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Holly Beitzel of Oneonta brought her plush friend with her to the Oneonta Community Band’s Teddy Bear Picnic in Wilber Park on Sunday afternoon, where she found a new friend: a small, one-eyed toad.
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neonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood will appear before the county IDA board, seeking a $90,000 loan that would allow the town to proceed on its own with a Southside water district. Since a week ago, Wood changed his mind about accepting a City Hall offer to provide the loan and water from an untapped well in the city’s Catella Park. The town plan is to serve Southside from a new well in Fortin Park, Emmons/SEE EDITORIAL, A4
FOND FAREWELL: The Huntington Memorial Library trustees are hosting a reception for retiring Director Marie Bruni 2-4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, in the third-floor meeting room.
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The Rev. Paul Hunter, foreground, was ordained earlier this month into the family business: the Episcopal church. The new deacon at Christ Church, Cooperstown, follows in the footsteps of his father, the Rev. Ken Hunter, rector, St. James Church, Oneonta, (standing in pulpit). From the inset baby photo, you can see Father Paul happened on his vocation at an early age.
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he tourism industry, with specific experience and expertise, is best suited to direct Otsego Jim Miles County’s tourism promotion program. The county’s tourism leaders planned to present that thesis to the county Board of Representatives Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday, Please See TOURISM, A6
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Carl Delberta Sr. Gone; His Kindness Lives On By LIBBY CUDMORE
Calling To Episcopal Clergy All In Family For Oneonta Rector, Cooperstown Deacon
BENEFIT ART: To benefit Hartwick College, Hartwick Professor of Art Emeritus Phil Young will be selling a number of his works 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at the college’s Foreman Gallery.
ike Father, like … well, Father. The Rev. Paul Hunter, ordained at Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, Sunday, July 21, is now serving there as parish deacon. He is the son of the Rev. Kenneth Hunter, rector at St. James Episcopal Church, Oneonta, for the past six years.
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The much-anticipated results of the first round of testing Grades 3-8 tests based on the national Common Core Curriculum show city students performing close to their statewide counterparts. Oneonta scores were marginally above the state and county scores in all but two categories of the 12 released Wednesday, Aug. 7. Local students took the test in April. Oneonta City Schools’ new superintendent, Joseph Yelich, who arrived on the Please See TESTS, A6
By JIM KEVLIN
Carl Sr.’s family at the Swart Wilcox are, from left, daughter-in-law Kathy and husband Carl Jr.; granddaughter Jenn O’Donnell and her daughter Julia; daughter Angela Belavia and husband Ron.
REMEMBER RUSSO: The annual 5k Fun Run & Lower Deck Dash will be Sunday, Sept. 8, beginning at noon, to benefit the Chief Russo Memorial Playground Fund. Registration 9:3011:30 a.m. at Sixth Ward playground on Scrambling Avenue.
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“When I was ordained, I told my mother-in-law she’d have to call me ‘Father’,” said Father Ken. “She believed me!” “I just call him ‘dad’,” said Father Paul. Whether it was a calling or in his blood, the son might have known from an early age that the priesthood was his destiny. “I have a picture of him dressed up as a priest,” said Kenneth. “He was probably about 3 or 4 years old. Of course, he also Please See FATHERS, B6
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rom peeling potatoes to boxing around the world, from cleaning the blackboards to building the Boys & Girls Club, the early stories of Carl Delberta were not ones he told very often, but when he did, they gave a deeper understanding of his rise to rank as one of Oneonta’s most beloved citizens. Please See DELBERTA, A7
SUNY PLANS ‘SUPERSTAR’
Judas Returns As Pilate By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n 1981, Steve Fabrizio took a break from SUNY Oneonta to tour the country as Judas in “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
He expected to come back and finish college in a year and a half when his contract was up. It’s 32 years later, and he’s now back at SUNY. This time, he’s playing Please See PLAY, A7
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neonta native Kristin Ferguson – now writing as KD – will premier her first novel, “Torn True Love� at the “Catch Up With KD� book signing from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug, 15. “I started getting into YA when I was working as a nanny,� she said. “I really wanted to write a book, then I wanted to see if I could get it published.� The YA novel takes place in a dystopian post-WWIII setting, where the government controls the lives – and loves – of citizens. Krissa, a young girl, must choose between the life she’s always known and a boy, Braiden, who steals her heart. “When she follows her heart, it be-
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comes chaotic,� said Ferguson. “It’s not the true love she anticipated.� The book was published in 2012 as an ebook by Rebel Ink Press, and recently got a paperback run. A second book is in the works. “This one sets up the story,� she said. “The second book will be even stronger.�
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SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, center, and her husband Bill Davis pass on good wishes to county Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis, Cooperstown, who is leaving the job after seven years, (12 in all with the county office.) A reception in Lewis’ honor was held Friday, Aug. 9, at the county EC-DEV office in Oneonta.
