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May 1, 2013

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Illinois woman quilts for scholarships

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Takee a hike Hiking to Jake’s Pond

by Jamie Aloi The Friday started out like most, campers from the week leaving to go home and the staff of Oswegatchie Educational Center was planning something fun to do for the weekend. This particular weekend 10 of us decided to hike to Jake’s Pond, a roughly 4 mile hike near Croghan, NY that none of us had ever done. We also decided to stay the night at the leanto said to be near the pond.

We started out late because two of us had to work a group that afternoon so it was already after 4 pm when we started our journey. The first mile or so we had all done countless of times, it lead to Trout Falls which is where we take campers and swim on the weekends. The rest was a mystery to us.

We came across two bridges crossing edges of ponds where the river flowed on. As we were trekking further

Settling the dust

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by Dee Ann Littlefield, USDANRCS “You couldn’t see. You couldn’t breathe. You couldn’t go outside for days,” remembers

Eugene Littlefield. “It was awful.”

Littlefield is referring to the giant black clouds of soil that would blot out the sun and swallow the countryside. Born in Wayside, TX in 1934, Littlefield was welcomed into the world by the Dust Bowl — an era in the 1930s when the most massive, brutal dust storms ever known to our nation repeatedly ravaged the Panhandle and Great Plains regions.

Littlefield was the only child of parents that raised cattle, wheat and sorghum on their farm 20 miles east of Happy, in the now-extinct community of Wayside.

“We could see those storms coming over the horizon,” he said. “The dirt would blow in your face and hit your skin so hard it hurt. Dad would get our animals in the best shelter he could, while my mom started packing the windows with rolled wet towels and hung sheets to try to keep dirt out.

“It still didn’t work,” he said, shaking his head at the fury and intensity of the storms.

“Fine sand would get in our food no matter how well we

Know of a great hiking spot? Tell us about it and we’ll pay you $25 plus $5 per photo for every story we print. Send stories and photos to jkarkwren@leepub.com the trail became less and less traveled and in spots more muddy. We eventually hit a ‘road’ block. We had to figure out a way to cross a river that wasn’t shallow enough for all of us to wade across. Luckily there was a beaver dam that we used our training in teamwork and treated it as a low ropes element (a teambuilding game or element where the group has a task to complete). The dam wasn’t super steady and we had our clunky bags on our backs but we all made it across without any major losses. After the river there were a few more spots where we had to devise a plan on how we were going to get past them.

We had been walking a while and thought that we should be at the pond soon but it was getting dark out and we knew we had to make a camp soon and that’s when we came across a fork in the trail. Not knowing which way to go and knowing we had a short time before it was dark we decided to set up camp

While crossing the beaver dam they used their training in teamwork and treated it as a low ropes element.

Photos by Jamie Aloi protected it. It would get ing to use a bucket for the behind the wallpaper in our bathroom because they couldhouse. Our white sheets on the n’t go outside to the outhouse. bed would turn brown.

His dad had a rope tied from “Mother would light kerosene the house to the barn so if lamps and you could barely see there was even the slightest them for the brown haze reprieve in the raging storm he around them,” he adds. could go check on the animals.

He recounts his family hav- Littlefield says no matter how

See Hiking page 3 hard you tried to protect your equipment or vehicles, the fine sand would penetrate the carburetors and wind up in fuel lines, rendering equipment inoperable until it could be repaired.

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A dust storm rolling across the Littlefield Farm in Swisher County, Texas in 1935. Photo taken at intersection of FM 1075 and 2301.

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Fish tales

by Joe Parzych Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I fished the Connecticut River in Gill. We crossed a tributary at the Connecticut River’s edge on a log over the stream. While fishing, I lost a fishhook on a snag and returned to my bicycle to get another fishhook.

On my way back, I spotted an enormous fish in the tributary. It looked like a giant pickerel lying in wait, with its head just a few feet from where the log lay. It was at least four feet long.

I’d just had an experience with a pickerel in the brook running by our farm when I’d swished a baited hook through the water. A bull frog sprang from the

stream bank to clamp onto the bait.

Almost simultaneously, a pickerel leaped out of the water to grab the frog creating a ferocious explosion of water. I hauled the frog out of the water with the pickerel attached, but before I landed them, the pickerel bit the frog in two and swam off with half the frog in its mouth.

Now, here I was faced with a giant pickerel that could easily bite me in two. I tiptoed over the log, ever so gingerly, so as to not end up like the bull frog. Once past the peril of the giant fish, I couldn’t wait to tell my friends. But, then, I hesitated, because if the fish left by the time we headed back home, they’d think I was just telling a fish tail, because I couldn’t stretch my arms wide enough to show how long that fish was.

They would just have to see it with their own eyes. I kept quiet, but to my great disappointment, the enormous fish was gone when we headed home. I never told this fish tale to them, or anyone else, in all these years, even though I’d learned a few years after the sighting that fish of that size, sturgeon, inhabit the Connecticut River.

This recipe is not for baking sturgeon. I understand that they are very bony and probably not that great eating. Plus, you would need your entire collection of aluminum pie plates to even begin baking or frying one of those monsters.

Photo courtesy of Robert Michelson

Crummy Baked Fish 1 Fish (essential ingredient) 1 cup of crumbled Ritz crackers 1/2 cup of crumbled low fat potato chips Tartar sauce Spread a layer of cracker crumbs on pie plate.

