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ALBANY - On a recent afternoon, Tiana Minervini and Shelley Rettinger, from the Troy-based Joseph's House & Shelter, prepared for another shift of bringing food and supplies to people without homes in Albany. In late October, I joined them for their street outreach aboard a brand new van during the afternoon shift to observe the work they do. The mission of the shelter was evident as I glanced around. There were shelves with bins full of assorted gloves, hats, scarves, jackets, shoes and even ready-to-eat meals. At the first stop, an unsheltered veteran talked about how tired he was of living without a home. He described how cold it gets at night sleeping on the streets in downtown Albany. He explained how bad it made him feel after not being able to take a shower in over a month. He asked for a new blanket from the van to replace his old one that had become tattered from him sleeping on concrete every night. His experience has pushed him to try to get help and find a way to change his life. "I need everything. I need a new life. A redo, restart, or something," he said to the van staff. He expressed that although he hates the condition he lives in, he is not quite ready to take that leap to make a change. But that did not mean that he didn't want to. Acknowledging that, a staffer responded assuredly, "Maybe we can try again tomorrow." Founded in 1983, Joseph's House & Shelter, Inc. is based in Troy and has spent almost 40 years providing support services to residents in the Capital Region. Its mission is to provide nonjudgmental services to end homelessness. The nonprofit's new outreach van was recently purchased with an Emergency Solutions COVID grant in October provided by the city of Albany. In street outreach, clothing and food are distributed, and the staff offer referrals and applications for housing
placement and medical care. In addition to the outreach van, Joseph's House also offers emergency shelter and support services for youth, families, and individuals who are homeless. Minervini, associate director for the outreach, and Rettinger, director of homeless services, explained that they had regular clients with whom they speak and have built relationships over the 12 years they have worked in street outreach. Some they have known for months, others for many years. Regardless of how long or where someone has been living, they are treated with the same humility and kindness. "We are really a constant in their lives," Rettinger said. "We sit and talk to them," said Minervini. "We like to hear their stories. Sometimes, we're really their only sober and consistent support. They love us, most of them." The day I was on the van, every person receiving services had a different background, but they each shared an overwhelming desire to have a better life. As they talked with each client, the van staff listened closely and gave their undivided attention to each individual's needs with locked eye contact. "We are the link to other services and a lot of times we are the ones going out in the community to either help make that phone call, make the appointment, or set up a cab so they can make it to the appointment," Minervini said. Minervini explained the importance of consistency in their work. "We try to see them every day. Our main focus is to work with people that aren't sheltered because they are not getting their services from everyone else," she said. In some areas of the city, there is high demand for the van's services. To keep from being overwhelmed, another outreach van covers areas outside the city of Albany, including Colonie, Menands and Bethlehem. To meet current needs, the outreach van's hours were extended from eight hours to 10 hours daily. In 2020, street outreach services were provided to more than 1,000 unsheltered people in Albany and Rensselaer counties. Clients were approximately 73 percent
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Teens expected to rake, instead they poured cement, learned ByLINE: KATHLEEN MOORE
When teens signed up to volunteer with the Saratoga Senior Center, they expected to rake leaves or mow lawns. Instead, two high school students were matched with a retired construction worker in Schuylerville who taught them how to pour concrete. It was part of a strategy for the senior center. It is trying to reach seniors throughout Saratoga County. Seniors in Saratoga Springs tend to have more access to public transportation, stores and medical offices, so there is more need in the rural towns. The senior center is also trying to provide meaningful experiences for volunteers in which they develop connections with seniors. That's the best way to keep them, said volunteer coordinator Lawrence Barisic, who has an almost perfect volunteer retention rate, with 150 active volunteers helping throughout the year.
