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No. 10 Thursday, september 27, 2012<br />
For 127 years <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s independent newspaper<br />
<strong>The</strong> region’s rock climbers look for a home at Thacher Park<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Tyler Murphy<br />
Off a cliff: Officials at the John Boyd Thacher Park are trying to decide if recreational rock climbers should be allowed to scale the limestone<br />
cliffs of the Helderberg escarpment. <strong>The</strong> park is in the process of developing a master plan and climbers are asking for access.<br />
By Tyler Murphy<br />
NEW SCOTLAND –– As officials<br />
work to develop a master<br />
plan for the John Boyd Thacher<br />
and Thompson Lake State Parks<br />
to guide future programs, recreational<br />
rock climbers are asking<br />
their sport be included.<br />
When the New York State<br />
Office of Parks, Recreation and<br />
Historic Preservation announced<br />
in March it would begin conducting<br />
a year-long review of the John<br />
Boyd Thacher and Thompson’s<br />
Lake state parks, Mike Wallen<br />
encouraged members of his<br />
group, the Thacher Climbing<br />
Coalition, to participate in the<br />
process.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first-ever master plan will<br />
eventually document the state’s<br />
operational goals and involved a<br />
broad review of current practices,<br />
services, and facilities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plan included two public<br />
feedback sessions in May with<br />
officials taking suggestions for<br />
future development and recreational<br />
programs at the parks.<br />
Wallen said the group had<br />
around 270 members, 250 of<br />
them through social media.<br />
Many, he said, live in the Capital<br />
Region and had attended the<br />
public meetings on the master<br />
plan earlier this year.<br />
“One problem we find in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
is it doesn’t have a nearby<br />
climbing area so there is no unity<br />
in the local rock-climbing culture.<br />
People are traveling far away for<br />
(Continued on page 8)<br />
$32K town budget proposed<br />
No tax hike for Guilderland<br />
By Anne Hayden<br />
GUILDERLAND — Even with<br />
large increases in retirement<br />
contributions, rising health<br />
insurances costs, and 2-percent<br />
raises for employees across<br />
the board, Supervisor Kenneth<br />
Runion says Guilderland will<br />
hold the line on taxes and easily<br />
stay below the 2-percent taxlevy<br />
cap.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town has held two public<br />
workshops on next year’s budget<br />
proposal and has scheduled one<br />
final workshop for today, Sept. 27,<br />
at 7:30 p.m. at the town hall.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proposed 2013 budget, of<br />
$31,806, 331, will have a general<br />
town tax rate of 26 cents per<br />
$1,000 of assessed valuation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tax rate has remained the<br />
same since 2005, the last time<br />
there was a town-wide revaluation.<br />
Before the revaluation, the<br />
tax rate was 32 cents per $1,000<br />
of assessed valuation.<br />
Three town divisions will have<br />
a slight increase in the tax levy<br />
— the highway department tax<br />
will go up 2 percent, and the water<br />
and sewer department taxes<br />
will each go up by slightly more<br />
than 1 percent.<br />
<strong>The</strong> increases are a result of<br />
the large hikes in pension contributions<br />
and rising fuel costs,<br />
said Runion. <strong>The</strong> increases in<br />
the three divisions — each with<br />
separate taxing lines — will not<br />
have a large impact on residents’<br />
tax bills, he said. For instance,<br />
the increase in the sewer department<br />
will make the average,<br />
one-family household sewer tax<br />
$303.85, an increase of 76 cents<br />
annually over the average bill<br />
in 2012.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> biggest drivers of the budget<br />
are retirement contributions<br />
and health insurance costs,” said<br />
Runion. “<strong>The</strong> only thing that is<br />
difficult for us is these unfunded<br />
mandates — we have no control<br />
over them, we can’t anticipate<br />
it, we just get the bill and have<br />
to pay it.”<br />
Before the stock market faltered<br />
in 2008, the state, which<br />
invests in the market, paid a<br />
larger share of benefits for municipalities.<br />
Retirement contributions have<br />
increased roughly $400,000 from<br />
2012 to 2013 and are projected<br />
to increase by another $450,000<br />
in 2014.<br />
Fortunately, according to Runion,<br />
the town budget can absorb<br />
the added payments, having<br />
(Continued on page 16)<br />
After residents petition over whistle noise<br />
Board spends $3K to study RR gates for quiet zone<br />
By Jo E. Prout<br />
VOORHEESVILLE — <strong>The</strong> village board<br />
agreed Tuesday to spend $3,000 on an initial<br />
engineering study to determine the costs of<br />
creating a quiet zone for the railroad tracks<br />
here.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board also met with Voorheesville<br />
Area Ambulance and <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff's<br />
Department representatives to discuss a<br />
three-month trial period of daytime ambulance<br />
coverage from the<br />
sheriff’s in lieu of the<br />
village squad’s hiring<br />
an emergency medical<br />
technician.<br />
Quiet zone<br />
“Barton & Loguidice<br />
submitted a proposal to<br />
do an initial study and<br />
review of a quiet zone,”<br />
said Mayor Robert Conway of the engineering<br />
firm.<br />
Previously, the board had agreed to meet<br />
with a committee of residents concerned about<br />
the effects of loud train whistles as engines<br />
travel the one mile between two crossings near<br />
Pleasant Street. Residents have complained of<br />
hearing loss and sleepless nights as more than<br />
50 loud trains pass through the village each<br />
day and night.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board also agreed to meet with<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> representatives and railroad<br />
spokespersons to discuss ways the train<br />
horns could be lessened while track safety is<br />
maintained, but decided to hire an engineer to<br />
provide the board with information on feasible<br />
plans.<br />
Local resident and Barton & Loguidice<br />
principal Richard Straut offered two study<br />
options for two separate prices. Based on his<br />
transportation department’s experience, he<br />
said, a basic study of how much four-way gate<br />
installation would cost would be the first phase<br />
of the study, at a cost<br />
of $3,000. <strong>The</strong> basic<br />
study would take<br />
about four weeks,<br />
he said.<br />
A n a d d i t i o n a l<br />
study that would<br />
include the creation<br />
of a divided highway<br />
with a median,<br />
rather than four-way gates, would extend the<br />
study two more weeks, and cost an additional<br />
$3,000. According to rail guidelines, medians are<br />
an effective safety device and can also alleviate<br />
the need for extended train whistles, members<br />
of the quiet zone committee said.<br />
“It would be a more expensive way to go,”<br />
Straut said of the medians.<br />
At the board's workshop before the meeting,<br />
Straut told the board that a similar quiet zone<br />
project in Mechanicville (Saratoga Co.) did not<br />
come to fruition.<br />
“I won’t spend<br />
$6,000 before Friday.”<br />
(Continued on page 15)<br />
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2 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Editorial<br />
An absurd method for judging teachers<br />
rewards ignorance and breeds cynicism<br />
Rhetoric is one thing. Reality is another.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rhetoric from the State Education Department last week was<br />
about how the new system for evaluating teachers would advance<br />
the profession and improve student learning. <strong>The</strong> reality was little kids at<br />
Voorheesville Elementary School were crying.<br />
We had taken their pictures on the first day of school as the giant yellow<br />
buses disgorged their precious cargo. A little boy, on the verge of tears, hugged<br />
his stuffed animal for comfort. A young girl solemnly clutched a bouquet, no<br />
doubt for her teacher, someone she had every expectation of trusting.<br />
What these kids were faced with during those rocky early days of school<br />
was a test on material they hadn’t been taught, a test they were set up to<br />
fail.<br />
We don’t blame the Voorheesville School District, not in the least. Like<br />
districts across the state, it was following<br />
directives from the education<br />
department. To qualify for federal<br />
Race to the Top funds, New York<br />
State agreed to have teachers evaluated,<br />
in part, by their students’ test<br />
scores. And now, if school districts in<br />
New York don’t have Annual Professional<br />
Performance Review plans<br />
approved by Jan. 17, they will lose<br />
their share of this year’s education<br />
aid increase.<br />
In order to set up a baseline — to measure how<br />
much students will have learned over the course<br />
of a school year — students at Voorheesville and<br />
elsewhere were tested at the start of the school<br />
year on what they are expected to know by the<br />
end of the year when the required state tests<br />
are scheduled.<br />
“It was painful,” the Voorheesville superintendent,<br />
Teresa Thayer Snyder, told our reporter<br />
Anne Hayden “because it was based on content<br />
the students hadn’t learned yet.” It was harder,<br />
she went on, for the younger students to understand<br />
that they weren’t supposed to know<br />
the answers to the questions on the tests, and<br />
that they weren’t being graded on them.<br />
“We did have some of the little kids cry,” she<br />
said. “We also had a student ask a teacher<br />
why she couldn’t help, and we thought that<br />
was profound — giving these tests seemed<br />
to go against the role of a teacher, which is<br />
to help.”<br />
Profound, indeed. Trust is a cornerstone,<br />
a foundation for learning. How awful for<br />
both the students and the teachers to have<br />
to endure this charade.<br />
<strong>The</strong> older students, Snyder said, understood<br />
that they wouldn’t be penalized for<br />
not doing well on the tests and some of<br />
them “scammed the system” or didn’t take<br />
it seriously.<br />
This, of course, will undermine the<br />
“growth factor” against which the teachers<br />
are measured.<br />
We support evaluating educators and<br />
working with them to improve their success<br />
at teaching. <strong>The</strong> districts we cover<br />
already had in place systems of evaluating<br />
teachers, largely through observation and<br />
critiques from administrators. Teachers<br />
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,<br />
or what’s a heaven for”<br />
— Robert Browning<br />
mentoring other teachers, workshops on pedagogy, requirements for advanced<br />
training in the field being taught, clear standards that teachers have to meet,<br />
and workable rubrics for assessing them all improve performance.<br />
Changing the procedure for removing teachers who don’t or won’t respond<br />
to improve so that it is less arduous and costly for school districts would<br />
be useful legislation.<br />
Educators, by and large, want to succeed at teaching their students. We<br />
wrote last week, for example, of the new contract for Guilderland’s teaching<br />
assistants. <strong>The</strong> president of the unit, Cheryl Ainspan, said how pleased the<br />
TAs are to now be included in the workshops that start the school year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new contract also requires that the work of teaching assistants be<br />
reviewed annually for the first three years and, after that, every other year.<br />
Previously, reviews had varied in different buildings with some TAs going as<br />
long as a decade without review.<br />
“We want to be the best we can be,”<br />
said Ainspan.<br />
That attitude is what makes a good<br />
educator, benefiting students in the long<br />
run. Piling on more tests does not —<br />
particularly tests, like the baseline tests,<br />
that undermine trust in vulnerable young<br />
students and underline for older, more<br />
sophisticated students the absurdity of<br />
such exercises.<br />
Even before New York caved in to the federal plan,<br />
too much emphasis was placed on high-stakes testing.<br />
Schools were already being judged by state-issued report<br />
cards, based on a compilation of test scores. This ignores<br />
a convincing body of research that shows student success<br />
— as measured, yes, by test scores but also by later life’s<br />
work — is most directly correlated to family background<br />
and expectations.<br />
Tests have worth if they are used to see where a student<br />
has weaknesses, where a student needs help to succeed.<br />
But tests designed to measure student achievement are<br />
not good gauges of teachers’ success.<br />
Teachers across the state were already pressured to<br />
teach to the test. That pressure has now intensified since<br />
their very livelihood depends in part on those test scores.<br />
It is much easier for a teacher to get rote responses from<br />
students, working off templates of previous tests, than it<br />
is to truly challenge them with a rich curriculum, to shape<br />
young minds in a way that will make them resilient.<br />
With a state cap on tax levies, increasing pension and<br />
health costs, along with stagnant aid and a sluggish<br />
economy, educators are being laid off at an unprecedented<br />
rate. Teachers and their supervisors are being stretched<br />
thin.<br />
So we know what we’re asking is a lot in already tough<br />
times. But, until the Board of Regents, which governs<br />
education in the state, wakes up to realize the wrong<br />
turn New York has taken, we urge our teachers to take<br />
the path less traveled, to continue on the rough and<br />
rocky high road.<br />
Please, please do all you can, within the strictures<br />
placed upon you, to consider the standardized tests now<br />
used to measure you as well as your students as merely<br />
the ground you must stand on. Don’t stoop to making<br />
those tests the center of your teaching. Please continue<br />
to reach for the sky — teach your students habits of<br />
inquiry that will make them lifelong learners and move<br />
us forward as a society. Our future depends on you.<br />
— Melissa Hale-Spencer
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 3<br />
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Deadline for letters is Tuesday at noon.<br />
To the editor<br />
Our children need to be taught to protect our nation<br />
To the Editor:<br />
I was saddened to hear about<br />
how lax the Voorheesville School<br />
District seems to be about conveying<br />
and respecting the observation<br />
of 9/11. Although it<br />
occurred 11 years ago and it is<br />
part of history, it should never<br />
be forgotten.<br />
It was the first time in American<br />
history that an outside terrorist<br />
group attacked our country<br />
from the inside. Our children<br />
should know and be aware<br />
that our country’s safeguard<br />
was let down so low (politically,<br />
starting 1993 to 2001) that this<br />
horrible act of terrorism was able<br />
to take place.<br />
In remembrance of 9/11<br />
Our children need to know<br />
and understand that we need<br />
to stand up for our nation and<br />
protect it!<br />
If this event goes unnoticed<br />
and not observed, it will be<br />
forgotten, and so will the 3,000<br />
people who died that day; their<br />
families will be forgotten, too.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rescue people, who are still<br />
suffering and some are dying and<br />
have died from this event, will<br />
be forgotten.<br />
Children are our future and<br />
they must be educated about<br />
this event so hopefully they have<br />
gained enough knowledge to<br />
make a tragedy like 9/11 never<br />
capable of happening again.<br />
My children are in the Guilderland<br />
School District. Every<br />
year, their teachers speak about<br />
9/11 on Sept. 11 and prior to it.<br />
On 9/11, they have that moment<br />
of silence in our district schools<br />
out of sheer respect for our fellow<br />
fallen countrymen and women.<br />
I’ve checked all around the<br />
Capital Region and the Voorheesville<br />
schools were the only schools<br />
that chose not to observe 9/11.<br />
Shame on you, Dr. Teresa<br />
Thayer Snyder and on you, Principal<br />
Imran Abassi.<br />
Shari Menger Lanza<br />
Guilderland<br />
Is one minute of silence too much to ask<br />
To the Editor:<br />
I would like to respond to<br />
what Dr. Thayer Snyder and Mr.<br />
Abassi said in response to my<br />
Sept. 20 letter “Voorheesville<br />
schools should show respect for<br />
9/11 anniversary.”<br />
First, [Superintendent Teresa]<br />
Thayer Snyder said that, even<br />
though they didn’t do a districtwide<br />
event, they flew the flag at<br />
half staff. That is correct, they<br />
did, but so did every other school,<br />
government, and federal building.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y did not do it of their<br />
own choice.<br />
I asked [high school Principal<br />
Imran] Abassi if they made the<br />
students aware of the flag flying<br />
at half staff and the reason for<br />
it. <strong>The</strong> answer was no.<br />
Second, Dr. Thayer Snyder said<br />
teachers discussed 9/11 in their<br />
classrooms.<br />
That gives you the idea that<br />
all teachers discussed it; that is<br />
also not true. My daughter is a<br />
senior and not one of her teachers<br />
talked about it.<br />
I also asked other students<br />
in elementary, middle, and high<br />
school; most told me their teachers<br />
did not. I do know of at least<br />
one in the middle school and<br />
about three in the elementary<br />
school that did discuss it. That is<br />
not many teachers out of all the<br />
teachers they have in all three<br />
divisions of the school.<br />
Dr. Thayer Snyder and Mr.<br />
Abassi want 9/11 to takes its<br />
place in history; they want to<br />
move on so they don’t have to<br />
worry about it.<br />
On that day, just at the World<br />
Trade Center — not including the<br />
Pentagon and Flight 93 — 2,749<br />
people died, including citizens<br />
from 80 countries, 343 New York<br />
City firemen and first responders,<br />
84 port authority employees<br />
of whom 37 were police.<br />
That day showed us what<br />
human beings are capable of,<br />
the evil.<br />
But it also brought out the<br />
good in people, people taking<br />
care of each other for no other<br />
reason than it was the right<br />
thing to do.<br />
I have three children and three<br />
grandchildren. I want them to<br />
know and remember that day<br />
for no other reason than what I<br />
stated above.<br />
And a way of doing that is by<br />
having one minute (I don’t think<br />
I’m asking a lot) of silence in<br />
schools. But, again, every other<br />
area school (and I called 11) did<br />
have at least one to two minutes<br />
of silence in remembrance of 9/11<br />
with the exception of Voorheesville<br />
Central School District.<br />
Robin Hull-Pease<br />
Voorheesville<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> cannot afford to build a new nursing home<br />
To the Editor:<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are many tough decisions<br />
that I face as an elected official<br />
but none more difficult that<br />
the fate of the <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Nursing Home. It is not a decision<br />
that will be made lightly and<br />
it is one that has involved many<br />
people from all walks of life exploring<br />
the various options.<br />
Over the past five years, there<br />
have been many discussions<br />
about how best to serve the<br />
financial interests of <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> taxpayers, yet also offer<br />
solutions to our most vulnerable<br />
residents. Whatever the decision<br />
is, I want to ensure that those<br />
who need skilled nursing care<br />
like that provided at the nursing<br />
home get it.<br />
Years ago, my family needed<br />
to look for an alternative when<br />
my father got sick. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Nursing Home was the<br />
answer.<br />
Through the years, as I visited<br />
friends and relatives at the home,<br />
or as I toured to survey operations<br />
in my official duties, I have<br />
always been struck at the level<br />
of commitment of the staff and<br />
the care it provides.<br />
I am also continually reminded,<br />
as I viewed rooms of elderly<br />
with no family or friends visiting,<br />
how critically important it is to<br />
serve the needs of those who have<br />
no place else to turn. Let me tell<br />
you about the work that my team<br />
has done so far on this critically<br />
important issue.<br />
Aside from the task of developing<br />
and implementing a $560<br />
million operating budget, the <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Nursing Home has<br />
been the issue for which my administration<br />
has spent the most<br />
time developing a solution.<br />
Beginning with the recruitment<br />
of our region’s top healthcare<br />
leaders to my Transition<br />
Team last fall, whom I tasked to<br />
take an honest, fair and professional<br />
assessment of the nursing<br />
home with no prescribed opinions<br />
from me, I have pursued a resolution<br />
for the nursing-home issue<br />
with an open mind.<br />
I have learned a great deal<br />
since my time in the <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Legislature, and certainly<br />
more about professional<br />
health care beyond what I saw<br />
as a visitor of a loved one. This<br />
process calls for deeper thought<br />
and not a reactionary decision<br />
that was not fully vetted.<br />
In the past few months, since I<br />
took office, we have accomplished<br />
the following:<br />
— Crews from our public<br />
works and general services departments<br />
made improvements<br />
to the facility inside and out so<br />
the nursing home would look<br />
and feel more like a home to the<br />
residents.<br />
— We put out a request for<br />
proposals to have an outside<br />
management company run the<br />
facility. <strong>The</strong> bids submitted<br />
did nothing to address the cost<br />
structure and, in fact, placed additional<br />
costs on the county.<br />
— We also put out a request<br />
for proposals to transfer the<br />
license to an experienced third<br />
party, but received no bids worth<br />
pursuing.<br />
— We have brought several of<br />
the region’s foremost health-care<br />
management experts through the<br />
nursing home. <strong>The</strong>y looked at the<br />
aging facility, commended the<br />
quality of care, but recommended<br />
closing the nursing home and investing<br />
in support programs that<br />
allow seniors to remain in their<br />
homes and in the community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dramatic change in the<br />
economy since I first looked at<br />
this issue as a legislator has<br />
changed our county’s financial<br />
fortunes dramatically. As with<br />
every government or business,<br />
these economic realities have<br />
forced us to re-think some of the<br />
ideas we once had.<br />
It is crystal clear to me that<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> cannot afford to<br />
build a new nursing home in this<br />
economy. <strong>The</strong> answer to the challenge<br />
of balancing the finances of<br />
the government with the needs of<br />
our community’s elderly needs to<br />
be developed through consensus<br />
between my administration and<br />
the legislature.<br />
For my part, as I review all<br />
the options and consider my<br />
constituents, there isn’t a Sunday<br />
that goes by that I don’t get a call<br />
from my aunt who says, “Daniel,<br />
take care of the seniors.” She is<br />
a nun who has devoted 70 years<br />
to the Little Sisters of the Poor,<br />
caring for seniors in our community.<br />
Her words are all the<br />
inspiration that I need to do the<br />
best possible job I can on this<br />
complex issue.<br />
In the coming months, the legislature<br />
and I need to make the<br />
right decision — a decision that<br />
upholds our moral and ethical<br />
responsibility to our seniors and<br />
is financially sound for <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>.<br />
Daniel P. McCoy<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Executive<br />
Back In Time. . .<br />
1912 100 Years Ago 2012<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> September 27, 1912<br />
Fire At Meadowdale: At an early hour Tuesday morning,<br />
the large barn on the Jacob A. Relyea farm now owned by<br />
Edmund and Jacob H. Relyea, near Meadowdale, rented by<br />
Marvin Perry, was burned to the ground. Mr. Perry had a load<br />
of loose hay on his wagon and was making preparations to<br />
start for the city when the lantern which he had set down<br />
near the door on his going to the interior of the building,<br />
exploded, setting fire to the combustible material about,<br />
and he had to fight his way through the flames to get out of<br />
doors. He was able to save his horses and other stock, with<br />
the exception of his fowls, but his entire crop together with<br />
the loaded wagon burned. Fortunately his farm implements<br />
were in another building and they too were saved. Help finally<br />
arriving a pig pen adjoining the burning building was saved<br />
which prevented the flames communicating to the house. Mr.<br />
Perryís loss is about $1,000 with a small insurance in a stock<br />
company. <strong>The</strong>re is also a small insurance on the building in<br />
a stock company.<br />
****<br />
GREAT VOTING CONTEST: <strong>The</strong> ENTERPRISE this week<br />
inaugurates the greatest voting contest ever held in this<br />
section of the state, and one which we believe will arouse a<br />
great deal of interest.<br />
This contest will extend over a period of about 90 days, and<br />
at the close of the contest some lady in this vicinity will be<br />
the proud possessor of a handsome $400 piano.<br />
On page six of this issue will be found a full explanation of<br />
the contest, with the rules which will govern it, and a list of<br />
beautiful and useful auxiliary prizes which will be given by<br />
the progressive merchants of the village. <strong>The</strong>re are a number<br />
of prizes besides the piano, any one of which will be well worth<br />
winning, and every contestant who gets out and makes any<br />
kind of hustle will be sure of winning a handsome prize, even<br />
if she does not win the piano.<br />
This contest is put on under the auspices of the Publisherís<br />
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This company makes a business of conducting these<br />
popular voting contests and at present has a number of them<br />
under way in this and other states.<br />
Some popular lady will have a beautiful piano as a result<br />
of this contest, and a number of others will have beautiful<br />
prizes of various kinds.<br />
****<br />
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4 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