Rinse fish and pat dry with paper towel.

Slather the fish all over with tartar sauce Lay slathered fish on cracker crumbs. If too long; cut it to fit.

Sprinkle potato chips crumbs on top of fish.

Bake until the fish flakes nicely.

Incidentally, sturgeons are a primitive fish that lives up to 100 years old. They have bony armor instead of scales and can reach a length of 12 to 14 ft in length, so the sturgeon I saw was probably just a baby. Still, that would take a lot of tartar sauce.

Illinois woman quilts for scholarships

by Becky Malkovich, (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan HERRIN, IL (AP) — A Herrin woman found a unique way to honor the people who helped her on her journey back from a near-fatal car accident and to make sure that help is there for those who need it in the future.

A little more than four years ago, Carla Shasteen was in a coma after a car crash left her on a ventilator and suffering from severe head trauma, broken

It’s shearing time!

bones and the effects of three strokes. Nearly two weeks after the crash, doctors gave her little chance of survival but her family asked for 30 more days.

“I woke up on day 27,” Shasteen said. “I couldn’t walk, talk or even think for myself.”

She was able to relearn those skills at the Acute Rehabilitation Center at Herrin Hospital.

“These people were amazing. I couldn’t walk but they taught me to put one foot in front of another: heel, toe, right foot, left foot,” she said. “If not for them and what they do on a daily basis, I don’t know where I’d be. I can’t thank them enough.”

But she wanted to try.

She established the Carla Shasteen Scholarship Fund for Herrin high school seniors who plan to pursue careers in physical, occupational or speech therapies or rehabilitation nursing.

To raise money for the fund, Shasteen and her mother, Dolores “Dee” Arnsmeyer, raffled off quilts they hand made together.

“There were times when I didn’t think she would come home again. I never imagined she

would be quilting again,” Arnsmeyer said. “That girl amazed me. She’s made a great comeback.”

Dr. Terence Glennon, a physiatrist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at Herrin Hospital, drew the winner of this year’s quilt during a special ceremony at Herrin Hospital last week.

Shasteen, he said after plucking the name of winner Helen Lind of Johnston City from a basket, is an example of “Why people in rehab medicine do what we do. This is what does my heart good. From the beginning point to the person you see before you now, I can see why people use the word ‘miracle.’”

The fund provided two $1,000 scholarships last year and will provide another two this year.

“I will need therapy for the rest of my life and with these scholarships, I may be helping train my next therapists,” she said.

Whatchamacallits

Gwen Hinman of New Hampshire is on the road shearing at many different farms throughout the Northeast. Gwen has been shearing sheep for over 13 years. Imagine the number of sheep she has sheared!

Photo by Joan Kark-Wren

This week’s Whatchamacallit is a calf weaner.

Ranchers slip the two protruding joints into the calf’s nostrils, covering the animal’s mouth so it won’t nurse. Since no two calves are exactly thesame size, the nose piece and flaps will need to be slightly bent and adjusted on each animal — it’s not quite one-size-fits-all.

Though the one pictured here is an antique, this method is still used by some ranchers. Modern versions of this device come in both plastic and metal.

Often, ranchers will opt for other means of weaning calves from their mother’s milk. It is less strenuous on all parties to simply separate calves in a different pen to prevent them from nursing. If the cows are free range, however, that may not be a viable option. Also, calves penned together may instinctively attempt to nurse on each other, making a calf weaning mouthpiece still necessary.

Some ranchers also practice “natural” weaning, choosing to not influence the nursing process at all. This isnot possible if the ranch is a dairy

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Jamie Carpenter and his dog Ginger were reunited after 10 years.

and the owner was forced to make the decision many dread — having the animal put to sleep to end its suffering.

“When I had to make that decision, I thought I would never get a dog again,” Carpentier said. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to lose your best friend and I had lost two of them in just a matter of years. So I wasn’t about to open myself up to another dog that I knew wouldn’t be here forever.”

Despite his efforts to guard his heart from yet another loss, Carpentier found himself missing having a pooch pal around to pet and play with. And when he fell and injured his back during an ice fishing excursion several weeks later, his desire to adopt another dog intensified even more.

“I was lying around recovering and happened to log on to our local Humane Society’s website; just to look,” he said.

“I wasn’t planning on getting a dog yet, but when I saw an article about a basset hound named ‘Ginger’ who was up for adoption, I couldn’t believe it. The dog was around 13 years old and the colors and markings mentioned in the article sounded just like the basset hound I had owned many years before.”

There was no photo with the article, so Carpentier called the Nashua Humane Society and asked for images. The staff

responded with a host of pictures, each one showing the unique markings that matched the photographs Carpentier had of Ginger as a puppy.

Amazingly, they were a match. More than a decade after they were separated, Ginger and her master were about to be reunited.

“My father drove Ginger is happy to be back home with Jamie. me to the Humane Photod courtesy of Jamie Carpenter Society and as soon as Ginger heard my older and weren’t able to take her for voice, she got up, trotted over, sniffed walks, so she had packed on the me and then licked me on the cheek,” pounds,” he said. “The Humane Society said Carpentier. “She remembered me managed to get some of her weight off, after all those years. And, she remem- but I have her on diet dog food and she bered my dad too.” runs around and plays a lot, both of Shortly after the Nashua native and which are helping her to get back to a his basset buddy came together, healthier size.”