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Without Collaboration, Southside Water District’s A Non-Starter
t’s all about “intermunicipal collaboration,” Deputy Secretary of State Dede Scozzafava told the then-fledgling GO-EDC during an April 2011 visit to Oneonta. Hearing that, GO-EDC sparkplug Albert Colone drew the logical conclusion: The state will support win-win scenarios vs. going it alone. And that’s as it should be. Divide $1 million among the state’s 10,521 cities, towns, village and specialassessment districts, and each receives $95.05, dinner for two; 10,521’s enough to dilute many millions. How much better to share resources, to use expensive, under-utilized utilities – water, sewerage, parks, you name it – to the maximum, than to build 10,521 independent city states, little moated Taj Mahals, that are patently unaffordable. So how disappointing was it when it looked like the stars of collaboration were aligning on a water district for Southside Oneonta, only to see them scattered again. • When this newspaper went to press last week, the Town of Oneonta appeared ready to embrace a $90,000 loan offered by the City of Oneonta so that the water district, using surplus city water from an untapped well in Catella Park, could move forward. Absent that water district, Southside development is at an end. The state Department of Health had
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Without collaboration, is the proposed water district on Oneonta’s Southside the right project for $9 million in prospective state loans? Is is likely the state will approve a go-it-alone undertaking?
expressed reluctance to approve any more wells there. With water, Lowe’s Home Improvement could add two restaurants on its Route 23 site. Target could move ahead on a local store. The sales tax generated would help not only the Town of Oneonta, but the city and the cash-strapped County of Otsego. The construction and resulting stores would create jobs. The town would garner additional property taxes. Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood asked to address the city’s Common Council on the topic Tuesday, Aug. 6 (and did). The county Board of Reps planned to (and did) endorse the collaboration the following morning.
• Instead of collaboration on a brighter future, the stars blinked out. Instead of asking City Hall to supply municipal water to the Southside, Wood, yes, asked for the loan, but to allow the town to go its own way in building a whole new system based in Fortin Park, Emmons. Thanks for the money – and so long! The next day, Wood approached the county IDA, again asking for the money so the town could go it alone. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county board chair, was rightly miffed that Wood, after accepting county support for collaboration, turned his back on it. “I feel we look like fools,” she said.
The IDA board meets Thursday, Aug. 15, to discuss Wood’s request. Obviously, it should reject the loan. It’s a dead-end. Further, the state Environmental Facilities Corp., which has so far resisted approving the town’s $9 million financing application for the Southside water district, should reject the financing outright until “intermunicipal collaboration” is evidenced. The Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission, as it already seems inclined to do, should reject any go-it-alone municipal ventures, not just the Town of Oneonta’s, which is also seeking state money for a narrow-purpose sewer plant on the West End, but
generally. No moated Taj Mahals! • Given what’s happened, perhaps the whole Southside water district needs to be put on hold and thought through anew. For one thing, the water district only makes sense if Lowe’s and Target follow through on their plans. You may have already heard talk that Dick’s Sporting Goods and Petco aren’t hitting their sales targets. If so, then sales taxes may not be forthcoming, and a water district won’t pay off. Two, at some times of day and some times of year – for instance, the Christmas season we’ll soon be entering – Route 23 is already clogged. For the next few
years at least, the state DOT has shelved its plan for extensive improvements. Absent that, more construction will only make a bad situation worse. A clean-sheet look may favor a more compact water district, aimed at serving commercial clients. Practically speaking, are the single homeowners in the proposed larger district, who have good well water now, really going to vote to spend an extra $800 a year in debt service, plus water usage fees? Unlikely. Bigger picture, is the water district devised by the town for the town’s benefit the best use for $9 million in state infrastructure money? A smart-growth perspective would suggest otherwise. Might $9 million be better spent redeveloping the old D&H yards or perhaps on downtown? Will the water district, as constituted, simply fuel sprawl? The IDA’s interim director, Doug Gulotty, is due to report back Sept. 1 on a plan to privatize the county’s Economic Development Office. It just makes sense to wait until the new structure is in place; figuring out the optimum footprint and maximum benefit of a Southside water district would be an excellent first task for the new economic developer. The Town of Oneonta’s turnabout is sorely disappointing. But perhaps the siren song of collaboration has blinded too many to unanswered questions and flaws in the water-district plan.
