont, who competed in the Empire State Winter
been living in Colorado, but came jump, then spin right for a 360 on
been landing lately.
Games skiing slopestyle event on Sunday. Skiers in a slopestyle
back last November to teach kids the second jump, and then throw
“I believe Ben has the drive to
competition are judged on tricks pulled off jumps and objects, like
the ropes. Jost will move back to a front flip on the last jump. He
get as far as he wants as long as
this rail. Irving finished in 14th place.
Colorado in March.
he works hard,” said Jost, who
wasn’t sure of his plans for the
“Jonny has taught me how to bottom rail section.
had a black eye from a failed
stay squared up for jumps,” said
trick attempt earlier in the day.
“The rails here are pretty
Irving. “Before, I had this mental- tough,” said Irving of Whiteface.
“The kid is fearless. You tell him
ity to just go for the biggest spin, “It depends on the mountain.”
to do something and he goes for
and I set myself way back. Now,
it. He doesn’t over-think it. If he
In a bind
I keep myself square.”
doesn’t land it, he’ll hike right
Jost said that Irving would
Since training with Jost, Irving
back up the hill and try it again.
has landed some excellent stunts have a chance to medal in the
That’s huge and what this sport
like a front flip. Jost says that 13-to 15-year-old age group,
is all about.”
freeskiing is one of the fastest which had 15 participants, if he
X-Games athletes are beyond
progressing sports. A front flip landed all of his tricks. Irving
courageous. They make tricks
is standard. Still, a front flip is came in 14th place with a score
look so easy, but that didn’t haphuge, and Irving landed a few of 2.80 after an equipment failpen overnight.
ure with his bindings kept him
on Saturday.
Irving is a pretty laid-back guy,
“This is being taken to new from completing the bottom rail
but outgoing at the same time.
heights and new levels,” Jost section. Washburn came in 11th
When he listens to the Wu Tang
said of freeskiing. “Ben is a guy with a score of 3.70.
Clan while going though a park
Irving had an issue with his
who has the heart and wants to
run, he feels like a thug. He feels
do this stuff. I tell him how to be DIN (the Deutsches Institut fur
like a steeze.
patient when you catch the air Normung sets the standard for
“Basically, we’re telling the
and throw a trick. He does it, and ski bindings), which is the stanworld that we don’t take ourdard for the release settings on
that’s where the joy comes in.”
selves too seriously,” Jost said.
Irving, Jost, and Stephan the ski bindings. The DIN setting
“We have the most fun.”
Washburn, Irving’s friend from is determined by a combination
There’s this weird silence
Malta, were blissful on Saturday. of the skier’s height, weight,
right before the competition
The weather was near perfect, boot length, and skiing ability.
starts, Jost said. Everybody in
sun shinning bright. Whiteface Adjusting the DIN determines
the freeskiing sector is friendly
had a fresh coat of powder from a how much force is required for
and hyped, but everyone gets
snowstorm that dropped a foot of the bindings to move and release
focused and quiet when medals
snow from Friday into Saturday from the ski boot. Irving’s DIN
are on the line.
was too low to handle the power
morning.
“When it’s competition time,
However, powder can make caused by his front-flip landing
I’m all business,” said Irving. “I
Tuck and roll: A snowboarder tries an inverted trick off a jump
the park terrain slower than on the final jump.
may not seem that way when
at Whiteface Mountain last Saturday. The Empire State Winter
“He came home very, very
normal. This is tough for skiers
I’m talking to everyone, but,
Games had numerous skiing and snowboard competitions at
who are used to courses that are frustrated,” said Irving’s mother,
as soon as I drop in, I have my
Whiteface over the weekend. Athletes practiced in the terrain park
consistently groomed. Irving and Maria, on Monday. “He had two
mind set.”
on Saturday.
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Community Calendar
Friday, February 15
“Fish Fry Fridays”: The
New Salem Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting their
annual “Fish Fry Fridays” during lent beginning every Friday
from Feb. 15 through March
22 at 694 New Salem Road,
Voorheesville, from 4:30 to 7
p.m. The dinner includes fresh
haddock fish or fresh homemade
clam strips, homemade coleslaw,
a baked potato or French fries,
and coffee, tea, or lemonade.
Also on the menu is homemade
New England clam chowder, hot
dogs, macaroni and cheese, and
assorted desserts. Adult dinners
are $8 and children’s dinners are
$4.50. If you prefer takeout, call
765-2244.
Sunday
Broiled
Scrod
or Fried
Haddock.
Complete
dinner
Community Coffee visits
Guilderland - You’re invited to
join Senator Cecelia Tkaczyk and
Assembly Woman Patricia Fahy
for the first “Community Coffee” event in Guilderland at the
Capital City Diner, 1709 Western
Avenue, Guilderland, from 9:00
am until 10:30 am. Each month,
Assembly representative for the
109th District, Patricia Fahy
will visit with our communities
and neighbors, while supporting
great local businesses as a part
of “Community Coffee.” This will
be a great way for you to connect with Pat on issues, such as
job creation and education, that
may be of interest to you and
your family. To contact Ms. Fahy
with questions or suggestions,
email her at FahyP@assembly.
state.ny.us.
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February
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Chicken Wing Eggroll - shredded Chicken, Crumbled Bleu Cheese,
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Loaded Potato Bites - Mashed Potatoes with Cheddar Jack Cheese, Bacon, and
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One Dozen Steamed Clams $8.95
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Clams & Shrimp Puttanesca - Anchovies, Kalamata Olives, diced Tomatoes
and Cherry Peppers. Served over Angel Hair. $19.95
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Capers, and Oregano. Served over Spinach. $17.95
Lobster Mac n’ Cheese - Four Cheese baked Shells. $19.95
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Molten Lava Cake with a Raspberry sauce $5.95
Raspberry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream $5.25
Pomegranate Parfait with house made Chocolate Chunk Vanilla Ice Cream.
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Rice breaded Chicken Parmesan $11.95
Rice breaded Chicken Marsala $15.95
Eggplant Parmesan $11.95
Louisiana Fudge Cake $4.25
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Brighton Beach Memoirs:
The Classic Theater Guild Inc.
presents two weekends of Neil
Simon’s classic, directed by
Frank Leavitt. The play will
run on Friday, and Saturday
at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2
p.m., at Proctors, 432 State St.,
Schenectady. Tickets are $17.50
for adults and $14.50 for seniors
and students. Call the box office
at 346-6204.
Saturday, February 16
Five Rivers Sets Great
Backyard Bird Count: A program on the Great Backyard Bird
Count at 56 Game Farm Road,
Delmar, will be held from 9 to
10 a.m. At this how-to program,
center naturalists will provide
a brief overview of this citizen
science effort and demonstrate
the easy counting protocol. Afterwards, center staff will lead a
survey of birds at the bird feeders
from the comfort of Five Rivers’
bird viewing lounge, followed by
a short walk along gentle terrain to survey birds outdoors.
Participants will learn how fun
and easy it is to conduct a Great
Backyard Bird Count in their
own backyard, neighborhood, or
park. The program, geared for
the birding novice, is open to the
public free of charge. Call 4750291 for more information.
Snowshoe Adventure: Have
you tried snowshoeing? The
Albany Pine Bush Preserve is a
great place to get started with
this fun sport. Join us for about
a one-mile hike on snowshoes.
We’ll explore the frozen landscape of the Pine Barrens and
learn the basics of snowshoeing.
Snowshoes will be provided to
program participants. If there is
not enough snow on the ground
we will hike without snowshoes.
Meet at the Albany Pine Bush
Discovery Center, 195 New
Karner Road, at 10 a.m. The fee
is $3 per person or $5 per family
and registration is required; call
456-0655.
Voorheesville Fire Department Auxiliary Bottle Drive:
The VFD firehouse, at 12 Altamont Road, will be accepting
returnable bottles and cans from
8 a.m. to noon. The proceeds will
benefit auxiliary community
activities.
Craig M. Loftin, a social historian and author, will discuss the
experiences of gays and lesbians during the McCarthy era and
the Cold War in a lecture at The College of Saint Rose on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985
Madison Ave., Albany. The lecture is free and open to the public.
He wrote two books based on letters written to ONE magazine, the
nation’s first openly gay publication.
Mavens of Mayhem meeting
at the Bethlehem Public Library,
451 Delaware Ave., Delmar, at
10:30 a.m. Author Julia Pomeroy
will talk about her soon-to-bereleased thriller No Safe Ground.
She will discuss how writing a
stand-alone thriller differs from
writing her Abby Silvernale series, as well as how her acting career helped her create characters
Publisher’s Weekly calls “rough
around the edges but expertly
drawn.” Mystery book discussion
will follow. The meeting is free
and open to the public.
Cherry Bake Sale from 8:30
a.m. to noon at the Town Municipal Building in Gallupville,
sponsored by the Gallupville
Methodist Church.
“The Underground Railroad Revisited” at Thacher
Nature Center, 2 p.m. Revisit this
fascinating period in history as
our presenters expose its public
side, the role of African American
Women, the myths vs. reality,
and more. Call 872-0800 for more
information.
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From New York to the White House, New York Residents Who Became President, will open Friday,
Feb. 15, in the lobby of the New York State Museum, on Madison Avenue in Albany, and run through
Sunday, Feb. 17. The exhibit features the original draft of George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address, penned is his hand, as well as pages from a rare volume, above, entitled “A Representation of the
Cloathing of His Majesty’s Household and of all the Forces upon the Establishments of Great Britain
and Ireland, 1742,” a collection of colored engravings given to Washington in 1787. The exhibition will
honor the nation’s first president as well as New York’s political leaders who rose to the presidency,
including Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Venison Stew Dinner at the
Onesquethaw Reformed Church,
11 Groesbeck Road, Feura Bush,
from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The menu
includes venison stew, gelatin
salad, Italian bread with butter,
homemade fruit cobbler, and
assorted beverages. Continuous
servings with a donation. All proceeds will benefit Camp Fowler
Scholarship Funds.
Health Fair – 11 a.m. – 3
p.m. at the Medusa General
Store. Will have a gathering
of local health practitioners,
herbalists, and natural products
vendors. There will be lots of free
healthy samples, as well as lots
of information from Otter Hook
farm on joining a community
supported agricultural program
this year. Questions, please call
239-6980.
Five Rivers Sets Snowshoe
Outing: A “how-to” introduction will be conducted at 56
Game Farm Road, Delmar, at
2 p.m. Snowshoeing is exaggerated walking and is an excellent
form of aerobic activity. During
this indoor/outdoor program,
Five Rivers naturalists will
demonstrate basic snowshoeing
techniques indoors, and then lead
snowshoers along center trails
for some wholesome outdoor exercise, looking for animal tracks,
chewed cones, dens, and other
signs of winter wildlife along the
way. The program is open to the
public free of charge. If there is
insufficient snow, staff will conduct a field foray afoot. In the
event of severe winter weather,
the program may be canceled.
Call 475-0291 to register.
Westerlo Fire Valentine’s
Breakfast: Treat your Valentine
to a Fireman’s Breakfast. The
Westerlo Volunteer Fire Company will be holding a breakfast
from 8 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at the
Modern Woodman’s Hall, County
Route 401, Westerlo. Cost is
Donation.
Carey Center to host Farmer-Brewer Workshop - All day
workshop will focus on NYS
farm-brewing and barley. The
Carey Center for Global Good in
Rensselaerville is hosting a farmer-brewer workshop on growing,
processing and procuring barley
for craft brewing in New York
State. The day-long workshop
will focus on farm-brewing and
barley crop production in New
York State including the initiatives that need to take place in
order to maximize in-state production. The workshop will run
from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
in the Guggenheim Pavilion and
will feature presentations, panel
discussions and opportunities for
networking. Registrations required; $20 includes lunch. Call
518-797-5100 or e-mail rplatel@
careyconferencecenter.org. For
directions and more information,
visit www.careyconferencecenter.
org.
Sunday, February 17
Snow Birds: Should I stay or
should I go? Many birds leave
the Pine Bush for the cold winter
months and fly south. Others
stay year-round, through sun
and rain, sleet and snow. In this
program, we will hike through
the Pine Bush and explore what
birds are active here in the
winter and what resources they
rely on to make it through this
challenging time of year. We’ll
conclude with a simple bird
feeder craft to take home. Dress
in layers! 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.
Snowshoe walk at Thacher
Nature Center – Join us for a
walk on Nature Center trails
through woods and fields. Snowshoes are available to rent and
may be reserved in advance. Call
872-0800 to reserve and register.
Please call ahead to confirm
conditions.
Monday, February 18
Cl e a r w a t e r C hap ter of
Trout Unlimited meeting at
7:30 p.m. at the Albany Ramada
Plaza Hotel, 3 Watervliet Avenue
Extension, Albany. The speaker
will be Adam Franceschini from
Housatonic River Outfitters,
with a presentation on fishing in
the Housatonic and Farmington
River region. Our guest fly tier
will be starting at 6:30 p.m. Don’t
forget to purchase your Hornbeck
canoe raffle tickets this month
before the March 2 banquet.
Admission to the meeting is free
and it is open to the public.
Tuesday, February 19
February Break Craft Workshops: Join us at the Shaker
Heritage Society for a four-part
series of craft workshops for
kids in kindergarten and up.
Participants will learn about
Shaker history while completing
a traditional craft. Each workshop will cost $5 and run from
10:30 to 11:30 a.m., on Feb. 19
through Feb. 22. The cost for all
four workshops is $15. Call 4567890 for more information.
February SONshine Vacation Bible School: Let your children’s school break be filled with
fun and meaning as they learn
about Jesus through brilliant
Bible lessons, cool crafts, great
games, stupendous songs, and
yummy snacks! All this for only
$6 per child. Bible school will
run from Feb. 19 through Feb. 21
from 1 to 4 p.m., and Feb. 21 at 7
p.m., at the Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, 85 Elm Ave., Delmar.
Call 439-4328 to register.
