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County eyes three sites for proposed fire safety training building
Keeseville fifth graders see World War II through local stories
Project recalls service, loss of 11 Keeseville grads in 1940s
Elizabethtown, Westport locations pegged for further scrutiny
By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | The Essex County Public Safety Committee took steps to find the right site for a proposed fire safety training building, a project that won $500,000 in grant funding through state Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury) last April. » Fire Cont. on pg. 10
Fifth Grader Madison Smith shared what she learned researching the life and World War II military service of Sgt. Andrew Oppman, who died on a bombing mission over Italy in 1944. Madison dressed as “Rosie the Riveter,” for the evening’s history presentation at Keeseville Elementary School.
ELIZABETHTOWN | The bronze plaque in the front hallway at Keeseville Elementary has a dark patina, burnished deep brown by time. Placed up high on the wall nearly 70 years ago, thousands of youngsters have likely whipped past or chattered noisily below in wriggling, rambunctious lines without seeing it most days. But not this night.
Photo by Kim Dedam
Shoeboxes sent around the world Samaritan’s Purse program provides gifts abroad — and at home By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
Members of area churches deliver festive shoeboxes packed with gifts for kids in need around the world and deliver them to collection points, including the Westport Bible Church.
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WESTPORT | On a Monday evening at dusk, a white SUV backed up to the entrance to the Westport Bible Church. Its owners offered crisp instructions: Don’t open the doors too fast. The reason soon became apparent. The vehicle was stuffed to the gills with festive red shoeboxes — 169 of them to be exact — to the point that a shoebox
avalanche was a real possibility. The shoeboxes themselves were jampacked as well, with toiletries, school supplies, knitted hats, socks and toys., all destined for foreign lands where children could otherwise expect little in the way of Christmas gifts. “It’s a lot of work organizing all this, but it’s a lot of fun,” said Pat Blades, who brought the boxes from the First Congregational Church of Lewis. It’s a scene played out across the Adirondack Coast from Schroon Lake to Plattsburgh, as well as across the country, all part of Operation Christmas Child, a program run by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical world relief organization founded by Baptist minister Bob Pierce in 1970 and joined by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, three years later. » Shoeboxes Cont. on pg. 5
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