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September 28, 2019
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Joe Pete Wilson: Legends never die By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
SARANAC LAKE| Life’s amazing adventure was constant fuel for Joe Pete Wilson, Sr., and legends never die, as he knew well. But the man’s largerthan-life spirit moved from this earthly plane. He died on Sept. 13 at age 84.
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BUDGET TALKS WITH E’TOWNLEWIS AMBULANCE SQUAD that goal, in part by saving capital contributions from Elizabethtown and Lewis for years.
Cost increases would provide paid day-time driver
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Joe Pete Wilson, Sr. Photo by Kim Dedam Joe Pete, a bronze-medal winning Olympian in bobsleigh, rode in a seat of honor at the Olympic Homecoming parade here last year. The celebration in Saranac Lake was held to honor the many local athletes just returned from Pyeong Chang XXIII Winter Games in South Korea. See WILSON » pg. 3
LEWIS |Area towns are starting work on 2020 budgets. Set to the same fiscal cycle, ElizabethtownLewis Emergency Squad is facing cost increases next year, including the need for a paid daytime driver for an estimated $31,200 per year. The emergency response service is also looking to execute a long-held plan to purchase a new ambulance. The two in use are aging: the white ambulance has been in operation for 20 years, and the “new” brown ambulance is 10 years old. The price of a new rig is $240,000. The Emergency Squad has reserved $128,000 toward
The squad has a volunteer roster with 34 members plus paid staff of 14, some part-time. Budget worksheets prepared by President Patty Bashaw indicate that volunteers have served a total 10,133.5 total hours this year, through July. When multiplied by the average cost per hour for EMS, the cost equivalent of $293,871.50. Bashaw shared Ambulance Run Report data with town councilors this past week, showing that, of 230 calls in 2018, 101 were for Elizabethtown and 73 for Lewis, in addition to response for mutual aid response in nearby towns. The EMS spending plan for next year anticipates $106,991 in operating costs out of the total $270,291 budget. Costs are divided 60 percent to 40 percent, primarily because more calls come from Elizabethtown and the population rises daily with county employees.
Shared operating cost revenue reflects an increase of about $18,796 for Lewis for a total $52,796 contribution in 2020. Lewis previously provided $34,000 for EMS annually, which included a $5,000 capital allocation. Shared operating cost revenue reflects an increase of $30,195 for Elizabethtown for a total $74,195. Elizabethtown has contributed $44,000 annually. In both towns, capital contribution toward the ambulance, included in the totals above, would be $10,000 next year.
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Bashaw made budget presentations at each Town Council meeting and went through each line item in the total $270,291 budget. The roughly $107,000 that the two towns pay is offset by fundraising, donations, gifts, revenue recovery from billing and a $70,000 EMS contract with Westport. See EMS » pg. 2
Jump start for St. Joe’s Open Access Center
Immediate access to treatments, programs, and life supports By Laura Achouatte STAFF WRITER
SARANAC LAKE | The weather was nearly an Adirondack monsoon the morning of the open house at St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Center’s 24-7 Open Access Center in Saranac Lake recently. Then later in the morning, the clouds opened up and the sun began to shine again. The weather seemed almost to present as a metaphor for what St. Joe’s aspires to do each day: to bring about sun and clarity after the dark and damp trials facing those that end up on the organization’s doorsteps. The new OAC is temporarily housed in the Latour building
Salmon fry found in Boquet The Mobile Crisis Center: Frank Landerway, Mobile Counselor, sits in the Mercedes autobus Mobile Crisis Center operated by St. Joseph’s Recovery and Treatment Center’s Open Access Center. The mobile strategy is an extension of the new OAC to create immediate response to individuals with addiction treatment needs.
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The Faces of the OAC: Jessica Cole, CASAC-G and OAC clinincal coordinator, and RIck Whitney, CRPA, stand together in the front entry to the OAC in Saranac Lake in August. St. Joe’s new Open Access Center held an open house and showcased its temporary location behind the Adirondack Medical Center Hospital, starting the operation earlier than anticipated to get immediate supports into the community.
behind the Adirondack Medical Center after a soft opening in June. In another seven months, the OAC will be fully operative and located at the John Munn Road location and ran at all times of the day and week. “Technically, we were not going to open the OAC until the 10-bed facility was completed, but we started the OAC earlier, adding more hours and days, so that those in need did not have to wait for services,” said Robert Ross, CEO of St. Joe’s. Of 10 regions in the state, the North Country received a grant from the State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services or OASES and the St. Joe’s organization was the recipient. With $ 3.3 million in capital funding to expand to build the OAS and create the 24� 7 model with staffing needs - the organization is the only of its kind in the area providing service capabilities around the clock. See ST. JOE’S » pg. 3
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Worldwide decline of salmon in rivers has led to restoration efforts By Laura Achouatte STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Salmon are back. At least, for scientists and anglers, this past summer’s findings in the Lake Champlain Basin give a new hope for the species. This summer, after more than 150 years, a salmon fry was found in the North Branch of the Boquet River. This discovery is one of less than a handful of naturally-reproducing Atlantic salmon that have been recorded in nearly two centuries. Most scientists agree that the removal of the Willsboro Dam just a few years ago - in conjunction with the restoration initiative - has been helpful to restoring the once abundant fish to local waters. See SALMON FRY » pg. 5
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