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CATSKILL — Catskill’s American Legion post will celebrate a century of service in wartime, peacetime and for local veterans next weekend. Honeyford Memorial Post 110 will hold two celebrations July 13 — the Centennial Ceremony from noon to 1 p.m. and an anniversary party from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave. Both events are free of charge and refreshments such as hot dogs and hamburgers and entertainment by the local band Guilty Pleasure will

Commander Sal Pusatere of Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 of Catskill salutes those who sacrificed their lives in World War I and World War II after placing a wreath from Wreathes Across America in their honor at the Historic Catskill Point.

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be provided. “Honeyford Memorial Post 110 was established on July 11, 1919, just 100 years and two days before our celebration on Saturday,” said Post 110 Commander Tom Andreassen. Honeyford Post 110 was the first American Legion post in Greene County. It was named in honor Lyle B. Honeyford, a prominent physician and community leader at the time, who was one of the post’s founding members. “The first post was established with 13 members, but See POST A8

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Divers test new communications gear By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Volunteer divers have an advantage in underwater rescue and recovery missions in Greene and Columbia counties thanks to a new communication system. All 12 divers from the Hudson and Athens volunteer teams are equipped with a new hard-wired microphone and headset in each of their masks thanks to donations from the Hudson Polar Plunge in February. Donning full gear and wet suits, the divers tested the system June 20 to work out the kinks. “It was a good learning experience and we came up with a few policies as a result,” said Dan Hickey Jr., Hudson Fire See DIVERS A8

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The new underwater communication system for volunteer rescue divers in Columbia County can stretch to distances of 125 feet across and 60 feet down.

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The Frog Squad — a dive team made up of members from the Hudson and Athens volunteer fire departments — check out their new hard-wired underwater communication system June 20.

Volunteer rescue divers from Hudson and Athens suit up at Oakdale Lake before taking to the water to test out their new underwater communication system.

Vets fighting for health care, Delgado says By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado toured the Catskill Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic on Tuesday to see firsthand the services that are now available to local veterans and what their needs are. The Catskill VA Outpatient Clinic is located in the Columbia Greene Medical Arts Building, 159 Jefferson Heights, Catskill, and provides primary, personal and behavioral health care to veterans in the Twin Counties. “Veterans deserve access to high-quality health care services wherever they choose to live,” Delgado said. “Our com-

mitment to honoring their service should extend to fighting for the resources at home to ensure availability of mental health services, treatment facilities and excellent primary care.” During his tour, Delgado asked clinic staff about improvements or changes that have taken place since the VA Mission Act was passed in 2018. The VA Mission Act was legislation designed to strengthen the VA’s ability to deliver care virtually through telehealth, which is health care provided over the phone or by computer. Delgado has been a proponent of telemedicine both in the veterans and See VETS A8

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U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, speaking with Sam Mozzillo on his visit to the Catskill VA Outpatient Clinic, where he discussed veteran programs the clinic provides to the community.

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A District of Columbia police department color guard leads off the National Independence Day Parade down Constitution Avenue on Thursday.

The Sanchezes, both “gungho” Trump supporters retired from the U.S. Air Force, said it was their first time in the nation’s capital for the Fourth. Nancy Sanchez compared Trump’s appearance to the 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. from the same marble steps. “When Martin Luther King Jr. had his speech, people look back on that and say, ‘I was there for it,’ “ Nancy Sanchez said. “We want to witness this part of history being built.” Others faulted the president for injecting himself into a day that is usually immune from controversy and politics. “He’s kidnapped our holiday, and it’s not right,” said Deb McKern, who lives on Capitol Hill and had looked forward to Independence Day in Washington after more than a decade working abroad for the Library of Congress. McKern considered skipping the festivities when she learned of Trump’s involvement but ultimately decided to show up and protest. The military might was gathered mostly near the Lincoln Memorial, with two Bradley Fighting Vehicles parked inside the chain-link VIP enclosure accessible only to those who had acquired VIP tickets from the White House and the Republican Party. But green and camouflage-covered trucks blocked key intersections, part of a District of Columbia National Guard deployment of 800 members that was roughly triple the number of those in years past. Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Odle said the extended nature of the event and additional activities prompted the increase. Scattered protests took place throughout the day. A flagburning in front of the White House led to two arrests and a brief skirmish with onlookers, according to the Secret Service. The “Baby Trump” balloon — featuring a scowling caricature of the president in a diaper — was visible much of the day until it was taken down late in the afternoon because of high winds. Rain and lightning swept over the National Mall more than once, causing many to take cover just before 4 p.m. Officials ordered an area near the Capitol temporarily evacuated about 90 minutes later. But the weather cleared enough for a series of flyovers by aircraft from each branch of the military, from Coast Guard helicopters to the Air Force’s B-2 stealth bomber and F-22 Raptors. At the Lincoln Memorial, families wearing ponchos and MAGA hats chanted “USA! USA!” as the marble image of the nation’s 16th president loomed over the scene. They cheered the air show over the monuments, and the current president narrated each sortie

with snippets of military history. “Today, just as it did 243 years ago, the future of American freedom rests on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it,” Trump said in introducing the roll call of airborne hardware. Even as the Navy Blue Angels took their turn in the sky, a group of protesters was using a particular naval aviator to antagonize Trump. A left-leaning political action committee distributed T-shirts depicting the USS McCain, the Navy ship named in honor of the late senator John McCain, R-Ariz., a bitter rival of the president’s. The ship is also named in honor of McCain’s father and grandfather. “John McCain really gets under Trump’s skin because he killed Trump getting rid of health care,” said Gayelynn Taxey, one of the shirt distributors near the White House, referring to the late senator’s vote defeating Republican legislation to gut the Affordable Care Act. But for Elaine and Wayne Hill of Auburn, Washington, the protesters’ criticisms ring hollow. “People are complaining it’s going to be all military and stuff, and that it’s going to be a show of his power, but the tanks are just parked there for us to see,” said Elaine Hill, 57, who along with her husband was wearing a red MAGA hat. “It’s not a show of his power; it’s a show of American power.” “Right, exactly,” chimed in Sherri Fries, who was sitting on the same curb as the Hills before the parade. “People just jump to conclusions. It’s a shame.” Despite the debate over Trump’s use of military hardware — a practice critics say is reminiscent of public celebrations by authoritarian regimes — the vehicles imported as props by the armed forces were keeping a low profile as crowds gathered. The two Bradley armored vehicles were behind fences. The tanks could scarcely be seen. “I wish I could get in there,” Ali Safaei sighed, poking his nose through the barrier. Safaei, 30, said he has mixed feelings about Trump — particularly the president’s hardline policies toward his home country, Iran — but he was disappointed that the tanks were not on display. At day’s end, there was even a twist on the venerable fireworks show that has boomed

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over the National Mall for decades. The president’s event included an added display launched from behind the Lincoln Memorial, so close that bits of exploded paper rained on the VIP enclosure. But smoke, clouds and distance made the burst nearly invisible to those farther away. “It’s definitely a bummer,” said Jeff Rossin, 24, visiting from Santa Barbara, California. “This looks like a War of 1812 reenactment, when they couldn’t see anything.” The original show, which was moved to a new launching point in West Potomac Park, was similarly obscured for some, leaving many grumbling that the new arrangements had lessened the view. Shandra Edwards, 47, who comes every year from Maryland and declared this year’s display “awful.” She hadn’t known the view would be best from the Lincoln Memorial, which was too small to fit the whole crowd in any case. “That’s a problem; that’s not normal,” she said of the VIPtailored show. “We’re all taxpayers . . . I’m fired up.” Shana Gould, 53, and Taylor Branch, her 18-year-old daughter, were moving to find a good fireworks viewing spot, as the Fairfax County residents do every year. But crossing 17th Street, they found themselves caught in a tussle between Code Pink protesters and a Trump-supporting couple. Branch reached over and shoved the couple back, yelling repeatedly, “Don’t touch my mother!” The man involved then spit on Branch’s face twice and nearly pushed her to the ground before Park Police intervened. “The atmosphere is so different this year,” Gould said. “There’s just so much hatred.” Despite isolated clashes, public safety and transportation officials said the day went smoothly. District Fire and Emergency Medical Services treated several people for heat-related ailments, but nobody suffered serious injuries, according to spokesman Vito Maggiolo. He said most of those treated had been at the parade on Constitution Avenue. A spokeswoman for the Metro transit agency said the system was operating on schedule, with no problems reported. The Washington Post’s Rachel Weiner, Rebecca Tan, Laurel Demkovich, Cortlynn Stark, Joe Heim, Fenit Nirappil, Luz Lazo, Paul Schwartzman, Peter Hermann and Teddy Amenabar contributed to this report.

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CALENDAR Monday, July 8 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

p.m. at Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature health services, county resources, public safety and county services 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE reorganizational meeting 6:30 p.m. followed by business meeting MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Tuesday, July 9 n Cairo Town Democratic Committee

caucus 6 p.m. at Cairo Library Community Room, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo n Catskill Town Planning Board with public hearing 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, July 10 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board public hearings 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill

Bordick back in ICC spotlight By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — Ichabod Crane Central School District officials are looking to a familiar face to lead them at least through the end of the year. The district’s Board of Education appointed Lee Bordick at a meeting on June 28. Bordick will oversee the district’s teachers, staff and 1,900 students from kindergarten through grade 12 in three school buildings. Bordick’s appointment is effective until Dec. 31. In the meantime, the school board will search for a permanent replacement for Michael Vanyo, who officially resigned as superintendent June 30. “The district will inform the community about future superintendent updates as they are available,” according to a statement issued by the school district. Altogether, Bordick has served 30 years as a superin-

tendent in various schools in the Capital Region. Bordick served as superintendent of the Lansingburgh Central School District for 22 years before retiring in 2007. After his retirement, Bordick served as interim superintendent in the Ichabod Crane and Chatham central school districts and the Wynantskill Union Free School District. Bordick said he is looking forward to reuniting with members of the staff and school community. “I think the district has a terrific staff,” Bordick said. “The Board of Education is, and has been, deeply committed to advancing the district goals and has the best interest of the students in mind.” This is the third time Bordick has been appointed to an interim leadership post in the Ichabod Crane Central School District. Initially, he served as an interim middle

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school principal at Ichabod, and, most recently, in 2010, he served as superintendent for two and a half years. “I am thrilled to be back,” Bordick said. While serving as interim superintendent at Ichabod, Bordick worked on a yearlong merger study with the

Thursday, July 11 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District BOE public hearing 6:25 p.m.; meeting 6:30 p.m. in the High School Library, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature CWSSI panel meeting at the Emergency Services Building, Cairo

Schodack Central School District. Ultimately, the districts decided against the merger. n Vanyo’s resignation was also accepted by the Board of n Education at its June 28 meeting. The school board placed Vanyo on unpaid administrative leave from April 9 to May

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Monday, July 15 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greene County Legislature public works, economic development and tourism, Gov. Ops., finance and Rep. and Dem. caucus 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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Thursday, July 18 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, July 23 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

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Annually the On-Ti-Ora Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution invites area students to participate in an essay contest indicating what the American Flag means to them. At the recent Chapter Flag Day Luncheon the contest winners read their essays. Adrianna Moon, Catskill Elementary School, and Lilia Vishnyakov, Hunter Elementary, were honored by the chapter. Also new member Wendy Carl Casalino was welcomed and installed at the luncheon. Guest speaker Sylvia Hasenkopf, local historian, spoke about the “Society of the Cincinnati.” Pictured are Regent Marilyn Schrader; new member Wendy Casalino; and Chaplain Helen Barber.

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Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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n Catskill Town Board committee meeting with public hearing 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature CDBG program applications 6:20 p.m.; public hearing progress of GC CDBG program 6:25 p.m.; regular legislature meeting No. 7 6:30 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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21 following his arrest in early April on charges of driving while intoxicated in the town of Wilton in Saratoga County. The charges against Vanyo are still pending in court. Vanyo was placed on paid administrative leave from May 22 to June 30. The school board took the position that it would be in the best interests of the district, students and community if Vanyo voluntarily stepped down as superintendent, according to the district in May. “[Vanyo was] working with the district from a remote location to help prepare for his departure and ease the transition period of Bordick and an eventual new superintendent,” according to the district’s statement. To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

COXSACKIE — The Bronck Museum announces “The Toiling Tinsmith,” the first of its Sundays Along the River programs for the 2019 museum season. The program will begin at 2 p.m. July 14. Look around your house, plastic containers are everywhere. How did we manage before there was plastic? Before there was plastic there was tin, or to be more precise, tinned iron plate. Skilled craftsmen called tinsmiths produced an enormous variety of containers, cooking utensils and other useful household objects. Tinsmiths roamed country roads with clattering wagons full of their goods for sale to farm families and the proprietors of country stores. Tinsmiths were always welcomed and often invited to share a meal with the family, or even stay a day or two to repair the family’s worn tinware. A few tinsmiths are still working today and Art Thorman is one of the best. Thorman taught middle school social studies

inn the Greenville schools for 35 years and has been an working tinsmith for two decades. Over that time he has acquired the tools of n trade. the Thorman will be doing a live demonstration of tinn smithing, sharing his extensive knowledge of his craft, and displaying several n examples of the goods a tinsmith made. In a world where we seldom know or understand n how the objects we use every day are made this is a great opportunity to actually see something being made. n The Bronck Museum is located just off Route 9W, 1.5 n miles south of the intersection of Routes 9W, 385 and 81 near Coxsackie,n and is easily accessible

from NYS Thruway Exit 21B. Adult admission for this program is $8; members and children, $4. This event is made possible in part with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program administered by the GCCA. For additional information about this program or any of the upcoming special event programming at Bronck Museum visit gchistory.org.

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‘And justice for all’ imperiled The Twin Counties have a unique and challenging problem. It is nothing less than fulfilling the constitutional right of all persons accused of committing crimes to have the best possible defense. A task force will look at the state of rural law practices across New York to determine if there is a lack of sufficient legal services. State Bar Association President Henry M. Greenberg announced Tuesday the creation of the Task Force on Rural Justice to examine the issue. Ninety-seven percent of attorneys in New York state live and work in either urban or suburban areas, causing concerns in the legal community. “Research confirms what many attorneys in upstate New York already know — that there is an access-to-justice crisis in rural areas throughout New York,” Greenberg said. Some attorneys are sounding the alarm over a lawyer shortage. In April, a report on rural law practices in New York state based on a survey of rural attorneys between August and October 2018 found that the majority of rural law practices are comprised of either solo attorneys or small practices of two to five lawyers. Many are overwhelmed by the volume of cases and limited resources, and have difficulty finding qualified attorneys for case referral. More than 50% of rural attorneys are either at retirement age or close to it. Columbia County Public Defender Dominic J. Cornelius, who held the same post in Greene County, agreed with the survey’s finding that many rural, upstate attorneys

are nearing retirement. The problem is especially acute in Greene County. “A lot of the attorneys who handle criminal matters in Greene County have retired so the pool has gotten pretty small,” Cornelius said. Cornelius added that the problem is not new. There was a significant shortage when he began practicing in 1995. “The number of attorneys handling those types of matters has always been a problem,” Cornelius said. The study found that 74.3% of lawyers responding to the survey were 45 years of age or older, suggesting the problem may only get worse in the coming decades. Other attorneys are less concerned about the report. Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said he does not believe it is a local issue although some rural areas of the state may have a lack of attorneys. “I think Columbia County is very lucky to have a substantial number of highly qualified attorneys in most areas of justice,” Czajka said. “So, although I recognize that may indeed be the case in some rural parts of upstate, I don’t think that is the case in Columbia County.” A shortage of lawyers is unacceptable. The state task force’s job will be difficult but vital. It will examine the impact of rural attorney shortages, providing legal services in rural areas and the needs of rural attorneys. The key words here are “access to justice.” Access must be open to all. If it isn’t, a plank in the foundation of democracy will be lost.

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Tuesday seemed to bring a crucial victory in the contest between President Donald Trump and the democratic institutions he attacks. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the administration would abandon plans to ask a question on the 2020 Census about people’s citizenship status. After the Supreme Court repudiated Ross’ “contrived” explanation for asking the question, the addition of which would help Republicans in divvying up political representation, there would not be enough time for the administration to pursue its legal case and print census forms on time. So the Commerce Department decided to surrender and proceed with the printing. Then Trump threw a temper tantrum. “The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!” he tweeted Wednesday. “We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.” Government officials quickly reversed course, telling a Maryland judge they “have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census,” according to Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt. The Justice Department would seek expedited Supreme Court review if the Trump administration could establish some better reason to ask the question - one, presumably, that did not drip with bad faith like the last one. Good luck. At this point, the justices could not forget that the administration lied about its reasons for adding the question. What are

the real reasons? The rhetoric of Trump and his allies suggests they are motivated by the anti-immigrant fervor that has increasingly gripped the Republican Party. Yet federal law guarantees that census responses are strictly confidential. In other words, the president could not use the decennial census to crack down on illegal immigrants. The real value for Republicans lies in how the change would help them manipulate the electoral system for partisan gain. The added question would, first, discourage immigrants worried their responses would not be kept secret from returning their forms. This would depress the count in areas of the country that tend to elect Democrats, reducing the political representation they would be due and cutting the federal funding they would get. Down the road, states could also use census citizenship data to reformulate how political district maps are drawn, so that they are based on their eligible voter population rather than their total population, as all are now. This, too, would help Republicans. Of all the things the federal government does, the census must be a nonpartisan exercise with these overriding goals in mind: figuring out how many people are in the country and where they are. The courts rightly decided to defend it against a partisan Trump administration assault. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furmanwrote a careful, detailed evisceration of the decision to add the question. That teed up Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. to erect some guardrails around this wayward president. Trump should listen to the wiser voices in his administration and finally surrender in his quest to warp the census.

