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The AlTAmonT
Enterprise
& Albany County Post
No. 32 Thursday, FEBruary 26, 2015
Albany County’s independent newspaper since 1884
Recusals leave
no one on the bench
Peter Lynch has reserved his deciBy Marcello Iaia
BERNE — Attempting to avoid sion on allowing the transfer while
the appearance of impropriety, Pangburn’s next scheduled apboth town judges, Alan Zuk and pearance in Berne is March 10.
“I think Mrs. Pangburn should
Albert Raymond, have recused
themselves from a misdemeanor have a jury of her peers, which are
case as it makes its way toward from the town where it happened,”
Lewis Oliver, her attorney, said
a jury trial.
With no judges available in Tuesday, repeating his objection to
Berne, Assistant District At- the request during their appearance in front
torney Britof Lynch on
tany Grome
Feb. 18.
submitted a
Lynch read
formal request
from
the movlast week to
“We all know
ing papers
use another
Ms. Pangburn.”
that Zuk wrote
town’s court
that he had
as an alterreceived “cornative venue
respondence
for the case
and input
charging Marcia Pangburn, a 58-year-old nurse from community members,” acand single mother, with resisting cording to a court transcript from
arrest and second-degree obstruct- the appearance.
“That certainly would in my
ing governmental information.
The Enterprise has published view give him the absolutely the
several articles on the case since basis to recuse himself,” Lynch
Pangburn’s arrest last summer, said in the transcript.
Oliver also said that, if Lynch
when she was found a few hundred yards from her home mourn- decides to transfer the case, any
ing next to the graves of family decisions about evidence made by
members and deputies questioned Zuk so far should be invalidated
“But that depends on when he
her and tested her for signs of
received the communications that
intoxication.
Albany County Court Judge
(Continued on page 14)
GCSD goes to the dogs
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND — Catherine
Ricchetti believes that every
school should have a dog.
A social worker for the Guilderland schools, she has been working with a goldendoodle, a cross
between a golden retriever and a
poodle, named Miss Siggy, for over
a decade and is now leading the
way to introduce five more dogs
into the schools.
A fundraising gala will be held
on March 21 in Troy to help pay
to train the dogs.
“Social service dogs are cost effective and emotionally effective,”
said Ricchetti. “She makes my
job easier,” Ricchetti said of Miss
Siggy whose full name is Lily Sigmund — after Sigmund Freud, the
father of modern psychology.
“For a $2,500 investment, you
get 10 to 12 years of service,” said
Ricchetti, which she called “incredibly inexpensive.”
She went on, “It’s a win-winwin…The dog wins; kids clearly
win; and staff love it, too.”
Miss Siggy turned 11 this month.
Ricchetti originally thought she’d
retire her at age 10. “But her vet
says she likes working and there’s
no reason to,” she reported.
As Ricchetti contemplated her
dog’s retirement, she began talking to a colleague, Pine Bush fifthgrade teacher Keith VanWagenen.
InsIde
“I wanted to talk him into getting
a puppy to bring to school. He said,
‘Why not expand the program?’”
Ricchetti recalled.
So they talked to the superintendent of schools who liked the
idea, and Ricchetti applied for a
grant to the same not-for-profit
that had helped fund Miss Siggy,
the Community Foundation of
the Greater Capital District.
She received a $6,700 grant, and
worked out an agreement with
Sunny Goodwin of Berkshire Hills
Australian Labradoodles.
“We gave her $6,000 to purchase
half of a stud dog and for that,
she’d give us five puppies,” said
Ricchetti.
Puppies with the right temperament for working in schools will be
selected by Goodwin and trainer
Kathy Stevens over the course of
five years. “We want to do it well
rather than do it quickly,” said
Ricchetti.
Stevens, who trained Miss Siggy,
works out of Schoharie and trains
both dogs and horses. “I think of
her as the dog whisperer,” said
Ricchetti.
“They will pick puppies that
are friendly, but not clingy to one
person,” said Ricchetti.
The first of the five puppies,
named Willow, is four months old.
Willow lives with VanWagenen
Opinion Page 2
News Page 8
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
With a glint in her eye, Voorheesville’s Stephany Keenan attempts to take a shot over Johnstown’s
Lexus Williams during the first half of the first-round Class B sectional game at Johnstown High
School on Wednesday. Keenan had five points and Rachel Blow led the Blackbirds with 12 points;
including the final five that won Voorheesville the game, 58 to 56.
Advance to quarterfinals
Blackbirds believe and keep on shooting
By Jordan J. Michael
JOHNSTOWN — No matter how many threepointers Voorheesville missed on Wednesday
night — and it was many — the players were
unfazed as they kept pulling the trigger from
behind the arc.
And with 29 seconds remaining in the Class
B first-round playoff at Johnstown, Emily Blow
gave Voorheesville the three-pointer it had been
waiting for all night. Then, with eight seconds
left, Blow floated a shot down the lane for the
game-winner.
“We couldn’t let that get to us,” Blow said of
all the missed three-pointers after Voorheesville
upset Johnstown, 58 to 56.
Blow says that her coach, Bob Baron, has a
signature quote for when shots aren’t falling
for the Blackbirds: “You’ve never missed a shot
all night.”
Community Calendar Page 16 Classifieds Page 26
Sports Page 27
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The Altamont Enterprise – Thursday, February 26, 2015
Editorial
Roger’s greetings were like a robin in spring — at once expected and miraculous
Roger Spencer had a sheriff ’s badge. It was perhaps his
most treasured possession. He had it with him always,
even when he died last Thursday at the nursing home in
Guilderland Center. He was 65.
He was a familiar figure in downtown Voorheesville, a big,
bearded man who wore cowboy boots — even with shorts
in the summer — and a cowboy hat. He worked sweeping
up the laundry there and lived in an apartment nearby.
He couldn’t read or write but he had a way of reading
your mind. He had a high-pitched voice and sometimes it
was hard to decipher what he was saying, but his exuberance was always clear.
We’re calling him Roger here — eschewing our usual
Mr. Spencer style — because that’s what he called himself;
that’s how people knew him.
“Everybody knew him,” said his landlady, Debbie Fuglein. “He used to sit on the porch of the apartment and
say hello to everyone.”
Roger liked to say he knew the real sheriff and that’s
where he got his badge. We thought it was one of his
flights of fancy until we talked to Albany County Sheriff
Craig Apple this week.
“He’s had that badge for a long time,” said the sheriff,
who’s been with the force for more than a quarter of a
century. “Before I was in the office all the time, I used to
stop and talk to him. I’d get him a coffee every now and
then; we’d shoot the breeze.”
Sheriff Apple went on, “I’d see him every year at the
Altamont Fair, wearing his sheriff ’s badge...He was a good
guy. I never saw him angry; nothing bad came out of his
mouth. He always had his smile — and his cowboy hat.”
Maybe because of the badge, Roger took his duties of
patrolling seriously. At the coin-operated laundry, he’d tell
you if your load was finished washing. He’d point the way
to empty dryers, too.
Sitting on the bench outside the laundry or in a white
plastic chair on the porch next door, he’d watch the scene
in the village’s Main Street.
“He was always watching out for kids, to make sure they
weren’t getting bullied,” said Ms. Fuglein. She added softly,
sadly, “I think kids picked on him when he was little.”
“He was the neighborhood watchdog,” said Becky Letko,
his friend of 30 years who first met him when she
was a customer in the laundry. “If he
saw a stranger come to
your home,
he’d tell you what color car they drove and what they
looked like.”
Even in the nursing home, said Ms. Letko, Roger would
take up a post in the hallway while the others were eating dinner to be sure no one went into the empty rooms
to take belongings.
“He felt it was his duty to police the hallways,” she said.
“He was his own law-enforcement agency.”
He liked to help others. “He’d mow the lawn and take
out people’s garbage,” said Ms. Fuglein. “He never said a
bad word about anybody. He was always positive...He was
a gentle, kind soul.”
In some ways, he was completely alone. “He had no family,” said Ms. Fuglein.
Ms. Letko said that both of his parents died when he
was young and his aunt, Leona Willsey, took him in. Ms.
Letko’s husband, Bill, remembered Roger as a kid, riding
his bike in his full cowboy regalia, complete with cap guns
on his hips.
“He always rode his bicycle when he was young,” agreed
Ms. Fuglein, “and he went to Sunday school at the Dutch
Reformed Church in New Salem when he was a child.”
Ms. Letko regularly took him grocery shopping and
understood his rituals, like the need to call her on certain
days.
Roger was very proud of his Harley chain wallet and
his pocket watch, because it was like a cowboy’s, she
recalled. “Even in the hospital, he pinned it to his gown,”
she said.
After he had fallen a few times, his landlady tried to
get him to go to the doctor. The county got involved, Ms.
Letko said; Roger was supposed to go to the hospital. He
wouldn’t go until the sheriff’s deputies came and “took him
off the porch where he sat and put him in the ambulance,”
she said. “He always loved the Albany County Sheriff’s
who gave him an honorary badge. He claimed Craig Apple
personally knows him.”
He was assessed and “they found him incompetent,” she
said. “In the hospital, they told him he’d never live independently again. He cried and so did I,” Ms. Letko said.
He chose not to have his tumors treated, she said, and was
moved to the nursing home in November.
“He could daydream like a child,” said Ms. Letko. “He
would rewrite the story in a positive way so he could move
on. He said, ‘I don’t care what they say; I’ll go home.’ He
had that hope until the very end.”
He loved animals of all kinds. “Every year in the spring,
he said his friend would come visit him,” recalled
Ms. Letko. “He was referring to a robin. I
saw it happen. I know it couldn’t
possibly be the same robin
for 30 years, but
still — ”
s h e
said, her voice trailing off. “Animals did respond to him.”
Although he couldn’t read, Roger enjoyed looking at The
Altamont Enterprise every week and would interpret the
meaning of the pictures. He liked best of all the Altamont
Fair editions, which were chock full of photos of farm
animals.
Twice a year, Ms. Letko would take Roger to the Double
M tent sales in Ballston Spa. “He’d buy cowboy boots and
shirts there. He felt it was authentic if it came from the
Double M,” she said, adding, “He saved every plastic bag
from the Double M. He was a bit of a hoarder.”
Roger also saved the cards he got. He’d let his friends
know when his birthday was — June 17, 1949. Roger had
with him in the nursing home cards from a dog signed
“Cruise Lee Bowers and Mom.”
“Pictures of animals made him smile,” said Ms. Letko,
noting he also had a large collection of stuffed animals. At
the nursing home, he had with him pictures of two cats,
with the message: “I love you. Fluffy and Scribbles.”
Roger also made cards to give to his friends, in colorful
crayon. “They always had a rainbow in them, sometimes
a house or an animal,” said Ms. Letko.
All his life, people helped Roger — not because it was
their job but just because they liked to. The New Salem
Volunteer Fire Department made him an honorary member,
said Ms. Fuglein whose husband belongs.
Steve Magrum helped Roger, too, teaching him how to
count change and tell time. “He was a little rough around
the edges,” said Ms. Letko of the late Mr. Magrum, “a
hard-core biker dude. He always said he’d get into heaven
because of his work with Roger.”
One of the visitors Roger had in the nursing home was
his neighbor, Chris, and his huge bullmastiff, named Cocoa.
“Roger always called the mastiff ‘Mama,’” said Ms. Letko.
“When Chris brought the dog to the home, it was a big day
for Roger and Mama.”
Roger had the impetuousness and enthusiasm of a child.
Ms. Letko described how, when she was doing laundry,
Roger helped her match up her husband’s many socks
and, in return, rewarded him with whatever change had
fallen out of his pockets in the wash. One time, they found
a 20-dollar bill.
“You can’t tell Billy or he’ll start emptying out his pockets,” Ms. Letko instructed Roger.
Then, the first time after that, when he saw Mr. Letko,
Ms. Letko reported, “He started giggling and told him right
off. He couldn’t keep it in.”
Roger also had a sweetness about him and an ability to
suspend reality for fantasy. “As an adult living on Main
Street, he woke up one Christmas Eve night and he saw
Santa on Main Street,” said Ms. Letko, surmising it might
have been a costumed father. “He continued to believe in
Santa Claus his whole life.”
He had so many friends to shower him with gifts at
Christmas time that one Christmas, when Ms. Letko
couldn’t make the time he had named for her to come by
with gifts, her husband went by later and “saw shifts of
people,” she said.
Roger gave as much as he received, or more. “One
of the biggest things I learned from Roger,” said Ms.
Letko, “is, when somebody doesn’t seem to have that
much and is needy, you can feel like you’re always
giving. Then, he’d give back and you’d be humbled.
You’d realize he was taking care of you, too.”
She started crying as she reached into her
handbag and pulled out her keys. “He noticed
I was always digging around for my keys,” she
said. Ms. Letko easily retrieved her keys, which
were hanging from an orange carabiner. “He
gave me this clip so I’d always be able to find
them,” she said. “He’s solving your problems,
too.”
Roger had no family — no living blood relatives to help him. And yet he was cared for
because he was caring. A rough biker dude,
a sheriff, a neighbor, a landlady, a customer
at the laundry all looked after him — even
at the very end.
“He was larger than life,” said Ms. Letko,
“and also like a child, so innocent. He kept
saying he didn’t want to die alone. He didn’t
want to die in the dark.”
A nurse named Donna and an aid named
Tammy, who had known him from Voorheesville and worked at the nursing home, were
with him when he died, said Ms. Letko.
She had heard the nurse tell him, “Roger,
you’re not alone. We all love you.”
That, to us, is the sign of a life well
lived.
****
A celebration of Roger Spencer’s life will
be held on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Reilly
& Son Funeral Home at 9 Voorheesville Ave.
in Voorheesville with calling hours from 3
to 6 p.m. There will be pictures, stories, and
displays to share. Pastor Holly Cameron
will give a blessing at the end, but all are
welcome to come and anyone inspired to
speak is welcome.
Memorial contributions may be made to
the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, 3
Oakland Ave., Menands, NY 12204.
— Melissa Hale-Spencer
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To the editor
The Sheriff of Main Street
His high-pitched voice and hand held high
Were always raised for passers-by.
His vigilant eye was the weapon he held
And many a bully and laundry thief fell
On the watch of the Sheriff of Main Street.
A servant to all, especially those with fur or feather,
His guard post, a porch bench in every weather.
Ol’ Matt Dillon, Sheriff Andy, and Barney Fife
Would have been proud to serve with the likes
Of the Sheriff of Main Street.
He stood proud in every community care
Whether parade, dinner, or Altamont Fair.
We cannot imagine these things or this place
Without the worn and familiar face
So we will have to stand firm in our belief
That Voorheesville will always be “the beat”
Becky Niles Letko
New Scotland
If you’re not worried yet, you should be
To the Editor:
It has been argued for years by
the Pentagon that the implications
of global warming for national
security are profound. The recent
Department of Defense report on
this topic (http://www.acq.osd.
mil/ie/) confirms that this is a
continuing concern of the defense
establishment.
Our entire war machine — land,
air, and sea — runs on fossil fuel
products as fuel and as parts.
In a recent report, the CNA [a
not-for-profit research organization that operates the Center for
Naval Analyses and the Institute
for Public Research] Military Advisory Board concluded:
“Projected climate change is a
complex multi-decade challenge.
Without action to build resilience,
it will increase security risks over
much of the planet. It will not only
increase threats to developing nations in resource-challenged parts
of the world, but it will also test
the security of nations with robust
capability, including significant
elements of our National Power
here at home. Even though we may
not have 100 percent certainty
as to the cause or even the exact
magnitude of the impacts, the
risks associated with projected
climate change warrant taking
action today to plan and prepare
for changes in our communities,
at home and abroad. (http://www.
cna.org/)”
The fact of global warming has
been part of our understanding
of the planet’s climate for many
years. Opinion polls typically
reveal that attitudes about climate change tend to divide neatly
along political party affiliation
(among voters as well as among
politicians).
Here is what we know, essentially beyond any reasonable
doubt (Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, 2014):
— 1. Warming of the climate is
unequivocal, and, since the 1950s,
many of the observed changes are
unprecedented over decades to
millennia. The atmosphere and
ocean have warmed, the amounts
of snow and ice have diminished,
and sea level has risen.
— 2. Human greenhouse gas
emissions are extremely likely to
have been the dominant cause of
the observed warming since the
mid-20th Century.
— 3. Continued emission of
greenhouse gasses will cause
further warming and long-lasting
changes in all components of the
climate system, increasing the
likelihood of severe, pervasive, and
irreversible impacts for people and
ecosystems.
What will be some of these consequences, if we simply proceed
with “business as usual?”
— 1. Much of far southern Florida could be periodically flooded or
underwater, and The Villages will
be somewhat closer to the ocean
than they are now. On a more pessimistic note, sea level rise could
swamp most United States East
Coast cities, and the meltdown of
the Greenland ice sheet would be
sufficient to submerge London.
— 2. Within the current century, projections suggest that the
following amounts of major U.S.
cities will be flooded: Cambridge,
26 percent; Charleston, 19 percent;
Miami Beach, 94 percent; Galveston, 68 percent; Miami, 20 percent;
St. Petersburg, 32 percent; Tampa,
18 percent; Virginia Beach, 21
percent; Atlantic City, 62 percent. At 88 percent flooded, New
Orleans will probably just have
to be abandoned. (“The New York
Times,” Nov. 24, 2012) Many island
nations will simply disappear,
and millions of people on river
deltas will become environmental
refugees, with perhaps as many
as 50 million people on the move
to higher ground in Bangladesh
alone. (“The New York Times,”
March 28, 2014)
— 3. In contrast to too much
water, in other parts of the U.S.,
there will be too little. A recent
study indicates that, within this
century, there will likely be a
mega-drought in the western and
southwestern U.S., lasting for as
long as perhaps 35 years. (www.
msn.com)
— 4. What else can we expect?
Oceans will continue to warm and
global mean sea level will continue
to rise during this century. It is
very likely that the Arctic seal ice
will continue to shrink, if not disappear completely. Global glacier
volume will further decrease, causing severe shortages of freshwater.
By the time our grandchildren
want to visit Glacier National
Park, they will need an explanation of why it’s named that.
What about the XL Pipeline?
The reason not to build it really
has little to do with the chance of
accidents and spills. The reason
not to build it is that it encourages, even enables, the fossil fuel
industries’ mantra of “burn it all.”
This means drilling, digging, mining, and scraping in increasingly
dangerous ways and places.
Prime examples of these unconventional methods to find and
retrieve that very last particle
of fossil fuels are mountain-top
removal for coal and tar sands
mining for oil. It is the latter that
is supposed to flow through the XL
pipeline to the Gulf Coast.
What is not so well known about
the Alberta tar sands is just how
much energy is required in the
mining process. Tar-sands oil will
not flow through a pipeline unless
it is treated (“upgraded”) with
either natural gas condensate or
light oil.
Each barrel of tar sands oil
requires the consumption of three
barrels of freshwater. To mine or
steam out this tar, the industry
burns through enough natural
gas every day to heat six million
homes. Does this really make
sense? (Andrew Nikiforuk, “Tar
Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of
a Continent,” Greystone, 2010).
The IPCC [Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change] recommends that, to avoid complete
climate chaos and the breakdown
of organized society as we know
it (and to avoid a runaway global
warming event powered by positive feedbacks unleashed by the
warming that has already occurred or is occurring), we should
try to stabilize the mean global
temperature increase at 2°C above
pre-industrial levels.
Alternatively, many have proposed that we cap the quantity of
atmospheric CO2 at 350 parts per
million; we are at about 400 ppm
now. To meet either goal would
require drastic reductions of global
carbon dioxide emissions over the
next few decades. (Robert Henson,
“The Thinking Person’s Guide to
Climate Change,” American Meteorological Society, 2014)
The kicker is that, in order to
have any chance at all of meeting either of these goals, a recent
study published in “Nature” argues that we must leave about a
third of oil reserves, a half of gas
reserves, and more than 80 percent of current coal reserves in the
ground until at least mid-century.
The business-as-usual scenario,
which is to exploit rapidly and
completely fossil fuels wherever
they may be found, is inconsistent
with a commitment to the 2°C
goal. (http://www.nature.com/
nature/journal/v517/n7533/full/
nature14016.html)
If you’re not worried yet, you
should be. If your descendants
could summon you in a séance,
the first question they would ask
is: “You knew what was happening. Why didn’t you do something
about it?”
Write to your Congressmen.
Urge them to take this issue
very, very seriously, or you will
remember that they did not the
next time you vote.
T. McFadden
Guilderland
Back In Time. . .
1915
100 Years Ago
2015
The Altamont Enterprise, Feb. 26, 1915
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Newsy Notes Gathered From All Parts of the Empire
State Telling What Others Are Talking About
A woman walked into a Gloversville book store to exchange
a book she received for Christmas “because she didn’t like the
way it ended.”
For the first time in several months the sign, “No help
wanted,” has made its appearance at the Watervliet arsenal.
The many shops are running full blast, giving employment to
600 men, the greatest number in years.
At East Durham, Greene County, half grown grasshoppers
have made their appearance, evidently brought into activity by
the recent mild weather. The fields in some places fairly swarm
with insects. Hundreds have been caught and imprisoned in
bottles that doubters may be convinced.
The Twentieth Century Club of Middleburgh has made
a request to the board of trustees of that village asking to
pass an ordinance prohibiting the practice commonly called
“horning” or serenading in the village on the occasion of marriages taking place, they deeming such disorderly conduct as
tending to degrade and cast disrespect upon the solemn rites
of matrimony.
Alonzo Comfort, of Monticello, Sullivan County, lost a fine
cow recently under mysterious circumstances. It was thought
the cow may have become tubercular, so he decided to make
an examination to ascertain the cause of death. With the assistance of a friend he skinned the cow and opened it. They
finally discovered that at some time or another it had swallowed a good sized sewing needle and it had worked its way
into the cow’s heart finally causing its death.
POISONED BY A CHILD’S BITE
Physician, Infected in Operation, Is Saved by Brother
Dr. Samuel Kutscher performed an emergency operation
on the throat of a child suffering from an abscess. The child
suddenly closed his mouth and bit Dr. Kutscher on the index
finger of his right hand.
The physician washed the wound in an antiseptic, but the
next day his hand began to swell, blood poisoning having set
in. Two or three days later his whole arm had grown to twice
its normal size. Dr. Kutscher called in his elder brother, Dr.
Martin Kutscher, and further treatment was administered. The
poison did not yield to drugs, and then the patient was taken
to Lebanon hospital in a state of coma.
Dr. Martin Kutscher determined not to amputate except
as a very last resort. Every day he opened his brother’s arm,
and he was in constant attendance upon him day and night,
living at the hospital. Soon the sick man began to show signs
of improvement and now Dr. Martin Kutscher, though admitting his brother is not out of danger, says he hopes for ultimate
recovery.
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The Old Men of the Mountain
OFs groan about knee-jerk rules for drones and moan about hackers
By John R. Williams
Tuesday, Feb. 17, the Old Men of
the Mountain met at the Hilltown
Café in Rensselaerville.
Rensselaerville is perched approximately 1,600 feet in the air
so, for the OFs, it is all up hill to
get there even though some OFs
start out at 1,400 feet but those
OFs have to go down and then
up again.
The OFs expected more snow
but nope, the snowfall looked just
like the snow that fell at 1,400 feet
or 680 feet. However, though the
winter has been a tad nasty, the
roads in the Hilltowns have been
pretty darn good, and so it was on
Tuesday morning.
The OFs noted that the newer
cameras, along with the cameras
on phones and tablets, are exceptionally good. Couple this with the
drones and, to the OFs, it seems
natural for them to be used by the
police, news agencies, and hospital
and medical staff, to name a few.
This scribe added: How about
emergency responders with a
drone flying ahead with a mounted
remote TV camera and a receiver
in the emergency vehicle? The
EMTs would be able to see pending trouble spots and maneuver
around them. How slick would
that be?
A few of the OFs have been
Radio Controlled (RC) airplane
“How can the government force me to go electronic?
Right on our money it says ‘legal tender,’ and,
by golly, they had better take it or I will call a cop.”
The weather doomsayers on TV
and radio would have us all hibernate. The OFs have seen winters
like this and have had to go out in
it. If an OF has a medical problem
where the cold air will affect him;
it is best to stay indoors; otherwise,
bundle up and get out, but don’t
be stupid about it.
The OFs commend the road
crews, the firefighters, the emergency medical technicians, the
power company repair crews, the
public works repair crews, and
the farmers. The OFs also think
those who have to go to work in
hospitals, and those who work
with or volunteer for the homeless
shelters in this cold should also
be commended. There are many
others who just get out and about
in the cold.
Snow — that is another story.
The OFs say, if it is unessential,
stay off the roads so the road crews
can clean things up. A big joke to
the OFs are all the TV stations’
reporters being in the “do as I say,
but not as I do” class of people.
Here they are telling the OFs to
stay off the roads and where are
they? They are on the roads and
in the way.
Drones could be
a valuable tool
The OFs talked about drones
and the new knee-jerk rules that
are being applied and other rules
or regulations being bandied about
concerning these drones. The OFs
think that TV and radio stations
should have licensed pilots and
drones on hand for accidents,
weather, fires, and other instances
where publicizing emergencies
would be of benefit to the general
public.
The use of drones, the OFs
think, would be a valuable tool
and people wouldn’t have to go
thousands of feet up to do it. The
operators of the drones would not
be in harm’s way.
flyers, and think the development
of drones in many cases is a plus;
however, the OFs also realize there
are those who are going to use
this new technology for nefarious
purposes and spoil the sport for
everyone else including some with
legitimate use.
Look how all the hackers have
spoiled the Internet. Hardly anyone trusts the Internet anymore.
Some of the OFs never got into using the Internet or computers and
they may be the smart ones.
