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LAKE PLACID Ñ The Lake Placid CVB/Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) has been granted renewal of its accreditation through the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP).

The DMAP is administered

by Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI), the world’s largest and most reliable resource for official Destination Marketing Organizations.

“We’re pleased that we’ve successfully renewed with DMAI,” said James McKenna, CEO. “It confirms that ROOST continues to meet the rigorous standards set forth by the professional destination marketing community.”

This is the first time ROOST has renewed its accreditation since it first earned the honor in 2009.

By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com

High Peaks, PBS partner for show

JAY — On Feb. 21, Josh Clement, producer from Mountain Lake PBS’s Borderless North, and High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care will hold a video premier of Josh’s Special Edition series on the life journey of an Adirondack couple and their special connection to High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care.

The premier will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Jay Entertainment & Music Society’s (JEMS) Amos & Julia Ward Theater, which is located at 15 Parkside Drive in Jay. Josh and High Peaks Hospice’s hope is that by telling the story of Norman and Luella Briggs, they make the human connection to High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care. Josh will share his personal experience with the Briggs’ and his production of the video.

Andrew Weibrecht, right, who skied to an Olympic silver medal Feb. 16 in Super G, is the son of Mirror Lake Inn owners Ed and Lisa Weibrecht.

Bode Miller of New Hampshire took a bronze medal. Weibrecht was in Miller’s position in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, winning bronze in the same event.

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Lake Placid’s Andrew Weibrecht was one of the last members named to the United States Alpine Ski team that headed to Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympic Games, which may have fueled him to another improbably podium run.

Weibrecht, who had not seen a world podium since his bronze in the Super G at the 2010 Games, finished three-tenths of a second behind Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud in scoring the silver medal in the same event Feb. 16. New Hampshire’s Bode Miller, the most decorated alpine skier in U.S. history, tied for bronze with Austria’s Otmar Streidinger, making him the oldest alpine skier to earn a medal.

Weibrecht, whose parents Ed and Lisa Weibrecht own the Mirror Lake Inn, was celebrated with a champagne toast in Lake Placid later that day.

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46 peaks, 12 days

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KEENE — For one man, his attempt to scale all 46 High Peaks in 12 days starting Tuesday, Feb. 18, is a way to honor the memory of his son while raising money for a good cause.

“This is my Everest and something I have a good chance of pulling off,” said veteran climber and Montréal-based chiropractor Neil Luckhurst.

In October 2005, Luckhurst completed climbing the tallest 46 mountains in the Adirondacks with his son, Dominic Cartier-Luckhurst. That experience inspired the latter to embark on a career as a mountain

guide. He quickly relocated to the Canadian Rockies from Montréal and passionately threw himself into the field.

“He was really gifted,” recalled Luckhurst.

But on Jan. 7, 2008, during a backcountry skiing trip on Mount St. Piran in Alberta, Canada, Cartier-Luckhurst’s promising life was tragically cut short when he got caught in an avalanche as the snowpack unexpectedly gave way.

By all accounts, it was supposed to be a safe route.

“For years, we’ve been processing and dealing with this,” he said.

Dominic was 19.

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Neil Luckhurst surveys Haystack-Marcy during a climb earlier this year.

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Filmmaker Aaron Woolf Dems top choice for NY-21contest

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com LONG LAKE — While Republican committee chairs of the 12 counties that make up the 21st U.S. Congressional District announced their endorsed candidate with a press conference and public introduction, the Democrats were much more reserved Feb. 12.

Members from the Democratic committees met in Long Lake two days before Valentine’s Day to quietly make their choice for a candidate to replace the current incumbent Congressman, Democrat Bill Owens of Plattsburgh, who announced earlier this month that he would not be seeking re-election.

Their choice: Aaron Woolf, the “King Corn,” documentary filmmaker who has a home in Elizabethtown.

“I am proud to earn the unanimous support of the 21st Congressional District’s 12 Democratic Chairs and I am honored they have chosen me as the best candidate to continue Congressman Bill Owens’ work fighting for our middle class and protecting Medicare,” Woolf said in a prepared statement. “I am looking forward to discussing my ideas about ways we can work together to spur our local economy, create new jobs, and protect all North Country families.”

The meeting that led to the endorsement of Woolf was kept vague from members of the media, unlike the Republican’s highly publicized event held in Elizabethtown a week earlier.

Emails to the Valley News from Essex County Democratic Committee member and former Minerva Supervisor Sue Montgomery Corey did not state a location (Adirondack Hotel) or time (11 a.m.) for the meeting.

Another potential candidate, Trevor Johnson, was reported to have been interviewed at the meeting while a third, John Sullivan, opted out

Filmmaker Aaron Woolf was chosen by Democratic leaders in the NY-21 Congressional District as their endorsed candidate to replace Bill Owens of Plattsburgh. of the process.

In his statement, Woolf said he was “eager” to speak with people throughout the district.

“Upstate New York is a great place to live,

work, raise a family, and retire - but we need to make sure it stays that way for future generations,” he said. “I’m committed to ensuring our kids have access to a quality education and will work to improve and enhance our region’s

infrastructure so our local business can grow and our economy can thrive. I am very eager to discuss my ideas and hear from North Country voters in the weeks and months to come at events in the community, in their living rooms, and at their doorsteps.”

The committee chairs also released a statement from Washington County chair Sheila Comar.

“We appreciate the consideration given to this race by so many talented people,” Comar said in the statement. “We unanimously agree that Aaron Woolf is the best candidate to continue Representative Bill Owens’ work to protect our seniors and the Medicare guarantee, middle class families, and reflect the independent spirit that makes the North Country strong. Woolf is a problem solver who will take a commonsense approach and is committed to working together to find solutions that create more jobs and spur New York’s economy.”

When asked if a primary was a concern for the party, Corey said with petitions needing to be filed in the near future, there may not be time for another candidate to decide to make a run.

“A primary is always possible, but with the window on getting the signatures coming so soon, I think it would be really tough to get the necessary signatures to get on the primary ballot,” Corey said.

At current, Woolf would potentially face Republican-backed candidate Elise Stefanik, who has a home in Willsboro, in the November General Election. Stefanik received the support of the GOP committees Feb. 7, but may face a primary as Joe Gilbert, who attended the interview process with the chairs and was turned down, said he would seek to file a petition in order to bring a primary election to determine the Republican nominee in June.

An email from the Woolf camp stated that there would be a formal campaign launch at a later date.

Tas Cru at BluSeed SARANAC LAKE — BluSeed Studios presents “Live at BluStage: Tas Cru,” Friday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and $12 for BluSeed members. Reservations recommended by calling 891-3799 or by email at admin@bluseedstudios.org.

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Staff from Adirondack Community Action (ACAP) were recognized for their “Outstanding Performance by a Contractor” at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Empower NY annual meeting in December. The meeting, for contractors and partners, was held in Latham where ACAP Weatherization and Energy Services Staff received a plaque recognizing their hard work and dedication. Pictured displaying the plaque they received are Robert Rowe-Energy Tech, Jack Kimball-Energy Tech, Robert Smith-Energy Auditor and seated are Cindy Wenzel- Program Assistant and Barbara AllenWeatherization and Energy Services Director.

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Jeff Barker plays the organ at the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid. Baker, who helped to restore the organ and would play for audiences at the theater, recently passed away.

Backcountry Ski festival Adirondack Film Society planned in Keene Valley mourns organist Jeff Barker

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KEENE VALLEY — The Mountaineer in Keene Valley, NY will host the Twelfth Annual Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival the weekend of March 1 and 2.

Backcountry skiing means skiing on natural snow in natural terrain, and combines all of the elements of touring, climbing and downhill skiing into a real winter mountaineering experience. We are excited to host SCARPA athlete Chris Davenport – one of the world’s most accomplished big mountain skiers – at this year’s Backcountry Skifest! Among his many ski mountaineering achievements, in 2007 Chris became the first person to ski all fifty-four of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in less than one year. Don’t miss what is sure to be a memorable presentation by Chris at the Keene Central School Saturday evening! Chris’ presentation on Saturday is open to the public – doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show, and tickets are $10 with raffle tickets available for $1 each.

New this year, The Mountaineer is encouraging all attendees to bring a non-perishable donation to the Keene Food Pantry to Saturday evening’s presentation.

Cloudsplitter Mountain Guides in Keene Valley will lead guided backcountry tours for several ability levels on Saturday and Sunday, and Chuck Boyd will teach an Introduction to Avalanche Safety and Awareness course on Saturday, with a fieldwork component on Sunday. Advance registration for all guided tours and instructional clinics is required. Registration information is available at www.mountaineer.com/skifest.

Demos and mini clinics will be held at Otis Mountain in Elizabethtown on Saturday. Otis Mountain is a private ski area that offers a great venue for testing out the latest skis and boots as well as clinics on skinning, telemark skiing, splitboarding and more. Mammut will be on hand with an avalanche beacon practice park that is open to the public. Mini-clinics and equipment demos will be free of charge, and no registration is required. Just show up ready to ski! The mini-clinics and demos take place from 10am to 3pm. Otis Mountain is located off of Route 9 in Elizabethtown, just a 15 minute drive from Keene Valley.

