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Saratoga Off to State Semifinals

by Andrew Marshall Saratoga TODAY

SARATOGA SPRINGS — After upsetting the defending state champion Suffern in the quarterfinals of the 2013 state championship tournament, the Saratoga Springs Blue Streaks varsity ice hockey team has clinched a spot in the NYSPHSAA Frozen Four tournament in Utica, New York for the fourth-straight year.

“We were looking to make school history with a fourth-consecutive regional win and we did it,” said second-year head coach Dave Torres. “The boys were ready for this game all week and prepared for the task at hand. In no way did we come in thinking we were the underdog. We prepared them for the hostile environment we were going into and they came out on top.”

Saratoga Springs drew the top

seed overall in the state tournament, traveling downstate to Monsey, New York to face the defending state champion Suffern Mounties.

The game was tied 2–2 with a little over half of the third period remaining, when 2013 Section II co-Player of the Year, Tyler Bullard, broke through with a backhand goal to give the Blue Streaks the lead for good.

The Blue Streaks move on to face the Section VI representative, the Niagara-Wheatfield Falcons, in the state semifinals. NiagaraWheatfield finished third in their division this season, with an 8–4–1 record in Section VI play. They defeated Section IV champions Ithaca March 3 to reach the semifinals against the Blue Streaks.

The question remains: how does this team differ from years past?

“This year our team possesses a more balanced offense, with three

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Possible Cuts May Hurt Saratoga Bridges A 6 percent cut to the State budget may cost Saratoga Bridges $1.3 million in funding.

See News pg. 8

Saratoga Springs Freshman Prepares for State Poetry Competition Freshman Liam McKenna recently won a regional poetry competition and is now heading to the State finals.

See Education pg. 12

Inside TODAY

See Sports pg. 39

Yaddo Named National Historic Landmark

Photo provided See Yaddo pg. 6

Featured Stories

Hospital Continues Smart Growth

Obituaries 5 Business 10–11

New Surgical Center Planned for 2013

Families TODAY

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by Patricia Older Saratoga TODAY

Pulse/Local Gigs

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — With the move of the county’s mental health services from Saratoga Hospital’s Cramer House, the hospital is looking toward bigger and better things—a new state-of-theart surgical unit.

Kevin Ronayne, vice president of operations and facilities for Saratoga Hospital, said the new

three-story facility will up the hospital’s surgical rooms from seven to 10 and will be outfitted with all the newest technology available for operating rooms.

The existing Cramer House will be torn down for the new surgical unit.

“We looked at a lot of different options of where to build the facility,” said Ronayne. “It this seemed See Saratoga Hospital pg. 7

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Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Saratoga Springs Public Library Unveils Remodeled Children’s Section SARATOGA SPRINGS — It was a joyous occasion March 1 as the Saratoga Springs Public Library unveiled its newly-remodeled Children’s section. The new and improved wing of the library has been open since February 22, but March 1 was the grand opening event which highlighted the improved service desk, an expansion of the “Rainbow Room” early learning space which has been renamed the “Tree House Room.” The space also includes new shelving, new furniture and a space for nursing mothers to nurse their infants in private.

The grand opening event even featured “Cabin Fever Dancing with Peter, Paul and George.”

Our photographer was on hand as some local children got into the fun and fundamentals of reading.

Photography courtesy of Deborah Neary

From Left to Right: Kevin Filben, Ike Fulver, and Matt Dorsey

Alex Rejiester and friend

Amelia, Terry, Isla Davis

Passing the plaque, Adults: Matt Dorsey and Darren Drabek

BLOTTER

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013 Monett A. Yates, 20, of Rogers Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, was arrested February 25 and charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first-degree, a Class C felony, and petit larceny, a Class A misdemeanor.

Yates was arrested on a warrant issued January 10. She is alleged to have passed forged Travelers Checks at Kohl’s department store.

David T. Thomas, 22, of Milton Avenue in Ballston Spa, was arrested February 25 for disorderly conduct, a violation charge and resisting arrest, a Class A misdemeanor. Officers responded to the Saratoga City Tavern on Caroline Street with reports of a highly intoxicated man causing a scene after he was denied entry. Thomas refused to leave and began fighting with police. He was then arrested and celled pending arraignment in City Court.

Timothy A. Thomas, 28, of Hyspot Road in Greenfield, was arrested February 25 and charged with disorderly conduct, a violation. Thomas had come to the police station inquiring about his brother who had been arrested earlier that day. Thomas appeared intoxicated and began shouting and cursing at a woman who happened to be at the department for an unrelated matter.

When Thomas refused to calm down or leave, he was placed under arrest.

Stephanie A. Connor, 22, of Ten Broeck Street in Stillwater, was arrested February 27 and charged with driving while

intoxicated and aggravated driving while intoxicated with blood-alcohol content greater than .18-percent. Officers stopped a vehicle traveling south on Broadway near Congress Park in the northbound lane. The vehicle was stopped and the driver was identified as Connor. She appeared highly intoxicated, at which point officers performed a series of field sobriety tests before taking her into custody.

Kayla R. Connor, 25, of Minnesota Avenue in Queensbury, was arrested March 1 and charged with petit larceny, a Class A misdemeanor. Connor was arrested on a warrant issued January 7. She is alleged to have stolen numerous items from Kohl’s Department Store.

Stephen A. Zabala, 25, of Hemlock Drive in Greenfield Center, was arrested March 1 and charged with driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with blood-alcohol content greater than .08-percent. Officers stopped a vehicle for speeding and identified the driver as Zabala. After performing a series of field sobriety tests, it was determined Zabala was intoxicated and was arrested.

Jordan M. Myers, 18, of Jefferson Terrace was arrested March 1 and charged with criminal tampering in the third-degree, a Class B misdemeanor. Myers was arrested on a warrant issued February 5. He is one of the individuals alleged to be involved in a paintball incident earlier this year. The investigation is currently ongoing.

Corey J. Hayes, 17, of Barton Place in Queensbury, was arrested March 1 and charged with criminal mischief in the fourthdegree with intent to damage property, a Class A misdemeanor. Hayes was arrested on a warrant issued February 25.

He is alleged to have become disruptive in a BOCES classroom and broke the glass of a classroom door by repeatedly pounding on it.

Nicholas T. Dixon, 17, of Maple Avenue was arrested March 1 and charged with making a punishable false written statement, a Class A misdemeanor.

Dixon was arrested on a warrant issued October 6, 2012. He is alleged to have given a false account of a burglary to police during an investigation.

Kenneth A. Burt, 33, of County Farm Road in Ballston Spa, was arrested March 1 and charged with two counts of criminal contempt in the first-degree, a Class E felony, and tampering with a witness, a Class A misdemeanor. Burt was arrested on a warrant issued from incidents between mid-January to mid-February. Burt allegedly continued to violate an order of protection against the

victim while in County Jail. He was processed, arraigned and returned to County Jail.

Bradley Rozowicz, 25, of Curry Road in Rotterdam, was arrested March 3 and charged with disorderly conduct, a violation and resisting arrest, a Class A misdemeanor.

Rozowicz was involved in an altercation along Putnam Street with a woman. Officers attempted to stop the fight but were unsuccessful. Rozowicz became combative as they tried to make the arrest and attempted to flee the scene. He was apprehended and placed under arrest.

Erika M. Diggins, 20, of Allen Road in Porters Corners, was arrested March 3 and charged with disorderly conduct, a violation charge. Diggins was the woman in the fight with

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Bradley Rozowicz. She was arrested at the scene.

Raymond Mattison, 17, of County Road 41 in Hudson Falls, was arrested March 4 and charged with criminal mischief in the fourth-degree, with intent to damage property, a Class A misdemeanor. Officers responded to the BOCES facility on Hennig Road for reports that a student had intentionally damaged walls in the school.

Administrators determined Mattison to be the perpetrator and he was placed under arrest.

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week in Review Threat of Violence Against Student Locks Down Skidmore Campus, Suspect in Custody SARATOGA SPRINGS — A man threatening to hurt a Skidmore College student and himself was arrested yesterday in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino before he could arrive at the campus.

Police say that 49-year-old Lance Leonard of Massachusetts had repeatedly called the father of the Skidmore student—said to be a woman in her 20s—and threatened to harm her and himself if the student decided to end their relationship.

The woman’s father reported the matter to local police in Sherborn, Massachusetts, who contacted the Saratoga Springs Police.

The victim and her family are from the Sherborn area. Leonard is believed to be from Cuttyhunk, near Martha’s Vineyard.

Skidmore campus went into a full lockdown mode the evening of March 5, as police checked all vehicles entering and exiting along North Broadway.

Because of Leonard’s criminal history, police were able to track his cellphone coordinates, which located him downstate near New Rochelle, before police believe he turned his phone off and lost the signal. When they were able to reacquire the signal the next morning, Leonard was located in Atlantic City.

He was arrested on a warrant outside the casino without incident.

Police say he did not have any weapons on him at the time of the arrest.

District Attorney James A. Murphy III said his office is working to extradite Leonard from New Jersey to Saratoga Springs. If convicted of first-degree coercion, Leonard faces up to seven years in prison. This does not factor in related misdemeanor charges of aggravated harassment and third-degree stalking, which will also be filed.

Skidmore has since resumed normal activity on campus.

City Council Moves to Add Parking at Rec Center SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Saratoga Springs City Council met once again March 5 though there was a notable absence at the council’s table.

Mayor Scott Johnson was not in attendance, as he underwent an emergency medical procedure prior to the meeting. It was not disclosed exactly what the procedure was, but his deputy Shauna Sutton said it was not serious.

Without Mayor Johnson, the council took on a new look as Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan held the gavel to control the meeting.

In a move that will certainly ease some of the parking woes around the city, the council voted to purchase a plot of land that will

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013 expand the amount of parking at the south side Recreation Center along Vanderbilt Avenue. The land purchased sits at 13 Worth Street on the adjacent corner to the recreation center and cost $106,001.

The matter was approved 4–0 after the council discussed the purchase during the meeting’s executive session.

The Rec Center currently has space to accommodate 50 cars.

During highly attended events, those spots fill up quickly. It is estimated a further 30–40 vehicles could park at the facility now that the land has been acquired.

City Council To Vote on Restoring City Center as Polling Place SARATOGA SPRINGS — It appears the Saratoga Springs City Council will be reinstating the City Center as a polling place for districts 3, 4, 8, 9 and 25. Following a public hearing on the matter at their March 5 meeting, a vote is scheduled for the meeting on March 19. Four of five current city councilmembers support moving the polling places from the Lincoln Baths to the City Center. Mayor Scott Johnson has not weighed in on the matter. The polling places were moved from the City Center when renovations began back in 2010. There is another public hearing on the matter scheduled before the March 19 meeting.

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ave you heard about our contest with the soonto-be-here Healthy Living Market? In celebration of the store’s arrival at the Wilton Mall, we’ve teamed up to get Saratoga Springs living healthy! We’re giving our readers a chance to win $25 gift cards to the Healthy Living Market, but you’ll have to do some searching to get it!

We’ve hidden some Healthy Living Market logos throughout this newspaper, including within some ads.

Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is find all of them. When you think you’ve got them all, head to www.saratogatodaynewspaper.com and click on the “Healthy Living Contest” banner on the left side of the page. Enter your information and guess and if you’re correct, we’ll enter your name in a drawing for the gift card!

We’re pleased to announce that this week’s winner is Nancy Gardner of Wilton! She found all 10 logos that we hid last week. How many are in this week’s paper? Well that’s up to YOU to find out! So start your search and GOOD LUCK!

obituaries

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

THOMAS KIRKPATRICK

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Thomas Kirkpatrick passed away suddenly on Tuesday, February 26. He was 22.

Born on June 6, 1990 in Saratoga Springs, he was the beloved son of Ed and Lil Kirkpatrick, also of

Saratoga Springs.

Tom was a wonderful, loving and devoted son, big brother, grandson, nephew, boyfriend, friend, musician and all around good person. He had a passion for music and loved playing the drums, enjoyed traveling, cooking and had a huge heart when it came to all of his friends. He was an outstanding big brother to his sister, Caitlin.

In addition to his parents, survivors include his loving sister, Caitlin; his grandparents, Al and Flo Bishop; his grandmother, Gail Kirkpatrick; uncles Jeff Bishop,

Al (Cherie) Bishop and Mike Kirkpatrick; aunts Suzanne (Matt) Allen and Wendy Jackson; cousins Eric, Jordan and Jeff Bishop Jr., Sabrina, Gabby and Matthew Allen, Mackensie and Matthew Jackson and many other loving relatives.

Relatives and friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at the William J. Burke & Sons /Bussing & Cunniff Funeral Homes, 628 North Broadway.

Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome. com.

Georgianna Bojanowski SARATOGA SPRINGS — Georgianna Bojanowski, 82, of Saratoga Springs, passed away Thursday, February 28. Born in Albany on July 27, 1930 she was the daughter of the late William and Georgianna Martin. She was predeceased by her husband

Casimir Bojanowski.

Georgianna is survived by her children, Linda Paine (Albert Rossi) of Saratoga Springs, William Paine (Judy) of Saratoga Springs, David Paine of Schenectady and Laura Brehmer (Horst) of Germany, sister, Helen

Savoie of Schenectady, six grandchildren, three great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 4 Pine West Plaza, Suite 405, Albany, NY 12205.

Jeffrey Neal Blackwood TRILBY, FLORIDA — Jeff Blackwood, 53, formerly of Ballston Spa, passed into the loving arms of God on Friday, March 1.

Born on May 19, 1959 he was the son of Lindley and Leona Blackwood of Ballston Spa. Jeff is predeceased by his mother, Leona Blackwood and brother, Daryl.

He is survived by his father, Lindley Blackwood; two

Stephen M. Tokos BALLSTON SPA — Stephen M. Tokos, 61, of Ballston Spa passed away Sunday, March 3.

Born in Schenectady, April 15, 1951 he was the son of the late Michael and Columbia Tokos.

Steve is survived by his wife of 40 years, Mary, his children, John Tokos of Mechanicville

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Gladys Louise Barnes, 95, formerly of Bradt Road, Rexford, died peacefully March 5 at Saratoga Hospital Nursing Home after a long illness.

Daughter of the late Louis and Norma (Norris) Beck, she was born in Johnson City, New York.

As an adolescent, she gained regional acclaim as a coloratura

Viewing hours will be 6 – 8 p.m. on Friday, March 8 at Glenville Funeral Home, 9 Glenridge Rd. A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 9 at 10 a.m. at Glenville Funeral Home followed by burial at St. Anthony’s Cemetery in Glenville.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Saratoga Hospital Foundation, 211 Church Street, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866.

The family expresses sincerest gratitude to the staff of the Nursing Home at Saratoga Hospital. Not only Online condolences expressed to family at www. glenvillefuneralhome.com

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and Tina Tokos of Ballston Spa, grandson, Xavier, brother, Thomas Tokos of Niskayuna and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 1717 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12205.

Seth Asa Younes

Gladys Louise Barnes soprano and was featured as a soloist in many recitals in Western New York.

During World War II, she worked for the American Red Cross in Washington, DC. While there, she met her future husband John and they married in October of 1944.

She was predeceased by her only sibling, her brother, Dr. Edward S. Beck of Annapolis, Maryland and her husband, John.

She is survived by her daughter Amy (Joseph) DiDonna, her son of thirty-four years, Joseph DiDonna, Sr., her grandson Joseph (Julie) DiDonna, Jr. and her granddaughter, Maria DiDonna, all of Saratoga Springs.

brothers, Lynn Blackwood and Lawrence Blackwood (Dawn), of Ballston Spa; four sisters, Crystal Bunnel (Michael), of Middle Grove, Marcy Meaney (John) of Ballston Spa, Linda Mullen (David), of Gansevoort and Lori Kisielis (John), of Hagaman; as well as several cousins, nieces and nephews. A graveside ceremony will be held in the spring for family and friends.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Seth Asa Younes, a senior at Saratoga Springs High School, died suddenly on February 26. He was 18.

Seth was born December 13, 1994 to Asa and Debra Younes, spending his first 13 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Albany Medical Center. From his earliest moments, Seth burst forth with a formidable, gentle spirit and a passion for living.

Known for his brilliant smile and charming personality, Seth was a hard worker always willing to lend a helping hand.

Seth enjoyed his work at Saratoga National Golf Course.

Strong and athletic, he played defenseman on the Blue Streaks lacrosse team. He loved spending time with his friends. Seth was an

avid outdoorsman who camped and fished often with family, especially his dad and Uncle Sam, with whom he worked on cars and shared a special friendship.

Seth was a fun, social guy who loved Five Guys burgers, gaming online with his X-Box, and listening to music on his iPod. He often played games with his younger brother, Josh, who looked up to him. Seth hoped to study Business Administration in college and perhaps, one day, become a New York State Trooper like his grandfather.

Seth is survived by his mother and stepfather Debra and Matthew Sheldon; father and stepmother Asa Younes and Valerina Hamilton; brothers Joshua Kelly, Devon Bovee, Nicholas Seitzinger and sisters Alexis Younes and Rylie Sheldon; grandparents Asa and Connie Younes, Richard and Ellen Sheldon and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made directly to the family or in Seth’s name to the NICU, Albany Medical Center, 43 New Scotland Ave., MC 119, Albany, NY 12208.

Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com.

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Yaddo Named National Historic Landmark continued from page 1

by Patricia Older Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Yaddo, the nationally famous artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, has joined an elite list – it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. While there are over 88,000 properties listed nationwide on the National Historic Register, less than 2,500 are listed as a National Historic Landmark.

It joins the ranks of The White House, Carnegie Hall and the Empire State Building.

National Historic Landmarks are significant historic places that help illustrate or interpret the heritage of the United States. To be

designated as one of these landmarks, the building, land or property must have been involved in a historical event that was significant to our culture, contribute to our country’s historical culture or impact us historically.

While Yaddo’s application for National Historic Landmark designation took into consideration the property, the buildings and the historic artifacts, the decision to give it such a status was the essential role it has played in fostering and encouraging thousands of creative artists over the years. The majority of those artists helped to define our American culture.

“One of the elements used by [the National Parks System] was the role Yaddo played in America’s cultural history,” said Lesley Leduc, public affairs coordinator for Yaddo.

Yaddo offers, at no charge, residency stays for professional creative artists so that they can work unencumbered and uninterrupted on new pieces. Artists from all mediums including photography, writing and painting have spent time on the 400 acre retreat.

Artists such as Sylvia Plath,

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Truman Capote and Saul Bellow have had a residency there. Of all the artists who have stayed at Yaddo, 68 have won Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships and 61 have received National

Book Awards. American writer Saul Bellow, who also spent a residency at Yaddo, won, among dozens of other awards, a Pulitzer, the National Medal of Arts and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

“We are extremely pleased and honored to receive this designation in recognition of Yaddo’s essential role in shaping American culture for the past century,” said Yaddo president, Elaina H. Richardson.

