By Jeremiah S. P apineaujeremiah@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — History has r epeateditself.

Leo Lee, winner of the 2009 ChamplainValley Educational Services RegionalSpelling Bee, reclaimed victory during thisyear ’s bee held Mar ch 4 at Per u CentralSchool. The Plattsburgh City School Districteight-grader faced last year’s winner, AlyssaSzczypien fr om Per u Central, to win thecompetition in the 26th r ound, corr ectlyspelling the word “penitentiary.”

The win spelled satisfaction for Leo, whostumbled on the wor d “keratitis” in Round8 of last year’s competition, ultimately end-ing his chances of taking home the 2010 tro-phy. The loss did, however, fuel his desire towin even more this year.

“I started studying every day,” said Leo,adding his daily vocabulary list r eached1,000 words.

Feelings of “anger , fr ustration, disap-pointment” after last year ’s loss wer e r e-placed with “glory , joy , and happiness”when Leo heard the final word pronounced.

“I was like, ‘yes!’” said Leo, who said he

was confident in his ability to spell the word.It was a good feeling for Leo, who tackled

words round after round like “redolent” and“keeshond.”

“It’s hard for us as par ents to watch, be-cause we know how much time he puts intostudying,” said Leo’s father, Jason Lee, who,with Leo’s mother , Deborah, wer e on theedge of their seats. “We don’t care about theresult. We just want him to try his best.”

“He always tries his best in everythin g,too,” said Deborah. “W e ar e very pr oud ofhim.”

Even though the Lees don’t put an empha-sis on winning, said Jason, ther e was muchexcitement when it was down to Leo and lastyear ’s champion.

“At that point, I was like ‘Boy, I hope hecan win,’” said Jason, laughing. “It becamea showdown between two champions. Icould barely look.”

Nervousness turned to over hwlemingpride for Leo’s parents upon seeing thegreen flags raised by the bee’s judges, signi-fying Leo had spelled the word correctly.

With the regional win under his belt, Leowill now go on to compete in the Scripps Na-tional Spelling Bee this June in Washington,

D.C., courtesy of North Country Parents forthe National Spelling Bee and the Press-Re-publican — the r egional spelling bee’s co-sponsors.

Excited for nationals while r eflecting onhis last year of eligibility for the bee, Leo

said he had wor ds of advice for futur e par-ticipants.

“Ask about the definition [of the wo rd]and the language of origin. It only takes afew seconds to ask, so you better ask it,” hesaid. “It could help you.”

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Leo Lee, winner of the 2009 Champlain Valley Educational Services Regional Spelling Bee, holds the trophyhe won at this year’s bee held March 4 at Peru Central School. Lee correctly spelled word “penitentiary” forthe win. He will now go on to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this June in Washington, D.C.

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Alan and Jennifer Booth, Plattsburgh, were recipients of the 2011 Dorothy and Alan BoothDistinguished Citizen Award, given by United Way of the Adirondack Region during the or-ganization’s annual dinner at the West Side Ballroom March 5. The award, named after AlanBooth’s parents, is given to those in the c ommunity who have worked to further the com-mon good. Booth — whose wife was out of town for the presentation — is seen at left, lis-tening as United Way executive director John C. Bernardi speaks of the work the Booth fam-ily has done in the community.

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PLATTSBURGH — Alan andJennifer Booth have been namedrecipients of the 2011 Dorothy andAlan Booth Distinguished CitizenAward.

The United Way of the Adiron-dack Region presented AlanBooth the award — named for hisparents — during the or ganiza-tion’s annual dinner at the W estSide Ballroom March 5.

United Way executive dir ectorJohn C. Bernar di said though hedid not know Booth’s parents, heknew they must have been of thehighest character to have theaward named after them back in1985.

“I did not have the pleasur e ofknowing them, but I knowenough to be able to say confi-dently that they really, truly epit-omized the spirit of volunteerism,of civic-minded duty , kindness,compassion and so many otherwonderful attributes that de-scribe them,” said Bernardi.

That character trickled downthe family tr ee to their son who,along with his equally as commu-nity-minded wife, have contin-

ued to help others, said Bernardi.Doing their part for organizationslike the Girls Scouts of America,Rotary International and others,as well as the United Way, the twohave carried on the tradition ofBooths helping the community.

Bernardi added he was glad theUnited Way decided to “keep it inthe family” when deciding towhom the awar d would go thisyear.

“I’m i mpressed w ith t he w aythe quietly make a huge dif fer-ence,” said Bernardi. “They don’twant the spotlight, they don’twant recognition. They just wantto do good things in a quiet way... They ar e tr uly, tr uly deserv-ing.”

Booth, who also accepted theaward on behalf of his wife, whowas out of town for the dinner ,said he r emembers his motherand father being active in thecommunity since the early 1950s,when they helped form “TheCommunity Chest.” The gr oupraised money for not-for-profitorganizations in the greaterPlattsburgh ar ea and was r ecog-nizable f or i ts l ogo, a s inge r edfeather.

“I can still r emember, as a kid,

everybody wearing a little r edfeather in their lapel,” said Booth.

Booth’s mother was also a “tire-less advocate” for the poor anddisadvantaged, he recalled. Manytimes, his mother would be on thephone “str ongly asking” peopleto donate to various causes. Boothremembered one instance inwhich his mother “str ongly en-couraged” a man named “Ron” tomake a donation.

“After the conversation, I said,‘Mom, you know , I don’t r eallythink you should be talking to thesenator that way,” said Booth, re-ferring to the late state Sen.Ronald B. Stafford. “But, that washer personality.”

Though the night of the dinnerthe spotlight was on Booth andhis wife, it wasn’t long befor e heredirected it to the good done bythe United Way. He creditedBernardi for his work and formerdirector, Michael J. Mannix, whopassed away in 2007.

“It was his vision and strengthand tir eless ef fort that, in myopinion, made us all better volun-teers,” Booth said of Mannix,whom he stated “cr eated thebedrock of this organization.”

Booths recognized with United Way award

Plattsburgh theatre group underwrites school musical

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ART lends helping hand to Peru Music Theatre

PERU — Adirondack Regional Theatr e, along-established community theater gr oupbased in Plattsburgh, is making sure the stu-dents of Peru Central School have somethingto sing about this spring.

The nonpr ofit or ganization is supplyingthe financial resources and the theatrical ex-pertise to help Peru produce the classic ‘50s-themed musical “Gr ease.” The musical willbe performed in the newly-r emodeled PeruHigh School auditorium and mark the firstall-student musical performed by Per u Mu-sic Theatr e. The show will be the first formany of the 31 students and for dir ectorsMeghan Matthews — a fourth grade teacherat Peru Intermediate School — and Christo-pher Urban —the choral dir ector at Per uMiddle and High School.

The directors were so impressed by the tal-ent at the auditions that several of the partshave been doubled cast allowing even mor estudents to be in the spotlight and garner theapplause.

“This is the first show I’ve dir ected, andI’ve l earned a g reat d eal,” s aid M atthews.“I’ve spent time in all elements of puttingthis production together but most rewardingfor me, has been working with the students.The entire Peru community is proud.”

Peru Music Theatr e has pr oduced shows

with students and community memberssince 1993. However , this year , “Gr easedLightning,” “Summer Nights,” “W e Go T o-gether,” and the other memorable songs ofGrease will be performed exclusively by thestudents of Peru Middle and High schools.

Adirondack Regional Theatre — which hasbeen performing in the North Country since2001 with more than 16 musicals — agreed tounderwrite the expense of the show since the

district did not have funds to allocate to theproject. For ART president Tom Lavin “to beable to enrich the lives of these 31 studentsnot to mention the faculty members who aredirecting is an experience ART could not passup.”

“The financial risks pale in comparison towhat a show such as Grease can bring to thestudents, staff, school and the community ,”said Lavin.

The show will be performed at 7:30 p.m.Friday, March 11, and Saturday, March 12. Aspecial 2 p.m. performance will be held Sun-day, March 13. Peru High School is located at17 School St.

General admission will be $10m with sen-ior citizens and students admitted for $8.Tickets for the show are available at the doorand at Peru Health Mart and the North Coun-try Cultural Center for the Arts.

The cast of the Peru Music Theatre production of Grease is preparing for its first all-student musical Friday, March 11, through Sunday, March 13. The performance isbeing underwritten by the Adirondack Regional Theatre.

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The event is being billed as Plattsbur gh’s“largest home impr ovement and interior designshow of the year.” Home improvement, landscap-ing, new home constr uction, remodeling, interi-or design and home decorating projects will be highlighted, among others.

The event will also feature free seminars both days, with topics related to the build-ing industry.

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For millions of Americans, prayer—pub-lic or private—is an important part of theirlives. It’s a form of intimate communica-tions between self and deity.

Americans of faith pray and worship inmany ways and places—chur ches,mosques, synagogues, or ashrams, to namea few. Yet, for a vocal number of Americans,prayer does not belong in the public sphere;it belongs behind closed doors.

Last week’s Vermont Town Meeting Dayevent in the Town of Franklin produced oneof the more interesting happenings to occurin years.

It took only one resident, a voter, to get atown and an entir e state talking about theissue of public prayer. With a single action,one meeting attendee placed this controver-sial topic front and center in Vermont.

Last January, a similar incident happenedin Elizabethtown, N.Y. Some folks got riledup when Essex County Clerk Joe Pr ovon-cha, a Catholic lay minister , led the EssexCounty Boar d of Supervisors in publicprayer. In that case, the board cited the U.S.Supreme Court’s Marsh v. Chambers case of1983. The Court ruled that beginning a leg-islative meeting with a prayer is pr otectedby the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the pr ece-dent goes back to 1774 when the Continen-tal Congr ess began its sessions with a

prayer. Last week, it was Marilyn Hackett of

Franklin, Vt., who challenged publicprayer.

She decided that—after warning T ownModerator Tim Magnant to stop leading aprayer before the start of every town meet-ing—it was time to call in the big guns. Withthe help of the Vermont chapter of theACLU, Hackett is suing the town and Mag-nant.

“Article 3 of the V ermont Constitutionguarantees that no one may be compelled toattend or support religious worship,” saidJulie Kalish, an ACLU attorney r epresent-ing Hackett. “The problem is that the defen-dants insist upon including prayer as partof town meeting even though voters likeMs. Hackett must attend town meeting inorder to vote on all the warned items.”

Couldn’t Ms. Hackett and Mr . Magnanthave sat down and reasoned out a solutionrather than call in ACLU lawyers to attractattention?

Isn’t r eligious speech fr ee speech? DoesMarsh v. Chambers apply to Town Meetinggatherings as it does to legislative meet-ings?

As we have seen in a variety of casesacross the nation, definitions about fr eespeech and religious expression in Americahave been shifting for more than 200 years.

Conservative voices have fr equently ac-cused t he ACLU of s elective r easoning—turning a deaf ear to religious people whentheir civil liberties are abused.

While the ACLU is a liberal organization

and a strong defender of church-state sepa-ration, it has also been a friend of churchesand people of faith under assault. Yet wenever hear about these kinds of ACLU cas-es.

Here’s an abridged list, courtesy of blog-ger Sean Aqui, that supports a side of theACLU we rarely hear about:

2004: The Indiana ACLU defended therights of a Baptis t mi nister to pr each hismessage on public streets.

2003: The ACLU of Rhode Island support-ed the rights of car olers to sing outside awomen’s prison on Christmas Eve. Theprison officials backed down and agreed tolet the caroling take place.

2002: The ACLU of Massachusetts filed abrief supporting the right of the Chur ch ofthe Good News to run highly visible adver-tisements c riticizing t he s ecularization o f

Christmas, a nd p romoting C hristianity a sthe “one true religion,” after the Massachu-setts Bay Transportation Agency refused toallow the ads on subways.

There may never be a final solution to the200-year-old plus battle over defining free-dom of speech and r eligious expression inthe public squar e in America. And maybethat’s as the Founders intended. For as Pres-ident U.S. Grant said to Congress about theissue in 1875, “Let’s declar e chur ch andstate forever separate and distinct, but eachfree within their proper spheres.”

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No need to drag ACLU into prayer

Guest Viewpoint

Many people ar gue that we have the bestmedical care in the world here in the U.S.They point to the major medical centers,

the excellent medical research and the fact that peoplecome from all over the world to access care in some ofour specialty hospitals.