Family Program on Wildlife Ecology at Five Rivers:
An indoor/outdoor introduction
to winter wildlife ecology for
young children will be conducted
at 10 a.m. at 56 Game Farm
Road, Delmar. Many birds and
mammals stay right here during the winter months, awake,
active, and fighting for their
very survival. During this program, Five Rivers naturalists
will provide an indoor overview
of winter survival strategies,
using taxidermy specimens and
other artifacts from the center’s
collection. Afterwards, staff will
lead participants outdoors along
center trails to search for evidence of wildlife activity. Parents
and children must accompany
each other. The program is open
to the public free of charge, but
space is limited; call 475-0291
to register.
Wednesday, February 20
Birding Program for Kids
at Five Rivers: A children’s
introduction to birds and bird
life will be conducted at 56
Game Farm Road, Delmar, at
10 a.m. At this indoor/outdoor
program, center naturalists will
discuss concepts in bird anatomy,
behavior, identification and conservation, which parent and child
can build upon in their own yard
or park. Participants will study
birds at the center’s feeders from
indoors, then venture out along
center trails for a little field
work. Simple, but effective backyard bird conservation strategies
will be discussed. This program
is free of charge, but enrollment
is limited. Parents and children
must accompany each other. Call
475-0291 to register.
The 42nd Annual Antiques Show and Sale is being planned by members of the Tawasentha
Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, including, from left, Claudia
Engelhardt, regent of the Tawasentha Chapter; Heather Lawton, show manager; and Donna Bartlett,
assistant. The show will be held Feb. 16 and 17 at the Academy of the Holy Names, 1075 New Scotland
Road in Albany. The show will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Admission is $5. Homemade food will be available for purchase and antique dealers Heigel
and Schmidt of Ballston Spa will be available for appraisals.
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Out & About
Guilderland YMCA holds Vacation Club
GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland YMCA holds Vacation
Club during the school break
from Feb. 19 to 22.
Participants will explore the
New York State Museum; take a
winter hike by the lake; go tubing at Camp Chingachgook, the
YMCA overnight camp; snowshoe
at the Pinebush Preserve, and ice
skate at the Bethlehem YMCA.
Children will also be able to
do daily activities such as swimming, recreation, arts and crafts,
science experiments, and cooking
projects.
Contact the Guilderland YMCA
to register.
Vendors sought for Go Green Day
— Photo by Sheila O’Shea
Brighton Beach Memoirs, a coming-of-age play by Neil Simon, is being performed by the Classic
Theater Guild at Proctor’s Fenimore Gallery, opening Feb. 15 and running through the weekends of Feb.
15 to 17 and Feb. 21 to 24. Tickets, available through the Proctor’s Box Office at 346-6204, are $17.50
for adults with a three-dollar discount for seniors and students.
Community Calendar
Wednesday, February 20
Soaring & Exploring – The
American Eagle! At the Thacher
Nature Center at 10:00 a.m.
Learn lots of amazing facts about
our national symbol in this special program. Construct paper
replicas of an eagle’s wing, bones,
muscles, and feathers, and take
an eagle’s eye view of scenery
in an activity take home. This is
open to kids ages 6-15. Call 8720800 for more information.
Citizens for Public Transportation meeting, at 7:00
p.m., at Albany Public Library,
161 Washington Avenue, Albany. Dennis Karius and CDTA
will be in attendance. Meeting
topic, “Transportation for Baby
Boomers. Call 436-1944 for more
information.
Bethlehem Historical Association meeting at 2 p.m.
at the Cedar Hill Schoolhouse,
1003 River Road, Selkirk. The
topic is “Lincoln in Albany: The
Strange, Twisted and Mysterious
Connections between New York’s
Capital, Ford’s Theater, and Garrett’s Farm.”
“Guilderland’s Lost Landmarks” a slide talk illustrating
many once familiar structures
that exist today only in photographs will be Mary Ellen Johnson’s program at the Guilderland
Historical Society’s meeting at
the Mynderse-Frederick House,
451 Route 146, Guilderland
Center at 7:30 p.m. All welcome,
for information call 861-8582 or
check www.guilderlandhistoricalsociety.org.
Thursday, February 21
Five Rivers Sets Snowshoe
Outing: A “how-to” introduction
to snowshoeing will be conducted
at 2 p.m. at 56 Game Farm Road,
Delmar. Snowshoeing is exaggerated walking and is an excellent
form of aerobic activity. During
this indoor/outdoor program,
Five Rivers naturalists will
demonstrate basic snowshoeing
techniques indoors, and then lead
snowshoers along center trails
for some wholesome outdoor exercise, looking for animal tracks,
chewed cones, dens and other
signs of winter wildlife along the
way. The program is open to the
public free of charge. Children
must be accompanied by a parent. Call 475-0291 to register.
Friday, February 22
New York in Bloom: Looking
for an early sign of spring? Visit
the New York State Museum
from Feb. 22 through Feb. 24,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day,
for a flower show. Over 100 floral
arrangements will be displayed
throughout the museum, including a display created by members of the Guilderland Garden
Club, which will be prominently
located next to the moose in Adirondack Hall. Admission is $5,
with proceeds going to the Museum Club and Discovery Squad
after school programs.
Tri-Chamber Breakfast Meeting: Meet at the Crossgates Mall
food court, on the upper level,
to mingle with people from the
Bethlehem, Colonie, and Guilderland chambers of commerce.
Bring a door prize valued at $10,
and get an infomercial in front
of over 100 people! The cost to
attend is $5 for members and
$10 for non-members.
Black Baseball Players,
White Crowds — The Mohawk Colored Giants of
Schenectady: Local baseball
historian and author Frank
Keetz will trace the history of the
Mohawk Colored Giants, an all
African-American professional
baseball team in Schenectady,
and discuss the team’s impact
and legacy in the area. The event
will take place at 2 p.m. at the
Schenectady County Historical
Society, 32 Washington Ave.,
Schenectady. The cost of admission is $5.
Sunday, February 24
Sunday Four Poetry Open
Mic at 3 p.m. at the Old Songs
Community Arts Center, 37
South Main Street, Voorheesville. Featuring Sylvia Bernard,
and hosted by Dennis Sullivan,
Mike Burke, and Edie Abrams.
Call 469-0202 for more information.
Look at once familiar Guilderland scenes
that exist now only in old photographs
By Mary Ellen Johnson
“Guilderland’s Lost Landmarks,” the program scheduled
for the Guilderland Historical
Society’s Thursday, Feb. 21, meeting, will survey once-familiar
buildings along the town’s main
roads, regular sights to passing
travelers that now exist only in
old photographs.
Using slides from the historical
society’s extensive collection, I
will illustrate a variety of structures, formerly everyday sights,
now no longer standing, and will
talk about how and why they
disappeared, describing what
stands in their place today. Not
only are many old buildings gone,
but the landscape to the horizon
has changed as well.
As the historical society’s
photo archivist, I have extensively researched and written
about Guilderland history for
the historical society newsletter Frederick House News. I am
co-author with the Guilderland
town historian, Alice Begley, of
the Arcadia Press book Guilderland, NY.
Non-members are welcome to
join us for the Feb. 21 program
at 7:30 p.m. at the MynderseFrederick House at 451 Route
146 in Guilderland Center. All
are invited for refreshments
and the social hour following
the program.
For more information, call 8618582 or check our website a www.
guilderlandhistoricalsociety.org.
Organizers say that the event
GUILDERLAND — Vendors
and exhibitors are invited to that will appeal to eco-minded
participate in an upcoming re- Capital District residents of all
cycling event to be held at the ages, as well as local business
Farnsworth Middle School at owners.
Nearly 600 visitors came to
6072 State Farm Road in Guilderland on Saturday, April 27, the 2011 Go Green Day while the
October 2012 Recycling Extravafrom 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Go Green Day will be hosted ganza at Farnsworth Middle
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The cost to vendors for a tented
to offer a free, family-friendly
educational, informational, and space is $50; an eight-foot table
hands-on event to encourage and two chairs will be provided.
better recycling practices and Information regarding the event
agricultural practices; energy and vendor/exhibitor registraconservation and waste reduction forms are available at gotion; support the practice of greendayny.org, or by contacting
buying local; plus provide the Karen Finnessey at 765-2692 or
opportunity to drop-off a variety [email protected].
of recyclable goods.
YMCA to honor outstanding students
The Guilderland and Bethlehem YMCAs are accepting applications for their 16th annual
outstanding student and outstanding educator awards.
All high school sophomores
and juniors who live in the communities of or attend schools in
Berne-Knox-Westerlo, Bethlehem, Guilderland, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk, or Voorheesville
are eligible to apply.
Students will be honored
based on demonstrated leadership and dedication of service
to their communities or schools,
making responsible and positive
choices even when negative peer
pressure makes those choices
difficult, and exhibiting a character trait that embraces the
values of all YMCAs nationally:
caring, honesty, respect, and
responsibility.
Applications are due at the
Guilderland or Bethlehem YMCA
on Friday, March 22. To get an
application, visit the school
guidance departments or the
YMCA or contact Kyle Anderson,
program director, by phone at
456-3634, ext. 1151 or online at
[email protected].
Wanted: Used gowns and gear
to benefit the Rodino family
GUILDERLAND — The
Friends of the Rodinos, a group
of friends and neighbors of a
Guilderland family stricken with
Huntington’s disease, is selling
used prom gowns and used sports
equipment on Saturday, March 9,
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Christ
the King Church at 20 Sumpter
Ave. in Guilderland. Solar butterflies, car decals,
and T-shirts will also be for
sale.
The Guilderland Chamber of
Commerce is accepting donations
of used or new gowns and sports
equipment until March 8, from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, at its Star Plaza
office at 2050 Western Ave.
All of the proceeds will go to
the Rodino family for daily living
expenses. Rick and Lorie Rodino’s daughter Rachel died of the debilitating
terminal disease in 2010 when
she was 8 years old. Rick Rodino
is now in the later stages of the
disease and requires 24-hour
care from his wife. Recently, their
20-year-old son, Anthony, and
their 18-year-old daughter, Gianna, have both been diagnosed
with the disease.
“As you can imagine, the diagnosis comes with enormous emotional stress for the family,” said
Kathy Burbank, president of the
chamber, in a release. “With various fund-raising efforts, friends
and neighbors are trying to help
ease their financial struggles,
giving at least one less thing to
worry about. The objective is to
enable the Rodinos to stay in the
comfort of their own home during
this difficult time.”
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Senior News
Guilderland
The Guilderland Senior Services is offering the following
activities the week of Feb. 18.
Call the senior office at 356-1980,
ext. 1048 for any questions or
information.
Monday: Town hall closed for
Presidents’ Day.;
Tuesday: OsteoBusters at 9
a.m., luncheon of chicken patty
or cold plate at 11:30 a.m., food
pantry drawing at noon, and
bingo, games and billiards at
12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping, cardio circuit 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.,
blood pressure and scheduled
Medicaid appointments from
9:30 to 11:30 a.m., scheduled
Food Stamp appointments from
10 a.m. to noon, Epic presentation for 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,
Mahjongg at 12:30 p.m., and
Pinochle at 1 p.m.; and
Friday: Scheduled shopping,
painting at 10 a.m., Bridge at 10
a.m., and quilting at 1 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Day
Come to the Senior Luncheon
and Concert II, on Tuesday,
March 12, at noon at The ItalianAmerican Community Center.
The dining choices are corned
beef and cabbage or chicken
parmesan.
Your entertainment is Young at
Heart. This is a trip down memory lane. There is a donation of $18
per person. Please make checks
payable to: CLUSTER II.
Transportation service is
available upon request.
Tickets are on sale to March 5.
High school musical
The Guilderland Players’ next
musical will be South Pacific.
Senior Citizen Night will be
Thursday, March 14, at 7 p.m.,
and tickets will be available at a
cost of $5 each (cash only), in the
Senior Office in early February.
Transportation service will be
provided to this event.
Balance class
The Capital Region Retired Senior Volunteer Program and Living Healthy NY have partnered
to present an 8-week, awardwinning workshop designed to
help you manage concerns about
falls, improve balance and flexibility, and increase your activity
level.
The workshop takes place on
Fridays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: March
8, 15, 22, (skipping March 29)
April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 3 at
Guilderland town hall. The cost
is $12 per participant. Register
now. Space is limited.
Movie of the month
On Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10:30
a.m., in the courtroom we will
show The Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel rated PG13. This movie
follows a group of British retirees
who decide to spend their retirement in a less expensive and
seemingly exotic India.
Third Thursday services
On the third Thursday of every
month, representatives are at
town hall to provide special services to senior citizens, at no cost
from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Charlotte
Hasselbarth, R.N. takes blood
pressure readings in the board
room. Also, call the Senior Office
if you would like to schedule a
half-hour appointment with an
attorney from Legal Aid, or an
appointment to apply for either
Medicaid or Food Stamps.
Call the senior office at 3561980, ext. 1048 for any questions
or information.
Hilltowns
By Linda Carman
Does anybody know who old man
winter is? My guess is it’s a fiveyear-old who wants a snow day.
Why would it be anybody that is
old. We old people don’t like winter
and having to go out in the cold and
2-feet of snow. Frankly, I would love
to go out and make a snow angel,
but the problem is to get down
there and then for goodness sake
get back up. Anyway, old or young
man winter keeps us from having
our meetings.
Now when you get to be a senior,
I would love to go out
and make a snow angel,
but the problem is
to get down there
and then for goodness
sake get back up.
you can look forward to these special days and have somebody else
to moan and groan to. And when
these days are taken away, what
are you going to do with the salad
you made for the potluck lunch or
the whole dish of brownies to eat
by yourself.
But before you know it our
March meeting will be here and
I hope you threw out the leftover
salad and brownies, because
we are going to be gathering at
the Berne Reformed Church for
corned beef and cabbage. See, you
are happy already. The price of
the meal is $7 for members and
$12 for non-members. Call Linda
McDermott or Rose Porter for
reservations. Their phone numbers
are attached to the flyer I gave you
in December.
Senior activities We are anxious for spring to get
here so we can get together at the
Hilltowns Senior Center for our
activities to start up and get out
of the house.
We will continue to have our
card parties, book club, and some
new ideas to present to the club.
A physical therapist would like
to come once a week and help us
do exercises. Hopefully, the bus will
be ready to roll and we can make
some local trips of interest.