Carpentier decided that this time, it According to Carpentier, Ginger has would be forever. He adopted Ginger and the energy of a young pup. While some today, the two pass the time cuddling, of the rambunctiousness is due to her playing and making up for lost time. renewed physique, some of the spring in They are also hard at work on Ginger’s her step is undoubtedly due to being figure, joked Carpentier. back with her best buddy once again.

“The last people to own Ginger were

Settling fromPage 1 on their Swisher County farm, the Littlefields struggled along with so many, just desperate to survive.

During this time there was one man that was strongly convinced he had a plan to keep so much of America’s top soil from blowing away.

In 1928, while working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a chemist with the Bureau of Soils, Hugh Hammond Bennett wrote about the ongoing soil erosion issue in a government report.

“To visualize the full enormity of land impairment and devastation brought about by this ruthless agent is beyond the possibility of the mind. An era of land wreckage destined to weigh heavily upon the welfare of the next generation is at hand,” he wrote.

Through his experience with soil surveys, Bennett realized the effects of soil erosion and the negative impacts it had on agriculture.

His persistent admonition about the devastation of farmland that was occurring across the nation’s landscape led Congress to establish the USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (SCS), now known as Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

The establishment of the SCS marked the beginning of federal funding and Eugene Littlefield and his dog standing behind the horses that natural resource plowed the wheat and sorghum fields on their Swisher County education to Farm. landowners, espePhoto courtesy of Littlefield Family Album. Photo taken in 1939. cially farmers. States

“I remember coming outside after the storms and you couldn’t find things,” he says.”You could see, but you still felt disoriented because the landscape would look so different. Tumble weeds would blow against the fences and get trapped, then the dirt would just pile up in them to the point it would bury the fence so deep in dirt you couldn’t see it. Entire plows could get buried and only the levers would be visible.”

The plowing up of native grasslands across the Great Plains left vast stretches of soil exposed to drought and wind.

The 1930s mark a decade of the worst drought in U.S. history.

Planted seeds would shrivel and die in the ground before they could ever sprout. With no plants to trap the soil or moisture, the parched dirt turned to powder that was easily carried

away by wind.

This loss of land and crops only further deepened the effects of the Great Depression, to the point that by 1933 more than 11,000 of the nation’s 25,000 banks had failed and unemployment was at a record high 25 percent.

The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres, centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. In December 1935, experts estimated that 850 million tons of topsoil had been blown off the Plains that year alone. The drought would linger four more years until rain finally brought relief in the fall of 1941.

Hard work preparing the land and planting the crops, was met with years and years of crop failure. With no crops to harvest and no grass for livestock to eat

Road is covered with sand and car is stalled out from dust storm that passed through. Tumbleweeds are piled up against the fences.

Photos courtesy of the NRCS established state soil conservation agencies and procedures whereby local Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) could be formed in counties across the U.S. SCS assistance was delivered at the direction of the local SWCD board, made up of five landowners from across the county.

The agency employees would hold workshops and in some cases go door-to-door to educate farmers on soil conservation and anti-erosion techniques, including crop rotation, strip farming, contour plowing, terracing and other beneficial farming practices. The agency provided financial incentives to help farmers offset the costs of adopt-

ing some of these practices.

“Seeing what I saw growing up as a boy on our farm, I have witnessed the positive effects over 70 years of conservation efforts have had on our land,” Littlefield says. “I am now proud to say I am a landowner that is making a difference for the environment, and in the process, I hope to be able to help the prairie chicken populations.”

Bennett, known as the Father of Conservation, perhaps said it best: “Farmers have only temporary control over their land. It can be theirs for a lifetime and no longer. The public’s interest, however, goes on and on, endlessly, if nations are to endure....”

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A ruff reunion

by Kelly Gates Ten years ago, a Nashua, NH, man named Jamie Carpentier parted ways with his beloved basset hound Ginger when he and his wife divorced and she chose to take the dog with her.

Carpentier was saddened by the loss, but he eventually got another pet, a white boxer, who he loved and tended to for many years.

Then, on Christmas Eve 2012, an ongoing illness overtook the poor pup

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Hello Again,

May 1, 2013

The New Health Program Bringing Bankruptcy Let’s turn the economic clock back to January 24, 1971 and read what the highly respected national weekly newspaper had to say. The Grit, with a paid weekly subscription base of 1,331,489 copies, published the following on its front page.

Headline: States Facing Money Problems as Rolls Jump. An antiquated welfare system whose phenomenal growth in the last few years is virtually threatening many states with bankruptcy is the first order of business. President Nixon summed up the problem when he declared: “What began on a small scale in the depression thirties has become a monster… It is bringing states and cities to the brink of financial disaster… It is failing to meet the elementary human, social, and financial needs of the poor. It breaks up homes. It often penalizes work. It robs recipients of dignity. And it grows.”

Why are we chatting about the welfare problem of 1971? It is even worse today — in 2013. And it points to a new problem, which totally dwarfs the 1971 problem and even the 2013 welfare problem.

Think on this: New York State’s largest budget item is welfare. Individual tax payers and companies pay more of their hard-earned dollars to foot (support) welfare than any other cause. I read that if you add New York and California’s welfare costs, it is more than all the remaining states combined.

