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Manufacturing Day held at IAM Students learn the ins and outs of manufacturing By Sarah Elizabeth Morris STAFF WRITER

PLATTSBURGH | Hundreds of North Country high school students and manufacturers showed up to the North Country Manufacturing (NCMFG) Day event on Oct. 2. There, 11th and 12th graders were able to Manufacturing is the foundation of our take a tour of the Institute for economy, but a massive skills gap threatens Advanced Manufacturing at to leave more than 2 million manufacturing Clinton Community College and jobs unfilled in the next decade.” learn about manufacturing as a possibility for a future career. —NCMFG website “Manufacturing is the foundation of our economy, but a massive skills gap threatens to leave more than 2 million manufacturing jobs unfilled in the next decade,” the NCMFG 3D Printing: One of the stations that students stopped at to learn about was 3D printing, where the employee showed off website says. “We need the next generation to start seeing a partially made object created by the machine. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Morris manufacturing as an exciting career option.” At the event, stations were set up for students to view, interact with and ask as many questions as they wanted. Some of these stations included things like robots, 3D printing, hydraulics and more, as well as visit the tables with manuwhich showed up to the city council meeting on Sept. 26. facturing employers. Some of the employers there included The group didn’t voice their opinions, as Councilor Mike Vapor Stone Railways, Mold-Rite Plastics, Bombardier and Kelly said the issue would not be relevant until the Oct. 3 city more. Information was available for students who are looking council meeting, where the council would discuss which recinto making a career at companies like those. reation component to close based on money and attendance. “This is a great facility and I want to see the students connect By Sarah Elizabeth Morris “The rec complex is being studied and there are rumors with the companies and to realize that they can go into these fields STAFF WRITER flying all over the community,” Councilor Kelly said. “We and realize that they can come here to this manufacturing instihave four services we provide in the rec complex and one tute,” New York Assemblyman Billy Jones said, who attended. “We have a large manufacturing hub here in the North Country and we PLATTSBURGH | The City of Plattsburgh base gym at the of those being the gym, the Crete Center, the city beach need these workers, we need the students and we need the conU.S. Oval is facing possible closure due to budget cuts. In and the city marina. All four of those are unsustainable.” nection between the companies, this institution and the workers.” response to this, a “Save Our Gym” group has emerged, See BASE GYM » pg. 3

Gym Base considered for closure Council holds hearing on rec facilities

See MANUFACTURING DAY » pg. 5

‘A Beautiful Mind’ comes to Plattsburgh Author holds lecture and book signing By Sarah Elizabeth Morris STAFF WRITER

Act Three: Sylvia Nasar, the author of A Beautiful Mind, visited Cumberland 12 in Plattsburgh to give a presentation on John Nash after a free showing of the movie adaptation. Nasar was also there to discuss her newest book on Nash. Photo by Sarah Elizabeth Morris

PLATTSBURGH | The National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI): Champlain Valley hosted “Illness & Genius:” A Beautiful Mind Program Oct. 2 and 3 to show a free screening of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”. Also making an appearance after the film showing was Sylvia Nasar, who wrote the original biography of John Nash, a Princeton mathematician who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Nash struggled with hallucinations and relationships due to his illness and was deemed the “Phantom of Fine Hall” on campus, as he would aimlessly wander. Nash and his wife Alicia both died in a car accident in May of 2015, but before that, Nash had, without medication, overcome his schizophrenia after 30 years and even won a Nobel Prize in Economics. His story was sensationalized through his revolutionary theories, mathematical games and the Hollywood film starring Russell Crowe. See A BEAUTIFUL MIND » pg. 5

Long-awaited Plattsburgh Kohl’s location opens Department store holds grand opening By Nathan Ovalle EDITOR

PL AT TSBURGH | Kohl’s officially announced its presence in Plattsburgh with a grand opening last weekend. The first 100 shoppers Saturday received $10 gift cards to celebrate the chain’s new location in Champlain Centre mall. One of those shoppers was Heather Nadeau, a Morrisonville resident making her first trip to a Kohl’s. “I’ve never been in a Kohl’s store and I’ve

heard a lot of good things about it,” Nadeau told The Sun. “I think the clothing is key, because they have a lot of good prices on stuff. And I can’t wait until this winter to see what they have on sale for Christmas. “It’s very nicely set up,” Nadeau added. But even for those who’ve been to a Kohl’s before, the Plattsburgh location may look a little different. “It’s one of our brand new prototypes,” store manager Kyle Siskavich shared with The Sun. “It’s our new 35k prototype - like an open layout, not a typical Kohl’s.” The Plattsburgh facility is one of four new Kohl’s stores the company is introducing this fall. The others are in Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

Heather Nadeau of Morrisonville is helped by Kohl’s employee Gricelis Polanco during last Saturday morning’s grand-opening event at the store in Champlain Centre mall in Plattsburgh.

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