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How can presidential candidates be so silly? WASHINGTON — If California Sen. Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: private health insurance. Her 22 weeks of contradictory statements, and her Trumpian meretriciousness about her contradictions, reveal a frivolity about upending health care’s complex 18% of America’s economy. And her bumblings illustrate how many of the Democratic presidential aspirants, snug in their intellectual silos, have lost — if they ever had — an aptitude for talking like, and to, normal Americans. Seven days after announcing her candidacy in January, Harris, appearing on CNN, endorsed “Medicare for All” and was asked: So, people “who like their [private] insurance, they don’t get to keep it?” She answered: “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. ... Let’s eliminate all of that.” More government, less paperwork. Really. She subsequently, as The New York Times — not an unsympathetic auditor of her campaign — says, “waffled” regarding private insurance. But at the second Miami debate she raised her hand (“just as quickly as Mr. Sanders,” the Times reported) when a moderator asked: “Many people watching at home have health insurance through their employer. Who here would abolish their private insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Harris also raised her hand just as quickly as Sen. Elizabeth Warren had done the night before, who exclaimed “I’m with Bernie.” Sen. Bernie

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WILL Sanders is the purest advocate of a government-only health care system. The next morning on MSNBC, Harris said “No, I do not” support ending private health insurance, claiming that she heard the pronoun “their” in the debate moderator’s question (see the paragraph above) as an ungrammatical reference to each individual candidate. This alibi might be less implausible if she had not recently said, in a detailed response to a Times inquiry about her health insurance policy, that she favored abolishing private insurance. One cannot unring a bell and Harris cannot erase the fact that she has repeatedly said she wants to take from 217 million Americans — 80 million more than voted in 2016 — something most of them like. And she is striking at a core function of organized labor, which is to negotiate employer-provided health care as untaxed compensation. Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago. Nothing did more to fuel the conservative ascendancy in the 1980s than the 1970s enthusiasm of some judges and politicians for the compulsory busing of (other people’s) children away from their neighborhood schools, assigning children to schools on the basis of skin color in order to engineer a desired racial balance. In a 1973 Gallup poll, just 4% of whites and 9% of blacks chose busing from among a variety of

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means of achieving integration. Yet Harris chose this issue as a cudgel with which to bludgeon Joe Biden. He, evidently lacking the courage of what once supposedly were his convictions, had neither the gumption nor the mental nimbleness to ask her whether, as president, she would favor reviving the compulsory busing of children away from homes that many parents, black and white, purchased because of their proximity to desirable neighborhood schools. Biden is becoming a conviction contortionist, as with his retreat from 40 years of support for the Hyde Amendment. Suddenly he favors federal funding of abortions — forcing many taxpayers to be complicit in a practice they abhor. Many Democrats striving to replace Donald Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation. He prepared to campaign for president by calling America a “hellhole” and he began his presidency with an inaugural address that his would-be replacements are mimicking with their versions of his trope about “American carnage.” The day the Supreme Court held that “partisan gerrymandering” is not a justiciable issue, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, yet another presidential candidate, tweeted: “Make no mistake: the partisan gerrymandering SCOTUS just allowed is also racial gerrymandering — modern-day Jim Crow. Just look at what happened with Stacey Abrams last cycle in Georgia.” Abrams lost a gubernatorial race. How can a statewide race be gerrymandered? How can presidential candidates be so silly? George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Ellen E. Balich Ellen E. Balich, 73, passed ty and her own Buyer’s Agency peacefully into the arms of our in Chatham. She loved the Lord Lord on Monday, July 1. and attending Bible Predeceased by her sisstudy with her Hope ter, Deborah Sinnott, she Church family. is survived by her husA memorial service band Paul, brother Dawill be held on Saturvid Sinnott, sister Joyce day, July 13 at 10 am Caci, daughter Amy Valat Hope Church, 259 entine (Christopher) and Kemble St., Lenox, son Peter, grandchilMA. In lieu of flowers, dren Kristen and Adam donations in her name Balich Knights and Jameson may be made to the Balich. While raising her Alight Center in Hudfamily she worked at HMS Real- son, NY.

Palmer Jerome Westover GHENT, NY - Palmer Jerome other places he’d lived. Palmer Westover, 95, passed away at was predeceased by his parPine Haven Nursing and Reha- ents, his wife Florence “Flossie” bilitation Center on 2 July 2019. Smith Westover, his sister Lois Born in Chatham, he was the Ackerman, a son Michael P. son of Marion Palmer Loomis Westover, a daughter-in-law and George Jerome Westover. Mary MacPherson Westover Palmer, through the years, and a son-in-law Richard Tohad his own plumbing and heat- karski. His wife Flossie called ing business, worked for GLF him “Grampy”, but that’s an(now Agway), drove a school other story. Surviving him are bus for Chatham Central School his sons Gary (Patricia), Jeffry District, worked at (Gennifer), daughter Chatham Bowl mainJeanne, daughter-intaining the machines law Cynthia Tunis, his and retired from Sobeloved grandchildren noco, formerly Crellin Melissa Crysler (Keith), Plastics, in 1984. For Greg, Daniel and Misha Palmer, a stranger was Westover and several just someone he hadn’t nieces, nephews and visited with yet. He alcousins. ways had a story to tell A visitation will be Westover about plowing, haying, held at the French, Gifhitching horses, milking ford, Preiter and Blasl cows, tractor pulls, one-room Funeral Home, 25 Railroad Aveschoolhouses, the automobiles nue, Chatham, NY on Saturday, he owned starting in the late 20 July from 10:00 to 12:00, fol1930s, tales of Austerlitz and lowed by a graveside service at Spencertown, working in Hart- the Chatham Rural Cemetery. ford, CT during WWII, attending After the service, friends and the World’s Fair in 1939, camp- family are invited back to the ing the Adirondacks and Eastern Chatham firehouse. In lieu of Canada with his children, and flowers, memorial tributes can the places he had lived. His wide be made to Chatham Fire Devariety of residences include partment, 2 Hoffman Ave, Chaa camp in Maine, Calabash, tham, NY 12037 or Austerlitz North Carolina and Albuquer- Historical Society, 11550 Route, que, New Mexico. His friends Austerlitz, NY 11550 NY-22 in each of these areas know all 12017. Condolences may be about his experiences in the conveyed at frenchblasl.com.

Lois M. Rockefeller Lois M. Rockefeller, age 85 erl, Jessica Wagenbaugh, Jenyears, of Durham, passed away nifer Metzler-Brown and Dawn on July 4, 2019, at Albany Medi- Metzler, two great grandsons cal Center, Albany, N.Y. Ronin and Christopher and one She was born on May 5, great granddaughter Dylan. Lo1934, in Saugerties, N.Y. and is is also survived many nieces, is the daughter of the late Eu- nephews, cousins, many dear gene and Magdalene (Wolven) friends and neighbors. Myers. During her lifetime, Lois Relatives and friends are was employed as a clerk for cordially invited to attend callThe Building Department for ing hours at Richards Funeral the Town of Durham. She also Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, helped with the care N.Y. on Sunday, July of The Durham United 7, 2019 from 2:00 P.M. Methodist Church. She -4:00 P.M. and 5:00 was very family orienP.M. -7:00 P.M. tated and loved her Funeral services will community dearly. She be held at Richards Fubelonged to many orneral Home, 29 Bross ganizations, including Street, Cairo, N.Y. on The Ladies Auxiliary of Monday, July 8, 2019 at The East Durham Vol10:00 A.M. with Pastor Rockefeller unteer Fire Company James Steffens, Pastor of which she was a life of The Durham United Methodmember, The Greene County Volunteer Fire Association La- ist Church officiating. Interment will follow in the dies Auxiliary, The Red Hatters, family plot of The Blue MounGrandmas for the Troops, The Piecemaker’s Quilting Group, tain Cemetery, Saugerties, N.Y. and several senior groups Contributions in Lois’s memory mainly located in Greene Coun- may be made to any of the orty. Besides her parents, she is ganizations that she belonged predeceased by her husband to and loved. Words cannot James Rockefeller, her longtime express the amount of grace companion Fred Heller, also her that Lois always had, in many of daughters Donna Metzler and the most difficult times that she Brenda Wagenbaugh and her and her family have endured grandson Kyle Berry. Survivors over the years. She took great include her daughter Deborah care and time to care for and J. Berry and her husband Kevin, do whatever task she was doher brother William Myers and ing with full and complete perhis wife Beverly, two sisters fection always. She will surely Cynthia Fetty and her husband be missed by all. Condolences Fred, and Alice McPheeters, may be made at www.richardsfour granddaughters Lacey Fli- funeralhomeinc.net.

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After Confederate statues, America’s culture war targets Betsy Ross and a founding father Frances Stead Sellers, Alex Horton The Washington Post

As the nation has celebrated its birthday with displays of its contemporary power and prestige this week, two of its cherished historic symbols came under fire — its first flag and its third president. Sportswear company Nike pulled sneakers depicting the 13-star banner known as the Betsy Ross flag after former NFL football player Colin Kaepernick, who has a sponsorship deal with Nike, reportedly objected: The flag, which dates to the era of 18th-century slavery, has occassioanlly been used by white supremacists and other far-right groups. And the city council in Charlottesville, Virginia — where Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation is located — voted this week to scrap the former president’s local holiday in favor of one that celebrates the emancipation of African American slaves. The twin moves opened new fronts in the culture war that President Donald Trump foreshadowed two years ago, after white nationalists marched through Charlottesville to protest the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” Trump tweeted then. “Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson — who’s next, Washington, Jefferson?” The nation’s growing diversity and polarization has prompted an outcry over the stain of slavery and a reckoning with some of America’s most identifiable historic symbols. The debate over which figures and moments are to be celebrated and which condemned has shifted from emblems of the fallen Confederacy to those that are foundational to the nation’s origin. The giants of U.S. history are being taken off their pedestals, both literally and figuratively, to be reexamined, warts and all. “Different groups have different perspectives on how their ancestors were treated,” historian Jarret Ruminski said. “When people say there is too much historical revisionism, they don’t realize that professional historians are revising history all the time. It doesn’t mean facts change. But it’s an ongoing process; it never stops.” The battle to reframe American history has targeted various mementos, including statues in public parks and the names of buildings at private universities. In 2017, Yale University renamed Calhoun College, which commemorated former vice president John Calhoun, a vigorous supporter of slavery. Later that year, Trump was criticized for moving into the Oval Office a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, who drove Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the forced exodus known as the Trail of Tears. Across the country, state Democratic organizations have been changing the name of the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day fundraising celebration, a move that South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg recently endorsed. “You develop and evolve on the things that you choose to honor,” he said earlier this year in an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” In Charlottesville, the decision to replace the April 13 observation of Jefferson’s birthday with Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3 faced little challenge. City manager Tarron Richardson said the decision was prompted by the Unite the

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A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in Washington , D.C., with one of his sayings in the background.

Right Rally, which turned deadly when a white nationalist drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. “The events of August 2017 have challenged Charlottesville to confront its history and to acknowledge that this community has not always embraced all of our citizens as equals,” wrote Richardson, who is black. “It has changed the priorities for our work serving the community on issues from affordable housing to a living wage for our employees. We want Charlottesville to be known as a community that has learned important lessons from our long and complex racial history.” Jefferson has long been a celebrated figure in Charlottesville, where he founded the University of Virginia. His birthday, which has been recognized as a city holiday since 1945, is celebrated at the university with an annual wreath laying at the Jefferson Memorial. On the five-member Charlottesville council, only Kathleen M. Galvin voted against eliminating the holiday. In a statement, Galvin, who is white, said the observance allowed the city to engage in “a national and regional dialogue on Jefferson’s complex legacy that embodies both the promise of equality and individual freedom and the reality of white supremacy and oppression, thereby reflecting the many deep-rooted contradictions embedded in American culture and society today.” But Mayor Nikuyah Walker said that the conversation around Jefferson hasn’t been that balanced. While the city has long acknowledged Jefferson, it hasn’t given the same recognition to the “people who did the work, who built the buildings that wouldn’t exist without them,” referring to the University of Virginia. “He enslaved more than 600 individuals, raped them and bred people for economic benefit,” said Walker, who is black. The conversation about Jefferson is “balanced out to make people in positions of power and people with white skin feel comfortable about stories being told.” The movement to reexamine America’s heroes hasn’t always won its battles. Last fall, a working group of Texas education officials recommended teachers stop defining the American soldiers who fought the Mexican military at the Alamo as “heroic,” calling the term “value charged.” The recommendation drew fierce backlash, including from Gov. Greg Abbott. a Republican, who characterized it as “political correctness” run amok. The board kept the “heroic” language in the state curriculum. Some historians say it’s a mistake to apply the arguments used to dismantle Confederate symbolism to the nation’s Founding Fathers. “There is a difference be-

tween recognizing the people who founded the country and people who wanted to destroy the country,” said Annette Gordon-Reed, a Harvard history professor and the author of “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.” “You have to deal with the fact that the founding of the country was messy,” she said. Jefferson “embodies the country. All the problems and contradictions and good and bad parts.” Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Jefferson biography “American Sphinx,” noted that Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence have remained central to the nation’s values, evolving with American society’s notion of equality. President Abraham Lincoln viewed the words as an avenue to end slavery, Ellis said, and Martin Luther King Jr. used them to argue that the “promissory note” of inalienable rights had not been granted to black Americans. “Jefferson is the most resonant figure in U.S. history” because of his words in the Declaration of Independence, though he was a “racist who believed black people were inferior,” Ellis said. “What those words meant to him and what they mean now aren’t the same.” The Betsy Ross flag, which might not have been designed or sewn by the Philadelphia-based upholsterer, has been a largely uncontroversial symbol in American history, often displayed at presidential inaugurations. At President Barack Obama’s, it hung prominently from the Capitol building along with other historic U.S. flags. Like many symbols of America, the 13-star flag has on rare occasions been brandished by members of farright movements, according to Mark Pitcavage, the AntiDefamation League’s director of investigative research and a historian by training. But it has not been adopted or appropriated by the far right in the way that the Gadsden flag, with its “Don’t Tread On Me” message, is now associated with the tea party. “It’s not a hate symbol,” Pitcavage said. The Betsy Ross flag does not appear on the AntiDefamation League’s list of 179 hate symbols, which includes some drawn from America’s own past, such as the Confederate flag, which the Charlottesville marchers brandished in 2017 as they shouted racist and anti-Semitic slogans. The online database includes an invitation to viewers to write in and suggest symbols. “No one has ever written in suggesting the Betsy Ross flag, to my recollection,” Pitcavage said. John Coski, a historian at the American Civil War Museum, warned against simplifying what historic symbols stand for. Over the years, the Confederate flag

has been “a widely and carelessly used symbol of many things, including the South as a distinctive region, individual rebelliousness, a selfconscious ‘redneck’ culture, and segregation and racism,” Coski wrote in his 2005 book, “The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem.” The Gadsden flag, named after the 18th-century general and politician Christopher Gadsden, has also been used as a countercultural and anarchist emblem. Fitzhugh Brundage, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — where student protesters last year tore down a Confederate statue known as Silent Sam — said that the meaning of symbols has always shifted. But today, he said, a historic symbol can be contaminated almost overnight. “In a universe in which memes come and go in a matter in weeks, what is the half-life of that contamination?” he asked. “When can the Betsy Ross flag go back to what is was before it was contaminated?

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Plans being finalized for Summer Paw Picnic By Charlene Marchand

The recent summer-like weather and ample rainfall has really accelerated the growth of our gardens, as well as the weeds that compete with them. Last year at this time I was complaining about the serious drought we had experienced for the previous summers of 2016 and 2017, as well as early in the summer of 2018. Well, that all changed sometime last August when the rains began and the overly wet trend has continued right up until now. We are still experiencing showers at least two or three times a week, but some parts of the region are actually in need of some rain right now due to the evaporative transpiration that occurs every summer at this time. I have been using my overly full rain barrels to water my window boxes and potted plants, of course. I made a blunder a few weeks ago when I decided to use an alternative method of mosquito control in the barrels. Normally, I use “mosquito dunks” to control the mosquito larvae and this product is very effective, as well as harmless, to most other living organisms. This year I ran out of the “dunks” a couple of weeks ago so I decided to add canola oil to the barrels instead. Mosquito larvae need to breathe air even though they are aquatic, so putting a floating film of oil on the surface of the water will effectively suffocate them. I have a lot of canola oil on hand since I use it in my chainsaws in place of bar oil. It is far less expensive. I am not recommending this practice because chainsaw manufacturers recommend using only approved “bar oil,” but my chainsaws are old and they seem to run just fine. One downside is that the

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BEYFUSS saws smell like I am cooking French fries when they are running. Bears may also decide to chew on the saws if they are left outdoors, due to the tasty aroma they emit. Anyway, the canola oil seems to have acted as a nucleus or magnet for all sort of organic matter to congeal around it in the barrels and the result has been rather disgusting. I am reluctant to even use this water at all now, since it is so slimy. It also seems to have attracted some rodents and so far two chipmunks and a mouse have drowned in one of the barrels! I will dump the barrels before the next T-storms and add mosquito dunks when they refill. In our region there are very few plants that we need to avoid contact with, but there are three or four that can cause serious rashes if we get their sap on our skin. Poison ivy is the most common and everyone who ventures or gardens outdoors should learn to recognize this nasty native. “Leaves of three, let it be” is a good adage to adopt when working or playing outside. Poison ivy always has three shiny green, compound leaflets on plants that may grow as a trailing vine beneath other vegetation or as a shrub-like plant, or a climbing vine with a very hairy stem that clings to

tree trunks. The leaf shape is highly variable, ranging from slightly lobed, almost oak shaped to egg shaped. The other three rash-causing plants are closely related, in the parsnip family. Giant hogweed is hard not to recognize by its giant stature. It is a huge plant, growing 10 to 20 feet tall in full sun, with large, white, compound blossoms, up to two feet wide that might tempt some people to pick and take home. That would be a very bad idea! It is not native, but it is spreading across much of New York, mostly along roadsides. The hollow stems are two to four inches thick, featuring reddish, or purple blotches and the compound, highly dissected leaves, which clasp the stem, may be up to five feet long. It resembles Queen Anne’s lace, or wild parsnip and cow parsnip, which are the other common native plants that also have poisonous sap. Of these three, the most common is wild parsnip, which may also grow six to eight feet tall, but has bright yellow flowers and is just now beginning to bloom in our region. It is very common along roadsides and seeds itself readily in backyards. I would urge gardeners to be very careful while using weed whackers since these tools can splatter the highly infectious sap everywhere! Pictures of all of these plants may be found here: https://www.maine. gov/dacf/php/horticulture/ hogweedlookalikes.shtml Since all these plants are attractive and widespread, perhaps the best strategy is to learn to avoid them rather than try to eradicate them. Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

College Corner UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ALBANY — The University at Albany has announced its Dean’s Commendation for Part-Time Students for the spring 2019 semester. The following students have been named to the University at Albany Dean’s Commendation: Catskill: Adam Pitcher. Greenville: Sarah Mickelsen. ALBANY — The University at Albany has announced the dean’s list of distinguished students for the spring 2019 semester. The following students have been named to the University at Albany dean’s list: Athens: Marco Landi, Adolfo Lopez, Taylor Miller. Cairo: Gwen Cody, Taylor Nussbaumer, Patricia Rivenburg. Catskill: Anna Fonda, Deidra Murphy, Jacob Schroader, Murray Vliet. East Durham: Kelly Tirpak.