All that led to the senior center telling Tom Baxter of Schuylerville that if he ever needed help, he should call. At age 78, he wanted to replace a wooden platform at the bottom of his front stairs with a concrete pad. The platform was rotting, so he had to do something. But a back injury meant he could no longer lift bags of cement. "I wouldn't have anybody doing it for me if I could do it, even if it took me 10 times longer," he said. Then he recalled that offer from the Saratoga Senior Center. So he gave them a call. And soon he had two young men on his lawn, ready for anything. "Neither of them knew one end of a shovel from the other. They'd never done anything like this. That did not stop them one little bit," Baxter said. As he explained, they poured gravel, fetched his manual concrete mixer, poured in the bags
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Spa City cemetery gets new leadership, makeover Southside burials date to 1801, making it older than Gideon Putnam ByLINE: WENDY LIBERATORE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - In a city that prides itself on historic preservation, the state of the city's oldest cemetery is not a point of pride. Saratogian Wayne Senecal said the Southside or Whitford Cemetery on Crescent Avenue is a 1.2-acre tangle of fallen trees, brambles and broken headstones, leaving the final resting places of the more than 540 early residents buried there obscured and forgotten. "A lot of the focus in Saratoga is on the history and restoration of buildings," said Senecal, who was voted in as president of the cemetery's board of trustees last month. "The cemetery is a big piece of Saratoga's people history. Many of these people were early settlers of the area. They were on the school boards, they
were county and town clerks. We want to restore Saratoga pioneer's place of rest." Senecal said the Southside Cemetery Association's new board leadership, including Mary Ellen Ryall, who has relatives buried there, and Corinne Scirocco, who is a member of the Saratoga Chapter of the Daughter's of the American Revolution, are working to reverse the years of neglect. They are currently trying to raise $50,000 for cleanup that will begin in the spring. And after that, Senecal said they will seek grants for the restoration and repair of the stones and eventually will establish an endowment so the cemetery will never again fall victim to abandonment. Senecal, an Air Force veteran, said this is especially important as Southside is the final resting place for many who fought in America's early wars. They include five from the Revolutionary War, 13 from the Civil War along with three from World War I and one from the Spanish-American War.
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to remain from years past, is well acquainted with the graveyard's history. He said the first person buried in the cemetery was 7-year-old Phebe Ostrander in 1801. He also said that her mother, Sarah, died and was buried there in 1805, noting these deaths predate the earliest recorded in the now well-tended
down. Thank goodness I wasn't hurt. But I could see the future," he said. While he lived in Schuylerville, another volunteer drove him to the grocery store and medical offices. There was no bus. "I had to walk down a big hill and back. My legs couldn't make it," he said. Now the bus stops outside his door in Ballston Spa, and he has a scooter, which he uses to get to stores in the village. The bus takes him to his favorite fishing spot on the Kayaderosseras Creek. With the move completed, he doesn't really need help anymore. But he doesn't want to say goodbye to volunteer Karen Billman, who has been driving him to appointments for so long. "She's more than a volunteer. She's become a friend," he said. They plan to keep meeting for lunch or the occasional long drive when he needs to go back to Schuylerville. And as he's enjoyed newfound independence in the
Gideon Putnam Burying Ground on Franklin Street, where the daughters of Putnam, the city's founding father were buried in 1808 and 1809. That historic cemetery underwent a restoration in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to the Ostranders, Dunne said Archibald Crawford, whose Pound Ridge home was burned down by the British Army, was buried there in 1806. So too was his son, Daniel Crawford, husband to married
Sarah Bemis, who watched from the hills of her family's Bemis Heights farm as the British marched to the Battles of Saratoga in 1777. The cemetery was originally owned by the Whitford family, but it was purchased and incorporated as the Southside Cemetery Association in 1869. Burials continued there, reaching the hundreds until about the late 1950s and early 1960s when they slowed. The
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grounds then fell to the state Cemetery Board to maintain. During that time, Dunne said, prisoners from Mt. McGregor came to mow and rake, piling up fallen leaves, branches and debris in the cemetery's edges, obscuring graves. "The prisoners knocked over grave stones," Dunne said. "There were weed whacker marks on the stones." Frustrated by the care, Dunne, whose relatives were
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