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To the editor<br />
— Photo by Amy Lauterbach Pokorny<br />
Terrice Bassler displays some of her pottery, and pottery made by<br />
Amy Atkins, at the Palmer House Café in Rensselaerville as part<br />
of the Discover the Hilltowns: Farms and Artisans Tour.<br />
I support the Voorheesville Public Library<br />
but have concerns about the new building plans<br />
To the Editor:<br />
What do we need <strong>The</strong> library<br />
board has been doing a tremendous<br />
and thorough amount of<br />
planning for the past five years,<br />
trying to find the right combination<br />
of site location, building size<br />
and style, and last but not least<br />
the cost.<br />
I know the cost means everything<br />
when considering what<br />
we get for the dollar, but it can<br />
mean more to some taxpayers<br />
for different reasons. More detail<br />
about this later.<br />
First, let’s compare where we<br />
are now to where we are going.<br />
We have a library that is paid for<br />
and some extra acreage that was<br />
purchased and is now paid for.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plan was to expand the existing<br />
library or build a new library<br />
on the purchased acreage.<br />
Many of the people I have discussed<br />
this with seem to think<br />
updating and maintaining the<br />
existing building and then adding<br />
on to it would be far less expensive.<br />
I know that the committee<br />
says the existing structure<br />
is not constructed well enough<br />
to allow additions, but I believe<br />
that may mean a second story.<br />
Something to think about<br />
Second, let’s consider this<br />
community-center talk. It would<br />
be great to have a facility of the<br />
planned size available for large<br />
gatherings that groups could<br />
rent for their own purpose or<br />
maybe the library could offer<br />
seminars, meetings, speakers,<br />
music, etc.<br />
Somehow, community center<br />
to me means a larger area that<br />
would also have more tax base to<br />
support it. On that subject, does<br />
everyone know that the library is<br />
solely supported by the taxpayers<br />
of the Voorheesville Central<br />
School district<br />
Since there are fewer than<br />
3,000 taxpayers in the district, it<br />
all adds up to large increases on<br />
the tax bill. Of course, there are<br />
many more voters than that, considering<br />
a possibility of several<br />
eligible voters per tax parcel.<br />
While on the subject, let’s talk<br />
about cost. <strong>The</strong> library board<br />
says we would see an increase<br />
of $124 for a home valued at<br />
$200,000. I guess you can figure<br />
how that would impact your<br />
tax bill.<br />
<strong>The</strong> library budget for the<br />
past nine years has increased an<br />
average of 5.96 percent. With a<br />
new larger library, the operating<br />
budget will need a substantial<br />
increase. In these times of a<br />
weak economy and no signs of<br />
improving,<br />
We need to watch our own<br />
budget.<br />
In summary, make sure to attend<br />
one of the three public presentations;<br />
ask lots of questions,<br />
especially about the cost per taxpayer.<br />
Also be sure to vote when<br />
that time comes, because we will<br />
live with the consequences for<br />
many years. All budget increases<br />
are compounded.<br />
Public meeting dates are:<br />
Oct. 4, in the performing arts<br />
center at the high school at 7<br />
p.m.;<br />
Oct. 17 at the library at 7<br />
p.m.; and<br />
Nov. 11 at the library at 4<br />
p.m.<br />
I do really support the library<br />
and use it myself. I also think<br />
the staff and board work hard<br />
and deserve a lot of credit.<br />
Irving Mosher<br />
New Scotland<br />
<strong>The</strong> Old Men of the Mountain<br />
Parched earth needs a slow, steady rain<br />
— Photo by Amy Lauterbach Pokorny<br />
Sara Luhrman gives tourists a peek at their laying hens at Fox<br />
Creek Farm. Meanwhile, her husband, Raymond, described how<br />
his solar panels and windmill provide power to operate a walk-in<br />
cooler for his fresh produce.<br />
Farmers, tourists and organizers –<br />
thanks for supporting Hilltown tour<br />
To the Editor:<br />
I would like to say thank-you<br />
to everyone who participated in<br />
the second annual “Discover the<br />
Hilltowns: Farms and Artisans<br />
Tour” on September 15 and 16:<br />
— <strong>The</strong> farmers, artisans and<br />
other contributors (and their<br />
families!) who opened their doors<br />
to the public;<br />
— <strong>The</strong> “tourists” who came<br />
out to support our great variety<br />
of wonderful destinations along<br />
the way; and<br />
— <strong>The</strong> Helderberg Hilltowns<br />
Association folks who helped<br />
make this fun and worthwhile<br />
event happen.<br />
Many thanks to all for making<br />
this year’s self guided driving<br />
tour of the Hilltowns a fabulous<br />
success!<br />
Amy Lauterbach Pokorny<br />
Chair<br />
Farms and Artisans Tour<br />
Secretary<br />
Helderberg<br />
Hilltowns Association<br />
By John R. Williams<br />
<strong>The</strong> Old Men of the Mountain’s<br />
marching orders were to Mrs.<br />
K’s Restaurant in Middleburgh<br />
on Tuesday, Sept. 18, and foul<br />
weather caught up with the OFs,<br />
but we need this weather. Not the<br />
OFs — they need a lot more than<br />
foul weather to catch up to them,<br />
but we need rain for the parched<br />
ground of our locality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sages of the group say<br />
that, if we get driving rains with<br />
the ground as hard as it is, it<br />
will just run off. Anything will<br />
be of some benefit these same<br />
sages say, but it won’t be as good<br />
right now as three days of a slow<br />
drizzle.<br />
This, the OFs say, will soften<br />
the ground and the water will<br />
sink into where it is needed,<br />
including the wells that have<br />
gone dry. All the OFs nodded<br />
their heads in agreement and<br />
added their two cents because<br />
the conversation was a discussion<br />
on what most of the OFs<br />
(Old Farmers) knew.<br />
<strong>The</strong> discussion continued on<br />
to not only how dry it is on the<br />
Hill, but the OFs suppose in<br />
many other places — like half the<br />
country. Some OGs were talking<br />
about their gardens and digging<br />
down to harvest or plant trees,<br />
and they were getting dust at 20<br />
to 24 inches down. That is dry.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same conversation on<br />
weather and gardening turned to<br />
the specific planting of tomatoes.<br />
According to the OFs, they either<br />
have them in abundance or not<br />
at all. One OF said that his are<br />
great and of good size but seem to<br />
have scars on them, and another<br />
one said he can’t tell because<br />
the deer ate them all, and with<br />
another it was woodchucks.<br />
One OF said all his are volunteer<br />
tomatoes and another said<br />
he had 55 percent volunteer, and<br />
50 percent were planted. (Volunteer<br />
tomatoes are the ones that<br />
come up by themselves from last<br />
year’s crop).<br />
It seems, though, that by the<br />
OF reckoning there are enough<br />
tomatoes among them to go<br />
around.<br />
Homegrown food<br />
and homegrown advice<br />
<strong>The</strong>n what continued was a<br />
discussion on farmers’ markets<br />
and there are a few on the Hill,<br />
and in the valley of Schoharie<br />
where, according to the school<br />
song, history tells a tale. <strong>The</strong><br />
Hilltown markets are basically<br />
homegrown produce and the OFs<br />
take advantage of these markets<br />
and in the fall make use of them<br />
to get their corn, squash, tomatoes,<br />
cucumbers, potatoes, beets,<br />
and items like that.<br />
Most are so fresh that they are<br />
still covered with dirt, and the<br />
corn might still have the morning<br />
dew on it.<br />
Many OFs see people take a<br />
nice ear of corn and peel it back<br />
and, if there is a corn borer at<br />
the top, they put the ear back, or<br />
throw it away. That little worm<br />
does not affect the corn — just<br />
whack off the little piece on the<br />
top where the borer is and put<br />
the rest in the pot.<br />
When discarding that ear of<br />
corn (because of the corn borer)<br />
the OFs say that ear may be the<br />
best one of the lot. Some people<br />
cook the corn with the husk on<br />
in the microwave, which the OFs<br />
say is the best way to do it — that<br />
little borer will get cooked to a<br />
frazzle. <strong>The</strong> OFs say, go ahead<br />
and eat the whole ear and get a<br />
little protein with your starch.<br />
Settling<br />
What fit in nicely, and followed<br />
this discussion on food and its<br />
preparation (you guessed it) the<br />
OFs started talking about buying<br />
clothes and how many of them<br />
are in a class called “portly.” <strong>The</strong><br />
OFs are portly because, just like<br />
glass, we are not a solid and, as<br />
we OFs age, we settle.<br />
What once was a large manly<br />
chest is now a (well still in the<br />
male gender) gut. What used to<br />
be muscle on the arm has now<br />
got a little swing of flab to it so<br />
the OFs have to purchase clothes<br />
that are the same style but of a<br />
different cut.<br />
<strong>The</strong> OF’s mature — really<br />
mature — figure requires this<br />
fuller cut. Slim is out, regular<br />
is out, portly is OK; thank goodness<br />
none of the OFs need the<br />
fat size. <strong>The</strong>re are some OFs,<br />
though, who are of the big-andtall<br />
gents sizes.<br />
Vagaries of<br />
sharing a vehicle<br />
At the breakfast, the OFs start<br />
filing in anywhere from around 8<br />
a.m. to 9 a.m. On this particular<br />
morning, an OF showed up without<br />
his normal counterpart.<br />
After this OF sat and joined<br />
the group, he was asked, “Where<br />
is your traveling buddy, is he<br />
OK”<br />
<strong>The</strong> OF answered that his<br />
traveling buddy called and asked,<br />
“Whose turn is it to drive”<br />
<strong>The</strong> OF said, “It’s my turn.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the traveling buddy said,<br />
“OK, then I’m not going!”<br />
Well now that should tell you<br />
a lot. Talk about taking the wind<br />
out of your sails. No one ever said<br />
the OFs are subtle.<br />
Those OFs that made it to Mrs.<br />
K’s Restaurant in the middle of<br />
Middleburgh and came no matter<br />
who was driving were: Harold<br />
Guest, Mark Traver, Glenn Patterson,<br />
Robie Osterman, John<br />
Rossmann, Miner Stevens, Steve<br />
Kelly, Bill Bartholomew, Art Frament,<br />
Bob Benac, Frank Pauli,<br />
Don Wood, Carl Slater, Dave<br />
Williams, and guest Bill Williams,<br />
Duane Wagenbaugh, Bob<br />
Ssome, Joe Loubier, Don Moser,<br />
Lou Schenck, Gary Porter, Mace<br />
Porter, Jack Norray, Carl Walls,<br />
Gerry Chartier, Mike Willsey,<br />
Harold Grippen, and me.<br />
At this breakfast a few more of<br />
the OFs said their goodbyes until<br />
next year as they flew the coop<br />
for warmer winter climes.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 5<br />
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To the editor<br />
Town may have been pressured<br />
into firing assessor for doing his job<br />
To the Editor:<br />
This is related to the letter<br />
printed in the July 26, 2012 issue<br />
of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> in which<br />
Mr. Steve Balogh uses the<br />
terns “petty politics,” “ongoing<br />
dispute,” “taxpayer costs,” and<br />
“truth” [reacting to the July 19<br />
story, “Fired assessor sues Guilderland.”]<br />
May I suggest that the town<br />
officials are not interested in<br />
taxpayer costs or truth and may<br />
have been pressured into firing<br />
the assessor for doing his job<br />
Realistically, he may have appraised<br />
property of an influential<br />
wealthy developer in a fair and<br />
equitable manner, which is not<br />
always healthy, especially when<br />
dealing with issues, which may<br />
become political. We may never<br />
know.<br />
Realistically, do most taxpayers<br />
really care I do not think<br />
so.<br />
To the Editor:<br />
Despite, or was it due to, the<br />
stormy weather on Saturday<br />
evening, the Berne Senior Center<br />
was a-buzz with activity. Some<br />
140 people enjoyed a homemade<br />
lasagna dinner, laughed and<br />
chatted with neighbors, and<br />
took chances on 22 cakes made<br />
from scratch in Berne’s first-ever<br />
cakewalk. All came out in support<br />
of the new library and had<br />
fun doing it.<br />
We are grateful to all of you who<br />
made this event a success: the<br />
lasagna-makers; the volunteers<br />
who made sure that everybody<br />
was served; the 22 bakers who<br />
donated cakes; Stewart’s, which<br />
<strong>The</strong> idea that we will ever<br />
know the real truth is not realistic<br />
unless a lot of money<br />
is available to the plaintiff for<br />
necessary litigation and/or a<br />
major change takes place in town<br />
government.<br />
Personally, I have been trying<br />
to force town government to<br />
enforce state and town environmental<br />
laws, which have been<br />
violated continuously over the<br />
past several years. <strong>The</strong>se violations<br />
not only affect our property<br />
and daily lives but also affect all<br />
citizens who are dependent on<br />
the Watervliet Reservoir.<br />
<strong>The</strong> actual cost to taxpayers<br />
because of the destruction of<br />
property, erosion control, reservoir<br />
contamination, etc. will<br />
probably never be known, but<br />
who really cares about what is<br />
going on in the real world until it<br />
affects their pocketbook or health<br />
and then it is too late.<br />
140 enjoyed lasagna dinner<br />
Berne Library a third of the way<br />
to having needed funds for furnishings<br />
donated ice cream for the event;<br />
and those who came to eat and<br />
participate in the cakewalk.<br />
Thanks to all of you, we are<br />
now a third of the way towards<br />
reaching our goal to raise $30,000<br />
to furnish the new library. Our<br />
next event is a Vendor Fair at<br />
the Berne Senior Center on Oct.<br />
20 from 9 a.m. to noon — just in<br />
time for those who like to do their<br />
Christmas shopping early.<br />
<strong>The</strong> library is moving to the<br />
former St. Bernadette’s Church,<br />
located directly across from the<br />
school. Thus it will be able to<br />
serve the students of the Berne-<br />
Knox-Westerlo School District<br />
better.<br />
Earl MacIntosh Sr.<br />
Guilderland<br />
Editor’s note: In 2007, Earl<br />
MacIntosh appeared in front<br />
of the Guilderland Planning<br />
Board to say he thought Joseph<br />
Lucarelli should not be allowed to<br />
build on land that was zoned for<br />
agriculture. MacIntosh argued<br />
that stormwater was flowing<br />
from Lucarelli’s property into<br />
the Watervliet Reservoir and<br />
said that Lucarelli had filled in<br />
wetlands.<br />
An engineer from a firm in<br />
Schenectady told MacIntosh that<br />
the land had not been filled in,<br />
and, in fact, nothing had been<br />
done to the land since the 1980s.<br />
<strong>The</strong> planning board gave Lucarelli’s<br />
project approval.<br />
For the full story, go to www.<br />
altamontenterprise.com, under<br />
the Guilderland archives, for<br />
Nov. 1, 2007.<br />
We are eager to see the Berne<br />
Library become a more useable,<br />
comfortable, and pleasant place<br />
for book and media borrowing,<br />
computer use, research, children’s<br />
story hour, book talks<br />
for all ages, and community<br />
programs.<br />
With your continued support,<br />
either through participation in<br />
our events or through a direct<br />
donation (see the Friends page of<br />
the library at www.bernepubliclibrary.org)<br />
we will be well on the<br />
way to reaching our goal.<br />
Gayle Burgess, Treasurer<br />
Friends of the<br />
Berne Library<br />
Thanks for local support of<br />
monthly community meal<br />
Four years ago,<br />
Americans voted emotionally<br />
without thought or research<br />
To the Editor:<br />
“What fools we mortals be”:<br />
That is a quote from decades<br />
ago, and I don’t remember<br />
who or where. In any case,<br />
it applies to today’s society<br />
as much as it did then, if not<br />
more so.<br />
Four years ago, the majority<br />
of this country voted for<br />
the leadership we have today,<br />
because they were dissatisfied<br />
with the “ins.” <strong>The</strong>y wanted<br />
them out.<br />
I think I agree, at least to a<br />
degree. <strong>The</strong> error, in my opinion,<br />
they voted emotionally<br />
without thought or research.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y voted for rhetoric, snakeoil<br />
salesmanship and what was<br />
presented as a rosy future.<br />
We have gotten anything<br />
but. <strong>The</strong> concept of the Democratic<br />
Party has been hijacked<br />
by international and domestic<br />
political whores who have only<br />
one goal — the destruction of<br />
our constitutional form of government,<br />
as we know it. That,<br />
with the existing religious<br />
To the Editor:<br />
Thank you to the generous<br />
local businesses that support<br />
our Monday Meals Program<br />
at the First United Methodist<br />
Church in Voorheesville, including<br />
Smith’s Tavern and Greg’s<br />
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Floating bottle is “like a history capsule”<br />
Out of destruction of Irene came ‘a little spark’ that now travels on<br />
By Melissa Hale-Spencer<br />
SCHOHARIE COUNTY — <strong>The</strong><br />
sun shone bright on Monday as<br />
a dozen workers who had helped<br />
clean up the debris left in the<br />
wake of last year’s Tropical<br />
Storm Irene gathered at Max<br />
V. Shaul State Park near Fultonham.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y stood on the stones, worn<br />
smooth and round, next to the<br />
water, still in the crisp fall air<br />
as Brenda Weaver brandished<br />
a bottle.<br />
“I am stunned that<br />
the bottle has held<br />
up so long,”<br />
She flung it into the Schoharie<br />
Creek. <strong>The</strong> bottle bobbed in the<br />
gentle waves, its red cap and the<br />
white papers inside clearly visible<br />
as it edged its way along.<br />
This summer, work crews at<br />
a site in North Blenheim found<br />
a bottle with two letters in it,<br />
and brought it to Weaver, the<br />
office manager for the Schoharie<br />
<strong>County</strong> Soil and Water Conservation<br />
District.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> foreman was like, ‘This<br />
is really cool,’” recalled Weaver<br />
this week.<br />
Two teenaged cousins had<br />
written the letters in 2004. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
were camping at Nickerson’s<br />
Campground for Memorial Day<br />
weekend. Cassandra, at age 13,<br />
wrote she was having the time of<br />
her life. Kayla, at 15, wrote, “If<br />
you find this, make one of your<br />
own and send along the fun.”<br />
Weaver was eager to find the<br />
girls and wrote a letter to <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>, published<br />
in August. Kayla’s uncle saw it<br />
and alerted her.<br />
“I am stunned that the bottle<br />
has held up so long,” Kayla<br />
Loucks of <strong>Altamont</strong>, now a young<br />
woman, wrote by hand to Weaver.<br />
“It didn’t make it very far for<br />
eight years! Haha. But I truly<br />
hope that someone else finds the<br />
message and keeps it going. This<br />
is the most amazing thing!”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
On the road again: On Monday afternoon, Brenda Weaver, fourth from right, tosses a bottle into the Schoharie Creek. Looking on are<br />
workers who helped clean up the mess left by the remnants of Hurricane Irene last year. <strong>The</strong>y discovered a bottle with letters inside written<br />
eight years ago. Through <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>, Weaver, the office manager for the Schoharie <strong>County</strong> Soil and Water Conservation District, tracked<br />
down one of the letter writers. Weaver wrote a new letter to put with the originals before sending the bottle on its way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Floating away: This bottle holds a bit of history as it floats down<br />
the Schoharie Creek on Monday afternoon at Max V. Shaul State<br />
Park in Schoharie <strong>County</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Floating away: This bottle holds a bit of history as it floats down<br />
the Schoharie Creek on Monday afternoon at Max V. Shaul State<br />
Park in Schoharie <strong>County</strong>.<br />
She thanked both Weaver and<br />
the crew that “found the bottle<br />
and didn’t just throw it out and<br />
forget about it.”<br />
Weaver composed a letter to<br />
include in the new bottle along<br />
with the<br />
o r i g i n a l<br />
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She<br />
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missive on<br />
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“This is the most<br />
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and re-launching and concludes,<br />
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natural beauty around the Schoharie<br />
Valley, and we’d be very<br />
interested to know of the bottle’s<br />
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“I think it’s unique,” said Weaver<br />
on Monday. “What impressed<br />
me the most is that, out of such<br />
a bad situation, has come this<br />
little spark. It’s like a history<br />
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Nearby, fossils, exposed by the<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 7<br />
CDTA cuts back on bus runs as some object<br />
By Zach Simeone<br />
ALTAMONT — As the Capital<br />
District Transportation Authority<br />
cuts and combines bus routes<br />
in the wake of the statewide<br />
economic crunch, the routes that<br />
bring riders from <strong>Altamont</strong> and<br />
Voorheesville to <strong>Albany</strong> will be<br />
changing on Nov. 12.<br />
“What we presented to the public<br />
was basically putting together<br />
two routes: the morning commuter<br />
buses to<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> and<br />
Voorheesville,<br />
and back in,”<br />
said Jonathan<br />
Scherzer, CD-<br />
TA’s director of<br />
marketing. “We<br />
took those two<br />
routes, which<br />
had varying degrees<br />
of ridership — certainly not<br />
efficient ones — and combined<br />
them into one.”<br />
Riders getting off the evening<br />
bus, which arrives at the intersection<br />
of Main Street and Maple<br />
Avenue in <strong>Altamont</strong> at 5:15 p.m.,<br />
said last week that they were<br />
unsure if and how the changes<br />
would be affecting them, since<br />
CDTA has not yet released the<br />
new schedule.<br />
Scherzer said last week that<br />
the planned route change would<br />
add close to 10 minutes to the<br />
trip for <strong>Altamont</strong> riders, but correspondence<br />
between Scherzer<br />
and an <strong>Altamont</strong> bus rider in<br />
the days that followed suggest<br />
further changes.<br />
“We had put our proposal out<br />
By Tyler Murphy<br />
NEW SCOTLAND –– Town<br />
board members are poised to sell<br />
a 14-passenger senior van to the<br />
town of Berne and have told dozens<br />
of concerned senior citizens<br />
at last week’s board meeting the<br />
sale would not affect service.<br />
“Some seniors in the town of<br />
New Scotland, in my opinion,<br />
have been unnecessarily aggravated<br />
into a concern that (the<br />
town board) is going to sell one<br />
of the buses,” said Councilman<br />
Doug LaGrange.<br />
“Last year, we used it 20 times<br />
and it sat out there for 340 days<br />
without use. <strong>The</strong>y’re still going<br />
to have trips, still going to have<br />
the bus,” New Scotland Supervisor<br />
Thomas<br />
Dolin said to<br />
the crowd as<br />
it pelted board<br />
members with<br />
questions for<br />
more than an<br />
hour at last<br />
week’s meeting.<br />
“Tell me what the objection<br />
is.”<br />
One of the citizens at the meeting,<br />
Bill Kerr, was skeptical of<br />
how available the van would be to<br />
New Scotland seniors if another<br />
municipality owned it. He noted<br />
the cost of the bus was less than<br />
1 percent of the budget and the<br />
projected savings even smaller.<br />
He asked board members for a<br />
guarantee the sale would not<br />
impact local seniors.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board has scheduled a<br />
special meeting for Today at 6:30<br />
p.m., at the Wyman Osterhout<br />
Community Center to vote on<br />
the issue, and Dolin, who endorses<br />
the sale, believes enough<br />
members support the move to<br />
pass it.<br />
Berne residents recently lost<br />
their hill town bus services from<br />
the Capital District Transportation<br />
Authority in August.<br />
“Revenues are declining, business<br />
is in downfall, it’s no different<br />
for government than private<br />
business,” Berne Supervisor<br />
Kevin Crosier told the crowd at<br />
the New Scotland meeting. Crosier<br />
said the CDTA canceled its<br />
to the public, and some of our<br />
more vocal constituents came<br />
out to the meeting,” Scherzer<br />
said. “<strong>The</strong>y had their opinions<br />
of how public transit should be<br />
doled out, and they did provide<br />
us with some alternate routings,<br />
which I think we are going to<br />
try to incorporate into the final<br />
plan.”<br />
Scherzer refers to a couple, one<br />
of whom rides the <strong>Altamont</strong> bus.<br />
“What we presented to the public was basically putting<br />
together two routes: the morning commuter buses to<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> and Voorheesville, and back in”<br />
<strong>The</strong>y provided <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
with an e-mail from Scherzer,<br />
which he wrote in response to a<br />
letter suggesting alternatives to<br />
CDTA’s proposal.<br />
In his response, Scherzer wrote:<br />
“We appreciate the time both you<br />
and your husband have put into<br />
finding the best plan and, to that<br />
end, we will be implementing the<br />
routing from Route 20 to Route<br />
146 to <strong>Altamont</strong>, and then Route<br />
156 through Voorheesville into<br />
Delmar.”<br />
Still, other concerns remain;<br />
some drive to the 20 Mall on<br />
Western Avenue, and catch<br />
the bus from the 20 Mall into<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> people who get on at 20<br />
Mall are being affected the most,”<br />
one rider said after getting off<br />
the <strong>Altamont</strong> bus last week.<br />
“Because they get on our bus,<br />
and then we get on the highway,<br />
so their commute is only about,<br />
15, 20 minutes. <strong>The</strong>y’re going to<br />
have to take this other bus, the<br />
63, and that’s like a 40-minute<br />
bus ride.”<br />
Scherzer suggests these riders<br />
simply take another bus.<br />
“People at 20 Mall have, I think,<br />
five bus routes<br />
there,” he said.<br />
“If someone really<br />
wants to<br />
connect there,<br />
they can [take<br />
route] 763, or<br />
one of the others.”<br />
Some have<br />
expressed the<br />
fear that, with the bus trip’s<br />
duration becoming longer, more<br />
people will choose to drive,<br />