SUNY CANTON CANTON — SUNY Canton is recognizing its 2019 graduates. Among the students who graduated from SUNY Canton are: Derrek DuPont of Catskill, Kelly D. Conlon of Greenville, Kristen N. Heinmiller of Selkirk.

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE NEWARK, DE — The following area students have been named to the University of Delaware’s dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester.

Rebecca Carlson-Lee of Delmar, Eric Wolfsberg of Delmar.

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY SELKIRK — Kyle Christian Beck of Selkirk has been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

ITHACA COLLEGE ITHACA — Ithaca College congratulates the following local students named to the dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester: Zachary Islam of Delmar, Samantha Gifford of Selkirk, Morgan LaDuke of Ravena, Hannah Thien of Delmar. ITHACA — Ithaca College congratulates all May 2019 graduates. Nicole Marino of Hannacroix graduated magna cum laude with a BA in environmental studies; Mariel Rutkowski of Catskill graduated cum laude with a BS in clinical health studies; Mikaela Vojnik of Palenville graduated with a BM in music with an outside field; Emily Stento of Selkirk graduated cum laude with a BS in integrated marketing communications; John Riker of Selkirk graduated cum laude with a BS in business administration; Chelsea Kerker of Bethlehem graduated cum laude with a BS in televisionradio; Abigail MacKenzie of Delmar graduated magna cum laude with a BS in environmental science; Jacob Welton of Delmar graduated with a BS in business administration and accounting; Jacob

Generali of Delmar graduated cum laude with a BS in integrated marketing communications; Jesse Hoffman of Delmar graduated with a BS in exercise science.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY HEMPSTEAD — Hofstra University announces the dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester. Lily Warford of Delmar, Kamryn Ilgner of Saugerties. SAUGERTIES — Mason Rothe of Saugerties earned a spot on the Provost’s List at Hofstra University.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE — Madison Marcello of Greenville was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.

GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAIRO — Brigette Velez of Cairo was among 223 students named to the spring 2019 Provost’s List at Genesee Community College in Batavia.

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Final plans are underway for the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA’s 15th annual Summer Paw Picnic. This, without a doubt, is our most anticipated event of the year. On July 13, our medical director, Dr. Jerry Bilinski, and his wife Darlene, will again host our guests at their magnificent Waldorf Thoroughbred Farm in North Chatham. This year also holds special importance. We will be celebrating Dr. Bilinski’s 50th anniversary of his graduation from Cornell University. Many know of “Dr. B’s” incredible devotion, commitment, and generosity to our animal shelter for well over two decades. His role in our ability to provide the best home and services to our homeless and those in need can never be replaced! We are looking forward to greeting so many of our faithful supporters, and to welcoming and introducing new faces to our CGHS/ SPCA family. Reservations can be purchased online or at the shelter. Our day begins at noon. From noon-2 p.m., we have hay rides, barn tours and children’s activities. At

2:15 p.m., Brian Bradley will put on his “Skyhunters in Flight” program. Our gourmet picnic will be handled by the Old Daley Inn from 12:30- 2:30 p.m., followed by dessert, of course! We’ll also have a number of raffles and a silent auction, and we’ll be entertained by the Silver Chain Band at 3:30 p.m. The event is rain or shine, and we ask that your pets wait for you to come home. Feel free to call us with any questions at 518-828-6044 or visit www.cghs.org. Stop down and see us at 111 Humane Society Road, off Route 66 (about a mile south of the intersection with

Route 9H) in Hudson. Our hours are 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. every day. The Food Bank is open to any from the public in need of pet food or for those wishing to donate food anytime during business hours. All of our cats and kittens are “Furrever Free” with all expenses paid. Spay/neuter clinics for cats are $76 male or female, including a rabies vaccination and a 5-in-1 feline distemper combination vaccination. Nail clipping services are available 10-11 a.m. every Saturday at the shelter, no appointment necessary, for a donation of $5 for cats and $10 for dogs. Charlene Marchand is the Chairperson of the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors. She may be contacted at cghsaaron@gmail.com.

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ONGOING CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, hosts Make It! Crafts, Beading and Building for children 4 and older, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. This is a drop-in program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-622-9864. CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, presents Game On! Learn to play classic board games – and to design your own for children 5 and older, 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays. This is a dropin program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-622-9864.

JULY 6 TANNERSVILLE — Make a Fairy Cottage at Mountain Top Arboretum 10 a.m.-noon July 6 at the Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Admission is free to members; $10 for

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non-members. No advanced reservations necessary. We’ll get crafty and build our own fairy cottages out of gourds decorated with materials supplied by the forest. Take your creation home or install it in the Fairy Garden of the Arboretum’s Woodland Walk to be used by wee ones. For information, call 518-589-3903. ATHENS — Sleepy Hollow Lake will host its annual Summer Celebration noon til dark July 6 on the Lodge grounds, 102 Lisa Lane, Athens. This year’s festivities include swimming, water slides, miniature golf, a basketball shootout, a baseball batter-up, skee-ball, a hula hoop toss, face painting, music, and lots of yummy food to eat from a number of food vendors. The day’s events, which are open to the public, culminate with a sensational fireworks display. For information, contact the Association of Property Owners (APO) office at 518731-6175 or www.sleepyhollowlake.org. JEWETT — The Music at Grazhda concert series invites the mountaintop community and visitors of this Catskill region to the opening concert of the season at 8 p.m. July 6 at The Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County, Route 23A, Jewett. This season’s first concert will double as a fundraiser supporting the work of Music and Art Center of Greene County and will feature the young, up-andcoming soprano Antonian Chehovska. Tickets for the fundraiser, available at the door are $35.Children and

students, free. For reservations and additional information, call 518-989-6579.

JULY 7 COXSACKIE — Nite Train performs 6-8 p.m. July 7 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie. Admission is free. GREENVILLE — The Greenville Tractor Supply Company store will host a Farmers’ Market featuring locally-grown, fresh produce, as well as other seasonal products 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 7 at Tractor Supply, 11605 Route 32, Greenville. Shoppers can stop in for arts and crafts, local produce, jewelry and homemade crafts, all produced by neighbors in the Greenville area. Participating vendors will be set up in front of the store where they will showcase their goods. For information, contact the Greenville Tractor Supply at 518-966-5559.

JULY 8 GREENVILLE — Greenville Local History Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. July 8 at the Greenville, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. “Indian Fields, Greenville and the Flach Family” is the program. Philip “Flip” Flach will recall the arrival of his family to the Indian Fields-Alcove area in the early 1920s, only to have their lives affected by the building of the Alcove Reservoir in the late 1920s which wiped Indian Fields off modern day maps. The public is invited, free of charge, to the program. Light refreshments will be served.

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‘If it seems too good to be true, it usually is’ I have never been what you could call a lucky person. Oh, I think I’m average in the luck department but if a sea gull flew over a crowd and did what sea gulls do frequently, I’d most likely be the recipient of the gift from above. No more! I can’t believe the luck! Thanks to modern technology in the last two weeks I have received 19 e-mails informing me that I have won or become the beneficiary of millions of dollars and British pounds. Totaling up the sums involved, it comes to $88,650,000 U.S. dollars and 176,500,000 British pounds, a tidy sum indeed. It seems that there are airplanes filled with people I don’t know falling from the skies all over Africa and the banks there don’t seem to know who their money belongs to. These poor folks all seem to have been exceptionally wealthy with no relatives and somehow the banks have chosen me to be the recipient of all this wealth. The British National Lottery, The Euro Lottery, The Irish Draw Promo and The Irish Sweepstakes have all drawn my name. Yahoo Agenda of France has drawn my name in their email rewards program and are holding 10 million for me. BMW Automobiles pulled my name and have $250,000 and a new BMW waiting for me. I’d be suspicious if all these notifications of wealth awaiting hadn’t come from such

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BROOKS prestigious institutions and important people. One offer came — Chairman, Committee on Foreign Contract and Inheritance fund Payment Notification from United Nations and USA Government — Sir Allen Smith. Now a knight wouldn’t lie, would he? All I have to do in most cases is send my personal information, banking information (so the funds can be discreetly transferred) and I’m set for life. I could use a few extra millions and the new BMW would be nice but I think I’ll pass. Not being the luckiest of persons I learned early that if you wanted something, you went out and earned it. Most of these generous offers had misspellings and grammatical errors that offend me as an old teacher and the old adage “If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.” I’m a senior, not stupid. The two don’t go together well. Se-

niors get taken advantage of frequently because we know what hard times are and we’re sympathetic when some one seems to be in need. There are a lot of things we can no longer do ourselves so we need to have them done for us. If we’ve done those things all our lives, we might not know how much it costs to do them so we can be easy prey for unscrupulously repair and handy men. If we band together maybe we can help each other. If you have any suspicions about laying out cash or information, ask another senior if they would do what you’re about to. Check with your kids, you raised them right, didn’t you? They’ll help. Build a support system that you’re comfortable talking with in person, on the phone or email. Ask and we’ll show these leaches what it means to deal with Seniors. Actually, my luck has been good this week for real. I hit the Lottery for five bucks in hard cash I won on a dollar scratch off card. Things are looking up! Thought for the week — “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die.” — Klingon Proverb, Star Trek Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Greene County Vietnam Veterans celebrate 20th and last reunion GREENVILLE - The Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association of Greene County that originated in Freehold 20 years ago and is now headquartered in Greenville will be celebrating its 20th anniversary beginning at noon on July 27. At the invitation of the Greenville American Legion Post 291, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville, for the second year this will be the base camp again for this year’s reunion. The atmosphere and welcome put out by the officers and members of Post 291 for the veterans in attendance for this reunion is just incredible. Last year’s reunion at Post 291 brought back so many memories of the American Legion Posts of the past with veterans, their families, food, flags and just plain, old-fashioned comaraderie. This year’s guest speaker is one of the community’s own and has been a longtime member of the Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Bernard J. Malone Jr. Judge Malone returned from his tour of duty in Vietnam 50 years ago July 1969. He returned from Vietnam as a 1st lieutenant in the

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United States Army with a Bronze Star for meritorious achievement and the Army Commendation Medal. Returning with Judge Malone was Bob Whitbeck, who both served with the U.S. Army 1st Brigade of the Fifth Division (the Red Diamond Division). They never realized they had actually served together until about four or five years ago at one of the reunion meetings. Bob Whitbeck is a lifelong resident and grew up in Freehold, aside from absence during his 20-year Army career before serving as the director of the Greene County Veterans Service Agency. Since his retirement Judge Malone has assisted Vietnam veterans with legal advice and assistance. He also volunteers each month for the Legal Project at the Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany providing free legal services to veterans. He has strong ties to the Greenville area with his wife, the former Paula Strange of Greenville. There is also a special addition to this year’s reunion as the Vietnam veterans are working in conjunction with Stephen Willette, a 16-year retired United States Air Force veteran. The owner and photographer of Patriot Images, LLC he has tasked him-

self with photographing as many if not all of the 838,000+ veterans still living in New York state. He does this all at his own expense where those veterans he photographs can download their photo free of charge from his website, http://www.patriotimages. org All veterans regardless of conflict or peace-time service are urged not to just join in for the 20th reunion but also have your photograph taken that day for Willette’s incredible project where he is giving back to every veteran in New York. Join in as this will be the last reunion of the Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association. This reunion was at one time listed as one of the largest gathering of Vietnam veterans on the East Coast, boasting Vietnam veterans attending from over 26 states. Although this may be the last reunion, organizers say they will not be abandoning the veteran community as the motto of the Vietnam veteran is “Never Again Shall One Generation of Veterans Abandon Another.” The will continue helping veterans communities and those serving in harm’s way, organizers say.

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HEALING FESTIVAL GREENWICH — Veterans, first responders, firemen or emergency medical technicians who have suffered trauma in the line of duty — or those who have experienced sexual or physical abuse at some point in their life — are invited to attend a Healing Festival 4-8 p.m. July 20 at the Christ the King Center, 575 Burton Road in Greenwich.

Held outside under a large outdoor tent with idyllic vistas of Southern Washington County, the event will begin at 4 p.m. with a community chicken barbeque and pig roast featuring folk/Christian music by This Time Around. Dr. Mike Hutchings, director of education for Global Awakening, an evangelistic ministry in Mechanicsburg, Penn., will

then give a keynote presentation at 7 p.m. A prayer service will follow with musical accompaniment provided by the Hoosic Valley Community Church Worship Band. To register or for more information including lodging opportunities, contact Deacon Marian Sive at 518692-9550 or email msive@ ctkcenter.org.

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Pastor: Fr. Scott VanDerveer Weekly Mass: 9:00 a.m. Wed & Thurs Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Thurs 10-11 a.m. Wednesday 6-7:00 p.m. Thrift Shop Hours: Wed. 6:00-7:00 Thurs, Fri. & Sat. 1:00-3:00 p.m.

• Sunday Worship 11:00am (all are welcome) • Church School: “Faith Builders Kids Christian Education” Wednesday at 7pm • Wednesday, Bible Study & Prayer - 7-8:30pm (all are welcome) • Food Pantry, Last Saturday of the month, 10-11am and last Monday of the month, 5-6pm, or by appointment • Thrift Shop Open April 12 - Mid Oct., Thursdays 10 - 4 Saturdays 10 - 2 and when Food Pantry is open. (Handicap Accessible) • Youth Group - Grades 6 - 12 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 6:30pm

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Janine O’Leary, Parish Life Coordinator Fr. L. Edward Deimeke, Sacramental Minister Saturday* 4:00 p.m. EST / 4:30 p.m. DST *1st / 3rd Athens and 2nd /; 4th Catskill Sunday 8:45 a.m. Catskill / 10:45 a.m. Athens

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• Sunday Bible School 9:30 AM • Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM • 2nd Tuesday of the Month – Prayer Meeting 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM • Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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If you don’t • Sunday Morning Praise Time @ 10:00AM • Sunday School @ 10:15AM have a Church • Sunday Morning Worship @ 10:30AM Fellowship & Refreshments following Sunday Worship Service home, we invite •• Weekly Bible Study @ 7:00PM Monday Evenings you to join us. • Communion Sunday is the ﬁrst Sunday of every Month “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

Asbury United Methodist Church 5830 State Rte. 81, Greenville, NY 12083 518-966-4181 - Rev. Dale Ashby, Pastor www.asburyumcgreenvilleny.com • minister.asburyumcny@gmail.com secretary.asburyumcny@gmail.com • Facebook: @asbury.greenville.ny

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the general community, particularly in rural areas of the 19th Congressional District. Tim Broder, a veterans’ advocate and a trustee with the Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association, held each year in Greenville, said many veterans have been “impressed” with Delgado’s responsiveness to their needs. What are the top health issues facing veterans today? Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder is among the concerns topping the list, Broder said. “PTSD is a big issue for veterans, as well as suicides,” Broder said. One of the needs in the veterans’ community with regard to health care is support for families of veterans with PTSD, Broder said. “With PTSD, a lot of times the families don’t understand and I think the families could use more support and more education,” Broder said. “Some families are reluctant to go to support groups, so I think it would be good if it were made more available to them.” Treatment for veterans who were exposed to the her-

bicide and defoliant chemical Agent Orange in the Vietnam War is another area in need of support, Broder said. “I have a good friend who was a mechanic on some of the airplanes that sprayed Agent Orange. He wasn’t ‘boots on the ground’ in Vietnam, but he has cancer, his kids have cancer and his grandchildren have cancer. Agent Orange can go down seven generations in the gene pool before it is out of the gene pool for that family,” Broder said. “But he can’t access veterans’ benefits because he wasn’t in Vietnam and he wasn’t in areas where they are giving approval to be treated, like the DMZ in Korea. He doesn’t fall into the classification where he can qualify for treatment.” Gary Flaherty, director of veterans services for Columbia County, agreed that obtaining treatment for Agent Orange was a big issue for veterans, particularly for a class of veterans who were not covered until a couple of weeks ago. Flaherty said obtaining benefits for Blue Water Navy veterans — those who served on open-sea ships off the shore of Vietnam during the Vietnam War — is a major concern for his department. “The big issue I work on for veterans right now is trying to get all the Blue Water

Navy guys taken care of,” Flaherty said. “The president signed a bill authorizing the Blue Water Navy veterans to get the same treatment as soldiers on the ground. Congress passed a bill and the president signed it two weeks ago, and I am already taking Blue Water Navy cases. The sad part is that a lot of these Navy guys who had Agent Orange issues like cancer and heart disease have died waiting for treatment, including several in our area. I have 11 sailors who have applied for VA compensation based on Agent Orange exposure.” Broder and Flaherty said an increasingly emerging health care concern for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is exposure to “burn pits” during their service. Burn pits were used to openly incinerate garbage and waste products, and have led to health care issues down the road. “We are trying to get legislation through that the veterans who were exposed to the burn pits would get the same benefits as those who are now treated for Agent Orange,” Flaherty said. “Veterans are coming down with all kinds of illnesses related to their exposure to those burn pits. That legislation is now working its way through Congress.”

