The Country Editor East 5.22.13

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May 22, 2013

Countryy Editor

Volume 1 Number 6

East

Just good reading

From pure imagination to virtual stagnation

Black bears thriving in Big South Fork

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Takee a hike Chimney Mountain

by Joan Kark-Wren Chimney Mountain near Indian Lake is one of my family’s favorite hikes. It’s a sure bet that whenever we are at camp, someone will say, “Let’s climb Chimney!”

We ‘discovered’ Chimney Mtn. in 2006 and have climbed it many times since, each time discovering new caves to explore. Our first climb up was in July. As we went from the chimney to the other side of the of the mountain, we saw mist rising up from the crevices in the rocks created from the cooler air in the caves. After setting off to explore them, we discovered there was still ice and snow in many of the smaller caves. A great cool-

down after a hot climb!

The chimney itself is a massive vertical rock formation that lends itself to some good views and great photo ops, but the real view is on the other side, and can be reached by a path that starts just below the chimney.

At 2,700 ft. above sea level, Chimney is considered a low peak.

The hike up is a steep Class 1 trail, just over a mile long, with the steepest part at the end. The trail is wide enough in most places to walk side by side and is fairly dry, depending on the season. There are two spots near the base that are wet and a small stream to cross over.

Our ‘boys’ (aged 22, 24 and 27)

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run up the mountain and come back every now and then to check and see if my husband Dan and I are still on our way up. I tend to be the last one up because I’m too busy

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Above - The trail up to the chimney is fairly wide in most spots.

Right - One of my favorite photos - my ‘boys’ next to the chimney. This was taken the first time we climbed Chimney Mountain, and although I’ve tried to recapture this, it never seems to come out as good as this one did.

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A bird of a different feather writes his story came to this windswept place called Stone Arabia about three weeks ago. I told the rest of the flock not to leave our warm winter home so early. What has one single bird to say to change many others’ minds? After all, I’m just a different bird but still an outstanding one.

Long before we struck off for this Stone Arabia place, some who nested there last season thought that with a strong west wind we might be blown east to a place called Fonda. It was a pretty cold day when we reached our destination, which was a side yard of a guy who some of the older birds of the flock said was named Skip.

In fact that guy saw us soon after landing. I saw him watching us. He seemed to be especially watching me as if he picked me out from many other robins. Did he think I was strange just because I had a white head? I did not know whether I should feel complimented or insulted. This guy certainly spied on me. I My portrait, taken at my new home showed him by being especially bold in Stone Arabia by John De Valve. and approaching nearer than the rest

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by Willis “Skip” Barshied I am one of nature’s feathered creatures. Although I risk being considered conceited, I know I’m something special. I

of the flock.

I began to be self conscious and even paranoid if that is within the capability of a white-headed robin. I was concerned that this big, strong creature pitied me possibly because I did not seem to have a mate. I decided I’d show him by taking my beautiful mate with me when I came into his view.

Boy, is she a sweet bird! She not only has looks but does most of the nest building also. I cavort around, picking up a seed here or a worm there. This is robin lazy street. I do not dare to tweet about it much though since all must be quiet while my mate is nesting. I hope that guy Skip respects my preening and does not require too many appearances. I’ll try to humor him. That friend of his, I believe his name is John, tried to trick me with some robin sounds made by something he took from his pocket. I showed him that there is no fear in this bird.

So long for now!

Your friend, The White Headed Robin with help from Skip, Stone Arabia, April 30, 2013.

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The western summit has vast views of the surrounding mountains.

Hiking from Page 1

Finding ice and snow in the caves during the summer months is always fun - and cooling!

taking pictures of mushrooms and other interesting things (dogs, people, trees, flowers, red efts, etc.) to focus on climbing.

Though I always use the excuse of a beautiful photo op, they all know the truth mom is getting too old and out of shape to keep that pace up anymore.

The trail is dog friendly. Our family of dogs - four black labs and a ‘new to us’ chocolate lab - enjoy this climb as much as we do, chasing a ball or frisbee along the trail and running back and forth between us (we do leash them when other hikers are on the trail).

The biggest cave on the mountain - in fact, the biggest in the Adirondacks - is Eagle Cave.

It is located on the western side of the mountain, some 20-30 feet below the summit and is considered an expert-

The view of the chimney from the western ridge. On the left side there is huge rock balanced on top of another one - great photo ops there!

Photos by Joan Kark-Wren

only cave. Being a worrying-Mom-type, I’ve never been too interested in actually finding it, for fear that the ‘boys’ would want to explore it. Some day we may have to get serious about finding it, but until then, we enjoy exploring the smaller caves in the rift between the Chimney and the western ridge.

Chimney can be climbed in any season and is a good snowshoe hike in winter.

Blackflies can be bad in the spring, so be prepared.

There are some great books and websites about hiking in the Adirondacks if you’d like to learn more.