Yaddo is soon opening a new state-of-the-art studio facility.

“This honor is a fitting tribute to the place which is an important part of American history and to the significant role Yaddo has played, and continues to play, in our culture as the support of artistic creativity redounds to the benefit of us all,” said Yaddo Board of Directors Chair Peter C. Gould.

Properties designated as National Historic Landmarks are automatically listed in the National

Register of Historic Places. Yaddo is part of an historic district that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, but was not listed individually.

The National Historic Landmarks Program, established in 1935, is administered by the National Park Service on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior.

The agency works with preservation officials and other partners interested in nominating a landmark. Completed applications are reviewed by the National Park System Advisory Board, which makes recommendations for designation to the Secretary of the Interior. If selected, property ownership remains intact but each site receives a designation letter, a plaque, and technical preservation advice. National Historic Landmark status does not in any way restrict Yaddo in managing or maintaining their property.

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Saratoga Hospital Going Big continued from page 1 the most logical because it will attach to the current surgical suite.”

Noting that Saratoga Hospital presently has only seven operating rooms; a small number, he said, compared to other facilities in the area and the growing needs of Saratoga County.

“This will give us 10 stateof-the-art operating rooms,” said Ronayne. “We are very excited about the project.”

The new addition to the hospital will begin once Saratoga County’s Mental Health Unit moves to its new location, which, if approved, will be to South Broadway.

Ronayne said that demolition would start on Cramer House as soon as it was vacated. It added that the hospital still needs to go through the application process with the city of Saratoga Springs and that it would take approximately two years, from beginning to end, for the new surgical unit to be complete and ready for use.

Cramer House was originally built as a school for nurses. The building has housed the county’s mental health facility since 1990.

Along with the drug and alcohol services and Friendship House, the county hopes to move the mental health services to the former Topper Pontiac building on South Broadway. Saratoga Springs must first approve a variance use permit.

The application was put before the Saratoga Springs Planning Board earlier this month, but board members, without explanation, held off on making a decision. Some concerns have been voiced about the location of the mental health facility and the area’s designation as a “gateway corridor” to the Spa City.

Greenfield Supervisor Dick Rowland said that when the county was notified that Saratoga Hospital would be terminating their lease, they began immediately to examine their choices.

The lease had a one-year optout clause either side could use at any time.

Continuing, he said that some consideration was given to moving the facilities to Ballston Spa, but because the majority of their clients live in the Saratoga Springs area, the decided to keep it centrally located.

“It made sense to us to combine our services all in one location,” said Rowland, who was chair for the county’s building and grounds committee when they first began looking for a new location.

“Plus we needed to keep it on the bus route for our clients who do not have transportation.”

As for the rumor about a methadone clinic being in the facility as well, Rowland said that the county does not provide those services.

“Anyone who needs those

services has to travel to Albany,” said Rowland, adding that putting the three existing services in one location was a win/win for residents and the county.

“We can save money,” said Rowland, explaining that services can be condensed and streamlined for more efficiency and less duplication. “Any way we can save money

for residents and the county is a win/win for all of us.”

The county will enter into a 10 year lease with the owner of the building, Frank Parillo, who will renovate it into office space. The trademark showroom windows would be left, but the front of the building would have green space and walkways.

Recognizing that the county still had a lot to do to ready the Topper building if granted approval from Saratoga’s planning board, Ronayne said that if the county does not have a place to move by May 31, the hospital planned on working with them until they could move.

“We’re not going to just throw them out,” said Ronayne.

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NEWS

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Six Percent Budget Cut Looms Students Raise Record Amount in Over Saratoga Bridges Saratoga Bridges Staff Prepare for Possible Loss of $1.3 Million

by Chelsea DiSchiano Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA COUNTY — Nonprofit organizations that provide services to those with developmental disabilities, such as local agency Saratoga Bridges, are facing a possible 6 percent cut to their New York State funding. If the state budget passes as is, the cut would amount to a loss of about $1.3 million for Saratoga Bridges.

“We’ve taken cuts over the years, but this is significantly more than we’ve had to take in the past,” said Valerie Muratori, executive director of Saratoga Bridges.

If the cut is implemented, Saratoga Bridges would have to reorganize 40-50 positions within the organization, create a larger day program while reducing the social and community programs that enable its individuals to be a part of the community, and possibly disable the organization to continue providing services to all of its 200 inhome respite families.

“Because we provide services in the areas of housing, employment, day services and family support, the cut really cuts across

all the services that we provide,” Muratori explained. “So we would have to evaluate how we would reduce or reorganize services in every single part of our organization.”

Saratoga Bridges’ support services “tend to be more expensive than the more traditional services,” Muratori added.

“We pride ourselves in being able to offer a lot of opportunities for people with disabilities to be integral members of the community and get out and volunteer and be part of the social and recreational side of the community,” Muratori said. “We would have to look at reorganizing the way we do business and do larger day programs, which isn’t what anybody wants to see happen.”

Muratori added that the current staff and individuals who receive support from Saratoga Bridges aren’t the only ones who will be affected by the cut.

“Because it’s such a significant cut, those who might be looking for services in the future would have to be placed on a very long waitlist as far as getting into the service system,” Muratori said.

Though the cut hasn’t yet been implemented, Muratori said the organization is already preparing for the impact.

“We are very much holding onto positions that are open and not filling positions,”

Muratori said. “And we’re holding onto budgeted positions we had planned on filling in 2013, so we’re already at least preparing for what happens in case this cut comes through.”

Though organizations like Saratoga Bridges are preparing for the worst, the state assembly vote on the New York State budget is still a few weeks away, giving the nonprofit’s supporters a little time to convince their legislators to vote against the cut.

Muratori held four different staff meetings in one day to inform employees of the cut’s impact and how they can try to stop it.

“We are knocking on doors, talking to our legislators and sending emails trying to advocate and educate our legislators about it,” Muratori said. “I would encourage anybody to reach out to their local legislators and encourage them to restore the budget.”

Anyone interested in helping to advocate for Saratoga Bridges can call Valerie Muratori at (518) 587-0723 or email her at vmuratori@saratogabridges.org.

Marathon Dance

SOUTH GLENS FALLS — This year’s 28-hour dance marathon at South Glens Falls High School raised an amazing $489,716.27 for a total of over $3.64 million the last 36 years. Each year the participating dancers pick the charities or individuals where the money will be donated. This year it will be divided among 40 causes and organizations.

The first dance occurred in 1977 with 50 students. This year more than 800 of the South Glens Falls High students danced – around 90 percent of the student population.

During the dance, other fundraising activities were held, including haircuts, a silent auction and raffles.

But this is no ordinary high school dance.

In order to be able to participate in the annual danceathon, a student must raise a minimum of $150 from friends and family in the weeks prior to the dance. They are not allowed to ask businesses to sponsor them.

The dance is held during Spirit Week at the school and students help get ready for the big event by decorating the gym and participating in week-long activities.

Upon arrival Friday night, students must bring their pledge packet, along with a parental

permission slip and medical release form. They are then assigned a classroom as a home base and are given a dancer shirt. The dancing begins Friday night at 7:30 and dancers are required to stay on the dance floor throughout the entire danceathon. There are short restroom breaks, and the students are given a snack on Friday night. On Saturday, they are provided breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Once they are registered and in the building, they are not allowed the leave until the end of the danceathon. To break up time, the dance committee plans various activities during the dance, including three costume parties where all dancers are expected to participate.

At 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning, dancers are given the opportunity to get a little sleep – a two hour rest period where they returned to their assigned rooms and try to get some rest. But students do not have to – they are allowed to hang out in the cafeteria.

A strict dress code is also enforced. Students can not wear flip flops, midriffs or short shorts.

They also cannot bring in any outside food.

To view images from this year’s dancathon, go to www.shmd.org

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

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EPA Plans Cleanup for the NiMo Superfund Site SARATOGA SPRINGS — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to clean up contaminated soil and ground water at the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Superfund site in Saratoga Springs.

The site, which was once used to manufacture gas from coal, is contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that were produced as byproducts and disposed of on site. PAHs are suspected cancer causing substances.

Many VOCs are known to cause cancer in animals and can cause cancer in people.

“The proposed plan for the Niagara Mohawk site is an important step toward completing the cleanup and ensuring that people’s health is protected into the future,” said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator.

Saratoga Springs obtains its drinking water from public wells, which are not contaminated.

From approximately 1853 to the 1940s, Niagara Mohawk’s predecessors, Saratoga Gas and Light and New York Power and Light Corporation, produced gas used to power gas street lights at the Niagara Mohawk property on Excelsior Ave. After gas manufacturing ceased at the site, the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation used its property for storage and to park vehicles. The property is currently owned by National Grid. The EPA added the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. site to the Superfund list in 1990.

The EPA issued its first cleanup plan for the site in 1995 after finding contaminants in the ground water and soil on the Niagara Mohawk property, at a former skating rink formerly owned by the city and in stream sediment along portions of Spring Run Creek. During the first cleanup, contaminated soil and sediment were removed from areas containing coal tar waste, underground barriers were installed to contain the contaminated ground water, a protective cap was installed to cover contaminated soil and monitoring was initiated. Additionally, a system to extract and treat contaminated ground water was constructed and continues to operate.

In all, over 68,400 tons of contaminated soil and 16,700 tons of contaminated sediment were removed from the site. This work was completed in 2002.

In this proposed second and final phase of the cleanup, the EPA will clean up contaminated soil and ground water discovered in a half acre area near Excelsior, Warren and High Rock Avenues.

It includes a section of Excelsior Avenue, a small green space containing the Old Red Spring well and pavilion and a section of a paved parking lot.

Under the EPA’s plan, the top two feet of contaminated soil near the Old Red Spring well will be dug up and disposed of at a facility licensed to receive the waste. The excavated areas will then be filled with clean soil. The EPA will also solidify and stabilize contaminated areas of deeper soil in the same area with a cement-like material. Walls and a mat will be installed to contain contaminated soil underneath the surface of Excelsior Avenue.

Following the work, any grassy areas, plants, parking lots, roadways or sidewalks impacted during the cleanup will be restored.

In addition, the contaminated ground water will be treated using a non-hazardous additive to break down the contamination to meet federal and state water quality standards. The EPA will require the periodic collection and analysis of ground water samples to verify that the level and extent of the contamination is declining. The proposed plan requires environmental easements and restrictions on land

use that will prevent activities that could disturb the cleanup and prohibits the use of ground water wells, among other restrictions.

The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. After sites are placed on the Superfund list of the most contaminated waste sites, the EPA searches for parties responsible for the contamination and holds them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. To date, the cleanup of the Niagara Mohawk

Power Corp. Superfund site has been conducted and paid for by Niagara Mohawk and National Grid with oversight by the EPA.

For more information go to the website http://www.epa. g o v / r e g i o n 2 / s u p e r f u n d / np l / niagaramohawk

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BUSINESS

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Druthers Expanding Caffè Lena Expanding SARATOGA SPRINGS — The popular Druthers Brewing Co. at 381 Broadway hopes to enclose a small space between its building and the Perry building next door to construct a second bar and dining area. It will feature a 24-seat bar, 15 tables and a fireplace.

The single-story structure will be 783 square foot structure that will be used for private functions and dining.

According to the paperwork submitted to the city’s planning board, owner Chris Martell said they considered the impact the building would have on the historic Adelphi next door.

“We have given a great deal of consideration to the potential impact of the proposed addition to the Adelphi,” writes Martell.

Continuing, Martell said they considered three goals for the

proposed addition—the affect the building would have on the natural light entering the guest rooms at the Adelphi; a sound and sight buffer between the patio and the hotel’s first floor; and to provide and aesthetically pleasing roof top for the Adelphi guests to view from upper floors.

Martell said the single-story height of the building would not affect the light that enters the guests rooms and that the rooftop would have a garden with “fresh herbs, wild flowers and lettuces.”

Saratoga Springs’ Design Review Commission is scheduled to review the application at its March 6 meeting.

If the city grants the required approvals, plans are to start building in midApril and finish by early June. Because of the lot’s Broadway location, the foundation for the structure will be built off-site and transported in.

by Patricia Older Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Caffè Lena is in for some big changes this year. The historical bohemianstyle café with a loyal following and worldwide fan base is seeking to add a small, two-story addition to the existing building. The addition will house a second stairway leading to the coffeehouse. They are also expanding the patio area and doing some interior renovations.

Caffè Lena is located on the second floor of 147 Phila Street.

The building was purchased in 1998 by Caffè’ Lena, a not-forprofit group that formed after Lena Spencer, the café’s original owner, died in 1989. Lena Spencer opened the café in 1960.

According to the paperwork filed by the organization, Caffè Lena is preparing for the renovations in order to meet New York State building codes and to “enhance access for disabled people and bring greater comfort to all.”

The small, two-story addition to the existing structure will house a small lobby area and a staircase to the café, which has always been on the second floor of the Italianate structure. The staircase will create

Rendering of the Caffè Lena expansion. Photo provided

a second means of entrance and exit. Presently access to the café is through a small staircase leading up from the ground floor.

The new entrance and addition will be built on the east side of the building where there is presently a small parking lot. It will be set back and an outdoor patio for dining will be built in front of it. A brick walkway will also be constructed giving access to Caffè Lena from Henry Street.

“The use of this outdoor space will bring activity up to the street in a manner consistent with the urban character sought,” wrote Stanley McGaughey on the paperwork filed with the city for an area use variance.

The proposed addition is shown with period-style windows, a brick façade, and lettering dating

the beginning of Caffè Lena and year of the addition’s construction.

The owner proposes to replace the brackets and cornice of the existing building “in kind as needed.”

In addition, they will be restoring existing second story windows and will install interior storm windows.

Considered the oldest continuously running coffeehouse in the country, Caffe’ Lena was started in 1960 by Lena Spencer who was inspired by a movement in the country toward small, Europeanstyle cafés with a homey atmosphere and where aspiring folk artists could entertain the audiences and rising stars could return to their roots.

The Zoning Board of Appeals will have to approve the project.

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

BUSINESS

Adirondack Trust Branch New Doctors Hired at Saratoga Hospital Grand Opening

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The grand opening celebration of the Adirondack Trust Company will be this Saturday with an event at the bank’s newest office in Ballston Lake, 1/4 mile west of Exit 11, on Saturday, March 2, between 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

During the Saturday celebration the community is invited to visit the branch and register for the chance to win one of three prizes, a $1,000 gift certificate giveaway to Green Conscience Home, an Apple iPad mini and a $250 cash reward in the “Fresh Greens” Sweepstakes.

The bank’s mascot, Banker Buck, will be there greeting guests and handing out recycled piggy banks to the children. The Jockey, formerly Star Radio, 101.3, will be

present hosting a live radio remote with prize drawings for local merchant gift certificates. Refreshments and beverages will be served throughout the event. Tours of the new branch and its many unique features will also be provided.

The new branch is approximately 2,400 square feet and is the first to be designed with an environmentally friendly theme in mind.

Items incorporated in the branch’s design include a customer lounge area, a self-service coffee bar, a coin counter, free Wi-Fi access, high definition televisions and café seating for up to 20 people. The branch uses a passive solar design, solar panels on the roof, large, south facing windows, concrete flooring to absorb and radiate heat, high-efficiency LED lights and bike racks to encourage low impact travel. The exterior landscape design incorporates a mix of native plants and a retaining pond along with natural stonework.

Visit www.adirondacktrust. com/en/exit-11-ballston-lake-office to learn more.

Saratoga Honda To Expand SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Honda has a contract to buy six acres adjacent to its dealership in Saratoga Springs to expand at its current location at 3402 S. Broadway.

To accommodate the expansion, Tim Higgins, president of Saratoga Honda, plans to buy the vacant property from Four Winds Hospital. The parcel is just south of his existing dealership.

The expansion requires a use variance. Saratoga Honda will

begin that process by asking the city Planning Board at its February 27 meeting to allow the Zoning Board to lead a required environmental review of the property. Ultimately, the Zoning Board grants or rejects use variances.

Higgins has owned Saratoga Honda since 2001, when he bought the business from his family. He bought the five-acre property at 3402 S. Broadway from the Higgins Family Limited partnership in December 2012. The dealership employs 50.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Hospital recently welcomed seven new physicians in specialties including family practice, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and oral-maxillofacial surgery.

Christopher Buff, DO, family practice, received his medical degree from New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury. He completed an internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, and a residency at the former St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady. Buff, of Scotia-Glenville Family Medicine in Ballston Spa, is board certified in family practice.

Paul R. Dittes, MD, emergency medicine, received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri and completed an internship and residency at Albany Medical Center. Dittes is board certified in emergency medicine and in practice with Saratoga Emergency Physicians, which provides medical coverage at Saratoga Hospital’s Alfred Z. Solomon Emergency Center.

Audra Hanley, MD, family practice, received her medical degree from State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, and completed an internship and residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital, also in Syracuse.

Hanley, of Scotia-Glenville Family

Medicine in Ballston Spa, is board certified in family practice.

Eileen E. Joyce, MD, obstetrics and gynecology, received her medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed both her internship and residency at Albany Medical Center. Joyce is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in practice at Glens Falls OB/ GYN Center in Queensbury.

Bertrand Sorel, DMD, MD, oral-maxillofacial surgery, received his dental degree from the University of Montreal Faculty of Dentistry in Canada and his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington.

He completed both an internship and residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center, also in Farmington, and a fellowship with Ponte Vedra Cosmetic Surgery in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Sorel is board certified in

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oral and maxillofacial surgery. He is in practice with Northeast Surgical Specialists in Queensbury.

Julie Ann Stein, MD, emergency medicine, received her medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine. She completed both a residency and internship at Albany Medical Center and an additional residency at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Stein is a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Albany Medical Center.

Dympna Lynch Weil, MD, obstetrics and gynecology, received her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine in New York City and completed both an internship and residency at Stony Brook University Hospital. Weil is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and is in practice at Myrtle Street OB/GYN in Saratoga Springs.

For more information or a referral, call (518) 580-2450.

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Education

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Saratoga Springs Freshman Heads to State Poetry Competition

by Chelsea DiSchiano Saratoga TODAY

Saratoga Springs High School Freshman Liam McKenna (on right). Photo provided

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Liam McKenna was the only freshman in a group of two sophomores and five seniors participating in the regional level of the national poetry reciting competition, Poetry Out Loud.

“It was a little intimidating,” McKenna admitted.

Despite the intimidation factor of being the youngest of eight high school students looking to advance in the competition, McKenna defeated his older opponents to move on to the state level of Poetry Out Loud, which will take place March 16.

The national Poetry Out Loud competition begins at the local level, with high school students competing for the top two spots. The two finalists then participate at the regional level, which in the Capital Region consisted of four high schools in the area and their respective eight students. The regional competition was then narrowed down to one spot, given to McKenna for his readings of “Cartoon Physics, part 1” by Nick Flynn and “When Kingfishers Catch Fire” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

McKenna said he was surprised he won at the high school level as a freshman, and surprised again to learn he had won the regional level.

