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SUMMER SPLASH

Cowboy history to be recorded

This Week TAKING A TRIP TO POTTERSVILLE

Ranches, Rodeos, Wranglers event set for July 28

Gore Mt. Seniors enjoy Railroads on Parade

By Andy Flynn

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andy@denpubs.com LAKE LUZERNE „ Two Warren County cowgirls „ one from Lake Luzerne and one from Stony Creek „ will spend part of their summer this year documenting the rich history of dude ranches in Warren County. The Ranches, Rodeos and Wranglers History Day, set for 1-8 p.m. Sunday, July 28, was Pam MorinÍ s idea, and it is a collaboration with Stony Creek Historian Cindy Cameron, a cowgirl and barrel racer who married Bill Cameron, who worked the ranches and rodeos and is still in the business shoeing horses. ñ WeÍ re married to cowboys,î said Pam, who grew up in the village of Lake George. ñ We just found that it was time to recognize them, honor them, do a rewind, put this all in place. People have been giving us armfuls of wonderful photos taken in the Í 40s and Í 50s.î The towns of Lake Luzerne and Stony Creek supplied funds to help promote the first-ever Ranches, Rodeos and Wranglers Days on July 26-28 at the Painted Pony Rodeo, 703 Howe Road, Lake Luzerne. Starting in the 1920s, dude ranches began popping up in CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

SPEAKING OUT IN INDIAN LAKE

Participants of the Johnsburg Youth Program enjoy Swim lessons at Gurney Lane Pool in Queensbury. The Johnsburg students are: Nathaniel, Ian, Liam, Duncan, Gage, Isabelle, Kamron and Levi. The Youth Program’s regular morning program will be held at the Ski Bowl Park in North Creek Tuesday-Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. Photo by Ann Dingman

By Katherine Clark katherine@denpubs.com

ELIZABETHTOWN „ The biggest voice advocating a ñ vehicle taxî changed his tune during the July 1 Essex County Supervisors monthly meeting, putting the brakes on an additional registration fee. Local Law No. 3 of 2013, would have called for a fee of $5 per year to register private vehicles and $10 per year to reg-

ister commercial vehicles in Essex County. The law was shot down by a weighted vote of 1,706 against and 1,150 in favor, with 65 votes absent. Town of Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava, who had ambitiously advocated for the fee, calling it, ñ a step in the right direction,” flipped his decision and opposed the tax after receiving criticism from voters in his district. ñ I 100 percent disapprove,î said Scozzafava. ñ IÍ ve heard loud and clear from voters.î

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One of the major concerns Scozzafava voiced at the July 1 meeting was people were worried if there was more money coming in, the county would spend more without a plan to reduce anything off of the tax levy. ñ If very few people are supporting this we are wasting our time drafting this into law,î said Scozzafava. Town of Chesterfield Supervisor Gerald Morrow said the popular opinion he CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Ski Bowl Lodge to be dedicated to Minder By Thom Randall

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Essex Co. supervisors nix car tax

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Locals give thoughts at APA public hearing

NORTH CREEK — The late Joseph G. Minder, who endured horrendous conditions as prisoner of War in World War II „ then found solace in later years in skiing at Gore Mountain — is to be memorialized with a local landmark dedicated in his name. The North Creek Ski Bowl Lodge is to be renamed the Joe Minder Lodge in a ceremony set for 3 p.m. Saturday, July 6 at the community facility off Rte. 28 in the town of JohnsburgÍ s hamlet of North Creek.

Minder started skiing in 1924 at the age of 7 and he didnÍ t stop skiing „ except for his years as an Army Field Engineer „ until he was well into his 80s. Minder spent more than three years in brutal conditions in Japanese prison camps in the Pacific. Minder and thousands of other American Soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines were captured in May 1942 after being outnumbered and overpowered by Japanese troops at Fort Corregidor. Minder started his overseas military service in 1941, helping build airstrips roads and bridges in Manila during the Allied defense of the Philippines. His combat experience began just hours after the attack

on Pearl Harbor. Minder’s first duty as a POW was to bury hundreds of bodies of his fellow soldiers, some of whom had been brutally tortured to death after capture. From the beginning of MinderÍ s imprisonment, food, water and medical care were withheld from the POWs „ and they were exposed to brutal heat and bitter cold, he recalled in a 1996 interview with this reporter. Many of the POWs died of pellagra, beriberi, malaria and scurvy, and the eyesight of many of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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