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WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES MARCH 2, 2008 

PROGRESS 

2008 

Snow blows at the base of wind turbines on Maple Ridge Wind Farm, Route 177, Martinsburg. Page 5. 

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5 Trends 

The future of the north country is intertwined 

with a variety of internal and external 

market forces. The worldwide 

prices of aluminum and zinc determine how 

many jobs there are in St. Lawrence County. 

The growing worldwide popularity of bowling 

ensures Lowville of more jobs. The way this 

country combats international terrorism directly 

affects Jefferson County. 

Some of the trends that will determine the 

future of the region, however, can be tracked 

in five areas, ranging in scope from internationally 

owned wind farms to locally owned 

bed & breakfasts. Along with medical services, 

agricultural issues and internet sales of 

locally produced items, our economic outlook 

is directly linked to the success the region 

has in these endeavors. 

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Patrick S. Lacombe, Toys for Collectors, holds an example of the goods he sells over the internet. Page 14 

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Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, seen at dusk, is the largest regional health-care provider . Page 2 

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2 Sunday,March 2,2008 WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

PROGRESS 2008 

Samaritan Medical Center is beginning construction of a parking garage with a helipad and 112,000- 

square-foot patient pavilion. It also plans to renovate 71,500 square feet of hospital space to expand the 

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

maternity unit and create a new neonatal intensive care unit and construct a connection between the hospital 

and Samaritan Keep Home. 

Hospitals upgrade to handle expansion of services 

GETTING BETTER: 

Recruiting staff 

among priorities 

amid renovations 

By STEVE VIRKLER 

TIMES STAFF WRITER 

Over the past few years, contractors 

have been nearly as noticeable 

at north country hospitals 

as doctors and nurses. 

And area hospital administrators 

say that past, present and 

future upgrades should not only 

improve patient services but also 

help entice new doctors to 

practice at their facilities. 

Physician recruitment “is an 

important challenge, one we 

identified two years ago,” said 

Thomas H. Carman, chief executive 

officer at Samaritan Medical 

Center, Watertown. 

“Our number one need for the 

next one to three years is to develop 

a system to recruit and retain 

needed primary care and 

specialists,” said Walter S. Becker, 

Carthage Area Hospital’s administrator. 

Doctors and graduating medical 

students trained at state-ofthe-art 

facilities likely will be 

hesitant to work at an aging hospital, 

said Mr. Carman, whose 

facility is moving forward with a 

four-year, $61 million expansion 

and renovation project. 

Suburban teaching hospitals 

“have all the technology,” said 

Mr. Becker, whose facility is finishing 

up a $9.2 million capital 

project. “They have all the specialists 

in the world.” 

Rural areas like the north 

country also tend to have patients 

with lower incomes than 

in more urban locales, he said. 

Hospital officials agree that 

facilities and equipment alone 

will not attract needed physicians 

to north country communities. 

Lifestyle issues are important 

in physician recruitment, Mr. 

Carman said. For example, it’s 

difficult to recruit a doctor who 

would be on-call every couple of 

nights in a smaller hospital but 

only once every week or two at a 

larger one, he said. 

“Obviously, we’ve got to make 

sure the spouse is comfortable,” 

Mr. Carman said. 

Following is a look at how hospitals 

— typically among the 

largest employers and economic 

engines in their respective 

communities — are attempting 

to progress. 

SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER 

Physician recruitment must 

be done with the needs of the 

community and existing doctors 

in mind, Mr. Carman said. 

“You want to make sure you get 

the right balance,” he said. 

To that end, Samaritan officials 

in 2006 created a physician 

“Whatever we do to benefit Fort Drum ultimately benefits the north country.” 

Thomas H. Carman, chief executive officer, Samaritan Medical Center 

development committee to research 

community needs and 

recommend the types of doctors 

that should be sought. 

That process began to bear 

fruit last year, Mr. Carman said. 

Samaritan officials added 19 

doctors, including four internal 

medicine practitioners, 

three pediatricians, two general 

surgeons and three obstetrician/gynecologists 

at Fort 

Drum who were authorized to 

deliver babies at SMC. 

They are working with existing 

medical staff to recruit 

physicians in the following areas: 

general surgery, primary 

care, gastroenterology, pulmonary/critical 

care, ob/gyn 

and urology. 

Samaritan is beginning construction 

of a parking garage 

with helipad and 112,000- 

square-foot patient pavilion. It 

also plans to renovate 71,500 

square feet of hospital space to 

expand the maternity unit and 

create a new neonatal intensive 

care unit and construct a connection 

between the hospital 

and Samaritan Keep Home. 

With about 85 percent of the 

current hospital space built before 

1972, the upgrades are 

needed, SMC spokeswoman 

Krista A. Kittle said. 

Capital and service upgrades 

are planned with the entire 

community, including military 

families, in mind, Mr. Carman 

said. 

“Whatever we do to benefit 

Fort Drum ultimately benefits 

the north country,” he said. 

Soldiers and their spouses 

typically are young and healthy 

and tend more often to utilize 

departments such as maternity, 

emergency, mental health and 

orthopedics, increasing the 

need for those services, Mr. Carman 

said. 

He touted the Fort Drum Regional 

Health Planning Organization, 

which was created a couple 

of years ago to provide better 

health services to military families. 

“It’s everyone coming together 

to listen to the issues of Fort 

Drum,” Mr. Carman said. 

CARTHAGE AREA HOSPITAL 

“Our biggest goal is now to use 

our new building,” Mr. Becker 

said. 

With a new obstetrical/maternity 

center featuring private 

rooms and birthing suites, the 

Carthage administrator said he 

hopes to see 400 annual deliveries, 

up from about 230 in the 

past year. 

“It’s a target I think we’ll hit,” 

Mr. Becker said, adding that the 

facility should prove attractive 

to mothers-to-be from civilian 

and military backgrounds. 

The capital project, which is 

nearing completion, also includes 

expansion of the surgical 

area and laboratory, addition of 

waiting rooms and opening of a 

full-time magnetic resonance 

imaging service and coronary 

intensive care unit. 

Plans include the upgrading 

of medical floors and nursing 

stations, Mr. Becker said. 

The hospital also plans to add 

school-based health clinics at 

Carthage Elementary and La- 

Fargeville Central schools to its 

five other school-based clinics 

and 10 other health centers and 

clinics throughout the region. 

“We’re trying to get health 

care out to the community,” Mr. 

Becker said. 

While recent building upgrades 

have helped the hospital 

recruit a surgeon and urologist 

to the community, the administrator 

said he’s not sure he has 

ever seen a more challenging 

period for physician recruitment 

during his 37 years in the 

health care industry. “It’s everybody’s 

problem,” he said. 

The hospital is looking to recruit 

psychiatrists, family practitioners, 

psychologists, dentists, 

orthopedic surgeons and certified 

social workers, Mr. Becker 

said. 

To combat the problem, the 

state needs to provide more incentives 

for medical students to 

locate in rural areas, and the 

community needs to be involved 

in the recruitment 

process, he said. 

Mr. Becker said he hopes to 

work with school districts to encourage 

area youth to enter the 

health-care field. “At some 

point, these kids may come back 

home,” he said. 

LEWIS COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL 

“Physician recruitment and 

retention is a priority here,” said 

Eric R. Burch, interim CEO at 

Lewis County General Hospital, 

Lowville. 

The county-owned facility 

has a strong track record in recent 

years because hospital officials 

have focused on working 

with existing physicians to bring 

in complementary doctors who 

will provide needed services, not 

Thomas H. Carman 

just compete for patients. 

“I think the medical staff here 

is a huge plus,” Mr. Burch said. 

“We’re partners.” 

Mr. Burch, also the hospital’s 

chief financial officer, has been 

serving as interim CEO since 

October. Hospital officials are 

interviewing several candidates, 

including Mr. Burch, for the permanent 

job. 

LCGH last year completed a 

$4.1 million expansion and renovation 

project of the diagnostic 

imaging and emergency departments. 

Eric R. Burch 

Hospital officials are exploring 

a major upgrade of its heating 

and air conditioning system, 

Mr. Burch said. “It’s about a $2 

million project that pays for itself 

in 10 years in energy savings,” 

he said. 

The hospital is working to 

start a sleep lab, dialysis center 

and full-time MRI service and 

considering an operating room 

renovation and finding a larger 

site for its Beaver Falls clinic. 

LCGH has added some physi- 

See HOSPITALS, page 4 


Work proceeds last July at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg, 

which is in the midst of a $9.9 million building project. A new 

outpatient ambulatory surgery unit and expanded radiology department 

and patient registration department have already been completed; 

new mental health and ob/gyn units are expected to open this 

spring.

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PROGRESS 2008 

Hospitals undergoing renovation to attract top staff 

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cian assistants to allow doctors 

to spend more time in their offices, 

including the hospital’s 

health clinics, and reduce their 

on-call hours, Mr. Burch said. 

Hospital officials are looking to 

bring in some services from an 

oncology group in Utica and add 

an orthopedic surgeon through 

Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists 

to increase emergency room 

coverage from 10 to 25 days per 

month, he said. 

Mr. Burch said he hopes that a 

partnership of hospitals, 

through the Fort Drum Regional 

Health Planning Organization, 

will soon undertake a $1 million, 

federally funded project linking 

their facilities to the Development 

Authority of the North 

Country’s fiber-optic network. 

“That would get us into 

telemedicine,” he said, noting 

the connection would allow 

doctors to send patient vitals 

and other information to specialists 

elsewhere for rapid consultations. 

RIVER HOSPITAL 

“We think the telemedicine 

can really enhance patients and 

help doctors,” said Ben Moore 

III, chief executive officer at River 

Hospital, Alexandria Bay. 

The high-speed connection 

also could be used to provide inhouse 

nursing training via 

videoconferencing, he said. 

Over his past year at the hospital’s 

helm, Mr. Moore oversaw 

completion of a $1.7 million operating 

room project that allows 

routine surgeries to be performed 

on site. “In 2008, we 

hope to build up the volume,” he 

said, adding that about a dozen 

doctors in the region are interested 

in using the new facility. 

The hospital had not had an 

operating room since 1992, 

when it was called E.J. Noble 

Hospital and was operated by 

SMC. It became an independent 

facility in 2003. 

Thanks to community philanthropy 

and implementation 

of a formal budget process, the 

hospital ended last year “in the 

black” for the first time since the 

administrative changeover, Mr. 

Moore said. “That lays a good 

background for us to move forward,” 

he said. 

Hospital officials by early 

summer plan to install a modular 

building that would double 

its number of examination 

rooms from six to 12. “That will 

really help a lot of things,” Mr. 

Moore said. 

The hospital board hopes to 

begin utilizing information garnered 

from a community survey 

last fall, which gave the facility 

“good grades” but requested 

more primary care, screening 

and educational services, he 

said. 

Plans are to bring in two new 

doctors and a nurse practitioner 

this year. 

However, Mr. Moore, a past 

executive director at Upstate 

Medical University in Syracuse, 

acknowledged the difficulties of 

recruiting doctors to a small 

community. “You’re sort of limited 

to people who like that 

lifestyle,” he said, noting most 

successful recruits were either 

raised or trained in a rural locale. 

One advantage River Hospital 

has is its location on the banks of 

the St. Lawrence River. “This 

area sort of sells itself,” Mr. 

Moore said. 

Hospital officials also attempt 

to convince potential recruits 

that the regional medical community, 

while relatively small, 

tends to be very supportive, he 

said. 

As a relatively new facility, 

River Hospital has focused on 

partnering — rather than competing 

— with hospitals and 

physicians from neighboring 

communities, Mr. Moore said. 

CANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL 

On the job for eight months, 

CEO David B. Acker says his top 

concern is the tiny profit margin 

Canton-Potsdam Hospital, 

along with many other rural 

medical institutions, survives 

on. 

Last year, the hospital had a 

profit of less than 1 percent, or 

about $350,000 on $60 million in 

revenues. In 2006, it lost money. 

“What we see in rural Northern 

New York is really typical for 

what we see around the country 

— that most rural facilities have 

populations that are older and 

poorer, and find it difficult to 

generate adequate operating 

margins to replace buildings as 

they are outgrown, and acquire 

technology as it continually accelerates 

in its pace,” Mr. Acker 

said. “We start every day in the 

hole.” 

He worries that the problem 

will only intensify as the government 

proposes further cuts in 

Medicare and Medicaid funding. 

The hospital is spending 

$700,000 to renovate its E.J. Noble 

Medical Building in Canton, 

by repaving the parking lots, installing 

high-efficiency windows 

and replacing air conditioning 

systems. 

The After Hours Care Clinic 

and physical therapy treatment 

area will be renovated and expanded 

in the East Main Street 

building. 

The main campus’s location 

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Purcel Construction Corp. workers last year put up metal beams on the new section of Carthage Area Hospital. 

in a residential neighborhood in 

the village of Potsdam, hemmed 

in by houses on all sides, has 

prevented the facility from expanding 

its footprint and created 

a shortage of parking. 

Mr. Acker plans to hash out its 

plans for future expansion with 

village officials in late March or 

early April. 

“If we’re going to survive, we 

need to grow. And if we’re going 

to grow, we need the space to 

grow,” Mr. Acker said. 

Canton-Potsdam Hospital 

owns four surrounding houses 

— and is purchasing a fifth — for 

hospital and doctors’ office 

space. The hospital hopes to 

have its property rezoned, possibly 

as a health care zone, so it 

can demolish the houses and 

build parking lots or other facilities 

there. 

The hospital faces a shortage 

of physicians, although five have 

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may see 400 annual deliveries, up from about 230 in the past year. 

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Douglas Brown, M.D.* Obstetrics & Gynecology 

Tony Chuang, M.D. ENT 

Carl Crossley, M.D. Pediatric Neurology 

Peter DeJager, M.D. Emergency Medicine 

Myla DeJesus, M.D. Pediatrics 

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PROGRESS 2008 

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES Day,Month Sunday,March Date,Year 2,2008 C5 

Three turbine proposals face wind of challenges 

JEFFERSON POWER PLANS: Restrictions 

of local system put developers in race 

By NANCY MADSEN 


Three of the four wind farm 

proposals in Jefferson County 

are in a race to get up and running. 

Local transmission pressures 

may mean that only one of the 

projects can be completed and 

connected as planned. The developers 

have a lot to lose if their 

projects don’t make it to production, 

including millions spent 

on site planning. And, they say, 

so does the region. 

William M. Moore, director of 

development for PPM Energy, 

said the local transmission system 

has room for only 120 more 

megawatts. “We haven’t even 

looked into the final cost for expanding 

the infrastructure,” he 

said. “It would be larger than any 

one project could afford.” 

The developers agreed the 

costs for upgrading the local system 

would be too much for a developer 

to pay. 

The New York Independent 

System Operator is the nonprofit 

gatekeeper for allowing new 

power producers on the state’s 

grid. Projects wait on a NY ISO 

list: first come, first served. 

The organization conducts a 

series of three studies to consider 

whether the grid can handle 

the project’s production, said 

Kenneth M. Klapp, spokesman 

for NY ISO. If not, the studies 

show at what size a project will 

be allowed if it makes certain 

upgrades. The developers then 

decide whether the projects are 

still feasible based on the size 

and amount of money they 

would have to invest in infrastructure. 

PPM’s Horse Creek Wind 

Farm would produce as much as 

126 megawatts, while AES/Acciona’s 

St. Lawrence Wind Farm 

would contribute up to 130 

megawatts to the grid and BP Alternative 

Energy’s Cape Vincent 

Wind Farm would add up to 210 

megawatts. 

The Galloo Island project is 

avoiding the local transmission 

troubles by connecting in Oswego 

County, where a 345-kilovolt 

line runs from Parish to 

Syracuse. The project adds 268.8 

megawatts of production. 

Combined, the four projects 

could produce as much as 734 

megawatts of electricity from 

375 turbines. Statewide, projects 

producing more than 5,000 

megawatts of wind energy have 

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BUSINESS UPDATE 

Keddy Family Chiropractic 

treats the entire body 

CARTHAGE — Dr. Ryan Keddy 

opened Keddy Family Chiropractic 

in June 2006. Now, entering 

his third year, his practice 

continues to grow, mostly by referrals 

from his patients, their 

relatives, neighbors and friends. 

Dr. Keddy and office manager 

Kellie Neddo are constantly improving 

the practice, including 

having office hours to further accommodate 

their patients. Their 

expanded hours include opening 

at noon Wednesdays and 

staying open until 8 p.m. In addition 

they offer Saturday morning 

hours from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

“Our practice continues to 

grow,” Dr. Keddy said. “We are always 

trying to make it more convenient 

for our patients to make 

an appointment, and we know 

that everyone has a busy schedule 

including their work. By extending 

our hours into the evening, 

and Saturday morning, it gives 

them a more lifestyle friendly 

choice for their chiropractic care.” 


says chiropractic treatments are 

effective for both conditionbased 

and wellness-based care, 

and its specialty is treatment of 

the whole body. Dr. Keddy and 

his staff can help treat a variety 

of conditions. They encourage 

the concept of wellness care and 

maintaining an interference 

free nervous system so your 

body can function at its optimum. 

Dr. Keddy’s interests in 

diversified, Gonstead, Thompson, 

Activator, myofascial trigger 

point therapy and extremity 

adjusting allows the practice to 

offer a diverse range of therapies 

for someone of any age or complaint. 

Dr. Keddy has also taken 

a series of seminars in extremity 

adjusting and is capable of adjusting 

much more than just the 

spine. For example, a sprained 

ankle commonly results in your 

talus moving anterior. If the 

talus remains anterior, this will 

alter the way you walk. The resulting 

limp can than affect your 

hips, forcing your low back to 

compensate for this change in 

posture. The kinetic effect can 

be seen all the way up the spine. 

Chiropractic care can help treat 

the related symptoms. 

“My patients are surprised to 

find out how their spine and 

nervous system has an effect on 

so many other health problems, 

and how through chiropractic 

treatment those symptoms can 

be treated,” Dr. Keddy said. 


participates with most major insurances, 

and continues to add 

new ones to the list. If patients 

have insurance questions, or to 

see if Keddy Family Chiropractic 

participates with their insurance, 

they should call 493-BACK 

(2225). Keddy Family Chiropractic 

is at 410 State St., next to 

St. James Church. 

Sunshine Dental offers 

many specialized services 

In addition to complete family 

dental care, Sunshine Dental 

PC provides specialized services 

for which many people might 

otherwise have to travel outside 

Northern New York. 

Cosmetic services continue to 

attract a growing number of patients. 

Three of the more popular 

ones are dental implants — surgical 

placement and tooth replacement; 

Lumineers — “contactlens-thin 

porcelain veneers;” and 

Invisalign invisible braces — a 

more comfortable, removable 

option than traditional braces. 

Other specialized services offered 

by Sunshine Dental include: extractions, 

crowns and bridges, 

dentures (full and partial), onevisit 

tooth repair, one-visit root 

canals and teeth whitening. 

Dr. Aeklavya Panjali, owner of 

Sunshine Dental, is certified by 

the state to practice conscious 

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“Avoiding the dentist’s office 

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20 years of surgical care 

celebrated by Dr. Rosner 

Dr. David F. Rosner, general 

surgeon, is celebrating his 20th 

year of practice in the north 

country. His practice has grown 

over the years, providing services 

to patients in Jefferson and Lewis 

counties, including Fort Drum 

soldiers and their families. He offers 

a wide range of surgical services 

for children and adults in an 

outpatient, in-office and inpatient 

setting. He performs surgical 

procedures at local area hospitals, 

including Carthage Area, 

Lewis County General, and as of 

last October, the River Hospital in 

Alexandria Bay. 

Dr. Rosner makes it a priority 

to stay abreast of the most recent 

technological advancements in 

surgical care. He provides modern 

non-invasive ambulatory 

surgery for many other common 

health issues, such as pain free 

colonoscopies, varicose veins, 

hemorrhoidectomies, in-office 

vasectomies, and lumps, bumps 

and mole removal. 

“One of the biggest concerns 

for my patients is the length of 

time for recovery. People can’t 

afford to miss work or be unable 

to perform their daily activities. 

I understand that concern, and 

with my procedures they typically 

recover faster and are able 

to resume their normal activities 

very quickly,” emphasized 

Dr. Rosner. 

Dr. Rosner has been a major 

contributor to both Carthage 

Area and Lewis County General 

hospitals recent expansion 

projects, as well as many local 

events and organizations. 

He received the 2005 

Carthage Area Chamber of 

Commerce Healthcare Provider 

of the Year award. Frequently 

throughout the year he holds 

free screenings and participates 

in health fairs providing the opportunity 

for people to raise 

health concerns to him directly. 

Additionally, recognizing the 

area’s growing diverse ethnicity, 

Dr. Rosner is bilingual, speaking 

fluent Spanish. 

For appointments or more information 

call 493-4338. 

Staff of M.R. Gaebel Inc. 

stays on top of tax laws 

CARTHAGE — M.R. Gaebel, 

Inc., 27 Barr St., provides tax and 

accounting services for residents 

of Jefferson, Lewis and St. 

Lawrence counties. 

“Our office continues to grow 

each and every year,” said owner 

and CEO Gary E. Rowe. “I credit 

this in part to the fact that we are 

able to offer a full array of tax 

and accounting services at any 

time of the year.” 

Mr. Rowe said his staff stays 

on top of the most recent tax law 

changes. 

“Traditionally there are annual 

changes and updates made 

by Congress to the tax code,” he 

said. “The changes to the tax 

laws usually have a direct impact 

on people here in our community, 

but because they are 

new not everyone will know 

about them. We make sure we 

stay abreast of these changes to 

benefit our customers.” 

Mr. Rowe also offers tax and 

accounting services for the specialized 

field of racing. Mr. Rowe 

has been a Gater Racing News 

columnist for more than 30 years 

and has presented seminars entitled 

“Taxes and Racers” at the Annual 

Carquest Motorsports Expo, 

Syracuse, and the SpeedwayEX- 

PO, West Springfield, Mass. In addition, 

Mr. Rowe has been featured 

twice in one of the largest 

national motorsports magazines, 

Speedway Illustrated. 

Among the services M.R. 

Gaeble Inc. provides are: tax returns; 

income, sales, payroll and 

estate tax preparation; business 

services, including bookkeeping 

and payroll services; representation 

before IRS and NYS 

tax department; financial management 

and consultation; financial 

planning; and farm and 

agricultural services. With more 

than 30 years work experience 

in state and private business 

settings, Mr. Rowe understands 

the tax and accounting needs of 

all types of business. From multi-million 

dollar programs to 

small locally owned businesses, 

M.R. Gaebel has the experience 

and knowledge to maximize 

profitability and minimize taxes. 

They also have the experience 

necessary to accommodate 

military families with the 

ability to file for all 50 states in 

the country. 

To schedule an appointment, 

or for more information on tax 

laws and how they affect you, 

call 493-1862. 

Carthage Federal Savings 

marks 120th anniversary 

CARTHAGE — Carthage Federal 

Savings and Loan, serving 

22,000 members, is the longest 

operating financial institution 

in Jefferson County, incorporating 

in 1888. This year marks its 

120th anniversary. 

Known as the hometown 

bank, Carthage Federal entered 

the 21st century with record deposit 

and loan numbers as well 

as technological advances, 

while maintaining its individual 

commitment to members. 

For more than 110 years it operated 

solely in Carthage, 

branching in the late ’90s with a 

loan production office in the 

city of Watertown. Currently it 

operates a full branch location 

below Stream on Arsenal Street. 

Business in the Thousand Islands/Lake 

Ontario region 

gained momentum during the 

past 10 years, which prompted 

Carthage Federal to establish a 

loan production office in Clayton. 

Now in its second year of 

operation, the Clayton office is 

proving successful as well. 

Carthage Federal continuously 

searches for new and innovative 

products and services. 

The association was one of the 

first banks in Jefferson County 

to install an ATM and remains 

committed to providing competitive 

services and delivery 

channels, having added telephone 

banking, ATM and debit 

cards, free Internet banking 

with bill pay in recent years. 

Generations of service 

are represented at Lyng’s 

In 1949 Ed Lyng opened a 

small office supply business in 

his garage on Gifford Street, 

which is howLyng’s Office Center 

Inc. got its humble beginnings. 

Later, the store was moved to 

808 Huntington St. Ed’s son, Pat, 

helped run the business until 

1977 when it was purchased by 

Frank A. Empsall II. 

The business continued to 

grow, so in 1987 Mr. Empsall had 

the current location built at 150 

Factory St. Even though Mr. 

Empsall left in 2003, the business 

continues under the leadership 

of this son, Frank “Al” 

Empsall III. 

Lyng’s represents generations 

of local people serving local people 

in the surrounding community,giving 

that small town touch. 

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Wind farm developers in Jefferson face gale of challenges 

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will be in that position — the 

Galloo Island project. 

The projects on the mainland 

must or have chosen to honor 

setbacks. 

James H. Madden, BP Alternative 

Energy project manager, 

said that distance is not a 

straight formula to wind resources 

as setbacks push a development 

back from the coast. 

“We’re trying to measure wind 

resources in different areas in 

the project,” he said. But he conceded 

that at a certain distance, 

setbacks could eliminate a project 

from the wind resource-rich 

land. 

Daniel E. DuBois, director of 

businesss development for Acciona, 

said that Acciona would 

honor the setbacks proposed in 

a zoning law amendment in 

May 2006 for its St. Lawrence 

Wind Farm. Even though the 

amendment was not passed, it 

included setbacks of 1,000 feet 

from nonparticipating residents’ 

property lines, 1,250 feet 

from nonparticipating residents’ 

homes, 750 from participating 

residents’ homes and 

1,500 feet from the village of 

Cape Vincent line. 

Most of the power produced 

by wind farms would be sold on 

the wholesale market in New 

York. New sources of power are 

in high demand after the 2003 

blackout that left much of the 

Northeast without electricity. A 

blackout in summer 2006 left 

western Queens without power 

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amount of electricity in 2007. 

During the summer, use of electric 

power has increased 200 

megawatts each year. A 

megawatt is about enough power 

to supply 1,000 homes. 

The state’s renewable portfolio 

standards make Northern 

New York attractive to renewable 

energy developers. The 

New York State Energy Research 

and Development Authority is 

responsible for the program, 

which is encouraging the 

growth of renewable sources so 

they represent 25 percent of energy 

used by 2013. 

The authority is responsible 

for purchasing power produced 

by renewable sources. Power 

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surcharge for renewable energy, 

which is the agency’s fees from 

the utilities passed on to consumers. 

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energy producers with a 

credit or refund for each 

megawatt hour of renewable energy. 

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rounds of funding renewable 

power projects in 2006 and 2007, 

NYSERDA contracted with 26 

renewable energy generators. 

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megawatts and were estimated 

to produce almost 2.9 million 

megawatt hours in 2008. In the 

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agreed to pay $15 per megawatt 

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Paul W. Burdick, project director 

for AES, said the more renewable 

energy that is produced, the 

lower the power prices will be. 

“It’s a statewide benefit for power 

buyers,” he said. 

Anne V. Dalton, spokeswoman 

for the Public Service 

Commission, said that power 

consumers are seeing increasing 

surcharges for the program. 

For example, National Grid customers 

paid less than $2 in 2006, 

$3.30 in 2007 and will pay $4.95 

in 2008. 

“The reason the surcharge increases 

is that the targets each 

year increase,” she said. NYSER- 

DA is authorized to collect the 

renewable energy charge 

through 2013. 

A report released Monday by 

the state’s Renewable Energy 

Task Force said the RPS program 

could support 3,000 megawatts 

of wind energy, but 5,000 

megawatts have been proposed. 

Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson, 

who is the task force’s chairman, 

said that the program is receiving 

onlytwo-thirds of the money 

it needs. The Public Service 

Commission is conducting a 

study to determine the how 

much more money the program 

will need and how it should be 

collected. 

Besides the state program, the 

wind projects could benefit 

from the federal government’s 

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The tax credit was not voted 

into the economic stimulus 

package that was passed by the 

U.S. House of Representatives 

and the Senate on Feb. 7. But it is 

part of an energy tax break bill 

introduced Feb. 12 in the House. 

A wind farm must be built and 

producing energy before it can 

receive the tax break. None of 

the Jefferson County projects 

will be constructed before the 

end of the year, so they will be 

unable to benefit if the program 

is not renewed. 

While the developers of the 

local projects said they would 

not stop the development if the 

tax credits are lost, they all said it 

would hurt their projects. “It’s 

one of the main drivers for making 

renewable energy feasible,” 

Mr. Burdick said. 

Local payment-in-lieu-oftaxes 

agreements also ensure 

that developers can afford their 

wind projects. The county, 

towns and school districts in the 

project area receive a payment 

smaller than the amount property 

taxes would bring in from 

the developers. 

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benefits, from the concrete to 

the emotional. 

Job creation is one of the 

biggest benefits for the county. 

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of the workers locally, she said, 

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hiring is better for the company, 

because it costs less. The workers 

in the construction phase 

would be potential candidates 

for the permanent, full-time operation 

jobs. 

Horse Creek Wind Farm in 

Clayton, developed by PPM Energy, 

will also create dozens of 

construction jobs and five to 

seven full-time operation positions. 

The St. Lawrence Wind Farm 

will bring between 75 and 100 

construction jobs and four to six 

full-time positions, Mr. DuBois 

said. It has already caused AES 

and Acciona to create a full-time 

job and a part-time internship 

to staff a Cape Vincent office. 

BP Alternative Energy’s Cape 

Vincent Wind Farm could bring 

between 150 and 200 construction 

jobs and five to 10 maintenance 

and adminstrative positions 

after construction is complete. 

Project manager James H. 

Madden said BP does not have 

control over the hiring pool — 

that is determined by the contractor 

for the job. But he expects 

there will be as many local 

electricians and workers hired 

as possible. “You need people 

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at the same time, the local 

market will be overwhelmed.” 

All of the developers are or will 

be negotiating tax breaks in payment-in-lieu-of-taxes 

and host 

community agreements. But after 

15 or 20 years, those agreements 

expire and the developers 

will pay full property taxes. 

Babcock & Brown also said 

their development would help 

Galloo Island. “Most of the island 

is not going to be disturbed,” 

Ms. Sachtleben said. 

The development would affect 

about 4 percent of the acreage, 

leaving about 1,920 acres as a 

“de facto nature preserve.” 

Ms. Sachtleben also pointed 

to environmental benefits for 

the Galloo Island project. Babcock 

& Brown’s preliminary estimates 

show that 17 billion gallons 

of fresh water will be conserved. 

That is the amount of 

water it would take to cool a 

power plant during one year. 

And, she said, the Galloo Island 

production will keep 1 million 

tons of carbon dioxide from 

being released in the atmosphere. 

Mr. DuBois said this green 

source of energy should give 

people an emotional reason for 

supporting wind farms. Residents 

will know “Jefferson 

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Beaver Falls native opens 

new chiropractic offices 

Dr. Danielle L. Lundy, a native 

of Beaver Falls, opened Chiropractic 

Wellness Center of Northern 

New York in September . The 

practice treats patients in two locations: 

Madison Barracks, Sackets 

Harbor, and Freedom Plaza, 

Evans Mills. In her practice, Dr. 

Lundy emphasizes the importance 

of integrating the care of 

the patient with other health care 

professionals. 

“I want to help my patients 

achieve a higher state of wellness 

in every area of their life,” 

Dr. Lundy said. “Our patient’s 

experience is catered to his/her 

specific needs and goals.” 

Dr. Lundy graduated from the 

New York Chiropractic College 

of Seneca Falls in March 2007. 

Dr. Lundy purchased Sackets 

Harbor Chiropractic from Dr. 

Rebecca Keshmiri. 

She immediately expanded 

the part-time hours to offer 

hours five days a week (between 

the two locations). Dr. Lundy’s 

chiropractic care includes massage 

therapy into the patient’s 

regular visit. The chiropractic 

care starts with a 10-minute 

massage before seeing Dr. 

Lundy. 

“The massage as an integrated 

part of the chiropractic treatment 

is unique to the area,” Dr. 

Lundy said. 

“The massage helps relax the 

patient and loosen their muscles, 

which will make adjustment 

more comfortable for the 

patient and hold longer … producing 

better results for my patients.” 

Massage therapy sessions are 

also available, even for people 

who are not patients of Dr. 

Lundy. 

In addition to the Sackets Harbor 

location, Dr. Lundy and staff 

see patients in a second location 

at Freedom Plaza, Route 11, just 

outside Fort Drum’s main gate. 

“Given the growth of the area, 

the highly visible location on 

Route 11, and the close proximity 

to Fort Drum, I decided to offer 

this second location for the 

convenience of our patients,” 

Dr. Lundy said. “Military personnel, 

largely in part due to the 

physical demand of their job, 

embrace chiropractic care, and 

have long recognized its benefits. 

Being so close to the main 

gate will make it easy for them to 

avail themselves of treatment.” 

“I understand the importance 

of hard work and professionalism 

of which is evident in 

my philosophy,” she said. “It is 

my desire to be that individual 

in my patient’s life with which 

they can trust to help them 

achieve a better quality of life.” 

For more information, or to 

schedule an appointment, call Dr. 

Lundy at 646-3777 or 629-4222. 

You can also find more information 

at www.nnywellness.com. 

PR, marketing business 

continues to grow locally 

CARTHAGE — Christopher A. 

Lorence Public Relations and 

Marketing Services specializes 

in providing small to mediumsize 

businesses and organizations 

with marketing and public 

relations services. 

He and his team provide 

these services, without the overhead 

and expense of hiring personnel, 

or a large advertising 

agency, to more than 25 local 

businesses and organizations in 

Jefferson, Lewis and St. 


The business offers a wide array 

of services including complete 

marketing plans, advertising 

campaigns, direct mail programs, 

press releases, 

brochures, flyers, newsletters, 

corporate identity packages, 

Web sites, state-of-the-art e- 

brochures and assistance to 

nonprofits with fundraising 

programs. 

“The area of complete advertising 

campaigns, including 

conceptual development, design, 

budgeting and implementation 

has really been a big part 

of the last year,” Mr. Lorence 

said. “Many of my clients have 

tried some hit-and-miss advertising 

before, but really need 

more of a plan. I can provide an 

objective review, backed by 

proven strategies, so we maximize 

their dollars and get the 

best results. As an outside 

source, we can look at it objectively 

and do what is best for my 

clients. I continue to tell my 

clients to think of me as a parttime, 

part-time member of their 

team, which can help get things 

done, they just don’t have the 

time, the in-house expertise, or 

a big budget to do.” 

The public relations and marketing 

business continues to 

grow, with many new clients 

coming from referrals by existing 

clients. 

“I have been very fortunate to 

work with businesses I either personally 

use or believe in, and they 

believe in what we are doing, 

which is shown by referring other 

colleagues and businesses to my 

business,” Mr. Lorence said. 

Mr. Lorence and his team are 

working on TV commercial production 

and informational 

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their clients in 2008. 

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Power-Source Equipment 

offers affordable systems 

DEPAUVILLE—Power- 

Source Equipment Co. provides 

backup power systems not only 

for homes and farms, but for 

businesses and institutions as 

well. 

Power Source supplies only 

high quality components provided 

by reputable manufacturers, 

such as Briggs and Stratton Power 

Products, Winco, Kohler, Onan, 

SDMO, Katolight, ASCO and Cutler-Hammer. 

Systems range from 5KW to 

500KW with a choice of manual 

or fully automatic start / transfer. 

The company’s personnel attend 

related training seminars to 

ensure their installation practices 

are in keeping with the highest 

safety and electrical standards. 

Since 1999 they have installed 

more than 200 systems in Jefferson, 

Lewis and St. Lawrence 

counties. 

John Hazlewood, owner of 

Power Source, said “the only 

goods and services that survive 

are those that provide a value to 

the customer that is greater than 

their cost.” 

Power Source may be reached 

at 686-2905 or 783-6311. 

Capital Construction notes 

variety of projects in ‘07 

Capital Construction & Development 

Corporation, 646 Coffeen 

St., Watertown, has been 

serving Northern New York since 

1983. Over the years the company’s 

crews have built dozens of 

custom homes and completed 

many high profile commercial 

projects. 

In the past year, Capital Construction 

built the new Black 

River Free Library, the Chaumont 

branch of Watertown Savings 

Bank and pump houses for 

the Route 3 sewer project, renovated 

office space for Planned 

Parenthood of Northern New 

York and completed work on 

the new Cape Vincent water 

tower. 

The company’s current projects 

include the new Kirby 

Street apartment buildings for 

Frontier Housing in Dexter and 

new shower buildings at Cooperative 

Extension of Jefferson 

County’s 4-H Camp Wabasso. 

Capital Construction has also 

built custom homes in Watertown, 

Clayton, Black River and 

Pamelia in the past year. 

This year Capital Construction 

received the Northern New York 

Builders Exchange Excellence in 

Construction and Craftsmanship 

award for the Watertown Savings 

Bank project built in 2007. 

The company performs the 

majority of its projects in Jefferson 

County. 

However, Capital Construction 

has built day-care centers, 

churches, courthouses and municipal 

buildings in Lewis, St. 

Lawrence, Oneida and Oswego 

counties. 

In addition to constructing 

new buildings, the company 

has worked on a range of projects 

large and small. 

From making the bell ring 

again at Asbury United 

Methodist Church to building 

a new municipal swimming 

pool for the town of Scriba, 

Capital’s past projects have 

been as varied as the needs of 

its clients. 

If you are interested in 

learning more about services 

or would like to request an estimate, 

contact Capital Construction 

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Hospice & Palliative Care 

celebrates its 25th year 

POTSDAM — In 2007 Hospice 

& Palliative Care of St. Lawrence 

Valley experienced another 

milestone year of continuing 

growth in direct care and supportive 

and educational services 

for patients, families and the entire 

community. 

The number of Hospice patients 

cared for was 526, with a 

total of 26,576 days of care provided. 

On average, Hospice cared 

daily for 73 people at home, in 

nursing or adult homes, assisted 

living facilities, residences for 

the developmentally disabled, 

and in hospitals all over St. 

Lawrence County. 

2007 saw the development of 

the palliative care services program, 

which provides comfort 

care to people with life-threatening 

illness but who do not 

meet the traditional Hospice 

care criteria. 

The program has grown from 

serving four patients in 2005 

when it began, to 32 patients in 

2007. Funding from the Alcoa 

Foundation and the Edward I. 

Moses Walk/Run for Life Corporation 

has supported the growth 

of this program. 

Hospice also established a 

new department of Family Support 

Services to strengthen the 

support of non-medical needs 

for patients and their caregivers, 

and a full-time position of spiritual 

care coordinator was created. 

Last year, 57 bereavement 

programs were held throughout 

the community, with 1,128 individuals 

attending. There were 

1,973 families on bereavement 

service. 

Last year 181 volunteers provided 

more than 3,000 hours of 

direct patient and indirect services, 

and logged more than 

22,000 miles. 