thereby increasing congestion<br />
and the effect on the environment.<br />
Scherzer disagrees.<br />
“If you take public transportation<br />
to begin with, you probably<br />
have the expectation that it’s<br />
going to take longer than driving<br />
a car,” he said. “This isn’t<br />
something that’s just for you, or<br />
another individual, or a family<br />
of individuals, or a household.<br />
It’s set up for the masses. Would<br />
I want a shorter ride Of course,<br />
but if I knew the best way to get<br />
the services I’m used to was taking<br />
a bus for an extra eight or<br />
nine minutes, that’s something<br />
I’d have to think about.”<br />
Seniors protest<br />
Berne asks to buy New Scotland’s back-up bus<br />
routes, citing a lack of riders and<br />
a $50,000 fiscal shortfall. “What<br />
separates us in the hill towns is<br />
miles,” he said.<br />
“It’s less than 1 percent of the<br />
town’s total income. Yes, it’ll<br />
save money, it’ll help Berne but<br />
we’re taxpayers here,” said Kerr.<br />
“I know what happens once you<br />
give something away; I know<br />
government. That’s the way it<br />
goes.”<br />
Berne asked New Scotland to<br />
sell one of its two vans. <strong>The</strong> town<br />
operates two cars and two vans<br />
as part of the New Scotland Senior<br />
Outreach program, though<br />
Dolin said one of the cars was<br />
in bad shape and needed to be<br />
replaced.<br />
“Revenues are declining, business is in downfall,<br />
it’s no different for government than private business”<br />
<strong>The</strong> purpose of the outreach<br />
program was to connect New<br />
Scotland seniors with aid offered<br />
by the county and state,<br />
LaGrange said at the meeting.<br />
<strong>The</strong> vehicles are used to take<br />
seniors to medical appointments<br />
and grocery shopping free of<br />
charge, since many are unable<br />
to drive or can’t afford a car,<br />
he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> buses are also used in partnership<br />
with the New Scotland<br />
Seniors club, a private, not-forprofit<br />
group. <strong>The</strong> club organizes<br />
dozens of recreational trips for<br />
seniors and it often uses a town<br />
bus for the trips. Since January<br />
the buses had been on 71 trips<br />
for the group, said Dolin.<br />
An agreement with Berne<br />
would sell the bus for $2,500,<br />
which is less than its estimated<br />
value, but the deal would allow<br />
New Scotland to continue using<br />
the bus when needed, said Dolin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town only used the back-up<br />
bus about 20 days of the year<br />
when the first bus was full during<br />
trips for the seniors club. He<br />
also said the back-up bus had<br />
originally been purchased accidentally<br />
after the town surprisingly<br />
received a grant it thought<br />
was going to be denied.<br />
“In 2008, when I took office, we<br />
had no vehicles and now we have<br />
three and a half –– I considered<br />
the fly car barely road worthy.<br />
In my opinion, we need two cars<br />
and one bus,” said Dolin. <strong>The</strong> supervisor<br />
said one of the reasons<br />
the town was selling the bus was<br />
because it never really needed it<br />
in the first place. Dolin said the<br />
cars are often more efficient for<br />
transporting seniors, since most<br />
of the transport involves small<br />
groups going for medical appointments<br />
or shopping.<br />
“In the time we had only<br />
one bus, I never recall a great<br />
outcry to get<br />
another,” added<br />
LaGrange.<br />
“I know there<br />
are some worries<br />
out there, people<br />
are worried<br />
the van will go<br />
and never come<br />
back–– we’ll never get to use it<br />
–– that’s not true,” said Crosier.<br />
<strong>The</strong> supervisors told the seniors<br />
at the meeting, that the two<br />
towns would enter into a shared<br />
services contract stipulating the<br />
agreement in writing.<br />
“We would use the bus up there<br />
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Though he didn’t say if he<br />
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Berne would only be using the<br />
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...A cliffhanger: Will rock climbing be allowed at Thacher Park<br />
(Continued from page 1)<br />
short climbs. It disassociates local<br />
climbers from one another––<br />
they have no home. When you<br />
travel to an area where people<br />
have access to a climb and can go<br />
there after work, you can see it<br />
creates a community,” said Wallen.<br />
“<strong>Albany</strong> doesn’t have that but<br />
Thacher could be their home.”<br />
Currently, Thacher Park, with<br />
its 75-to 250-foot limestone cliffs,<br />
prohibits recreational climbing<br />
along the Helderberg escarpment.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s been an<br />
assessment going on;<br />
there’s no conclusion<br />
at this point.”<br />
Park Manager Chris Fallon<br />
said rock climbing was one of<br />
the activities being considered<br />
for inclusion in the master plan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> office is due to release a draft<br />
master plan in October and a<br />
final review and adoption of a<br />
plan is to take place by the end<br />
of the year.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s been an assessment<br />
going on; there’s no conclusion<br />
at this point,” said Fallon. Park<br />
planners have already had<br />
meetings with the coalition and<br />
officials are studying the issues<br />
involved, such as accessibility,<br />
environmental impact, liability,<br />
and safety, said Fallon. He said<br />
a decision on rock-climbing could<br />
be announced when the park’s<br />
draft master plan is released<br />
next month.<br />
However, rock climbers could<br />
be seen on Thacher’s escarpment<br />
earlier this month when<br />
emergency crews practiced steep<br />
search and rescue operations at<br />
the park.<br />
Since 1994, the <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Sheriff ’s Office Search and<br />
Rescue team has been training<br />
up and down the cliffs, said its<br />
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High-angle rescue: Members of the <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s search-and-rescue team prepare to descend down the Helderberg escarpment<br />
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leader, Captain John Layton.<br />
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Layton. <strong>The</strong> team made multiple<br />
revolutions up and down the<br />
rock face as part of training to<br />
retrieve lost, injured or missing<br />
people from rugged areas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team recently responded<br />
to a location in <strong>Albany</strong> to scale<br />
a steep gorge beneath a bridge<br />
to search for a missing man,<br />
Layton said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team trains at other<br />
locations besides Thacher and<br />
responds to a wide variety of<br />
special emergency situations,<br />
including ice, water, and cave<br />
rescues. Layton said most of the<br />
group’s work is in wilderness<br />
search and rescue.<br />
“It’s a highly specialized team<br />
of skilled individuals,” said Layton.<br />
When responding to a call,<br />
such as the man in the gorge,<br />
rescuers might have an idea of<br />
where the victim may be but no<br />
exact location.<br />
Layton said the team trains<br />
together regularly at least once<br />
a month, often at Thacher.<br />
Though, the search and rescue<br />
team are not the first to climb<br />
Thacher’s cliffs, said Wallen.<br />
“Our parents’ generation had<br />
the freedom to climb there, said<br />
Wallen.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> restrictive laws of New<br />
York State were put in place<br />
during the 70s because of the<br />
growing influences in the legal<br />
community.”<br />
Wallen believes the current<br />
laws which fine visitors of the<br />
park for climbing the cliffs or<br />
even walking off the paved path,<br />
infringe on the rights of citizens<br />
to be treated as adults.<br />
“It’s about lawsuits; it’s about<br />
liability. It’s about our out of control<br />
legal culture where a drunk<br />
can fall off a cliff and sue the<br />
state for it,” he said. “<strong>The</strong> laws<br />
don’t make people responsible<br />
for their actions and so the state<br />
is afraid to give regular citizens<br />
any responsibility or freedom,”<br />
said Wallen.<br />
Wallen said court rulings had<br />
made it difficult for climbers to<br />
sue because their sport is considered<br />
a dangerous activity.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> idiot who falls off the cliff<br />
because they’re drunk and sues<br />
is stealing from us –– stealing<br />
where climbers could go. He said<br />
these routes would be selected<br />
by climbing and safety experts<br />
to avoid potential dangers such<br />
as loose rocks. <strong>The</strong>y would also<br />
place the routes in areas less<br />
sensitive to damage.<br />
“People think rock climbing<br />
and they imagine free climbing.<br />
Not many do it –– a very<br />
low percent,” said Wallen. Free<br />
climbing is when rock climbers<br />
make climbs without the aid<br />
of any equipment aside from a<br />
small bag of chalk they dip their<br />
fingers into periodically to help<br />
avoid slipping.<br />
“It’s pretty crazy and most<br />
climbers don’t do it. <strong>The</strong> mentality<br />
of most climbers is taking<br />
calculated risks. We use ropes<br />
“<strong>The</strong> idiot who falls off the cliff<br />
because they’re drunk and sues<br />
is stealing from us<br />
–– stealing money from the taxpayers,<br />
and they’ve also indirectly stolen<br />
our access to the park.”<br />
Photo by –– Stanley Axelrod<br />
Climbers considered: As the John Boyd and Thompson Lake State Parks develop a master plan<br />
for future programming at the park, rock climbers are asking for access to the escarpment. Though<br />
recreational climbing is prohibited at the park the <strong>Albany</strong> Sheriff’s search and rescue team (above)<br />
frequently uses the park’s cliffs for training.<br />
money from the taxpayers, and<br />
they’ve also indirectly stolen<br />
our access to the park,” he said.<br />
“We have climbers in our group<br />
who’ve even climbed the Alps. It’s<br />
hard for people who have climbed<br />
20,000 feet in South America to<br />
understand why they can’t go in<br />
their backyard at Thacher.”<br />
Wallen is also very concerned<br />
with the environmental impacts<br />
of climbing on the geology and<br />
plant life but said climbing methods<br />
and practices had evolved to<br />
minimize any impact.<br />
“In climbing, we have certain<br />
routes; we don’t have people<br />
going all over,” he said. Wallen<br />
said Thacher, like other parks,<br />
should establish a local climbing<br />
authority to issue climbing<br />
permits and maintain the climbing<br />
routes. <strong>The</strong> authority would<br />
establish predetermined routes<br />
and safeguards. It’s really safe<br />
when compared to jumping off a<br />
60-foot cliff into water. <strong>The</strong>re’s<br />
more of a chance of getting into<br />
a car accident than a climbing<br />
accident,” he said.<br />
Another point Wallen raised<br />
was that, on average, a rock<br />
climber has to spend between<br />
$1,500 and $2,000 on his equipment<br />
and they almost always<br />
climb with at least one other<br />
person. “<strong>The</strong>se are not just people<br />
who live in the city and randomly<br />
decided it was a nice day to go<br />
for a hike. <strong>The</strong>y’re experienced<br />
outdoor users. <strong>The</strong>y’ve tried a<br />
sport, loved it, and have invested<br />
in it,” he said.<br />
Wallen said he and his group<br />
remain optimistic about climbing<br />
at Thacher one day and are continuing<br />
to engage park officials<br />
on the issue.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 9<br />
Still at an impasse with teachers, BKW board plans update soon<br />
By Zach Simeone<br />
BERNE — A year has passed<br />
since Berne-Knox-Westerlo taxpayers<br />
got a detailed update on<br />
negotiations between the school<br />
board and the BKW Teachers’<br />
Association on their publicly<br />
funded, multi-million dollar contract,<br />
which expired more than<br />
three years ago.<br />
But BKW School Board President<br />
Vasilios Lefkaditis said<br />
this week that the public would<br />
soon be apprised on how their<br />
money may be spent in the next<br />
contract.<br />
“Up until<br />
this point,<br />
it’s been<br />
professional<br />
courtesy”<br />
t o w a r d s<br />
the teachers’<br />
union,<br />
he said of<br />
why there<br />
has not yet<br />
been an update.<br />
“But,<br />
at some point, we are going to<br />
come forward.”<br />
Article II of the BKW teachers’<br />
contract, which outlines negotiating<br />
procedures, states, “Both<br />
parties agree that there be no<br />
release of information in regard<br />
to the negotiation to the public<br />
without prior notice and agreement<br />
to a joint press release or<br />
until impasse is declared.”<br />
Negotiators reached an impasse<br />
in March 2011. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
brought in a mediator from the<br />
Public Employee Review Board,<br />
but to no avail. In the fall, the<br />
school board’s negotiator from<br />
the Board of Cooperative Educational<br />
Services, Kevin Harren,<br />
updated the public on the respective<br />
parties’ terms; the teachers’<br />
union did not make a public<br />
“Being candid.”<br />
presentation of its own.<br />
Kelly Smith, president of the<br />
BKW Teachers’ Association,<br />
could not be reached this week<br />
before press time.<br />
She told the audience at a<br />
packed budget forum in 2010<br />
that the union had offered to accept<br />
a freeze in the teachers’ salary<br />
schedule — “And we haven’t<br />
slacked,” she told the crowd.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y got back to us at the<br />
end of April,” Smith told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
shortly after, “at which<br />
time we gave them a counter offer,<br />
and that’s the last we heard<br />
from them.<br />
In their defense,<br />
there<br />
have been a<br />
lot of things<br />
going on.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> BKW<br />
administration<br />
was in a<br />
state of flux<br />
then, as it is<br />
now.<br />
“So, that<br />
did put a kink in the works as<br />
far as negotiations go,” Smith<br />
said then. “But, there’s always<br />
going to be something.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Triborough Amendment<br />
of New York State’s Taylor Law<br />
requires that employees work under<br />
the old contract until a new<br />
one is agreed upon. <strong>The</strong> contract<br />
that expired in 2009 includes 30<br />
steps, and teachers climb one<br />
step each year; on the first step, a<br />
teacher earns $38,350; on the 30 th<br />
step, a teacher earns $86,874.<br />
Teachers continue to receive<br />
their step increases under the<br />
old contract when there isn’t a<br />
new one.<br />
Jay Worona, attorney for the<br />
New York State School Board<br />
Association, talked this week<br />
about the rationale behind the<br />
<strong>Enterprise</strong> file photo — Zach Simeone<br />
“We haven’t slacked,” said Kelly Smith, president of the Berne-<br />
Knox-Westerlo Teachers’ Association, responding at a packed<br />
budget forum in 2010 to BKW residents’ sentiment that teachers<br />
were not shouldering enough of the budgetary burden. Salaries<br />
and benefits for all district employees total more than 75 percent<br />
of the BKW budget.<br />
confidentiality of contract negotiations.<br />
“Being candid,” Worona told<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>, “knowing that<br />
they don’t have to posture so<br />
that they will be perceived as<br />
being tough and being consistent<br />
with what they each might<br />
believe the public and/or union<br />
would be expecting them to do,<br />
in terms of how they express<br />
themselves, it makes people a<br />
little more motivated to be honest<br />
with each other, and waste a<br />
lot less time.”<br />
Such ground rules, like the<br />
requirement of confidentiality,<br />
vary among districts.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are some schools where<br />
bargaining agreements don’t operate<br />
that way; they’ll be totally<br />
open,” said Worona. “It really depends<br />
on the climate of the community,<br />
and the expectations for<br />
the way things have been done<br />
in the past. What yields the best<br />
possible result It’s almost like<br />
family members in an operating<br />
room; you want to know what’s<br />
going on in there. But, even if<br />
you were in there, you wouldn’t<br />
feel any less nuts. <strong>The</strong>y’ve got to<br />
do their thing.”<br />
Moreover, a contract being<br />
expired for three years is not<br />
unheard of.<br />
“In Buffalo, they’re out eight<br />
years right now without a new<br />
contract, so, we don’t see this<br />
all the time, but we see it often<br />
enough,” Worona said. “If you<br />
have a contract that was negotiated<br />
when economic times were<br />
great, and they have lucrative<br />
economic provisions in them,<br />
it’s hard to convince people to<br />
come up with a contract that<br />
gives them a lot less money.<br />
And, unlike people in business<br />
who want to keep their profits<br />
to themselves, people running<br />
districts want to dole it out to<br />
the staff, because they want to<br />
attract the best and the brightest<br />
for the community.”<br />
Lefkaditis said Monday that<br />
he was unsure of when the district’s<br />
next negotiations update<br />
might be.<br />
“But we would let the bargaining<br />
unit know before we<br />
do so,” said Lefkaditis. “Several<br />
members from the gallery have<br />
addressed that concern, and<br />
we’ve made clear that it’s going<br />
to happen sooner rather than<br />
later.”
10 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Community Calendar<br />
Thursday, September 27<br />
Food Preservation Class:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cornell Cooperative Extension<br />
of <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> will be<br />
hosting the last two food preservation<br />
classes of the season at<br />
the extension office, 24 Martin<br />
Road, Voorheesville. On Sept. 27,<br />
the Introduction to Water Bath<br />
Canning, will run from 6:30 to<br />
8:30 p.m. and cover all the basics,<br />
including pickled dilly beans as<br />
a class project to take home. <strong>The</strong><br />
fee is $15, payable at the door,<br />
and pre-registration is required;<br />
call 765-3547 to register.<br />
Friday, September 28<br />
Drive-thru Chicken Barbecue<br />
at the American Legion<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Post</strong>, 988 <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
Boulevard, from 4 to 7 p.m. <strong>The</strong><br />
cost is $9 per dinner. Call 861-<br />
6848 for more information.<br />
Halloween Fall Fund-raiser<br />
at the North Bethlehem Fire<br />
Department, 589 Russell Road,<br />
on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 9<br />
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday,<br />
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pumpkins,<br />
mums, straw, and cornstalks will<br />
be on sale. Throughout the days,<br />
there will be ice cream, cotton<br />
candy, soda, and entertainment<br />
for kids.<br />
Voorheesville Farmer’s<br />
Market from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.,<br />
featuring Two’s Company music<br />
and Dietrich Gehring Photography.<br />
Kinyarwanda, winner of the World Cinema Audience award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, will<br />
be screened on Friday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. at the downtown campus of<br />
the University at <strong>Albany</strong>. <strong>The</strong> film is based on the heroic true story of Muslim clergy who risked their<br />
lives to save both Tutsi and pacifist Hutu — Christians as well as Muslims — during the Rwandan<br />
genocide. “Kinyarwanda” refers to the language of Rwanda, spoken by all its ethnic groups. <strong>The</strong> film’s<br />
producer, Darren Dean, and leading Rwandan actress, Hadidja Zaninka (pictured here), will answer<br />
questions immediately after the screening. <strong>The</strong> film is part of the Justice & Multiculturalism in the<br />
21st Century Film Series aimed at engaging conversations about the intersection of social justice and<br />
criminal justice in an increasingly diverse society.<br />
Grand Opening Event for<br />
Art de Cure: <strong>The</strong> Plastic Surgery<br />
Group in <strong>Albany</strong> has a<br />
display, Metamorphosis II, featuring<br />
work from local artists,<br />
which will be sold, with a portion<br />
of the proceeds benefiting<br />
Circle of Hope, a not-for-profit<br />
that helps women who have had<br />
or are currently fighting breast<br />
cancer. <strong>The</strong> event will run from<br />
5 to 7 p.m. at the Plastic Surgery<br />
Group Offices, 1365 Washington<br />
Ave., Suite 200, <strong>Albany</strong>. It is free<br />
and open to the public.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Art of Living” Talk:<br />
Dr. David Bole will present a<br />
public talk, exploring traditional<br />
Asian healing methods, such as<br />
acupressure and Chi Kung, for<br />
enhancing health and happiness,<br />
at 7 p.m. at the Karma <strong>The</strong>gsum<br />
Choling Buddhist Center, 199<br />
Washington Ave., Rensselaer. A<br />
donation of $10 is requested.<br />
Saturday, September 29<br />
Friends of Thacher Park<br />
Highway Cleanup: Please join<br />
the Friends in picking up litter<br />
on their adopted section of Route<br />
157. Volunteers get free admission<br />
to the park for the day. Meet<br />
at the Hop Field picnic area at<br />
8 a.m. Call 872-0800 for more<br />
information.<br />
Hike to Historic Schoolhouse<br />
at Thacher Nature Center<br />
at 10 a.m.: Ever wonder what<br />
it was like to attend school in the<br />
early 1900s We’ll take a walk<br />
back in time to visit a historic<br />
one-room schoolhouse. Trade<br />
your markers and computers<br />
for quill pens and chalkboards<br />
and prepare for a mini lesson<br />
on “<strong>The</strong> Three R’s.” Enjoy cider<br />
and donuts for a snack, and play<br />
simple and fun old-fashioned<br />
games during recess. <strong>The</strong> program<br />
is appropriate for ages 6<br />
and up. This is a great program<br />
for scout groups. Call 872-0800<br />
to register.<br />
Berne Reformed Church<br />
Roast Pork Supper from 3:30<br />
to 6:30 p.m. on the Helderberg<br />
Trail. <strong>The</strong>re will be continuous<br />
servings of roast pork, gravy,<br />
dressing, mashed potatoes, green<br />
beans, coleslaw, applesauce, dinner<br />
rolls, homemade pies, and<br />
a beverage. <strong>The</strong> cost is $10 for<br />
adults and take-outs are available<br />
for $1 extra; children under<br />
5 eat free.<br />
Gallupville Volunteer Fire<br />
Department Auxiliary Fall<br />
Rummage Sale, Bake Sale,<br />
and Lunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bag sale will be from noon<br />
to 1 p.m. with a lunch from 11<br />
a.m. to 1 p.m.<br />
Historic Fall Festival at<br />
the Canal Street Railroad Station<br />
Railroad Village from 10:30<br />
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and<br />
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.<br />
Special features are old gas<br />
engines, antique cars, hot rods,<br />
food vendors, farmers’ market,<br />
chicken barbecue, artisans, and<br />
more. Visit the Wallace Armer<br />
Museum general store, a 1940<br />
diner, and our New York Central<br />
locomotive. Call 355-6536.<br />
Fish and Wildlife Festival at<br />
Five Rivers: A fish and wildlife<br />
festival will take place at 56<br />
Game Farm Road, Delmar, from<br />
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In celebration<br />
of National Hunting and Fishing<br />
Day, Department of Environmental<br />
Conservation staff and<br />
local conservation partners will<br />
present a variety of hands-on<br />
activities, informative talks, and<br />
educational exhibits. Guided<br />
children’s activities will include<br />
archery, catch-and-release fishing<br />
and lawn casting. General<br />
interest presentations will include<br />
restoration of the wild<br />
turkey, safety afield, ice fishing,<br />
and how to cook venison. Skill<br />
clinics geared for sportsmen and<br />
sportswomen will include how to<br />
age a deer, how to field dress a<br />
deer, and recent changes in the<br />
hunting regulations. All activities<br />
are open to the public free<br />
of charge. Call 457-0291 for more<br />
information.<br />
Antique and Treasures<br />
Appraised: <strong>The</strong> Greenville Volunteer<br />
Fire Company Auxiliary<br />
will be hosting a special event<br />
that may help you become better<br />
informed of an item’s current<br />
value. Local auctioneer and antique<br />
expert, Russ Carlsen, will<br />
be conducting an afternoon of<br />
education and appraisal on items<br />
you bring in for his examination.<br />
This session will be held on Saturday,<br />
from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at<br />
the Greenville Fire Station at the<br />
intersection or routes 32 and 81.<br />
$5 donation required.<br />
Guilderland Community<br />
Fest to Benefit Rodinos: Local<br />
organizations will come together<br />
at Tawasentha Park from 1 to 4<br />
p.m. for an afternoon of music,<br />
food, and fun for the whole family.<br />
Attendees will enjoy performances<br />
by local bands, free food,<br />
and kids activities. Local vendors<br />
will also be selling their goods.<br />
All proceeds will go directly to<br />
the Rodino family, who have<br />
been devastated by Huntington’s<br />
disease.<br />
Hilltown Community Market<br />
and Café from 9 a.m. to<br />
noon at the Berne Masonic<br />
Lodge. Open through Dec. 1.<br />
Local farm-fresh veggies, baked<br />
goods, meats, eggs, syrup, honey,<br />
herbals, and fine arts.<br />
Pumpkin Patch and Annual<br />
Harvest Sale at the Fort Hunter<br />
Volunteer Fire Company, 3525<br />
Carman Road, from 10 a.m. to<br />
4 p.m.<br />
Sunday, September 30<br />
Prayers for Peace Concert<br />
at 7 p.m. at the Lynnwood Reformed<br />
Church, 3714 Carman<br />
Road, Guilderland. <strong>The</strong> program<br />
includes traditional, spiritual,<br />
classic and contemporary anthems<br />
with media presentations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> concert is open to the public<br />
free of charge.<br />
Monday, October 1<br />
Monday Meals for take-out<br />
will be available at the Voorheesville<br />
United Methodist Church,<br />
38 Maple Ave., from 4:30 to 6 p.m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> menu includes chicken parmesan<br />
with pasta, green salad,<br />
and dessert. <strong>The</strong> cost for a meal<br />
is $8; call 765-2895 to reserve.<br />
Tuesday, October 2<br />
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and Reality will be the program<br />
presented by Dr. Matt Farina at<br />
the New Scotland Historical Association<br />
meeting, at 7:30 p.m.<br />
at the Wyman Osterhout Community<br />
Center in New Salem.<br />