Recently, the tragic events in Tucson, including thehead wound suf fered by Congr esswoman Gif ford,showed the ability to save a life from what we wouldall consider a devastating injury. Not only did Ms. Gif-ford survive the gunshot wound, but all indicationsare that she is making significant progress in her cur-rent r ehabilitation pr ogram. Certainly that storydemonstrates amazing medical technology and care.

The case of Ms. Gifford, however, makes a good casestudy. There are several factors that came together thatallowed for the excellent outcome in that case.

First of all, the incident occurr ed in a very public location withmany people ar ound, some of whom had first-aid experience andwere able to pr ovide immediate car e. Second, ther e was rapid r e-sponse by a well-trained EMT service, and she was transported rap-idly to a major university hospital with a tertiary car e trauma cen-ter. At that facility, there were physicians and teams trained in deal-ing with head trauma of the type she suf fered. Third, she had ex-cellent insurance. These factors create the perfect scenario.

Let us look at two alternative scenarios and ask if theoutcome would have been the same.

First scenario: If the incident took place in the exactsame l ocation a nd c ircumstances, b ut i nstead o f t hecongresswoman being the victim, it was a teenage maleworking part tim e at the gr ocery stor e and bringingcarts in from the parking lot. In addition, let us assumehe is the son of undocumented immigrants.

In such a case, he would probably have been attend-ed to at the scene the same way and transported to thesame hospital but fr om ther e on the situation wouldlikely change. Because he does not have insurance, hemay or may not have gotten the same level of attention.His care would likely have been by the resident housestaff and not the staff surgeons.

More importantly, once stable, there would have beena major effort to move him out of the hospital but not likely to a re-hab facility since there was no way to pay for the rehab. Is this thesame quality of care?

Second scenario. Let us assume we have one of our local congress-men injured in the same way but that the incident occurred in a smallupstate New York town such as Chestertown or Long Lake.

In such a situation, ther e may have been similar first-aid avail-able at the scene, but after that everything is different.

See HEALTH CARE, page 7

David G. Welch, M.D.Thoughts from

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Health careFrom page 6

In this scenario, we ar e dependent on part-time volun-teer rescue squads to respond to the incident. In such a case,precious minutes are lost getting the squad members to re-spond and get to the scene.

Of greater concern, however, is that once the squad hasresponded, we ar e now looking at a transport time of asmuch as two hours to get to a trauma center since the clos-est ones would be in Albany, Burlington or Syracuse.

In this scenario, the r eality is that the patient may not

have made it to the hospital alive or if they did there wouldhave been substantially mor e permanent damage befor edefinitive care could begin.

The lesson her e is that while we may have outstandingmedical care in this country, it is not universally available.From a moralistic point of view, shouldn’t we all have equalaccess to the same quality of care regardless of our stationin life or our income? Why should a congr essman get bet-ter care than an ordinary American? Likewise, should thoseof us who choose to live in a r ural part of New York havemore access to specialty care available closer to home?

As we consider the future of health care for this country

there ar e two questions about our excellent car e. Do wemake it available equally to all, and can we af ford to dothat?

The reality is that much of the “best” care we have is notavailable to all and a lot of it is far too expensive to makeit available to everyone. Ultimately , this means that ther ehas to be some mechanism for rationing or allocating thecare so that the most people can be pr ovided to the mostnecessary care. This reality needs to be part of the dialogon health care reform.

David G. Welch, M.D. lives in Lake Placid.

All the sameThe residents and elected officials of the Adiron-

dack Park should be outraged that the AdirondackCouncil would have the audacity to accuse Fr edMonroe of conflict of interest, and that the Adiron-dack Council is seeking an investigation of the Lo-cal Government Review Board on ethics. The Coun-cil has thr ee former leaders of the Council on theAdirondack Park Agency board. Do you want to talkabout a conflict of interest!

The fact is that the Adirondack Council, Pr otectthe Adirondacks and The Natur e Conservancy ar eall one in the same. The paid employees and theirBoard members r egularly discuss what their nextstep is in the shutdown of the Adirondack Park.They have been steadily trying to kill the Adiron-dack Club project since its beginning. They work to-gether — encouraging each other , taking the ballback and forth, in a collaborative effort to stall thisproject until it dies — which will be at the expenseof the livelihood of all who live, work and love it here. Whenwill these Board members and special inter est groups real-ize the damages they ar e creating — to real human beings?When there are no more clothing stores, food stores, restau-rants, caretakers, gas stations or medical offices?

Do we need to, as residents of this Park, stand up and tellall these pr eservationist members that they ar e no longerwelcome in our town? That you ar e starving us out of ourtown, our homes, our businesses and if you continue youwon't be able to find a place to eat, to shop or to buy gas toget back to your home. Please listen to us — you are not in-vested in our town, you do not employ or pay taxes in ourtown. You have had your say — let our boards and agenciesdo the jobs that they certainly can do. No one wants ourAdirondacks to stay beautiful and to take care of it as we do.We do not need any mor e outside, special inter est gr oupshaving their way at the expense of all of us who live, raisefamilies, and look to have future generations enjoy our beau-tiful Adirondack home. You have no right to deny us this bystarving us out. It is a sad thing that a few people with lotsof money can dictate to the rest of us what we have to do andlive with.

Sheila LarkinCo-owner, Larkin’s Junction Deli & Bakery

Tupper Lake

Who’s this to?To: An unnamed representative of the U.S. Postal Service:The very fact that I do not know who I am writing to points

out how impersonal human relations in our country have be-come.

My wife and I ar e in our 70s now , and we have lived insmall towns all our lives. In every case we have known theidentities of many of our neighbors, and, like an extendedfamily, shared their joys, disappointments, and tragedies.

The local post of fice in a small town is not just a postalservice, it is a rallying point wher e friends and neighborsmeet at a daily level, to collect the mail of course, but alsoto discuss local and sometimes, state and national concerns.

We have been told that there is no way the U.S. Postal Serv-ice can give us back what we have lost: our local post office.

What we will get, most likely, is a bunch of cluster boxes withno personality or warmth of spirit whatsoever.

In my lifetime I have been a teacher and a volunteer fire-man, constantly barraged by well-meaning politicians fromthe city who impose their impersonal ways of life upon us,because they either don’t understand that the “one size fitsall” appr oach is seriously flawed, or they just think weshould learn to live like they do. They think we’d be betteroff.

In no case, we have been better off.I would urge those in charge to think through the decision

to never reinstate the local post office at 12943 again. Thereis enough anger in this town that the people will not be ap-peased easily.

Alden “Chuck” DumasKeene Valley

Will press also show respectI address this to each of the editors that contributed to the

Editorial “Will the ethics board be the answer?” I thank you,the individual who ranted about it last year to the Board ofSupervisors and the Board of Supervisors for attacking thisissue of ethics.

While you said many good things in your editorial, youstressed much about openness and to little on individual pri-vacy. I ask you, can you the press honestly be trusted not toreveal an employees name that reports a potential violationof ethics? I really hope so.

Your editorial mentions one must feel comfortable andwithout concern of retribution when approaching the ethicsboard but then you insist you want to publish names of di-rect relatives hired. What if a person is qualified and no ruleswere violated? You still want to start some contr oversy bypointing out relatives no mater the case?

If this board is to succeed it must operate “transparent onpolicy” and in “executive session on personnel matters.” Ina county of this size I would bet 8 out of 10 times a relativeis the best qualified for a job and that somewher e up thechain they have an influential relative.

Names of those hir ed are always public information andshould continue to be so, however , names of relatives pub-lished next to those names have no bearing on anything ex-

cept speculation. I believe str ongly that this boar d isneeded as violations certainly have occurr ed as theydo in most large organizations!

The ethics board needs the freedom to operate in amanner to protect, not just those coming forward butthose that ar e innocent of bias and false accusationsthrough ignorance of policy. The statements you pub-lished ar e good examples of what should be ad-dressed, if there is any substance to them and not justfrom a jealous non-relative who never qualified to be-gin with. Give the board a chance, give them the free-dom they need to set up, operate, perform and recom-mend.

I, with no relatives in this county, would be pleasedto read in your paper an article like; “The Essex Coun-ty Ethics Board reviewed five cases this week involv-ing hiring policies and workplace abuse. The specificinfractions were...( these can be listed as 'a person washired outside the policy', 'an individual was a victimof gender harassment' , etc). The board recommendedto the Board of Supervisors, the following actions be

taken to prevent further violations in these situations...” The ethics board does not need to use names or even the

specific department but they must address factual violationof standards and recommended corrections to the Boar d ofSupervisors. The Board of Supervisors needs to be the mainones in the spotlight and equally transpar ent. Should theyfind a department head or another individual has knowing-ly violated policy they need to act openly (when appr opri-ate) on the recommendations and report those corrective ac-tions taken. I ask each of you as members of your communi-ties and editors not to handicap what can be a good thing forthis county by printing what has not been substantiated justto call the attention to an individual or their families.

Win BelangerWillsboro

Casino money and GodRecent local news br ought a great story of a woman that

had endured much hardship in life and won $1.2 M at a lo-cal casino. She said “If God brings you to it, He will bringyou through it.” While I am glad she is experiencing “goodluck” it is very “thin ice” to attribute her good fortune toGod’s will and here is why:

1-It is a proven fact that many children are not eating to-day because some loved one gambled away his/her pay-check at a casino. That is why Methodist and many otherChristian faiths strongly oppose gambling. This lady's win-nings come at the expense of someone else’s misery.

2-If she is being “blessed” by God what does that say tothe rest of us? We are poor because we don't gamble? We arepoor because we have not suffered like her? We are poor be-cause we were not “lucky” enough? or God wants those chil-dren to starve so that this woman can gain? or W e did not“pray right” and thus wher e not led to a casino? Or evenworse, God is not done punishing us yet.

3-At the cor e of John W esley’s ( founder of Methodism)theology was a God of love not an author of evil. God is not“ordaining” someone to win the lottery and children to suf-fer. God’s winnings through His love work at a much deep-er internal joy.

The Rev. Al Johnson Mooers United Methodist Church

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Adirondack Humane Society

Buster Dango

Buster is a large tan and black male hound who waspurposely left in the shelter ’s play yar d. He is awonderful dog with a lot of personality. He is big

but a gentle soul. Buster is neutered, heart worm negative,and up-to-date on his vaccines.

Dango is a fast growing male black kitten about 6 monthsold. He is very playful and inquisitive. Dango loves gettinginto corners and onto high perches. He is a super little kit-ty, neutered, vaccinated and ready to go home with his newpet companions.

Elmore SPCA

Our Furry Friends is a weekly feature in

the ‘burgh. For more informationabout these and otherfine pets available for

adoption, contact: Adirondack Humane Society,134 Idaho Ave., Plattsburgh,

561-7297 Elmore SPCA,

510 Arthur Road, Peru, 643-2451

OurFurryFriends

Gina Jenny

Gina is a tortoiseshell mix born on or about June21, 2008, and came to the shelter as a stray. She isan amazing girl with a unique look. Her person-

ality is sweet and she loves attention. She is spayed,FeLV/FIV tested negative and is up-to-date on vaccinations.

Jenny was abandoned at our thrift shop and br ought tothe shelter with her brother, Jake. They were very distrust-ful of humans. Per haps your home is the home for one orboth of them. They ar e FeLV/FIV negative, neuter ed andspayed and are up-to-date on vaccinations.

Balance often decreas-es with age and withlack of exer cise.

Even for those of you who arevery active, you may be sur-prised at how hard it is to dosomething so simple. Includ-ing some of the following ex-ercises to your r outine cangreatly help to incr ease yourbalance.

BeginnerSingle Leg Balance —Stand

with feet straight and shoul-der-width apart.

Lift chest and tuck chin. Draw-in bellybutton and squeeze butt muscles.

Balance on one leg and lift other dir ectlybeside it with foot flexed and hip bent at 90-degree angle. Hold balance position, returnto start. This exercise can also be done whileholding onto a chair or another sturdy objectfor support if needed, and is a good place tostart for beginners.

Single Leg Hip Rotation — Stand with feetstraight and hip-width apart.

Lift chest and tuck chin. Draw-in bellybutton and squeeze butt muscles.

Balance on one leg and lift other until kneeis at waist level. Rotating at hip, bring liftedleg toward side of body then back to fr ont;hold each point two seconds.

Return to start.