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Trump considering executive Post order to add citizenship question to census By David G. Savage and Noah Bierman Los Angeles Times (TNS)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was contemplating several ways to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census, including an executive order, despite legal and logistical hurdles that could stop him. The administration has been scrambling to revive the issue since the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision last week that the administration had used a contrived process to put the question on the survey. The court, while stopping the question for now, left a slim opening if the administration could find a legal basis for adding it. But Trump has been sending mixed signals for days and U.S. District Judge George Hazel has asked Justice Department lawyers to state definitively what the administration is doing by 2 p.m. Eastern time Friday. The Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, said Tuesday that it would begin printing forms without

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Department special operations officer. The hard-wired radio system allows the diver to talk to his shore tender and vice versa. In addition, the diver can be linked into his backup diver to communicate. The surface tender has a headset and the diver has it wired into his mask. In the past, the divers used rope pull signals to communicate. “We were limited with what could be communicated from shore to diver and diver to shore,” Hickey said. “And it had to be clarified when the diver came back up to the surface.” The new system is expected to be much faster and more efficient, Hickey said. The new communication system has a range of 125 feet and a depth of 60 feet, Hickey said. “It’s a lot more reassuring and a confidence booster to

the citizenship question, retreating from the long legal battle. But Trump on Wednesday tweeted that news of his retreat was “incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!” and that the administration would instead continue the fight. “We’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters Friday as he set out for a long weekend at his summer retreat in New Jersey. “We could also add an addition on. So we could start the printing now and maybe do an addendum after we get a positive decision. So we’re working on a lot of things, including an executive order.” It’s unclear whether the Commerce Department could actually add the question later and what that might cost. Government lawyers had told the courts previously that they had to begin printing the final surveys by the beginning of July. The back and forth has exasperated Hazel and confused Trump’s own attorneys in the Justice Department, one of whom told the judge that he only learned about Trump’s order to revive the fight by reading

have someone on the other side down in the water where it is pitch-dark and cold to have someone saying you’re doing fine.” The divers will break out the equipment once again July 17 when they participate in a large-scale search and rescue training simulation in the Hudson River with the U.S. Coast Guard. The dive team could answer anywhere from three to 15 calls per year. The team has been called to assist agencies in Greene, Dutchess, Rensselaer and Ulster counties, Hickey said. The sheriff’s offices in Columbia and Greene counties both have similar radio underwater communication systems, Hickey said, which will mean the dive teams can coordinate on large-scale operations. Commonly known as the Frog Squad, the Hudson Fire Department Water Rescue and Scuba Team was formed in 2003 after a child drowned while playing near the bulkhead of the Hudson Boat

Twitter. The nature of Trump’s public deliberations could make it harder for his legal team to prove that adding the question is, as the courts require, the product of a well-considered process. Several conservative attorneys have suggested that an executive order laying out Trump’s reasons for adding the question could move through the courts faster than a bureaucratic process in the Commerce department. The question carries broad ramifications for many states. Experts say its inclusion would probably discourage many people, particularly immigrants, from answering the census. Lower population counts in states with large immigrant communities could shift government funding and political representation to other states. (c)2019 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Launch. It took more than 90 minutes for a diver to arrive on the scene and the child was found two hours later, underwater and in the exact spot he was last seen, according to the Hudson Fire Department’s website. There are more than 30 members that volunteer as part of the dive teams from Hudson and Athens. The $9,000 for the equipment was entirely raised through donations and through the Polar Plunge and did not impact the city budget, Hickey said. “We hope we are going to keep doing the Polar Plunge and Youth Department and subsidize the costs of any future equipment as we keep up with technology,” Hickey said. “This has been a huge help and we are very excited to have it. It is definitely going to make us a lot more efficient at our jobs and a lot safer.” To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

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it’s grown considerably,” Andreassen said. The post today has about 64 members, Past Commander Salvatore Pusatere said. Throughout the last century, the post has remained true to its values, Andreassen said. “The Legion, nationally and locally, is all about our veterans and their families in our communities,” he said. In addition to helping veterans, Post 110 offers community programs for youth, such as Boys State and Boy Scouts. “Our post also awards college scholarships to children whose mothers or fathers sacrificed their lives in the global war on terrorism,” post member Richard Egan said. The national American Legion helps families of deployed troops through the Family Support Network and Operation Military Family Outreach, Egan said. Once troops return home, Post 110 helps them return to civilian life with the Heroes to Hometowns program, he added. Post members also visit veterans in local nursing homes,

Andreassen said. An important element of Post 110’s mission is attending funerals of veterans, who receive a formal veteran’s burial with a rifle salute and taps, he said. “We encourage families or friends to contact us on the death of a veteran in the family,” he said. To commemorate the post’s milestone, the ceremony will begin with a posting of the colors and a performance of the National Anthem by Laura Marriott. John Rusack, the Post 110 Chaplain and a World War II veteran, will give the opening benediction and Rev. Rick Snowden of Community Life Church will bless the veterans. Several guest speakers will talk about Post 110 and its role in local history, Joy Andreaseen added. “We will be displaying 100 years of militaria loaned to us from the Veterans History Museum, Post 72, in Saugerties,” Andreassen said. Artifacts from wars dating back as early as World War I will be on display, Joy Andreassen said. Post 110 also has 36 DVDs on wars from the Civil War to 2019, available for viewing, Andreassen said.

In addition, the celebration will feature antique cars and motorcycles, with an open invitation to the public to participate with their own vintage vehicles. There will be no formal competition. Catskill Elementary School fifth graders participated in the Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 art contest for its 100th anniversary celebration. First place was awarded to Aubree Kelly, with Mariska Newman and Wesley Peden placing second and third, respectively. “Aubree’s drawing, as the first-place winner, will be featured on the program cover that day,” Joy Andreassen said. All of the participants will have their artwork on display at the ceremony, she added. The American Legion is the nation’s largest wartime veterans service organization. “The American Legion’s success depends entirely on active membership, participation and volunteerism. The organization belongs to the people it serves and the communities in which it thrives,” Andreassen said. “Hundreds of local American Legion programs and activities strengthen the nation one community at a time.”

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food source as they travel. The most attractive human sources of food are poorly stored garbage, bird feeders, greasy grills, and pet food left outdoors. “Once a bear finds these foods, it will often continue to return to the area in hopes of finding the same food again.” For those with the best interests of the bear at heart who like to see bears by their homes, be advised that bears with access to human foods are put at serious risk. Remember, “A fed bear is a dead bear.” If you want your local bear to avoid being euthanized, it is best to follow these common sense precautions. “Bears will avoid large groups of people. If a bear is seen in a community, residents should simply be aware of the bear’s presence and avoid any interaction with it….DEC staff and local police officers will sometimes attempt to direct a bear toward a better location, away from developed areas, but this is not always possible. Nearly all urban bears leave as quickly and quietly as they appear, without serious conflict or need for

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DEC recently issued guidance to reduce human-bear conflicts in response to black bears being reported in a number of suburban locations. DEC is encouraging homeowners and property managers to follow a few simple steps to discourage bears from becoming a nuisance. These include storing garbage in secure buildings, removing bird feeders, and feeding pets indoors. The key is to preventing bear’s from becoming a nuisance is to deny them access to human food sources. If we follow the simple tried and true adage, “Remove the food, remove the bear,” nearly all bear human conflicts can be avoided. “Conflicts between people and bears typically increase in summer months due to the dispersal of young bears from family groups, the onset of the breeding season, and a lull in natural food availability prior to the ripening of local berries and other natural food sources.” Bears are opportunistic feeders and take advantage of anything they consider a

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GREENPORT — Wednesday night featured game in the Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League had the Rattlers taking on the defending HRCBL champion Knights. It turned out to be a slugfest with the Snakes defeating the Knights, 12-11. The Knights’ coach Johnson, who also coaches at the College of Saint Rose, gave pitching responsibilities to Brandon Preusser. Preusser pitched 4.2 innings getting one strikeout with three walks, allowing six hits and eight runs to cross the plate, of which seven runs were earned. Coach Johnson turned the game over to Nick Shallo, who attends HVCC. Shallo Pitched 4.1 innings getting four snakes to strikeout and only yielding one walk. Shallo also allowed four hits and four runs, but only two earned. Coach Joe Braim has managed the Rattlers to a 12-2 record, which is the top spot in the HRCBL. Braim played his college ball for Southern Vermont College. The skipper sent his best pitcher to the mound to face the Knights. SUNY Plattsburgh’s Matt Triola, who pitched four innings. Triola did not have his best stuff and gave up 12 hits and eight runs with three strikeouts and no walks. Braim called the bullpen and got a familiar face to take over the pitching. In fact, a former teammate, Nick Gamberdella From SVC, who entered in relief to pitch four innings. Gamberdella got strikeouts, but had six walks. He also allowed two hits and three earned runs. Coach Braim made one last call to the pen to bring on his closer. Mike Reith from Fulton-Montgomery Community College pitched the ninth inning and slammed the door on the Knights. Reith had one strikeout and did not allow a hit, a walk or a run. At the plate, the Knights

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were lead by Christian McCarthy, who plays for the nationally-ranked SUNY Oswego team. McCarthy went 3 for 5 with 3 singles and one RBI, Tyler Hanrahan, who is committed to Bentley University, went 3 for 5 with three singles. Hanrahan attended Maple Hill High School. Fulton-Montgomery Community College’s Brandan McGillin and SUNY New Paltz’s Brien Hollowood went 2 for 4 with two singles and a walk, Former Catskill standout Pat Sullivan went 1 for 4 with a single and was hit by a pitch, SUNY Oswego’s Ryan Weiss went 1 for 4 with a double, a walk and two RBI, George Cox from HVCC and former Hudson standout Tyler Drahushuk went 1 for 4 with a walk. The Snakes collected 10 hits. Zac Cronk, another SVC player, went 3 for 5 with three singles. Jake Deziel from Fisher College went 1 for 4 with See RATTLERS B4

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Knicks canceled Kawhi meeting . . . was that the right move? Steve Popper Newsday Knicks executives have arrived in Las Vegas, their work in free agency complete, with six new faces signed up to try to change the fortunes of the team. But it isn’t the Summer League schedule that will determine whether they actually did their work right. We already know it didn’t quite work out the way the team pictured months ago. That’s when they were intent on signing the top stars on the free-agent market, with the Kevin Durant-Kyrie Irving combination providing star power the organization hadn’t seen in a long time. Now word has filtered out through the organization that team president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry decided to call off the possibility of meeting with Kawhi Leonard because his schedule — putting off a meeting with them after sitting down with the Clippers and Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday — didn’t match up with what they had on their schedule. The Knicks had a sense that among the teams remaining in the mix for the services of Leonard, perhaps the best two-way player in the game, they were fourth behind the two L.A. teams and the team he just brought a championship, the Raptors. That is understandable and probably correct. But a league source confirmed that the Knicks walked away from the meeting. Was that the right thing to do? The Knicks had their sales pitch in place for months — New York, Madison Square Garden, a relationship with Leonard’s uncle, Dennis Robertson, who is an influential force in Leonard’s career. And they had whispered last month that they would make a hard push at signing Leonard. Now, did they really cancel that out so they could assure themselves of not getting beat out on the signing of some combination of Bobby Portis, Taj Gibson, Elfrid Payton, Reggie Bullock and Wayne Ellington? The team had $70 million in cap space available, so they could have made their first and most expensive strike — Julius Randle, whom they gave a threeyear, $63 million deal, with the third year a team option — and still had the money left to pursue Leonard. Is there a chance they could have lost out on the remaining quintet of players whom they signed? Sure. But the thing with canceling the meeting is it goes against everything the organization has preached in how they do business these days. The Knicks have talked about sitting with these star free agents as a chance to introduce themselves and

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After 5,060 straight Yankees games, a day off for Sterling James Wagner The New York Times News Service

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For the first day off from his job in 30 years, the man who broadcast every pitch thrown by Mariano Rivera and every inning played by Derek Jeter planned to enjoy waking up whenever he wanted. He also had a project to tackle at home: sorting through a pile of mail that he has ignored for a while. “I’m getting my act together for the second half,” John Sterling, the longtime voice of the New York Yankees on the radio, said Wednesday, the day before his break started. Until Thursday, his 81st birthday coincidentally, Sterling had worked 5,060 straight Yankees games since 1989, according to the Yankees. The baseball season is an eight-month marathon — two for spring training and six for the 162-game regular season — and that does not include the playoffs, which can add another month for a team that reaches the World Series. It all caught up to Sterling. And so, for the first time since Don Mattingly was the team’s first baseman and Dallas Green was the manager, the Yankees will play a game without Sterling behind a microphone.

In fact, he will miss the entire four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays that will close out the first half of the season. Coupled with the upcoming AllStar break, that will give Sterling eight straight days to rest. The reason for the time off: his health. In interviews this week, Sterling has said he feels a bit under the weather. But before Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets, Sterling insisted he wasn’t sick. “I’m just run down,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with me.” He later said his doctor had set three goals for the respite: “Eat to put back on the weight I’ve lost, drink a gallon of water a day, and sleep.” With Sterling back home on Thursday, the Yankees maintained their firm grasp on first place in the American League East with an 8-4 victory in 10 innings over the Rays. Sterling, a father of four, also heard from several worried friends telling him they were glad he was finally taking a day off. Some had noticed that Sterling was coming to work tired — the Yankees’ recent trip to London didn’t help — and struggling to walk up stairs. “I just want John to be

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healthy, and we’ve got a long way to go before, hopefully, a World Series,” said Suzyn Waldman, Sterling’s radio broadcast partner of the past 15 years. “And the streak is wonderful, but that’s the past.” Waldman recalled being in Baltimore when infielder Cal Ripken Jr. took himself out of the Orioles’ lineup against the Yankees on Sept. 20, 1998, ending his record streak of consecutive games played at 2,632. Like Sterling this week, Ripken finally

relented and admitted a day off was for the best. “I don’t think anyone will ever do it again,” Waldman said of Sterling’s streak. “But I’m concerned about John Sterling from here on out. He’s got a lot of life to live, and he’s got a lot of life in him.” Sterling had already established himself as a durable voice before joining the Yankees broadcast 30 years ago. He called Atlanta Hawks basketball games (1981-89) and Atlanta

Braves baseball games (198287). For five years, that meant 220 basketball and baseball games combined a year. “Even I think that’s amazing,” Sterling said. In 1989, Sterling missed two games to attend his sister’s funeral — and he still doesn’t think those games should count against his streak. But this time, Sterling said, the decision to take a break was fairly easy. His bosses and colleagues at WFAN had been encouraging him to rest. “It’s just a number of games,” he said. “I really need the time off.” Legions of Yankees fans have grown up listening to Sterling’s baritone voice, outsize personality and trademark phrases, including personalized home run calls and declarations of victory: “Theeeeeeee Yankees win!” He had cataract surgery last year to correct his vision, which had led to miscalculating some fly balls. Sterling wears a suit to the ballpark every day, even though his audience cannot see it. When he talks about a specific game off the air, he sometimes grabs his left ear as if he were wearing his headset. “For him to have gone this long without missing a game

is frankly unfathomable,” said Jack Maldonado, the longtime producer of the Yankees’ radio broadcast. Filling in for Sterling during this series will be Ryan Ruocco, a television play-by-play announcer, studio host and reporter for the YES Network who also has a background in radio. The Yankees’ television broadcast will also have a void: Michael Kay, the play-by-play announcer on the YES Network, said on Wednesday that he would miss about a month because of surgery to correct a problem with his vocal cords. Howie Rose, the Mets’ radio voice, said he had long hoped for Sterling to take a break. The grind of the season and the latenight arrivals in a new city, the 65-year-old Rose said, weigh exponentially more on the body with age. “I just hope, as a friend, assuming that he gets through this and gets back to good health, that he realizes that none of us have a license to live forever,” Rose said. “I just hope that, when the dust settles, that John is able to enjoy his life just as much away from the ballpark.”