Many of the caves found in the rift are big enough to stand in.

cut up their garden tools for firewood and head out to the supermarket for vegetables, stopping on the way at a tavern for a bracer to lift the spirits.

Nowhere do these so-called “experts” mention the rejuvenating power of puttering amidst the greenery of the garden, nor the satisfaction of hacking down overgrown weeds, while observing the marvels of creation. And I can tell you I get some marvels. When volunteers from the previous year's garden come up, I let them grow, mostly because I can never tell for sure if the sprouting plants are ones I planted, volunteers, or weeds.

After a few years, my volunteers got crossed with several varieties of squash, pumpkins, gourds, and maybe morning glories to mutate into stranger and stranger varieties that would make Luther Burbank take note.

One year, I ended up with weird squash-like globs, pale yellow with streaks of green. I took a load down to the Survival Center. I don't know if anyone survived them, but the folks running the place did not beg me to bring more.

When I mentioned that I still had enough to feed the French Foreign Legion, the lady at the desk said something about having a big enough dumpster bill, already. She gave a little sniff at my basket of mutant squash. She apparently has some sort of squash allergy; I could tell.

While I often have an ample yield of

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Photo courtesy of Franklin County Master Gardeners, http://franklincountymgs.blogspot.com mutants, gardeners shouldn't concern book against power mowing, though I'd themselves about yield. That's farming, receive some dark looks from my wife, which my father cured me of at a very who had forbidden me to set foot in her early age, and for which I thank him. We section of the garden when she practiced had frosts, wet spells and dry spells, dis- the art of gardening. She was a traditionease, bugs, wood chucks, rabbits and alist, bent on all the drudgery of hoeing deer. If we were lucky and escaped all and weeding. that—after hoeing and weeding all sumOne year, our living room rug began to mer—whatever we chose to plant for look a bit tired. To me it still looked like market turned out to be selling for three a sun-dappled forest floor. My brothercents a peck. in-law said it looked like chopped brocEach year, it seems, I read about farm- coli. My wife agreed. And up it went. I ers dumping loads of produce on a major use the discarded rug to lay strips highway to protest low prices. between the rows.

One year I planted tomato seeds in five Personally, I feel farmers are entirely justified in dumping those tons of surplus gallon plastic buckets. I lugged them in produce onto major highways. What else and out of the house until past the dancan they do? If they plow them under, ger of late spring frost, talking to them, they'll just multiply and mutate into admiring them, and congratulating more and more weird volunteers. All that myself, incessantly, while my wife rolled aside, it's not to say that a gardener can't her eyes to heaven imploring the very being I sought to emulate. All summer I enjoy growing crops.

There's an easier way - using my carried on as my wife clung to sanity.

That fall, I announced, “With all these method of divine guidance. Observe Mother Nature at work—or more accu- plants bearing so nicely, we'll have but to rately—not at work. There in Bible is the reach out right here in our own kitchen parable about the master who admon- to pick a ripe tomato at arm's length.”

Actually, all the plants had all died but ishes his servant to refrain from pulling weeds for fear of uprooting the good one. But, it was a tough one. Anyway, my plants. There lies the secret. It is excel- enthusiasm failed to catch on, and I lent advice that I'm going to frame and wondered about my wife's vitamin B intake. hang by my lounge chair.

Then, one Indian summer day, I'd left Not only is leaving the weeds alone much easier than all that hacking and the remaining tomato plant out to bask weeding, it results in a more favorable in the sun, and I neglected to bring it in cost/benefit ratio. Doing the absolute for the night. The temperature dropped. minimum results in the highest ratio; By morning my tomato plant slumped giving the greatest harvest for the least like cooked spinach. My wife somehow effort. Of course, you'll have a garden seemed unmoved by this tragedy. choked with weeds, but that isn't all bad Nevertheless, I didn't let it discourage me either. It can be interesting to witness the from gardening. Failure, I often pointed grim battle of good and evil-the plants out to her, is invaluable because it gives versus weeds. And at year's end, when contrast to your successes, however few. the garden is turned under, the weeds I find there are few failures, if examined closely enough. There's always the help replenish the soil with nutrients.

You may hoe a bit, or occasionally pull weather to blame. I don't consider my a few weeds, taking on the role of benev- garden a failure if it doesn't produce olent being. Then, when the weeds grow enough at year's end to feed a sick chickso thick as to hamper strolling through en. At least I won't have littered the highthe garden, you have but to fire up the ways with surplus produce, nor long to lawn mower to go down the rows creating throw myself under the wheels of a passa fine lawn for the plants to loll upon, ing truck in despair.

I used to stroll over to my wife's garwhile you return the weeds to the soil as nutrients. A hidden squash or pumpkin den, before she passed on, to sample may fall victim to the mower, spraying some of her vegetables when she was out in a plume of pulp and seeds with a busy elsewhere. Now I go to sit on the resounding “thr-r-rp”, but I charge that chopped broccoli rug between the rows to contemplate new avenues of scientific off to “thinning”.

Nowhere is there anything in the good efficiency.