IntermediateStep Up To Balance — Stand in fr ont of a

box with your feet straight, placed hip-width apart. Holding a dumbbell in eachhand, contract your glutes and step up ontothe box with one leg. Stand upright andmove into a balance position on the leg andfoot on the box. Move the opposite hip andknee into a flexed position and hold for a fewseconds. Move the lifted leg back down tothe ground and follow with the balance leg.

Single Leg Squat — Stand with feet

straight and hip-widthapart.

Lift chest, tuck chin andplace hands on hips.Squeeze butt muscles, bal-ance on one leg and lift oth-er directly beside it. Squat asif sitting into chair, knee in-line with toe; hold two sec-onds. Return to start posi-tion.

AdvancedSingle Leg Hop with Sta-

bilization — Stand withyour feet shoulder -width

apart and pointed straight ahead. Lift yourchest, lower and contract your shoulderblades, tuck in your chin and place yourhands on your hips. Contract your glutesand balance on one leg as your lift the otherleg and place it dir ectly beside the balanceleg. Hop sideways landing on the oppositefoot and hold the landing position for a fewseconds. Hop back to the starting position,landing on the opposite foot and hold thelanding for a few seconds.

It is very important to consult with yourdoctor befor e beginning any exer cise pr o-gram and please choose the exer cises ac-cording to your level. I would suggest thateveryone starts at the beginner level andonce you can comfortably master 12-15 reps.Then, move on to intermediate and ad-vanced if appropriate. The advanced level isnot appr opriate for everyone for example(but not limited to) those with muscle imbal-ances, past injuries, or osteopor osis. If youare not sur e, please seek the guidance of acertified fitness or medical pr ofessional forhelp and guidance.

Corinna Maggy is a National Academy ofSports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer andCorrective Exer cise Specialist offering privatepersonal training, classes, and weight manage-ment programs. She can be reached at 605-3549or corinnamaggy@yahoo.com.

March’s Workout of the MonthIt is not often that peo-

ple talk about how petscan benefit the gar den.

I can attest to the damage mydogs have done to the garden— fr om digging up newly-planted per ennials to eatingthe carrots out of the gar dento ripping up the lawn asthey play. But, I don’t havedogs to help with the garden-ing. Cats can cr eate equallybad experiences in the gar-den, since they love to usefreshly-tilled soil as theirpersonal litter box.

Despite this, ther e is one pet you maywant to consider letting into your garden —a chicken. Having a small flock of backyardchickens can benefit your garden. One of thebenefits of adding compost to a garden is theadditional nitrogen it provides. Since chick-en dr oppings ar e high in nitr ogen, addingthem to the compost will incr ease theamount of nitr ogen in the compost. Plantsneed nitrogen to grow.

Chickens also hunt and eat a variety ofbugs. Even if the chicken coop is not placedwithin the gar den, they will contr ol theoverall population of bugs in the yar d, in-cluding the garden. This will reduce or elim-inate the need for pesticides.

Another way chickens benefit a garden is

by scratching. Chickens nat-urally scratch at the gr oundas they hunt for bugs andvegetation to eat. Lettingchickens into a garden at theend of the season will helpready it for winter. They willclear out or br eak down oldplants, weeds, and any r e-maining bugs. In the spring,before planting, chickens inthe gar den will scratch andaerate the soil, clear out newbugs, and again, their drop-pings will provide necessary

nitrogen.Besides raising chickens to impr ove your

garden’s health, fee range chicken eggs pro-vide more health benefits than store-boughteggs. If raised properly, chickens can also bevery friendly and some will even sit on peo-ple’s laps.

There are many benefits to keeping back-yard chickens. They are a fun and entertain-ing pet, and raising chickens provides healthbenefits, tastier eggs and chicken meat, andbenefits for a garden.

Anne Lenox Barlow has had experience in theagricultural field as a horticulture educator withCornell Cooperative Extension in Clinton Coun-ty. She can be reached by e-mail at a.lennox.bar-low@gmail.com.

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One coldcommuteJesse Case heads t o work at M auiNorth in Plattsbur gh M arch 7 b yway of cr oss country sk is. S everalpeople attempted to brave the ele-ments during sno wfall thatdumped more than 17 inches of ac-cumulation on the region.

Photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau

Recycling program to help theADK Wilderness Foundation

SCHUYLER F ALLS — The AdirondackWilderness Foundation is helping the envi-ronment by participating in the FundingFac-tory Recycling Program.

AWF members collect empty laser andinkjet cartridges and used cell phones fr omthe community and send the waste productsto recycling business FundingFactory.

Companies interested in demonstrating acommitment to education and the envir on-ment can participate fr ee of char ge in theFundingFactory Business Support Program.FundingFactory will send each supportingbusiness free prepaid shipping labels for thereturn of collected cartridges and cellphones. By helping the AWF, businesses canhelp them save the environment.

The AWF will also earn some money thatthey will use towards be an advocate in pro-viding a quality park thr ough political ac-tivism, park r ecreation, and conservationeducation to the people of the AdirondackPark, while protecting the park’s wild landsand waters.

One of the following team members willgladly pick up your items: Evelyn Ano, JimHewitt, V irginia Hewitt, Bill Rutz, LionelSimard and Jen T ower. Community andbusiness supporters can have their car-tridges and cell phones picked up by e-mail-ing the AWF.

For mor e information, call 578-2586, e-mail adwildfoundation@aol.com, or visitwww.adirondackwildernessfoundation.org

PLATTSBURGH — The Lake Champlain Chapter of Trout Unlimited has announced win-ners of its DEC Camp Scholarship Program. Three young women and four young men willbe going to DEC Camp Colby in the Adirondacks.

The winners are: Chelsey Rascoe, daughter of Ricky and Heather Rascoe, Saranac; Maxand Matvey Longwar e, sons of Herb and Eileen Longwar e, Willsboro; Amanda Wilson,daughter of Richard and Amy Wilson, Lyon Mountain; Keegan Eick, son of David and KristiCranford, Dannemora; Connor Steeves, son of Jon and Julie Steeves, Willsboro; and NicoleWilliams, granddaughter of Sylvia Russell, Plattsburgh.

The scholarships, which commemorate the memories of Dennis Aprill and Samuel Thue-sen, noted North Country anglers and educators, are awarded annually to deserving NorthCountry youth and cover all costs of the one-week camp.

DEC Camp Scholarship winners announced

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Dawson pleads guilty to DWI chargeWILTON — A Former Essex County State Supr eme

Court Judge plead guilty to the charge of driving whileintoxicated last week in Wilton Town Court.

Judge James P . Dawson, 65, was in the SaratogaCounty town court and was fined $500, had his driver’slicense suspended and must install an alcohol-sensorignition interlock after pleading guilty to the charge.

In addition to the other penalties, he must also attenda victim impact panel.

Dawson was stopped by state police on the North-way in September after another motorist reported thathe was weaving back and forth. Police say his blood al-cohol level was .27%, mor e than thr ee times the legallimit.

He was originally charged with misdemeanor aggra-vated DWI because of the high blood alcohol level butwas allowed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of DWIon the condition that he not get into additional troubleover the next year.

Dawson served as Essex County Court judge fr om1992 to 1994 and as Supreme Court justice for the coun-ty from 1994 to 2008. He was working as a per diem ju-dicial hearing officer for the state at the time of his ar-rest.

He has a law firm in Elizabethtown.

City ranks 25th in magazine analysisPLATTSBURGH — The city of Plattsbur gh has been

named one of the most successful small cities in thecountry by Site Selection Magazine.

Plattsburgh ranked 25th among the best micropolitancities, all of which have populations of 10,000 to 50,000people.

According to the publication, the ranking was basedon new industrial facilities and significant investments.

Excluding Plattsbur gh, the r emaining New Yorksmall city in the top 25 was

Batavia was the only other small city in the state tobe ranked, which tied for ninth place.Thomasville/Lexington, N.C., was ranked number one.

Owens labeled ‘Centrist’PLATTSBURGH — Congressman William L. Owens,

D-Plattsburgh, was recently identified by the NationalJournal as being 44 percent liberal and 56 percent con-servative, making him the eighth-most conservativeDemocrat in Congr ess. The National Journal foundedits ranking on a summation of 93 key votes in 2010,which labeled Owens a centrist.

Owens r eplaced Congr essman John McHugh in a2009 special election, filling the r emainder of his termwith the 23r d Congr essional District. McHugh, a Re-publican, was appointed the new secretary of the Army,by Democratic President Barack Obama.

Sex offender denied appeal PLATTSBURGH — Joseph Reynolds, 32, formerly of

Delaware, has held a sex abuse conviction against himupheld for the r epeated abuse of a young girl follow-ing an appeal.

Reynolds is serving a maximum sentence of 25 yearsto life following his 2009 conviction for repeatedly sex-ually abusing and raping a 9-year -old. One char ge offirst-degree course of sexual misconduct against a childwas removed as it was acknowledged by justices as al-ready included in the top charge of predatory sexual as-sault against a child. However , the dismissal does notaffect Reynolds’ 25-year prison term, which he is cur-rently serving in Gr eat Meadow Corr ectional Facility,Comstock.

News of the Week In Clinton County

Steiner holds nothingback in candid talkwith local studentsBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — “You knowtimes ar e tough, and I know timesare tough.”

That was part of the message thatstate Department of EducationCommissioner David M. Steinershared with a gr oup of local stu-dents at the Champlain Valley Tech-nical Institute’s satellite campus atthe former Clinton County AirportMarch 4.

“What your questions ar e r eallytelling us is that this is a r eallytough period,” Steiner said. “Thegood thing about it is that we are be-ing a lot mor e honest about educa-tion as a country, and we are sayingthat you as students deserve mor efor us.”

Steiner spent just over an hourfielding questions from students asold as seniors and high school andas young as fourth grade about thestate of education and where he saw changes coming.

When asked about those who may have a tougher timeperforming on tests or in the classroom, Steiner said the ap-proach should be more individual.

“We have to stop thinking that everyone should arrive atthe same place at the same time,” Steiner said. “When I wasin school in England, ther e was nothing called ddyslexia. Iwas just a horrible speller and I would get D’s and F’s.”

Steiner also talked about the issues with education and theproposed spending cuts to be made by the state.

“What this does is it comes down to a social consciousnessand a social contract issue,” Steiner said. “You and your par-ents as citizens can have an impact on this discussion.”

Steiner said there are gaps that have to be taken care of inthe system.

“Is it fair if one student is being funded at a rate of $9,000and another in a different zip code is being funded at a rate

of $26,000,” he said. “That is actually happening in this state.When you have less, you have to focus on what mattersmost.”

With several students asking about testing, Steiner said hehopes that the state will work to make the Regents and oth-er testing a better assessment of a student’s performance,but said things were most likely going to get tougher.

When a student said they wer e feeling “str essed” aboutthe upcoming r ound of tests, Steiner r esponded, “stress inlife tends to get worse as you go on.”

Steiner also said he felt there needed to be a change is howstudents are prepared for college, something he feels is be-coming more and more of a necessity.

“We have built our standar ds in state education forkindergarten thr ough twelve,” Steiner said. “The schoolsand the colleges were not communicating. What we need todo is make sur e that ther e is no gr eater gap between your

senior year and the first yearof college then ther e is be-tween your junior and senioryear in high school.”

Steiner also addr essed theneed to better educate teach-ers.

“Teaching is about commu-nicating, r eaching the stu-dents and understandingwhat it is they ar e beingtaught,” he said. “We have tore-evaluate how we ar epreparing our teachers and wehave to look at how we teach,as well.”

Chazy student Olivia S eymour lis-tens as Da vid Steiner answers herquestion during a student forum atCV-Tech’s satellite campus March 3.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

Fourth-grader Peyton Ford of Willsboro asks David Steiner what the high school of the futur e willlook like as father, Willsboro faculty member Chris Ford, looks on.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

State Ed commissioner tells it how it is

Laurentian seen as sign of hopeBy Jeremiah S. P apineaujeremiah@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — The financial plight ofNew York may be bleak, but legislators ar ehopeful tightening of the purse strings in Al-bany will bring about much-needed change.

State Sen. Elizabeth O’C. Little, R-Queens-bury; Assemblywoman Teresa R. Saywar d, R-Willsboro; and Assemblywoman Janet L.Duprey, R-Peru, shared their views of the $10billion budget deficit facing the Empir e Stateduring the North Country Chamber of Com-merce’s Legislative Forum Breakfast March 4.