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If Beer, Booze Gambling Bad For Some, Then Oughtn’t It Be Bad For Everyone? To the Editor: Marie Lusins’ letter assailing Upstate “beer, booze and gambling” again demonstrates her snobbish hypocrisy. Back in 2009, Lusins organized a fight against an “unsightly and unneeded” cell tower in her backyard. She lost that battle, but continues to lobby in favor of unsightly, unwanted, dangerous drilling rigs – presumably out of her sight, on other people’s land. Now she rails against the economic benefits of Upstate breweries, distilleries and casinos. To her, gas is so obviously the solution to Upstate economic woes. Thinking her a tee-totaling, anti-gambling advocate, I did my homework. Was I ever wrong! It’s apparently laudable for her and friends
to drink, drink, drink, as well as frequent casinos. But contemptible for us, the hoi-polloi. From her B&B website. “Marie is certified by the German Wine Academy, a Chevalier of the International Burgundian Wine Society, the Chevaliers du Tastevin, and president of L’ordine Della Vite Italian Wine Society.” As president/curator of L’ordine Della Vite, Lusins has promoted wine-tastings and wine dinners since 2003. Since 2012, events have been held at the Cooperstown Country Club; Illium Café, Troy; Farmhouse Restaurant, Emmons; Toscana Restaurant; Cooperstown; MezzaNotte Restaurant, Albany; Yahnundasis Golf Club, New Hartford, NY; Canal Side Inn,
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Little Falls. (Photos and info at https://www.facebook. com/LOrdineDellaVite.) Lusins also accomplished a rare double-hypocritical back flip on July 26th, 2012, by promoting and attending the L’ordine Della Vite “Gala” at Turning Stone Casino’s Club 21. Gambling and alcohol! Oh my! I enjoy a beer, glass of wine, or gin and tonic. I’ve played bridge for penny-a-point. I have no problem with Lusins’ personal pleasures. But when she applies her double standards to us I think of the duplicitous, selfrighteous Captain Renault in “Casablanca” who loudly exclaims, “I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on in here,” as he pockets his winnings. LARRY BENNETT Brewery Ommegang
To Bring Hall Of Fame Visitors Back, Businesspeople Should Be Consulted To the Editor: What happened to our businesses on Main Street? Last week I sat with the president and owner of Cooperstown Dreams Park; he wanted to know how I felt about how Dreams Park brings the business into our village. I told him I appreciated the great park and all the business it brings in the area. I told him how I was in business for 10 years before he arrived, and that our business was much better during those times then it is now. In 1989, the Baseball Hall of Fame was well on its way to bringing 300,000 visitors per year into Cooperstown. There were no major businesses on Route 28 south. At TJ’s we would feed 600-700 people per day in the summer months. Once the hotels were built and they gave breakfast away, our business shrank. As the Hall Of Fame lost almost 70,000 visitors a year, we continue to lose more business on Main Street. You could probably estimate that Dreams Park accounts for 20,000 people to the Cooperstown area per year. With this num-
ber of visitors figured into the 235,000 visitors, we are still short 70,000 people. There are now six or seven major restaurants on Route 28 that were never there before. So my answer to Dreams Park is: Thank you for developing your Dreams Park field here but the king of the hill is still the Baseball Hall Of Fame. The Baseball Hall Of Fame has to bring its attendance back to where it was in the early 1990s. I think it would help if some of the business community were able to be involved in making decisions that would add to the attendance. This group could change from year to year to provide different opinions. Bringing back the Old Timers Committee would help to insure that a year like this one will never happen again. We need to have live Inductees to help bring their fans to the village. Every year I hear the merchants saying we need to do this or we need to do that. Most of the comments make sense. We don’t know the politics at the Hall Of Fame but for sure some of it needs to change. TED HARGROVE Cooperstown
Respect President’s Office, Yes. But Every Officeholder? To the Editor: In response to last week’s letter from my friend Richard Abbate, I agree that a dart game with the President’s picture is uncalled for and should not have taken place. But where was his concern and outrage when the novel “Checkpoint” was written in 2004 about the assassination of George W. Bush and the movie “Death of a President” was released in 2006, again about the assassination of our sitting President George W. Bush? I believe both of these are far more
serious than a dart throwing game at the Morris Fair! He said in his letter, “no matter what, you respect the President.” Sorry Richard, I will always respect the Office of the President but I do not respect the man that currently occupies that position. He is destroying the country that both you and I love and I’m afraid it will never be the same for my children and grandchildren. I also respect the position of Senate leader, but Harry Reid will never garner my respect, especially after
insinuating that the only reason that I may disagree with the President is because he is African American – what a disgusting remark. Then there’s the office of Mayor, should I respect Bob Filnor and Anthony Weiner also? I’m sure there are people that would like to throw darts in their direction but not at their picture. All of these positions deserve respect but people must earn it … these people have not! JOHN IRVIN Cumming, Ga.