Trip schedule
We are setting up our monthly
trip schedule and the first trip is
April 9 through 11 to Lancaster,
Penn. to see the show Noah and
visit Gettysburg and President
Eisenhower’s farm. This will be
our last trip to Lancaster, so if you
are still looking for that special
material to make a quilt or buy a
quilt this is the time. Other trips on the calendar are
a Lobster Fest at the Log Cabin
with a tribute to Buddy Holly;
McHayden Theater; a boat ride on
the Hudson River down by West
Point; the Thousand Islands, our
annual picnic trip and a surprise
trip.
Meeting info
Our meetings are the second
Saturday of the month at 11 a.m.,
followed by a potluck lunch. All
Hilltowns seniors are encouraged
to attend.
We have a speaker every month
and a member of the Department
of Aging is in attendance to bring
us up to date on activities with
the department and answer any
questions that we may have.
Well, my old man winter just
came in from blowing out the
driveway, so I had better go and
warm up some soup.
Why I owe my mother: My
mother taught me to appreciate a
job well done.
“If you’re going to kill each
other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning.”
Altamont
By Linda Cure
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the
Altamont Seniors’ luncheon
at the St. Lucy/St. Bernadette
Parish Center, the seniors had a
delicious meal of pork loin with
brown rice stuffing, baked sweet
potato, and spinach. This was followed by a scrumptious German
chocolate cake with ice cream,
made by Lynn Strnad.
Everyone seemed very pleased,
very talkative, and very full!
After lunch, Altamont Free
Library Director Judith Wines
brought her 2-year old daughter,
Suraya, to assist with our Valentine’s Day theme, “Sweet Treats
for Sweet Peeps!”
Judith, Suraya, and I handed
out over 120 cupcakes, frostings,
and a variety of decorations to
the seniors, who then created
their own sweet temptations to
bring home to their valentines.
Judith engaged the group
with Valentine’s Day trivia and
Suraya was, well, just sweet, as
she talked and laughed with the
seniors.
Coming up
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, we’re
hoping the “Hot Pots” will be
visiting the group after lunch
for some kitchen-inspired entertainment.
Editor’s note: Linda Cure is
the program coordinator for the
Altamont Seniors.
— Photo from Linda Cure
Good enough to eat: An Altamont Senior shows off her creations,
cupcakes made at Tuesday’s luncheon as part of a Valentine’s Day
theme, “Sweet Treats for Sweet Peeps!”
Happy Valentines Day!
— Krystie Wray
Mystery mavens: Residents of Atria Guilderland Senior Assisted Living — from left, Augusta Allen,
Jeanne Hansen, Sam Venezia, Judy Klein, June Gerling, and Peggy Cox — puzzle over who killed whom
during their Murder Mystery Dinner.
— Photo from Nicolle Schwartz
To celebrate Go Red for Women Day, residents of Atria Crossgate — from left, Sylvia Zuravin, Billie Trossbach, and Ruth Salter — host a bake sale where the cupcakes are decorated with hearts. All
proceeds donated to help women cardiac patients in honor of Zuravin.
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Library Notes
Voorheesville
By Jeff Keller
A special story time will be
presented with Beverly WhiteAdams, the author of The Adventures of Rusty on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, at 10:15 a.m., at the
Voorheesville Public Library. The
dog himself will be there. For
kids age 4 through grade 3.
Communi ca ti o ns w o r k shop Clinical social workers,
Diane Blinn and Peg Sutton
will present Communication is
Key, on Feb, 20, at 10:30 a.m., a
workshop for mothers and tween
daughters. This program is for
girls in grades 5 through 7.
Children’s programs
There will be a preschool story
time on Feb. 26, Toddler Town is
on Feb. 28, and Babygarten on
Feb. 21. All programs start at
10:30 a.m. Thursday movie
On Feb.14 at 1:30 p.m. the library will show the comedy Some
like it hot. On Feb. 21, watch the
first part of the epic drama Dr.
Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif
and Julie Christie. This movie
starts at 1:30 p.m.
Kid’s movie matinee
The animated adventure Ice
Age 4: Continental Drift will be
shown at the library on Feb. 22,
at 1 p.m.
Winter reading club
Check out any book, CD or
DVD. Tell us what you think
about it on the library website or
by filling out a comment card at
the library. Win gift certificates
for local stores and restaurants.
Winners are drawn every Friday.
Visit www.voorheesvillelibrary.
org and click on Winter Reading Club.
Teen book discussion The Teen Book Club will discuss The Agency on Thursday,
Feb. 14, at 2:30 p.m.
Board meets
A Board of Trustees meeting
will be held on Feb. 18, at 7 p.m.
All are welcome.
Book group info
Need a good book for your book
group? The library’s Book Club in
a Bag program provides copies of
a thought-provoking title, discussion questions, author information, and book club tips. Call the
library for more information.
Have a new device? Stop by
the library and get hands-on
help in downloading ebooks and
audiobooks to an eReader, tablet
or smartphone.
Middleburgh
— Photo by Meg Seinberg-Hughes
From the heart: These girls are using construction paper and creativity to fashion valentines for
residents of the Guilderland center Nursing Home. “With nearly 100 residents, we need lots of cards
to bring them cheer on Valentine’s Day,” says Meg Seinberg-Hughes, the librarian at Guilderland
Elementary School who oversees the project. “The kids love making the cards, and the residents love
getting them!”
Altamont
By David Warner
This year ’s Altamont Free
Library gala is sold out. Never
before has this happened at
such an early date. We’re very
grateful for everyone’s support.
Saturday evening, Feb. 23, beginning at 5:30 p.m. is the start
of the gala. The village offices in
the Main Street firehouse are the
place. It promises to be a joyous,
light-hearted evening. Galas
in recent years have focused
on stretching out to achieve a
monumental goal. This year’s
festivities will celebrate a reaching of that goal. In related news, our new interior entryway is nearly complete. Some final staining touches and
the glass installation is all that
remains to be done. The entryway will protect against the cold
in the winter, and be a visual
architectural delight throughout
the year. It was designed and
constructed by local builder Brett
Pulliam
Potluck in Korea
Join us for a Hanjeongsik, a
full course Korean meal. These
gatherings keep getting more
and more popular. Be here on
Monday, Feb. 25, at 6 p.m. We
have cookbooks on hand at the
library.
Story time
All ages are welcome to story
time on Wednesdays, at 10:30
a.m. Join us for stories, rhymes,
songs and movement. Story time
is followed by a craft and free
playtime.
Winter bird walk
Our Brandle Road Bird Walks
used to be spring and fall events.
We’re expanding them into the
winter, beginning on Friday,
Feb. 15. Bundle up and bring
your binoculars or borrow ours. New birders are most welcome. Meet at the library at 9 a.m. for
carpooling and eyepeeling.
By Anne LaMont
On Feb. 18, at 2 p.m., come
to the Middleburgh Library for
Board Games Galore. The world
of board gaming is fun, vast and
challenging! This program is appropriate for children ages 7 to
12. Registration is requested.
Story time
On Feb. 19, at 10:45 a.m., join
us for drop-in story time. Get
ready to move in this interactive
story time designed especially for
children up to age 5 and their
caregivers. We’ll read books, sing
songs, recite fingerplays, dance,
and watch a short movie based
on a weekly theme. No registration required.
Read with Indy
On Feb. 19, at 3:30 p.m., Indy
is at the library as a reading
buddy to your child. Registered
therapy dogs are excellent listeners. Bring your reader to the
library to read to our therapy
dog, Indy and his person, Karen
VanDyke. Indy is non-judgmental and will give kids confidence
while reading. No registration
is necessary.
Book discussion
On Feb. 19, at 7 p.m., come to
the library to discuss The Snow
Goose by Paul Gallico. Books
may be picked up at the circulation desk.
Wednesday matinee
On Feb. 20, at 1 p.m., the library will show The Artist rated
PG13.
Knitting Circle
On Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., come to
the library where you can learn
a new skill or share your own
special talents with others or just
craft in the company of friends.
Drop in anytime. No registration
is required.
Dinner and board games
On Feb. 22, at 5:30 p.m., come
to the library for Dinner and
Board Games. We’re trying something new. Since the best movies
of the year will be released on
DVD in March, we’re substituting our movie with classic board
games. The library will provide
pizza, salad, and drinks and
you bring a dessert to share.
This program is intended for
adults and teens. Registration
is required.
For more information, see our
website at www.middleburghlibrary.info.
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Library Notes
Westerlo
Rensselaerville
By Sue Hoadley
The Westerlo Public Library
will be closed on Monday, Feb.
18, in observance of Presidents
Day.
Book discussion group
The library’s Book Discussion
Group will meet on Thursday,
Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., at the library.
We will discuss Pascal Mercier’s
novel Night Train to Lisbon.
Please join us. New members
are welcomed.
Display case
For the month of February the
library is displaying Kevin Slingerland’s Bald Eagle commemorative plate collection. These fine
They celebrate the
Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle
Preserve, established
in 1982 to protect and
perpetuate the world’s
largest concentration
of Bald Eagles
porcelain plates were designed
by wildlife artist Ted Blaylock
for the Franklin Mint. They celebrate the Alaska Chilkat Bald
Eagle Preserve, established in
1982 to protect and perpetuate
the world’s largest concentration
of Bald Eagles and their critical
habitat.
Children’s programs
The toddler and preschool
story time meets on Tuesdays
at 3:30 p.m. Join Miss Lee for
stories, songs, games, and movement activities for toddlers and
preschool aged children. In addition to developing pre-reading
skills, singing, moving to music,
and playing instruments all help
foster a sense of rhythm and timing that are essential elements
in developing the part of a child’s
brain that shapes math skills.
Technology walk-in
Wednesday
Do you need to brush up on
your computer skills or obtain
basic skills? See Amy on Wednesdays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
for free, personalized, one-onone, hands-on instruction on
how to work the mouse, navigate
the Internet, set up an e-mail
account, use office automation
programs, and more.
Library info
All library programming is
free (unless otherwise noted)
and open to the public. For more
information, contact the library
during business hours at 7973415, visit westerlolibrary.org
or find us on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/westerlolibrary.
— Photo by Meg Seinberg-Hughes
Happy helpers: Guilderland Elementary School students smile as they make valentines for elderly
nursing-home residents who may be far from friends and families.
Berne
By Judy Petrosillo
February is Library Lovers
Month. Who would be a lover
of libraries; people who recognize the value of libraries. How
could you show your love for the
library?
Join the Friends who provide
fund-raising and other assistance to the library, volunteer
your time, consider making a
donation, or promote the value
of having a library in your
town.
There is a “blind date” waiting for you at the library. Stop
by the library and pick up a
wrapped book that is identified
only by its genre. Unwrap it at
home, turn off your electronic
devices, and spend some quality time with your “blind date”.
Lego League
One of the values of libraries
is the connection between people
and ideas. During Lego League,
the library provides the Legos
while the participants supply the
creativity. Children in grades 2
through 8 are invited to this free
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program on Saturday, Feb. 16, at
11 a.m. The projects will be on
display in the library until they
are disassembled for the March
program.
Knit Wits
Do you love to crochet or
knit? The Knit Wits meet on
Sunday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. Join
other adults to work on individual projects while sharing
problems, solutions, and conversation.
Story time
Teaching early literacy skills
is another library service. Preschool children and their caregivers are invited to join Kathy
at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 19,
for story time. Enjoy stories,
activities, and a craft. This week
we are going on a bear hunt and
we’re not scared.
Grant programs
Author Kim Boykin said,
“Libraries are where most of us
really fall in love with books,
where we can browse, and choose
on our own. It’s really one of
the first autonomous things we
do, picking the books we want
to read.” Some patrons may
pick a graphic novel over the
traditional book. Our library
is currently participating in
the Comics Connect Grant,
which provided the resources
for purchasing a variety of new
graphic novels.
The grant money is also allowing us to sponsor graphic novel
programs. On Wednesday, Feb.
20, at 2 p.m., we are honored to
have George O’Connor present
a workshop in the Berne town
meeting room. Mr. O’Connor
wrote and illustrated the Olympian series: graphic novels about
Greek gods and goddesses.
There is no admission fee
and the program is open to all
ages. His books will be available for purchase after the
program. Don’t miss this opportunity to visit with a famous
author and illustrator.
Comics Connect, a collaborative project of the Mohawk
Valley Library System and Upper Hudson Library System, is
supported by funds from the
New York State Library’s Family
Literacy Library Services grant
program.
By Kimberly Graff
On Monday, Feb. 18, the
Rensselaerville Library board
of trustees will meet at 7 p.m.
All meetings are open to the
public.
Story time
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, at
3 p.m., join us for family story
time. This story time returns to
the library in the new children’s
area.
This owl themed early literacy
story time is multi-age. Everyone
participates by sharing books,
music, rhymes, puppets, flannel
board activities, playtime and
art activities.
Children are encouraged to
take out resources on owls.
Children, the library needs
your assistance naming the new
owl puppet. Please stop at the
circulation desk and offer suggestions.
We are looking for gently used
educational toys for this area.
Please discuss any potential
donations with Kim.
Weekend movie
On Feb. 23, at 7 p.m., the
library will show Searching For
Sugar Man, at Conkling Hall.
This movie is rated PG13.
Computer help
Would you like one on one
computer or technology help with
setting up an e-mail account,
word processing, Facebook, Overdrive, E readers, and job search
sites? Kim is offering individual
sessions to help get you started
with almost any computer and
Internet questions.
Appointments are recommended, visit or call the library
at 797-3949.
Bethlehem
By Louise Grieco
Bethlehem Public Library’s
winter concert series A Little
Sunday Music closes its 201213 season Sunday Mar. 3, at
2 p.m., with a performance by
the UAlbany Chamber Singers
under the direction of Dr. David
Griggs-Janower.
The Chamber Singers are active both at the University and
in the community, performing
several times monthly. The group
has made several international
tours.
A Little Sunday Music is generously supported by Friends of
Bethlehem Public Library. The
concert is free and open to the
public.
Jazz listening series
On Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., the
monthly Listening Parties: Reflections on Jazz will present a
talk about the life of Nat King
Cole and his music.
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Engagement
Correspondents
the following when applying the
ashes: “Remember that thou art
dust, and to dust thou shalt return”. —Genesis 3:19.