“I wasn’t expecting to win regionals,” McKenna said. “At that point I didn’t really care whether or not I won—I was just happy to be there as a freshman and to be enjoying it. I thought that [Saratoga Springs runner-up] Allen Anderson and another student both did a really good job, and I was surprised to win but really happy.”

McKenna, who comes from a family of relatives familiar with being onstage—his grandfather was a production designer in Hollywood, and both of his parents have acting experience—said he feels very comfortable on stage.

“I love speaking and I love being up on stage—it’s a love for acting that has been passed on to me from my family,” McKenna said.

“With [the recitation of] my first poem, ‘When Kingfishers Catch Fire,’ I just felt it—I’ve had that experience with acting before where you’re so into it that you completely lose yourself in the monologue or song, and I’d never had that experience with poetry before, and this

was my first time with that so it was just an awesome feeling.”

In order to prepare for the state level of the competition, McKenna said he has been practicing reciting his poems very consistently.

“I’ll recite them to myself pretty much constantly, but I actually sit down and recite it to myself in a mirror or to my parents every few days or so,” McKenna said.

Asked how he would feel if he won at the state level to continue to the national finals, McKenna took a long pause.

“Just the fact that I’m going to state is overwhelming—if I ended up winning state, I don’t know what I would do,” he said with a laugh.

“My dad did say he would come to Washington with me, though.”

If McKenna does progress to the national finals, he will get to travel to Washington D.C. April 28-30 with the other 52 finalists (Puerto Rico is also included in the competition) to vie for one of the top three spots, all of which come with monetary prizes. The third-place will receive $5,000, second-place $10,000 and firstplace $20,000. In addition, finalists that place fourth to ninth place will receive $1,000 and $500 designated to their schools to buy poetry books.

At the state competition next week, McKenna will again recite his two previous poems, but has readied a third “tie-breaker” poem to be recited if he makes it into the final third round.

“It’s a very Shakespearean poem—it’s written by an older poet, John Dunn, and it has that old English feel to it,” McKenna explained. “It’s a much harder poem reciting-wise than the others and it’s very long, so I’m a little nervous, but I also feel like that could be something that could push me ahead of everyone else if I nail it.”

Though McKenna would like to advance to the national finals, he is ready to just sit back and enjoy his experience participating in the competition.

“I’ve never participated in a competition like this and it’s an awesome experience,” McKenna said. “I’m nervous [for state], but I’m more excited—at this point, even more so than I was at regionals. I don’t care what happens, I’m just going to have a blast and read my poems.”

To learn more about the Poetry Out Loud competition, visit www. poetryoutloud.org.

Education

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

‘Anything Goes’ Performance at Saratoga Central Catholic High School to Benefit Arts Department SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Central Catholic High School Performing Arts Department will be putting on the production ‘Anything Goes’ in order to further benefit their School Arts Program.

The group started late December with auditions and began rehearsals after the Christmas vacation. The group consists of 21 students, and their director Pat Douglass has done all the music, staging and choreography directing.

The cast of characters include Billy Crocker, a stowaway in love with the Hope Harcourt, who in turn is engaged and soon to be married to Sir Evelyn Oakleigh; nightclub singer and former evangelist, Reno Sweeney and that crazy Moonfaced Martin, Public Enemy #13, posing as a minister. A series of mistaken

identities lend to the comic relief while the passengers and crew of the SS American sing and dance their way across the Atlantic.

In anticipation of the evening ahead, Director of Saratoga Central Catholic’s Performing Arts Program and Anything Goes’ producer Pat Douglass is extremely excited for the evening’s compilation of talent.

Douglas says, “It has been an awesome journey as the students have traveled back in time to the 1930s aboard the SS American with that age-old tale of boy-meets-girl.”

Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. The show takes places March 7, 8, 9 at 7 p.m. and March 10 at 3 p.m. For tickets to the event, please contact Pat Douglass at (518) 573-4346.

receive four-year renewable awards of $2,500 per year, a total award of $10,000.

In addition to the scheduled interviews, Joe will be honored at the Coca-Cola Scholars Banquet on Thursday evening, April 18, at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Tom Brokaw, award winning journalist and author, will be the keynote speaker that night.

In addition to the banquet and the interview, Joe’s weekend in Atlanta will be filled with

SARATOGA SPRINGS — “Urinetown: The Musical,” one of the most uproariously funny shows in recent years, will be presented by the Saratoga Springs High School Drama Club March 21–23 in the Loewenberg Auditorium.

“Urinetown” is a tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gothamlike city, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he’s had enough, and plans a revolution to

seminars, tours of local landmarks, and social gatherings. He will visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and the World of CocaCola, and attend seminars led by Coca-Cola Scholars Alumni and staff. In addition, Joe will take part in a community service project that weekend.

“I was thrilled when I learned that I won the scholarship. I can’t wait to meet all the other scholars in Atlanta in April,” Joe commented.

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Saratoga Springs High School Drama Club Presents “Urinetown: The Musical”

Galway Senior is Finalist for the Coca-Cola Scholars Program GALWAY — Galway High School senior Joe English is a finalist for the prestigious Coca-Cola Scholars Program. There were more than 100,000 applicants this year and nearly 2,200 semi-finalists. Joe is one of just 250 finalists chosen to be a member of the 25th Class of Coca-Cola Scholars.

As a finalist, Joe will be flown to Atlanta, Ga., for a special Scholars Weekend April 18-21. All expenses including airfare, lodging and meals are covered by the CocaCola Scholars Foundation. Based on the materials previously submitted, as well as personal interviews to be conducted in Atlanta, two tiers of awards will be granted. Fifty finalists will be chosen as National Scholars and will receive renewable awards of $5,000 per year for four years of post-secondary study, a total award of $20,000. The remaining 200 finalists will be designated Regional Scholars and will

lead them all to freedom.

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, “Urinetown” is very relevant to today’s society, satirizing corporate greed, social irresponsibility, and the government’s inability to move forward. In “Urinetown,” when both sides fail to compromise, society fails. Fortunately, it fails in a hilarious manner with comical musical references to “West Side Story,” “Les Miserables,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

“We chose to do this show because of its relevance to what’s going on today economically and politically not only in the United States, but in Europe and elsewhere,” Mr. Berenis said. “Although we’ve faced similar issues throughout

history, they came to a boiling point in 2008. The economy is beginning to improve, but nothing has been fixed. We live in a world of smoke and mirrors, as this show illustrates.”

The show features about 60 students in the cast and crew.

Show times are 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 21, and 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23. Tickets, priced at $12 for adults and $5 for students and seniors, are available at the door.

Beginning March 1, they may be purchased in advance through the Drama Club’s website at www. sshsdramaclub.com.

The show is directed by Bob Berenis with musical direction

by Jeffrey Halstead, and choreography by Tina Baird and Leigh Berenis.

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NEWS

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Business as Usual at March 4 Saratoga Showcase of Malta Town Board Meeting Homes Celebrating

by Chelsea DiSchiano Saratoga TODAY

MALTA — With no scheduled public hearings, no old business to attend to and a short agenda of new business, the Malta Town Board meeting March 4 was short and to the point.

The meeting began with the public comment period, during which Carol Henry, chairwoman of the Luther Forest Technology Campus (LFTC) Community Response Board, presented a letter addressing noise concerns of neighbors living near the Fab 8 campus. In the letter, Henry thanked GlobalFoundries for responding to noise complaints, but mentioned that they are still not in compliance 100 percent of the time with noise requirements.

Henry said several neighbors rely on white noise machines to cancel out noise coming from the campus, which isn’t always sufficient, along with a growing concern of

decreasing property values.

The Community Response Board will hold a meeting open to the public at the Malta Community Center March 13 at 6:30 p.m.

The only other resident with remarks during the open comment period was Round Lake resident Mary Jo Lanahan, who gathered a petition with 265 names, asking the board not to remove Exit 11A from the planned development district (PDD) for the new chip fab site at GlobalFoundries.

Councilperson John Hartzell was quick to tell Lanahan that the plans for the PDD are not yet developed and that she has plenty of time to gain more signatures on her petition until the Town Board addresses development plans in the future.

After the public comment period closed, business went on as usual with reports from various department heads. Tony Tozzi of the zoning department said that multiple consultants from surrounding areas have expressed

an interest in the recently passed form-based zoning code, resulting in two workshops being led for interested consultants March 21 from 9–11 a.m. and March 27 from 7–9 p.m. The workshops will go over the paperwork process of developing a form-based zoning code for any town.

Kevin King of the finance department let the board know that the town’s finances will be audited March 25.

Audrey Ball of the parks and recreation department announced that the Malta Farmers Market may have a slight move in its future, with tentative plans to use part of the Allerdice parking lot on Route 9 in addition to its current site in order to make parking and booth locations easier for vendors.

In other news, the public hearing for the Bishops Square Planned Development District Amendment was scheduled for the April 1 town board meeting at 6:50 p.m., while a public hearing for the historic landmark designation of the Elmer Ellsworth home will also take place at the April 1 meeting at 6:55 p.m.

18th Year Photo provided

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The 2013 Saratoga Showcase of Homes Committee is in full swing planning this year’s exciting edition of the area’s premiere new home tour.

Now celebrating its 18th year, this annual community event has contributed nearly $800,000 to our local charities. The 2013 Showcase of Homes will be over three weekends this fall on September 21–22, 28–29 and October 5–6 featuring the region’s finest, award-winning builders with new construction, renovated homes and apartment

complexes. Tickets will still be only $20. There will also be a fresh and unique Chef ’s “Saratoga Style” event to kick off the showcase festivities on Friday, September 20.

Last year, 19 homes from 16 awardwinning builders were on display around Saratoga County visited by over 3500 people. A total of $66,000 was donated to charity.

The Committee has an extensive advertising and promotional campaign in development which will include official media sponsors in print including newspapers and magazines, online, radio, billboards and television. Corporate sponsorship opportunities are now available and showcase home reservations are currently in progress.

For a sponsorship packet or for information about entering a home in the event, please contact Barry Potoker, Executive Director at (518) 366-0946 or bpotoker@saratogabuilders.org.

Proceeds from the Showcase of Homes will benefit Rebuilding Together Saratoga County www. rebuildingtogethersaratoga.org and Habitat for Humanity of Northern Saratoga, Warren and Washington Counties www.glensfallshabitat.org. For more details on the 2013 Saratoga Showcase of Homes event, please visit www. saratogashowcaseofhomes.com.

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TODAY A Special Supplement to Saratoga TODAY • Pages 15–25

It’s Almost Time to ‘Spring Forward’

Tips on How to Help Your Family Make the Transition

by Chelsea DiSchiano with Ilissa Goman Saratoga TODAY

each day leading up to Sunday, then you’ll be right on cue for a normal wake time.”

Create a consistent bedtime routine

SARATOGA COUNTY – We have finally reached the month of March, meaning the winter is almost behind us and we can start looking ahead to spring. March also means that it is once again time to ‘spring forward’ and turn the clocks ahead one hour. While this means longer days and brings promises of summer, the newly lost hour may be a little tough for some to get used to—especially children. Here are some tips on how to make the transition a little easier, with help from certified sleep consultant Ilissa Goman, owner of Binx.

Transition late-risers ahead of time

“When we’re “springing ahead,” the transition is easier than in the fall. Children whom are early risers will have no problem. This is the time of the year where they’re now waking up later, so “yay!” for them,” Goman said.

“Flexible children usually won’t have a problem adjusting to the time change. Children whom are late risers should have their schedule adjusted gradually in the few days prior to Sunday. If you adjust their entire schedule (naps, eating, and bedtime) by 15 minutes earlier

“Bedtime routines should consist of soothing activities and be consistent every night. A great, easy routine is bath time, reading a book, then lights out. You want to make sure that the hour and a half leading up to bedtime does not include brain stimulating activities, like the television, video games, and music,” Goman said.

Create a natural sleeping environment

“It’s important to make sure the children’s sleep environment is also adjusted accordingly, as there may now be sunlight at bedtime,” Goman explained. “You’ll want to make sure where they’re sleeping is completely dark, as light can change the brain’s sleeping patterns.”

It’s also important to make sure everyone in the family keeps their regular sleeping hours. Keeping those regular hours helps to regulate your body’s sleeping patterns and make sure you aren’t too thrown off by the lost hours. For parents, losing that extra hour will be tough at first, but the transition won’t be too hard if you go to bed earlier than usual the first few nights of the daylight savings time transition period.

Make sure to avoid stimulating substances such as coffee or tea in the four to six hours leading up to bedtime. During the first few days, it is a good idea to eat lighter dinners and/or eat earlier than usual to avoid insomnia. If you get hungry

closer to bedtime, eating a snack of easy-to-digest food such as carbohydrates or dairy won’t pervade on your sleeping time.

Since Daylight Savings Time occurs every six months, it’s a great way to mark when you should check and replace the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. It’s also a good time to check the batteries of clocks, outdoor

lighting and flashlights. If you have a disaster supply kit in your home, you can check its contents to make sure everything you need is still available and replace anything if necessary. The six month mark of Daylight Savings Time is also a good time to check any medications for expiration dates and throw them out if need be.

Ilissa Goman is a certified sleep consultant through the Family Sleep Institute. Goman helps families put together sleep plans to get their child or children the healthy sleep they need and deserve. Parents can contact her at www.BinxBaby.com or at the new Binx store at 74 Beekman St. located in Saratoga Springs (opening March 16).

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Mean Girls

How to Use Girlpower for Good, Not Evil

by Meghan D. Lemery, LCSW-R for Saratoga TODAY

Months ago when I was on a vacation in the fun and sun, I entered a very posh boutique that had dresses in the window that caught my eye.

Upon walking into the shop I felt an immediate sense of discomfort and tension. The women behind the counter were chilly and I felt their eyes analyze me from head to toe.

My immediate inside voice screamed at me, “Why did you wear those flip-flops? You look like a slob!”

I could feel myself tap into the insecure 14-year-old high school girl with frizzy hair and braces that

wanted to be cool and well-liked.

Her voice came back shouting at me that I wasn’t good enough, cool enough, thin enough and pretty enough to be in this store, or even the planet for that matter.

This reaction was so strong and immediate that I had to walk briskly out of the store and immerse myself into the warm sunshine and sea filled air.

I walked out of the store feeling like I had been slimed and picked apart by the mean girl club.

Here’s what stumped me: Why did I take the bait? Why was it so easy to abandon my sense of selfworth and seek the approval of the

chilly salespeople at the poshy-posh boutique? Why do we repeatedly abandon our sense of strength and self-worth just because the mean girl looks at us wrong?

We can all relate to a time where we either got bullied by the mean girl, or we were the mean girl. As we mature and grow up, we eventually have to decide what we think of ourselves, and stop giving the power over to other people.

We as a sisterhood have to stop competing and judging each other and begin to treat each other with compassion, acceptance, kindness and love.

If we are going to evolve into the enlightened spiritual beings we long to be, we have to drop the urge to judge and step all over each other in the “who’s better” competition.

Why would you want to compete with another woman? You are unique to the entire world. No one has your quirks, smile, eyes and sense of humor. If you were like everyone else, you would not be you!

Any woman that resorts to the mean girl mentality is a woman who most likely hates herself. She wanders the world insecure and shallow, draining her energy by trying to be perfect and putting everyone around her down.

Before you knock the mean girl in the teeth, recognize where her actions come from. They are rooted in pain and low self-worth, and any dig she can get in strengthens her empty, shallow core.

The best way to deal with a mean girl in your life, office or at the bus stop is confrontation. Years ago when I was attending an invitation only conference for private practitioners, one known mean girl in the group greeted me with this warm salutation, “How did you get invited to this?”

My immediate reaction was to go nuclear on her, but, in my newfound genius and compassionate heart, I decided to take my own advice. I looked her right in the eye, gently picked up her hand, held it mine and said in a firm tone, “You are snarky. Stop and be nice— you look ugly when you speak like that!” Her mouth dropped open

and her face turned bright red. A few seconds later she replied in a complete high pitched shrill, “I was only kidding!”

When you confront a mean girl in a calm, neutral but firm way, you disarm their power. You are refusing to engage in the snark fest but also let them know you will not be mistreated or put down.

Once I confronted the abovementioned mean girl, she left me alone. As I observed her a few other times that day I noticed she seemed antsy and insecure. Watching her suffer in her own feelings of low self-worth did not give me great joy—rather, it gave me compassion for my fellow sister.

How we treat others is a measure of how we feel and treat ourselves. Mean girls are mean because deep down, they hate themselves.

The best way to handle these ill hearts is to be honest, direct and find compassion in our own hearts. Let me be clear—I am not suggesting you put up with a mean girl in your life, but don’t be a hater back. Rather, recognize their actions come from a place of pain, not of strength.

The best gift we can give ourselves and our fellow sisterhood is acceptance, love and compassion. Love yourself and others with a heart full of grace and kindness, and remember that when someone is rude or awful to you, it’s more about what is going on with them than it is about you.

Next time you walk into the poshy-posh shop and get the snub, don’t shrink back and give the mean girl more power. Confront the snarkiness head on and see how much stronger and lighter you feel!

Ms. Lemery is a psychotherapist practicing in Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs, NY. For more information visit meghanlemery.com or email meghanlemery@yahoo.com.

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Equity Investment and Inflation

by Kevin D. Gioia for Saratoga TODAY

Q: Can equity investments outpace inflation?

A: Yes, especially when purchased at bargain prices.

Sir John Templeton’s first rule in his 16 Rules for Investment Success is to “Invest for maximum total real return.” In other words, an investor’s goal should be to maximize their invested dollars after taxes and inflation. We frequently encounter taxes of all kinds, but inflation tends to be ignored. To build real wealth, an investor must earn returns that outpace inflation, and I believe that investing in quality businesses at a discount to their intrinsic value is vital to accomplishing this objective.

Inflation is simply the increase in prices one pays for goods and services over time. It is best understood in the context of products or services that have endured and maintained their primary use. For example, in 1986 a Big Mac from a U.S.-based McDonalds was, on average, $1.60 and at the start of 2013 it was $4.37. This is an average annual increase of 3.7 percent.

Inflation has serious implications for investment returns, and it is imperative to understand the difference between nominal and real returns. Nominal returns are investment performance without considering inflation. Comparatively, real returns factor inflation into the equation and indicate how much your purchasing power has actually increased. Since one day you hope to spend what you have invested,

real returns are the more important measure.

This can be illustrated with a hypothetical example. If an investor buys a stock at $100 and at the end of the year it rises to $110 and inflation is 2 percent, the investor’s nominal return is 10 percent and real return equals 8 percent (10 percent minus 2 percent).1 In terms of purchasing power if at the start of the same year a soda costs $1, at year-end it will increase to $1.02 with inflation. As a result, although our hypothetical investor has 10 more dollars, he/she cannot buy 10 more sodas.