New York State has to be fixed through toughactions, said Little during her address of near-ly 200 people last week.

“Everyone knows that change has to hap-pen,” Little said. “People are no longer talkingabout the high taxes in New York State. They’reusing their feet to move out of New York Stateand to take their money , their business, theirwealth elsewhere.”

One of the keys to turning the ship ar oundwill be to make state government mor e busi-ness-friendly, said the senator , r educing oreliminating state mandates that can have a dev-astating effect on businesses.

“Everybody always talks about the taxes inNew York State and we do have a lot of taxes —we’re ranked right up there near the top whenyou combine income, property, sales tax and allof that,” said Little. “I actually think that formany businesses it’s the regulations that are thekiller ... They may be good ideas, but theyshould not be a mandate. They should not berequired.”

“Our business climate has to impr ove,” Lit-tle continued. “That’s the way we’ll make thebusinesses here more workable and happier tobe here. And, that’s the way we’ll continue toattract new businesses.”

Making sure the North Country continues tobe heard in discussions in Albany is also essen-tial to ensuring funding reaches places north ofthe Capital District, she added.

“We have to r eally make sure we get the at-tention we need,” Little said. “We have smallernumbers, but I think working together andworking with our other North Country legisla-tors we have tried to make our points. And, we

will continue to do that.”Though the legislators r ecognize now is a

time where programs critical to the well-beingof residents are facing potential cuts in funding,they underscor ed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’smessage that the state’s cupboards are bare.

“We’re just beginning to r ealize ther e is nomoney and there are going to be pr ograms weare not going to be able to help out with anymore money than the governor has proposed,”Sayward said.

Sayward said she and her fellow legislatorswill still examine wher e, if at all, any “tinker-ing” can be done to make funding available.

“We’re going to do the very best that we can,”Sayward said.

Duprey agr eed, adding she and her col-leagues understand the programs they receivedquestions about r egarding future funding “allserve a vital role.”

“We hope that we can find a way ... but thereis no money. And for every pr ogram that getsfunded, something has to come out.”

“The message is we cannot do business theway we’ve been doing it in New York State any-more,” Sayward said. “In or der for the econo-my to gr ow, government has to get out of theway and let the private sector take over as muchas possible.”

One good sign for the local economy , saidStephens M. Mundy, chief executive officer and

president of CVPH Medical Center , under-writer for the legislative for um, has been theprogress made with Laur entian AerospaceCorp. Following the announcement Laurentianhas closed on financing for construction of $175million maintenance, repair and overhaul facil-ity, Mundy said he’s alr eady begun to hear ofpeople looking to r elocate to the ar ea, hopefulto land one of potentially 900 jobs over the nextfew years.

“This past week, we r eceived a call fr om acardiac surgery nurse who wanted to know ifwe had any opening because she was looking atmoving here with her husband for Laurentian,”Mundy said. “So, it’s already happening. It’s agreat thing.”

Chamber of commer ce pr esident Garry F .Douglas referred to a recent survey of the cham-ber ’s membership, which noted 79 per cent ofbusinesses expect their business activity to beup this year compared to last year, with anoth-er 14 percent expecting business to be steady.

“There’s a continuing message there from thebusiness community that what the economicdevelopment community is doing her e in theNorth Country is the right r ecipe,” said Dou-glas, “and that while we may be in the midst ofa national recession — and we’re simply not im-mune to that — there is an inherent desire to beoptimistic in the North Country.”

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In Clinton County

Owens, Gibsonpleased with fundsBy Chris Morrisdenpubs@denpubs.com

LAKE PLACID — The LakeChamplain/Lake Geor ge RegionalPlanning Boar d r eceived a grantthis week from the U.S. Departmentof Commerce that will be used to es-tablish a planning strategy for eco-nomic development in the NorthCountry.

Officials say the $60,000 grantwill fund an “economic develop-ment planning framework” aimedat supporting private capital in-vestment and job creation through-out the region.

The grant covers roughly 50 per-cent of the planning investment.

Bill Owens, the Democrat whorepresents New York’s 23r d Con-gressional District, said the fundingcomes at a “critical moment” as theNorth Country continues r evitaliz-ing its economy.

“I am pleased to see funds allo-

cated to support private capital in-vestment and job creation,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chris Gibson fr omNew York’s 20th Congressional Dis-trict applauded the grant awar d,noting that the funding gives the re-gional planning boar d the neces-sary r esources to foster mor e pri-vate investment in the North Coun-try.

“While the federal governmentcannot cr eate jobs, we can r emovethe impediments to gr owth andhelp make our r egion attractive toprivate job cr eators,” Gibson said.

“I look forwar d to continuing towork with Congressman Owens oninitiatives that will benefit theNorth Country.”

According to congressional staff,the Economic Development Au-thority grant supports the “devel-opment and implementation” of acomprehensive economic develop-ment strategy.

The Lake Champlain/LakeGeorge Regional Planning Boar dserves communities in Clinton, Es-sex, Hamilton, W ashington, andWarren counties.

Regional planning board gets $60,000 grant

Strand renovations OK’dPLATTSBURGH — A Historic Site Re-

view for the exterior work at the StrandTheatre has been approved by the City ofPlattsburgh Planning Board.

The North Country Cultural Center forthe Arts Board of Trustees, which is direct-ing the Strand pr oject, also r eceived ap-proval for installation of a new mem-brane-style roof and fire-exit stairways.

Work is expected to be completed in thenext few months.

After-school funding cutPLATTSBURGH — The 21st Century

after-school program in the Plattsbur ghCity School District will no longer receivefunding beginning in June.

The lack of funding, however, will notmean the end of the 21st Century Learn-ing Center sites, accor ding to local of fi-cials. Pending the availability of anygrants or the renewal of the 21st Centuryfour-year grant funding, the district is ex-pected to reapply.

The Learning Center sites include Bai-ley Avenue, Oak Str eet and Momot ele-mentary schools, Staf ford Middle Schooland the Ted K. Community Center.

Parent arrested for theftPERU — David M. Par ent, 21, Platts-

burgh, was arrested by state police March1 for allegedly stealing $60 in cash fr oman individual’s shed.

Police allege Parent reportedly took themoney fr om a shed located at 844 StateRoute 22B. The incident was reported Oct.8.

Parent was char ged with thir d-degreefelony burglary and ordered to appear inTown of Schuyler Falls Court March 3.

Ellenburg Center man, othersinjured in accident

ALTONA — Five people wer e injuredwhen a vehicle driven by Zachary P .Tourville, 17, Ellenbur g Center, enter edoncoming traffic March 4.

State police r eport Tourville was driv-ing westbound on Military T urnpikewhen he lost control of the vehicle, over-corrected and entered the eastbound lane,hitting a vehicle driven by Kristie A.Cook, 24, Plattsburgh.

Tourville and two young passengerswere transported to CVPH Medical Cen-ter, Plattsburgh, where they were treatedand later r eleased. The names ofTourville’s passengers wer e not r eleaseddue to being under the age of 8.

Cook was admitted to the hospital andlater released. Tyler Pombrio, 18, Altona,who was a passenger in Cook’s vehicle,was also treated at the hospital and laterreleased.

Tourville was ticketed for driving at anunreasonable and impr udent speed, andfailure to keep right.

News of the WeekLegislators discuss state budget woes over cereal

Regional News

State Sen. Elizabeth O’C. Little, R-Queensbury, addresses the North Country Chamber of Commerce’s Legisla-tive Forum Breakfast March 4 as Assemblywoman Janet L. Duprey, R-Peru, and Assemblywoman Teresa R. Say-ward, R-Willsboro, look on.

Photo by Jeremiah S. Papineau

Marching into fitnessOrganizations from across the region participated in a health fair held at Nor theastern Clinton Central School March 2. The event featured information about top-ics like diabetes risk and prevention, exercise, and cardiac care. The Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, 4-H, Global Fitness, and Reality Check were among those providing in-formation. Pictured here are Mooers Elementary School counselor Debbie LaBarge and nurse Connie Poupore at the event's healthy snack table. 

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PLATTSBURGH — Ladies Night Out, anannual fundraiser to benefit the T reasureChests, will be held this Friday, March 11, atAmerican Legion Post 20, 162 Quarry Road,beginning at 6 p.m.

Coordinator Tracy Graves said the eventalways benefits a charity and in the past hasbeen to raise money for The Fitzpatrick Can-

cer Center, The Relay for Life, and The Su-san G. Komen Race for the Cure. 

“We started out several years ago at theHoliday Inn and we outgrew that space lastyear, moving to the American Legion Post 20on the Quarry Road in Plat tsburgh,” saidGraves. “It is a fun evening for both the ven-dors and the shoppers.”

The small businesses get a chance to show-case and sell their pr oducts while meetingnew customers, said Graves, and the shop-pers get a chance to help charity.

“Women look forward to our Ladies Nightout each year and have a fabulous time,” shesaid.

The event will include a Chinese auctionand several items for sale fr om vendors in-cluding jewelry, cosmetics, and handbags,among others items.

Admission is a $5 donation at the door tobenefit the Treasure Chests’ team in the Su-san G. Komen Race for the Cure in October.

For more information, call 578-5233.

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Health insurance information now available PLATTSBURGH — Fidelis Care has partnered with Mountain View Pediatrics

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Fidelis Care representatives will be on site at Mountain V iew Pediatrics, 18Feathers Drive, Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to answer questions abouthealth insurance options and to help eligible residents apply to enroll in FidelisCare programs.

Fidelis Care offers free or low-cost health insurance through New York State’sChild Health Plus, Family Health Plus, and Medicaid Managed Care programs.Child Health Plus is for children in New York State under age 19. Coverage maybe free or as little as $9 per child per month. Adults ages 19 to 64 may qualifyfor low-cost health coverage through Family Health Plus based on their house-hold size and gross monthly income. Fidelis Care members are covered for reg-ular checkups, preventive care, hospital and emergency care, eye exams, den-tal care, and more.

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Dental Society announces Maydeadline for college scholarships

PLATTSBURGH — The Adirondack Dental Societywill be of fering two scholarships to assist student en-rolling in a college of Dental Hygiene. The annualawards are sponsored by the Adirondack Dental Socie-ty in partnership with the Fourth District Dental Soci-ety of New York.

There will be two awar ds of $1,000 given per year .The deadline for application is May 1. The awar d willbe given June 1, and will be directly paid toward tuitionpayment.

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Blood drive slated PLATTSBURGH — The North Country

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PLATTSBURGH — Cornell CooperativeExtension of Clinton County, in conjunc-tion with Adirondack Harvest, an organi-zation which connects local farmers totheir communities and r egional markets,will host “Food from the Farm: Eating Lo-cal in Clinton County,” Satur day, Mar ch19. The event will be held at the City ofPlattsburgh Recr eation Department, 52U.S. Oval, in the building’s communityroom.

Co-organizer Amy Ivy, executive dir ec-tor of CCE Clinton County, said the eventwill consist of several local gr owers andproducers discussing the options out therefor those wishing to eat locally-gr ownfoods.

“The goal of the event is to energize andeducate consumers about local food andthe upcoming growing season,” said Ivy.

The event, which will be held fr om 6 to8 p.m., will include a dinner featuring lo-cal foods, prepared by chef Chris Domini-anni fr om the Gr eat Adirondack SoupCompany. The dinner will be a walkaboutmeal format.

Sixteen gr owers and pr oducers ar esigned up so far, said Ivy, adding it may

seem like an odd time of year to host theevent, but it is quite the contrary.

“I love it when people ask me why we’redoing this in mid-March, when there’s nolocal food,” said Ivy , with a laugh.“There’s plenty, that’s just the point.”

The cost of admission is $15, which in-cludes a full meal, door prizes, live musicand access to information booths. Formore information, call 561-7450 or e-mailadi2@cornell.edu.

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PLATTSBURGH —  The T oronto-basedCeltic rock band Enter the Haggis is makingits rounds across the East Coast for its  an-nual month-long St. Patrick’s Day celebra-tion tour, and they’re stopping here.

The four-man band, fr esh off their week-long Cayamo Cr uise out of Miami, will bebringing their unique blend of sounds froma fiddle, bagpipes, whistle, harmonica, pi-ano, guitar , bass and dr ums, said guitarplayer and vocalist T revor Lewington. Thefusion of their sound, said Lewington, iswhat attracts people to their music.