This program is free and open<br />
to the public. Call 765-4212 for<br />
more information.<br />
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Tuesday, October 2<br />
Knox Historical Society<br />
meeting at 7 p.m. at Knox Town<br />
Hall. Bob Stevens will present<br />
the Mobil sign from the family<br />
gas station and talk about this<br />
long-running business in Knox.<br />
Refreshments will be served<br />
and new members are always<br />
welcome.<br />
Thursday, October 4<br />
After School Adventurer:<br />
Hey kids! Want to get some<br />
exercise and have fun outdoors<br />
Well bring an adult and join us<br />
for our bi-monthly after school<br />
hiking adventure club. We will<br />
meet on the first and third Thursday<br />
of each month from Sept. 20<br />
through Nov. 15 to explore the<br />
different trails and habitats of<br />
the <strong>Albany</strong> Pine Bush Preserve.<br />
You can come once or every time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program is for students in<br />
grades one through five. Meet at<br />
the <strong>Albany</strong> Pine Bush Discovery<br />
Center, 195 New Karner Road,<br />
at 3:30 p.m. <strong>The</strong> program is free<br />
but registration is required; call<br />
456-0655.<br />
Food Preservation Class:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cornell Cooperative Extension<br />
will host a class, Introduction<br />
to Pressure Canning, from<br />
6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at 24 Martin<br />
Road, Voorheesville. Participants<br />
will learn how to can vegetables,<br />
soups, stews, and meat, and will<br />
can some soup to take home. <strong>The</strong><br />
fee is $15, payable at the door,<br />
and pre-registration is required;<br />
call 765-3547 to register.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Helderview Garden<br />
Club will meet at 6:45 p.m. at the<br />
Cornell Cooperative Extension<br />
building on Martin Road. <strong>The</strong><br />
speaker will be Melanie Mason<br />
of Longlesson Farm and North<br />
<strong>County</strong> Day Lilies. Everyone is<br />
welcome. Call 813-495-2654 for<br />
more information.<br />
Annual Turkey Supper and<br />
Bake Sale at the Bethany Lutheran<br />
Church, Central Bridge,<br />
beginning at 4:30 p.m. <strong>The</strong> price<br />
of the family-style dinner is $9<br />
for adults, $5 for children, and<br />
free for children under 5. Takeouts<br />
are available for $10. Proceeds<br />
will be used for the church<br />
and community projects.<br />
Friday, October 5<br />
<strong>The</strong> Schoharie Valley Hayshakers<br />
will hold a mainstream<br />
level western square dance at<br />
the Middleburgh High School<br />
cafeteria beginning at 7:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> caller is Ray Taylor and the<br />
cuer is Dolores Randall. Please<br />
wear soft sole shoes.<br />
First Friday Business<br />
Breakfast: Cynthia Nagel and<br />
Lis Calndrino have an energy<br />
packed presentation on how to<br />
effectively use social media for<br />
business. Networking begins at<br />
7:30 a.m. and the presentation<br />
begins at 8 a.m., at the Guilderland<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
offices, 2050 Western Ave. Admission<br />
is $10.<br />
First Friday Fall Foliage:<br />
Take a break from your day<br />
and spend an hour on the trails<br />
with us observing the changing<br />
foliage and fall colors. Meet at<br />
the <strong>Albany</strong> Pine Bush Discovery<br />
Center, 195 New Karner Road,<br />
at noon. <strong>The</strong> program is free<br />
but registration is required; call<br />
456-0655.<br />
Giffy’s Chicken Barbecue<br />
Tuesday Oct. 2nd<br />
4 to 6 p.m.<br />
New Covenant Presbyterian Church<br />
916 Western Ave., <strong>Albany</strong> NY 12203<br />
482-8063<br />
Advance tickets $10 • At the Door $11<br />
Saturday September 29: Canal<br />
Street Station Farmers’ Market<br />
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Fresh<br />
seasonal produce from Heritage<br />
Farms. Now is the season for<br />
squash, pumpkins, gourds and<br />
more. Canal Street Station is located<br />
on Route 20 two miles east<br />
of I-88 Exit 24 in Duanesburg or<br />
five miles west of Route 158 in<br />
Guilderland. “Just look for the<br />
New York Central locomotive”!<br />
New vendors are welcome, for<br />
information call 355-6536.<br />
www.canalstreetstation.com<br />
ROAST PORK SUPPER<br />
Saturday, September 29th<br />
3:30 - 6:30 Continuous Servings<br />
ROAST PORK, GRAVY,<br />
DRESSING, MASHED POTATOES,<br />
GREEN BEANS, COLE SLAW,<br />
APPLESAUCE, DINNER ROLLS,<br />
HOMEMADE PIES AND BEVERAGE<br />
Adults $10<br />
Children - $5, Under 5 - Free<br />
Take Outs Available for $1 Extra<br />
Berne Reformed Church<br />
Helderberg Trail, Berne, NY<br />
Fort Hunter Fire Company<br />
3525 Carman Road<br />
Pumpkin Patch Annual Harvest Sale<br />
September 29 & 30<br />
October 6 & 7<br />
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.<br />
Pumpkins, Mums, and Cornstalks<br />
Please come and support your neighborhood Fire Department.<br />
Fire Prevention Open House on October 13, 11am - 4 pm.<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> Fire Department<br />
is sponsoring a<br />
Night of Comedy<br />
Hosted by Greg Aidala<br />
Featuring Jesse Joyce, Comedy Central Roast Writer<br />
Also seen on “<strong>The</strong> Tonight Show” with Jay Leno,<br />
Comedy Central and NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”.<br />
Date: Saturday, November 3rd, 2012<br />
Time: Doors open at 7:00 pm<br />
Show starts at 8 pm<br />
Where: <strong>Altamont</strong> Fire Department<br />
115 Main Street<br />
Cost: $25 per person<br />
Includes Beer, Wine, Soda and Finger Foods<br />
Tickets may be purchased at the door<br />
OR<br />
Reserved tickets may be purchased in advance<br />
by contacting Mark Wertman at the<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> Fire Department 861-5758<br />
Also at Village Hall, Kelly Best at 861-8554 ext. 10<br />
An evening of Flamenco music, dance, and song: <strong>The</strong> University at <strong>Albany</strong> Performing Arts Center<br />
presents Flamenco Vivo II on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month,<br />
this five-member ensemble of artists will perform under the direction of Carlota Santana. Intense speed,<br />
sensual partnering, and stiletto movement are trademarks of Santana’s artists who are celebrating<br />
their 30th anniversary season.Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 for the elderly and U<strong>Albany</strong><br />
faculty or staff, and $10 for students. For reservations and further information, contact the box office<br />
at 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website www.albany.edu/pac.<br />
• Full menu also available<br />
• Homemade soups daily<br />
• Open Breakfast & Lunch<br />
7 days a week<br />
• Tuesdays - Burger night 4-8<br />
• Fridays - Dinners 5-8<br />
Main Street, <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
861-6452<br />
Mondays<br />
Tuesdays<br />
Wednesdays<br />
Homemade Comfort Food<br />
Breakfast<br />
Home Front Scrambler<br />
( Eggs, Feta, Spinach, Tom )<br />
Fruit topped pancakes or<br />
French toast<br />
Sausage & gravy over<br />
biscuits<br />
In a hurry Join us for<br />
“Crock Pot Lunch”<br />
Goulash<br />
Beef Stew<br />
Chili<br />
Thursdays Eggs Benedict Chicken & Biscuits<br />
Fridays<br />
Griddle Sandwich<br />
( French toast or pancakes<br />
stuffed w/ egg, meat, &<br />
cheese )<br />
Macaroni & Cheese
12 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Community Calendar<br />
Friday, October 5<br />
Birds Take Flight: It’s that<br />
time of year when birds are on<br />
the move. Come along on an early<br />
morning adventure to observe<br />
some of the amazing birds here<br />
and see our science team in action<br />
as they capture and band<br />
birds. <strong>The</strong>y are working together<br />
to determine where birds in the<br />
Pine Bush migrate. After a short<br />
outside observation period, an indoor<br />
hands-on presentation will<br />
take place. Meet at the <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195<br />
New Karner Road, at 8 a.m. <strong>The</strong><br />
fee is $3 per person or $5 per family<br />
and registration is required;<br />
call 456-0655 to register.<br />
Saturday, October 6<br />
225 th Anniversary Homecoming<br />
Weekend at the New<br />
Scotland Presbyterian Church.<br />
All former members and friends<br />
are welcome to join in. To be<br />
included, please call the church<br />
office at 439-6454.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fall Festival at the Adirondack Museum on Saturday,<br />
Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. will include pumpkin painting,<br />
wagon and pony rides, apple cider pressing, arts and crafts,<br />
music, and more. Erica Wheeler will sing and tell stories at 11<br />
a.m. and at 1 and 3 p.m. This event takes place on National<br />
Smithsonian Museum Day. Go to the www.smithsonianmag.com/<br />
museumday/”Smithsonian Magazine website, print the coupon<br />
and visit the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake for<br />
free during its festival. For more information, go online to www.<br />
adirondackmuseum.org or call 352-7311.2<br />
Voorheesville American Legion<br />
Auxiliary Tag Sale from<br />
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the American<br />
Legion Hall, Voorheesville Ave.,<br />
Voorheesville. Anyone interested<br />
in donating clothes can call 765-<br />
4580 or 765-4280 to make an<br />
appointment to drop items off at<br />
the legion. Please, no big items<br />
or electronics.<br />
Brooks Chicken Barbecue<br />
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and a<br />
pumpkin sale from 10 a.m. to 7<br />
p.m. at the McKownville United<br />
Methodist Church at 1565 Western<br />
Ave., <strong>Albany</strong>. Dinner includes<br />
chicken, baked potato, coleslaw,<br />
rolls, and cake. <strong>The</strong> cost for an<br />
adult dinner is $10, the cost for<br />
a child’s dinner is $7.50, and a<br />
half chicken is $8.<br />
Souped Up on Guilderland<br />
Soup Contest, Car Show, and<br />
Fall Festival: <strong>The</strong> Guilderland<br />
Chamber of Commerce will host<br />
the annual soup cook-off with<br />
10 to 12 local restaurants, a<br />
car show — featuring hotrods,<br />
classics, antiques, customs, foreigns,<br />
truck, and bikes — and a<br />
hay maze, haunted house, hay<br />
rides, and cider and doughnuts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> event will be held at <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
Orchards from 10 a.m. to<br />
2 p.m.<br />
Hilltown Community Market<br />
and Café from 9 a.m. to<br />
noon at the Berne Masonic<br />
Lodge. Open through Dec. 1.<br />
Local farm-fresh veggies, baked<br />
goods, meats, eggs, syrup, honey,<br />
herbals, and fine arts.<br />
Annual Autumn Supper at<br />
the Jerusalem Reformed Church,<br />
Route 32, Feura Bush, from 4<br />
to 6:30 p.m. <strong>The</strong> dinner is roast<br />
turkey with all the trimmings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cost is a free-will donation.<br />
Reservations can be made by<br />
calling 478-9755, but walk-ins<br />
are welcome, and take-outs are<br />
available.<br />
Mad Hatter Day Hike: <strong>The</strong><br />
Matt Hatter (fictional character<br />
from Alice in Wonderland) is<br />
always acting silly and wearing<br />
a top hat. Join us for a one-mile<br />
hike in the Pine Bush and be<br />
sure to wear a silly hat. Meet at<br />
the <strong>Albany</strong> Pine Bush Discovery<br />
Center, 195 New Karner Road,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>, at 11 a.m. <strong>The</strong> fee is $3<br />
per person or $5 per family and<br />
registration is required; call<br />
456-0655.<br />
Join us as we hear about<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> history from Jack McEneny<br />
Canal Street Station<br />
2012 7th annual<br />
hiStoriC Fall FeStival<br />
antique Car and hot rod Show<br />
(non Judged)<br />
Special Events • FREE admission • Early Gas Engines<br />
Blacksmithing • Tinsmithing • Live Old time music<br />
Food Vendors • Farmers’ Market<br />
Arts & Crafts Vendors • Book Signing<br />
CHICKEN BBQ By Barbeque Delights Catering<br />
Visit our historic 1900 “Wallace Armer” Museum<br />
1941 Silk City Diner now in restoration<br />
Saturday, Sept. 29- 10:30 to 5:00<br />
Sunday, Sept. 30 - 10:30 to 5:00<br />
Located on Rt. 20, 3 miles east of Duanesburg next to<br />
JOSEPH J. MERLI MANUFACTURING CO.<br />
“Just look for the New York Central locomotive”<br />
WWW.CANALSTREETSTATION.COM<br />
FOR VENDOR INFORMATION CALL 518-355-6536<br />
— <strong>Enterprise</strong> file photo — Michael Koff<br />
Assemblyman John McEneny will speak on Oct. 3 to the Clarksville<br />
Historical Society.<br />
By Sandy Slingerland<br />
Community correspondent<br />
NEW SCOTLAND — <strong>The</strong><br />
Clarksville Historical Society<br />
presents “An Evening With John<br />
McEneny” on Wednesday, Oct. 3,<br />
at 7 p.m. at the Clarksville Community<br />
Church.<br />
McEneny is a former <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> historian and a well<br />
known teacher and speaker on local<br />
history, ethnicity, and related<br />
fields. He led the effort that saved<br />
the 17th Century Quackenbush<br />
House, <strong>Albany</strong>’s oldest building,<br />
and later chaired the <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Historic Sites Commission.<br />
He wrote and narrated WMHT<br />
Public Television’s Tricentennial<br />
Documentary on <strong>Albany</strong>, and<br />
authored <strong>Albany</strong>, Capital City<br />
on the Hudson, the definitive<br />
text on the city’s four centuries<br />
of history.<br />
McEneny, a state assemblyman,<br />
also serves as a member<br />
of the New York State Archives<br />
Partnership Trust and the Commission<br />
for the Restoration of<br />
the Capitol.<br />
We are looking forward to hearing<br />
about some of the history of<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. <strong>The</strong> program is<br />
open to the public; please join us<br />
for an evening of history.<br />
Refreshments will be served<br />
following the program. <strong>The</strong><br />
Clarksville Community Church<br />
is on Delaware Turnpike, in the<br />
hamlet of Clarksville. For more<br />
information, call 768-2870.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 13<br />
Out & About<br />
GCSD seeks public input on next year’s budget<br />
GUILDERLAND — On Tuesday,<br />
Oct. 23, the Guilderland<br />
Central School District Board of<br />
Education will meet with members<br />
of the community to listen<br />
to their ideas, concerns, and<br />
questions regarding the district’s<br />
2013-14 spending plan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> input session will begin at<br />
approximately 7:30 p.m. in the<br />
Guilderland High School largegroup<br />
instruction room, located<br />
at 8 School Road in Guilderland<br />
Center, and will serve as the<br />
kick-off to this year’s budget<br />
deliberations.<br />
All district residents are<br />
welcome to attend the session,<br />
which will also be broadcast live<br />
on TWC Channel 16, as it is a<br />
part of the regular meeting of<br />
the board.<br />
Those planning to attend<br />
should call the superintendent’s<br />
office at 456-6200, ext. 3102 or<br />
e-mail superintendent@guilderlandschools.org.<br />
Those unable to attend the<br />
meeting may submit their<br />
thoughts on the budget in writing,<br />
on or before Oct. 23, to:<br />
Board of Education President<br />
Colleen O’Connell, care of the<br />
Guilderland Central School<br />
District Office, 8 School Road,<br />
<strong>Post</strong> Office Box 18, Guilderland<br />
Center, NY 12085-0018.<br />
District residents may also<br />
submit feedback online at: www.<br />
guilderlandschools.org (click on<br />
the School Budget News icon).<br />
Ceremony set for Sept. 29<br />
Multicultural High School Achiever Awards<br />
<strong>The</strong> University at <strong>Albany</strong> is<br />
recognizing 218 outstanding high<br />
school seniors from the greater<br />
Capital District and beyond as<br />
recipients of its 2012 Multicultural<br />
High School Achievers<br />
Awards.<br />
Selected for exemplary academic<br />
performance and leadership<br />
in their schools and communities,<br />
the award winners are<br />
being honored at a special event<br />
on Saturday, Sept. 29, when they<br />
take part in campus tours and information<br />
sessions. <strong>The</strong> awards<br />
ceremony is in the Campus Center<br />
on U<strong>Albany</strong>’s main campus at<br />
1400 Washington Ave.<br />
Now in its 25th year, the recognition<br />
program is designed<br />
to honor outstanding students<br />
and encourage them to continue<br />
their leadership development<br />
in college. To date, the program<br />
has recognized more than 4,600<br />
students of color.<br />
Local students being recognized<br />
this year include:<br />
— Briana Beaver-Timmons<br />
of Schenectady,<br />
— Jessica Capone o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Nicole Das of Schenectady,<br />
— Azmad Din of <strong>Altamont</strong>,<br />
— Lauren Henderson of<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Anna Jacquinot of<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Adeem Khan of Guilderland,<br />
— Hannah Liu o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Anvesh Mateti o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Zubin Mukerjee of Guilderland,<br />
— Gladys Ninson o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Jung Eun Park of Guilderland,<br />
— Redal Ram o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Lakshmi Ramasamy of<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Einy Santos of <strong>Altamont</strong>,<br />
— Oindri Sen o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Yogita Telhu o f<br />
Schenectady,<br />
— Joanne Tseng o f<br />
Schenectady, and<br />
— Ariana Valverde of <strong>Altamont</strong>.<br />
Karl Berger, a leading figure in musical improvisation and<br />
cross-cultural musical awareness, is a vibraphonist, conductor<br />
and educator. He is a six-time winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll<br />
as a jazz soloist and recipient of numerous Composition Awards<br />
in the United States and Europe. He will help present a program<br />
of Improvised Music on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at the University<br />
at <strong>Albany</strong> Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus.<br />
Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for students, seniors,<br />
and U<strong>Albany</strong> faculty or staff and may be purchased through the<br />
Performing Arts Center Box Office. For further information, call<br />
442-3997 or go online to www.albany.edu/pac. This concert is part<br />
of a daylong artist residency by Berger and will be preceded by<br />
two music improvisation workshops in the Performing Arts Center<br />
at 2:45 and 4 p.m. <strong>The</strong> workshops are open to all and there is no<br />
charge for participation.<br />
DEC releases<br />
pheasants for<br />
hunting season<br />
About 30,000 adult pheasants<br />
will be released on lands open to<br />
public hunting for the upcoming<br />
fall pheasant-hunting season,<br />
according to the New York State<br />
Department of Environmental<br />
Conservation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pheasant-hunting season<br />
begins on Oct. 1 in northern and<br />
eastern portions of New York,<br />
Oct. 20 in central and western<br />
portions, and Nov. 1 on Long<br />
Island.<br />
For the sixth year, junior hunters<br />
(12 to 15 years old) have the<br />
opportunity to hunt pheasants<br />
the weekend prior to the regular<br />
pheasant-hunting season.<br />
In northern and eastern New<br />
York, the youth pheasant hunt<br />
weekend is Sept. 29 to 30.<br />
Youth hunting locations in<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> include Partridge<br />
Run in Berne, the Margaret<br />
Burke Preserve in Knox, and<br />
the west side of Diamond Hill<br />
Road north of Clipp Road in New<br />
Scotland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> majority of birds will be<br />
released on state-owned wildlife<br />
management areas and cooperative<br />
hunting areas prior to and<br />
during the fall hunting season.<br />
All release sites for pheasants<br />
provided by state-funded programs<br />
are open to public hunting.<br />
A list of statewide adult<br />
pheasant release sites and sites<br />
receiving birds for the youth<br />
pheasant hunt weekends can be<br />
found on the DEC’s website.<br />
Diana B. Henriques,<br />
award-winning financial<br />
journalist and author of<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wizard of Lies: Bernie<br />
Madoff and the Death of<br />
Trust, will be in <strong>Albany</strong> on<br />
Oct. 4 to present “Madoff<br />
and More: Unmasking the<br />
Legacy of Greed and Corruption.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> program, to benefit<br />
<strong>The</strong> Women’s Press Club of<br />
New York State’s scholarship<br />
endowment fund, is<br />
scheduled for the Touhey<br />
Forum in the Lally School<br />
of Education at <strong>The</strong> College<br />
of Saint Rose, 1009 Madison<br />
Ave. <strong>The</strong> lecture begins at<br />
6:30 p.m. and costs $25; a<br />
separately priced reception<br />
with Henriques follows at 8<br />
p.m. and costs $75. Tickets<br />
for both the reception and<br />
lecture are available at <strong>The</strong><br />
Book House of Stuyvesant<br />
Plaza in Guilderland, and<br />
through the website www.<br />
womenspressclubnys.com.<br />
“Seeing Gray”<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> Reformed Church<br />
schedules discussions on faith and politics<br />
By Bob Luidens<br />
Community correspondent<br />
Over the past decade, America<br />
has become more polarized;<br />
people seem to be less and less<br />
willing to listen to one another.<br />
Much of this division comes from<br />
the tendency to “see things in<br />
black and white” when it comes<br />
to political, moral, and religious<br />
issues.<br />
Starting Oct. 16, the<br />
A l t a m o n t R e f o r m e d<br />
Church will host a series<br />
of discussions, “Seeing<br />
Gray: Where Faith<br />
and Politics Meet.” <strong>The</strong><br />
studies will focus on how<br />
people of faith can engage<br />
in a more thoughtful<br />
conversation about divisive<br />
issues.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will be based on five<br />
video presentations by Adam<br />
Hamilton, author of Seeing Gray<br />
in a World of Black and White:<br />
Thoughts on Religion, Morality<br />
and Politics.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group will meet on Tuesdays<br />
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Pro Musica diversifies<br />
church Fellowship Hall at 129<br />
Lincoln Ave. in <strong>Altamont</strong>. Each<br />
session will feature a 20-minute<br />
video followed by further study<br />
and discussion.<br />
Dates and topics include:<br />
— Oct. 16, Where Faith and<br />
Politics Meet;<br />
— Nov. 13, Christ, Christians,<br />
and Culture Wars;<br />
America has become more polarized;<br />
people seem to be less and less<br />
willing to listen to one another.<br />
— Jan. 22, How Should We<br />
Live <strong>The</strong> Ethics of Jesus;<br />
— March 12, Spiritual Maturity<br />
and Seeing Gray; and<br />
— April 16, What Would Jesus<br />
Say to America.<br />
We invite all thinking Christians<br />
to attend and participate.<br />
It is an opportunity for us to<br />
consider how to be constructive<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Pro Musica continues to<br />
diversify its expressions of choral<br />
music with a 2012-13 season<br />
that features Bach’s masterful<br />
St. Matthew Passion, festive<br />
Christmas concerts, new musical<br />
takes on love, and pops cabarets<br />
serving up familiar tunes and old<br />
standards.<br />
Local high school choruses, the<br />
Capital District Youth Chorale,<br />
the Boys’ Choir of <strong>The</strong> Cathedral<br />
of All Saints and nationally known<br />
guest soloists will join APM singers<br />
onstage as they perform at<br />
some of the Capital Region’s finest<br />
venues – such as Troy Savings<br />
Bank Music Hall, Key Hall at<br />
Proctors, and the Shaker Meeting<br />
House.<br />
This season’s featured subscription<br />
shows are:<br />
— A Winter Wonderland – choral<br />
music that celebrates the secular<br />
and sacred aspects of Christmas,<br />
including some sing-along<br />
carols;<br />
— If Music Be the Food of Love –<br />
classical, contemporary and newly<br />
commissioned choral pieces that<br />
explore various aspects of love;<br />
— Bach’s St. Matthew Passion<br />
– considered one of the greatest<br />
choral works of all time; and<br />
— Pops Goes the Chorus! – soloists<br />
and ensembles in a cabaret<br />
that features show tunes, old<br />
standards and popular music.<br />
APM also will perform Bach’s<br />
Magnificat and Corigliano’s Fern<br />
Hill in its annual collaboration<br />
with the <strong>Albany</strong> Symphony Orchestra,<br />
being held this year at<br />
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.<br />
“Bach figuratively bookends<br />
our season, and there’s even more<br />
to be excited about,” said APM<br />
Artistic Director and Conductor<br />
David Griggs-Janower in a release<br />
from APM. “In addition to our<br />
citizens of both our nation and<br />
the Kingdom of God.<br />
Hamilton is the pastor of the<br />
United Methodist Church of<br />
the Resurrection in Leawood,<br />
Kansas with a congregation of<br />
over 10,000. He is the author of<br />
11 books.<br />
Kenneth Carder of Duke Divinity<br />
School said about Seeing Gray,<br />
“While the religious and<br />
political extremes compete<br />
for power and dominance<br />
through coercive rhetoric<br />
and power maneuvers,<br />
Adam Hamilton provides an<br />
alternative that is theologically<br />
grounded and faithful<br />
to the church’s mission to<br />
be an instrument of God’s<br />
reconciliation.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no fee to attend the<br />
sessions, but pre-registration<br />
is requested. Call the <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
Reformed Church at 861-8711<br />
or e-mail altamontreformed@<br />
yahoo.com.<br />
Editor’s note: Rev. Bob Luidens<br />
is the pastor of the <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
Reformed Church.<br />
outstanding subscription shows,<br />
we have the privilege of helping St.<br />
Joseph’s Church in Schenectady<br />
celebrate its 150 th anniversary, we<br />
will once again host the fabulous<br />
High School Choral Festival, and<br />
we’ll join the <strong>Albany</strong> High School<br />
Chorus for a concert to benefit<br />
the Leukemia and Lymphoma<br />
Society.”<br />
APM is rolling out a new season<br />
subscription program this year<br />
that offers premium seats to two,<br />
three, or all four featured performances<br />
at a savings of up to $40.<br />
Subscribers also receive invitations<br />
to special preview rehearsals,<br />
a free ticket to the annual<br />
High School Choral Festival, and<br />
discounts at the <strong>Albany</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestra.<br />
Subscriptions and single tickets<br />
can be purchased online at www.<br />
albanypromusica.org or by calling<br />
346-6204.