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125 Years Ago
100 Years Ago
Melvin A. Warner, a D&H boilermaker residing at 32 Gilbert Street, was struck by switch engine No. 48 about 100 south of the Main Street tower in the yards at 8:30 o’clock Monday night and mangled almost beyond recognition. The engine was backing toward the station on the northbound lead and neither engineer Myron Morse nor conductor Bruce Campbell knew that they had struck anyone. The body was found between the rails of the track by engineer McGuinness of Carbondale, who was walking up to the city from the roundhouse. Death must have been instantaneous, but from the evidence shown by bits of flesh and blood scattered along the track the body was bowled along a distance of fifty feet or more. Both legs were severed below the knee. Both arms were cut off below the elbow and the head hung to the torso by a mere tendon. The entire left side of his body and head was so badly crushed that it was unrecognizable even to men with whom he had worked for many years. August 1913
80 Years Ago
Shoppers from all parts of the Oneonta community, many from a distance of 30 to 50 miles, thronged this city yesterday for the semi-annual cooperative Dollar Day arranged by merchants and bought heavily and wisely. Because of the low prices prevailing, the dollar volume of business was generally about the same as a year ago, but measured in commodities in many stores a substantial increase was noticed. While the small items were popular, as were final summer clearances of apparel, there was a general demand for all and winter merchandise. Many shoppers bought in anticipation of rising prices which have already taken effect in many wholesale lines and must soon reach the retail levels. August 1933
60 Years Ago
Heavy rains last night forced area residents to scurry to shelter and flooded Bovina Center, causing thousands of dollars of damage. Bovina Center, at the foot of the Catskills, was temporarily cut off from the rest of civilization about 8:30 p.m. when the Little Delaware River went on a rampage after a cloudburst. Some communities reported no rain at all, but in Bovina Center, Clayton Thomas said “a wall of water all of a sudden hit ka-boom.” Thomas said his garage and its contents were ruined as were hundreds of sacks of feed in the Hilson Brothers Feed Store. A vacant
installed. “We’re moving along fine,” said Lucia Colone, coordinator of the Oneonta Youth Employment Service Youth Center. Colone designed the six-week job-training program that put local youngsters to work constructing the trail. “The hardest part is digging some of the post holes,” she said. “In some sections of the park, the ground is rocky.” The remaining eight stations of the fitness trail should be installed within the next two weeks. During the last two weeks of the program, the youths will be involved with promoting the trail, as well as learning how each station should be used and the health benefits of the various exercises. The $3,600 job-training program, in which 10 youths are paid $60 a week, was funded by a $1,800 grant from the Oneonta Common Council and a matching grant from the State Division for Youth. The youths are paid $2.40 an hour and put in five hours a day. The project is supervised by the city engineering department. August 1983
August 1888 tenant house floated into the middle of Pink Street brook. Fire Chief Floyd Aiken of Bovina said damage would run into thousands of dollars. “It’s a terrible mess. Cellars are flooded, sidewalks and streets ripped and foundations undermined.” August 1953
40 Years Ago
The long-run viability of our dairy industry is threatened by a succession of events according to 27th District Congressman Howard W. Robinson who released a statement while attending the Delaware County Fair. “The price freeze has had an unanticipated adverse effect on the New York dairy industry. The after effects of Tropical Storm Agnes that resulted in shortages of feed grain and roughage and poor crop conditions this spring along with flooding in Delaware County and other areas, and sky-rocketing feed grain costs have come together to place the dairy industry in New York State in jeopardy. Milk production continues to drop as farmers, because of the high prices they can obtain for cows destined to be slaughtered, sell off part, or often all, their herds.” Congressman Robinson is calling for emergency hearings so dairy farmers can have the opportunity to present their case for increased prices. August 1973
30 Years Ago
Construction of the new fitness trail in Wilber Park is right on schedule with 12 of the 20 exercise stations already
20 Years Ago