“Our fiddle player was classically trained,grew up competing on the Canadian Old-Time fiddling cir cuit, and listening toSmashing Pumpkins,” Lewington said, r e-ferring to Brian Buchanan. “Our bagpipeplayer [Craig Downie] came over from Scot-land as a kid and picked up the pipes whileliving in Canada. Our bass player and drum-mer [ Mark Abraham a nd B ruce M cCarthy,respectively] went to college for jazz and Itook a world music program in university.”

Lewington said it’s also the songwritingwhich makes their music standout andbrings out energy in their shows.

“Of course, our amazing fashion sensedoesn’t hurt,” he said.

Though the band has a performance linedup for this Sunday , March 13, at Gilligan’sGetaway, it’s not the first time they’ve been

in the city by the lake.“We played the Mayor’s Cup back in 2003,

I think it was. It was a huge show,” recalledLewington. “W e met Paul Fr ederick andJohn Campbell there, who produced our PBSspecial, ‘Live at Lanigan’s Ball,’ which wasrecorded at SUNY Plattsburgh ... We made alot of fans through the Mayor ’s Cup and PBSfilming, who have continued to come toshows through the years. Nice folks who areenthusiastic about music.”

The band has played through 47 states andacross their native Canada since theyformed in 1996, and even toured in Ireland,Scotland, England, Germany and Italy.

“This summer we’r e going back to Ger-many for an amazing festival in the court-yard of a 12th century castle,” said Lewing-ton.

According to Kellyn Slone, who handlespublic r elations f or E nter T he H aggis, t heband will head into the studio in April to be-gin recording its next studio album, the fol-low-up to 2009’s Gutter Anthems.  The bandis “turning to its rabid fanbase for some fi-nancial help” and will offer “a slew of waysfor them to get involved with the record” inreturn. That includes being able to get pr e-sale signed copies to participating in therecording pr ocess — even getting a tattoowith Buchanan. 

(Editor ’s Note: Enter the Haggis will playtheir all-ages show Sunday at Gilligan’ s, 7160,State Route 9, beginning at 8 p.m. Fans can findmore info on the band’s Web site, www.enterthe-haggis.com, or find them on Facebook.

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PLATTSBURGH — Mystery Library The-ater 1999, formerly known as the Illegiti-mate Sons of Mystery Science Theater 3000,will host a movie event at Plattsbur gh Pub-lic Library, 19 Oak St., Friday, March 25, be-ginning at 6:30 p.m.

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source Center of Clinton County will hostFiddles, Vittles and Ales Saturday, March 12,at West Side Ballroom, 253 New York Road.

The event will featur e tastings of manybrands of beers and food pairings. ChefKevin Thornton will pr epare the menu forthe event, which will feature selections likeThai green curry with chicken and rice, lob-ster ravioli in a tomato basil cr eam sauce,

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It’s a story that mostNorth Country folkshave heard, and it’s one

that most of us tr uly want tobelieve. We want to believe itis tr ue because it makes thisplace seem wilder , mysteri-ous, and possibly even myth-ical.

Often, it is a secr etive taleabout a secr etive beast, andyet it is talked about all acrossthe Adirondacks fr om bar-rooms to boar d r ooms, andfrom all points between . Wewant to believe the story , even though it of-ten involves r umors about secr et r eleases,green group conspiracies, missing radio col-lars, black-ops coverups and other such non-sense.

It’s often at this point that the X-Files getslost the woods; which is the r eason why theNYSDEC had to issue a press release lastsummer to clear the air about a number of in-ternet hoaxs and continued rumors about pic-tures of dead cougar s and other su spiciousevidences.

Unfortunately, most storytellers don’t real-ize that no one would be happier than theDEC, to learn that cougars have r eturned tothe Adirondacks.

Actual proof of a cat would be pr oof of atruly wild habitate, and that would be amighty big feather to place on the green Stet-sons in Ray Brook.

For many, the pr esence of lar ge predatorssuch as wolves, bears and mountain lions val-idates the state of our wilderness. Even if thebig cats are really out there, we are still braveenough to travel the woods. If we dar e todeny they exist; we are in some odd fashion,

denying our own toughness.We are wimps!

Fortunately, we’ll no longerhave to worry about it. Lastweek, the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service declar ed theeastern cougar to be extinct.The Ghost Cat can now be re-moved fr om the endanger edspecies list.

And if the federal govern-ment says it’s true…what a re-lief! We can again sleep peace-fully among the big pines andthe rolling hills.

In fact, we haven’t had to worry for nearly80 years accor ding to government r e-searchers. They claim the eastern cougar sub-species has likely been extinct since the lastcat was shot in Maine, way back in1938.

However, what researchers can’t explain isthe rash of sightings that are regularly report-ed fr om locations all acr oss the northernforests, str etching fr om New Br unswick toNew York and beyond.

“The Fish and W ildlife Service fully be-lieves that some people have seen cougars,and that was an important part of the reviewthat we did,” explained Mark McCollough, aFish and Wildlife Service biologist quoted ina press release.

McCollough headed up the agency’s five-year ef fort that sear ched for evidence of abreeding population of eastern cougars. If thebig cats were around, there would have to beevidence, beyond blurry photos and stories ofscreams in the night.

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tographed by at least one of the thousands ofgame cameras out there.

Yet, the stories persist. My own familymembers claim to have seen them. So domany of my friends, and numer ous crediblewoodsmen. Even a couple of the DEC’s ownwildlife biologists have witnessed the cats inthe wild.

I don’t doubt that all of these people wer eseeing something, and it obviously lookedlike a cougar, but where did they come fromand where did they go?

Although the US Fish and Wildlife Depart-ment couldn’t locate a cougar after searchingfor five full years, it sure is nice to think thatsomebody still can. In some odd sort of way,it makes the local woods exciting... and we allneed a little more excitement in our lives.

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residingin Ray Brook. Contact him at brookside18@adel-phia.net.

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(Editor’s note: This is Part Five of a five-partseries on the current status of the Visitor Inter-pretive Centers, which wer e operated by theAdirondack Park Agency from 1989 to 2010.)

RAY BROOK — When the state Adiron-dack Park Agency (APA) transferred owner-ship of its Visitor Interpretive Centers at PaulSmiths and Newcomb to two colleges on Jan.1, not everyone escaped the transition un-scathed. For the most part, however, many ofthe key players say ther e is a happy endingto this story.

During this five-part series, officials inter-viewed for these stories were asked one finalquestion: “Who were the winners and losersof this transition?”

Answers were recorded from Paul Smith’sCollege, which now owns and operates thePaul Smiths VIC; the State University of NewYork College of Envir onmental Science andForestry (SUNY-ESF), which now owns andoperates the Adirondack Interpretive Center(formerly known as the Newcomb VIC); theAdirondack Park Institute, the VIC friendsgroup since 1989; the Adirondack Center forWriting, a new tenant at the Paul Smiths VIC;and the APA.

First the basics. Government downsizing: Due to a multi-

billion-dollar New York state budget deficit,the APA dissolved its Interpr etive ProgramsDivision and successfully transferred owner-ship of its Visitor Interpretive Centers to twocolleges by Jan. 1, 2011. The move was expect-ed to save the APA about $500,000 a year.

Staff: During the 1 1-month pr ocess, fourjobs wer e cut at each facility . Two VIC em-ployees transferred to the APA headquartersin Ray Brook (one of them “bumped” anoth-er employee out of his position). Since then,Paul Smith’s College has hir ed a full-timemaintenance person for the VIC, and SUNY -ESF will hire one full-time staffer (a two-yearposition) at the AIC. More seasonal jobs ar eexpected to be created at each facility.

Facilities and pr ograms: The trails r emainopen at both centers. The Newcomb buildingis still open to the public, and the Paul Smithsbuilding is expected to be open to the publicsometime this year. The API will continue tooffer environmental education pr ograms forschools and the public at each building.

Losers“There's no way to sugarcoat it,” said Paul

Hai, pr ogram coor dinator for SUNY -ESF’sAdirondack Ecological Center and NorthernForest Institute, “The wonderful people whowere doing the work for the Adirondack ParkAgency at the VICs.”

Hai said the out-of-work employees lost inthe short-term and he hopes they will soonmove on to other jobs. He had worked close-ly with these employees since 2003 andspeaks highly of the APA and the staf f who

built the centers and operated them for morethan 20 years.

“These places exist because of the peoplewho did the work her e,” Hai said. “Whatthose guys created at the interpretive centersis a legacy, and they should be proud of it.”

At the same time, as New York agenciesdealt with budget shortfalls by closing envi-ronmental education centers around the statein 2010, “envir onmental education lost,” hesaid, noting the workfor ce reduction at APAand Department of Environmental Conserva-tion envir onmental education centers. “TheAPA made a tough choice … We’re really hop-ing we can lessen that blow by keeping thiscenter open.”

API Executive Dir ector Dan Fitts agr eeswith Hai about the loss to employees and thelegacy they created. He calls the APA’s deci-sion “understandable,” yet he laments theloss to taxpayers who once learned about thewonders of the 6-million-acr e AdirondackPark from state workers.

“I sure think the state of New York loses bynot being able to fund those areas,” Fitts said.“It was real nice for the state to tell the storyof the Adirondack Park.”

While Paul Smith’s College Communica-tions Director Ken Aaron recognizes that thetransition cr eated har dship for the peoplewho lost jobs, he sees the state of New Yorkas a winner because the mission of the VICswill be continued under the college’s watch.

“There are no losers,” Aaron said, addingthat if the building had gone dark, the storywould have been dif ferent. “But we steppedforward and that didn’t happen.”

WinnersAll people interviewed for this story

agreed that the communities of Paul Smiths(town of Brighton) and Newcomb both comeout as clear winners because the facilities willbe open to the public. That means r oughly100,000 visitors will still be making their way

to these towns annually (about 70,000 at PaulSmiths and 30,000 at Newcomb), staying atinns, eating at r estaurants and shopping. Itwas a good deal for the local economy , theysaid.

“The citizens of the Adirondacks are win-ners,” Hai said, referring to the residents' useof the centers as an educational and r ecre-ational resource.

More broadly, the educational communityin the r egion is a winner , according to Hai,organizations that interpret the environmen-tal and cultural history of the AdirondackPark and partner with SUNY -ESF in New-comb, including the W ild Center, WildlifeConservation Society, Adirondack MountainClub and Adirondack Museum. And the cit-izens of New York are winners, he said.

“Ultimately, New Yorkers paid for thestructure,” Hai said. “That investment didn’tgo away.”

Fitts — who also sits on the SUNY -ESFBoard of Trustees — said both colleges comeout winners, as these public facilities ar eunique assets for their educational programs.

Paul Smith’s College officials concur. Theirstudents will benefit, as will the gr eater Tri-Lakes community, accor ding to college Di-rector of Human Resources Susan Sweeney.

“This once again gives us the opportunityto say we are good neighbors,” Sweeney said.

Perhaps the biggest winner is the Adiron-dack Center for Writing, which will be mov-ing from the Paul Smith’s College adminis-tration building to the VIC this spring. Themove will give the not-for -profit gr oup theopportunity to be more accessible and use thetheater space for programs, such as the April19 program with celebrated author Sapphire,according to ACW Executive Dir ectorNathalie Thill.

“We really lucked out as a community. Thisis a gorgeous building with so much poten-tial,” Thill said. “This will be transformativefor our organization.”

Winners, losers in VIC transition APA answers questions(The following answers were supplied in writing by

Adirondack Park Agency Director of CommunicationsKeith McKeever.)

What is the APA’s legacy of the VICs, buildinga foundation for the future of the VICs undernew ownership?

APA legacy is mor e than two decades of theVICs showcasing the beauty and history of NewYork State’s Adirondack Park to appr oximatelyone-and-a-half million visitors. Concurrently, theVICs provided environmental programs and serv-ices, which reached a multi-generational audiencethat included over 75,000 school children. The ex-tensive trail systems combined with innovative in-terpretive services fostered a greater public appre-ciation for the value of the Adirondack Park to allNew Yorkers and citizens of the world.

What is the APA most proud of in regard to itsInterpretive Programs Division and operation ofthe VICs from 1989 to 2010?

We are most proud of the VIC staff for their yearsof engagement in educating generations of Parkstewards and for their outstanding commitment toincreasing environmental awareness. Their dedi-cation and commitment enhanced the public’sawareness of Park resources and the Agency’s rolein their protection. Staff played an important partin interpreting the Park Agency’s responsibilitiesfor the public and private lands of the Park.