February holidays
You can tell that February is a
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month.
Oh wait, I just looked at my
calendar and I have something
on schedule that is about to come
up. I cannot wait to tell you about
it next week.
Today is a holiday celebrated in
Holiday closing
many countries around the world.
In observance of President’s
It is not one of the holidays that
Day, on Feb. 18, the village of Alyou mark on the calendar because
tamont’s office will be closed.
you will have a day off. It is, howGCS closed
ever, a day that is celebrated by
Schools in the Guilderland
the young and old. It is Valentine’s
School District will be closed Feb.
Day — one of the most important
18 through 22, for the President
holidays that is celebrated because
Day recess.
it is a holiday of the heart.
Dinner in the round
St. Valentine’s Day began as a
The date for the Dinner in the
liturgical celebration of an early
Round sponsored by members
Christian saint named Valentinus.
of St. Lucy/St.Bernadette’s parish
The day was first associated with
will be held on Saturday, April
romantic love with the friends of
27. Parishioners and friends will
Geoffrey Chaucer in the Middle
enjoy dinner hosted in specified
Ages, when the tradition of courtly
homes. Dessert, drawings, and an
love flourished. By the 15th Cenauction will be held following the
tury, it had evolved into an occadinners in the parish center. sion when lovers expressed their
Persons interested in hosting a
love for each other by presenting
dinner are asked to contact Anne
flowers, offering confectionery,
and Ray Lauenstein at 861-8239
and sending greeting cards known
by March 15. as valentines. Since the 19th
Grand officers
Century, handwritten valentines
The winter meeting of the
have given way to mass-produced
Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady
greeting cards.
District, Order of the Eastern
Today, children all over the
Star will be held
country are
on Feb. 17, at
passing out
Van Rensselaer
cards that they
Star Chapter in
have worked on
East Greenbush. “Regardless
of
whether
you
have
received
a
card,
in art class or
A covered dish
a box of candy, or just a greeting we would like
at home. Some
supper will be
are cute expresyou to know that we love all of our readers and
enjoyed following
sions of their
the meeting. Reswish
you
all
a
Happy
Valentine’s
Day.”
love while othervations can be
ers may be a bit
made with chapmore testy for
ter representathose who have
tives or by calling
not yet learned to appreciate their
contest. When the game is close, Audrey Branion at 449-2667 or
classmates.
you are on the edge of your seat Shirley Hamm at 869-3020
We have grown from the handLuncheon
until the end. That is exciting,
made cards to more costly expresThe public is invited to Van
a runaway game is boring. My
sions of our love for someone. Now
daughters would cringe at their Rensselaer Star’s annual Presia suitor may present the affection
ballgames when I started cheering dent’s Day luncheon on Feb. 18. of his or her heart with a bouquet
The menu will include meat loaf,
for their opponents. But a good hit,
of roses, a box of candy, or a dinner
run or play deserves a loud cheer scalloped potatoes, green beans,
at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps all
coleslaw, and pies for dessert with
regardless of who makes it.
of these things will be given to a
coffee and tea. Mardi Gras
very special friend.
The luncheon will be held at the Before we knew it people were
Of course, if the friendship has
getting ready for a religious East Greenbush Masonic Temple, progressed to a point that a special
season that started with the located at 710 Columbia Turnpike,
statement is going to be made, a
Epiphany and ends the day before East Greenbush. Reservations
diamond ring might be the gift.
Ash Wednesday. The start of the can be made by calling Susanne
Regardless of whether you have
season is better known as Mardi Peckham at 732-2471 by Feb. 14.
received a card, a box of candy, or
Gras which is French for Fat Tues- The proceeds from this luncheon
just a greeting we would like you
day, referring to the practice of will benefit victims of Hurricane
to know that we love all of our
the last night of eating rich, fatty Sandy.
readers and wish you all a Happy
Bowling reminder
foods before the ritual fasting of
Valentine’s Day.
Members of the VFW Lathe Lenten season, that begins the
Wear Red Day
dies Albany County Council are
next day on Ash Wednesday.
February is a really busy time
Popular practices include wear- sponsoring the Christine Ernst
with special days throughout the
ing masks and costumes, dancing, Memorial Bowling Tournament
month. We started the month with
and parades. In the United States on Sunday, Feb. 24. This event
the National Wear Red Day. It is
New Orleans, La. is noted for its is to raise money for the Cancer
a day in February when many
Mardi Gras celebrations. People Fund. Individuals can participate
people wear red to show their
travel from all over the world to by bowling or sponsoring a bowler,
support for the awareness of heart
be there and join the parties and sponsoring a lane, or just by makdisease. In the United States it
parades. The celebration is high- ing a donation. For more informaoccurs on the first Friday in Febtion, contact Darlene Stanton at
lighted by good food and drink.
ruary each year.
Ash Wednesday derives its 470-7310.
The National Heart, Lung, and
Birthdays
name from the practice of placBlood Institute, which is part of
Happy Birthday wishes are
ing ashes on the foreheads of
the National Institutes of Health,
adherents as a sign of mourning extended to:
U.S. Department of Health and
— Pat Crupe and Tom Munroe
and repentance to God. The ashes
Human Services sponsors the
used are typically gathered after on Feb. 15;
national awareness campaign
— Diane Corbett and Cameron
the palms from the previous year’s
for women about heart disease.
Palm Sunday are burned. This Nicholas Davis on Feb. 16;
Designed to warn women of their
— Nancy Chesnut, Gary
practice is common in much of
#1 health threat, they created and
Prescott, Bud Perlee, and Terry
Christendom.
introduced the Red Dress as the
At Masses and services of wor- Ann Trendell on Feb. 17;
national symbol for women and
— Pearl Kelley on Feb. 18; ship on this day, ashes are placed
heart disease awareness in 2002.
— Genevieve Anderson, Bridget
on the foreheads of the faithful.
This was to deliver an urgent
The priest, minister, or in some Carman, Lois Ginsburg, Alexa
wakeup call to American women.
cases officiating layperson, marks Olivia Johnson, and Kristen Marie
Groundhog’s Day
the forehead of each participant Thatcher on Feb. 19;
The next day we recognize is
— Nancy Barkley and Peter
with ashes in the sign of the
Groundhog’s Day, on Feb. 2. Accross, the worshipper tradition- Ramo on Feb. 20; and
cording to folklore, and an early
— Kiyomi Barkley and Kelli
ally retains them until they wear
American diary entry dated Feb.
off. The priest or minister says LeClair on Feb. 21. Altamont
Katie Murphy and Brian Liszkay
Murphy, Liszkay to wed
GUILDERLAND — Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Murphy, of Guilderland, are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie
Murphy, to Brian Liszkay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Liszkay
of Rochester, N.Y.
The couple plans to wed in June 2013.
Ms. Murphy earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary
education from the State University of New York College at Potsdam
and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in special education at
the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. She also
works as a fifth-grade teacher in Gainesville, Va.
Mr. Liszkay earned a bachelor of science degree in interdisciplinary
engineering and management from Clarkson University and works
as a plant manager for Chemung Contracting in Gainesville, Va.
Wedding
Christopher William and Katrina Seran Mayba
Ernest, Mayba marry
Katrina Seran Ernest, the daughter of Arpy Ernest of Albany and
William Ernest of Altamont, and Christopher William Mayba, the
son of Katherine and John Mayba of Clifton Park, were married
on Oct. 13, 2012.
The ceremony took place at St. Peter’s Armenian Church with
the Rev. Stepanos Doudoukjian officiating, assisted by Rev. Garen
Gdanian, the grandfather of the bride.
Danielle Robinson was the maid of honor, and Kristen Francis,
Courtney Harrigan, Lindsay Meislin, and Naomi Gdanian were
the bridesmaids.
Michael Krushelnytsky was the best man, and the ushers were
Daniel Hayner, Nicholas Mayba, Frederick MacFee, and Adam
Wallace.
Isobel Stoyles was the flower girl.
The bride, a graduate of Guilderland High School and the State
University of New York Institute of Technology, works as a project
coordinator.
The groom, a graduate of Shenendehowa High School and the State
University of New York Institute of Technology, is an engineer.
A wedding reception was held at The Century House and the couple
honeymooned in Aruba. They live now in the Capital Region.
4, 1841 states “if it is cloudy when
a groundhog emerges from its
burrow on this day, then Spring
will come early; if it is sunny, the
groundhog will supposedly see
its shadow and retreat back into
its burrow”, by James Morris,
a storekeeper of Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
Last Tuesday, was Candlemas
Day, the day on which, according
to the Germans, the groundhog
peeps out of his winter quarters
and if he sees his shadow he
pops back for another six weeks
nap, but if the day be cloudy he
remains out, as the weather is to
be moderate.
Modern customs of the holiday involve celebrations where
early morning festivals are held
to watch the groundhog emerging from its burrow. The largest
Groundhog Day celebration is
held in Punxsutawney, Penn.
Groundhog Day, already a widely
recognized and popular tradition,
received widespread attention as a
result of the 1993 film Groundhog
Day, which was set in Punxsutawney and portrayed Punxsutawney
Phil.
With some of the cold and snowy
weather we have had recently
many are happy that Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow.
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl, this year, was
an exciting game no matter who
you were rooting for because it
was a really tight contest without
knowing the potential winner
until the end. I really love a good
23
Correspondents
Thompsons Lake
By
Lora
Ricketts
872-1691
The weatherman really gets
me going but it’s a good thing
because I stay safe.
My sister, Pat, is a real weather
girl and keeps everyone posted.
She gets us on the phone and
gives us weather predictions
and also suggestions on when to
travel and how to prepare for a
storm. As a result, I did my grocery shopping on Thursday.
On Friday, I worried about my
ride to Schoharie with Brandon
to pick up Samson and Nichole.
I also worried that the storm
would cancel some of our weekend. But, amazingly, everything
was fine. I didn’t have to ride
with my eyes closed. I kept them
open and enjoyed the beautiful
snowstorm.
Nichole has wanted to go swimming. So on Saturday we went
to the YMCA in Bethlehem to
swim. A phone call let us know
there was a swim meet at the
Guilderland Y. Samson and
Nichole enjoyed playing toss
and catch and even got Brandon
involved in their game. They also
had fun diving for plastic rings
in the water.
We all enjoyed the evening
with Jenn Smith and her son,
Iain. The children had a blast
building tents out of their mattresses, box springs, and blankets. Children always have the
most fun when they can use their
imagination.
Lent
Lent is the Christian season
of preparation before Easter.
We worship at a different church
and hear a guest preacher speak
on the theme for 2013, Giving
It Up.
This coming Wednesday, Feb.
20, the service will be held at
the Knox Reformed Church with
the guest preacher being Wendy
Cook.
Bible study
The next meeting of the adult
Bible study with the Rev. Bob
Hoffman is on Thursday, Feb.
21, at 7 p.m. The group meets
at the church hall of the Knox
I didn’t have to ride with my eyes closed.
I kept them open and enjoyed
the beautiful snowstorm.
In Western Christianity, Ash
Wednesday marks the first day
of Lent or the start of the season
of Lent, which begins 40 days
prior to Easter, not including
Sundays.
Lent is the time when many
Christians prepare for Easter
by observing a period of fasting,
repentance, moderation and
spiritual discipline. The purpose
is to set aside time for reflection
on Jesus Christ — his suffering
and his sacrifice, his life, death,
burial, and resurrection.
Mid-week Lenten worship services are held in the Hilltowns
each Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
Reformed Church and welcomes
all to participate.
Sunshine Club
The Sunshine Club is a new
ministry of the Knox and Thompson’s Lake Reformed churches.
It reaches out with expressions
of support to people in our community by sending out greeting
cards on birthdays or anniversaries, cards to those confined
to home or bed, and sympathy
cards.
If you have a person to put on
the list or have greeting cards
to donate contact Rosalie Eaton
at 797-5032.
Awesome!
Do you have a mom or dad who is reluctant to
get dental treatment? Call 452-2579
to speak directly to a dentist who will
give you some options. No charge.
Geoffrey B. Edmunds, DDS
2010 Western Ave. Guilderland
452-2579
Weekly Crossword
By Ed Canty ([email protected])
Turducken
Across
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Heathrow?
6. "Cheep" homes?
11. B.S., e.g.
14. "Beat ___ to..."
15. "___ Thief" (1950
movie)
16. Foe of the Navajo
17. Turducken, perhaps
19. 'Memory' singer?
20. Avoid finishing a
sentence?
21. 12th graders: Abbr.
22. Play for laughs?
23. Behaved like a lead
balloon?
25. Insect you can see in
the dark
27. Dogma
31. Buck overseas?
32. Barcelona Olympics
prize
33. Closing document
34. Base for a stew
37. Hair goops
39. They may reach a bit
42. One to one, for one
43. Bubbly drinks
45. Vietnamese festivals
47. Act human?
48. London trolley
50. Base runner's lot,
sometimes
52. Babe Ruth, perhaps
55. Stable parent
56. Sweater?
57. Bar bill
59. Cuomo's successor
63. "Raiders of the Lost
___"
64. Nothing much, to
farmers?
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The Voorheesville Elementary School will hold a kindergarten
registration, parents-only, meeting on Thursday, March 14, 2013
at 7:00 p.m. Parents are asked to call Ms. Corinna Parker at the
Voorheesville Elementary School at 765-2382, ext. 504, if they have a
child who will be entering kindergarten in September 2013. Children
must be five years old on or before Dec. 1, 2013 to register. The
kindergarten registration and screening process will be explained
and parents will be able to schedule an appointment to have their
child screened on May 1, 2013 or May 2, 2013.
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deduction
2. Abbrs. on letters to
GIs
3. Common powder
4. "Finally!"
5. Astronaut Alan
6. Easter beginning?
7. Baseballer Slaughter
8. Aid in avoiding the
draft?
9. Actress O'Shea
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66. Needle point?
67. Accord maker
68. Ear-relevant
69. Mary ___ cosmetics
70. Car bomb?
71. Cell mate?
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10. Pre-coll. exam
11. Like Chaplin's walk
12. Amazon business
13. Big name in oil
18. Naysayer
22. Roamin' Catholic?
24. Baby bouncer?
26. Massage
27. Lady and the Tramp,
e.g.