Speaking in Denver, Colorado on Friday, Pope John Paul II challenged U.S. bishops on Friday to take special care of young Catholics. He then sent them throughout the city to evangelize “the church of today and tomorrow.” The pope, on the second day of his U.S. visit for World Youth Day appeared in good spirits. The pope greeted American bishops summoned to Denver to show the Roman Catholic Church’s concern for a difficult-to-reach generation that has shown a declining interest in some religious practices. As American bishops left the cathedral to meet with young people from their home dioceses, the pope met briefly with youngsters at a high school. Then he retreated to the Rocky Mountains for a day of hiking and rest. August 1993
10 Years Ago
A power outage that began shortly after 4 p.m. on Thursday kept many area towns dark well into the night. Many outlying towns, including Walton, Sidney and Downsville didn’t have power as of 11 p.m. Thursday, and parts of Oneonta, Cobleskill and Norwich also were without power. In Oneonta, lower Main Street had electricity, as did parts of Chestnut Street and the Southside. But Main Street’s business district and many nearby residences did not. Kathy King, NYSEG’s Oneonta area spokeswoman said about 68,000 people across Otsego, Delaware and Chenango and parts of eight other counties were still in the dark at 11 p.m. August 2003
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Privatizing Tourism Presents Opportunities, Industry Leaders Say TOURISM/From A1 Aug. 14. “The county board, they’re from all kinds of disciplines,” said Otesaga General Manager Jim Miles, who is a leader of the group developing the concept. “I think the private sector can help them maximize the use of the funds that are collected and still report to the county on how the money is spent.” Miles is part of a steering committee that met with county Tourism Director Deb Taylor Tuesday, July 30, and identified a minimum of $80,000 in benefits and efficiencies the county would save through privatization. Other committee members in-
cluded Ken Meifert, representing the Hall of Fame and the Cooperstown Chamber; Paul Lawrence, Courtyard by Marriott, Oneonta; Bob Holt, Best Western, Hartwick SemiTaylor nary; Carol Blazina, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta; Bill Michaels, Fly Creek Cider Mill, and Todd Kenyon, The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums. County Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who chairs the IGA committee, said she is “very optimistic” tourism-office privati-
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to put an allocation in the 2014 county budget, and Schwerd said she would propose 40 percent of Bed Tax revenues, which might be a bit of an increase from the $400,000 allocated this year. Even if moving the salaries is simply cost-shifting, county benefits amount to 72 percent of salaries, a significant savings in itself, Schwerd said. Taylor said she foresees “a leaner, meaner tourism program if it’s overseen by tourism professionals and stakeholders in the industry.” In addition to the county’s $400,000, state allocations to the tourism office have ranged from zero in 2010 to $59,000 this year,
TESTS/From A1 job in early July, took the results in stride. “Waiting for test results is not something top-notch teachers do,” he said. “They’re constantly assessing student readiness. We’ve got to work with our kids, not wait around.” In Cooperstown, students scored above the state average in all categories. “We’re pleased with that,” said Lynn Strang, the new executive principal. “This is a guide to look at our current practices and offer ways for students to be more successful.” The tests utilize critical thinking skills – for instance, a student-choice question about something inferred, rather than directly stated, in the text.
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“It’s more about utilizing information than retaining it,” said Nick Savin, ONC BOCES superintendent. “It’s not just content,” Strang agreed. “It’s understanding what they’re supposed to do with that content. It’s solving multiple problems in a question.” One of the difficulties of the test, Strang said, is that the math portion of the curriculum was not phased in well. “Our teachers were still aligning students to the 2005 curriculum and state assessment,” she said. “They learn fractions in fifth grade. Now, for the fifth-grade assessment, they’re expected to have mastered fractions, so teachers are trying to go back in and
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fill the gap.” Going forward, individual attention will be key, said Yelich, but not just for students who are struggling. “If a student isn’t performing, we’ll help them catch up,” he said. “If a student is on top, we’ll help advance them with enrichment activities. If we pay attention to student needs, the test results will follow.” “Down the road, you’re going to see some real growth,” said Strang, who was brought in to implement the Common Core Standards related APPRs, (Annual Professional Performance Reviews on teachers). “It’s a positive thing for students.”