The hacking that has come to
light that bothers one OF who
takes many medications is where
the hackers can now do their
thing and hack into your medical
records and change your prescription. This OF said he read that
the government wants all doctors to use electronic transfer of
prescriptions.
These guys are just generating
another boondoggle that is going
to cause more problems than it
solves. This OF can’t understand
the logic behind it. This OF wants
to use cash, a checkbook, a savings
passbook, and have his prescriptions in his hand.
“What in the world is the matter
with that?” the OF asked. “How
can the government force me to
go electronic? Right on our money
it says ‘legal tender,’ and, by golly,
they had better take it or I will
call a cop.”
The rest of this conversation will
be reported at a later date.
When to retire?
The OFs are OFs and one of the
discussions Tuesday morning was
what age is a good retirement age.
We have OFs who retired from the
military after 20 or so years. That
placed these OFs’ first retirement
in their 40s, and one is now close
to 90 and going strong.
Retirement age to some OFs is
not a specified number; some OFs
are still working. One OF thought
— Photo from John R. Williams
A soldier’s salute: With a plastic pail for a helmet, Cowin Wilbur built an aircraft carrier on the
table at his mother’s eatery, which entertained the Old Men of the Mountain. Glenn Patterson is hidden
behind the carrier, and Mark Traver is smiling at the far right. “He is a loquacious young lad, where
as his sister is very pleasant but quiet,” noted John R. Williams of the children on school vacation. He
went on about Cowin’s construction project, “It is supposed to be an aircraft carrier, and, doggone it,
it looks like an aircraft carrier. Notice the little green soldiers he has placed around. Trying not to lose
our youthful imagination takes conscientious effort. Daydreaming helps.”
that, if you really like what you
are doing, why retire?
Some OFs thought that health
had a lot to do with it. If you feel
good, and can retire, you should
retire and enjoy it.
Why should I retire if I feel rotten and know I am not going to get
any better? This OF said retiring
and not feeling like getting up in
the morning is for the birds; stay
working and croak on the job. This
OF felt that way he would be less
of a burden to the family.
When to go into a home?
Being a burden to the family
and then being put in a home is
a big concern of many of the OFs.
Some of the OFs, though, say:
When I become a burden, put me
in the home.
Others say that this is easy to
say now but, when the time comes,
these OFs bet the other OFs will
change their tune or a least think
twice about being shuffled off to
the home.
Again, with the ages of the
OFs, this can become a sensitive
subject. Some are dealing with it
right now. It is not easy.
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but apples, oranges, grapefruit,
plums, grapes, pomegranates,
star fruit, and mangos — all
thrown into the same crate. How
it sorts out at the end is different
for everyone.
Surviving strange crashes
On a more upbeat note, the OFs
talked about the two accidents
in the area that were amazing.
One accident was where a sport
utility went off a bridge, fell approximately 30 feet, landed on its
roof, and the occupants crawled
out and were basically OK.
The other one was where the
driver had a flat tire on a bridge,
stepped over the guide rail to
avoid traffic, slipped and fell 50
feet to the ground, got up, crawled
up the bank back to where his
vehicle was, and was hit by a
tractor trailer.
The OFs said these people had
to be young because the OFs’
bones can’t handle a fall off a
step stool. One OF said age has
nothing to do with it; it was just
not their time.
Mourning Don
Tuesday was also a sad day for
the Old Men of the Mountain.
Those Old Men of the Mountain
who could attended the funeral
of a faithful member of the
OMOTM who passed away.
The OMOTM offer their
condolences to the family and
friends of Don Moser whose face
and folded hands while passing
on his wisdom and stories will
be missed at breakfast in the
morning.
The Old Men of the Mountain
who made it to the Hilltown
Café, and were entertained by
the proprietor’s son because
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Harold Guest, Roger Chapman,
Frank Pauli, John Rossmann,
Jack Norray, Lou Schenck, Mace
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Glenn Patterson, Chuck Aleseio,
Mike Willsey, Warren Willsey,
Ted Willsey, Henry Whipple,
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Field notes
Why has the need
to triumph vindictively moved center stage?
By Dennis Sullivan
I’m sure most people, when
asked to provide a list of emotions
they experience in a given month,
would not include “schadenfreude”
even though it rears its head often
enough.
Coming from the German
“schaden,” which means harm, and
“freude,” meaning joy, the experience is one of feeling pleasure at
the misfortune of another.
It’s a strange emotion to be sure
because we usually associate joy
with a pleasant outcome whereas
schadenfreude is pleasure derived
from another’s ill.
And the experience is universal.
William James in “Principles of
Psychology” says, “There is something in the misfortunes of our very
friends that does not altogether
displease us; [even] an apostle of
peace will feel a certain vicious
thrill run through him, and enjoy
a vicarious brutality, as he turns
to the column in his newspaper at
the top of which ‘Shocking Atrocity’
stands printed in large capitals.”
Indeed researchers who seek to
quantify its presence in our lives
say schadenfreude is on the rise.
In “The Joy of Pain: Schadenfreuse
and the Dark Side of Human Nature,” Richard Smith says he looked
at the number of times “schadenfreude” appeared in the English
language from 1800 to 2008. In
modern times, he says, from the
1980s on, schadenfreude as concept and “practice” has achieved
a greater share of our emotional
landscape.
I’m inclined to think it’s because
we’ve become a more punitive and
cynical society, maybe even more
sadistic, and schadenfreude is one
of the manifestations of that callousness — though schadenfreude
is not in the same ballpark as
sadism (or even gloating), which
are move actively aggressive in
nature.
Because schadenfruede is etymologically German, for years critics
characterized it as a peculiarly
German phenomenon, especially
during World War II! But, when
we examine the spectrum of world
cultures, we see that every culture
has its own word or combination
of words to denote this emotion or
some approximation of it.
The French have their “joie
maligne,” Hebrew has “simchala-ed,” and ancient Greek has
“epichairekakia,” which ancient
as well as modern scholars say is
a distant relative of greed, avarice,
and envy.
In Japanese, there’s “meshiuma,”
which means, “Food tastes good
that comes from the misfortune of
others.” The writer Gore Vidal once
remarked, “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” The converse
would be, “Every time a friend fails,
I am more alive” and the double
converse, “I derive pleasure from
the misfortune of others.”
For those unfamiliar with the
word (I will not say the experience),
an example might be helpful at
this point.
We are driving along our favorite
county road, staying well beneath
the 30-mile-per-hour speed limit
because the road is highly patrolled. All of a sudden, a large SUV
appears in the rearview mirror
with a young kid at the wheel and
he’s up our bumper.
Staying our course, we see the
“kid” begin to wave his arms in
what seems to be gestures of anger;
he then pulls out over the double
yellow line and guns it past us. As
his passenger window nears ours,
he looks down at us with derision
and double-guns it up the hill and
out of sight.
A few moments later, as we near
the hill, we see his car pulled over
and a cop writing him a ticket. If
we feel a certain satisfaction at
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Seniors: Shake off the cold
with a hot lunch and fellowship
To the Editor:
Meals are now available in the
Hilltowns for seniors, starting
March 2. Every Monday, Tuesday,
and Friday, a hot lunch will be
available for seniors to enjoy.
You can come for one or all three
days. You can come once to try it
out and we hope you’ll discover
that the lunch is delicious and
you’ll come again.
Lunch will be served at the
Hilltown Senior Center at 1360
Helderberg Trail in Berne. Reservations are needed a few days
in advance; a week’s notice would
be ideal — to ensure that we have
enough. To make a reservation,
call Pat Lightbody at 872-9400 or
email her at plightbody@nycap.
rr.com. Doors open at 11 a.m.;
lunch is served at noon.
This program is provided by
Helderberg Senior Services Inc.
and the Albany County Department for Aging. (If you’re under 60
and would like to come with your
favorite senior, a small donation
is suggested to help cover the cost
of the meal).
Come and shake off the winter
cold with a delicious hot lunch!
Mary Moller
Knox
Caregivers’ corner
Caregivers helps
two Albany food pantries
— Etching by Adolphe LaLauze
Schadenfreude: In his memoir, 18th-Century Italian playwright
Count Carlo Gozzi describes actress Signora Ricci being the butt
of Sacchi’s jokes and derision as others in the theatre troupe
laugh.
this point and think something steroids, the frequency and intenlike, “He got what he deserved,” or, sity of its presence leads to the
“Justice triumphed,” or, “There is a destruction of relationships. When
God,” we are in the schadenfreude I first came upon schadenfreude
business.
years ago, I immediately thought
When Martha Stewart was in- of the great psychoanalyst Karen
dicted in 2001, the United States Horney’s concept of “vindictive
experienced a kind of national triumph,” which she saw alive in
schadenfreude. People felt that the her patients saddled with neuroperson who had dictated personal sis. Vindictive triumph might be
and social tastes for years finally viewed as schadenfreude when it
got her comeuppance.
becomes a structural part of our
There is some debate over identity and one justified by a more
whether the shadenfroh’s delight highly toxic logic.
comes from the bodily pleasure
In “Neurosis and Human
produced or seeing society’s fabric Growth,” Horney says the drive
saved. In other
to vindictively
words, was jusovercome othtice done to the
ers grows out
of “impulses to
nervous system
frustrate, outor to the colwit, or defeat
lective? And
“Candor
disarms
[them] . . . bethere is strong
paranoia.”
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tivating force
shows when
stems from imthe experienced
pulses to take
misfortune is
revenge for hugreat, schadenmiliations suffreude all but
disappears and a hybrid form of fered in childhood.”
Often enough, this chronic illempathy kicks in.
Understandably schadenfreude ness might be accompanied by
has been linked to envy because headaches, stomachaches, fatigue,
when we envy another’s posses- and insomnia because the drive
sions or achievements, we engage to see others get their “due” is
in an internal (and often subtle) relentlessly churned up in the
trash-talk dialogue, subconsciously subconscious.
If vindictive triumph is indeed
trying to improve our own lot.
People pay big money to therapists a compensatory mechanism, and
for years to understand and get out schadenfreude and vindictive
triumph are in fact manifesting
from beneath such a complex.
The irony is that people will talk themselves more frequently in our
about schadenfreude experiences culture, as research suggests, what
openly whereas they are far more are we compensating for? Why has
reluctant to speak about what the need to triumph vindictively
they envy because envy is an open moved center stage? Why the need
for such an array of trophies?
admission of inferiority.
Heavy stuff indeed, but, as the
Of course the moral implications
of schadenfreude have not gone United States continues to ununnoticed. In Spanish there is a dergo its current identity crisis,
saying: Gozarse en el mal ajeno, understanding what drives people
no es de hombre buen (“A man who to increasingly take joy in the
rejoices in the misfortunes of others misfortune of others will enable
is not a good man”). Or should we us to forge a less aggressive future
say is a person who has not reached self. Maybe that’s what the great
American poet Allen Ginsberg was
emotional maturity?
We do know that when schaden- alluding to when he said, “Candor
freude is primed with emotional disarms paranoia.”
By Judy Rothstein In 2012, Community Caregivers started providing services in
Albany. The services primarily
include transporting people from
two food pantries to their homes. The rides are mostly short and
performed within a two- to threehour time period. Sometimes more
than one person can be transported at a time.
We started this service in the
Mater Christi Parish and added
the St. Vincent’s Food Pantry
in 2014. To date, 144 folks have
had help getting their groceries
home.
Caregivers has a pool of 24 drivers who have signed up for these
assignments. At the St. Vincent’s
Food Pantry, the volunteer is
called for the second and fourth
Wednesday of the month from
12:30 to 2:30 p.m.; often, only
one driver is needed but the pool
consists of 10 people.
At Mater Christi, the volunteer
is called for the first and third
Mondays. The hours are 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. and the volunteers work in
two-hour shifts. Fourteen people
are in this pool. Most rides are
within a small distance from the
food pantry and folks give you
directions.
So, if you’re interested in helping people in the Mater Christi
Parish, you could choose a 9-to-11
or an 11-to-1 time frame. You could
say to the Caregivers’ scheduler,
for example, “I’m available for the
9-to-11 shift on the first Monday
of the month.”
As a volunteer you can fit the
services to your schedule, and
you can always change your mind.
That’s the beauty of having a pool
of volunteers.
At Community Caregivers,
there are a number of ways you
can help your neighbors. Transportation remains the most requested
service. If driving’s not your thing,
shopping for groceries, making
assurance calls, visiting with a
client, helping with paperwork or
teaching someone how to operate
one of these modern IT gadgets
are other options.
All volunteers go through an
orientation, have Department of
Motor Vehicle checks, and are
asked for two references. The next
orientations are Thursday, March
12, at 8 a.m., and Monday, March
23, at 6 p.m. Call the office at
456-2898 to let them know you’d
like to become involved. You won’t
regret it.
The next Memory Loss group
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Eating fewer meat and dairy products
good for your health and the planet’s
To the Editor:
The United States Advisory
Panel on Dietary Guidelines has
finally mustered the courage to
recommend that Americans eat
fewer meat and dairy products.
And not just to lower our risk
of heart disease, stroke, cancer,
diabetes, and obesity, but also because it slows the rate of climate
changes, with their own devastating consequences.
The 572-page report released
last week notes that half of all
Americans have preventable dietrelated chronic diseases and that
two-thirds of adults and one-third
of children are overweight. It concludes that a dietary pattern higher in plant-based foods and lower
in animal-based foods is more
health promoting and associated
with lesser environmental impact
than the current U.S. diet.
The 1977 recommendation
that Americans eat less meat by
the Senate Select Committee on
Nutrition and Human Needs was
quashed by the meat industry,
and subsequent dietary guidelines
panels have been very cautious.
The 2010 dietary guidelines
panel merely shoved meat and
dairy off the official MyPlate icon,
representing the U.S. Dietary
Guidelines.
Though the experts have now
told the truth, our family’s health
is still up to us. Fortunately, local
supermarkets offer a variety of
meat and dairy-free options and
the Internet has lots of advice
on vegan recipes and transition
tips.
Dick Stoltz
Delmar
7
At Knox Town Hall
Historic schoolhouse memorabilia on display
To The Editor:
The Knox Historical Society recently unveiled its second exhibit
in the Knox Town Hall: the history
of area schoolhouses. An enlarged
1866 Beers Map highlights the
location of all 15 schoolhouses,
as well as the privately owned
— Photo from Devin Longendyke
On their way to Gettysburg: Boy Scouts in Troop 79 are planning a trip through history. They are: Joe Collorafi, Joe Staubach,
Kiernan Hanley, Zane Valachovic, Thomas McSweeney, John Todd
McGivern, Luke Valachovic, Liam Hanley, Devin Longendyke, Ben
Boone, Charlie Boone, Nick Collorafi, Sebastian Iarusso, Steve
Fronk, Cardell Iarusso, Dillon Miller, and Jake Valachovic.
Scouts’ pancake breakfast
raises funds for Gettysburg trip
To the Editor:
On Feb. 21, our Boy Scout troop
had a pancake breakfast to earn
money for our Gettysburg trip. All
the Scouts had jobs like taking
orders, busing tables, and bringing
food and drink out.
Over 70 people came to eat!
We wanted to thank everyone
that donated the supplies: Kaaterskill Associates, Wolanin Companies, Shoprite, Stewart’s, Hannaford, and Price Chopper. Thank
you also to the Berne Masons for
the use of the lodge.
We will be camping at the Gran-
ite Hill Campground; visiting the
Gettysburg Museum of History,
the Soldiers National Cemetery,
the museum and visitors’ center,
the Shriver House; going on the
Jenny Wade ghost tour; and visiting the Lincoln Train Museum
with the money we earned at the
breakfast.
Thank you to everyone that
helped out and came to support
Troop 79’s pancake breakfast. Devin Longendyke
Public Relations officer
Boy Scout Troop 79
Curriculum included
local newspapers
and loaned books.
Knoxville Academy (now a private
residence) located just down the
road from the town hall. While
the schoolhouses served local
residents, others came to the
academy from surrounding cities
and abroad.
The photographs on display tell
the story of a time when schoolhouses were one-room, students
walked to school, teachers were
boarded in the homes of families,
and curriculum included local
newspapers and loaned books.
While you are there, be sure
to check out the photo of the Unknown Schoolhouse. We are not
sure at which location this one
stood. Perhaps, you can help us
solve the mystery.
Knox Historical Society member
and local author, Dan Driscoll,
wrote about the restoration of
Standing by history: Ray Hand, left, Jenn Geckler, and Dennis
Barber pose with their project after hanging the Schoolhouse
Exhibit in the Knox Town Hall.
Schoolhouse 5 in his book, “History of a One-Room Schoolhouse
in Knox, NY,” also on display. For
more information or to order a
copy, please visit www.knoxhistoricalsociety.org.
The Knox Historical Society
will continue to showcase exhibits
throughout each year, rotating
every few months. While the
Saddlemire Homestead is closed
during the cold months, the display makes it possible to share
the town’s past with visitors and
residents alike — but it is not
limited to history. If you have any
pictures or photographs that you
would like to display or historical
photographs that you would like
to share with the society, please
contact me at jenngeckler@gmail.
com or 203-444-2014.
Jenn Geckler
Knox Historical
Society Member
Hundreds of New York public school teachers have invited you to come into their classrooms to see for
yourself what all kids need.
They want you to understand the impact of over-testing, crowded classes, lack of supplies and too few
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They want you to see for yourself, rather than listening to your millionaire contributors who keep telling you
that teachers are to blame for everything that’s wrong in our schools.
We know that the teachers did not support your re-election bid. But as The New York Times recently wrote:
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You talk a lot about teachers. Why not listen to teachers?
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Blooms Are a Welcome Sight
After fire, car wash to re-open
By Jo E. Prout
VOORHEESVILLE — Advanced Car Wash on Voorheesville Avenue is closed after a fire
broke out Friday and damaged
equipment.
“We had a water heater that
overheated,” said owner Timm
Baldauf. “We had pretty extensive damage in our equipment
room.”
The Voorheesville Fire Department responded “in a very timely
manner,” he said.
“We have our insurance, and
we’re starting the process now,”
he said. Baldauf said that the car
wash will reopen soon.
“No question. We will definitely
rebuild — re-open is more like
it,” he said.
Baldauf expressed appreciation
for his customers’ patience while
the car wash remains closed.
“This is the time of year when
people want to wash,” he said.
Baldauf does not yet have a
timeline for when the carwash
will reopen.
“It could be worse,” he said.
Villages share a building inspector,
Hebert works 5 hours in Altamont
Old MacDonald had some flowers? As part of the 24th Annual New York in Bloom show, the lobby
of the State Museum in Albany last weekend displayed a farm scene where yellow roses symbolized
butter sitting near churns and white roses stood in for milk. David Michael Schmidt of Renaissance
Floral Design created the display, using an early 1900s milk wagon from the museum’s collection that
had never before been displayed. The event benefits the museum’s educational programs for children.
...And Spring Flowers to Come
“mutually agreed upon,” said
By Elizabeth Floyd Mair
ALTAMONT — The village of Guilderland’s supervisor, Kenneth
Altamont has a new part-time Runion.
The yearly agreement had come
building inspector and codes enforcement officer because of a new to a close in late summer or early
shared-services agreement with fall, Runion said, and Altamont
and Guilderland mutually decided
the village of Voorheesville.
According to this agreement, not to renew it at the time, since
which became effective on Dec. 2, Altamont was already in discus2014, Altamont pays Voorheesville sions with Voorheesville about
$10,335 a year, and, for that, ac- beginning shared services. “We
cording to Altamont village Trust- may have extended it for a month
ee William Aylward, “We get the or two,” he added.
Runion said that an important
services of their building inspector,
Glenn Hebert, and he fulfills the factor had been the retirement of
responsibilities of building inspec- Guilderland Town Planner Jan
tion, code enforcement, and fire Weston, who had been responsible
for much of the
prevention.”
coordination
Under the
between town
agreement,
and village. She
Hebert works
had also been
on-site in Alta“Seems to be
handling some
mont five hours
working right now.”
of the plana week.
ning aspects,
Aylward said
Runion said,
that the village
working with
is very pleased
to have Hebert, who is “well expe- the village’s planning and zoning
rienced” and has been working as boards.
But, even before Weston’s retirea building inspector for 14 years,
including in Voorheesville and, ment, Runion said, Guilderland
had been unable to cover the
before that, in Castleton.
“We’re very pleased with the nighttime village zoning or planwork he’s been doing. He’s been ning board meetings. In addition,
there had been some confusion
doing a good job,” Aylward said.
Hebert agreed that the arrange- when Altamont residents had to
ment is working out well. He go from the village to the town
expects to be busier in the spring, for some of their services, such as
particularly with work related to talking to an inspector or filing
applications, Runion said; village
the Bozenkill Estates project.
Asked if five hours a week is residents were then sometimes
enough to cover all the needs unsure whether the town or the
of the village, Hebert told The village board would be the one to
Enterprise, “Seems to be working consider an application.
“So, for everyone, it seemed kind
right now. It’s the slower season,
in terms of construction. We’ll see of a perfect match when the village
had the opportunity to make the
what happens come springtime.”
The new shared-services agree- agreement with Voorheesville,”
ment was decided upon by the Runion concluded.
According to Aylward, the curmayors of both villages, Aylward
said, after a similar yearly agree- rent shared-services agreement
ment that Altamont had with the with Voorheesville is contracted
town of Guilderland came to an for one budget year, to be renewed
end last fall, and then was not the following year. It is paid on a
renewed, in a decision that was quarterly basis.
Bethlehem Historical Association
seeks 1960s photos for 50th féte
Fire brigade: Toy fire trucks and a firehouse sit beside an arrangement of baby’s breath, red carnations,
and artemisia created by members of the Clematis Garden Club from Middleburgh. The flowers were
displayed in front of an antique fire truck inside the Fire Engine Hall of the New York State Museum
this last weekend. Activities at New York in Bloom included floral design and gardening demonstrations as well as children’s programs.
By Kathy Newkirk
BETHLEHEM — What was
Bethlehem like 50 years ago? Certainly a lot has changed since the
Bethlehem Historical Association
was organized in 1965. As part of our golden anniversary celebration, the association
is creating a photo display of
1960s-era Bethlehem. And we
need your help.
Do you have snapshots taken in
Bethlehem from the 1960s? We’re
looking for pictures from all over
town including Delmar, Slingerlands, Elsmere, South Bethlehem,
Glenmont, and Selkirk.
Digital scans are preferred,
but a high-quality copy will work
as well. Please do not send us
originals as your photo will not
be returned to you. Include your
name, postal address, email address, and a short description of
where and when the photo was
taken. Identify any people and
include any other info you would
like to share.
Email digital copies to info@
bethlehemhistorocial.org. Paper
copies may be mailed to the Bethlehem Historical Association, Post
Office Box 263, Selkirk, NY 12158.
You can also bring them to the
association’s regular meeting on
Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m.
The display. Entitled “Bethlehem Circa 1965,” will premiere
at our regular meeting on April
16 at the Cedar Hill Schoolhouse
Museum. From then on, it can be
viewed by appointment until we
open for the summer season on
June 14. The museum is open
Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4
p.m. from June 14 through Labor
Day in September. If you need help making a
digital copy or have questions, call
Susan Leath at 439-7470 or email
[email protected].
Editor’s note: Kathy Newkirk is a
member of the Bethlehem Historical Association.
9
Ideas welcome for year-long events as Voorheesville Library celebrates a century
By Jo E. Prout
VOORHEESVILLE — The
Voorheesville Public Library is
preparing to celebrate its 100th
anniversary, and the Friends of
the Library are seeking input as
they plan their special year.
“We’re at the stage where lots
of ideas are being thrown out” for
consideration, said Sherry Burgoon, president of the Friends
group. Organizers are meeting
tonight, Thursday, at the library
to further refine the year-long
celebration planned to run from
March to March.
“Anybody is welcome at the
meeting,” Burgoon said.
Plans include hosting a library
float in the village’s Memorial
Day parade; holding contests to
build towers of books, or to see
who can stack 100 books the
fastest; and a reading challenge
for kids to read as many books
as they can, Burgoon said.
The Friends may hold activities during its annual fall book
sale, too, she said.
In the library, and jointly at
the New Scotland Historical
Association, organizers hope to
construct library timelines to
be displayed in both buildings.
Library users may be asked to
contribute suggestions for 100
reasons that they love the library,
Burgoon said.
A formal fall event may highlight the year, and local dignitaries may be invited, she said.
Library Director Gail Alter
Sacco, however, said that the
centennial celebration should
continue well through March
2016.
Programs
The library is already a busy
place for its users, which include
those in the school district, and
some farther-flung residents in
Bethlehem, the Hilltowns, and
Guilderland, Sacco said.
Former volunteer and retired
staff member Marion Parmenter
listed many of the programs
the library has hosted over the
years.
“When I was in high school,
in 1956 to ’60, I went down to
the library and helped out,” she
said. “There was a library club
at the high school, back when
the library was in the old Presbyterian church.” Parmenter also
worked nights at the library after
college.
She remembered, also, when
her parents helped move the
library collection to that location
in the 1940s. A group of local
volunteers built and painted
shelves, she said.
“I was a child, but I remember
that time,” she said. She said
that her mother, Betsy Badgley,
talked incessantly about the
work the group did.
One group that Parmenter
joined recently is “Nimblefingers,” whose members quilt
and do other handwork at the
library.
— Photo provided by the Voorheesville Public Library
Former Voorheesville librarian Jane Salvatore, left, and her assistant, Betty Shuffelt, are seen here in 1948, standing in front of the
library at 32 Main Street. Salvatore worked as librarian in both the public library and in the school district.
— Photo provided by the Voorheesville Public Library
The Voorheesville Public Library occupied this building on
South Main Street for 38 years. The building was previously
used as the First Presbyterian Church, and is now the Old Songs
building.