28. After-dinner
sandwich?
29. Abrupt way to quit
30. Applies polish to?
35. One for the road?
36. "Thundering" group
38. "Beetle Bailey"
bellower
40. Circus insurance?
41. Army band
44. Lose zip
46. Adirondack lake
49. Modus operandi
51. Trawler's catch
52. Hit bottom?
53. "___ Doone" (1869
novel)
54. Farmers' needs
58. A follower?
60. "Drome" lead-in
61. New Jersey's ___
University
62. Doing nothing
64. Señor Guevara
65. ___ Kan dog food
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Obituaries
William H. Frueh Jr.
BETHLEHEM — William H.
Frueh Jr. will be buried on Saturday in a Revolutionary War
uniform — that of the 2nd New
York Regiment musicians’outfit
— which was sewn long ago by
his mother. A fife and drum corps
will play at the graveyard.
“It’s just right for him,” said
his wife, Nancy Frueh, of the
man who was fondly known as
“the blind drummer.”
Both of the Fruehs took pleasure in donning period clothes to
play music of an earlier era.
Mr. Frueh died in his Delmar
home on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
He was 70.
Born in Albany on Aug. 21,
1942, he was the son of the late
Dorothy (Molter) and William H.
Frueh Sr. His father worked in
security supplies and his mother
was a homemaker. His daughter
lives now in the Delmar home
where he was raised, said Mrs.
Frueh.
Even as a child, she said, Mr.
Frueh had trouble with his vision. He had cataracts in both
eyes and detached retinas. His
family took him to New York City
to be treated by the same specialist who preserved Cardinal
Francis Spellman’s vision. Mr.
Frueh had five eye surgeries.
He lost the sight in one eye, due
to a detached retina, when he was
a student at Siena College in the
early 1960s, studying to be a social worker, Mrs. Frueh said. He
went on to get a master’s degree
in social work at the University
at Albany.
He lost the vision in his other
eye in 1976, she said. “He couldn’t
perceive light. There were swirly
colors, like dark soap bubbles
that he learned to ignore,” said
his wife.
Mr. Frueh was a social worker
for almost 40 years at Northeast
Career Planning in Menands,
“demonstrating to his clients
and to the world that a disability
need not be a handicap,” his family wrote in a tribute.
He did not complain, but took
life as it came, said his wife.
Mr. Frueh collected copies of
soldiers’ journals “from numerous centuries,” said his wife.
“Soldiers led lives of great hardship, but they never complained
in their diaries,” she said. “That’s
the way he lived his life.”
She went on, “He was a consummate educator. He believed,
if you don’t know about history,
you’re destined to repeat it,” said
Mrs. Frueh. “He thought history
books were antiseptic. He wanted
to make history personal.”
Mr. Frueh relished doing
historical programs for schoolchildren and civic groups. He
was a fixture at the Mabee Farm
Historical Site in Rotterdam
Junction, and conducted three
very popular classes at the
of their shared love of music.
She had answered an ad in
The Altamont Enterprise when
Knox Traditional Strings was
seeking musicians. She dug out
her clarinet and went to practice. Later, she took up her fife,
which she hadn’t played in 20
years, to march in a Memorial
Day parade.
Eventually, she became a
driver for the widowed Mr. Frueh.
“We traveled all over doing
events…He had a wide selection
Bethlehem Community Church,
serving for many years as a
church elder.
“He was a born-again Christian,” said his wife, “and had complete and total faith in God.”
Faith has sustained her as well.
“I knew this day was coming,” she
said. “I feel strongly God called
me to be there for this….I went
from doing intermittent care to
24-hour care. Everyone said, ‘Get
hospice.’” But, instead, for the
last several weeks, Mrs. Frueh
“He thought history books were antiseptic.
He wanted to make history personal.”
Enterprise file photo — Michael Koff
Bill Frueh and his wife, Nancy, performed last April outside the
New Scotland Museum. They wore Civil War-era clothes as they
played 19th-Century tunes. Mr. Frueh liked bringing history to life
and first started reenacting in 1960 when he joined the Village
Volunteers in Delmar.
Heldeberg Workshop in New
Scotland for many years. He
delighted in presenting life in
the 18th Century to students
through school demonstrations,
especially at Canajoharie, Schalmont, Schoharie, and Pieter B.
Coeymans schools.
Mr. Frueh had started reenacting in 1960 when he joined the
Village Volunteers in Delmar. “It
was the centennial of the Civil
War when he joined,” said Mrs.
Frueh. This led to membership
in numerous organizations, including the Sons and Daughters
of Liberty Fife and Drum Corps;
the historic singing group Rural
Felicity; the 13th Regiment Albany County Militia; the Burning
of the Valleys Military Association; the 77th New York Volunteer
Infantry; the Capital District
Civil War Round Table; the
New York Archives Partnership
Trust; and the Knox Historical
Society, which he served as vice
president.
Interest swung to the Revolutionary War as the country’s
Bicentennial approached, said
Mrs. Frueh, and, now with the
sesquicentennial of the Civil War,
there is call for reenactment from
that period. “The pendulum has
swung back again,” she said.
In battlefield reenactments,
Mr. Frueh played the drum,
which, his wife said, “was the
voice of the commanding officers,”
providing signals over the din of
the battle on when to shoot and
when to cease firing.
When the battle was over, Mr.
Frueh would play his guitar and
sing around a campfire. His favorite song was “Rosin the Beau,”
which Mrs. Frueh described as “a
lilting tune.” She went on, “It’s so
versatile with dozens and dozens
of sets of words, and is period
correct in many centuries.”
Mr. Frueh had a keen memory,
she said. “He carried everything
in his head,” said Mrs. Frueh. “He
knew thousands of songs.”
Mr. Frueh’s first wife, Donna,
was partial to the Revolutionary War. They honeymooned in
Colonial Williamsburg, Va. They
raised a son and two daughters.
Donna Frueh died after 37 years
of marriage to Mr. Frueh.
He met Nancy Frueh because
of clothes that I could wear,” she
recalled.
In February 2009, Mr. Frueh
fell ill. “He said, ‘I can’t do the
Presidents’ Day gig…We’re going
to the hospital.’” Mr. Frueh was
diagnosed with Stage 4 colon
cancer.
“He had a bad reaction to the
chemotherapy and the cancer
spread,” recalled Mrs. Frueh. “At
that point, I was mostly a phone
friend and driver. Three times,
he asked for more of a relationship. At first, I thought he was
joking…We often ate together
since we were both alone. “
She recalled the meal that
changed her life. “This warm
glow came over me that I couldn’t
explain. It was the way people
describe an encounter with the
Holy Spirit. I thought, ‘I love
this guy.’”
They decided to marry and
were wed on April 30, 2011,
wearing clothes from the Civil
War era, Nancy Frueh’s favorite
period.
Mrs. Frueh described her husband as “very old-fashioned,” and
said, “I know I was loved.”
She went on, “I have no regrets
of following what God told me to
do. My role was to provide care
when needed — we knew the
cancer was incurable — and have
fun in between.”
Their performances continued
despite the cancer. “Much of the
world didn’t know. We’d plan the
chemotherapy not to interrupt
the reenactments,” she said, explaining there would be “three
days of sickness followed by 11
days of good.”
Her husband, she said, like the
soldiers of old whose journals he
read, never complained.
“Bill never considered it to
be suffering,” she said. “It was
his cross to bear and he bore it
without complaint.”
As he had throughout his life,
Mr. Frueh relied on his faith.
He was a 40-year member of the
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has relied on family and friends
from church and re-enactment
groups to help.
“He would not have liked
strangers there and, being blind,
the hospital was terrifying,” she
said. “He died right in our bed,
which is what he wanted.”
She concluded, “God provided….It was not a chore. It
reminds me of that song, ‘He ain’t
heavy, he’s my brother.’”
****
William H. Frueh Jr. is survived by his wife, Nancy Frueh,
of Delmar; his children, Charles
Frueh and his wife, Shyra Murphy, of Geneva, N.Y., Nellie Bradley and her husband, Edward,
of Delmar, and Sarah Frueh of
Delmar; his grandsons, William
and Jacob Bradley of Delmar;
and his step-children, Rebecca
Scanlon of Niskayuna and Eric
Scanlon of East Berne.
His dear wife of 37 years, Donna L. Frueh, died before him.
The family wishes to thank Dr.
Wu and Lisa Wolf, physician’s
assistant, and all of the staff at
New York Oncology Hematology
for the loving care and positive
attitudes they displayed over the
past four years. The family is also
deeply grateful for the outstanding care provided by Dr. Yip and
Dr. Heckman, and all of the staff
at Saint Peter’s Hospital.
A funeral service will be held
at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb.
16, at the Bethlehem Community
Church at 201 Elm Ave. in Delmar. Relatives and friends are
invited to call at the church on
Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Burial will be in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Colonie. Arrangements are by Applebee Funeral
Home, 403 Kenwood Ave, Delmar.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the Missions Fund at
Bethlehem Community Church,
201 Elm Avenue, Delmar, NY
12054.
— Melissa Hale-Spencer
Enterprise obituaries
record the fabric
of a close-knit
community.
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Marion E. Hilton Gibbs
KNOX — One word best describes Marion E. Hilton Gibbs: faithful.
“That’s what Keen Hilton said; he nailed it right on,” said Mrs.
Gibbs’s daughter, Verlane Coon.
“She was faithful to her God and
her church. She was faithful to
her family, her husband and
children. She was faithful to her
friends and neighbors. And her
word, when she said she would do
something, she followed through.
She was faithful.”
Mrs. Gibbs died one week short
of her 93rd birthday, on Thursday,
Feb. 7, 2013. “She left this world
for a huge family reunion,” said
her daughter.
Mrs. Gibbs grew up in a little
house on the boulevard in Altamont and went to the old Altamont High School. “She was so
proud last year to be the oldest
— Photo by Doris Selig
living graduate at the reunion,”
Marion E. Hilton Gibbs
said her daughter.
Her father, Maynard Hilton, was an electrician who did work at
the fairgrounds, and her mother, Emma, was a homemaker who took
in washing and did ironing for people, said Ms. Coon.
“She loved Altamont,” said Ms. Coon, and had deep roots in the
village, being related to both James (Keen) Hilton, the former pastor
at St. John’s Lutheran Church, and to Larry Warner, an Altamont
mayor.
Before spending her last four years at the Guilderland Center
Nursing Home, Mrs. Gibbs was active volunteering at the village
museum and also in collecting the history of St. John’s Church where
she was “a member forever,” said her daughter.
After graduating from high school, she married Francis Gibbs.
While he worked at General Electric, Mrs. Gibbs was a homemaker.
The couple made their first home on Lark Street in Altamont. “That’s
where I was born,” said Ms. Coon.
“She brought me up to respect who I was.
She’d tell me, ‘You’ve got a good name.
Don’t do anything to bring shame to it.’”
“After three years at GE, due to a family situation, my father
went back to the farm in Knox,” said Ms. Coon. “My family moved
to the house on the farm — that’s where my brother and me were
raised.”
She went on about her mother, “She did farmer’s wife things.” That
included making large noontime dinners for farm workers. Mr. Gibbs
owned a combine harvester and his cousin owned a baler. “When
it was time to bale hay, the farmers would come from all around to
help. At noon, my mother and grandmother would feed them all,”
said Ms. Coon. “The same thing would happen at thrashing time…
My father would go to other farms to help. As farmers, they shared
so each one didn’t have to have the equipment.”
The farm workers as well as the family were well fed. “Oh, boy,
was she a good cook,” said Ms. Coon. “She used to make liverwurst
of fresh pork and fresh liver. She’d cook it and grind it together and
we’d put it on our pancakes.”
Mrs. Gibbs was also known for her delicious cold-pack beef. “She’d
cut up fresh, butchered beef and can it,” said her daughter. “It was
wonderful.”
Ms. Coon described the family farm in Knox as “all-purpose,”
with pigs, chickens, and sheep — “and we made maple syrup in the
spring,” she said.
Mrs. Gibbs was as skilled at clothing her family as she was at
feeding them. “She made my cheerleading uniform and any outlandish costumes the choir director said we needed for our musicals at
Berne-Knox,” said Ms. Coon. He would make a rough sketch and
Mrs. Gibbs would be able to create the costume without a pattern.
She even made her daughter’s wedding dress.
“She was a great mother,” said Ms. Coon. “She brought me up to
respect who I was. She’d tell me, ‘You’ve got a good name. Don’t do
anything to bring shame to it.’”
Mrs. Gibbs wasn’t one to mince words, and she had some pithy,
farmwife sayings, which her daughter recalled with a hearty
laugh.
Her direct advice for anyone who was mooning about, wishing for
things that weren’t likely to be was: “If wishes were horses, beggars
would ride. If horse turds were biscuits, they’d eat till they died.”
“Her word was true,” said Ms. Coon. “She didn’t want to be lied
to. To the end, we were totally honest.”
Ms. Coon, who lives in Florida, would call her mother in the
nursing home every day at 4 p.m. “She looked forward to 4 o’clock
every day. She would say, ‘Verlane, are you there?’” recalled Ms.
Coon. Mrs. Gibbs would look at her weather stick from Maine and
tell her daughter if it were pointing up or down, for good weather
or bad, and what the temperature was.
The family had a premonition about Mrs. Gibbs’s death when her
beloved cat, Arthur, died four days before she did. “He was the man
in her life,” said Ms. Coon as Mr. Gibbs had died many years before.
“I’m trying to see if they’ll bury Arthur with her,” said Ms. Coon. She
also recalled, “My mother said, ‘Arthur sent me a message.’”
Ms. Coon went on to recall her final conversation with her mother.
“That last day,” she remembered, as a large snowstorm was being
predicted for the Northeast, “I said, ‘How’s it going?’ She said,
‘Not good.’ I said, ‘I can’t be there. I’m in Florida. You’re getting a
snowstorm. I ain’t got no boots. Don’t wait for me….Just relax and
enjoy it. I love you.’”
****
Marion E. Hilton Gibbs is survived by her children, Verlane R. Coon
and Brian R. Gibbs; her grandchildren, David A. Coon, Lynaire L.