There will be a training program 

for volunteers at the Hospice 

Center in Potsdam from 

March 8 to 22. 2008 marks the 

25th anniversary of the founding 

of Hospice & Palliative Care 

of St. Lawrence Valley. 

For more information about 

the agency’s programs, call 265- 

3105. 

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Hospice cares for patients with other life-limiting illnesses. In fact, studies 

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have more time together. Ask your doctor if hospice care is right for you. 

*According to a study in the 

Journal of Pain and Symptom 

Management, March 2007 

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PROGRESS 2008 


Sunday,March Day,Month Date,Year 2,2008 8A C5 

United Helpers rings in new year in new accommodations 

OGDENSBURG — Since its 

inception in 1898, the United 

Helpers organization has grown 

to become the largest healthcare 

provider in St. Lawrence County, 

caring for more than 1,000 people 

daily and employing nearly 

900 people. 

UNITED HELPERS/CEDARS 

Residents at the United 

Helpers Ogdensburg campus 

recently rang in the New Year in 

their new accommodations. 

Several members of the United 

Helpers team pitched in to help 

move residents into the new 

Claxton Residence in mid-December. 

This move, and the occupation 

of the Newell residence this 

past summer, completed the 

first phase of the construction, 

renovation and merger project 

in progress at United Helpers. 

The $26 million project began 

in the fall of 2006 with the construction 

of the Newell Residence; 

a 32-bed residence made 

up of two 16-bed neighborhoods 

and the Claxton Residence; 

an 84-bed residence; 

consisting of six 14-bed neighborhoods. 

The second phase of 

the project involves renovation 

of the existing building, including 

all remaining resident accommodations, 

administration, 

physical therapy, and kitchen. 

“This project is moving along 

nicely and we can already see real 

positive changes,” said John 

M. Turongian, CEO for United 

Helpers. “The design of the new 

center offers several different 

living rooms, dining and other 

common areas. One of the 

things we noticed immediately 

is the number of residents utilizing 

these areas. It isn’t uncommon 

for people to be gathered in 

the dining room chatting, or 

watching television together or 

playing the piano. It’s great to 

see.” 

The “neighborhood” design 

of the building offers shorter 

hallways, smaller groupings of 

residents and specialized care 

centers. Also included in the design 

are 88 private rooms and 

46-semi private rooms. 

Neighborhoods are circular 

or wheel shaped care centers. 

The care team station is located 

at the hub or center of the neighborhood, 

allowing for easier access 

and quicker response to 

residents. 

The common areas were significantly 

increased to include: 

17 lounges, six dining rooms 

and five private, family dining 

areas. 

“The staff and residents are 

very excited about the new campus,” 

said Robert E. Lesperance, 

Administrator for United 

Helpers Nursing Home. “They 

have been involved in the planning 

and design from the beginning 

and it is very exciting for 

everyone to now be in their new 

accommodations.” 

UNITED HELPERS 

CANTON NURSING HOME 

Plans continue to move forward 

to replace the dated United 

Helpers Canton Nursing Home. 

In November, Assemblyman 

Darrel J. Aubertine announced 

$250,000 in funding that will be 

used to help secure the purchase 

of land for the relocation of the 

United Helpers Canton Nursing 

Home to Outer State Street, adjacent 

to Partridge Knoll. 

This United Helpers initiative 

seeks to transform community 

service in the Canton-Potsdam 

area in five significant ways: by 

redesigning short-and longterm 

nursing and rehabilitative 

services, by creating the first Assisted 

Living center in the North 

Country, by including nature 

and the outdoors into the design, 

by fully integrating and 

connecting senior living and 

health services with the community-at-large, 

and by sharing 

campus resources with other 

service providers. 

Representatives from the 

Canton Child Day Care Center 

and the town and village of Canton 

agree with and support the 

concept. Phase one of the project 

involves the construction of 

a new neighborhood-style senior 

health care and assisted living 

facility as well as the child 

day-care area. 

Phase two will see the development 

of additional services 

by partner institutions on the 

campus. 

When complete, the campus 

will lead to the creation and retention 

of several jobs in health 

care and related services fields, 

create economies of scale 

through shared services and 

on-campus opportunities for 

collaborations and provide a 

central site for area residents to 

meet a variety of needs. 

In November 2006, Gov. 

George E. Pataki announced the 

release of HEAL NY grants 

aimed at assisting capital longterm 

care projects focused on 

reconfiguring and rightsizing. 

United Helpers Canton Nursing 

Home was among the recipients 

of this grant. 

“We have worked very hard 

on developing a model of care 

that would be less institutionalized 

and more personalized. It is 

quite exciting to see this vision 

come to life in Ogdensburg and 

we are looking forward to bringing 

that model to the Canton- 

Potsdam area as well.” 

With the closure of Community 

Nursing Home in Potsdam 

in 2003, United Helpers Canton 

Nursing Home is the only 

provider of short and long-term 

nursing care in the Canton- 

Potsdam area. 

STAFF ADDITIONS 

United Helpers welcomed 

Carmen C. Paone in July. Paone 

serves as quality improvement/corporate 

compliance 

coordinator for the organization. 

In his position, Paone oversees 

the development and implementation 

of the organizational 

quality improvement and 

corporate compliance programs. 

Paone contributes more than 

20 years of nursing home administration 

experience to United 

Helpers. 

He earned JCAHO accreditation 

on three occasions and has 

experience developing quality 

improvement and corporate 

compliance programs. 

An experienced health care 

administrator, Paone has held 

positions as vice president for 

long term care services at Canton-Potsdam 

Hospital and administrator 

of the former Community 

Nursing Home of Potsdam. 

Prior to the Potsdam position, 

he was administrator of 

the Riverdale Nursing Home in 

Riverdale. 

He worked for nine years as 

vice-president at Amsterdam 

Memorial Hospital, Amsterdam, 

with responsibility for a 

160-bed skilled nursing facility 

and adult day care program. 

Paone has also held positions as 

assistant administrator and lab 

manager at Herkimer Memorial 

Hospital. 

He was also instrumental in 

establishing Valley Health Services, 

a 128 bed skilled Nursing 

facility in Herkimer, where he 

served as executive vice president/administrator. 

Paone earned a bachelor of 

professional science degree in 

health services management 

from SUNY Institute of Technology 

in Utica. 

He also holds an associate in 

applied science degree in medical 

technology from SUNY 

Morrisville.

8B Sunday,March 2,2008 WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

PROGRESS 2008 


SLU makes commitment to go green 

Housing council focuses 

on affordable residences 

CANTON — For more than 

26 years, the St. Lawrence County 

Housing Council, 19 Main St., 

has been working to help residents 

of St. Lawrence County 

get access to decent and affordable 

housing. 

The 14-member staff focuses 

on four areas: helping first-time 

homeowners purchase and 

keep properties; providing financial 

assistance and guidance 

for the renovation of substandard 

residences; managing 

rental properties including several 

for older residents and people 

with disabilities; assisting 

communities with planning, 

and obtaining grants for downtown 

revitalization and infrastructure 

improvements. Since 

1981, the housing council has 

brought more than $40 million 

in grants to the county, many of 

which have been supplemented 

by local contributions. 

In the past year, 152 households 

participated in the council’s 

homeownership classes 

and 57 families purchased their 

first homes with the assistance 

of the council’s homeownership 

staff. The owners of 28 homes in 

Edwards, Morristown and 

Stockholm were able to make 

critical repairs to their homes 

with the help of the council. 

Two hundred twenty-four people 

currently live in apartments 

managed by the council’s property 

management team. Community 

facilities team members 

have recently completed or are 

engaged in projects in Potsdam, 

Heuvelton, Edwards, Canton, 

Hermon, and the tri-town area. 

The housing council is a charter 

member of NeighborWorks 

America, a nationwide network 

of 240 trained and certified 

community development organizations 

at work in more 

than 4,000 communities across 

America. Working in partnership 

with others, Neighbor- 

Works organizations are leaders 

in strengthening communities 

and creating affordable housing 

opportunities for low-andmoderate-income 

families. 

The council’s executive director 

is Chris Rediehs. The agency 

has 14 employees, up from eight 

five years ago, and five 10 years 

ago. 

The council is supported by 

administrative fees, grants, and 

donations. More information is 

available at www.slchc.org. 

CORE UNIVERSITY VALUE: College continues to develop Environmental Action Plan 

CANTON — As St. Lawrence 

University President Daniel F. 

Sullivan recently noted in a message 

to the campus community, 

significant progress is being 

made toward the university’s 

goal of producing a smaller carbon 

footprint and being a better 

environmental citizen. 

“In 2006, after a year-long 

process of thoughtful discussion 

on campus and within several of 

its committees, our board of 

trustees approved, with great enthusiasm, 

a resolution to adopt a 

commitment to the environment 

as a core university value,” he said. 

“This institutional commitment 

to living and promoting a more 

sustainable lifestyle extends from 

our curriculum to procedural, 

procurement and building efforts 

aimed at reducing consumption 

and waste while increasing energy 

efficiency.” 

In 2007, Sullivan joined colleagues 

at American colleges 

and universities in committing 

to“carbon neutrality” in its campus 

operations by signing the 

American College and University 

Presidents Climate Commitment. 

“As students, faculty, and 

staff continue to make changes 

in their activities and operations, 

we’re seeing real movement 

toward a smaller carbon 

footprint,” he stated. 

Specific examples cited by 

Sullivan include continuing development 

of an Environmental 

Action Plan, with leadership on 

campus and collaboration by all 

facets of the community, including 

students, faculty, staff and 

alumni; the decision to purchase 

only appliances rated with the 

Energy Star label; a plan under 

way to purchase electricity from 

renewable sources through renewable 

energy credits. 

“We have decided to purchase 

only energy-efficient appliances 

labeled Energy Star, and to ensure 

a minimum of 15 percent of 

our electricity is generated with 

renewable sources by September 

of 2008,” Sullivan stated. “In 

pursuit of these goals, we have 

recently replaced all of the washing 

machines on campus with 

Energy Star machines and have 

become an Energy Star Partner. 

This partnership will enable 

greater measurement, tracking 

and improvement of energy efficiency 

across campus. We have 

also already begun to purchase 

electricity from renewable 

sources through our purchase of 

Renewable Energy Credits: 50 

percent of the electricity for the 

student center for 2007-2008 has 

been purchased from New York 

hydroelectric facilities and 50 

percent of the electricity for the 

Johnson Hall of Science for 2007- 

2009 has been purchased from 

national wind farms.” 

Sullivan also said that the next 

steps in honoring the Climate 

Commitment include developing 

a plan to achieve climate 

neutrality; completion of a 

greenhouse-gas inventory; and 

shifting the University’s energy 

needs to renewable sources. 

“Our recent movements toward 

sustainability give me confidence 

that signing the American 

College and University Presidents 

Climate Commitment was 

the correct decision for St. 

Lawrence,” Sullivan stated. “With 

Conservation Council, administrative 

operations and the many 

committed faculty, staff, students, 

administrators and alumni 

leading the way, I know we will 

reach all of the goals of the climate 

commitment while creating 

a better university and a better 

world. In closing, I wish to 

thank the entire university community 

for your efforts toward a 

sustainable campus and society, 

and ask that you continue to 

push us forward.” 

At the U.S. Green Building 

Council’s Greenbuild International 

Conference and Expo held 

in the fall, former President Bill 

Clinton announced that the Clinton 

Climate Initiative was partnering 

with the American College 

and University Presidents Climate 

Commitment. This partnership 

was created to help colleges that 

have signed the commitment 

with funding for energy-efficiency 

projects. Five global financial institutions 

have pulled together $5 

billion to be shared with colleges 

and universities through performance-contracting 

with energy 

services companies; the money 

saved from the improvements 

will be used to pay back the financial 

firms. The arrangement relieves 

academic institutions from 

having to provide the initial capital 

investment to make the upgrades, 

which is important because 

improvements often have 

long payback periods. St. 

Lawrence is not only eligible, as a 

climate commitment signatory, 

to receive the benefits of such a 

partnership, but has been chosen 

asapilot institution, thereby guaranteeing 

financial assistance and 

expediting projects. 

In the fall, the Sustainable Endowments 

Institute gave the university 

a “green grade” of B-minus 

when it issued its second 

College Sustainability Report 

Card for 200 public and private 

universities with the largest endowments, 

ranging from $230 

million to nearly $35 billion. The 

report card is the only independent 

sustainability evaluation of 

campus operations and endowment 

investments. St. Lawrence’s 

grade placed the university in the 

top third of all schools evaluated. 

The cumulative grade distribution 

for the 200 schools was A, 3 

percent; B, 28 percent; C, 42 percent; 

D, 25 percent; and F, 2 percent. 

Grades were determined by 

reviewing publicly available information, 

conducting surveys 

of appropriate school officials, 

and then assessing performance 

across 39 indicators in eight main 

categories. 

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PROGRESS 2008 


Sunday,March Day,Month Date,Year 2,2008 C5 8C 


Seaway Agency provides 

various financial services 

MASSENA — Bradley 

Dufrane, 213 Main St., operates 

the Seaway Agency, a branch of 

Greater Syracuse Agency, an office 

of MetLife. 

Founded in 1996, the Seaway 

Agency employs 20, up 

from 12 five years ago and 10 in 

1998. The GSA has 108 employees. 

The Seaway Agency’s staff includes 

16 financial service representatives. 

“Our projected 

growth for 2008 is 15 percent,” 

Mr. Dufrane said. 

The agency’s products and 

services include financial needs 

analysis; pension payout alternatives; 

mutual funds; fixed 

and variable annuities; traditional, 

Roth, and educational 

IRAs; 401(k) / 403(b) / SEP / 

SIMPLE IRAs; life insurance; retirement 

funding vehicles; disability 

income insurance; longterm 

care insurance; estate 

conservation analysis; college 

funding strategies; business 

succession strategies; group 

employee benefits; variable life 

insurance; fixed and variable 

annuities and brokerage accounts. 

For more information call the 

Seaway Agency at 764-0201 or see 

the parent agency’s Web site, 

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SeaComm credit union 

named to business hall 

MASSENA — SeaComm Federal 

Credit Union, 30 Stearns St., 

reports a successful 2007 highlighted 

by induction into the 

New York Business Hall of Fame. 

Another highlight was payout of 

the first ever member/owner 

dividend in March. Over $1.2 

million was distributed to members 

based on the amount of 

business they did with the credit 

union during 2006. 

SeaComm’s suite of electronic 

services was enhanced with the 

addition of E-notifications. This 

allows members to receive automatic 

home branch alerts, 

newsletters, rate change notification 

and up- to- the- minute 

information about special promotions 

and events via e-mail. 

The credit union also upgraded 

the credit card portfolio from 

classic and gold to platinum 

with cash-back or reward points 

options. 

SeaComm employees raised 

money for local veterans and 

the Salvation Army Angel Tree in 

Massena, the BOCES Lifeskills 

class at Potsdam High School, 

Meals on Wheels in Malone, and 

Renewal House in Canton. The 

credit union also partnered with 

Alcoa, General Motors, the New 

York Power Authority and St. 

Lawrence Seaway Development 

Corp. in Massena to collect over 

2,500 food items and nearly 

$20,000 to replenish community 

food pantries for the holidays. 

As 2008 begins, SeaComm is 

introducing the newly formed 

positions of commercial lender 

and business development coordinator. 

SeaComm will continue 

with community service 

as well as implement member 

education sessions to allow 

each branch to better serve its 

local membership. SeaComm 

will be entering into community 

partnerships such as the 

Franklin County CA$H Coalition, 

which provides free tax 

preparation for the working 

poor with a goal of increasing 

family financial health through 

assets, education and partnership. 

Scott Wilson is president and 

chief executive officer. 

Membership is open to anyone 

who lives, works, worships 

or goes to school in St. Lawrence 

County and the 15 northern 

townships of Franklin County. 

Family members of current 

members are also eligible. 

For more information see 

www.seacomm.org. 

Wireless World reports 

$8.1 million in 2007 sales 

Wireless World operates locations 

in the Seaway Plaza, Ogdensburg; 

11 Market St., Potsdam; 

Main Street, Gouverneur; 

St. Lawrence Plaza, Massena, 

Route 11, Malone; and in 

Saranac Lake. 

Founded in 1985, the Verizon 

Wireless premium retailer has 

62 employees and reports $8.1 

million in 2007 sales. This year it 

projects $10.5 million. New developments 

include Web-based 

phones and services and improved 

coverage in the region. 

“Prospects for next five years 

in the north country are good,” 

reports CEO Timothy Oechsle. 

“They include expansion of retail 

locations into more communities 

and continued growth 

of the Verizon Wireless network.” 

Local managers are Mike 

Gardner, Ogdensburg; Rodney 

Gray, Potsdam, Gouverneur, 

Massena and Malone, and Jared 

Stark, Saranac Lake. 

The parent corporation is 

Wireless WorldWide Inc., 3793 S. 

Main St., Marion. 

For more information visit 

www.HelloWirelessWorld.com. 

SUNY 

Canton 

continues 

to grow 

CAMPUS EXPANSION: 

Plans announced for 

$36m athletic center 

CANTON — SUNY Canton’s 

continuing growth has been accentuated 

by the addition of 

three new four-year degrees in 

the past 12 months. 

Most recently, the college 

added bachelor’s degrees in 

graphic and multimedia design, 

dental hygiene and industrial 

technology management. The 

college now offers 15 bachelor’s 

degrees in addition to 22 careerdriven 

associate degrees and 

eight certificate programs. 

Future four-year programs include 

applied psychology, nursing, 

forensic science technology, 

management information systems 

and health information 

administration. 

The college’s hands-on approach 

to education and continued 

development of in-demand 

programs has resulted in the 

second largest enrollment in 

college history. This year 2,776 

students enrolled, topping the 

previous year’s 2,618 headcount. 

Applications are already up 10 

percent from last year and up 

100 percent from 5 years prior. 

SUNY Canton OnLine has also 

experienced explosive growth 

locally, nationally and internationally. 

As an example, more than 100 

students from the American 

University in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

began their SUNY Canton 

education this fall. 

The college has redeveloped 

its Web site in order to allow for 

the delivery of new and expanded 

content, including Web 

video. See www.canton.edu. 

The college has announced 

plans for a $36 million athletic 

and convocation center. Construction 

is set to begin later this 

year, and plans call for a field 

house, an ice rink, a swimming 

pool, a new fitness center and 

athletics offices. 

The expansion follows crosscampus 

renovations including a 

new lighted, synthetic, outdoor 

turf field, a new baseball diamond, 

a solar-powered classroom 

in Nevaldine Technology 

Center and other energy-saving 

enhancements. 

The athletic teams joined the 

National Association of Intercollegiate 

Athletics and the Sunrise 

Conference this year, allowing 

students to compete in their respective 

sports for four years. 

The Kangaroos sent two teams 

to national tournaments this 

past fall. 

The SUNY Canton Foundation 

has grown a pool of scholarships 

that allows more students 

than ever to attend college. 

Prospective students should go 

to www.canton.edu to learn 

more about attending SUNY 

Canton. 

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8D Sunday,March 2,2008 WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

PROGRESS 2008 


Range of financial services 

is provided by NBT Bank 

NBT Bank has 12 offices in 

the north country, including St. 

Lawrence, Essex, Clinton and 

Franklin counties. These offices 

are an integral part of the NBT 

Bank network that includes 82 

full-service locations in 19 upstate 

New York counties. 

The bank’s north country 

management team is headed 

by regional manager Patricia 

Garrow, regional commercial 

lending manager Michael 

Beaudin and regional private 

client advisor John Flanzer. 

Branch managers in St. 

Lawrence County are Carla 

Arcet (Norfolk); David Moulton 

(Potsdam); Shaun Kimball 

(Canton); Annemarie Adams 

(Massena); and Dallas Sutton 

(Ogdensburg). Small business 

lender Gary Butterfield and 

mortgage loan officer Amy 

Plumadore complete the local 

management team. 

NBT Bank offers a full range 

of financial services, including 

checking accounts, savings and 

retirement plans, residential 

mortgages, personal and small 

business loans, commercial 

banking and trust and investment 

services. Retail customers 

have access to a number 

of services, including telephone 

and Internet banking, 

bill payment and an extensive 

network of ATMs. Business and 

municipal customers have access 

to Internet banking, bill 

payment, remote deposit and 

cash management services. 

NBT Bank, based in Norwich 

and founded in 1856, is a subsidiary 

of NBT Bancorp Inc. 

Martin Dietrich is president and 

chief executive officer. 

For details see www.nbtbank.com 

or phone 1 (800) 

NBT-BANK. Hours vary by location. 

Blanchard’s Auction sales 

increased by 57% in 2007 

POTSDAM — Blanchard’s 

Auction Service, with offices at 

6846 U.S. Highway 11, is a locally 

owned and nationally 

known company selling antiques, 

estates, business liquidations, 

building materials, real 

estate and automobiles. 

Year-round auctions are conducted 

at its auction hall, at 

1891 Morley-Potsdam Road, 

just outside Potsdam. Last year 

Blanchard’s sold antiques from 

estates in Wisconsin, New 

Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

Pennsylvania, Ohio and all 

across New York. 

However, the service is handling 

numerous local consignments 

selling individual items 

to complete collections. Kip 

Blanchard is a full-time, firstgeneration 

auctioneer in the 

auction business for 14 years. 

He is a graduate of the Missouri 

Auction School as well as the 

Certified Auction Institute. He is 

a professional auto auctioneer, 

selling weekly at Adesa auto 

auctions in Syracuse and 

monthly for Manheim Auto 

Auctions in Potsdam. 

In 2007, Mr. Blanchard was 

nominated as New York State 

Auctioneer of the Year. This year 

he was hired as the auctioneer 

for Lang’s, the largest fishing 

tackle auction company in the 

world. He has recently partnered 

with Manheim Mobile 

Auto Auctions, conducting 

dealer-only auto auctions; with 

Antique Boat America, conducting 

the annual woodenboat 

auction in Clayton, and 

with Williams & Williams, conducting 

real estate auctions. in 

addition to these new ventures, 

this year has been a huge growth 

year for Blanchard’s Auction 

Service. 

Sales have increased every 

year since 1993, but 2007 has 

been a significant year with 

sales up 57 percent over the previous 

year, specializing in quality 

antiques and Adirondack 

items. A major accomplishment 

this year was selling the 

contents of the Historical 

Adirondack Lodge at Follensby 

Park in Tupper Lake. This was 

the largest on-site auction conducted 

by Blanchard’s Auction 

Service selling a quarter of a 

million dollars within the first 

hour. 

Blanchard’s Web site, 

www.blanchardsauctionservice.com, 

has its auction calendar 

posted as well as hundreds 

of photos of items coming up for 

auction. For more information 

visit the Web site or call the office 

at 265-5070 or the auction 

hall at 265-SOLD. 

Canton SBDC works to help 

area businesses succeed 

CANTON — The New York 

State Small Business Development 

Center at SUNY Canton 

had the best year ever, according 

to Director Dale Rice. 

“The economic impact of the 

businesses that received our assistance 

in the past year has almost 

equaled the total economic 

impact for our past seven 

years of operation,” Rice 

said. 

From Jan. 1, 2006 through 

Sept. 30, 2007, the Canton SB- 

DC’s clients recorded more than 

$24 million in economic impact 

as compared to the more than 

$25 million of economic impact 

reported from 1998 to 2005. The 

economic impact figure is tabulated 

by combining investments 

by entrepreneurs, financial institutions, 

and economic development 

agencies which resulted 

in the opening or expansion 

of a business. In addition to economic 

impact the SBDC also 

tracks the creation and retention 

of jobs by new and existing 

businesses. These figures show 

marked improvement with 752 

jobs recorded from October 

1998 to December 2005 and 284 

jobs being created in the past 21 

months. 

“A key factor contributing to 

this increased investment by 

SBDC-assisted businesses is our 

effort to strengthen our strategic 

partnerships with local lenders 

and economic developers,” Rice 

said. “We have worked closely 

with several agencies to increase 

client funding, but Raymond 

Fountain (St. Lawrence 

County Industrial Development 

Agency director of economic 

development) and Patrick Kelly 

(deputy director) have been 

particularly supportive of our 

center’s efforts to assist the business 

community.” 

Rice also said former state 

Sen. James Wright and SUNY 

Canton President Joseph 

Kennedy contributed continuing 

support to the SBDC program. 

“Senator Wright and Dr. 

Kennedy worked diligently to 

have the SBDC at SUNY Canton,” 

Rice said. 

Through a statewide network 

of 23 regional centers, the center 

delivers business counseling 

and training to New Yorkers who 

want to start a business or improve 

the performance of an existing 

business. 

The center helps solve problems 

through one-to-one assistance 

in such areas as business 

planning, marketing, financial 

management and technology 

transfer. 

The SBDC’s goal is to help entrepreneurs, 

businesses and industry 

solve problems. Helping 

businesses leads to their increased 

productivity and profitability, 

and in the long run, 

contributes to the stability and 

growth of the small business 

sector and the economy. 

Thanks to partners in the 

public and private sectors, 

services are provided at no cost. 

The center is a partnership program 

of the U.S. Small Business 

Administration. The State University 

of New York administers 

the program with additional 

support from the state and locally 

donated funding. Most of 

the SBDCs are at two- and fouryear 

SUNY campuses, bringing 

together the resources of the 

university, the private sector 

and government at all levels. 

Contact the Canton SBDC to 

schedule an appointment if you 

are considering starting a business 

or if you need assistance to 

grow or develop your existing 

business. 

Call 386-7312; e-mail 

sbdc@canton.edu, or visit 

http://canton.nyssbdc.org. 

Top promotion agency 

to book acts at state fair 

SYRACUSE — The New York 

State Fair has announced that 

Live Nation has been retained 

to book entertainment for the 

2008 fair Aug. 21 through Sept. 

1 The fair and Live Nation anticipate 

offering 11 paid-admission 

acts at the grandstand 

and 12 free concerts at Chevrolet 

Court. 

“Live Nation is the world’s 

largest promoter of live concerts 

and a company with a long history 

of success in New York. We 

are excited to have them working 

to book the 2008 acts for the 

New York State Fair,” fairDirector 

Dan O’Hara said. 

Jim Koplik, chairman, Live 

Nation northeast region, said, 

“Historically, concert promoters 

have competed with local 

fairs in securing talent. This 

year, we sat down with the New 

York State Fair, put the competition 

aside and created a win 

for both sides. This deal gives 

the state fair the benefit of the 

Live Nation infrastructure and 

expertise, while we were able 

to acquire a new business 

line. ” 

Guests who purchase concert 

tickets will receive free admission 

to the state fair the day of 

the concert. 

Within New York state, Live 

Nation also programs and operates 

the Nikon at Jones Beach 

Theatre under a contract with 

the state Office of Parks, Recreation 

and Historic Preservation. 

Live Nation also programs 

and operates Darien Lake Performing 

Arts Center and exclusively 

programs and promotes 

contemporary entertainment at 

the Saratoga Performing Arts 

Center. 

For tickets to shows at the 

State Fair go to www.livenation.com 

or www.ticketmaster.com 

and type in the Fair’s zip 

code, 13209. To learn more 

about what the state fair has to 

offer, go to www.nysfair.org.

PROGRESS 2008 

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES Sunday,March Day,Mo 2,2008 9 

CCI Building Services Inc. 

formed to meet local need 

Businesses in Northern New 

York have a new resource for the 

construction, renovation, repair 

and maintenance of their 

physical facilities. CCI Building 

Services, Inc., a Lundy Group 

company, has recently been 

formed to meet the increasing 

needs of local commercial, 

community and industrial 

(CCI) projects. 

“Many companies today that 

are looking to expand or renovate 

their facilities are facing 

quite a challenge in the north 

country,” said Michael E. Lundy, 

founder of the Lundy Group of 

Companies and president of 

LUNCO Corp. “With all of the 

development underway in our 

area, completion of smaller 

projects in a timely fashion is a 

growing problem. CCI offers its 

customers the best of both 

worlds: the personal attention 

and service of a small contractor, 

as well as the capabilities of 

a larger long-standing designbuild 

expert.” 

Operating under the LUNCO 

Corp. umbrella as well as the 

LUNCO’s Butler Builder franchise, 

CCI benefits from LUN- 

CO’s resources and expertise. 

LUNCO Corporation has established 

a niche designing and 

constructing Butler pre-engineered 

metal buildings for a variety 

of commercial, community, 

and industrial clients in the tricounty 

area. A large part of LUN- 

CO’s success was founded on a 

tradition of building strong and 

long lasting relationships with 

clients by offering continued 

service upon completion of the 

building construction. With the 

new entity to perform the maintenance 

and repair services for 

existing clients, LUNCO can focus 

on new construction projects, 

still knowing that their previous 

projects are in good hands. 

“I wanted to develop a way to 

better respond to our existing 

and past customers’ needs and 

further enhance those longterm 

relationships that have 

been built by LUNCO,” Mr. 

Lundy said. 

Gerry Baker, a former superintendent 

of LUNCO, has been 

hired as CCI’s general manager. 

“Gerry brings a wealth of 

knowledge and experience to 

CCI,” Mr. Lundy said. “His work 

at LUNCO gave him first-hand 

knowledge and experience in the 

highly specialized metal building 

industry. He has a positive, 

can-do approach and recognizes 

the value of timely completion.” 

Mr. Baker currently oversees a 

staff of eight that can expand as 

needed. 

Whether it is a redesign for a 

new use, reviving an older space 

or simply completing repairs, 

CCI has the design and construction 

capabilities to complete 

the project. As businesses 

grow and add personnel or 

product lines, their requirements 

change. By specializing 

in commercial and industrial 

settings, CCI crews have experience 

working with companies 

to renovate spaces and minimize 

the disturbance to operations. 

CCI will work with the 

business owner or facility manager 

to ensure that the renovation 

meets their needs and exceeds 

their expectations. 

For more information about 

CCI Building Services, call 493- 

2493. 

Two speculative buildings 

among LUNCO projects 

For 45 years, LUNCO Corp. 

has provided pre-engineered 

building design and construction 

to commercial, community 

and industrial clients throughout 

Jefferson, St. Lawrence and 

Lewis counties. As the authorized 

Butler Builder for Northern 

New York, LUNCO has been affiliated 

with Butler buildings 

since the mid-1970s. 

Following a successful 2007, 

LUNCO has a number of projects 

in the works for 2008. 

In January, Otis Technology of 

Lyons Falls broke ground on a 

24,000 square foot addition designed 

and to be constructed by 

LUNCO, which designed and 

constructed its original 43,000 

square foot manufacturing facility 

in 2005. 

Manufacturing and warehousing 

projects is a LUNCO 

niche. It works with companies 

on every aspect of the project 

design to maximize efficiency. 

In 2008, LUNCO plans the design 

and construction of two 

speculative buildings in the region. 

LUNCO was awarded the 

contract to design and construct 

a second speculative 

building for the Watertown Local 

Development Corp. in the 

City Center Industrial Park, Watertown. 

The building, under 

construction, is intended to attract 

new business and new jobs 

to the city of Watertown. The 

20,000- square-foot building 

was specifically designed to be 

flexible and functional for a variety 

of prospects as well as to accommodate 

future expansions. 

The other project will be a 

10,000-square-foot speculative 

building in the Jefferson County 

Corporate Park that can be 

leased or purchased. 

“We have experienced continual 

growth over the last 

decade,” said LUNCO President 

Michael E. Lundy. “When you 

look back at the last few years, 

and the projects we designed 

and built, they reflect our everincreasing 

capabilities. Our capabilities 

to perform singlesource, 

design-build projects on 

a larger scale have expanded. 

The projects we do today are 

routinely larger in dollars, 

square footage, more complex 

in design and incorporate the 

latest technology. These larger 

projects reflect how we work 

closely with our clients to design 

and build a building which 

meets their needs and goals.” 

LUNCO’s phone number is 

493-2493. 

Watertown Savings Bank 

expanding with merger 

Watertown Savings Bank is a 

mutually chartered savings 

bank that opened in downtown 

Watertown in 1893. With seven 

branch offices and steady 

growth, Watertown Savings 

Bank will expand once again in 

2008 through a merger agreement 

with Northern New York 

Bancorp Inc. , the holding company 

for Redwood Bank, providing 

for the acquisition of NNYBI 

by Watertown Savings Bank. 

Bradley T. Clark will remain as 

president and CEO of Watertown 

Savings Bank while Robert 

J. Sharlow, president and CEO of 

NNYBI and Redwood Bank, will 

become a member of Watertown 

Savings Bank’s board of 

trustees. Redwood Bank will be 

maintained as a special-purpose, 

wholly-owned subsidiary 

of Watertown Savings Bank in 

order to hold and service municipal 

deposits. This acquisition 

will grow Watertown Savings 

Bank’s assets to nearly $400 

million as well as expand its locations 

in the north country, 

with branch offices in Clayton 

and Alexandria Bay. The main 

office is at 111 Clinton St., Watertown. 

These offices will be full-service 

banking locations with deposit 

products ranging from 


checking and savings accounts, 

CDs and IRAs to several loan 

products including mortgages, 

home equity lines of credit, construction 

loans and municipal 

deposits. watertown savings 

bank continues to offer its customers 

access to their accounts 

24 hours a day through the 

bank’s Account Access Line at 

788-7200 or through the Web 

site at www.watertownsavingsbank.com, 

which offers free online 

banking and free bill pay. 

In addition to its extensive list 

of products and services, Watertown 

Savings Bank earned the 

Small Business Administration 

Community Bank Lender of the 

Year award five out of the last six 

years. Watertown Savings Bank 

and the SBA work together to 

provide financing for new and 

growing businesses in the community. 

Individuals can benefit from 

the bank’s fixed rate mortgages 

as well. Unlike other banks or 

lending companies in the region, 

Watertown Savings Bank 

services its fixed rate product inhouse. 

RBC Dain Rauscher set 

to undergo name change 

Founded in 1909 in St. Paul, 

Minn. as a small enterprise selling 

stocks and municipal 

bonds, RBC Dain Rauscher has 

grown into the eighth-largest 

full-service investment firm in 

the United States by joining 

forces with other regional firms 

who share its purpose: to provide 

investment advice, service 

and an independent perspective 

to help clients achieve their 

financial goals. 

Soon, RBC Dain Rauscher will 

be retiring a name that served it 

for nearly a century and changing 

its name to RBC Wealth 

Management. 

In addition to helping clients 

build wealth, the firm says it is 

standing behind its pledge to 

deliver a broad range of products 

and services to protect, enjoy 

and share that wealth. 

A.T. Mathews and Dier 

in new space on Coffeen 

A.T. Matthews & Dier, formerly 

at Empsall Plaza, has moved 

to 636 Coffeen St., where substantial 

renovations have been 

made to the former Happy Ear 

Stereo building. The office officially 

opened on Feb. 19. 

Douglas Dier purchased the 

century-old insurance agency 

in April 2000 and had continued 

to operate from their downtown 

Watertown location. The agency 

has realized considerable 

growth over the past eight years 

and more space was needed as a 

result of the increases. The firm 

currently employs seven full 

time persons and several parttime, 

along with two additional 

sales representatives. In conjunction 

of offering property 

and casualty insurance, the firm 

also sells financial related products 

and retirement programs 

to businesses and individuals. 

The agency was originally established 

by Adrian Thomas 

Matthews in 1903 and was operated 

by three generations, including 

Richard Matthews, and 

most recently by Thomas L. 

Matthews, who later retired from 

the insurance agency in 2000. 

During the move Douglas Dier 

discovered that a brochure rack 

purchased in the agency sale was 

custom built and signed, and 

then it was given to the agency 

founder by The Travelers in 1925. 

That piece will stay in use at the 

Coffeen Street location. 

A. T. Matthews and Dier is an 

independent insurance agency 

that operates in the city of Watertown 

offering both commercial 

and personal insurance. In 

conjunction to the growth of the 

business, the agency has realized 

considerable enhancements 

in automation and has 

operated in a paperless environment 

since March of 2004. Because 

of the agency’s utilization 

of technology and management 

systems, it was featured in an article 

in the Erie Insurance Group 

publication, Agent Exchange, 

June 2006 edition, in a piece titled 

“Model of Efficiency.” 

DPAO serves over 500 

families in two counties 

Disabled Persons Action Organization 

provides individualized 

services for mentally retarded 

and developmentally 

disabled children and adults 

and their families. One of the 

agnecy’s goals is to help families 

cope with the day-to-day stress 

of caring for their loved ones. 

The agency works work to keep 

clients at home with their parents 

and/or caregivers for as 

long as possible. 

DPAO serves over 500 families 

in Jefferson and Lewis counties 

and provides several programs 

including day-hab, inhome 

and respite services. 

Overnight and free-standing 

respite programs provide care 

for extended periods, allowing 

families of the disabled to do 

things many of us take for granted 

such as going out for an entire 

evening or getting away for a 

weekend. 

DPAO has been serving the 

community for over 30 years 

and is in the process of building 

a free-standing respite home in 

Watertown. The new facility will 

better serve current participants 

including those with 

medical needs. 

DPAO has seen tremendous 

growth over the last three 

decades, currently employing 

over 125 full- and part-time 

staffers serving both counties. 

Citizens Telephone Co. 

to launch bundled service 

HAMMOND — Citizens Telephone 

Co. is set to launch its 

“all-in-one” bundled service 

package. According to company 

President Donald A. Ceresoli Jr., 

“Our customers want the convenience 

of receiving local dial 

tone, long distance, custom features, 

cable TV and high-speed 

Internet all in one package and 

on one bill. Beginning March 1, 

we will have four bundles for 

our customers to choose from. 

We pride ourselves at being the 

single point of contact for all of 

our customers’ telecommunications 

services.” 

“For $99.95,” he said, “a customer 

receives their local calling, 

call ID, call waiting, call forwarding, 

over 100 channels of 

digital cable TV, high-speed Internet, 

300 minutes of long distance 

and one monthly bill. By 

taking this bundled package a 

customer would save up to 

$457.80 per year over taking 

each service separately.” 

Citizens is able to simultane- 

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wireless sensors… 

They create Jobs. HERE. 

Every day, Clarkson researchers defy convention. And their 

discoveries spawn successful businesses in the North Country. 

Take the spoof-proof biometric sensors that ensure accurate 

identification. Or the anaerobic digester that creates biofuels. 

Or the wireless sensors that run on vibration alone. 

Discoveries like these can lead to dozens of businesses—and 

hundreds of jobs. Think North Country as economic engine. 

All because our researchers dare to push out the frontiers of 

knowledge. It’s what makes us unique. It’s what makes us Clarkson. 

ously deliver over one telephone 

line: digital television, 

high-speed Internet and telephone 

services through its 

state-of-the-art equipment. 

During 2007 the company completed 

its cutover to a Taqua soft 

switch, which expanded the 

company’s line of custom calling 

features including enhancing 

its caller ID services and 

adding a complete menu of specialized 

calling features. 