Consequently, our investor’s purchasing power grew slower than their investment account. This is why inflation matters.

Inflation in the U.S. was a major drag in the 1970s. Although investors in long-term corporate bonds averaged nominal returns of 6.2 percent, inflation was at very high levels averaging 7.4 percent. At first glance, 6.2 percent per year seems like a satisfactory return on bonds; however, when inflation is factored in, the investors’ purchasing power was actually weaker at the end of the decade compared to the beginning.

I believe that investing in companies that can grow faster than inflation is the best way to preserve purchasing power and grow wealth over the long term.

To support this theory, I analyzed five-year rolling returns2 of selected equities since 1900.3 The research supported my thesis that equities have definitely been useful in building real wealth. In fact, the five-year compound returns exceeded inflation and provided positive real returns 74 percent of the time.

Furthermore, it is my conviction that investing in businesses at the right price yields even better real returns. Over this same time period, I analyzed the impact of purchasing stocks when they were cheapest as judged by the priceto-earnings ratio. I found that the time periods when stocks were selling for a bargain yielded an average annual real return 6.87 percent greater than times when stocks were expensive. In the context of total returns, this means that patient investors who waited for discounts would have had about 40 percent more real wealth than investors who purchased equities when they were most

expensive at the end of five years.

There is no doubt that inflation can erode the purchasing power of accumulated wealth. My research has shown that purchasing equities at bargain prices has proven to be an effective strategy for outpacing inflation. I seek to invest in small- to mid-sized companies at a discount to my estimate of their intrinsic value in order to protect and increase real wealth.

Kevin D. Gioia is an Investment Research Analyst at Fenimore Asset Management, an independent investment advisory firm located in Cobleskill, N.Y. since 1974.

Fenimore’s affiliates are the Fenimore Private Client Group & FAM Funds—offering separately managed accounts and mutual funds. In-depth research. Insightful investing.

1. The calculation used in for illustrative purposes. The formula is technically (1.1/1.02)-1.

2. Rolling returns are the average annual percentage returns for a fixed time period, in this case five years.

3. Data from: Shiller, Robert J. Irrational Exuberance.

Princeton University Press, 2000; second edition, 2005.

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Staying Fit as You Get Older

by Dr. Matt Smith for Saratoga TODAY Exercise is often prescribed for patients of all ages to reduce complaints about pain in muscles and bones. But some feel it gets harder to exercise as they get older. The following tips will help you exercise more effectively as you age, helping you feel better.

Q: I’ve been inactive for so long.

Won’t it hurt to exercise?

A: You can always become as physically fit as possible, given your current health status and limitations. When you commit to a physical fitness program, you will move toward enjoying life more fully.

First, pick an activity that you enjoy doing and perform it regularly. Make your exercise program as pleasant as possible. If you feel exercising is a chore, you will be

uncomfortable with the program and quit. If you can, ask a friend to exercise with you so you can support each other.

Second, begin your exercise program gradually, starting with five minutes of exercise each day. As you become more comfortable with the routine and notice positive effects of fitness, you may increase the exercise time.

If you have been inactive for some time, you may feel some small aches and pains. They will fade with time. Be sure to tell your doctor if you experience any unusual pain or other symptoms while or after performing your exercises.

Check with your doctor, chiropractor or other health care provider before starting any exercise or physical fitness program. While exercise is beneficial, depending on your health status, the type of exercise you perform can have profound effects on your health, both good and bad.

Q: How do I start?

A: Develop a plan for an exercise program and stick with it.

Make your exercise program an integral part of your normal daily activities. Or, use normal daily activities to help your muscles and bones become as healthy as possible: Research shows that “functional exercises”—those that mimic daily activities such as walking up

and down stairs and getting in and out of a chair—can be quite effective.

Some research suggests that people who live in twostory houses are less prone to certain types of heart disease.

Repeatedly climbing a flight of stairs or rising from and returning to a seated position helps build strength and aerobic fitness. If you hold a weight during these exercises, you can increase your level of physical activity even further.

Household chores, such as vacuuming, loading and emptying the dishwasher, and moving wet laundry from the washer to the dryer one piece at a time can increase strength and flexibility. To protect your spine, keep your back as straight as possible and lift with your legs, when necessary. Take breaks if you get tired.

Q: I don’t feel as strong as I used to. Can I still exercise?

A: As we age, we lose muscle mass. Some health care providers suggest that weight training will help prevent strength loss and keep patients feeling younger longer. Unfortunately, many seniors find they can’t lift the heavy weights necessary to actually build muscle mass.

But don’t be discouraged: recent studies show that while muscle strength diminishes with age, muscle endurance does not. It means that as we get older, we may benefit from switching strength exercises— working muscles with lighter

weights but for a longer period of time.

Exercises that emphasize endurance, such as dancing, walking or bicycling, may be more beneficial and more enjoyable.

Walking with a family member or friend helps your physical fitness—and helps build relationships. These exercises are also aerobic and will benefit your heart health. For people who cannot walk or ride a bike, there are endurance and flexibility enhancing exercises that can be performed in a chair.

Q: I have arthritis. How can I exercise safely?

A: Many people with rheumatic conditions are physically inactive. Prolonged periods of inactivity, however, will often make your joints stiff and painful. But, in most cases you can and should exercise. In fact, recent research has shown that older people with arthritis gain modest improvement in physical function, pain, general mobility and flexibility when participating in longterm exercise programs.

Water-based exercises, such as swimming or “water walking” can work on joints without putting them through the stress of weight bearing. If necessary, your doctor can show you how to use a cane, a walker, or other assistive devices to help prevent falls and injuries while you are physically active.

Q: What fitness program will help me the most?

A: The best exercise program is the one that is tailored to your individual health status. Your doctor or chiropractic can help you plan the fitness program that is right for you.

Typically, low-impact activities that keep joints moving and minimize pain, such as walking, swimming and waterbased exercise, are effective and well-tolerated. Research has shown that exercise can reduce joint stiffness, pain and inflammation associated with arthritic conditions which affect most of us as we age.

Doctors of chiropractic can not only help restore muscle and joint function that has been affected by injury, illness and age-related conditions such as arthritis, but they can also maintain the health and flexibility of your muscles and bones. They often prescribe exercise to prevent and treat many of these conditions, helping older people to remain active and independent.

Dr. Matt Smith is a graduate of Cornell University and Palmer College of Chiropractic-West. He specializes in gentle treatment of spinal conditions and sports injuries.

He is also the owner of Saratoga Sports Massage. More information can be found on his website mattsmithchiropractic.com.

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Senior Events Calendar

Senior Citizens Center of Saratoga Springs • 5 Williams Street, Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs Public Library • 49 Henry Street, Saratoga Springs Friday Picture Shows The Center offers Friday Picture Shows at 1 p.m. each week. This month’s schedule is: 3/8: “Arbitrage”, 3/15: “Mama Mia, 3/22: “Mad Money” and 3/29: “Intouchables”.

Membership and advance sign up is required. Full movie descriptions are available at the Center. The cost is $2 and includes snacks.

6th Annual Health Fair Our 6th annual Health Fair is on Thursday, March 21 from 9 a.m.– noon. Meet health professionals and attend screenings in hearing, sight, physical therapy, dental and skin care or try out the “Virtual Dementia Tour”. This event is free and open to the public. Regular Center programming will not be interrupted—however, there will be no lunch served.

Art Classes March’s monthly art classes with instructor Patrice Mastrianni are as follows: On Mondays from 9–11 a.m. explore the art of French painter Henri Matisse through paint, pastel, cut paper and glass fusion.

Then, on Wednesdays from 9–11 a.m., try your hand at beaded jewelry or mosaics. You decide which craft you’d like to work with. The classes cost $10 per month including supplies. Advance sign up and membership is required.

Free Saratoga Youth Orchestra Concert On Sunday, March 10 from 1–2:30 p.m., the Center is proud to host a free concert by the Saratoga Youth Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Gioacchino Longobardi.

The public is invited to attend this special performance by the area’s most talented young musicians.

Annual Irish Celebration Put on your green attire and join us for the annual Irish Celebration on Thursday, March 14 from 3–4:30 p.m. Enjoy live Irish music by Tim Wechgelaer and Jeff Walton.

Admission is $5 per person and snacks are included. This event is open to the public. Advance ticket purchase is suggested.

“The Aging Eye” Program The Glens Falls Association of the Blind explains various eye conditions in a program titled, “The Aging Eye”.

On Thursday, March 14, from 1–2

p.m., learn about macular degeneration, glaucoma and “flashing lights” as well as various treatments that are available. This program is free and open to the public.

Lion’s Club Hearing Aid Assistance Program Representatives from the Lion’s Club will be at the Center on Wednesday, March 27th from 12:30–1:30 p.m. to explain medical and financial qualifications to benefit from their hearing aid assistance program.

Advocacy Assistance Information The Center provides advocacy assistance to adults in the community Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Receive help with doctors, insurance, housing or other issues.

Advocates also offer instruction for computers, cell phones or e-readers on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9–3 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 9–12 p.m.

Please call for an appointment.

Trip to Canada The Center is hosting a trip to Montreal and Quebec, Canada from June 3–6, 2013. The trip includes motor coach transportation, lodging, six meals and guided tours of historic Quebec City, Montreal and regional landmarks. The cost is $498 per person/ double occupancy ($668/single).

Hold your place with a $75 deposit.

Full payment is due by March 29th. A

valid US Passport or Passport Card is required. The full itinerary is available at the Center or on our website: www. saratogaseniorcenter.org. This trip is open to the public.

Anyone age 50 and over can join the Center for only $15/year.

Stop at the Center weekdays from 8 a.m.–4 p.m.

Saratoga Springs Public Library Events: VITA Tax Program Noon–3 p.m. in Susman Room Volunteer tax help is offered on weekend afternoons starting at noon during the tax season through the VITA Program. This is a no cost service for taxpayers whose incomes are $49,000 or lower.

Numbered tickets (picked up on day of service only) are needed and are limited to 25/day. Please bring social security cards and all appropriate official documentation necessary, such as picture IDs, receipts, statements, etc. The program is aimed at helping the homebound, seniors, and those who have difficulty with tax preparation and may not be able to afford professional help. The Saratoga County Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program is sponsored by the IRS and the NYS Department of Tax and Finance. There are also a variety of VITA locations throughout

the Capital District area which you may want to pursue if the library’s service does not meet your needs.

Guided Mindful Meditation The first and third Tuesday of each month, from 12:30–1:30 p.m. in the Susman Room.

Take a break from the daily grind and clear your mind with guided Mindful Meditation led by professionals from One Roof Holistic Health Center. Sessions are free and open to the public, and will be held on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome!

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This Week’s SPOLIGHT

Camp Chingachgook DAY CAMP FUN! From Albany to Greene County, all Capital District YMCA branches offer fun summer camp options. Children 3 to 16 will find something fun to do, from swimming lessons to play time in the GaGa pit! Best of all, YMCA programs focus on fun activities that build your child’s confidence and self-esteem, while teaching your child the value of teamwork and playing well with others. You child will love spending time with old friends and making new friends!

NEW FOR 2013 Online registration! Visit www.CDYMCA.org today. Sibling discounts! Free before and after-camp care. Membership is not required. All are welcome! Call today for details. (518) 869.3500. Visit us online at www.CDYMCA.org.

OUR PREMIER DAY CAMP Located just off Route 155 in Guilderland, YMCA Adventure Camp (formerly Camp Nassau) is our premier regional day camp, with an out-door pool, a pond with paddle boats, a zip line, a rock wall, a covered pavilion, and much more!

We have convenient bus routes ready to pick up and drop off your child. FREE TOURS! Visit www.CDYMCA.org today for our tour schedule, or call 456.3634.

OUR PREMIER OVERNIGHT CAMP Camp Chingachgook on Lake George offers a one-of-a-kind overnight camp experience for your child. Located on the shores of Lake George in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, Camp Chingachgook’s dedicated, top-notch staff and modern yet rustic facilities offer outdoor experiences to last a lifetime.

Your child will love our day camp (for kids 5–10), overnight camp (for kids 7–15), our variety of adventure trip programs (for kids 11 and older), and our Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program (for 16 year olds).

The Capital District YMCA Provides Safe, Affordable Summer Camp for Your Child!

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INVENT. DISCOVER. EXPLORE. ACH IEVE. Inspire CREATIVITY and INVENTIVE thinking during a weeklong summer adventure of FUN and EXCITING real world challenges!

Locations throughout the Capital Region.

Register your child @ www.campinvention.org or 800.968.4332

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A Three-Song Night

Learning to Appreciate the Sleepless Nights with Your Little Ones

by Kate Towne Sherwin for Saratoga TODAY The kids had all been in bed for a couple of hours the other night when I heard the baby cry.

Up to a certain point, as you all know, hearing the baby cry in the night is just par for the course, an unavoidable characteristic of having a small baby in the house. Up to a certain point, a baby crying in the night likely means several minutes to a good while of me being up and awake while nursing, soothing, bouncing, walking with and singing to the baby—usually more than

once a night. Up to a certain point, I can count on this being the case more nights than not.

I deal with it, of course, as we all do. As much as I appreciate peaceful nights, I want my babies to have peaceful nights too, even if they are wakeful ones, and I’ve always felt like the tinier a baby is, the more he needs me to regulate his peacefulness. Being born is stressful, after all, and this wide world is maybe just a bit scary to a wee one—what better way to feel secure than with Mom, who’s been there since Day One? And when we’re up in the night together, I often feel like we’re suffering together, he and I. Not suffering side-by-side, but like his suffering is mine, and mine is united to his—the baby knows he’s not alone in any of this. Up to a point, it just seems like the natural extension of the relationship we shared when he was in the womb.

Up to a point.

We usually reach that point once the baby’s stopped nursing at night. Sometimes it’s a rocky few weeks of adjustment for Baby and I, where he doesn’t wake to nurse some nights, and other

nights he seems to want to make up for the nursing-less nights with an extra hearty appetite.

But at some point he stops nursing at night for good, really and truly, and I can feel a lightness in my mood and outlook that hadn’t been there since he was born.

In my all-or-nothing way, it seems like once the baby’s sleeping through the night, any nighttime wakings fill me with a certain amount of dread. My husband and I hear the first little sputters and sniffles and we immediately mute the TV, cock our heads toward the stairs, and stare off in the distance in order to hear better. If the sniffles turn into full-on crying, we might wait a minute—our conversation abruptly paused, listening—to see if the crying will stop.

Sometimes it does, but often it doesn’t, and one of us will get up with a sigh, with hopes of soothing the crier back to sleep.

Some of the wakings are inevitable, like when the kids are sick or teething. I remember this time last year, when I had a nighttimenursing newborn as well as a puking two-year-old all night one night and a stomach-sick self all night the next. Being up so much in the night feels nightmarish to me, surreal and spooky, and even when I’ve been up all night tending to a little one, I’m always happy to see the dawn, a return to normalcy.

But on a regular ol’ normal night, when no one’s sick or teething, when everyone’s warm enough

but not too warm, when there should be no impediment to peaceful sleep, and the baby wakes up, I always feel a little bit unsure. I know how to tend to an older boy awake in the night, and I know what to do for a nursing baby, but that inbetween stage—where our Taddy is right now, at 14 months old—is a little tricky. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what’s wrong. Should I go up and check on him or not? Does he just need a minute to fuss before nodding off again? If I open the door to his room there’s no turning back—once he sees me, there’s no “nodding off again” on his own.

The other night, he didn’t settle down. After a few minutes he was still crying, so I uncurled my cozy self from the couch where we were watching a non-kids movie and went slowly up the stairs, giving Taddy every opportunity to quiet down on his own. Outside his door, I lingered briefly, listening for that telltale note to his cry that says, “I’m just about to calm down.” It wasn’t there, so I went in, and he pulled himself up in his crib with tears running down his face and reached for me.

I sat with him in the rocking chair in his room. Outside his window the night glowed pinkish from low hanging clouds and soft snow falling. The streetlights were candlelight-cozy in the winter night, and I rocked back and forth as his breathing slowed, and I sang to him the song my mom always sang to me. Even hearing the song, which I

sing to all my boys when they’re up at night, sparks images in my memory of a nightlight-lit hallway and me on my mother’s lap, late at night, when familiar things look strange and everything is quiet and dark.

“O Holy Night,” I sang, itself a song of mystery and wonder, a haunting melody that seems appropriate to nighttime soothing. Every season, every wakeful night, I sing that Christmas song to scared boys, sick boys, up-inthe-night boys. If I sing it during the day, often at the request of one of the boys, I find that the others come over, find a snuggly spot near me, and listen quietly.

After one singing of the song, Taddy was still awake, so I sang it again. I rubbed his back while I sang; he rested his head on my shoulder; I could see his eyes lowering. By the end of the third time, the baby was asleep, peaceful, and when I lowered him back into his crib he rolled over, sighed, and slept. I crept out of the room, closed the door quietly behind me, and thanked God that all it took was a Mama snuggle and a song—and that I was allowed the gift of those sweet moments with my littlest boy.

Kate Towne Sherwin is a stayat-home mom (SAHM) living in Saratoga Springs with her husband and their sons Thomas (8), Gabriel (6), John Dominic (4), Xavier (3), and Thaddeus (14 months). She can be reached at sksherwin@hotmail.com.

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Pot of Gold Dipping Fun Photo provided

by Jodie Fitz for Saratoga TODAY

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The 2013 Saratoga Baby and Toddler Expo will take place on Saturday, April 6 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. The event is free, family-friendly, and will be held on the scenic campus of Saratoga Independent School at 459 Lake Avenue. The event is unique to the Capital Region, and brings together a wealth of local services, information, and products, especially for parents-to-be and families with young children.

Parents and future parents can learn about the diverse array of services available to families in the Saratoga area including pediatricians, pediatric dentistry, daycare options, preschools, alternative birthing options, pregnancy and post-partum fitness and nutrition, doula services, breastfeeding support, and more. A variety of vendors will be showcasing their products and services including books, jewelry, handmade gifts and bath and body care.

Additionally, the Safe Child ID Card Program will be producing SAFE CHILD cards for parents and guardians of children who are one year of age and older from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and there will be a pop-up photography studio from iSmile. The local non-profit To Love a Child will hold a bake sale and will be accepting donations such as sleeping mats, toddler ride-on toys, and educational toys like wooden blocks to be shipped to Haiti in May.

All attendees will receive a free reusable shopping bag at the door with samples and information from many of the exhibitors.

There will be educational presentations scheduled throughout the day. The schedule of events and all exhibitors can be found at www.

SaratogaBabyExpo.com.