Stanton, and Todd C. Coon; and her great-grandchildren, Victoria
A. Coon, Alex J. Coon, and Justin T. Coon.
Her parents, Maynard and Emma Hilton, died before her as did
her brother, H. Bruce Hilton, and her husband, Francis Gibbs.
Arrangements are by the Fredendall Funeral Home in Altamont.
A memorial service will be held in the spring.
— Melissa Hale-Spencer
Obituaries
Church News
Donald J. Tambasco Sr.
Donald J. Tambasco Sr., a loving husband and father who worked
for the Dockbuilders’ Union, died on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Leesburg, Fla. where he lived. He was 73.
Mr. Tambasco spent 33 years working for the Dockbuilders’ Union
followed by five years in the Operating Engineers’ Union in New
York City.
He was born in Scranton, Pa. on Oct. 9, 1939. He moved to Flush-
Mr. Tambasco spent 33 years
working for the Dockbuilders’ Union.
ing, N.Y. in 1944 and then to Hauppage, N.Y. in 1954. In 1963, he
moved his family to Westerlo, N.Y.
Following his retirement in 2001, he moved to the community of
Hawthorne in Leesburg, Fla.
He is remembered and will be dearly missed by his wife of 27 years,
Martha (Marty) Tambasco; his sons, Donald and Kevin Tambasco;
and his daughters, Karen Schrader, Theresa Oliver, and Loretta Klob,
as well as stepchildren, Patricia, David, and Kenneth Robinson. His
life was blessed with 15 wonderful grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren, as well as a large extended family.
To celebrate his life, a Mass will be held on March 1 at 10:30 a.m.
at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church at 109 Grand Street in Altamont,
followed by a reception at the American Legion at 988 Altamont
Blvd. in Altamont.
Memorial contributions may be made to Cornerstone Hospice,
2445 Lane Park Rd., Tavares, FL 32778, to the American Cancer
Society, or to a charity of choice.
Paul J. Riley
VOORHEESVILLE – Paul J. Riley, a Korean War veteran and
a family man who worked his way to the top, died peacefully on
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at The Hospice Inn at St. Peter’s Hospital
surrounded by his loving family. He was 83.
Born in Albany, he was the son of the late Peter C. Riley III and
Anna Dillon Riley.
“Paul courageously served his country during the Korean War with
The United States Air Force,” his family wrote in a tribute.
Mr. Riley began working for the Huyck Felt Co. in Rensselaer at
the age of 17. He worked his way up from sweeping floors to retire
“Paul courageously served his country during
the Korean War with The United States Air Force.”
as president of Huyck Brazil after more than 35 years of service.
“He loved to golf, bowl, dance, and was an avid Civil War history
buff,” his family wrote. “Paul also loved to restore antique furniture.”
He is survived by his loving wife of 33 years, Regina B. Riley. He
is the devoted father of Deborah (James) Rocco, Paul Jr. (Yvette)
Riley, Patricia Riley (Thomas Lawton). He is step-father to Andrea
Pecanha and Sandra DeCastro. He is the brother of John Riley. Paul
is the cherished “Poppy” of Lawrence Pape, James Rocco, Amber
Caruso, David Riley, Sarah, Alison, and Ryan Schenmeyer, Paula,
and Pedro Gargano, and Dylan Dunney. He is the great-grandfather
of Adriana, Nolan, James, Amelia, and Henry.
Emilia Vettese Riley, his wife and the loving mother of his children,
died in 1978. His brothers — Daniel and Peter C. Riley IV — also
died before him, as did his sister, Joan Greene.
Funeral Services will be held today, Feb. 14, at 10 a.m. at the
McKownville United Methodist Church, 1565 Western Ave., Albany,
NY 12203. Arrangements are by the New Comer Cannon Funeral
Home in Colonie. To leave a message for the family online visit
NewComerAlbany.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to The St. Jude’s Childrens
Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105.
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Hilltowns
Lenten services will be held in
the Hilltowns each Wednesday
night at 7p.m. at a different
sanctuary as guest preachers
speak on the theme for 2013:
“Giving It Up.”
Here is the schedule:
— On Feb. 20 at Knox Reformed,
Wendy Cook will preach;
— On Feb. 27 at Rock Road Chapel, Bob Hoffman will preach;
— On March 6 at Helderberg
Lutheran Sharon Carlson will
preach;
— On March 13 at Berne
Reformed, Tim Van Heest will
preach;
— On March 20 at Thompson’s
Lake, Bob Hoffman will preach;
— On March 28 (Maundy
Thursday) at Rock Road Chapel,
Wendy Cook will preach; and
— On March 29 (Good Friday)
at Berne Reformed, Jay Francis
will preach.
Bethlehem Lutheran
BETHLEHEM — Six weeks of
Lenten mid-week services begin
on Wednesday, Feb. 13, with Ash
Wednesday services at 7 p.m. at
the Bethlehem Lutheran Church
at 85 Elm Ave. in Delmar. Services conclude on Wednesday,
March 20.
St. Johns Lutheran
St. John’s Lutheran Church
at 140 Maple Ave. in Altamont
has the following schedule for
Sunday, Feb. 17:
— 8:30 a.m. there will be an informal worship including modern
and ethnic hymns plus a discussion of format for a sermon;
— 9:45 a.m. Sunday school for
preschool through high school
children. There will also be an
adult discussion; and
— 11 a.m. there will be a traditional worship with traditional
pipe organ accompaniment.
The preacher is Rev. Gregory
Zajac who will present a sermon
on “The Reward of Resisting
Temptation”, based on Luke
4:1-13.
For more information contact
the church at 861-8862 or check
out the website at www.stjohnsaltamont.org.
FUMC holds
financial
planning course
VOORHEESVILLE — A nineweek class on money management will be held at the First
United Methodist Church.
The video training series is
rooted in the Bible and was developed by David L. Ramsey III,
a motivational speaker, financial writer, and radio host who
encourages people to get out of
debt. He created Financial Peace
University.
“This plan will show you how
to get rid of debt, manage your
money, spend and save wisely,
and much more,” said organizers
of the local event in a release.
The nine-week class will be
held at the First United Methodist Church at 68 Maple Ave. in
Voorheesville, beginning Sunday,
Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. for two hours.
There will be no class on Easter
Sunday, March 31.
For more information, contact Andy Bell at andybellpe@
verizon.net or call the church
at 765-2895. Office hours are
Monday through Thursday from
9 a.m. until noon.
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26
Blotters
The following individuals,
according to the Guilderland
Police reports, were arrested for
committing the crime of petit
larceny, a misdemeanor, at the
Crossgates Mall:
— Khadajah Ramsey-Gross,
21, of 55 Grandview Terrace,
Albany, on Feb. 11, for taking
$60 worth of merchandise from
the J.C. Penney.
— Makiah S. Gross, 20, of 30
Magnolia Terrace, Albany, on
Feb. 11, for taking $74 worth
of merchandise at the J.C. Penney.
— Jason R. Cintron, 20, of 53
Elberon Placa, 1st Floor, Albany
on Feb. 8, for taking Nike Fleece
pants valued at $40 from the
J.C. Penney.
— Anthony R. Sierra, 17, of
53 Elberon Place, Albany, on
Feb. 8, for taking Nike Fleece
pants valued at $40 from the
J.C. Penney.
— Pedro J. Santiago, 20, 1569
Leland Ave. 2, Bronx, on Feb. 8,
for taking a pair of Nike shorts
valued at $32 from the J.C.
Penney.
— Bryant C. John, 18, of
Building 9, Apt 3, Griswold
Heights, On Feb. 4, for taking
$353 from the Macys.
— Quinlin R. Holmes, 17, of
1041 Glendale Ave., Schenectady,
on Feb. 5, for taking a T-shirt
valued at $29 from Macys.
— Ernest Cannon, 19, of 709
6th Ave., Troy, on Jan. 31, for
cashing his paycheck at the
T-Shirt Spot store and then
stealing the same check from
the register so he could cash it
again at a bank.
—Abbey M. Slaga, 18, of 126
N. Springhurst Drive, East
Greenbush, on Feb. 1, for taking
a green tank top valued at $7.99
from the Deb Shop store.
— Morsal Abawi, 19, 1400
Washington Ave. Dutch, Albany,
on Feb. 1, for taking a purse,
a backpack and tights worth a
total of $78 from J.C. Penney.
— Arielis Caceres, 19, of 1400
Washington Ave., Albany, on
Feb. 1, for taking property from
J.C. Penney.
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Crockpots empty fast at the Knox Winter Festival on Jan. 26 as visitors enjoy various home-cooked
chilis outdoors. Some ate it with hot dogs grilled a few yards away and watched as children sledded
down the town park hill. Tony Forti won first place in the chili competition, judged by Brian Griffin,
head chef at Mio Vino in Altamont.
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Knox town park.
The bonfire kept everyone
warm and toasty, and complimentary hotdogs and hot
chocolate kept both children and
adults happy and full.
The chili cook-off was a huge
success, with eight contestants
showing off their kitchen expertise. The Knox Youth Council
was proud to have Brian Griffin,
chef at Mio Vino Wine Bar & Café
in Altamont, as the official taster
and judge.
Top honors went to Tony Forti,
with a tasty beef and pork entry.
Robert Price won second prize,
with third place going to Annette
Liwulanga. Other participants
were Karin Kuck, Elaine Larsen,
Claudia Gagnon, Cliff Carlone,
and Annielaura Shafer.
All the chilies were well received, the empty crock pots a
testament to all the chefs!
Prizes were very generously
donated by Jackie Ingleston,
Rocky Hill Farm, Elderberry
Mary, the Norray Farm, Girl
Scout Troop # 1758, and Karin
Kuck.
Forti’s Fortifying Chili
The recipe for Tony Forti’s
prize-winning chili follows:
4 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon cumin
Cayenne pepper (or other hot
peppers) to taste
1 to 1 ½ lb ground pork
1 to 1 ½ lb. ground beef
1 to 2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons maple syrup
(optional, for sweeter chili)
1 28-oz. can tomatoes, with
juice
1 6 ½-oz. can tomato paste
2 16-oz. cans red and/or black
beans (or soak & precook 1 pound
dry beans)
2 large onions, chopped
2 sweet bell peppers, chopped
8 cloves garlic, crushed or
minced
Brown the meat (in batches)
in 1 tablespoon olive oil and set
aside in a Dutch oven or large
pot. Discard fat.
Cook the onions and sweet
peppers in 2 tablespoons olive oil
in frying pan until softened (6 to
8 minutes). Add garlic and cook
for one minute more.
Add cooked vegetables to
browned meat and stir in chili
powder, cumin, and cayenne
pepper.
Cook for 2 minutes over
medium heat. Add and stir in
28-ounce can of tomatoes, 6
½-ounce can of tomato paste,
maple syrup, beans (include bean
liquid), and salt.
Add 2 cups or so water (or you
can use beer) — get the chili as
thick (or thin) as you like it.
Simmer for about 1 hour, tasting as you go and adjust spices
and salt.
Make sure you do not burn
the chili; keep on moderate
simmer and stir every once in a
while. Chili always tastes better if cooked the day before; keep
refrigerated and reheat when
ready to serve.
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served. SSNY shall mail process to:
1982 59th St., Brooklyn, NY 11204.
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on 11/27/12. Office location: Albany
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St., Brooklyn, NY 11218. Purpose:
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Office location: Queens County.
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LLC upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to: P.O. Box 6113,
Astoria, NY 11106. Purpose: Any
lawful purpose.
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Name: TRM PARTNERS LLC Articles of Organization were filed
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Office location: Albany County.
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process against it may be served.
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Albany, New York 12206. Purpose:
For any lawful purpose.
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Articles of Organization filed with
Secretary of State of NY (SSNY)
on 12/20/11. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated as
shall mail copy of process to:
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Articles of Org. filed with NY
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process (SOP) to NW Registered
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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.
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filed with NY Secretary of State
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of Ravelace LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 8-10-2012, office location:
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with NY Secretary of State (NS)
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January 1, 2013, office location:
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Manhattan LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 341 Wallabout
St. Suite 1A, Brooklyn, NY 11206.
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Orchard Capital LLC. Arts of Org.
filed with New York Secy of State
(SSNY) on 12/7/12. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is
designated as agent of LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail process
to: 381 Park Avenue S, Ste 1001,
New York, NY 10016. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
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1315 St. Nicholas LLC. Arts of
Org. filed with New York Secy of
State (SSNY) on 11/21/12. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY is
to: 1841 Broadway, Suite 400, New
York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
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Broadway, Suite 400, New York,
activity.
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184th St. Nicholas LLC. Arts of
(6-26-31)
LEGAL NOTICE
649 West 184th LLC. Arts of Org.
(SSNY) on 11/21/12. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is
(7-26-31)
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Catalyst, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 16 Jane St.
#3F, New York, NY 10014. Purpose:
(8-26-31)
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Notice of Formation of HotelBidness LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
New York Secy of State (SSNY)
shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt
Dr. Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The
name and address of the registered
agent is Vcorp Agent Services,
Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr. Ste 204,
Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(9-26-31)
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to: 619 W. 54th St. Ste 10A, New
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LLC. filed with Sec of State NY
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upon whom process against it may
be served & shall mail process to:
BBCETC, LLC, 803 N. Main St, Ann
Arbor, MI 48104. Foreign add: 803
N. Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Arts. of Org. filed with Steven H.
Hilfinger, Dir., MI Dept. of Licensing
and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of
Commercial Services, Corp. Div.,
PO Box 30054, Lansing, MI 48909.
Purpose: General.
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Notice of Formation of Widgetism LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
Dr. Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The
name and address of the registered
agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc.,
25 Robert Pitt Dr. Ste 204, Monsey,
NY 10952.
(11-26-31)
LEGAL NOTICE
TheList, LLC.
Arts of Org filed with Secy of
State of NY (SSNY) on 11/20/12.Office location: Albany County. SSNY
designated as agent upon whom
process may be served and shall
mail copy of process against LLC to
principal business address: InCorp
Services, Inc., One Commerce
Plaza - 99 Washington Ave., Suite
805-A, Albany, NY 12210-2822.