14 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Business Corner<br />
Re-Nue Spa holds drives<br />
ALTAMONT — For Ronda<br />
Flansburg, owner of <strong>Altamont</strong>’s<br />
Re-Nue Spa, the coming of fall<br />
means it’s time to start collecting<br />
for needy families for<br />
Thanksgiving, to raise funds for<br />
National Breast Cancer Awareness<br />
Month, and to plan a party<br />
for Halloween.<br />
“All these people come in” to<br />
the spa, Flansburg said. “<strong>The</strong>y<br />
love to contribute. Why not harness<br />
it to help the community<br />
I think that’s what we’re all<br />
about.”<br />
Starting Oct. 1, patrons may<br />
drop off canned, non-perishable<br />
food items at the spa, at 119<br />
Maple Ave. All donations will go<br />
to the <strong>Altamont</strong> Food Pantry. And<br />
those who donate will be eligible<br />
to win a product gift basket, in<br />
a drawing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> food drive ends on Nov.<br />
17. “That way, people have lots<br />
of time to get what they need by<br />
Thanksgiving,” said Flansburg.<br />
Throughout the month of<br />
October, which is Breast Cancer<br />
Awareness Month, customers<br />
may get pink hair extensions for<br />
$12. All proceeds will go to the<br />
American Breast Cancer Foundation,<br />
Flansburg said.<br />
Finally, the spa will conclude<br />
the month with a Halloween<br />
open house on Wednesday, Oct.<br />
31, from 4 to 7 p.m. Treats will<br />
be offered, and a big trough will<br />
be set up in front of the spa so<br />
kids can dunk for apples. Flansburg<br />
herself will dress up as a<br />
zombie nurse.<br />
“It’s the one time all year you<br />
open your door to strangers,” she<br />
said, “and we want to be part of<br />
that celebration. We’re really<br />
excited.”<br />
— Melissa Hale-Spencer<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Buying the latest fashion: Last Friday morning, Liesl Hull of Schenectady, left, stopped in the new<br />
Footbeats Stride Rite store in Stuyvesant Plaza where owner and president, Sharon Cohen, shows<br />
off the new kicks the store offers children. <strong>The</strong> 2,300-square-foot store offers 25 brands of sneakers,<br />
shoes, and boots for children as well as women’s shoes. Cohen operates Footbeats Stride Rite stores<br />
in Western Massachusetts and Connecticut and plans to open a second Capital District store later<br />
this year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Fuzzy warm slippers: <strong>The</strong>se pink bunny slippers hang on the wall at the new Footbeats Stride Rite<br />
shoe store in Stuyvesant Plaza. <strong>The</strong> Sept. 21 opening marked Stride Rite’s return to Stuyvesant Plaza<br />
after the owners of another store under the Stride Rite umbrella closed in August.<br />
Breast thermography<br />
offered at Delmar center<br />
BETHLEHEM — Breast <strong>The</strong>rmography<br />
for Health is now located<br />
at the offices of <strong>The</strong> Stram<br />
Center for Integrative Medicine<br />
at 388 Kenwood Str. in Delmar,<br />
offering state-of-the art digital<br />
infrared thermal imaging for<br />
early detection of breast cancer.<br />
Patricia Bowden-Luccardi<br />
LMT, CTT, is a Certified <strong>The</strong>rmographic<br />
Technician, a Whole<br />
Health Educator, a licensed<br />
New York State Clinical Massage<br />
<strong>The</strong>rapist, and a member<br />
of Breast <strong>The</strong>mography International.<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmal imaging is a noninvasive,<br />
radiation-free, and<br />
painless screening test that<br />
detects physiological changes in<br />
the body that are produced by<br />
developing pathology or disease.<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmal imaging can detect<br />
those changes years before they<br />
will show up on traditional-rays,<br />
according to Bowden-Luccardi. It<br />
shows areas of abnormal physiology<br />
and not anatomy like other<br />
standard tests.<br />
Testing is safe and comfortable,<br />
she says, using neither radiation<br />
nor compression. Breast<br />
thermograhic technology has<br />
been cleared by the Federal Drug<br />
Administration since 1982. It has<br />
been gaining national prominence<br />
and more widespread use<br />
only recently, due to the publicity<br />
received by the recent challenging<br />
of mammogram guidelines<br />
by the American College of Obstetricians<br />
and Gynecology and<br />
the federal government.<br />
<strong>The</strong> FDA has not approved a<br />
thermography device (also referred<br />
to as a telethermographic<br />
device) for use as a stand-alone to<br />
screen or diagnose breast cancer,<br />
according to the FDA website;<br />
it has cleared thermography<br />
devices for use as an additional<br />
diagnostic tool for breast cancer<br />
screening and diagnosis.<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmography should not be<br />
considered an alternative to<br />
mammography, agrees Bowden-<br />
Luccardi. “Rather,” she says in<br />
a release, “it should be regarded<br />
as an adjunct to mammography<br />
and should be included in every<br />
woman’s regular breast health<br />
regime.”<br />
She cites a 2008 Cornell study<br />
that showed thermal imaging<br />
was 97 percent sensitive. <strong>The</strong><br />
study was published by the<br />
American Academy of Breast<br />
Surgeons in the American Journal<br />
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In Loving Memory of<br />
Linda Ann<br />
who went to the Lord on<br />
September 30, 2010<br />
It broke our hearts to lose you,<br />
but you did not go alone,<br />
for part of us went with you,<br />
the day God called you home.<br />
Each time we see your picture,<br />
you seem to smile and say,<br />
“Don’t cry, I am only sleeping,<br />
and we will meet again someday.”<br />
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Curves fights breast cancer<br />
Throughout Breast Cancer<br />
Awareness Month in October,<br />
Curves fitness centers in<br />
IN MEMORIAM<br />
Robert Dunston<br />
3/3/66 – 9/27/05<br />
I have not really left you,<br />
I am always near.<br />
Just look into the sky,<br />
You will see me shining there.<br />
I am the bright star above,<br />
the cloud that passes by.<br />
<strong>The</strong> whisper of the wind,<br />
the lone eagle’s cry,<br />
And when you need me most of all,<br />
I will be there by your side.<br />
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awareness about the life-saving<br />
importance of risk management,<br />
early detection, and early treatment<br />
of breast cancer.<br />
Because women can help reduce<br />
their risk for breast cancer<br />
by staying in good health, Curves<br />
is offering memberships with no<br />
joining fee from Oct. 1 through 14<br />
to new members who show proof<br />
of a mammogram performed<br />
within the last year or who donate<br />
$25 to <strong>The</strong> American Cancer<br />
Society. In 2011, Curves clubs nationwide<br />
raised more than $1.7<br />
million for the society.<br />
<strong>The</strong> American Cancer Society<br />
estimates that nearly 226,870<br />
women will be diagnosed with<br />
invasive breast cancer in 2012,<br />
and another 63,300 will be diagnosed<br />
with carcinoma in situ, a<br />
non-invasive, early form of breast<br />
cancer.<br />
Breast cancer remains a leading<br />
cause of cancer death in women,<br />
second only to lung cancer.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Michael Koff<br />
Aligning in the modern mode: Bill MacGregor at Advanced Auto Repair Service sets up a device in<br />
a car’s back tire that projects a beam to properly align the front and back wheels.<br />
‘Don’t put a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound”<br />
Maintenance can be the key to a car’s longevity<br />
By Melissa Hale-Spencer<br />
<strong>The</strong> downturn in the economy<br />
has made drivers want to keep<br />
their cars on the road longer,<br />
according to local mechanics,<br />
but, at the same time, many car<br />
owners are taking shortcuts in<br />
maintenance and repairs.<br />
“Now they want to<br />
keep their cars running,”<br />
said John Foley,<br />
74, who has been in<br />
the business for half<br />
a century — first in<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> and now on<br />
Depot Road in Guilderland.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y don’t want<br />
to buy another one; it’s<br />
too expensive.”<br />
Because his customers are<br />
suffering in tough times, “a lot of<br />
what we recommend as maintenance,<br />
they tend to put off,” said<br />
Timm Baldauf of Voorheesville’s<br />
Advanced Auto Repair Services.<br />
This can range from flushing<br />
fluids to changing sparkplugs.<br />
“Doing recommended maintenance<br />
gets the longevity out of a<br />
car,” said Baldauf. “It gets longer<br />
mileage. In the long haul, it’s a<br />
good investment versus spending<br />
“I know my customers.<br />
I know their smiles and cares.”<br />
$20,000 for a new car.”<br />
He went on, “Maintenance is<br />
everything. When you put it off,<br />
and then you have to do it, you<br />
have a huge bill, and people get<br />
overwhelmed.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> economy is so bad,” said<br />
Kevin Willsey of <strong>Altamont</strong> Extreme<br />
Auto, “that people just<br />
want what will get their car<br />
back on the road. That’s just<br />
setting yourself up for disaster,”<br />
he warned.<br />
He sympathizes with the<br />
plight that many of his customers<br />
are in. “This time of year,” he<br />
said, “you’re thinking more about<br />
paying for fuel oil to keep your<br />
family warm.” Willsey went on,<br />
“You can see it in their faces. You<br />
know they want to do what the<br />
car needs, but they can’t.”<br />
Be prepared<br />
<strong>The</strong> invasion is underway<br />
By Zach Simeone<br />
ALBANY COUNTY — Foreign<br />
insects may soon threaten some<br />
of <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s common tree<br />
varieties, as more and more<br />
foreign plants are smothering<br />
native ones, and can harm people<br />
in some cases.<br />
Governments and educators<br />
are looking to increase the awareness<br />
of invasive species due to<br />
their tendency to replace native<br />
species, many of which feed other<br />
natives, causing varying disruptions<br />
in the ecosystem.<br />
“We’re on the edge of having the<br />
emerald ash borer<br />
in our community,<br />
which is extremely<br />
destructive,”<br />
said Mary Jane<br />
Hughes, a resource<br />
educator<br />
mate. But we don’t have any of<br />
those spruce trees in the area. In<br />
the asexual reproduction, those<br />
nymphs that are produced stay<br />
on the spruce tree, and then<br />
they hitchhike on birds over to<br />
a hemlock tree.”<br />
An adelgid infestation can<br />
kill a hemlock tree in three to<br />
four years, as it feeds on the sap<br />
produced by the tree, according<br />
to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.<br />
Likewise, the emerald ash<br />
borer lays waste to ash trees as<br />
it feeds on its leaves, and burrows<br />
through<br />
the wood, laying<br />
its eggs in<br />
the bark of the<br />
trunk and major<br />
branches.<br />
Emerald ash<br />
with Cornell Cooperative<br />
Exten-<br />
b o r e r s w e r e<br />
“It was just such<br />
found in a purple<br />
trap — the<br />
sion and member innocence that<br />
of WaspWatchers, brought them here.”<br />
color of which<br />
a citizen scientist<br />
is known to lure<br />
program that began<br />
the destructive<br />
in Maine, and<br />
insect — in Feu-<br />
has since spread<br />
ra Bush and Selkirk<br />
to upstate New<br />
last Octo-<br />
York.<br />
ber, Hughes said<br />
<strong>The</strong> program<br />
on Monday.<br />
uses a specific<br />
But for more<br />
breed of wasp to monitor the than a year, citizen scientists and<br />
presence of emerald ash borers, organizations like the Cornell Cooperative<br />
known for their ability to demolish<br />
Extension have worked<br />
ash trees.<br />
together as WaspWatchers, using<br />
Also making its way into the the cerceris fumipennis wasp to<br />
county is the hemlock woolly track the green destroyers.<br />
adelgid, another species of insect “It’s a solitary, ground-nesting<br />
that targets the hemlock and wasp; she has a nest in the ground<br />
dismantles it.<br />
all by herself,” said Hughes, who<br />
Daniel Driscoll, a longtime has been teaching children in<br />
Knox Planning Board member, 4-H programs about monitoring<br />
was informed by a Glenmont<br />
the invasive ash borers. “In<br />
resident that she had spotted July and August, she flies out<br />
adelgids at her home.<br />
and catches a particular family<br />
“So, I’ve been carefully watching<br />
of beetles,” the buprestidae, “to<br />
wherever I go to see if there put in her nest; she lays an egg<br />
Often, Willsey said, his customers<br />
of late end up putting “a<br />
Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.”<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, when the Band-Aid gives<br />
way, he went on, “they lose more<br />
time. <strong>The</strong>y have to find rides to<br />
work or to take the kids to soccer…It’s<br />
a never-ending battle.”<br />
Willsey has had his<br />
shop, <strong>Altamont</strong> Extreme<br />
Auto in the village, for<br />
two-and-a-half years.<br />
Although the recession<br />
started in 2008, the<br />
effects have trickled<br />
down, he said. From<br />
when he opened until<br />
now, he said, “You can<br />
see a different approach in what<br />
they want done.” Last year, for<br />
example, customers who needed<br />
it were more apt to ask for a full<br />
brake job. “Now, they’re asking<br />
if they can just put pads on and<br />
keep the rotors,” he said. “<strong>The</strong>y<br />
don’t have the money they did.”<br />
Willsey offered some tips for<br />
keeping cars running in tough<br />
times. “Stop turning the radio up<br />
when they’re making noises,” he<br />
said, stressing that a car should<br />
are any around here,” Driscoll<br />
told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> last month<br />
as he walked through the rows<br />
of hemlock trees in the Hudson<br />
and Nancy Winn Preserve in<br />
Knox. “But I haven’t found it<br />
here yet.”<br />
Invasive insects<br />
“If this were infected by the<br />
woolly adelgid,” Driscoll said,<br />
pointing to a branch on a hemlock<br />
tree at the Winn Preserve, “then<br />
right along the center, where the<br />
needles touch the branches, you<br />
would see things that look like<br />
tiny Q-Tips, and that’s what’s<br />
called the ova sac. That’s a very<br />
clear indication that you’ve got<br />
an adelgid infestation.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> hemlock woolly adelgid,<br />
native to Asia, is believed to<br />
have reached the West Coast in<br />
the 1920s, and the East Cost in<br />
1951, according to www.InvasiveSpeciesInfo.gov.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> adelgid has an unusual<br />
life cycle,” said Driscoll. “It has<br />
two cycles a year: One of them is<br />
the sexual cycle, and the other is<br />
an asexual cycle. <strong>The</strong> sexual cycle<br />
produces adelgids that can fly,<br />
on it, and covers it up, and that<br />
egg hatches out, probably, in the<br />
fall. <strong>The</strong> baby feeds on the beetle<br />
and develops into another wasp<br />
that next summer. <strong>The</strong> rest of<br />
the year, they’re in the ground,<br />
growing.”<br />
Included in the buprestid family<br />
is the emerald ash borer, along<br />
with thousands of other beetles.<br />
But the ash borer is a “favored<br />
treat” for the wasps.<br />
“In two summers, we have<br />
not had her bring home an ash<br />
borer,” Hughes said. “If it’s in<br />
the area, she’ll bring it back. So<br />
far, we haven’t found any in our<br />
surveillance. We don’t want to<br />
have any. But that’s what we’re<br />
out doing, and we want to locate<br />
as many of these wasp colonies<br />
as possible.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> monitoring program is<br />
largely possible because this<br />
type of wasp nests in the same<br />
place that it is born, causing<br />
small colonies to form. But their<br />
affinity for sandy areas may<br />
complicate things.<br />
“What will probably be a challenge<br />
is, the most popular place<br />
(Continued on page 4B) and they fly off to spruce trees to (Continued on page 6B)
2B Fall Home, Garden and Car Care <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Commentary<br />
A better world, one tire at a time: Inspired by Garbage Warrior<br />
By Forest Byrd<br />
RENSSELAERVILLE — Trying<br />
new things can be strangely<br />
hard. When it comes to building<br />
a house of tires and dirt, which<br />
in itself is hard work, the conversation<br />
with people who have<br />
never heard of such a thing can<br />
be even harder.<br />
I always like having a strong<br />
grasp on my topic because I’ve<br />
noticed that, when talking about<br />
new things, a lot of questions<br />
come up: What do you mean, a<br />
tire house Is it stable Does it<br />
catch fire Is it sanitary Are<br />
you crazy<br />
After I learned that it is possible<br />
to use tires as a building<br />
material, I was intrigued and<br />
since then have soaked up all<br />
sorts of information about the<br />
process. YouTube is a wealth of<br />
information on houses made of<br />
tires and you can even watch the<br />
movie Garbage Warrior, which<br />
portrays Michael Reynolds, the<br />
man who invented the tire house<br />
or “earthship.” <strong>The</strong> film catalogues<br />
the battles he overcame<br />
in the last 40 years.<br />
After absorbing all this great<br />
information, I felt that the next<br />
logical step was to help build a<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Forest Byrd<br />
<strong>The</strong>re can never be enough tires and they’re all free. Taken from across the Capital Region, about<br />
400 tires of all sizes are unloaded from a box truck, ready to be sorted. Many people locally make good<br />
money delivering free tires.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Forest Byrd<br />
<strong>The</strong> class begins: Brian Premarlani at Garden of One in Rensselaerville<br />
demonstrates cutting the sidewall of a tire. <strong>The</strong> top of the<br />
tire had to be opened up so that the dirt could be compressed in.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Forest Byrd<br />
Work is never done. <strong>The</strong> two-room structure that will serve as a root cellar and ice and cheese cave<br />
is taking shape, but there is still a long way to go.<br />
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Fall Home, Garden and Car Care 3B<br />
… I believe you can create beautiful homes free of utility bills<br />
tire house. So, when I saw a<br />
newsletter at the Buddhist<br />
center in Berne looking for volunteers<br />
to build a tire structure<br />
in Rensselaerville to be used as<br />
a root cellar and ice and cheese<br />
cave, naturally, I was all in.<br />
<strong>The</strong> project was to take place<br />
at a 90-acre retreat site owned<br />
and run by Rachel Ginther. Her<br />
Garden of One is located at <strong>The</strong><br />
Garden at Thunder Hill on Thunder<br />
Hill Road above the hamlet<br />
in Rensselaerville.<br />
An aromatherapist and herbalist,<br />
Ginther started out as<br />
massage therapist and has also<br />
studied reiki, a traditional Japanese<br />
method of healing through<br />
touch. And she has made nearly<br />
400 different flower essences,<br />
which, she told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> in<br />
2007, “release mental and emotional<br />
patterns that we carry,”<br />
and work on an energy level,<br />
much like homeopathy.<br />
I drove to Rensselaerville not<br />
really knowing what I was in for.<br />
All the YouTube information in<br />
the world is useless unless you<br />
apply it. This was an experiment.<br />
I wanted to see how practical<br />
it was to use a sledgehammer<br />
to pack 400 tires with dirt. I<br />
also wanted to see how many<br />
volunteers would show up for the<br />
weekend of work, and meet the<br />
brave people who had decided to<br />
try something new.<br />
As I drove to the site, passing<br />
a grass-roofed hut full of<br />
goats and a large retreat house,<br />
chickens and dogs scattered<br />
in my wake. Above the door, a<br />
sign read “Garden of One” and<br />
all around were nothing but<br />
gardens and trees with a large<br />
pond in the distance. Swarms of<br />
flies filled my truck and a pile of<br />
tires beckoned ahead. This must<br />
be the right place.<br />
Because I was the first one<br />
there I got a preview of the upcoming<br />
lesson on cutting tires.<br />
We were going to cut the sidewall<br />
off one side, allowing us to fill<br />
and tamp the dirt into the tire<br />
straight down instead of filling<br />
the small groove in between<br />
sidewalls. It seemed faster in<br />
one way but the technique of the<br />
original earthship did not cut the<br />
sidewall and those builders filled<br />
thousands of tires in a month,<br />
so I’m not sure which is better.<br />
One way or another, it is quite<br />
easy to cut with a Sawzall and<br />
a metal blade.<br />
Saturday, a few volunteers<br />
meandered in as the day started<br />
with a full lesson, a demonstration<br />
of tire cutting and filling.<br />
We started sorting the tires and<br />
later more people showed up and<br />
we were off. Most had read about<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Forest Byrd<br />
A new kind of dance: Coordinating footwork with sledgehammers, volunteers from Troy to Massachusetts<br />
and Vermont pound dirt to expand each tire, creating a 200-pound brick that does not move<br />
and makes a strong foundation for the rest of the wall.<br />
What do you mean, a tire house<br />
Is it stable<br />
Does it catch fire<br />
Is it sanitary<br />
Are you crazy<br />
the project on the Garden Of One<br />
website; some came from as far<br />
as Vermont or Massachusetts.<br />
Everyone was in high spirits and<br />
very excited to be part of this<br />
adventure.<br />
Unfortunately, we had to start<br />
with clearing a rather large pile<br />
of shale that would later become<br />
the floor. <strong>The</strong> actual task of the<br />
day became clearing the ground<br />
so that it was level and so that<br />
the foundation would sit flat.<br />
This was a very time-consuming<br />
process that no one had anticipated.<br />
In the middle of the day, there<br />
was a delivery of tires — 400 in a<br />
box truck, all of them free — and<br />
the rhythm of the group really<br />
hummed. We had people sorting,<br />
measuring, and taking tires off<br />
the truck. We were able to get it<br />
unloaded in record time.<br />
A lot of progress was made on<br />
the sub floor and we felt pretty<br />
good. We even started filling a<br />
few tires in the front.<br />
Sunday was disappointing as<br />
few volunteers showed up. It<br />
turned out most of the volunteers<br />
had been in it for a day trip. It’s<br />
really hard to work with just<br />
two people and, although we had<br />
done a lot of work, it was nowhere<br />
near complete.<br />
I came back two weeks later<br />
to work with the crew manager,<br />
Brian Premerlani, and we’ve<br />
continued to make progress<br />
although more volunteers are<br />
needed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> final structure will be<br />
two rooms in an 11-by-24-foot<br />
space. <strong>The</strong> seven-foot walls will<br />
be topped with a shed roof.<br />
Since the walls are 25 inches<br />
thick — tires filled with dirt<br />
— they are dense, similar to<br />
concrete, and will hold temperature<br />
well.<br />
I hope this project will inspire<br />
others to build with tires. It<br />
breaks many rules of traditional<br />
building but it can supply shelter<br />
for little or no cost.<br />
When it comes to building a<br />
new traditional house, a lot of<br />
different materials come to mind.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most prevalent are wood,<br />
metal, plastic, and asphalt. All<br />
these materials have to be new<br />
so that it will increase our carbon<br />
footprint.<br />
Using tires not only saves on<br />
costs but can be a reliable and<br />
very strong way to build a beautiful<br />
house that can be completely<br />
free of utillity bills. That kind of<br />
creative use of scraps may help<br />
save our planet from ourselves.<br />
Editor’s note: Forest Byrd, the<br />
illustrator for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>, is<br />
also a builder. He can be reached<br />
at forest.byrd@gmail.com.<br />
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4B Fall Home, Garden and Car Care <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
...Maintenance a key to car’s longevity<br />
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be brought to a mechanic as<br />
soon as there’s a problem.<br />
He also said that many car<br />
owners work under the “misconception<br />
you have to go to a dealer<br />
if you have a brand-new car.”<br />
Willsey went on, “Independent<br />
shops are cheaper.” He charges<br />
$70 an hour for labor while, he<br />
said, many dealerships charge<br />
$100 per hour and also mark up<br />
parts 150 percent. “My parts are<br />
marked up 30 percent,” he said.<br />
Foley said the rate in his shop,<br />
at $60 an hour is, similarly, less<br />
than at dealerships.<br />
Willsey echoed Baldauf’s sentiments<br />
when he advised, “Keep<br />
it maintained.” He said car owners<br />
should find “someone you’re<br />
comfortable with” to do repairs.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re’s nothing personal in the<br />
automotive industry anymore,”<br />
Willsey said. “<strong>The</strong>y treat you<br />
like a cookie cutter. I know my<br />
customers. I know their smiles<br />
and cares.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> days of the backyard<br />
mechanic are over, or at least<br />
severely limited. Do-it-yourself<br />
is no longer a money-saving option<br />
as cars have become so much<br />
more high tech.<br />
Baldauf gave the example of a<br />
brake caliper, which is hydraulic,<br />
and is something a backyard mechanic<br />
used to be able to handle.<br />
“You used to be able to push it<br />
in,” he said. “Now you need an<br />
electronic scan tool…It’s still<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — James E. Gardner<br />
Portrait of an icon: Robert King, a retired dentist, painted this<br />
portrait of John Foley who at 74 has been repairing cars for more<br />
than half a century and is still going strong at John Foley’s Garage<br />
on Depot Road in Guilderland. Owners of independent shops, like<br />
Foley’s, say they provide quality work at better prices than dealerships<br />
as people try to stretch their dollars in hard times.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> — Michael Koff<br />
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mechanism has to be electronically<br />
released with a scan tool<br />
through a computer.”<br />
A nationwide shortage of<br />
qualified mechanics, trained in<br />
the new technology, has also<br />
led to increased costs in some<br />
regions.<br />
Shifts in training<br />
Foley, who quit school on his<br />
16 th birthday because he knew he<br />
wanted to be a mechanic and was<br />
good at it, hasn’t had a problem<br />
with staffing despite reports of<br />
fewer young people entering the<br />
ever-changing field.<br />
When Foley started his business,<br />
he worked with two mechanics,<br />