Major standings implications highlight Daytona weekend Field Level Media DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The intensity and gamesmanship is increasing weekly with nine races remaining to set the 16-driver Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoff field, and Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 has typically provided a dramatic summer twist in this title hunt. Twice in the last five years – including last year with Erik Jones and 2014 with Aric Almirola – winning the summer Daytona race represented a driver’s automatic entry in the playoffs. Both times, the drivers jumped over several otherwise higher-ranked drivers for a playoff berth. A solid and safe position in the standings is obviously valued, but this season especially, “safe” is difficult to come by. Nine positions among the championship top 16 changed just this week as a result of last

Sunday’s dramatic race at Chicagoland Speedway. Chicago race winner Alex Bowman guaranteed his playoff spot with a victory. But the bigger shakeup happened further down in the standings – with all 11 positions from 12th to 22nd changing in one form or another – all potentially affecting the crucial playoff cutoff mark. Clint Bowyer took the biggest tumble, falling four positions from 12th to 16th in the standings after a frustrating 37th-place finish at Chicago in the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. On the upside, Jimmie Johnson’s fourth-place finish at Chicago vaulted him three positions upward in the series driver standings. Instead of sitting one position off the cutoff in 17th – as he was before the Chicago race – he’s now 14th and looking ahead – only

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everything going for us coming into the season! What I’m looking forward to most is, seeing how well we compete in the postseason as other teams in the league are beginning to come around and play really well, too.” The HRCBL has a full schedule for Saturday at Greenport Park. It starts with the Storm vs. Bucks at 9 a.m. , then Bucks vs. Rattlers at 11:30 a.m., Rattlers at Bears at 2 p.m. and Bears vs. Knights at 4:30 p.m. Storm 8, Bears 6 The Storm earned an 8-6 victory over the Bears in recent Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League action at Greenport Town Park. Bears’ coach Reinisch started Clarkson University’s sidearm specialist Griffin Racey in the hopes that he could shutdown the league’s hottest team. The Storm started the season 1-3 but have gone 7-2 over their last nine games. They are on a four-game winning streak with an 8-5 overall record, good for second place in the league as they chase the first place Rattlers, who are 11-2. Racey pitched five innings, getting two strikeouts with one walk, but allowing nine hits, eight runs with six earned. Reinisch entered Mikey Garcia from Mohawk Valley Community College in the sixth inning. Garcia pitched four complete innings, striking out three Storm players while allowing two walks and only three hits. Coach DuPont started SUNY Canton’s Derrek DuPont

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er College went 1 for 4 with a single and a walk, Quinn Pratico, who attended Maple Hill, and Tanner Dunkel from Wells College, both had a single, Mike Reith went 1 for 3 with a single and a walk, Kyle Welch from Bryant & Stratton College of Albany went 1 for 3 with a single, a walk and an RBI, Colby Nash 1 for 3 with a single, and RBI and was hit by a pitch, Ryan Abel from Stonehill College went 1 for 4 with a double, a walk and two RBI. The Knights appeared to have this game won a few times during the game, but sloppy play in the outfield and infield plagued them all game, opening the door for the Rattlers to gain momentum. “Tonight’s win was a nail bitter,: coach Braim said. “Thankfully, Mike Reith came in and shut down the side in the ninth inning to earn his third save for the season. The team stuck together really well, it was a very hot and long nine inning game, with the lead going continuously back and forth. It was a great win.” Braim added “ This season has been tremendous, the Rattlers have really just clicked together. As a firstyear coach, it’s amazing to see the team playing so well together. To start the season, we won the first eight. Collectively, the team came out ready to play and we had

15 points behind Kyle Larson for 13th. As with Johnson, the Chip Ganassi Racing driver Larson is still looking for his first win of the 2019 season, but his runner-up finish at Chicago was good enough to move him up two positions in the standings. Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron, who led nine laps and ran up front for much of last week’s race, also benefited from the effort. His eighthplace finish at Chicago puts him 12th in the championship, 27 points shy of Almirola in 11th and the highest standing in the series championship the second-year driver Byron has ever achieved. On the downside, Daniel Suarez lost two championship positions, falling from 13th to 15th, following a 24th-place showing at Chicago. He trails

on the bump. DuPont did not have his best stuff and exited the game after the second inning, giving up four hits , with three earned runs and two walks. Coach DuPont called the bullpen to get Aidan Jackson, the former Chatham Panther who now attends HVCC. Jackson pitched four innings, getting four strikeouts, allowing two walks, with four hits and two earned runs. MCLA’s Jimmy Miller came on in the seventh inning. The former Saugerties Sawyer allowed just one hit and got one strikeout. In the eighth inning, Coach DuPont went to the Storm’s closer, Union College’s Adam Hall. The hard-throwing lefty hurler pitched the eighth and ninth innings, getting four strikeouts, two walks and allowing three hits and one earned run. “This was a big team win, a complete team effort,” Coach Dupont said. “Aidan Jackson gave us big innings when we needed it most. Jimmy Miller gives us consistent quality pitching every time out and Adam Hall is in attack mode every time he takes the mound. I love battling with this team.” The Bears had a great night at the plate with 12 hits. They were lead by HVCC’s Christian Nolan who went 2 for 5 with a single, a double and an RBI, Rutgers University’s Kamran Chada went 2 for 4 with a single and a double while Tyler Pavone from the College of Saint Rose went 2 for 4 with two singles. Donavan

Johnson by two points but holds only a three-point cushion on Bowyer. Ryan Newman also lost two places in the standings, falling from 16th to 18th. He now trails Bowyer for the last playoff transfer position by 20 points. XFINITY SERIES AT DAYTONA The championship situation in the NASCAR Xfinity Series continues to be an intense game of one-upmanship between three of the brightest young racing stars. Friday night’s Circle K Firecracker 250 Powered by Coca-Cola may be a good opportunity for a new driver to celebrate in Victory Lane and earn a shot at this year’s title. Entering the race, three drivers – Tyler Reddick, Cole Custer and Christopher Bell – have combined to win 11 of the season’s 15 races, includ-

Rhoden who just won a New York State baseball title with Ballston Spa went 1 for 4 with a double, a walk and one RBI. Rhoden has committed to play baseball for HVCC. C-GCC’s Matt Sweet went 1 for 4 The former Hudson Bluehawk had a double, a walk and one RBI. Mikey Garcia had a single, a walk and an RBI, Amsterdam High School and Union College commit Andrew Giaimo and Cazenovia College’s Felix Day singled and SUNY Polytechnic’s Manny Santiago ripped a ground rule double and had two walks. The Storm also had 12 hits. Former Saugerties Sawyer and current Salisbury University Sea Gull Brandan Bonesteel lead the charge, going 2 for 3 with a single, a double, two walks and an RBI. Bonesteel is leading all hitters in the HRCBL with .500 average. Christian Baaki, committed to Vassar College, had two singles and three RBI, St John Fisher College’s Kurt Forsell had two singles, Fairfield University’s Matt Ferriero, C-GCC’s Jeremiah Ernst and Bentley University’s David VanBeuskom all singled, Noah Valvo from SUNY Polytechnic had a single, a walk and an RBI, SUNY Cortland and Former Taconic Hills standout Joe Dwy doubled, Lewi Clarke from Manhattan College hit a sacrifice fly to get one RBI and Nyack College’s Chris Colotti chipped in going 1 for 4 with a single.

ing Custer’s win at Chicagoland Speedway just last week. A member of the trio has hoisted trophies in the last nine consecutive races. But Daytona International Speedway always presents a unique challenge and opportunity. Only one time in the last decade has an Xfinity Series regular won this summer Daytona race: Byron in his 2017 Xfinity championship season. Last year, Cup star Kyle Larson held off Xfinity title contender Elliott Sadler by a mere .005 seconds in the closest July race finish in history. Ironically, Reddick’s win in February of 2018 – also over Sadler – marked the closest finish in NASCAR national series history, a photo finish decided by .0004 seconds. The driver of the No. 2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet is the only one of this year’s Tri-

umphant Trio to have won an Xfinity race previously at Daytona. He has a pair of top-10 finishes in five starts here. Bell, who drives the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, has two top-10 finishes in three Daytona starts, and his team is undoubtedly eager to rebound from a disqualification last week at Chicago that dropped him from second to third in the title standings. Custer, the driver of the No. 00 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, has yet to earn a top-10 in five starts at Daytona. His best showing is 14th, and he’s done that twice, in February of 2018 and 2019. Five other drivers scored their best result of the season at Daytona earlier this year, including Justin Allgaier, a five-time race winner in 2018 who is still looking for his first victory of the year. He finished runner-up this February.

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Nielsen, Jacob Cole, Shawn Foley, Jeremy Waite, Melvin Mathers, Erasme “Yo” Mercado, Sierra Shelton, Kyle Winters, Justin Westfall, Cody Chamberlain, Oriana Waite, Dylan Thorn, Corinn Haskin, and Samantha Kirk. The following students will be traveling to Mason, Michigan, July 10-13, to represent the team in Nationals: Sierra Shelton, Patrick Stark, Charles Beck, Oriana Waite, Jacob Cole, Nole Atwood, and Jacob Fuchs. The trap team would like to thank the Taconic Hills Central School District and sponsors for all their support this year. Your support and contributions made it possible for the athletes to accomplish what they did. A special thank you goes out to Coach Dave Siter, Coach Tom Tiano III, Bill Gibson, score keeper, Alison Stark and Francis Kucija, organizers, Grant Prime, Richard Ruggles, Ed Haskin, safety officers.

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Tournament Championship. While at state finals some of our talented shooters were recognized. Charles Beck was awarded with first place conference 12 and second place overall in New York State. Rachael Ruggles placed third place overall in the girls state, and Alex Chamberlain came in third place in the conference and 10th place overall in the state. Student shooters participated in the State Tournament with the top five shooters counting for the day with the total of 472 out of 500. Students that participated were: Robert Burns, Noah Kilmer, Logan Philips, Joe Skabowski, Ed Smith, Charlie Beck, Alex Chamberlain, Patrick Stark, Dylan Mottoshiski, Rachael Ruggles, Jacob Fuchs, Ryan

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Bear From B1 physical removal.” DEC advises taking the following steps to avoid attracting and creating nuisance bears: NEVER FEED BEARS INTENTIONALLY — Feeding bears intentionally is illegal and a ticketable offense. Bears that obtain food from humans will continue to seek food from humans and become nuisance bears. Around Dwellings Remove all bird feeders; Keep garbage, grills, pet food, and bird seed inside a solid, secure structure (house, shed, garage, etc.); If grills cannot be secured, move grills away from houses and remove grease traps after each use; Put garbage on the curb the morning of collection, not the night before, and use bearresistant trash containers; and Close garage doors and ground-floor windows/doors at night. At Campgrounds Keep campsites as clean as possible; Clean up after all meals immediately. Keep grills, pots, pans, cooking utensils, and wash basins clean when not in use; Leave coolers and food inside car trunks or truck cabs; Store food and coolers in food lockers when available; NEVER keep food, coolers, or scented items in tents when camping. Store toiletries securely with coolers and food; Do not put grease, garbage, plastic diapers, cans, bottles, or other refuse into the fireplace; and dispose of garbage in the campground’s dumpsters every evening. In the Backcountry Pack a minimal amount of food. Use lightweight and dehydrated foods. Plan all meals to avoid leftovers; Use bear-resistant food canisters, which are required in the Eastern High Peaks Wilderness of the Adirondack Park; Cook and eat before dark and cook away from campsites; Avoid spills and drippings while cooking and do not pour grease into fire pits; and Never leave food unattended. If you encounter a bear Don’t panic. Most bears are just as afraid of people as people are of bears; Never approach, surround, or corner a bear; Back away slowly — do not run; Do not throw backpacks or food at bears. If bears are rewarded with food, they will continue to seek food from people; and If feeling threatened by a bear, raise your arms over your head to look bigger and yell loudly at the bear while slowly backing away. More information on avoiding and creating conflicts with nuisance bears is available on DEC’s website. Happy Hunting & Fishing until next time. Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS. News and Notes Results from June 15 2019:

is hiring a Fiscal Manager to oversee day to day Fiscal Operations. Must possess a Bachelors in Accounting and experience working with Federal and State grants.

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The next Lake Taghkanic Bass Tournament will be held at West Beach at Lake Taghkanic, on Saturday, July 20 from 4-11 a.m. The third tournament will be held on the fourth on August 10. All are welcome to compete. For more information, call Bill Johnson at 518-537-5455. The Greene County Youth Activity Day and Fishing Derby - *Note Change in Date; **Date Changed from July 6 to July 13 The Greene County Federation of Sportsmen announced their Greene County Youth Activity Day and Fishing Derby will be held on July 13 at Dutchman’s Landing in Catskill, not on the date previously reported. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., on July 13 fishing derby begins at 9 a.m. Kids 5 to 15 years old can register but must be accompanied by an adult. The contest will feature two groups: ages 5-11 and ages 10-15. There will be awards in each group for biggest fish, smallest fish, and most fish caught. There is also a special trophy for the largest striped bass caught by anyone. All registrants will receive a prize. There will be an archery shooting booth and other activities and free hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, soda, and water for the kids NY Bowhunters Announce Date for Bowhunters Youth Camp The local chapter of NY Bowhunters announced it is seeking kids aged 11 through 16 to attend their free Bowhunters Youth Camp scheduled for August 24th from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday, August 25 from 9 a.m.3 p.m. It will once again be held at the Earlton Fish & Game Club at 56 Potic Creek Road in Earlton. All attendees can earn their NYS Bowhunter Safety Certificate. The staff includes a former collegiate archery coach, and the program features woodsmanship, tree stand use and safety, land navigation, blood trailing, knot tying, plus much more. Equipment will be provided, or you can bring your own. Lunch will be provided both days. All expenses are covered by the volunteers of NY Bowhunters. You must pre-register as slots are limited. Contact NYB Region 4 Representative, Ed Gorch at 518-634-7139, or via email at oldbowman48@gmail. com to register or for more information. Field & Stream’s Free Outdoor Education Series Fishing 101 - Tuesday, July 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Baitcasting 101 – Tuesday, July 16 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. *All classes are presented at Field & Stream store at 579 Troy Schenectady Road in Latham. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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Rose Lavelle has been US soccer’s World Cup revelation Steven Goff The Washington Post

LYON, France — Four summer ago, as the U.S. women’s national soccer team played Japan for the World Cup trophy in Vancouver, Rose Lavelle was 140 miles south eating pizza. At the time, the rising junior from the University of Wisconsin was spending the offseason with the Seattle Sounders women’s team, a second-tier gig that welcomed amateur players. “I wish I would have written this down so people would believe me,” Lavelle said Friday, “but they had gotten so close [in 2011] that going into 2015, once they got to the finals, they weren’t going to let it slip. I knew they were going to crush it.” Carli Lloyd and the U.S. squad did just that, winning, 5-2, for the first U.S. title in 16 years and third overall. “Man, that was ages ago,” she said. “I was just a young child.” Four years on, Lavelle is in position to help the United States win another championship. As long as her troublesome hamstring does not betray her, the Cincinnati native is projected to start again Sunday against the Netherlands at Stade de Lyon. Lavelle, 24, has been a revelation this summer, starting all but one match and scoring twice in the opening rout of Thailand. She also drew a controversial penalty kick that led to Megan Rapinoe’s tie-breaking goal against Spain in the round of 16. In U.S. circles, her skill set and creativity are well known. But at the World Cup, performing in the shadows of Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Tobin Heath, Lavelle entered her first major tournament without a global reputation. Opponents know her now. Just 5-foot-4 and physically unassuming, Lavelle has sparkled in midfield with quick footwork, unpredictable runs and baffling escapes in tight space. In Tuesday’s semifinal against England, she provided the first highlight by pushing the

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ball between Millie Bright’s legs along the end line and regaining possession on the other side before testing goalkeeper Carly Telford with a rising shot. Heath is the master of that move, known as a nutmeg. But on that night, Lavelle drew the gasps from the crowd. “I don’t think you see that type of player in the U.S. often,” Morgan said. “She is a very special.” Lavelle paid her dues with the youth national teams, but as she watched the 2015 World Cup from afar, she remembered thinking she was a long way from competing at the premier level. Coach Jill Ellis, however, thought otherwise. After the Americans won the title, Ellis began integrating new players into the program during the latter part of the fall victory tour. Lavelle was among them; she trained with the squad but did not make her senior debut for another 15 1/2 months. “It was a really nice learning experience,” she said of the 2015 call-up, which came after her junior season at Wisconsin.

“I don’t think I was really ready, so I felt like it was nice to dip my foot in the water and see what it took to be at that level, to see what I would need to work on if I were to stay on that level.” Her career took flight in 2017 with attention from Ellis and the Boston Breakers selecting her first overall in the National Women’s Soccer League draft. Persistent hamstring problems limited her availability for both club and country, and with Ellis experimenting with players and formations, Lavelle’s immediate future in the system was unclear. “It took me two or three years,” she said, “before I felt like I was able to compete at this level.” Lavelle found a new home before the 2018 NWSL season began: The Breakers folded and the Washington Spirit traded up so it could claim her in the dispersal draft. Injuries sidelined her much of last season, but in the World Cup qualifying tournament last fall, she scored three times in five appearances (four starts). In the six-month buildup to

the World Cup, mostly healthy and in good form, Lavelle started seven of 10 matches. Off the field, she is a personality. Her roommate in Lyon, midfielder Lindsey Horan, called Lavelle “weirdly funny, one of the most strange girls I know but the funniest girl I know. I love her. Her sense of humor, her random comments.” Lavelle’s English bulldog, Wilma, is the star of her Twitter account. Asked a few weeks ago about her social-media habits during the tournament, she said, “I have this little pet-cam. It’s an app and I just go on it and I can shoot out treats to Wilma anytime I want to, so I get on that a lot.” On a more serious note, Lavelle is aiming to regain full strength by Sunday. In the semifinal, she limped off in the 65th minute. “I didn’t want to be a liability on the field,” she said of her hamstring ailment. “It was a little more precautionary. . . . It’s something I am always paranoid about, but I’ll be fine. I can get over it.”

Yankees’ Torres added to All-Star team Erik Boland Newsday

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gleyber Torres is an American League All-Star after all. The day after Aaron Boone called it “a joke” that Torres wasn’t on the squad, the 22-year-old was named to it, replacing the Rays’ Brandon Lowe, who was placed on the injured list Thursday with a right shin contusion. “Everything happens for a reason,” Torres said Thursday before the Yankees started a four-game series against the Rays at Tropicana Field. “I feel good for sure.” Torres, who received the news Thursday morning via a phone call from Boone, was also an All-Star in 2018 but was

unable to play in the game in Washington because of a right hip strain. The All-Star Game is Tuesday in Cleveland. “Super excited, it’s a dream come true for sure to be able to play in the All-Star Game,” said Torres, whose parents will join him here, then fly to Cleveland on Sunday night. “I can’t wait to go to Cleveland to play for the first time.” The infielder to this point has topped the season he had last year when he finished third in AL Rookie of the Year voting. Among the Yankees’ most consistent offensive performers this season, the righty-hitting Torres entered Thursday hitting .298 with 19 homers and a .908 OPS in 78 games. Torres, who

spent the majority of the season’s first half filling in capably for Didi Gregorius at shortstop, became the Yankees’ fourth AllStar, joining Gary Sanchez and DJ LeMahieu, who were voted in as starters, and closer Aroldis Chapman. His consistency with runners in scoring position has been particularly impressive as Torres came into Thursday 28-for68 (.412) with seven homers and 37 RBIs in such situations this season, including 11 for his last 15 with four homers and seven RBIs since June 11 with RISP. “I think it’s a joke that he’s not on that team,” Boone said Wednesday at Citi Field before the Yankees beat the Mets, 5-1. “I mean, Gleyber Torres not an All Star? You can kick rocks on

that one. That’s ridiculous.” Boone, like Torres, was all smiles discussing the topic on Thursday. “I was very excited, it was a good way to wake up this morning,” said Boone, alerted to the Torres news by GM Brian Cashman. “Always fun news to deliver. Very deserving. Man, he’s 22 and he’s got two (All-Star bids) under his belt now.” Torres’ reaction when Boone told him? “I was hoping to be able to tell him here (at the ballpark) in person but then I realized MLB was going to release it at noon so I was like, ‘you better call him,’ “ Boone said. “I called him this morning and in his very reserved way, I could tell he was really excited.”