“This is absolutely super,” she
said. While attending Nimblefingers recently, school students
were in the library at the same
time, sewing cheerful fleecy pets,
and one of the parents of the students sat down with Parmenter’s
group and asked about what type
of sewing machine to buy.
“It just goes in all directions,”
she said about the effect the
library programs have on the
community.
The library has offered historical programs throughout the
decades, Parmenter said. Talks
Enterprise file photo — Melissa Hale-Spencer
The modern public library, made of concrete blocks and landscaped with abandon, stands at 51 School
Road. Library-goers visited 53,000 times last year, according to library Director Gail Alter Sacco.
featuring Cornell Cooperative
Extension agents and garden
clubs are local favorites, and book
clubs are popular, too, she said.
The library also sponsors trips
twice a year, and offers income
tax progams, she said. One of
the trips to a far-off garden, was
“phenomenal,” Parmenter said.
“The library newsletter has a
tremendous schedule,” she said.
History
The way people use the library
has changed over the last century, and the buildings housing the
library collection have changed
with those uses.
Sacco said that the library is
now open 63 hours, over seven
days, per week. Users logged
53,904 visits, and attended 446
programs last year, she said.
The library offers an online,
downloadable collection of 23,000
books, and also offers downloadable magazines, she said.
“We answered 20,000 questions,” Sacco said about 2014
library use. Voorheesville borrowed 16,365 items from other
libraries for local users, she said.
The library’s own circulation is
107,913 books, she said.
In contrast, a report from 1966
showed a circulation of 20,111
books.
“The library was much narrower, in terms of things offered,”
Sacco said. The library was open
only 27 hours per week in 1966,
she said.
The longest-employed current
staff member, Mary Jane Marterrer, declined to be interviewed.
Her mother, Jane Salvatore,
served as the librarian for both
the school district and the public
library, prior to Sacco, Burgoon
told The Enterprise.
Sacco became the first full-time
librarian for the public library
in 1988.
“We have the equivalent of 14
full-time staff members,” Sacco
said. Including part-time staff,
the library employs 20 people,
she said.
Graphic artist Lesa Clark
altered the library’s logo for the
centennial. She created a banner
that will be displayed outside,
she said.
“I’m employed as a graphic
designer,” she said. “They have
various art needs, like program
advertisements, fliers, and newsletters.”
The library collection in its
first century has moved among
five buildings, and been stymied
in a sixth move.
Library archivist James Corsaro said that the library began
in the back of a building owned by
Albert Borst. It was soon moved
to what is now Village Hall,
where it stayed until 1928.
For its next 22 years, the library rented space at 32 Main
Street. During that period, in
1943, the library became a central school district public library,
and eligible to receive tax revenue, Corsaro said.
The library purchased the First
Presbyterian Church, which is
currently the Old Songs building,
in 1950 and stayed there until
the existing library building was
built in 1988, he said.
In 2012, the library hoped
to move into a new $7.6 million building that would have
been constructed across from
the elementary school, but the
ambitious proposal was soundly
defeated by a record turnout of
voters.
Of the 1,778 votes cast, including 57 absentee ballots, 1,446
voted against the measure and
332 voted in favor.
The proposed two-story building would have doubled the
library’s space to 19,000 square
feet.
The current building needed at
least a million dollars’ worth of
repairs, which included replacing
the roof, supporters said then.
They also said that, due to state
building codes, the existing structure could not be expanded.
The building project was in the
works for 10 years previously
and was poised to begin in 2007,
but the economic downturn then
delayed the plan.
In its current condition, the
library is a “hidden asset,” Burgoon said she was previously
told. The year may end with a
highlight video collage of the centennial celebrations, she said.
10
...GCSD goes to the dogs: Patting puppies may improve test scores
(Continued from page 1)
and spends her days at Pine Bush
Elementary School. “She’s been
spending most of her time in the
secretary’s office, sleeping, because
she’s a baby,” said Ricchetti.
She also said, “Willow looks
like she could be Miss Siggy’s
daughter.”
The second puppy is expected
to be selected in April or May and
trained over the summer to start
working at school in the fall.
“A big pack”
“The second time around, you
think about what worked and
what didn’t,” said Ricchetti. “This
time, we’ve created teams of educators for each puppy.”
Each of the five dogs will have
a primary owner and live at that
person’s house as well as having
five to 10 secondary handlers,
ranging from reading and special-
education teachers to social workers and regular teachers.
“They’ll come to the dog-training
classes,” said Ricchetti. “When
the dogs are comfortable, they do
their best work….The dog will
work right with people in the
environment they’ll be in — with
a big pack.”
So far, Ricchetti said on Monday
morning, 10 people — coming from
all seven of the district’s schools
— have applied to be primary
owners. A meeting was scheduled
for Monday afternoon to begin
reviewing the applicants.
“We’ll move slowly so we do it
right,” said Ricchetti. “If you don’t
get to be a primary owner, you can
be a handler.”
Ricchetti makes a point of calling the Guilderland dogs social
service dogs rather than therapy
dogs. “A social service dog helps
anyone with a disability,” she
said. Sometimes these are social
or emotional disabilities. “Social
service dogs are expected to work
a lot more hours than therapy
dogs,” she said, typically seven to
eight hours a day.
“They have to be able to handle
stress,” she concluded.
Ricchetti sees the benefit of having social service dogs in school as
three-fold.
First, she said, they reduce anxiety with testing. “Miss Siggy has
been used for all kinds of testing
apprehension,” Ricchetti said, including helping students succeed
who had formerly been too nervous
to even try to take a test.
Moreover, Ricchetti cited research from the Netherlands
showing that test scores increased
when students patted a dog for 10
to 15 minutes before taking an
exam. This has given her an idea
of perhaps having a dog available
in the high school library during
Regents week.
Second, Ricchetti said, social
service dogs can be used for practical lessons. She gave the example
of a teacher during a geography
lesson asking, “Where in the world
is Miss Siggy?” Miss Siggy might
be hiding under a map.
Also, she said, young children
often read and write to Miss Siggy,
which encourages them.
Third, she said, social service
dogs help with social and emotional problems. “There are students
with school phobias; just getting
into the building is hard for them,”
said Ricchetti; Miss Siggy has
helped ease the way.
“Back to being a student”
Ricchetti has also used Miss
Siggy to teach very shy children
how to be assertive under the
guise of having them “train” Miss
Siggy.
Soon after Miss Siggy started
her work at Pine Bush Elementary
School, The Enterprise observed a
group of shy first-graders during
their lunch break teaching the dog
to jump through a hoop. Over the
course of a year, they learned to
give commands and to stand with
a commanding posture, which
carried over into their everyday
lives.
“My skin is cocoa-brown,” wrote
one student. “My mom says it is
beautiful, like chocolate milk. A
kid at school said my skin is dirty
looking. I don’t feel beautiful like
my mom says I am anymore. What
can I do?”
“I have spoken to your principal,” Richetti replied as Miss Siggy.
“Behavior like this is not tolerated
in school; the adults will help.
“Your letter made me so sad, I
cried. I get biting mad when I hear
mean, ignorant comments about
race. They are so hurtful. I have
been called a ‘yuppie-puppy’ and a
‘mixed-breed’ all because I am half
golden retriever and half standard
poodle! I know in my heart I am
a great dog, and I am proud to be
a Goldendoodle!
“I am sorry that you were hurt,
my beautiful friend. Remember,
kindness matters. Be kind to yourself! Smart kids and dogs never
believe ignorant comments.”
Ricchetti compiled some of the
most heartfelt letters into a book,
“Miss Siggy Speaks.”
Ricchetti grew up, in Merrick,
Long Island, with a dog that was
a lot like Miss Siggy, a standard
poodle named Tug. “I just loved
that dog,” she said. “He was so
gentle. He would know when I was
angry or sad…He sat near me and
gave me his paw.”
She also kept a journal as a kid
“When the dogs are comfortable,
they do their best work.”
— Photo by Keith VanWagenen
“They get the body language
of what authority looks like,”
Ricchetti said at the time. While
teaching a dog new tricks, the
students had also taught themselves.
At that time, when Ricchetti
worked just from Pine Bush,
rather than circulating between
schools, she spent a lot of time
using the imagined viewpoint of
Miss Siggy to answer letters from
troubled children.
and believes in the healing power
of writing about emotions. The
fifth of six siblings, she had plenty
to write about. Her father was a
pressman for The New York Times
and her mother, a homemaker.
These two important aspects of
her childhood — loving a gentle
dog and writing to solve problems
— came together in her book.
She also wrote a book detailing
the program she has developed at
Guilderland — “Dogs in School:
Patiently waiting, Willow seems to be listening in on a group of students at Pine Bush Elementary
School. Willow is the first of five puppies that will work as social service dogs in the Guilderland
schools. She lives with fifth-grade teacher Keith VanWagenen.
Auction items sought
This puppy — one of 5 — could use a gala
“Four-legged friends help
students face fears, gain confidence, enjoy learning,” says the
invitation to the Bloomingrove
Veterinary Hospital’s Gala 2015,
which is raising funds for the
Guilderland School District’s
social service dog program.
Catherine Ricchetti, who
started the program at Guilderland with her goldendoodle,
Miss Siggy, and wrote the grant
to expand the program to five
more dogs, is also the link to
the gala.
Her veterinarian is David
Stone. Stone’s wife, Mindy Freman, manages the hospital.
“Our daughters were in ballet class together; while they
danced, we chatted,” said Ricchetti of how she came to know
Freman and the Bloomingrove
Veterinary Hospital.
“Every year, they pick a notfor-profit animal organization
and throw a fund-raiser,” she
said.
This year, Bloomingrove chose
Guilderland’s social service
dog program. The gala and
silent auction will be held at
the Franklin Plaza Ballroom
at 4 Fourth Street in Troy on
Saturday, March 21, at 7 p.m.,
featuring food, dancing, and
a cash bar. Mohawk Honda is
helping to sponsor the event.
Guests will be in “cocktail attire,” Ricchetti said, and she is
putting together a video on the
social service dog program for
the event.
Willow, the first of the five
puppies to start work at Guilderland, and Miss Siggy, who has
been at it for 11 years, will both
make an appearance along with
their trainer, Kathy Stevens.
Tickets may be purchased
online at http://bit.ly/1Bo095Q;
if purchased before March 21,
they cost $85. Guilderland faculty and staff are eligible for
discounted tickets.
Each building has a gala
representative with more information: Louisa Lombardo
at Altamont Elementary, Heidi
Cutler at Guilderland, Ricchetti
at Lynnwood Elementary, Ricchetti or Keith VanWagenen at
Pine Bush Elementary, Lombardo at Westmere Elementary,
DeeAnn Whittet at Farnsworth
Middle School, and Kathy Catlin
and Matt Wright at Guilderland
High School.
Local businesses are invited
to contribute merchandise or
gift cards.
All proceeds from the auction
will fund training and certification of the labradoodle puppies
and the 50 or so Guilderland
educators who will handle the
dogs in the schools.
All five dogs are to be certified
by Therapy Dog International,
allowing them to work as social
service dogs in the Guilderland
schools.
Those who are interested in
donating to the auction may call
Pine Bush Elementary School
at 357-2770, for Ricchetti at
extension 3504 or VanWagenen
at extension 4204.
“Willow looks like she could be Miss Siggy’s daughter,” says
Catherine Ricchetti, a social worker in the Guilderland schools,
who first brought Miss Siggy, left, to Pine Bush Elementary School
over a decade ago. Now the social service dog program is expanding
to include five puppies. Willow, right, is the first one.
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...Social worker Ricchetti uses her dog to solve students’ problems
Creating a dog Program in Your
School,” in which she cites research that says a dog can increase
a child’s ability to learn by helping the student to manage stress,
anxiety, and depression.
The book also describes the
miraculous. For example: At the
start of a school year, Ricchetti
was called to a self-contained
special-education classroom because a 7-year-old boy with severely delayed language skills had
been throwing a temper tantrum
like to help Miss Siggy make new
friends in his classroom and he
nodded.
Ricchetti said this week that,
traveling between schools with
her dog, she doesn’t get as much
mail as she used to. She is hoping
that, once a dog is placed permanently in a school, those sorts
of exchanges will become more
frequent.
She said of students writing letters to a dog, “It’s a way for kids
to self-refer and to problem solve.
“One girl said Miss Siggy took the edge off.”
Anyone with a diary knows you
feel better if you write.”
In putting together a video for
the March 21 gala, Ricchetti talked to a number of students, now
in high school, who had benefited
from knowing Miss Siggy when
they were elementary students.
“One girl said Miss Siggy took
the edge off,” said Richetti. “She
used to run with her. She said,
‘When I ran with Siggy, my body
would calm down so I could go
back to being a student.”
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GCSD tepid on tax breaks, plans public session with leaders
turnout “a disappointment.” She
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND — The school added, “But we haven’t decided
board is not enthused about a what to do instead.”
Slack concluded, “We do listen.
request from the town of Bethlehem to offer tax exemptions to It does make a difference.”
Speaking to legislators
conserve land.
On April 15, district residents
The board took no vote on the
issue, but only one of the six board will have a chance to listen to
members present at Tuesday’s and ask questions of Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat,
meeting sounded interested.
Assistant Superintendent for and Senator George Amedore, a
Business Neil Sanders said that Republican, to “learn more about
current exemptions granted by their priorities and perspectives
Guilderland have been for indi- on education issues,” said Wiles.
viduals based on age or military
The session will run from 7 to
service and applied across all the 8:30 p.m. in the high school’s largetowns that are part of the school group instruction room. It will
district.
start with
He also
10 or 15
said the
minutes of
town of
comments
Bethlehem
from the
“Do you view the schools
is granting
legislators
as discreet entities or part
a tax break
followed
of the larger community?”
on a sliding
by quesscale with
tions and
a bigger
comments
break for
from the
the longer
audience.
the land is to remain undevel“We’ll have some punch and
oped. A Bethlehem review board cookies, so we’ll have an opportudecides whether or not to grant the nity to mingle,” said Wiles.
exemption, he said, and five propThe idea was hatched, she
erties are eligible in the section of said, on the ride back from a
Bethlehem that falls within the recent visit to the Legislative
Guilderland School District.
Office Building. A contingent of
The assessed value of the eli- Guilderland students, parents,
gible property totals $1.1 million, teachers, board members, and
said Sanders and, since everyone administrators talked with Fahy,
in the Guilderland School District Amedore, and staff from Senator
would share in the redistribution, John Flanagan’s office, learning in
the owner of an average home, the process, said Wiles.
assessed at $146,500 would pay
“On the way back…one parent
80 cents more in yearly taxes, said, ‘Too bad parents couldn’t all
Sanders calculated, for the low end come with us,’” Wiles reported.
of the commitment. At the high This led to setting up the April
end, that would jump to $2 for the 15 session.
owner of an average home.
She concluded of Fahy and
The Bethlehem School Board Amedore, “They are both very
defeated the exemption, by a vote interested in it.”
of 4 to 3, said Sanders.
Task force appointed
Guilderland board member
As the board said it would, it
Christopher McManus said it appointed all of the people who
would make no sense for Guil- applied to serve on a task force to
derland’s school board to approve investigate options for repurposthe exemption if Bethlehem’s did ing excess space in the district’s
not.
schools.
“Why should we?” agreed board
As Guilderland faces declining
member Judy Slack.
enrollment and limited resources,
“We represent everyone,” said the board hired a consultant to
McManus.
look at facility use; he determined
“It’s to encourage open space, not the five elementary schools tojust for the benefit of five landown- gether were underused 14 percent
ers,” said board member Catherine while the middle school and high
Barber. “There’s more to the issue school were each underused 25
than the tax impact.”
percent. His report concluded with
“I don’t see it as the mission of six scenarios — one maintained
the Guilderland central schools the status quo while five recomto foster open land,” said board mended closing an elementary
member Colleen O’Connell.
school, to save between $1.2 milIt depends on how you view the lion and $2 million annually.
schools, responded Barber. “Do you
In the wake of public protests,
view the schools as discreet entities mostly from Altamont residents
or part of the larger community?” as four of the scenarios would
While O’Connell said she cer- have closed Altamont Elementary
tainly viewed the schools as part School, the board backed off the
of the larger community, she con- scenarios and decided to look at
cluded, “I don’t view land manage- other options before closing a
ment as our mission beyond what school.
we own.”
These task force members were
Budget forum
appointed on Tuesday: Nedra
Superintendent Marie Wiles Abbruzzese-Werling, Laura Assaf,
reported that about 30 people at- Beth Bini, Donald Csaposs, Nichotended a Feb. 4 budget forum. (A las Fahrenkopf, William Floyd,
full account of the forum is online James Gaughan, Jenna Graber,
at AltamontEnteprise.com.) Wiles Jean Guyon, John B. Haluska,
said she appreciated the work of Amy Hawrylchak, Bonnie Heller,
the school leaders in developing Michael Hill, Katherine Kelly,
the list of proposed budget changes Holly Kernozek, Mike Laster, Nina
and for being on hand to answer Levy, Ronnie Sills Lindberg, Allan
questions at the forum. The propos- Lockwood, and Amy Lynch.
als, to close an estimated $130,000
Also: Sean Maguire, Gerard
gap in a $93 million spending plan Marino, Robert Mastro, Robert A.
for next year are posted on the Murphy Jr., Thomas Ochs, Joseph
district’s website.
Otter, Lily Alayne Owen, Walter
Wiles will present her budget Pacholczak, Renee Panetta, Paul
proposal to the community on E. Scoville, Melanie Shatynski,
March 5. The presentation will Angela Stott, Tim Urban, Chrisstream live and residents can log topher VanWoert, Pamela Walsh,
on to ask questions, she said.
Jodi Novak Wey, Carole Wheelock,
Later in Tuesday’s meeting, Timothy Wilford, and Taegyun
Slack, who chairs the board’s David Wood.
communications committee, said,
Board members Charron and
“We’re still seeing a decline in Slack will also serve on the task
community participation and won- force. “You will be worker bees,”
der why. We so value community said Wiles of the board members’
input.”
role.
Slack also called the forum
Slack asked if teachers were
Enterprise file photo — Melissa Hale-Spencer
Michael Laster, principal of Farnsworth Middle School, shown
here as he tackles a tough question at Guilderland’s Feb. 4 budget
forum, was applauded by the school board on Tuesday for leading
Farnsworth in being re-designated as a School to Watch. Looking
on is another Farnsworth leader, Beverly Bisnett-Jenks, supervisor
of math, science, and technology. School board members Tuesday
also expressed disappointment that more people hadn’t turned
out for the Feb. 4 forum.
invited. Wiles answered that the
invitation, open to all, was posted
on the district’s website.
The task force will meet for the
first time on March 16. Wiles said
that, after an opening discussion of
goals, the members will break into
work groups on different topics;
those groups will then set their
own schedules. She anticipates
they will report back to the board
in June.
“We can communicate at every
board meeting,” said Wiles of keeping the board informed on task
force progress.
Capital Facilities Plan
All six members present on
Tuesday voted to accept a fiveyear capital facilities plan. Board
President Barbara Fraterrigo
and Gloria Towle-Hilt were out
of town and had computer hookups to the meeting, which were
sporadic.
The state-required plan was
reviewed by Clifford Nooney,
building and grounds supervisor;
the district’s architects; and the
town’s code enforcement officer,
Sanders said.
Items that will be fixed by the
$17.3 million project currently
underway had to be listed, said
Sanders. “By and large, the things
listed as Priority 1 will be addressed by the capital project,”
said Sanders.
Also included on the list are
new lights for the football field
and an upgrade to the high school
auditorium. Those were narrowly
voted down in a proposition in the
fall of 2013. Guilderland had put
up two propositions at that time:
The $17.3 million bond to upgrade
the district’s seven buildings and
improve technology passed while
the $846,300 plan to renovate the
auditorium and put in new poles
and lights for the football field
and track was defeated.
Both votes were close with
53.2 percent passing the building
upgrades and 50.8 percent voting
“no” on the second proposition.
One of the recommendations
heard at the Feb. 4 budget forum
was to put up a $1,160,000 propo-
sition for the auditorium upgrade
and field lighting.
“It was presented at the forum
to gauge community response,”
Sanders said. “The consensus was
generally favorable.”
“I think there’s an argument for
making it two,” said O’Connell,
meaning there should be separate
propositions for voters to decide
on the auditorium upgrade apart
from the new field lighting. The
auditorium, she said, “is a classroom issue” and the field lighting
is “a safety issue.”
Other business
In other business, the board:
— Learned from Wiles that
Farnsworth Middle School has
been re-designated as a School
to Watch by the State Education
Department, recognizing academic excellence, developmental
responsiveness, social equity, and
organizational structure. Wiles
congratulated Principal Michael
Laster and noted only 27 middle
schools in the state have earned
the distinction.
She also said that a film of the
presentation made to the school
board was being used to inspire
other schools. “So we’re on the
road virtually,” said Wiles;
— Heard from Wiles, “Our beloved Amy McGeady, communications specialist, has just received
a well-deserved promotion” at
the Board of Cooperative Educational Services. She anticipated
McGeady would leave the district
on May 1;
— Heard from Slack that there
are plans to upgrade the portion
of the district’s website on the
school board as McManus had
suggested earlier. McManus said
he’d like to see an updated photo
and “a short bio” for each board
member as well as campaign
rules.
“We don’t have a list of traditions or protocols of what board
members should be doing,” suggested Jennifer Charron, noting
the workload was “a big awakening for a lot of us”;
— Heard from O’Connell that
two sessions to educate commu-
nity members interested in serving on the school board have been
cancelled. O’Connell had worked
to set up the sessions with a goal
of encouraging more candidates
for school board elections. Last
May, the race in Guilderland was
uncontested.
“It turns out not only don’t
people want to run for school
board, they don’t want to come to
conferences to be educated about
what a board member does,” said
O’Connell;
— Heard that an advocacy
event will be held tonight, Feb. 26,
at Colonie Central High School at
7 p.m. to discuss school funding,
local control of schools, and appropriate state testing;
— Reviewed policies on flexible attendance areas, free and
reduced-price meal services, and
recycling;
— Approved a classroom rental
agreement with Living Resources
for an after-school program for
students with disabilities.
Steve Hadden said the district
currently has no after-school
programs for students with disabilities. Living Resources will
rent two high school classrooms
and gym space when available for
$1,000 per school year.
O’Connell said she volunteers
for Living Resources and called
it a “tremendous organization”
with “programs of the highest
quality”;
—Heard congratulations for
Guilderland High School junior
Brendan Brooks who took online
lessons and a test to become
Google certified. Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Demian
Singleton said Brooks was “in
advance” of many on the staff;
— Learned that Farnsworth
Middle School students came in
first in the Regional Math Counts
Competition on Feb. 10. Eight of
the 10 team members ranked in
the top 15, and Jin Shang won the
prestigious Count Down Round.
Hames Gu placed second; Ved
Kumar, fourth; Bill Guo, sixth;
Rubin Chen, eighth; Henry Li,
11th; Jin Shang, 13th; Dan Bemis,
15th; Sophie Gerchikov, 39th; and
Amy Chen, 43rd;
— Guilderland High students
Kiera DeCotes and Hannah
Hernandez were accepted as apprentices to Albany Pro Musica
and will sing on May 2 at the Troy
Savings Bank Music Hall;
— Guilderland High senior Alicia Chen won a Gold Key in the
2015 Scholastic Art and Writing
Awards at the regional level for
her self-portrait painting, “Eye of
the Beholder,” meaning she will
advance to the national level to be
judged by a panel of international
artists; there were over 300,000
submissions. Chen also won an
honorable mention for her drawing, “Boots”;
— Guilderland High School
senior Eden Alin, an Advanced
Placement art student, was
awarded $500 and selected for
The College Board’s Call for
Artists Project. Her work, “Windows to My Soul,” was one of 18
selected from 800 entries and
will be displayed at the College
board’s New York City office for
two years;
— Decided to have its executive sessions before rather than
after the public portion of the
board meetings, starting with the
March 24 meeting. “As the night
drags on, I’m not as sharp as
earlier,” said board vice President
Allan Simpson;
— Accepted, with thanks, a
donated violin from Joan Carmello; and
— Met in executive session
to discuss a potential tenure
appointment, the employment
history of a particular person, a
personnel matter, and negotiations with the Guilderland Office
Workers Association.
13
BKW faces budget gap: Last year’s proposals didn’t play out as predicted
By Marcello Iaia
BERNE — The budding discussion on the next district budget at
Berne-Knox-Westerlo is showing
choices are likely be much harder
than last year.
At a Feb. 23 work session,
school board members Joan Adriance and Earl Barcomb gave 2
percent as a tentative maximum
increase to the tax levy.
“Until we restructure this
district, we’re wasting our money
— zero,” Vasilios Lefkaditis gave
as his guideline in the ensuing
budget process, saying earlier
he hadn’t received the necessary
reports on student achievement
on which to base his decision.
During the meeting, Lefkaditis
claimed the district was misled
last year into costly union contracts and failed savings plans,
echoing concerns he sounded last
year about the sustainability of
large changes that were made
to the district’s budget and
contracts.
Those changes were made
under Interim Superintendent
Lonnie Palmer. He was replaced
this year with another interim
superintendent, Joseph Natale,
for another one-year stint. The
district is currently looking to
have a permanent superintendent and a secondary school
principal hired by the end of the
school year while developing next
year’s spending plan.
When Lefkaditis suggested
2 percent wasn’t enough of an
increase to solve the budgetary
challenges faced by the district, Business Official Lauren
Poehlman agreed, saying she
nonetheless thinks that is what
the board will likely approve.
Poehlman is new to her post at
BKW this year.
It was the first of several meetings among board members and
the citizens’ budget advisory
committee in which the budget
will be hashed out before it is
approved in April and voted on
by district residents in May.