each of whom stayed<br />
with him for 41 years and, since<br />
then, he’s had long-time staff<br />
as well.<br />
When asked if it has been hard<br />
to find mechanics well versed in<br />
computers and electronics, Foley<br />
said, “We always have one guy<br />
that does everything to a T.…<br />
Now we’ve got three guys at the<br />
top of the rank.”<br />
Willsey, who just turned 30,<br />
has an associate’s degree from<br />
the auto service program at Hudson<br />
Valley Community College.<br />
He has been working on cars<br />
since he was 16. “I started off<br />
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Fall Home, Garden and Car Care 5B<br />
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of the carburetor is over with.<br />
Everything is electronic. You<br />
have everything from electronic<br />
parking assist to fly-by wire accelerator<br />
pedals.”<br />
Willsey explained that cars like<br />
the new Lexus can parallel park<br />
themselves with the push of a<br />
button. And next year, Cadillac<br />
plans to market a car that can<br />
steer itself with super cruise<br />
control.<br />
Accelerator pedals these days<br />
— not just in high-end cars like<br />
the Lexus or Cadillac but in middle-market<br />
cars like Toyota — no<br />
longer have a hard cable. “It’s all<br />
electronic,” said Willsey.<br />
“I saw the evolution.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’ve converted the car too<br />
much into an electronic beast,”<br />
he said. It used to be, Willsey<br />
explained, there was one wire for<br />
the spark plugs, there was a fuel<br />
supply line, and you turned the<br />
key to start a car.<br />
“Now there are 30 sensors,”<br />
said Willsey. “It has phased out<br />
all the older mechanics” — at<br />
least the ones who haven’t kept<br />
up with the changes.<br />
Mechanics, he said, are learning<br />
all the time, often from each<br />
other. “Nobody knows everything,”<br />
said Willsey. “<strong>The</strong>re’s<br />
always someone that knows more<br />
than you.”<br />
Baldauf and his partner work<br />
with three “technicians,” as he<br />
calls them — one has been with<br />
the business for four years, another<br />
for 10 years, and the third<br />
for 17 years.<br />
Baldauf, a former mechanic<br />
himself, has worked in auto<br />
repairs for 30 years and is now<br />
occupied managing the business<br />
end of things. “You can’t do both,”<br />
he said. While his technicians<br />
frequently get training in the<br />
latest electronic and technical<br />
advances, Baldauf said, he goes<br />
for management training.<br />
“You have to update your<br />
equipment to go along with the<br />
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“We can do 95 percent of what’s<br />
out there.”<br />
Part of the reason Advanced<br />
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the other 5 percent, he said, is<br />
because “dealers have proprietary<br />
interests.” Associations of independent<br />
shops “are always fighting<br />
for more so we can be on the<br />
same playing field,” he said.<br />
Baldauf believes the reason<br />
fewer young people are going into<br />
the auto repair industry is “because<br />
it’s difficult.” He explained,<br />
“It’s labor intensive, and it’s dirty<br />
at times. Other technologies are<br />
easier. If you can make money<br />
in front of a computer screen,<br />
that’s what the latest generation<br />
is interested in. With us, there’s<br />
more than just the screen. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
is interpretation. <strong>The</strong>re is diagnostics.<br />
“I saw the evolution. I started<br />
work in the seventies…<strong>The</strong> sophistication<br />
has made it easier to<br />
diagnose. You still need a knowledge<br />
of electronics.”<br />
Baldauf also said, “People open<br />
the hood of a car and see how<br />
complicated it looks; that probably<br />
scares them.”<br />
He concluded, “We all want<br />
something better for our kids.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s a stigma with auto mechanics.<br />
I’ve called them technicians<br />
for 20 years.”<br />
Willsey, too, attributes the lack<br />
of young mechanics to societal<br />
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mechanic…using your hands is<br />
what it comes down to.”<br />
Willsey, though, says that a<br />
good living can be made repairing<br />
cars. “I do all right,” he<br />
concluded.<br />
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Several invasive plant species<br />
have come to <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, but<br />
some raise more concern than<br />
others.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> one that concerns me is<br />
wild parsnip,” said Susan Pezzolla,<br />
a community educator<br />
with Cornell Cooperative Extension.<br />
“Wild parsnip, every year,<br />
is getting to be more and more<br />
abundant on the roadsides, so<br />
it’s drifting into rural areas like<br />
yards. It grows a little taller<br />
than Queen Anne’s lace, and a<br />
lot of people might mistake it<br />
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and it’s more yellow than Queen<br />
Anne’s lace.”<br />
Wild parsnip, or pastinaca sativa,<br />
is a biennial plant, meaning<br />
it takes two years to complete its<br />
life cycle.<br />
Like giant hogweed, another<br />
prevalent invasive species, wild<br />
parsnip produces a sap that<br />
causes phytophotodermatitis, a<br />
condition where skin becomes hypersensitive<br />
to ultraviolet light.<br />
When exposed to sunlight, the<br />
skin will burn, turning red and<br />
sometimes producing massive<br />
bubbles that can leave scars.<br />
Pezzolla said she has seen<br />
the plant along Route 85A in<br />
New Scotland, and on Krumkill<br />
Road from Schoolhouse Road<br />
to Voorheesville, “But I think<br />
it was kind of innocent in how<br />
Wild parsnip, a species believed to have come to the United States<br />
from Europe or Asia, has been popping up on roadsides in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. <strong>The</strong> plant, when in its flowering stage, produces a sap that<br />
can cause skin to be come hypersensitive to sunlight, sometimes<br />
leading to severe burns.<br />
it was originally brought here,”<br />
she said.<br />
Pezzolla wrote an article on the<br />
plant, “<strong>The</strong> Devil Along the Roadside,”<br />
for the online Capital Region<br />
Living Magazine, in which<br />
she writes that wild parsnip<br />
“appears to have been introduced<br />
to the Midwest from Europe<br />
and Asia; dried<br />
plants from the<br />
University of<br />
Wisconsin date<br />
back to 1894.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> plant “is<br />
nothing to fool<br />
around with, as people have been<br />
hospitalized after contact…This<br />
is a relatively new plant to our<br />
area, and many doctors may not<br />
know of it or its effects.”<br />
Further, it is not normally<br />
found in mowed areas, “so homeowners<br />
need not worry. But be<br />
“<strong>The</strong> one that concerns<br />
me is wild parsnip”<br />
careful if you are out gathering<br />
wild flowers, as this weed would<br />
find that environment quite suitable,”<br />
she wrote.<br />
“In its flowering state is when<br />
the sap is most harmful,” Pezzolla<br />
said this week, though it has<br />
passed that stage by this time of<br />
year. “<strong>The</strong> damage has been done.<br />
<strong>The</strong> seeds have<br />
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they’ve matured<br />
and they’ve left<br />
the plant, and<br />
the plant is just<br />
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year. That mother plant will not<br />
come back next year, but all its<br />
babies will.”<br />
Pezzolla also talked this week<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Fall Home, Garden and Car Care 7B<br />
… Foreign plants and insects are making their mark in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
“It’s problematic from the<br />
standpoint that it’s displacing<br />
other native species,” Pezzolla<br />
said. “It’s<br />
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“<strong>The</strong>y brought seeds for things<br />
they grew in their homeland, not<br />
knowing what they’d find in the<br />
new country they were going to,”<br />
said Pezzolla. “This plant, too,<br />
was brought here kind of innocently,<br />
but it escaped cultivation,<br />
and it’s kind of been running wild<br />
ever since.”<br />
She said that garlic mustard<br />
has been found in and around<br />
Delmar. It blooms in late spring,<br />
and is also a biennial plant.<br />
In its first year, “It doesn’t<br />
grow very tall,” Pezzolla said.<br />
“We’re telling people to try to<br />
mow it as much as they can.”<br />
If the plant makes it to its<br />
second year, it grows taller and<br />
flowers.<br />
“It’s important to not let it<br />
finish that flowering phase,”<br />
she said. “Cut it down before<br />
it’s ready to seed. We’re trying<br />
to discourage using herbicides.<br />
Frequent mowing almost starves<br />
the plant to death, because you’re<br />
limiting its ability to do photosynthesis.<br />
In this case, we’re<br />
limiting its ability to set flower<br />
and set seed.”<br />
Another invader, which has<br />
just finished<br />
b l o o m i n g<br />
along roadsides,<br />
is Japanese<br />
knotweed.<br />
“It’s spacehungry,<br />
and<br />
“It’s space-hungry,<br />
its root system<br />
and its root system<br />
is incredibly<br />
is incredibly aggressive.” aggressive,”<br />
Pezzolla said<br />
of the weed.<br />
“It’ll just keep<br />
going till it<br />
gobbles up all<br />
the space. It’s<br />
harder to eradicate because it’s<br />
almost woody at its base. It’s very<br />
tough, so the longer you allow it<br />
to stay, the tougher it gets.”<br />
Again, Pezzolla recommends<br />
mowing, but gardeners may also<br />
then try covering the stumps<br />
with cardboard or heavy black<br />
plastic to limit sunlight and<br />
water absorption.<br />
Japanese knotweed was originally<br />
brought to the United<br />
States in the late 1800s to be<br />
used as an ornament, and its<br />
deep and dense roots were used<br />
for erosion protection along<br />
stream banks.<br />
“A lot of these plants, it was<br />
just such innocence that brought<br />
them here, and people thought<br />
they were doing a good thing,”<br />
Pezzolla concluded. “But the fact<br />
is, we don’t know what’s going<br />
to happen with our climate, and<br />
the way seeds spread around.<br />
Before you know it, something<br />
that was a good idea has gone<br />
very sour.”<br />
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Spare room storage space: After my fiancé and I moved in together in August, anything we can’t<br />
find a place for, but refuse to get rid of, is relegated to this second bedroom, which continues to look<br />
like a disaster area.<br />
His and mine is now our home, sweet home<br />
By Anne Hayden<br />
Moving in with someone is kind<br />
of a big deal.<br />
Not just emotionally, although<br />
that’s certainly part of it, but<br />
physically.<br />
When I moved in with my fiancé,<br />
David, in August, I was amazed<br />
at the sheer amount of crap that<br />
two people in their late 20s had<br />
managed to accumulate.<br />
Thankfully, I — and now we<br />
— have a two-bedroom apartment,<br />
and most of the random stuff that<br />
we couldn’t find a spot for went<br />
into the spare room. It looks like<br />
a storage unit and not a bedroom<br />
but at least we can close the door<br />
and ignore it.<br />
Harder to ignore, though, were<br />
the arguments about what to keep<br />
and what to get rid of, and where<br />
to put our belongings.<br />
For example, I vetoed hanging<br />
up a bulletin board David had<br />
made out of cork and beer bottle<br />
caps, and he requested that we<br />
stop sleeping on my pink sheets,<br />
and use his white ones instead.<br />
He rearranged the kitchen without<br />
asking me, and, even after a<br />
month, I find myself wondering<br />
where I’m supposed to put the<br />
canned goods and where I’m supposed<br />
to find the can opener.<br />
I made him give away a large<br />
collection of ridiculous costume<br />
hats and he made me give away<br />
some of my many shoes and<br />
purses.<br />
People often say that the first<br />
year of living together is the rockiest<br />
year of a relationship. This is<br />
not my first time living with someone,<br />
but, it is my first time living<br />
with someone who has moved into<br />
what I had already established as<br />
“my” home. I think that distinction<br />
makes it more difficult.<br />
<strong>The</strong> living room I so painstakingly<br />
set up has been completely<br />
rearranged — the couch was<br />
tossed, my small television was<br />
relegated to the bedroom in favor<br />
of his big-screen TV, and my decorative<br />
items have been removed<br />
from the walls.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bedroom, which could be<br />
considered slightly smaller than<br />
average at best, is crammed with<br />
the bed, three dressers, several<br />
mirrors, and two closets so stuffed<br />
with clothes that the rods are<br />
buckling.<br />
We really need to do a purge,<br />
but the problem is, neither one of<br />
us is willing to part with much.<br />
I still have storage bins of my<br />
favorite toys from childhood; he<br />
has storage bins full of novelty<br />
T-shirts that he never wears. Neither<br />
of us uses these items on a<br />
regular basis, but ask us to get<br />
rid of them, and the answer is a<br />
resounding no.<br />
Aside from the issues of space<br />
and personal belongings, there<br />
are the challenges of habits and<br />
routines.<br />
He cleans more than I do and<br />
it can be a problem when one<br />
person does more than his or her<br />
fair share of the chores. I like to<br />
fall asleep watching TV and he<br />
thinks it interrupts his rest. I like<br />
to sleep in and he is a morning<br />
person. I enjoy trashy reality TV<br />
and he likes shows about science<br />
and politics. I’m perfectly content<br />
eating cereal for dinner and he<br />
likes to cook elaborate, balanced<br />
meals, even if it means we don’t<br />
eat until 10 p.m.<br />
When we were “just dating” and<br />
not living together, none of these<br />
things posed much of a problem<br />
— we could easily compromise<br />
for the good of the little time we<br />
got to spend together. When we<br />
are living together it is harder<br />
to constantly bend to the other<br />
person’s persuasion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first few weeks involved a<br />
lot of grumpiness on both of our<br />
parts. We were confused about not<br />
enjoying the time more, but too<br />
afraid to talk about it.<br />
As it turns out, living together<br />
requires a lot of compromise, on<br />
both the physical and emotional<br />
stuff. After figuring out where to<br />
put things, and how to arrange the<br />
apartment, we had to figure out<br />
how to balance our habits.<br />
It came down to each of us<br />
expressing our wants and needs.<br />
He wanted me to get up in the<br />
morning and spend time with him<br />
before work, so now I get up and<br />
have breakfast with him, then go<br />
back to bed for a bit if I want to.<br />
I wanted to eat dinner at a more<br />
reasonable time, so now, if he<br />
won’t be home until after 7 p.m.,<br />
he knows I’ll fend for myself and<br />
prep something for him.<br />
He is watching more trashy TV<br />
— and, dare I say, he is enjoying<br />
it — and I have learned a lot about<br />
the universe from the Science<br />
Channel.<br />
This is not, of course, to say that<br />
the bad has outweighed the good.<br />
We have both enjoyed having the<br />
other person to come home to at<br />
the end of a long day. We both<br />
love having someone else there<br />
to pick up the slack when one of<br />
us is struggling. It is like having<br />
a “built-in best friend,” we like<br />
to say.<br />
Recently, we were at a wedding<br />
shower for some friends, and someone<br />
asked if moving in together<br />
had been a smooth transition. We<br />
looked at each other, and I could<br />
tell we were both contemplating<br />
whether or not to take the easy<br />
way out, and smile and nod.<br />
For some reason, we didn’t. We<br />
laughed and said, “Not really.” <strong>The</strong><br />
friend laughed, too, and said, “It<br />
never is.”<br />
David and I still have a lot to figure<br />
out as we intertwine our lives<br />
and move forward as a unit.<br />
If the first month of the first<br />
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to be the one of the hardest times<br />
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...$3K to study RR gates for quiet<br />
(Continued from page 1)<br />
Straut said that road crews dislike<br />
maintaining medians in winter,<br />
and that road reconfiguration<br />
often requires land purchases<br />
and creates right-of-way and<br />
drainage issues.<br />
“Everyone's pretty certain it’s<br />
going to be less expensive doing<br />
gates,” Straut told the board. He<br />
suggested doing the base study<br />
first.<br />
“If it looks like it’s going<br />
forward, you could do more. We<br />
think that the gates are going to<br />
be less,” he said.<br />
At the regular meeting, quiet<br />
zone committee member Steven<br />
Schreiber said that towns across<br />
the country had installed medians<br />
and reconfigured roads for much<br />
less than the estimated cost of<br />
the gates at $200,000.<br />
Schreiber said that, in Iowa,<br />
one of the more expensive projects<br />
had run $75,000. According to<br />
online estimates, median costs<br />
are $15,000 to $30,000 per<br />
crossing.<br />
Straut said that the numbers<br />
Schreiber had seen may not<br />
have included other aspects<br />
of the projects, including land<br />
purchases.<br />
“Everyone I’ve talked to said<br />
that gates are more expensive,”<br />
Schreiber said. He asked the<br />
board to study both<br />
options, instead of<br />
starting with only<br />
one. “We’re going to<br />
get there,” he said of<br />
the second study.<br />
“I'd rather spend<br />
$3,000 first before I<br />
spend $6,000,” said<br />
Conway.<br />
One resident said<br />
that grantors often<br />
ask applicants what<br />
alternatives have been studied<br />
and discounted, and that both<br />
options might be needed to secure<br />
funding, and Straut agreed.<br />
Trustee David Cardona, the<br />
budget officer, said that Clerk-<br />
Treasurer Linda Pasquali is<br />
on vacation and would return<br />
soon.<br />
“We were prepared tonight for<br />
$3,000,” Cardona said. “I feel<br />
awkward” passing a vote for<br />
more, he said. “We can’t commit<br />
to something we don't have. Give<br />
us till Friday to make sure we<br />
have it,” Cardona said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board agreed to pay $3,000<br />
for the first phase of the study,<br />
and asked Straut if he could<br />
begin the study within the same<br />
time period if he waited a few<br />
days.<br />
“I won't spend $6,000 before<br />
Friday,” Straut said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> board agreed to hold a<br />
workshop in two weeks, on Oct.<br />
10 at 6 p.m., to give the board<br />
time to look at its general fund.<br />
“Will that slow you down”<br />
Cardona asked Straut.<br />
“We’ll make it work,” Straut<br />
said.<br />
Ambulance coverage<br />
<strong>The</strong> board discussed using<br />
EMTs through the sheriff's office<br />
from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays,<br />
when village volunteers are<br />
unavailable.<br />
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“No Train Horn,” says the railroad-crossing sign because a<br />
median dividing the road alleviates the need for extended train<br />
whistles. Members of a Voorheesville committee petitioning for a<br />
quiet zone maintain that a median can be less costly than installing<br />
four-way gates.<br />
considered hiring an EMT for<br />
that period at a cost of $60,000<br />
per year, but the county is offering<br />
a three-month consolidation of<br />
services.<br />
Ray Ginter, of the Voorheesville<br />
ambulance squad, said that<br />
Delmar has backed up the village<br />
squad before.<br />
“Everyone I’ve talked to<br />
said that gates are more expensive.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> sheriff has control of<br />
the Delmar equipment assets,”<br />
Conway said.<br />
G i n t e r s a i d t h a t t h e<br />
Onesquethaw, <strong>Altamont</strong>, and<br />
Berne squads have also offered<br />
mutual aid, depending on where<br />
the call is that Voorheesville<br />
receives.<br />
Trustee John Stevens said<br />
that the trial period for shared<br />
services with the county begins<br />
Monday, Oct. 1.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> purpose of the trial period<br />
is to see if the service from the<br />
sheriff's department meets our<br />
expectations,” Conway said.<br />
Ginter said that, if doing<br />
the trial period is the village’s<br />
decision, the ambulance squad's<br />
attorney needs to be notified by<br />
the village attorney.<br />
Ginter and the board agreed<br />
to hold an additional meeting to<br />
further discuss the trial period.<br />
Ginter asked what would<br />
happen if the village agrees to<br />
the trial period but the town,<br />
which also helps fund the squad,<br />
does not.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> town won’t have a different<br />
decision,” Conway said.<br />
“I think it is a good idea,” New<br />
Scotland Supervisor Thomas<br />
Dolin told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>. He<br />
said that he would explain<br />
the trial basis to the town<br />
board at Thursday's board<br />
meeting. Dolin also planned<br />
to meet with Voorheesville<br />
ambulance members during<br />
the day Thursday, he said on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re's a little friction here,”<br />
Dolin said of the way calls are<br />
now answered in the town.<br />
Traditionally, Voorheesville<br />
ambulance volunteers<br />
had the option to<br />
answer calls first, and<br />
other responders like<br />
the county paramedics<br />
or the daytime EMT<br />
currently on the town<br />
payroll would respond<br />
if no volunteers were<br />
available, Dolin said.<br />
Over time, however,<br />
sheriff's department<br />
paramedics and EMTs<br />
began arriving before volunteers,<br />
who had to arrive at the squad<br />
house to get a rescue vehicle<br />
before heading out for calls, he<br />
said.<br />
“This trial program is to<br />
have the sheriff be the primary<br />
responder,” Dolin said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> village currently helps<br />
fund the squad with about<br />
$53,000 per year.<br />
Other business<br />
In other business, the board:<br />
—Increased water rates,<br />
penalties, and hook-up fees.<br />
Minimum rates will increase by<br />
$20 per year. Monthly penalties<br />
will increase, and costs to hook<br />
up under the road with pipe<br />
installation will increase from<br />
$1,000 to $2,000, the board<br />
said.<br />
“We do run in the red with the<br />
water fund,” Cardona said.<br />
Conway said that revenues<br />
brought in by the water fund<br />
are used strictly for water, and<br />
that the fund is separate from<br />
the sewer fund;<br />
— Learned that the planning<br />
board needs an alternate<br />
member; and<br />
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19. Went alone<br />
20. Horse sound<br />
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45. Tints<br />
47. Like some melons<br />
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19 20 21<br />
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7. Brew brand<br />
8. Army docs<br />
9. A gentle wind at the<br />
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22 23 24<br />
25 26 27 28 29<br />
30 31 32 33 34 35<br />
36 37 38 39 40<br />
41 42 43 44<br />
45 46 47 48 49<br />
50 51 52<br />
53 54 55 56 57 58<br />
59 60 61<br />
Zip+4 ____________________<br />
62 63 64<br />
65 66 67<br />
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50. Cloud nine<br />
51. Tonto's horse<br />
53. Peter and Mary's<br />
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Senior News<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Getting the correct seat: William Van Alstyne, program director of the <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Department<br />
of Public Works Traffic Safety Education Program, right, answers this family’s questions<br />
about car seats Sunday at Crossgates Mall. On Saturday, seats were checked for proper<br />
installation. Both Days were part of the 28th Annual <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Traffic Safety Awareness<br />
Weekend.<br />
Wannabees<br />
Guilderland<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guilderland Senior Services<br />
is offering the following<br />
activities the week of Oct. 1.<br />
Call the senior office at 356-1980,<br />
ext. 1048 for any questions or<br />
information.<br />
Monday: Scheduled shopping,<br />
aerobics at 9 a.m., OsteoBusters<br />
at 10:30 a.m., senior fitness at<br />
10:30 a.m., and OsteoBusters at<br />
1:30 p.m.<br />
Tuesday: OsteoBusters at<br />
9 a.m., a speech US Treasury<br />
Benefit Change at 11:30 a.m.,<br />
luncheon of braised beef or cold<br />
plate at 11:30 a.m., and bingo,<br />
games and billiards at 12:30<br />
p.m.,<br />
Wednesday: Scheduled shopping,<br />
Zumba at 9 a.m., Osteo-<br />
Busters at 10:30 a.m., senior<br />
fitness at 10:30 a.m., needlecraft<br />
at 1 p.m., and OsteoBusters at<br />
1:30 p.m.<br />
Thursday: Scheduled shopping,<br />
OsteoBusters at 9 a.m., a<br />
Medicare presentation at 10:30<br />
a.m., Mahjongg at 12:30 p.m.,<br />
and Pinochle at 1 p.m.; and<br />
Friday: Scheduled shopping,<br />
painting at 10 a.m., bridge at 10<br />
a.m., and quilting at 1 p.m.<br />
Learn about Medicare<br />
On Thursday, Oct. 4, from<br />
10:30 a.m. to noon in the town<br />
hall boardroom join us to learn<br />
about Medicare.<br />
Will you soon be 65 Are you<br />
already enrolled in Medicare<br />
but still have questions about<br />
your coverage options <strong>The</strong>re<br />
are Medicare counselors trained<br />
to help you understand your<br />
choices and options. Attend a<br />
presentation designed to provide<br />
you with an understanding of<br />
Medicare and the choices available<br />
to you.<br />
Thinking about changing your<br />
current Medicare coverage This<br />
is a great time to get a better<br />
understanding of the whole<br />
picture. <strong>The</strong> enrollment change<br />
period will begin in October and<br />
end early in December.<br />
Having trouble paying your<br />
Medicare premium or related<br />
medical expenses Find out if<br />
you may qualify for Federal<br />
assistance with your medical<br />
expenses.<br />
You’re almost 65 Come learn<br />
about how Medicare works. You’ll<br />
probably be surprised by the<br />
number of choices available to<br />
you and all the factors that you<br />
should consider when making<br />
your choices.<br />
Movie of the month<br />
On Thursday, Oct. 25, at 10:30<br />
a.m., in the courtroom join us to<br />
watch Catch Me If You Can.<br />
Please register by Oct. 18.<br />
Driver fitness center<br />
<strong>The</strong> Town of Guilderland Senior<br />
Office and the Town’s Police<br />
Department have been working<br />
together to help senior drivers<br />
drive safer and longer through<br />
the town’s Driver Fitness Center.<br />
Located in Guilderland Town<br />
Hall, the center is designed to<br />
ensure the safety and independence<br />
of older drivers and to<br />