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Woman hesitates to go all in on a promising relationship I just started dating an amazing guy. He is sweet, funny and handsome, but I don’t feel as strongly for him as he does for me. Maybe it’s too early in the relationship for me to be worried about feelings, or maybe as much as I want to have deep feelings for him, I don’t. Lately, I have been tempted DEAR ABBY to cheat. That sounds awful, I know, but for some reason, I feel it’s my last chance before things start getting really serious with this guy. I want so badly to have this amazing relationship with him. It really feels like I could grow old with him, and I’d be OK with it. Or maybe I want a lifelong partner so badly that I’m forcing myself to keep seeing this guy. He’s basically everything I’ve ever hoped for, and yet I’m hesitating, unwilling to give up being single and having freedom. Is it normal to feel this way? Is it normal to have the urge to flee something amazing because I don’t want to lose the ability to have total freedom? Or am I scared of commitment? Life is complicated; I am complicated. Unsure In The South

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From where I sit, you do not appear to be ready to settle down. Also, you have “just started” dating this amazing man. Unless he starts pushing you to have an exclusive relationship, you would be wise to give it more time and see how things play out. Whatever it is that is holding you back will become apparent if you proceed slowly. My mother-in-law manipulates my husband into lying to me and going behind my back. She is hard on him if he doesn’t return her calls

promptly, to the point of calling the police and having them come to our home to “make sure his wife hasn’t done anything to him.” She will speak to him only in private and doesn’t want him to tell me about the calls or conversations. My husband and I feel her demands are destructive to our marriage. Last Thanksgiving was the first time he chose to spend the holiday with me and didn’t see his family. It caused an uproar, and now she’s giving him the cold shoulder and threatening to leave him out of the will. Help! In-Law Blues In Texas Your husband should not have had to choose between spending Thanksgiving with his wife or his family. Be smart. The two of you should talk about this with a licensed marriage and family therapist who can help your husband find ways to cope with his mother’s emotional blackmail. Her need to control her son is sick and, I agree, destructive to your marriage. Please don’t wait. I left high school in 1974 before graduating. I acquired my GED and don’t know if it would be appropriate to attend my high school reunion all these years later. Any thoughts? Reunion In Ohio

My experience, backed up by the research, is that more people will get relief with regular use of nasal corticosteroids, such as fluticasone TO YOUR (Flonase) or triamcinolone (NaGOOD HEALTH sacort), than with oral antihistamines or decongestants. All three classes are generally safe. However, nasal steroids cause nosebleeds in some people; decongestants can raise blood pressure, occasionally strikingly; and some antihistamines are sedating. Older men can have prostate problems with either decongestants or antihistamines. Some people may prefer one or the other just for convenience. Some of my patients just cannot stand nasal sprays, even newer ones that have much less sensation upon spraying. Other people don’t like pills. The combination of the two has more potent effects than either by itself. Before taking medications, it may certainly be wise to consider how to reduce contact with substances that trigger one’s symptoms. It may be impossible to avoid triggers entirely.

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I’m not against medical marijuana when prescribed, but why do patients want or need to smoke it? What does the secondhand smoke do to children and adults around those who are smoking it?

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Better allergy relief with regular use of nasal corticosteroids What are your views on the safety and effectiveness of glucocorticoid nasal sprays, instead of, and in addition to, oral antihistamines and decongestants, for managing allergic rhinitis?

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Secondhand cannabis smoke has potential adverse effects. It can be irritating to the eyes and respiratory tract. The psychoactive component, THC, can be absorbed by someone in close proximity, especially if exposed over a prolonged period. This is also true for the vapor made by an ecigarette device. Cannabis smoke is irritating for the user as well. Many people who use medical cannabis use edibles containing extracts, THC and CBD. These have no risk to others, although they do carry a higher risk of acute intoxication for the user than smoked cannabis. In any event, cannabis users should take care not to expose people who do not want to be exposed, especially children. You had a recent column on osteoporosis, and one thing I’ve never seen addressed is how sodium affects your bones’ absorption of calcium. I was warned to drastically reduce my dietary sodium and I’ve always heard that salt was bad for you, but it’s usually in relation to blood pressure. I have very good blood pressure.

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High dietary sodium can indeed worsen osteoporosis. The mechanism seems to be primarily at the level of the kidney. With a high sodium diet, the kidney excretes extra calcium, along with potassium and phosphate. People with or at risk for osteoporosis should avoid excess sodium intake and get adequate calcium intake through dairy, some green vegetables, and fortified juices.

Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are never content to rest on your laurels, no matter how spectacular any given success may be. You always want to forge ahead, strive, seek, find and never yield! The reaching of a goal, to you, is never the result of a long process, but merely something of an “intermission.” This is a time for you to look back, assess, enjoy the fruits of your labors and plan for the future — and it is a short time, at that! To say that you are ahead of your time is surely an understatement — but it also misses the point. You are very much of your own time, and you are not bound by traditions or expectations that shape those who live in a time defined by others. You march to the beat of your own drum, and you will not be defined in any way but that which pleases you. Also born on this date are: Sylvester Stallone, actor; George W. Bush, U.S. president; John Paul Jones, war hero; Frida Kahlo, artist; Burt Ward, actor; Nancy Reagan, U.S. first lady; Geoffrey Rush, actor; Merv Griffin, TV mogul and talk-show host. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, JULY 7 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your intentions may clash with those of another today. See if you can work this out by coming up with a mutually acceptable alternative. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — What you want and what you need are two very different things right now, and the day’s events seem designed to prove this to you once and for all.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You don’t want to engage in a competition with someone who is unable to play by the rules. This can only be frustrating — and dangerous, too. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may find yourself at wit’s end today as you struggle with a professional dilemma. The solution may well be right in front of you! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You are in the middle of something far trickier than anyone might have foreseen — but you have the tools you need to deal with it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — How you approach a certain problem today depends on how well you are able to see yourself through someone else’s eyes. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you’re not able to give a certain task all you’ve got, then why try doing it at all? Now is no time to put in a second-rate effort. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not be able to understand what someone is trying to tell you until you are doing precisely what you’ve been warned against. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Professional responsibilities and personal needs may conflict somewhat today — but you can come up with a suitable compromise. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — New ideas come to the fore today, and you can begin to apply them to your personal situation almost immediately. Others follow your lead. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be the subject of certain accusations today that, by nightfall, will be revealed to be utterly baseless. Don’t overreact. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You aren’t likely to do things the way anyone else does them today. Who’s going to learn from whom?

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

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Answers (Answers Tuesday Monday) Jumbles: HEFTY SEEDY GLITCH COLLAR Answer: When the little girl learned to use scissors, the result was — “SHEAR” DELIGHT

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(e.g., Who became the U.S. president in 2017? Answer: Donald Trump.) Freshman level 1. His radio fireside chats began in 1933. 2. In 1962, the USSR began building missile sites on this island country. 3. What did WAC stand for during World War II? 4. The sinking of the USS Maine led the U.S. to declare war on this country. 5. In which state were the Salem witch trials held? Graduate level 6. In 1974, he was granted “a full, free and absolute pardon.” 7. Who did Gerald Ford succeed as vice president of the United States? 8. In 1993, rebels shot down two Black Hawk helicopters in this country. 9. The Warren Commission said he acted alone in John F. Kennedy’s assassination. 10. Term for the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877. PH.D. level 11. The only state Ronald Reagan didn’t carry in 1984. 12. Political slogan: “As _____ goes, so goes the nation.” 13. This two-word slogan was rooted in opposition to the Vietnam War. 14. This Wisconsin senator took up anti-Communism as an issue. 15. What “Roger” founded Rhode Island?

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 2. Cuba. 3. Women’s Army Corps. 4. Spain. 5. Massachusetts. 6. Richard Nixon. 7. Spiro Agnew. 8. Somalia. 9. Lee Harvey Oswald. 10. Reconstruction era. 11. Minnesota. 12. Maine. 13. Flower power. 14. Joseph McCarthy. 15. Roger Williams. 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Reasonable bedtime 4 West & Sandler 9 Cut short 13 “It’s __, Mad, Mad, Mad World” 15 Shade of purple 16 3,600 seconds 17 Magazine title 18 Isle of __; resort near Naples 19 In addition 20 Answers 22 NBA team 23 Refer to 24 “Murder, __ Wrote” 26 Thoroughfare 29 Overindulgent parents 34 Actor Jeremy 35 Carnivals 36 Cold sore site 37 Long-standing quarrel 38 High numbers, when tossing dice 39 Fodder storage tower 40 Explosive letters 41 More rational 42 Group of eight 43 Church spires 45 Hug 46 Deli loaf 47 Pocket bread 48 Suffix for favor or honor 51 Vivacious 56 Harness strap 57 Money, slangily 58 Pigeon cries 60 Short note 61 Colorful flower 62 Bird of prey 63 Winter forecast 64 Requirements 65 Aviate DOWN 1 Tit for __ 2 Kuwaiti leader 3 Moniker 4 “Little Women” author 5 Ladd or Sawyer

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44 Prior to this, in poetry 45 Cuban exports 47 __ up; accumulated 48 Upper limbs 49 “__ there, done that” 50 Star car, for short

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Ella Hendriks, a professor of conservation and restoration at the University of Amsterdam views “Sunflowers.”An extensive research project has concluded that the second “Sunflowers” painting by Vincent van Gogh was “not intended as an exact copy of the original example,” said Hendriks, the lead researcher on the project.

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AMSTERDAM — In the summer of 1888, Vincent van Gogh invited his friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin to visit him in Arles, France, and to stay with him at the house where he hoped to establish an artists’ retreat. When Gauguin arrived in the fall, he found his room decorated with Van Gogh’s artworks, including a painting of sunflowers arranged in a ceramic vase against a yellow background. The two-month visit ended disastrously. The two artists had a blowout fight, and van Gogh sliced off his ear, suffered a mental breakdown and ended up in the hospital. Gauguin fled back to Paris. A couple of weeks later, however, he wrote to van Gogh requesting that painting, “Sunflowers,” praising it as “a perfect page of an essential ‘Vincent’ style.” Understandably, van Gogh was reluctant to hand over what he felt might be his most accomplished work, and so he decided to paint another version of the yellow “Sunflowers” to exchange with a work by Gauguin. He completed that one in January 1889, but never sent it. These two paintings, both called “Sunflowers,” are generally accepted as the finest of several depictions of the thick-stemmed, nodding blooms that van Gogh made in 1888 and 1889 during his time in Arles. The first is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, and the second is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Van Gogwh referred to this work as a “repetition” of the London painting. But art historians and curators have long been curious to know how different this “repetition” is from the first. Should it be considered a copy, an independent artwork or something in between? An extensive research project conducted over the past three years by conservation experts at both the National Gallery and the Van Gogh Museum has concluded that the second painting was “not intended as an exact copy of the original example,” said Ella Hendriks, a professor of

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An undated handout photo shows pages from Vincent van Gogh’s sketchbook, made in 1890. An undated handout photo shows the 1889 version of “Sunflowers,’” which is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Should Van Gogh’s work where sunflowers are the primary subject be considered copies, independent artworks or something in between? An extensive international research project has just released its findings.

conservation and restoration at the University of Amsterdam, who was the lead researcher on the project. “Though the basic palette is the same, there were different colors that were used, differences in paint texturing, and his brushwork is different,” she said. Although both the London version and the Amsterdam version are too fragile to travel, it was possible to conduct a kind of virtual side-by-side comparison of the works using new mobile scanning technologies. Rather than removing the paintings from the galleries for physical analysis, or taking invasive paint samples — once common practice — researchers brought mobile digital scanning devices into the museum that could map paint layers, brushwork and pigments without touching the artwork. They could then compare the data from each work. The Van Gogh Museum shared this information in an interview with The New York Times before the opening of the museum’s summer exhibition, “Van Gogh and the Sunflowers,” which runs from June 21 through Sept. 1. Along with the museum’s “Sunflowers,” some 20 other works from the museum’s

permanent collection, mostly depicting flowers, are on display, along with two loans. Nienke Bakker, the exhibition’s curator, said the research helped to understand something more about the nature of van Gogh’s relationship with Gauguin. When Gauguin wrote to van Gogh praising the painting and asking for it, van Gogh was flattered but didn’t want “to give it away,” she said. “If Gauguin hadn’t asked, who knows if the other versions would have been made.” All told, van Gogh painted 11 works in which sunflowers are the primary subject, and more in which they play a role, Bakker said. He made four of these in Paris, and seven in Arles. Of those seven, two have disappeared from public view: one was destroyed in a fire in Japan during an Allied bombing of Osaka during World War II; another is in a private collection that has not made the work available for loan to any museums, Bakker said. There are five paintings in public museums that are generally thought of today as part of van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” series, all of essentially the same bouquet in the same ceramic

pot, set against either a yellow or a pale blue background. Apart from the London and Amsterdam versions, the other three are in Munich, Tokyo and Philadelphia. Most of them are now too fragile to travel. The National Gallery has only lent its painting three times: to the Van Gogh Museum in 2002 and 2013, and to the Van Gogh and Britain exhibition at Tate Britain across town, currently running through Aug. 11. The Van Gogh Museum decided to stop lending its version last year, because conservators found that the chrome yellow pigments van Gogh used are unstable and could start to turn green and brown. To avoid changes already observed at a microscopic level from becoming visible, Bakker said, “you have to avoid vibrations and changes in climate, temperature and humidity.” The last time the National Gallery “Sunflowers” and the Van Gogh Museum “Sunflowers” were brought together was in 2013 and 2014, for jointly organized exhibitions at both institutions. In this Van Gogh Museum See PAINTINGS C2

Mary Walsh arrived in Washington, D.C., this week not only as the head of Disney’s immense animation research library. She also attended the ball at the Library of Congress as an ambassador for “Cinderella.” On Thursday evening, Walsh received the honor from Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in an official ceremony to celebrate that “Cinderella,” the animated classic from 1950, was recently named to the National Film Registry. More than a dozen Disney feature films have been added to the registry, including “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Bambi,” “Fantasia” and “Pinocchio.” Among more recent Mouse House movies, 1994’s “The Lion King” (which is receiving an adaptation this summer) entered the registry in 2013, and “Toy Story” (which is receiving its third sequel this week) joined in 2005. Upon the ceremony for “Cinderella,” Walsh says the movie remains ever relevant as its 70th anniversary nears. “She lives in a reality that has a lot of challenges, which she (faces) with courage and perseverance while staying true to herself, believing in her dreams,” Walsh says of the title character. “She is an eternal optimist, and that’s a very human quality that we all strive for,” continues Walsh, a Southern California native. “I think that it was the same in the 1950s as it is today, and we all need some of that resiliency and perseverance and optimism in our lives today.” Walt Disney was inspired to adapt the classic Charles Perrault fairy tale, but he encouraged his writers and animators to take creative liberties, Walsh notes. Hayden says she believes that “Cinderella” still moves modern audiences because of the high level at which the filmmakers combined story and craft. The movie was nominated for three Oscars, for music and sound. “There’s the magic of it, with the fairy dust and the costumes and the music and the color,” Hayden says. “There’s the art and the care, the details and the (oil-painted) backgrounds.” That attention to artistry speaks to Walsh’s sense of mission at Disney’s animation research library, where she estimates that she oversees more than 65 million archived items. “Audience members can sit in a film that resonates emotionally and visually and musically — that hits on all levels,” she says. “I want people to peel See CINDERELLA C2

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A wine country weekend Michigan’s vineyards boast variety — and a cute new B&B By LORI RACKL Chicago Tribune

“Sometimes I take baths because it’s hard to drink wine in the shower.” This maxim hangs on the wall near the cedar tub in my room at Among the Vineyards, a bed and breakfast where the shoutouts to grown-up grape juice are as plentiful as misplaced beverage containers on the set of “Game of Thrones.” (The B&B’s Wi-Fi password? “Drinkwine.”) Each of the four rooms at this new B&B — it opened less than a year ago in the heart of southwest Michigan’s wine country — is inspired by wine from a local producer. My room, Traminette, is a nod to the Gewurztraminer hybrid grape that goes into vivid blue bottles of a semi-sweet white made at Gravity, a nearby vineyard and winery. The other three rooms, occupied on this particular weekend by well-behaved attendees of a bachelorette party, have similar origin stories tied to wineries just a few miles away. That’s the beauty of this place: Lots of vineyards and wineries are just a few miles away. And that’s why Barb Antonucci, a gregarious nurse in her mid-50s, decided to start a B&B in this fertile corner of the “fruit belt,” where she grew up. “Back when I was a kid, there were only a couple of wineries here,” Antonucci said. “Now, it’s booming — 12 wineries and tasting rooms within 5 miles of us.” I managed to hit just about all of them on a recent long weekend in wine country, in the Midwest version of Napa Valley. Before you wine snobs pshaw the notion of “Midwest” and “Napa Valley” co-existing in the same sentence, take a few swigs of Dablon’s 2015 Estate Red Blend or Domaine Berrien Cellars’ 2016 Crown of Cabernet, and then we’ll talk. “There’s a misconception out there that we can only make rieslings, and that’s not true,” said Kathy Sturm, executive director of the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Trail, a collection of 18 wineries spread across the American Viticultural Area, or AVA, of the

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A $12 flight includes sauvignon blanc, meritage and cabernet franc in the hip, minimalist tasting room at Free Run Cellars in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

same name. The group’s biggest event of the year, the 14th annual Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival, was scheduled to take place June 15 at scenic Warren Dunes State Park. Lake Michigan Shore is the largest of the state’s five distinct AVAs, stretching from the Indiana border north to Fennville and east to Kalamazoo. The protective “lake effect,” mineral-rich soil (thank you, glaciers) and other factors all make up the special sauce that renders this region hospitable for growing a surprisingly wide variety of grapes. Winemakers are increasingly capitalizing on this versatility. They’re producing a diverse range of offerings — available in an equally diverse range of tasting rooms — and debunking the notion that the vino here is about cloying sweetness and fruit that belongs in pie, not a wine glass. Now I sound like the wine snob. “We can do light whites all the way to hearty reds, ice wine and sparkling,” Sturm said. “We’ve become a true wine destination.” At a mere 90 miles from downtown Chicago, Among the Vineyards B&B (rooms start at $150) is an ideal base for exploration, at least for the southern end of this AVA. While the area’s tasting rooms are clustered relatively close together, the experiences can feel worlds apart. At Dablon Winery & Vineyard, a rustically elegant tasting room is tucked among dozens of acres of land lined with neat rows of vines. Pinot noir, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and merlot are all accounted for, along with some more recently planted varieties not usually seen in these parts,

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An undated handout photo shows “Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers” by Paul Gauguin. Should Van Gogh’s work where sunflowers are the primary subject be considered copies, independent artworks or something in between? An extensive international research project has just released its findings.