The Skifest is a benefit event, with proceeds supporting the New York State Ski Education Foundation’s Nordic racing programs and the Adirondack Ski Touring Council, stewards of the Adirondack Park’s backcountry ski trail system, including the famous Jackrabbit Trail. Major sponsors for this year’s event include SCARPA, Backcountry Magazine and Dynafit. Additional sponsors Black Diamond, Julbo, Madshus, Mammut, Marmot, Kastle, Outdoor Research, Primaloft, Scarpa, Voilé and adkbcski.com help make the event happen as well as provide demo gear for participants to try free of charge. The Skifest is a benefit event, with proceeds supporting the New York State Ski Education Foundation’s Nordic racing programs and the Adirondack Ski Touring Council, stewards of the Adirondack Park’s backcountry ski trail system, including the famous Jackrabbit Trail.

For more information, contact Holly Blanchard (holly@mountaineer.com) or Vinny McClelland (vinny@mountaineer.com).

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com LAKE PLACID — In a world of digital and surround sound, it can easily be forgotten that with the first movies ever made, all you heard was the sound of the projector wheel.

Without a source for music, there was no sound in the early days of motion pictures. That is where the theater organist came in, to give greater life to the images that were illuminated across the screen.

For many years the Adirondack Film Society and Palace Theater in Lake Placid has their own resident organist in Jeff Barker, who helped to renovate the Palace’s organ and played on occasion.

Baker recently passed away Dec. 31.

“He was a unique part to a bygone era,” TJ Breaton of the Adirondack Film Society said. “He helped to restore the organ and would play a couple of times each year.”

Barker’s last appearance at the Palace was on Halloween of last year, when he introduced the film, played accompaniment on the organ, and fielded questions from the audience afterwards.

“He was the whole show, and the audience was immensely appreciative of his efforts and abilities,” the Society said in a release on his passing recently.

Barker was a native of Manchester, England, and began piano lessons at age five. He joined the Theatre Organ Club and the Cinema Organ Society in England. Over the course of his career, he played most of the important instruments of his trade in the U.S. and England, and was a featured organist at three American Theatre Organist Society conventions. He also played for the Theatre Organ Society International at the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, Va.

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State needs to repeal the SAFE Act now

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obody needs 10 rounds to kill a deer,” or so bloviated our governor while he was in the process of ramming the so called “SAFE Act“ down New Yorker’s throats.

Passed in the dead of night in the wake of the Newtown school shooting, an outlier in the world of homicides if there ever was one, the SAFE Act takes away much of the protections New Yorkers are afforded under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In his “10 rounds” pontification, the governor was referencing one section of the SAFE Act, since ruled unconstitutional, limiting magazine capacities to no more than an arbitrary limit of seven rounds.

If you don’t need it to kill a deer, the governor implied, you shouldn’t be allowed to have it.

Let’s look at this concept a little more deeply.

First off, by this logic, we can’t imagine why snub-nosed revolvers should be legal. Nobody needs a snub-nosed .38 to kill a deer after all.

And what about any shot smaller than 00 Buckshot? Nobody needs bird shot to kill a deer. Taking the governor’s “logic” ad absurdum, only slug shotguns, and rifles with calibers between 30-30 and 300 Winchester Mag should be allowed. Nobody needs anything other than that to kill a deer after all. And why seven rounds?

A good hunter needs one, maybe two or three rounds to kill a deer. Why stop at seven? Ban anything above three rounds?

What the governor overlooks here is the Second Amendment, the single most costly incomplete sentence in American history. The Second Amendment does not give Americans the right to just keep and bear deer rifles. It affords citizens the right to keep and bear arms. Assault rifles, Mr. Cuomo, are arms. They are protected under the Second Amendment.

Gun control advocates will most certainly argue that it’s a matter of safety. Our children are being mowed down by assault rifles. While that was tragically true at Newtown, and Aurora, California, and unfortunately some other mass shootings, it’s simply not the case that assault rifles are killing more people than other means.

Statistics abound, but the FBI’s are typically considered the gold standard. Let’s take a look at the 2012 homicide stats, compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Homicides by all methods of firearm totaled 8,855. Of those 322 were by rifle — not assault rifles, any kind of rifle. (Separate statistics are not kept for assault rifles.) Add to this some unknown percentage for a category the FBI has for “Firearms, type not stated,” which totaled 1,749. Even given the statistical impossibility that all of these were rifles, that gives us a possible total of 2,071 homicides by some sort of rifle. An unknown, but definitely smaller, number of these rifles were assault rifles. Handguns on the other hand were

used in at least 6,371, plus whatever percentage of the 1,749 unclassified guns were handguns. So at the very farthest statistical borderline you are 66 percent more likely to be killed by a handgun than some sort of rifle. The true gulf between handguns and rifles is likely much higher.

But wait, there are plenty of other ways to be killed. Keep the 322 deaths by rifle figure in mind. Now consider that 1,589 people were killed in 2012 by knives or cutting instruments.

Also notable, 518 were killed by blunt objects, and 678 were killed by “fists, feet, etc.” Shotguns bring up the rear at 303, plus again some percentage of the unknown firearms. So, to keep our children safe, the governor targeted the second least dangerous death-inducing implement there is, based on FBI statistics. More people would be made safer if he had banned blunt objects, something, by the way, which isn’t constitutionally protected.

Ignoring that obvious problem in the governor’s logic, anti-gun advocates will argue that the SAFE act also keeps us safer by mandating that mental health professionals report anyone who might espouse suicidal tendencies to the State Police, undoubtedly so their guns can then be confiscated by the State Police. Here is where this idea runs off the rails. Gun owners love their guns. Suicidal gun owners, or borderline suicidal gun owners, also love their guns. If a gun owner is considering suicide, they now know that if they reach out to a mental health professional and try to get help for their condition, they will lose their guns. Thanks to the SAFE Act, fewer people on the borderline of mental illness or suicide will seek help. Any gun owner who is feeling suicidal is going to keep that fact to themselves, instead of getting help. How, Mr. Cuomo, does that make us safer?

Let’s make no bones about the true purpose behind the SAFE Act. Mr. Cuomo has for some time set his sights on higher office — now rumored to be that of vice president. He saw the possibility of gaining some national spotlight, plus lining up some liberal Bona Fides, for fund raising and national campaigning time, with a “Andrew Cuomo is tough on guns, so vote for the Clinton/Cuomo ticket” platform.

As they say, the devil is in the details, and the parts of the SAFE act which haven’t already been found unconstitutional either do nothing to make New Yorkers safer, or will have the exact opposite effect. We respectfully ask our state legislators to repeal the SAFE Act now, and go to work on some measures that might have a chance of doing something other than making the situation worse. Ñ

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The times they are changing

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modest was the single highest here are so many goal most people had in life. It things one can obwas the reward for hard work and serve and experithe central location of your most ence the longer you have valuable possessions. Generally, the opportunity to hang the largest expenditure a family around in this world. When will make in their lifetime was the you were a child or even a investment in the family home. It young adult, the more mawas the icon of success, stability, ture adults called it the “wisand generally the source of great dom of age.” When we were Dan Alexander pride. young, most of us looked Thoughts from To me, it was a telling sign of at that notion as a bunch of Behind the Pressline the collective perception of how bunk: After all, who had people think, where they place the time to wait around and their values and what they see as the future. waste your youth waiting to gain wisdom?

That only 49 percent of American adults You set a plan for your life and then go see the home today as their best investment about filling it up with goals and aspirations.

You accept certain debts, take on certain bag- shows how our times have changed.

Now granted, a house is not nearly as valugage and take on the world and all it has to able as the people who live in the home and offer.

But as you grow much older, you begin to the relationship of those people -- but to me, it speaks volumes as to the continued decline realize there might be something to that wisdom stuff those mature adults were pedaling of the family structure. After all, what real purpose does a home serve except to provide way back when. You begin looking at things in very different perspective and weigh life’s shelter for the family? The home was more than brick and mortar -- it represented a cerexperiences against the realities of the day.

Change, it seems, is all around us. It’s al- tain pride of accomplishment. It was full of memories and its financial value served as a ways been there, but when you are young, change is seen as exciting and new. When you significant retirement once the family had left the nest or it became the inheritance handed are older and more comfortable with life’s down to future generations. predictability, change can be unsettling and For the vast majority of average Americans, can flow against the grain of your life’s exto not see the purchase of a home as their best periences. investment tells me the home is no longer So where am I heading with all this philowhere the heart is and if our hearts are not sophical stuff about age and wisdom? in our homes, then where are they? Has the Certain news stories and headlines reflecting changes in our culture and way of life distraction of new technology and advancehave become a frequent occurrence. Most of ments in society altered our core thinking that much? Is it a continued sign that we are no the time, we just accept them as just another change. Other times, we sit up, take notice longer concerned about future generations and attempt to apply that long earned wis- given the federal and state debt load we are passing along? dom we now possess.

The responsibility to provide was once a A recent poll, from my perspective, shook primary driver for families and breadwinthe bedrock of the human race. Through most of my life, and I think for centuries before if ners.