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by Joseph A. Parzych With the economy as it is, gardening is a viable option much like the Victory Gardens during WWII. But is it worth the bother of it all? Most certainly. Anyone can garden with efficiency and ease. You need only follow my foolproof plan. It does not have to be followed exactly. I usually begin by digging up the garden with my backhoe. You don't need to do that. My wife used to ask my brother to roto-till a plot for her garden. I also have a farm tractor equipped with a plow, but I like to dig up the soil with my backhoe in the spring or stack the garden loam in the fall, layer it with leaves and then level it in the spring. I like doing it that way. It fluffs up the soil and saves money. Well, maybe it doesn't save money, but it does justify owning a backhoe.

To garden successfully, you need also to develop the right mind-set. There is nothing like poring over seed catalogues to develop a positive attitude. There's never a bit of negativity, nor even so much as a hint of failure, there. The bountiful display of fruit and vegetables in glorious color is certain to inspire the worst pessimist.

A common mistake is reading gardening articles. No. Wait! Not mine. I'm talking about the other guys. They dwell too much on detail, with long lists of things that must be done NOW. They dredge up a depressing list of plagues, pests, and pitfalls that are enough to make a body

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From pure imagination to virtual stagnation

by Carly Proulx Central New Yorker’s are sending their winter blues back into another six months of hibernation, but the chances today’s youth will spend a majority of summer basking in the sun are rather slim these days. In a 2008 publication of the Smithsonian magazine the studies of one ecologist Patricia Zaradic indicate that since the mid-1980’s today’s internet based society may have elicited a much bigger cost than that of an electric bill.

With the 21st century onslaught of “videophilia,” a term coined by Patricia Zaradic (Environmental Leadership Program) and Oliver Pergrams, (researcher at University of Illinois in Chicago) it is a wonder that kids today have any room left for pure imagination.

Defined as the new human tendency to focus on sedentary activities involving electronic media, the correlation between videophilia and the per capita

decline in outdoor activities, though not proven the causation of, certainly gives solid ground to stand for those who believe there is at the very least some bearing between the two.

An increase in outdoor activity has shown valuable signs in improving cognitive functioning in children at varying stages of development. Growing up in the eighties left me and my brother basically oblivious to internet use or much anything else technology related.

On the income scale our family ranked rather low, but with imaginations intact and our daily fort building schemes, we didn’t seem to know or care. Within the first few minutes of writing this article I asked my friend’s 11-year-old son if he preferred sitting behind a computer screen surfing the web to exploring the outdoors. His response, “I’m not much of an outdoor’s guy” was without the least bit of hesitation. When it comes to boredom being followed up by checking my Facebook feed I’m as guilty as the next electronic fiend. I am not opposed The technology. The benefits that have sprung from Justt goodd reading social networking and other Published weekly on Wednesday by Lee Publications aspects such as the now 6113 St. Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 endless vat of information Publisher, President at the mere press of a butFrederick W. Lee ton are plain to see, and I V.P., General Manager don’t pretend to dislike Bruce Button movies and television.

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Photo by Carly Proulx I guess the point to this article, and what question remains most disparaging is that with all we have gained today as a technologically suave society, what is it that we’ve lost along the way? If you asked a modern kid near you he might say, “Why build a real fort when I can sit motionless, making one in Minecraft (an online building game)?” Consider the effects for building and playing, indoors or outdoors has on kids today.

Problem solving, planning, creative thinking, meditative techniques, and

imaginary play may all be essential pieces that make up fort building, as well as important skills to be potentially absorbed by those engaged. This is just one example of an activity that can help facilitate your child’s learning methods, while at the same time remaining creative and fun. I believe it is now more important than ever to encourage the future generation of children that sometimes, they need look no farther than their pure imagination to find some good quality entertainment.

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Turning ninety-three

by Rosalie Bolton Well hello, here you are, in your nineties. Nineties. That’s old?

Ninety-three is not old, just the beginning of the nineties. I have several more years to go before I reach 100, a centenarian.

In a newspaper article I read, “Elderly man does such and such.”

The elderly man was sixty-two.

Sixty-two? Yes, I suppose so. But I always thought that fifty was middle age.

What is age? Just a number.

Yes, I use a cane. Not because I’m old. I use the cane for balance; you know, the road I’m walking on might be a little off.

“Why have you got your name and address stuck on to your cane?” my daughters ask.

I always have an answer; “What if I leave the cane?”

In a movie, a comedy long ago, an elderly woman used her cane to hit people, to swat them, if they took her seat on a bus. Comedy, but it gave the impression that old people are cranky and mean, and that’s not always the case. Well, not always.

Old people can be weird. A cousin of my mother’s, years ago, answered the phone by saying, “Waiting.” Not, “Hello.”

She said why should I say “hello”

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by Pastor Dan West One day a man greeted me with the usual “how are you?” And I answered him with the usual “good.” Then he questioned me, “Are you really good? There is only one Good Man.” I understood his point, but we could rightly question, “good compared to who or what?”