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exhibition, videos of all five “Sunflowers” paintings are presented on adjacent screens, showing the works in their museum settings, and zooming in on details

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back the surface a little bit and think about the hundreds of artists it took to create this film — and how they make a character (like Cinderella) move and evolve.” So what’s the next animated

that are both similar and different, so viewers can see how van Gogh’s “repetitions” vary. “It’s impossible to reunite all of these paintings again,” Bakker said. “It’s rather sad, but on the other hand, we have to keep them and preserve them for future generations.” Disney classic she would like to see make the registry? Walsh points to “The Jungle Book” and “Mulan,” and perhaps the most overlooked, she says: 1973’s “Robin Hood.” But for now, on the night of the ball, her focus is on “Cinderella.” “It’s had such a major cultural impact,” Walsh says, “that we’re still talking about the film almost 70 years later.”

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In the homey tasting room at Domaine Berrien Cellars, $10 gets you five samples and a souvenir wine glass.

such as Spanish tempranillo and nebbiolo, the building block of some of Italy’s boldest red wines. “There’s not been a grape yet that we haven’t been able to grow and ripen,” said William Schopf, who owns the winery as well as Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. Schopf chalks up the area’s grape-growing success to good soil, drainage and that big body of water between the two states where he works and lives. “Lake Michigan has a wonderful moderating effect in the middle of winter,” he said. “And when it warms up in the spring, the coolness of the water slows the buds down. The slower and later the buds break, the less risk from a late frost.” While lots of wine tastings in the area cost around $10, Dablon’s price is a bit steeper at $15 for five samples. Some of the bottles, like the Estate Red Blend that aged for two years in French oak, sell for $50. “We want serious wine drinkers,” Schopf said, adding that he’s not a fan of some of the large tour groups and other folks who seem more interested in getting hammered than savoring wine. More of a party-festival vibe permeates Round Barn, which has a $5 cover charge on the weekends and can draw crowds of 3,000 to its sprawling grounds that include a distillery, an outdoor stage for live music (Saturday and Sunday, May through October) and a century-old circular barn. The same hospitality group, Moersch, also runs the more sedate Free Run Cellars. This is where I had some of my favorite wine of the trip — a $12 flight of sauvignon blanc, meritage and cabernet franc — served in a minimalist tasting room with Edison bulbs strung from the ceiling and abstract art on the walls. Beyond the windows were rows of soon-tobud grapevines and a mashup of hickory and pecan trees known as hicans. Pro tip: Free Run hosts a 40-seat Epicurean Dinner Series the first Friday of the month, through October, where four courses of small plates are paired with wine samples for $35. Most tasting rooms have limited food offerings: cheese and crackers, olives, dips, that kind of thing. The venerable Tabor Hill Winery & Restaurant — also under the Moersch umbrella — is the exception. Make a reservation for a window seat and watch the sun dip below the vines as you tuck into steak and seafood. Another pro tip: Diners get 20% off bottles bought at the onsite tasting room.

Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune The Traminette room ‘Äî one of four guest rooms at Among the Vineyards B&B ‘Äî features a cedar soaking tub reminiscent of a wine barrel.

Tabor Hill is one of the state’s biggest wineries. Slightly more than a mile away is one of the smallest: Hickory Creek. “We do 1,500 cases a year, with everything bottled and hand corked right here,” said owner and winemaker Adam McBride, as he poured a sample of his aromatic cabernet franc in Hickory Creek’s tiny tasting room. “We like to say it’s like making dinner for five people versus 500.” McBride, 42, got the winemaking bug while stationed with the U.S. Air Force in Germany’s Mosel Valley. Not coincidentally, military veterans and first responders get free tastings. The western Michigan native bought Hickory Creek less than two years ago. He focuses on making European-style wine with grapes grown solely in the Lake Michigan Shore AVA. The Most Unconventional Winery Award goes to Red Top, a lofty, garage-like spot that opened a couple years ago. It’s by the same husband-andwife team that own Gravity, which makes more traditional wine. At Red Top, it’s all about experimenting, from a pina colada-flavored wine to a Windex-blue, fruit-forward sparkler called Lake Effect. Some of the wine is aged in bourbon barrels. All of it is poured out of taps. Another place you don’t see every day is Lake Michigan Vintners, a relatively new tasting room with an urban feel in downtown Baroda. The wine is made by students at Lake Michigan College. They must be studying hard, because they’re acing the end result.

Some of the more veteran wineries worth a stop include Lemon Creek, where the same family has been farming the land for six generations. They’ve been selling wine for 35 years at their tasting room, whose unofficial greeter is a golden retriever. Another is Domaine Berrien Cellars, known for its awardwinning dry reds. The cozy,

homey tasting room is decked out with grape lights and surrounded by 80 acres, half of which are blanketed with vines first planted in 1992. Katie and Wally Maurer opened their winery nearly a decade later. “We used to just sit in the driveway and wait for a car to pull up,” Katie Maurer said from behind the busy bar. “Not anymore.”

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Hickory Creek owner and winemaker Adam McBride pours a sample in the snug tasting room of the winery, which produces only 1,500 cases of wine a year.

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A dish featuring kale is this Roasted eggplant with crispy kale with yogurt.

4 recipes to get you into the in-season, in-the-moment vegetable

Kale, yeah! By DANIEL NEMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’m not a fan of kale. When kale is on a menu and something else is offered, I always feel like I have been given a Get Out of Kale Free card. But kale is in season, and it is positively stuffed full of vitamins and other things that are good for you. Besides, some people — even some people I know, probably — actually like kale. So I decided to cook up four batches of it to see if there were ways I could come to enjoy it. And enjoy it I did. If all kale tasted like this, I might even become a fan. I began with Cannellini Beans With Roasted Red Peppers and Kale, because kale and cannellini beans is truly a world-class flavor combination. They’re terrific together in soup, they’re terrific together in salad and, unsurprisingly, they are terrific together in this dish, which is sort of like a warm salad. The dish probably had its beginnings in Italy. The ingredients and preparation are traditionally Italian, from olive oil and garlic to white wine, cannellini beans and Parmesan cheese. Roasted red peppers are also called for, and the recipe from “The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook” suggests that you buy them in a jar. I’d recommend that, too. The red peppers aren’t the star of the show; they are just a supporting player. Roasting them yourself takes time and effort. Save that for a dish that is all about red peppers. Cannellini Beans With Roasted Red Peppers and Kale has two costars: the beans and the kale. They’re good together any time, and this time they’re great. Next I made Green Soup — Caldo Verde — that a Portuguese cookbook calls “the national dish of Portugal.” One taste and you’ll know why (though if you want to argue that pasteis de nata is truly the national dish of Portugal, I won’t object). The broth in Green Soup is basically a potato soup, rich in onion and garlic, and pureed until it is thickened. The green part comes from kale (or collard greens) that is cut into thin strips and cooked in the broth. A slice or two or three of chorizo adds a nice spicy bite, and a few drops of the oil the chorizo was cooked in brings it all together into a hearty, memorable meal. I stayed in the Mediterranean region for

Roasted Eggplant and Crispy Kale With Yogurt, which may be the most Mediterranean food ever. It’s a layered dish, and the bottom layer is essentially tzatziki — a thick yogurt mixed with shredded cucumber, garlic and lemon juice. On top of that goes bite-sized pieces of roasted eggplant. The kale is next, but it has been flash-cooked so it is lightly scorched and lightly crispy. And the top layer is cherry tomatoes that have been halved and tossed with olive oil and salt. To be perfectly honest, this would be an amazing appetizer or meze even without the kale. But with a hint of bitterness to offset the oil and yogurt, the kale is a definite plus. The last dish I made was the problem child: Kale With Shallots and Olive Oil. The first strike against it was the name. This dish does not have any shallots in it. It has onions — lots and lots of onions — and shallots are in the onion family. But that does not mean they are in this particular recipe. The second strike was the oil. It calls for one cup of olive oil. That’s eight ounces of olive oil to feed six to eight people. Sixteen tablespoons. Forty-eight teaspoons. That’s 318 calories apiece for of six servings, 239 for eight. Strike two-and-a-half was the proportions. The recipe calls for eight heaping cups of chopped kale, which it says is 3 ½ to 4 pounds of kale. That’s nonsense. You can get eight cups of chopped kale out of about one pound of kale. I decided to compromise and use two pounds — 16 cups — of kale. It worked for me. That’s probably because the kale is cooked in coriander and cumin, along with a bucket of olive oil. The spices really give the dish a kick, and a hefty dose of lemon juice at the end brings it all home. Yes, it is a problem child. But as is often the case with problem children, it may be the one I love the most.

ROASTED EGGPLANT AND CRISPY KALE WITH YOGURT Yield: 4 servings 2 medium eggplants, about 1½ pounds total, quartered lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces ¼ cup vegetable oil Salt See KALE C6

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A dish featuring kale is this Kale with onions and olive oil.

KALE WITH ONIONS AND OLIVE OIL Yield: 6 to 8 servings 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1 tablespoon ground coriander 1 scant tablespoon ground cumin ½ tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon salt 2 cups chopped yellow onions ½ tablespoon finely chopped garlic 1 jalapeno pepper, finely chopped, optional 16 heaping cups chopped kale (2 pounds), hard stems removed Juice of 1 lemon 1. Heat ¾ cup of the oil in a heavybottomed pot over medium-high heat until hot. Add the coriander, cumin, black pepper and salt, and saute until

fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the onions and saute until golden, 7 to 8 minutes. Remove ¼ cup of the mixture and set aside for garnish. 2. Stir in the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the jalapeno, if using. Add the kale by handfuls, stirring, and cook until reduced in bulk by half. Reduce the heat, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 15 minutes. 3. Remove from the heat, drizzle the remaining ¼ cup oil over the kale, cover and let sit until the oil is absorbed, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a serving dish, drizzle with the lemon juice and garnish with the reserved onion mixture. Serve warm.

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Books & authors

A woman’s innocent podcast addiction

turns into something darker By MAUREEN CORRIGAN Washington Post

Conviction By Denise Mina Mulholland/Little, Brown. 374pp. $27 Denise Mina is one of the leading practitioners of what’s called Tartan Noir: the melding of American hard-boiled detective fiction with the atmosphere and local color slang of Scotland. She’s written three separate feminist-inflected mystery series set in Glasgow, including her celebrated Garnethill trilogy. Of late, Mina has also ventured into psychologically rich, stand-alone novels, including “The Long Drop,” a suspense tale rooted in true crime that reimagines the appalling career of serial killer Peter Manuel who terrorized Glasgow in the 1950s. So much for Mina’s impressive record. Her new suspense novel, “Conviction,” nudges all of those excellent earlier novels into the shade. Perhaps it’s not even fair to compare Mina’s previous novels to “Conviction” because this latest is so different, it seems to have been written by someone else — some glorious genetically engineered composite of Mina herself along with Daphne du Maurier (for supernatural eeriness), fellow Scot Helen MacInnes (for spy craft), and, especially toward the end, Lisa Scottoline (for spunky woman-in-trouble wry humor). “Conviction” is spectacular; if you, dear reader, can sanely spread your enjoyment of it out over, say, a week, you’re a more disciplined consumer of suspense fiction than I am. I inhaled this novel in two extended sittings in one day. The opening disaster of “Conviction” that sets all the subsequent disasters in motion unfolds as follows: It’s early morning in Glasgow and a lightly depressed, upper-middleclass wife and mother of two young girls named Anna McLean pours herself a coffee and settles in to listen to another one of those true-crime podcasts she relishes before the demands of the day take over. About her peculiar podcast addiction, Anna drolly comments that: “There is a warmth and a comfort in hearing about people in worse situations than your own. ... I had not murdered my entire family or killed myself. I

hung onto that.” This fresh podcast is called “Death and the Dana” and it slowly unspools the story of an explosion aboard a luxury yacht (the Dana) that killed a wealthy father and his two youngadult children. The onboard chef, who dramatically quit and disembarked from the yacht only hours before, was convicted of planting the explosives, but many tantazling loose ends remain: For one thing, why did the father, a financier named Leon Parker, insist that the rest of the crew take that evening off? Why did the Dana, long rumored to be haunted, drift into open waters shortly before the explosion? And why did a diver, hired by the late Leon Parker’s

insurance company to explore the wreck, find no trace of the diamond necklace that Parker had given to his daughter on that fateful evening? Oh, and one more question: “Why did that same diver perish of apparent fright during that same exploratory dive?” Anna sits transfixed at her kitchen table, not only because the truecrime story is already so intricate and disturbing, but because — in another life and when she was known by another name — Anna was friends with Leon. Meanwhile, there’s been a persistent knocking at Anna’s front door. Anna assumes rightly that it’s her best friend Estelle, arriving to go to

their Bikram yoga class together. Estelle stands at the door; however, she’s dressed not for exercise but for travel. In fact, Estelle is dressed to run off with Anna’s husband with whom she’s been having an affair. Lest readers think I’m giving away too much of the plot here, please understand that I’ve merely nodded to some of the events that transpire in the first two chapters of “Conviction.” As much as it is a weird suspense tale in which both ghosts and bullets fly through the air, “Conviction” is a giddy celebration of the art of storytelling itself — from Anna’s “guilty pleasure” podcasts to books and folk tales and alibis and brazen lies. At one point, Anna recalls a longago argument she had with Leon about what she refers to as the “Arabian Nights,” which he’d derided as simple children’s tales. Anna recalls: “I was appalled. I went off on a rant about the “Arabian Nights,” the collective nature of it, how it created a whole world through accretive storytelling: layers of lives lived simultaneously, intersecting. And how it bounced from genre to genre, the stories were funny and brutal and romantic and tragic like life. ... It was produced before stories could only be one thing, before the form was set.” Clearly, Mina is signaling her own storytelling ambitions here. The marvel is that, through Anna, her suspense-heroine Scheherazade, Mina does indeed spin out what seem like “a thousand and one” stories — each of them spellbinding. The narratives here roam from Scotland to England to Italy to the murky depths far beneath the sea; they change in tone from violent to spooky to slapstick. By the end of the novel, we readers learn, among other things, what really happened aboard the Dana, and who Anna really is, and from whom she’s been hiding all these years. But it’s a testament to Mina’s considerable storytelling gifts that by the end of “Conviction,” I wanted to go right back to the beginning and read all those intertwined tales all over again. Corrigan, the book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air,” teaches literature at Georgetown University.

Study of ‘1984’ warns that Orwell’s dystopian vision could still have a future By WENDY SMITH Washington Post

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 By Dorian Lynskey. Doubleday. 368 pp. $28.95 “The World of Nineteen Eighty-Four ended in 1989,” historian Timothy Garton-Ash declared optimistically in 2001. Communism, fascism and European imperialism “were all either dead or mortally weakened. Forty years after his own painful and early death, Orwell had won.” If only. Orwell’s portrait of a world in which the truth is irrelevant and the powerful rewrite the past is, regrettably, not at all out of date. “I hesitate to say that Nineteen Eighty-Four is more relevant than ever,” British journalist Dorian Lynskey writes in his alarming exegesis of the novel’s significance and enduring impact, “but it’s a damn sight more relevant than it should be.” Indeed, the most powerful pages of “The Ministry of Truth” quote Orwell in the 1940s describing a state of public affairs all too familiar today. While he was engaged in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell wrote in 1942 that he saw “history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines.’

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“ When this occurs, he wrote, “the general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs.” In a 1945 essay, he bleakly concluded about such beliefs: “To attempt to counter them with facts and statistics is useless.” These cautionary words echo throughout Lynskey’s text. Part One explores the political and intellectual experiences that formed Orwell’s worldview. Lynskey briefly recaps his life, paying particular attention to Orwell’s six months in Spain, where he had gone to fight fascism but encountered equal ruthlessness and dishonesty in Stalin’s communists. Orwell went home a staunch member of the anti-commu-

nist left, unalterably opposed to imperialism and fascism but committed to calling out lies on all sides. The left-wing publishers who refused to print “Homage to Catalonia” or his essays about Spain - because, they argued, the truth could be used as fascist propaganda - in his view had failed a moral test. “For Orwell, the truth mattered even, or perhaps especially, when it was inconvenient,” Lynskey writes. “Animal Farm,” published in 1945, was Orwell’s opening fictional salvo in his battle for inconvenient truths, an allegory that suggests how the tyrannical one-party state Oceania in “1984” came into being. “Animal Farm” also marked the beginning of Orwell’s appropriation by conservatives, whom he was forced to keep reminding that he was a socialist. “1984” moved beyond satire of the Soviet Union to make a broader, more unsettling point. In his outline for the novel, Orwell described the mood he wanted to create as, “the nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of objective truth.” Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were pioneers in this sort of campaign against reality, but Lynskey argues persuasively that Orwell knew that they would not lack successors. “Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph any-

where,” Orwell wrote shortly after “1984” was published in 1949. He died less than a year later, leaving his most famous book to be interpreted by others. Part Two of “The Ministry of Truth” addresses “the political and cultural life of Nineteen Eighty-Four” since Orwell’s death, in scattershot fashion. The problem isn’t Lynskey’s judgments, which are generally sound, but the rambling way he develops them and the odd tangents he wanders into. A generally capable, if abbreviated, account of the novel’s influence in the 1950s, when it was narrowly seen as a warning against Soviet-style totalitarianism, contains a detour into “Orwell’s genius for snappy neologisms” and a belated, strained defense of the list of Soviet sympathizers Orwell gave to the British government’s controversial Information Research Department in 1949. Lynskey leaps from the Cold War to “1984” in the 1970s, which muddies some interesting analysis of Orwell’s reclamation by the left with a bewilderingly excessive amount of material about “Diamond Dogs.” David Bowie’s album may include material from an aborted opera of “1984,” but it doesn’t deserve more space than Terry Gilliam’s neo-Orwellian masterpiece

“Brazil” or Margaret Atwood’s chilling feminist variant, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Part Two is a mess; it reads like a magazine article that grew but never matured into a coherent overview of the shifting ramifications of Orwell’s most famous novel. Lynskey redeems himself in his final chapter, “Oceania 2.0.” He builds on his central focus throughout the text Orwell’s forecast of a world where objective truth does not exist - to paint a portrait of the “toxic cocktail of cynicism and credulity” with which too many people today dismiss what they don’t want to hear as “fake news” and embrace “alternative facts” that buttress their convictions. We can’t blame Russian trolls for the 2016 election, he comments grimly: The “architects of dezinformatsiya found that they were pushing at an open door.” Despite its faults, Lynskey’s jeremiad remains valuable and terrifying for the blistering spotlight it shines on Orwell’s overriding purpose, defined in its title, “The Ministry of Truth.” It closes, ringing and goading, with Orwell’s exhortation when asked what moral should be drawn from “1984”: “Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.” Smith is the author of “Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940.”