For more information, please contact Colleen Pierre colleen@ saratogamama.com or (518) 3387304. Up to date information about exhibitors and presentations can be found at: www.saratogababyexpo.com For further information about To Love A Child please contact

Cindy Schmehl at zawislanco@aol. com, or visit www.toloveachild.net For further information about Saratoga Independent School please contact Felice Karlitz at fkarlitz@siskids.org or (518) 5830841 or visit www.siskids.org

Ingredients: 5 oz. light whipped topping or Dannon Greek vanilla yogurt 3 oz. low fat vanilla yogurt 2 tablespoons crushed pineapple 2 tablespoons mandarin orange, finely chopped* 2 tablespoons vanilla coconut milk or ½ teaspoon coconut extract Directions: Fold the whipped topping (or Greek Yogurt), vanilla yogurt,

pineapple, mandarin oranges and coconut milk (or extract) together.

Whipped Topping Trade: Experiment replacing the whipped topping with Greek vanilla yogurt.

Dannon vanilla Greek is my favorite whipped cream trade.

Rainbow Fruit Kabobs: I love to serve this with rainbow fruit kabobs by using skewers found filled with strawberries, purple grapes, blueberries, green grapes, pineapple and mandarin oranges.

And of course, there are other fruit substitutions that can be used to fit in with the colorful fun that this activity offers.

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From London and Back—Laura Weil’s Culinary Adventures

Laura Weil’s connections to the Saratoga Farmers’ Market and to being a professional chef trace all the way back to her childhood, “My parents live in the area and the Saratoga Market was and is their favorite. I started cooking by peeling that first potato, and I was hooked. My mother wasn’t so strict in the kitchen, and it wasn’t long before I was cooking many dinners for my parents and sister.”

Today, through her company Funky Fresh Foods, Laura is a vendor at the Market, offering popular fruit smoothies and over a dozen homemade burritos, including breakfast, bean and rice, pulled pork and vegetable combination burritos topped with homemade red or green salsas.

The journey, from those childhood visits to the Market to running her own business at the Market, spans the Atlantic Ocean, a few different countries, and a variety of cooking experiences.

When she took a break from college and her courses in literature and culture, she went to London with a work visa, and soon was preparing elaborate dinners for friends; always taking photos through bakery windows of prepared plates of food and collecting restaurant menus.

After having various jobs, she secured her first paid job as a cook on an estate in Wales. “I cooked for a Dowager Viscountess where life on the estate truly looked a lot like Downton Abbey. I even wore a uniform. I’ve always been fascinated by classic British culture and the job fit in nicely. I learned how to make traditional high society British and European food such as cheese straws, roasted potatoes and pates, in a kitchen fitted with plate warmers and AGA ranges.”

When Laura and her husband Paul (whom she had met in that toy store) returned to the United States, she worked at Shades of Green, a vegetarian restaurant in Albany. “The menu was conceived

by the wife who was from Spain and was a fantastic cook. I learned a lot about cooking from her and her husband. And since I had been a vegetarian and interested in health food since before high school it was a great job for me. “ However, the restaurant scene with the late dinner hours wasn’t for Laura, so she migrated to some office jobs, while taking a variety of cooking classes. Later she baked for Chabad of Saratoga, and with Paul ran a health food store in Ballston Spa where she did all the cooking.

“After we left the health food store, I realized that I was very much missing being around all of the healthy produce.” They returned to the Saratoga Farmers Market and for several years worked for the Kilpatrick Family Farm.

During that time, Laura began to plan for her own food business, “What I really missed was cooking and I decided to open my own prepared food business at the Market using as many great market products as possible. A friend suggested that I make homemade burritos, which I had also been thinking about for a while because I learned so much from the Spanish restaurant owner in Albany.”

Funky Fresh Foods is now a year-round fixture at the Saturday Market. Laura makes her own tortillas and salsas, and uses items for the burritos from other vendors at the Market, including potatoes, eggs, yogurt, honey and various vegetables. Although she had been a vegetarian for many years, “I started eating meat again after seeing the quality humanelyraised meat at the Market,” So she added pulled pork burritos with Pucker’s pickles on the side to her offerings. For the smoothies, she uses fruits from the Market when possible or purchased fruits such as the ever-popular mango.

Customers can order flour or corn tortillas in advance from Laura to pick up the following week at the Market. This summer, she also plans to offer her salsas for sale. She does catering and makes specialty cakes, emphasizing ingredients from the Saratoga Farmers’ Market.

Laura is fond of her Czechoslovakian grandmother Rosemary, who was stricter in the

kitchen than her mother. “I can still remember the joy I felt when I was allowed to peel my first potato.

She made a variety of authentic, delicious Czech food, and she made the following recipe all the time. It is one of her favorites and it is one of ours.”

Lekvorove Sukrove (Slovak Prune Jelly Cake) Ingredients: ¾ cup good butter (Laura suggests Kate’s unsalted butter from Maine.)

1 cup sugar 4 egg yolks * ¼–½ cup Battenkill Valley Creamery heavy cream or half and half *

2 tsp. baking powder 2½ cups flour (may need a bit more) ¼ tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla Jam, about 1 cup * (Laura’s Grandma used lekvar, prune jam, which is much better than it sounds. But any thick homemade or Farmers’ Market jam will do, such as raspberry or strawberry jam.)

Directions: 1. Grease and flour a 13-inch square pan, such as would be used to make large batch of brownies.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. 2. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg yolks and mix well.

3. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together.

4. Add this to the egg mixture along with the vanilla.

5. Mix gently but well with a spoon and stir in the cream. The dough will be a little thick. (Set aside some of the dough to make decorative strips for the top of the cake.)

6. Press the dough into the bottom of the pan, and about 1½ up the sides.

7. Spread a thick layer of jam over the top of the dough and place the reserved dough strips over the jam in a crisscross pattern.

8. Bake at 350°F for about a half-hour.

9. When the cake is cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

It’s a Keeper!

by John Reardon for Saratoga TODAY Hello, my Foodie Friends!

It’s March and here’s a reminder that it comes “In like a lion and goes out like a lamb” and beware of the Ides of March!

Well, we just received some new items at the store that I know moms will love. They are called “keepers” and they keep your fruits and vegetables fresh for up to a week! Our newest arrivals are Kiwi and Grapes to-go! They are BPA-free, food safe and dishwasher safe. I have scored many points with my mother-in-law who just loves them! There is also Apple and Carrot dippers to-go, garlic, onion, grapefruit, tomato, pepper and lemon/lime keepers!

My mom-in-law kept

her tomatoes in one of these for two weeks and they were great!

She is my official store tester of new gadgets. Take a bow, Marie!

I can’t wait to try the grape one because I love to bring grapes to work and they get a little soft when the sit in the lunch box. We went to Myrtle Beach with our kids once and my wife sent me to go shopping with the kids. Of course, I shop like your typical man and I stock up on my favorites. The kids had fun helping me pick out the essentials: gummy bears, M&Ms, Italian bread and grapes. We bought lots of grapes because I told the kids we have to get something healthy. I didn’t look at the bill and we came back to the car where my wife was waiting. She opened one of the large bags and it only had grapes in it. It was over-flowing. She was quiet, you know, like when a little kid hurts themselves and there

is calm before the storm? She took out the receipt and in a loud voice said: “You spent $40 on GRAPES…GRAPES!?”

The kids looked away and our team became every man for himself. Aubrey was only sixyears-old at the time and for a moment it flashed through my mind to blame her. But she could talk so I was doomed.

Paula took the grapes back into the store and there would be no grapes on this vacation.

It was at least a year before I could risk bringing them back into the house without the evil eye of my bride. So stop in and purchase a grapes to-go and if Paula is working, don’t look directly into her eyes.

Remember my Friends that “Life Happens in the Kitchen” Take care, John and Paula

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

How Rude!

Failure to Respond and Other Annoying Habits

by Gayle LaSalle for Saratoga TODAY I’m struggling with where to start and end with this message.

I have a message to share, yet am careful not to overstate or exaggerate and, still, I think the message is one of importance.

There seems to be some tendencies I’ve been observing for some time now and are really quite annoying in their selfishness and lack of consideration. It certainly doesn’t lead to a great sense of civility.

The first is the failure to respond, or even worse, responding without commitment. I was recently talking to a friend who had sent invitations out to her daughter’s wedding.

Several people had not bothered to respond, so she now had to call each to get their answer. Now this invitation was sent with a self-addressed, stamped response card. How much time and effort would it take a person to return this and save someone, who already has much to do, one less thing? To quote my granddaughter, who is being raised with good manners—“How rude!”

Awhile back, a woman who created and runs a wonderful small business group planned a networking lunch. The event location charges a per-person fee. If someone responds as attending and doesn’t show up, the fee is still charged. Unfortunately, several people did this and the organizer was stuck paying for them. I realize this can be rectified by having each person pay prior to the event. What bothers me is that people would respond and then simply not show up—with no notice, no explanation, etc. Is it just me, or is this just rude?

If this were only one incidence, I might not be addressing it. However, I put on an event some time ago and I had 10 positive responses, but only three people showed up. I didn’t pay per person, so I wasn’t out of much money. I did, however, plan for enough

coffee and pastry—thus giving quite a bit away, at the end. I also spent a good amount of time being sure to have enough handouts and materials for everyone. So, in this case it wasn’t just money, but time as well.

And then there are times when there’s no money cost, but time costs.

I was talking to a friend who had agreed to help another with some last minute things she needed for a project—something she would normally charge for. My friend set aside a good part of her weekend to be available. Not only did this other person not follow up on her request, but she never called to say she did not need these services. Again, “How rude!”

Is it really that difficult to understand that if you say you’re going to be somewhere and for some reason, you can’t be there, that you give the person expecting you a heads-up?

What is it about our current culture that allows this type of behavior to be so common? Are people really so busy they can’t return a phone call or a quick email, even if that email is to let the other person know you will contact them with the appropriate answer at a later date?

Is it the casual atmosphere of the Internet creating a less than personal connection? Or are people just getting lazy and rude?

This is just one of the things I’ve been noticing that is impacting positive civility. I don’t know about you, but I find it irritating when I’m speaking to someone on the phone and it’s apparent they are busy doing something else at the same time. Am I not important enough to get your full attention? And, let’s not forget the person you are actually with who spends almost as much time on their phone as they do talking to you. I know I may be a bit “old” in that I remember when we called someone and if they didn’t answer, you actually had to call back— yes, even before answering machines.

And, yes, I like the conveniences of today’s technology. But I also know that there are few things so important that one needs to answer every phone call or every text—despite being with a friend, being in a restaurant or simply being in public—where the rest of the world is just not all that interested in someone else’s private life.

So, tell me. Am I really as “old fashioned” as some might think, or am I onto something in thinking these things are, as I shared earlier, “How Rude!”

Families

TODAY

HELPDIRECTORY

SELF

AIDS Council of Northeastern New York Hudson Falls (518) 743-0703 www.aidscouncil.org Alcoholics Anonymous Saratoga Springs (518) 587-0407 www.aa.org Alzheimer’s Association Queensbury (518) 867-4999 www.alz.org Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis of Saratoga County Saratoga Springs (518) 583-0280 Hotline (518) 584-8188 www.dvrcsaratoga.org Franklin Community Center Food Pantry and Furniture Distribution Program (518) 587-9826 101 Washington Street (Food Pantry Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.–4 p.m.; free clothing/furniture Wed, Thurs, and Fri, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.) www.franklincommunitycenter.org

Gamblers Anonymous Saratoga/Albany (518) 292-0414 St. Peter’s Addiction Recovery Center Saratoga Springs (518) 885-6884 www.stpetershealthcare.org Saratoga Center for the Family All aspects of family counseling Saratoga Springs (518) 587-8008 www.saratogacff.org Saratoga County Alcoholism Services Saratoga Springs Carol Lyte (518) 584-9030 Sexaholics Anonymous Saratoga Springs (518) 964-6292 Shelters of Saratoga Saratoga Springs (518) 587-1097 www.sheltersofsaratoga.org

Health and Support Groups American Red Cross Blood Drives Where: Keller Williams 38 High Rock Avenue, Saratoga Springs When: February 1, 2013; Noon–5 p.m.

Where: Company 4 Firehouse 613 Maple Avenue, Saratoga Springs When: February 2, 2013; 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

Where: Stewarts’ Shops Corporation 461 Route 9N, Saratoga Springs When: February 7, 2013; Noon–5 p.m.

Where: Saratoga Hospital 211 Church Street, Saratoga Springs When: February 7, 2013; 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Caregiver Support Group

Where: Evergreen Adult Day Services, 357 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa When: Last Tuesday of each month, 3–4 p.m.

What: Support for caregivers, families and friends of people with dementia.

Contact: Trudi Cholewinski (518) 691-1517; www.wesleyhealth.org

Parents Without Partners

Where: Shenedehowa Adult Community Center at Clifton Commons When: First Saturday each month.

What: Single parents can meet other single parents in a supportive environment.

Contact: (518) 348-2062, www.meetup.com/PWP796

Parkinson’s Support Group

Where: Woodlawn Commons, Saratoga Springs When: Third Monday, at 2 p.m.

What: A group open to anyone with Parkinson’s disease, family members and friends.

Contact: Joyce Garlock (518) 885-6427

Saratoga Fibromyalgia Friends

Where: Saratoga Springs Public Library, 49 Henry Street, Saratoga Springs Sussman Room When: Second Tuesday, 3–4:30 p.m.

Contact: Dawn (518) 470-4918; saratogafibrofriends.blogspot.com

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly)

Where: Trinity United Methodist Church, 155 Ballard Road, Wilton Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., with weigh-ins from 5:30–6:30 p.m.

What: Support for those looking to lose weight in a sensible manner. Annual membership is $26 with monthly dues of $5.

Contact: Area captain Lucy (518) 747-6064; www.tops.org

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fun and games Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Puzzles Across 1 Pilot producer 6 Deep-sixed 15 “Are we __?”: Sondheim lyric 16 They make lots of contacts 17 Old Renault 18 Lucille Ball was one, slangily 19 Low-quality trumpets and trombones?

21 Greek liqueur 22 Con lead-in 23 Metric wts.

26 Letters on old rubles 28 Slight push 31 Squire 32 Sound from the bleachers 33 Spread unit 34 Man with a mission 35 “How many fools do we have here?”?

39 “Christina’s World” painter 40 Criticize 41 [snicker] 42 Drooping part of a Concorde 43 Cheri who portrayed a “Morning Latte” co-host on “SNL” 45 Hard-earned degs.

46 Bring action against 47 VII x LXXIII 48 Happy Meal choice 50 Grades in standup comedy class?

55 Ingredient in green salsa 58 “Giant Brain” unveiled in 1946 59 Wading, perhaps 60 “Soon It’s __ Rain”: “The Fantasticks” song 61 Messy places 62 Second of the five stages of grief Down 1 Dutch artist Frans 2 12-member cartel 3 Tortilla chip topping 4 Slow online connection 5 Pollo partner 6 Clock sound 7 Hawaiian food fish 8 Undiluted 9 “Yes __!”

See puzzle solutions on page 36

See puzzle solution on page 36 10 Cut-rate, in company names 11 A Morse “I” requires two 12 Nosebag bit 13 Game with a discard pile 14 1/48 cup: Abbr.

20 Large sea snail 23 “The Radiant Baby” pop artist 24 Ate like a mouse 25 Brand owned by Pabst 26 Ceremonial headgear 27 Favor asker’s opening 29 Google hit datum 30 Score before ad in 31 “I’m mad!”

33 Dresden “D’oh!”

34 Clotheshorse 36 Abbr. in Québec place names

Verbal Edge by Dave Dowling Mark Twain, who was usually paid by the word, once said, “I never write Metropolis for seven cents, when I get the same price for city.” That’s good advice because many of us try to impress our readers by using large or “pompous” words. For example, we write utilize for use, endeavor for try, or facilitate for help. We tend to do this because we want readers to know we have a strong vocabulary and are well educated. If you’re familiar with the subject matter, just say it plainly. The large words will not fool anyone.

Sure, large words do play a role in some kinds of communication, such as writing done by conservative columnist William F. Buckley, Jr. or movie critic Rex Reed. And we should develop a large vocabulary, but use it graciously and use only when you need the larger words.

For example, an accountant would use words like profitability or liquidation and an engineer words like configuration or connectivity because small words cannot express

these concepts.

Small words not only add clarity and accuracy to your writing, they can also add force, beauty, and liveliness. By contrast, large words can make writing unclear and confuse the reader. Here’s an example: Original: The purchase of a new PC will enhance our record maintenance capabilities.

Revised: Buying a new PC will help us maintain our records.

You can say important things in simple words, and gain by doing so. Readers get the content quicker and you avoid sending them to the dictionary. Try not wasting your time thinking of large words. Just think small.

Dave Dowling is the author of the The Wrong Word Dictionary and The Dictionary of Worthless Words.

Signed copies are available for purchase at the gifts and home goods store, Homessence on Broadway in Saratoga Springs.

37 Make a dent in 38 Puncture 43 Durable leather 44 Best-seller list entries 45 Expect 47 Plane that competed with Lockheed’s L-1011 49 Last in a series 50 Baseball’s Maglie and Bando 51 “Sorry if __ you down” 52 Police 53 Rosebud’s owner, in film 54 War memento 55 Old salt 56 __ trial basis 57 NASDAQ, e.g.

Writing the Right Word by Dave Dowling Accuracy in word choice is a key to effective communication. This quick weekly tip will help you filter the confusion in some of our daily word choices.

Incomprehensive, Incomprehensible, Uncomprehensible Incomprehensive means incomplete, limited, or not extensive.

The reviewers rejected the reference book as incomprehensive.

Incomprehensible (or uncomprehensible) means cannot be understood.

The writing was so poor it was practically incomprehensible.

Dave Dowling is the author of the The Wrong Word Dictionary and The Dictionary of Worthless Words. Signed copies are available for purchase at the gifts and home goods store, Homessence on Broadway in Saratoga Springs.

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

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28 Adirondack Christian Fellowship 8 Mountain Ledge, Wilton 587-0623; acfsaratoga.com Services: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10 a.m.

Adirondack Friends Meeting 27 Saratoga Ave., S. Glens Falls 793-3755, AdirondackFM@nycap. rr.com; www.adirondackfriendsmeeting.org Regina Baird Haag, pastoral minister Services: 10:30 a.m. Sunday The Alliance Church 257 Rowland St., Ballston Spa 885-6524 Services: Morn. Worship 10:30 a.m.

Assembly of God Faith Chapel 6 Burgoyne St., Schuylerville 695-6069 Rev. Jason Proctor Services: Sunday 10:45 a.m.

Assembly of God Saratoga 118 Woodlawn Ave., Saratoga Springs 584-6081 Services: Sunday Worship 10 a.m., coffee served at 9:45 a.m.

Bacon Hill Reformed Church 560 Route 32N, Bacon Hill 695-3074 Rev. Janet Vincent Services: Worship service 10 a.m.

Sunday School 10 a.m.

All are welcome.

Handicapped accessible.

Baha’i Community of Saratoga Springs 584-9679; 692-7694; usbnc.org.