Now that the APA doesn’t have operate to theVICs, how has that benefitted the APA so far?Have you seen a direct financial impact in Janu-ary? How much money will it save per year?

The Agency successfully transitioned the VICsand met all mandated budget saving mandates.This helped contribute to the overall state goal ofreducing state spending. The Agency did not haveto cut back additional staff or resources in its reg-ulatory and legal responsibilities and continues toeffectively manage a demanding and complexworkload.

In regard to the VIC transition from the APAto the new owners, who are the winners here?

The Agency’s handling of this downsizing is be-ing discussed as a model for other state agencies.Therefore, we see the outcome as a win-win. Work-ing in partnership with SUNY -ESF and PaulSmith’s College, we were able to navigate throughcomplex legal requirements and reach an outcomethat resulted in continued public access to out-standing trail systems, nature viewing opportuni-ties and environmental programming.

Who are the losers?No comment

A couple of people have said that the APA andNew York state government are “losers” in thisVIC transition because the APA dissolved its In-terpretive Programs Division and no longer of-fers environmental education programming di-rectly to the public. What is your take on thosecomments?

All agency staff provide environmental educa-tion as part of their daily work r esponsibilities.Staff has always worked hard to explain how theAgency’s work plays an important part in protect-ing the envir onment, public heath and enhancescommunity sustainability. We will continue to in-corporate education and interpretive services intothe our job responsibilities.

APA Environmental Educator Milt Adams gives a bird-of-prey demonstration to visitors at the Paul SmithsVIC in 2008. Adams transferred to APA Headquarters in Ray Brook in January under a new title.

Photo by Andy Flynn, from the APA 2008 Annual Report

Lady Cougars hold off Chiefs to capture Class B titleBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — The Saranac Chiefsgot the two shots they wanted.

Trailing 41-39 in the final seconds of theSection VII/Class B championship gameagainst the Northeastern Clinton LadyCougars, Megan Bowman and StephanieLinder each got good looks at the basket, butneither fell.

Then, the ball found the hands of theCougars’ Rachelle Bar comb, who sprinteddown the sideline and away from any poten-tial foul.

“I took that ball and I was going and Iwasn’t stopping until I got to the end andthat buzzer went of f,” Barcomb said aboutthe final seconds befor e she and her team-mates were able to celebrate the sectional ti-tle.

Barcomb finished with eight points in thegame, which was part of a personal goal shehad after the last time the Cougs and Chiefsmet.

“I was nervous because I was shut out bythis team before,“ she said. “I knew that wecould do it and we showed that we couldbeat anyone.”

Chelsey Br ooks led the Cougars with 15points, scoring early as team leading scorerKatrina Garrand looked to find her shot.

“We try to work it around to get the openshot,” Br ooks said about the of fense. “We

want to get the best shot.”“The four seniors I have on the team all

compliment each other tr emendously,”

coach Dave Lambert said after the game.Garrand, who scor ed 12 of her 14 points

in the second half, said they were looking toreverse the 2009-10 script, which had theCougars winning the two r egular seasongames but losing to the Chiefs in the finals.

“During the season, we lost to them twice,so it was a little nerve-wracking,” Garrandsaid. “We always play good against Saranacand we were confident.”

Garrand started to heat up in the thir dquarter, hitting a pair of step-back thr ee-pointers.

“I was hoping there was more to come af-ter this,” Garrand said about the first three.“ I was hoping for the best.”

Kari Dominic and Kayla Dragoon addedtwo points apiece for the Cougars, who r e-lied on strong defense to keep Saranac scor-ing threat Bowman at 15 points.

“I know that we played good defense andwe tried to limit Megan to as few points aswe could,” Lambert said. “Y ou can’t holdher down but we did the best that wecould.”

Linder added seven points for the Chiefs,while Becka Horton and Alisha Ducatteadded five points, Katie Gates scor ed fourpoints and Mor gan Maye scor ed thr eepoints.

After the game, Lambert said that theteam would take a day to soak it all in be-fore getting back into the gym for some con-ditioning.

“I’ll give them the day off tomorrow, thenget back to our r egular r outine and keepthem in shape,” he said. “Our whole thingis to run and the faster we can go the betterthat is.”

Lady Patriots fallThe shots wer e there, they just wouldn’t

fall.That was the pr oblem facing Alexis

Coolidge and her teammates as the AuSableValley Lady Patriots dropped a 56-40 loss inthe Section VII/Class B finals to the North-eastern Clinton Lady Cougars.

“We wer e very tentative of fensively,”coach Roger Long said after the game. “W egot shots, but we r eally didn’t execute oursets. We Didn’t make the right r eads, andthat would turn into turnovers. When wemade the right decision and had the oppor-tunity, we didn‘t finish.”

Coolidge, who finished the game with 11points, was unable to connect on a field goaluntil the 6:50 mark of the thir d period.While she was able to hit several shots afterthat, it was a case of too late for the team.

After the game, Long commended his sen-ior captain for doing everything he asked ofher throughout the season.

“She really turned the corner in becominga leader this year,” Long said. “They all hada great year, and every team will finish witha loss except for the state champion. Theypoured it all out on the court.”

Alexis Facteau added nine points for thePatriots. Savannah Douglas, known mor efor her defensive prowess, finished her var-sity car eer by scoring eight points, whileTaylor scor ed five points, eighth-gradepoint guar d Meghan Str ong scor ed fourpoints and Hart scored three points.

The Northeastern Clinton varsity girls baketball team celebrates their Section VII/Class B title after beating the Saranac Lady Chiefs March 4.Photo by Keith Lobdell

Saranac’s Megan Bowman drives to the basket against NCCS.Photo by Keith Lobdell

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Cougar boys complete Class B sweep with win over PHS HornetsBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — With the shot clockwinding down, Jamie Davison was a longway from the basket.

But the Northeastern Clinton guard knewthat there was only one thing to do as he andthe Cougars trailed by two points to thePlattsburgh Hornets in the Section VII/ClassB championship game March 5.

“At first, I didn’t know about the shotclock,” Davison said. “Then I heard someoneyell five and my only thought was to get agood shot of f. I took the shot that I had tosettle for.”

“That was about 10 feet beyond the thr eepoint line with a lot of pr essure,” Cougarshead coach Rob Garrand said about the shot.

It looked to be on-line, and Davison ad-mitted that, despite the distance and thepressure, he felt good.

“It felt good but I shot it weir d out of myhand,” Davison, who finished with 16points, said. “But it felt good as I shot it andas it went in I just thought, no way.”

The three gave the Cougars a 58-57 lead,which they would not give up after stoppingthe Hornets on two shots late to with the ti-tle.

He’s is a senior leader who took a lot ofcontrol at that point,” Garrand said. “It wentin and it was what motivated us the r est ofthe game. The biggest thing at the end was

the adr enaline we had to defend their lastpossession.”

“We knew that we had the senior leader-ship to pull thr ough,” said Logan Miller ,who scored 14 points, including five in thefourth quarter . “I shot pr etty well. Madethem when they counted at the end of thegame.”

“This is the one thing that we worked forthe whole season,” Steven Car der, whoscored 1 1 points along with T om Bedar d,said. “We knew that this was going to hap-pen and we knew that this was going to be agreat game.”

Davison said that the Cougars were look-ing for their chance despite a great shootingnight for the Hornets.

“They wer e on fir e all night,” Davisonsaid. “We closed out and they would blowby us. We didn’t, and they would shoot overus. We just kept fighting all night. “

“We were down nine at one point and ourgoal was to get it back to five and we knewthat we could get them fr om there,” Cardersaid.

“We didn’t get into the fast-paced game,”Garrand said. “We wanted to slow it up andattack that way.”

Rob Armstrong added six points for theCougars.

Tre Bucci led the Hornets with 15 points inthe game, while Kyle LaPoint scor ed 14points, Justin Curtis scored nine points andthe trio of Jordan Knight, Ethan Votraw andAnthony Porcelli scored six points each.

NCCS point guard Jamie Davison looks to make his move against PHS defender Jordan Knight in the SectionVII/Class B championship game. Photo by Keith Lobdell

Eagles fall in Sectionalchampionship gameBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

LAKE PLACID — It only took one day inMarch and a team that lived up to the saying:“It’s tough to beat the same team three times inone season,” to change all of that.

The Saranac Lake Red Storm scored two ear-ly goals - the first just over one minute into the

game - and a thir d late in the thir d period toscore a 3-2 win against the top-seeded Beek-mantown Eagles to capture the Section II/Di-vision II title.

“We kept it simple out ther e tonight,” headcoach Will Ellsworth said. “The first two goals,we got pucks to the net. They wer e the resultof faceoffs won in the offensive zone.”

With just over a minute in the opening peri-od, Nicholas Magro won a faceoff for the RedStorm, which found the stick of Grant Strack.

With the 1-0 lead 1:09 seconds into the game,the two teams battled until an attempted clear

out of the Beekmantown end found the stick ofthe Red Storm’s Alec McLean.

McLean said it was a gr eat opportunity toget a chance to make an impact in the game.

“As the thir d line, we ar e out ther e to givethe other lines a rest and get the puck in deep,and that was my thought,” he said.

With a 2-0 lead after the first period, the RedStorm wer e then the hunted instead of thehunter and the Eagles were looking to strike.

Brenden Carnright drew first, collecting a re-bound off a slapshot by T avon Ford-Relationand putting it past O’Neill to cut the lead to 2-1 in the second period.

Then, Jordan Barriere and Dalton DeMar coworked the puck ar ound the outside of theSaranac Lake zone, eventually finding AustinBradish in the crease, who made several fakesand dekes before burying the puck at the 7:54mark in the third to tie the game at 2-2.

“Austin is an impact player for us,” coachJustin Fr echette said after the game. “Austincan come out an dominate games when hewants to. I thought the boys did a great job bat-tling back.”

With around three minutes to play in the pe-riod, Ellsworth called a timeout with the puckin the Red Storm zone to let his Red Storm play-ers catch their breath.

We needed a well deserved rest at that time,”Ellsworth said. “I told them to not grip theirsticks as hard, because you can panic in the fi-

nal three minutes of a game like this.”“We were working on the faceoff and cover-

ing it,” said Matt Phelan. “We had to tie it upand clear it.”

The Storm won the faceof f and Dalton De-Marco pushed the puck into the Beekmantownzone. After strong forecheck by Barriere got thepuck off DeMarco’s stick, it found its way toPhelan.

“I didn’t r eally think, I just shot,” Phelansaid about the shot that would turn into thegame winning goal. “I didn’t know it had wentin until everyone started yelling.”

The Eagles used their timeout with just overone minute remaining, pulling goalie Kyle Mc-Carthy for the final minute for the extra attack-er.

However, the Red Storm was able to clear thepuck each time to secure the win.

“It was going to be the little things that madethe dif ference,” Fr echette said. “ W e justweren’t able to capitalize on all of our oppor-tunities. I think the character of our team allyear long has been to continue to battle for 45minutes. We had the play, we had the shot, andit ended up two inches to the left and hit thegoalie in the helmet.”

In the end, Frechette said he could not haveasked his team for more.

“They gave me everything they had,” hesaid. “I asked them before the game to leave itall out on the ice and they did.”

Beekmantown’s Austin Braish looks to make a late run on the Saranac Lake zone in the Section VII/DivisionII championship game March 1. Photo by Tom Ripley

Beekmantown unable to get third win against Saranac Lake

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Seton boys, girls basketball teams fall in sectional championshipsKnights unable to solveTiconderoga defenseBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — A 15-5 opening quar-ter gave the T iconderoga Sentinels an edgethey would not give up, as they captured theSection VII/Class C title with a 56-39 winover the Seton Knights at the Plattsbur ghState Field House.

“It feels good,” Nick Mars, who scored 12points in the win, said after the game. “Ourdefense was the key . Keeping the big guy(Seton’s 6’9” center Carson Hynes) of f theboard and box out. W e wer e having a badgame to begin with. W e wer e hurrying upour shots to begin with. But we got it going.”

Hynes ended with 18 points in the game,but may have had more if it were not for thefourth quarter defense played by junior var-sity call-up Riley Chapman.

“They had gotten a couple of looks withCarson,” Sentinel head coach Joe Defayettesaid after the game. “I figur ed I’d thr owsome height on him. For not having a lot oftime on varsity, I thought Riley did a gr eatjob limiting his offensive looks.”