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which Taylor anticipates would be continued next year under the private option. Currently, “partners” contribute $70,000 a year to the effort, which she anticipates could be increased under a private model. The new tourism office would be reorganized as a non-profit 501c6. “This is nothing uncommon,” she said. “Statewide, government is getting out of the tourism business.” Privatization would also allow the local tourism office to join the state Convention & Visitors Bureau. “That has the huge advantage of sitting us at the same table with Saratoga and Lake Placid,” Taylor said.
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zation will go through. “They need to demonstrate they have a board of directors that is diverse, including people from the northern and southern ends of the county,” said Schwerd. “And you need large players as well as smaller ones.” She believed the proposal due to come before her committee reflected those concerns. If, as she anticipated, the committee approved the concept Wednesday, it would go to the board’s Administration Committee on the 21st. If approved there, the full board would vote on the concept at its September meeting on the 11th. That would allow plenty of time
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Childhood Hardships Inspired Carl Delberta, Sr., To Strive To Ease Others’ DELBERTA/From A1 “He never told me anything about his youth,” said daughter Angela to a SRO crowd at the Swart Wilcox Sunday Series on Aug. 11. “He never looked back. Then one day, he was sitting in my living room in Rochester, and I just listened.” Born in Oneonta to a railroad family, Delberta lost his mother when he was 7. “His father only spoke Italian, so they never really talked,” she said. Hungry, Delberta went to a nearby diner and asked Since 1974
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tatoes, and every day after school young Carl would peel potatoes in exchange for a hot meal. Early in the mornings, he’d get up and go to the Mitchell Street School to help the teachers. “They gave him time and conversation – he never forgot that kindness.” It was that, in part, that helped inspire the founding of the Boys & Girls Club. “My father was very fortunate to have these individuals who stepped up to help him,” said son Carl Jr. “He
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wanted to give every kid the best opportunity they had.” One winter night, a boy came to the Delberta home in just a T-shirt and sneakers. “He called up to me, ‘Carl, give this boy your coat and hat’!” said Carl Jr. “Whenever people needed something, he would help them out. He was all giving.” Even while he was boxing professionally, he still came home to Oneonta to spend time with the kids. “When I was 13, he took me to Candyland for a soda,” said Joe Campbell. “He handed me a quarter for the jukebox. Nobody I knew ever put a quarter in; I had to scrounge to find a nickel!” He continued, “Carl told me, ‘I want to come back to Oneonta when my boxing days are over and open a place for kids’.” One of the earliest incarnations of the center was in the garage behind the Delberta house. “Kids would come to the door and
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ask if the club was open,” said Carl Jr. “At 10 a.m. every Saturday, we’d all gather and jump rope, then jump rope, then jump rope again,” said William Hugh Stanton. “Then we’d jump rope backwards!” “Before baseball, before soccer, there was Carl and
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his backyard with Coach Campbell,” said Gary Dilello. Carl Delberta Sr. died in 2009, but his legacy lives on with the club. “He taught these boys not to worry about where they came from,” said Angela. “It was where they were going.”
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PLAY/From A7 Pontius Pilate. “Once again, I’m playing a character that gets a bum rap,” he said. “Maybe next time, they’ll cast me as the guy who drives the nails into Jesus’ hands.” SUNY’s Apollo Music Club is mounting a concert production of “Superstar” Friday, Sept. 6, at the Oneonta Theatre, offering students a chance to sing on stage with alumni, faculty, professional performers and community members. “Picking ‘Superstar’ was a natural,” said Colby Thomas, music professor and club adviser. “It’s got a Fabrizio rock band, so the orchestra will be a mix of students and faculty.” Alumni Ryan Quinn, ’13, will be playing Jesus and Dan DeVita, ’10, Judas. Current students Leigh Ann Muscarella will play Mary, Cristian LaBoy plays Peter and Jared Barton plays Herod. As late as Thursday, Sept. 5, community members can join the ensemble to sing numbers such as “What’s the Buzz,” “Everything’s All Right” and, of course, “Superstar.” And if you can’t make even that final rehearsal, there might still be a place to sing. “I wouldn’t be surprised if people sing from the audience!” said Thomas. “And they’re welcome to do so.” In three decades acting, Fabrizio – now a bouncer at the B-side Ballroom who sings there Wednesday nights – has performed in several touring casts and concert performances, including “Victor/Victoria” and “Les Miserables.” In addition to his role on stage, Fabrizio will help coach some of the student performers. “He’s an allin-one package,” “He’s a student and he’s almost an alumni.”
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Make yourself at Home on our website http://www.donolinrealty.com for listings and information on unique and interesting properties. We'll bring you Home!