Ballston Center Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church 58 Charlton Road, Ballston Spa 885-7312; ballstoncenterarpchurch.org Services: Sunday Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.

Ballston Spa United Methodist Church 101 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa 885-6886 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Bethesda Episcopal Church 41 Washington St., Saratoga Springs 584-5980 Services: Sunday 6:30, 8 & 10 a.m.

Church of Christ at Clifton Park 7 Old Route 146 371-6611; cliftonparkchurchofchrist.com Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Christ Community Reformed Church 1010 Route 146, Clifton Park 371-7654; ccrc-cpny.org.

Services: Sundays 10 a.m.

Christ Episcopal Church Routes 50 & 67, Ballston Spa 885-1031 Services: Sunday 8 & 10 a.m.

Christian Restoration Ministries Saratoga Senior Center 5 Williams St., Saratoga Springs 796-4323 Pastor Pat Roach Services: Sunday 10 a.m.; 6:30 p.m.

Congregation Shaara Tfille 84 Weibel Avenue, Saratoga Springs 584-2370; saratogasynagogue.org Services: Saturday 9:30 a.m., Monday & Thursday 7:30 a.m., third Friday each month 7:30 p.m.

Handicapped Accessible

RELIGION Corinth Free Methodist Church 20 Hamilton Ave., Corinth 654-9255; 792-0271 Services: Sunday at 10 a.m.

Corinth United Methodist Church 243 Main Street, Corinth 654-2521 cfumc@cnyconnect.net Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Cornerstone Community Church Malta Commons 899-7001; mycornerstonechurch.org Associate Pastor Paul Shepherd Services: Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Community 2001 Route 9, Round Lake 877-8506, ccorpusc@nycap.rr.com Services: Saturday 4 p.m.; Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.; Weekday Masses: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.

Eastern Orthodox— Christ the Savior 349 Eastline Road, Ballston Spa 786-3100;xcsavior@yahoo.com.

Services: Sunday: 9:15 a.m.

First Baptist Church of Saratoga Springs 45 Washington St. 584-6301 Services: Sunday: 11 a.m.

First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa 202 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa 885-8361; bspabaptist.org Services: 10:30 a.m. worship 9 a.m. Sunday School (all ages) First Presbyterian Church of Ballston Spa 22 West High St., Ballston Spa 885-5583 Services: Sunday at 10 a.m.

Full Gospel Tabernacle 207 Redmond Road, Gansevoort 793-2739 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.; Bible Study: Thursday 6:30 p.m.

Galway United Methodist Church 2056 East Street (at intersection of Route 147), Galway 882-6520 www.galway-united-methodistchurch.com Services: Sunday 9:30 a.m.

(9:00 a.m. in July and August) Grace Brethren Church 137 W. Milton Rd., Ballston Spa 587-0649 Rev. Dan Pierce Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Handicapped accessible.

Greater Grace Community Church Pastor David Moore 899-7777, thechurch@ggccmalta.org Services: Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Good Times Restaurant, Lake Rd. 2nd floor; Friday 7:30 p.m. Saratoga Chapel, Eastline & Lake Rds; Sunday 10 a.m. - Glenville Senior Center, 32 Worden Rd. Greenfield Center Baptist Church 30 Wilton Rd., Greenfield Center 893-7429 Services: Sunday School for all ages - 9:45 a.m.

Church Service - 11 a.m.

Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Highway Tabernacle Church 90 River Rd., Mechanicville 664-4442 Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Hope Church 206 Greenfield Ave., Ballston Spa 885-7442 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Jonesville United Methodist 963 Main St., Clifton Park 877-7332 Services: Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Living Springs Community Church 59 Pine Rd., Saratoga Springs 584-9112 Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Living Waters Church of God 4330 State Rt. 50, Saratoga Springs 587-0484; livingwaterscog.us Services: Sundays 10 a.m.

Malta Presbyterian Church Dunning Street, Malta 899-5992 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Malta Ridge United Methodist Church 729 Malta Ave., Ext., Malta 581-0210 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Middle Grove United Methodist Church 581-2973 Pastor Bonnie Bates Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

Handicapped accessible New Horizon Church 150 Perry Road, Saratoga Springs 587-0711 Services: Sunday 9:30 a.m.

New Life Fellowship 51 Old Gick Rd., ­­ Saratoga Springs 580-1810; newlifeinsaratoga.org.

Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Childcare is available at all services.

NorthStar Church Shenendehowa High School West Auditorium, Clifton Park 371-2811; northstarchurch.com Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Old Saratoga Reformed Church 48 Pearl St., Schuylerville oldsaratogareformedchurch.org Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Handicapped accessible.

Old Stone Church (American Baptist) 159 Stone Church Rd., Ballston Spa 583-1002 Services: Sunday: 9 a.m.; Adult Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; Service 10:30 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship in Living Stone Hall; Wednesday: noon potluck luncheon; 1 p.m. choir rehearsal; 2 p.m. Bible Study Group Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church 73 Midline Road, Ballston Lake 399-5713 Services: Saturday 5 p.m.

Sunday 8:15 & 10:15 a.m.

Handicapped accessible.

Presbyterian-NE Congregational Church 24 Circular St., Saratoga Springs 584-6091; pnecc.org Services: Sunday 10:45 a.m.

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013 Quaker Springs United Methodist Church 466 Route 32 South 695-3101; qsumc.com Pastor Al Johnson Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

Handicapped accessible.

River of Hope Fellowship 100 Saratoga Village Blvd. Malta Cmns., Ste. 3, Malta 881-1505; riverofhopefellowship.com Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter 241 Broadway, Saratoga Springs 584-2375 Services: Eucharistic Celebrations: Saturday 5 p.m.; Sunday 7:30, 9 & 11 a.m.

St. Clement’s Roman Catholic Church 231 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs 584-6122 Services: Saturday 4 p.m.; Sunday 8, 9:30, 11:15 a.m. & 5 p.m.

St. George’s Episcopal Church 912 Route 146, Clifton Park 371-6351; stgeorge@csdsl.net Services: Saturday 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 8 & 9:30 a.m.

St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church 3159 Route 9N, Greenfield Center 893-7680; sjoegctr@nycap.rr.com; www.stjosephschurchgreenfieldcenter.org Services: Saturday 4 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m. Handicapped accessible St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church 167 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa 885-7411; stmarysbsta.org Services: Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon.

Handicapped accessible St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church 771 Route 29, Rock City Falls 893-7680; sjoegctr@nycap.rr.com Services: Sunday 8:30 am.

Handicapped accessible.

St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church 149 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs 584-0904 Services: Saturday 5 p.m. with Holy Communion. Sundays 8:30 & 11 a.m. with Holy Communion.

St. Peter Lutheran Church 2776 Route 9, Malta 583-4153 Services: Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.

St. Thomas of Canterbury 242 Grooms Rd., Halfmoon st-thomas-of-canterbury.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Saratoga Abundant Life Church 2325 Route 50 South, Saratoga Springs 885-5456; saratogaabundantlife.org Services: Sunday 9:30 a.m.

Saratoga Chabad 130 Circular St., Saratoga Springs 526-0773; saratora@aol.com; saratogachabad.com Saratoga Friends Meeting (Quaker) Rts. 32 and 71 Quaker Springs 587-7477; 399-5013 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Saratoga United Methodist Church Henning Road, Saratoga Springs 584-3720; saratogaumc.com.

Services: Sunday 9 & 10:45 a.m.

Handicapped accessible.

Saratoga Seventh-Day Adventist Church 399 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs 882-9384; saratogasda.org Services: Sabbath School: 10 a.m.

Worship Service: 11:30 a.m.

Shenendehowa United Methodist 971 Route 146, Clifton Park 371-7964 Services: Sunday 9 & 10:30 a.m.

Simpson United Methodist Church Rock City Road, Rock City Falls 885-4794 Services: Sunday 10:45 a.m.

Soul Saving Station for Every Nation Christ Crusaders of America 62 Henry St., Saratoga Springs 584-3122 Services: Sunday 10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.

Temple Sinai 509 Broadway, Saratoga Springs 584-8730 www.saratogasinai.org Friday 8 p.m. Oneg Sabbat Saturday 10:30 a.m.

Oneg Sabbat Handicapped accessible The Salvation Army Worship, Service & Community Center 27 Woodlawn Ave., Saratoga Springs 584-1640; Mail-P.O. Box 652 Captain Aaron A. Boone, Sr.; Captain Amber S. Boone Commanding Officers/Ministers Services: Sunday School 10 a.m.; Praise & Worship 11 a.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church 155 Ballard Rd., Gansevoort 584-9107 tumcwilton.com Rev. Patti Molik-Pastor Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs 624 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs 584-1555; uusaratoga.org Services, Nursery Care, and Religious Education: Sundays 10 a.m. Youth Group: Sundays 11:30 a.m.

Unity Church in Albany 21 King Ave., Albany 453-3603 Services: Sunday 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.

West Charlton United Presbyterian Church 1331 Sacandaga Rd., West Charlton 882-9874 westcharltonupc.org Rev. Thomas Gregg, Pastor Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Wilton Baptist Church 755 Saratoga Rd, Wilton 583-2736; wiltonbaptist@gmail.com; wiltonbaptistchurch.com Services: Sunday Service 11 a.m.

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Saratoga County Kids Care Club Benefits Low Income Children of Saratoga EOC HeadStart Photo provided

Take a look at this week’s newest club members!

SARATOGA COUNTY — Club members proudly announce that they collected and donated 372 gently used books to the Saratoga EOC HeadStart Region 1 at the Milton Terrace Primary School in Ballston Spa on Monday, March 4. Club Members are grateful that their BookShare project in honor of Dr. Seuss’ Birthday reached so many generous members of the community in such a short period of time. We would like to especially thank Ms. Durham’s 2nd grade class at Malta Avenue Elementary as well as our Drop-off sites: Torres XTF Health and Fitness - 43 Round Lake Road, Ballston Lake Saratoga Regional YMCA - 290 West Avenue, Saratoga Springs.

H.O.P.E. Clinic Adoptable Pets

Max the 3rd

Max the 3rd is a sweet, easygoing Beagle, approximately 5 years old. He is totally housebroken and is fine with other dogs, cats, and kids! He’s a really nice family dog and we’d really like him to go to a home with another dog.

Look at that face! He is such a good boy and just goes with the flow! For more info about this handsome fellow, call his foster mom at (518) 225-2703.

P.O. Box 2497 Wilton, NY 12831 (518) 428-2994

Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau Recognizes Kathryn Price’s 25th Anniversary of Service SARATOGA SPRINGS — Kathryn Price, executive assistant and office manager at the Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau celebrates 25 years of service at the Bureau on March 1. Among her duties at the Bureau, Kathy works very closely with the President and Board of Directors, assists the Convention Sales and Service departments with day to day activities and coordinates major Bureau functions including the Annual Meeting, Annual Golf Tournament and Thanksgiving/ Hometown Ambassador Reception. Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau President Todd Garofano said, “Kathy has been a tremendous asset to the Convention & Tourism Bureau team and our local community for the last 25 years! She is an integral part of our organization and we thank her for her years of service and dedication.”

Kathy also volunteers with Catholic Charities for their annual Festival of Trees event held each year in Saratoga Springs at the City Center.

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CHRISTIAN

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Tooth Fairy Club is sponsored by:

Nicole M. Byrne, D.M.D Pediatric Dentistry 659 Saratoga Road Gansevoort, New York 12831 (518) 226-6010

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Legendary Performer Ben Vereen to Perform at Saratoga Arts Festival Photo provided

SARATOGA SPRINGS — SaratogaArtsFest has announced that this year’s line-up will include a performance by Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning actor, dancer, and singer known for his wide-ranging roles and performances over the past 45 years.

Backed by his band, Vereen will perform his one-man show Steppin’ Out with Ben Vereen on Friday, June 7, at 8 p.m. in the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College. The show features the music of Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, and the best of Broadway.

Tickets to the Vereen performance will go on sale March 15.

Admission is priced at $60, or

only $10 with a SaratogaArtsFest ARTSPASS. The ARTSPASS is available through March 31 at a discounted price of just $35.

Visit SaratogaArtsFest.org to purchase an ARTSPASS and receive your promotional code, necessary for the discounted Vereen ticket.

Tickets to the performance can also be purchased for $60 directly through the box office at the Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College.

On Broadway, Vereen has appeared in Wicked, Fosse, I’m Not Rappaport, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Jelly’s Last Jam, and A Christmas Carol. His role in Pippin garnered him both a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

His many memorable roles include that of Louis Armstrong in Armstrong—Chicago Style and Chicken George in the TV miniseries Roots, for which he received an Emmy nomination. His long list of television guest appearances ranges from Law and Order to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In 2012, Vereen was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame. At the time of his induction, the National Museum of Dance also honored Vereen with a lifetime achievement award.

In addition to the Vereen performance, the SarartogaArtsFest lineup for Friday, June 7, will include an open dance rehearsal by Susan Marshall & Company, performances of the Repertory Jazz Ensemble of the Empire State Youth Orchestras, and a film screening by the Saratoga Film Forum in collaboration with Yaddo. The full

ArtsFest schedule of events will be announced in late April and will be available at SaratogaArtsFest.org.

Early-Bird Special for ArtsFest Admission As SaratogaArtsFest gears up for its seventh annual citywide celebration of the arts, June 6-9, festival organizers are offering an early-bird incentive with special discounts for adult admission through March 31.

SaratogaArtsFest 2013 will offer a wide variety of arts experiences, including music, dance, visual art, film, theatre, and literary art. The festival is designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences, from the arts aficionado to families with young children.

Through the month of March, the ARTSPASS admission package for adults and seniors will be available at a discount of $5, resulting in a price of just $35, while military personnel (active or past) can claim a pass for free through the end of March. Admission to the festival for youth (17 and under) is free at all times.

An ARTSPASS provides admission to the full range of events and cultural activities during the multifaceted arts showcase.

The pass also provides discounts at Saratoga Springs restaurants and shops during the festival, as well as benefits year-round at area arts organizations.

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Saratoga City Ballet Reaches Landmark of 20 Years Co-Directors Reflect on 10 Years of Teaching

by Chelsea DiSchiano Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — In 1988, Patti Moore decided to create her own ballet school in Saratoga Springs, catering toward young dancers who were serious and dedicated to the art of ballet. In 1993, Moore put on Saratoga’s first production of Nutcracker and officially created the dance company known as Saratoga City Ballet (SCB), now in its 20th year of existence.

In 2003, dancers and teachers Eve Whelchel and Julie Gedalecia took on the challenge of becoming the company’s co-directors. Now in their 10th year of leading the company, Whelchel and Gedalecia recently took some time to reflect on their time at SCB. The company currently has between 100-150 dancers ages 11–18, with even younger dancers being taught in the school. SCB puts on two large performances a year: The Nutcracker in December and a spring production every May, with smaller outreach performances of excerpts in between at places like the public library, the children’s museum and local retirement homes.

“The company has a positive atmosphere—we try very hard not to be one of those cutthroat, competitive-type environments like you see on the TV show ‘Dance Moms,’” Gedalecia said with a laugh. “We don’t have parents like that and our students aren’t like that.”

“We are purely a ballet school, so our focus is in nurturing an appreciation for what ballet really means,” Whelchel added.

Whelchel said that she and Gedalecia have learned a lot and formed deep bonds with their students in the 10 years they’ve directed the company.

“When we first came here, I think that we were very confident in our ability to teach, but learning all the elements we needed to learn

as far as being businesswomen was very difficult,” Whelchel said. “As far as how to run a business, relate to parents, things like that—those are things we hadn’t really had experience with. Having the vision we had and maintaining that vision from year to year and to watch it keep getting stronger is a really great accomplishment for us and something we’re really proud of.”

Both Whelchel and Gedalecia said that since they’ve been at the company for so long, they have started to see students they’ve been teaching for years grow up and graduate the company.

“We have them from the time they’re little children—we have them probably longer than any other teachers they have growing up, so it is hard [to let them go],” Gedalecia said. “They dedicate so much time to ballet—they’re here six days a week, about 25 hours per week. It’s like a part-time job while they’re in high school so we spend a lot of time together—it’s kind of like a family.”

“Our graduates do come back and help us when they can,” Whelchel added.

Whelchel and Gedalecia remembered a time when a graduate of the school came to watch a performance but ended up onstage when a cast member got sick at the last minute.

“We said ‘Put on your pointe shoes and get out there,’ and she did it and she remembered it all,” Whelchel said with a laugh.

The directors said they’ve had some graduates come back to teach at the school, while others have helped to choreograph dances.

They also said the Saratoga Springs community has given the company very positive feedback on their performances and students.

“People are very impressed with how professional the kids perform and how they handle themselves,” Gedalecia said. “People are very complimentary.”

Eve Whelchel and Julie Gedalecia have been co-directing Saratoga City Ballet for 10 years. The company was founded in 1993.

Photo courtesy of MarkBolles.com

Both directors said that positive feedback and word-of-mouth is what has kept the SCB around and thriving for so long. As for the future of the company, Whelchel and Gedalecia said they will be happy if they can continue to maintain the current quality of teaching and performances, especially in the tough economic climate.

“It’s very hard in this day and age to survive in the arts, so every year that we can get enough money to put on the Nutcracker and buy another tutu and put on a spring show, I think we feel very lucky

to do that,” Gedalecia said. “Arts aren’t at the forefront of our society, especially not now when times are tough. I feel very grateful to just keep what we’re doing—we don’t feel the need to expand or have huge productions. We really like the quality of the things we put on, so just to be able to maintain that in this economic climate would be satisfying enough for us.”

Saratoga City Ballet is currently readying its dancers for the spring production, Alice in Wonderland, which will be performed May 11–12 at the Skidmore

Dance Theater. Until then, the company will also perform excerpts of the production at several outreach performances throughout the spring. A listing of those performance dates and locations will be posted on the company’s website, www.saratogacityballet.com.

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The Saratoga Film Forum is presenting a full roster of films and special events in March. Films are screened at the Saratoga Arts Center, 320 Broadway, on Thursday and Friday nights at 7:30 p.m. and at 3 p.m. on Sundays (unless otherwise indicated). Refreshments are available. General admission is $7; $5 for Film Forum members and students.

For more information, go to www.saratogafilmforum.org.

Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) Friday, March 8, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m.

Directed by Jacques Audiard; screenplay by Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain, story by Craig Davidson; 120 min.; France/ Belgium; 2012; rated R; in French with English subtitles Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is an impoverished street fighter, kickboxer and single father, raising his five-year-old son Sam (Armand

Verdure) on his own in Belgium.

With dim job prospects and nowhere else to go, Ali packs up his son and heads to the south of France to live with his sister and her husband in Antibes. Things look up when he lands a job as a nightclub bouncer.