Dan Morrison, who scored 13 points in thegame to lead the Sentinels, agr eed that theSentinels made their pr esence known withtheir defensive effort.

“We came out to send a message that weare not someone to take lightly in the play-offs,“ Morrison said. “I think we boxed himout really well. I just hope that we can startshooting the ball a little better. As long as weplay good defense, we should be alright.”

Nate Lenhart added 10 points, while Tan-ner Purkey scor ed eight points and MattNolan added seven points.

“We usually spread it around offensively,”said Defayette. “Usually, we get one or twothat stand out over the others, but we reallydidn’t have anyone shooting the ball thatwell.”

Defayette said that the team hit fivethree’s, it was an aggr essive interior attack

that helped them get the win.“I think we finally started attacking the

basket and stopped settling for the outsideshot,” he said. “When Seton hangs ar ound,you never know what is going to happen.”

As for heading on in the state playoffs, De-fayette said that the team will have tostrengthen the defensive side of the ball.

“We really do need to focus on our defensebecause we ar e so str eaking,“ Defayettesaid. “I think we ar e r olling along well. Ithink tonight might be a little set back, butyou are going to have those moments.”

For the Knights, Eddie Lar ow added 1 1points, while Keagan Briggs scor ed eightpoints and Cody Quantock scor ed twopoints.

Girls drop low-scoringgame against Lake PlacidBy Keith Lobdellkeith@denpubs.com

PLATTSBURGH — While it was not thebest of fensive night in the history of LakePlacid varsity girls basketball, it was the bestnight in the history of Lady Blue Bombersball.

For the first time in the 15-year history ofthe Lake Placid girls basketball program, theBombers hoisted the tr ophy as SectionVII/Class C champions after a 39-19 win overSeton Catholic March 4.

“This team will go down in Lake Placid his-tory,” senior Megan Riley , who scor ed 12points to lead her team to the win, said. “Weconsider ourselves a family and work har dfor each other.”

While Riley led the team in scoring, it wasMackenzie Kemmerer who kept the pace forthe Bombers in the first half, including a threepointer off a long rebound.

“It was tough, but I jumped up andgrabbed it out of the air ,” Kemmer er said,who finished with nine points. “We have ac-tually been to at least seven sectional finalsin my varsity sports car eer and it is gr eat tofinally win won. We work well as a team and

we are playing well, so I think we can makeit far.”

“A lot of hard work paid off,” Riley said af-ter the game. “It’s har d when you have somany turnovers, but we knew that we wer egoing to do what we had to do and come outwith the win.”

“We knew if we kept the pressure on themand didn’t let them shoot thr ee’s, we had agood opportunity to win the game,” Bombershead coach Frank Johns said after the game.“We got some close shots that we scor ed onand a couple of br eaks. I thought our insidedefense was very good.”

Ayla Thompson added six points for theBombers, while Catalina Daby , DanielleBalestrini and Stephanie Murphy each scoredfour points.

Johns said it was a team ef fort in the titlegame with Riley leading the way.

“Megan contr ols the game whatever shedoes, and the rest of the girls stepped it up,“Johns said. “Any of them can take over thegame if Megan gets doubled or tripled. Theyall can do it.”

Ashlee Fairchild and Kelsey Doorey scoredfour points each for the Lady Knights, whileMegan Tedford and Stephanie Egan scor edthree points, Kerry Cannon and Cara Chap-man scored two points and Lyndale Nephewscored one point.

Seton’s Carson Hynes scored 18 points.Photo by Nancy Frasier

Seton’s Megan Tedford shoots a free throw as teammate Kate Schofield looks on.Photo by Keith Lobdell

Plattsburgh H igh’s TreBucci goes up f or abreakaway slam dunkagainst the Nor theast-ern Clinton Cougars inthe Class B boys champi-onship game.

Photo by Justin Prue

The NCCS boys basketball team with their Sectional trophy.Photo by Keith Lobdell

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BEN BRIGHT AND ASHLEY KOLLAR. OliveRidley's, 37 Court St., 8 p.m. 324-2200.

EAT.SLEEP.FUNK. PERFORMS. Monopole, 7Protection Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

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brary, 19 Oak St., 2 p.m. 536-7437.ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.OPEN FAMILY SWIM NIGHT. Wellness Cen-

ter at PARC, 295 New York Road, 7-9 p .m. 562-

6860. $2.REV TOR PERFORMS. Monopole, 7 P rotec-

tion Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

S a t u r d a y . M a r c h . 1 9 .S a t u r d a y . M a r c h . 1 9 .MYSTERY LIBRARY THEATER 1999 MEETS.

Plattsburgh Public Library, 19 Oak St., 2:30 p.m.Group pr esents an A cademy A ward-winningfilm. 563-0921 for title.

ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

NORTH COUNTRY SQUARES DANCE CLUBMEETS. Clinton C ounty Fairgrounds, 84 F air-grounds Road, Morrisonville. 7 p.m. Caller Cor-ry Lowden and cuer Mo Wall. 561-7167 or 492-2057.

PROFESSOR CHAOS PERFORMS. Mono-pole, 7 Protection Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

S u n d a y . M a r c h . 2 0 . S u n d a y . M a r c h . 2 0 . ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST. Elks

Lodge 621, 56 Cumberland Ave., 9 a.m.-12 p.m.Adults, $8; children, $5.

ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 561-8142.

AFTER THOUGHTS PERFORMS. AfterThoughts per forms, St. Joseph ’s Chur ch, 179Smith St., Dannemora, 2 p .m. A dmission non-perishable food items or cash donations.

M o n d a y . M a r c h . 2 1 .M o n d a y . M a r c h . 2 1 .SCRABBLE GAME. Seniors Citizens Council

of Clint on County Senior C enter, 5139 N.Catherine St., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. 563-6186, ext. 102.

T u e s d a y . M a r c h . 2 2 .T u e s d a y . M a r c h . 2 2 .RSVP PERFORMS. Senior Citizens Council of

Clinton County, 5139 N. Catherine St., 11 a.m.WOMEN’S GLOBAL AWARNESS FAIR.An-

gell C ollege C enter L obby, SUNY Plattsburgh,11 a.m.-1 p.m.

W e d n e s d a y . M a r c h . 2 3 . W e d n e s d a y . M a r c h . 2 3 . OPEN MIKE NIGHT WITH MIKE PEDERSEN.

Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 9 p.m.563-2222.“THE CONSTANT GARDENER.” Yokum

Room 200, SUNY Plattsburgh, 7 p.m. 564-5410.“ROAD TO GUANTANAMO.” Yokum Room

205, SUNY Plattsburgh, 7 p.m. 564-4391.

T h u r s d a y . M a r c h . 2 4 .T h u r s d a y . M a r c h . 2 4 .BOOKMOBILE STOP. Senior Citizens Coun-

cil of Clint on C ounty, 5139 N. Cather ine St.,Plattsburgh, 11:30 a.m. t o 12 p .m.; Vilas Home,61 Beekman St., Plattsburgh, 1-1:45 p.m.; FlynnAve., Plattsburgh, between senior apar tments,

2-2:30 p .m.; P ine Rest Trailer cour t, TreadwellsMills, 3:15-3:45.

TEENS AND TWEENS LIBRARY CLUB.Plattsburgh Public Librar y Auditorium, 19 OakSt., 3-4:30 p.m. 563-0921

JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-tre M all, 60 Smithfield Blv d., 4:30-6:30 p .m.Reading for children up to age 16 with free bookprovided. Host ed at cent er cour t. w ww.jour-neyintoreading.org.

TUNES AND TRIVIA WITH DJ GARY PEACOCK.Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 5-8 p.m.563-2222

BEN BRIGHT AND ASHLEY KOLLAR. OliveRidley's, 37 Court St., 8 p.m. 324-2200.

TRINITY PARK RADIO PERFORMS. Mono-pole, 7 Protection Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

F r i d a y . M a r c h . 2 5 .F r i d a y . M a r c h . 2 5 .CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-

brary, 19 Oak St., 2 p.m. 536-7437.ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.OPEN FAMILY SWIM NIGHT. Wellness Cen-

ter at PARC, 295 New York Road, 7-9 p .m. 562-6860. $2.

TURBINE PERFORMS. Monopole, 7 Protec-tion Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

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ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 561-8142.

W e d n e s d a y . M a r c h . 3 0 .W e d n e s d a y . M a r c h . 3 0 .OPEN MIKE NIGHT WITH MIKE PEDERSEN.

Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 9 p.m.563-2222.

T h u r s d a y . M a r c h . 3 1 .T h u r s d a y . M a r c h . 3 1 .JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-

tre M all, 60 Smithfield Blv d., 4:30-6:30 p .m.Reading for children up to age 16 with free bookprovided. Host ed at cent er cour t. w ww.jour-neyintoreading.org.

TUNES AND TRIVIA WITH DJ GARY PEACOCK.Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 5-8 p.m.563-2222

BEN BRIGHT AND ASHLEY KOLLAR. OliveRidley's, 37 Court St., 8 p.m. 324-2200.

TRINITY PARK RADIO PERFORMS. Mono-pole, 7 Protection Ave., 10 p.m.563-2222.

F r i d a y . A p r i l . 1 .F r i d a y . A p r i l . 1 .CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-

brary, 19 Oak St., 2 p.m. 536-7437.ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

S a t u r d a y . A p r i l . 2 .S a t u r d a y . A p r i l . 2 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.NORTH COUNTRY SQUARES DANCE CLUB

MEETS. Clinton C ounty Fairgrounds, 84 F air-grounds Road, Morrisonville. 7 p.m. Caller DonMoger and cuer Walt Wall. 561-7167 or 492-2057.

S u n d a y . A p r i l . 3 .S u n d a y . A p r i l . 3 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 561-8142.

W e d n e s d a y . A p r i l . 6 .W e d n e s d a y . A p r i l . 6 .OPEN MIKE NIGHT WITH MIKE PEDERSEN.

Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 9 p.m.563-2222.ADIRONDACK JAZZ ORCHESTRA PER-

FORMS. Olive R idley's, 37 C ourt St., 8-10 p .m.324-2200.

T h u r s d a y . A p r i l . 7 .T h u r s d a y . A p r i l . 7 .JOURNEY INTO READING. Champlain Cen-

tre M all, 60 Smithfield Blv d., 4:30-6:30 p .m.Reading for children up to age 16 with free bookprovided. Host ed at cent er cour t. w ww.jour-neyintoreading.org.

TUNES AND TRIVIA WITH DJ GARY PEACOCK.Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., 5-8 p.m.563-2222

BEN BRIGHT AND ASHLEY KOLLAR. OliveRidley's, 37 Court St., 8 p.m. 324-2200.

F r i d a y . A p r i l . 8 .F r i d a y . A p r i l . 8 .CHESS CLUB MEETS. Plattsburgh Public Li-

brary, 19 Oak St., 2 p.m. 536-7437.ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

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dack Soup Company, 24 Oak St., 7:30 p.m. 561-6408.

S a t u r d a y . A p r i l . 9 .S a t u r d a y . A p r i l . 9 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 6:30-9:30 p.m. 561-8142.

S u n d a y . A p r i l . 1 0 .S u n d a y . A p r i l . 1 0 .ED SCHENK PERFORMS. Michele’s Fine Din-

ing, 5131 U.S. Ave., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 561-8142.

the ‘burgh 25March 12 - 18, 2011

By John Lampkin

Across1 Shrimp kin6 Eclipse shadow

11 Grain layer15 Pennsylvanie, e.g.19 Bellow’s “The

Adventures of __March”

20 “Air Music” Pulitzerwinner, 1976

21 Like Hubbard’s cup-board

22 Very attractive23 Amherst sch.24 Bowlers have them25 Documentary about a

Ravi Shankar concerttour?

27 Sitcom about anendearing dimwit?

30 Reserved31 Geometry figure32 On __-to-know basis33 Hypothetical primates35 Not at all excited37 Entered gradually39 Waste, as time43 Show about a nonsen-

sical grain grinder?48 Giant in the woods50 “Great taste” beers,

familiarly51 Summer goal, maybe52 “No __!”54 Pressed for payment55 “__ all in your mind”56 Moral principles59 Lincoln Ctr. site61 Prolonged pain62 Hopi home64 Symbol on the film

poster for Eastwood’s“Hang ’Em High”

67 Mt. Shasta’s state69 Box for practice

70 Drama about an opin-ionated military?

73 Sheep’s kin77 In concert79 Natural sponge80 Telescope eyepiece82 Brooks of country85 Boston Coll. confer-

ence since 200587 Confident comeback89 JFK posting90 Ill will92 “Mayor” author95 Former USSR member96 Ankle bones98 Early stage

100 Talk show about wordslike “zeppelin” and“dirigible”?

103 Many a texting whiz104 10,000 square meters106 Lampblack107 Sioux enemies108 Starbucks size111 Attending USC, e.g.115 Like some drilling119 Sitcom about a team

of aromatherapists?122 Financial show about

the fermented honeymarket?