To paraphrase what President Nixon said in 1971, “Welfare started on a relatively small scale during the depression and grew into a monster threatening states with bankruptcy.” We ask, if welfare started in a minimal way and could have brought states into financial disaster, what do you think will happen with this new Obama healthcare program which in one way or another, 100 percent of all U.S. citizens and possibly a few million more non-citizens will be involved?

Sometimes I wonder if the news industry shouldn’t change their nomenclature from daily newspaper, monthly news magazine, and even TV channel news, etc. to: “Swap Sheet: Swap the truth for opinionated, exaggerated lies.”

For example: when a news writer is faced with a report of any kind, twist the meaning of the report to mean something totally different but do it in such a fashion as to lead readers into believing something which is not the whole truth — not a total lie — but far from the truth.

In this morning’s daily newspaper, an Associated Press columnist wrote: The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of U.S. households.

The trail started out dry, but as we got further in it became muddy and less traveled.

Hiking from Page 1 right there at the fork. We built a fire and all of us dried— some melted— our socks and shoes. We had a rowdy night of hanging out around the fire and talking.

Eventually morning came and we all got up and to our surprise we were right next to a pond, which we later found out was Jake’s Pond. Our hike out was just as crazy as our hike in. We all have awesome stories to tell.

I would do this hike again in a heartbeat, even the sleeping in the middle of the trail and trekking across the beaver dam. It’s not about the journey you take, but who you take the journey with that matters.

Jamie Aloi grew up in Baldwinsville, NY. She attended camp for 6 years at the Oswegatchie Education Center and then worked there for 5 years. She received her Bachelor's degree in Animal Science from the University of Vermont. Jamie is currently doing an internship in the Horse Barn at Green Chimneys, a school for children with social and mental disabilities.

The meaning of this column could easily be interpreted to be 7 percent of the richer Americans got richer on the backs of the other 93 percent of households.

The real truth is, due to the crash in the real estate market and losing millions of jobs to countries such as Mexico and China, near disaster came about to the so-called 93 percent. If a house which had been purchased for $250,000 a few years earlier is now worth $150,000 and if a machinist working in a factory in the United States lost his job to China, what in heavens name has that got to do with the rich people?

If the federal and state government leaders along with millions of stock holders had stepped on the toes of corporation presidents and forced them to not dump our country in favor of China and all of those other offshore manufacturers, we would not be in trouble today.

What would you do if you were the president of a huge American corporation and you found out that the president of your country is trying his best to grab control of companies such as yours by growing the federal government and introducing new regulation after new regulation? Is it not possible that you would move most of your company’s factories out of this country?

The hiking crew gets ready for a 4-mile hike to Jake’s Pond.

That way you would not have your company strangled by regulations and have to bow down to the all-powerful U.S. based unions.

Huge elephant bird egg gets $101,813 at UK auction

The sad part is, that is exactly what a large percentage of U.S. companies did. They moved their manufacLONDON (AP) _ A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a turing facilities and in the process, dumped their employees. If this causes our country to fail, and it could, now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its who will they blame? They certainly will not blame themselves. estimate at a London auction.

At least a part of this chatter has been about twisting the truth. Now — how about another twist and I’ll fill Christie's auction house said Wednesday that the foot-long, you full of blarney. Naturally, Irish blarney is the gospel truth, according to the Irish. nearly nine-inches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813). It had been valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds When I was a teenager, I bought a retriever Irish wolfhound puppy. Every afternoon I worked with “Cooky” pre-sale, and was sold to an anonymous buyer over the teleteaching him how to retrieve a two-foot long stick. He quickly learned how to retrieve even from across the phone after about 10 minutes of competitive bidding.

Cherry Valley Creek. One day he was in a big hurry and ran across the top of the water. He did not sink or Elephant birds were wiped out several hundred years ago. swim. I couldn’t wait to show how smart he was to my neighbors so I asked a small group The oversized ovum, laid on the island of Madagascar, is to meet me and Cooky down by the creek. I tossed the stick out over the water and told believed to date back before the 17th century. the dog to fetch. With that, he ran across the top of the water and Flightless, fruit-gobbling elephant birds resembled giant retrieved the stick. ostriches and could grow to be 11 feet high (3.4 meters).

I overheard one of my neighbors say, “He’s not so smart. He doesn’t Christie's says their eggs are 100 times the size of an average even know how to swim.” If you believe half of what you either read or chicken's. hear on TV you shouldn’t have any trouble believing about Cooky.

You know the famous expression: “Go ahead, make my day.” A few days ago while driving the little red Spyder bike, an Amish grandfather driving with his horse and buggy made my day. As I was driving towards his buggy, I noticed he was waving with both hands. Now that man made me old Irish heart take an extra smile. My good friend, I hope you saw me waving back. Keep on waving with both hands and I’ll wave back.

Our society has reached the stage where belief in God, country, and friends is passé.

All I can say to that is I promise to continue to love our heavenly Father, this country, and my friends and family. Life would not be life if any of these were missing.

Keep smiling, praying, show you’re a Christian believer and an American.

Fred Lee and Family

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A sapling grown from the chestnut tree that was a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam has been planted at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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Anne Frank could only see the tree from an attic window in the Amsterdam home where her family hid from the Nazis. But she wrote about it repeatedly during the 25 months she remained indoors until her family was arrested in August 1944.

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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 en-

counters 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.

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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-the-

shoulder 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.