One evening, he breaks up a bar fight and comes to the aid of a woman injured in the melee: the beautiful yet aloof Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard), an orca trainer at a local marine park. Ali escorts her safely home and although she is seemingly out of his league, he slips her his phone number. He thinks that’s the end of that, and resumes his night job while pursuing opportunities to compete in kickboxing matches. Meanwhile, during a killer whale performance at the marine park, there is an accident in which Stéphanie is seriously injured. She wakes up in the hospital to find that she will be permanently confined to a wheelchair, and quickly plunges into near terminal depression. In her despair, she finds Ali’s number and gives him a call, and they begin a relationship that serves as her lifeline back from the abyss, as she learns to accept the reality of her new situation.

Promised Land Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 15, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 17, 3 p.m.

Directed by Gus Van Sant; screenplay by John Krasinski and Matt Damon, from a story by Dave Eggers; 106 min.; France/Belgium; 2012; rated R Promised Land reteams Matt Damon with Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant (Promised Land was actually supposed to be Damon’s directorial debut, but that didn’t happen) in the story of a farm boy headed for the big time—with an unusual detour along the way.

Damon stars as Steve Butler, a salesman for energy company Global

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Crosspower Solutions, sent to the small town of McKinley, Pa. with his sales partner Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand). The town has been hit hard by the economic downturn, and the two slick sales execs see McKinley’s citizens as easy pickings for their energy company’s offer: drilling (aka “fracking”) rights to their properties. It seems like an easy job—at first. Things become complicated on a variety of fronts. Professionally, when local science teacher Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook) raises questions on the safety of fracking during a town meeting; and personally, by Steve’s encounter with Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt). When Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), an environmental activist, arrives with some damning evidence, everything Steve has been working for seems, well, “fracked.”

Silver Linings Playbook Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 24, 3 p.m.

Written and directed by David O. Russell, based on the novel by Matthew Quick; 122 min.; USA; 2012; rated R for sex, nudity, violence and language Based on the debut novel by Matthew Quick, David Russell’s

screwball “rom-com” received eight Oscar nominations. Oscarnominated Bradley Cooper stars as Pat Solatano, serving out an eightmonth stint in a Maryland mental health institution. Against medical advice, Pat’s mother Dolores (Oscar-nominated Jacki Weaver) has him released, although the conditions of the release include the requirement that he return to live with his mother and his father, rabid Eagles fan Pat Sr. (Oscarnominated Robert DeNiro), in Philadelphia. (Pat Sr. has been barred from Eagles games because of his violent tendencies.) Having lost his house, his job and his wife, Pat Jr. is determined to regain what he has lost, although the incident

that resulted in the incarceration (revealed in flashbacks) might make marital reconciliation a tad difficult—so will the restraining order from his wife. Still, armed with a dedication to healthy living and a positive attitude (in lieu of psychiatric medication, which he refuses to take), he strives to get back his old job as a substitute teacher. “Excelsior!” is his triumphant mantra. He is drawn toward the libidinous Tiffany (Oscarnominated Jennifer Lawrence, last seen at the Film Forum in Winter’s Bone and everywhere else in The Hunger Games), a young widow living in his parents’ neighborhood.

Tiffany’s husband was a cop, killed in the line of duty, and she has dealt with her grief with promiscuity.

Pat wants Tiffany’s help in reconnecting with his wife, while Tiffany wants to seduce Pat. So she makes a deal with him: she’ll deliver a letter to his wife if he agrees to be her partner in a ballroom dancing contest. Because this is essentially a screwball comedy, there is a collision with another bet involving the Eagles-Giants game.

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LOCAL GIGS week of 3/8-3/14

Send listings to ads@saratogapublishing.com

friday, 3/8:

saturday, 3/9:

Dave Fisk Quartet, 9 pm

Erin Harkes & Blaze, 9 pm

Steve Candlen, 9 pm

Spoiler 10:30 pm

Gravity, 9 pm

Big Medicine, 9 pm

Broken String Band, 8 pm

Gravity - Summer Party, 6:30 pm

New Shoes, 8 pm

Wild Adriatic w/Black Mt. Symphony, & Grand Design, 9 pm

@ 9 maple ave - 583.2582 @ bailey’s - 583.6060

@ bentley’s - 899.4300

@ caffè lena - 583.0022 @ gaffneys - 583.7359

Padriac Decker, 8:30 pm @ irish times - 583.0003

Crispy Critters, 5:30 pm Kinetic Punch, 10:30 pm @ jp bruno’s - 745.1180

@ gaffney’s - 583.7359 @ jp bruno’s - 745.1180

@ the parting glass - 583.1916

@ primelive ultra lounge - 583.4563

@ putnam den - 584.8066

Sugar Pill, 8 pm @ ravenswood - 583.4563

Winchester & Young Live @ the starting gate bar and grill - 584.8834

Jonathan Newell, 9 pm @ the mill - 899.5253

The Mckrells , 9 pm @ the parting glass - 583.1916

Keith Pray Trio, 8 pm

sunday, 3/10: The Wonder Years, 6:30 pm @ upstate concert hall - 371.0012

@ primelive ultra lounge - 583.4563

High Peaks Band, 9 pm @ putnam den - 584.8066

DJ Dingz, 10 pm

@ saratoga city tavern - 581.3230

The Refrigerators, 8 pm

thursday, 3/14: Street Corner Holler, 8 pm @ gaffneys - 583.7359

Rich Ortiz, 6:30 pm @ primelive ultra lounge - 583.4563

@ vapor - 792.8282

Chuck Kelsey, 7 pm @ west mountain 793.6606

saturday, 3/9: Michael Benedict Quartet, 9 pm @ 9 maple ave - 583.2582

Radio Junkies, 9 pm @ bailey’s - 583.6060

Frankie Lessard Trio, 9 pm @ bentley’s - 899.4300

Pesky J. Nixon and ilyAIMY, 8 pm @ caffè lena - 583.0022

open mic nights: Sun. Open Mic, 7 pm @ bailey’s - 583.6060

Tue. w/Rick Bolton, 8 pm @ gaffney’s - 587.7359

Wed. Open Mic, 8 pm @ putnam den - 584.8066

Thur. Open Mic, 7 pm @ caffè lena - 58322

Thur. Open Mic, 10 pm @ circus café - 583.1106

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Upcoming Town Meetings Town of Ballston: Ballston Town Hall 323 Charlton Road 885-8502 www.townofballstonny.org 3/26: Town Board, 7:30 p.m.

3/27: Zoning Board of Appeals, 7:30 p.m.

Village of Ballston Spa: 66 Front Street 885-5711 www.ballstonspany.org 3/25: Village Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m.

Town of Greenfield: 7 Wilton Road 893-7432 www.townofgreenfield.com 3/26: Planning Board, 7 p.m.

Town of Malta: 2540 Route 9 899-2818 www.malta-town.org 4/1: Town Board, 7:00 p.m.

Town of Milton: 503 Geyser Road 885-9220 www.townofmiltonny.org 3/20: Town Board, 7 p.m.

City of Saratoga Springs: 474 Broadway 587-3550 www.saratoga-springs.org 3/20: DRC, 7 p.m.

3/27: Planning Board, 7 p.m.

Town of Saratoga: 12 Spring Street, Schuylerville 695-3644 www.townofsaratoga.com 4/8: Town Board, 7 p.m.

Village of Schuylerville: 35 Spring Street 695-3881 www.villageofschuylerville.org 3/13: Board of Trustees, 7 p.m.

Town of Stillwater: 66 East St., Riverside Mechanicville, NY 12118 www.stillwaterny.org 4/10: Board of Trustees, 7 p.m.

Town of Wilton: 22 Traver Road 587-1939 www.townofwilton.com 3/20: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m.

3/28: Zoning Board of Appeals, 6:30 p.m.

Saratoga County Board of Supervisors: 40 McMaster St, #1 Ballston Spa, NY 12020 (518) 885-2240 www.saratogacountyny.gov

Spring Antique Appraisal Show Malta Community Center will have a fun and informative event featuring Mark Lawson of Mark Lawson Antiques as he educates partipants on the world of antiques and performs appraisals.

This special event will take place on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Admission for Malta residents with one appraisal item is $9 / non- residents $10. General Admission for Malta residents is $2 / non –residents $3. Preregistration is being accepted now.

Don’t wait as space is limited.

Please call (518) 899-4411 for more information.

Investing Wisely Seminar On Monday, March 18, there will be a seminar entitled “Investing Wisely” at The Wesley Community’s Woodlawn Commons, 156 Lawrence Street, Saratoga Springs from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. This is a free seminar courtesy of The Wesley Foundation. Refreshments will be served. There will be no sales or solicitation during this program.

Registration is required by March 15 by calling (518) 691-1420.

Famous person Fundraiser As part of the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County’s Famous Person Fundraiser, Bill Hickman and Rita Russell will impersonate John and Abigail Adams in a play called “A Marriage of Two Minds” at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, March 23. Based on letters between the couple, the play depicts their devotion to each other and their zeal for liberty throughout the 10 years of the American Revolution. The cost is $50 per person including a full course breakfast buffet starting at 9 a.m.; the program will conclude by 12 p.m. For more information, visit the League’s website at www. lwvsaratoga.org or call 728-0237.

Reservations are requested by March 15 and should be mailed to Mary Lou Classen at 4 Blue Spruce Lane, Ballston Lake, 12019. Tax deductible receipts will be issued at the event.

Cantina for a Cause Old Friends at Cabin Creek is calling all caballaros and amigos to meet them at Cantina, 430 Broadway Saratoga Springs, anytime on Wednesday March 20 to participate in “Cantina for a Cause.” Tell the server or bartender that you are there for Old Friends at Cabin Creek and Cantina will donate 33% of your bill to Old Friends at Cabin Creek. Kitchen opens at 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m., Cantina’s kids menu available all day. Dinner reservations strongly recommended. Please call (518) 587-5577 for more information.

Café Malta Irish Style Town of Malta Parks and Recreation announces Café MaltaIrish Style, an intimate Coffee House just in time for St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday March 16. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Performers include Tom Choiniere, Mike Yates, Lucy & Dennis Montano, Luther Nilsen, Hill Country Cloggers, Don & Elyse Young & Singing Waitresses. The show takes place at The Malta Community Center, One Bayberry Drive, Malta. Seats are $6 advanced and $8 at the door. Coffee and dessert will be available for purchase. Contact The Malta Community Center at (518) 899-4411 for advanced ticket information.

Free Pilates Class On Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. former Olympic Pairs Skater and Disney Motivational Speaker, Karen Courtland Kelly, will teach a free 45-minute Master Mat Class at Reform Pilates in exchange for a donation to benefit Shelters of Saratoga. Prior to the mat class, at 6:30 p.m., Courtland Kelly will teach an amusing and inspiring workshop called “The Energy Show!” The workshop is a fun and engaging learning experience where Karen humorously helps attendees become aware of their own patterns that can drain or maximize their energy. Cost for “The Energy Show” workshop is $20. For more information, call (518) 871-1315 or go towww. reformyourbody.com .

Public History Conference on Underground Railroad Registration is now online for the 12th Annual Public History Conference on the Underground Railroad Movement to be held

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013 April 12, 13 and 14 at The Sage Colleges in Albany & Troy and The Myers Residence in Albany and can be accessed at UndergroundRailroadHistory.org.

A variety of activities including a demonstration of the US Colored Troops War Re-enactment Unit will take place. The Conference is open to everyone: children and adults, scholars and general public. Registration available at undergroundrailroadhistory.org or call (518) 432-4432 Animal Shelter Luncheon The Vista at the Van Patten Golf Course in Clifton Park will host a buffet on Saturday April 6 from noon to 4. Cost is $30 per person in advance. All proceeds will benefit Estherville Animal Shelter a no kill facility in Saratoga County. For ticket information, call Barb Kerker at (518) 882-5562 or visit our website at Esthervilleshelter.com Bag Sale at Second Hand Rose Second Hand Rose Thrift Shop at 116 Broad Street, Schuylerville, has an ongoing $3 bag sale and is offering Christmas and Easter Items for 1/2 off with a minimum $1 total purchase. Volunteers, including Community Service Volunteers, to tend the shop are always welcome and appreciated.

The Board of Directors of Second Hand Rose Thrift Shop announces that it has openings on its Board.

For more information regarding volunteering, BOD positions and ongoing sales, please call the Thrift Shop at (518) 695-4640.

Night at the Brewseum Fundraiser Sample the areas’ finest craft beers while enjoying the debut of the new Civil War exhibit at the Night at the Brewseum Craft Beer and Military Gear fundraiser for the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs on Friday, March 22 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Presented by the Saratoga Springs Lions Club and Friends of the NYS Military Museum, pre-event tickets are $30; at the door $35. Non-drinker cost is $10. ID is required. Tickets are available at the Museum’s gift shop, from any Lions member or online at SaratogaLions.com and FriendsOfTheNYSMilitary Museum.com

Food Addicts Anonymous Meeting Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? Are you underweight or overweight?

Obsessed with food, weight, dieting? You are not alone. Today, there is a solution. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous meet weekly at United Methodist Church-Adkins Room, 175 Fifth Avenue (Exit 14 Northway) corner Henning Road, Saratoga Springs on Monday at 7 p.m. There are no dues, no fees and no weigh-ins.

For more information, call John at (518) 605-3090 or Helena at (518)584-8190 or visit the website at www.foodaddicts.org Flash Mob Dance Nanette Levons, Praise Dance Leader with Daughters of Zion is gathering dancers in the northeast to do an exciting flash mob dance.

The dance will be on March 23 at the Aviation Mall in Queensbury.

Glorious Praise Dancers from The King’s School and many other dancers are joining in the celebration. The dancing flash mob will take place in the mall vestibule near JCP at 12 p.m. sharp. Call (518) 654-9081 for information.

Wednesday Crafters Resumes The Wednesday Crafters at Simpson UMC, 1089 Rock City Road, Rock City Falls invites all crafters and hobbyists to bring their latest project and drop in any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesdays. No ability level, attendance, or church affiliation required. Bring a bag lunch or partake our light refreshments.

Stay an hour or the day. Any questions, please contact Laura at (518) 885-5286 or lauraviolet@ nycap.rr.com Heritage Hunters History Faire On Saturday, April 20 from 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Heritage Hunters will hold its second annual History Faire. Come and learn about the purposes and resources of local history organizations. Many local historians, historical societies, churches, cemeteries, funeral homes, lineage groups and youth groups will be present. Other features include workshops, door prizes and hands-on activities. For more information email melfrejo@ aol.com or call (518) 587-2978.

Send your local briefs to calendar@saratogapublishing.com before Monday at 5 p.m. for Friday publication.

Week of March 8 – March 14, 2013

Friday, March 8 Friday Night Movies for Teens and Tweens Round Lake Library, Malta Branch, Malta Community Center, 1 Bayberry Dr. Ballston Spa, 6 p.m.

The Medallion—A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.

(518) 682-2495.

Saturday, March 9 Irish Family Festival Saratoga-Wilton Elks, 1 Elk Lane, Saratoga Springs, 2–7 p.m.

Enjoy Irish music, dance, and culture. All welcome. Tickets avail. at door. $10 donation, children 12 & under free. Seasonal light fare available for additional price.

Raffles/silent auction Sponsored by The Ancient Order of Hibernians www.saratogaaoh.com.

Church Supper Trinity United Methodist Church 155 Ballard Rd., Wilton 3:30–6:30 p.m.

Corned Beef and Cabbage (chicken fingers for the kids), vegetables, assorted beverages, desserts.

Donation requested. Handicapped accessible. For more info call (518) 584-9107.

Adult Dance 310 Northline Rd., Ballston Spa 7–10 p.m.

Ballston area seniors are sponsoring a dance for adults with music by “The Peaceful Country Band”. The dance is open to the public and admission is $5.

Admission is free for Ballston Area Senior members. BAS members bring a finger food to share.

Sunday, March 10 Community Concert Saratoga Springs Senior Center, 5 Williams St., Saratoga Springs 1–2:30 p.m.

Under the direction of Maestro Gioacchino Longobardi, the

Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra (SSYO) presents a unique repertoire of classical music ranging from the Baroque to the Romantic periods featuring composers as Vivaldi, Bach and Corelli. SSYO promises to deliver an inspiring and electrifying performance. For info call (518) 584-1621.

Special Raffles at the Elks Auxiliary Annual Victorian Tea The Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge, 1 Elks Lane, Saratoga Springs 1–4 p.m.

Two Cradles made by Ken Woodcock and several Theme Baskets donated by the Auxiliary members will be raffeled. Tickets available at the Victorian Tea. Entertainment by “The Victorian Lady”, Sue McLean. A $10 donation at the door includes a free gift to the first 100 guests, finger foods, soup, desserts and a chance at the many raffles and door prizes.

For more information call Corinne at (518) 584-3468.

Saratoga Springs High School Chicken BBQ Fundraiser Saratoga High School, 1 Blue Streaks Blvd. Saratoga Springs 3–5 p.m.

SSHS Varsity and JV Baseball is teaming up with Giffy’s Bar-B-Q to hold a chicken BBQ. Includes 1/2 Chicken, Baked Potato, Roll, Butter & Beverage. Take Out Only, some dinners available on first come, first serve basis on the day of the BBQ. If you would like to purchase dinner tickets, call Connie Cummings at (518) 2654557. Dinners $15 each. All proceeds go to the Saratoga High School Baseball Program. Cash and Checks accepted. For more information you can call (518) 265-4557.

Irishfest The Hudson River Music Hall, 10 Maple St., Hudson Falls Features local bands Tenpenny Bit and the Grafton Street Trio with special guest Gaelic singer Sarah Adamson. You need to hear the uilleann pipes, tap your foot to the bodran, enjoy the sweet sound of the hammered dulcimer!

Get a jump on St. Pat’s day and support the Music Hall. Cost is $6 /$8. For more information call: (518) 832-3484 or “Tenpenny Bit” on Facebook.

calendar Monday, March 11 John Kirk and Trish Miller Saratoga Springs Public Library, H. Dutcher Community Room 7:30 p.m.

In a nod to the famous fiddle tune called “Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies,” John Kirk serenades the audience with lovely tunes and ballads. Trish Miller provides musical accompaniment, humorous songs and a variety of step dances. All ages welcome.

Tuesday, March 12 Job Fair HVCC, McDonough Sports Complex, 80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Most employers will have full-time positions available, while many also will be able to discuss part-time openings, internships and summer employment opportunities. For a complete list of employers and more information about the job fair, go to www.hvcc.edu/cce/events.

Southwest Neighborhood Association Meeting Saratoga Eagle in the Grande Industrial Park, 45 Duplainville Rd., Saratoga Springs, 7–9 p.m.

Guest speakers: Matthew Veitch will give a fifteen minute update on what he has been working on for the southwest neighborhood.

The second speaker is Sue Bebee from Cooperative Extension who will give a 1 hour presentation on lawn care. Everyone welcome. The southwest neighborhood includes Geyser Crest, Rowland Hollow East, The Springs, Evergreen Pointe, Emeralds Forest, Casino Drive,Tiffany Place and the Grande Industrial Park. Please join us for an informative evening.