The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that to “compare themselves among themselves is unwise.” We can always

find someone we compare favorably or unfavorably with.

If we compare our attitudes and actions to the standards of the Ten Commandments, we can see why God sent His Son Jesus to pay for us missing His high standard.

He is holding His payment for your sin out to you; have you accepted it? Romans 10:23 says “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.”

to someone I do not know. I am waiting, waiting to find out who is calling and why.

What if when my phone rings, I pick up and say, “Waiting.”

Maybe I’ll try this.

If I pick up the receiver and say, “Waiting,” my son who is calling might say, “What for?”

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4. Check the brake system annually and have the brake linings, rotors and drums inspected at each oil change.

5. Inspect the exhaust system for leaks, damage and broken supports or hangers if there’s an unusual noise. Exhaust leaks can be dangerous and must be corrected without delay.

6. Schedule a tune-up to help the engine deliver the best balance of power and fuel economy and produce the lowest level of emissions.

7. Check the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) system as proper heating and cooling performance is critical for interior comfort and for safety reasons such as defrosting.

8. Inspect the steering and suspension system annually including shock absorbers, struts and chassis parts such as ball joints, tie-rod ends and other related components.

9. Check the tires, including tire pressure and tread. Uneven wear may indicate the need for wheel alignment. Tires should also be checked for bulges and bald spots.

10. Check the wipers and lighting so you can see and be seen. Check that all interior and exterior lighting is working properly and replace worn wiper blades so you can see clearly when driving during precipitation.

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2. Check the hoses and belts to make sure they’re not cracked, brittle, frayed, loose or showing signs of excessive wear.

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Hello Again, May 18, 2013 Last week the opening sentence for Hello Again was “What a marvelous change in the weather” This week, Monday morning, it could be “put on your long johns and button up the back flap.

Boy it’s cold.”

We thank the good Lord for nice weather, but I don’t have nerve enough to blame him for out of season cold weather, so I’ll just say thanks for a good day.

How the years have gone by - it seems like yesterday our family had a young friend in our church family. Saturday we attended the 2013 Commencement Ceremony at Baptist Bible College and Seminary in Clark Summit, Pennsylvania. Wouldn’t you know it that same kid is now a mature man with a beautiful wife and a son who is a ninth grader. Saturday he walked the walk with cap and gown receiving his Masters Degree. You would think he was my son I was so proud. Now he can wear the tassel on the left side of his cap. We are expecting great things to happen in Salvatore J. (Sal) Malorana Jr.’s life serving his Lord, family and country. Possibly the educational walk he is on will lead from Bachelor, Masters Degrees onto Doctor of Ministry. Dr. Sal has a nice ring to it. At the present he is serving as Pastor in a Village Bible Believing Church.

What I don’t understand about Sal is how did he ever get both of his heels to touch the ground at the same time. It never happened when he was a kid.

At the college we were told to park our motor home in the faculty parking area not in the students’ parking lot. Locating the correct lot was easy.

We found it with little trouble. We parked where all of the old cars were.

Back in the hill country where I grew up, we learned the 3 R’s: read’n, rite’n, and ‘rithmatic. Often while reading we skipped over the big words. A born native could substitute a local word or expression, which usually worked even better. A conversa-

tion was often sprinkled with a cuss word or a word one never heard of before. To an outsider this could create a serious ‘confugalty’.

By the time we kids graduated from the 6th grade we had polished village words and phrases into a fine art form including the kind, which brought on a mouthwashing with strong brown lye soap, I can still taste the soap and remember the words. To this day one of those words will slip out. Isn’t that some sort of proof that early education really sticks with you.

We had our own way of handling ‘rithmatic. For example, if we owed someone $4 we would offer $2 + $1 and if someone owed $5, it would be come $3 + $3 which the sum would be $5.

I received a rough-ruff (as in a barking dog) birthday card from an old friend and golfing buddy this week. A little pat on the back from “Ruby” Helfand made my day. He wrote, “You still do a very good job.” Elliott M. Helfand is now 94 and still plays golf at the Ryerson-Otsego Golf Course. Mrs. Helfand is a champion on or off the golf course. She often beats Ruby at golf and is unbeatable as a cookie baker. Ruby wrote, “It is hard to believe, it has been almost 30 years since I retired from the ‘Ruby’s’ store in Richfield Springs.” Ruby, hit ‘em straight, hard and keep on eating those great cookies. God bless.

A preacher was making his rounds on a bicycle, when he came upon a young boy trying to sell a lawn mower. “How much do you want for the mower?” asked the preacher.

“I just want enough money to go out and buy me a bicycle.” said the boy.

After a moment of consideration, the preacher

asked, “Will you take my bike in trade for it?” The boy asked if he could try it out first. He told the preacher he hadn’t ridden a bicycle in a long time and wasn’t sure he remembered how to ride one.