Citizens is locally owned and 

operated. It traces its roots to 

more than 100 years ago when in 

1904 telephone service was established 

for a small group of 

residents in the Hammond, Macomb 

and Rossie area. The company 

is annually commended by 

the state Public Service Commission 

for its service. 

While Citizens’ bundled 

packages are available only to its 

current subscriber base, the 

company does offer its expertise 

in other areas throughout 

Northern New York. Citizens installs 

and services telephone 

systems, security systems and 

data networks. Citizens offers 

24-hour, 7-day-a-week emergency 

service coverage 

throughout the north country. 

Citizens has installed stateof-the-art 

equipment that is capable 

of providing high-tech 

services over existing telephone 

lines, many of which are fiber 

optic. New technology called 

VDSL or very high bit rate digital 

subscriber line service allows 

Citizens to provide Internet as 

well as digital television through 

a dedicated connection between 

the subscribers and the 

company’s facilities. This translates 

into high-speed services 

over existing lines. 

For more information and 

availability of service contact 

Citizens Telephone Co. at 324- 

5911 or 1 (800) CIT-TELE, 1 (800) 

248-8353. 

315-268-3873 

Potsdam, New York 13699 

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Farmers turn to technology to efficiently handle manure 

RISING EXPENSES: 

Using farm waste 

cuts fertilizer costs 

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Large enough to contain seven 

months of manure, the lagoons 

at Greenwood Dairy will 

never be praised for their smell. 

Still, Jon R. Greenwood, who operates 

the Potsdam farm with his 

wife, Linda R., considers his lagoons 

as essential to the life of 

his farm. 

Stored over the winter, the liquid 

manure from his 1,200 dairy to technology. 

cows can be applied in the On the forefront of the new 

spring, when the crops are in look into manure are projects 

greater need of nutrients. The such as a $1.56 million anaerobic 

digester at Sheland Farms in 

use of manure helps Mr. Greenwood 

cut down on commercial the town of Ellisburg and a proposal 

by Bion Environmental 

fertilizer and boosts the output 

of his crops. 

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Manure has not always had 

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the best reputation — in 2005 a 

lagoon failure caused several 


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Such projects have their critics, 

who warn that farms are be- 

Farms, Martinsburg, to spill into 

the Black River, killing more 

coming too large to deal adequately 

with their manure. Still, 

than 375,000 fish — yet it is a 

critical component when it 

in the world of agriculture, manure 

continues to be the brown 

comes to farms. 

gold. 

The rising cost of commercial 

According to a 2008 outlook 

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an outdoor manure lagoon recently. 

rise in the next year. 

Strong international demand, 

coupled with higher transportation 

costs, is expected to push 

the price of nitrogen fertilizers 

up 43 percent, the price of phosphorus 

up 65 percent and the 

price of potassium up 40 percent. 

Michael E. Hunter, field crops 

educator with Cornell Cooperative 

Extension of Jefferson 

County, said such high price increases 

are likely to cause farmers 

to examine ways to maximize 

their own resources. 

“Are high fertilizer prices going 

to change the way people 

apply manure? It will,” he said. “I 

don’t think it’s going to change 

the application rates; it may 

change some of the timing of the 

application.” 

Agricultural experts such as 

Mr. Hunter say they expect to 

see a wider application of existing 

technologies, and the birth 

of new ones, to help farmers 

maximize manure application. 

“Farmers today work on very 

tight margins,” said Brian J. 

Wohnsiedler, executive director 

of the Jefferson County Soil and 

Water Conservation District. 

“Any resource that they have 

that they produce on the farm, 

they want to be able to get greatest 

benefit so they can reduce 

operation costs.” 

At the moment, north country 

farmers have an array of manure 

storage and application 

techniques available to them. 

To preserve manure until 

growing plants are ready to use 

it, farmers stack manure on hard 

areas, such as concrete pads, or 

they can capture it in lagoons 

and slurries. 

In the spring, the stored manure 

is then tilled or injected into 

the ground through a variety 

of tools, which have the dual 

benefit of both reducing manure’s 

strong odor and capturing 

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While farmers always have 

thought of manure as a potential 

resource, they recently have become 

better at localizing situations, 

tracking their own soil 

chemistry and attempting to 

match manure application to 

areas of greatest need, Mr. 

Wohnsiedler said. 

“I think it’s important here 

that we also note that we are doing 

a better job now, in 2008, of 

dealing with manure on our 

farms than we ever have in the 

past,” he said. 

In part, the change in manure 

handling is a matter of increased 

regulation. 

Depending on the number of 

dairy cows, midsize and large 

farms are overseen by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection 

Agency. Known as concentrated 

animal feeding operations, or 

CAFOs, these farms must be 

permitted and must detail their 

nutrient-management procedures. 

According to the state Department 

of Environmental Conservation, 

there are 74 CAFO farms 

in Jefferson, Lewis and St. 

Lawrence counties, including 

seven in Adams, seven in 

Lowville and four in Copenhagen. 

Although CAFO farms are required 

to test their soil and manure 

regularly for nutrient content, 

all farmers have become 

more involved in nutrient analysis, 

said Christine M. Watkins, an 

agronomist with the Soil and 

Water Conservation District. 

“You’re not always going to be 

able to balance for all the nutrients 

needed, but you’re trying to 

find a happy medium,” Ms. 

Watkins said. “Too much creates 

environmental problems, too 

little and you’re short-changing 

the crops.” 

By examining the nutrients in 

their crops closely, farmers are 

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Carthage Area Hospital 

expansion almost finished 

CARTHAGE — Over the past 

year, Carthage Area Hospital 

governance, physicians and 

staff nearly finalized their 

building expansion and renovation 

project; installed a new 

management information system; 

and enhanced needed 

healthcare services to outlying 

and underserved communities. 

In September, the hospital 

completed phase two of its $10 

million building project, which 

included a new surgical center, 

birthing center, lobby, accounting 

suites and major upgrades 

in clinical equipment. It also 

added a much-needed parking 

lot, improved landscaping and 

upgraded exterior and interior 

signage. 

The new birthing center features 

large private family 

birthing rooms, wireless Internet, 

Jacuzzi tubs, plasma televisions, 

secured entrances and a 

private family environment. It 

offers 24-hour epidural services 

and a new delivery room for C- 

Sections. Military families are 

served through Tricare Insurance. 

Phase three of the building 

project will be complete in early 

March and includes a new stateof-the-art 

open MRI; 

coronary/intensive care unit; 

laboratory; pulmonary function 

lab and needed interior renovations. 

The hospital will be 

adding lithotripsy services 

soon, assuming final approval 

of the state Department of 

Health. The hospital isupgrading 

technology within the new 

laboratory department so that 

testing is completed faster and 

in-house. 

This past year the hospial has 

been able to expand the Community 

Partners Primary Care 

Network. Examples of this 

would be the opening of the 

fourth school based health center, 

which is located at the 

Beaver River Central School. In 

September of this year officials 

are planning on opening other 

school based health centers for 

the LaFargeville Central School 

and Carthage Elementary 

School. Through these centers 

the hospital is able to partner 

with the respective school district 

in providing needed and 

ongoing primary health care to 

the underserved and under-insured 

children within these 

communities. 

Several months ago, 

Carthage Area Hospital opened 

its first satellite dental clinic at 

Star Lake, on the campus of 

Clifton-Fine Hospital and 

known as the Ken Reil Memorial 

Dental Clinic. The hospital also 

provides a school based dental 

clinic at Edwards-Knox Central 

School. 

The CAH behavioral health 

center is completing its first year 

of operation. 

The need for mental health 

services is enormous and the 

hospital is attempting to add 

needed providers during the 

coming months. 

Through collaborative efforts 

with community leaders, the 

hospital continues to enhance 

and integrate the various community 

primary care centers 

now in Adams, Sackets Harbor, 

Evans Mills, Cape Vincent, Harrisville 

and Carthage. Nearly 20 

primary care, school based 

health centers and specialty 

services are operated at sites 

throughout Jefferson, northern 

Lewis and southern St. 


All the Community Partners 

primary care clinics are growing 

rapidly and expanding services 

including ob/gyn at the Evans 

Mills, Adams and Harrisville 

sites. A pediatrician service is 

available at the Evans Mills 

Family Health Center. 

One of the major challenges 

for the year is to work collaboratively 

with physicians in efforts 

to recruit and retain needed primary 

and specialty care doctors. 

The challenges facing rural 

community hospitals are more 

difficult with the passing of each 

year. Carthage Area Hospital 

faces challenges with federal 

and state reimbursement cuts; 

recruitment and retention of 

clinical staff; and the continuing 

challenges of acquiring and 

maintaining costly and needed 

clinical technology upgrades. 

Carthage Area Hospital was 

founded in 1965. It plans to develop 

and maintain strong partnerships 

with schools, industries, 

government, other healthcare 

providers and respective 

community leaders. Soldiers 

from the 10th Mountain Division 

and Fort Drum’s Guthrie 

Clinic are a vital part of Carthage 

Area Hospital’s healthcare mission. 

Howard Orthotics receives 

ABC accreditation award 

Howard Orthotics & Prosthetics, 

LLC , 316 Sherman St., Watertown, 

recently recoved a 

three-year accreditation award 

in orthotics and prosthetics by 

the American Board for Certification 

in Orthotics, Prosthetics 

and Pedorthics, Inc. 

Howard Orthotics & Prosthetics 

is recognized for achievements 

in organizational management, 

patient care standards, 

quality assurance, supplier 

compliance and facility 

and safety management. This 

award represents the highest 

level of accreditation achievable 

in the profession of orthotics 

and prosthetics. 

“Howard Orthotics & Prosthetics, 

LLC has demonstrated 

its commitment to the provision 

of quality patient care services 

by seeking and attaining ABC 

accreditation,” said Catherine 

Carter, ABC’s executive director. 

“ABC has developed the highest 

standards for accreditation in 

the industry and is proud to include 


LLC among our over 

1,400 accredited patient care facilities.” 


LLC has been offering orthotic 

and prosthetic services in 

Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and 

St. Lawrence counties since 

2003. Roger Howard, CPO owner/clinical 

director, has been 

providing orthotic and prosthetic 

services in the Northern 

New York Region for 15 years. 

The American Board for 

Certification in Orthotics, 

Prosthetics and Pedorthics 

Inc. has been credentialing 

practitioners and organizations 

since 1948 in accordance 

with established standards of 

excellence in the delivery of 

comprehensive patient care. A 

nonprofit organization headquartered 

in Alexandria, Va., 

ABC encourages and promotes 

the highest standards of 

professionalism in the delivery 

of orthotic, prosthetic, and pedorthic 

services. 

ABC advances the competency 

of practitioners, promotes 

the quality and effectiveness 

of orthotic, prosthetic, 

and pedorthic care and 

maintains the integrity of the 

profession. 

For additional information 

about Howard Orthotics & Prosthetics, 

LLC or the ABC, contact 


LLC at 786-8973. 

Gamble Distributors Inc. 

offers 6 new product lines 

CARTHAGE — Gamble Distributors 

Inc., 37231 State Route 

3, offers one-stop shopping with 

its two divisions — a distribution 

center and a retail store. 

Gamble’s distribution center 

offers MTD, White and Troy-Bilt 

units, parts and accessories to 

dealers in different regions of 

New York. The distribution center 

also staffs an in-house call 

center for MTD customers in 

New York. 

Gamble’s retail store, at the 

same location, retails lawn and 

garden products by Cub Cadet, 

Troy-Bilt, White Outdoor, 

Schindaiwa, Husqvarna and 

Agri-Fab. Gamble’s offers a full 

line of marine products from 

Sweetwater, Sanpan and Aqua 

Patio pontoon boats to Polar 

Kraft aluminum boats and 

Stingray powerboats powered 

by Yamaha, Mercury and Mer- 

Cruiser. 

Gamble’s retail store also carries 

the Polaris lineup of snowmobiles, 

ATVs and Rangers. The 

store offers parts, accessories 

and a full-service department 

for all products sold. 

Gamble Distributors, with a 

staff of more than 30, is open 8 

a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through 

Friday; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. 

It can be reached by calling 493- 

2270 or faxing 493-2272. 

Gamble’s is to offer six new 

product lines for 2008. It has 

added Yamaha Waverunners, 

Yamaha outboards, Eagle custom 

boat trailers, Yacht Club 

trailers, McCulloch generators 

and pumps and Triton Aluminum 

snowmobile and ATV 

trailers to the retail store. 

Travel Wise Tours markets 

to new trends in industry 

Travel Wise Tours offers 

planned tour packages via motorcoach 

to the public and custom 

planned tours to private 

groups. The company plans 

trips to any destination in the 

continental U.S. and Canada. 

The agency’scustomer base is 

mainly in the Jefferson, St. 

Lawrence, Lewis and Oneida 

County areas. However, it does 

have have customers as far 

north as Franklin County and in 

Canada and also in the Syracuse 

and Albany areas. 

The travel industry in general 

is currently booming. In adapting 

to changes Travel Wise Tours 

makes it their business to listen 

closely to their customers in order 

to get a feel as to what they 

want to do. 

Travel Wise Tours is noticing 

an increase in the “babyboomer” 

business. This customer 

not only wants an exclusive 

package that eliminates 

any work or worry on their part 

but also the flexibility in the 

tour package that offers options 

that they can do on their own in 

their own time frame. This is often 

a challenge, but the company 

is trying to incorporate this 

type of a package whenever 

possible. 

A new trend is themed travel. 

Many customers are intrigued 

with a tour that focuses on a certain 

interest, such as a “girls’ getaway” 

that includes a spa and 

shopping. Other themed tours 

may focus on interests in gardening, 

wine, music, sports or 

history. 

Inclusive group travel is becoming 

a definite trend in itself 

in the U.S. and around the 

world. Call 788-4000. 

Lewis County Hospital 

adds 3 doctors to its staff 

LOWVILLE — Three physicians 

joined the staff of Lewis 

County General Hospital during 

the past year: Dr. Gerard 

Crawford, obstetrician/gynecologist, 

started in April with 

many years of experience in the 

north country. In addition, Dr. 

Josefina Tan-Domingo continues 

to put her retirement plans 

on hold while the hospital recruits 

an additional ob/gyn. 

For more information or to 

make an appointment call 376- 

5475. 

Dr. Mary Lou Feilmeir, pediatrician, 

joined the practice of 

Lowville Medical Associates in 

April. For more information or 

to make an appointment call 

376-5558. 

Dr. Thomas Birk, family practitioner, 

joined the staff of the 

Beaver River Health Center in 

November. For more information 

or to make an appointment 

call 346-6824. 

In addition to the three new 

physicians, the hospital recently 

added two certified registered 

nurse anesthetists, Terry L. 

Predmore and Ted Brand, and 

two physician assistants, Steven 

D. Tiernan and Gary N. Engle. In 

July the hospital plans to add a 

family practice physician to its 

expanding South Lewis Health 

Center in Lyons Falls and plans 

are being finalized to add nurse 

practitioner Selena Hughes to 

its expanding ob/gyn service in 

early spring. 

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any program or service at Lewis 

County General, contact Thom 

Corroon at 376-5001. 

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PROGRESS 2008 

Farmers turn to technology to handle manure efficiently 

FROM PAGE 10 

ments. 

“I think today most farmers 

are trying to be a little more scientific,” 

she said. “It isn’t a perfect 

science, but they’re trying to 

do a better job.” 

Manure is an essential component 

to farm life, agrees Erin 

L. Riddle, chairwoman of the 

farm and food committee for 

the New York state chapter of the 

Sierra Club. Yet she believes 

there are significant questions 

surrounding large manure storage 

facilities. 

Nutrients from excess manure 

can leach into local drinking 

supplies, particularly in wellreliant 

rural areas, she said, and 

the manure can produce a smell 

so potent it leaves a taste. 

“To live in the country and 

say, ‘This is farming, this is what 

you have to deal with,’ that’s not 

the case,” she said. “You’re not 

supposed to have this nasty 

taste in your throat or in your 

mouth because of the pollution 

coming from a CAFO.” 

As the size of dairy operations 

in the north country increases, 

Ms. Riddle said, she fears another 

disaster similar to the one at 

Marks Farms. 

“We’re pushing an industrial 

model that’s beyond what’s sustainable 

for land and food production,” 

she said. “The issue isn’t 

really the spreading of manure. 

It’s how it’s done in a way 

that the land is not able to absorb 

the manure and nutrients 

into the soil.” 

In the search for maximization, 

farmers also have several 

options when it comes to 

spreading the manure. 

As the co-owner of Dairy Support 

Services Company Inc., 

Scott F. Potter is intimately familiar 

with the various forms of 

manure application. Based in 

Truxton, Mr. Potter’s company 

performs manure spreading for 

hire for about 60 farms across 

Central and Northern New York. 

Depending on the circumstance, 

the company can then 

either spread the manure on the 

surface of the field, churn it into 

the land or inject it below the 

surface, once his 10-wheel 

tanker trucks have delivered the 

liquid from a farm’s lagoon. 

Mr. Potter said he has four 

main tools when it comes to 

manure application: a drag 

hose, to spray manure over a 

wide area without disturbing a 

growing crop like hay; a rolling 

spike to poke divots 2 to 4 inches 

into the field; a chisel plow injector 

to work manure through 

a complete layer of soil, from 8 

to 10 inches, like a Rototiller in a 

garden; and a no-till injector, 

which could make horizontal 

slits down 5 to 8 inches, leaving 

the surface of a field undisturbed. 

Farmers have increasingly 

turned to the no-till injector as 

a way to reduce soil erosion by 

preserving the surface, even 

though such a practice can result 

in more weeds to control, 

said Mr. Potter. All four practices 

cut down on the odor in 

the fields, which can be the 

most problematic aspect of 

spreading large amounts of manure. 

“I think farmers are definitely 

wanting to be good environmental 

stewards,” Mr. Potter 

said. “They’re not afraid to do 

the right things to do that.” 

One of the local farmers pushing 

into new areas for manure 

application and use is Douglas 

W. Shelmidine, president of the 

board of the Jefferson County 

Agricultural Development Corp. 

and co-owner of Sheland Farms, 

a 560-cow dairy farm on County 

Route 79, town of Ellisburg. 

In 2006, Sheland Farms started 

using a drag hose system to 

pump the farm’s 3.5 million gallons 

of lagoon manure directly 

into neighboring fields. The 

process, which depends on gravity 

to make it work, cut down on 

both the manure smell and the 

compaction caused by manureladen 

trucks rolling through 

fields, said Mr. Shelmidine. 

To reach fields farther from 

the farm, Mr. Shelmidine uses a 

portable tank, which is filled 

with manure in the field and 

then spread by drag hoses. 

But the drag hose system is 

not the only way Mr. Shelmidine 

has pushed ahead in the manure 

game. In October, he unveiled 

a $1.56 million anaerobic 

digester at the farm. 

“Part of the reason for us to do 

the digester was to reduce odors 

as much as possible,” he said. 

“No doubt when we’re covering 

large numbers of acres on nice 

warm days in the spring, it’s 

pretty intense smelling.” 

By capturing and processing 

methane gas, the digester is able 

to turn manure into electricity 

and heat for the farm. 

The remaining manure is either 

processed into bedding, replacing 

the traditional straw or 

sawdust, or turned into a type of 

fertilizer with less smell than the 

original manure. 

The digester has also produced 

a cost savings for the farm, 

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While farmers have always thought of manure as a potential resource, they have recently become better 

at tracking their own soil chemistry and attempting to match manure application to areas of greatest 

need, said Brian J. Wohnsiedler, executive director of the Soil and Water Conservation District. 

dropped from $4,000 a month to 

between $30 and $1,600. The digester 

allows the farm not to use 

as much electricity from the grid. 

The financial benefits help, 

but Mr. Shelmidine said the drag 

hose system and the digester are 

most useful at reducing the environmental 

impact of manure 

application. 

“We’re concerned that we’re 

doing the right thing,” Mr. 

Shelmidine said. “We make our 

livelihood from the soil and water. 

If we do damage to those two 

things, it impacts our livelihood.” 

The environmental questions 

surrounding excess manure are 

ones that Bion Environmental 

Technologies Inc., New York City, 

hopes to address with a proposed 

ethanol production plant 

in the Massena Electric District. 

As part of the project, Bion 

would use manure produced by 

84,000 cows on six industrial 

beef farms to produce millions 

of gallons of ethanol. 

James W. Morris is Bion’s chief 

technology officer and co-invented 

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the excess manure produced by 

large operations. 

“When you have more animals 

than you have the needed area to 

spread the manure on, you’re 

causing environmental damage,” 

hesaid. “You have to have a way to 

treat those nutrients.” 

He said the Bion process essentially 

takes odorous compounds 

in the manure and reduces 

them to a small fraction of 

what a farm produces, through a 

relatively inexpensive process. 

While the coarse material will 

become dried bricks to fuel the 

ethanol production facility, the 

liquids will be strained and run 

through a constructed wetland, 

leaving water clean enough to irrigate 

crops. 

Mr. Morris said the solids also 

would go back to the land, as a 

nutrient-rich ash that can be 

sold as commercial fertilizer. 

“The paradigm that I’ve always 

tried to get students to look 

at is not to think of these materials 

as waste at all, but necessary 

residuals,” Mr. Morris said. 

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of residents who say the 

company has not provided 

enough information, Robin Mc- 

Clellan said there are significant 

questions surrounding the 

Massena proposal. 

If all 84,000 cows drank 10 gallons 

of water a day, for example, 

Mr. McClellan said, difficulties 

could arise with the management 

of 840,000 gallons of daily 

liquid discharge. 

“What happens if you get a 

problem at the digester?” he 

asked. “What happens if you 

can’t process it?” 

Mr. McClellan is concerned 

about antibiotics passing into the 

manure and worries about problems 

large manure production 

facilities might have in the cold. 

But his biggest worry is over the 

size of projects such as Bion. 

“I’m not suggesting that we go 

back to 100-cow dairies,” he 

said. “I’m suggesting the scale 

ramp up at a reasonable rate and 

we look at the problems. As size 

increases, the potential for 

problems increases exponentially.” 

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The new site improves coverage 

and capacity in the towns of 

Hogansburg and Rooseveltown, 

and along routes 37 and 

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Verizon Wireless has invested 

nearly $44 billion in the last seven 

years — on average, more 

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the company was formed — to 

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wireless data services such 

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PROGRESS 2008 


Toying with ideas: marketing an invention can be tough 

By ROBERT RODRIGUEZ 

MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS 

FRESNO, Calif. — When a 

Fresno mother-and-daughter 

duo’s idea for a hide-and-seek 

doll made it onto the shelves of 

one of the nation’s largest toy 

stores, they felt like they had 

won the lottery. 

Shelly Conte and her mother, 

Cindy Reichman, were riding 

high. Their patented Hide-N- 

Seek Hayley doll was being sold 

at Toys “R” Us stores nationwide, 

becoming a top seller during the 

2005 holiday season. 

“I remember someone telling 

us that we were going to be millionaires,” 

said Shelly Conte. “And 

I was thinking about it, no doubt.” 

But Conte and Reichman’s 

dreams of fame and fortune began 

to unravel about a year later 

when a major player in the industry 

put a new spin on its popular 

Care Bear by introducing a 

hide-and-seek version. It soon 

edged out Hide-N-Seek Hayley, 

whose sales began to plummet. 

Business experts say that in a 

fiercely competitive market for 

new products, copycats and timing 

all play a part in whether a 

new product stays on a store’s 

shelves or is relegated to the bargain 

bin. And to survive, they say, 

an entrepreneur must be market 

savvy, develop brand loyalty and 

“sleep with one eye open.” 

“This can be a very tough 

business, and knockoff products 

are commonplace,” said Tim 

Walsh, a Florida-based toy inventor 

and author of “Timeless 

Toys,” a book that looks at classic 

toys and the people who created 

them. “The problem is that success 

often prompts others to 

want in on what you are doing.” 

Walsh said a classic example 

is the Hula-Hoop. The name was 

trademarked in 1958 by Wham- 

O, but it didn’t stop others from 

cashing in on the plastic hoop’s 

popularity. 

Walsh estimated that over the 

years Wham-O has kept only a 

quarter of the market. 

Inventors say they never rest 

easy: The possibility of a much 

larger competitor taking them 

out is always a chief concern. 

“I know I could wake up one 

day, and it could all be gone,” 

said Kathleen Whitehurst, co-inventor 

of DaysAgo, a digital daycounter 

that attaches to food 

containers and measures freshness 

of refrigerated products. “It 

is a cruel world out there, and 

that’s why you have to cover all 

your bases.” 

Part of Whitehurst’s strategy 

was to get her product distributed 

in foreign markets, where copycats 

often spring up. The DaysAgo 

counter is sold in the United 

States, Canada, Sweden, Norway, 

Iceland, Australia and Japan. 

“You basically have to get out 

there first and establish yourself 

as the recognizable brand,” said 

Whitehurst, of St. Helena, Calif. 

“But you are never safe. You just 

have to keep pedaling as fast as 

you can.” 

Jennifer Barney, the Fresno 

mom who created Barney Butter, 

an almond spread, credited 

her survival to maintaining 

strong relationships with the 

grocery stores that carry her 

product. She said she holds 

product demonstrations in as 

many of the stores as she can. 

“It can be exhausting,” said 

Barney, whose butter is sold in 

six states and 106 stores. “But the 

bottom line is they want to see 

sales, and I will only stay alive if 

my product sells well.” 

Rookie inventors Reichman 

and Conte said their tumble 

from Toys “R” Us taught them 

many hard lessons, the most 

sobering is that patents don’t always 

protect you from copycats. 

Shocked and frustrated by 

their abrupt sales slide, Conte 

and Reichman terminated their 

contract last year with Hayley’s 

manufacturer, the Kid-riffic toy 

company in St. Louis, which they 

fault for a lack of promotion. 

Kid-riffic CEO Michael 

Roberts could not be reached. 

“We are almost in the exact 

same position we were eight 

years ago, when we started this 

idea,” Cindy Reichman said. 

Reichman and Conte considered 

suing Play Along, the Florida-based 

Care Bear makers, but 

backed off after a lawyer specializing 

in such cases advised that 

they didn’t have a strong enough 

case. And even so, experts say, 

defending a patent can cost 

thousands of dollars in legal fees. 

A spokeswoman for Play 

Along’s parent company, JAKKS 

Pacific, stood by the company’s 

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Cindy Reichman, left, and Shelly Conte, mother and daughter, are pictured with their invention, a Hide-N- 

Seek Hayley doll. The doll was once sold at Toys ‘R’ Us, but competition forced them out of the store. 

decision to create the hide-andseek 

Care Bear. Genna Rosenberg 

of JAKKS Pacific said the 

owners of Hide-N-Seek Hayley 

would only have a case for trademark 

infringement if Play Along 

gave its bear a similar name to 

the Hayley toy. 

The daughter-mom inventor 

team’s patent attorney, Richard 

Ryan of Fresno, agreed, saying 

Play Along was careful not to 

copy the name “Hayley” or the 

specific technology used by the 

doll to play hide and seek. 

Hayley, a soft 15-inch doll, 

comes with a hand-held radio 

v 

device that offers clues to where 

she’s hiding. Depending on the 

distance, the walkie-talkie will 

tell a child whether he or she is 

getting closer or farther. 

“Realistically, their competitor 

is doing it differently — and 

frankly not as unique as the Hayley 

doll,” Ryan said. “But it is not 

unfair competition, it is just 

competition.” 

Reichman and Conte have 

made calls to toy companies and 

placed ads in industry magazines 

hoping to find a new manufacturer 

— all with no luck. 

Although Hide-N-Seek Hayley 

didn’t make millions as Conte 

and Reichman dreamed of, it 

did bring in about $100,000, 

which the pair split and used to 

pay bills. 

Conte also bought a couch 

and a washer and dryer. 

Still, the pair is not giving up. 

They want Hayley and a companion 

toy, a hide-and-seek dog 

named Sammie, on store 

shelves and they’re also hoping 

to enlist the help of Congress, 

the general public, even Oprah 

Winfrey, to push for tougher 

protections for small inventors 

and against copycats. 

Children’s home year 

highlighted by expansions 

The Children’s Home of Jefferson 

County expanded services 

this past year by establishing 

a Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate, 

expanding its prevention 

programs into St. Lawrence 

County and renovating its residential 

treatment facilities. 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the 

North County, which received 

its national affiliate status in 

January 2007, has enrolled more 

than 200 children in its community 

and site-based programs, 

matching volunteer adult mentors 

with children and providing 

continuing support and activities 

to participants. The affiliate 

is operating site-based programs 

in partnership with 

Beaver Falls New Life Fellowship 

in Lewis County and the 

Potsdam Central School District 

and SUNY Potsdam in St. 


CHJC developed agreements 

with the Carthage, Massena and 

Potsdam school districts to implement 

its Wings program, 

which works with a district’s 

highest at-risk students and 

their families to provide services 

and coordination to improve 

student performance and behavior. 

The agency also completed 

a $425,000 renovation of 

one of its four cottages, the first 

major renovation of residential 

space in 80 years. 

Plans for 2008 include developing 

new partnerships with organizations 

to expand BBBSNC, 

prevention and other community-based 

programs, as well as 

developing funding streams for 

the continued renovation of its 

residential cottages. 

Founded in 1859, CHJC 

evolved from an orphanage and 

foster care facility into a regional 

residential treatment facility for 

delinquent, neglected and 

abused youth. Through the past 

decade the agency has followed 

the human services trend of 

working with troubled families 

to avoid out-of-home placements, 

developing a slate of 

community-based programs 

that include foster care, delinquency 

prevention, aftercare 

treatment, and casework service 

for special populations. 

CHJC is headquartered at 

1704 State St., Watertown, where 

its residential treatment program 

is located, and operates its 

community-based programs 

from the Marcy Building in 

downtown Watertown. The 

agency employs 150 professionals 

and support staff. CHJC in 

fiscal 2007 served nearly 900 

clients, more than double the 

number served in 2002. 

Karen Y. Richmond is executive 

director of the 501(c)(3) 

nonprofit agency, and Mark G. 

Waterbury is president of its 

board of directors. 

School of dance, piano 

marks third year in city 

Centre Des Arts Watertown, a 

school of dance, piano, theater 

and French operated by Kimberly 

A. Mittelstadt at the Lincoln 

Building, 95 Public Square, 

Suite 308, Watertown, marked 

its third year in January. 

Ballet is central to the dance 

program and it is recommended 

that all students take at least 

one year of ballet. Classes are 

available for students age 3 to 

adult. There are also pre-pointe 

and pointe classes. Tap is taught 

to students ages 3 to adult. It is 

N 

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who take tap also take ballet for 

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one year. Jazz dancing is 

taught to students ages 7 to 

adult. 

Each piano lesson is 30 minutes 

long. Students need to have 

a piano book that they can use 

to practice with. French classes 

run for six weeks and it is recommended 

that beginning students 

purchase the book 

"French in Ten Minutes A Day." 

Classes sections are taught by 

age and grade in school. Private 

and Semi-private tutoring sessions 

are also available. 

Theater classes run for six 

weeks and cover auditioning, 

acting, singing, movement, 

character development and 

makeup. 

Mrs. Mittelstadt is a graduate 

of Potsdam State University College 

with a bachelor of arts degree 

in French and a master of 

science in reading. 

She is state-licensed to teach 

French, reading and elementary 

education. She has directed numerous 

shows for the Watertown 

community and is currently 

the president and 

founder of the Northern New 

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York Dance Alliance. She was instrumental 

in forming Dance 

Festival Week and bringing nationally 

known professional 

dancers to Watertown to conduct 

workshops. 

In January Mrs. Mittelstadt 

directed a Little Theatre of Watertown 

production of “The Lion, 

the Witch and the 

Wardrobe,” a children’s play 

based on the C.S. Lewis book. 

For more about Centre Des 

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EVANS MILLS — The Rookery, 

31139 Gardnerville Road, is 

a business in which Robert Ashley 

builds 16-room condominiums 

for birds. 

It began last October when 

Mr. Ashley made a martin condo 

for his niece as a Christmas 

present. 

“I found out after having major 

heart surgery and a pacemaker 

that strenuous work was 

out of the question,” Mr. Ashley 

writes. “I have always had an interest 

in building things but 

never had the time to pursue it.” 

“I build 16-room martin condominiums 

and regular bird 

houses. The houses are built to 

last out of lumber, not plywood.” 

“I never knew there was such 

an interest in the martin houses 

until I started building them,” 

he writes. “Do you think it might 

be because the Martins eat so 

many mosquitoes?” 

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PROGRESS 2008 

NNY storefronts go global 

INTERNET SALES: 

Technology opens 

Web of opportunity 

for those who learn 

By MARTHA ELLEN 


Selling on the World Wide Web 

is becoming an expanding sales 

avenue for far-flung north country 

businesses but there’s plenty 

left to learn about global marketing. 

“Some businesses get it right 

away. Some become overwhelmed,” 

said Ruby J. Sprowls, 

coordinator of The Northern 

Adirondack Trading Cooperative, 

Canton, which trains craftsmen 

and small business owners 

from seven counties to use the 

Internet. “There are people 

around here who are still not 

connected. The Internet is not 

going to help them.” 

NATC runs classes for Internetsales 

want-to-bes, allowing each 

to proceed at an individual pace. 

Some never get past the idea of a 

Web-based business. Some are 

satisfied with a static page that 

simply advertises their product. 

“We don’t give pie-in-the-sky 

expectations,” Mrs. Sprowls 

said. “The most important thing 

that our entrepreneurs get is the 

sense of camaraderie, that 

they’re not along.” 

Some north country businesses 

have gotten it, producing 

Web sites as sophisticated as any 

on the Internet, employing userfriendly 

pages, click-on photos 

and shopping carts where customers 

store their purchases for 

check-out. 

“The hardest thing for people 

to grasp is that everything has to 

be customer driven,” Mrs. 

Sprowls said. “If you can do that, 

you can hone in.” 

Online sales are work. Even 

running a store on eBay, the online 

auction site, requires writing 

up an accurate description 

with key words that bring in the 

right shopper, taking digital 

photographs, dealing with distant 

buyers, packaging and 

mailing, a lot of organization 

and feedback. 

“There’s a lot of risk involved. 

It’s an investment,” said Ryan D. 

Demick, a partner in his family’s 

business, YesterYear’s Vintage 

Doors, Hammond, www.vintagedoors.com. 

“It’s not freedom 

to get a Web site going. One 

of the things you have to get over 

is nothing’s ever done. You’re always 

improving.” 

Vintage Doors, which sells 

custom-made wooden doors, 

may soon add a video to its site 

to show customers how the 

product is made. 

“You have to establish trust 

with your customer,” Mr. 

Demick said. “It’s basically advertising. 

What are you trying to 

convey?” 

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Patrick S. Lacombe, Toys for Collectors, holds one example of the hundreds of the die-cast collectibles and 

models he sells over the Internet from his home and office in the Lincoln Building, Watertown. 

Vintage Doors uses its Web 

site to draw in customers and 

show them its array of high-end 

products. Buyers can’t complete 

their sales on-line, but get a feel 

for the product, as if they were 

leafing through a catalog. 

“We try to ask ourselves, ‘how 

can we make it easy?’” Mrs. 

Demick said. 

Emily M. and Robert R. Hall 

use a Web site, www.hallskennel.com, 

to market the Pomeranians, 

German short-haired 

pointers, and rat terriers they 

raise near Parishville. 

Half of the dogs they sell are to 

people who live beyond a twohour 

drive. Even those who live a 

short distance away can use the 

site to see what’s available, look 

at pictures of puppies and parents, 

and review costs. 

“They can do quite a bit of research 

before they call,” Mrs. 

Hall said. “I consider it a very vital 

tool. Seventy-five percent of 

my customers probably go to 

the Web site first. It would definitely 

be a lot more work for me 

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Hospitals see physician recruiting as important to success 

FROM PAGE 4 

“SUNY Canton has been a 

godsend, to have an RN program 

in one of our hometowns,” 

Mr. Acker said. “It’s a wonderful 

resource, and we hire a significant 

number of graduates every 

year. The challenge is getting 

them here and experienced.” 

CLAXTON-HEPBURN MEDICAL CENTER 

“Throughout the year, Claxton-Hepburn 

introduced new 

services to the north country, 

making the medical center the 

first to provide patients with cutting 

edge treatments,” states a 

release from the Ogdensburg 

hospital. “The dedication and 

talents of its staff and physicians, 

an ambitious board, the 

support of generous donors and 

its volunteers have make Claxton-Hepburn 

an exceptional 

healthcare facility.” 

The facility has opened a 

wound healing center in partnership 

with the National Healing 

Corp. in Florida. “This is the 

only wound healing center in 

the area offering the community 

state-of-the-art specialized 

wound healing care,” the release 

states. 

The hospital also began management 

of the Madrid Health 

Center, and, in December, the 

radiology department began offering 

PET/CT scanning. 

Also, in November, the Winter 

Cancer Treatment Center was 

granted three-year approval 

with commendation from the 

Commission on Cancer of the 

American College of Surgeons, 

making it the only center within 

100 miles of Ogdensburg with 

that distinction. 

And the medical center and 

all its properties became tobacco-free 

Nov. 15. 

The hospital in 2007 also recruited 

six new doctors — a pediatrician, 

nephrologist, hospitalist, 

psychiatrist, pain management 

specialist and orthopedist 

— along with a nurse practitioner. 

The hospital is in the midst of 

a $9.9 million “Building a Better 

Tomorrow” building project. A 

new outpatient ambulatory surgery 

unit, enlarged and enhanced 

radiology department 

and patient registration have already 

been completed, while 

new mental health and ob/gyn 

units are slated to open this 

spring. 

A 5,000-square-foot addition 

on the medical center’s Physician 

and Imaging Building in 

Canton is also to be completed 

this spring. 

MASSENA 

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 

“Physician recruiting is a key 

element to the hospital’s success,” 

states a press release from 

the town-owned facility. 

A pair of obstetrician/gynecologists 

and an otolaryngologist 

joined the medical staff last 

year, and the hospital is now recruiting 

several new physicians, 

including a nephrologist, primary 

care doctors and an additional 

otolaryngologist. 

Over the past several years, 

Massena Memorial Hospital 

completed $15 million in capital 

improvements to the hospital 

and outpatient clinics. They included 

a 21,000-square-foot expansion 

of its main building, 

renovations to the hospital’s 

third floor for a new veterans 

clinic, new equipment in its 

medical imaging department 

and construction of an outpatient 

dialysis center on Route 

420. 

“The past six years have been 

excellent for the hospital financially,” 

Charles F. Fahd II, Massena 

Memorial’s chief executive 

officer, said in a statement. “This 

makes a good base for the hospital 

to be able to strategic plan for 

new construction and maybe 

add new services needed for the 

community we serve.” 