A compromise could be the strapless dress topped with a mohairlined silk shawl or a dra-

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Whether a bride chooses to be sleeved or not, she needs to find balance in her gown, adds Bowen. If it’s a “big ball of tulle ballgown,” then the open neckline and bare arms might be the way to go, she says, but for a slim column gown, sleeves that go past the wrist can be delicate and feminine.

(She’d stick with a light fabric, such as lace or sheer silk.)

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.

His solution is the detachable-sleeve gown he introduced into his collection. “You take them off after the ceremony.

You can feel comfortable and confident when all eyes are on you, but you don’t have to have sleeves for the pictures.”

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Jackie Robinson’s achievement Before he triumphed over prejudice, Jackie Robinson triumphed over himself.

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We never would have heard of Robinson, of course, if he hadn’t been a supremely gifted athlete (Rickey wanted to win the pennant, as well as do right). But baseball history is full of those; it is Robinson’s dignity when confronted with so many indignities that sets him apart.

Baseball then had a distinctively Southern flavor that could make even players who were white ethnics feel uncomfortable. A contingent of Robinson’s own teammates wanted to boycott him, and so did rival players. He couldn’t stay in some of the team’s hotels. He got death threats.

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A legendary image — memorialized in a bronze statue outside the ballpark of the minor-league Brooklyn Cyclones — is of Kentucky-born Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese draping his arm around Robinson on the field, in a gesture of support and in a rebuke to hostile fans. It may or may not have happened that way. But it’s hard to make a statue to the essence of Robinson’s accomplishment, to the lonely resolve one at-bat and one inning at a time.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. (c) 2013 by King Features Synd., Inc.

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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.

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Sometimes her 6-yearold daughter joins her.

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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.”

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program director for a group with the acronym GARLIC (Green Art Recreating Life in Communities) that encourages low-income residents of New Haven, CT, to make art from recycled items. Garlic, too, can create a delicate flower image.

The discovery was part of the thrill, Raven says.

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Kristen Sutcliffe of Oberlin, Ohio, came to love stamping while teaching preschool in Japan, where it’s popular, she says.

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“It’s so pretty,” Sutcliffe says. “It looks like a little flower.”

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by Ryan Trares, Daily Journal NASHVILLE, IN (AP) — That broom sitting in the closet might not seem like a work of art.

Most people don’t think about the care and work that went into making it — how the bristles were folded, twisted and turned, or how the wire attaching the handle was kept under intense pressure to remain tight.

But Brian Newton has spent years studying, perfecting and practicing the craft.

For more than 200 years, Americans have been making their brooms out of a type of grass called broomcorn.

Even as synthetic fibers have entered the market, certain artisans still adhere to the age-old techniques that broom-makers have used for centuries.

Newton is one of the holdouts. In his workshop, called Broomcorn Johnny’s in downtown Nashville, he fashions sturdy, simple brooms

that exemplify the sensibilities of the pioneers.

He uses tools from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to preserve a down-home art form that has all but been forgotten.

“There’s something unique about the old arts and crafts that are dying off. It’s important to keep them around, important that people see them. There’s a heritage there,” he told the Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/14P27vT ).

Newton’s broom-making will be showcased at this year’s Johnson County Garden Celebration.

“What he does is interesting, and he’s using a farm product, so that fits in with what we’re about,” said Philomena Ross, president of the Johnson County Garden Club. “A lot of people don’t even know that brooms are made by hand, so we’re excited to see him here.”

Broomcorn is a type of sorghum grass that is particularly durable and stiff, making it perfect

for sweeping. The material has been used in broom-making since the late 18th century.

Newton grows his own 11/2 acres of the crop.

He harvests it by hand, waiting until the perfect time when the stalk is strong yet bending but before seeds come in.

“It’s very labor intensive. You have to do it in patches, because it never grows at the same rate,” he said. “If you tried to do it all at once, you’d waste it all.”

In Newton’s shop, sheathes of broomcorn sits piled on shelves.

Some are the natural straw-like color that the vegetation normally dries out to. Others have

been dyed in rich teal, magenta, crimson and other colors.

Visitors can browse through dozens of brooms that Newton crafted. They can sit on a bench and watch him painstakingly turn the broomcorn into a working tool.

His equipment was salvaged from a barn in Camden. The wood-andiron machine, called a foot treadle, holds the broom handle in place so that Newton can bind the strands with silver wire.

The flat-broom style that Newton uses originated in the 1820s and has been employed much in the same way

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Each broom takes about an hour to make.

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corn. But it never occurred to him to learn how to do it himself.

As an adult, Newton worked as a mechanical designer until a heart problem forced him to reconsider his career path. His health forced him to think of lowstress, low-impact work he could do.

He recalled the Amish craftsmen making

brooms and went searching for the right equipment. By chance, someone knew of old equipment in a nearby barn.

“Broom-making found me. It made the choice for me,” Newton said.

The knowledge used to make these Shaker-style brooms had all but disappeared. The painstaking method of hanging and drying the broom-

corn, wiring the bristles and stitching had been passed down by only a few craftsmen, including Wayne Thompson.

An Alabama-based broom-maker, Thompson had spent 44 years making brooms. That had been handed down to him by a 90-year expert in it. He taught Newton that repetition is the only way to master

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“After about 300 of them, you get the hang of it,” Newton said.

“There’s a lot of little things that you pick up each time.”