help seniors and their families<br />
find tangible solutions to their<br />
driving challenges, in order to<br />
maintain their independence and<br />
self-sufficiency while ensuring<br />
their safety as well as the safety<br />
of others on the road.<br />
For more information, please<br />
call Cindy in the senior office.<br />
Thanksgiving dinner<br />
deliveries<br />
Thanksgiving Day preparations<br />
are in the works by Equinox,<br />
Inc. for their 43nd Annual<br />
Equinox Thanksgiving Day Dinner.<br />
In order to get home delivery,<br />
we need to update our list of dinner<br />
recipients, so please contact<br />
the senior office to make your<br />
reservation.<br />
Fall luncheon<br />
A fall luncheon is planned for<br />
Tuesday, Oct. 23, at noon at the<br />
Italian-American Community<br />
Center, Washington Ave. Extension<br />
in <strong>Albany</strong>.<br />
Tickets are on sale until Oct.<br />
16. <strong>The</strong> cost is $18 per person.<br />
Please make checks payable<br />
to: Cluster II, care of the Senior<br />
Office, <strong>Post</strong> Office Box 339, Guilderland,<br />
NY 12084<br />
Helderberg<br />
<strong>The</strong> menu being served by<br />
the Helderberg Senior Services<br />
at the Hiawatha Grange on<br />
Route 32 in Dormansville next<br />
week is:<br />
Monday: Spaghetti and meatballs,<br />
romaine salad with dressing,<br />
broccoli, and fruited gelatin;<br />
Tuesday: Hot roast beef<br />
sandwich with gravy, stewed<br />
tomatoes, apple juice, and cherry<br />
crisp;<br />
Wednesday: Roast turkey<br />
with gravy, stuffing, cranberry<br />
sauce, mashed sweet potato,<br />
green beans, and ice cream;<br />
Thursday: Salisbury steak<br />
with gravy, mashed potato,<br />
carrots, orange juice and fruit<br />
cocktail;<br />
Friday: Stir-fry pork, brown<br />
rice, Chinese vegetables, pineapple<br />
juice, and pears.<br />
All meals will be served at<br />
noon. Call ahead at 797-3652 for<br />
reservations.<br />
Funding is provided by the<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong> Department for<br />
the Aging and the New York Office<br />
for Aging.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Future police officers <strong>The</strong>se kids along with their parents stopped by the University of <strong>Albany</strong>/<br />
State Police booth at Crossgates Mall to get information about being a police officer during Safety<br />
Awareness Weekend, Sept. 22 and 23. <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, in hosting the annual event, stressed there<br />
were 8,000 traffic accidents county-wide in 2010 and a few thousand more that went unreported.<br />
Displays were designed to raise awareness and improve safety.<br />
Are you considering dentures<br />
Call 452-2579 to speak directly<br />
to a dentist who, at no charge,<br />
can tell you your options.<br />
Geoffrey B. Edmunds, DDS<br />
2010 Western Ave. Guilderland<br />
452-2579
18 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Library Notes<br />
Voorheesville<br />
By Lynn Kohler<br />
On Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9:30<br />
a.m. to noon, come take a walking<br />
tour of Voorheesville with village<br />
historian, author, and poet<br />
Dennis Sullivan. <strong>The</strong> walk will<br />
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LAUNDROMAT<br />
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Day Care Center<br />
We have some “little shoes” to<br />
fill. Kindergarten full day means<br />
room in our beautiful BIG dip<br />
for an expanded nursery school.<br />
2, 3, and 5 day programs.<br />
September 2013 Serendipity<br />
BIG dip opens its doors to 3 and<br />
4 year olds 9:00am -11:15am or<br />
12:15pm - 2:30pm.<br />
Program will follow the<br />
Voorheesville school calendar.<br />
Call to inquire 765-2399.<br />
HELDERBERG OIL<br />
Quality Home Heating Oil<br />
768-8300<br />
Due to current market conditions, please call for price.<br />
We accept HEAP<br />
Cash, check or<br />
Quantity Discounts<br />
credit card on delivery<br />
Beat the High Cost of Heating<br />
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& Hand Fired<br />
Coal Stoves*<br />
John O’Pezio<br />
VoorheesVille<br />
12 South Main St.<br />
open 6 AM – 11 PM every Day<br />
Soft Water • Parking • Clean<br />
& “Berne”<br />
Coal<br />
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Factory<br />
Giveaways*<br />
Flu shots<br />
for the elderly<br />
A flu clinic — for people<br />
who are over age 60 or who<br />
are disabled — will be held<br />
on Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 9:30<br />
to 11:30 a.m. at the Hilltown<br />
Senior Center on Helderberg<br />
Trail in Berne.<br />
Patients should bring their<br />
insurance cards or a fee of $25<br />
will be charged; exact change<br />
is requested.<br />
Participants must pre-register<br />
before Oct. 12; call Charlotte<br />
Fuss at 861-8960 between<br />
noon and 3 p.m. or register in<br />
person at the Hilltown Seniors<br />
meeting on Oct. 13.<br />
No walk-ins will be accepted<br />
on the day of the clinic.<br />
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• 5 to<br />
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• Heat for<br />
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• More<br />
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Take a walking tour of<br />
Voorheesville with village<br />
historian, author, and poet<br />
Dennis Sullivan.<br />
take you past historic buildings<br />
of 19th Century Voorheesville.<br />
Sullivan will discuss the social,<br />
cultural, and economic mix that<br />
makes Voorheesville unique in<br />
many ways. <strong>The</strong> tour will begin<br />
in the elementary school parking<br />
lot and finish at the Voorheesville<br />
Public Library where cider and<br />
doughnuts will be served. Wear<br />
good walking shoes.<br />
Finding the right college<br />
On Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 7 to<br />
8:30 p.m., join us for finding the<br />
right college at the right price.<br />
<strong>The</strong> world of college admissions<br />
has changed drastically in the<br />
last 20 years. Tuition and competition<br />
have soared, making it<br />
a challenge for applicants and<br />
their families to navigate the<br />
process. Over the past eight<br />
years, Dr. Skarlis and his staff<br />
have helped hundreds of families<br />
save time, money and find “best<br />
fit” colleges. Call or email the<br />
reference desk to sign up.<br />
Digital download<br />
open house<br />
On Thursday, Oct. 18, from<br />
5:30 to 8:30 p.m., the library staff<br />
will be holding free training sessions<br />
every half-hour for digital<br />
downloads. Drop in and learn<br />
how to borrow free digital books<br />
and audiobooks from the library’s<br />
Overdrive collection.<br />
Bring your own eReader, tablet<br />
or smart phone, or sample the<br />
library’s devices. Can’t make it<br />
on this date Call for an appointment<br />
for individual help.<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> and the Civil War<br />
with Mark Bodnar<br />
On Sunday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m.,<br />
as part of the Hearts Touched<br />
with Fire…Living Through the<br />
Civil War series, local historian<br />
Mark Bodnar’s will present a<br />
Powerpoint presentation on <strong>Albany</strong>’s<br />
Civil War connections. He<br />
will introduce individuals from<br />
that era interred in <strong>Albany</strong> Rural<br />
Cemetery. His subjects include<br />
statesmen, businessmen, and six<br />
Medal of Honor recipients. Learn<br />
about industrialist John Winslow,<br />
who helped convince Lincoln to<br />
build the Monitor, Confederate<br />
Absalom Bainbridge, who helped<br />
John Wilkes Booth escape, and<br />
Major Charles Pease, who rode<br />
with Generals Grant and Lee on<br />
the same day.<br />
NYC bus trip<br />
On Saturday, Dec. 1, join the<br />
Friends of the Library on their<br />
annual New York City, Holiday<br />
in the City bus trip.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bus will depart at 7 a.m.<br />
from the Middle school parking<br />
lot and return at approximately<br />
11 p.m. Spend your day in NYC<br />
any way you wish. <strong>The</strong> bus<br />
drops off and picks up at Bryant<br />
Park. This trip fills quickly so<br />
reserve your seats now. Bus price<br />
is $35 per seat or $30 for FOL<br />
members. Paid reservations may<br />
be made at the circulation desk<br />
at the library.<br />
Artist Romare Bearden, who lived from 1911 to 1988, is being<br />
honored in institutions across the country as a centennial tribute.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Hyde Collection exhibition, From Process to Print: Graphic<br />
Works by Romare Bearden, will be on view in the Wood Gallery<br />
from Oct. 6 through Jan. 6. Over 75 lithographs, etchings, collagraphs,<br />
collagraph plates, screen prints, drypoints, monoprints,<br />
and engravings, created over a span of 30 years, will be on display.<br />
Admission to the Hyde, at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, is $8;<br />
children under 14 are admitted for free. <strong>The</strong>re is no admission<br />
charge on Wednesdays. On Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m., Dr. Jo-Ann<br />
Graham will speak in the museum’s Froehlich Auditorium about<br />
Bearden and other artists of the twentieth-century in a lecture<br />
entitled Abstract Expressionism and the African American Artist.<br />
This program is free and open to the public.<br />
Westerlo<br />
By Sue Hoadley<br />
For the month of September<br />
2012 the Westerlo Public Library<br />
is displaying William Creter’s<br />
Tribute to 9/11. We will never<br />
forget. Thanks in no small part<br />
to Creter’s thoughtful collection<br />
of books, plaques, and fire department<br />
memorabilia related to<br />
the September 11, 2001 attacks.<br />
Creter is now a seventh grader at<br />
Berne-Knox-Westerlo school, but<br />
he was living on Long Island at<br />
the time of the attacks. “It was<br />
a frightening time for everyone,”<br />
he says. But, much more so<br />
for those who were so close to<br />
Ground Zero.<br />
Story time<br />
Toddler and preschool story<br />
time will meet on Tuesdays at<br />
3:30 p.m. Join Miss Lee for<br />
stories, songs, games, and movement<br />
activities for toddlers and<br />
preschool aged children.<br />
Technology Walk-In<br />
Wednesday:<br />
Do you need to brush up on<br />
your computer skills or obtain<br />
basic skills See Amy on Wednesdays<br />
between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.,<br />
for free, personalized, one-onone,<br />
hands-on instruction on<br />
how to work the mouse, navigate<br />
the Internet, set up an e-mail<br />
account, use office automation<br />
programs, and more.<br />
Trustee vacancy<br />
<strong>The</strong> library is seeking community-spirited<br />
town residents for<br />
appointment to a five-year term<br />
on the Board of Library Trustees.<br />
Stay apprised. Read <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>.<br />
Applicants should have an appreciation<br />
for and understanding<br />
of library service; commitment to<br />
the informational, educational,<br />
and recreational needs of the<br />
community; and a willingness to<br />
actively work to accomplish the<br />
library’s goals and objectives.<br />
Interested applicants must<br />
live in the town of Westerlo and<br />
cannot be employed by or do<br />
business with the library. Applicants<br />
must be available to<br />
meet on the second Monday of<br />
each month. Letters of interest<br />
should indicate why you wish<br />
to serve, your previous library<br />
involvement, and any specific<br />
qualifications or experience you<br />
have that would be of benefit<br />
to the library and the board of<br />
trustees. Send letters of interest<br />
to: Board of Trustees, <strong>Post</strong> Office<br />
Box 267, Westerlo, NY 12193.<br />
This vacancy will be filled by appointment<br />
of the town board.<br />
Coupon exchange<br />
Do you hate throwing away<br />
coupons, even when you can’t<br />
use them Well, we’ve got the<br />
solution. Donate your unused<br />
coupons to the coupon exchange<br />
box and, in turn, help yourself<br />
to the coupons that others have<br />
donated.<br />
Library info<br />
All library programming is<br />
free (unless otherwise noted)<br />
and open to the public. For more<br />
information, contact the library<br />
during business hours at 797-<br />
3415, visit westerlolibrary.org<br />
or find us on Facebook at www.<br />
facebook.com/westerlolibrary.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 19<br />
Library Notes<br />
Community Events<br />
Middleburgh<br />
By Anne LaMont<br />
On Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m., come<br />
to the Middleburgh Libraryfor<br />
our Reel Film Split Estate. An<br />
eye-opening examination of the<br />
consequences and conflicts that<br />
can arise between surface land<br />
owners in the western United<br />
States, and those who own and<br />
extract the energy and mineral<br />
rights below.<br />
Story time<br />
On Oct. 2, at 10:45 a.m., join<br />
us at the library for drop in story<br />
time. Get ready to move in this<br />
interactive story time designed<br />
especially for children up to age<br />
5 and their caregivers. We’ll read<br />
books, sing songs, recite fingerplays,<br />
dance, and watch a short<br />
movie based on a weekly theme.<br />
No registration is required.<br />
Preschool art<br />
On Oct. 3, at 11 a.m., the library<br />
will present Doodle Bugs,<br />
a preschool art program. <strong>The</strong><br />
program is art exploration for<br />
little ones age 1 through 5 and<br />
their caregivers. Registration is<br />
required.<br />
Wednesday matinee<br />
On Oct. 3, at 1 p.m., the library<br />
will show Salmon Fishing in<br />
the Yemen rated PG-13. This is<br />
the story of a fisheries expert who<br />
is approached by a consultant to<br />
help realize a sheik’s vision of<br />
bringing the sport of fly-fishing<br />
to the desert and embarks on<br />
an upstream journey of faith<br />
and fish to prove the impossible<br />
possible.<br />
Concert<br />
On Oct. 4, at 7 p.m., songwriter<br />
Daniel Boling joins us at the<br />
library. His fingerpicked guitar<br />
and banjitar support a tenor<br />
voice that evokes his characters’<br />
emotions. Tickets are available<br />
at the door for a suggested $10<br />
donation.<br />
Knitting Circle<br />
On Oct. 4, at 7 p.m., the<br />
friendly ladies of the Knitting<br />
Circle (men are welcome, but we<br />
haven’t seen any yet!) knit and<br />
crochet, embroider and quilt, and<br />
more. You can learn a new skill<br />
or share your own special talents<br />
with others. Drop in anytime. No<br />
registration is required<br />
For more information, see our<br />
website at www.middleburghlibrary.info.<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong><br />
By David Warner<br />
Nearly a dozen bird-lovers<br />
took a walk on Brandle Road<br />
last week. <strong>The</strong> group leader was<br />
Dan Capuano, ably assisted by<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> Free Library’s Director,<br />
Judith Wines.<br />
This annual autumnal walk is<br />
timed to catch sight of migrating<br />
raptors grabbing updrafts in<br />
front of the Helderberg Escarpment.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were not as many<br />
sightings as in some previous<br />
years, but no one complained. It<br />
was a lovely morning with lots to<br />
see and appreciate.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were some raptor sightings,<br />
several turkey vultures, a<br />
broad wing hawk, a red-tailed<br />
hawk, and a bald eagle that<br />
turned out to be a hiker in a<br />
white hat at High Point. Also<br />
spotted were blue jays, red wing<br />
blackbirds, phoebes, gold finches,<br />
and crows. <strong>The</strong> bird of the day,<br />
we’re almost positive, was a female<br />
rose-breasted grosbeak in<br />
the non-breeding phase.<br />
Book club<br />
<strong>The</strong> adult fiction discussion<br />
group will meet on Monday, Oct.<br />
1, at 7 p.m., to toss around Chad<br />
Harbach’s <strong>The</strong> Art of Fielding.<br />
Yes, it is a book about baseball.<br />
No, it is not a book about baseball.<br />
Fall story times<br />
<strong>The</strong> toddler story time will<br />
meet Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.<br />
and our preschool program is<br />
Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. All programs<br />
are drop in and all ages<br />
are welcome.<br />
Bethlehem<br />
By Louise Grieco<br />
On Mondays and Thursdays,<br />
from Oct. 11 to 29, at 4:30 p.m.<br />
the Bethlehem Public Library’s<br />
Little Buddies (kids in kindergarten<br />
through grade 5) read to<br />
Big Buddies (teens) to build reading<br />
skills and self-confidence. All<br />
reading levels are welcome and<br />
no signup is necessary.<br />
Lego Club<br />
On Friday, Oct. 12, at 4 p.m.<br />
come to the library and build<br />
things and build friendships.<br />
Friends of the Library and community<br />
members donated the<br />
Lego pieces.<br />
Berne<br />
By Judy Petrosillo<br />
How does the Berne Public<br />
Library keep patron information<br />
up-to-date Every three years<br />
your library card will expire unless<br />
you renew it. You’ll see an<br />
e-mail message when the time is<br />
near, or the staff will see that it<br />
needs renewing when you check<br />
out an item at the library. We<br />
verify your information to make<br />
sure it is correct and then you<br />
are ready to go for another three<br />
years. It’s that easy to keep a<br />
current library card and there<br />
is no charge.<br />
Banned Book Week<br />
One of the best things about a<br />
library card is that it gives you<br />
free and open access to books<br />
and information. Sept. 30 to Oct.<br />
6 is Banned Book Week sponsored<br />
by the American Library<br />
Association. This is an annual<br />
event celebrating the freedom to<br />
seek and to express ideas, even<br />
those some consider unorthodox<br />
or unpopular.<br />
As philosopher Noam Chomsky<br />
said, “If we don’t believe in freedom<br />
of expression for people we<br />
despise, we don’t believe in it at<br />
all.” This week, read a book that<br />
others have challenged.<br />
Book discussion<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sunday Book Club is<br />
reading Fried Green Tomatoes at<br />
the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie<br />
Flagg. <strong>The</strong> author includes the<br />
challenges of living in a racist<br />
society and the challenge of aging<br />
in this novel. Request a copy<br />
soon and join the discussion on<br />
Oct. 14, at 7 p.m.<br />
Story time<br />
Story time on Tuesday, Oct.<br />
2 is sponsored by the word<br />
square. Preschool children and<br />
their caregivers are invited to<br />
join Kathy at 11 a.m., for stories,<br />
activities, and crafts based on the<br />
shape of a square.<br />
Thank you<br />
A huge thanks to the many<br />
people who made the lasagna<br />
dinner and cakewalk a success.<br />
Whether you baked a cake, made<br />
a tray of lasagna, worked at the<br />
dinner, or showed your support<br />
by attending this event, your<br />
time and effort were appreciated.<br />
Blood drives schedule<br />
<strong>The</strong> American Red Cross Blood<br />
Services is holding these local<br />
drives in October:<br />
— On Wednesday, Oct. 10 from<br />
1 to 6 p.m. at the St. Stephen’s<br />
Episcopal Church’s church hall,<br />
16 Elsmere Ave., Delmar;<br />
— On Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 8<br />
a.m. to 2 p.m. at Voorheesville’s<br />
high school gym, 432 New Salem<br />
Rd., Voorheesville;<br />
— On Friday, Oct. 19 from noon<br />
to 4 p.m., at Time Warner Cable<br />
— bloodmobile, 337 New Karner<br />
Rd., <strong>Albany</strong>;<br />
— On Friday, Oct. 19 from<br />
7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the<br />
Guilderland High School large<br />
group instruction room, 8 School<br />
Guilderland<br />
Class of 1977<br />
holds reunion<br />
GUILDERLAND — <strong>The</strong> Guilderland<br />
High School Class of<br />
1977 will hold its 35 th reunion<br />
on Nov. 24 from 6 to 11 p.m. at<br />
Settles Hill Banquets in <strong>Altamont</strong>.<br />
Tickets cost $50 if purchased<br />
before Oct. 24, and $55 thereafter.<br />
For more information, call<br />
Nellie Goutos at 861-6052 or<br />
e-mail her at Nellie.Goutos@<br />
gmail.com.<br />
GUILDERLAND —<strong>The</strong> Guilderland<br />
Central School District<br />
will once again be hosting a<br />
Fall Recycling Extravaganza on<br />
Saturday, Oct. 27, from 8 a.m.<br />
to 2 p.m. at Farnsworth Middle<br />
School. This is a communitywide<br />
event and is open to both<br />
residents and non-residents of<br />
the school district.<br />
Individuals are encouraged<br />
to bring their unwanted papers,<br />
metals, plastics (including bags),<br />
bikes, and electronics equipment<br />
for free disposal and recycling.<br />
Hazardous materials cannot be<br />
accepted. This service is provided<br />
by the district’s recycling<br />
partners — Regional Computer<br />
Recycling & Recovery, <strong>County</strong><br />
Waste/Waste Connections, and<br />
T. A. Predel’s Paper and Metals<br />
Recycling.<br />
Electronics being accepted<br />
include, but are not limited to:<br />
old air conditioners, microwaves,<br />
computers, TVs, gaming equipment,<br />
large and small appliances,<br />
computers and terminals,<br />
phones, and pagers.<br />
Examples of metals being accepted<br />
include old bicycles, lawn<br />
mowers, patio furniture, swing<br />
sets, grills, steel beams, fences,<br />
and refrigerators.<br />
Types of paper being accepted<br />
include old phone books, office<br />
Rd., Guilderland Center;<br />
— On Monday, Oct. 22 from 2<br />
to 7 p.m., at St. Madeleine Sophie<br />
Church’s parish center, 3500 Carman<br />
Rd., Schenectady;<br />
— On Tuesday, Oct. 23 from<br />
9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Duanesburg<br />
Central School’s gym, 163 School<br />
Dr., Delanson; and<br />
— On Saturday, Oct. 27 from<br />
7:30 a.m. to noon, at the Rensselaerville<br />
Fire Company’s meeting<br />
rooms, 4990 Delaware Turnpike,<br />
Rensselaerville.<br />
Call 1-800-RED CROSS or<br />
visit www.redcrossblood.org for<br />
more information and to make<br />
an appointment.<br />
Legion auxiliary<br />
seeks donations<br />
NEW SCOTLAND — <strong>The</strong> Voorheesville<br />
American Legion Auxiliary<br />
is holding its third annual<br />
tag sale on Saturday, Oct. 6, from<br />
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the American<br />
Legion Hall, on Voorheesville<br />
Avenue in Voorheesville.<br />
Anyone interested in donating<br />
items may call Robin Hull-Pease<br />
at 765-4580 or Eileen Lawrence<br />
at 765-4280 to make an appointment<br />
to drop off items at the<br />
legion hall, or to make other arrangements.<br />
Please, no big items<br />
and no electronics.<br />
GCSD to host Recycling<br />
Extravaganza October 27 at<br />
Farnsworth Middle School<br />
papers and envelopes, catalogs,<br />
magazines, newspapers, and boxes.<br />
Please note that blueprints,<br />
carbon papers, and egg cartons<br />
will not be accepted.<br />
Plastics being accepted include<br />
beverage bottles and bags.<br />
Textiles being accepted include:<br />
clothing, shoes, rags,<br />
towels, pocketbooks, belts, fabrics,<br />
blankets, comforters, and<br />
sheets.<br />
In addition to the items listed<br />
above, on Oct. 27 the district will<br />
also be collecting old flip-flop sandals<br />
for recycling by Terracycle,<br />
as well as any new or like-new<br />
donations of clothing for children<br />
and adults, accessories, linens,<br />
pots, pans, and house wares.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se items will be collected by<br />
Grassroots Givers and available<br />
free-of-charge at the Sheridan<br />
Hollow Drop-In Center “shop”<br />
in <strong>Albany</strong> for individuals and<br />
families who are homeless, living<br />
on a limited income, or leaving<br />
a shelter to move into a new<br />
apartment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last Recycling Extravaganza<br />
generated more than $2,800<br />
in revenue for the district. For<br />
more information on the upcoming<br />
Recycling Extravaganza, call<br />
Renée Panetta, district recycling<br />
and conservation coordinator, at<br />
861-5246, ext. 338.<br />
First Fridays Artswalk: On Oct. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., downtown Pittsfield, Mass. Will host opening<br />
receptions featuring dozens of local and regional artists, after which many restaurants and lounges<br />
will have live jazz entertainment as the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival kicks off. Recent work by portrait<br />
artist Claudia Shuster, like this oil of Kurt Mazur, will be shown at the Art On No Gallery at 311 North<br />
Street. More information may be found on the Artwalk’s website, firstfridaysartswalk.com.<br />
JP Delaney<br />
Complete Home Site Development<br />
Foundations, driveways, septics, etc...<br />
(518) 797-3839 or (518) 681-1981<br />
John P. Stannard<br />
Excavation<br />
Fully Insured
20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Correspondents<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong><br />
By<br />
Rosemary<br />
Caruso<br />
861-6569<br />
We were going through boxes<br />
in the garage trying to decide<br />
what to keep, what to give away<br />
and what to throw away. It surprised<br />
us that there was so much<br />
that we have kept that just takes<br />
up space and should have been<br />
thrown away a long time ago.<br />
However, there was one small<br />
box that held a few items and a<br />
lot of memories.<br />
When I showed the contents<br />
of the box to<br />
my husband<br />
he smiled and<br />
said, “Those<br />
were the days<br />
when you could<br />
play for hours<br />
with just a few<br />
simple toys.” “A<br />
boy could put a small ball and<br />
some jacks in one pocket, some<br />
marbles in another pocket, hold<br />
up his pants with a length of<br />
rope, and have a piece of chalk<br />
in his belt.”<br />
This box held some of the classic<br />
childhood games that do not<br />
require much to keep them going.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se items probably came from<br />
the girls Christmas stockings.<br />
Playing jacks is a lot of fun and<br />
all you need is a little bouncy<br />
ball, a level surface and at least<br />
10 jacks. You can play on any<br />
hard surface like a driveway,<br />
sidewalk, or the floor. You throw<br />
the 10 jacks onto the playing<br />
surface, toss the ball into the<br />
air with your throwing hand and<br />
while the ball is in the air, pick up<br />
one jack using only your throwing<br />
hand, then catch the ball in<br />
your throwing hand before the<br />
ball hits the ground. Repeat this<br />
process until you have picked up<br />
all 10 jacks.<br />
Toss the 10 jacks onto the playing<br />
surface again and toss the<br />
ball into the air and pick up two<br />
jacks each time. Continue tossing<br />
the ball, picking up jacks and<br />
catching the ball, increasing the<br />
number of jacks you pick until<br />
you pick up all 10 at one time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other player gets to take<br />
their turn when you don’t pick<br />
up the correct number of jacks<br />
or you miss the ball. Begin<br />
where you left off when it’s your<br />
turn again. <strong>The</strong> winner is declared<br />
when you or your friend<br />
succeeds at ‘onesies’ through<br />
‘tensies’ (one jack through 10<br />
jacks).<br />
