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Recognition
Helping Hand
Sweet Music
Barbara Nephew honored with the 2009 Elizabeth Heins Survivorship Award.
Plattsburgh Public Library receives a Hannaford grant for reading program.
Cumberland Bay Barbershoppers celebrate 50 years of keeping harmony.
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St. Ann’s Bazaar to have own version of ‘Idol’
Community gardens growing toward the Northern Tier By Sarah L. Cronk sarah@denpubs.com
By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com MOOERS FORKS — If you’re still reeling from the season finale of American Idol and need a fix, then there’s a challenge that might be what you’re looking for. St. Ann’s Church will host its annual St. Ann’s Bazaar this Sunday, June 7, this year featuring its own version of the popular television show’s singing competition. Paula Ashline, chairperson of the bazaar ’s entertainment committee, said “St. Ann’s American Idol” is actually a new twist on an old favorite for the familyoriented event. “Idol Fever,” as its come to be known, swept the North Country earlier this year when Nathaniel “Nate” Marshall of Malone made
Marge and Royce Pombrio, left, and Ron Trombly stand by a sign for the Mooers Community Garden on LaValley Road in Mooers. The garden began recently with a land donation from Trombly.
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MOOERS — Community gardens are becoming increasingly popular for providing nutritious food, reducing food budgets and even improving neighborhood development. And, as they’ve been seen popping up throughout the region, Mooers is getting in on the growing trend. The Mooers Community Garden has been established on LaValley Road on six acres of land owned by Mooers resident Ron Trombly, who came up with the idea. “[Trombly] said he had been cultivating it for the last few years and he didn’t have a need for it,” explained Marge Pombrio, who serves as the public relations liaison for the garden group. With the abundance of land donated for use as a community garden, Pombrio and her husband, Royce, worked to set up 20-foot by 70-foot plot lines, leaving a plot for themselves. “We can make smaller plots. We can make some
half the size,” Pombrio said. “We’re new at this too, so, we just want to help the community.” So far, only one other taker has chosen to set up a plot, leaving plenty of space for more plots to begin. Considering plots are free of charge and not limited to Mooers residents, Pombrio said she’d like to see interest and the garden enlarge. “It really is a wonderful opportunity for families that either live in apartments or mobile homes that don’t have land or don’t have land worked up or don’t have the knowledge,” she said. “We’re not experts by any means, but if we can help anybody with anything, we’d be glad to.” “It may be too late this year to get more than one or two more people,” she added, “though the way that the weather has been, it’s so cold that people will be starting their gardens maybe later.” Currently, the Mooers Community Garden does not have a water source, except for the Great Chazy
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Students honor veterans through class project By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com CHAMPLAIN — History has not been forgotten, at least at Northeastern Clinton Central High School. Students from Kathryn Dermody’s History of World War II class recently thanked local veterans for all they have done while serving their country. The students hosted a dinner at the school May 27, inviting them to enjoy a meal prepared by the students and hear words of thanks
from the very children who benefit from the freedoms the men fought to protect. “These kids had to do a community service project and they really gave it some thought,” said Dermody. “They decided they wanted to do a dinner and worked really hard to make it something special for our veterans.” The students worked on every detail of the event, from the food to the background music, place Students in Kathryn Dermody’s History of World War II class pose with local veterans during a dinner held in the veterans’ honsettings to decorations, and
or at Northeastern Clinton Central High School May 27.
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