I wonder what the next 10 or 20 years will not the beginning of time, when man stopped do to the answer of this poll question and being a nomad and began to establish roots.

A new Rasmussen survey found that 49 how the changing face of society may reshape the family, homes in which they reside and percent of American adults say buying a home is the best investment most families can ultimately, our country. make.

Dan Alexander is publisher and CEO of Denton PubMaybe that number doesn’t sound earthlications. He may be reached at dan@denpubs.com. shaking to you, but to me, your home was once seen as your castle regardless of how

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LAKE PLACID — Back Porch Society will perform: Smoke Signals, 9pm, free.

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LAKE PLACID — Spaghetti Dinner Benefit for Tri-Lakes Humane Society Spay/ Neuter Fund. Spread includes spaghetti, salad, rolls, desserts and drinks. Hosted by the Lake Placid Animal Hospital: St. Agnes Elementary School Cafeteria: 5:45pm, $10/$5 (adults/kids). All proceeds will be used for the TLHS spay/neuter fund that provides financial assistance vouchers to pet owners that need help affording the full cost of the surgery throughout Franklin, Essex, Hamilton and Clinton counties.

PLATTSBURGH — Squid Parade will perform: 10pm. Monopole, 7 Protection Ave. Call 518-563-2222 for details.

PLATTSBURGH — Family ice skating at the SUNY Plattsburgh Rink: 12:15pm, $2 skate rental. Call 562-6800 for more info.

Sven Curth, Saturday, Feb. 22

LAKE PLACID — Berklee-educated local guitarist Sven Curth will perform a free gig at Smoke Signals, the local BBQ joint with a sophisticated touch. In his late high school years, Sven started a band called “Jim”, the band for which he serves as lead guitar player and writer. He also performs with Swimming with Champy, a bluegrass outfit referring to the mythical monster of Lake Champlain and known for spearheading Bitch Mountain Bash, the Westport music festival. During his career with Jim and Swimming with Champy, Sven has been an accomplished solo artist, putting out several solo albums while regaling local crowds with each successive performance. “I play an irreverent sort of introspective-honky-tonk-blues music that lyrically manages to cover concepts from the vaguely interesting to the uniquely ridiculous,” he said. “Should you be interested in such topics as drinking, futility, lawlessness, or tractors... you’re sure to at least find me briefly entertaining.”

Smoke Signals, 9pm, free. 2489 Main Street.

Image: Sven Curth performs on a tractor. Courtesy of the organizers.

PLATTSBURGH — Eastbound Jesus will perform: Olive Ridley’s, 10pm, free. 37 Court Street, call 324-2200 for details.

PLATTSBURGH — The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Friday Fellowship Forum is bringing the movie “What Time Is Left” to the church’s big screen. Made by Essex resident Dakin Henderson, the film features his two grandmothers. The filmmaker will be on hand to discuss the movie and answer questions. Carol Allen will serve as hostess: 7pm, free.

SARANAC LAKE —BluSeed Studios to present what they deem a “raucous, rowdy, gentle, sweet, eccentric, quirky and outright irreverent evening of blues” with Tas Cru. Organizers: “It’s not for nothing Cru has been called ‘the master of the triple entendre.’” His songs are blues poetry — telltale life lessons crafted with rare verbal flair and delivered with power and passion: 7:30pm, $15/$12 (non-members/members). 24 Cedar Street. Call 518-891-3799 or contact admin@bluseedstudios.org for more info..

Saturday, Feb. 22 ESSEX — The Belden Noble Memorial Library to present “To Alaska and Back, North of the Border: Images and Reflections.” Organizers: “John Bingham and Katharine Preston of Essex will share highlights of their nearly 12,000 mile, three-monthlong trip last summer, driving through Canada to Alaska and living in their T@B, a 50-square-foot camper.” 3pm, free.

JAY — Eclectic folk quintet Towne Meeting will perform as part of JEMS’ winter event series: 7pm, $6. Amos and Julia Ward Theatre.

LAKE PLACID — Annie and Jonny Rosen will perform. See sidebar. Adirondack Mountain Club High Peaks Information Center, 8pm, free. For more info, call 5233441 or visit their website at adk.org.

Lumber Jills, Saturday, Feb. 22 PLATTSBURGH — Roller derby team the North Country Lumber Jills open their season with a match against the Green Mountain Derby Dames Black Ice Brawlers of Burlington, Vermont. Joining them for the halftime show is the Plattsburgh Hoop Mamas and Papas, the local hula-hooping crew, performing a hoop dance. “You can hula hoop with any part of your body — including your nose,” said organizer Chelsea Varin. “Give it a gentle spin on your noise and keep the circular motion going with your face.” The eventual goal in a hoop dance, said Varin, is to move from one trick to another in a seamless flow. “It’s so much fun to do — it’s a great workout and very calming, kinda like yoga, with your mind, body and breath all working together,” she said.

In addition to the hoop dance, expect a family-friendly tutorial and contest: Plattsburgh City Recreation Center, 52 US Oval. 5pm, $12/$10/$5/free (door/ advance/under 13/under six) Image: Jane Galletti and Varin (right) perform. Courtesy: Walter Romero.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) to continue their new Exhibition OnScreen film series with Manet: Portraying Life. Film offers exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the Royal Academy of Arts’ Manet exhibition’s preparation, which normally goes unseen by the public, and interweaves a detailed biography of the famed French artist, best known for “Luncheons on the Grass”, and nineteenth-century Paris. Host Tim Marlow and special guests looked at the craft of one of the all-time great artists, the “father of modern art.” 1pm, $12/$5 (adults/ students). Call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts.org for reservations.

LAKE PLACID — Berklee-educated local guitarist Sven Curth will perform. See sidebar. ” Smoke Signals, 9pm. 2489 Main Street.

PLATTSBURGH — Learn how early trappers and explorers survived the harsh winter climate at this survivalist workshop led by Jan McCormick. Participants will learn how to build fires, cook and build a shelter. Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Ave. 11am-noon. For more info, call 518-561-0340 or visit the CCHA online at clintoncountyhistorical.org.

PLATTSBURGH — Learn more about kitchen science at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Clinton County’s Choose Health Day: Champlain Valley Transportation Museum, 9am, free. Call 566-7575 to register.

PLATTSBURGH — “Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.” Make a wand and practice your spells at the Harry Potter Wandmaking Workshop: The Imaginarium, 11am, free. Call 324-7426 to register.

PLATTSBURGH — Roller derby team the North Country Lumber Jills open their season at the with a match against the Green Mountain Derby Dames Black Ice Brawlers of Burlington, Vermont as part of Snowball 2014, the monthlong event series designed to offer a spate of low-cost and family-friendly activities throughout the month of February. See sidebar. Plattsburgh City Recreation Center, 52 US Oval.

5pm, $12/$10/$5/free (door/advance/under 13/under six)

Annie and Jonny Rosen, Saturday, Feb. 22

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Mountain Club to host a special performance by Annie and Jonny Rosen. Organizers: “These talented musicians from Schenectady are making their journey up North to help us celebrate winter in the Adirondacks. You’ll enjoy listening to their beautiful vocals and harmonies that are blended into an eclectic mix of acoustic folk, torchy blues, standards, bluegrass, gospel, early jazz and more. A great night of musical entertainment for everyone.” Adirondack Mountain Club High Peaks Information Center, 8pm, free. For more info, call 523-3441 or visit their website at adk.org..

Image: The duo share a moment on stage. Courtesy of the organizers.

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PLATTSBURGH — Screening and discussion of documentary film Slavery By Another Name as part of Black History Month: Plattsburgh Public Library, 1pm, free.

19 Oak Street.

SARANAC LAKE — BluSeed Studios to host LGBT mixer: bring a dish and beverage to share: 5pm, 24 Cedar Street.

WESTPORT — Join the Westport Fish and Game Club for an open house. Refreshments include burgers, hot dogs and beverages. Members of the Mountain Laker Snowmobile club will eat for free. All snowmobilers are welcome to come and can either become a member of the snowmobile club or buy food directly from the fish and game club. Open to all: 11am.

Sunday, Feb. 23 NEW RUSSIA — Join Catholic Daughters Court St. Kateri and St. Bro Andre for a chicken and biscuit dinner: St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Treadwell Mills: $9, call 873-6756 for exact details.

PLATTSBURGH — Tea Time for Two at NCCCA. Call 563-1604 to register.

PLATTSBURGH — Zumba Party, JcPenney’s, Champlain Centre Mall: noon, free.

PERU — Memorial VFW and Ladies Auxiliary to hold pancake breakfast. Spread includes scrambled eggs, corned beef hash, sausage gravy, biscuits and of course, flapjacks topped with pure maple syrup. 9am, $7 with all benefits going towards veterans and their families. 710 Pleasant Street, Route 22B. ..

Monday, Feb. 24 ELIZABETHTOWN — First of a six-session series, Living Healthy with Chronic Conditions, designed to help sufferers of chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and asthma, set their own goals and develop plans to improve their health and livelihood. Hand House, 8273 River Street: 12:30-3pm, free. Call 4961828 to register by Tuesday, Feb. 18.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Institute Book Club meets to discuss Sarah Kelly’s The Red Priest’s Annina, a fictionalized account of a young orphan’s desire to sing opera and of baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi’s role in the Venetian opera scene in the early 1700s. Lake Placid Public Library, 7pm, free..