Wednesday, March 13 21st Annual Interagency Awareness Day The Dance Center, Skidmore College Campus, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

Hosted by Saratoga County EOC in partnership with Skidmore College. Learn about services offered from over 90 Health and Human Service Agencies.

Admission is free. Admission is free. For more information call Saratoga County EOC, Dottie Sellers at (518) 587-3158, ext. 111.

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Dinner Saratoga-Wilton Elks, 1 Elks Lane, Saratoga Springs, 4:30–7 p.m.

Corned Beef & Ham, Potato Soup, cabbage, potatoes, vegetables, rolls & butter, dessert,coffee & tea.

Donation Requested: 10.00 Adults; $9.00 Seniors (62 years) and Military (Active or Retired with ID Card); $5.00 Children 5–12; Children Under 5 Free; $10.00 All Takeouts. Cash Bar

Thursday, March 14 Interfaith Breakfast Meeting Courtyard at Longfellow’s Restaurant, 500 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, 7:30 a.m.

Our Guest Speaker this month will be from the “Twelve Tribes of Israel” located at Cambridge N.Y. The meetingconcludes no later than 8:30. Sign-in and continental breakfast begins at 7:15. There are no charges. All are welcome. Info: (518) 587-9104

Shelters of Saratoga Gala Longfellows Restaurant, 500 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, 6–9 p.m.

Shelters of Saratoga will hold its third annual gala. The cocktail party will feature local musical talent, hors d’oeuvres, and live and silent auctions. Shelters of Saratoga is the only adult emergency homeless shelter in the greater Saratoga region. Please contact Cindy Harrigton at (518) 581-1097 or sosdevelopment@nycap.rr.com for tickets/details.

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Family Friendly Events Friday Library Babies at the Saratoga Springs Public Library. Drop anytime from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Saturday

Opera Saratoga’s Opera to Go program will be presenting Pinnicchio at the Saratoga Springs Public Library. The show is free, but you’ll need to call or stop in to pick up tickets in advance.

The show starts at 11 a.m.

Sunday Breakfast with the Easter Bunny Malta Ridge Volunteer Fire Company, Rt. 9 & Silver Beach Road, Malta, 8 a.m.–Noon All you can eat breakfast with the Easter Bunny. Tickets are $6 adults, $5 seniors, $4 for children ages 5–12, Ages under 4 are free.

Blue Iris Photography is hosting Mini-Easter Sessions! Book now and receive a 45 minute photo session for just $100 and a CD of edited and non-edited photos, mailed to you promptly! A $350 value for just $100. Call ahead to reserve your spot: (518) 320-4862.

Compliments of:

On Going Events: Saratoga Springs Public Library Adult Storytelling Workshop, Parent/Child Workshop, Vita Tax Program, Computer Classes & more. Too many events to list.

Please visit our website for all our ongoing programs at www.sspl.org.

Wilton Wildlife Preserve 80 Scout Rd., Wilton Nature’s Homeschoolers, Conservation Conversations, Preschool Pioneers & more!

Too many events to list.

Please visit our website at www.wiltonpreserve.org.

Tang Museum Exhibitions Tang Museum, Skidmore College, 518 S. Broadway, Saratoga Springs Visit our website for more information & to view our weekly events www.skidmore.edu.or call (518) 580-8080.

Seek • Learn Find • Play Visit us online!

Blood Drives March 8: 1–6 p.m.

Wilton Fire Department 270 Ballard Rd Gansevoort, NY 12831 March 14: 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

Saratoga Central Catholic HS 247 South Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Send your local briefs to calendar@saratogapublishing.com before Monday at 5 p.m. for Friday publication.

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Community Sports Bulletin The Inaugural Class of the Ballston Spa Athletics Hall of Fame Announced

BALLSTON SPA — The Ballston Spa Athletics Hall of Fame Committee announced plans March 3 for its 2013 inaugural induction ceremony to take place on Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 3-5 p.m. at the Ballston Spa High School auditorium, located at 220 Ballston Avenue. A reception will follow the ceremony at the school. The BSAHF recognizes Ballston Spa alumni who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in the field of athletics.

The 2013 Ballston Spa Athletics Hall of Fame inductees are: • William R. Scott — Longtime coach and athletic director for whom the “Scotties” are named after.

• Richard L. Thomas — Longtime coach and athletic director and community athletic contributor.

• Richard Wurster — Member of 1968 Olympic speed skating team • John Wurster — Member of 1968 Olympic speed skating team • John Caputo — Three sport athlete; member of 1943 Basketball League Champion team; professional baseball player • 1963–1964 Varsity Basketball Team — Winners of Class B and A-B Basketball Championship in Western Conference • Patsy Monaco — Three sport athlete; Saratoga County League Football Champions and All-Star team member • Vince Johnson — Twenty-nine year wrestling coach, four-time Coach of the Year • James Funiciello — Three sport athlete; National High School Swim Coach of the year in 1979 • Allan Durkovic — Three sport athlete; Conference AllStar and League MVP in Basketball; played football for New England Patriots • 2010–2012 Ballston Spa Girls Varsity Alpine Ski Team — Won Sectional and state titles

Send your sports stories or briefs to Andrew Marshall, Sports Editor at amarshall @saratoga publishing.com

Former Olympic Pairs Skater and Disney Motivational Speaker to Offer Free Pilates Mat Class to Raise Funds for Shelters of Saratoga SARATOGA SPRINGS — On Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m., former Olympic pairs skater and Disney motivational speaker, Karen Courtland-Kelly, will teach a free 45-minute Master Mat Class at Reform Pilates in exchange for a donation to benefit Shelter of Saratoga. Karen is “very excited about this opportunity to benefit the greater good of society in beautiful Saratoga Springs.”

Prior to the mat class, at 6:30 p.m., Courtland-Kelly will teach an amusing and inspiring workshop called “The Energy Show!” which was originally created for Feld Entertainment’s “Disney on Ice” and presented to Disney’s professional performers. The workshop is a fun and engaging learning experience where Karen humorously helps attendees become aware of their own patterns and learn hidden dangers and secret weapons that can drain or maximize their energy. Cost for “The Energy Show” workshop is $20. Small group and private Pilates sessions are also available with Karen at different rates on Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15. To find out more information about Karen’s visit and the various Pilates opportunities she will provide, contact the studio at (518) 871-1315 or go to www. reformyourbody.com. The studio is located at 18 Division Street, Suite 203, Saratoga Springs.

Karen Courtland Kelly is a U.S. Olympian and Level-4 True Pilates Instructor who loves to promote Skating and Pilates for sport, health & socializing. A professional performer, trained teacher, motivational speaker and spokesperson, she is passionate about academics and athletics and has a love for creating characters for performance. One of her favorite presentations is “The Energy Show!” (Originally created and presented to the professional performers of Disney on Ice.) For more information about Karen’s motivational speaking work, True Pilates training and skating accomplishments, go to www.peakedgeperformance.com.

Look for Firecracker4 Registration at the Adirondack Health and Fitness Expo This Weekend SARATOGA SPRINGS — It’s an Independence Day tradition sure to get you up and active, as the seventh-annual Firecracker4 road race returns for 2013!

Early registration is now open and costs just $20 to sign up until May 1. After that, the price of registration will be $25. You can sign up as late as the day of the race, but it will cost you $30.

This weekend, stop by the Adirondack Sports & Fitness Expo at the Saratoga Springs City Center taking place March 9–10. Register for the race during the expo and receive a FREE 2012 race shirt. Also available for sale at the Expo are unisex micromesh tech Firecracker4 T-shirts for $7 and drink koozies for $3. Get both for just $10! (While supplies last) The Firecracker4 road race is the annual kick off to the Saratoga Springs All-American Celebration which includes a parade down Broadway, restaurant competitions, a car show, family events, entertainment and a beautiful and stunning fireworks display at dusk.

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Fitness Motivation for the Slow Mover

by Michael Lapolla for Saratoga TODAY If you’re a regular exerciser or would like to be, ask yourself a simple question: Why do I want exercise? Think hard before you answer, because what I’m going to discuss is something that impacts most of my clients on a daily basis.

Do you have a desire to lose weight, prevent heart disease, control your diabetes or increase bone density? If you’re like many people, that may be the motivator to start an exercise program, and it’s most likely a good reason to become more physically fit. But what I’m wondering, is how effective and powerful is the promise of a future health benefit at motivating someone to not only start but continue to live an active lifestyle?

Last weekend, I was skiing with my friend Lawrence Fein, a very active and fit orthopedic surgeon and as he carved a big fast turn in front of me I thought to myself, “I wonder what keeps Larry active and motivated.” He’s got the inside scoop on what keeps bones and joints in check so maybe he wants to keep his bones strong.

Perhaps as a 50-plus year old, he’s beginning to think about chronic disease prevention and future health benefits.

So I asked him, and you know what he said? He said that exercise makes him feel good on a dayto-day basis. He said that it helps him relieve stress. He also said that he enjoys the feeling of being fit because it enables him to participate fully in fun activities like skiing, cycling and running outdoors.

Sure, he’s happy about reducing his risk for heart disease and diabetes, but it’s not what gets him out of bed in the morning, eager to exercise. The bottom line for Larry is simple: He loves the way he feels when he’s fit.

As an exercise physiologist, I’m charged with the task of designing and implementing effective exercise and wellness programs for my clients. In college and through experience, I’ve become skilled at prescribing training programs that will help people meet their health and performance related goals. If one of my clients has diabetes, I understand the physiological effects that 30 minutes of aerobic exercise has on decreasing blood sugar. I also understand what a long-term strength training program will do to increase lean muscle and subsequently enhance insulin sensitivity. How about cardiovascular disease? I know that a regular prescription of moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise will lead to a reduction in LDL (bad cholesterol) and may help increase HDL (good cholesterol) and improvements in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

How about Osteoporosis? Well, an effective program will utilize the right combination of weightbearing and non-weight bearing exercises to increase the ability of the bone cells to build and increase in density. I like to think that I’m pretty good at giving people the right advice and that my exercise prescriptions are effective.

A New Message It sounds like I have it all figured out, right? Well, as much as I like to think that I have it all figured out, there’s more to the story.

It seems that for all of the “prescribing” that we’ve been doing, it’s been having very little impact on actually getting our population to adopt a regular routine of exercise.

Presently, more than two-thirds of our population is overweight, and only 10 to 15 percent are regular exercisers. It seems that the message we are sending to our public of getting 150 minutes of frequent, moderate to vigorous exercise isn’t having the desired impact. The tactic seems ineffective and appears a bit too clinical. Michelle Segar, PHD (a research investigator at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan) puts it this way: “Physical activity is an elixir of life, but we’re not teaching people that. We’re telling them it’s a pill to take or a punishment for bad numbers on the scale. Sustaining physical activity is a motivational and emotional issue, not a medical one.”

And she’s right. Psychological researchers believe that people will be less likely to commit to exercise if they perceive the benefits as being distant or theoretical. Instead, we should be borrowing from the advertising world and using what they have learned to sell products.

We should be portraying exercise as a way to enhance current wellbeing and happiness. If you knew you could exercise today, and feel instantly better, wouldn’t you be more likely to do it? I’ve found that my clients who focus on the day to day and immediate benefits of exercise are more likely to stick to their program, than those who focus on distant benefits such as weight loss or disease prevention.

Beyond Weight Loss If there was one common thread among most of my clients, it would certainly be the desire to lose weight. I’m willing to bet that 85 to 90-percent of people that walk through our doors suggest that they’ve arrived with the ambition of losing weight. That’s why they want to start exercising.

And unfortunately, many of them fall off the boat quickly after their weight loss has been unsuccessful. Study after study shows that without a major change in diet,

exercise alone will have only nominal effects on aiding in weight loss.

We believe that there is so much emphasis place on losing weight, that if it doesn’t happen quickly, then the exercise program must be ineffective. This could not be further from the truth. Our clients who strive to lose weight, but focus on the day to day benefits of exercise are usually more likely to stick to their routine, and consequently more likely to lose weight.

I exercise because it makes me feel good. It allows me to manage my stress and enables me to participate in activities that I enjoy, like cycling, hiking, skiing and trail running. And I know that the fitter I am, the more likely I’ll be able to keep up with my skifriends, like Larry. I would never discount or dispute the long-term

health benefits of regular exercise. But when it comes to human psychology, the immediate benefits of exercise may trump longterm benefits in motivating you to adhere to your exercise routine.

And they say that what sustains you, you will sustain.

Michael Lapolla is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as an Exercise Specialist and co-owns Saratoga Health & Wellness (Locals choice award winner, Best fitness facility, 2012) with Nicholas Galuardi. Michael and his college-degreed staff design custom exercise programs for a wide range of clients. You may contact the team at SH&W at (518) 306-6987 or on the web at www.saratogahealthandwellness.com

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There Is No License for Disrespect

Damian Fantauzzi

There are many rivalries between the local schools of Section II and some have been around for decades. Just recently, there was a situation between two rival schools that was taken too far. It was during the Class AA championship hockey game at Union College between Saratoga and Shenendehowa. To compound what had happened is the fact that the Blue Streaks and

the Plainsmen have been part of one of the area’s biggest competitive and spirited athletic rivalries in the Capital Region. To make things worse, it was a game for the bragging rights of the best skaters in Section II. So, it became a multitude of hype that seemed to develop into an ugly condition of reprehensible reactions perpetrated by the fans from both of the student bodies.

There is nothing about this situation that hasn’t happened before, whether in this area, across the country or even globally. My good friend, Rich Johns, has a program that he has founded called Act With Respect Always and there is no explanation needed for what his message represents and all with the right ingredients. I know there has been a lot of press on the hockey game but this isn’t just about this particular happening, this is about a scenario that has plagued the world of athletics for years and now maybe it has turned into an epidemic.

An epidemic is an occurrence where a disease has grown out of control usually involving a widespread infectious outbreak. As a former high school tennis coach, I have witnessed some of the most displeasing and distasteful sportsmanship that can be imagined. For what it’s worth, most conduct infractions came from the adults and parents watching the matches as spectators. In the by-laws of the Suburban Council, (in the Suburban Council, there are some of the best high school tennis players in the state), outside interference during a match is not condoned and it could penalize the tennis player whose fan is demonstrating insulting behavior, rudeness or disrespect to the opponent. It could cost the player a point, a game, the set or even the match. Understand that in high school tennis all of the scoring, including line calls, is done through the honor system.

There are no officials. The opposing coaches can make penalty calls, but usually after they discuss it with one another. Rarely would a coach make a call without a coaches’ conference, but it can happen.

Rivalries are meant to ignite the spirit of the game, no matter the sport and are not meant to foster disrespect and even malicious

conduct. As a basketball coach, I have witnessed some awful displays of ill feelings toward opponents, as well as referees. Most of the time the malice came from the stands and sometimes it was sickening and truly uncalled for.

There seems to be the misnomer that it’s okay to act with behavior that is undisciplined, unruly and disrespectful. A manner, for some reason, that sporting events are sometimes viewed as an opportunity to express one’s ugly side to people they don’t even know. It is a practice that is morally reprehensible and unacceptable and is inclined to lead to anger, create bad feelings, can result into a volatile situation and is dangerous.

When coaching basketball, there were times when I was out of line with the officials, something I’m not proud to admit. I know it can be part of the game, but I also know that the referees are trying to do their best, whether I agree with their calls or not. I really don’t believe that the officials favor one team or the other, that’s something that the fans or even the coaches use as justification for why things might not be going their way!

I don’t have an instant solution for this kind of behavior and contempt. I feel in high school athletics, what happens is the ill feeling between rivalries is obviously learned and maybe even an inherent feeling that’s part of the school spirit’s make up. High schools, as well as colleges, fans and players who live for these competitive moments with their rivals or archrivals, it can be very exciting and fun. It does not have to be mean spirited with feelings of dislike or even bitterness.

There have been stories, with sad endings, relating to how some people have reacted in the heat of the battle, some tales of life changing events and even some ending in death, all over a game.

These occurrences have no place in sports; these are tragedies of war, not of sport.

The best answer I can muster is to get control of this epidemic, which is a widespread outbreak of poor sportsmanship through education. Just take control at the higher levels, avoid and disallow the use of alcohol at the college and professional levels—fat chance! Here’s an example: last year’s Opening Day in pro baseball, a fan was nearly beaten to death for wearing San Francisco Giants apparel at Dodger Stadium.

In a way to define some of the internal feelings that competitiveness can instill in people, mostly the fans, just to understand that winning can’t always be the sum of a game and not everyone is on your side.

Parents and coaches need to become better role models at athletic events. Kids have got to stop getting away with bad behavior at games. Somehow we need to eliminate the mob mentality; we all have seen what can develop from that throughout the history of man. The spirit of friendly competition is a healthy thing and should be enjoyed by all. There are no losers in that game—it should be fun! After all, the tradition at the end of the game is that the players shake hands and pass on their kudos of respect for one another. This is what it’s all about!

There should be lasting memories of the spirited fun that comes from the tradition of sports.

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Blue Streaks Headed to Utica, Again continued from page 1 lines that can contribute,” said Torres. “Secondary scoring has been a key for the team all year.

Having 17 players returning from last year has helped as well.”

Torres is quick to praise his players for their skills on the ice, as well as their character off of it.

“The Flynn twins (Matt and Ryan) have provided the team with major scoring weapons, as well as being great additions in the locker room with their winning attitude,” said Torres.

“Defensively, Brendon Wormley provides leadership on and off the ice and is probably the best defenseman in New York State.”

“Kids like Drew Hasbrouck, Nick Conchieri, Ian Frey and Matt Klingbeil have provided a solid back line for us,” continued Torres.

“Then there’s the goaltending tandem of Dakota Smith and Spencer Glaim, the two best goalies in Section II.” The team has had a few bumps in the road this season, including losses to Section V’s Pittsford and an early February loss to the Suffern Mounties. Still, the team remains focused on the next game, trying not to let what they can’t control take away from their concentration.

“We don’t talk about the future,” said Torres. “We stay focused on the present, today, the moment. Shiftby-shift, every game.”

The Blue Streaks were the heavy favorite to win the Section II championship, which they have also won four consecutive years.

They did it in impressive fashion, too. Saratoga Springs defeated archrival Shenendehowa at the Achilles Rink on Union College campus, shutting the Plainsmen out 4-0. In fact, in their three matchups against Saratoga Springs this season, Shenendehowa was outscored 13–0.

Saratoga Springs finished the regular season on top of the Division I standings with 20 points and a 13–1 record in Section II and a 20–3–1 record overall. Their lone loss in Section II play came earlier this season in an away matchup with Shaker/Colonie.

Despite all their success this season, Coach Torres says they haven’t lost sight of their ultimate goal: the elusive New York State title.

“This team will not be satisfied with anything less than a state championship.”

Photos courtesy of MarkBolles.com