124 Straight up125 Bizarre126 Procter & Gamble

razor127 Cowardly Lion’s farm-

hand alter ego128 Of the kidneys129 Got together130 Really smell131 Ice cream brand132 Nonplus133 Until now

Down1 “Straight Up” singer

Abdul2 Bit of tongue-wagging3 Mescal source4 Joker5 Twitter source

6 Modern folklore7 “Le __ d’Arthur”8 Payoff9 Do over, as a kitchen

10 “Are not!” comeback11 Hardly big shots?12 Like a bump on a log13 Goddess of the hunt14 Straightened up15 New newts16 Inner tube shapes17 Hewed18 Little shaver26 Tried to get a seat28 “I only regret that I

have but one life tolose for my country”speaker

29 More despicable34 1955 Argentine coup

victim36 First name in nature

photography38 Chalet backdrop39 Drama about an Asian

virus?40 Sphere opening41 Property claim42 Feminine title43 Air traffic images44 Like the sky during

fireworks45 On a liner, say46 Liner’s primary section47 Disguised, briefly49 Wharf on the Seine53 Old-timey words of

emphasis57 WWII Axis general58 Earthworm environs60 Short film maker?63 Drama about an

obnoxious superhero?65 Cone head?66 Big heads68 Rhône city71 Juanita’s “a”72 Entangled74 Last Olds made75 Quemoy neighbor76 Scarecrow’s lack

78 Eschew81 BP competitor82 Pace83 Only daughter of

Elizabeth II84 Abundant86 Terra __88 Rembrandt’s contem-

plative subject91 Gossip93 Longtime New Yorker

cartoonist Roz

94 “I Saw __ Again”: 1966hit

97 Appraised items on aPBS “Roadshow”

99 Had a hankering101 Frantic102 Villain to “avoid” in

1980s Domino’s Pizzaads, with “the”

105 Insolent107 Resistance unit109 Edit

110 Dieter-friendly112 Like fruitcakes113 Oater actor Lash114 Like crackerjacks115 General Bradley116 Grand affair117 Diet118 Black Hills st.120 Zeus’ spouse121 “Brave New World”

drug123 Puzzle finisher’s cry

This Month in History - MARCH 11th - The most famous storm in American history begins.... the Blizzard of 1888.(1888)

12th - Girl Scouts were founded. (1912)

14th - Eli Whitney patents the Cotten Gin (1794)

17th - On this day everyone is a little bit Irish- It’s Saint Patrick’s Day!

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S O L U TI O N S T O L A S T W E E K ’ SP U Z Z L E S!

ADDUCATIONALTV

Death NoticesJohn Denis Tessier, 85

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — JohnDenis T essier, 85, formerly ofPeru, passed away Feb. 24, 201 1at the Quail Creek NursingHome. Funeral services will beheld 10 a.m. Satur day, April 16,at St. Augustine’s Church, Peru.Burial will be private and at theconvenience of the family .Hamilton Funeral Home, Per u,is in charge of arrangements.

Olga B. Buck, 93DANNEMORA — Olga B.

Buck, 93, passed away Feb. 25,2011. Ther e wer e no public fu-neral services. Burial will be inthe spring in IndependenceCemetery, Saranac. R.W. WalkerFuneral Home, Plattsburgh, is incharge of arrangements.

Marion G. Squires, 92PLATTSBURGH — Marion G.

Squires, 92, passed away Feb. 27,2011. Funeral services will be

held Wednesday, July 6, at St. Pe-ter ’s Chur ch, Plattsbur gh, at 10a.m. Interment will follow at St.Peter ’s Cemetery. Brown Funer-al Home, Plattsbur gh, is incharge of arrangements.

Ralph I. Knapp, 81AU SABLE FORKS — Ralph I.

Knapp, 81, passed away Feb. 27,2011. Funeral services were heldMarch 4 at Zaumetzer -SpragueFuneral Home, Au Sable Forks,which was in charge of arrange-ments. Burial will be at a laterdate in the Reber Cemetery.

Loraine I. Burleigh, 81WATERTOWN — Loraine I.

Burleigh, 81, passed away Feb.27, 2011. Funeral services wer eheld Mar ch 3 at Br own FuneralHome, Plattsbur gh, which wasin charge of arrangements.

Burial will be at a later date inSt. Joseph’s Cemetery , W estChazy.

Leo P. Trudeau, 100PLATTSBURGH — Leo P .

Trudeau, 100, passed away Feb.28, 2011. Funeral services will beheld 9 a.m. Friday , April 29, atthe Immaculate ConceptionChurch, Keeseville. Burial willfollow in St. John’s Cemetery ,Keeseville. Hamilton FuneralHome, Keeseville, is in charge ofarrangements.

Shirley A. Lancto, 73PLATTSBURGH — Shirley A.

Lancto, 73, formerly of LyonMountain, passed away Feb. 28,2011. Funeral services were heldMarch 5 at St. Bernard’s Church,Lyon Mountain. Spring burialwill t ake p lace a t S t. B ernard’sCemetery, L yon Mountain.Chateaugay Funeral Home,Chateaugay, is in char ge ofarrangements.

Lancing J. Defayette Sr., 59PLATTSBURGH — Lancing J.

Defayette Sr., 59, passed awayFeb. 28, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held March 4 at Brown Fu-neral Home, Plattsburgh, whichwas in charge of arrangements.

Thomas R. Sprague, 65AMSTERDAM — Thomas R.

Sprague, 65, passed away March1, 201 1. Funeral services willtake place in the spring in theHaselton Cemetery. Zaumetzer -Sprague Funeral Home, AuSable Forks, is in char ge ofarrangements.

Dominic Lepone, 63CORTLANDT MANOR —

Dominic “Nick” Lepone, 63,passed away March 1, 2011. Me-morial services will be held Sat-urday, Mar ch 12, at V eterans ofForeign Wars on Route 11, 600 St.John Road, Champlain, from 1 to3 p.m.

Mildred E. McGibbon, 86SUN CITY, Ariz. — Mildr ed

Ellen McGibbon, 86, passedaway Mar ch 1, 201 1. Funeralservices were held March 7 at AllSaints of the Desert EpiscopalChurch, Sun City, Ariz. Burialwill take place in Tarrytown at alater date.

Lonnie M. Field, 67WATERBURY, Vt. — Lonnie

Michael Field, 67, passed awayMarch 1, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held March 5 at St. AndrewCatholic Chur ch, W aterbury.Perkins-Parker Funeral Home,Waterbury, was in char ge ofarrangements.

Larry J. Ebersole, 63PLATTSBURGH — Larry J.

Ebersole, 63, passed away March2, 201 1. Funeral services wer eheld March 4 at Our Lady of Vic-tory Church, Plattsburgh. Inter-

ment will be in St. Peter ’s ceme-tery at a later date. Brown Funer-al Home, Plattsbur gh, is incharge of arrangements.

Harry Mitchell Jr., 78PLATTSBURGH — Harry

Mitchell Jr ., 78, passed awayMarch 2, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held March 4 at Heald Fu-neral Home, Plattsburgh, whichwas in char ge of arrangements.Burial will be at a later date in St.Alexander ’s Cemetery , Mor-risonville.

Timothy Lincourt, 74ROUSES POINT — T imothy

Lincourt, 74, passed away March2, 201 1. Funeral services wer eheld Mar ch 5 at M.B. Clark Fu-neral Home, Rouses Point,which was in charge of arrange-ments.

Frances Cohen, 93REXFORD — Frances Cohen,

93, passed away Mar ch 2, 201 1.Funeral services wer e heldMarch 4 at Congr egation BethShalom, Clifton Park. LevineMemorial Chapel, Albany, wasin charge of arrangements.

Raymond R. Freeman III, 74CHAMPLAIN — Raymond R.

Freeman, III, 74, passed awayMarch 3, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held Mar ch 6 at Thr eeSteeples United MethodistChurch, Champlain. M.B. ClarkFuneral Home, Champlain, wasin charge of arrangements.

Augustus C. Flora Jr., 76WILLSBORO - Augustus

Claude “Gussie” Flora Jr ., 76,passed away Mar ch 3, 201 1.Services will be held in thespring at a date to be announced.Burial will follow in MemorialCemetery, Willsboro. HamiltonFuneral Home, Peru, is in chargeof arrangements.

G. Joy Belair, 66CANDOR — G. Joy Belair, 66,

passed away Mar ch 4, 2011. Fu-neral services were held March 8at Estey, Munroe & Fahey Funer-al Home, Candor , which was incharge of arrangements.

Harold J. Castine, 74CHAMPLAIN — Har old J.

“John” Castine, 74, passed awayMarch 4, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held March 10 at St. Mary’sChurch, Champlain. Intermentwill be at a later date in St.Joseph’s Cemetery, West Chazy.M.B. Clark Funeral Home,Champlain, is in charge ofarrangements.

Dorla A. Bombard, 73AUSABLE FORKS — Dorla A.

Bombard, 73, passed awayMarch 5, 201 1. Funeral serviceswere held March 8. Burial was inFairview Cemetery. Zaumetzer -Sprague Funeral Home was incharge of arrangements.

Diana M. Carlisi, 62WEST CHAZY — Diana M.

Carlisi, 62, passed away March 5,2011. Funeral services were heldMarch 10 at St. Peter ’s Chur ch,Plattsburgh. Br own FuneralHome, Plattsbur gh, was incharge of arrangements.

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The Renegades’ first trip to ThunderRoad, set for Thursday, Aug. 11, is one ofseveral highlights on their schedule. An-other important date is Saturday, May 28,when the Renegades will squar e of f atAirborne Speedway in a $500-to-win 50-lap event. Other notable races include asix-car, six-lap $250-to-win Dash forCash, Satur day, Aug. 6 and a featur eevent as a part of the race card the nightthe ISMA Supermodifieds return to Air-borne Saturday, July 23.

The Renegades deliver ed competitiveracing and high car counts thr oughout2010. The track championship was notdecided until the final laps of the seasonfinale. Kevin Boutin, of Swanton, Vt.,won the title, narr owly besting defend-ing champion Lonnie Rivers, of

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Lance Rabtoy, of Fairfax, Vt., a 2 010Renegade title contender, agreed.

“I’m ecstatic,” Rabtoy said. “Any-where we can go to have a new challengeand promote our division and our hometrack is good. When you can bust out andrace elsewhere, especially a top track likeThunder Road, it’s good for everybody.”

Boutin will begin his title defense inthe Champlain T ransmission/DirectAuto Body No. 25 at Airborne’s 58th sea-son opener Saturday, May 7. The Cham-plain Valley Motorsports Show at Platts-burgh’s Crete Civic Center is scheduledfor Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April15.

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Ford Retail Customer Cash . . . . . . . . -$1,000 FMCC Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Ford Promo Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Ford Retail Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Dealer Discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,100

MSRP $32 , 000

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,535 Ford Retail Customer Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 FMCC Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$500 Ford Promo Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Dealer Discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$750

2011 FORD FUSION SE Stk#EM216, Auto, Air, Cruise,

Power Windows, Locks & Seats

2011 FORD ESCAPE 4X4 XLT Stk#SEM287, V6, Moonroof, SYNC,

Power Windows, Locks & Seats

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2011 FORD FIESTA Stk#EM233, 5 Spd., Tilt Wheel, 4-Way

Driver Seat, 60/40 Rear

2011 FORD FOCUS SE Stk#HSM058, Auto, Air, Cruise, SYNC,

Power Windows & Locks

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$ 20 , 285

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,815 Ford Retail Customer Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 FMCC Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$500 Ford Promo Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Dealer Discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$900

$ 25 , 415

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,995 Ford Retail Customer Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$500

$ 13 , 495

MSRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,400 Ford Retail Customer Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$2,000 FMCC Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$500 Ford Promo Bonus Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$1,000 Dealer Discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -$505

$ 15 , 395

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