Tuesday, Feb. 25 KEENE VALLEY — Learn mindfulness at this meditation workshop facilitated

by Karen Stolz. Organizers: “Mindfulness meditation is active, pragmatic training for our minds. With this training we can focus our thoughts more effectively, improve our self-awareness both mentally and physically, feel less frazzled and more at ease.”

Keene Valley Congregational Church, $60. Pre-register by calling 518-569-9881 or email karenystolz@gmail.com.

PLATTSBURGH — Join local parents, and meet new ones, at this structured playgroup for ages infant-to-five. For more info, call 563-1604. This program is part of Snowball 2014, the monthlong series of free and low-cost events for kids and families throughout February..

Wednesday, Feb. 26 ELIZABETHTOWN — Registration deadline for North Wind Tours and the Elizabethtown Social Center’s Cabin Fever Casino Trip to Turning Stone Casino on Sunday, April 6 and Monday, April 7. Trip includes round trip transportation from Willsboro and Elizabethtown via Luxury Motor Coach, one night’s accommodations at Turning Stone, luggage handling, $25 meal credit day 1; $40 Free Play on day one; $4 drink credit; $20 meal credit on day two; $25 Free Play on day two. Cost: $200 per person based on double occupancy. Seats are limited, first come first served.

Call the Social Center for more information and to register at 873-6408 or info@ elizabethtownsocialcenter.org.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Center for the Arts to present a special screening of the 2014 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films. Tonight’s slate includes the following films: Feral Dir: Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden); Synopsis: A wild boy who has grown up in the woods is found by a hunter and returned to civilization; Get a Horse!

(Dir: Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim). Synopsis: Mickey Mouse and his friends are enjoying a wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete shows up with plans to ruin their day; Mr. Hublot (Dir: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares) Synopsis: The eccentric, isolated Mr. Hublot finds his carefully ordered world disrupted by the arrival of Robot Pet; Possessions (Dir: Shuhei Morita); Synopsis: A man seeking shelter from a storm in a dilapidated shrine encounters a series of household objects inhabited by goblin spirits; Room on the Broom; (Dir: Max Lang and Jan Lachauer); Synopsis: A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure. 7:30pm, $6. Call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts.org for reservations.

PLATTSBURGH — Join the Plattsburgh City School District’s gym teachers for a spirited night of volleyball. All skill levels welcome. Bailey Avenue Gym: 6:309:30pm: $2/session. Call Annmarie Curle at 518-572-4857 for info on seasonal rates.

PLATTSBURGH — Join the Completely Stranded Comedy Troupe for a night of improv and sketch comedy followed by DJ Skippy’s all request live: Olive Ridley’s, 7:30pm 37 Court Street. Call 324-2200 for details.

PLATTSBURGH — Join local parents, and meet new ones, at this structured playgroup for ages infant-to-five. For more info, call 563-1604. This program is part of Snowball 2014, the monthlong series of free and low-cost events for kids and families throughout February.

PLATTSBURGH — Mike Pedersen MCs the Monopole’s weekly open mic night in which the city’s amateur poets, musicians, comics and other creatives test their mettle: 9pm, 7 Protection Ave. Call 518-563-2222 for food and drink specials.

WADHAMS — Series of talks by residents continues with an illustrated talk by Nina Matteau relating her tales from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Southern Italy. Organizers: “Tired of dreary winter days? Come escape the cold and relive Nina’s monthlong journey around the beautiful Adriatic during balmy 80 degree September days. Enjoy the scenery, quirks/oddities, politics and beauty of the former Yugoslavia and unexplored regions of Italy. Do you know where to find an organic water buffalo mozzarella cheesemaking farm that plays classical music to its animals? Come over to find out!” Wadhams Free Library, 7:30pm, free.

Thursday, Feb. 27 ELIZABETHTOWN — Electronics help group Tech 101 will be offered again by the Elizabethtown Social Center. Perfect for those who are learning a new computer, a new iPad, or any other new technology “toy.” Ken Hughes, former ELCS Principal and current in-home IT consultant, will help you have more fun with your tech toys.

Elizabethtown Social Center, 5pm. Register by calling 873-6408 or sending an email to info@elizabehtownsocialcenter.org.

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Center for the Arts to present a special screening of the 2014 Oscar Nominated Short Films. Tonight’s slate, the second in a two-night series, includes the following films: Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Dir: Esteban Crespo); Synopsis: Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney; Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) (Dir: Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras); Synopsis: Miriam has left her abusive husband and taken refuge with her children in the local supermarket where she works; Helium (Dir: Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson); Synopsis: A dying boy finds comfort in the tales of a magical land called HELIUM, told to him by the hospital janitor; Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Dir: Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari). Synopis: Sini tries frantically to get her family ready to leave for a wedding, but her husband and two children are interfering with her efforts and The Voorman Problem (Dir: Mark Gill and Baldwin Li). Synopsis: A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god. 7:30pm, $6. Call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts.org for reservations.

PLATTSBURGH — North Funktree to perform. Monopole, 10pm. 7 Protection Ave. Call 518-563-2222 for details.

PLATTSBURGH — Journey Into Reading: Join residents for free books, stories and reading recommendations: The Mall, 4:30pm, free.

PLATTSBURGH — The Adirondack Young Professionals has partnered with member David Allen to host a preview of his new venture, Café 73. David, owner and operator of Latitude 44 at 5131 US Avenue, has launched this new café in the same plaza and will serve breakfast, brunch and lunch Monday through Saturday.

Customers can either grab a sandwich to go or sit by the fireplace and enjoy free wi-fi. This one-night-only preview will showcase Café 73’s fare as well as a cash bar, networking games and door prizes: $5/free (non-members/members). For more info, contact Jared Burns at 518-310-3092 or via email at events@adkyp.com. Find them on at at Facebook.com/AdirondackYoungProfessionals: 5139 US Avenue, 5:30pm.

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From ESG to Sochi: three paralympians set to head for Russia

LAKE PLACID — Three members of Team USA going to the Paralympic Games at Sochi, Russia in March, competed in the 34th Empire State Winter Games presented by Hannaford Supermarkets last weekend. More than 1,400 athletes were registered and took part in the ESWG events held over four days.

Paralympians Augusto “Goose” Perez, Omar Bermejo and Bryan Price were among the athletes who participated in the adaptive events that were part of the annual ESWG sports festival staged in the Tri-Lakes region. Adaptive Alpine was held Saturday, Feb. 7 and a country skiing sprint was one of the activities at the Sports Fest that evening.

An adaptive biathlon took place Sunday, Feb 8 at the Olympic Sports Complex at Mount Van Hoevenberg.

The adaptive cross country competition took place at the Olympic Speed Skating Oval in Lake Placid, where Eric Heiden won five Olympic gold medals in 1980. ESWG Committee member, Jeff Erenstone, proprietor of Mountain Orthotics and Prosthetics in Lake Placid and a cross country officianado, laid out a 300-meter course featuring a banked turn right on the center island of the oval. Spectators watched able-bodied men’s and women’s sprints, and a spectacular adaptive race

featuring five sits skiers and one stand-up athlete.

The race was followed by an awards ceremony and a sled hockey demonstration match on the oval.

“This showcase event in the center of Lake Placid with a live audience is the culmination of three years of effort, and the cooperation of both ORDA and the Empire State Winter Games organizing committee,” Erenstone said. “Adaptive sports have arrived in Lake Placid for all to see, feel and enjoy.”

Jay Rand and his race organizers at New York Ski Educational Foundation and Don Dew of Whiteface Adaptive Snowsports School set two adaptive slalom courses at Whiteface Mountain Saturday for the Alpine events. The morning race on the Mixing Bowl trail featured a field of five assisted adaptive athletes with family and friends and very special awards ceremony.

The afternoon venue on the Bear trail at Whiteface drew 17 adaptive athletes, some of whom may be Paralympians in the future. Windham Mountain’s Adaptive Sports Foundation sent 15 athletes who competed with an athlete from Greek Peak in central New York and Alyssa Lynch, a Lake Placid native and veteran of adaptive Alpine racing at Whiteface.

Howard Horowitz, of Wilmington and New

Rochelle, ESWG Committee member and head of the ESWG Adaptive Committee, said “This year ’s Alpine adaptive event fielded a record number of athletes and we expect more in 2015.”

Horowitz said the athletic competition is just a part of the reason for staging the events with the ESWG “The racing is great,” he said, “but it’s the whole atmosphere and the feelings these kids and young adults get from being here in Lake Placid and racing on the Olympic venues that is truly special to behold. Just wonderful!”

Horowitz and Erenstone said that many people, from ORDA employees to volunteers, contributed to the success of the able-bodied and adaptive events at the 2014 ESWG. Perez, Bermejo and Price are scheduled to compete 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi, March 7-16.

They were able to train and compete in Lake Placid at the ESWG due to the cooperation of the United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Paralympics, the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid and Adaptive Spirit, which supports U.S. National Paralympic Ski Team.