Purpose: any lawful act.
(12-26-31)
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My Auto Sales LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY
process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box
10873, Albany, NY 12201. Purpose:
General.
(14-26-31)
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Natane Boudreau LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 10/23/12. Office in
Albany County. SSNY designated
shall mail process to Melissa Silva,
290 W. 232nd St # 14D, Bronx, NY
10463. Purpose: General.
(15-26-31)
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Space LLC, Auth. Filed Sec’y of
State (SSNY) 1/3/13. Office loc.
Albany County. LLC org. in CA
4/10/12. SSNY desig. agent upon
whom process may be served and
shall mail process to NW Registered
Office 40, Albany, 12207. CA addr
of LLC: 588 Sutter St. #501, San
Francisco, CA 94102. Art. of Org.
filed CA Sec’y of State, 1500 11th
St. Sacramento, CA 95814. Purp:
any lawful act.
(2-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
HNR Management LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY
General.
(4-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qual. of National Strategic Group, LLC. filed with Sec of
State NY (SSNY): 1/14/13. Office
in Albany County. Formed in DE:
1/10/13. SSNY designated agent of
may be served & shall mail process
to: Usacorp Inc, PO Box 10873,
Albany, NY 12201. Foreign add:
Registered Agents Legal Services,
LLC, 1220 N Market St Ste 806,
Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org.
filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div.
of Corps., 401 Federal St., Dover,
DE 19901. Purpose: General.
(5-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qual. of Sound View
Advisory Group, LLC. filed with Sec
of State NY (SSNY): 1/14/13. Office
in Albany County. Formed in DE:
(6-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qual. of AMG Advisors LLC. filed with Sec of State
NY (SSNY): 1/10/13. Office in
Albany County. Formed in DE:
(7-27-32)
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Notice of Formation of 132 Meserole Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 83 Wilson
St. #234, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
(8-27-32)
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shall mail process to: 260 Madison
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(9-27-32)
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shall mail process to: 1220 Broadway Ste 707, New York, NY 10001.
(10-27-32)
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62nd Street LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 515 Rockaway Ave, Valley Stream, NY 11581.
(11-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of ASERAM
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York
Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/14/13.
SSNY is designated as agent of
process to: 401 E. 80th St, Apt 31A,
lawful activity.
(12-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Elite
Performance Footwear LLC. Arts
of Org. filed with New York Secy
of State (SSNY) on 1/8/13. Office
to: 10 W. 33rd St, Ste 804, New
(13-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Jessore
Garage Door LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 3048 Bedford
Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:
(14-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Aspen
Property Ventures LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 12/17/2012,
office location: Albany County, NS
is designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, NS shall
mail service of process (SOP) to
Veil Corporate, LLC @ 911 Central
Ave # 188 Albany, NY 12206, Veil
Corporate, LLC is designated as
agent for SOP at 911 Central Ave #
188 Albany, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(17-26-31)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Meta Path
Media LLC. Articles of Org. filed
on 12/06/2012, office location:
process (SOP) to InCorp Services,
Inc. @ One Commerce Plaza - 99
Washington Ave., InCorp Services,
Inc. is designated as agent for SOP
at One Commerce Plaza - 99 Washington Ave., Suite 805-A, Albany,
NY 12210-2822, purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(18-26-31)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic formation of
Rockin the Seams, LLC
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 8/17/2012
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.
(17-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qual. of Centurion Asset Management, LLC, Auth. filed
Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/26/12.
Office loc.: Albany County. LLC
org. in PA 2/6/2007. SSNY desig. as
shall mail copy of proc. to James
G. Hageney, Managing Member,
Centurion Group LLC, 610 W. Germantown Ave. Suite 350 Plymouth
Meeting PA 19462, the principal
office addr. in PA Art. of Org. on file:
SSPA, 401 North Street Room 206
Harrisburg, PA 17120. Purp.: any
lawful activities.
(18-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]
of MONTY Media Services, LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 11/09/2012,
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.
(19-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Broad
Street Alliance LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 01/11/13, office location:
LLC is designated as agent for
SOP at 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, purpose is any lawful purpose.
(20-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation Sandlot
Sports LLC. Articles of Org. filed
on 12/11/12, office location: Albany County, NS is designated as
agent upon whom process may
Office 40. Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
(3-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of
PINGER MEDIA LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
12/12/12. Off. loc: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail process
to: c/o Biz Filings Incorporated,
187 Wolf Road, Suite 101, Albany
NY 12205 Purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(4-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Articles of Organization of 968
ALBANY SHAKER ROAD ASSOCIATES, LLC (“LLC”) were filed
with Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”)
on 01/7/2013. Office Location:
Albany County. SSNY has been
process against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail a copy
of any process to and the LLC’s
principal business location is:
14 Corporate Woods Boulevard,
Albany, NY 12211. Purpose: Any
lawful business purpose.
(5-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Cadogan
Park LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 787 Seventh
Ave, New York, NY 10019. Purpose:
(6-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Cadogan
Park 62 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
(7-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Dhilam2
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New
shall mail process to: 20 Hansen
Dr., Edison, NJ 08820. Purpose:
(8-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Barmadon Management 2 LLC. Arts of
to: 1220 Broadway Ste 708, New
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LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Beach
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(11-25-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of HF Law
Office PLLC. Arts of Org. filed
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on
agent of PLLC upon whom process
shall mail process to: 1318 Avenue
J, Brooklyn, NY 11230. Purpose:
(12-25-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Joseph
Friedman, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 2723 Avenue
J, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:
(13-25-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
STANDARD FITNESS 14, LLC
The name of the company is
Standard Fitness 14, LLC. Articles
of Organization were filed on December 24, 2012. LLC’s office is
in Albany County. The Secretary
of State of the State of New York
is designated as agent for service
of process and shall mail a copy of
process to 226 Great Oaks Boulevard, Albany, New York, 12203. The
puRpose of LLC is to engage in any
lawful act or activity.
(13-26-31)
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Equities LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
shall mail process to: 1364 E. 5th
(9-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Ensof
Park LLC. Arts of Org. filed with
(10-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Safta
process to: 75-20 Vleigh Pl., Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: any lawful
activity.
(11-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of The
Melohn Group LLC. Arts of Org.
(SSNY) on 1/16/13. Office location:
Albany County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom
E. 29th St., Brooklyn, NY 11229.
(12-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
NAME: Benefits Outsource Systems, LLC. Articles of Org, were
filed with the Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on January
17, 2013. Office location: Albany
County. SSNY has been designated
SSNY shall mail a copy of process
to the LLC, P.O. Box 3122, New
York, NY 10017. Purpose: For any
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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
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as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE
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2, 2012, mail service of process
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and or HTR Racing LLC @ 595
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NY 12110. Purpose is any lawful
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LLC changed to TECH VALLEY
MEDIATION & ARBITRATION, LLC)
and 1/11/13 (name of LLC changed
to Capital District ADR, LLC). Office
Location: Albany County. Principal
Office of LLC: 20 Corporate Woods
Blvd., Albany, NY 12211. SSNY
to The LLC, 20 Corporate Woods
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Perpetual. Purpose: Any lawful
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Notice of Formation of AVCX
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01.24.13. Office location, County of
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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION
of A Central Park Wedding LLC.
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in New Jersey (NJ) on 05/07/12.
to: the LLC, 715 Bloomfield St, Apt
2, Hoboken, NJ 07030. NJ address
of LLC: 715 Bloomfield St, Apt 2,
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located at: PO Box 308, Trenton,
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LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
(LLC)
The name of the LLC is Ionian
Enterprises, LLC. The Articles of
Organization January 22, 2013. The
purpose of the LLC is to engage
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office of the LLC is to be located in
Schenectady County. The Secretary of State is the designated agent
of the LLC upon whom process
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The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of
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Notice of formation of Artabis,
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of State (NS) on 1/17/13,
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful
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Org. filed with Secy. of State of
shall mail process to Usacorp Inc,
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Purpose: General.
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on 1/23/13. Office in Albany County.
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shall mail process to: 107 Dockerty
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shall mail process to: 20 Hansen
Dr., Edison, NJ 08820. Purpose:
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shall mail process to: 260 Madison
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Property Group LLC. Arts of Org.
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SSNY shall mail process to: 95-04
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lawful activity. Last date to dissolve:
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NOTICE OF FORMATION: NY
DENTAL IMPLANT ASSOCIATES
PLLC. Arts of Org. were filed with
the Secretary of State of New York
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been designated as agent of the
a copy of process to the LLC,
1024 Reads Lane Far Rockaway,
activity.
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NAME: POWERPUPPY DOG
TRAINING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
to the LLC, 971 Altamont Blvd,
Altamont, NY 12009. Purpose: For
any lawful purpose.
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NAME: TODD BALDWIN CONTRACTING LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary
of State of NY (SSNY) on January
31, 2013. Office Location: Albany
to the LLC, 7 Binghampton Street,
Albany, N.Y. 12202. Purpose: For
any lawful purpose.
(27-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Bais Lipa LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
General.
(1-30-35)
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BSD 18 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
General.
(2-30-35)
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Blessvision LLC. Arts. of Org.
(SSNY) on 12/17/12. Office in Albany County. SSNY designated agent
of LLC upon whom process against
process to 32 1st St., Albany, NY
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Notice of Formation of 475B
process to: 45 N. Station Plaza,
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Notice of Formation of 930-940
process to: 2 W. 45th St, Rm 1704,
lawful activity.
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Moda NY, LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 111 Countisbury Ave, Valley Stream, NY 11580.
(6-30-35)
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Notice of Formation of Ridgewood Suites LLC. Arts of Org. filed
shall mail process to: 146 Spencer
St, Ste 2003, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
(7-30-35)
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shall mail process to: 146 Spencer
St, Ste 2003, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
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LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
NAME: FME Properties, LLC Articles of Organization were filed
with the Secretary ol` State of New
York (SSNY) on January 25, 2013.
Office location: The Mailing Address
of the limited liability company’s
office is 133 Lewis Road, Altamont,
New York 12009, County of Albany.
SSNY has been designated agent
of the LLC upon whom process
shall mail a copy of process to the
LLC at 133 Lewis Road, Altamont,
New York 12009. For any lawful
purpose.
(9-30-35)
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Notice of Formation of Emerald
24 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY
process to: 975 E. 19th St., Brooklyn, New York 11230. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(28-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
A second meeting of the Town
Board of the Town of Berne is
scheduled for Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:30 PM
By order of the Town Board
Patricia M. Favreau
Town Clerk
(22-30)
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Name: ALL STAR TRACTOR TRAILER SCHOOL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of
State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 1/25/2013.
be served. SSNY shall mail a copy
of process to: The LLC, 25 Industrial
Park Road, Albany, NY 12206. Purpose: any lawful activity, as limited
by the Articles of Organization.
(10-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: Mishiyev LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with the Secretary
process may be served. SSNY
shall mail service of process (SOP)
to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
700 Office 40. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
(11-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids will be received for the
furnishing of all Gravel, Processed
Sand and M-4 Crushed Stone of
Various Sizes.
Bids will be received until 10:00
A.M. MARCH 20TH 2013 at which
time bids will be opened and read
aloud, at the Town Clerk’s Office,
Town Hall, Route 20, McCormack’s
Corners, Guilderland, New York.
Bids shall be in duplicate, in
sealed envelopes which shall bear
on the face thereof the name and
address of bidder, and the subject of` bid. Certification of NonCollusion and Waiver of Immunity
Clause must be attached to each
bid. Detailed Specifications and
bid forms may be obtained at the
Town Clerk’s Office. The Town
Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
By Order of Steven Oliver
Superintendent of Highways
Town of Guilderland
Rosemary Centi, Town Clerk
(19-30)
subject of bid. Certification of
Non-Collusion and Waiver of Immunity Clause must be attached
to each bid.
Detailed Specifications and bid
forms may be obtained at the Town
Clerk’s Office. The Town Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
By Order of Steven Oliver
Superintendent of Highways
Town of Guilderland
Rosemary Centi,
Town Clerk
(20-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING
BEFORE THE ZONING BOARD
OF APPEALS
Notice is hereby given that the
Zoning Board of Appeals of the
Town of Guilderland, New York, will
hold a public hearing pursuant to
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on
the following proposition:
Amend Special Use Permit #5294/Request No. 4374
Request of Joseph DeFranco
for an amendment to Special Use
Permit #52-94 under the Zoning
Law to permit: the replacement
of a 30’ x 60’ maintenance building with a 50’ x 100’ maintenance
building. All site characteristics
have been previously reviewed and
approved by the Board.
Per Articles III & V Sections
280-24.1& 280-52 respectively
For property owned by Joseph
DeFranco
Situated as follows: 617 Rt. 146
Altamont, NY 12009
Tax Map # 38.80-1-26.4
Zoned: RA3
Plans open for public inspection
at the Building Department during normal business hours. Said
hearing will take place on the 6th
of March, 2013 at the Guilderland
Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm.
Dated: February 12, 2013
Donald F. Cropsey, Jr.
Chief Building Inspector
and Zoning Administrator
(24-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
OF APPEALS
hold a public hearing pursuant to
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on
the following proposition:
Special Use Permit Request
No. 4375
Request of Stuyvesant Plaza
for a Special Use Permit under
the Zoning Law to permit: the
development of a paved parking
area on an easement at the south
side of the plaza. This parking area
will include spaces for 26 vehicles,
a retaining wall to protect existing
trees and an area for dumpsters/
trash compactors. In addition, a
gravel pedestrian walkway will be
constructed to provide access to
a town park from the plaza.
280-20& 280-52 respectively
For property owned by Stuyvesant Plaza
Situated as follows: 1475 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12203
Tax Map # 52.04-2-4 & 52.042-8
Zoned: LB
at the Building Department during normal business hours. Said
hearing will take place on the 6th
of March, 2013 at the Guilderland
(25-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
OF APPEALS
resume a public hearing pursuant
to Articles III & V of the Zoning Law
on the following proposition:
Special Use Permit Request
No. 4315
Request of Frederick L. Wagner,
III for a Special Use Permit under
the Zoning Law to permit: the operation of an excavation/landscape
contracting facility on a 23.5 acre
parcel of land.