Speaking to the budget advisory committee on Feb. 23,
Natale proposed a plan totaling
$22.78 million, a 3.9-percent
spending increase of $865,610
over this year, but did not include
a proposal for the tax levy or
an estimate of revenues. Most
of the increase is to fund the
plan, similar to its current form,
with additional money, partly
to make up for under-budgeted
wages from this year and move
the business office from a low of
2.4 full-time employees, down
from six the year before, up to
five next year.
Natale reminded the board it
was not a final recommendation,
saying he was still investigating
to what extent the district should
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
A new format debuted at the Feb. 10 Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board meeting. Interim Secondary School Principal Mary Summermatter
stands at a podium as board members, seated with administrators in a horseshoe configuration, ask questions. The audience was separated
into two groups of chairs on either side of the podium. Board President Joan Adriance said the change was influenced by Guilderland School
Board meetings and meant to focus board members more on one another and less on a free-wheeling exchange with the audience.
use a central business office
through the Board Of Cooperative Educational Services.
“I’m tipping my hat to let you
know where I’m looking, that’s
all this is” Natale told the board,
speaking of the business office
which had trouble keeping up
with purchase orders earlier in
the school year, “It cannot — it
cannot go on the way it is.”
While board members last year
took a firm stance on taxes for the
current budget — voting for no
increase to the overall amount to
be raised from property owners
— it had roughly $1 million in
projected savings to move around
in new areas of instruction and
training teachers.
Much of the planned savings
came from shared services,
including the reduction to the
business office, which involved
sharing Poehlman between BKW
and Duanesburg.
“On top of that, you had three
or four contracts that were
settled, major adjustments to
health insurance, salaries…,”
Natale added.
In December, the shared business official agreement was
scrapped and Poehlman resigned
from Duanesburg effective in
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Nearly half of Natale’s proposed increase comes from the
increased wages, which board
members asked Poehlman to
detail for a future meeting.
Out of the $866,000 increase,
another $160,000 is for debt
service and transfers, $170,000
is for BOCES services, $141,000
been unrealized in two different
directions. First, some of the
planned improvements didn’t
take place, thereby saving money
over what was projected. Second,
calculated savings didn’t materialize, creating a net loss.
The reasons given varied for
each item, including a lack of
qualified candidates for filling
“Until we restructure this district,
we’re wasting our money — zero.”
is for the business office, $28,800
is for supplies, and $3,300 is for
contractual expenses.
An assessment presented by
Natale at the Feb. 23 board meeting showed savings and spending
over the 2014-15 school year are
both now projected to be lower
than planned, with a total gap
of roughly $150,000.
Calculations made last year
have thus far this school year
seven new teaching-assistant
positions with certified teachers
in the elementary school. Teachers took on the task of instructing
just two out of nine available
slots for enrichment classes in
subjects like art history and
American history through film,
for which the budget allocated
money. To Lefkaditis’s disappointment, no math teachers
taught extra classes.
On the savings side, reality
didn’t meet the budget’s design
either.
For example, two of the five
bus runs planned for consolidation actually resulted in savings,
along with one of several bus aide
positions that weren’t supposed
to be needed.
Food Services Director Deborah Rosko reported on the success of her savings regimen,
which included a significant cut
to her staff, consolidating cooking
to one kitchen, with food served
in two schools. Rosko in her role
as director is shared between
BKW and Greenville.
But the cuts have meant an
adult-meals program for faculty,
staff, and parents, which had
been a good source of revenue,
has been compromised, and,
with the influence of stringent
nutrition regulations, a separate snack bar with a variety of
options was reduced and made
part of the regular lunch line.
And the goal of the cuts — to
balance revenue with expenses
for food services, a challenge
nationwide — has come closer,
but not been realized.
“We all keep fighting the fight,”
said Rosko.
14
Blotters
...Recusals leave no one on the bench
caused him to recuse himself from
that,” Lynch responded.
Calls to the Albany County
District Attorney’s Office and both
town judges were not immediately
returned on Wednesday.
Since Marcia Pangburn was arrested by deputies of the Albany
County Sheriff’s Office last July,
Zuk has presided over her case,
which she originally sought to
be dismissed. She has rejected
separate offers from the assistant district attorney to plead
guilty to the reduced charge of
disorderly conduct and to adjourn the case in contemplation
of dismissal.
She told The Enterprise she
has had to use a loan to pay for
legal representation, pursuing
her defense because she believes
she did nothing wrong.
In the early morning hours in
July, police had Pangburn do one
last test, the one-leg stand, which
the arrest report says she failed.
The officer asked her to blow into
an alcohol-screening device and
she began to walk away, almost out
of view in a video recorded from
the police dashboard.
When the two officers rushed
to stand in front of her and she
refused to submit to the screening
device, one of the officers asked
her to put her hands behind her
back. She moved away from them
and they grabbed her as she sat
down on the pavement of the road,
saying she would take the test
as they pulled her arms behind
her back.
After being taken to the sheriff ’s station in Clarksville, Pangburn ultimately gave a .01-percent reading for her blood-alcohol
content; police then brought her
to her home near Thompsons
Lake around 5:30 a.m. She said
she had one mixed drink at a
house-warming party earlier in
the evening.
A concentration of .08 or higher
is the legal threshold for driving
while intoxicated, but other evidence of intoxication can be used
by police, and a reading of more
than .05 percent can be used as
evidence for a charge of driving
while ability impaired.
Judge Raymond has not presided over Pangburn’s case
since July, though he has been
present in town court for her
appearances.
In his objection to the request to
transfer courts, Oliver quoted from
Raymond’s writing in the moving
papers for Feb. 18, arguing that
the grounds for recusal were
inadequate to show bias.
“Though I feel confident that
I would be fair and impartial
in hearing the facts at hand, to
ensure the appearance of fairness and impartiality to all, I
must recuse,” Oliver read from
Raymond’s words, according to the
court transcript.
Lynch questioned Oliver’s statement about judges’ recusals,
saying, if “based on their review
of the case, for whatever reason
personal to themselves they recuse
themselves from the case, do you
have authority to say that or would
support your opposition to say,
that even though you’re seeking
to avoid an appearance of impropriety, you are still required
to conduct the case?”
Oliver responded, “Is there a
case that says, if a judge says I
want to recuse myself and doesn’t
give any reason? Can you go
behind that? I don’t know of any
case that says that.”
It was not clear in last week’s
hearing whether Raymond had
also received correspondence
from community members.
During one of Pangburn’s
appearances in town court in
September, several of her neighbors were in the audience and
expressed frustration, when she
got up to leave, that Zuk hadn’t
dismissed the case.
“We all know Ms. Pangburn,”
Raymond said to the neighbors
as he tried to reassure them
that a legal process was being
followed. “We’re a small town
here. That’s the way it is. We’ve
had meals together.”
Rios sentenced to 13 years for attempted robbery
FEURA BUSH — Rodolfo Rios,
52, of Feura Bush, attempted to
rob an Albany bank two months
after being released for armed
robbery of a different Albany
bank.
He was sentenced last Friday
to 13 years in state prison, to
be followed by five years of
post-release supervision, before
the Judge Roger McDonough in
Albany County Supreme Court.
On Dec. 22, 2014, Rios had
pleaded guilty to one count of
first-degree attempted robbery,
a felony.
The Albany County District
Attorney’s Office described the
crime unfolding this way: On
Dec. 18, 2013, at about 11:30
a.m., officers from the Albany Police Department responded to the
M&T Bank, at 80 State Street,
for a report of a robbery.
The report stated that a male
Rodolfo Rios
suspect had entered the bank
armed with a knife and demanded money from a teller. The
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fled the scene with an undisclosed
amount of cash.
Shortly after the incident, an
Albany Police Officer saw a person matching the robber’s description and apprehended Rios, who
was found in possession of the
money, a knife, and a plastic baggie containing crack cocaine.
This is not Rios’s first conviction. In 2006, he was convicted for
the armed robbery of the Citizens
Bank at 10 North Pearl Street
in Albany. Rios was sentenced
to nine-and-a-half years in state
prison for that incident and was
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Senior News
New Scotland
By Susan Kidder
Dress warmly and come out
on the Yellow Bus with the New
Scotland Seniors.
To sign up, call me, at 4399038; leave a message and I will
call back to confirm. We have 14
seats, to be filled on a first-come,
first-served basis.
If possible, two buses will be
used with a minimum of six people
on the bus locally and minimum of
eight for out-of-town trips.
Participants must prepay for
events with checks made out to
the venue with the name and date
written on the memo line.
When trips are full, they are
no longer listed. Those who have
signed up will be called with the
time and place of pick-up a day or
so before the event.
The program runs on volunteer
drivers and money donations from
riders. No fee is charged; a donation of $5 each way is suggested
for out-of-town trips and of a few
dollars each way for trips within
town. If you don’t have the means,
you will never be denied a ride.
The amounts are only suggestions.
Please call 439-9038 if you
would like to volunteer to drive
either or both vehicles.
If schools are closed because
of weather, all trips are canceled.
Money for events will be refunded
if possible.
Up-to-date information on Yellow Bus trips may also be found
online at www.townofnewscotland.
com.
Scheduled programs
and meetings
Every Tuesday and Thursday,
there is a free Osteobusters’
class at 10 a.m. at the Wyman
Osterhout Community Center in
New Salem.
The first and third Wednesday
of every month, the New Scotland
Seniors meet at the community
center at noon for a potluck lunch
followed by a business meeting
at 1 p.m.
Senior rides
The town of New Scotland has
two cars to take seniors living in
New Scotland only, for medical
appointments Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Please give as much notice as
possible so we can schedule and
find a volunteer to drive you. Dialysis and Chemo appointments
take precedent over all other appointments. This is a curb-to-curb
service.
The program is run at the
discretion of the Senior Outreach
Liaison and the program committee.
Upcoming trips
Join us for these excursions:
— Sunday, March 1, to the
Schenectady Green Market for
shopping and eating. We will leave
the area 10:30 a.m.; then a stop
at the Schenectady City Library
for a free concert from 2:30 to
3:30 p.m.;
— Wednesday, March 4, Senior
Citizens business meeting at the
community center at 1 p.m., refreshments served then stay and
play cards and games;
— Thursday, March 5, to the
Arkell Museum for “Portraits and
Self Portraits from House Pets to
Endangered Species”. The prints
and drawings are by Beth Van
Hoesen. The admission is $6. We
will leave the area at 10 a.m., with
lunch enroute at Ames General
Store, with cost on senior;
— Friday, March 6, to the Spectrum Theater for a movie, showing
between 3:15 and 4 p.m.; dinner
location to be announce with the
cost on the senior;
— Saturday, March 7, to the
Ioka Valley Farm for brunch and
a scenic ride; we will order off
menu. We are leaving the area at
8:30 a.m.;
— Wednesday, March 11, to the
New Baltimore Church for a St.
Patrick’s Day music celebration
with Hilary & George. The menu
is corned beef, cabbage, potatoes
and carrots, Irish Soda Bread and
a green dessert;
— Friday, March 13, to the
Ravena Senior Center fish fry at
4 p.m. The menu includes fried
haddock, shrimp, scallops or clams
including mac and cheese, coleslaw, dessert, and coffee. The cost
is $9. For an additional $3 clam
chowder or broccoli cheese soup is
available. A Blooming Onion can
also be included for a cost of $5.
— Monday, March 16, Ravena
Senior Center for a St. Patrick’s
dinner of corned beef and cabbage
at 5 p.m. Payment is a donation
of $4.
— Wednesday, March 18, Senior Citizens congregate meal at
the community center at 12:30
p.m.; please bring a dish to share
and a plate and place service;
stay and play cards and games,
afterwards;
— Tuesday, March 24, to the
Saratoga Casino “Club 55 Day”
for a buffet lunch costing $5.95
and chances to win grand prize for
the day with a Club 55 card. We
depart around 9:30 a.m. and will
leave around 3:15 p.m.; suggested
bus donation is $5 each way, and
a $20 voucher for anyone on the
bus;
— Friday, March 27, Bingo at
the community center from noon
to 3 p.m., for a cost of $2. Hot dogs
available before the game cost
$1.50. There are prizes;
— Saturday, March 28, to Stone
House Farm for a breakfast of
pancakes, waffles, sausage, coffee, syrup, and OJ. The cost is $6
and we are leaving the area at
8:30 a.m.;
— Wednesday, April 1, Senior
Citizens business meeting at the
community center at 1 p.m., refreshments served then stay and
play cards and games;
— Saturday, April 11, to Stone
House Farm for a breakfast of
pancakes, waffles, sausage, coffee, syrup, and OJ. The cost is $6
and we are departing the area at
8:30 a.m.;
— Sunday, April 19, Oakwood
Cemetery Daffodil Brunch for a
cost of $18 at the door and we are
departing the area at 9 a.m.;
— Tuesday, April 21, to the
Saratoga Casino “Club 55 Day”
for a buffet lunch costing $5.95
and chances to win grand prize for
the day with a Club 55 card. We
depart around 9:30 a.m. and will
leave around 3:15 p.m.; suggested
bus donation is $5 each way, and
a $20 voucher for anyone on the
bus;
— Friday, April 24, Bingo at the
community center from noon to
3 p.m., for a cost of $2. Hot dogs
available before the game cost
$1.50. There are prizes;
Editor’s note: Susan Kidder is
the senior outreach liaison for the
town of New Scotland.
— Photo from Krystie Wray, engage life director at Atria Guilderland
It’s not Bourbon Street, but Carolyn Edwards and Elaine Fuller, residents of Atria Guilderland,
wear colorful strands of beads as they enjoy the Mardi Gras Family Party on Feb. 17, the Tuesday
before the start of Lent.
Helderberg
Guilderland
Hilltowns
By Phyllis Johnson
BERNE — When good people
get together, the results can be
scrumptious! Hilltown residents,
the Albany County Department
for Aging, and the aspiring chefs
of the Peter Young Housing Industries and Treatment (Culinary
Program) will be making lunch
happen three days a week beginning on March 2 at the Hilltown
Senior Center. Lunch will be served at noon
every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday for seniors over 60 and their
guests at the Hilltown Senior
Center at 1360 Helderberg Trail
in Berne. Reservations are requested three days in advance,
so there will always be enough
for everyone.
You can call as far as a week
in advance if you wish, or register on-site when you come for
lunch. Come one day, two days,
or all three; we love the company! See your neighbors, and
cure that cabin fever!
Doors open at 11 a.m., and lunch
is served from noon to 1 p.m.
Please make reservations in
advance by calling 872-9400, or
email [email protected]. When you call, we need your name,
your phone number, and the number of people who will be having
lunch. There is a charge for nonseniors who wish to attend.
“As the weather gets better, we
plan to have some social activities as well as lunch,” said Linda
Hodges, the new chairwoman of
Helderberg Senior Services Inc.,
which is coordinating the program. “Games and movies have
been mentioned, and one of our
residents wants to meet the chefs
and culinary students who do all
the cooking.”
Editor’s note: Phyllis Johnson
is a board member of Helderberg
Senior Services Inc.
The Guilderland Senior Services is offering the following
activities the week of March 2.
Call the senior office at 356-1980,
ext. 1048 with any questions or
for information.
Monday: Scheduled shopping,
aerobics at 9 a.m., Strong Bones
Plus and senior fitness at 10:30
a.m., harmonic group at 1 p.m.,
and Strong Bones Plus at 1:30
p.m.;
Tuesday: Strong Bones Plus at
9 a.m., luncheon of Sloppy Joes at
11:30 a.m., and bingo/Rummikub
at 12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping,
Cardio Circuit at 9 a.m., senior
fitness and Strong Bones Plus
at 10:30 a.m., needlecraft at 1
p.m., and Strong Bones Plus at
1:30 p.m.;
Thursday: Scheduled shopping,
Strong Bones Plus at 9 a.m.,
Mahjong at 12:30 p.m., and
Pinochle at 1 p.m.;
Friday: Scheduled shopping,
painting and Bridge at 10 a.m.,
and quilting at 1 p.m.
Learn about Medicare
Will you soon be 65? Come
learn how Medicare works. You
will be informed of all the factors
that you should consider when
making your choices.
Are you already in Medicare
but still having questions about
your coverage options? There
are Medicare counselors trained
to help you understand your
choices and options. Attend a
presentation designed to provide
you with an understanding of
Medicare and the choices available to you.
Having trouble paying your
Medicare premium or related
medical expenses? Find out
if you may qualify for Federal
assistance with your medical
expenses.
Call the office to register for
a presentation by April 7. The
first presentation is April 9, from
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon program
Every Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.,
over 50 seniors gather to have
lunch together in our town hall
board room. Participants may
order the featured hot meal
listed on our calendar, or opt for
a cold tuna salad plate or cold
fruit plate.
Orders must be placed with our
office by 10:30 a.m. the day before
the luncheon and the suggested
donation is only $3. Some decide
to bring their own lunch, which
is also fine.
By Charlotte Fuss
The February meeting of the
Hilltowns Seniors was another
chilly one. But being a hardy
bunch there were 40 of us ready
to enjoy the day’s activities.
Birthday celebrations were
sung to Barbara Hindenlang,
Alyce Gibbs, Kathy Walls, (who
is in Florida, but we don’t care),
and Jean Wright.
A very special “Happy Birthday” to Ruth Mudge who celebrated her 100th birthday. Anniversaries for the month
were celebrated by John and
Millie Rossman, 57 years, Linda
and Bill Carman, 49 years, and
Sharon and Mike Vincent 48
years.
Our sympathy goes out to the
family of Donald Moser. He and
his wife Roz have been wonderful
in helping our organization and
he will be missed.
Upcoming trips
The trip committee said there
will be flyers at the next meeting for this year’s trips.There
were a lot of oohs and aahs
when they mentioned a trip to
Boston, Vermont Country Store,
Lake George Dinner Theater,
and an over night trip to Lake
Champlain. We are more than
ready to hop on the purple bus
and takeoff.
Activity
We were entertained with
Valentine bingo and a quiz about
Ground Hog day. Everyone knew
that Ground Hog day was Feb.
2. We really are a very smart
group.
I would like to remind you to
watch out for all the scams out
there. John Wood, our private
detective, talked about some
new ones that we weren’t aware
of. And be careful of these smart
TVs.
Upcoming events
The NEAT dinner has been
cancelled this month, due to the
freezing temperatures, We want
to keep everyone safe.
The Lutheran Church in Berne
is serving breakfast on Feb. 28.
Also, visit their thrift store.
Our meeting for March will be
at the Berne Reformed Church
for corned beef and cabbage.
Call Rosemary Porter or Linda
McDermott for reservations.
Stay warm everyone and
remember to check on your
neighbor.
Quote of the day: “I am trying
to read a book to relax, but I keep
falling asleep!”
At St. John’s
“The Parables of Lent”
St. John’s Lutheran Church at
140 Maple Ave. in Altamont will
hold the following services:
During the Lenten season
St. John’s is using a special
series called, “The Parables of
Lent.” Each service in this series
focuses on a biblical parable that
connects to Lenten themes. Week Two in the series is based
on the parable of the hidden
treasure and priceless pearl in
Matthew 13:44-46. At the 8:30 a.m. service this
parable will be explored in an informal discussion format. The 11
a.m. service will include a sermon
on the topic. The guest worship
leader will be Don Bunk.
Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m.
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Community Calendar
Thursday, February 26
Parent and Teen Communication — Strategies for Effective Family Talk: The Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Albany
County presents this free workshop, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 24
Martin Road, Voorheesville. Parents or caregivers and their teens
will explore ways to improve
family communication through
interactive, fun activities. Families will identify and build on
existing strengths to improve
listening skills, understand what
parents and you need from each
other, and practice strategies to
deal with family conflict. Light
refreshments provided. Register
by calling 765-3559.
Gospel Gala 2015! Presented by The African American Cultural
Center of the Capital Region and held in celebration of Black History Month, on Friday, February 27, at the Palace Theater, Albany.
Doors open at 6:00 pm, with the program beginning at 7:00 pm.
This event is free and open to the public. Performances include:
Capital District Youth and Adult Mass Choirs, Macedonia Chamber Orchestra, Tonesetters, Soul Rebel Performance Troupe, Bethel
Ministry Puppet Show, Spoken Word Poets, Restored and other acts.
This is an all ages, family friendly event. For more information go
to www.aacccr.org/events.
Color Copy Center
Now offering full color service. From 1 to 10,000 or more copies, we
can provide you with a variety of color copy and digital color printing
solutions. Design and typesetting services are also available. For
more information stop by our office or call today.
123 Maple Avenue • Altamont
(518) 861-6641
EPA Renovation, Repair,
and Painting Initial Lead
Training: Cornell Cooperative
Extension Albany County, an
EPA accredited training provider,
is offering free Lead Renovation,
Repair, and Painting Initial
trainings. There is no charge
for these classes and they are
held several times a month at
various locations. Upon successful completion of the RRP
Initial course, including passing
an exam at the end of the class,
participants are EPA certified
renovators. This certification
is good for five years. All RRP
Initial classes are held from 7:45
to 4:45 p.m. and include a light
continental breakfast, lunch, a
packet of resource materials,
interactive hands-on exercises,
and a certification test at the end
of the course. The next class will
take place at the Albany Community Development Agency,
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Guided Walk at Five Rivers:
A Doctor Seuss “read-a-thon” will
be conducted from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. at 56 Game Farm Road in
Delmar. At this indoor program,
Five Rivers staff and docents
will commemorate the late Dr.
Seuss’ birthday with continuous
readings of class Doctor Seuss
nature titles. The program, open
to the public free of charge, is
in celebration of the National
Education Association’s annual
Read Across America Day. It will
also feature a visit from The Cat
in the Hat and special prizes for
anyone dressed up in character
garb. Parents and children must
accompany each other. At 2 p.m.
join a Five Rivers educator for a
guided walk along the Old Field
Trail. This trail offers a diversity
of habitats and a variety of scenic
views in a relatively short distance. We’ll hike through an old
field and shrubland, circumnavigate ponds, and skirt the forest’s
edge. The terrain is flat and the
trails are wide. We’ll hike, look,
and listen, enjoying whatever
pleasures the Old Field gives
up this day. For more information about these programs, call
475-0291.
Subnivean — Go Below the
Snow: When the air is cold and
there is snow on the ground it
may seem like nothing is alive
but the space between the ground
and the snow surface can be full
of life. This space is called the
Subnivean Zone. Come explore
this special habitat and learn
about the animals that depend
on it. We will start indoors
and then head outside to hike
approximately half a mile. Appropriate for all ages. Meet at
Jane’s
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Annual Strikes for Strays
from noon to 3 p.m. at Sportsmans Bowl on Crane Street in
Schenectady. $20 per person
includes two games, shoe rental,
pizza, and soda. Please help us
so we can continue to rescue the
abandoned cats and kittens, pay
for spaying and neutering, and
find them loving homes.
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Deluxe Community Breakfast at the Helderberg Lutheran
Church, 1728 Helderberg Trail,
Berne, from 8 to 11 a.m. The
menu includes pancakes, French
toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, toast, oatmeal, and
juices, for a freewill donation.
Tuesday, March 3
Capital Region Farmers’ Direct Marketing Conference:
Are you a beginning, experienced,
or seasoned farmer looking for
fresh marketing tips to increase
your customer sales? If so, save
the date for a day-long conference, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at
the Cornell Cooperative Extension Center, 24 Martin Road,
Voorheesville. The conference
will feature presentations on
Perfecting the Art of Customer
Service, Using Social Media to
Promote Your Farm, Expanding
Sales Beyond Farmers’ Markets,
and Preparing Successful Applications for Farmers’ Markets. In
addition, a panel of farmers will
discuss Your Marketing Dollars
— How to Get the Biggest Bang
for Your Buck. This is a great opportunity to network with other
farmers, learn something new,
and get out of the house after a
long, cold winter. The cost of the
conference is $30 per person. Call
765-3518 to register.
10001 Main Street
555-5555
For all you
by the light of the Snow Moon
at 5:30 p.m. With snow covered
ground and a clear and bright
night, we can leave the flashlights behind. We will choose our
route depending on conditions
and plan to walk about an hour.
Please call ahead to register and
for the meeting place. Snowshoes
are available to rent for $5 a
pair. Call 872-0800 to register,
reserve snowshoes, and confirm
conditions.
Family Fun Day: Val Mosley
Memorial held by the Albany
County Council VFW Ladies’
Auxiliary, from 8 a.m. to noon,
at Del Lanes in Delmar. All ages
welcome. All bowlers must have
at least $25 in sponsor donations.
Drawings and prizes for bowling
in all age groups. All proceeds
to benefit the VFW Ladies’ Auxiliary Cancer Fund. For more
information or sponsor sheets,
call 470-7310.
Sunday, March 1
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KEEPING IT LOCAL
Breakfast to Benefit the
Joshua Project of Middleburgh sponsored by the Knights
of Columbus Council 4475 at Our
Lady of the Valley Parish Hall at
11 a.m. Freewill offering.
The Esperance Historical
Society presents Music from
the War of 1812, featuring
teaching artist and performer
Dave Ruch, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Esperance Methodist Education
Building, Route 20. This lecture
is free and open to the general
public and refreshments will be
served. Ruch has dug deeply into
archival recordings, diaries, old
newspapers, and other historical
manuscripts to unearth a wealth
of rarely-heard music, which,
alongside some of the classics
from the war, offers a rounded
and fascinating pictures of this
“second war of independence.”
Special emphasis is given to New
York State’s important role in
the conflict.