The hospital has received 

state Department of Health approval 

for a proposed $2.5 million 

“northwest project,” which 

includes expansion of the medical 

imaging area — with a fixed 

MRI unit and nuclear medicine 

— and birthing center and addition 

of classroom and storage 

space. Planned savings from 


Jim D. Rounds, a Samaritan Medical Center construction worker, mounts equipment on a wall in a new minor treatment area last year. 

strategic projects are expected 

to cover the project costs, Mr. 

Fahd said. 

The hospital’s three-year-old 

dialysis center now has more 

than 30 patients. “We are very 

pleased with the progress of the 

dialysis service we can offer to 

the patients in our community, 

in fact the clinic has expanded to 

six days with a 18 percent increase 

of patient treatments,” 

Mr. Fahd said. 

EDWARD JOHN NOBLE HOSPITAL 

“Physician recruitment is a 

continuous process,” Administrator 

Charles P. Conole said. 

The Gouverneur hospital last 

year added five doctors: two 

family practitioners and a pediatrician, 

general surgeon and internalist. 

They were essentially 

recruited to replace doctors, recruited 

in the 1990s, who moved 

to other facilities, Mr. Conole 

said. 

“People are just more ambulatory 

today,” he said. “They relocate.” 

Mr. Conole is considering the 

addition of a second ob/gyn for 

the hospital’s growing maternity 

department and a general surgeon 

to cover for one that is out 

with coronary problems. The 

hospital may also try to increase 

orthopedic coverage, which is 

now provided on a part-time basis, 

he said. 

E.J. Noble plans to commence 

a $9.7 million expansion and 

renovation project in late spring 

or early summer. It will include a 

two-story, 33,000-square-foot 

addition to the hospital’s west 

side. The basement will include 

the pharmacy, physical and respiratory 

therapy and other support 

services. All patient beds, 

except for the hospital’s four obstetrical 

beds, will move to the 

first floor of the new building, allowing 

other departments to be 

expanded. 

“Primarily, we’re looking to 

give adequate space to the lab 

and radiology,” Mr. Conole said. 

The project will also bring 

1952 contruction “up to 2008 

standards,” he said. 

The hospital recently completed 

construction of a new 

clinic in Antwerp and installation 

of a $20,000 copper-silver 

ionization system to eliminate 

bacteria from its warm and hot 

water, with both projects aided 

by grant funding. “We’ve had 

good success with grants,” Mr. 

Conole said. 

The hospital is also looking to 

start a clinic in Russell this year. 

“We’re working hard to keep 

moving forward,” Mr. Conole 

said. “I think, overall, it’s been a 

good but challenging year for 

the hospital.” 

CLIFTON-FINE HOSPITAL 

The Star Lake hospital is hoping 

that designation of its 20 

beds as critical access, providing 

higher reimbursement for services, 

will improve its fiscal status. 

The facility, which includes a 

nine-bed nursing home and 11 

hospital beds, in 2006 nearly 

broke even but receives subsidies 

from the towns of Clifton 

and Fine. 

It is also trying to recruit another 

primary care physician to 

ease the standby time of other 

doctors. The additional doctor 

would have a family practice 

and help out in the emergency 

room. 

Times staff writers Alex Jacobs and 

Martha Ellen contributed to this report. 

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Fuller Insurance Agency 

stresses customer service 

CARTHAGE — Fuller Insurance 

Agency, Inc., 110 S. School 

St., is in its second generation of 

family ownership and its 28th 

year of serving Northern New 

York. In 2007, the agency was 

named Professional Service Business 

of the Year by the Carthage 

Area Chamber of Commerce. 

“We’re in business to provide 

a service, not just a product,” 

Aaron Fuller said. “We expect 

the same level of service from 

our company partners knowing 

that they represent us as much 

as we represent them.” 

In 1980, Wilfred T. (Bill) Fuller, 

a life insurance salesman, 

formed Fuller Insurance. In 

1987, the full service insurance 

agency began offering products 

for personal and commercial 

customers. The agency now 

serves all of Northern New York 

from Lake Ontario to Lake 

Champlain, and reaches as far 

south as Syracuse and Utica. Today, 

the agency has offices in 

Canton, Carthage, and Malone 

with 14 employees with an average 

tenure of more than 10 years. 

After the death of the agency’s 

founder, sons Aaron F. and 

Adam J. Fuller continue to operate 

the agency. “We take pride in 

our involvement in the community, 

and the fact that we are an 

insurance agency with local 

people, and local knowledge,” 

Adam Fuller said. “When you 

call any of our agencies, you 

speak to a person and not some 

recording.” 

As an independent insurance 

agency, Fuller represents 

dozens of insurance companies. 

“We will work to do our very 

best to find the right product 

that meets their needs,” Adam 

Fuller said. “They don’t have to 

make dozens of phone calls to 

compare. We can do it for them. 

And if there is a claim, we will be 

there to help make it as painless 

as possible.” 

Over the last few years, the 

Fort Drum housing boom has 

seen the agency focusing on the 

expanding housing market. 

“We’ve built a name for ourselves 

serving new homeowners 

and those investing in rental 

properties,” Adam Fuller said. 

“We’ll continue to serve the 

needs of homeowners, but also 

focus on insuring recreational 

products. Outdoor recreation is 

becoming more and more popular 

with lifelong residents and 

new residents courtesy of Fort 

Drum. It’s also an expensive 

hobby that often requires significant 

investment that needs insurance 

protection.” 


493-2110. 

Chrysler LLC lost $2.7b 

after sale to equity firm 

DETROIT — Chrysler LLC 

lost about $2.7 billion in the two 

months after Daimler AG sold 

controlling interest in the U.S. 

automaker to a New York private 

equity firm, Daimler said in its 

recently-issued annual report. 

The figure, for the period 

from Aug. 4, 2007 to Sept. 30, 

was calculated under international 

financial reporting standards 

used in Europe and not 

under U.S. accounting standards, 

Daimler said. 

The net loss also includes 

about $466 million in expenses 

incurred in the fourth quarter of 

last year, including Chrysler restructuring 

costs and costs related 

to a new four-year contract 

with the United Auto Workers. 

Swedish retail giant IKEA 

names NYC store manager 

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — 

IKEA, the world’s leading home 

furnishings retailer, has announced 

the appointment of 

Mike Baker as store manager for 

its future Brooklyn store opening 

Summer 2008 in the Red 

Hook area of Brooklyn. It will be 

the Swedish company’s first 

store in New York City, fourth in 

the New York-New Jersey area, 

and 35th in the U.S. 

“We are very excited about 

opening our first store in New 

York City, where there are many 

existing IKEA customers, as well 

as new customers, who are anxious 

for us to open,” said IKEA 

North America president 

Pernille Lopez. 

Safeway to cut 400 jobs 

nationwide, sources say 

PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway 

Inc. has decided to eliminate 

hundreds of jobs nationwide, 

sources and government 

filings disclosed. 

Pleasanton-based Safeway 

confirmed the staff reductions 

Feb. 27. Spokesman Brian 

Dowling, though, would not 

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Alice A. Holman, owner of Candlelight bed-and-breakfast in Sackets Harbor. 

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Carmen Sweet, co-owner of The Butterscotch House bed-and-breakfast in Lowville, says 

"we don't like to send people out hungry" when describing the full breakfast he and partner 

Jim Randall serve their visitors. 

MELANIE KIMBLER-LAGO n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

Milton & Rena Goldberg.relax in the the sun room of the bed-and-breakfast at 247 Proctor Ave. Ogdensburg. 

B&Bs find cozy niche 

QUIET ROLE: Diverse places catering to wide range of clientele 

help draw repeat visitors and groups to Northern New York 

By COREY FRAM 


There are more bed-and-breakfasts in the area 

than you probably realize. 

They’re as plentiful as they are diverse — elegant 

riverside estates for the rich, durable setups 

for the snowmobile crowd and comfy settings for 

those wanting to escape. Operators come from all 

walks of life, and their offerings are just as varied. 

They have a quiet — if not overlooked — role in 

bringing people to the north country. 

“There’s enough of them here that it’s a nice addition,” 

said Gary S. DeYoung, executive director 

of the Thousand Islands International Tourism 

Council. “They don’t get as much attention as the 

big chains.” 

Nobody has a good count on how many there 

are. Travel brochures and Web sites feature anywhere 

from dozens to more than 100. Almost 

every list has one that’s out of business. 

“They’re getting more popular and customeroriented 

than your everyday hotel chain,” said 

Carmen A. Sweet of the Butterscotch House Bed 

and Breakfast, Lowville. “We haven’t found this 

niche to market the B&Bs locally. Even people in 

Watertown, I’m not sure they’re aware of the B&Bs 

to take the night or weekend to experience the luxuriousness.” 

There is no clearinghouse tracking B&B customers, 

but operators agree on one thing: They 

LOOKING FOR A B&B? 

The following places can help you find bed-andbreakfasts 

in the north country: 

St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce 

101 Main St. 

Canton, 13617 

(315) 386-4000 

www.northcountryguide.com 

Lewis County Chamber of Commerce 

7383-C Utica Blvd. 

Lowville, 13367 

(315) 376-2213 

1000 Islands International Tourism Council 

P.O. Box 400 

Alexandria Bay, 13607 

(315) 482-2520 

www.visit1000islands.com 

St. Lawrence County Bed and Breakfast Association 

www.stlawbandb.com 

Empire State Bed and Breakfast Association 

www.esbba.com 

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thrive on repeat visitors. 

“Once you stay at a B&B, you’ll probably return 

a number of times,” said Daniel Macura, owner of 


Patricia R. and Douglas M. Dietrich have been catering their Glenfield bed-and-breakfast to snowmobilers 

since opening in 2001. 

the General’s Mansion Bed and Breakfast, Cape 

Vincent. “The B&B crowd is more relaxed. They 

spend a lot of their time socializing with the owners. 

We tell them what’s in the area and give them a 

run-down of the restaurants.” 

ADVERTISING, FINDING A NICHE 

The 14-member St. Lawrence County Bed and 

Breakfast Association produces a brochure featuring 

all members, and they share the cost of letting 

people know where they are. Jefferson and Lewis 

counties lack a cooperative, but the B&Bs in Sackets 

Harbor regularly meet and discuss ways to promote 

the village’s colonial appeal. 

“This is about the only business that you’re 

competing with each other but also help each other,” 

said Alice A. Holman, owner of the Candlelight 

Bed and Breakfast, Sackets Harbor. 

Advertising runs the gamut of Thruway rest area 

brochures to displays in tourism and trade magazines. 

Many survive by catering to a niche that’s dictated 

by location. 

The Golden Shamrock Bed and Breakfast, Glenfield, 

buys space in snowmobile trail guides. The 

B&B, which has been run by the Dietrich family 

since 2002, encourages visitors to enter through 

the basement, where drying racks are ready for 

helmets, boots and snowsuits. 

“There’s a lot of people getting into catering to 

the snowmobiles because it’s big booming business 

up here,” said Douglas M. Dietrich. 

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B&Bs in waterfront communities such as Cape 

Vincent and Sackets Harbor draw vacationers, 

particularly those from Western New York, Canada 

and even Europe. 

B&Bs in the heart of St. Lawrence County have 

the colleges to thank. 

See B&B, page 18


PROGRESS 2008 

B&B businesses 

find their niches 

FROM PAGE 17 

“Our main, main business is 

parents coming up looking at colleges, 

games, graduations and 

parents’ weekends,” said Richard 

H. Murray, owner of the Butternut 

Ridge Bed and Breakfast, Canton. 

Mr. Murray and wife Cindy K. 

have run their B&B since 2000. 

With four colleges close by, 

they’ve quickly learned to spot 

seasoned parents. 

“I always feel bad for the 

freshmen parents because 

they’re new. The other parents 

already know to book in advance,” 

Mrs. Murray said. 

The Grandview Bed and 

Breakfast, at the gate to Fort 

Drum in Great Bend, naturally 

serves a military clientele. Construction 

projects have been a 

boon over the years, and deployments 

and returns are the operation’s 

bread-and-butter. 

“Believe it or not, because of 

that horrific thing that happened 

in 2001, I believe people’s attitude 

changed. We started doing 

family reunions, class reunions,” 

said owner Terry Emerson. 

INTERNET VS. PERSONAL TOUCH 

The tourism council has tried 

to persuade B&Bs to create Web 

sites and offer online reservation 

booking, but operators 

have been reluctant. They want 

personal contact. 

“You’re protecting your business 

and the people in the other 

room,” said Mrs. Holman, who 

treats her Sackets Harbor B&B as 

a full-time job. “It’s your home, 

your pride and joy. If it’s a bachelor 

party, bachelorette party, 

rugby team, lacrosse team — I’d 

sooner have an empty room. It’s 

not worth it.” 

Mr. Emerson, who runs the 

Fort Drum B&B, is on the opposite 

end of the spectrum. 

“You need the mindset that 

you’re not going to get rich off this 

business. It’s not lucrative.” he 

said. “The European model wasn’t 

meant to be $200 a night and a 

gourmet meal. It was for the 

common traveler. In Europe, 

they were started to supplement 

your income, and that’s what we 

do.” 

Hehas run the Great Bend B&B 

for 15 years. Rena and Milton 

Goldberg have operated the Way 

Back In for 16. Both have Web 

sites with pictures, but they 

haven’t wavered from their personal-contact 

requirements and 

down-home appeal. 

“We haven’t changed much. It 

works because it’s homey. You go 

to your mother’s house and 

nothing’s changed. She’s still fixing 

you breakfast,” Mrs. Goldberg 

said. “You come in as a 

stranger, but you leave as a 

friend.” 

JoAnna R. Emerson stands on the front sun porch of her bed and breakfast establishment in Great Bend. 

NORM JOHNSTON n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

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A Touch of Grace features 

special-occasion gowns 

A Touch of Grace, Corner of 

Coffeen Street and Black River 

Parkway, in business since 1996, 

carries a large selection of religious 

gifts including patronsaint 

statues and medals, 

rosaries, prayer cards, holy pictures 

and Bibles. 

The christening section features 

outfits for all sizes up to 4T, 

baby books, a large selection of 

gifts including godparent gifts. 

The first-communion section 

has dresses from 4T to 16 1/2 

with veils, gloves, suits and ties 

for boys and a large selection of 

gifts. Other specialties include 

Willow Tree and Seraphim angels, 

Precious Moments, Growing 

Up Girls, Irish gifts and jewelry, 

Fontanini, 14-karat gold 

and wedding apparel and gifts. 

The store carries bridal, 

bridesmaids, and mothers, 

flower girl, prom and special occasion 

gowns with designs by Alfred 

Angelo, Jessica McClintock, 

Scala, Precious Formals, and Jovani. 

New additions this year are 

Wow! prom garments with designs 

by Kayne Gillespie from 

Project Runway Season III, Mori 

Lee and Sherri Hill. The DaVinci 

bridal and bridesmaids gowns 

have most styles available in one 

week. The store also has tiaras, 

jewelry, shoes and wedding accessories. 

Free garment bags 

and steaming are included with 

every gown purchase. 

“Over the past seven years, we 

have been pleased to dress some 

of the loveliest women from 

across New York state and Canada,” 

said owner Kathy Lettiere. 

“We have fitted bridal parties 

from Syracuse, Buffalo and 

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to give back to our community.” 

“Our store was inspired by our 

mother Grace’s dream,” according 

to Mrs. Lettiere. “Four generations 

of family have lived in the 

house and we have a lot of special 

memories here. We strive to 

make every gift memorable 

while celebrating the ties that 

bind family and friends forever.” 

The store offers free gift packaging 

and complementary 

rosaries, prayer cards and religious 

medals. 

A Touch of Grace is a member 

of the Greater Watertown Chamber 

of Commerce and supports 

Hospice, SPCA, Children’s Miracle 

Network and The Festival of 

Trees, March of Dimes, Relay for 

Life, The Italian-American Civic 

Association and its Bravo Italiano 

Festival, the Miss Thousand 

Island Scholarship Program, 

The Miss New York State 

Scholarship Program, Right to 

Life, Watertown Sunrise Rotary 

and many other charities. 

A Touch of Grace has an expanded 

parking lot and is handicapped-accessible. 

The store is 

open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday 

through Saturday and evenings 

by appointment. For more information 

call 788-6164. 

Curves to offer discount 

for donation to food drive 

Curves for Women fitness 

centers in Watertown and 

Lowville announce their participation 

in the international company’s 

sixth annual food drive 

during March. 

To celebrate, Curves is offering 

a discount off its normal 

service fee for any new member 

who brings in a bag of nonperishable 

groceries and joins between 

March 3 and 15. Last year 

the franchise collected 2,700 

pounds of food in Jefferson and 

Lewis counties alone. “We have 

a chance to help so many people 

at a time when the food banks 

are lowest, while we assist more 

women in reaching their fitness 

and weight loss goals,” said Judy 

Kenyon, who with her sister, 

Pam Cassidy, co-owns the 

Curves centers inWatertown 

and Lowville. 

“It’s a win-win situation for 

everyone, and we’re very proud 

to participate,” she said. “We are 

emphasizing the need for 

healthy items from the pantry, 

not just unwanted items. All donations 

will be going to local 

food pantries.” 

Curves is allied with major insurance 

companies, health care 

providers and institutions such 

as AARP and Blue Cross-Blue 

Shield. 

“Our six-week solution 

weight loss program that we offer 

at our Curves locations is always 

a huge success with lots of 

support and motivation,” Ms. 

Kenyon said. “(Curves is) now 

offering, for the busy women, a 

new online diet and fitness solution 

that allows subscribers to 

create a plan and measure results. 

It offers comprehensive 

meal plans based on the Curves 

weight management program, 

including printable shopping 

lists.” For details on this program 

see www.curvescomplete.com. 

Sports 

Subscribers also have access 

to Curves-trained experts and 

an online community of members 

to answer questions and 

help participants stay motivated. 

Non-members may stop by 

Curves and pick up a special 

coupon that allows potential 

subscribers one week free on the 

site. 

“Curves snack bars, honey 

crunch and whole-grain cereals 

and new popcorn are out in the 

stores,” Ms. Kenyon said. “We 

have had rave reviews about 

these products. In 2007 the cereal 

was named ‘best food extension 

of 2007.’ We have 

coupon offers towards our 

products at any of our Curves 

locations.” 

The Curves workout has 

been proven to be an effective 

and efficient way to burn calories, 

the franchise reports. In 

clinical trials at the Baylor University 

exercise and sports nutritional 

laboratory, the least fit 

excercisers expended 164 to 

238 calories per 30 minutes 

during the Curves workout, 

while the most fit burned as 

many as 522 calories. 

Curves exercise equipment is 

designed to increase resistance 

as the force generated by the exerciser 

increases. 

Curves at 115 Washington St., 

Watertown, is open from 6 a.m. 

to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

Curves at 7383 Utica Blvd., 

Lowville, is open from 6:30 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 7 p.m. 

Monday through Friday. Both 

locations are open from 8 to 

11:30 a.m. Saturdays. 

For more information call the 

Watertown location at 222-7122 

or the Lowville location at 376- 

4777. The main Web site for 

Curves is www.curves.com. 

Bernier Carr Group pushes 

energy-conscious projects 

As the K-12 schools, colleges 

and universities throughout 

New York state reach their tipping 

point in the development 

of high performance and sustainable 

facilities incorporating 

alternative energy building systems, 

the Bernier Carr Group, 

with offices at 327 Mullin St,, 

Watertown, is helping its educational 

clients learn the ABCs of 

green design. 

With LEED (Leadership in Energy 

and Environmental Design) 

accredited professionals 

on staff and a host of energyconscious 

projects completed 

and in design, the firm continues 

its quest to promote the use 

of LEED concepts and alternative 

energy strategies. 

The firm is credited as having 

designed the first LEED-certifiable 

dormitories in New York 

state for Binghamton University. 

Similar facilities followed at 

SUNY Maritime and Potsdam. 

LEED certification requires that 

the design and construction of a 

building optimizes the conservation 

of natural resources 

through increased energy performance, 

use of natural light, 

recycled materials, alternative 

energy building systems, and 

maximization of green space. 

The group’s newest green 

project at LaFargeville Central 

School is planned to include 

photovoltaic solar cells, rainwater 

harvesting, advanced day 

lighting controls, a vegetative 

roof, wind-generated electricity, 

dedicated green space and tree 

plantings for carbon offseting. 

On the civil engineering side, 

the firm has designed environmentally 

friendly methods in its 

municipal infrastructure projects 

such as living reed beds to 

de-water municipal wastewater 

sludge and photovoltaic cells to 

power control system networks. 

At Chautauqua Lake Central 

School, a new 300,000-squarefoot 

K-12 facility designed by the 

firm, a geothermal system was 

incorporated that heats and 

cools the entire building year 

round. At Edwards-Knox Central 

School a biomass boiler system 

was recently designed and 

installed that is capable of burning 

wood chips, pellets or corn. 

Benjamin Walldroff, an electrical 

engineer for the firm, recently 

completed the requirements 

to be recognized as a 

LEED accredited professional. 

The Bernier Carr Group employs 

92 people at its offices in 

Watertown, Syracuse and Buffalo, 

a 27 percent increase from 72 

a year ago. Founded in 1970, the 

firm provides architecture, engineering, 

land surveying, construction 

management and environmental 

services to educational, 

municipal, healthcare 

and various private and specialty 

clients. 


www.thebcgroup.com or phone 

782-8130. 

A New Attitude salon, spa 

switches to new location 

A New Attitude full-service salon 

and spa, which offers hair 

styling, massage and nail treatments, 

has moved to a larger location 

at 565 Coffeen St., Watertown, 

owner Deedra Morgia says. 

Formerly at 21307 Sam’s Drive 

in the plaza near Sam’s Club off 

outer Arsenal Street, the salon 

has expanded its staff from seven 

stylists to 13 and employs 

four massage therapists and 

three nail technicians. 


788-2639. 

Teachers added to school 

at North Country Music 

North Country Music, 1035 

Arsenal St., sells a full line of musical 

instruments and offers a 

multi-studio music school and 

instrument repairs. 

“Many people are discovering 

the ‘health benefits’ of playing a 

musical instrument. We are trying 

to get the word out,” writes 

owner/manager Jim Hearne. 

In the last five years, he reports, 

the business has added 

many instructors at its music 

school and is expanding with 

the growth of Fort Drum. 

Founded in 1983, the store 

employs 10 people, up from six 

five years ago and two a decade 

ago. A staff of 15 is projected by 

next year. For more information 

call 788-9998 or visit www. 

northcountrymusic.com. 

Wise Guys Pizza on ‘07 list 

of top 10 NNY restaurants 

CHAUMONT — Wise Guys 

Pizza, Main Street, was opened 

by the Williams family in May 

2006, realizing a 10-year dream. 

The family works in the shop 

and their slogan is “It’s a Family 

Thing.” They employ six other 

people. When they first opened 

in Chaumont they were told that 

it would be difficult to get 

through the winter months because 

Chaumont is a seasonal 

area and loses half of the population 

in the winter. They made it 

through the first winter and decided 

it was time to make some 

improvements. 

They remodeled the building, 

added pasta dishes and obtained 

a beer and wine license. 

Praised by a Watertown Daily 

Times restaurant critic, Wise 

Guys Pizza was rated among top 

10 restaurants for Northern New 

York in 2007.

PROGRESS 2008 


Boomers seek greener housing as their hair goes gray 

By STEPHINE I. COHEN 

MARKETWATCH 

PRINCETON, N.J. — Shea 

Homes, one of the nation’s 

largest home builders, believes 

baby boomers are looking for 

communities that make an environmental 

difference. 

In February, Shea announced 

the opening of Victoria Gardens, 

an “active lifestyle,” or retirement, 

development in Florida 

sandwiched between Orlando 

and Daytona Beach. The homes 

were advertised as having a carbon 

footprint that is 20 percent 

to 30 percent less than that of a 

“typical household.” 

Billed as eco-friendly and energy-wise, 

the homes feature solar 

attic fans, green-fiber recycled 

insulation, motion-sensor 

triggered lighting, energy-efficient 

windows and appliances, 

and garages outfitted with electric-vehicle 

charging stations. 

Shea says it has focused on 

small, incremental green features 

that will collective add up 

to energy savings. 

Housing developments that 

By REID KANALEY 

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 

With many of us facing the 

problem of how to pay back 

mounting debts, here is a look at 

Web sites explaining how to recover 

from “debt fatigue.” 

GOOD DEBT 

This seven-part lesson starts 

with the “top things to know.” 

These include knowing that 

there’s debt that usually is considered 

good — for a home or college 

— and plenty of debt that’s bad — 

use of a credit card for food or vacations, 

for example. See 

http://money.cnn.com/maga 

zines/moneymag/money101/l 

esson9/ 

CONSUMER REPORTS 

“Getting into debt is easy,” 

says this article. But then what? 

target baby boomers may be the 

next big push for the green housing 

market and statistics indicate 

this could be a good marriage. 

“There is no doubt that the green 

trend is going to accelerate more 

and more,” said Rick Andreen, 

president of Shea Homes Active 

Lifestyle Communities division, 

in a recent interview. 

Victoria Gardens marks Shea’s 

debut in the Florida retirement 

market though the company is 

building similar homes in 

northern and southern California, 

Arizona and Washington. 

The energy-efficient features are 

considered standard in these 

homes. 

Other retirement communities 

from Texas to Maine are taking 

similar steps and adding 

green features to existing homes. 

An Army retirement community 

in San Antonio recently announced 

plans to install solar 

hot water systems in the community’s 

180 homes. Sea Coast 

Management Co., which manages 

retirement communities in 

Maine, is offering existing residents 

incentives to install solar 

hot water heaters and offering a 

Toyota Prius and/or a free solar 

hot water system to new customers 

purchasing a home. 

Baby boomers, born between 

1946 and 1964, grew up alongside 

the environmental movement 

of the 1960s and’70s. 

“These guys were at Woodstock,” 

said Matthew Kahn, a 

professor at UCLA’s Institute of 

the Environment. “This is the 

birth cohort that was at the environmental 

movement’s summer 

of love.” 

In 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau 

estimated there were approximately 

78.2 million baby 

boomers in America. A December 

2007 survey by AARP found 

that roughly half of all boomers 

see themselves as environmental 

stewards, or “green 

boomers.” 

Besides being a large swath of 

the population, boomers are 

overwhelmingly homeowners. 

Boomers are also far more affluent 

than earlier generations of 

retirees, making it more likely 

Online advice: beating debt 

Be cautious in choosing a credit 

counselor, for one thing, because 

some of them are disreputable. 

And don’t expect a quick 

fix. “It generally takes about five 

years to pay off debts with a 

debt-management plan,” the 

site warns. It’s www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/creditloan/controlling-debt-106/ 

CREDIT COUNSELING 

Two groups try to keep tabs 

on credit counselors by setting 

standards for them. Check out 

these sites to find the groups’ 

members: 

The first is for the Association 

of Independent Consumer 

Credit Counseling Agencies at 

www.aiccca.org/ 

The second is the National 

Foundation for Credit Counseling. 

www.nfcc.org/ 

DEBT BOMB 

Get a definition of a term, such 

as “debt bomb,” at this site. Investopedia 

has an enjoyable dictionary 

that will toss you a “term 

of the day,” and let you browse by 

category.www.investopedia.com 

/terms/d/debtbomb.asp 

PAY FIRST 

At Bankrate.com, there’s a bit 

of advice on how to prioritize 

your debts for deciding which to 

pay off first. Basically, there are 

two choices with credit cards. 

One is to concentrate on the bill 

carrying the highest interest rate. 

The other is to pay the smallest 

bill first, then the next smallest. 

The site can be found at 

www.bankrate.com/brm/news 

/cc/19980713.asp 

that they will consider paying a 

premium for environmentally 

friendly housing features. 

Builders have been studying 

and surveying boomers and 

while this generation is far from 

homogenous the industry sees 

some evidence that today’s new 

wave of environmental concerns 

and rising energy costs 

will factor into boomers’ housing 

decisions. Shea started advertising 

its green activelifestyle 

homes in January 2008. 

Going green in retirement 

doesn’t have to mean living off 

the grid or in minimalist space, 

according to builders. That’s 

good since many boomers aren’t 

looking to trade in their current 

homes for smaller accommodations 

as they get older, according 

to a 2007 report on the state of 

the nation’s housing released by 

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing 

Studies. 

How green do boomers want 

to go when it comes to housing? 

So far boomers seem to want to 

enjoy high-end living in their later 

years but they are interested in 

By PAUL B. BROWN 

NEW YORK TIMES 

In a gift to marketers — and 

trivia buffs — everywhere, The 

American magazine has put together 

a fascinating look at “the 

diurnal and nocturnal habits” of 

the average U.S. resident. 

Here are snapshots from the 

report compiled by Karlyn Bowman, 

using results from a survey 

conducted by the Gallup Organization 

in August. 

When asked what they wear 

to work most days, about 6 percent 

said “formal business 

clothes”; 52 percent said “casual 

business”; 25 percent said “casual 

street clothes, such as jeans”; 

and 15 percent said they wore a 

using less energy in the process. 

“What baby boomers are 

looking for is the Lexus hybrid” 

rather than the Prius, Andreen 

said. “Baby boomers are focused 

first on what they want.” 

Shea’s homes are trying to tap 

this niche market, blending luxury 

living with energy efficiency, 

according to the company. The 

homes being offered include energy-efficient 

appliances and insulated 

windows combined 

alongside gourmet kitchens and 

master suites that resemble a 

“spa-like sanctuary.” And like 

plenty of Florida retirement communities, 

these homes are also 

tucked amid hundreds of acres of 

parkland, and sport an 18-hole 

golf club and a tennis center. 

Boomers interested in a resort-like 

setting that has some 

claim to being green are likely to 

be “well-educated, rich and Barbara 

Streisand fans,” Kahn said. 

They are also going to be looking 

for like-minded neighbors and a 

community that values the 

same things they do, he added. 

Energy efficiency is one topic 

that boomers are willing to pay 

an upfront premium for in 

housing, Andreen said. The 

green options that now come 

with Shea’s retirement homes 

add about 5 percent to 8 percent 

onto the cost of a home. 

“They will claim in survey data 

that they are willing to pay 

more” but they haven’t actually 

displayed that in their buying 

patterns, he added. 

“People are still making up 

their mind about what they 

think about these (green) products 

and what they are willing to 

pay,” Kahn said. 

Shea says these homes 

achieve a 50 percent reduction 

in the therms associated with 

heating water, 75 percent reduction 

in energy used from lighting, 

40 percent reduction in energy 

used from clothes washers, 

and a 41 percent reduction energy 

used by dishwashers. 

The company plans to build 

20,000 of these homes over the 

next 10 years with 1,400 to 1,500 

expected to come online this 

year. 

A look at what we wear to work, 

how we get there, how much we do 

uniform. About 67 percent of 

men said they never wore a tie at 

work. And 20 percent said they 

did so “occasionally.” 

The “hours worked in a typical 

week (mean): 43.6.” 

When asked how much time 

their colleagues waste during the 

day, the mean number reported 

was 90 minutes. When asked 

how much time they waste, respondents 

said one hour. 

About 8 percent said their 

commute took two hours or 

more, while 28 percent said it 

took them 30 minutes or less. 

The most common response, at 

36 percent, was 30 to 59 minutes. 

About 85 percent of respondents 

said they usually drove to 

work. Only 4 percent said they 

took mass transit, while just 3 

percent said they walked. 

On ttheir personal best time 

of day, 55 percent said mornings, 

15 percent said afternoons, 

20 percent said evenings, and 6 

percent said late nights. Presumably 

the other 4 percent are 

cranky all the time. 

 

We end with a depressing 

number. Citing research by the 

National Endowment for the 

Arts, Reader’s Digest writes, “38 

percent of employers consider 

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PROGRESS 2008 

Chamber encourages, expands business 

ECONOMIC ENHANCEMENT: St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce promotes tourism 

CANTON — When the phone 

rings at the St. Lawrence County 

Chamber of Commerce, it’s always 

exciting to hear the question 

coming from the other end. 

Sometimes callers want to 

know about fishing and where 

the biggest are biting; others, 

who once lived here or who visited 

through the years, want a relocation 

package so they can 

come back to the beauty that is 

St. Lawrence County and settle 

here for good. 

Others call about events, 

about movie theaters, about 

town halls and government 

phone numbers. Still others call 

for information on taxi service 

or where the nearest post office 

is located. 

Marylee Ballou and Sally 

Roberson field all calls about 

who, what and where. So when a 

fifth-grader from outside the 

county wrote and asked for information 

about whales in the 

Seaway and where exactly they 

can be found, the chamber went 

to work — to explain, to redirect, 

to add to her curiosity. 

The St. Lawrence County 

Chamber of Commerce tries to 

be all things to all people. The 

chamber promotes business, 

the chamber expands business, 

the chamber encourages business. 

As the designated tourist promotion 

agency for St. Lawrence 

County, the chamber promotes 

the county to visitors and travelers, 

advertises events, activities 

and attractions and works with 

New York state and local businesses 

to help market their particular 

company’s assets for 

tourists. 

One such company is Morristown 

Boat Tours, which operates 

The Morrisania, an antique 

wooden boat, and takes guests 

on tours up and down the St. 

Lawrence River, stopping for 

photos and tours of Singer Castle 

off Chippewa Bay. Reservations 

for the tours are often 

logged through the chamber. 

The promotions pay 

off: In 2006, the last 

year for which statistics 

have been compiled, 

the county had an 

estimated 415,583 

overnight visits by 

travelers looking for 

something unique. 

Dedicated to Design Excellence 

In order to promote tourism, 

the chamber creates publications 

like the Comprehensive 

Travel Guide, the Waterfalls 

Guide and the Anglers’ Guide 

and creates new publications 

with information on snowmobiling, 

hiking, birding, camping, 

canoeing and golfing. Planned 

for 2008 are new printings on 

motorcycling and biking routes. 

The promotions pay off: In 

2006, the last year for which statistics 

have been compiled, the 

county had an estimated 

415,583 overnight visits by travelers 

looking for something 

unique. While they were here, 

these travelers spent $111 million 

on county attractions, including 

lodging, recreation, 

food, gas and mementos. 

Assistant Director Ellen Nesbitt 

handles tourism promotion 

for the chamber. “Most of our 

visitors tell us they’ll be back,” 

she says. 

The county chamber creates 

new business and expands existing 

industries through its Chamber 

Growth Fund. With money 

provided by the USDA Rural Development 

Revolving Loan 

Fund, the chamber provided the 

Heuvelton Historical Association 

and Pickens General Store, 

Heuvelton; the Ole Smokehouse 

Restaurant, Madrid; and the 

Bedrock Café, Ogdensburg with 

startup funds; expansion 

monies were provided to the Roma 

Café & Bistro, Canton; St. 

Regis Realty, Brasher Falls; and 

Packbasket Adventures of 

Wanakena. 

Bookkeeper Jennifer Dunn 

handles the chamber Growth 

Fund. “Without these loans,” 

she says, “many businesses 

would not be able to expand and 

grow.” 

New and expanding businesses 

are also being assisted 

through e-commerce classes 

conducted through the Northern 

Adirondack Trading Cooperative, 

a joint venture with Rural 

Opportunities Inc., and originally 

supported by U.S. Sen. 

Hillary Clinton and Hewlett- 

Packard. Currently, classes are 

being held at Akwesasne and at 

the chamber offices, 101 Main 

Street, Canton, with more than 

25 fledgling businesses learning 

to use the Internet for business 

purposes. 

NATC, under the direction of 

Ruby Sprowls, also maintains a 

Business Knowledge Center on 

the third floor of the chamber offices. 

Businesses use these facilities 

for training meetings, with 

additional use of wireless laptop 

computers and the professional 

resource library. 

The chamber also continues 

to support new large drawingboard 

projects, like Bion Environmental 

Technologies, an integrated 

ethanol production facility, 

and Northway Island Associates, 

a firm planning a 

NASCAR-type racetrack and entertainment 

complex for the 

towns of Brasher, Massena and 

Norfolk. 

In August, the chamber will 

host the sixth annual St. 

Lawrence International Carp 

Tournament. Last summer’s 

three-day event drew 173 participants, 

the largest turnout in the 

tourney’s history. Participants 

came from three counties and 

nine states. All guests stayed in 

area motels and bed-and-breakfasts 

during the event. Kathy 

Kelly Ori of Stellar Marketing in 

Massena coordinates the annual 

carp tournament; Terry 

Fishlock of Heuvelton handles 

logistics. 

“Business in the Spotlight” is a 

new initiative undertaken by the 

chamber, and focuses attention 

on existing businesses around 

the county. These after-hours 

spotlights are organized by 

events coordinator Jo Ann 

Roberts and have been hosted 

by Sergi’s, Potsdam; Erin’s Isle, 

Brasher Falls; Ostrander’s, Canton; 

River Myst, Ogdensburg; 

Season’s Gift Shop, Massena; 

Pickens General Store, Heuvelton, 

and the Art Gallery & Gift 

Shop, Waddington. More are 

planned for 2008. 


Chamber of Commerce is comprised 

of 681 full, lifetime and 

associate members. Of these 

members, 376 are subscribers to 

the chamber’s Excellus Blue 

Cross/Blue Shield member insurance 

programs, according to 

Suzanne Casaday, who coordinates 

membership and insurance 

for the chamber. Both 

Chamber membership and the 

insurance program participation 

have remained stable 

through the years. 

In July, the St. Lawrence Leadership 

Institute brought its nonprofit 

operation under the 

chamber’s umbrella, hosting 

classes and organizational opportunities 

for its 25 new students 

and 13 board members at 

the 101 Main St. office. 

In 2008, the chamber will select 

a new executive director to 

replace Karen St. Hilaire, who 

left in July to become St. 

Lawrence County administrator. 

Pat McKeown, who heads 

the Leadership Institute, has 

been serving as interim chamber 

director. 

“We want the new leader to 

continue to inspire our current 

members and take us in new directions,” 

McKeown says. 

“There is much to do in St. 

Lawrence County to promote 

our terrific way of life while expanding 

our tax base.” 

v 

BUSINESS UPDATE v 

Copy Shop plans to grow, 

expand service offerings 

POTSDAM — The Copy Shop 

& Business Center, 11 Maple St., 

is a full-service printing, custom 

apparel and promotional product 

provider. Special offers include 

free self-service copies to 

Potsdam Food Co-op members, 

a senior discount on Tuesdays 

for customers 55 and older, free 

pickup and delivery options and 

new business packages to provide 

startup businesses with 

printing services, custom apparel 

and promotional products 

all at one price. 

“We are very excited about 

the strong growth pattern the 

Copy Shop and Business Center 

has enjoyed since our inception 

in 2004.” said co-owner John M. 

Wicke. “In 2008 we expect to 

continue to grow geographically 

and expand our service offerings 

to our large, growing customer 

base that includes firms 

from Watertown to Malone, and 

small not-for-profits to large 

manufacturing firms, covering 

several counties.” 

