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North Creek mosaic gets 1,000th volunteer By Christina Scanlon
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NORTH CREEK — Like many, many before her, Mary Griffin, of Pennington, New Jersey, volunteered to add tiles to the community mural on Main Street in North Creek last week. What she didn’t know was she was about to be the 1000th person to volunteer. It was a chance encounter, said Kate Hartley, director and lead artist for the North Creek Mosaic Project, that led to the occasion. Griffin’s husband and five children were on a backpacking excursion on the Calamity Trail near Tawahus, when she approached Hartley who was working on the wall at the time. When she mentioned she liked community projects and asked Hartley if she could take a photo, Hartley recalled, “I knew at that point I wouldn’t have to talk her into it.” Griffin was elated to help, said Hartley, who awarded Griffin with a t-shirt. “She said she hadn’t done artwork before, maybe since she was in school,” said Hartley. “I often hear people say they won’t be
able to do it, but it doesn’t take any special skill or ability. It’s more like putting a puzzle together,” she said. The tally of 1,000 volunteers counts those who have worked about an hour or more on the wall, not those that stop for a photo opportunity and place a tile or two. “We have had some volunteers who’ve spent 20, 30, 40 hours working on it, and still they come back,” she said. “It’s an addictive art form.” Hartley said Griffin vowed to come back again. Hartley had been returning for longer than she anticipated when she originally dreamt up the project. “I initially projected this be three years, though I didn’t really have any idea. That was just my best guess,” she said. “What I didn’t factor in was realizing how much cleaning there is involved,” she said noting every tile placed requires cleaning all of the other ones around it. Hartley said she is now in her sixth year of work. “It’s going to take the rest of this season and at least two more.” The mosaic is receiving tiles to the third >> See MURAL | pg. 7
New T-shirt slogan expands Long Lake message ‘The summer is short, the lake is long’ reads new slogan By Christina Scanlon
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LONG LAKE — It could be difficult to take someone in a lobster costume, complete with giant padded claws, seriously. For Vickie Sandiford, who owns the ADK Trading Post with her husband, Bill, it’s all in good fun. So is the store’s motto, “If it’s in stock, we have it,” she said. She’s been seen around town in the bright red get-up, at the Post Office and marching in area parades, advertising her Friday, and sometimes Saturday, “Lobstah rolls.”
When it comes to Long Lake, though, her passion moves beyond comedy and into creativity. “We’d been kicking it around for a couple years,” she said of a logo and slogan for Long Lake long-time friend, Peter Michael Marino, had developed. “He and I went to college together, then we were roommates in New York City,” she said. Today, Marino is an actor, director and most importantly for their idea, a graphic designer. “He came up with it,” she said of the design. “I loved the Long Lake logo,” Marino said, referring to the popular image of a two bears, one large and one small, with the words “Long Lake” below that’s been featured on many items for decades.
“I loved the bears and I am a fan of fonts,” he said. The phrase “the summer is short, the lake is long,” came to him pretty easily. He also toyed with “life is short, the lake is long.” As host of the town’s bed races for six years and the polar plunge for three, he posted the first phrase on his Facebook page. “People went crazy for it,” he said. Two days later, Sandiford told him she wanted to sell them in her store. While he describes himself as an idea man, more than a graphic designer, the image the phrase conjured his own feelings for the lake. >> See LONG LAKE | pg. 16