Being in the heart of Nashville’s art and craft district, Newton gets a wide variety of people interested in seeing his work. His reputation has spread to fairs and competitions throughout the county, and often craft enthusiasts make ap-

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He also takes part in contests and fairs throughout the Midwest.

Newton was a secondplace winner at the Arcola National Craft Broom Competition last year, where his elegant broom beat out a dozen other artisans.

“There are about 100 of these broom-makers around the U.S., and they make these beautiful brooms. We wanted to get back to the broom

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“We wanted to honor them and let people realize that you can get a real functional broom that’s a work of art.”

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A Walk in the Woods - April 2013

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Aldo Leopold was born in Iowa in 1882 and like so many conservationists before and after him he spent much of his childhood outside, hunting, fishing, observing and taking notes. Aldo attended Yale University and received a master’s degree in forestry in 1909. After graduating he moved to the southwest as an employee of the newly formed U.S. Forest Service and by 1919 Leopold had ascended to the position of Chief of Operations of the Forest Service in the southwest. During this time with the Forest Service Leopold became a strong political activist and laid the foundation for the creation for some of the nation’s first wilderness areas. Leopold tactfully mustered the support of local hunting

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game with his wife and sons using bows and arrows that he made himself and he championed some of the nation’s first archery-only deer seasons. Allegedly, Leopold was an accomplished shot gunner and especially loved hunting upland birds and waterfowl with his dogs and family (possibly in that order).

Upland bird hunting was something that Aldo Leopold did through the last year of his life; we can all only hope to be so lucky!

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Exit 29 off Thruway, take Rte 10 South to Rte 163 154 Golf Club Road, Canajoharie, NY 13317

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Number / Classification 20 Air Compressors 25 Air Tools 35 Announcements 45 Antiques 55 Appraisal Services 75 ATV 80 Auctions 82 Auto Body 110 Bedding Plants 120 Bees-Beekeeping 130 Bird Control 155 Building Materials/ Supplies 157 Building Repair 160 Buildings For Sale 161 Bulk Foods / Spices 165 Business Opportunities 170 Butchering Supplies 173 Carpentry 175 Cars, Trucks, Trailers 180 Catalogs 182 Catering 190 Chain Saws 195 Cheesemaking Supplies 205 Christmas 210 Christmas Trees 214 Clocks & Repair 215 Collectibles 216 Clothing 235 Computers 253 Consignment 265 Construction Equipment For Rent 270 Construction Equipment For Sale 275 Construction Machinery Wanted 277 Construction Services 280 Construction Supplies 312 Crafts 325 Custom Butchering 330 Custom Services 360 Deer-Butchering & Hides 370 Dogs 410 Electrical 415 Employment Wanted 440 Farm Machinery For Sale 445 Farm Machinery Wanted 447 Farm Market Items 460 Fencing 470 Financial Services 480 Fish 483 Flooring 490 For Rent or Lease 500 For Sale 510 Fresh Produce, Nursery 525 Fruits & Berries 527 Furniture 530 Garden Supplies 535 Generators 537 Gifts 575 Greenhouse Supplies 585 Guns 587 Hair Styling 589 Hardware 600 Health Care/Products 605 Heating 610 Help Wanted 653 Hotel / Motel 683 Jewelers 700 Lawn & Garden 711 Lessons 760 Lumber & Wood Products 790 Maple Syrup Supplies 805 Miscellaneous 810 Mobile Homes 811 Monuments 812 Multi Media 813 Music 815 Motorcycles 817 Nails 820 Nurseries 910 Plants 950 Real Estate For Sale 955 Real Estate Wanted 960 RVs & Motor Homes 975 Rentals 980 Restaurant Supplies 1040 Services Offered 1075 Snowblowers 1080 Snowmobiles 1109 Thrift 1140 Trailers 1147 Trains 1148 Travel 1155 Tree Moving Services 1165 Trees 1170 Truck Parts & Equipment 1180 Trucks 1187 Vacuum 1190 Vegetable 1200 Veterinary 1205 Wanted

Announcements

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or 518-673-0111 or email classified@leepub.com Announcements 125 King St., Herkimer. May 2nd-4th, 8-4 Daily. Hunting, fishing, tools, DVD’s, household items, and Automotive.

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ads on the first week of insertion. Lee Publications, Inc. shall not be liable for typographical, or errors in publication except to the extent of the cost of the first weeks insertion of the ad, and shall also not be liable for damages due to failure to publish an ad. Adjustment for errors is limited to the cost of that portion of the ad wherein the error occurred.

Report any errors to 518673-3011 FREE: Cat needs a good home. Gray & White tiger, female. Nice cat, litter trained and friendly. 315-867-0208 or 315-219-2939

PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS 8x10 - $2.00 • 11x17 - $5.00 • 12x18 or 13x19 - $7.00.

Come see us at Lee Publications, 6113 State Rt. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 518-673-3237

Antiques ANTIQUE Barber Chair, 1948, excellent condition. Moved to Florida, must sell, $800. 518221-7707

FOR SALE: Antiques, Collectibles, Shabby Chic, Amish Baskets, Primitives, Jewelry, Country, Re-purpose, Handcrafted Items, Adirondack Décor, Unique Gifts and Much More! “Newport Marketplace” 7583 Main St, Newport “Gift Certificates now available”

ATV ATV TRAILERS by Bosski Industries first automatic “Dump Assist” trailers GVWR 800lbs.+ 1600lbs. models available. Come check them out at North Creek Auto 315-866-3698

Books

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Building Materials/Supplies INSULATION: All Types. New/ Existing Buildings.