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

NINETY-NINE GLIMPSES OF PRINCESS MARGARET By Craig Brown. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.) A British journalist dishes out gossipy tales of Margaret, who reveled in her role as her sister Queen Elizabeth’s disobedient foil. Detailing everything from her disastrous romantic relationships to her bohemian friends, Brown turns the biography genre on its head, even imagining a marriage between Margaret and Picasso.

THE CHANDELIER By Clarice Lispector. Translated by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards. (New Directions, $16.95.) The Brazilian writer’s second novel is a laboratory for the themes that occupy her later work: philosophical restiveness, the limits of language. The story follows Virgínia, a deeply dissatisfied young woman who struggles to articulate herself in a male-dominated culture.

SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH: THE POWERS, PERVERSIONS, AND POTENTIAL OF HEREDITY By Carl Zimmer. (Dutton, $20.) Zimmer, a science columnist for The New York Times, explores inheritance in all its varied dimensions — from genetic ancestry to biological definitions of race. Zimmer dispels long-standing scientific misconceptions, introduces facts that may surprise you and brings readers on a delightful journey of genetic discovery.

PROVIDENCE By Caroline Kepnes. (Random House, $17.) Jon and Chloe are best friends in New Hampshire, growing ever closer until he’s kidnapped. He returns home years later — seemingly healthy but without any memory — and becomes a news media sensation. Sadly, more troubles arise as he and Chloe try to restore their closeness. The story promises the “kind of star-crossed, decadehopping, supernatural crime romance that bursts at all the right seams,” Times reviewer Charles Finch wrote.

ROOM TO DREAM By David Lynch and Kristine McKenna. (Random House, $22.) The authors offer an impressionistic hybrid memoir of Lynch, from McKenna’s biographical sections and Lynch’s emotional recollections. “The portrait that emerges is that of a protean talent who has pungently projected the nightmares of his unconscious into his creative work but who is impressively at peace with his personal demons,” Times reviewer Ben Dickinson said.

WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT CHARLIE OUTLAW By Leah Stewart. (Putnam, $16.) After his romance with Josie, a B-list actress in her 40s, goes sour, the title character, an actor quickly gaining fame, heads off to a remote island in search of anonymity and peace of mind. The trip takes some unexpected turns, and the novel offers satisfying insights into the difficulty of letting go of a romance.

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Level 1

6/30/19

Solution to Last Week’s puzzle

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk © 2019 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

Answers Next Week

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YOU BID WHAT? Both vulnerable, West deals NORTH ♠ Void ♥A ♦ K8653 ♣AKQ7542 WEST EAST ♠KQ932 ♠J764 ♥ KQ98 ♥ J765 ♦ Void ♦ J972 ♣J983 ♣ 10 SOUTH ♠ A 10 8 5 ♥ 10 4 3 2 ♦ A Q 10 4 ♣6 The bidding:

WEST NORTH 1♠ 2♣ 2♥ 4NT Pass 7♦

EAST SOUTH Pass Pass Pass 6♦ All pass

Opening lead: King of ♥ North must have had an exciting few seconds waiting to see if two clubs became the final contract. West, who might well have passed, persevered with two hearts and was gob-smacked by what happened next. North jumped to four no trump, showing a huge minor suit hand with

longer clubs than diamonds, and South jumped to six diamonds. North carried on to the grand slam and West was looking for a place to hide. South won the opening heart lead with dummy’s ace and led a diamond to his ace, getting the bad news. South led a club to dummy’s ace and continued with the king of clubs. East did well not to ruff this, discarding the next spade instead. Declarer ruffed a club and returned to dummy with a heart ruff to begin running high clubs. Should East ruff at any point, South would over-ruff, cash the other high trump, and return to dummy with a ruff. East’s exact distribution was known, so South should never ruff the “wrong” major in dummy. The king of diamonds would draw the last trump and dummy would be high. Should East never ruff, the last three tricks would all be high trumps, starting with a trump to South’s 10. When an overcall is passed back to the opening bidder, opener must keep the bidding open when short in the enemy suit. He can pass, however, with three or more cards in the opponent’s suit. West is busy memorizing that rule right now. (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper or tcaeditors@ tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are never content to rest on your laurels, no matter how spectacular any given success may be. You always want to forge ahead, strive, seek, find and never yield! The reaching of a goal, to you, is never the result of a long process, but merely something of an “intermission.” This is a time for you to look back, assess, enjoy the fruits of your labors and plan for the future — and it is a short time, at that! To say that you are ahead of your time is surely an understatement — but it also misses the point. You are very much of your own time, and you are not bound by traditions or expectations that shape those who live in a time defined by others. You march to the beat of your own drum, and you will not be defined in any way but that which pleases you. Also born on this date are: Sylvester Stallone, actor; George W. Bush, U.S. president; John Paul Jones, war hero; Frida Kahlo, artist; Burt Ward, actor; Nancy Reagan, U.S. first lady; Geoffrey Rush, actor; Merv Griffin, TV mogul and talk-show host. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, JULY 7 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your intentions may clash with those of another today. See if you can work this out by coming up with a mutually acceptable alternative. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — What you want and what you need are two very different things right now, and the day’s events seem designed to prove this to you once and for all. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You don’t want to engage in a competition with someone who is unable to

play by the rules. This can only be frustrating — and dangerous, too. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may find yourself at wit’s end today as you struggle with a professional dilemma. The solution may well be right in front of you! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You are in the middle of something far trickier than anyone might have foreseen — but you have the tools you need to deal with it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — How you approach a certain problem today depends on how well you are able to see yourself through someone else’s eyes. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you’re not able to give a certain task all you’ve got, then why try doing it at all? Now is no time to put in a second-rate effort. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not be able to understand what someone is trying to tell you until you are doing precisely what you’ve been warned against. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Professional responsibilities and personal needs may conflict somewhat today — but you can come up with a suitable compromise. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — New ideas come to the fore today, and you can begin to apply them to your personal situation almost immediately. Others follow your lead. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be the subject of certain accusations today that, by nightfall, will be revealed to be utterly baseless. Don’t overreact. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You aren’t likely to do things the way anyone else does them today. Who’s going to learn from whom? You’ll benefit from paying attention. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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Kale

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for serving 4 garlic cloves, minced ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 small red onion, halved and sliced thin Salt and pepper 1 cup jarred roasted red peppers, sliced thin lengthwise 1 pound kale, stemmed and sliced thin crosswise 2 (15-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed ½ cup dry white wine ½ cup water 1 ounce Parmesan cheese (½ cup) Lemon wedges

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½ teaspoon ground cumin 6 Tuscan kale leaves, ribs and stems removed, leaves coarsely torn 1 medium cucumber 1 cup plain whole-milk Greek yogurt 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 garlic clove, finely minced 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved Olive oil for drizzling 1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 2. Toss eggplants with vegetable oil on a rimmed baking sheet; season with salt. Roast, tossing halfway through, until eggplants are charred in spots and tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with cumin and toss to coat. 3. Meanwhile, heat a dry, large skillet over mediumhigh heat. Add kale, arranging to fit in a single, even layer (work in batches if needed). Cook, turning occasionally, until charred in spots and crisp, about 4 minutes. If using curly kale, weigh it down with another pan while it cooks. 4. Grate cucumber on the medium holes of a box grater; squeeze out excess liquid with your hands and transfer to a medium bowl. Mix in yogurt, lemon juice and garlic; season with salt. 5. Toss tomatoes with a good pinch of salt and a drizzle of olive oil in a medium bowl. Spoon yogurt mixture onto a platter and layer eggplants, kale and tomatoes on top. Drizzle with more olive oil. Per serving: 315 calories; 21 g fat; 14 g saturated fat; 9 mg cholesterol; 11 g protein; 26 g carbohydrate; 16 g sugar; 10 g fiber; 518 mg sodium; 125 mg calcium Recipe from Bon Appetit

CANNELLINI BEANS WITH ROASTED RED PEPPERS AND KALE Yield: 4 servings as an entree, 12 servings as a side dish

1. Cook oil, garlic and pepper flakes in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat until garlic turns golden brown, about 2 minutes. Stir in onion and ¼ teaspoon salt, reduce heat to medium, and cook until onion is softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in red peppers, and cook until softened and glossy, about 3 minutes. 2. Stir in kale, 1 handful at a time, and cook until wilted, about 3 minutes. Stir in beans, wine and water and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook until flavors have melded and kale is tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with Parmesan, lemon wedges and extra oil. Per serving (based on 4): 331 calories; 18 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 5 mg cholesterol; 14 g protein; 34 g carbohydrate; 6 g sugar; 10 g fiber; 326 mg sodium; 312 mg calcium Recipe from “The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook,” by America’s Test Kitchen

GREEN SOUP Yield: 6 to 8 servings 7 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 4 cups chicken stock 1 bunch kale or collard greens, thick center stems and fibrous veins removed 1 tablespoon cider vinegar, optional Salt and pepper (preferably white pepper) 18 or 24 (¼-inch) slices chorizo 1. Heat 2 tablespoons of the

oil in a large pot over medium heat until it shimmers. Add onion and cook, stirring frequently, until light golden, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes and cook, stirring often, until they start to spot with color, about 7 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute more. 2. Pour in the chicken stock and 3 cups of water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover and simmer until the potatoes are falling-apart tender, 20 to 25 minutes. 3. Meanwhile, stack several of the kale leaves and cut into whisker-thin slices. Repeat with the rest of the kale. 4. Puree the soup using a handheld blender, or liquefy in batches in a food processor. Return it to the pot, and bring it back to a boil. Turn the heat to low, stir in the kale and simmer, uncovered, until just tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Swirl in the vinegar, if using. Season well with salt and pepper. 5. Meanwhile, heat the remaining 5 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat until it shimmers. Add the chorizo and cook until crispy, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to paper towels. Let the chorizo oil cool a bit. 6. To serve, ladle the soup into warm bowls, crown each with 3 slices of chorizo and drizzle some of the flavored oil from the skillet over the top. Per serving (based on 6): 537 calories; 41 g fat; 12 g saturated fat; 58 mg cholesterol; 20 g protein; 22 g carbohydrate; 3 g sugar; 3 g fiber; 934 mg sodium; 30 mg calcium Recipe from “The New Portuguese Table,” by David Leite

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A dish featuring kale is this Green soup.

1 jalapeno pepper, finely chopped, optional 16 heaping cups chopped kale (2 pounds), hard stems removed Juice of 1 lemon 1. Heat ¾ cup of the oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat until hot. Add the coriander, cumin, black pepper and salt, and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the onions and saute until golden, 7 to 8 minutes. Remove ¼ cup of the mixture and set aside for garnish. 2. Stir in the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the jalapeno, if using. Add the kale by handfuls, stirring, and cook until reduced in bulk by half. Reduce the heat, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 15 minutes. 3. Remove from the heat, drizzle the remaining ¼ cup oil over the kale, cover and let sit until the oil is absorbed, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a serving dish, drizzle with the lemon juice and garnish with the reserved onion mixture. Serve warm. Per serving (based on 6): 366 calories; 38 g fat; 5 g saturated fat; no cholesterol; 3 g protein; 9 g carbo-

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A dish featuring kale is this Cannelini beans with roasted red peppers and kale. hydrate; 3 g sugar; 3 g fiber; 980 mg sodium; 90 mg calcium

Adapted from “Olives, Lemons & Za’atar” by Rawia Bishara.

Adirondack astro-photo shoots MINIMAL LIGHT POLLUTION: Photographers able to capture more complete view of galaxy program Pixinisght, reducing visual noise as well as bringing out more data in the Milky Way core. Stein planned to return the Adirondacks on June 28 for the new moon. The week after he took photos here, he was on vacation in Colorado taking photos of the mountains and nighttime views there. He said he hopes his photos inspire others to try astrophotography, especially in coordination with hiking, and wants them to do it safely and without damaging the environment.

By AARON CERBONE Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Every year the Adirondack Mountains draw tourists from around the world for the area’s hiking and camping opportunities, but in the past month, several people have hiked them with a different purpose in mind: photographing the Milky Way. On clear nights, far away from the light pollution that covers most of the East Coast, our galaxy is visible to the naked eye. But with special cameras, lenses and photography technology, these photographers are able to capture an even more complete picture of its vast density.

HIKING ALONE, TOGETHER

LOTS TO DO Astrophotographer Daniel Stein photographed the Milky Way from Mount Jo and combined it with a photo he had taken of the landscape better lit. He hikes with a heavy pack: a camera, lenses, a tripod and a star tracker as well as all the gear needed to hike a mountain at night. Stein traveled from his home in New Jersey to hike Giant’s Nubble over Memorial Day weekend. He said he enjoys hiking with a purpose. He likes being the only one on the trail after the sun sets. He enjoys doing something unique. And he remains focused on the journey as the

PROVIDED PHOTO/THOMAS LIZZIO

The Milky Way shines over the Seward Range and other Adirondack peaks from the top of Ampersand Mountain, with light from one of the nearby villages illuminating the horizon.

destination. “The views and the pictures are great, but I really do enjoy the actual hike,” Stein said. “I need a little bit of a challenge when I hike. If it’s too easy … come on. I like when I have to get in the zone, take some deep breaths, really focus on my pace and get into it.” Stein works full-time and can only hike on the weekends. Astrophotography is a weatherdependent activity, so he was

thrilled that this spring has offered more clear, dry weather than last year did. Stein has hiked and photographed the Milky Way from Mount Jo, Cascade Mountain and Giant’s Nubble. He hikes in at sunset and hikes out at sunrise, spending the entire time in pitch black on a relatively empty mountain. GPS is crucial to navigating in the dark, he said, as trails and trail markers can get lost at night. Stein said astrophotography is taxing on his gear. He uses a Nikon Z6 camera that was mod-

ified by a third party to remove a filter, making it more sensitive to the H-alpha wavelength of light, increasing the red hue given off by nebulae. Stein has been taking photos since childhood and got into astrophotography in 2012 when he worked as a staff photographer at the John C. Wells Planetarium at James Madison University. He said the directors, professors and fellow photographers there encouraged him, critiqued him and pushed him forward to find new ways to shoot the stars. Stein’s photos include colorful illuminations of the High Peak mountain ranges below the Milky Way. He achieves this by overlaying two photos in post-production. He said after he takes his first photo of the stars, he immediately switches off the star settings and takes a second exposure of the landscape to get an organic overlay. He modifies the photos in the astrophoto image processing

Thomas Lizzio and Patti Pastella started their hike up Ampersand Mountain when everyone else was coming down. Hitting the trail at 7 p.m. on June 8 they saw their last hiker after 15 minutes on the trail and spent the rest of the night alone, by themselves, with the stars overhead. Both are 46ers twice over: once in the summer and once in the winter, meaning they’ve hiked all 46 of the recognized high peaks of the Adirondacks in both seasons. They have been hiking together since around 2007 and Lizzio always has taken a camera with him on the trail. He said he likes to look back on the sights, big and small, that he’s seen on the trails. “A lot of people hike, but they don’t take the pictures,” Lizzio said. “I am always taking pictures. A lot of the people that (hike) with me are like ‘What are you doing?’ because I’m constantly stopping.” Pastella said she does not mind. She is patient and used to the stops. Around three years ago, he started getting into astrophotography, admiring the photos others have taken of the Milky Way, constellations and far-off planets, and wanting to take some of his own.

The pair summited the bare rock at the top of Ampersand’s 3,352-foot peak around 10:30 p.m. and were met with perfect conditions: clear sky and just a sliver of moon. Lizzio said the Milky Way was visible to the naked eye, but he wasn’t done. He found the heart of the Milky Way due south over the Seward Range, set his Sony A6000 mirrorless camera with a 12mm Rokinon lens on a tripod, and after a 30-second exposure he had unveiled millions more dots of light in the sky. As Pastella set up her sleeping bag and caught a bit of sleep, Lizzio took photos throughout the night, around 50 in all. Eventually he laid down in his bivy sack to stargaze, but he did not get much sleep. They were both up at 4 a.m. to wait for the sunrise, and after snapping some daytime pictures they got back to the car by 8:30 a.m. Lizzio said he has also gone on astrophotography hiking trips on Mount Jo, Whiteface Mountain, Balanced Rocks on Pitchoff Mountain and the Azure Mountain fire tower. Some of these trips, including Whiteface, were night hikes with no mountaintop camping. “I love the night hiking. There was nobody there,” he said of Ampersand. “Pretty much everywhere in the High Peaks is overcrowded nowadays. We were the only ones going up. We had the whole mountain to ourselves.” “You get a different perspective. We’re learning how to identify Dannemora correctional facility, because off in the distance, you can see lights,” Pastella said. “From Ampersand, we could see Ray Brook. You usually wouldn’t see those during the day. It’s amazing how close they really are.” The two are preparing for a trip to hike the High Sierra in California in August.