For more information on the 2014 ESWG, visit empirestatewintergames.com.

Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism announces 2014 Board of Directors LAKE PLACID Ñ The Lake Placid CVB/Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) is pleased to announce its 2014 Board of Directors.

The board of directors, responsible for governing the organization, is comprised of at least one director from each of the four tourism regions in Essex County and one from the Saranac Lake region.

For 2014, the board welcomes three new directors: Christopher Ericson, the founder, owner, and brewmaster of The Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, the Lake Placid Craft Brewing Company and former ROOST board chair; Melinda Little, an entrepreneur by background and now the Saranac Lake board representative; and Sarah Wilson of Sarah Wilson Communications, who works with digital agencies, authors and executives to create successful integrated marketing, public relations and social media campaigns.

They join sitting directors Michael Beglin, owner of Beglins Lake Placid Jewelers and Gifts and ROOST board chair; Ed Finnerty, of Champlain National Bank; Deborah Fitts of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta; Mary Anne Hawley, owner of Parajax Inc.; Whiteface Region representative Bob Hockert, Adirondack Sauna, Little Peak Chalet; Cristina Lussi, vice president and co-owner of the Crowne

Plaza Resort; Jill Cardinale, owner of The Pines Inn; Justin Smith, the COO of Prestige Hospitality; and Charlie Cowan of Janney Montgomery Scott; Lake Champlain Region representative Beth Hill, executive director of Fort Ticonderoga; and Schroon Lake Region representative Sharon Piper, owner of the Schroon Lake B&B. ROOST extends special thanks to two outgoing directors for their great dedication of time and expertise to the board: Deb McLean, owner of the UPS Store in Lake Placid; Jamie Rogers, energy program coordinator at ANCA; and Lake Champlain Region representative Tim Garrison, a Town of Moriah Councilman.

An accredited Destination Marketing Organization by Destination Marketing Association International since 2009, ROOST is responsible for promoting Essex County to the traveling public, contracted to promote Saranac Lake as a destination in 2013, and added Hamilton County to its area of promotion beginning in 2014.

Mike Beglin, ROOST board chair, is pleased about the organization’s growth. “This expansion does two things: One, it increases the organization’s budget, which increases the organization’s capacity to do this work,” said Beglin. “And two, this means that the region’s only Destination Mar-

keting Organization will have a greater presence and influence in both marketing and product development initiatives for an increased geographic area of the Adirondacks. After all, as each community reaches its potential to take advantage of tourism for economic gain, the region benefits as a whole. A rising tide floats all ships!”

“As our organization grows, it is increasingly important for us to have a board with a diversity of skills and experience,” said James McKenna, ROOST CEO. “This year ’s new directors collectively bring communications expertise and exceptional business acumen to an already very strong group of leaders.”

The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism/ Lake Placid CVB is a 501c6 not-for-profit corporation that is responsible for promoting Essex County, Saranac Lake and Hamilton County in New York’s Adirondacks to the traveling public.

In addition to leisure travel promotion, ROOST is responsible for sales and marketing for the Conference Center at Lake Placid and town-wide conventions.

For more information about the destination marketing and master planning programs, and for news of interest to tourism marketing partners, explore the organization’s website at roostadk.com.

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News in brief LV Scrabble tourney slated

Au SABLE FORKS — The 25th Annual Missing Children’s Basketball Tournament for fifth and sixth grade Boys and Girls will be held March 6-9 in Au Sable Forks. At this time, there are still openings for teams in this double elimination tournament.

Please do not assume that if you were in last year’s tournament that you are automatically signed up for this year. Please call Carol Greenley at 647-2204 or e-mail carolanne87@gmail. com for more information or to sign a team up for this event. The entrance fee for this tournament is $150.

Towne Meeting to perform

JAY — Towne Meeting will perform Saturday, Feb. 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Julia Ward Theater near the green in Jay.

AVCS jazz band playing for funds

CLINTONVILLE — On Feb. 28 at 7 p.m., the AuSable Valley High School Jazz Band will be performing for the first time at the Amos and Julia Ward Theatre. They will be performing jazz favorites both old and new, including big band-era, Stray Cats, Blues Brothers, Feeling Good, and more. The money raised from this concert will go towards a trip to New Orleans. There will be a coffee and tea bar, tasty handmade desserts, and a 50/50 raffle.

Tickets can be purchased from band members or at the AVCS music department. Call 834-2800 ext. 7950 or stop by. Tickets cost $10. Some tickets available at the door night of show for $12.

‘Oedipus’ takes final curtain

SARANAC LAKE — Pendragon Theatre will present a farewell performance of Sophocles’ “Oedipus” translated by Steven Berkoff on March 1 at 8 p.m at the theatre.

“Oedipus” will close with a final performance at Pendragon in Saranac Lake after a long, successful run of tours to schools throughout the Adirondack Park. Don’t miss your last chance to see this modern twist on a classic tragedy! A closing reception will follow the performance.

The cast includes Josh Luteran (last seen as Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire) as Oedipus, Leslie Dame as Jocasta, Jordan Hornstein as Tiresias, Chris Leifheit as the Messenger and Jason Amrhein as Creon and is directed by Pendragon’s Executive Artistic Director Karen Lordi-Kirkham.

Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and students, and $12 for children under 17.

PORT HENRY — Literacy Volunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties will host its annual winter Scrabble Tournament on Sunday, March 2, at the Knights of Columbus in Port Henry. This year’s event is being sponsored by Avery Energy, and the top three winners will receive prizes. This event will raise much-needed funds and awareness for our adult literacy programs. The fun begins at 12:30 p.m. with registration, and the first game begins at 1 p.m.

Registration is $10 per person and refreshments are included.

Visit litvol.com or contact Literacy Volunteers’ main office at 5463008 for more information.

February 22, 2014

Real estate GRANTOR

GRANTEE

COST

Kampf, Margot

McKinnon, Neil C. and McKinnon, Jodi Anne

$26,750.00 (North Elba)

Lalonde, Mary Saulpaugh

Saulpaugh, Michael

$1.00 (North Elba)

Sparacino, Vincent C and Sparacino, Louise M

Magdi LLC

$550,000 (North Elba)

Budwick, Julianne

Cruz, Ricardo and Cruz, Jackeline F

$159,000 (Crown Point)

Izzo, William A; Suchy, Frederick

Moynihan, Hilary

$72,000 (Keene)

French, Edward and French, Patricia

Curtain, Daniel

$140,000 (Essex)

McMurtry, Hollard and Manley, Joseph and Manley, McMurtry, Dorothy AKA Smith Terry

$22,500 (Moriah)

UPPER JAY — On Wednesday, March 5, at 1 p.m. at Wells Memorial library in Upper Jay, Peter Slocum will speak about the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausable Chasm, which explores the hidden history of the Champlain Line of the Underground Railroad, and talk about the movie, “12 Years a Slave,” based on the true story of Solomon Northup, an Essex County freeman.

Jarvis, Norman and Jarvis, Mary

Arno, Sara

$25,000 (Moriah)

Kline, Harriet Dennis and Dennis, James McAlpin and Dennis, Anne P

Kline, Harriet Dennis

$23,000 (Keene)

Caza, Brian

Ritson, James and Ritson, Rosemarie

$102,000 (Schroon)

ACW seeks nominees for awards

McHugh, James and McHugh, Catharine

North Star Museum talk at Wells

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Creative Writing Center Literary Award is a way to honor the writers and publishers who live and work (even part time) in the North Country.

Submissions don’t have to be Adirondack-themed, though they can be.

ACW is looking for submissions of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, memoir, edited collections and poetry. The judges will choose a winner from each category, and popular vote decides a People’s Choice Award at the ceremony in June. Please send two copies of the book to Nathalie Thill at the ACW Office (P.O. Box 956, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983). The deadline is March 7. Please include a brief cover letter that includes contact information (including email address and snail mail address) and the genre in which you wish your book to be placed (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, memoir, edited collection, or photography). There is no entry fee. Do not include a SASE; books cannot be returned but will become part of reading rooms or libraries. Please note this is for published books; articles and single short stories are not eligible.

Gostic, Joseph Sr., Sitter, Trela, Stanley and Blackman, $150,000 (Wilmington) Ruthann and Henrikson, Mary Angela McHugh, Brian and McHugh, Edythe

$63,056.50 (North Elba)

Iatauro, Joseph A, Palmer, Munoz, Edward D and Joann, Iatauro, Elizabeth and Munoz, Christine Iatauro, Esther

$75,000 (Schoon)

Payne, Barbara J and Payne, Hartwell, Charles and Raymond J. Hartwell, Rebecca

$140,000 (Schroon)

Placid

Tempest Capital Limited

$3,733,000 (North Elba)

Feldman, Diane; Miller,

Chippendale, Julia and

$42,500 (Schroon)

Saratoga Olive Oil Co. opens in Lake Placid LAKE PLACID — Saratoga Olive Oil Co. has announced the grand opening of it’s new store in Lake Placid, NY at 2439 Main Street. The ribbon cutting was scheduled for Saturday, Feb 15.

