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Health risks reported in Essex _Q HEALTH
Sound advice for students Brilliant Pathways program matches kids with mentors
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County health report outlines worrisome trends
By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
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ESSEX | More than 100 professionals from multiple fields fanned out across the North County last week, visiting schools and explaining to students what it takes to make it in their respective careers.
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CFES Mentor Madness Day “ is the best way for students
to interact and ask questions about college and career readiness to professionals. It was a true success.” — Joe Zeitler, Assistant Director of Admissions at Castleton University
Sponsored by CFES Brilliant Pathways in Essex, “Mentor Madness Day” was the region’s largest single-day mentoring event, reaching more than 3,000 students in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties. It was, the organization said, “an opportunity to learn about potential professions and the steps it takes to get there. Mentors also focused on the importance of practicing essential skills taught by CFES such as perseverance and agility to be successful in life.” “In class, we learn about CFES Essential Skills like teamwork and leadership, so today was great because we got to hear people talk about those things in real life,” said Beekmantown 5th-grader Lizzy Burnham. Volunteers mentored at Crown Point,
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More than 100 mentors visited schools throughout the North Country last week, describing their careers and advising students to plan for opportunities that lie ahead. The program was sponsored by CEF Brilliant Pathways of Essex. Photo provided Boquet Valley, Keene, Ticonderoga, Peru, Plattsburgh, Lake Placid, Beekmantown, Moriah, Willsboro and Ausable Valley. The day long event was part of a $12 million U.S. Department of Education GEAR UP grant secured by CFES Brilliant Pathways – a global nonprofit that has helped more than 100,000 students become college and career ready since 1991. “CFES and this event help students to be
deliberate in what they put their energy into and are guiding them to align their strengths with their passions,” said Larry Allan, Dean of Judicial Review at SUNY-Plattsburgh, who mentored at Beekmantown. “At its core, CFES assists students in the development of the essential skills they need to navigate school, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately life.”
ELIZABETHTOWN | Framed as a snapshot in time, Essex is among the healthiest counties in New York. But a comprehensive new report from the Essex County Health Department and its partners tell a more nuanced story, with trends that are raising concerns for health providers. In other words, Essex County is unlikely to stay as healthy as it is, if current patterns continue. Behaviors that are increasingly endemic to much of rural America — smoking, drinking, drug use and overeating — are catching up to county residents, and those behaviors are showing up in higher incidences of reported physical and mental disorders. These stories are told in the Community Health Assessment and Improvement/Service Plan released this month by the health department, in collaboration with regional hospitals and health agencies to that collected data and surveyed residents throughout the past year. The report is issued once every three years, and tells health care providers where help is needed the most, said Andrea Whitmarsh, senior public health educator for Essex County. The report identifies three areas in need of special care: chronic diseases; women, infants and children; and mental health. It means in the coming years these issues will be accentuated, Whitmarsh said, even as the department continues to work on other problem areas including ticks, rabies and vaping.
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See HEALTH REPORT » pg. 8
Local business help available By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | Small businesses start with an idea. But turning that idea into a reality can be far more complicated than it looks. So for those who
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. ■014fA1•1:I• ~ Offering business help in Ticonderoga are Tony Searing, Small Business Development Center business advisor, Matthew Courtright, Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, and Angela Smith, Small Business Development Center assistant director and certified business advisor.
want to start a new business or jump-start an existing business, the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce maintains an ongoing partnership with the SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center at Clinton Community College, which offers multi-layered support to budding entrepreneurs. Services that are offered by the center will be available directly at the chamber’s Montcalm Street office throughout 2020, said chamber president Matthew Courtright. The program “is very easy to work with, it’s free and confidential,” Courtright said. Those with an idea for starting a business may be unsure about basic business practices, or if their idea is even viable. “Somebody may have a really good concept, but they need to flesh it out to see if it’s financially feasible,” Courtright said. “Planning is the key. Great things take time, and there is no reason you have to do it alone.” As a TACC partner, the SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center at Clinton Community College supplements an array of services in addition to the business support, services, and programs the chamber provides. The business counselors help with everything from business models, marketing research, financing and training. They have access to research librarians, who can find out things like how well a product is selling, and for how much. Counselors can also help with cash flow projections; financial analysis; legal and regulatory information; and marketing assistance. For growing businesses, they can help with human resource development, import/ export assistance and government procurement.
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Colonial French-era sawmill rising Long-discussed project back on front burner By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | More than a dozen years ago, dignitaries posed for photos at the top of the falls on the La Chute River, at the site
of what was to be a working 1750s-era French sawmill to be built the following summer. A concept that had been in the works since the 1980s was finally coming to reality. Today, the grassy field is still devoid of any structure, but — although people are more cautious about making any predictions of when construction might begin — the dream still isn’t dead. The years have not been entirely wasted, and detailed plans and drawings representing meticulous historical research have been completed. See SAWMILL » pg. 9
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