The preacher told him, “Just keep trying. It’ll come back to you.” After riding the bike around a little while, the boy said, “Mister, you’ve got yourself a deal.”

The preacher took the mower and began to crank it. He pulled on the rope a few times with no response from the mower. The preacher called the youngster over and said, “I can’t get this mower to start.”

The boy said, “That’s because you have to cuss at it to get it started.”

The preacher said, “I can’t cuss. It’s been so long since I became a Christian that I don’t even remember how to cuss.”

The little boy looked at him happily and said, “You just keep pulling on that rope. It’ll come back to you! Thanks, Uncle Jim Bob So you’re a little bit deaf and you would like to attend a play, concert, speech, movie or church and you know your probably will not be able to hear and understand, what can you do about it? You can choose 1. Stay at home, 2.

Attend the event and realize you will not hear what’s going on, 3. Go and complain to deaf ears that you couldn’t hear.

tem is now available for buildings, which hold large crowds. It is called a hearing loop system.

In a typical church the hearing loop system is installed under the carpet.

The wire transits sound through a magnetic field, rather than acoustically, which means people with hearing aids receive the signal.

Don’t lose faith. Winter is actually over for this year. Soon - I hope - we can pack away the long johns, break out the above-the-knee shorts and wear straw hats. Believe it or not summer is not a new invention, although some years it does seem to get squeezed between late spring and early fall. Milt Schilde at Sunnycrest always cautions not to transplant flowers before Memorial Day. Distance can separate friends and family but love will always win and draw them back together.

Say hello to your closest friend, your next door neighbor. Thank god for family and friends and attend church this Sunday.

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The population studies show the bears have found the habitat to their liking. Biologists say the Big South Fork population could become

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Joe Clark is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and an adjunct professor of wildlife at the University of Tennessee who helped with the study.

“The sample doesn’t represent all the bears, but it’s the lion’s share,” he said. “There are more bears up there than we thought.”

Black bears are now found within Big South Fork.

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Clark said the reintroduction was successful in

part because the releases took place in the winter.

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on,” Clark said.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says it will be at least three years before it decides whether to allow bear hunting in Big South Fork.

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Kintnersville woman finds her mom after 44 years

by Phil Gianficaro, Bucks County Courier Times LEVITTOWN, PA (AP) — Forty-four-year-old Cyndi Lane wiped the inside of her cheek with a cotton swab in her Kintnersville home last month, hurriedly packed it into a UPS box and shipped it to a DNA laboratory in Fort Worth, Texas.

More than 300 miles away, 82-year-old Audrey Gilligan of Bradford was doing the same.

The women then went about doing what they’ve been doing for years: They waited. Anxiously.

Hopefully. The minutes dragged like hours.

In the interim, Lane, a married mother of one, and Gilligan, a widowed mother of five, continued doing by phone what they’d been doing for only a few days since finding each other last month with the help of social media: connecting their lives that were literally separated at birth 44 years ago in a maternity delivery room in upstate New

York when Gilligan gave up Lane for adoption.

“As we spoke on the phone, we learned we have so much in common,” said Lane, who is employed by Allstate Insurance Co. in Pennsburg. “We both love music, decaf coffee and like to wear lots of jewelry.

She’s a hairdresser, and I’ve always had this desire to be a hairdresser.

“And when I saw her picture, I saw we have the same nose, cheekbones and freckles in the same places. I look like her.”

The days of waiting ended eight days after those cotton swabs were shipped out. Lane’s telephone rang. The caller ID showed it was from Fort Worth, Texas. She held the phone and her breath. And then she learned the result of the DNA tests: “The person at the lab said our DNA samples showed a match of 99.997 percent that we were mother and daughter,” Lane said, sounding

as excited as the day she got the news.

Lane quickly hung up the phone and phoned Gilligan.

“When I told her the results, she said, `Honey, I didn’t need a DNA test to prove you were my daughter. I could hear it in your voice. I just knew I’d finally found you.’”

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obtain non-identifying information about her birth mother from New York State, suggested placing the information on Facebook. Lane typed in that her mom was 37 years old when she was born, was a hairdresser with four children, and gave birth in Olean.

Two days later, on March 19, there was a breakthrough. Teri Ogoz, a Bradford native living in Harrisburg, saw the Facebook post.

“Teri wrote, ‘I think the woman you’re looking for is my aunt Audrey,’” Lane said. “I wrote, ‘If that’s true, that’d make you my cousin.’”

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Lane’s husband and young son were asleep at 9 p.m. on March 19. She held in her hands a phone number, a connection to the woman she had never known but longed for all of her days. She looked at the number as though it was a living, breathing thing.

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“I said, ‘Audrey, I was adopted in Olean, NY, in 1968 and I think you might be my mom,’” Lane said. “She was very quiet on the other end, and then said, ‘Oh, dear!’

“I didn’t know what to say next. Then I told her my mother was 37 when I was born and had four kids before me, and that her niece Teri gave me her number, and that I thought she was my mom I’ve been looking for.”