The store features up to 75 different flavors of olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar and is presented as a tasting room so that guests can sample each of the flavors. In addition, the store sells other gourmet products such as sea salts and craft items from local artisans.

Saratoga Olive Oil opened their first store in May 2011 by husband and wife team Clint and Barbara Braidwood and Clint’s brother Chad.

Olympic dreams and the Adirondack scene

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ell, it was bound to happen sooner or later, and the timing couldn’t have been better. To date, the Adirondack region has largely been spared a major storm this winter.

It seemed the snow had all gone south, and it took winter with it to places such as Washington, Atlanta and even Houston, Texas.

But we all knew it had to come, sooner or later, so it was appropriate that it arrived just in time for the Winter Olympics. Go USA! Local residents now have the opportunity to watch the Olympic events on television in the evening, and get out to participate in the same activities the following day. Just grab your biathlon rifle and go!

Congratulations go out to all of our local Olympians.! They are the athletes who hail from a variety of small North Country towns such as Vermontville, Lake Placid, and Remsen, and the medals are beginning to add up.

In addition to our many native sons and daughters, the vast majority of our winter sports athletes have either trained, competed or lived in the region at one time or another. Every four years, they become our adopted sons and daughters , as most of them have trained, played and lived in our wonderful backyard.

Despite the distinct lack of any considerable snowpack this winter, there has been plenty of good ice for pond hockey, ice skating, ice fishing, sledding, ice climbing, ice boating and just plain playing on the ice.

The Cascade Lakes have been set up for months, and Lake Champlain is totally locked up under winter’s white cap, except for the few ferry crossings, Fortunately, that long anticipated snow storm has finally delivered it’s fluffy bounty, and it’s now a good time to enjoy a long, and rock free, ski.

But be sure to get in your ski days while you can, as the long range forecast calls for the possibility of rain and rising temperatures next week.

Music at ADK

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) is presenting a special performance, “Music with Annie and Jonny Rosen.” This special ADK performance will be held on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. at ADK’s High Peaks Information Center, located at Heart Lake in Lake Placid. This presentation is free and open to the public.

For more information about our programs, directions or questions about membership, contact ADK North Country office in Lake Placid at 523-3441 or visit adk.org.

‘Oz’ auditions announced

Umpires to meet

WESTPORT — The Westport Baseball Umpires and Southern Adirondack Softball Umpires will hold an organizational meeting on Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Schroon Lake Central School. Additional meeting times will be discussed. Anyone interested in becoming an umpire is encouraged to attend. For more information call Rick Smith at 354-1415 or visit westportumps.com.

Adirondack Adventures and Events of Interest Whether indoors or out, there are plenty of upcoming opportunities to put a little adventure into your life in coming days.

Check out the events available in your own backyard with the Champlain Areas Trails Association.

On Friday, Feb. 21, renowned naturalist, tracker and wildlife photographer Susan Morse will present: “Animals of the North: What Will Climate Change Mean for Them.”

The event will be hosted at the Whallonsburgh Grange Hall.

Morse describes the program as not about climate change itself, or even how it will affect us; rather, it’s designed to educate audiences about ways in which northern wildlife species are already being affected, with more serious challenges ahead.

Canada lynx, moose, American marten, caribou, polar bears, arctic fox and arctic marine and waterfowl ecology are some of the species and subjects covered in this stunningly beautiful slide show.

This program will devote equal time sharing remarkable images of animals and their northern habitats--all in the spirit of Jane Goodall’s “reason for hope.” (Suggested donation $8.)

On Feb. 22, the Champlain Area Trails “Saturday on the Trail” will be hosting a group hike. Depending on the weather, the hike will be in the snow, or out in an area targeted for new trail they will be creating on info@champlainareatrails.com in Crown Point.

Later this month the Northeast Wilderness Trust and Elizabeth Lee, Outdoor Guide will be offerring a series of natural history programs. All programs will be held at the Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, NY. Before traveling to attend any of these events, please call CATS for updates at 518-962-2287 or visit info@champlainareatrails. com

What A Man Sale & Tailgate Party” On Saturday, Feb. 22 I’ll be traveling to the fabled town of North Creek for a fun filled event hosted at the Hudson River Trading Company.

The “What A Man Sale & Tailgate Party” will feature live music, cold brews in celebration of good times and real men.

In addition to enjoying great deals on quality outdoor gear provided by our friends at the Hudson River Trading Company, the event will also serve as a local, fundraiser for the Homeward Bound Adirondacks initiative.

The organization, based in Saranac Lake is dedicated to as-

NY Rising meeting set

Au SABLE FORKS — The New York State Risin’ Joint Committees of the Towns of Jay and Keene will be hosting a Public Information Meeting for the consultants and committees to present their preliminary plans to the public Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Jay Entertainment and Music Society (J.E.M.S.) building located on Parkside Drive in Jay, at 6:30 p.m.

According to Scott McDonald, New York State Rising Committee Co- Chair, “the joint committee, in cooperation with Ecology and Environment, Inc., our consultants, has worked very diligently at identifying strategies to help address the flooding issues in our communities along the Au Sable River and its tributaries. We strongly encourage community residents to attend the meeting as we share our ideas and seek feedback and comments from residents.”

Co-Chair Vinny McClelland added, “I hope we have a good turnout, we have made good progress and public input is important to the project.”

Presentations sought for conference

LAKE PLACID — The North Country Conference Planning Team is requesting abstracts for presentations at the third annual Clean Energy Conference, to be held June 4-6 at the Lake Placid Conference Center.

This is an excellent opportunity to inform and motivate people in Northern New York with respect to a more sustainable energy future.

Presentations should be approximately 30 minutes in length, including about 20 minutes for content and about 10 minutes for questions and answers. Sessions will be moderated. Presenters accepted by the Conference Team will receive a reduced conference registration rate: $95 for 3 days, which includes opening reception and meals.

The deadline for submission is Feb. 28. Send an email to energy@adirondack.org or call ANCA at 891-6200 with any questions you may have.

A frosted Adirondack Leanto provides evidence of the accumulating snowpack in the backcountry. sisting our veterans complete the transition home. It is a home grown program that offers an opportunity for vets to help vets.

Homeward Bound Adirondacks (HBA) provides a series of trainings and retreats for Veterans, professionals and community members in: Trauma Resiliency; leadership training for military and first-responders; healing for Veterans and family members and retreats promoting health, vitality and healing.

They have also established a Veterans Reintegration Academy program that offers an innovative, supportive, holistic curriculum for Veterans utilizing their G.I. education benefits to facilitate a successful educational or vocational transition from the military to the civilian workplace The organization will continue to offer a wide range of veteran’s event ranging from family retreats, to outdoor adventures in the good woods of the North Country.

It is America’s first and most enduring wilderness, in a place with a great knowledge of nature and men. It is where you can take a long walk, breath the bracing air, meet good folks and enjoy a joke at your own expense. Most of all, the communities are authentic, organic and honest. What you see is what you get, in a good way.

Representatives from Homeward Bound Adirondacks will be on hand to share information regarding upcoming Veterans events and to enjoy the brew, the brats, the bluegrass and the good company. For further information please visit their website at www.homewardboundadirondacks.org or call 518-891-4151.

For further information please on the Hudson River Trading Company event please contact Laurie Prescott Arnheiter, Hudson River Trading Co. 292 Main Street North Creek NY – 518251-4461.

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residing in Ray Brook. Contact him at brookside18@adelphia.net.

Osborn to present at BluSeed

SARANAC LAKE — BluSeed Studios is proud to present, Artist in Residence Bryan Osborn’s first exhibition titled “Finding my Name.” The featured work as explained by the artist will include: collage/graffiti/experimental/hip-hop/counter culture/ dying breed.

All are invited to an artist reception and opening on Feb. 28 at 5 p.m. The exhibition continues through April 5th. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 1 to 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, or by appointment.

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PORT HENRY — Literacy Volunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties will host its annual winter Scrabble Tournament on Sunday, March 2, at the Knights of Columbus in Port Henry.

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Winter 46er

Continued from page 1 The outpouring of support manifested by the members of the ADK High Peaks Forum that Luckhurst founded and ran with Tim Dubois inspired the two to found the ADK High Peaks Foundation, a non-profit designed to provide financial assistance to individuals or organizations whose activities provide a benefit to the New York State Forest Preserve and the people who use it.

According to their website, the foundation has a particular interest in funding wilderness zone and environmental protection, safe recreation, public education and biological research.

So far, the foundation has raised close to $8,700 for Project 46, Luckhurst’s upcoming climb, through a pledge-per-peak system in which donors pledge a certain amount for each summit that Luckhurst successfully climbs during the 12-day adventure.

“This fundraising is kind of helping me work through my loss,” said Luckhurst. “I don’t how it works, but it does.”

Preparation

“It’s going to be a tight, intensively-focused 12 days,” said Luckhurst, who will start his trek on Tuesday morning by tackling four peaks in the Seward Range.

“We’re going to ski in about three miles before swapping out the skis for snowshoes,” said Luckhurst. “Then we’ll climb the four peaks and swap back into skis — that’s a pretty long way.”

The day’s climb won’t see a tremendous amount of vertical ascent — approximately 5,500 by Luckhurst’s estimate — but instead presents a specific set of challenges because of distance.