280-24.1 & 280-52 respectively
For property owned by Frederick L. Wagner, III
Situated as follows: Maeosta
Lane Altamont, NY 12009
Tax Map # 38.00-3-27
Zoned: RA3
at the Building Department during
normal business hours. Said hearing will take place on the 20th of
February, 2013 at the Guilderland
(23-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
WHEREAS, the next general Village Election will be held on March
19, 2013, and
WHEREAS, no person shall be
entitled to vote at any Village Election whose name does not appear
on the register, and
WHEREAS, Section 15-118(5) of
the Election Law requires that every
Village hold a Registration Day for
each general village election.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT;
First: The inspectors of elections
shall meet on the 9th day of March
2013 for
REGISTRATION DAY and to
prepare the register.
Second: Such Registration Day
will be held at Village Hall from 12
noon to 5:00 pm.
Third: Voting for the forthcoming
election shall be conducted at the
Village Hall, 115 Main Street, Altamont, NY on Tuesday, March 19,
2013 from 12 noon to 9:00 pm.
DATED: February 8, 2013
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
VILLAGE OF ALTAMONT
PATTY BLACKWOOD
VILLAGE CLERK
(18-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice to Proposers
The Voorheesville Central School
District has issued a Request for
Proposals (RFP) for selection of a
firm to supply Architect/Engineering
Services pertaining to a proposed
renovation capital project within
the Voorheesville Central School
District facilities.
A copy of the RFP can be obtained by contacting the Voorheesville Central School District, 432
New Salem Road, Voorheesville,
NY 12186 (Christy at 765-3313,
ext. 109). Any vendor wishing to
inspect the premises prior to the
submission of a proposal must
contact Gregory P. Diefenbach,
Assistant Superintendent for Business, to establish a time for such
walk through.
Proposals in response to this
request must be submitted toMr.
Gregory P. Diefenbach on or before March 12, 2013, no later than
11:00 a.m., prevailing time, at which
time all proposals will be publicly
opened. Determinations as to the
selected vendor shall be promptly
made following the opening.
(21-30)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids will be received for the
furnishing Cold-Planing.
Bids will be received until 10:00
A.M. MARCH 20th 2013 at which
time bids will be opened and read
aloud, at the Town Clerk’s Office,
Town Hall, Route 20, McCormack’s
Corners, Guilderland, New York.
Bids shall be in duplicate, in
sealed envelopes which shall
bear on the face thereof the name
and address of bidder, and the
Check Legals
online at:
www.altamontenterprise.com
31
The evolution of chess computers
By Peter Henner
In the 1980s and early 1990s,
chess computers, including both
stand-alone products and software, did not play above master
level. Furthermore, although the
computers never made any gross
tactical mistakes, they tended
to place too much emphasis on
material, and it was sometimes
possible to defeat them by taking
advantage of this defect.
I remember that I was usually
able to beat one computer when
it played the Caro-Kann defense
and captured a pawn in exchange
for a horrible position.
However, by the late 1990s,
computers got a lot better. IBM’s
Deep Blue, which ran on a main
frame, defeated then-World
Champion Garry Kasparov in
1997 (Kasparov questioned the
fairness of the match and IBM
refused a rematch).
In 2006, Deep Fritz, a modification of a computer program
that is commercially available,
defeated then-World Champion
Vladimir Kramnik.
Today, computers, which still
never make tactical mistakes,
can now evaluate the positional
aspects of a game, and are virtually unbeatable, except perhaps
by the strongest players in the
world.
I have recently purchased
Houdini 3, an invaluable tool
to analyze games; sometimes I
play against the computer and
continually take back moves to
see if I can figure out why it is
beating me.
Club championships
With only four games left to
play in the Albany club championship, four of the 12 contestants have a chance to win first
place.
Dave Finnerman, with 8-2 has
one game left against Gordon
Magat, with 7 ½ - 2 ½. Michael
Mockler with 7 ½ - 2 ½ has one
game left against me, with 7-2.
In addition to Mockler, I have a
game left against John Lack.
Last year’s Champion Dean
Howard (7 ½ - 3 ½) and Tim
Wright (7-4) have completed
their schedule.
Although Mockler leads the
Schenectady club championship
finals with 2 ½ -½, the surprise of
the tournament has been Carlos
Varela, who has defeated Carl
Adamec (1-2) and myself (1-2)
for a score of 2-1. Mockler still
has to play Finnerman (2-1) and
Adamec (1-2). Mockler gave up a
draw to high school player Dilip
Aaron (½– 2 ½).
This week’s problem
Bill Little’s analysis of the recent game between Dean Howard
and Michael Mockler (available
on the Eastern New York Chess
Association blog) is noteworthy
for his discussion of the psychology of chess games: how surprising moves from an opponent may
affect a player’s ability to analyze
a position.
Mockler had made a surprising, but unsound sacrifice a
few moves earlier. In response,
Howard, who was short on time,
has just sacrificed his Queen by
playing his Queen from h4 to
capture on h6. (according to Mr.
Little, 27 g:f3 would have won).
If 27. . gh, 28 Rg3 wins.
However, Black can force an
immediate win. How?
Pound the ground: Andy Cummings, a 152-pound wrestler from Guilderland, has control over
Schenectady’s Alex Martinez during the first round of Sunday’s State Qualifiers for wrestling in
Queensbury. Cummings, sporting a red Mohawk, beat Martinez, 10 to 0, but was pinned by eventual
champion Angelo Kress, of Columbia, in the second round.
...Guilderland’s LoGiudice wins, Sprung pulls out
(Continued from Page 32)
Howard-Mockler, Albany Club
Championship 2013.
Black to move and win.
Solution on Page 23.
It’s Official
about it,” said Sprung, who
was 32-0 heading into Sunday’s
events. “I wanted to end my high
school career with a bang. This
was a tough one to chew.”
BKW Head Coach Jeff Vogel
pulled a wobbly Sprung aside
during the semifinal
match, not thinking
he could continue.
“His safety is more
important, so it was
I
an easy decision,” he
said. “You can’t take
chances like that.
Lightning struck on
the worst possible day, but the
reasons were known.”
Sprung had an all-star career
for BKW, ending with 112 wins,
tied with Matt Casullo for the
most in the school’s history. “This
hurts, a lot, but I just have to
move forward,” Sprung said.
Sprung said he felt fine until
he started wrestling on Sunday.
He said he should have pinned
his quarterfinal opponent from
Ravena in 20 seconds, but he
felt terrible and his ears hurt.
“Wrestling sick is never fun, and
I was dizzy,” he said. “I tried
to push through the day, but it
“This hurts, a lot, but
just have to move forward.”
wasn’t going to work out.”
Looking ahead to college next
fall, Sprung will wrestle for
either Brockport, Cortland, or
Ithaca while majoring in environmental science. His decision will
be based on which school has the
best education and opportunities
for him.
Sprung was dealt a very tough
card on Sunday, but Vogel says
he’ll recover from the calamity
and emerge as a better person.
Life has its way of being adverse,
but recovery is always on the
horizon.
When Sprung was beside
himself on Sunday,
Duanesburg coach Joe
Bena leaned in to give
the senior some words
of encouragement. Vogel said that plenty of
coaches were sorry to
hear of Sprung’s bad
news.
“Bena told me that a champion
isn’t just a person who wins all of
the time,” Sprung said. “He said
that a champion can overcome
adversity, misfortune, and bad
luck, and turn it into something
great. I respect Bena highly,
and what he said really lifted
me up.”
Coming
Next Week!
BOWLING
Town N’ Country Seniors
2-7-13
Big time signing: Berne-Knox-Westerlo senior Courtney Tedeschi signs her intent for a track and field scholarship to Division
I DePaul University last Saturday as her mother, Maria, father,
Matt, and coach, Bill Tindale, look on. Tedeschi, the reigning state
champion in the 2,000-meter steeplechase, will study business with
a focus on sports marketing at the Chicago school. DePaul is part
of the Big East Conference.
Lloyd Vanzandt ..................................... 171
Neil Taber .............................................. 182
Andy Tinning ..................................211, 571
Harold Hahn.................................. 217, 592
Mike Gardineer ............................. 210, 522
John Zampier ........................................ 167
Andy Wagner ......................................... 163
Shirley Herchenroder ........................... 181
Vala Jackson .......................................... 145
Bertha Adamczak .................................. 157
Trish Herchenroder ............................... 159
Cheryl Frederick ................................... 168
Ron Frederick ........................................ 176
Pat Colwell ............................................ 151
Doug Colwell ......................................... 172
Ray Frederick ................................ 223, 581
Town N’ Country Seniors
2-11-13
Clark Thomas ............................... 265, 695
Dennis Murphy ............................ 244, 691
Scott Hawkins .............................. 256, 689
Barry Smith .................................. 255, 689
Nick Silvano ................................. 279, 676
Don Frey ....................................... 280, 667
Chuck Joslin ................................. 243, 658
Tony Silvano ................................. 261, 638
Jon Dolen ...................................... 234, 626
John Hensel .................................. 245, 622
Fran Frantzen .............................. 227, 619
Randy Thomas ...............................227, 611
Mike Herzog ................................. 222, 610
Matt Childs ................................... 231, 604
Scott Coleman .............................. 238, 601
Tony Zappolo ................................ 242, 202
Kris Wahrlich ....................................... 223
Tim Rafferty ......................................... 222
Art LeMay .................................... 221, 204
Mike Barton .......................................... 220
Bill Stone .............................................. 208
Paul Cantlin ......................................... 206
Greg Davis ............................................ 206
Dave Sperbeck ...................................... 204
Jim Giner ...................................... 204, 200
Mike Hamilton ..................................... 204
Jim Cramer ......................................... 202.
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Albany County. NS is designated
Agent LLC (NWRA) @ 90 State St
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is any lawful purpose
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Notice of Formation of CRT
XXII, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with
the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY)
pursuant to NY LLC law section
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served to: c/o the LLC, P.O. Box N,
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lawful purpose.
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lawful purpose.
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Notice of Formation of Retail
Gaming Solutions, LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with Secy. Of State of
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to: 2390 Western Ave., Guilclerland,
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SPORTS
Section 2 State Qualifiers
Guilderland’s LoGiudice wins, Sprung taken down by sudden illness
QUEENSBURY –– Entering
Sunday’s Section 2 State Qualifiers, two local wrestlers had a
legitimate chance at state glory.
In the end, Guilderland’s Josh
LoGiudice was the master of
the 99-pound class, and BerneKnox-Westerlo’s Joe Sprung was
disappointed after dropping out
of the 220-pound class due to a
bad illness.
LoGiudice experienced epic
highs while Sprung endured a
crushing low.
LoGiudice said that Arceri
was wrestling in his 99-pound
finals match on Wednesday,
but wasn’t sure of the result.
LoGiudice would like to wrestle
Arceri again.
“I need to score out of the positions that I didn’t last time,” said
LoGiudice of his potential rematch with Arceri. “I couldn’t get
off the bottom against him.”
The Section 2 State Qualifiers
are usually held over two days
at the Glens Falls Civic Center,
but Friday’s snowstorm pushed
“I have a shot at a state championship.”
“It feels really good, like my
goal has been accomplished,”
LoGiudice said this week of his
victory. He pinned Anthony Sgorrano of South Glens Falls with
seven seconds remaining in the
first period with a cradle move.
“But, now, I have a new goal,”
he said. “I have a shot at a state
championship.”
The state championships will
be held at Times Union Center
in Albany on Feb. 22 and 23.
LoGiudice, a junior, is 38-1, his
only loss coming at the hands of
Huntington’s John Arceri.
the event to a single day –– Sunday –– at Queensbury. Section
2 Chairman George Chickanis
said that moving the event was
easy.
“Everyone was extremely hospitable and bent over backwards
for us,” Chickanis said while
watching the action on Sunday.
“The seating is tight, like the old
days, but we’ll get through it.”
At least 1,000 people –– wrestlers, parents, coaches, family,
and friends –– packed Queensbury High School. Four mats
were set up in the large gym and
Quick pin: Guilderland’s Josh LoGiudice, top, finished first in the 99-pound weight class of the Division 1 State Qualifiers held at Queensbury High School last Sunday. Here, LoGiudice, who will compete
at the state competition, pins his quarterfinal opponent. His Dutch teammate, Mike Lainhart, placed
second in the 106-pound class.
Bulldog: Joe Sprung, top, of Berne-Knox-Westerlo, went into
Sunday’s State Qualifiers for wrestling as the first seed (32-0) in
the 220-pound Division 2 class, but was struck with bad illness,
and had to pull out of competition during his semifinal bout.
Here, Sprung has his weight on Logan Knuckle of Ravena in the
quarterfinals. Sprung ended his Bulldog career tied with Matt
Casullo for most wins at 112.
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two mats showcased combat in
the small gym.
“It was definitely hectic,” said
LoGiudice, who bleached his hair
to near-white blond for fun. His
Dutch teammate, Andy Cummings, had bleached blond sides
with a red Mohawk on top.
“I showed myself what I could
do with all this chaos around
me,” LoGiudice said. “I got a lot
of congratulations on that day
and the day after, but the focus
quickly moved to States.”
LoGiudice trained the entire
offseason, competing in tournaments every weekend over last
summer. He’s not sure if he’ll
grow anymore, but he never
gets tired.
“Being a small wrestler is a
different game,” said LoGiudice.
“We’re strong, but things happen
much quicker.”
Sprung pulls out
The biggest shock of Sunday’s tournament came when
220-pound Division 2 favorite
Joe Sprung, who competed at
States last year for the Bulldogs,
pulled out of his semifinal match
against Schalmont’s Marcus
Romondo due to complications
from an ear infection.
“I was so upset that I cried
(Continued on Page 31)
Kissing the mat: The State Qualifiers for Section 2 wrestling
were moved to Queensbury High School on Sunday because of the
snowstorm last Friday. Usually, the tournament is over two days at
the Glens Falls Civic Center. Here, Voorheesville sophomore Tristan
Welton is squished under quarterfinal opponent Cassidy White of
Cornith during the 113-pound match. White won, 5 to 1.

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