Photocopiers’ toner contains 

soy ink and the business sells environmentally 

friendly papers, 

recycled papers and American 

made apparel. 

The full service copy center 

offers full-color digital printing 

directly from electronic files. It 

specializes in designing and 

producing logos, business 

cards, letterheads, rack cards 

and brochures, resumes, postcards, 

calendars, greeting cards, 

invitations, booklets, forms, labels 

and more. 

Other production and finishing 

services include photo enlargements 

and reductions, duplexing, 

collating, inserting, 

scanning, spiral binding, threehole 

punching, stapling, pads, 

public fax, lamination and 

stamps. The Copy Shop’s highspeed 

copiers allow for a fast 

turnaround. A growing collection 

of papers includes bright, 

pastel, parchment, linen, resume, 

glossy and photo quality 

in standard weights or card 

stock. 

New items include readymade 

frames and new services 

including banners, thermal 

binding and passport photos. 

To help organizations’ fundraising, 

The Copy Shop offers 

quantity price breaks and specials 

on custom apparel with logo, 

slogan or photo on t-shirts, 

sweatsuits, aprons, mouse pads, 

puzzles, hats, pillow shams, quilting 

squares and baby onesies and 

bibs. Choices are heat press, 

screen printing or embroidery. 

New promotional products 

can help organizations and 

businesses advertise effectively 

with practical gifts and giveaways. 

From pens, magnets, key 

chains and mugs to golf balls, 

coolers and umbrellas. 

A. Fonda, general manager, 

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Ives Hill Community notes 

5-year improvement plans 

Ives Hill Retirement Community, 

1200 Jewell Drive, Watertown, 

is run by Donald Alexander, 

president, and Dianne 

Ward, local manager. It was 

founded in 1997 and now has 18 

employees. Meals, housekeeping, 

maintenance and transportation 

are provided. 

In the last five years a new 

style/floor plan has been added 

for a single-family home. Ives 

Hill has continued to expand 

over the past 10 years. 

It sees an increased need for 

independent and supportive 

housing and is part of the growing 

service economy of the north 

country. In the next five years it 

hopes to expand and it aims to 

add one or two new styles of 

housing for seniors in 2008-2009. 

Plans for development of 

phase three will be advanced 

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without it. I’d be sending out a 

lot more pictures.” 

Setting up a site may not be as 

easy as leafing through the yellow 

pages for a designer and it 

helps to have some tecno-savvy. 

William G. McKinney, president 

of Bradley’s Military, Evans 

Mills, spent years and thousands 

of dollars to set up his extensive 

site, www.bradleys-military.com 

the way he wanted it. 

“This is like generation five,” 

he said. “There’s so many people 

that claim they’re Web page designers 

and they don’t have the 

skills. It’s a snake oil industry. If 

someone’s using a lot of 

acronyms, that should send up a 

red flag.” 

After many frustrations, Mr. 

McKinney pulled together a 

panel of friends as technical advisors, 

showed them his Web 

page and asked them to help 

make him first in his field. 

He finally found a designer he 

liked, and advises others to research 

consultants extensively, 

not to provide large amounts of 

money up front, and to own 

everything from the platform to 

the shopping cart. 

“If they make it ‘take it or 

leave it,’ my recommendation is 

to leave it,” he said. 

Learning to navigate is possible 

even for a novice. The original 

designer of Mrs. Hall’s Web 

site vanished one day, so she 

found a different server. Surrounded 

by her six children and 

multiple dogs, she keeps it updated 

herself. 

“I had to figure all that all out,” 

she said. “Ten, 12 years ago, I 

didn’t even know how to start a 

computer.” 

Dr. Ryan Keddy 

Patrick S. Lacombe, owner of 

Watertown’s Toys for Collectors, 

which specializes in metal models, 

bought the mail-order business 

in 2000 from a couple in 

Massachusetts, and developed 

www.tfcusa.com. 

“I have a beautiful Web site 

and people think I have a staff of 

20,” he said. “I’m just one guy 

tripping over models.” 

Mr. Lacombe believes the 

north country should encourage 

more e-commerce because 

it offers low overhead costs with 

plenty of shipping services. 

“I’m doing extremely well because 

of the weak dollar,” he 

said. “I’m selling all over the 

world. My biggest customer is in 

Beirut, Lebanon.” 

But no one should take the Internet 

for granted until it’s clear 

their product can be successful. 

“Don’t quit your day job,” Mr. 

Lacombe said. “I struggled.” 

Ellen M. Nesbitt has kept her 

job as assistant director of the St. 

Lawrence County Chamber of 

Commerce even when she 

opened a candy shop, St. 

Lawrence Chocolates, in Potsdam 

with her sister, Angela A. 

Ballou. Their Web site, www.stlawrencechocolates.com, 

was 

created at the same time. 

They would have preferred to 

wait at least six months to handle 

on-line sales, but their Web 

designer had time, so they went 

ahead. “Starting out slower is 

better. If nothing else, it really 

gave us a presence,” Mrs. Nesbitt 

said. “I just wish I had more 

time to spend with it.” With a 

Web site, there are dangers that 

business will grow too quickly. 

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Lowville 

www.karlasxmasshoppe.com: Clayton. 

www.drjewelrycollection.com:Redwood 

www.tibait.com/charts.: nautical 

maps and charts, Alexandria Bay. 

www.busyfingers148.com: wooden 

items, Potsdam. 

www.djdoodleshoppes.com: Black 

River Candle Co., Lowville 

www.embears.com: teddy bears, Pierrepont 

http://stores.ebay.com/Pickens-General-Store: 

Amish made goods, Heuvelton 

www.northerniceanddance.com:figure 

skating, dance and gymastics supplies, 

Potsdam 

www.sunfeather.com: Parishville, natural 

soaps and body care 

www.adirondackrugbraiding.com: 

Parishville, rugs, gifts, supplies 

www.linkstainedglass.com: Gouverneur 

www.loribethsbaskets.com: gift baskets,Watertown 

www.kimsosb.com: scrapbooking supplies, 

DeKalb Junction 

www.ommas-aarden.net: heirloom 

seed, Boonville 

www.ostranders.com: sheepskin slippers, 

Canton 

www.kayleighbug.com: science fiction, 

fantasy and horror books, Morristown 

www.pursemistsoaps.com: Lowville 

www.stlawrenceriverdecoys: handdesigned 

painting surfaces, including 

wooden fish or geese,Waddington. 

www.thousandislandswinery:Alexandria 

Bay 

www.tfcusa.com: toys for collectors, 

specializing in metal models,Watertown 

www.tonyscanvas.com: customized 

sport bags and clothing, Massena 

www.vanquishboats.com:Wellesley 

Island 

www.vintagedoors.com: Hammond 

www.ropeworks.biz: books and cd on 

rope tying, Hermon 

www.northcountrymusic.com: Potsdam 

www.bradleys-military.com: Evans 

Mills 

www.little-trees.com: Car-freshener, 

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www.windandwiremusic.com:musical 

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MUSEUMS: 

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Antique Boat Museum, Clayton 

www.fredericremington.org/store: 

Frederic Remington Art Museum,Ogdensburg 

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www.mapleshanty.com: Lowville 

www.mksenterprises, norwood: 

maple syrup 

www.burrvillecidermill.com/: seasonal 

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Croghan bologna,Watertown 

www.stlawrencechocolates.com:Potsdam 

www.eightoclockranch.com: grassfed 

lamb and beef, grain-finished pork, 

DeKalb Junction 

www.mindseyefarm.com: herbal teas 

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www.adirondacksmokedmeats.com: 

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www.gotgoodcheese.com: cheese, 

Croghan bologna, maple syrup, 

Lowville Producers Dairy Cooperative 

www.blackcreekfarms.com: maple 

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www.dearalpacafarm :Potsdam 

www.pinebreezestables.com: horses, 

Ogdensburg 

www.sawyercreek.com: Appaloosa 

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PROGRESS 2008 

Hospital upgrades 

equipment, services 

POTSDAM — Canton-Potsdam 

Hospital experienced 

many changes in 2007, not the 

least of which was a change in 

leadership. After completing a 

national search, the Board of Directors 

named David B. Acker, 

president and chief executive officer 

in June. Marlinda LaValley 

had served as interim CEO since 

2006. Mr. Acker was previously 

the CEO at Charles Cole Memorial 

Hospital in Coudersport, Pa. 

The hospital also expanded 

its technology and services to 

patients in 2007: 

New software creates 2D, 3D 

and 4D images of the human 

anatomy from CT (computed 

tomography) and MR (magnetic 

resonance) image data. Using 

the new software, CPH physicians 

can easily navigate within 

these images to better understand 

disease conditions. 

CPH introduced the first MRI 

guided vacuum assisted breast 

biopsy in the area. Minimally invasive, 

this new technology collects 

larger and more complete 

specimens, with minimal patient 

discomfort. Physicians prefer 

MRI technology because it offers 

the greatest image accuracy. 

CPH also offered patients DynaCAD 

in 2007. DynaCAD is a 

digital imaging workstation with 

a comprehensive set of computer-assisted 

diagnosis (CAD) 

Classified 

tools for performing real-time 

image analysis and interventional 

procedure planning. 

DEXA (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry) 

machines are 

now in use at both the E. J. Noble 

building in Canton and at CPH 

in Potsdam to provide state-ofthe-art 

bone densitometry. 

Drs. John W. Gebert, Elizabeth 

M. LoGalbo and Zeeba Siddiqi 

joined the CPH medical staff in 

2007. 

Dr. John W. Gebert became the 

new radiation oncologist at the 

Warner Cancer Treatment Center 

in May. He joined CPH from 

the Department of Radiation 

Oncology at Good Samaritan 

Hospital, Kearney, Neb. 

Dr. Elizabeth M. LoGalbo, a 

family practioner, joined CPH 

from River Park Family Medicine 

in North Tonawanda, New 

York in August. Dr. LoGalbo sees 

patients in Brasher Falls. 

Sr. Zeeba Siddiqi, an adult internal 

medicine specialist, is located 

at the CPH Prime Care Clinic 

at 12 Elm St. in Potsdam. Dr. 

Siddiqi was previously in private 

practice in Potsdam. 

Patient satisfaction for CPH’s 

Emergency Department, outpatient 

services and oncology was 

in the top 5 percent of all hospitals 

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overall patient satisfaction 

scores were in the top 12 percent. 

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Marra’s Homecare receives 

Patriotic Employer Award 

On. Nov. 19, 2007 , Marra’s 

Homecare Equipment & Supplies 

Inc. was awarded the Patriotic 

Employer Award in 

recognition for employment 

practices “that go above and 

beyond” in supporting employees’ 

participation in the 

National Guard and Reserve 

during a time of war. This 

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Department of Defense. Tom 

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award to John Marra, owner of 

Marra’s Homecare, in recognition 

of support of employee Jeff 

McMahon, who returned from 

active duty earlier this year to 

his position of technician. Fewer 

than 1 percent of employers 

nationally are chosen to receive 

this award. 

Marra’s Homecare is an independent 

DME/oxygen supplier. 

Marra’s Homecare opened in 

June 1987. 

Marra’s Homecare has three 

locations in Northern New 

York. Marra’s has been JCAHO 

accredited since 1996. The majority 

of Marra’s Homecare’s 

40-plus employees offer more 

than 10 years experience each 

in the homecare industry. Marra’s 

Homecare staff includes 

ATS certified rehab professionals, 

certified masectomy fitters 

and licensed respiratory therapists. 

COWS Container on Wheels 

provides mobile storage 

COWS Container on Wheels, 

834 Arsenal St., is a division of 

Convenient Storage and Container. 

COWS was founded in 2007 

by company president and sole 

employee Jim Livingston to provide 

customers with mobile 

storage units. Customers can 

have the unit delivered and fill it 

as they have time. It can be 

stored on their property, on the 

company’s property or moved 

to another location without 

them having to rent a truck. 

Mobile storage also allows 

contractors to store equipment 

that can move from location to 

location with it staying in a secure, 

locked unit. The units are 

weathertight and on large rollers 

that make them easy to move. 

“COWS Containers on 

Wheels is the newest concept in 

mobile self storage, locally 

owned and operated,” Livingston 

said. 

Twin Towers Shirts honors 

victims of Sept. 11 attack 

EVANS MILLS — Twin Towers 

Shirts, a Web-based business 

operated by Shirley Ashley, sells 

T-shirts and related items designed 

to sustain the memory of 

those who died in the terrorist 

attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 

“Being a published author I 

had written two poems about 

the disaster right after it happened,” 

Mrs. Ashley said. “I 

made a decision to start my 

business after I watched the 

paltry turnout and mediocre 

media coverage of the memorial 

services held last September.” 

Retired last March at age 71 

from managing a contracting 

office on Fort Drum, she hired a 

media group to design the business’ 

Internet site, which is at 

www.sept11th2001shirts.com. 

It features her two poems, 

which are silk-screened on 

shirts for sale. Garments for sale 

include short- and long-sleeved 

T-shirts, crew-neck sweatshirts 

and hoodies in various colors 

and sizes up to 3XXX. 

“My business also offers the 

same printing service to businesses 

to put their logos on 

their employees’ shirts and also 

to the public for their own personal 

projects,” she said. “I also 

participate in fund-raising 

projects. The turnaround time 

is only two to three weeks if it 

has to be mailed and only two 

weeks if it is to be picked up. I 

can do the work in seven to 

nine days if the need arises and 

the logos don’t have to be redone.” 

For more information see the 

Web site or contact Shirley Ashley, 

31139 Gardnerville Road, at 

629-4200. 

Netto Welding employees 

certified in fire protection 

Netto Welding Supply LLC, 

731 LeRay St., DBA Netto Fire 

Equipment, continues to fill and 

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test paintball cylinders as a regular 

part of its business, whose 

products and services also include 

industrial gases, welding 

supplies, fire extinguisher sales, 

service and inspections, highpressure 

hydrotesting, dry ice 

and paintball supplies. 

“Five years ago we entered into 

the paintball retail business. 

Business was great until the war 

(Iraq) broke out. Paintball accessories 

are down over 70 percent 

from previous year’s sales,” 

according to a report from the 

business. 

“...Paintball is one of the 

many uses of CO2 that we service. 

We currently are the only 

supplier to offer compressed air 

refills and hydrotesting of paintball 

cylinders.” 

The business, owned by 

Ronald Netto and managed by 

Ronald Netto Jr., employs six 

people, two more than it did five 

years ago. 

“In 2007, all our employees 

received their fire protection 

certification. This Natural Fire 

Protection Agency (NFPA) requirement 

certified them in the 

inspection, placement, maintenance 

hydrotesting and 

recharging of fire extinguishers. 

In 2008 it will become necessary 

for all companies that do 

this type of service to become 

certified,” the business reported. 

Netto serves Jefferson, Lewis 

and St. Lawrence counties. Its 

customer base includes hospitals, 

schools, churches and municipalities, 

as well as residences. 

“With the new certification 

taking place, Netto hopes it will 

eliminate those individuals who 

do their type of service work in 

their garages. Insurance is a 

large factor in our business, and 

all suppliers should be covered 

accordingly.” 

“Because of OSHA (U.S. Occupational 

Safety and Health 

Administration), insurance and 

personal protection, Netto 

hopes their business continues 

to be strong in the years ahead.” 


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Established in 2005, the business 

reports annual sales of $13 

million and Ms. Miller, who now 

has 13 employees, expects to 

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ALEXANDRIA BAY — “The 

strong Canadian economy is 

helping our business,” said 

Mark LaLonde, president of 

Hutchinson’s Boat Works Inc., 

27 Holland St., “Also, reductions 

in interest rates are making 

boats more affordable.” 

Founded in 1908, the business 

has 29 employees, up from 

27 five years ago and 10 in 1998. 

A year from now it expects to 

employ 30. 

Product and services include 

new boat sales (Sea Ray), used 

boat and brokerage sales, boat 

financing, a marine store, dockage 

and storage, fuel sales, Mercruiser 

engine repairs, electronics 

installations and fiberglass 

repairs. The business sells used 

boats all over Europe as well in 

the U.S. and Canada. 

“We sell new boats to people 

from U.S. and Canada that use 

their boats here on the St. 

Lawrence River,” Mr. LaLonde 

said. Annual sales are reported 

as $9,352,000. 

The business has adapted to 

market change, Mr. LaLonde reports, 

by controlling its inventory. 

“Matching inventory to demand 

is key,” he said. 

On the question of what developments 

affect his business, 

he said: 

“Similar to the automotive industry, 

certification in the marine 

industry has become very 

prominent. We have been certified 

as a Sea Ray Ambassador 

dealer, meeting Sea Ray’s highest 

standards.” 

In other developments, “We 

do get a lot more leads from the 

Internet and pay close attention 

to fast response times. We update 

our Web site with all of our 

boat inventory at least once a 

week,” Mr. LaLonde said. 

Prospects for the next five 

years include continuing to expand 

dockage as space permits 

and constructing another heated 

storage building. 

Hutchinson’s carries the 

same products as five years ago 

“but we sponsor a lot more customer 

events such as boating 

trips and seminars,” Mr. 

LaLonde said. 

For more information see 

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Services include finishing unfinished 

furniture and showing 

the customer how. Tourist information 

is also supplied. 

Plans include expanding the 

back of the store, expanding the 

menu in the snack area, expanding 

the eating area which 

overlooks the river, landscaping 

along the river and adding push 

carts for crafters, said company 

President Leroy D. Fluno. “We 

plan to make more wood items 

in our workshop,” he added. 

In the last five years, “We have 

added a music box room featuring 

the San Francisco Music Box 

Company. Our plans are to add 

onto this area.” 

Also, “Our Web page 

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has given us the 

chance to sell all over the 

world.” 

Plans for this year include hiring 

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Multi-Million $ Producer 

315-783-0241 or 315-782-2355 

dolin@gisco.net 

Coldwell Banker Mortgage Premier 

Agent • 866-281-0832 (toll-free) 

Pick A #1 Agent • Pick A #1 Company 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

BARBARA 

LOOMIS 

Sales Associate 

315-376-3250 Home 

315-523-1047 Cell 

email: barbloomis@usadatanet.net 

Providing a professional & 

dedicated service to both 

buyers & sellers! 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

BRENDA 

MALONE 

315-376-2527 

brendamalone2@yahoo.com 

“YOUR LEWIS COUNTY 

CONNECTION” 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

DIANA P. 

SACCO, CBR, 

G.R.I. 

“2002 Realtor of the Year” 

315-788-1611 Home 

Sellers/Buyers Agent 

21 years in the business 

dianasacco@yahoo.com 

“Let My Experience Work For You!” 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

LILLIAN 

ALEXANDER 

315-688-2621 Home 

315-778-5069 Cell 

Lalexan2@twcny.rr.com 

“EXCELLENCE COUNTS” 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

DIANA 

HADLOCK 

(315) 783-1293 

dhadlock@twcny.rr.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

IT’S NOT JUST GETTING 

A MORTGAGE ... 

IT’S BUILDING 

YOUR FUTURE. 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

SYLVIA 

FIRLIK, G.R.I. 


315-782-6063 Home 

315-783-7833 Cell 

sylvia-firlik@twcny.rr.com 

“Experience That Counts!” 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

CAROLYN 

GAEBEL 

Home 782-1870 

Cell 778-2042 

carolyn.gaebel@coldwellbanker.com 

Full time Real Estate Professional 

Anxious to meet all of your 

Real Estate Needs 

Rimada 

Realty 

NANCY 

BENOIT 

315-486-4785 

nbenoit67@aol.com 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

CHRISTINE 

BEDARD 


(315) 783-3193 

christine.bedard@coldwellbanker.com 

Provide full-time professional, 

personalized real estate services 

Buying - Selling - Relocating 

Experience Counts! 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

JACKIE 

LADUE 

CBR • SRES 


315-778-6970 

jladue@nnymls.com 

BUYING - SELLING - 

RELOCATION 

Putting Your Needs First! 

Rimada 

Realty 

1-888-867-3412 

Toll Free 

Call today for your FREE 

PRE-APPROVAL!* 

Financing provided by Coldwell Banker Mortgage, 3000 

Leadenhall Road, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08064. Licensed Mortgage 

Banker • NYS Banking Department. Subject to applicable 

secondary market credit and property approval guidelines. 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

1063 Arsenal St., Watertown • 788-4444 • 800-564-1780 

328 James St., Clayton • 686-4444 • 800-909-4555 

www.ColdwellBanker.com www.Rimada.com 

www.FtDrumHomes.com 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

SANDRA 

MACY 

(315) 782-1808 Home 

(315) 778-5482 Cell 

sandra.macy@coldwellbanker.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

CRYSTAL 

BECOAT 


315-489-4960 

babybecoat1@aol.com 

Specializing in military 

relocation, and new construction. 

Now looking for Sellers. 

DEDICATED TO GIVING HONEST, 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

KATHY 

WOOLF 

Full Time Agent 

315-783-2484 

“There’s No Place Like Home” 

Dedicated to helping you with all 

your Real Estate needs. 

kathy.woolf@coldwellbanker.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

LISA WATSON 

Salesperson 

315-788-0381 

Cell 315-286-9682 

http://softmls.com/realtorwatson 

Email: MLBJS5@hotmail.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

ANNETTE 

DOCTEUR 

Salesperson 

315-654-3646 

http://www.annettedoc.com 

Email: 

annettedocteur@yahoo.com 

“DON’T FORGET TO CALL ANNETTE” 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

FRANK 

ROBERTS 

Salesperson 

315-788-6176 

Cell 315-778-6950 

Email: frobert2@twcny.rr.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

MARTHA 

COTTON 

Salesperson 

315-378-7159 

Email: martcot1@hotmail.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

RICHARD 

LANZAR 

Salesperson 

315-771-5489 

Email: rlanzar@aol.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

CINDY 

WIDRICK 

315-771-0889 

cwidrick2@aol.com 

Over 20 years of experience! 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

ERICA 

DAVIS 

315-771-3585 

edavis7@twcny.rr.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

GAIL 

RICHARDSON 

315-778-9862 

gailr1996@aol.com 

Rimada 

Realty 

Have you ever considered a career in 

real estate? If the fast pace and 

abundant rewards of this field have ever 

intrigues you, this may be the perfect 

time to investigate further. Coldwerll 

Banker Rimada Realty has been serving 

this area for over 35 years, and we are 

now expanding our sales staff. Offices in 

Watertown, Carthage and Clayton. Call 

and ask for Joe Rizzo Jr. at 788-4444. 

COLDWELL 

BANKER C B 

Rimada 

Realty


PROGRESS 2008 

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Nicholville Telephone 

issues customer survey 

Nicholville Telephone Co. delivers 

telecommunications services 

to more than 2,100 customers 

in the tri-town region of 

St. Lawrence County. As an independent 

local exchange carrier, 

Nicholville Telephone Co. is 

regulated by thestate Public Service 

Commission. 

Nicholville Telephone Co. 

was once again recognized 

statewide for earning the PSC’s 

Commendation for Excellent 

Service in 2006 award. This is 

the eighth consecutive year the 

company received this award. 

Just 19 other companies in New 

York state have achieved this 

service record for eight or 

greater consecutive years. The 

commendations for excellent 

service are based on a telephone 

company’s performance in relation 

to service quality standards 

established by the Commission. 

The criteria to measure the condition 

of each company’s infrastructure 

includes an evaluation 

of “customer trouble report 

rates” (CTRR) and the number 

of consumer complaints received 

by the Commission. 

Nicholville Telephone scored 96 

percent on its CTRR, which reflects 

performance results for 

each of its central office operations, 

and maintained a 0.00 

PSC complaint rate score. 

With the dial-up Internet customer 

in mind, Nicholville Telephone 

served up a new high 

speed Internet package called 

DSL Lite. By offering an option as 

low as $19.95 per month, DSL 

Lite customers can now enjoy a 

connection that is 14 times faster 

than dial up for a fraction of the 

cost of most high speed offerings. 

DSL Lite has become wildly 

popular among budget-minded 

customers who are relieved to 

say good bye to dial up Internet 

forever. There is never a minimum 

contract term required. 

In late summer 2007, 

Nicholville Telephone representatives 

visited more than 1,200 

homes in the communities of 

Nicholville, Hopkinton, 

Winthrop and Stockholm. A 

campaign of this nature was unprecedented 

in the company’s 

long history. Its purpose was to 

share information about the 

company, its technology and to 

invite input from customers. 

In na survey, 84 percent percent 

of respondents said they are 

satisfied with the price they pay 

for Nicholville Telephone service. 

Reliability was ranked highest 

in importance by 78 percent, 

the largest percentage. And 84 

percent of respondents said it 

was “very important” that the 

service they subscribe to is available 

during power outages in order 

to use their phone or call 911. 

Nicholville Telephone is locally 

owned and operated by its 

employees, management team 

and board of directors. 

Nicholville Telephone maintains 

more than 200 square 

miles of outside fiber optic and 

copper cable to more than 2,000 

residences and businesses and 

onsite service and repair is available 

24 hours a day. The company’s 

service office, at 3330 State 

Highway 11B in Nicholville, is 

open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 

(open 9 a.m. Mondays) For details 

call 328-4411. 

Three technical personnel 

have joined staff at GYMO 

GYMO Architecture, Engineering 

& Land Surveying P.C. 

reports a successful 2007 and 

the addition of three technical 

personnel over the past year: Joe 

Boshart of Lowville, who works 

in both the engineering and architecture 

departments; Paula 

Jacobs of Adams Center, and 

Brian Drake, of Clayton, both in 

civil engineering. 

Mr. Boshart is involved in 

lighting and heating equipment 

energy savings retro-fits for the 

Lewis County Social Services and 

Public Safety Buildings, as well as 

numerous projects for both residential 

and industrial clients. 

Mrs. Jacobs has returned to 

GYMO after a short absence. 

She and Mr. Drake are working 

on multi-family housing site engineering 

and utility design. 

Director of engineering 

Patrick J. Scordo said Norstar Development, 

developer of Summit 

Woods, is moving through 

construction of site infrastructure. 

The engineering department 

also has been busy with 

numerous multi-family housing 

projects scheduled to begin construction 

in 2008 and 2009. 

Director of architecture 

Stephen W. Yaussi said the architecture 

department has also 

been busy with not only the 

multi-family housing design 

work, but projects such as Watertown 

Housing Authority’s administration 

facilities and the 

Lewis County Court House. Also, 

the former Buckley Building 

restoration in Carthage and former 

Bradley Building adaptive 

re-use project in Watertown are 

soon to provide a more apartments 

to help mitigate the 

housing shortage in the area. 

GYMO survey manager Greg 

Ashley has had survey crews 

busy all year throughout the tricounty 

area, with significant 

work again on Fort Drum. 

The firm continues involvement 

at Fort Drum with housing 

for soldiers. In 2004, GYMO was 

selected to assist with the design 

of more than 2,000 home renovations 

and more than 1,300 new 

homes on the post. The impact of 

this construction work has already 

been felt by local communities 

struggling to keep up with 

infrastructure improvements 

such as water and sewage distribution 

systems. GYMO has been 

busy in many of the regional municipalities 

providing design 

services for those improvements 

throughout the north country. 

Director of Business Development 

Edward G. Olley, Jr. predicts 

a prosperous 2008 for the firm. 

Humane Society has year 

of successful adoptions 

Last year was another successful 

one of adoptions for the 

Lewis County Humane Society, 

Pine Grove Road, Watson. 

Operating on the “three-too” 

policy of too sick, too injured or 

too aggressive, the agency was 

able to look for homes for all but 

a very few of the stray population 

with only a few dog euthanasias 

and two cats going to 

farms. All money raised by the 

on-site Whispering Pines 

Boarding Kennel goes directly to 

the care and housing of strays. 

The agency’s board of directors 

includes Becky Thompson, president; 

John Herrman, treasurer; 

Ned Merrell, legal secretary; Ingrid 

Honey, membership chairwoman 

and Cliff Cook, executive 

director. Other board members 

are Melinda Waddell, Marcia Myers, 

Kristen Peebles and Sheila 

Corey. The agency has openings 

on its board and is holding its annual 

membership drive. 

The shelter is family-run with 

the assistance of volunteers. 

Animal adoptions are offered 

from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday 

and Thursday and by appointment. 


376-8349 or visit www.lewishumane.org 

or www.lewishumane.petfinder.org. 

In May the shelter held its 

most successful fundraiser to 

date and during the annual 

open house held its first annual 

silent auction with more than 50 

products from area businesses 

and private individuals. 

Projects include looking into a 

heating system as well as a domestic 

water heating system after 

receiving a donation from Assemblywoman 

Dierdre K. Scozzafava, 

R-Gouverneur. With a 

grant received from ASPCA, the 

shelter hopes to install a system 

this spring to collect rain water 

from the roof and use it for cleaning, 

easing the strain on the well. 

Because the well ran dry this 

summer, the shelter has had a 

355-foot deep well drilled with a 

large percentage of the cost covered 

by donations from Denise 

Haskins from Ad-Matz and Virginia 

Lyndaker from Nu-Day 

Reality. 

NNY Homes sales volume 

up 400% since ‘02 opening 

NNY Homes Inc., 18242 State 

Route 3, Watertown, three miles 

past the Salmon Run Mall, is 

owned and operated by Joan 

and Scott Gerni, who opened 

the business in July 2002. 

Since opening, NNY Homes 

has increased its sales volume by 

400 percent and was nominated 

Business of the Year twice in 

2007. The business has a staff of 

14 licensed Realtors and two 

support staff members. The 

company includes the Gernis’ 

three children, Angela Samphier, 

William Leepy and Teri Benitez. 

The company Web site, 

www.nnyhomes.com, received 

an award for its information and 

format. NNY Homes specializes 

in residential and resort home 

sales including new construction 

and has played a major role 

in some of the area’s largest 

commercial sales in connection 

with the expansion of Fort 

Drum. NNY Homes marketed 

and sold 18 new homes in Pine 

Ridge Estates, Great Bend. 

It also acted as listing agent 

for several new homes built by 

the Development Authority of 

the North Country in the city of 

Watertown. 

NNY Homes is working on a 

new residential community for 

2008, subject to final approvals. 

Aubertine and Currier 

acquires three partners 

Aubertine and Currier Architects, 

Engineers & Land Surveyors, 

PLLC, 516 Bradley St., completed 

260 projects in 2007, an 

increase of 80 percent. In six 

years, it has increased revenue 

by 700 percent. 

The firm has 18 employees, 

each specializing in a design 

discipline from small additions 

to multi-million-dollar municipal 

projects, and has helped design 

more than $130 million in 

construction projects. In-house 

services include architectural 

design, civil/site/structural engineering, 

electrical, mechanical 

and plumbing design, construction 

management and 

land surveying. 

Three additional partners 

with more than 50 years combined 

professional experience 

were named in 2007: architect 

Brian Jones, civil engineer 

Matthew Morgia and chief land 

surveyor Jayson Jones, each 

heading a department. 

Aubertine and Currier established 

its land surveying department 

in January 2007 and during 

the year completed 140 design 

projects. 

The firm has developed a design 

specialty in licensed child 

care centers and has designed 

several in Lewis and Jefferson 

counties. The firm has designed 

five banks in the past five years. 

In 2006, Aubertine and Currier 

purchased the former Fastenal 

building next door, a portion 

of which was renovated as office 

space for the engineering and 

land surveying departments. 

Plans include increasing the 

professional staff by 50 percent 

over the next three to five years. 

The office of Michael Aubertine, 

architect, was established 

in Watertown in January 2000. In 

October 2000, longtime friend 

and business associate Patrick 

Currier joined the company. In 

January 2001, the firm became 

known as Aubertine and Currier 

Architects. 

For more information call 782- 

2005 or visit www.AubertineCurrier.com. 

Small Business Center 

at JCC offers free services 

The Small Business Development 

Center at Jefferson Community 

College helps the small 

business community to resolve 

organizational, financial, marketing, 

technical and other 

business issues. 

Professional counselors can 

assist in all aspects of small business 

ownership, from creating a 

first business plan and exploring 

funding options for start-up 

or expansion. Staff provide direct 

individual counseling and 

offer seminars on various educational 

business topics. This 

past year the center counseled 

more than 800 individuals and 

provided 36 training seminars. 

Services are free and confidential. 

Call 782-9262 for more 

information. 

BUSINESS SERVICES 

HONEY BEAR DAY CARE 

Helen Taylor & Shannon Taylor 

24343 Felts Mills, Boot NY Jack 13638 Hill Rd. 

2 Min. from Fort Carthage Drum 

10 315-773-6613 Min. from Watertown 

honeybeardaycare315@yahoo.com & 315-783-4739 

Howard R. George, Private Investigator 

William R. George 

Investigator & Consultant 

Licensed & Bonded 

Confidential Free Consultation 

On Eagles Wings 

315788 23953 Rte. 

Sales 

6788 

12 South 


www.george-pi.com 

Collectibles Books – Toys –– Novelties Crafts 

(315) P.O. 

John 

639-6038 Box 33, 

D. & 

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Cynthia 

E-Mail jdoolitt@twcny.rr.com 

R. Doolittle 

Nancy D. 

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Storino Real Estate 

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W 417 ATERTOWN A RSENAL , NY S 13601 TREET 

B F AX US 782-4604 788-7171 

S UMMER R ES : (315) : (315) 782-8108 686-2078 

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Carl Petitto, OTR/L 

315.379.0992 

cpetitto@adirondacktherapy.com 

www.adirondacktherapy.com 

Julie Senior A. Loan Derrigo-Intschert 

Officer 

315.788.7813 

fax: 315.782.1127 

toll free: 1.888.788.7822 

19805 Watertown, Orchard NY 13601 Drive 

Serving Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties for more than 20 years. 

Rochester Area Mortgage Services Inc. 

Registered Mortgage Broker / NYS Banking Department 

T 

ISDEL 

A SSOCIATES 

(315) 386-8542 

FAX (315) 386-2974 

SERVING THE NORTH COUNTRY SINCE 1963 

E-MAIL: tisdel@nnymail.com 

Consulting Engineers 

113 Main St. 

P.O. Box 400 

Canton, NY 13617 

SALES & SERVICE 

RONALD NETTO • RONNY NETTO, JR. 

FIRE WELDING EXTINGUISHERS SUPPLIES - RECHARGE • SAFETY EQUIPMENT & INSPECTION 

INDUSTRIAL GASES 

Phone: 731 Leray (315) Street 782-0242 • Watertown, • Fax: (315) NY 786-FIRE 13601 

WELDING SUPPLY, LLC 

RONALD NETTO • RONNY NETTO, JR. 

P INCORPORATED 50 Market Stree t 

Potsdam, NY 13676 

Potsda m Ogdensbur g 

(315) 265-8860 (315) 393-0395 

Massen a Malon e 

(315) 764-5410 (518) 481-5962 

Watertow n 

(315) 788-5627 

School: 215 Washington St. 

Mailing: 355 Pawling St. 


w w w . a t l a n t i c a b c . c o m 

Shannon Sullivan, CPC 

Owner 

Training Tae Kwon Center, Do LLC 

Owner, Mr. Rick Wiest, 3rd Dan 

Head Instructor, Mr. Tim Wiest, 3rd Dan 

Certified With 

(315) 783-4857 

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Phone: 

taekwondorick@hotmail.com 

Staffing, Payroll 

& Training Services 

www.penski.co m 

John M. Wick e 

General Manager 

Ph: (315) 265-8860 

Fx: (315) 265-3273 

john@penski.com 

(315) 782-5535 Financing Available 

Sullivan’s Auto Sales 

Keith Sullivan 

Sales Manager 

Outer Washington St. 


T: 315.379.9659 

F: 315.379.9699 

19 Hodskin Street, Suite 2 

smsullivan@atlanticabc.com Canton, NY 13617 

(315) 287-4194 • FAX: (315) 287-3396 

Penny Broker/Partner L. Bogardus 

Residence: (315) 287-1554 

William Broker/Partner/Appraiser (Bill) Lacy 

Residence: (315) 287-0916 

PO Box #1, 176 West Main Street, Gouverneur, NY 13642 

www.slcmls.com • email: lacyrealty@gisco.net 

10 Martin Street Rd., (St. Rt. 26) 

Carthage, NY 13619-0308 

(315) 493-2711 Fax (315) 493-6539 

www.cagchurch.org 

REV. ANTHONY P. NIGER II 

Senior Pastor 

REV. PETER R. RICHARDSON 

Youth Pastor 

REV. REBECCA R. RICHARDSON 

Children’s Pastor 

“Helping you 

to know 

Jesus & His 

purpose for 

your life!” 

SERVICES 

Sun. School 

9:45 A.M. 

Sun. Worship 

11:00 A.M. & 6:00 P.M. 

Youth Service Sun. 

5:00 P.M. 

Wed. Family Night 

7:00 P.M. 

AJ’s Concrete and Masonry 

L O R I 

Lori Gervera, GRI, ASP 

Licensed Broker 

Lori@LoriGervera.com 

(315) 788-1900, ext. 28 

(315) 523-0347, cell 

(315) 836-3952, U Fax 

• Floors SPECIALIZING • Slabs • Sidewalks IN 

• Waterproofing • Foundation • Chimney Repair Repair 

• All Types & Stone Work 

681-6116 

(315) 286-3462 286-3451 

786-1900 

Lori Gervera Productions 

G ER V ER A 

“Setting the stage ® ” 

R EAL ES T AT E 

605 Washington St. 


315-782-8296 Fax 

www.LoriGervera.com

PROGRESS 2008 


Sunday,March Day,Month 2,2008 Date,Year 24 C5 A 

Ogdensburg port handles over 115,000 tons in busy 2007 

OGDENSBURG — The Ogdensburg 

Bridge and Port Authority 

had a very productive 

2007 and is looking forward to a 

busy 2008 port season as it prepares 

to handle a large shipment 

of windmill components from 

Denmark. 

PORT OF OGDENSBURG 

During the 2007 St. Lawrence 

Seaway shipping season the 

Port of Ogdensburg was active, 

handling six ships and three 

barges while expanding its base 

of products handled at the port. 

In all, over 115,000 tons of 

commodities were handled at 

the port during 2007, including 

road salt, dried distillers grains, 

corn, hominy, cottonseed, corn 

gluten and citrus pulp. Efforts to 

bring in animal feeds for local 

farmers has been a priority focus 

of the authority, helping to 

reduce costs for area dairy 

farms. 

Two heavy-lift cargo operations 

also happened at the port 

of Ogdensburg during the 2007 

shipping season. The BBC Scandinavia, 

a German-flagged vessel, 

visited the port in July to pick 

up a 200-ton railroad locomotive 

that was destined for a mining 

operation in Quebec. During 

September a barge stopped 

at the port to pick up two large 

generators from the Alliance Energy 

cogeneration facility. The 

generators were bound for Texas 

for refurbishment. 