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strips, and fried shrimp. The dinner includes homemade coleslaw, $15 and no partner is needed.
a baked potato or French fries,
and coffee, tea, or lemonade. You
can also order homemade New
England or Manhattan clam
The St. David’s Welsh Sochowder and dessert. If you pre- ciety of the Capital District
fer takeout, call 765-2244.
invites you to their annual
St. David’s dinner at the Turf
Fish Dinner at Our Lady of Taver, 40 Mohawk Ave., Scotia, at
the Valley Parish Hall, Middle- 2 p.m. This is an annual society
burgh, sponsored by the Knights event and open to all members
of Columbus, at 6 p.m. The cost and those interested in Welsh
of the dinner is $9 and it will be language and culture. There will
followed by Stations of the Cross be a program of Welsh-inspired
in the church.
early music presented by The
Bleeker Consort following the
dinner. There is a choice of
entrée, and reservations are
Moonlight Snowshoe Walk required. Call 355-3201 to make
at Thacher Park: Snowshoe reservations.
For
Scoop on Poop: Did you know
you can tell what animal has
passed your way by examining
the evidence they leave behind?
Scat, a term that scientists use
to describe poop, tells us a great
deal about an animal, including what kind of animal it was
that left the scat and what that
animal ate. We will start with
an inside presentation, go for a
.9-mile hike, and then conclude
with a craft project. Appropriate
for ages 5 and up. 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.
Staff Appreciation Reception hosted by the Altamont Free
Library Board of Trustees at the
library from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone
in our community is invited to
join us on this afternoon to visit
with our staff and thank them
for all they do to help make the
library such a vibrant and welcoming place. Refreshments will
be served.
Helderberg Christian
School Open House from 5 to
7:30 p.m. at 96 Main St., East
Berne. Helderberg Christian
School — academic excellence
with a Christian perspective,
serving kindergarten through
grade 11.
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Tuesday, March 3
Thursday, March 5
Kate Mullany and the National Significance of a Laundry Worker’s Strike will be the
program at the New Scotland
Historical Association, Wyman
Osterhout Community Center,
off of Route 85, New Salem,
presented by P. Thomas Carroll.
Kate Mullany was a 19-year-old
Irish immigrant who organized
the shirt collar laundry workers of Troy into the nation’s
first all-female labor union. The
program is free and open to the
public. Call 765-4212 for more
information.
The Helderview Garden
Club will meet at 6:45 p.m. at
the Cornell Cooperative Extension building on Martin Road.
Mary Carol White, master gardener, will be speaking about soil
in a program called the “Nitty
Gritty of Soil.”
Knox Historical Society
Meeting at 7 p.m. at Knox
Town Hall. Refreshments will
be served and new members are
always welcome. Call 872-2082
for more information.
Wednesday, March 4
OSHA Construction Safety
Training for Workers: The
Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Albany County is offering a
training at the Steinmetz Homes
Community Room, 120 Emmons
Street in Schenectady, from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 4 and
8 a.m. to noon on March 5. Working in a safe manner on the job
is as much an employee responsibility as it is for management
to provide a safe work environment. This one-and-a-half day
OSHA 10 course will be taught
by an authorized OSHA Construction Safety instructor and
will cover employee’s rights and
their employer’s responsibilities. The training will also help
workers become knowledgeable
about workplace hazards. Upon
successful completion of the
course, participants will receive
an OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety certificate card. The
program fee is $199 per person
and includes course manual,
certificate, light breakfast on
both days, and lunch on the first
day. Pre-registration is required
and payment must be received
prior to training. There will be
no refunds. For more information, call 765-3521 or 765-3512
to register.
Berne-Knox-Westerlo and
Albany Community Action
Partnership Universal PreKindergarten Program Information Night at 6 p.m. in the
BKW Elementary School cafeteria. Come join us to hear about
our UPK program’s curriculum,
policies, and registration process. UPK registration dates are
March 17 and 18. Registration
sign-up will be held at the UPK
Information Night.
Friday, March 6
“Fish Fry Fridays” hosted by
the New Salem Volunteer Fire
Department, every Friday during
Lent, at 694 New Salem Road,
from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Fresh haddock fish, fresh homemade clam
strips, and fried shrimp. The dinner includes homemade coleslaw,
a baked potato or French fries,
and coffee, tea, or lemonade. You
can also order homemade New
England or Manhattan clam
chowder and dessert. If you prefer takeout, call 765-2244.
focus of the exhibit is work inspired by nature or created with
natural materials. The artwork
is a vibrant and inviting mixture
of artistic ideas and creativity, brought to life in works of
watercolor, oil, acrylic, pen and
ink, pastel, photography, clay,
wood, fiber, natural materials,
and mixed media. The opening
day reception is March 7 from 1
to 4 p.m. It is free and open to
the public. Patrons will have an
opportunity to meet artists, look
at beautiful work, cast People’s
Choice votes, sample the refreshments, and enjoy the festivities
with old and new friends. Call
872-1237 or 872-0800 for more
information.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 7
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Sunday, March 8
Painting a Landscape at
the Thacher Nature Center:
Learn the techniques of landscape watercolor painting. Class
will start with a discussion of
paper, paint, brushes, and how
to stretch paper in preparation for use. Working indoors
from a photo, participants will
lay down washes, create skies,
paint mountains and groups of
trees. Participants should bring
their own synthetic brushes and
palette. No experience necessary.
Recommended for ages 16 and
up. The workshop will take place
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 8721237 to register.
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 4 - 8 p.m.
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Saturday, March 7
All You Can Eat Polish Supper from 4:30 to 7 p.m. held by
the Sons and the Auxiliary of
the Voorheesville American Legion Post 1493, at the American
Legion Hall on Voorheesville
Avenue. The cost is $12 for adults
and $6 for children.
Thacher Nature Center
Celebrates 12th Anniversary
of Nature Art Exhibit: The
12th Annual Nature Art Exhibit
will be on display from March 7
through March 27, from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through
Sundays. The work of 40 to 50
local artists and artisans will
be featured in this exhibit. The
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Library Notes
Altamont
Voorheesville
Berne
By Joe Burke
As the absolutely ridiculous
weather of this past month continues unabated, it is, maybe, some
consolation that, over the past
week or two, we here at the Altamont Free Library have started
thinking ahead to planning our
Summer Reading Program. Some
might say that planning so far
in advance is a kind of coping
mechanism, to help us focus on
warm thoughts to get us through
this cold spell.
I, on the other hand, think that
we are just super enthused by the
theme of the Summer Reading
Program: Every Hero Has a Story.
I invite you to start thinking about
it, too.
By Lynn Kohler
Students can be part of the
Albany Chapter of ConKerr Cancer’s pillowcase project. ConKerr
provides emotional support to area
cancer patients by providing them
with fun pillowcases while they
are receiving treatment.
On Saturday, March 7, from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Voorheesville
Public Library teens in grades six
and up are needed to pin material,
run the sewing machines, and iron
pillowcases. All materials will
be provided. You will earn three
hours of community service during this pillowcase party. Please
register for this program.
Author visit
Aspiring writers in grades four
and up are welcome to attend
An Evening with Author, Leslie
Connor. On Friday, March 20 at
4:15 p.m., Connor will lead young
writing enthusiasts through a fun
and creativity-based one-hour
session.
The author’s workshops are
all about nurturing the writer
within. She will run a few mindloosening exercises, often using
props to kick the imagination into
gear. The process will not focus
on producing finished works, but
rather the participants will look
for spark and note how a story,
poem, or lyric can grow from one
small idea. Please register. This
author event is funded through
a special legislative project from
the New York State Education
Department
Managing debt
Have you been looking for a way
to manage your debt? Do you use a
credit card that charges a monthly
fee? Are you juggling high credit
card bills? Join us on Sunday,
March 8, from 3 to 4 p.m. for this
workshop that will help you learn
how to select and use credit wisely.
You will also learn strategies for
paying down and prioritizing existing debt. Maria DeLucia-Evans
from the Cornell Cooperative
Extension of Albany County will
be leading this workshop, and will
supply informational materials for
you to take home. Space is limited
so please register early.
Creating
terrariums
On Sunday, March 22 at 2
p.m., tweens and teens in grades
four and up are invited to learn
about ecosystems as you create
your own tiny landscape inside a
container. All supplies will be provided for you to make a terrarium
to take home. Please register. Special
Circle Time
Come join Miss Amy for a whole
month of Circle Time. Every
Tuesday in March from 10:15 to
11:15 a.m., we will be exploring a
variety of preschool concepts such
as letter and number recognition,
positional words, and counting
skills through art, literature,
music, and playtime. This will be
great hands-on learning experience whether your child is already
attending a preschool program
or if you are just curious to see
if they might be ready to attend
one. This program is for children
ages three to five with a caregiver.
Registration requested.
By Judy Petrosillo
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an
American writer born on March
2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Using the pseudonym Dr.
Seuss, he wrote and illustrated
children’s books, which are still
loved today. Being persistent
helped start his career since his
first book was rejected 27 times
before being published.
PARP, Parents as Reading
Partners, kicks off on March
2 at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo
Elementary School. As Dr. Seuss
said, “You’re never too old, too
wacky, too wild, to pick up a book
and read to a child.”
Read Across America
Children are invited to drop
by the Berne Public Library on
Monday, March 2, between 2 to
4 p.m., for Read Across America. Ariel, our tail waggin’ tutor
would love to hear a book by Dr.
Seuss and the child benefits from
interacting with the dog. Thanks
to Amber, her trainer, for bringing Ariel to the library on the first
Monday of each month. Story time
“A person’s a person no matter how small”, is another Seuss
quote. Story time is designed for
small people ages one to five. Join
Ms. Kathy at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, March 3, for stories by Dr.
Seuss, activities, and a craft.
Friends meet
Dr. Seuss wrote, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful
lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Fortunately, the
Friends of the Berne Library
care a lot. The group meets at 7
p.m., on Wednesday, March 4 in
the community room. Anyone interested in supporting the library
is invited to attend. The group
is working on fund-raisers and
a story walk for the Knox town
park. The March fundraiser is a book
and jewelry sale at the Hilltown
Senior Center, 1360 Helderberg
Trail, Berne. Donations of books,
puzzles, movies on DVD or VHS,
audio-books, and jewelry are being accepted on Saturday, March
21, from 9 a.m. to noon at the
senior center. Small donations
may be left at the library during our March hours. The sale
is Saturday, March 28, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March
29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Movie night
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes. You
can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your
own, and you know what you
know. And you are the guy who’ll
decide where to go.” That quote
by Dr. Seuss aptly describes the
main character in the movie
being shown on Friday, March
6. Movie Night begins at 6:30
p.m. The recently released film
on DVD is rated PG-13. Admission is free and refreshments are
provided.
Consider including the library
as part of your regular schedule. As Dr. Seuss said, “The
more that you read, the more
things you will know. The more
that you learn, the more places
you’ll go.”
Who are your heroes?
What makes
a person a hero?
Who are your heroes? What
makes a person a hero? Do you
have a story of heroism to tell?
Which would you choose: flight,
invisibility, or weather control?
If you’d like to be involved in our
Summer Reading Program, please
get in touch to let us know what
your super library power is.
Until then, we’ve got some great
programs and events coming up at
the library.
T(w)een Night
On Friday, Feb. 27, we’ve got a
double header of events for teens
and tweens. First up, our old friend
Ryan Black will be in to lead out
teen gaming program, The Dojo
at 6 p.m. From board games to
card games to video games, we’ll
have something for every high
schooler (or near high schooler)
to get into.
After that, Erika Peterson will
be leading our teen book discussion group in a dialog about Dave
Egger’s “The Circle” at 8 p.m.
Come on in and bring a friend.
Staff Appreciation Day
Here’s a note from my bosses:
On Sunday, March 1, the library
board of trustees will host a staff
appreciation reception from 2 to 4
p.m. Everyone in our community
is invited to join us at the library
on that afternoon to visit with our
staff and thank them for all they
do to help make the library such a
vibrant and welcoming place.
Refreshments will be served. We
look forward to spending time with
you on March 1.
Well that’s very nice, isn’t it?
To add my own thanks to the
trustees’, I’d just like to say that
the staff here at the library is
the best I’ve ever worked with.
Deserving special praise is Mary
Beth Mulligan, our wonderful assistant director. I hope to see you
all there.
Book discussion
At noon on Monday, March 2nd,
the library will host a discussion of
“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant.
This beloved 1997 novel tells the
story of Dinah, portrayed as an
almost insignificantly minor figure
in the Old Testament, but whose
story is expanded and brought vividly to life along with the stories
of many other women who appear
at the periphery of famous Bible
stories.
Our noon book discussion group
always has an interesting spin on
the books we read, so even if you’ve
read “The Red Tent” already, you’ll
be sure to leave with a new perspective on an old story.
Felting
O r i g i n a l l y s ch e d u l e d f o r
Wednesday, Feb. 25, our Pinterest Craft Night will now be held
on Wednesday, March 11, at 7 p.m.
Jan Hornbach will demonstrate
and assist us in the very cool technique of felting. Please join us.
— Photo by Kristen Roberts
Busy builder: Children like this engaged boy, were hard at work
Thursday, Feb. 19, creating Minecraft structures to be printed on
the library’s 3D printer. The workshop was part of Bethlehem
library’s February Break program lineup.
Bethlehem
By Kristen Roberts
The 2014-15 season of A Little
Sunday Music at Bethlehem
Public Library closes on Sunday
March 1, at 2 p.m., with a performance of Renaissance music by
Duo Marchand.
Lutenist Andy Rutherford and
singer/harpist Marcia Young
named their duo after a family of
court musicians that flourished
in 17th Century France. In recent
seasons the duo has performed
at the Metropolitan Museum of
Lutenist Andy Rutherford and singer/harpist Marcia
Young named their duo after a family of court
musicians that flourished in 17th Century France.
Art, the Cloisters, the Connecticut
Early Music Festival, Yale University, West Point, and the historic
Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C.
A Little Sunday Music is generously underwritten by Friends of
Bethlehem Public Library.
Tabletop Gaming
On Monday, March 2, at 6:30
p.m., drop in for games and snacks.
This program is for adults and
teens age 16 and up.
Lego Club
We supply the Legos, and you
supply the imagination at Lego
Club. Kids and families are welcome on Tuesday, March 3, from
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Tai Chi for Health
On Tuesday, March 3, at 10 a.m.,
come to the library and learn the
ancient Chinese art that benefits
health and wellness. This program offers instruction in basic
movements for people of any age.
No prior experience is required.
Wear loose clothing and smoothsoled shoes.
Book Buddies
On Wednesday, March 4, at two
sessions 6:30 and 7 p.m., Little
Buddies read and do activities
with Big Buddies to build reading skills and self-confidence. Call
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and to sign up. These sessions are
for kids in kindergarten through
grade 5.
Homework Helpers
Come to our Homework Center,
a great place to do homework, on
Wednesday, March 4, with teen
volunteers on hand to help out.
Call 439-9314 for more information and to sign up. This program
is for kids in kindergarten through
grade five. Sessions are at 6:30
and 7 p.m.
Paws to Read
On Thursday, March 5, from
3:45 to 4:45 p.m., bring a book
and read to a gentle dog who loves
stories. For children in grades one
through five.
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Library Notes
Westerlo
Middleburgh
Guilderland
By Sue Hoadley
The Westerlo Public Library
Quilting Group will meet on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. Members show and share techniques,
gadgets, projects and ideas — you
may get help with problems or
inspiration. Led by Lila Hollister Smith,
the group is open to all crafters
who use fibers and textiles at all
skill levels. The group meets the
second and fourth Saturday of
each month and new members
are welcomed. Digital magazines
Upper Hudson Library System
is now offering digital magazines
through our e-book vendor, Over-
By Anne LaMont
The Middleburgh Library has
partnered with SCCAP, New York
State Department of Tax and
Finance, and My Free Taxes.com
to help you file both your state
and federal taxes. For further
information and appointment
times, go to our web site at www.
middleburghlibrary.info or call
the library at 827-5142.
Story time
On Tuesday, March 3, 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 and their
caregivers. We’ll read books, sing
songs, recite fingerplays, dance,
By Mark Curiale
Peaches Café — a Capital
Region favorite for more than
three decades — is holding a
Dining-to-Donate fund-raiser
benefitting the Guilderland Public
Library Foundation, on March 4,
from 4 to 9 p.m.
The Foundation receives 10
percent of all proceeds that evening. So stop by and enjoy the
café’s wonderful lite dinners and
marvelous desserts.
Peaches Café is located in
Stuyvesant Plaza. See you there.
Cat in the Hat story time
The sun does not shine,
and it’s too wet to play.
So on Monday March Second,
Come to our Library.
Story time’s special
on that very day.
‘Cause the Cat in the Hat
will be here to play.
It starts at 3:30,
on that afternoon.
You’ll sit, sit, sit
and hear wonderful stories.
You’ll have lots of good fun that
is very funny.
No registration’s required ‘cause
that’s just a bother. It’s ideal for
kids pre-K and up, and even your
brother!
Local Connections Film
On Tuesday, March 3, at 6:30
p.m., GPL’s Local Connections
Film Series shows the film “The
Other Two Guys” about “two mismatched New York City detectives
seize an opportunity to step up like
the city’s top cops whom they idolize — only things don’t quite go as
planned.” Review courtesy of the
Internet Movie Database. Chase
scenes for this movie starring
Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell
were filmed in downtown Albany. The film is rated PG-13; the
free popcorn is rated Good.
“Rabbit? What Rabbit?”
Many of us had invisible friends
as children, but they generally
fade away as we get older. Not so
in the charming 1950 flick, starring the adult Jimmy Stewart and
his long-eared companion Harvey,
that screens at GPL on Thursday,
Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m. Popcorn will
be served.
Library info
The Guilderland Public Library is located at 2228 Western
Ave. in Guilderland. Visit the
library’s website at www.guilpl.
org. Check out the unofficial library updates at facebook.com/
Guilderland.Library and follow
the library on Twitter (@GuilderlandLib).
Led by Lila Hollister Smith, the group is open to all
crafters who use fibers and textiles at all skill levels.
Drive. 88 titles are currently
available ranging from “Outdoor
Life” to “Vogue.” Any cardholder
at any public library in Albany or
Rensselaer counties can check out
digital magazines online. Check
the “Download Magazines” link on
our website.
OverDrive uses the Nook app
for its magazine reader, so you will
have to set up a Barnes & Noble
account and download the Nook
app to your computer or mobile
device.
Technology
Walk-In Wednesday
Do you have a new Kindle or
Nook, but don’t know how to
download books? 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-on-one instruction.
After school
at the library
Join Miss Lee on Monday
afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30
p.m. for homework help, games,
crafts, puzzles, music, and a
lot more. Programs will also
include storytelling, hands-on
demonstrations, and visits from
special guests.
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.
and watch a short movie based
on a weekly theme.
Mahjong
On Tuesday, March 3, at 1
p.m., at the library, adults are
invited to come learn the game
of Mahjong. No experience is
necessary, just a willingness to
learn and have fun. No registration is required.
Kundalini Yoga
On Wednesday, March 4, at 5
p.m., join us for Kundalini Yoga.
This program involves repetitive
movements with the breath,
building strength, toning the
nerves, and clearing the adrenal
glands. Wear comfortable clothing and bring two blankets or a
mat and blanket. A $5 donation
is requested. Please use the
back entrance when entering
the building. No registration is
required
Knitting Circle
On Thursdays, March 5, 12, 19,
and 26, at 7 p.m., the friendly
ladies knit and crochet, embroider and quilt, and more. You can
learn a new skill here or share
your own special talents with
others or just craft in the company of friends. Drop in anytime.
No registration is required.
Board meets
On Monday, March 9, at 6:30
p.m., the library’s board of trustees will meet. Our meetings are
open to the public. Please join
us.
For more information on
events, see our website at www.
middleburghlibrary.info.
— Photo by Paulette Simpson
Times up! Olivia Simpson stops in the midst of creating a culinary sensation during the Junior Master Chef Competition at
the Berne Library.
— Photo by Paulette Simpson
Olive cooking! Bryan Doolin puts finishing touches on his creation at the Berne Library’s chef competition. He won!
— Photo from Judy Petrosillo
Junior Master Chefs competed at the Berne Library on Feb. 18. Starting with the secret ingredients of Italian bread and cheese, each of the 10 contestants created masterpieces for the judges to taste. From left, in the first row are judges Marty Herzog, Randy Bashwinger, and Becky Waldenmaier; contestants in the second row are Olivia Simpson,
Stephan Doolin, Maggie Doolin, Bryan Doolin, Alex Loucks, Caitlyn Bianchi, Riley Longendyke, Cassandra Schanz, Marissa Schanz, Luke Valachovic.
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Gerald Miller
ALBANY — Gerald Miller, a brick layer and former volunteer
fireman, died peacefully at his home on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015.
He was 75.
Mr. Miller was born on Dec.
11, 1939 in Rensselaerville, to
Truesdall and Beryl Miller.
He and his wife, Huberta, were
married on July 27, 1962, and
they had two children.
Mr. Miller worked for the New
York State Thruway Authority
in bridge maintenance until he
retired in 2001. He volunteered
with the Westmere Fire Department. He was also a fan of NASCAR, and he loved cats.
Mr. Miller is survived by his
wife, Huberta; his son, Gerald,
and his daughter, Suzanne Ascher and her husband, Daniel;
his granddaughters, Rebecca
and Jamie Ascher; his brother,
Truesdall, and his wife, Carol;
Gerald Miller
his sisters, Linda Miller and
Joanne Trischetta; his brother,
William, and his wife, Karen; and his extended family.
Calling hours are on Friday, Feb. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Fredendall
Funeral Home, 199 Main Street, Altamont. A funeral service follows
at 7 p.m. Interment will be in the spring at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Berne.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes
Foundation, Northeastern New York Chapter, 950 New Loudon Road,
Suite 330, Latham, New York 12110.
Daisy May Schanz
HUNTERSLAND — A homemaker who sewed brightly-colored quilts
and kept her cookie jar full for her grandchildren, Daisy May Schanz
was a caring and social woman.
Her pies, which she gave to
people on happy or sad occasions,
were made from scratch with lard,
and she knitted mittens and quilts
by hand.
“She always had a smile for
everyone,” her daughter, Mary Lou
Palumbo, said of a recent remembrance of Mrs. Schanz. “She would
give the shirt off her back. If she
could help you, she would.”
Mrs. Schanz died on Sunday,
Feb. 22, 2015, at her home following a long illness. She was 81.
She married Carl B. Schanz on
April 26, 1952, their marriage ending only with her death. They lived
on his family farm on the remote
High Point Road, in the higher
elevations of western Berne,
throughout her adult life but she
kept active in the community as a
member of the Huntersland VolDaisy May Schanz
unteer Fire Department Ladies’
Auxiliary for more than 40 years
and a leader in the Huntersland
Roses 4-H Club for over a decade, in a nearby hamlet in the town of
Middleburgh.
She taught girls in the club skills like sewing and cooking. “Most of us
made our prom gowns, our brides maid dresses,” Mrs. Palumbo said.
Born on March 17, 1933 in Oak Hill, in Greene County, Mrs. Schanz
was the daughter of James and Nina (née Filkins) Gifford. The family
moved to Rensselaerville as she grew older; she spent her adolescence
in the active hamlet and learning in a schoolhouse that now holds a
post office and a café.
Social gatherings in the hamlet centered around Lake Myosotis, the
creek, and Friday-night square dancing at Conkling Hall.
There, her daughter presumed, Mrs. Schanz may have worked in a
crafting group with her mother.
She enjoyed knitting and crocheting, and made winter hats and
mittens for her four grandchildren as they grew. When Mrs. Palumbo
recently asked them of their strongest memories of their grandmother,
they each mentioned her cookies — rich peanut-butter cookies and
chocolate-chip cookies that were kept in a large, globe-shaped white
jar on a side table in her kitchen.
The colorful quilts made by Mrs. Schanz’s hand were, however, for
display, each periodically stored in a drawer for another to be shown
in her home.
“She was never dull,” Mrs. Palumbo said later. “If it was orange, it
was neon orange. It was really bright.”
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She is survived by her husband, Carl B. Schanz; her two children,
Mary Lou Palumbo and her husband, Daniel, of Olean, in Cattaraugus
County, and Stanley C. Schanz of Huntersland; her four grandsons,
Adam Schanz of Huntersland, Daniel Palumbo and his wife, Erin, of
Olean, Michael Palumbo of Buffalo, and Brian Palumbo and his wife,
Elizabeth, of Orlando, Florida; and two great-grandchildren, Trenton
Palumbo and Brooke Palumbo.
Her brother, John Gifford, died before her.
Calling hours will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, at
Palmer & Shaylor Funeral Home, 134 River St., Middleburgh, with a
funeral service to follow. Rev. Carol Coltrain of the Huntersland United
Methodist Church will preside. Interment will be in the spring in the
Middleburgh Cemetery.
Mourners may go online at palmershaylorfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Huntersland Volunteer
Fire Department, 1337 Huntersland Rd., Middleburgh, NY 12122.
— Marcello Iaia
Thomas R. Filkins
Gipp Road in Guilderland.
KNOX — Thomas R. Filkins, a
“He would mention how engentle and friendly man who was
thused people were to see him,”
a tank mechanic during World
said Mrs. Porter.
War II and a postal carrier for
Mr. Filkins also worked at
most of his career, relished the
Picard’s Grove, washing pots
role of public servant.
and pans during the summers
He and his wife, Gladys, graduin order to buy land in Knox,
ally improved their lives over 64
where he and Mrs. Filkins built
years of marriage. He worked
their home, a one-story ranchlong hours to provide for his famstyle house on 10 acres they
ily and maintain the home they
bought for $750. While renting
built in Knox, though Mr. Filkins
in the hamlet of Knox, it took
always kept a warm humor with
about seven years before they
friends and family. He dressed as
had paid it off, cleared the trees,
a pop star or as in a gorilla mask
and built the structure, mostly
to trick his grandchildren for
on their own.