The older woman sighed, and then yelled out, “Oh my God! I’ve been looking for you my whole life!”

And then Audrey Gilligan began to cry.

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“I looked so long and so hard to find my mom, and I learned she looked so long and hard to find me, and that we both encountered so many roadblocks because of adoption privacy laws. And then after all that looking, I finally found the person I’m most connected to,” Lane said. “I cannot describe what that felt like to find her or what it feels like to

have her in my life after all this time.”

Added Gilligan: “I started looking for her 25 years ago, and even thought about it before that. I hired private investigators, but they couldn’t find her; the adoption laws are strict.”

“To lay eyes on her now is hard to explain.

When she called to tell me she was my daughter, I thought all my birthdays were coming at once. I couldn’t breathe.

“There’s this connection we have, one that only mothers and daughters have, and I’ve had it with her all these years.”

At their reunion in Bradford, Lane received a charm bracelet from Ogoz with a saying that sums up a woman’s long, persistent search for a mother she never knew: “My search has ended, now my story begins.”

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Lane hired a private investigator, visited the Olean public library and photocopied all admission and discharges from hospitals during the time she was born and contacted them all. She hired lawyers, contacted doctors and visited hair salons. The search yielded nothing.

“I hit so many dead ends,” Lane said. “It was like getting slapped in the face. I was frustrated, but I never ever gave up.”

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Strapless styles can give sleekness to brides

by Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The traditional bridal gown isn’t a skimpy silhouette: It’s long and typically without a plunging neckline or high slit. There’s often a whole lot of fabric. One of the few opportunities for brides to be a little bare is to go with a strapless or sleeveless dress — and go with

them they do.

David Tutera, wedding planner, designer and host of WeTV’s “My Fair Wedding With David Tutera,” says that besides those restricted by religious customs, he encounters very few brides who want to be more covered than they have to be. More often they want to savor their moment in the spotlight

and show themselves off as youthful, pretty and sexy, he says.

New bridal collections are dominated by dresses with no sleeves, even though that takes many women out of their comfort zone.

There was a brief period when sleeves were hot — after Kate Middleton wore a long-sleeve Alexander McQueen gown to become the Duchess of Cambridge — but it didn’t last. Bare arms are again the norm.

It wasn’t always that way.

“It feels like strapless has been the go-to in wedding dresses forever, but, historically speaking, it’s still a very recent trend,” says Keija Minor, editor in chief of Brides magazine. “With some notable exceptions, gowns had high necks and long sleeves up

through the 1990s. Just think about Princess Diana’s wedding gown in 1981 with those big puffy sleeves. It was larger than life to be sure, but still very on trend for the times.”

The shift, she says, came about 20 years ago as tradition gave way to a hint of sex appeal.

Strapless wedding dresses “are the majority of what’s out there. They dominate in the stores and on every bridal magazine’s editorial pages.

They are the easiest to try on and fit,” says designer Romona Keveza.

Brides’ Minor says that women of many sizes and shapes, including full-figured ones, can benefit from the illusion of a longer, leaner arm created by the uncovered shoulder.

And, Keveza adds, strapless gowns have come a long way and are

now comfortable, sturdy and stable.

Still, she thinks there’s room for a few more sleeved and off-theshoulder numbers.

“Brides have come to believe a strapless gown is ‘the uniform’ even if it’s not what she wants,” she says.

Tutera says brides should consider the season, location and overall vibe of the wedding before heading straight to strapless. It’s ideal for a beach wedding, but at a ski resort? Not so much, he says.

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Tutera also likes those airy, light illusion sleeves — although he’d cut them at a shorter bracelet length — or a short cap sleeve; poufy satin ones “will bulk up the bride,” he says.

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We had a real live Sherlock Holmes in our community, and he was our local barber, Curtis Naismith.

“What do you mean?” I asked Julie, the stout girl hired to carry 100pound sacks of grain out to waiting trucks.

“Curtis can tell,” she said. “He can tell where you’ve been and what you’ve been doing, and it’s a kind of magic, like that E.S.P. stuff.”

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I was getting a little shaggy, so it was time I

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The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided.

Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free.

The decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the Sept. 11, 2001, ter-

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“People are coming to pay their respects and for different reasons,” said Janice Testa of Valley Stream, whose firefighter brother Henry Miller Jr. died at the twin towers. “It shouldn’t be a place where you go and see works of art. It should more be like a memorial place like a church that there’s no entry fee.”

Testa was visiting the memorial Saturday with relatives from Florida.

The memorial plaza opened in 2011 on the

10th anniversary of the terror attacks, but disputes over funding have pushed the museum’s opening back to spring of 2014.

With the cost of operating the memorial and museum projected to be $60 million a year, the memorial foundation voted at its board meeting last week to charge a mandatory admission fee for the museum.

“This is something that is going to be important and is going to be worth the expenditure,” Joseph Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, said Saturday.

Daniels said the museum will be free during certain hours every week and will offer student and senior discounts.