The 2008 shipping season 

looks very promising. The authority 

recently signed an agreement 

to handle a minimum of 

six ships of windmill component 

parts from Denmark that 

will be stored at the Port and 

then barged to Wolfe Island, Ontario. 

This project will be one of the 

largest shipments the port has 

seen in a number of years. The 

Wolfe Island Wind Project, 

which will consist of 86 windmills, 

is being developed by the 

Canadian Renewable Energy 

Corp. 

The authority plans to continue 

its aggressive marketing efforts 

during 2008 to attract additional 

project cargoes and new 

commodities. 

During 2008 a critical update 

of the authority’s port master 

plan will also be undertaken. 

The authority was successful in 

obtaining a $225,000 grant from 

the state Department of Transportation 

to undertake this 

study, which will also analyze 

rail and truck freight flows 

throughout St. Lawrence, Jefferson, 

Lewis and Franklin counties. 

A steering committee of north 

country economic developers 

has been formed to advise the 

authority’s consultants on this 

project and to develop a regional 

marketing plan for the fourcounty 

area. 

INDUSTRIAL PARKS 

The authority’s light-industrial 

commerce park remained 

nearly 100 percent occupied 

during 2007. The industrial park, 

which has been developed by 

the authority over the past 20- 

plus years, is home to over 25 

companies that employ over 500 

area residents in a mix of authority-owned 

and privately-owned 

facilities. 

The park is anchored by a variety 

of industrial firms, principally 

from Southeastern Ontario, 

including BreconRidge, 

Inc., Med-Eng Systems Inc., 

DEW Industries Inc., Ara Shoes 

Inc., and T-Base Communications 

Inc. Other businesses in 

the park include the St. 

Lawrence Federal Credit Union, 

A.N. Deringer Inc., DeFelsko 

Corp., the International Corporate 

Center, Lincare, FedEx, 

Strader Ferris International, the 

U.S. Social Security Administration 

and a number of other small 

businesses. 

The authority’s heavy-industrial 

park is home to ACCO 

Brands, Inc. 

The office products company 

is one of the area’s largest employers. 

Graymont Materials 

Inc. also operates a cement 

batch plant in the heavy-industrial 

park and recently announced 

plans to expand the facility. 

In keeping with the authority’s 

efforts to create jobs and increase 

investments in Northern 

New York, the authority began 

construction on a $2.1 million, 

24,000-square-foot shell building 

during 2007. The new facility 

was on schedule to be completed 

by March 1. In an effort to attract 

a tenant to this facility, the 

authority has been working with 

the city of Ogdensburg, the St. 

Lawrence County Industrial Development 

Agency and the state 

Empire State Development 

Corp. to market the facility in 

Canada and regionally. 

The authority’s economic development 

efforts in Ogdensburg 

and the growth of the industrial 

parks has lead to an expanded 

tax base. Over half of the 

buildings in the industrial parks 

are now privately-owned and 

have an estimated taxable value 

of over $13.7 million. This new 

development and growth generates 

over $670,000 in annual tax 

revenue for the City of Ogdensburg, 

St. Lawrence County and 

the Enlarged Ogdensburg City 

School District. 

Most importantly, the authority’s 

efforts in this area have created 

numerous jobs for many 

residents throughout St. 


OGDENSBURG 

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 

FedEx established a freightforwarding 

operation at the Ogdensburg 

International Airport 

during 2007. Due to increased 

customer demand from brokerage 

firms in the Ogdensburg 

area, FedEx now has a daily cargo 

flight out of the Ogdensburg 

International Airport and may 

expand its operation at the facility, 

depending on increased demand. 

Daily passenger flights out of 

the airport and other north 

country airports are anticipated 

to resume during 2008 through 

the federal Essential Air Service 

program. The U.S. Department 

of Transportation recently issued 

a solicitation for carriers 

for the Ogdensburg, Massena 

and Watertown airports, and 

proposals from carriers were anticipated 

in February this year. 

OGDENSBURG-PRESCOTT 

INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE 

Traffic on the Ogdensburg- 

Prescott International Bridge, 

which is operated by the Authority, 

increased during 2007 with 

the rise in the value of the Canadian 

dollar as more and more 

Canadian shoppers traveled to 

Ogdensburg and St. Lawrence 

County stores to shop. 

From August to December, 

automobile crossing on the international 

bridge increased 

nearly 25 percent as the Canadian 

dollar reached parity with the 

U.S. dollar. 

The favorable Canadian rate, 

however, has resulted in fewer 

exports to the U.S., driving down 

commercial traffic on the 1 1 ⁄2- 

mile suspension bridge. Commercial 

traffic saw an average 

decline of approximately 10 percent 

for the year. 

During 2007, the authoritysuccessfully 

implemented a 

$450,000 security enhancement 

project on the bridge, installing 

security cameras and a weather 

station. The authorityalso anticipates 

a $15 million investment 

in the bridge during 2008-2009 

to re-deck and repaint the suspension 

portion of the bridge. 

Engineering work on this vital 

improvement project commenced 

in 2007. 

NEW YORK & OGDENSBURG RAILWAY 

The New York & Ogdensburg 

Railway, which is owned by the 

authority and operated under 

lease to Vermont Rail System, 

Burlington, Vt., saw a sizeable increase 

in rail shipments in 2007. 

It is estimated that rail traffic 

increased 60 percent from 2006 

to 2007. A total of 500 rail cars 

were shipped on the New York & 

Ogdensburg during 2007, up 

from 300 in 2006, according to 

New York & Ogdensburg Railway 

officials. Much of this increase 

is attributable to products 

that were shipped to the 

Port of Ogdensburg for distribution, 

including approximately 

6,000 tons of Dried Distillers 

Grains and over 3,000 tons of 

corn that went out by barge to 

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. 

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handled at Seaway Bulk Services 

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Port of Ogdensburg. Products 

such as resins, lubricants, plastic 

pellets, oils, etc., are transloaded 

from rail to truck at this facility 

and then trucked to industries 

throughout the region. 

The authority is a New York 

State public benefit corporation. 

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PROGRESS 2008 

Retirement plans put on notice as investor’s suit advances 

WASHINGTON POST 

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 

Feb. 20 ruling on the mismanagement 

of a 401(k) plan isn’t 

likely to have broad ramifications 

for investors saving for retirement. 

But it does highlight 

ongoing efforts to expand protections 

for investors managing 

their own retirement accounts. 

About 70 million people now 

trust about $3 trillion in retirement 

savings to 401(k) plans. 

The accounts weren’t intended 

to replace traditional pensions, 

but as the economy has evolved, 

401(k) plans have assumed a 

primary role in preparing workers 

for retirement. 

“Before, everybody just saw it 

as a savings plan offered employees, 

and now the focus has 

been on the fact that this is the 

employee’s retirement plan,” 

said Robyn Credico, director of 

defined contribution consulting 

for Watson Wyatt Worldwide. “I 

think both the plan sponsors 

and the government are paying 

more attention because of that.” 

With their growing popularity, 

401(k)s have been held increasingly 

accountable for their 

shortcomings. Some individuals 

have sued over funds stolen or 

mismanaged. Class-action lawsuits 

have been filed over excessive 

fees or losses from investments 

in company stock. 

Most complaints about problems 

with 401(k) plans don’t 

reach the level of lawsuits, said 

experts who help companies design 

or administer retirement 

savings plans. If you believe a 

mistake was made in your 401(k) 

plan, the first place to go is to 

your human resources department 

or to the summary description 

of the plan. That’s 

where you will be able to find the 

process for filing a complaint. 

In some cases, questions can 

be resolved by calling the plan’s 

toll-free number, said Valerie M. 

Kupferschmidt, employee benefits 

counsel for Hewitt Associates. 

If, for example, you requested 

a change in allocation 

and it didn’t occur, the reason 

may be the fine print rather than 

malicious intent. Kupferschmidt 

said the plan’s rules 

may say, for example, that a 

change cannot be made until 

the first day of the month after 

the investment choice was 

made. 

“Most of these issues are 

solved under the plan’s administrative 

appeal process,” Kupferschmidt 

said. “The plan administrator 

and the employee are 

going to go back and look at 

what was done, and if it’s wrong, 

they’ll fix it.” 

The Supreme Court case zeroed 

in on an instance of mismanagement 

that an employee 

claimed resulted in a significant 

loss to his 401(k) account. Investor 

James LaRue claimed 

that his former employer failed 

to act on his instructions to shift 

his savings from one account to 

another, costing him $150,000. 

At issue was a provision in federal 

pension law written before 

401(k) plans were proposed 

and which had been held to 

prevent individual 401(k) account 

holders from filing 

claims. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for 

the 4th Circuit in Richmond had 

dismissed LaRue’s suit on the 

basis that the law didn’t allow 

suits on losses to individual participants, 

only suits on overall 

losses to the plan. The Supreme 

Court said, in effect, that any 

loss in value, regardless of how 

few individuals it affected, was a 

loss in value to the overall plan. 

Now LaRue gets to go forward 

with his lawsuit, which will determine 

whether there was a 

loss and, if so, who was responsible. 

Peter K. Stris, a professor at 

Whittier Law School in Los Angeles 

who represents LaRue, 

said that if the court had decided 

against LaRue, the decision 

would have had broad ramifications 

because it would have prevented 

the Labor Department or 

companies that sponsor plans 

from suing if funds were stolen 

or mismanaged. 

Martha Priddy Patterson, a director 

with Human Capital Practice, 

part of Deloitte Consulting, 

said she thought the court decision 

would also cause employers 

to take a second look at plan 

administration. “It will focus 

plan sponsors on using people 

who get it right and get it right 

the first time,” she said. 

The high court’s decision is 

expected to have little impact on 

lawsuits that claim 401(k) plan 

fees are too high or that employees 

lost money on company 

stock. That’s because those are 

filed as class-action suits rather 

than as complaints by individuals. 

More than a dozen cases have 

been filed against major employers 

including Lockheed 

Martin and Kraft Foods alleging 

that administrative fees for 

401(k) plans were too high and 

cut into investment earnings. 

The spotlight on 401(k) shortcomings 

has driven efforts at 

improvement. Coverage for employees 

has been expanded and 

enrollment has been made easier. 

The guesswork of savings 

choices also has been reduced 

by providing employees with default 

investments that adjust automatically 

as they age. 

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Sunday,March Day,Month Date,Year 2,2008 24C C5 

Ogdensburg Chamber notes 

updated roster, event plans 

OGDENSBURG — The 

Greater Ogdensburg Chamber 

of Commerce begins 2008 with a 

new president and seven new 

members on its board of directors. 

Mindy McNamara, North 

Country Savings Bank, president; 

Lori Sibley, Penski Inc., first 

vice president; 

Karen Heiss, community 

advocate, second vice president; 

Elizabeth Testani, Claxton- 

Hepburn Medical Center Foundation, 

treasurer; 

Lori Barr, North Country 

Savings Bank, Executive Committee; 

Andrew Peterson, St. 

Joseph’s Home, Executive Committee; 

Dallas Sutton, NBT Bank, 

past president; 

Kimberly DesChamp, city 

economic development manager, 

city representative; 

John Rishe, Ogensburg 

Bridge and Port Authority, OBPA 

representative; 

Ramona Breen, attorney, 

board member; 

Mark Henry, Smith Barney, 

board member; 

Nick Eells, Hoosier Magnetics, 

board member; 

Cinnamon Alberto, United 

Helpers, board member; 

Anna Marie Girard, community 

advocate, board member; 

Betty Mallott, community 

advocate, board member; 

Donald Tebo, Whalen, Davey 

& Looney, board member; 

Lee Jones, Jones Insurance, 

board member; 

Steve Hawes, Claxton-Hepburn 

Medical Center, board 

member; 

William Payne, Mort 

Backus, board member; 

Barb O’Keefe, Fort LaPresentation, 

board member; 

Steve Lashomb, Upstate 

Bank, board member; 

Shannon Wells, Remington 

Museum, board member; 

Kevin McDonough, Seaway 

Festival, board member; 

Christopher Roberts, St. 

Lawrence Addiction Treatment 

Center, board member; 

The chamber has one full 

time employee, Sandra Porter, 

executive director, and a 15- 

hour-a-week office assistant, 

Gretchen Thompson. The 

chamber office is in Ogdensburg 

City Hall on the first floor 

opposite the state Department 

of Motor Vehicles. 

The board of directors meets 

at noon on the first and third 

Wednesday of the month, with 

the first meeting of the month 

dedicated to honoring North 

West Tech’s Student of the 

Month. All board meeting are 

open to the public and local 

business people are especially 

encouraged to attend. 

In the works is a plan to offer 

gift certificates for any member 

business as a continuance of its 

“Shop Locally” campaign. 

“Business After Hours,” held 

every few months, offers another 

opportunity for members to 

network, sharing what’s new in 

their businesses and making 

personal contacts not always 

possible during regular business 

hours. 

The chamber’s time and efforts 

are equally shared among 

business advocacy, enhancing 

community spirit and promoting 

the city and tourism in the 

area. Partnering with the 

Chamber Alliance of New York, 

the St. Lawrence County Chamber 

of Commerce and the Seaway 

Trail on tourism-related 

projects affords an opportunity 

for the Ogdensburg chamber to 

share information about the 

area as well as benefit from 

those three organizations’ contacts 

in Albany and Washington. 

Chamber members attend 

seminars and trade shows and 

the chamber publishes 10,000 

travel guides distributed 

throughout the state and Canada 

via “brochure swap meets” 

personal delivery and often the 

joint efforts of members. 

The chamber is also a member 

of the St. Lawrence Valley 

International Economic Alliance, 

whose members from 

three Upstate ccounties, two 

Canadian provinces and the 

Mohawk nation meet monthly 

to discuss current mutual concerns. 

Presently they are working 

on suggested solutions to 

increase cross-border commerce, 

the passport issue and 

airline service to the north 

country. 

The chamber’s mission is to 

advance the civic, commercial, 

industrial and agricultural interests 

of the city of Ogdensburg 

and surrounding areas. In promoting 

the general welfare and 

prosperity of the city of Ogdensburg 

and by stimulating the 

public sentiment to those ends, 

the chamber provides social features. 

Each year the Ogdensburg 

chamber conducts a contest 

during EXPO to choose the subject 

for an ornament depicting a 

historic site in Ogdensburg. 

The chamber also sponsors 

many events for the community. 

This year’s events include: 

March 16, Easter egg hunt; 

April 12, sportsman’s show; 

May 17 and 18, Communitywide 

garage sale; 

May 24, Car-B-Que; 

June 14, Festival on the St. 

Lawrence; 

July 24, diaper races; 

Aug. 15 to 17, International 

Junior Carp Tournament; 

Aug. 15, scavenger hunt; 

Aug. 23 and 24, communitywide 

garage sale; 

Sept. 6, motorcycle poker 

run and chili cook-off; 

Oct. 18, giant indoor garage 

sale; 

Oct. 27, pumpkin carving 

Contest; 

Nov. 14, annual dinner and 

Citizen of the Year award; 

Dec. 14, holiday house tour; 

Dec. 15, holiday lighting 

contest. 

For information on the 

Greater Ogdensburg Chamber 

of Commerce, call the chamber 

office at 393-3620. 

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NAHEC plans to expand 

Web services beyond N.Y. 

CANTON — The Northern 

Area Health Education Center 

Inc., 105 Main St., has expanded 

its successful health career services 

in Jefferson, Lewis, Clinton, 

Franklin and Hamilton counties 

to include six categories beyond 

health care, reports Richard K. 

Merchant, local manager. 

Established in 2000 in Canton, 

NAHEC operates My 

Health Career (www.myhealthcareer.org) 

and North 

Star Community Career 

(www.northstarweb.org) Web 

sites for career exploration and 

planning. 

“NAHEC has also become a 

WorkKeys Solutions provider 

offering a variety of job-specific 

skill assignments,” he reports. 

NAHEC, which has eight employees, 

double the number of 

five years ago, is a part of the 

New York State Altec System, 

based in Buffalo. The parent organization 

began there in 1998. 

NAHEC’s plans include expansion 

of Web services beyond the 

state. 

North country chiropractors 

now offer laser therapy 

Laser is the latest innovation 

at the offices of Dr. Lisa Francey 

Towle and Dr. Jamie Towle, 

board-certified chiropractors, 

at 16 Park St., Canton, and 3276 

State Route 11, Malone. 

Dr. Towle is specializing in 

Laser therapy and advertises to 

be the first in St. Lawrence 

County to offer this state-of-theart 

technology, also used by the 

U.S. Postal Cycling Team and 

Lance Armstrong. 

3LT or Low Level Laser Therapy 

promotes healing in many 

conditions, including chronic/acute 

pain, wound healing 

and other difficult joint and 

neurological problems. The erchonia 

lasers that Dr. Towle uses 

are the most advanced 

Lasers on the market. Erchonia’s 

Lasers made history by becoming 

the first to receive FDA 

market clearance for the treatment 

of chronic pain, proven 

through two double blind IRB 

studies. Dr. Towle is now offering 

laser therapy at no extra 

charge to a regular office visit in 

2008. 

Most insurances are accepted, 

including Medicare, APA 

Partners, St. Lawrence-Lewis 

County BOCES, Empire, Workers’ 

Comp, Pequot and Blue 

Cross. A credit/debit card machine 

was installed. Michelle 

Vanover, billing manager, joined 

the staff in 2007. 

Biofreeze products, liquid vitamins, 

anti-arthritis supplements 

and a full line of aromatherapy 

oils are available for 

purchase. For more information 

about the office visit www. 

northcountrychiropractic.com. 

Each patient is prescribed an 

individual treatment plan based 

on the patient’s medical history 

and a full physical examination. 

Treatments include spinal 

manipulation, electric stimulation, 

therapeutic ultrasound, 

mechanical traction, acupressure, 

home exercises and nutritional 

recommendations. The 

chiropractors treat conditions 

including neck and back pain, 

headaches, pinched nerves, sciatica, 

disc problems, sinus trouble, 

stress, arthritis, fibromyalgia 

and sports injuries. 

In 2007 all the office’s chiropractic 

tables were refurbished 

with new soft cushions; warm 

stimulation pads are used with 

hot packs, and a bowl of fresh 

apples and other healthy snacks 

are available at the offices. 

Dr. Francey Towle teaches 

weekly Pilates classes and promotes 

a healthy lifestyle. For 

more information call Canton: 

386-2273, or Malone: 1 (518) 

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Passenger & Freight Service 

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24D Sunday,March 2,2008 WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES 

PROGRESS 2008 

St. Lawrence NYSARC employs 612, serves 615 

St. Lawrence NYSARC, a private, 

nonprofit corporation dedicated 

to working for and with 

people with intellectual and developmental 

disabilities, looks 

forward to further diversification 

of services in 2008. 

The past year has brought 

about organizational successes 

that the agency plans to build 

upon at its 38 sites throughout 

St. Lawrence County. 

A few of these accomplishments 

included pursuit of national 

accreditation, increased 

services that cultivate community 

integration, and new offerings 

for young people. 

During 2008, St. Lawrence 

NYSARC will continue to build 

for the future by increasing 

services for young people with 

disabilities. 

These plans include providing 

diverse vacation experiences 

that will be both fun and 

educational escapes, as well as 

new options for families of people 

with autistic spectrum disorder. 

The Nexus program for children 

with autism spectrum disorder 

serves 16 children and 

teens and is currently provided 

at SUNY Potsdam. Due to the 

success of the program in 2007, 

the agency plans to replicate the 

program in other areas of St. 


St. Lawrence NYSARC has 

more than 48 years of experience 

in the disability field, driven 

by a parent-based board of 

directors, which is led by Patricia 

Campanella, president. Daphne 

Pickert, executive director, oversees 

the staff of 612 who serve 

the needs of 615 individuals, including 

more than 300 day program 

participants, 140 employees 

in Seaway Industries, work 

centers and storefront operations, 

106 in residences, as well 

as 162 individuals receiving 

services through a supported 

employment program. 

Through supported employment 

programs, St. Lawrence 

NYSARC works with approximately 

106 employers and negotiates 

an estimated 48 contracts 

with the local business community. 

Efforts have grown in the areas 

of community integration 

through volunteer efforts. 

Team NYSARC, the agency’s 

volunteer group, participated 

in numerous activities including 

Salvation Army bell ringing, 

Relay for Life, Special 

Olympics, Light the Night, 

Hobble Gobble, Alzheimer’s 

Memory Walk and a donation 

drive for local animal shelters. 

Team NYSARC has increased to 

295 members, which includes 

72 active members from both 

the agency and the community. 

The Community Arts Program, 

a service dedicated to 

providing people with disabilities 

a venue to express their 

artistic talents, hosted a live 

The St. Lawrence County Local 

Development Corp.’s Microenterprise 

Revolving Loan 

Fund provides low-interest 

loans for the establishment or 

expansion of micro businesses 

(five employees or fewer) in the 

county. In 2007, the fund assisted 

a number of St. Lawrence 

County firms. Approved loans 

included: 

The Bedrock Café and Gift 

Shop on Route 37 in Ogdensburg. 

Owner Wendy Goldie aims 

to provide a relaxing, family-oriented 

environment for both 

travelers and local guests. Two 

jobs will be created over the next 

three years. 

The fund assisted Chip Giordano 

of Chip’s Place in Hannawa 

Falls to expand his convenience 

store and increase 

employment by two over the 

next 3 years. 

Thomas Schneller was assisted 

by the fund with a loan to 

start a full-service marine contracting 

firm that specializes in 

docks, boat lifts, seawalls, and 

pile driving along the St. 

Lawrence River from Massena 

to Alexandria Bay. The company, 

AKJ Marine, can handle entire 

projects from start to finish with 

services that include obtaining 

music, dance and theatrical 

showcase that included an exhibition 

of visual arts. Participants 

in the arts program are 

currently rehearsing for their 

next showcase, which will be 

held May 10 at SUNY Potsdam. 

In an effort to promote individuality 

and ensure excellence 

in the delivery of service, St. 

Lawrence NYSARC is pursuing 

national accreditation from The 

Council on Quality and Leadership. 

Accreditation will ensure 

more community interactions 

within the county, facilitate personal 

outcomes for the people 

we serve, and allow for adaptation 

to the highest standard of 

quality in the developmental 

disabilities field. 

Microenterprise loans 

help businesses grow 

approvals and permits, subcontracting, 

welding, and removal 

of old structures such as hoists 

and docks. The company also 

has a dive team on staff. Mr. 

Schneller hopes to hire three 

more people over the next three 

years. 

Chuck Lamica requested assistance 

from the St. Lawrence 

County microenterprise fund to 

purchase inventory for his business, 

Chuck’s Pet Store, to expand 

into a second location in 

Canton. 

The funding will be used for 

improvements to the space, fixtures, 

equipment and inventory. 

MicrHe will sell the same items 

as in his Massena store. 

Heather Gilson was approved 

for working capital and for renovations 

for the Felician House 

B&B. 

The Hair Studio in Potsdam, 

owned and operated by Tina Wiley, 

was approved for a loan from 

the St. Lawrence County Microenterprise 

Program to purchase 

equipment and fixtures 

and to renovate her business in 

Potsdam. 

She hopes to add a massage 

therapist in the near future. 

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EMT, nursing supplies 

offered at Harris Medical 

POTSDAM — Harris Medical, 

71 Market St., has been serving 

Northern New York since 1955. 

The Harris family business offers 

traditional home care 

equipment such as bath safety 

items, lift chairs, hospital beds, 

wheelchairs, walkers, canes and 

crutches. Assisted daily living 

aids such as reachers, pill crushers 

and sock aids are popular 

items. 

Harris Medical carries a full 

line of ostomy products, 

wound care, incontinence 

items, enteral feeding and biohazard/personal 

protection 

products. Many nurses and 

EMTs have taken advantage of 

the fact that Harris Medical is 

one of the few stores that carry 

EMT and nursing supplies 

such as bags, scrubs, stethoscopes 

and blood pressure kits. 

Orthopedic items, including 

knee and back braces and arch 

supports are available at Harris 

Medical, as are the popular 

Rollators that combine a 

wheeled walker with basket 

and seat. 

Hot and cold therapy items, 

exercise equipment, TEDS support 

stockings and Biofreeze 

products round out the selection 

of popular products. 

The newest product lines at 

Harris Medical include Medela 

breast pumps, nursing bras, and 

the popular Glamour Mom 

tank/tee breastfeeding shirts. 

Harris Medical is open 7:30 a.m. 

to 4:30 p.m. Monday through 

Friday. For more information, 

call 265-0623. 

All About Me! at Harris Medical, 

also at 71 Market St., is a 

postmastectomy boutique with 

a large selection of Amoena 

prostheses, bras and bathing 

suits and accessories. All postmastectomy 

fittings are by appointment 

only. Bellisse compression 

bras and compression 

garments are also stocked. Pink 

ribbon gift items as well as selfhelp 

books, candles, soaps, lotions 

and Earth Therapeutic spa 

items are available. All About 

Me! owner Mary Sue Foster and 

Shelly Murray, owner of Today’s 

Hair in Potsdam, offer monthly 

“Look Good/Feel Better” sessions 

for cancer patients. There 

is no charge for these events, 

but prior registration is required. 

Call 265-4YOU (265- 

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Healthy Habits Make for 

Healthy Living... 

Start your New Year off on a 

healthy note with one or more of 

the following health tips. 

1) Fight Depression through 

exercise… Exercising with friends 

or in a formal class is one way 

to avoid isolation when you are 

depressed, while doing something 

great for your body and your mood. 

Friends or formal classes offer 

encouragement to stay with the 

program. 

2) Get 6-8 hours of sleep per 

night… Remember all of those 

old remedies for sleepless nights 

like drinking a cup of warm milk 

or counting sheep? Odds are they 

won’t work. Experts do suggest the 

following however: Avoid eating, 

TV, and alcohol before going 

to bed. Loose weight, exercise 

regularly, and get adjusted by 

your chiropractor. Chiropractic 

adjustments increase your nervous 

system function allowing your body 

to function more efficiently, making 

sleeping easier. 

3) Read your food labels…Always 

read the labels and nutritional 

values for foods. Foods may state 

they are healthy or vegetarian but 

may in fact be full of sodium and 

saturated fat. In addition, make 

sure you are eating foods that have 

the least amount of additives and 

chemicals in them. A rule of thumb 

is if there are more words that 

you do not recognize in a list of 

ingredients than you do know, you 

should probably avoid eating it. We 

are encouraging our patients to 

raise the standards of their eating 

by cutting out all foods that have 

any partially hydrogenated or trans 

fats on the label. 

4) Live in the present to avoid 

stress… We spend so much 

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of our time worrying about the 

past and the future. While some 

of this is natural, it really adds a 

great deal of unnecessary stress 

to our lives. Being in the present 

moment is all we ever need to do. 

The past is gone and the future 

isn’t here yet. There is no need to 

waste time worrying about them. 

Try to spend less time thinking 

about past and future events and 

focus your attention on the here 

and now. Focus on the “here and 

now” that makes life worth living: 

A baby’s smile, a beautiful sunset, 

a thoughtful gesture by a stranger. 

You will automatically eliminate a 

great deal of stress from you life. 

For more information on 

healthier habits and healthy 

living call our office in Canton at 

(315) 386-2273 or Malone at (518) 

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Arxx Building Products, 

Apex Counstruction merge 

ALEXANDRIA BAY — Arxx 

Building Products recently announced 

a merger with Apex 

Construction Systems in the development 

of green building 

systems in North America. 

“Using the Arxx green build 

system for walls and foundations 

is just a smarter way to build”, said 

Jefrey Martusewicz, president of 

Seaway Wall Distributing, a supplier 

to about 40 dealers in New 

York state. “The result is 40 to 50 

percent more energy efficient 

construction with buildings that 

feature better indoor air quality, 

are stronger for enduring storms 

and are cost effective long-term. 

Our company saw a substantial 

growth in our sales of Arxx walls 

and foundations even though we 

are in a building downturn. Our 

customers are recognizing the 

importance of sustainable building 

and now with Arxx providing 

the green build system, this just 

adds to our momentum.” 

Arxx insulating concrete 

forms consist of two expanded 

polystyrene panels connected 

by a polypropylene web. The 

forms are stacked on the job site, 

reinforced with rebar, then concrete 

is poured into the forms, 

creating an insulated, monolithic, 

concrete wall. The result is 

a wallsystem that has high energy 

efficiency. Unlike wood construction, 

there are no cavities 

or gaps where molds can proliferate. 

The airtight construction 

enhances indoor air quality and 

reduces sound while the 

strength of the concrete walls 

makes them popular in hazardous 

weather areas. Arxx ICF 

meets major building code 

specifications and has a UL listed 

two- to four-hour fire rating. 


www.arxx.net or call 482-5253. 

Cross-training of workers 

now priority at Westelcom 

Westelcom, 130 Park Place, 

Watertown, provides Internet, 

telephone and related services 

to 2,000 businesses and 15,000 

residential customers in the sixcounty 

region between Lake 

Ontario and Lake Champlain. 

Westelcom is a subsidiary of 

Chazy Westport Communications, 

an independent telephone 

company founded in 

1905, employing 55 north country 

residents. 

Services include Internet 

and broadband connections; 

unlimited long distance calling; 

IP, hosted and traditional phone 

systems; computer networking; 

security and file backup; 

software development; domain 

Web hosting and design; Web 

optimization and e- 

commerce; virtual private networks 

and office connectivity, 

and collocation. 

In the last three years, reports 

President Paul F. Barton, Westelcom 

has invested $8 million in 

networking, switching and 

transport infrastructure and 

$500,000 in fiber optic infrastructure 

in Watertown and 

Plattsburgh. In Watertown, the 

investment has provided highspeed 

fiber optic communications 

to customers including 

Samaritan Medical Center, 

WWNY, Stream, the city of Watertown, 

JCC, and Immaculate 

Heart Central School. 

To view the fiber network go 

to www.westelcom.com/newsroom. 

Westelcom has also partnered 

with Alcatel-Lucent to install 

a switching platform to allow 

for advanced IP capabilities 

throughout the Watertown 

area. It has also partnered with 

or is certified with Microsoft, 

Avaya, Cisco Systems, 3Com, 

Comdial, Sonicwall, Compaq, 

and Integral Access. 

Westelcom also recently established 

an outbound-call 

center in the Brownell Building, 

providing local capabilities for 

calling campaigns, telethons, 

surveys and fundraisers. Westelcom 

has also partnered with 

Northeast Printing on Absolutely 

Business magazine. 

Westelcom has also recently 

introduced online data storage. 

Data Safe will provide off-site 

data storage of a customer’s critical 

files and documents. Utilizing 

Sonicwall’s VPN (virtual private 

network) technology, it creates 

encrypted secure tunnels to 

transfer data to Westelcom’s 

storage servers. 

One of Westelcom’s goals is to 

bring large data connections to 

area businesses that provide gigabit 

data speeds over fiber and 

advanced electronic transmission. 

With that connection, the 

company will be able to host 

customers’ phone systems, 

servers, firewalls and data storage 

devices in its facility. 

Another priority is already 

taking place: the cross-training 

of staff and installation for new 

internal procedures including 

management information systems, 

billing, customer resource 

management, online services 

and project planning systems. 

FDMCH develops housing 

for families living on post 

FORT DRUM — Fort Drum 

Mountain Community Homes 

is a partnership between the 

Army and Actus Lend Lease providing 

housing and asset, property 

and maintenance management 

for military families stationed 

at Fort Drum. FDMCH 

involves the development of 845 

new homes in master-planned 

communities featuring extensive 

trail networks, four state-ofthe-art 

community centers and 

the renovation of all 2,272 existing 

homes during the initial 52- 

month development period. 

Construction is under way on 

The Timbers, a 192-apartment 

home community for single soldiers. 

FDMCH finances, develops, 

builds, renovates and operates 

the $1.6 billion project for 

50 years. To date, 450 new 

homes are occupied, all community 

centers and trails are 

open and the renovations are 81 

percent complete. 

FDMCH and Actus strive to 

create a community that addresses 

three aspects of sustainability: 

Environmental: The FDM- 

CH land plan has minimal site 

impact, includes a wide range of 

open, green spaces, incorporates 

a detailed storm water detention 

plan and minimal tree 

removal. 

FDMCH is the largest Energy 

Star development in New York 

state history and implements 

environmentally-sound business 

practices, incorporating recycling 

initiatives throughout 

operations, construction and 

residential services. 

Social: FDMCH and its subcontractors 

are communityminded, 

supporting individuals, 

families and organizations 

both on Fort Drum and in 

neighboring areas. A donation 

of two Habitat for Humanity 

homes worth $400,000 is currently 

under construction. 

Economic: FDMCH employs 

more than 100 individuals 

and works with 110 subcontractors. 

As a major supporter of 

small and local businesses, 

FDMCH spent $117.5 million 

locally, the majority with small 

businesses, including $4.5 million 

with veteran-owned organizations 

since its 2005 inception. 

Select Screen Printing fills 

‘need in the community’ 

MONTAGUE — Barbara 

Loomis, whose husband, 

Richard Loomis, is a contractor/ 

mason, started her business, Select 

Screen Printing, in February 

2006 “to fill a need in the community.” 

The family-operated, locally 

owned business at 7106 Liberty 

Road can be reached at 376- 

3250. 

“We specialize in placing advertising 

logos by the silk screen 

printing method on t-shirts, 

crewneck sweatshirts, hats, 

hoodies and light weight jackets,” 

Mrs. Loomis writes. “Our 

product lines are available in a 

wide size and color range. We 

provide lettering and signs for 

vehicles. We also participate 

with businesses in their 

fundraising efforts.” 

Customers e-mail their logos 

to the business or have one created 

by a graphic designer who 

works with Select Screen Printing. 

Customers can approve 

their logos by e-mail. Products 

can be mailed or delivered in 

person. “We have a turn around 

time of approximately seven to 

nine days barring any unforeseen 

delay.” 

Gray’s Flower Shop grows, 

acquires another building 

From its beginnings in Clayton 

and later Carthage, Gray’s 

Flower Shop, a four-generation 

business, has grown to become 

Northern New York’s largest independent 

floral retailer with 

stores in Watertown, Carthage 

and Clayton. The acquisition 

and refurbishing of a building 

next door to the Watertown 

shop, 1605 State St., has resulted 

in a new design and call centers 

which service all three retail 

stores. 

Much of Gray’s product is 

grown in its own greenhouses 

aat the Carthage location, 314 S. 

James St. In recent years, inventory 

has expanded to include 

gift items, ornaments and plush 

animals. Gray’s has also become 

the area’s largest retailer of popular 

Colonial At Home candles 

and fragrance products. 

Gray’s has a Web site, 

www.graysflowershop.com, 

featuring a wide selection of floral 

and gift products for sale online. 

“It’s like having a fourth 

storefront,” said business owner 

Scott Gray. 

Mr. Gray has been asked to 

serve on the Retailer Council of 

the 15,000-member Society of 

American Florists, a critical 

player in the floral industry. 

Gray’s is open seven days a 

week, and delivers daily to Fort 

Drum and all of Jefferson County, 

as well as parts of St. 

Lawrence and Lewis counties. 

Also, Gray’s is a Top-500 member 

of the Teleflora wire service 

sending orders nationwide with 

same-day delivery. 


the Web site or call the Watertown 

store, 788-8441 or 1-800- 

767-GRAY; the Carthage store at 

493-3790 or the Clayton store, 

234 James St., at 686-5791. 

Watertown Appliance and 

TV Center features latest 

Watertown Appliance and TV 

Center, 316 Factory St., serving 

Jefferson, Lewis and St. 

Lawrence counties, has membership 

in the Nationwide Marketing 

Group, enabling the store 

to take advantage of $11 billion 

in combined buying power. 

As the area’s largest independent 

appliance dealer, Watertown 

Appliance and TV Center 

sells brands including 

Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, 

GE, Amana, Jenn Air, Viking and 

Frigidaire. 

Kitchen appliance pricing 

runs the gamut from economy 

to high-end luxury and professional 

models. Laundry appliances 

are available in all price 

ranges including washers and 

dryers featuring the latest in 

steam technology. 

On the store’s second floor is a 

video showroom featuring 

HDTV big screen and flat screen 

TV technology from names including 

Toshiba, Sharp, Hitachi 

and Mitsubishi. 

In addition to major appliances, 

Watertown Appliance offers 

displays of microwave 

ovens, KitchenAid small appliances, 

humidifiers, dehumidifiers, 

garbage disposals and a selection 

of Craftmade ceiling 

fans. 

“We own two large warehouses 

packed with inventory so our 

customers rarely have to wait for 

specific models, styles or colors,” 

said business owner Tony 

Mesires. “Our sales staff is welltrained, 

and unlike the chain 

stores, we have virtually no 

turnover. You can come back 

months later and deal with the 

same person you started with. 

Another plus, Factory Street 

traffic isn’t bad and you can park 

free right at our front door.” 


Amanda J. Miller 

Licensed Broker/Owner, RSPS 

Cell: 315-778-1191 

Office: 315-639-6180 

Fax: 315-639-3577 

www.lakeontariorealty.com 

lakeontariorealty@yahoo.com 

“No One Knows the Lake 

Country Like US!” 

15320 NYS Rte. 12E 

Dexter, NY 13634 

M ORGIA ’ S P ASTA 

Pasta, Mary Sauce, Jo Gift Richards 

Fundraising, Corporate Baskets, Gifts 

22654 Fisher Road, Watertown, NY 13601 

M 

Phone/Fax: 315-788-3509 

E-mail: mpasta@imcnet.net 

www.morgiaspasta.com 

ANGIA ... T ASTE T HE T RADITION ! 

William J. Elliot 

12505 Cty. Rt. 123, P.O. Box 469 

Henderson Harbor, NY 13651 

Office: (315) Broker/Owner 

Res: E-Mail: (315) 232-4497 welliott@elliottrealtyinc.com 

938-5764 • Cell: • Fax: (315) (315) 783-6503 938-7555 

KC Contracting 

PHONE 408-6294 

RESIDENTIAL AND 

COMMERCIAL 

ELECTRICAL WIRING AND 

TROUBLE SHOOTING 

GENERAL CONTRACTING 

OWNER: CLAUDE WILSON 

SPORTSMAN’S BARBER SHOP 

Since 1957 

DAVIDSON BUICK-PONTIAC-GMC INC. 

18288 US RT. 11 • WATERTOWN, NY 13601 

www.davidsonautonet.com 

MARY YAGER-FULTS 

310 State Street 


782-2442 

3 Barbers 

OPEN SIX DAYS A WEEK 

Mon.-Fri. 8:00-5:30 • Sat. 8:00-2:00 

Impala • Malibu • Cobalt • Aveo • HHR • SUVs • Vans • Trucks 

“BEEBO” 

Bus: 315-788-9400 

Sales/Leasing Consultant 

Direct: 315-836-2531 

mfults_davidsonautogroup@gs.reyrey.com Fax: 315-788-4762 

Get Your Space Under Control... 

• Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) 

• Field Measurement / As-Built Drawings 

• Large Format Scanning, Plotting & Artwork 

• Paper to CAD Drawing Conversion 

• AutoCAD Training 

• Graphics and Signage 

• GIS Services 

Phone: (315) 686-6110 Mon.-Fri. 9-5 

32377 NYS Route 12, Depauville www.cadfs.com 

Electrical Contractor 

Eric D. Young III 

23261 US Route 11 


Day 315-782-1286 

Night 315-788-8636 

315-778-7098 

Fax 315-788-8636 

EDYoung@twcny.rr.com 

Commercial Residential 

Generators Industrial 

Fire “50 Alarm Years Systems of Service” 

2030 

Hydro Old Market 

Seeding Road, Erosion 

Winthrop, Control 

NY 13697 

Mulching Fully Insured (Fiber, • Free Straw, Estimates 

&& Hay) 

Kristie 

Commercial Mason - Owner 

• Residential 

• Tim Phippen - Onsite Manager (315) •(315) 268-1056 

www.AlpineSeedingCompany.com 

261-8204 

J. Richard Meagher, D.D.S., P.C. 

40 Franklin Street, Suite III 

West Carthage, NY 13619 

Office Hours: 

By Appointment 

(315) 493-1581 

WEST CARTHAGE 

HOUSING AUTHORITY 

63 Madison Street 

Carthage, NY 13619 

Nancy A. Fargo 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

(315) 493-3581 Fax (315) 493-1075 

Email: Nancy.Fargo@verizon.net 

Joh n ’ s Auto Body 

PAINTING • COLLISION WORK 

FRAME REPAIR • ASE CERTIFIED 

John Hardter 

OWNER 

“OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE” 

Patterson Road, Watertown, New York 13601 

(315) 788-0571 

O CCUPATIONAL M EDICINE 

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Mr. Rick’s Bakery 

525 Mill Street • Watertown, NY 13601 

PAUL ALBERRY 

FRAN ALBERRY 

MARCY ALBERRY 

(315) 779-8070 

TARA M. ERDNER 

Plaza Beauty 

& Tanning Salon 

1312 Washington St., Watertown, NY 13601 

(right across from WHS) 

315-786-1090 

WEDDING & PROM UPDOS 

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Walk-ins are always welcome 

E&M TACK SHOP 

Horse Supplies 

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PO Box 143 • 9555 Church St. Castorland, N.Y. 13620 

Donna M. Loucks, G.R.I., C.B.R. 

Broker / Owner 

Phone: 315-377-3113 

Cell: 315-771-6990 • Fax: 315-376-7267 

e-mail: dloucks2@twcny.rr.com 

DINO ARVAN 

Din o ’s 

SHOE SERVICE 

22 Public Square 

Watertown, New York 13601 

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PROGRESS 2008 

County agencies bolster economy 

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: WIB receives grant to aid employees of closing GM plant in Massena 

CANTON — The St. Lawrence 

County Office of Economic Development, 

the St. Lawrence 

County Industrial Development 

Agency and the St. Lawrence 

County Workforce Investment 

Board each participated in economic 

and workforce development 

projects over the past year. 

The IDA, in conjunction with 

the Greater Massena Economic 

Development Fund, assisted St. 

Lawrence Lumber to build a 

new sawmill in St. Lawrence 

County with a $150,000 loan and 

authorization of a lease/leaseback 

and PILOT agreement. The 

sawmill is expected to employ 10 

people over the next three years. 

The IDA assisted Clarkson 

University with the issuance of 

$25,320,000 in civic facility revenue 

bonds for the refinance of 

a number of bond issuances, 

and the acquisition and installation 

of a campus-wide telephone 

system. Clarkson employs 

664 people in St. Lawrence 

County. 


Snowmobile Association, which 

promotes snowmobile tourism, 

purchased a groomer with a 

loan from the IDA’s Local Development 

Corporation. 

The new groomer will enable 

the volunteers to begin trail 

grooming earlier in the season 

and help manage the steep hills 

and rocky terrain in the Colton 

area. 

The local development corporation’s 

revolving loan fund 

assisted Heritage Cheese with 

an $80,000 loan to upgrade 

equipment and make improvements 

to the plant. 

By focusing on expanding its 

markets, the company cites the 

potential to create additional 

jobs in the community. 

D.E. Kerr Construction and 

Logging received a $75,000 loan 

from the local development corporation 

to help buy equipment. 

Four jobs are projected to 

be created over the next three 

years. 

Potsdam Auxiliary & College 

The St. Lawrence County Snowmobile Association 

purchased a groomer with a loan from the IDA’s 

Local Development Corporation. The new groomer 

will enable the volunteers to begin trail grooming 

earlier in the season. 

Educational Services expanded 

its Greenery snack bar in SUNY 

Potsdam’s Carson Hall. 

A portion of the project funding 

was obtained through private 

gift/donations, with the 

balance financed through an 

IDA bond issuance of $2.5 million. 

The project will provide additional 

services to students, facility 

and staff, especially commuter 

and off-campus students. 

PACES anticipates an increase in 

jobs at its dining service as a result 

of the project. 

The local development corporation, 

in conjunction with 

the Massena fund, loaned the 

management team at Atlantic 

Testing Laboratories $400,000 to 

purchase a majority of the business 

from the founder of the 

business. 

The IDA also sponsored a 

$200,000 loan from the North 

Country Alliance as part of the financing. 

Atlantic Testing is headquartered 

in Canton and, in addition 

to its headquarters, operates 

offices throughout New 

York and Vermont, including 

Albany, Binghamton, Elmira, 

Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, 

Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and 

Watertown. 

It has grown significantly 

since its inception and now provides 

full-service architectural 

and engineering technical support 

services. Atlantic Testing 

currently employs 215, of which 

60 are employed within St. 

Lawrence County, and plans to 

hire 14 more individuals over the 

next three years. 

The IDA, the local development 

corporation and the 

Massena fund assisted Newton 

Falls Fine Paper Co. with more 

than $11 million in financing 

since 2006 to acquire the former 

paper mill owned by Newstech 

New York, Inc. Financing has also 

been used to install and upgrade 

machinery and equipment 

within the facility, and in 

the renovation and modernization 

of the mill itself. The startup 

of the mill has brought 100 

new jobs into St. Lawrence 

County. 

Potsdam Mineral & Feed applied 

to the local development 

corporation for a $40,000 loan 

to assist in the purchase of 

equipment and construct a new 

warehouse. 

Potsdam Mineral & Feed sells 

and delivers custom mineral 

premixes to dairy farms in 

Northern New York. 

Two jobs will be created over 

the next three years. 

On April 20, a fire caused approximately 

$4 million in damage 

to the Cives Steel Co.’s Gouverneur 

manufacturing facility. 

The IDA and the state Economic 

Development Program Fund 

gave Cives a total of $400,000 in 

funding to assist in its rebuilding 

efforts. Cives employs 130 people 

in Gouverneur. 

In Massena, the IDA is assisting 

the Bennett Family Properties 

in the form of a sale-leaseback 

agreement to construct a 

12,400 square foot commercial 

building on Highland and Bucktown 

roads. 

Curran Renewable Energy 

was assisted by the IDA, the local 

development corporation and 

the Massena fund with 

$8,600,000 to purchase two existing, 

IDA-owned buildings 

within the Massena Industrial 

Park and the purchase and installation 

of equipment used to 

manufacture wood pellets. 

The project proposes the creation 

of 50 new jobs. 

The IDA continued to develop 

the Gouverneur Industrial 

Park. Lot clearing was completed 

on the remaining 16.3 acres 

of developable land in the park 

and a tree border has been 

planted. 


Workforce Investment Board 

recognized SeaComm Federal 

Credit Union for its support of 

the WIB’s weekly radio job listing 

on St. Lawrence Radio, Inc. 

WPDM/WSNN for the last 

three years. 

Broadcasting these ads 

greatly enhances the job search 

opportunities available to job 

seekers throughout the county. 

A $2,500,000 state Department 

of Labor grant has been 

awarded to the St. Lawrence 

County WIB to assist those individuals 

affected by the closing of 

the GM Powertrain plant in 

Massena. 

So far, 84 individuals have received 

service from the Workforce 

Investment Act, state Department 

of Labor or BOCES 

staff, all partners of the St. 

Lawrence County One-Stop Career 

Center. 


Workforce Investment Act Title 

IB Program met and/or exceeded 

all 17 of its local performance 

measures for program year 2006 

and as a result of this milestone, 

St. Lawrence County WIB applied 

for and was awarded an 

incentive grant award of 

$163,798. 

The funds will be used to upgrade 

equipment in the One- 

Stop Career Center Resource 

Room; to train 20 at-risk, disadvantaged 

youth in the CNA program; 

Community Brigade Service 

Learning; to fund 20 adult 

individuals in occupations in 

demand in St. Lawrence County; 

and staff training. 

Discount air carriers 

court business travelers 


For a long time, low-cost carriers 

like Southwest Airlines and 

JetBlue Airways have had a reputation 

for catering to leisure 

travelers — in fact, half of Southwest’s 

passengers and 75 percent 

of JetBlue’s customers fit in 

that category. 

But both airlines have been 

moving to capture more of the 

business travel market. 

For instance, Southwest and 

JetBlue now offer fully refundable 

fares, intended to appeal to 

business travelers with changing 

schedules. The two are also 

at the forefront of the stampede 

to introduce in-flight Internet 

access this year. 

And Southwest is starting to 

make its fares available through 

the computer systems that corporate 

travel managers use to 

book tickets. The airline is even 

starting to negotiate discounted 

contracts for corporate business, 

which were athema before. 

“While we have been 

adamant historically that we 

would not even consider that, I 

think there will be some situations 

in the future where that will 

make sense,” said Gary C. Kelly, 

Southwest’s chief executive. 

For its part, JetBlue said it was 

considering creating enhanced 

front cabin seating to attract 

business travelers willing to pay 

for perks like more legroom. 

Several of these efforts are receiving 

a positive reception from 

industry analysts, business travelers 

and the managers who 

make decisions about which carriers 

employees can or must fly. 

“They’re moving in the right 

direction,” said Michael Boyd, 

president of the Boyd Group aviation 

consulting firm, referring 

to Southwest’s strategy to court 

more corporate fliers. 

“To get the business traveler, 

you need a number of things,” 

he said. “Reliability — they’ve 

got that. Frequency — in most 

markets, they’ve got that. 

“But you’ve also got to have a 

low-anxiety product,“ he added, 

mentioning that Southwest’s 

seating policy may need refining. 

Last fall, Southwest, known for 

its first-come-first-served boarding 

process, changed that to ensure 

that those paying the highest 

ticket prices — $10 to $30 extra for 

its “business select” fares — are 

placed at the front of the line. 

All boarding passes are now 

numbered so passengers no 

longer have to line up early, 

which was a major turn-off to 

many business travelers already 

stressed and pressed for time. 

So far, Southwest is selling an 

average of two to three businessselect 

tickets per flight, Kelly said, 

and it aims to earn an additional 

$100 million a year in incremental 

revenue from these fares. 

Although Boyd praised that 

change, he said that Southwest 

might have to offer assigned 

seating or other enhancements 

to woo the business crowd. He 

noted, for instance, that Jet- 

Blue’s wider seats and live television 

were competitive advantages, 

compared with major carriers’ 

economy cabins. 

Southwest and JetBlue have 

also been able to outshine older 

competitors in customer service. 

“JetBlue does not have passengers; 

they’ve got groupies,“ 

Boyd said. “They’ve gotten 

where they’ve gotten strictly because 

of good service.” 

Southwest also had the best 

on-time record of the 10 largest 

domestic carriers last year, according 

to data compiled by the 

Department of Transportation. 

That’s a big reason Joshua 

White, a Melville accountant, 

gives Southwest almost all his 

business, flying fromMacArthur 

Airport, Long Island, to see clients 

two to three times a month. 

White also appreciates the 

new numbered boarding procedure, 

saying it “alleviates the 

panic“ previously associated 

with lining up for seats. He said 

he had paid the extra fee for the 

business-select ticket a few 

times, mostly to get priority 

boarding on longer flights. 


RONALD KLUSACEK, CW4, USA (Ret) 

General Manager 

“We love to say yes” 

26000 US Rt. 11, Evans Mills, NY 13637 

Voice: 315-629-4306 

Fax: 315-755-0767 

Email: rklusacek@yesomni.com 

www.yesomni.com 

Pinehurst Apartments 

6 Institute Drive 

Adams, NY 13645 

Luxury Living at 

AFFORDABLE PRICES ! 

Seniors Welcome 

Call Dan: 

(315) 286-7439 or (917) 620-9840 

“Creating More Now Time Scheduling For You & Your Family” 

Cutting Edge Lawn Service 

• SPRING CLEANUP & LAWN CARE 

• Lawn Mowing • Trimming • Cleanup of Trees & Brush 

• Fully • Residential Insured •& Free Commercial Estimates 

• Reasonable Rates 

• 5 Colors Crusher To Stone, Choose Sand, From 

(for Landscape stopping purposes) Stones 

PICK-UP OR DELIVERY 

Mon.-Thurs. by Appointment 

Fri. 4-7pm Sat./Sun. 8-2pm 

BULK MULCH 

By The Scoop or Bag 

Breen Street • Watertown 

across from Petes Restaurant Next to Old Garns Auto Barn 

778-6132 

24 Hr. Emergency Service Free Estimates 

Sampson 

Glass 

21738 NYS Rte 180 

Dexter, NY 13634 

(315) 639-4987 

(315) 639-4980 

Cell: (315) 681-8330 

From The Smallest 

of Jobs to the Largest 

778-6132 

All Types Of Residential 

& Commercial Glass 

Service and Installation. 

• Insulated Glass Units 

• Mirrors 

• Glass Table Tops 

• Screen Repair 

• Window & Door Repair 

• Commercial Store Fronts 

www.sampsonglass.com 

Auction - The Willis Sound That Shattuck Sells 

Auctioneer 

Households * Farms * Estates 

Party Tents * Tables * Chairs 

332 Jeffers Road 

Dekalb Junction, NY 13630 

FOREVER BEAUTIFUL 

(315) 347-3003 

PERMANENT MAKE-UP 

Joanne Falcon 

Certified Permanent Mak-up Technician 

Services offered: 

Eyebrows, Eye Liner, Lip Liner, Eyelash 

Perms and Eyelash Extensions. 

Call for an appointment - 

315-681-3543 

Empire Realty 

Licensed Real Estate Broker. 

Each Office Independently 

Owned and Operated. 

Stephanie Converse 

Associate Broke r 

Watertown, New 608 Pearl York 13601 Street 

Cellular: Office: 778-7317 

Fax: (315) 755-2095 

stephanieconverse@remax.net 755-2091 

B EST F RIENDS D OGGIE D AY S PA 

531 Eastern Blvd., Watertown, NY 13601 

(315) 782-3403 

Sharon Spaziani Jackson - Owner 

Full Service Grooming 

Self-Serve Pet Wash 

Shed Less Program 

Day Care 

Retail 

In-Home Boarding 

Brayton’s Therapeutic Massage 

& Body Work 

Brayton W. Ives 

NYS Licensed Massage Therapist 

Business Hours: Tues. - Sat. 9am ~ 6pm 

Phone: (315) 782-4614 

343 A Arsenal Street, Watertown, NY 13601 

“Feel the real difference 

Therapeutic Massage can make!!” 

Planned Parenthood 

Caring and Confidential 

- Urine testing and treatment for sexually 

transmitted infections (in most cases) 

- Rapid HIV tests (no needle, results in 20 min.) 

- Pregnancy tests and options 

counseling 

- Birth control supplies and EC 

(“Morning After Pill”) 

- Annual exams and screenings for 

breast, cervical and testicular cancer 

Local Centers Health 

Watertown: Lowville: 788-8065 

Gouverneur: 376-7421 

Canton: 287-2285 

Ogdensburg: 386-8821 393-6544 

1-800-230-PLA Or call: 

for the centerN 

nearest you. 

Ron & Sheila Klusacek 

Owners 

26000 US RT. 11 

Evans Mills, NY 13637 

M - F 8 am - 7 pm 

Sat. 10 am - 5 pm 

315.629.0424 Tel. 

315.629.1916 Fax 

store 3919@theupsstore.com 

www.theupsstore.com/3919.htm 

Of Northern New York, Inc. Shaggy Dog Lodge and Dog Spa 

BULK WATER 

DELIVERY 

Pools • Wells 

Hot Tubs 

Construction Sites 

788-0438 

Commercial • Industrial 

Agricultural 

Water/Island 

40172 Co. Rt. 40, Carthage, NY 

(315) 286-9982 

(315) 493-2886 

Fully Insured • Great Rates • Top Quality Work 

S.S. • Aluminum Specialist 

(GMAW) • (GMAW-P) 

(FCAW) • (SMAW) • (GTAW) 

DR. WILLIAM H. 

DINGMAN 

Chiropractor 

Family Practice, 

Sports Injuries, Nutrition, 

Homeopathy 

18545 Washington Street Road 


Office Hours by Appointment 

Tel: 315-788-0804 • Fax: 315-788-0932 www.drdingman.com 

Pet Boarding, Grooming, 

Supplies and Training. 

Luxury Suite Available 

IN-FLOOR HEATING 

25345 Bonney 782-6462 

Rd., Watertown 

Liberty Glass & Windows 

210 Court Street 

Miles Watertown, “Doc” NY Mincer 13601 

Glazing 315-782-6300 Superintendent 

Emergency 

Fax: 315-782-6302 

libertyglassco@yahoo.com # 788-7099 

FREE ESTIMATES 405-6834 or • 405-6841 FULLY INSURED 

DRIVEWAYS DESIGN • SEPTICS & DEMOLITION • TOPSOIL • BASEMENTS 

SNOW PLOWING & REMOVAL • SAND • STONE 

Fully Insured • Quality Work • Great Prices 

Landscape Design & Build 

Snow Removal 

315-783-1096 

4feldi@gmail.com 

James Watts 

Stonework • Garden Installs • Lawn Care

PROGRESS 2008 



Country club on island 

continuing upgrades 

WELLESLEY ISLAND — 

Thousand Islands Country Club 

reports its best season in recent 

history during 2007. Golf memberships 

tripled from the 2005 

season, with daily rounds and 

villa rentals including the popular 

one, two and three night golf 

packages all showing marked 

increases. Continued upgrading 

of golf course conditions, combined 

with ongoing capital improvements 

to the marina, 

clubhouses and villas have attracted 

both new and returning 

customers from the U.S. and 

Canada. The strong Canadian 

dollar remains a major contributing 

factor for the many 

new golfers coming across the 

border for daily play and packages. 

This winter has seen the refurbishing 

of the “island” docks 

in the 105-slip marina, the 

fourth area in as many years to 

receive off-season attention. 

Additional slips are being prepared 

to accommodate the increased 

number of boaters already 

signed on for the upcoming 

season. TICC continues to 

offer PGA instruction through 

individual lessons and clinics as 

well as multi-day packages with 

its affiliation with National Golf 

Schools. 

The tournament schedule 

featuring events such as Samaritan 

Foundation, Kinney Foundation, 

Hospice, 84 Lumber and 

many more will continue to be 

hosted by the facility. 

Exit More Real Estate 

to open new office in city 

Crediting its customers with 

its recent growth, Exit More Real 

Estate planned to open a new 

3,100-square-foot office and 

training facility at 18874 state 

Route 11 S., around March 1. 

The agency was opened as 

More Real Estate LLC in 

Mannsville in September 2004 

by Deborah Moran, 

broker/owner. In May it affiliated 

with Exit Realty International 

and became the first Exit Realty 

franchise in Northern New 

York. 

Since becoming Exit More 

Real Estate LLC in 2006, Exit 

More has opened two offices 

with approximately 30 agents. 

The main office is on Main 

Street in the village of Henderson 

and the business is planning 

to move its branch office 

from Coffeen Street in Watertown 

to the new facility on Outer 

Washington Street. The 

move will provide much-needed 

space for parking, more 

room for agent desks and a 

spacious training room with 

the latest in training and technology. 

Sales agent Patty Johnson was 

honored as the 2007 Rookie of 

the Year for all of upstate New 

York at the regional convention 

in Binghamton last fall, reports 

Ms. Moran. 

Linda Landers, office manager/notary/agent, 

has been 

with the agency from the start, 

primarily working in the 

Mannsville, Sandy Creek and 

Adams areas. Agent Amanda 

Magro has extensvive real estate 

experience. Shannon 

Beach, on board since last fall, 

also has a well-established real 

estate background and covers 

the Sandy Creek, Pierrepont 

Manor, Mannsville and surrounding 

areas. Dana Keefer, 

another Henderson area agent 

with the agency from early on, 

spends a lot of time traveling 

but is very involved in Hospice 

and other local charities. Jill 

Ahlgrim, also on board from 

the beginning, concentrates on 

Watertown but has a good 

knowledge of the areas surrounding. 

For more about Exit More Real 

Estate, call Debbie Moran at 

783-7355, the Henderson office 

at 938-9292 or the Watertown 

office at 782-9292. 

O.D. Greene Lumber serves 

customers in four counties 

O.D. Greene Lumber, with 

centers at 10799 U.S. Route 11 in 

Adams and on Route 3 in Sackets 

Harbor, serves customers in 

Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence 

and Onondaga counties with 

products including lumber and 

building supplies and Ace hardware. 

The Adams store, managed 

by Jeff Pratt, employs 36 people, 

up from 34 five years ago, while 

the Sackets store, managed by 

Tom Riecter, employs 10, one 

more than five years ago, reports 

Sally W. Stevens, president of the 

two stores. 

A decade ago the stores had 

25 and six employees, respectively. 

A year from now the projections 

are for 10 and 40 employees. 

In the last five years the Sackets 

store added docks to serve 

lake and river property owners, 

while the Adams store expanded 

its product line. 

The parent firm O.D. Greene 

Lumber was founded in 1868. 

Lori Gervera Real Estate 

adheres to code of ethics 

Lori Gervera Real Estate, 605 

Washington St., Watertown, was 

established and incorporated in 

1993 by broker-owner Lori 

Gervera. 

The agency has grown to a 16- 

member office that includes a 

full-time paralegal, an office coordinator, 

nine associate brokers, 

three licensed agents and 

one intern, assisting customers 

and clients with real estate 

needs including residential, 

commercial, seasonal, waterfront 

and land. 

Additional marketing services 

include home warranty programs, 

staging consultations, 

competitive market analysis, 

multiple listing service, buyer 

representation, virtual tours 

and extensive Internet opportunities. 

As a member of the national, 

state and local boards of Realtors, 

Lori Gervera Real Estate 

adheres to the organization’s 

strict codes of ethics. It is also a 

supporter of fair housing. 

For more information, call 

786-1900. 

E&M Tack Shop features 

equestrian equipment 

WEST CARTHAGE — E&M 

Tack Shop, 33 N. Broad St., sells 

equestrian supplies — saddles, 

bridles, grooming equipment, 

medicines, safety helmets and 

anything to do with riding services. 

Company president Patty 

Burdick, who employs three 

family members and is involved 

in horse show judging, is not 

planning anything new this 

year. “I am afraid the economy 

may be on the downside this 

year, so I am going to be conservative 

and try to control inventory,” 

she said. 

According to Burdick, her 

business is always changing. 

She says she reads the business 

magazines and follows the 

trends as they change. 

“I listen to my customers,” 

she says. “When they ask for 

something I try to help them. 

When the newest items come 

out, I try to acquire a few of them 

to show to people.” 

“I try to help people with 

training and health problems 

with their horses. I advise people 

on what may work for them. 

If a product is not going to work 

for them, I try to advise them 

and direct them to something 

else.” 

“I sell my products locally at 

my store. I have a mobile trailer, 

and I head the local horse shows 

and fairs. I am also planning to 

attend a show in Vermont this 

spring and Equine Affaire in 

Massachusetts this fall.” 


E&M Tack Shop at 493-2255. 

Waste Management takes 

‘green’ approach to trash 

2007 was a year of significant 

change for Waste Management, 

which reports it is taking the latest 

advances in waste disposal 

and bringing a “green” approach 

to handling garbage. 

WM creates enough energy to 

power the equivalent of 1 million 

homes each year and 

processes 8 million tons of recyclables 

each year. 

Senior management has 

committed by the year 2020 to 

increase energy resources to 

power the equivalent of 2 million 

homes, to triple the amount 

of recyclable materials 

processed and to increase the 

fuel efficiency and reduce the 

emissions of the company’s 

fleet by 15 percent. 

The local group has been providing 

waste and recyclable collection 

and disposal services to 

the local communities in Jefferson 

County for more than 40 

years. 

Waste Management offers 

single stream recycling or a 

commingling of all recyclables, 

which are then transported to 

Recycle America in Syracuse for 

sorting and processing. 

In January 2007 the company 

was hit by a devastating fire, 

which destroyed its Felts Mills 

maintenance facility and three 

of its main collection vehicles. 

But with teamwork and support 

from the New York state group, 

the company was able to continue 

operations without any 

negative impact to customers. 

Waste Managment built a 

new state-of-the-art facility that 

houses both garage and offices 

and is still at its old location on 

Card Road, Felts Mills. 


wm.com. 

Morgia’s Pasta springs 

from old family tradition 

Morgia’s Pasta, a local family 

run pasta and sauce manufacturing 

company, started in April 

1990. Rosalind Morgia and her 

daughter, Mary Jo, run the dayto-day 

business. 

John and Rosalind Morgia began 

making pasta as a Sunday 

family tradition with their children 

Joanne, Mary Jo and John 

Jr. and donated their pasta to the 

St. Anthony’s Church Bazaar for 

its annual fundraiser. The Morgias 

were approached by Nunzio 

Speno, who owned Ann’s 

Restaurant on Arsenal Street 

and wanted to start buying the 

pasta for his business. 

The Morgias were then contacted 

by Pete’s restaurant and 

Fairground Inn. At that point, 

the Morgias launched a business 

called Jomaro’s Pasta, 

based on the initials of the first 

name of each family member. 

The business was called Jomaro’s 

for a few years, and the 

family incorporated and 

changed the name to Morgia’s 

Pasta. 

The Morgias started making 

pasta in the basement of their 

home with a hand-crank machine. 

Soon after, they outgrew 

the basement and moved to the 

old Alteri’s Bakery. Since then, 

Morgia’s has expanded its product 

line and outgrown its facilities, 

moving several times, ending 

up in its present facility at 

22564 Fisher Road, Watertown. 

Morgia’s Pasta products are 

all natural and have no preservatives. 

The pasta is made with 

high quality flour, eggs and water. 

Spice products are made 

from real dried ground spinach 

and tomato for spinach- and 

tomato-flavored pastas. On any 

given day, Morgia’s can produce 

up to 500 pounds of pasta with 

its three machines. Frozen 

products include manicotti, 

gnocchi, cavetelli, lasagna, rigatoni 

and ziti. Morgia’s also produces 

and bottles its own fatfree 

pasta sauce. 

Pasta gift baskets are sold at 

the retail location in the Industrial 

Park and over the Internet. 

Morgia’s has two major distributors 

and a few small ones 

for statewide sale and distribution. 

Renzi’s Food Distributors 

handles the restaurants and 

Cavallaro Foods in Syracuse distributes 

to the retail accounts. 

Morgia’s has been a Pride of New 

York Member for more than 10 

years. 

Due to rising costs in such 

commodities as such as flour, 

eggs and plastic, Morgia’s has 

had to raise prices for the first 

time since incorporating in 

1991. 

Morgia’s Pasta is open yearround 

and has always been involved 

with giving to many local 

charities. 


MIKE KERLEY 

Ron & Sheila Klusacek 

Wonder where BEEBO went?? 

AND KERLEY SNOWPLOWING ELECTRIC 

Residential Fully and Insured Commercial 

PO Box 294, Three Mile Bay 

Cell: (315) 914-329-0097 649-2269 

David H. O’Neil 

Financial Advisor 

Morgan Stanley 

GeDe S 

9555 Church Street 

david.o’neil@morganstanley.com 

1063 Arsenal Street 

Suite 100 


toll free 888-813-4500 

tel 315-788-2100 

Main Branch 

250 S. Clinton Street 

Syracuse, NY 13202 

toll free 800-755-5451 

tel 315-464-3300 

BEFORE CALLING OTHERS 

Castorland, TO DO YOUR NY 13620 

MOVING OR ESTATE HOUSEHOLD, SALE 

G (315) INNY 376-7371 O WENS 

D ONNA L OUCKS 

(315) 376-3895 

L (315) YNNE 376-7626 G ETMAN 

S UZIE P ARKER 

(315) 376-6420 

Bourquin Farm Equipment, LLC 

S ALES & S ERVICE 

9071 NYS R T . 12E 

(B ETWEEN C HAUMONT AND T HREE M ILE B AY ) 

C HAUMONT , N.Y. 13622 

DEBORAH A. CAVALLARIO 

Owner/Director 

P HONE : (315) 649-2415 

ADHD EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 

Homework Assistance With Parental Involvement 

HAPI 

(315) 782-588 8 

259 Thompson Blvd., Watertown, NY 13601 

email: adhd60@hotmail.com 

www.adhdeducationalservices.com 

107 Court St. Top Of The Sq. Ctr. 


M - F 9am - 6 pm 

Sat. 10 am - 5 pm 

315.785.0144 Tel. 

315.785.5419 Fax 

store 1139@theupsstore.com 

www.theupsstore.com 

HAROLD E. HEATH 

Phone (315) 629-4712 

OWNER 

Cell (315) 778-0617 

H. E. HEATH ELECTRICAL, 

Fax (315) 629-4772 

LLC 

BUCKET COMMERCIAL TRUCK SERVICES & INDUSTRIAL - 40 FT. 

PRI MERICA 

29701 Martin Rd. North • Evans Mills, NY 13637 

A Citi Company 

Stuart W Strash 

Regional Vice-President 

Primerica Financial Services Bus 315.346.1595 

E. Main, Suite 459 Res 315.346.1151 

Beaver Falls, NY 13305 

An independent representative of Primerica Financial Service Agency of New York, Inc. 

Insurance issued by National Benefit Life Insurance Company/Home Office: New York, New York 

REPAIRS 

UPGRADES 

BUILD TO ORDER 

M.J. 

COMPUTER SERVICE 

SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS 

CONNECTION PROBLEMS 

CONFIGURATION PROBLEMS 

Help! 

NETWORK INSTALLATION 

(HOME & SMALL BUSINESS 

WIRELESS OR WIRED) 

NEED YOUR NEW 

COMPUTER SET UP? 

(315) 874-4062 

MICHAEL J. ASHLINE 

GR OF F ’S CO R NER A U T O M O T I V E 

RIDGETOP LOG HOMES 

Quality Kiln Dried Construction 

Energy Efficient Logs 

Camps, Call Today Cottages for & Brochure Homes 

CALL Doors, TODAY Windoes, FOR A Roof FREE & Porch 

315-222-5323 QUOTE 

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Packages include all the Logs, 

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WATERTOWN, N.Y.S. ROUTE NEW 37 YORK 

Located 2 1 / 2 Miles North of Longways Truck Stop 

(Next to Eiss Bros. Auto Parts) 

QUALITY PRE-OWNED VEHICLES 

24159 LARRY Knowlesville G. GROFF Rd. , OWNER 

Watertown, NY 13601 PHONE (315) 629-4743 

O RGANIZED T IME 

Personal Assistant Service 

saving Specializing you time. in 

Phone 315-489-2282 

8 am - 5 pm 

CELL (315) 778-4144 

CUMMINGS 

WALTER 

FUNERAL 

P. CUMMINGS 

SERVICE, INC. 

PRESIDENT 

320 J OHN S TREET 

C LAYTON , NY 13624 

(315) 686-5101 

WENDELL President ZEHR 

214 S TERLING S TREET 

W ATERTOWN , NY 13601 

(315) 782-0830 

Rusty Tuttle 

Daniel Authorized Boone Dealer Log Homes for 

www.ridgetoploghomes.com 

Available on a 

regular basis or 

one-time event. 

AIR ZEHR CONDITIONING, HEATING & INC . 

Sales, Installation and Service 

24 Hour Service 

27662 NYS Rt. 12 


Office: (315) 788-5828 

Cell: (315) 778-7308 

Fax: (315) 788-5828 

Come her see at 

for your next Car, Truck or SUV! 

Mary Fults 

18288 U.S. Rt. 11, Outer Washington St. 

Watertown • (315) 836-2531 

mfults_davidsonautogroup@gs.reyrey.com 

D.P. Plumbing, Bartlett Heating & Sons 

& Air Conditioning 

Residential Comfort Specialists 

DAVID P. BARTLETT - Owner 

RYAN J. & TYLER R. 

(315) 232-3280 58 North Main Street 

24 HOUR SERVICE Adams, New York 13605 

SALLY’S 

BEAUTY SHOP 

493-0944 PHONE: 

Super Cuts for 

& Gals 

DAKGuys 

38 North Main Street 

W. Carthage, NY 13619 

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTING, Inc. 

Custom Homes Re-Modeling 

Design Services Island Work 

Interior/Exterior Trims Painting Division 

David A. Knapp, President 

(315) 482-3040


PROGRESS 2008 

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Paddock Club adds stage 

for live acts, dance floor 

The Paddock Club, in the historic 

Paddock Arcade on the 

west side of Public Square in 

downtown Watertown, is open 

from 4 p.m. to midnight Sunday 

through Thursday and from 4 

p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 

Since taking ownership of 

the Paddock Club in the fall of 

2005, Robert Dalton has transformed 

this one-room bar into 

an upscale three-room night 

club. 

He started with a dozen different 

martinis and now has a 

menu of 56 martinis and cosmopolitans, 

along with margaritas, 

mojitos and cocktails. 

There is also a menu of a 

dozen or so shooters served up 

in lighted shot glasses. He uses 

top-shelf liquors and wines and 

has 30-plus bottled beers and 

three draft beers on tap. There 

are drink specials each day and 

for Sundays he recently started a 

Bloody Mary Buffet where customers 

can add ingredients to 

make their Bloody Marys. There 

are seasonal drinks such as Tom 

and Jerrys at Christmas, served 

with fancy pirouette cookies. In 

the fall, there are pumpkin spice 

and apple cider martinis. 

During happy hour, snacks 

are served in oversized martini 

glasses on the bar and tables 

and nachos are offered with 

hot cheese sauce. Fresh-made 

hot popcorn is always available. 

Customers often bring or 

order food to be delivered to 

the Paddock. With the opening 

of Johnny D’s restaurant in the 

arcade, there will be a full 

menu featuring fresh cut fries, 

wings and burgers right down 

the hall. 

With three rooms and extra 

tables set up in the Arcade for 

the overflow, the Paddock can 

accommodate a large crowd for 

a party or similar event. 

The original bar room has 

four televisions including a 

large flat screen. There is a window 

seat with pillows and several 

pub tables in the bar and middle 

room. 

This last room added in June 

has a stage for bands, a large 

dance floor and sound activated 

light show. A window area has a 

raised floor with a living room 

set. An antique church pew provides 

additional seating against 

the wall facing the stage. The 

jukebox and a dart board provide 

music and activity on 

nights when there are no bands. 

Speakers are wired to the stereo 

in the bar room. 

In 2006, Mr. Dalton received 

the Downtown Business Association 

Business of the Year 

award. 


paddockclubusa.com or 

www.myspace.com/paddockclub 

Association offers services 

to blind, visually impaired 

The Association for the Blind 

and Visually Impaired of Jefferson 

County Inc., formed in 1919 

as Association for the Blind, 

added programs for visually impaired 

persons in 1989 and recently 

added vision rehabilitation 

instruction. 

Training in communications, 

kitchen skills and other basic activities 

of daily living may be 

provided in the individual's 

home. Instruction in Braille may 

also be provided. 

Other services include peer 

support groups in Adams, 

Carthage, Clayton, Alexandria 

Bay and in Watertown, where 

there are two. Equipment such 

as video magnifiers (CCTVs) 

and digital magnifiers may be 

borrowed at no charge. A transportation 

program for visually 

impaired, Project Wings, is provided 

in conjunction with the 

Volunteer Transportation Center. 

The association does not 

charge for its services. Referrals 

may be made by calling the office 

directly; a doctor’s referral is 

not required. The service agency 

receives financial support from 

membership, fundraising 

events, legacies and donations, 

the United Way and the Jefferson 

County Legislature. 

The agency office is at 321 

Prospect St., Watertown; phone 

782-2451 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday or e- 

mail asnblind@imcnet.net. The 

Web site is http://asnblindjeff.org. 

Robbe Sales sells custom 

screen printed items, gifts 

Robbe Sales Embroidery and 

Screen Printing, 26436 state 

Route 283, outer Pearl Street 

Road, Watertown, offers a diverse 

line of goods including T- 

shirts, jackets, caps and safety 

green ANSI apparel. 

It also sells gifts including 

maple syrup, roses, wicker, ceramics, 

crystal and wood items. 

“Our expertise is in custom 

design,” the business reports. 

“We also take great pride in our 

military line of products. Fort 

Drum is our neighbor and we 

have many items available for 

soldiers and their famililies.” 

Orders may range from 250 T- 

shirts for a corporation or a 

sweatshirt for your grandmother. 


www.robbesales.biz or call 782- 

6104. 

Pearle Vision to celebrate 

32nd anniversary in June 

Pearle Vision Express of Watertown 

will celebrate its 32nd 

anniversary in June. 

Owned and operated by Dr. 

Fred J. Bresler, the Pearle Vision 

location on Arsenal Street provides 

complete eye examinations 

for the detection and treatment 

of disease using the latest 

diagnostic equipment. It also 

fits the newest contact lens 

products for astigmatism and 

extended wear. 

Pearle carries hundreds of 

frames including top designers 

such as Christian Dior, Guess, 

Nine West, Marc Ecko,Candies, 

Liz Claiborne, and many more. 

“There are many factors that 

you should consider before 

making a purchase including 

your prescription, personal 

taste, facial shape, lifestyle and 

cost,” Dr. Bresler said. 

Pearle Vision is the provider 

for the new state employee eye 

care programs for correctional 

officers and state troopers. 

Pearle also accepts most insurance 

plans such asTricare, BCBS 

of Utica Watertown, Car Freshener, 

Vision 1, GHI, and many 

more. 

Pearle Vision Express runs 

several promotions throughout 

the year. The most popular is 

“Buy One, Get One Free” in 

which customers can purchase 

a first pair of glasses and get a 

backup pair for free or for a minimal 

fee, prescription sunglasses 

as a second selection. Visit 

theoffice for details. 

For more information contact 

the store at 782- 2600. The 

business hours are 9 a.m. to 7 

p.m. Monday through Friday 

and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 

Planned Parenthood 

marks 41 years in NNY 

Planned Parenthood of 

Northern New York, Inc., incorporated 

in 1967, celebrated its 

41st anniversary on Feb. 14. It is 

an accredited affiliate of the 

Planned Parenthood Federation 

of America, with an annual 

budget of more than $3 million. 