Halloween, his favorite holiday,
The exposed beams in the
and delivered double-take oneattic showed how generous the
liners and jokes.
couple was with their hammers
Thomas Richard Filkins died
Thomas R. Filkins
and nails, leading to a common
peacefully with his family by his
family joke that the house would
side in the Community Hospice
Inn at St. Peter’s Hospital on Feb. 13, 2015. He never fall down, Mrs. Porter said.
Mr. Filkins lived the last 30 years of his life in
was 88.
Almost 70 years before his death, he arrived in Osteen, Florida, where he and Mrs. Filkins made
LeHavre, France, with the 27th Tank Battalion, their home among many good friends in a com20th Armored Division as an armored tank me- munity of 275 lots for elderly people. They joined
chanic and truck driver. He trained beforehand committees within the development and played an
in Waco, Texas, where, his daughter, Barbara occasional game of golf, having spent their entire
Porter, said, he got a tattoo of an eagle on his up- lives in the Hilltowns.
After the Filkinses retired, they took a long trip
per arm with “U.S.” above its head and “Tom” by
to see the western part of the country. Mrs. Filkins
its talons.
Mr. Filkins was part of the liberation of the had sewn curtains to be drawn in their Plymouth
Dachau concentration camp in Germany, on April station wagon as they slept in rest areas along
29, though he was not there for long, moving on the way.
“It was more just go and see as much as we can
quickly to capture of the nearby city of Munich on
see, not like a real rush
April 30.
because, when you see
Driving a truck loadsomething, you stop
ed with fuel to fill
and take your time,”
tanks at nighttime,
said Barbara Porter,
Mr. Filkins worked,
their daughter. “That’s
sometimes under fire,
how Mom and Dad reas enemy planes flew
“He went to jump to get out
overhead, which the
ally were.”
and his gun hung up in
Allies referred to as
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“Bedcheck Charlie.”
Mr. Filkins is surthe door and he was dangling.”
“He went to jump
vived by his children,
to get out and his gun
Barbara Porter and
hung up in the door
her husband, Mayand he was dangling,”
nard, of Knox, and
his daughter recounted
Thomas R. Filkins Jr.
one of her father’s more
and his wife, Deborah
frightening experienc(née DiCamillo), of
es. “He managed to wiggle his way off.”
Concord, North Carolina; his
grandchildren,
On his return to the United States, he trained in Carmella Ann Skillings, Koren Lynn Hart, Erin
Camp Cook, in California, preparing for his role in Dale Losito, Michael John Filkins, Maynard John
the Pacific Theater, which ended before he left. He Porter III, and Rebecca Lynn Gentes; and his
was discharged in July, 1946, his family said.
great-grandchildren, Alicia Rodriguez, Nicholas
His war-time experiences were far from his Rodriguez, Zachary Skillings, Sarah Hart, Jack
bucolic upbringing in the Helderbergs.
Hart, Abigail Hart, Natalie Losito, Lucas Losito,
Born on July 14, 1926, in East Berne, Mr. Filkins Porter Losito, Zoey Filkins, Georgia Porter, Maynard
was the son of Edna (née Brannock) and Roy Filkins Porter, and Ellie Gentes. He is also survived by his
and the third eldest of five siblings.
brother, Donald Filkins, and his wife, Beverly, of
His father was a carpenter who worked with Guilderland.
his children in a local cider mill and harvesting
His parents died before him, as did his wife,
ice from Warners Lake, his daughter said. He Gladys (née Martin) Filkins; his brothers, Warren
completed 10th grade, quitting before graduation Filkins and Myron Filkins; and his, sister Florence
to work at the Schenectady Army Service Forces (née Filkins) Sarnowski, previously Glowacki.
Depot in Rotterdam as a forklift operator and
His family thanks the Community Hospice Inn
truck driver, loading and unloading train cars at St Peter’s Hospital and its staff for the “kind,
filled during wartime.
compassionate loving care and guidance given to
He and Gladys Martin were married on May 15, our family.”
1948, at the Altamont Lutheran Church.
A private burial for family and friends will be
As a young man home from the war, Mr. Filkins held at a later date in the Knox Cemetery.
rented various homes as he continued to work as a
Arrangements were made by the Fredendall
truck driver and forklift operator, at the Voorhees- Funeral Home in Altamont, online at fredendallville Army Depot in Guilderland Center.
funeralhome.com.
When the depot closed in the 1960s he went to
Memorial contributions may be made to the Comwork as a letter carrier for the United States Postal munity Hospice at 315 S. Manning Blvd., Albany,
Service in Albany, from which he retired in 1981. NY 12208.
His route was first in the city of Albany, then along
— Marcelle Iaia
In MeMorIaM
THANK YOU
In Memory of
The family of
Evelyn Kellie
would like to thank everyone
for the kindness and sympathy
during this difficult time. The
cards, flowers, and food at the
reception were greatly appreciated. In addition, we would like
to thank all who contributed to
either the Rensselaerville Senior
Bus fund or any other charitable
cause in Evelyn’s name.
Special thanks to everyone at
The Pines of Caskill for the care
provided to Evelyn during her
stay and to A.J. Cunningham
Funeral Home for the service.
The Family of
Evelyn Kellie
Susie Livingston
Feb. 28, 2013
In loving memory of Su-Su who
passed away 2 years ago, we will
always miss you, and there is not
a day that goes by, that we don’t
think about you and smile.
Also, Happy belated Birthday,
February 23rd.
Love,
Jack, Judy, Donna,
grandchildren,
great-grandchildren,
and Murph
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Obituaries
Eileen Ruth McKenney
McKenney switched to writing her
ALTAMONT — An efficient and
columns on computer so they could
particular woman, Eileen Ruth
be sent electronically.
McKenney put her family first,
She had a tight deadline, since
followed by her faith, friends, and
the Altamont Seniors meet on
community.
Tuesdays and the Enterprise
“She was a strong, independent
production day is Wednesday. She
woman,” said her daughter, Kathy
always met her deadlines.
Hornberger. “I learned from her
“She wanted to do it herself,”
example. She’s very humble...She
her daughter said of the column.
would do things herself not to
“She wanted to be sure it was
bother others.”
done right.”
She died on Thursday, Feb. 19,
Mrs. McKenney loved words
2015. She was 88.
and, while other of the Altamont
Mrs. McKenney was born on
Seniors might be playing bingo,
Feb. 1, 1927, the daughter of the
she and her sister would play
late Clifford and Ruth Shoro. She
Scrabble.
grew up in Albany. Her father
“She liked to correct our gramworked for the state’s health
mar,” said Mrs. Hornberger. “She
department and her mother was
didn’t want us to embarrass oura homemaker. She had two older
selves. She wanted you to be the
sisters and a younger brother who
Eileen Ruth McKenney
best you could be.”
died in a boating accident when he
Mrs. Kenney was very orwas 9. Both of her parents were
from Vermont and the family stayed in touch with ganized. Going through her records recently, her
daughter found what she needed easily.
relatives there.
“She worried for us so we wouldn’t worry ourMrs. McKenney graduated from Vincentian Institute and attended Albany Business College. It was selves,” said Mrs. Hornberger. “She always thought
there that she met the man who would become her of everyone else.”
Mrs. McKenney was particularly involved with
husband, Harold Earl McKenney Jr.
“He was the love her life,” said Mrs. Hornberger. her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “When
“They married very young and he died very we were growing up, she would get time from work
to, say, see my brother play in a tennis match....She
young.”
Mr. McKenney died in 1965 at the age of 38. At was at all my children’s games and concerts and
that time, the five McKenney children ranged in age plays — anything at school....She would cheer them
from 10 to 17. Mrs. McKenney supported the family on, always, always...She was there with her cane and
by working as a secretary for the Guilderland Central her oxygen. She was there.”
Nine of her grandchildren were able to visit Mrs.
School District, a job she held for over 20 years.
“She was always strong and independent,” said McKenney in the hospital before she died. “She knew
her daughter. “She kept things going, taking care they were there,” said Mrs. Hornberger.
Her daughter read from Proverbs a passage she
of the house and the kids — and mowing the lawn
felt spoke of her mother: “She has opened her hand
now and then.”
The McKenney family had moved to Altamont in to the needy and stretched out her hands to the poor.
1957, following Mrs. McKenney’s parents, the Shoros, Strength and beauty are her clothing and she shall
who lived on Lincoln Avenue. The McKenneys shared laugh in the latter day.”
a duplex at Main and Grand streets with Mrs. McK****
enney’s sister, Helen, and her family.
Eileen Ruth McKenney is survived by her children,
“It was great; my cousins and aunt and uncle were Kathleen Hornberger and her husband, Richard, of
right next door,” said Mrs. Hornberger. “After 1965, Guilderland; Harold McKenney III and his wife,
Mother bought my grandparents’ house on Lincoln Linda, of Gansevoort; Stephen McKenney and his wife,
Avenue.” Mrs. Hornberger and her husband eventu- Susan, of Clinton, New Jersey; and David McKenney
ally bought the Lincoln Avenue house and now their and his wife, Jan, of Viper, Kentucky.
daughter lives there, making four generations who
She is also survived by 11 grandchildren, Marcy
have lived at the same address over time.
Casavant and her husband, George, Gretchen Murphy,
“We have family gatherings at that house. We’ve Erik McKenney and his wife, Kate, Dirk McKenall gathered there over the last few days,” said Mrs. ney and his wife, Erin, Michelle McKenney Oliver,
Hornberger.
Kristofer McKenney, Kimberly Zacarias and her
Mrs. McKinney was raised as a Catholic and raised husband, Carlos, Megan Coulombe and her husband,
her children as Catholics, too, as parishioners of St. Rich, Matthew McKenney and his wife, Amanda,
Lucy’s Church in the village. “My four brothers all Amanda Wilder and her husband, Ben, and Joseph
were altar boys,” said Mrs. Hornberger.
McKenney and his wife, Leslie; 28 great-grandchilMrs. McKenney would help with the church linens dren; and two great-great grandchildren.
and with music for the Masses, and she sang in the
Her beloved husband, Harold Earl McKenney Jr.,
church choir.
died in 1965; her son Daniel Joseph McKenney died
“She and my father were married at St. Lucy’s. I in 1988; her great-grandson Tyler Kristofer McKenney
married there and my daughter was baptized there,” died in 2001; and her brother, Richard Shoro, died
said Mrs. Hornberger.
before her, too, as did her sisters, Helen (née Shoro)
Mrs. McKenney loved music, and listened to Marion and Marion (née Shoro) Teeter.
popular and shows tunes on the radio. Her husband
Calling hours were held on Sunday, Feb. 22, at the
“was the first on the block to buy a stereo,” said Mrs. Fredendall Funeral Home in Altamont. A Mass of
Hornberger.
Christian Burial was held on Monday, Feb. 23, at St.
Mrs. McKenney enjoyed sewing, too. “She made Lucy’s/ St. Bernadette Church in Altamont. An interdresses for me.... and she handmade quilts for her ment will be held in the spring. Online condolences
grandchildren,” said Mrs. Hornberger.
may be made at fredendallfuneralhome.com.
After she retired, Mrs. McKenney helped when
The family expresses its gratitude “for the special
Community Caregivers was first established; she did care provided by Dr. Hedy Migden, Dawn, Kassondra,
office and clerical work as well as driving clients. She June, the staff at Atria Crossgate, and the Hospice
also volunteered with her sister to deliver Meals on Inn staff at St. Peter’s Hospital.”
Wheels to people in need.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Names
An active member of the Altamont Seniors, Mrs. Project Foundation, Aids Memorial Quilt, Attention:
McKenney for years wrote a weekly column for The Individual Giving, 204 14th St. NW, Atlanta, GA
Enterprise, detailing the group’s outings, meals, 30318-4315, or to St. Lucy’s/ St. Bernadette Church,
and events. While many correspondents in that era Post Office Box 678, Altamont, NY 12009.
wrote their news longhand, Mrs. McKenney always
typed hers. Her columns never needed editing; they
were flawless. At the dawn of the Internet age, Mrs.
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John E. Edson
ALTAMONT — John E. Edson, a dairy farmer who loved spending
time with his grandchildren, died peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 19,
2015, at Ellis Hospital, surrounded by his family.
Mr. Edson was born on Nov. 11,
1943, in Chittenden, Vermont,
the son of the late William and
Catherine (née Mohan) Edson.
He worked for the Pruskowski
Dairy Farm in Guilderland.
In addition to spending time
with his grandchildren, he
loved watching NASCAR and
Westerns.
He is survived by his loving
wife of more than 35 years, Marcia G. (née Pruskowski) Edson;
his cherished children, Linda
Edson, Sara Edson, and her husband, Jeff Beattie, and Matthew
Edson; his adored grandchildren,
Jeffrey “Bear,” Cheyenne, Logan,
Chloee, Carson, Lucas, Kaiden,
and Nancy; his sister, Dorothy
Gibeault; and many nieces and
John E. Edson
nephews.
His brothers, Donald Edson,
Horace Edson, and Clifford Francis died before him.
A funeral service was held on Feb. 24 at the New Comer Funeral
Home in Colonie. Interment will be on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 10 a.m.,
at Schenectady Memorial Park.
To leave a message for the family visit www.newcomeralbany.
com.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Guilderland Center
Fire Department, 30 School Road, Guilderland Center, NY 12085.
Betty R. Van Hoesen
GUILDERLAND — Betty R. Van Hoesen kept her hands busy with
crafts and her heart filled with generosity. She died on Monday, Feb.
23, 2015. She was 88.
“She was always smiling, always
happy,” said her son, Ron Wallace.
“She would do anything for you.
She was a very nice person.
“She was a great mom,” he went
on. “She did everything.”
Mr. Wallace pulled this example
from his past: “When I was a
teenager, before I had money for
a car, she would let me take her
car on dates or to the drive-in,”
he recalled.
What his mother taught him,
Mr. Wallace said, was “to be a good
person.”
Mrs. Van Hoesen was the daughter of the late Harry and Helen
Myers, and grew up in Preston
Hollow. The oldest of three children, she had two brothers. Her
mother was a busy homemaker
Betty R. Van Hoesen
and her father worked many jobs
over his lifetime, ending his career
as an on-the-road salesman for magazines.
Mrs. Van Hoesen was a graduate of Middleburgh High School. After
graduating, she worked at an arsenal in Scotia, her son said, before
getting a job as a typist for the Pathology Department at Albany
Medical Center.
“She loved her work,” said Mr. Wallace, mostly because she enjoyed
her co-workers, he said.
A religious woman, she was a faithful member of the Helderberg
Reformed Church in Guilderland Center. She enjoyed making jewelry
and selling it at church dinners, her son said.
Mrs. Van Hoesen was also an active member at the Altamont Seniors
and enjoyed lunches and road trips with the group, her son said.
She was always “very busy,” her son said. “She drove till she was
87....She did a lot of crafts, keeping her hands busy,” he said, noting
she liked to sew and knit blankets.
She met her second husband, Riley Van Hoesen, at a church strawberry social, her son said.
“Her and Riley liked to camp,” said Mr. Wallace. “They would go to
Florida in the winter, “he said, living in their camper.
A generous person, Mrs. Van Hoesen donated to many causes, her
son said, including the Wounded Warrior Project.
“She was a loving person who always said yes to whatever you
needed,” her son concluded.
****
She is survived by her sons, Ric Wallace and his wife, Scherry, of
Guilderland, and Ron Wallace and his wife, Donna, of Knox; her brother,
William Myers, of Florida; her grandchildren, Michelle Butler and her
husband, Chuck, Terry Wallace and his wife, Leah, Kim Laviolette and
Chris Albee, Nicole Prusinski, John Wallace and Karen Jamack, and
Heather Horan; and her great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Jessica, Justin,
Matthew, Michael, Alexandra, Preslie, Sarah, Jacob, Joshua, Matt,
Robert, and Ashley.
Her beloved husband, Riley Van Hoesen, died before her.
Calling hours will be today, Feb. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Fredendall
Funeral Home at 199 Main St. in Altamont. A service will be held on
Friday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. at the funeral home with interment to follow
at Memory Gardens at 983 Watervliet-Shaker Rd., Albany 12205. Online
condolences may be made at www.fredendallfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Helderberg Reformed
Church, 435 Route 146, Guilderland Center, NY 12085 or to The Wounded
Warrior Project, Post Office Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675.
22
Obituaries
Kathleen Grimm
Kathleen “Kate” Grimm, a civic-minded woman who touched many
lives, died peacefully, at her New York City home, on Tuesday, Feb.
17, 2015. She was 68.
Mark Grimm, of Guilderland,
said his sister was his hero.
“What a great sense of duty
she had,” he said. “She was a
great leader, someone you always
wanted to follow.”
He said integrity was a lifestyle for his sister, which made
her a great role model, for her
siblings and for all women.
Ms. Grimm was born in Troy
on March 21, 1946, the eldest of
nine children born to the late
Frederick H. Grimm and Helen
Johnson Grimm.
Raised and educated in Troy,
she was a graduate of Saint
Patrick’s School and Catholic
Central High School.
She received a bachelor of
arts degree in political science
from Manhattanville College
Kathleen Grimm
of the Sacred Heart. She held
a juris doctor from New York
Law School and a master of laws degree from New York University
School of Law.
“Patience, incredible generosity, and wisdom
— she had an endless reservoir of
the most potent kind of love.”
“Kathleen had a lifetime devotion to her family, friends, and service,” wrote her family in a tribute. “From an outspoken, civic-minded
family, she learned the value of collaboration early on and developed
a ‘can-do spirit’ that sees the opportunity in every challenge.”
Ms. Grimm’s first job after college was as a missionary, teaching
English at an elementary school in northern Mexico.
She brought her 12-year old brother, Mark Grimm, with her, and
together they traveled in her Volkswagon beetle.
Despite the multiple obstacles they faced, Mr. Grimm said his
sister remained “unflappable.”
“It was a trait that would serve her, and her beloved City of New
York, well,” he said.
When Ms. Grimm returned to the United States from Mexico, she
moved to New York City, where she worked as a social worker, a
licensed nursing home administrator, and then an assistant director
at the Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged.
She worked as an Internal Revenue Service estate tax attorney
and in private practice, first with the Parker Duryea law firm, and
later as a sole practitioner.
She served five mayors, one comptroller, seven commissioners,
and four chancellors.
She was first deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, New York City deputy comptroller for the City of
New York, and for the last 13 years she was deputy chancellor at
the New York City Department of Education.
In charge of operations, she oversaw a $20 billion operating budget
and a $12 billion capital budget.
Over the years, she oversaw several massive transformations of
the city’s education system, an impact felt today by the more than
one million children the district serves.
Ms. Grimm was a board trustee and alumni association president
for Manhattanville College and New York Law School, an advisor to
the Center for New York City Law, and an adjunct law professor.
She received the prestigious President’s Medal from New York
Law School and an honorary degree. She was also recognized with
a “Star of the Administration” award from Mayor Edward Koch.
“You might think someone so committed to work would have to
miss out on family,” said Mr. Grimm. “It was just the opposite. Her
family meant so much to her, and she meant so much to us.”
“Patience, incredible generosity, and wisdom — she had an endless
reservoir of the most potent kind of love,” her brother said.
****
Kathleen Grimm is survived by her two sisters, Barbara Grimm, of
Brunswick, and Paula Grimm, of New York City; her sister brothers,
Karl F. Grimm, of Troy, Gary Grimm, and his wife, Theresa, of Latham,
John Grimm, and his wife, Ann Marie, of Richmond, Virginia, Peter D.
Grimm, of Troy, Mark E. Grimm, and his wife, Karen, of Guilderland,
and David Grimm, of Babcock Lake; 10 nieces and nephews; and three
grandnieces and nephews.
A mass of Christian Burial was held on Feb. 21 at the Church of
St. Catherine of Siena in Manhattan. Interment will be in St. Mary’s
Cemetery, in Troy. Arrangements are by the McLoughlin and Mason
Funeral Home in Troy.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Kathleen Grimm Government Service Scholarship Fund at New York Law School by visiting
www.alumni.nyls.edu/grimm-scholarship.
Correspondents
By Rosemary Caruso
Paul Levin, a 1989 Guilderland High School graduate, was
recently selected and honored as
a Master Teacher. Responding to
strengthening our nation’s K-12
STEM Education, Governor Andrew Cuomo launched the New
York State Master Teacher Program. STEM is an acronym for
Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math education.
He is the son of Harvey and
Diana Levin of Guilderland.
Paul earned his bachelor’s
degree in geology from the State
University of New York College
at Potsdam, his master’s degree
in secondary science education
from Potsdam, and a school district administrator certificate
from Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts.
Paul has been in the classroom
teaching earth science for 19 years,
16 of which have been at Galway
Junior-Senior High School. In addition to earth science, he has also
taught forensics, environmental
science, oceanography, seventhgrade physical science, and eighthgrade Project Lead the Way. In addition to his classroom
schedule, Paul has been the varsity softball coach for eight years,
district technology trainer, union
building representative, science
club advisor, and class advisor.
As part of his professional development, Paul has taken various
classes throughout the years. Included are three-part mini classes
on 3D printing, Master Teacher
classes, and an upcoming threepart mini class on chemistry and
physics in earth science.
Paul enjoys spending time with
his three children — Sam, Nathan,
and Abby — and his wife, Heidi
Holbein Levin. As a family, they
enjoy doing activities that take
them outdoors.
He said, as a Master Teacher, “I
am looking forward to continue to
learn and expand my horizons to
better my students.”
Family Fun Day
A Family Fun Day known as
the Val Mosley Memorial Bowling Tournament will be held
Paul Levin, a Guilderland High School graduate, has been
named a Master Teacher. “We congratulate Paul on his receiving
this high honor,” says Altamont correspondent Rosemary Caruso,
a family friend.
on Sunday, March 1, from 9 a.m.
until noon. The event will be held
at the Del Lanes in Delmar. This
event is sponsored by the Albany
County Council and the VFW
Ladies Auxiliary.
All ages are welcome, and all
bowlers must have $25 in sponsor donations. All proceeds will
benefit the VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Cancer Fund.
There will be drawings and
prizes for bowling in all age
groups.
For additional information
contact Darlene at 470-7310
Anniversaries
Happy-anniversary wishes are
extended to:
— Barbara and Kerry Peters who will celebrate their
special day on Feb. 28;
— Barbara and Paul Costin,
former Altamont residents on
March 3; and
— Joyce and Ernie Rau on
March 5.
Birthdays
Happy-birthday wishes are
extended to:
— Helen Fries and Sue Milo
on Feb. 27;
— Kim Adams, Sharon Hildebrand Blake, Harriet Durfee, Eric
Sager, and Jason Shank, and Gini
Stewart on Feb. 28; — Mary Bosworth, Jessica
Lynn Butler, Fran Gorka, Daniel
E.Kelly, Nathaniel Robert Levin,
and Bernie Percoski on March
1;
— Becky Carman, Stephanie
Lynn LeClair, and Laurie O’Neall
on March 3;
— Alice Fidler, Charlotte Lawton, Diane Naclerio, and Marc
Smith on March 4; and
— Larry Adams Jr. and Michael Joseph Arsenault on
March 5.
Steering the Way
— Photo from Suzanne Hale
All aboard for a learning adventure: The Hamilton Union Nursery School is holding an open
house on Saturday, Feb. 28, from 10 a.m. to noon. “Have a look around, meet new friends, and see
how HUNS lays the foundation for a love of learning through creative play,” says Director Suzanne
Hale. The not-for-profit, nondenominational school has classes for 3-year-olds and for 4-year-olds; it
is located at 2291 Western Avenue in Guilderland. For more information go to www.hamiltonunion.
info or call 456-5410.
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Thompsons Lake
By
Lora
Ricketts
872-1691
February 16, arrived with a
temperature of minus 12. My
hot water in the kitchen froze
for the first time ever. I quickly
got it thawed with a hair dryer.
I have to remember to leave the
doors open under the sink as
the wind was causing very low
temperatures against the back
of my house.
I couldn’t get out of the house
because the snowdrifts were
waist high in my path. I talked
to my granddaughter Kassi Neal,
and she told me her fiancé, Jared
Martin, was in Altamont shoveling driveways. She spoke to
Jared and he said he would be
happy to shovel me out, so over
he came.
What a thoughtful young man
Jared is. We are all proud to call
him family.
Brandon and Jenn were snowed
in, and shoveled drifts in their
driveway all day.
On Tuesday, Feb. 17, it was
zero degrees at 7 a.m. I had an
appointment with Dr. David
Abraham and we discussed my
left knee. I am going to have
the knee replacement but I am
going to schedule it after Kassi
and Jared’s wedding.
On Wednesday, Feb. 18, it was a
temperature of minus five. I went
to Family court in Schoharie with
Brandon, but it was only to accept a stop payment of childcare
for baby sitting. Veronica’s hours
have changed and she usually
works from home.
Everything has to be signed by
a judge. While we were there the
fire alarms went off and we had to
vacate the building. It must have
been minor because we went back
in about 20 minutes later.
On Wednesday evening Brandon and I went to the Ash
Wednesday service at the Lutheran church in Berne.
Brandon usually has his dinner visit with Samson and Nichole but it’s Veronica’s vacation
week with the children. This
year Brandon gets the April
vacation.
On Thursday, Feb. 19, it was
zero below at 9:30 p.m. During
the day I wrote out bills and
birthday cards. My daughter,
Marcia Pangburn stopped by
and brought in my newspaper
and mail.
On Friday, Feb. 20, it was
minus seven at 7 a.m. The wind
blew fiercely all night long. I
looked out my back door window
and I wasn’t going anywhere. The
wind left four to five foot drifts
all the way to my vehicle. I called
my grandson, Miles Pangburn.
He’s a biology teacher at Cairo
Durham High School and this is
vacation week.