“We practiced in November and it took us about 14 hours — and this is when we were able to park at the summer parking area which is three miles closer to the peaks than the winter parking area,” said Luckhurst. “We made it through wet, gloppy snow, often sinking into the mud.”

Luckhurst will tackle all climbs out the same base, Random Scoots Cabins in Keene, where owners Tom and Doreen Haskins are helping Luckhurst with logistics, including cooking, washing and ferrying him between the trailheads and back to the command center after the day’s climb.

“We’re going to make sure he’s well taken care of and provide him with all nutritional re-

Neil Luckhurst will attempt a winter summit of all 46 Adirondack High Peaks in 12 days.

Photo provided

quirements,” said Doreen Haskins. “Both Neil and his wife Sylvie are wonderful people and we’re happy to get involved.”

Luckhurst has also enrolled his friends to join him on some of the climbs. “These guys are all solid and strong hikers,” he said.

Team Luckhurst will scope out some of the tricker ranges beforehand to report back on the weather and trail conditions. A foot of snow can be a total gamechanger and can increase the time it takes to summit the peak by 50 percent or greater.

Luckhurst will then return to base camp each day to prepare for another pre-dawn wake up.

“It will be all business each night when I get back,” he said. Daily tasks will include repacking his gear, replenishing his food and water supplies and discussing climbing logistics with his team.

“I can’t thank them enough,” he said.

Ascent

Some of the peaks will be particularly difficult to navigate — especially under winter conditions.

The most challenging peaks are those in the deepest, like Basin and Saddleback, explained Luckhurst.

“It’s a long way in to get there — Basin has a final steep 1000 feet to get up and then Saddleback afterwards, which has its own set of cliffs to get over.”

These tend to be particularly slippery and coated in snow in the winter. In addition, thin

layers of hoar frost also pose unique challenges.

“I did them together on a practice run and it took us a while,” Luckhurst laughed. “It was pretty challenging.

Haystack and Marcy, he noted, also present a challenge due to their sheer vertical ascent.

The peaks are up high and exposed above the treeline. If there are whiteout conditions, he said, it can get tricky.

The fourth and fifth days, scheduled for a spell of good weather, will see a combo of the six high-risk peaks — Gray, Skylight, Marcy, Haystack, Basin and Saddleback — that are strung together with an estimated 8,000 feet of elevation gain.

“Once you’ve done your first peak, you’ve done a good chunk of your total elevation. After that, it’s all bite-sized pieces,” said Luckhurst.

For some perspective, the elevation gain from the base camp to summit on Mount Everest through the northeast ridge route is 11,445 feet.

Luckhurst estimates the total elevation gain for the entire 12 days will clock in at 70,000 feet total, the equivalent of going up and down Everest six or seven times.

Weather permitting

The only thing that could foil the journey would be a prolonged and continuous snowfall, a development that would make the climb very difficult under such conditions.

“As the weather changes, my plan could change overnight,” he said. “Rain can be a nui-

sance, but that’s okay as long as you keep moving. But if it rains on a foot of fresh snow, it feels like walking through wet cement.”

The weather forecast for the week of Monday, Feb. 17, shows partly-cloudy skies with temperatures averaging in the low-40s.

Another potential issue arising from a continued snowfall would be obscured trails.

The designated trails maintained by professional crews — maintenance includes lopping back spruce branches and marking footpaths with reflective colored discs — make for clearly identifiable paths. But herd paths, or the unmaintained informal paths carved out by hikers, may prove to present more of a challenge.

If there’s a lot of snow, said Luckhurst, it can be difficult to ascertain where that trail actually is.

“Five or six openings can potentially be the right one and it can be easy to get lost — especially in open hardwood forest,” he said, explaining that spruce forests tend to lend themselves to easier-to-follow corridors, like “little green tunnels.”

The Sewards and Santanoni Peak are notorious for their herd paths. Altogether, 20 of the 46 peaks rely on herd paths to get adventurers up and back down again.

As a safeguard against getting lost, Luckhurst has accumulated several GPS tracklogs.

“Before I go, I’ll load those on to a GPS unit that I’ll carry in my pack,” he said. “I’ll pull it out and turn it on if I think I’m going to need it.”

While the GPS still only offers 40-50 feet of margin, said Luckhurst, it provides enough of a degree of assistance to help himself out if he finds himself stuck and unable to proceed forward.

Follow along

“I want to bring the donors as close to the hike as possible,” Luckhurst said.

Throughout the project, Luckhurst’s position will be updated every 10 minutes by his Spot device. Afterwards, his web team will pull the data from that file and plug it into GoogleMaps.

This information will then be uploaded onto his official blog — visit neilluck.wordpress.com and click on “explore the spot device” on the righthand side — on social media and on the ADK High Peaks Forum.

Luckhurst’s adventure comes ahead of the ADK High Peak Foundation’s tenth annual winter gathering, an event that begins on Friday, Feb. 28. A hike and potluck dinner will take place on Saturday, March 1. Learn more at forums.adkhighpeaks.com.

Winter games

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Biathlon

Annelies Cook (Saranac Lake) finished 54th in the 10 km pursuit event Feb. 11. Cook struggled in her shooting stations, missing two on the first prone shooting range and one each at the second prone and each of the standing ranges. Her time of 36:20.9 was almost seven minutes behind Gold medalist Darya Domracheva of Belarus.

In the men’s individual 20 km race Feb. 13, Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid) missed only once from his first standing position shooting station, completing the course in eighth place with a time of 50:57.4, 1:25.7 behind Olympic champion Martin Fourcade of France. Tim Burke (Paul Smiths/Lake Placid) missed two shots in each of the standing shooting stations, finishing in 44th place with a time of 54:21.2.

Luge

Erin Hamlin (Remsen) finished her four runs in the luge with a total time of 3:21.145, giving her the bronze medal 1.377 seconds behind winner Natalie Geisenberger of Germany Feb. 11.

National Sports Academy’s Summer Britcher finished 15th with a time of 3:24.143.

On Feb. 12, Jayson Terdiman (Lake Placid) and luge partner Christian Niccum finished in 11th place in the two-man luge event with a time of 1:40.945, putting them 2.012 seconds behind the champions.

In the Feb. 13 team relay competition, the United States finished in sixth place with a combined time of 2:47.555, 1.906 seconds behind the victorious German team. Hamlin had a strong start for Team USA with a time of 54.338 seconds, placing the team in second. Chris Mazdzer (Saranac Lake) ran his portion of the relay in 56.245 seconds, the sixth fastest time among the men, while the team of Terdiman and Niccum finished their run in 56.972, seventh fastest among doubles teams.

Ski jumping

NSA alum Lindsay Van placed 15th in the women’s normal hill event Feb. 11, the first ever women’s ski jumping event to take place on the Olympic Stage. Van scored 227.2 in the finals, missing the podium by 18 points.

In the men’s large hill event Feb. 15, National Sports Academy’s Nicholas Alexander opened with a 120.0, while Anders Johnson (Plattsburgh) scored a 112.0 to advance to the medal rounds, while Peter Frenette (Saranac Lake) a 111.0 in not advancing. In the first round, neither jumper was able to advance as Alexander scored a 111.5 and Johnson was disqualified.

In the men’s team jump Feb. 17, the United States finished two spots out of advancing to the medal round with a combined score of 402.5, 59 points behind sixth place Russia heading into

Peter Frenette of Saranac Lake competed in the men’s large hill and team ski jumping events over the last week at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Photo provided the championship jumps. Alexander, going last for Team USA, had the highest mark with a 114.4, while Johnson (third) scored a 101.9 and Frenette (first) scored 84.2.

Nordic combined

Bill Demong (Vermontville) started the cross country portion of the Individual Gundersen (normal hill jump/10 km cross country race) Feb. 12 1:33 behind the leaders after a jump that scored 108.2 points. Demong finished 1:49.6 behind the champion with a time of 24:06.6, putting him in 24th place.

Speed skating

Former Lake Placid High student Shani Davis crossed the finish line of the 1,000 meter race Feb. 12 in a time of 1:09.12, putting him just over seven-tenths of a second behind champion Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands, in eighth place.

On Feb. 15, Davis finished 11th in the men’s 1,500 meter race with a time of 1:45.98.

Alpine skiing

Andrew Weibrecht started the slalom portion of the super combined event Feb. 14 in 20th place after a downhill run of 1:55.33, but was unable to complete the slalom course after crashing, posting a DNF for the event.

Vermontville’s Bill Demong was 24th in his first nordic combined event of the 2014 Winter Olympics Feb. 12.