Ruth-Ellen Blodgett is the chief 

executive officer. 

PPNNY has administrative 

offices in Watertown, and 

health centers in Lowville, Watertown, 

Gouverneur, Canton 

and Ogdensburg, employing 

nearly 50 administrative and 

health care professionals. The 

agency had nearly 15,000 visits 

in 2007. 

Health care services are offered 

for women and men and 

include breast, cervical and testicular 

exams, Pap tests, colposcopy, 

contraception, testing 

and treatment for sexually 

transmitted infections, pregnancy 

testing and options 

counseling, Planned Parenthood 

also offers needle-free 

rapid HIV tests with results in as 

little as 20 minutes, and urine 

(swab-free) STI testing. Federal 

funding allows Planned Parenthood 

to provide confidential 

services at reduced costs based 

on the patient’s income. The 

agency can also help eligible 

patients apply for the Family 

Planning Benefit Program, 

which provides one year of free 

family planning services and 

supplies. 

The PPNNY education department 

works with schools, 

parents, health and human 

service agencies and faithbased 

organizations to provide 

age-appropriate, medically-accurate 

sexuality education. 

PPNNY also provides case management 

services to pregnant 

and parenting teens and 

women through contacts with 

the state Department of Health 

and local social services departments. 

PPNNY health centers provide 

early morning, evening and 

weekend appointments. 

Call 782-1818 for more information. 

K.B. Abstract Corp. offers 

a multitude of services 

K.B. Abstract Corp., Watertown, 

offers services including 

abstracts of title, last-owner 

searches, tax searches, judgment 

and lien searches and title 

insurance, said owner and 

sole employee Kathleen 

Burgess. 

The business, founded in 

1997, will “continue doing the 

same, serving the local realtors, 

banks attorneys and individuals 

as they need searches done for 

buying and selling property” in 

Jefferson and Lewis counties, 

she said. 

Cardinal Shoppe to launch 

Web site to expand reach 

The Cardinal Shoppe, 834 Arsenal 

St. and 1310 Washington 

St., owned by James Livingston 

features gifts and collectible 

items. 

Livingston says he has adapted 

to market change by staying 

on top of customer needs. The 

business currently has five employees. 

“Internet shopping has become 

a new avenue to get to 

customers out of the area,” he 

said. “Our new Web site that will 

be up in March of ’08 will surely 

help us in getting our wide array 

of product to more people.” 

Colonial Woodshed plans 

to expand store, inventory 

Colonial Woodshed, Basket 

World and Straw Market, 402- 

423 W. Main St., a family-owned 

and operated business founded 

in 1975, sells finished and unfinished 

furniture; wicker items; 

gifts; collectibles; gourmet 

foods; candles and candle holders; 

some custom-made products 

and tourist items such as T- 

shirts and mugs. More products 

made in-store are part of the inventory. 

New patients accepted 

by nurse practitioners 

Northern Nurse Practitioners 

is owned by Joan D. Hawthorne, 

FNP-C and Catherine O’Brien, 

FNP. It is at 26495 state Route 3, 

Watertown, next door to the 

Partridge Berry Inn on Black 

River Road. 

Kimberly Roberts is the local 

manager. The business also employs 

a clinical assistant, Angela 

Beran, and a receptionist, Bonnie 

Bryden. 

Northern Nurse Practitioners 

opened May 17, 2004 and specializes 

in the treatment of skin 

conditions such as acne, psoriasis, 

sun damaged skin and skin 

cancers. They are accepting new 

patients without referrals. 

The business is open noon to 

7 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. to 4 

p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and 

Thursday. Call 786-1924 for an 

appointment. It can also 

reached by fax, 786-0823. 


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S O USAN WNER C HIFFY O FFICE C ELL : 315-782-8262 315-408-5437 

PHONE: 315-782-3525 FAX: 315-782-7674 

CHARLES L. FLUNO, P.E. 

& ASSOCIATES 

ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS & DRAFTERS 

44 PUBLIC SQUARE, SUITE 1 

P.O. BOX 331 

WATERTOWN, NY 13601-0331 

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PROGRESS 2008 


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Jefferson County Hospice 

pursues concept of center 

Hospice of Jefferson County 

Inc., serving Jefferson and 

southern St. Lawrence counties, 

was founded in 1986 and provides 

care as needed 24 hours a 

day, seven days a week: managing 

the patient’s pain and symptoms; 

assisting the patient with 

the emotional and psychological 

aspects of dying; providing 

needed drugs, medical supplies, 

and equipment; coaching the 

family on how to take care of the 

patient; offering spiritual care; 

delivering special services like 

speech and physical therapy 

when appropriate; making 

short-term inpatient care available 

when pain or symptoms 

become too difficult to manage 

at home, or the caregiver needs 

respite time; and providing bereavement 

care and counseling 

to surviving family and friends. 

A nationwide Gallup survey 

for the National Hospice and Palliative 

Care Organization found 

that nine of 10 adults would prefer 

to be cared for at home if diagnosed 

with a terminal illness. 

However, the main barrier is the 

lack of a primary caregiver. 

In July 2005 Hospice of Jefferson 

County contracted with the 

Center for Community Studies 

at Jefferson Community College 

to conduct a market analysis for 

a proposed hospice community 

residence. It revealed that an 

overwhelming majority of the 

300 individuals polled would 

choose to die at home if facing 

terminal illness, yet one in three 

could not identify an individual 

able to provide that care. Ninety-eight 

percent of the 110 

health professionals surveyed 

had seen patients in the past 

year who would have been appropriate 

for a hospice community 

residence and would have 

referred those clients to the residence 

if it were available. 

The study concluded: “…it is 

with a high degree of confidence 

that the market demand 

and probable full capacity utilization 

of the Hospice proposed 

four- to six-bed residence 

is supported by the contracted 

research.” 

The long-range plan is the development 

of a hospice center 

combining a hospice residence 

with hospice administrative 

and foundation headquarters. 

The current administrative facility 

at 425 Washington St. lacks 

space (interior and parking) and 

energy efficiency. It is not handicapped 

accessible. There is no 

room downstairs large enough 

to hold bereavement and community 

support groups. 

An energy audit recently contracted 

revealed the cost of work 

and upgrades needed exceeds 

the worth of the building. 

Steven P. Duffany offers 

insurance plan guidance 

The annual Medicare enrollment 

period, Nov. 15 to Dec. 31, 

allows recipients to sign up for 

an advantage plan with drug 

coverage included or a separate 

drug plan and separate medical 

coverage, notes independent 

insurance broker Steven P. Duffany, 

who represents “many different 

companies with all kinds 

of plans” and offers guidance to 

clients in making their choices. 

Medicare recipients can 

change coverage during the 

open enrollment period, which 

runs from Jan. 1 to March 31. 

It is possible to sign up for 

drug coverage three months before 

or three months after you 

turn 65 or if you leave your employer’s 

coverage. 

Mr. Duffany, who has more 

than 26 years’ experience in the 

insurance business, notes questions 

to ask when selecting a 

plan: 

Is there an additional fee or a 

deductible? What are the copays? 

Is a Medicare supplement 

better for me? How about local 

service? How much medication 

am I taking? Will I get to the 

doughnut hole? When will the 

coverage take effect? How about 

if I go south for the winter; will I 

still be covered? 

Fewer than 10 percent of beneficiaries 

ever reach the “doughnut 

hole,” he notes. 

For more information call Mr. 

Duffany at 788-1885. 

Bolton’s to provide service 

to nursing home residents 

Effective April 1, Bolton’s 

Pharmacy Inc., West Main 

Street, Watertown, will begin 

providing the pharmacy services 

for the Lewis County General 

Nursing Home. As a long-termcare 

pharmacy, Bolton’s will provide 

the medicines for the 160 

residents, along with unit-dose 

packaging, medical administration 

records, physician order 

forms, and drug utilization and 

quality management review. 

Because of the ability to offer 

customized medicine, Bolton’s 

will also be able to offer medication 

IVs and compounded medicines. 

“We have been meeting with 

the staff at the nursing home 

and hospital, and starting the 

transition process,” said Patti 

Signor, Bolton’s pharmacist and 

co-owner. “We want the families 

of the residents to be assured 

that we will work with the hospital 

and their physicians to provide 

the personalized medications 

that meet their unique 

needs, for the most positive 

therapeutic outcomes.” 

A locally owned, independent 

business established in 1895, 

Bolton’s offers a wide range of 

services and customized medication 

including an expanded 

customized compounding program 

(for humans and pets), 

home IV infusion therapy services, 

prescription plans for local 

employers and pharmacy services 

for nursing homes, and a wide 

line of durable medical equipment 

and home health aids. 

Bolton’s Pharmacy includes a 

newly installed, state-of-the-art 

computerized prescription system 

and has expanded its pharmacy 

by more than 400 percent. 

Bolton’s is a member of the Professional 

Compounding Centers 

of America, a training and education 

organization accredited 

by the Accreditation Council for 

Pharmacy Education. Bolton’s is 

the only PCCA member pharmacy 

in the city of Watertown. 

“In today’s big chain pharmacy 

environment, some people 

say a small independent pharmacy 

such as Bolton’s is a dinosaur,” 

Ms. Signor said. “We 

don’t think so. In fact we believe 

that our continued commitment 

and focus on being the 

best pharmacy we can be is ultimately 

what people want.” 

In March 2007, Bolton’s purchased 

Northern New York Infusion 

Inc., dba Optioncare, and 

became the only local home infusion 

service in the Watertown 

area. Home infusion services, 

such as TPN’s, chemotherapy, 

morphine drips and IV antibiotics 

are now offered to patients 

in all of Northern New York. 

For more information on 

Bolton’s call 782-5961. 

Brookside Senior-Living 

to celebrate fifteen years 

# FREE IN-HOME ESTIMATES 

LOWVILLE — Brookside Senior-Living 

Community, 5701 

Brookside Circle, will celebrate 

15 years this July. Brookside offers 

full-service independent 

living to more than 100 residents. 

There are now 80 fullservice 

independent living units 

at Brookside, which consist of 41 

congregate apartment units, 38 

patio-style duplex home units, 

and one cottage home unit. All 

congregate units include utilities, 

air conditioning and cable. 

All Brookside units include 

trash, snow removal, lawn and 

grounds care and a variety of 

services and amenities. 

Services and amenities include 

transportation, restaurant-style 

meal service, housekeeping 

and laundry, well-being 

checks, clerical services, inhouse 

beauty parlor, an inhouse 

nurse’s station, a fully 

tooled workshop, shuffleboard, 

computer/Internet access and 

exercise equipment. There is also 

a Serenity Garden with flowers, 

birds and a pond fountaina 

Community Garden with private 

areas for residnts to work 

in, and a gazebo. 

Brookside’s regular activities 

and programs include exercise 

class, Brookside Book Club, 

bingo, walking group, Brookside 

Quilters, game night, social 

hour, music group, pot luck 

suppers, coffee hours, ice 

cream socials, shuffleboard 

tournaments, and the Grandpals 

Program, which involves 

residents in various activities 

with the neighboring Hand-In- 

Hand Day Care Center. Shopping 

and day trips to Watertown, 

Old Forge, the farmer’s 

market and the local ice cream 

parlor are on the activity schedule 

during the non-winter 

months. There are even various 

religious services on campus 

such as Communion, Rosary 

and Bible study. 

Throughout a year there are 

various speakers on topics such 

as health and wellness, medical, 

legal issues and senior services/programs. 

Each month there 

are various entertainers including 

instrumentalists, vocalists, 

bands, theatrical troupes, comedians 

and gospel and religious 

groups. Special events 

such as the summer concert 

and barbecue, the annual pancake 

breakfast, resident family 

Christmas Party, the annual 

craft fair, Gospel Fest, dessert 

theater and Apple Fest are held 

for the entire local community. 


Jane Lehman, housing and services 

manager, at 376-4333 or visit 

www.seniorlivinginny.com. 

The Web site features layouts of 

the facility and floor plans of 

each style of apartment and duplex 

home, with interior and exterior 

photographs. 

Oasis Spa in Sackets is set 

to open its doors in March 

SACKETS HARBOR — A new 

“natural” destination for the 

healing of mind, body, and spirit 

will soon be available to north 

country residents. The Oasis 

Wellness Spa, owned and operated 

by Dr. Danielle L. Lundy, will 

open at Madison Barracks on 

March 10 directly adjacent to Dr. 

Lundy’s Chiropractic Wellness 

Center of Northern New York. 

“Being a wellness spa, we believe 

that the body is sacred and 

we want to help you take care of 

yours,” she said. “Many times 

the problem is not only what we 

are putting into our bodies, but 

what we are putting on them. 

We have performed a great deal 

of research in an effort to offer 

the safest, highest quality products 

possible. We have eliminated 

carcinogens and parabens 

which are known to cause cancer 

and other conditions. All of 

the products used are 100 percent 

natural and in most cases, 

organic.The nail polish remover 

and nail polish are Formaldehyde 

and Toluene free, as well as 

free of many other toxic chemicals. 

Our guests can enjoy our 

spa and feel very comfortable 

about how we provide the services 

and what we use for products.” 

Several types of treatments 

will be offered at the spa, including 

several varieties of massage: 

Swedish, deep tissue, sports, 

pregnancy, custom, hot stone 

and aromatherapy. Body treatments 

such as Peppermint Sea 

Twist Body Wrap and KÜR moisturizing 

body mask will also be 

on the menu; plus paraffin wax 

treatments, 

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pedicures, manicures 

and facials. A far infrared 

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sauna will also be available. 

FINANCING 

COTA FLOORING 

CARPET • WOOD • TILE • VINYL • CERAMIC 

“Your One Stop Floor Covering Store” 

915 West Main Street • Watertown, NY 

# STORE 

782-5467 

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HOURS: Mon. Fri. 9AM-6PM, Sat 9AM-3PM 

Many different packages and 

specials will be offered on a regular 

basis. A patron may schedule 

as little as one or as many as an 

entire day’s worth of treatments. 

Dr. Lundy has traveled to many 

locations throughout the United 

States visiting various spas over 

the past few years. Her goal is to 

bring the same atmosphere and 

service that she has enjoyed at 

large, upscale spas to Sackets 

Harbor in a smaller package. 

The spa will be managed by 

Shannon Bogart. It also contracts 

with several cosmetologists, and 

shares licensed massage therapists 

with Dr. Lundy’s chiropractic 

practice. Appointments are 

now being scheduled and gift 

certificates are available by calling 

646-3777 or visit the Web site, 

www.nnywellness.com, for more 

information. 

A grand opening is planned 

for later in March. 

Auto Spa at Caskinette’s 

celebrates 1st anniversary 

CARTHAGE — The new auto 

spa detail center and car wash at 

Caskinette’s Lofink Ford & Mercury 

is celebrating its first anniversary. 

A grand opening was 

held Nov. 4, 2006 unveiling the 

soft-cloth automobile wash bay 

and six detailing bays. 

The idea for the auto spa 

came about partially as a result 

of the feedback from the customers 

at Caskinette’s-Lofink. 

“We were constantly getting 

requests from our customers 

and members of the community 

to expand these services, and 

also make them available to the 

general public,” said Lynn 

Leonard, general manager of 

Caskinette’s-Lofink. “This expansion 

and addition to our 

business allowed everyone, including 

people who have not 

purchased their vehicles here, to 

see what we can do for their cars 

… in a close-by convenient location.” 

“The name auto spa came 

from the idea that the services 

we will offer our customers in 

the auto spa is like a person going 

to the ‘spa’ for some real 

pampering... The deluxe wash 

consists of cutting-edge technology 

and top-of-the-line 

cleaning products, paired with 

our signature personal service. 

At the end of the wash, after a 

thorough and gentle cleansing, 

an attendant will even give your 

vehicle a ‘Turkish towel rubdown.’” 

In the detail center, different 

levels of detailing are offered for 

whatever the customer wants, 

and new specials are being offered 

often. 

Appointments can be made 

including drop-off and pickup 

services. 

The auto spa has helped 

many local organizations, providing 

fundraising assistance 

equaling thousands of dollars in 

the first year of its operation. In 

addition to the new services offered 

to the community, 15 new 

jobs were created at the dealership. 

The auto spa manager is 

Dave Marsala II. For more information 

or to schedule an auto 

spa appointment, call 493-1360. 

The car wash is open six days 

a week; customers can drive 

their vehicles in and an attendant 

will take it from there. Special 

“Internet Only” packages 

are offered at the Web site, 

www.autospacenter.com. 

Rose Hill treatment center 

can now extend programs 

MASSENA — Can Am Youth 

Services, doing business as Rose 

Hill, 100 County Route 100, provides 

chemical dependency 

treatment for adolescents. 

The facility recently converted 

to new operating regulations 

allowing increased ability to 

meet clients’ needs by extending 

treatment, report company 

President Jospeph D. Gray and 

Director Tina Russell. 

The facility, which treats 

clients from all over the state, 

was founded in 1988 and has a 

staff of 49, up from 40 five years 

ago and 30 a decade ago. 

Annual business of $2.3 millionisreported. 

Herb Phlipson’s sells 

‘Great Outdoors’ selection 

Herb Philipson’s has been a 

part of the Watertown community 

since it opened in October 

2003 in Price Chopper plaza on 

Arsenal Street. 

Known as “Outfitters for the 

Great Outdoors,” Herb Philipsson’s 

has provided north country 

customers with name 

brands in men’s and ladies’ casual 

and work clothing, 

footwear, hunting and fishing 

gear and sporting goods. 

Started in 1951, Herb Philipson’s 

today has six stores, in 

Rome, New Hartford, Oneida, 

Herkimer, Watertown and Liverpool. 

It carries Carhartt, Columbia, 

Levi, Under Armour, Nike, 

Dickies, Timberland, Carolina, 

and many other famous name 

brands. Gary Philipson is president 

of the company. 

NOW OPEN 

Johnny D’s 

Casual Dining 

Located In The Paddock Arcade 

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• BREAKFAST • LUNCH 

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Take Out or Dine In!! 

Come Visit Us At 

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315-782-6108 

Watertown, NY


PROGRESS 2008 

Uncle Sam helps at homes’ high end 

BORROWING COST LOWERED: New law helps families purchase pricier housing 


SAN FRANCISCO — Elizabeth 

and Ben Kilgore are back in 

the real estate market. All it took 

was a little-publicized section of 

the economic stimulus package 

President Bush has just signed 

into law that lowered the borrowing 

cost of buying a more expensive 

home. 

The Kilgores, who live in 

Tiburon, Calif., just north of San 

Francisco, are looking for a larger 

home in town for their growing 

family. Three years ago, 

when they bought their first 

home, they resigned themselves 

to buying a condominium because 

it meant taking out a 

mortgage they knew they could 

manage. 

“This will push us into a price 

range that’s now financially possible,” 

said Kilgore, a real estate 

agent in Marin County. 

And if the limit on loans 

backed by a governmentbacked 

housing finance entity 

like Fannie Mae is raised from 

$417,000 to the full $729,750 she 

has been hearing about, Kilgore 

said, “we will be able to get a 30- 

year fixed mortgage for less than 

what we’re paying now plus our 

homeowner’s dues.” 

The temporary change in the 

loan limits is not about to revive 

the housing market on its own. 

But in some of the higher-priced 

regions of the country that have 

been hit hardest by the flagging 

real estate market, it could make 

a big difference. 

For if anything is going to 

breathe new life into the local 

housing economy in places like 

the San Francisco Bay Area, San 

Diego, Washington and Boston, 

it is home buyers emboldened 

by the prospect of larger loans at 

lower interest rates. 

Daniel Billett, a mortgage 

broker in Seattle, where homes 

in the downtown area sell for a 

median price of around 

$400,000, said that he, like 

dozens of people he knows, is 

poised to refinance an existing 

jumbo loan at a lower interest 

rate. 

“As soon as the loan limits are 

implemented and lenders are 

accepting applications. I’ll be 

the first in line,” said Billett, 

whose company, Response 

Mortgage Services, has been receiving 

a steady stream of inquiries 

from clients in recent 

weeks. “I’m going to save hundreds, 

and I mean hundreds, of 

dollars every month on my current 

jumbo loan, by switching to 

a conventional loan.” 

For years, the rates on jumbo 

loans, those for more than 

$417,000, were only slightly 

higher than rates on conforming 

loans, those at or below that limit. 

But now, with the interest rate 

on conforming loans at around 

6 percent, sometimes less, jumbo 

loans are at least a percentage 

point higher. 

“The difference is as big as it’s 

ever been,” said Bart Welles, a 

mortgage broker in Larkspur, 

Calif. 

For a high-priced home, that 1 

percent can make a big difference. 

A monthly payment on a 

jumbo 30-year loan of $729,000 

at 7 percent would be $4,850. 

Monthly payments on a conforming 

loan of the same 

amount, at 6 percent, would be 

$4,371, a $479 difference. 

As the credit squeeze deepens, 

lenders have been reluctant 

to underwrite jumbo mortgages. 

That leaves houses languishing 

on the market, further 

depressing an already distressed 

housing market. 

The change in the loan limits, 

which allows the federal housing 

agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie 

Mac to purchase or guarantee 

the mortgages, is intended to 

encourage lenders to write more 

mortgages because they can easily 

sell them to the housing agencies. 

It should also stimulate 

house buying and mortgage refinancing. 

As the thinking goes, 

once people start borrowing 

money, they will set back into 

motion the economic machine 

of brokers, agents and lenders 

that has been stalled for the past 

year and which has helped stall 

the overall economy. 

“Of all the various strategies 

proposed to help the housing 

market,” said Gus Faucher, director 

of macroeconomics at 

Moody’s Economy.com, “I think 

this one has the greatest potential, 

particularly for expensive 

housing markets.” 

The change in loan limits will 

go into effect sometime in early 

March and will last at least 

through the end of the year. In 

areas where median prices do 

not exceed $271,050, such as the 

entire state of Alabama, the basic 

loan limit will be $271,050. 

In areas where the median 

sales price is higher, the limits 

will be increased to 125 percent 

of the median price, not to exceed 

$729,750. (The rules defining 

which locations qualify and 

where the borders of the areas 

will be drawn to determine the 

appropriate median price are to 

be written by the federal Department 

of Housing and Urban Development.) 

High-priced housing markets 

— particularly much of coastal 

California, with some of the 

most expensive real estate in the 

nation — would benefit the 

most. In a state like California, or 

in the Northeast and Northwest, 

where home prices far exceed 

the national median of about 

$206,000, jumbo loans are a significant 

portion of the mortgage 

market. 

In San Francisco, where the 

median home price is $777,000, 

35 percent of all loans were nonconforming, 

according to First 

American CoreLogic, a data and 

analytics company in Santa Ana, 

Calif. 

The anticipated stimulative 

impact is all the more important 

because prices are falling 

sharply. Prices have dropped 

20.4 percent over the past year in 

Contra Costa County, just east of 

San Francisco, and 13.1 percent 

in neighboring Alameda County, 

according to DataQuick Information 

Systems. 

Indeed, California is probably 

the state hardest hit by the housing 

slump. As inventories rose in 

most cities, the median price 

dropped 16.9 percent from May 

to December, according to 

DataQuick. (Prices are still high; 

the California Budget Project, a 

public policy advocacy group, 

estimated that a family would 

need an annual income of 

$196,878 to afford the medianpriced 

home in San Francisco.) 

Across the state, homeowners 

stuck with high interest rates 

and potential homeowners who 

are still searching are watching 

the situation closely. 

The window in the new law is 

short. But Faucher, the economist, 

said that if the problems in 

the market continued, particularly 

in expensive markets, he would 

not be surprised to see the higher 

loan limits extended. “There’s 

nothing set in stone,” he said. 

At first, the strongest interest 

is expected to come from people 

refinancing existing loans. In 

Berkeley, Calif., where the median 

home is worth about 

$776,000, MPR Financial, a 

mortgage brokerage firm, has 

received dozens of calls from 

clients asking about the possibility 

of refinancing their existing 

loans. 

“Quite a few people who got 

their loans when the rates were 

higher have called in,” said Paul 

Riccardi, the firm’s president. 

“We tell them we have their application, 

and we’ll have it ready 

to go.” 

In other places where housing 

prices are high, there is a similar 

anticipatory buzz about a 

change in the conforming loan 

cap. 

In San Diego, real estate activity 

has dropped off noticeably in 

the past year. 

Noted writer’s estate 

may be in final chapter 


The Mount, Edith Wharton’s 

estate in Lenox, Mass., is in danger 

of being put in foreclosure, 

says Stephanie Copeland, president 

of Edith Wharton Restoration, 

the organization that owns 

and maintains this stately residence 

and its gardens. 

Since 2002, Copeland explained, 

the Mount, which is 

open to the public — much of it 

has been restored in recent years 

to match the period when Wharton 

lived there — has been covering 

its operating expenses by 

borrowing from the Berkshire 

Bank in nearby Pittsfield. It now 

owes the bank some $4.3 million, 

and in mid-February, when 

it failed to meet a scheduled 

monthly payment of $30,000, 

the bank sent a notice that it intended 

to start foreclosing unless 

the default was remedied 

promptly, Copeland said. 

To stay open, she added, the 

Mount needs to raise $3 million 

by March 24. “The bank has really 

been very patient,” she explained. 

“They’re eager to help 

us work this out.” 

If the Mount succeeds in raising 

that sum, Copeland said, an 

anonymous donor is waiting in 

the wings who has pledged to 

match it. The money could be 

used to help restructure the 

bank loan and to settle another 

outstanding debt, roughly $2.5 

million, that the Mount incurred 

from a private lender in 2005 to 

buy Wharton’s 2,600-volume library 

from George Ramsden, a 

British book collector. The 

Mount also owes Ramsden 

roughly $885,000, to be paid off 

in nine yearly installments, and 

recently it defaulted on a scheduled 

payment to him, too. 

“The situation is quite serious,” 

Sandra Boss, interim chairwoman 

of the Mount’s board, 

said from London, where she 

works. “On the one hand, the 

Mount is winning awards for 

preservation and is internationally 

renowned as an institution. 

And it’s well run from an efficiency 

perspective. We’ve made great 

progress by cutting costs and raising 

revenues. On the other hand, 

our current debt levels are unserviceable 

and unsustainable. We’re 

not in control of our own destiny 

unless we can mount a restructuring 

of our debt.” 

Boss became a board member 

in late 2006, when the board 

was reformed to include people 

with business expertise and 

fundraising experience. “We 

knew the situation was challenging,” 

she said. “But we didn’t 

anticipate it would get this bad.” 

She added that raising money 

for nonprofit organizations was 

more difficult in a downwardtrending 

economy and ruefully 

recalled the flinty Gryce, a character 

in Wharton’s novel “The 

House of Mirth,” who only “subscribed 

to Institutions when 

their annual reports showed an 

impressive surplus.” 

The 35-room Mount, which 

receives some 30,000 visitors annually, 

was built by Wharton in 

1902. She designed it herself, in 

accord with the simple aesthetic 

— simple for the time, anyway 

— she had championed in her 

first book, “The Decoration of 

Houses,” written with Ogden 

Codman Jr. Wharton lived at the 

Mount only until 1910, when her 

marriage to the troubled Teddy 

Wharton became unsalvageable, 

and she moved permanently 

to France. But the house, 

which she treasured in memory, 

was where she came into her 

own as a writer. 

From 1912 to 1942 the Mount 

was owned by private parties, 

including Carr V. Van Anda, a former 

managing editor of the New 

York Times, and then it was 

bought by the Foxhollow School, 

a girls’ boarding school, which 

sold it to a developer in 1977. In 

1980 the property was purchased 

by Edith Wharton 

Restoration, which leased it to 

Shakespeare & Co., a local theatrical 

troupe, until 2001, when 

long-postponed renovation began. 

The Mount has received 

numerous preservation grants 

over the years, as well as private 

gifts. 

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PROGRESS 2008 



Haylor, Freyer and Coon 

report ‘07 sales of $265m 

Haylor, Freyer and Coon Inc., 

1402 Washington St., Watertown, 

whose Syracuse parent 

firm turns 80 this year, is a fullservice 

property and casualty 

insurance agency, offering commercial 

and personal insurance 

products, financial services and 

employee benefit programs. 

It also provides enhanced 

support, including business advice 

and assistance, to clients in 

industries including construction, 

transportation, manufactured 

housing, milk hauling, 

brewing, municipalities and 

schools. Specialty services include 

loss control and safety 

analysis, workers compensation 

claims and property and liability 

claims settlement. 

The employee-owned corporation 

is one of the largest independent 

insurance agencies in 

the country. Corporate employment 

is 240, up from 232 five 

years ago and 224 a decade ago. 

Next year it projects to employ 

250. 

Annual corporate sales were 

$265 million last year. For 2008, 

projected sales are $275 million. 

“We don’t just sell insurance. 

We specialize in providing enhanced, 

comprehensive services 

that enable us to work in partnership 

with clients to develop 

and implement innovative risk 

transfer and risk management 

systems that will reduce losses 

and insurances costs — ultimately 

resulting in improved 

customer bottom line performance,” 

the companty reports. 

“This past year we significantly 

enhanced our large risk specialty 

unit, creating a specialized 

team of professionals, and expanded 

our surety department 

to give clients access to a full array 

of bid, construction, performance/payment, 

maintenance 

and commercial bonds. 

We offer expertise not only in 

surety consulting, but also in 

environmental risk management, 

loss prevention services 

and claims consulting. We also 

provide clients with education 

and support in meeting governmental 

compliance and industrial 

guidelines.” 

HF&C continues to serve an 

increasingly global market as a 

member of Assurex Global, a 

worldwide network of insurance 

firms. 

The Web site, 

www.haylor.com, serves as an 

informational, marketing and 

business tool. 

The agency sells products 

and services throughout New 

York, New England and the Mid- 

Atlantic states; in Colorado, and, 

thanks to a new office that 

opened this past year, Virginia. 

Offices are in Watertown, 

Carthage, Theresa, Oswego, 

Syracuse, Pittsford, Utica, Morrisville 

and Johnson City, N.Y.; 

Broomfield, Colo., and Richmond, 

Va. 

Victor A. DiSerio is chairman 

and chief executive officer; C. 

Bruce Wichmann, president, 

and Richard C. Howland, chief 

operations officer. 

Local manager Joseph La- 

Clair, vice president, is based in 

the Watertown office. This past 

year April LaRock was promoted 

to branch manager of the 

Carthage office in anticipation 

of the retirement of that office’s 

long-time manager, Sharon 

Connolly. 

7 News, Fox 28 Web site 

complements newscasts 

WWNY-TV 7 News and sister 

station WNYF-TV Fox 28 are 

reaching viewers with news not 

just in the north country, but 

around the globe. 7 News recently 

expanded its Web site, 

www.wwnytv.com, to give visitors 

access to news 24 hours a 

day, seven days a week. 

In addition to world and national 

news, visitors have access 

to detailed local stories, videotaped 

reports and links for further 

information. Local sports, 

feature and health reports are 

also available online. 

The number of people logging 

on to wwnytv.com has exploded, 

with more than 247,000 

visiting the site in January alone. 

On a typical weekday, the site receives 

more than 10,000 visits. 

In addition to north country residents, 

people around the U.S., 

Canada, Europe and the Middle 

East log on to the site. 

The Web site fully complements 

7 News and Fox 28 in providing 

the region with top notch 

programming, award-winning 

news and public service. 

Through its affiliation with 

the CBS television network, 

WWNY continues to show hit 

primetime entertainment programs 

including “CSI” and “Survivor.” 

Syndicated programs include 

the ratings winners 

“Ellen,” “‘Jeopardy!” and “Wheel 

of Fortune.” 

Meanwhile, WNYF is home to 

FOX network hits, including 

“The Simpsons,” “American 

Idol,” “House” and “24.” 

7 News, which recently received 

national recognition for 

having some of the mostwatched 

local newscasts in the 

United States, has the most experienced 

team of broadcast 

journalists in the region. 7 News 

covers events in Jefferson, Lewis 

and St. Lawrence counties seven 

days a week. 

In addition to broadcasting in 

high-definition television, or 

HDTV, 7 News serves the north 

country through a number of local 

community events and programs, 

including the Jerry Lewis 

MDA Telethon, holiday greetings 

from troops serving overseas, 

Academic All-Star and Athlete 

of the Week. 

WWNY has been broadcasting 

to Northern New York and 

southeast Ontario, Canada, 

since 1954. In April 2001, 

WWNY expanded its services by 

putting WNYF Fox 28 on the air. 

ADHD Educational Services 

hires 15 new employees 

ADHD Educational Services, 

259 Thompson Blvd., Watertown, 

was founded in 1999 by 

Deborah A. Cavallario, a retired 

teacher and mother of an AD- 

HD child. 

ADHD stands for attention 

deficit hyperactivity disorder 

and an ADHD consultant acts 

as a liaison with the educational 

community, the medical 

community and the parents for 

the success of the ADHD child. 

The Watertown City School 

District and the South Jefferson 

School District contract for 

services through the JeffwersonLewis 

BOCES, making it 

free to ADHD families. 

Parents seeking help can 

contact their building principal 

for a referral to this service. 

Five years ago, besides the 

owner/director, ADHD Educational 

Services had one employee 

working part-time between 

eight to 10 hours weekly. 

Within the past year employment 

has increased dramatically. 

ADHD has gone from one 

employee to 16. 

This is the result of ADHD 

Educational Service’s development 

of a research-based 

Homework Assistance with 

Parental Involvement (HAPI) 

program. 

HAPI hires degreed teachers 

to act as mentors to assist students 

with their homework by 

teaching the skills necessary to 

complete assignments. 

The program is designed to 

create a positive bond between 

the educational community 

and the family unit to promote 

the academic success and selfconfidence 

of the child. HAPI 

has expanded to include two 

schools in the Watertown District 

and three in the Carthage 

Central School District. 

These districts pay directly 

for the HAPI program. 

HAPI uses a full-time supervisor 

to go into the home and 

work toward improving the 

learning environment. The 

family is thus enabled to be 

positively connected to their 

child’s academic setting 

through one-on-one parental 

homework integration and 

able to provide collaborative 

support for the classroom 

teacher. 

It is the company’s goal to 

have HAPI in as many school 

districts as possible, in order to 

raise academic standards and 

improve classroom behavior. 

The HAPI philosophy is that the 

best intervention is prevention. 

For more information e-mail 

adhd60@hotmail.com. 

Kelly Services helps match 

employees and businesses 

For more than 20 years, Kelly 

Services, 200 Mullin St. Suite 

202, Watertown, has helped 

businesses find skilled employees 

and area residents find employment. 

Opened in 1987, the Kelly office 

has placed thousands of 

skilled employees in positions 

that range from receptionist 

and administrative assistant to 

marketing and light industrial 

for a wide range of industries, in 

addition to the specialty areas of 

contact center, legal and medical 

office staffing. 

Longtime resident Beth Mac 

and her staff provide customer 

needs assessments and help 

start and advance careers. 

For those entering the work 

force, returning to the workforce, 

or advancing in their careers, 

Kelly can assist in finding 

positions that match their 

skills, ambitions and work 

preferences. 

As north country organizations 

increasingly face new economic 

pressures to improve 

productivity and enhance service, 

many are turning to Kelly 

Services to provide temporary, 

temporary to hire and directhire 

staffing. 

For more information, call 

788-4345 or visit www.kellyservices.com. 

JLaP marketing celebrates 

twenty years in business 

JLaP marketing, an international 

marketing and manufacturers 

representative group 

based in Watertown, is celebrating 

20 years in business. 

The company specializes in 

retail packaging products, including 

tissue paper, shopping 

bags and ribbons, and specialty 

packaging for the gift and value-added 

foodservice industries. 

The company sells to a variety 

of distributors across the 

northeastern U.S. and Canada 

and with some products, 

across North America. JLaP 

marketing represents manufacturers 

based in the United 

States and Canada as well as 

Italy, and has a sales base of 

$4.5 million. 

The group consists of owner 

James O. La Plante, a Watertown 

resident with more than 30 

years of experience in the industry, 

and F. Marshall Weir, a Watertown 

resident, who additionally 

has extensive experience in 

retail packaging. 

Mr. Weir worked with two industry 

manufacturers before 

joining Mr. La Plante in 2001. 

Mr. La Plante is responsible 

for successfully bringing several 

new products and companies 

into the North American market 

and is active in the Retail Packaging 

Association, an industry 

trade group. 

JLaP marketing can be 

reached by phone at 785-9345 

or by e-mail at jlap15@aol.com. 

Cutting Edge Lawn Service 

plans to expand business 

The Cutting Edge Lawn Service, 

in business since 2005, will 

operate starting in April from a 

space on Arsenal Street next to 

Garns Auto Barn, owner and 

sole employee Monty Groff reports. 

The Cuting Edge’s services include 

water delivery, bag and 

bulk mulch, spring and fall 

cleanup, snowplowing and tree 

removal. This year, Mr. Groff 

plans to expand his water delivery 

business and add mulch 

sales, he reports. 


778-6132. 

2007 was a successful year for Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in many respects. We are a stronger, healthier organization 

thanks to the hard work and dedication of our employees, medical staff, and Board of Directors. Our successes are also due 

to the support we receive from you – our community. Here are a few of our successes that help us achieve our vision to 

be your family’s first choice in health care! 

- Bringing qualified healthcare providers to our community is an important challenge. In 2007, CHMC welcomed: 

Juan-Diego Harris, MD, Pain Management 

Judy Murphy, NP-C, Dermatology 

Manasvi Jaitly, MD, Internal Medicine and Nephrology Rodolfo Ongjoco, MD, Psychiatry 

Michael Lynch, MD, PhD, Pediatrics 

Allison Smith, RPA-C, Ogdensburg Health Center 

James McLoughlin, MD, Orthopedic Medicine 

M. Iqbal Vakil, MD, Hospitalist 

- We Began new and improved current services helps us meet the healthcare needs of our community: 

-Expand our radiology department 

-PET/CT scanning 

-GE 1.5T Signa Excite HDx MRI 

-New ambulatory surgery unit on the 1 st floor 

- In early 2008, Claxton-Hepburn will complete expansion projects that will further 

enhance the care we provide. 

-New obstetrics unit 

-New mental health unit 

-Expanded Wound Healing Center 

-Aquatic therapy program 

-Primary care 

Thank you for a great 2007! 

- Claxton-Hepburn’s achievements for 2007 were: 

-All of Claxton-Hepburn's properties and campus became tobacco-free 

-Winter Cancer Treatment Center was accredited by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons 

-At the National Institute for Healthcare Improvement Conference a storyboard was displayed for a ICU ventilator 

management and insulin control initiative 

-American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate 

-Use of Green Seal approved cleaning products were implemented 

-Expand services in Canton: 

-Dermatology 

-Mammography 

-Bone Density 

214 King Street Ogdensburg, NY 13669 315.393.3600 www.chmed.org

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