He used two shovels, a square
old-fashioned iron one and a
modern plastic snow shovel to dig
me out. Then Miles and I enjoyed
a hot lunch of tomato soup and
toasted cheese sandwiches.
I was grateful that Miles came
right over, because I like to go to
the grocery store on Friday. I did
go to the store.
Later, Brandon, Samson, and
Nichole came over and we enjoyed creamed tuna on toast.
That was one of my son Danny’s
favorite meals. My daughter,
Marcia came to eat with us, and
she said it was one of her favorites also.
Kyra Swan has been spending
the vacation week in Coxsackie
with their friend, Beth Courtney. It seems like we eat a lot,
but that’s what we do in frigid
weather.
Then came Saturday, Feb. 21,
and it had warmed up to zero.
I had not a stick of wood left
in my back room and Brandon
came over to carry in a week’s
supply. I felt bad watching him
out the window. He had to shovel
for an hour with the two shovels
because there were four and five
foot drifts all the way to the wood
house.
Then he used the wheelbarrow
and got in the wood I needed.
It makes me feel warm just to
see all that wood ready when I
need it.
I started cooking a meal again
about 3:30 p.m. This time I prepared venison steaks, mashed
potatoes, gravy, carrots, and cucumbers. I also made strawberry
shortcake for dessert.
Nichole loves cucumbers. My
dinner guests were Marcia, Kyra,
Brandon, Jenn, Samson, Nichole,
and Iain.
Sunday, Feb. 22, I woke up to
a 20 degree day and four-inches
of new snow. Nichole had spent
the night with me.
We went to church and the
service was held in the hall because the lock was frozen on the
church door.
At 2 p.m. I rode to David’s
Bridal in Northway Mall as Kassi
had made an appointment for all
the girls in her wedding to pick
out dresses.
Nichole is a flower girl. Melissa is the matron of honor and
Danielle Ricketts, Kyra, and
Jared’s sister, Amanda Martin
are bridesmaids.
Kathy, the mother of the bride
was there to oversee this great
procedure.
Marcia came for Kyra, Jenn
came for Nichole, and little Zoey
Babcock came to watch and the
same went for me.
They took pictures for Amanda, who is a school-teacher in
Abu Daibi but will be home for
the wedding. Amanda will order
her dress by sending her measurements to David’s.
Later I rode with Brandon to
take the children back to their
mother in Schoharie.
At 2 a.m. on Monday morning I
woke up and was full of gratitude
for my wonderful family that had
shoveled me out, and keeps my
back room full of wood.
Hilltown community
Lenten service
The Hilltown community Lenten service on Wednesday, March
4, will be held at the Rock Road
Chapel at 7 p.m. Pastor Tim Van
Heest will be the preacher. The
sermon will be based on Ezekiel
17:22-24, “God will transform the
low tree into the tree of life.”
Following the service, there will
be a time for food and fellowship.
Come and join in this spiritual
experience of worship and community.
Bible study
The adult Bible study led by
Rev. Bob Hoffman will be on
Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m., in
the church hall at the Knox Reformed Church. All adults are
encouraged to attend.
Let 2015 be a year of growth
for you.
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of Organization filed with Secretary
of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/6/2015.
be served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to: THE LLC 410 PARK
AVE. 15TH FLOOR, NEW YORK,
NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful
purpose.
(57-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: 307P LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of
process to: THE LLC 17 BATTERY
PLACE, SUITE 1229, NEW YORK,
purpose.
(58-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids will be received for
the furnishing of Asphalt Concrete
Items “ln Place” and Asphalt Concrete Items F.O.B. per ton as per
New York State Department of
Transportation specifications.
Bids will be received until 10:00
A.M. March 4, 2015 at which time
bids will be opened and read aloud,
at the Town Clerk’s Office, Town
Hall Route 20, McCormack’s Comers, Guilderland, New York.
Bids shall be in duplicate, in
a sealed envelope which shall
bear on the face thereof the name
and address of bidder, and the
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
(59-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of GMC
Commerce, LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on February 5th,
2015 office location: Albany County,
NS is designated as agent upon
whom process may be served, NS
shall mail service of process (SOP)
to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW
Registered Agent LLC is designated
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(1-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Bitsworld
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of Stare 2/6/15, office
location: Albany County, NS is
designated as agent upon whom
process may be served, NS shall
mail service of process (SOP) to
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90
purpose.
(2-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
WARBURTON LLC Art. Of Org.
Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/13/2015.
Off. Loc.:Albany Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY to
mail copy of process to The LLC,
305 Madison Ave., Suite 2316, New
York, NY 10165. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
(3-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of The Andromeda Group, LLC
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 10/31/2014,
office location: Albany County, NS
is designated as agent upon whom
purpose.
(4-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Seasons Catering LLC Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 02/12/15. Office in
Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of
LLC upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall mail
process to 60 Railroad Place, Suite
502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.
Purpose: General.
(8-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic formation of
Faruke Films, LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of State (NS) on 3/28/13,
purpose.
(5-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of BOOTYQUE FITNESS, LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with Secretary
of State of NY (SSNY) on 4.24.14.
SSNY is designated as agent upon
whom process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail process
to: c/o United States Corporation
Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste
202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The
purpose is to perform any lawful
act or activity.
(6-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]/
qualification [foreign] of BUENSOL
COMPANY LLC.
mail service of process (SOP) to NW
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY
12207, NW Registered Agent LLC
is designated as agent for SOP
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,
Albany, NY 12207, purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(7-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION: HTB
West 75th LLC Arts of Org. were
filed with the Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 2/18/15. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY has
been designated as agent of the
a copy of process to the LLC, 4
Brower Avenue Suite 5 Woodmere,
activity.
(9-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Linda
Dolores Group, LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on Feb. 3, 2015, office location:
Albany County, NS is designated
as agent upon whom process may
be served, NS shall mail service of
process (SOP) to NW Registered
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, NW Registered Agent
LLC is designated as agent for SOP
purpose is any lawful purpose.
(11-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF
MULTINATIONAL CONSULTING
GROUP, LLC The name of the company is Multinational Consulting
Group, LLC. Articles of Organization
were filed on February 17, 2015.
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 90 Adams
Place, Delmar, New York, 12054.
The purpose of LLC is to engage
in any lawfull act or activity.
(12-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF HEARING BEFORE
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 IV & V of the Zoning Law
on the following proposition:
Variance Request No. 4512
Request of David Peterson for a
Variance of the regulations under
the Zoning Law to permit: an accessory structure to be located in
a side yard and exceed a height
limitation of 15’.
Per Articles IV & V Sections 28034 and 280-51 respectively
For property owned by David
Peterson & Pamela Molle
Situated as follows: 5515 Hennessey Road Voorheesville, NY
12186
Tax Map # 60.00-2-15.1
Zoned: RA3
Plans open for public inspection
at the Building Department during normal business hours. Said
hearing will take place on the 4th
of March, 2015 at the Guilderland
Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm.
Dated: February 23, 2015
Jacqueline M. Siudy
Acting Zoning Administrator
(17-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF HEARING BEFORE
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on
the following proposition:
Special Use Permit Request
No. 4508
Request of Sundance Lev for a
Special Use Permit under the Zoning Law to permit: the use of 800sf
of space in an existing building as
a dog grooming business. Site
characteristics have been previously reviewed and approved by
the Board.
Per Articles III & V Sections 28019 & 280-52 respectively
For property owned by Kent
Hansen
Situated as follows: 1434 Western Avenue Albany, NY 12203
Tax Map # 52.20-4-8
Zoned: BNRP
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(16-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of KK Travels Worldwide, LLC. Articles of
upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to: THE LLC 3060
Peachtree Road NW Suite 180,
Atlanta, GA 30305. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(10-32-37)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF HEARING BEFORE
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on
the following proposition:
No. 4507
Request of Corey Heenan for
a Special Use Permit under the
Zoning Law to permit: a pet grooming salon in 700sf of space at an
existing shopping center. All site
characteristics including parking
have been previously reviewed
and approved.
For property owned by Frank J
Sgambellone
Situated as follows: 2563 Western Avenue Altamont, NY 12009
Tax Map # 39.11-2-21
Zoned: LB
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(15-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF HEARING BEFORE
Articles IV & V of the Zoning Law
Variance Request No. 4506
Request of Crossgates Mall
for a Variance of the regulations
under the Zoning Law to permit:
the installation of a 72sf building mounted sign where 50sf is
permitted.
Per Articles IV & V Sections 28026 & 280-51 respectively
For property owned by Crossgates Mall
Situated as follows: 1 Crossgates Mall Road Albany, NY
12203
Tax Map # 52.01-1-4.1
Zoned: GB
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(14-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
OF HEARING BEFORE
resume a public hearing pursuant
to Articles III & V of the Zoning Law
No. 4500
Request of Amin Dawoodani
for a Special Use Permit under the
Zoning Law to permit: the conversion of a gasoline/service station to
a 1300sf convenience store,
For property owned by Dave
Mueller
Situated as follows: 3605
Carman Road Schenectady, NY
12303
Tax Map # 27.11-1-15
Zoned: GB
Jacqueline M. Siudy
(13-32)
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
186 Milford, LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY)
on 1/12/15. Office: Albany Co.
SSNY design. agent of LLC upon
whom process may be served and
shall mail copy to 495 Park Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(12-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
2774 Atlantic Ave, LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with NY Secy. of State
(SSNY) on 1/12/15. Office: Albany
Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC
upon whom process may be served
and shall mail copy to 495 Park Ave,
lawful activity.
(11-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
1043 Equity Partners, LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State
and shall mail copy to 4403 15th
Ave #314, Brooklyn, NY 11219.
Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(10-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation domestic of
Jupiter’s Son LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on 08.01.2015, office location:
LLC is designated as agent for
SOP at 90 State St STE 700 Office
40, purpose is any lawful purpose.
(1-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
CURRENCY CENTRAL LLC.
Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on
12/29/2014. Office: Albany County.
SSNY designated as agent of the
copy of process to the LLC, 90
State Street, Suite 700-80, Albany,
NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
(5-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of Limited
Liability Company. Name: GC Appliance Plus LLC, a foreign LLC,
Articles of Organization filed with
SSNY on December 1, 2014. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of process
to the LLC at 3 Woodbine Lane,
Freehold, NJ 07728. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(2-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
ARCHIVE TEXTILES, LLC
mail service of process (SOP) to NW
Street Suite 700 Office 40, Albany,
NY 12207, NW Registered Agent
at 90 State Street Suite 700 Office
40, Albany, NY 12207, purpose is
any lawful purpose.
(3-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: 211 MARION LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on
12/18/2014. Office location: Albany
County. SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process against
EAST 19TH STREET, BROOKLYN,
purpose.
(4-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of the formation of
CHARM FACE RENEW, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary
of State (NS) on January 10th, 2014,
mail service of process to Murray
LLP, 305 Broadway, Fl. 7, New York,
NY10007, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(5-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of AI DataMiner LLC Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS) on
January 8. 2015, office location:
be served, NS shall mail service
of process (SOP) to Registered
Agents Inc. @ 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, Registered Agents Inc.
is designated as agent for SOP
(6-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name:
DREAM WINTER CASTLE LLC.
Secretary of State of NY (SSNY)
on 1/16/2015. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process to: THE
LLC 1016 WASHINGTON AVE,
ALBANY NY 12203 Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(1-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Articles of organization of Quintessential NY Realty Group, LLC
under section 203 of the Limited
Liability Company Law were filed
on January 7, 2015. First: The name
of the company is Quintessential
NY Realty Group LLC. Second: the
county within this state in which the
office of the limited liability company
is to be located is Albany. Third: the
Secretary of State is designated as
agent of the Limited Liability company upon whom process against it
may be served. The address within
or without this State shall mail copy
of any process against the limited
liability company served upon him
or her is 10 Sun Hill Road Katonah,
NY 10536-0480.
(7-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Gold Cliff, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on
1/13/15. Office: Albany Co. SSNY
design. agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served and shall
mail copy to 199 Lee Ave Suite 620,
lawful activity.
(8-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Designabel, LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY)
on 1/7/15. Office: Albany Co. SSNY
design. agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served and shall
mail copy to 145-05 Rockaway
Beach Blvd, Rockaway Park, NY
11694. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(9-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Shelly
Industries LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 1/2/2015, office location:
(17-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
NAME: NYC GREENBORO CABS,
LLC
Secretary of State (NYSS) on
10/21/2014, office location: One
Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington
Avenue Albany, NY 12231. NYSS
designed as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it may be
served. NYSS shall mail copy of
process to the c/o US Corp. Agents,
Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Suite 202,
Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(18-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of CLICK ON
MEDIA LLC.
purpose.
(19-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: Lantern Real Estate LLC
Articles of Organization were filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 12/24/14. Office
a copy of process to the LLC,
Timothy Schramm 419 Ridgehill Rd.
Schenectady, NY 12303. Purpose:
For any lawful purpose.
(20-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of A.J. Dormus, PLLC. Articles of Org. filed
with NY Secretary of State (NS)
on 12/26/2014, office location:
Agent LLC @90 State St STE 700
Albany, NY 12207. Purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(21-27-32)
LEGAL NOTICE
Creatopeia, LLC is a limited
liability company, whose Articles
of Organization were filed with the
New York Secretary of State on
September 25, 2014; office located
in the County of Albany; principal
place of business is 210 20th Street,
Apt. 1R, Brooklyn, NY 11232; the
Secretary of State is the designated
agent for service of process and
a copy of such process may be
mailed to the registered agent at
Creatopeia, LLC c/o InCorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza,
99 Washington Ave, Suite 805-A,
Albany County, NY 12210; formed
for any lawful purpose.
(2-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
VAN DUZER HOLDINGS LLC.
Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on
of LLC upon whom process against
18TH AVENUE, #69, BROOKLYN,
purpose.
(3-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: SC BSD LLC. Articles of
purpose.
(4-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: MM MMGT LLC. Articles of
of process to: THE LLC 17 BATTERY PLACE, SUITE 1229, NEW
YORK, NY 10004. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(5-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: GORN LLC. Articles of
lawful purpose.
(6-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
17B LLC. Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State of
NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2014. Office
location: Albany County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC upon
served. SSNY shall mail copy of
purpose.
(7-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
50P LLC. Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State of
purpose.
(8-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: MKGT LLC. Articles of
lawful purpose.
(9-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
MUNIT LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of
purpose.
(10-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: SS N&S LLC. Articles of
lawful purpose.
(11-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation: Moon Atlas
LLC. Arts of org. filed with New York
Secy of State (NS) on 1/20/2015.
Office location: Albany County. NS
is desig. as agent of the LLC upon
whom process may be served. NS
shall mail process to: Moon Atlas
LLC, 475 Kent Ave., Suite 907,
Brooklyn, NY 11249. Purpose: any
lawful activity.
(24-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: SN S&N LLC. Articles of
lawful purpose.
(12-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
EMPIRE AG IMAGERY LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 1/05/15. Office in
Albany Co. SSNY desig. agent of
process to 90 State Street STE 700
Office 40 Albany, New York 12207.
Purpose: General.
(3-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: 1661 EAST 19 LLC. Articles
SSNY designated as agent of
copy of process to: THE LLC C/O
YISROEL Y. LESHKOWITZ, ESQ.,
45 BROADWAY, SUITE 3010, NEW
lawful purpose.
(13-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: 445 PARK AVE LLC. Articles
of process to: THE LLC 445 PARK
AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11205. Purpose: any lawful purpose.
(14-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
TRIANGLE LAUNDRY LLC Arts
of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 6/18/14. Office in Albany
Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon
served & shall mail process to Po
Box 10873, Albany, NY 12201.
Purpose: General.
(25-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: RMK Management LLC.
Articles of Organization were filed
with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 11/26/2014. Office
LLC upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail a
copy of process to InCorp Services,
Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99
Washington Avenue, Suite 805-A,
Albany, NY 12210-2822. Purpose:
For any lawful purpose.
(1-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of BienVoyage LLC.
purpose.
(2-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Funhaus
Studios, LLC.
purpose.
(3-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of domestic formation of
Edelhaus Modern Art Salon, LLC
Secretary of State (NS) on October 30, 2014; office location:
(4-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qualification of Ammunition, LLC. Authority filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
County. LLC formed in California
(CA) on 03/05/07. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail process to: The
LLC, Attn: Managing Director, 1500
Sansome St., Roundhouse One,
San Francisco, CA 94111, also the
address to be maintained in CA.
Arts of Org. filed with the CA Secy.
of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento,
CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful
activities.
(6-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Elite Red Carpets LLC Art. Of
Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY
11/18/2014.Off. Loc.: Albany Co.
SSNY designated as agent upon
whom process against it maybe
served. SSNY to mail copy of
process to The Limited Liability
Company, P.O.Box 14414, Albany,
NY 12212. Purpose: Any lawful act
or activity.
(7-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
RJ 90 ENTERPRISES, LLC
Liability Company:
the Secretary of State of New York
(“SSNY”) on 1/20/15. Office location: P.O. Box 11204, Loudonville,
NY 12211. SSNY is designated as
may mail a copy of any process to
the LLC at: P.O. Box 11204, Loudonville, NY 12211. No reported
agent. Latest date of dissolution of
LLC: None. Purpose: To engage in
any lawful activity.
(11-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
DSLT PROPERTIES LLC. Art.
of Org. filed with the SSNY on
copy of process to the LLC, 554
Watervliet Shaker Road, Latham,
purpose.
(12-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
143 Rockaway Parkway, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of
State (SSNY) on 1/28/15. Office:
Albany Co. SSNY design. agent
of LLC upon whom process may
be served and shall mail copy to
495 Park Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
(6-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of KMO USA
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY
Secretary of State (NS) on 6 January
2015, office location: Albany County, NS is designated as agent upon
State St STE 700 Office 40, Albany,
lawful purpose.
(13-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
ONE REALTY CAPITAL HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization
filed with Secretary of State of NY
(SSNY) on 11/26/2014. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
SSNY shall mail copy of process to:
THE LLC 1388 EAST 15TH STREET,
BROOKLYN, NY 11230. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(14-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]
of JMD Creations LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on 8/5/2014, office location:
purpose: any lawful purpose.
(15-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
SB Services, LLC. Art. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on 1/28/15.
Office: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon
process to the LLC, c/o Sarah Benji,
38 West 38th Street, New York, New
York 10018. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
(16-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation [domestic]/
qualification [foreign] of Viking
Lifestyle LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 12/26/2014
[date], office location: Albany County, NS is designated as agent upon
purpose.
(19-29-34)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of foreign
limited liability company. Name:
Harbor Capital Leasing, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with
the Secretary of State of the State
of New York (SSNY) on December
3, 2014. Office location: Albany
County. DOS Process is designated
be served. SSNY shall mail service
of process (SOP) to the LLC, c/o
Corporation Service Company
80 State Street, Albany, 12207.
Business location: c/o Jane Rethmeier 7901 Southpark Plaza, #204
Littleton, CO 80120. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(1-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Empower
State Plaza Fitness LLC. Articles
of Org. filed with the Secretary of
State, State of New York (SSNY) on
1/28/15. Office location Albany Co.
SSNY is designated as agent of LLC
be served. SSNY shall mail a copy
of any process to the LLC at: 94
Field Road, Greenville, NY 12083.
Purpose: Any lawful activities.
(2-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Supreme Investors, LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State
and shall mail copy to 694 Myrtle
Ave. #441, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
(4-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
16 Ave Equity Partners, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of
State (SSNY) on 1/26/15. Office:
Albany Co. SSNY design. agent of
LLC upon whom process may be
served and shall mail copy to 4403
15th Ave #314, Brooklyn, NY 11219.
(5-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
333 EAST MOSHOLU, LLC
Notice of Application for Authority
of a foreign limited liability company
(LLC). Application for Authority filed
with Secretary of State of New York
(SSNY) on 1/26/15. NY office location: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
to: Mitchell A. Dix & Associates,
260 Madison Avenue, 15th Floor,
NY, NY 10016, Attn: Mitchell A. Dix,
Esq. Office address in jurisdiction
of organization: 160 Greentree Dr,
Suite 101, Dover, DE 19904. Copy
of Articles of Org. on file with Secy.
Of State of Delaware, 401 Federal
Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901.
(7-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
DISTRACT LLC. Articles of Org.
(NS) on 01.20.2015, office location:
(15-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of JCAL
Florida, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on 1/14/2015. Office location:
Albany County, NS is designated as
against it may be served. NS shall
mail copy of process to: 3143 E.
Lydius St., Schenectady, NY 12303.
Purpose: any lawful activity.
(16-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Lozier Store Fixtures, LLC.
Date of formation with SSNY was
County. Street address of the principal business location: 6336 Pershing Dr., Omaha, NE 68110. SSNY
has been designated as agent
of the LLC upon whom process
shall mail process to: 6336 Pershing
Dr., Omaha, NE 68110. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(17-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION
DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY (LLC).
Name: NORTH GREENBUSH
APARTMENT PARTNERS LLC.
NY Secretary of State, January 21,
2015. Purpose: to engage in any
lawful act or activity. Office: in
Albany County. Secretary of State
is agent for process against LLC
and shall mail copy to 1900 Western
Ave., Albany, New York 12203.
(18-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
AAUMI Liverpool, LLC, Office in
Albany County. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of
New York (SSNY) on 02/14/2014.
SSNY designated agent of LLC
upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to: AAUMI Liverpool, LLC,
37 West 47th Street 15th Floor New
York NY 10036, also its principal
business location. Purpose: any
lawful purpose.
(19-28-33)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Securance LLC.
purpose.
(20-28-33)
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Open
Window LLC.
Secretary of State (NS) on December 8, 2014, office location:
(8-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Liability Company Name: PSTC
LLC. Articles of organization were
filed with the Secretary of New York
(SSNY) on 1/29/15. Office location:
Albany County. SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC
of the process the LLC to: 467
Delaware Ave, Albany, NY 12209.
Purpose: For any lawful purpose
(9-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Lamain
Crescent Joint Venture LLC. Articles
of Org. filed with NY Secretary of
State (NS) on 02/02/2015 office
purpose.
(15-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of LLCCentral Discount Depot LLC has
filed an Articles of Organization with
the Secretary of State of New York
on 11/10/2014. Its office is located
in Albany County. The Secretary
of State has been designated as
agent upon whom process may
be served. A copy of any process
shall be mailed to 16 Central Ave.,
Albany NY 12210. Its business is
to engage in any lawful activity for
which limited liability companies
may be organized under Section
203 of the New York Limited Liability
Company Act.
(16-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of a Limited
Liability Company (LLC): Name:
Relay Integrated Logistics & Solutions, LLC. Articles of organization
filed with state of New York (SSNY)
on 01/08/2015. Office location
Albany County. SSNY has been
designated as agent of the LLC
process to: 37 Shaker Bay Rd,
Latham NY 12110. Purpose: Any
lawful purpose Feb 3,2015
(17-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of “Body
Love Pilates LLC”
Secretary of State (NS) on 3rd
February 2015, office location:
(18-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of ELRJ
LLC.
purpose.
(19-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Application of Authority of Innovational Funding, LLC, filed with
the NY Secretary of State of (NS) on
November 7, 2014, office location:
as agent of the LLC upon whom
process may be served. NS shall
Paracorp Incorporated @ One
Commerce Plaza Office, 99 Washington Avenue #805A, Albany, New
York 12210-2822, Paracorp Incorporated is designated as agent for
SOP @ One Commerce Plaza Office, 99 Washington Avenue #805A,
Albany, New York 12210-2822,
(20-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION
DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY (LLC).
Name: SPATHIS LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with NY Secretary
of State, February 4, 2015. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or
activity. Office: in Albany County.
Secretary of State is agent for
process against LLC and shall mail
copy to 22 Balboa Drive, Latham,
New York 12110.
(21-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
TB1711 404 E79 4E LLC Art.
of Org. filed with the SSNY on
copy of process to the LLC, c/o NW
St STE 700 Office 40, Albany, New
York 12207. Purpose: Any lawful
purpose. TU 6t (3796133)
(22-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of AirBooking LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on May 13th,
2014, office location: Albany County, NS is designated as agent upon
State St STE 700 Office 40, Albany,
lawful purpose.
(23-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of qualification of Casa
Maya Group LLC (CM). Certificate
of Formation filed with NY Secretary
of State (NS) on November 19, 2014.
Office location: Albany County. NS
process may be served; NS shall
Registered Agents Inc. at 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40. Registered
Agents Inc. is designated as agent
for SOP. The purpose of CM is any
lawful purpose.
(24-30-35)
LEGAL NOTICE
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
(LLC). Name of Company: JOHN
McARTHUR ENTERPRISES, LLC.
the Secretary of State of the State
of New York (SSNY) on December
12, 2014. Office Location: Albany
County. SSNY is designated as
shall mail a copy of process to:
THE LLC, 345 Livingston Avenue,
Albany, New York 12065. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose.
(1-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice of Formation of 104
Thatcher LLC, Arts. of Org. filed
with NY Sec. of State on 1/16/2015.
LLC upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail process
to Agnes Bohl, 212 Jericho Rd.,
Selkirk, NY 12158. Purpose: any
lawful activity
(2-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Paper
Fast, LLC.
Registered Agents Inc. @ 90 State
St STE 700 Office 40, Registered
Agents Inc. is designated as agent
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700
Office 40, purpose is any lawful
purpose.
(3-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Qualification: Waldorf &
Statler Capital Group, LLC. Authority filed with New York Secy of State
(NS) on 10/30/2014. Office location: Albany County. NS is desig.
as agent of the LLC upon whom
process may be served. NS shall
mail process to: Kushnirsky Gerber
PLLC, 25 Broadway, 9th Fl., New
York, NY 10004. DE addr. of LLC:
1521 Concord Pike Ste. 301, Wilmington, DE 19803. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal
St. #3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
(4-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
GREEN TAUB LLC. Articles of
process to: THE LLC 1522 55TH
STREET, APT. 3F, BROOKLYN,
purpose.