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Office Saratoga Springs, NY Finance Law. For the Willsboro is not Project’s forty-year York until March 11, Authorizing the purpose of paying the Location: Essex 12866. Certificate of authorized to expend period of probable 2014 at 2:00 P.M. The issuance of up to cost of the Project, the money or (ii) the proviCounty, SSNY Formation filed with usefulness. A tax suffibids will be publicly Valley News $185,000 designated as agent the DE Secy. of State, Bond Resolution sions of law which cient to pay the princiopened and read Legal Deadline In serial bonds and/or authorized of LLC upon whom Division of the should have been pal of and interest on aloud. anticipation process against it may bond Corporations, John G. issuance of serial complied with as of such obligations as All bids submitted in Monday @ 3:00pm notes Of the Town of bonds and/or bond be served. SSNY shall Townsend Bldg., 401 the date of publication they become due and response to this notice Please Send Legals Willsboro to pay the anticipation mail Federal St., Ste. 4, notes, of this notice were not payable will be levied shall be marked

By EMAIL To: cost of acquisition of A including renewals of a copy of process to: Dover, DE 19901. substantially complied on all the taxable real SEALED BID ONE The LLC, 19 Benedict 2014 tandem axle the bond anticipation Purpose: any lawful with, and an action, property during norNEW 2014 PICKUP legals@denpubs.com Pl., Greenwich, CT truck cab and chassis notes, of the Town up activities. suit or proceeding mal business hours TRUCK. clearly on the with snow plow equip- to a maximum amount 06830 . The address VN-2/8-3/15/2014contesting such validi- for twenty (20) days outside of the envement of 6TC-37867 of $185,000, the maxi- ty is commenced with- following publication lope.

The Bond Resolution mum maturity of which the office required to ----------------------------in twenty (20) days of this Summary at the In addition to bid NOTICE OF NY which is summarized will not exceed five (5) be maintained in the after the date of publi- offices of the Town sheets, the bidder LIMITED LIABILITY below was adopted by years. A tax sufficient jurisdiction of its forNOTICE OF FORMAshall submit executed cation of this notice, or Clerk, Town of C O R P O R AT I O N the Willsboro Town to pay the principal of mation is: 1209 TION OF LIMITED (iii) such obligations Willsboro, New York. non-collusion bid cerFORMATION Board on February 12, an interest on such Orange St., LIABILITY COMPAtificates signed by the were authorized in Dated: 2/12/14 On January 9, 2014 2014. The validity of obligations as they Wilmington, DE NY. NAME: BLUE bidder or one of its violation of the provi- Beverly P. Moran, M o s s b r o o k the obligations author- become due and 19801. The name and LINE DESIGN & officers as required by sions of the State Former Town Clerk Landscaping LLC was ized by the Bond payable will be levied address of the APPAREL LLC. the General Municipal Constitution. c/o Bridget Brown, formed and filed artiResolution may be on all the taxable real Secretary of State in Articles of Law Sec. 103d.

The specific object or Existing Town Clerk cles of organization contested only if (i) the property of the Town its jurisdiction of Organization were The Town of Lewis purpose for which the Town of Willsboro with the New York obligations were annually. A full copy of organization where a filed with the reserves the right to obligations authorized VN-2/22/2014-1TCSecretary of State, authorized for an the Bond Resolution copy of its Certificate Secretary of State reject any and all bids by the Bond 39020 and designated the object or purpose for will be available for of Formation is filed is of New York (SSNY) not considered to be Resolution are to be ---------------------------Secretary as agent for which the Town of public inspection durSecretary of State of on 01/09/14. Office in the best interest of issued is repair and BY ORDER OF THE receipt of process.

Willsboro is not ing normal business Delaware, 401 location: Essex the Town of Lewis, reconstruction of two LEWIS TOWN The company’s office authorized to expend hours for twenty (20) Federal St., Ste.4, County. SSNY has and to waive any techclarifiers at the waste- BOARD the March is located at and its money or (ii) the provi- days following publiDover, DE 19901. been designated as nical or formal defect water treatment plant, Regular Town Board mailing address is 584 agent of the LLC upon sions of law which cation Purpose: to engage in of this in the bids which is which will require tem- meeting has been Port Douglas Road, should have been whom process against any lawful act.

Summary at the considered by the porary installation of a changed from March Keeseville, New York VN-2/15-3/22/2014- complied with as of offices of the Town it may be served.

Town of Lewis to be membrane bioreactor 11th to March 18th 12944 in Essex the date of publication Clerk, 6TC-38177 SSNY shall mail a Town of merely irregular, system in the equal- David Blades County, New York. of this notice were not Willsboro, New York.

----------------------------copy of process to the immaterial, or unsubization tank for biolog- Supervisor The company is substantially complied Dated: 2/12/2014 LLC, P.O. Box 112, stantial. ical stabilization and VN-2/22/2014-1TCformed for all lawful with, and an action, Bridget Brown, Town NOTICE OF QUALIPort Henry, New York PLEASE TAKE FURclarification via filtra- 39021 purposes, including suit or proceeding Clerk FICATION OF LAKE 12974. Purpose: For THER NOTICE that tion, and evaluation ----------------------------conducting a landcontesting such validi- Town of Willsboro PLACID FDS 708956, any lawful purpose. the Town of Lewis and repair of the rotatscaping and property ty is commenced with- VN-2/22/2014-1TCV N - 2 / 8 - 3 / 1 5 / 2 0 1 4 - LLC. App. for Auth. affirmatively states ing biological contact NOTICE TO BIDmaintenance busiin twenty (20) days 39019 filed with Secy. of 6TC-37869 that in regard to any system and the D E R S ness. after the date of publi- ----------------------------State of NY (SSNY) ----------------------------contract entered into Town’s wastewater NOTICE IS HEREBY VN-1/18-2/22/2014cation of this notice, or 2/7/14. Office location: pursuant to this system, including GIVEN, pursuant to 6TC-58075 (iii) such obligations SUMMARY OF BOND 26 POV LLC, Arts of Essex County. LLC notice, without regard related preliminary section 103 of the ----------------------------were authorized in RESOLUTION in North Org filed with SSNY formed to race, color, sex, reliand incidental costs General Municipal violation of the provi- Authorizing Carolina (NC) on on 01/06/14. Office the gion, age, national ori(“the Project”). The Law that the NOTICE OF sions of the State Issuance of Up to Location: Essex 1/22/14. SSNY desiggin, disability, sexual maximum estimated Undersigned, on QUALIFICATION OF County, SSNY desig- nated as agent of LLC Constitution. $450,000 preference or Vietnam cost of the Project is behalf of the Town of BRAIDWOODíS nated as agent of LLC upon whom process The specific object or In serial bonds and/or Era veteran status, $450,000. The period Lewis, Town Board, LAKE PLACID, LLC. upon whom process against it may be purpose for which the bond anticipation of probable usefulwill accept sealed bids disadvantaged and Authority filed with against it may be served. SSNY shall obligations authorized notes Of the Town of minority or womenness of the Project is until March 11, 2014 at Secy. of State of NY mail process to: c/o by served. SSNY shall the Bond Willsboro Sewer owned business forty (40) years, pur2:00 P.M. for ONE (SSNY) on 1/17/14. mail a copy of process Capitol Services, Inc., Resolution are to be District No 1 enterprises will be suant to Section 11 (a) NEW 2014 OR Office location: Essex to: The LLC, PO Box 1218 Central Ave., issued is the purchase W a s t e w a t e r afforded equal oppor(4) of the Local NEWER PICKUP County. LLC formed 1260, Alpine, NJ Ste. 100, Albany, NY of a 2014 tandem axle Treatment Plant tunity to submit bids in Finance Law. For the TRUCK. in Delaware (DE) on 07620. Purpose: to 12205. NC address of truck cab and chassis The Bond Resolution response hereto. purpose of paying the Specifications are 4/12/13. SSNY desigengage in any lawful LLC: 3735-B Beam with snow plow equip- which is summarized Dated: February 14, cost of the Project, the available by contactnated as agent of LLC Road, Charlotte, NC ment, including relat- below was adopted by act.

20140 Bond Resolution ing the Office of the upon whom process VN-2/15-3/22/2014- 28217. Arts. of Org. ed preliminary and the Willsboro Town Eldred Hutchins authorized the Town Clerk, Town against it may be filed with NC Secy. of incidental costs (the 6TC-38176 Board on July 31, H i g h w a y issuance of serial Supervisor or the served. SSNY shall State, PO Box 29622, Project). The maxi---------------------------2013. The validity of Superintendent bonds and/or bond H i g h w a y mail process to: Kara Raleigh, NC 27626. mum estimated cost of the obligations authorTown of Lewis anticipation notes, Superintendent, Town N. Sweeney, Esq., c/o HANOVER/PORTLA Purpose: any lawful the Project is ized by the Bond Lewis, New York including renewals of Hall, Lewis, New York PretiFlaherty, 57 North ND, LLC, Application act or activity. $185,000. The period Resolution may be 12950 the bond anticipation 12932 or by calling Main St., PO Box for Authority filed with VN-2/22-3/29/2014- of probable usefulcontested only if (i) the (518) 873-6777 notes, of the Town up 518-873-6777.

1318, Concord, NH 6TC-39014 SSNY on 01/22/14. ness of the Project is obligations were VN-2/22/2014-1TCto a maximum amount Sealed bids will be 03302-1318. Address ----------------------------Cert. fifteen (15) years, purauthorized for an 39115 of $450,000, the maxi- received at the Office of the principal office: of Formation filed in suant to Section 11 (a) object or purpose for ----------------------------mum maturity of which of the Supervisor, c/o Braidwoods, LLC,

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