Foundation officials had considered an optional donation but rejected the idea.

“We decided that it’s more fiscally prudent to have a straight ticket charge,” Daniels said.

Debra Burlingame, a foundation board member whose brother was the pilot of one of the hijacked planes, said the trade center site is expensive to build on and to protect.

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ter site remains a target of interest among terrorists, so the security has to be robust and relentless,” Burlingame said in a phone interview.

“There’s a big price tag on that.

“Would we like to be able to say this is free?

Absolutely,” Burlingame added. But she called it “irresponsible to hope that year after year we have donations that will cover an expense like security.”

Some visitors to the memorial were divided about charging admission to the museum.

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“You need to keep it open, you need to keep it running,” she said. “It’s an expense.

But Jennifer Reyes, a friend of Cericola’s daughter who has a connection to the trade center site because she was born on Sept. 11, 2001, said the museum should ask for an optional donation.

“I think a donation like $10 would be good,” Jennifer said.

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The consul will award the veterans the “Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honor”

Sunday for fighting alongside France in World War II. The ceremony is taking place at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

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You can’t take it with you There was a very rich man who was about to die and he wanted to take some of his wealth with him. So he started negotiations with God about the matter. God was not sure, as it had never been done before and he did not want to set a precedence. Finally after long talks, God reluctantly agreed to allow him to bring his wealth to heaven.

Just a few days before he died the rich man converted all his money into gold bullion.

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He died and the funeral home made sure that the suitcases containing the gold bullion went with him. He arrived at the Pearly Gates with his suitcases and there was Peter.

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But bike sharing is finally coming to the Big Apple, which could help the city overcome its reputation as a commuter obstacle course of speeding cabbies, horn-honking drivers and sharp-elbowed pedestrians who treat crossing signals as a mere suggestion.

City officials say the nation’s largest bike-

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“When you talk about scale, no other U.S. city comes close,” says Jon Orcutt, policy director at the city’s Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the launch of the program.

Officials hope the privately funded bike-sharing program, dubbed Citi Bike after a $41 million sponsorship from Citibank and an addi-

tional $6.5 million from MasterCard, will add riders to the more than 700 miles of bike lanes throughout New York and will be used by oneway commuters and round-trip tourists alike.

The idea is that bikesharing programs decrease the number of drivers on the road and encourage healthy lifestyles, a particular policy goal of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The city expects the system to turn a profit, which will be split evenly between the city and the operator.

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New York’s system, which is designed for short trips, works like this: Riders 16 years old and up who don’t have a membership can use a credit or debit card to get a multi-digit code to un-

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lock a bike from a station.

A $101 hold will be put on the card but not charged.

Riders can then purchase a 24-hour pass that costs about $10 — a seven-day pass costs $25 — and allows for an unlimited number of 30-minute trips. Riders can return the bikes to any station.

By renting bike time, a rider is agreeing to the terms of use of the program, consenting to, among other things, taking responsibility for damaging the bright blue, three-gear bikes.

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during a ride, that might be the bike share’s fault; and if a rider falls into an open pothole, that could well be the city’s fault.

It has been a long road for New York City’s bike share, which has had to overcome the perception that the city’s bustling streets are too dangerous and its residents too uncompromising. (Think Dustin Hoffman’s famous crosswalk retort — “I’m walkin’ here!” — from the movie “Midnight Cowboy.”)

But the city has added 300 miles of new bike lanes in the past five years, plus 200 more miles of greenways and routes in parks. Long stretches along the Westside Highway and the Brooklyn waterfront have been redone with bikes in mind. And officials spent nearly two years and had 400 community meetings to pick docking station locations.

Still, many residents are giving voice to not-inmy-backyard arguments against the program, taking aim specifically at the large gray docking stations that have sprouted in city neighborhoods in recent weeks, taking up parking spaces and crowding entranceways.

At a raucous community board meeting recently in Greenwich Village, about 200 residents gathered to complain about the stations.

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NYC’s from 17 Stone said to thunderous applause.

The launch of the program has been delayed twice — most recently during Superstorm Sandy, when the storm damaged much of the equipment, including bikes, that was stored in a Brooklyn Navy Yard facility.

But other large-scale bike-sharing programs in the U.S. have experienced delays too, including Chicago’s, now set to

bike-sharing systems in cities from Tulsa, OK, to Chattanooga, TN. Shaheen also says research shows bike shares decrease accidents, giving credence to the strength-in-numbers theory pushed by bike share advocates, who suggest drivers adjust their behavior and become more cautious when more bikes are on the road.

Her research has

there were 369 severe injuries for bicyclists reported in 2011, with 22 fatalities, according to city data.

Washington, D.C.’s program, which began in 2010, now has 1,100 bikes but also had to overcome some opposition early on, mostly about the docking stations.