(5-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
FLATBUSH PARK HOLDINGS LLC.
LLC 1151 EAST 34TH STREET,
any lawful purpose.
(14-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
TETRA EQUITY PARTNERS LLC.
LLC C/O THE LAW OFFICES OF
STANLEY P. KUPFER, 5422 16TH
AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11204.
(6-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
TETRA HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of
copy of process to: THE LLC C/O
THE LAW OFFICES OF STANLEY
P. KUPFER, 5422 16TH AVENUE,
any lawful purpose.
(7-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
SR & DB TRADING LLC. Articles of
process to: THE LLC C/O SAMUEL
ROZMAN, 1369 58TH STREET,
any lawful purpose.
(8-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
EDELSTEIN 1324 LLC. Articles of
process to: THE LLC 1349 45TH
STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11219.
(13-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Coldharbour Capital LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with NY Secretary of State
(NS) on Feb 2, 2015, office location:
(16-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of VIP
NUTRITION LLC. Art. of Org. filed
w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on
for service of process. SSNY shall
mail process to: 161 Graham Ave.
#2A, Bklyn, NY 11206. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
(26-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
JULIE SANDLER LLC. Art. of Org.
filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
on 10/15/14. Office location: Albany
mail process to: Brodsky LLC, 305
Broadway, 14 Fl., NY, NY 10007.
(25-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
YOUR WORLD TOYS LLC. Art.
of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of
designated as agent for service of
process. SSNY shall mail process
to: Brodsky LLC, 911 Central Ave.
#344, Albany, NY 12206. Purpose:
(32-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of ALL
AMERICAN HOME SOLUTIONS
LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
SSNY designated as agent for
service of process. SSNY shall mail
process to: Brodsky LLC, 911 Central Ave. #344, Albany, NY 12206.
(33-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
INTEGRATED SCIENTIFIC HERBAL
ADVANCES LLC. Art. of Org. filed
mail process to: Brodsky LLC,
911 Central Ave. #344, Albany,
activity.
(34-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of A
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT LLC.
Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/14. Office
(35-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of MIVOL LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 12/2/14. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
(36-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
FRETCH LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/
activity.
(37-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
BOOKING HELPERS LLC. Art. of
Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY
Albany County. SSNY designated
as agent for service of process.
SSNY shall mail process to: Brodsky LLC, 911 Central Ave. #344,
Albany, NY 12206. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(38-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
PHAX PICTURES LLC. Art. of Org.
activity.
(39-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
INNJOY NEW YORK LLC. Art. of
Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY
SSNY shall mail process to: Brodsky LLC, 911 Central Ave. #344,
Albany, NY 12206. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(40-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF FORMATION of RED
POINT NYC LLC. Art. of Org. filed
activity.
(41-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
SCHISM WORLDWIDE LLC. Art.
(42-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
CYC SERVICES LLC. Art. of Org.
activity.
(43-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
2282 ATLANTIC, LLC. Art. of Org.
activity.
(44-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
FREJKA PLLC. Art. of Org. filed
mail process to: 25 Sutton Pl. So.,
#7H, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
(45-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
SCOTMAN LLC. Art. of Org. filed
activity.
(46-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
DEALS BY CRAIG LLC. Art. of Org.
activity.
(47-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
MALAHIDE ENTERTAINMENT LLC.
(48-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
THE ENGINE ROOM LLC. Art. of
Org. filed
w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
activity.
(49-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
ARON REALTY MANAGEMENT
LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 2/4/15. Office location: Albany County. SSNY
(50-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
TRANCO LLC. Art. of Org. filed
w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)
activity.
(51-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of Brooklyn
Residentials Real Estate LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary
of State (NS) on 1/2/2015, office
State St STE 700 Office 40, Albany
Albany NY 12207 purpose is any
lawful purpose.
(52-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Liability Company name: Side of
Butter LLC. Articles of organization
were filed with the Secretary of New
York on 1/23/15. Office location:
Albany County. NS is designated
process to NW Registered Agent
LLC @ 90 State St. Suite 700 Office 40. Purpose: for any lawful
purpose.
(54-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
CENTRAL 339 LLC. Articles of
of process to: THE LLC 47 DIVISION AVENUE #1, BROOKLYN,
purpose.
(55-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: EDELSTEIN 1349 LLC.
on 1/28/2015. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
to: THE LLC 1349 45TH STREET,
any lawful purpose.
(9-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: EDELSTEIN 1422 LLC.
on 1/28/2015. Office location: Albany County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
to: THE LLC 1349 45TH STREET,
any lawful purpose.
(10-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: LEGION PLAZA LLC. Articles of Organization filed with
LLC 183 WILSON STREET, # 156,
Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
(11-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Name: 1563 EAST NY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with
shall mail copy of process to:
THE LLC 2184 STUART STREET,
any lawful purpose.
(12-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of formation of 5A partners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
NY Secretary of State (NS) on
10/15/2014. Office in Albany County. NS is designated as agent upon
State St STE 700, Office 40, NW
as agent for SOP @ 90 State St
STE 700, Office 40, purpose is any
lawful purpose
(15-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
TRILLIUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/
mail process to: 911 Central Ave.
(21-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
STRANGER NEW YORK LLC. Art.
of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY
SSNY shall mail process to: 51
Summit St. #1B, Bklyn, NY 11231.
(22-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
CHASE PROFESSIONAL ENTERPRISES LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/
mail process to: 146 Payne Whitney
Ln., Manhasset, NY 11030. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(23-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
BARGAIN PLUMBING AND HEATING LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy.
SSNY designated as agent for
service of process. SSNY shall
mail process to: 10 E. 40 St. 10 Fl,
NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
(24-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
EL LABRI MANAGEMENT, LLC.
(27-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
EAST 13 STREET PROPERTY, LLC.
(28-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
480 CENTRAL PARK WEST, LLC.
(29-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
WEST 138 STREET, LLC. Art.
(30-31-36)
LEGAL NOTICE
MARTINE SMIDT LLC. Art. of Org.
activity.
(31-31-36)
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Voorheesville
beats Hudson –
moves on to
quarterfinals game
Friday against
Broadalbin-Perth
The Enterprise –– Jordan J. Michael
Sean Nolan led the way for Voorheesville in its 60-to-44 win over Hudson in the Class B playoffs
on Tuesday with 15 points; here, Nolan shoots a free-throw in the first half. The Blackbirds, seeded
seventh, will play Broadalbin-Perth, seeded second, on Friday at Shenendehowa at 6:30 p.m. in the
quarterfinals; it’s a rematch of last year’s final, which Voorheesville won.
Wave goodbye: Voorheesville got past Hudson, 60 to 44, in Tuesday’s Class B first-round game. Here, the Birds’ Scott Glasheen,
right, is contested by the Blue Hawks’ Zach Hedgepeth in the
second quarter. Voorheesville and Hudson were tied, 21 to 21, at
halftime, but the Blackbirds pulled away in the third quarter.
Classified Ads
Help Wanted
FARM WORKERS AND CROP LABORERS
Westminster, Vermont Area.
3 temporary positions
at Allen Brothers, Inc.
Workers needed to do field work, hand weeding, hoeing and
planting, etc. Also harvest for diversified ground crops. To start
approx. 03/10/15 to 10/16/15. A great deal of heavy lifting,
standing, bending & kneeling for long periods of time. Guaranteed
wage is $11.26 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract
period. Tools are provided without cost. Housing provided at
no cost to workers who reside outside of the normal commuting
distance. Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of
contract period, whichever comes first.
Please contact (877)466-9757 for your nearest
State Workforce Agency office and refer to Job Order 273164
MEAT & POULTRY CUTTERS AND TRIMMERS
Westford, Vermont Area.
2 temporary positions
at Adams Turkey Farm.
Dribble drive: Voorheesville’s Isaiah Meaux heads down the lane against the defense of Hudson’s
Zach Hedgepeth during Tuesday’s Class B first-round game. As the host, Voorheesville won, 60 to 44,
advancing to Friday’s quarterfinal against Broadalbin-Perth. On Tuesday, Shane Parry scored 13
points for the Blackbirds, and Robert Denman scored 10.
Workers needed to slaughter, trim and pack poultry, feed, clean
barns, assist in maple prod. & Christmas tree prod. To start approx.
03/12/15 to 12/17/15. A great deal of heavy lifting, standing and
bending for long periods of time. Wage is $11.26 per hr. Work is
guaranteed for 3/4 of contract period. Tools are provided without
cost. Housing provided at no cost to workers who reside outside
of the normal commuting distance. Transportation cost reimbursed
after 15 days or 50% of contract period, whichever comes first.
Please contact (877)466-9757 for your nearest
State Workforce Agency office and refer to Job Order 273290
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Bowling roll up: Guilderland, Voorheesville, and Berne-Knox-Westerlo
Lane oil conditions are to spinning bowling balls like gusts of
wind are to spiraling footballs.
“It’s an equalizer,” said BerneKnox-Westerlo Coach Matt Decker
this week. “If a ball ignores oil well,
it’s a good ball. Bowlers usually
want a ball with a dull finish for
maximum hook ability.”
said. “There are all sorts of oil
patterns.”
Each bowling alley has its own
unique way of making oil patterns,
and local bowlers travel from alley
to alley during the winter season.
By and large, there is much more
oil in the middle of the lane than
on the outside. This allows the ball
to hook more from the outside part
“You can throw a ball that becomes a disaster
unless you adjust your style.”
Most varsity bowlers have two
balls — a stone ball for hook shots
and a plastic ball for straighter
spare shots. Guilderland Head
Coach Lou Marino told “The Enterprise” that some bowlers have
upwards of 20 diverse balls.
“Different balls hook more than
others, and oil patterns dictate
how much hook you need,” Marino
of the lane to the pocket.
“I’m more of a paperwork guy,”
said Kyle Turski, who co-coaches
the Voorheesville team with Jon
Glisson. “I leave the bowling advice to Jon, while I focus on the
scores and words of encouragement.”
The longer the oil pattern on the
lane, the less the ball can hook.
Knowing the oil pattern can help
the bowler determine the strategy
of his shot. If the bowler finds the
correct target, he could have many
strikes in his future.
“You can throw a ball that
becomes a disaster unless you
adjust your style,” said Decker,
mentioning that the oil on the
lane wears away over time. “That’s
what separates a good bowler from
a great bowler.”
Marino says that some bowlers
don’t know how to “count boards”
or line up properly. On a lane,
there is a triangular configuration
of arrows 15 feet past the foul line
that is symmetrically placed to be
used as guides. The “boards” that
Marino referred to are on the lane
surface, and are counted from five
to 35; each arrow is five.
However, no matter the bowling
ball or the oil conditions, Decker
said that it’s always the bowler
that dictates the shot. “It’s how
you adjust, move, and throw,” he
said. “And attitude.”
Decker likes the attitude and
temperament of his Berne-KnoxWesterlo team, which placed sixth
lane,” Decker said of Hempstead.
“He was actually disappointed
with a 197 average. There are
some kids in our league that are
bowling at a very high level. It’s
amazing to watch.”
Hempstead’s younger brother,
Dillon, a freshman, was right
behind his sibling at sectionals,
averaging over 200 per game.
“They’re a bowling family,” said
Decker. “They maintain a level
of cool and know how to adjust
their shots.”
Decker has seen Derek Hempstead get close to a perfect 300
game many times. This season,
Hempstead had a game where
the first eight frames were strikes.
Decker said that Hempstead never
suffered from senioritis.
“You get to be a kid once,” said
Decker. “He was always in the
know, and always had a good attitude. He’ll be missed.”
Voorheesville
Coach Kyle Turski says that he
hears comments about not having to be athletic to be a bowler.
Regardless, bowlers need a certain
mental capacity to keep focus amid
“He was upset about that early spare,
but he put it behind him.”
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at Class C sectionals out of 31
teams.
“We had a really good day,” said
Decker of the sectional tournament; competitors bowl three
games in the morning and three
more in the afternoon. “I’m extremely proud, but wish we had
bowled like that all season.”
The Bulldogs won 29 of 52
possible points this season —
each league match is worth four
points — and placed fourth in
the Western Athletic Conference
tournament. Middleburgh and
Canajoharie were co-champions
of the WAC; BKW ended up third
in the standings.
“I’m happy with that,” Decker
said. “It was a year of haves and
have-nots for points.”
Senior Derek Hempstead led
BKW in per-game average (197)
and total pins, and was a First
Team WAC All Star. Hempstead
had the second highest series
at Class C sectionals (657) and
almost reached 1,300 for all six
games.
“He cared so much that he would
have rolled his heart down the
“Nobody bowled too well this year.
They wanted to learn more about the game.”
Freshman Matt Flandreau,
who was selected to the Second
Team All Colonial Council, led
Voorheesville in per-game average (188) and points won (42).
In every match, Flandreau went
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“You need to have enough composure to regroup after mistakes
and get that focus back,” Turski
said.
Voorheesville went 8-9-1 in the
Colonial Council this season with
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against the opponents’ best bowler,
Turski said.
In a match, six bowlers square
off from each team for four points
from three games and combined
pins. There are eight more points
up for grabs for the teams, not
the individual bowlers, which is
decided from total pins from all
the games.
“It can be confusing for people
who aren’t involved,” said Turski.
Alex Paigo rolled the secondhighest game of the season in the
Colonial Council for Voorheesville
with a 289 at Waterford. He also
bowled a 279; no other Birds’
bowler broke 250.
“He made a spare shot early, and
then got strike after strike after
strike,” Turski said of Paigo’s 289
game. “He was upset about that
early spare, but he put it behind
him.”
Freshman Tom Della Penta was
named Most Improved Bowler
for the Blackbirds with multiple
games over 200 this year. “He
ended up with a very consistent
shot that he worked very hard
on,” said Turski. “He had a goal
of making top seven for sectionals
and the league tournament, and
his hard work paid off.”
With Flandreau and Della
Penta set to return for next season
alongside Bonnie Grab, a ninthgrader, and Morgan Galvin, an
eighth-grader, Voorheesville will
have a “nice young nucleus for the
coming years,” Turksi said.
Turski said it would be hard for
him to coach Voorheesville without Jon Glisson; both men coach
the varsity baseball team at the
school, too. Turski said that the
crossover with baseball and bowling — four baseball players are on
the bowling team — is dumb luck,
but it keeps everyone competitive
during the winter months.
“I’ve definitely learned a lot
about bowling,” said Turski, who
took the coaching opportunity with
Glisson three years ago. “I still let
Jon do the instructing though.”
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Guilderland
Coach Lou Marino said that it’s
atypical for Guilderland to finish
with a losing record, but the young
Dutch team went 7-9 in the Suburban Council this season.
“It’s been a long time,” said Marino, Guilderland’s bowling coach
for 15 years. “Nobody bowled too
well this year. They wanted to
learn more about the game.”
The Dutchmen placed eighth at
Class A sectionals. The high series
of the day was a 623.
Marino said that the highlight of
the season was beating Christian
Brothers Academy, the eventual
Class A champions that willed
itself to a title after finding out
the coach, Tom Donato, had died
of a heart attack.
“Everyone was rooting for
them,” said Marino. “The whole
thing was an inspiration.”
Sophomore Brandon Indovina
was Guilderland’s top bowler,
averaging 213 per game, and being named a Suburban Council
First Team All Star. Senior Alex
Varsanyi has an average of 203
and made Suburban Council
Honorable Mention while being
awarded Guilderland’s Most Improved Bowler; Varsanyi shot an
823 series (248-275-290) when
the Dutch beat CBA earlier in
the season.
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Dutch get huge win in
Class AA first round...
will play Brothers on Friday
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Andrew Sischo scored 20 points in Guilderland’s 44-point demolishing of Bishop Maginn on Tuesday
night in the first round of the Class AA playoffs; the Dutchmen are the two-seed from the Suburban
Council. Next, Guilderland gets Christian Brothers Academy, the three-seed from the Independents,
which advanced with a 73-to-60 victory over Niskayuna. The quarterfinal is set for Saturday at Hudson
Valley Community College at 4 p.m.
In motion: Ralph Simeone puts up a shot for Guilderland over
Bishop Maginn’s Taylor Blue Clarke during Tuesday’s Class AA
first-round game. The Dutchmen won, 84 to 40, outscoring Maginn,
27 to 9, in the first quarter, and 26 to 7 in the third quarter. Simeone scored six points, and Andrew Platek led Guilderland with
26. Guilderland moves on to play Christian Brothers Academy on
Saturday at 4 p.m. in the quarterfinals at Hudson Valley Community College. The Brothers beat the Dutch earlier this season.
BKW girls lose to Greenville in first round Class C sectional game
Shooting by her fingertips, Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s Monique
Britton goes up past Greenville’s Bethany Mitchell in the second half of the Bulldogs 61-to-40 Class C first-round sectional
loss to Greenville Tuesday night in Greenville. Britton scored
15 points, as did Kristen Norray.
Up in arms: BKW’s Danielle Keppler attempts a shot around three Greenville players in the first
half of BKW’s 61-to-40 Class C first-round sectional loss. BKW finished the season 10 - 10.
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Two Dutch Champs
Jump to State Qualifiers
Photographs by Michael Koff
Frequent flyer: Zaviir Berry extends over the high-jump bar, set at 5 feet, 10 inches, for
Guilderland during the Section 2 Championships for indoor track last Saturday. Berry
went on to clear 6 feet for second place behind teammate Harrison Bickmore, who cleared
6 feet, 6 inches. Berry also won the triple jump with a distance of 42 feet, 7.5 inches.
All set: Guilderland’s Andres
Torres waits for the gun to
start the 4x200-meter relay
at last Saturday’s Section 2
Championships for indoor
track; the Dutch relay team
had a time of 1:43.23 for sixth.
Torres also competed in the 55meter hurdles, getting fifth with
8:51 seconds, and, overall, the
Guilderland boys’ team placed
in third of nine schools with
66 points.
Bending backwards: Guilderland’s Harrison Bickmore won the high-jump title
at the Section 2 Division 1 Championships for indoor track by clearing 6 feet, 6
inches last Saturday at the University of Albany. Here, Bickmore clears 6 feet. The
last man jumping, he attracted a crowd as he tried to get past 6 feet, 7 inches, but
was unsuccessful.
And they’re off! Runners in the girls’ 1500-meter race come off their marks as the contest begins at the University of Albany last Saturday for the Section 2 Division I Championships. Guilderland’s Emily Burns, second from right, finished in second place with a time of 4:50.14. Overall, the Dutch girls’ team was seventh out of eight schools with
17 points.
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Looking for more rebounds
BKW advances to first round
BERNE — For what BerneKnox-Westerlo has in quickness, it
lacks in height. The Bulldogs have
struggled with rebounding this
season because the players are
usually facing taller opponents.
Heading into the fourth quarter with a 15-point lead against
Cambridge last Friday during the
Class C play-in game, BKW could
no longer rebound the basketball.
With possession in its favor, Cambridge was able to close the gap to
two points, 62 to 60.
to the boards. Once we get the
rebound, we can break with our
speed.”
That pace, mainly from Hilton
and Houck, who combined for 49
points, is what allowed BKW to
control Cambridge in the first
place. Pulliam and Eddie Slaver
also had their moments of impact
as the Bulldogs raced the Indians
up and down the floor for the first
24 minutes last Friday.
However, when the rebounding margin tipped heavily in
Cambridge’s favor, BKW started
“We have to gang-rebound,
send everybody to the boards.
Once we get the rebound,
we can break with our speed.”
The Bulldogs pulled out a victory anyway, 75 to 68, but its rebounding woes almost cost BKW
its season.
“We were tired,” Zack Hilton,
who scored 26 points for BKW,
said of Friday’s fourth quarter.
“We get tired because everyone is
bigger than us.”
Cambridge was scoring on putbacks off of the offensive boards
and running transition off of the
defensive boards as BKW had
trouble with boxing out. Also,
two questionable foul calls — a
flagrant foul on Justin Houck for
a push and a tripping penalty on
Slade Pulliam that fouled him
out of the game — didn’t help the
Bulldogs either.
“You can’t let other teams outrebound you; they’ll score bucket
after bucket,” said BKW Head
Coach Tim Moseman. “We have
to gang-rebound, send everybody
to lose power. Moseman told The
Enterprise that every Bulldogs’
player needs to rebound better if
they expect to beat Waterford, the
three seed, on Wednesday in the
Class C first round.
BKW lost to Waterford, 64 to 59,
finishing the season at 11-10.
Houck says that BKW doesn’t
have a player over 6 feet tall.
The roster lists Slaver and Mike
Flower at 6 feet, 1 inch; Hilton and
Nick Porter are listed at 6 feet.
“We don’t have a pure rebounding threat, but we have kids that
bust their butts to get rebounds
by being physical and tough,”
Moseman said. “If we’re going up
against opponents that are taller,
then they will get some second and
third chances on us.”
When the game is on the line in
the fourth quarter, players hit the
boards with more aggression, and
BKW comes up short sometimes.
Brushing off the defense to score for Berne-Knox-Westerlo is Justin Houck during last Friday’s
Class C play-in game against Cambridge in Berne. Houck scored 23 points in the 75-to-68 win, and
the Bulldogs, seeded 14th, moved on to play at Waterford, seeded third, on Wednesday in the first round
of Class C sectionals.
Long arm: Justin Houck, middle, the point guard for BerneKnox-Westerlo, tries to split the defense of Cambridge’s Shawn
Lemeiux, right, and Chris Warnke during the fourth quarter of
last Friday’s Class C play-in game. The Bulldogs won, 75 to 68,
and Houck scored 23 points. BKW played Waterford in the first
round on Wednesday.
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Up in the air: Berne-Knox-Westerlo defeated Cambridge, 75 to 68, in a Class C play-in game last
Friday for a spot in the first round of the tournament. Here, the ball gets away from Zack Hilton,
right, who scored a game-high 26 points for the Bulldogs; he made five three-pointers. BKW played at
Waterford on Wednesday.
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Ice water in her veins as the clocked ticked away, Voorheesville’s Emily Blow got the ball with eight
seconds to play and hit the game-winning shot, for her team-high 12 points, as the Blackbirds stunned
the Lady Bills, 58 to 56, in the Class B sectionals at Johnstown on Wednesday.
“He keeps telling us that so we
don’t get upset about missing
threes,” added Blow. “Just forget
about it, and act like we’ve been
making all of them to keep our
spirits up.”
Baron told “The Enterprise”
that good shooters always believe
that they can make every shot. “If
you’re worried about the last three
missed shots, you’re not going to
make the next one,” he said. “You
have to believe that you can make
the shot — play with confidence,
shoot with confidence — just
believe. I want them to look forward, so, I
tell them
that they
“Go hard or go
haven’t
missed all
night, and
to keep
shooting.”
Purple and gold are the school
colors of both Voorheesville and
Johnstown. This was interesting; the Blackbirds and the Bills
seemed to mimic each other
throughout the game by trading
steal for steal, foul shot for foul
shot, and turnover for turnover.
“We could play 10 times and it
would be a war each night,” Baron
said. “One of these teams would
never blow out the other.”
Neither team could hold much
of a lead; the game maintained a
thrilling pace. Voorheesville was
ahead by 10 points, 44 to 34, in
the third quarter, but that was
relinquished quickly as Johnstown
started to attack the offensive
boards hard, which led to highpercentage baskets.
“Sometimes, we slowed it down
because the game was getting too
fast, and we needed to settle down,
but we got what we wanted most
of the time,” said Blow, who scored
12 points on Wednesday.
Baron thought that Johnstown’s
effort was outstanding. “Even
things that we tried to keep them
from doing, we couldn’t keep them
from doing,” he said. “We learned
some lessons tonight.”
Liking the way Voorheesville
persevered, Baron said that it took
true resiliency and toughness to
come back and beat Johnstown
on its home floor after already
giving up the lead in the fourth
quarter. The Bills were ahead by
two points, 55 to 53, with less than
a minute left after Lexus Williams
split two defenders for a lay-up
while getting fouled.
But then, Blow worked her heroics. She felt like she needed to do
something, anything, “because in
sectionals,” she
said, “go
home, literally.”
hard or go
home, literally. We
needed
this one, so I knocked down a
couple shots.”
Blow said she was nervous, and
worried. “Just like every athlete is
in those tight situations, but you
try to use that as motivation,” she
said. “It’s like, oh, they’re up by
one, what do we do? Just let the
nerves fuel you.”
It could have been any Voorheesville player, Baron said, but it was
Blow’s turn, and she buried it.
“I told her on the bench, ‘Keep
your head up because everyone
needs you at the end,’” said Baron.
“If you love the game, you can’t
worry about the last play, you
worry about the next play. That’s
all you get.”
The Blackbirds, the 10th seed in
Class B, take on Watervliet, the
two-seed, on Saturday night in
the quarterfinals at Watervliet.
If Voorheesville plans on shooting
more three-pointers, more will
need to go in.
“We didn’t shoot well,” Baron
said on Wednesday. “For us to win
on a bad shooting night, it’s a big
win. If we have a good shooting
night, watch out.”
Stop, in the name of basketball: Voorheesville’s Victoria Coluccio looks to make a pass to a teammate while being defended by
Johnstown’s Mallory Baldwin in the first half of Voorheesville’s
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Soaring down the court after stealing the ball is Voorheesville’s Emily Burke, right, as Johnstown’s
Annie Stock (#34) and Lexus Williams (#15) race down the floor to catch Burke before she passed the
ball to a teammate during the first half of the opening round of the Class B sectionals at Johnstown
on Wednesday night.

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