Free Estimates. Fully Insured. Call Upstate Spray Foam Insulation 315-822-5238. www.upstatesprayfoam.com

Cars, Trucks, Trailers 1968 ELCAMINO SS 396, 4speed, all original, very, very nice, serious only, $18,000/ OBO. 315-429-3253 1969 BUICK SKYLARK, 4 dr.

HT, 25,000 original miles, cheap, first $5,000.00. Call 315-429-3253 1993 CORVETTE convertible, triple black, 6 speed, leather, both seats electric, CD & cassette player, no rain w/cover, 36,000 miles, $15,000. 315271-3602

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classified@leepub.com Custom Services COLOR GLOSSY PHOTO CALENDARS: Only $12.00 includes tax. Send us your digital prints and we will make a beautiful keepsake calendar for you. You may also bring in your photos on a disc or thumb drive.

If you would like us to mail it is a $5.00 extra fee.

Only 3 day turnaround time. Beth Snyder bsnyder@leepub.com Lee Publications 518-6730101 FRAN’S Painting & Staining.

Lead Certified. Spray or brush. Free estimates. 315717-2067

NEED BUSINESS CARDS? Full color glossy, heavy stock. 250 ($45.00); 500 ($60.00); 1,000 ($75.00).

Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101 or bsnyder@leepub.com NO JOB TOO SMALL WE DO IT ALL. All phases of general contracting/remodeling.

Porches, decks. All phases of landscaping and lawnmowing.

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Driveway sealing. Door/window installation/repair. Painting/rebuild fencing, concrete walkway restoration. Attic/ basement/garage cleanouts.

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PHOTO CALENDARS now available right here at Lee Publications. 6113 State Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 518-673-3237. Choose up to 24 photos. Only $12.00 for digital photos and $15.00 if we scan them.

STAG PARTY TICKETS Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101. Questions bsnyder@leepub.com Free Shipping TURN your wedding, baby, graduation, scenery photos into beautiful canvas prints starting at only $40.00. Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101 or email bsnyder@leepub.com

For Rent or Lease

SUBARU FORESTER: 2001, fully equipped Pennsylvania car, all wheel drive, four door, excellent $5,675 or best; mitsubishi Galant 2002, air, fully equipped, sun roof, automatic, 4 cylinder, 4 door, great car, $3,675. 315-794-5863, 315797-3313

FOR RENT: Little Falls. 2 apartments available on John Street. 1BR w/appliances and utilities included. $575. 1BR w/appliances, $550. Call between 6-8pm only. 315-4298760.

Collectibles

For Sale

WANTED - CA$H PAID: for old jewelry, books. Dolls toys, even if broken, 1970s older.

1960s & older: Clothing. Old frames, Christmas, Halloween items. Interested in almost anything old. Shirley 315-8949032.

FOR SALE: Tan rocker Barcalounger, Blair slacks, 18W, many colors, like new.

Details 315-894-8522 PORTABLE Carry-On BOAT air conditioner & cover, $800.00. 315-376-6639 leave a message.

Furniture

Furniture

UDA D WOODWORKING G & CHAIR R HOSPITAL Furniture Repair & Regluing • Countertops • Speaker Cabinets “Formica Work Is Our Specialty”

John F. Duda 734 Lafayette Street Ph. & Fax (315) 733-4715 dudawood@roadrunner.com Utica, NY 13502

Furniture 3 CHERRY Swivel Bar Stools w/high backs. $189 each from J.C.Penney. Asking $200/set OBO. 315-8957507.

BIG Dupa’s breaking your chairs? Call Duda Woodworking & Chair Hospital.

734 Layfayette St., Utica.

315-733-4715. Custom Formica Counter tops too!

CUSTOM FORMICA Countertops. Cash & Carry or Installed. Duda Woodworking & Chair Hospital, 734 Lafayette St., Utica 315-7334715 “Quality Work for Over 33 Years!”

Hide-a-bed couch; rocking chair; end table, coffee table set; dining room set, 11 pieces/insets; mirror; bookcase; set: womans chest with mirror, mens 5 drawer chest; 21” TV; all-in-1 printer; floor lamp; fur coat; set of china; set of Oneida flatware. 315-2199021

Heating CHARCOAL GRILL: KAMADO JOE Ready to cook in 15 minutes. Free Accessories worth $113.00 included in the introductory price.

HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557 FIREPLACE XTRAORDINAIRE GAS INSERTS ON SALE, OVER $1000 discount.

Limited supply HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557 HARMAN PELLET STOVES: SAVE UP TO $300 NOW THRU 9/16/12 HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557 LOPI WOOD INSERTSAVE UP TO $500 ON INSTOCK UNITS HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557

Hair Styling HAIRDRESSER: In Home Ser vices. Experienced.

Perms, Cuts, Colors & Sets.

Call Pam H. 315-725-9404

Hay - Straw For Sale HORSE HAY: Round bales $40.00 per bale. Mohawk Valley Produce Auction.

518-568-2257

PELLETS SALE: $229/ton.

HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557 REMODELING SALE: STOVES, GAS INSERTS & FIREPLACES, Save over $1000 on Major Brands HERKIMER HOME & LEISURE 247 Oberle Rd, Herkimer NY 315-866-5557 ThermoPride High Boy oil furnace, model#OH3-72 75kBTU. Serious inquiry only, $500. Joe 315-894-5204 Frankfort

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Writers Wanted We are looking for freelance writers for our weekly publication, The Country Editor.

Articles should be general human interest, appealing to a broad national audience.

Submitted articles should be 500 words or less.

Photo essays welcome as well.

Each article will be considered for its interest to the publication’s readers.

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OPENING NEW CAFE SOON - Valley area. Looking for parttime wait staff and short order cook. Call 315-985-5462.

BUSINESS CARD MAGNETS only $75.00 for 250. Free Shipping. Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101 or bsnyder@leepub.com Please allow 7-10 business days for delivery

Lawn & Garden VALLEY LAWN SERVICE. Mowing, shrub trimming, mulch and clean-ups. Fully insured, free estimates. 315894-4331.

Lessons ERNIE BALL, D’ADDARIO, Dean Markley GHS guitar strings (lessons available).

Imagineering Drum & Guitar Shop. 27 West Main St. Little Falls. 315-823-1500

Music EVANS, REMO DRUMHEADS, drumsticks by ProMark, Zilojian, On Stage.

Imagineering Drum & Guitar Shop. 27 West Main St. Little Falls. 315-823-1500 GREG BENNETT Guitars.

Authorized dealer. Imagineering Drum & Guitar shop.

27 West Main St. Little Falls.

315-823-1500

Motorcycles Lumber & Wood Products HEMLOCK LUMBER, Siding Boards, Framing Lumber, Beams. Miller’s, 6027Cty.Hwy. 18, WestEdmeston. 6miles south ofU.S.Rt.20

2007 HARLEY DAVIDSON 1200 XL Custom Vance & Hines Pipes, Vance & Hines Fuel Pak, Stage 1 EFI Kit, Black, 8,500 Miles, $7,500.

Excellent Condition!

518-378-3279

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Motorcycles FOR SALE: 2000 LS Suzuki Savage, 11,000 miles, leather saddle bags, color green, excellent condition.

518-573-7468, 518-5732969. Or trade for 4 wheeler or snowmobile.

Real Estate For Sale 10 ACRES. Bridgewater,NY. Outstanding Views. Electric. $32,000.00. 845-783-8408 Fo r S a l e B y O w n e r. c o m #23928210 TEN ACRES West Canada Schools, wooded, pond, electric at road, eight miles to Utica, broker/ owner financing with 20% down. $32,900. 315796-4425

Recreational Vehicles & Motor Homes BLUE-OX TOW BAR Aventa11, Cover, Cables, $200.00; bike rake for ladder, $20.00.

315-269-8582

Rentals FOR RENT: Ground level, 2 bdr house, office space, adults only. Stove and refrigerator included. Parking for one car. No pets. $500 per month.

Call 315-868-7364

Services Offered Join us CNY share exchange network www.cnynewway.com Post free items or list services you have to give or what you need. Person to person recycling of good items or free giveaway.

TED’S Painting and Home Repairs: Book now through April 30th get FREE power wash w/deck staining, good for April, May, June only. Call 315-429-3253

Tires & Tire Repair Service FOR SALE: 2 11R22.5 tubeless radial truck tires, like new, $200; 6 lowboy trailer tires, 750-15, 12-14 ply, mounted on 6 hole rims for a tiltbed Miller trailer, $275.00. 315429-8010 leave message.

USED TIRE SALE: Huge Inventory, mounting & balancing FREE. No appointment necessary! Save money call Auto World, 534 North Perry Street, Johnstown 12095 518762-7555

Tractors MASSEY FERGUSON 65 tractor/ backhoe with front end loader and extra rims, $4,000 or best offer. Dan 518-706-0249

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New Jersey woman finds and thanks rescuer — 49 years later Associated Press

NEW YORK — A New Jersey woman has thanked a Florida doctor who saved her from drowning nearly 49 years ago in New York.

Newsday says Edith Rothstein of Franklin Lakes, NJ recently contacted Dr. Larry Brick-

man. He moved from Long Island in 2005 to teach surgery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Rothstein left a voicemail, asking if Brickman was the man who saved her life on Long Island’s Lido Beach in September 1964.

He was, indeed.

Brickman had a summer lifeguard job there while attending Michigan State. He vividly remembers giving 5-yearold Edie mouth-tomouth. Brickman says lifeguards of that era were not trained in the technique. He says he acted mostly on intuition.

Newsday wrote about the rescue the next day.

Rothstein decided to reach out after looking at an old scrapbook. Her son used Google to find Brickman.

The doctor told her they both “got lucky that day.”

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City teenager who once donated bone marrow for her cancerstricken sister has started an ambitious campaign to raise funds for cancer research.

The Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/ZedG6w ) that 15-year-old Lisette Watters of Queens has assembled a team of volunteers to help organize events, sell T-shirts and recruit corporate sponsors.

Lisette was just 4 when she donated bone marrow for her younger sister Caroline. Caroline was battling acute myeloma leukemia. She is a healthy seventh-grader now.

Lisette is now hoping to be named Woman of the Year by the regional chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Seventeen men and women from the New York City area are competing for the honor.

Similar fundraising competitions are being held around the country.

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