“Basically, they just kind of disappear into the landscape,” says D.C.’s Capital Bike

As CitiBike begins station installation around town, you’ll notice that they’re located in different places: 1. At the edge of public parks. 2. In pedestrian plazas and privately-owned public spaces. 3. On wide sidewalks. 4. In curbside lanes, medians and other locations along the street.

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launch in June, and San Francisco’s, set for August. Both programs are being launched by Portland-based Alta Bicycle Share, which is running Citi Bike through a wholly-owned subsidiary called NYC Bike Share LLC, based in Brooklyn.

Such delays are to be expected, says Susan Shaheen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She says cities such as New York and Chicago will ultimately benefit from the technical trial and error of

found that bike share operators with more than 1,000 bicycles had an average of 4.33 accidents reported per year — with no fatalities reported. In New York City,

Share project manager Chris Holben.

“You know, there’s your bus shelter, there’s your trash can, there’s your bike station.”

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FOR SALE BY OWNER: Family-ready country home. 3 bedrooms, 2 fulls baths, living room, kitchen, multi-purpose dining / sunroom, pantry. 2 car garage, utility shed on acre.

Above-ground pool, spa, decking. Appliances stay.

Everything upgraded last 3 years. Asking $134,500. By appointment only. 8 am-6 pm.

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Nature from 18 cled items. Garlic, too, can create a delicate flower image.

The discovery was part of the thrill, Raven says.

“I tried to ink the entire garlic and that didn’t work,” she says. Then she pulled a single clove out of the bulb and realized it looked like a finger and a flower petal.

She also has tried carved potatoes and star fruit cut in half. The lat-

ter is a little unwieldy and stinky, she says.

Terri Ouellette of Phoenix has a tip for that: Cut and air-dry citrus and other watery fruits and vegetables, sometimes overnight, before working with them, she says. Be watchful because they dry out quickly.

What works, she says: apples, oranges and pears. What doesn’t:

grapes, broccoli and lettuce.

Besides celery, Ouellette likes using mushrooms, cauliflower and potatoes.

Potatoes “can be cut up into anything and turned into a great stamp,” she says. “You just have to carve in reverse.”

As with other stamping, use a stamp pad or acrylic paint for stamp-

ing on paper. Use fabricspecific acrylic paint for printing on textiles.

Sutcliffe recommends soaking a sponge with tempera (poster) paint or pouring a thin layer of the paint on a plate and using either as an ink pad.

Once your prints are dry, add embellishments, such as stems or leaves, with colored markers or fabric markers, says Ouellette. She has stamped aprons, placemats and tote bags with food. McGoldrick has stamped note cards and gift wrap.

Sutcliffe, whose book for kids, “Fabric, Paper, Thread,” will be published in June by C&T Publishing, prints mostly on paper gift tags and note cards, and small swatches of fabric.

Sometimes her 6-yearold daughter joins her.

While it’s a great project for kids, food stamping also can provide attractive artwork for the home.

Texas youths build special deer stands for vets KOUNTZE, TEXAS (AP) — More than 100 students in Southeast Texas have used their building and trade classes to construct nine deer stands for disabled veterans.

The Kountze (koontz) High School freshman took part in the recent hands-on benefit for the Paralyzed Veterans of America Texas Chapter.

The teens built the stands at Indian Springs Camp with help from donations.

The Beaumont Enter-

prise reported Sunday that the new stands have ramps and supports to hold wheelchairs weighing up to 350 pounds.

Amanda Saunders with the Paralyzed Veterans of America Texas Chapter says Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 destroyed all but four stands. Saunders says the remaining four were patched to the point that they were no longer safe.

The old stands were constructed in 1998.

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Weekly Sales Every Monday starting at 12:30 with Misc. & small animals, 1:00 Dairy. Call for more info and sale times. Our Volume is increasing weekly-join your neighbors & send your livestock this way!

Monday, May 13th sale - cull ave. .69 Top cow $ .84, bulls/steers $.70 - $.91, bull calves top $1.6750, heifer calves top $1.00, dairy feeders $.62 - $.82.

Monday, May 27th - Memorial Day - WE WILL BE OPEN - We will be starting at 10:00 AM with flowers, plants, shrubs. If you want to participate in consigning to the plant sale contact us as soon as possible.

Note the time of sale! We will have our normal schedule after the plant sale.

Special: Milking Herd Dispersal for Wahl Dairy, Callicoon, NY. 44 Cows - Jersey, Jersey Cross and Holsteins.

Expect good udders, feet & legs. This Dairy spends a lot of time on pasture. Injury forces this sale!

Monday, June 3rd - Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale.

Monday, June 10th - Monthly Heifer Sale.

LOOKING TO HAVE A FARM SALE OR JUST SELL A FEW - GIVE US A CALL. ** Trucking Assistance - Call the Sale Barn or check out our trucker list on our Web-Site. Call to advertise in any of these sales it makes a difference.

Directions: Hosking Sales 6096 NYS Rt. 8, 30 miles South of Utica & 6 miles North of New Berlin, NY. www.hoskingsales.com Call today with your consignments.

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