Another way to play is to<br />
bounce the ball on the playing<br />
surface rather than throw it in<br />
the air, then try to pick up as<br />
many jacks as you can before the<br />
ball bounces again.<br />
Although our daughters didn’t<br />
play marbles very much, Jim said<br />
that when he was young they<br />
played all of the time. For one<br />
thing, it was an inexpensive toy.<br />
You could buy a bag of marbles<br />
for 10 cents. If you lived in a<br />
neighborhood near a machining<br />
company you might be able to<br />
find a ball bearing near their<br />
trash. Another thing that makes<br />
marbles such a great game is that<br />
you can make up different rules<br />
and play almost anywhere.<br />
I have gone into great detail<br />
about marbles before so today I<br />
will just briefly review a couple<br />
of the games.<br />
One game involves drawing a<br />
“Those were the days<br />
when you could play for<br />
hours with just a few<br />
simple toys.”<br />
circle in sand, and players take<br />
turns knocking other players’<br />
marbles out of the circle with<br />
their own marble. This game is<br />
called ringer.<br />
Other versions involve shooting<br />
marbles at target marbles or into<br />
holes in the ground. This game<br />
is called rolley hole. While the<br />
game of marbles was once widespread<br />
its popularity has waned<br />
in this computer age.<br />
Of course the rope was used<br />
for jump rope. It has often been<br />
considered a girl’s game but everyone<br />
used to jump rope. Now<br />
the schools encourage it because<br />
it is so good for your health.<br />
Today, they have competitive<br />
teams that use ropes and health<br />
instructors use ropes for their<br />
client’s health.<br />
And chalk was for drawing<br />
games and pictures on the<br />
ground.<br />
So for less than a dollar you<br />
can walk around with a whole<br />
pocket full of games. Add to that<br />
stickball, hide<br />
and seek and<br />
you could be<br />
kept busy with<br />
your friends for<br />
hours.<br />
Today, we often<br />
see people<br />
sitting in the<br />
mall, on a bus, in the restaurant,<br />
or just about anywhere else with<br />
their cell phone, and computer<br />
in front of them. <strong>The</strong>y are playing<br />
games that are far more complicated<br />
and more expensive. I’m<br />
not sure they bring as much fun<br />
to the children playing them.<br />
I know I still remember Chet,<br />
Joan, and Pat sitting on my front<br />
porch talking about going to the<br />
beach for the day. Or perhaps we<br />
went to the harbor and sailed<br />
for a while on Chet’s small sailboat.<br />
But then we were brought<br />
up near the water. Jim was<br />
brought up in the city.<br />
It didn’t really matter what<br />
we did as children as long as<br />
we were with friends, having<br />
a good time and not spending<br />
much money. Our parents knew<br />
who we were with and basically<br />
where we were. <strong>The</strong>y also knew<br />
when we would be home and how<br />
many there would be for dinner<br />
because the group would make<br />
those plans before we went out.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next time your children<br />
are looking for something to do,<br />
why not suggest marbles, jacks or<br />
jump rope <strong>The</strong>se are games that<br />
really do not go out of style.<br />
Chicken barbecue<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the American<br />
Legion on <strong>Altamont</strong> Blvd. invite<br />
the public to enjoy their chicken<br />
barbecue on Friday, Sept. 28,<br />
from 4 to 7 p.m. <strong>The</strong> cost for a<br />
dinner is $9. <strong>The</strong> Legion is located<br />
at 988 <strong>Altamont</strong> Blvd.<br />
Fall classes<br />
Old Songs has announced<br />
their fall music class registration<br />
for classes in acoustic music.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y will begin on Oct. 1,<br />
at Old Songs located at 37 South<br />
Main Street in Voorheesville. For<br />
additional information, times,<br />
and cost call 765-2815 or by going<br />
on line at www.oldsongs.org.<br />
Water main flushing<br />
<strong>The</strong> village of <strong>Altamont</strong> has announced<br />
that water main flushing<br />
will begin on Monday, Oct. 1<br />
through Friday, Oct. 19, between<br />
the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30<br />
p.m. Discoloration may occur.<br />
Residents are advised to check<br />
for water discoloration before<br />
starting your laundry.<br />
Book sale<br />
A collectible book sale will take<br />
place at the Guilderland Public<br />
Library on Saturday, Sept. 29,<br />
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and again<br />
on Sunday, Sept. 30, from 1 until<br />
4 p.m. <strong>The</strong> sale will be held in the<br />
Helderberg Room in the library<br />
located at 2228 Western Ave.<br />
Early Bird Entry will be held<br />
on Friday, Sept. 28, from 5 to<br />
8 p.m. <strong>The</strong> entry fee is $10 on<br />
Friday evening.<br />
Toddler time<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guilderland Public Library<br />
has announced that registration<br />
is required for story<br />
times that began this week. <strong>The</strong><br />
Toddler Time is held on Wednesdays<br />
at 10:30 a.m.<br />
<strong>The</strong> library can be reached at<br />
456-2400 to learn more about<br />
other preschool story times.<br />
Food pantry<br />
Peanut butter, jelly, jams and<br />
canned vegetables are needed by<br />
the <strong>Altamont</strong> Food Pantry. Also<br />
needed are laundry detergent<br />
and dish detergent. All donations<br />
can be left in the gathering<br />
space at St. Lucy/St. Bernadette’s<br />
Church on Grand Street. All<br />
donations are appreciated.<br />
Birthdays<br />
Happy-birthday wishes are<br />
extended to:<br />
— Mike Bresney, Danielle<br />
Doherty, and Linda Gaige on<br />
Sept. 28;<br />
— Sue Blackman, Michelle<br />
Blackman, Ryan Dzingle, Ron<br />
Gifford, and Mandi Percoski<br />
Tooker on Sept. 29;<br />
— April Bastiani and Zachary<br />
Connolly on Sept. 30;<br />
— Kenichi Chiba on Oct. 1;<br />
— Willie Burnham and Heather<br />
Holly on Oct. 2;<br />
— Linda Devenpeck, Laurie<br />
Fay, Eric Long, and Jean Perl on<br />
Oct. 3; and<br />
— Gayle Addyman and Isabella<br />
Louise Attanasio on Oct. 4.<br />
Flu shots available<br />
NEW SCOTLAND — A clinic<br />
for flu shots will be held on Oct.<br />
12, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the<br />
Wyman Osterhout Community<br />
Center in New Salem.<br />
To sign up for a flu shot, call<br />
Diane Deschenes or Carol Cootware<br />
at 439-4865.<br />
Thompsons Lake<br />
By<br />
Lora<br />
Ricketts<br />
872-1691<br />
We knew this would be a wonderful<br />
weekend because Brandon<br />
was picking up his children,<br />
Samson and Nichole. First, they<br />
wanted to run the track behind<br />
the BKW school and then we had<br />
a quiet evening.<br />
Saturday was an exciting day;<br />
we went to the hot air balloon<br />
festival in Queensbury. Eight of<br />
us, Brandon, Samson, Nichole,<br />
my daughter Marcia Pangburn,<br />
my granddaughter Kyra, Brandon’s<br />
friend, Jenn Smith, her<br />
son, Iain, and me piled into my<br />
Expedition and headed up the<br />
Northway. We got as far as Exit<br />
7 of the Northway and cars were<br />
backed up for miles.<br />
We went onto Route 9 and that<br />
was slow also; so we cancelled<br />
that destination and headed for<br />
Hoffman’s Playland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> weather was warm and<br />
sunny and the carnival atmosphere<br />
was exciting. <strong>The</strong> children<br />
had a blast. We took lots of pictures<br />
and we all rode the train.<br />
Next we went to the Crossing<br />
in Colonie and that was very<br />
peaceful. <strong>The</strong> children enjoyed<br />
the maze and the playground.<br />
Our last stop was Friendly’s<br />
in East Greenbush, where we all<br />
enjoyed a delicious meal.<br />
Sunday arrived sunny and<br />
cool. We went to church and then<br />
the Nature Center where we had<br />
A Step Up<br />
a picnic lunch. Nichole found an<br />
American robin bird nest on the<br />
ground. She tried to give it to<br />
the attendant but was told she<br />
could have it.<br />
Nichole made an exhibit with<br />
the nest when she got home. She<br />
even had a signup sheet for anyone<br />
viewing her robin’s nest.<br />
Brandon, Samson, Nichole<br />
and Iain enjoyed an afternoon<br />
of fishing in our pond and Jenn<br />
took pictures.<br />
It was a rewarding weekend for<br />
me; being around children always<br />
brings out the best to be thankful<br />
for in life. Everyone caught a<br />
fish and Jenn promised them all<br />
pictures to keep as memories.<br />
Concert success<br />
I received a call from Sonia<br />
Lasher who was helping Wally<br />
Jones do the organizing for<br />
the concert Sunday, Sept. 16 at<br />
the First Reformed Church of<br />
Bethlehem. <strong>The</strong> generous people<br />
who attended donated $2,375 in<br />
response to Wally’s wonderful<br />
music. This money will keep the<br />
Venture Churches food pantry<br />
working on its mission of feeding<br />
the hungry.<br />
90th birthday<br />
Earl Wagoner had a wonderful<br />
day last Saturday, for his 90th<br />
birthday at the church hall. Family<br />
and friends came from near<br />
and far to spend the afternoon<br />
with him<br />
Turkey supper<br />
It’s time to mark you calendar<br />
for the Thompson’s Lake Reformed<br />
Church annual turkey<br />
supper. <strong>The</strong> supper will take<br />
place on Saturday, Oct. 20, from<br />
4 to 6:30 p.m. <strong>The</strong> menu includes<br />
turkey, stuffing, mashed<br />
potatoes, gravy, squash, coleslaw,<br />
rolls, beverages, and homemade<br />
pies. <strong>The</strong> cost for adults is $10;<br />
children 12 and under is $5; and<br />
free for children under 5..<br />
Call 872-0432 for more information<br />
or tickets.<br />
Volunteer Trail Day: Join Huyck Preserve staff in Rensselaerville and the British Conservation<br />
Volunteers for a morning of trail work on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. <strong>The</strong> volunteers will<br />
be repairing Lincoln Pond Trail, including a rebuild of the bridge the beaver’s damaged. A barbecue<br />
will follow at noon in appreciation of everyone’s efforts.
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Notice of Formation of NYC<br />
Media Marketing, LLC. Arts of Org.<br />
filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY)<br />
on 9/2/11. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 120 E. 87th<br />
St., Apt R8E, New York, NY 10128.<br />
Purpose: any lawful activity.<br />
(2-5-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Miles<br />
Above LLC. Arts of Org. filed with<br />
NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/8/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 76-01 147th St., Suite<br />
401, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(3-5-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF<br />
LLC. Name: C. Carpinello, LLC.<br />
Articles of Organization filed with<br />
New York Secretary of State (SSNY)<br />
on: 08/07/2012. Office Location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated<br />
as agent of LLC upon whom<br />
process against it may be served.<br />
SSNY shall mail a copy of process<br />
c/o 518 Route 9w Glenmont, New<br />
York, 12077. Term: Indefinite. Purpose:<br />
Any lawful purpose<br />
(4-5-10)<br />
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Org. were filed with the Secretary<br />
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7/24/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY has been designated<br />
as agent of the LLC upon whom<br />
process against it may be served.<br />
SSNY shall mail a copy of process<br />
to the LLC, 1520 East 24th Street<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(5-5-10)<br />
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Notice of Formation of Avi Zamir<br />
Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with<br />
NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/7/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
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New York, NY 10010. Purpose: any<br />
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(1-5-10)<br />
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Notice of qualification of Buffalo<br />
Freeman Fennimore, LLC. Application<br />
for Authority filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 8/8/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
THE LLC @ 911 Central Ave #188,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12206, THE LLC is<br />
designated as agent for SOP at<br />
911 Central Ave #188, purpose is<br />
any lawful purpose.<br />
(6-5-10)<br />
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Notice of qualification of ReppertFactor,<br />
LLC<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 6/22/12,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(7-5-10)<br />
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Notice of formation domestic of<br />
Wear Truce LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on June<br />
18th, 2012, office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>, NS is designated as<br />
agent upon whom process may be<br />
served, NS shall mail service of process<br />
(SOP) to NW Registered Agent<br />
LLC @ 90 State St STE 700 Office<br />
40, NW Registered Agent LLC is<br />
designated as agent for SOP at 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, purpose<br />
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Notice of formation or qualification<br />
of Boxing Express.<br />
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of State (NS) on 8/13/2012<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
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State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
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as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
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purpose.<br />
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of 103 Kail Ave. Articles of Org.<br />
filed with NY Secretary of State<br />
(NS) on 8/17/2012, office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is designated as<br />
agent upon whom process may be<br />
served, NS shall mail service of process<br />
(SOP) to Veil Corporate, LLC<br />
@ 911 Central Ave # 188 <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12206, Veil Corporate, LLC is<br />
designated as agent for SOP at 911<br />
Central Ave # 188 <strong>Albany</strong>, purpose<br />
is any lawful purpose.<br />
(2-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of qualification of Seawolf<br />
Assets, LLC. Articles of Org. filed<br />
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on<br />
8/8/2012. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. LLC formed in New Jersey<br />
(NJ) on 4/26/2012. Princ. office of<br />
LLC: 10 Buxton Dr., East Windsor,<br />
NJ 08520. SSNY designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to c/o Veil Corporate,<br />
911 Central Avenue #188,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12206.Cert. of Form.<br />
filed with NJ State Treasurer, Div.<br />
of Revenue, PO Box 628, Trenton,<br />
NJ 08646-0628. Purpose: Any lawful<br />
activity.<br />
(3-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of NG Online<br />
<strong>Enterprise</strong>s, LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) 7/5/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(6-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of a Limited<br />
Liability Company (LLC): Name:<br />
GARNISH MARKETING, LLC,<br />
Articles of Organization filed with<br />
the Secretary of State of New York<br />
(SSNY) on 08/14/2012. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY has<br />
been designated as agent of the<br />
LLC upon whom process against it<br />
may be served. SSNY shall mail a<br />
copy of process to: C/O GARNISH<br />
MARKETING, LLC, 462 Hamilton<br />
Street, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12203-1334.<br />
Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.<br />
Latest date upon which LLC is to<br />
dissolve: No specific date.<br />
(7-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Tubav Realty LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 7/13/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(8-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
3021 Seagirt Ave, LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/8/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(9-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Bleecker Group LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(10-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
MK Planners LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 7/26/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Mami Yamada, 271 W.<br />
47th St #39J, NY, NY 10036. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(11-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Allanventures Holdings LLC.<br />
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of<br />
State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/12.<br />
Office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY<br />
designated agent of LLC upon<br />
whom process against it may be<br />
served. SSNY shall mail process to<br />
PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201.<br />
Purpose: General.<br />
(12-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
590 Marcy Ave. LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/2/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(13-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Chanteur LLC. Arts. of Org. filed<br />
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on<br />
7/31/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY designated agent of LLC<br />
upon whom process against it<br />
may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box<br />
10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(14-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Bruce Bessi LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(15-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Beauty Island LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of<br />
NY (SSNY) on 8/14/12. Office in<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to Usacorp Inc,<br />
PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201.<br />
Purpose: General.<br />
(16-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Qual. of HNI Risk Services<br />
Of Michigan, LLC. filed with<br />
Sec of State NY (SSNY): 7/31/12.<br />
Office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. Formed<br />
in MI: 2/23/11. SSNY designated<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served & shall<br />
mail process to: Terry Darga, PO<br />
Box 510187, New Berlin, WI 53151-<br />
0187. Foreign add: 140 Monroe<br />
Center St NW Ste 200, Grand Rapids,<br />
MI 49503. Arts. of Org. filed with<br />
MI Dept of Licensing and Regulatory<br />
Affairs Constitution Hall, 1st Fl<br />
N., 525 W. Allegan St, Lansing, MI<br />
48933. Purpose: General.<br />
(17-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Qual. of <strong>The</strong> Aliant<br />
Insurance Group, LLC. Fictitious<br />
Name: CCFN Insurance Agency,<br />
LLC filed with Sec of State NY<br />
(SSNY): 3/30/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. Formed in FL: 11/13/07.<br />
SSNY designated agent of LLC<br />
upon whom process against it may<br />
be served & shall mail process to<br />
its Principal Office: 600 Cleveland<br />
St Ste 600, Clearwater, FL 33755.<br />
Arts. of Org. filed with PO Box 6327,<br />
Tallahassee, FL 32314. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(18-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Qual. of Burns Brokers<br />
LLC. filed with Sec of State NY<br />
(SSNY): 7/24/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. Formed in CO: 1/3/12.<br />
SSNY designated agent of LLC<br />
upon whom process against it may<br />
be served & shall mail process to its<br />
foreign address: PO Box 461151,<br />
Centennial, CO 80013. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Sec of State,1700<br />
Broadway, Dover, CO 80290. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(19-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
DAYLE BASS DESIGN, LLC Art.<br />
of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY<br />
07/03/2012. Off. Loc. <strong>Albany</strong> Co.<br />
SSNY designated as agent upon<br />
whom process against it may be<br />
served. SSNY to mail copy of process<br />
to THE LLC 118-21 Queens<br />
Boulevard, Suite 309, Forest Hills,<br />
NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful act<br />
or activity.<br />
(3-7-12)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Qual. of Global Rigging<br />
& Transport, LLC. filed with<br />
Sec of State NY (SSNY): 6/29/12.<br />
Office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. Formed in<br />
NV: 1/18/2001. SSNY designated<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served & shall<br />
mail process to: Tommy Felch,<br />
1315 Taylor Farm Rd., VA Beach,<br />
VA 23453. Foreign add: Corporation<br />
Service Co., 80 State St., <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with<br />
Tommy Felch, 1315 Taylor Farm Rd,<br />
Virginia Beach, VA 23453. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(20-6-11)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR<br />
AUTHORITY OF<br />
FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY<br />
COMPANY<br />
Name: New York Solar Drive,<br />
LLC (LLC). Application for Authority<br />
filed with Dept. of State of NY on<br />
5/31/12. Jurisdiction and date of<br />
organization: DE, 5/24/12. Office<br />
location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. Secretary<br />
of State of NY (SOS) is designated<br />
as agent of LLC for service<br />
of process. SOS shall mail copy of<br />
process to c/o Teal, Becker Chiaramonte,<br />
CPAs, P.C., 7 Washington<br />
Sq., <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12205. Address<br />
of office required to be maintained<br />
in DE: 2711 Centerville Road, Ste.<br />
400, Wilmington, DE. A copy of the<br />
Certificate of Formation of the LLC<br />
may be obtained from DE Secretary<br />
of State, John G. Townsend Bldg.,<br />
401 Federal St., Ste. 401, Dover,<br />
DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful<br />
act or activity.<br />
(5-7-12)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of a Limited<br />
Liability Company (LLC): Name:<br />
TWO BEARS PROVISIONS, LLC,<br />
Articles of Organization filed with<br />
the Secretary of State of New York<br />
(SSNY) on 08/21/2012. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY has<br />
been designated as agent of the<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
a copy of process to: C/O TWO<br />
BEARS Provisions, LLC, 18 Rose<br />
Court, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12209. Purpose:<br />
Any Lawful Purpose.<br />
(2-7-12)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of 634698<br />
LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 7/12/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served. NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State<br />
St STE 700 Office 40, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY<br />
12207. NW Registered Agent LLC<br />
is designated as agent for SOP<br />
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12207. Purpose: any<br />
lawful purpose.<br />
(1-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Emunah<br />
16 Development LLC. Arts of Org.<br />
filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY)<br />
on 6/18/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 2201 Avenue<br />
M, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(6-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Land<br />
1347 Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/16/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 3048 Bedford<br />
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(7-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Land<br />
4510 Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/21/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 3048 Bedford<br />
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(8-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Land<br />
4512 Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/16/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 3048 Bedford<br />
Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(9-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of 11502<br />
Ocean Promenade, LLC. Arts of<br />
Org. filed with NY Secy of State<br />
(SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated<br />
as agent of LLC upon whom<br />
process against it may be served.<br />
SSNY shall mail process to: 115-<br />
02 Ocean Promenade, Rockaway<br />
Park, NY 11694. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(10-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of 1432 De<br />
Kalb LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/10/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 199 Lee Ave #323,<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(11-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of 389<br />
Broome LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/17/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served.<br />
SSNY shall mail process to: 165<br />
Christopher St. Apt LZ, New York,<br />
NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful<br />
activity.<br />
(12-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of CRP<br />
Manager LLC. Arts of Org. filed with<br />
NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/9/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 1841 Broadway, Suite<br />
400, New York, NY 10023. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(13-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Nadav<br />
WDC, LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/10/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 1060 Mc-<br />
Donald Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230.<br />
Purpose: any lawful activity.<br />
(14-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of S.C.L.<br />
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/24/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 2003 Avenue J, Suite<br />
1C, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose:<br />
any lawful activity.<br />
(15-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of NLJ<br />
Associates LLC. Arts of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on<br />
8/14/12. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated as<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to: 425 Park<br />
Ave. 18th Fl., New York, NY 10022.<br />
Purpose: any lawful activity.<br />
(16-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of TBE Holdings<br />
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/13/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 425 Park Ave. 18th Fl.,<br />
New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(17-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
428 Hart Street LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Usacorp Inc., PO Box<br />
10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(19-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
82 Franklin LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/27/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box<br />
10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(20-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Triple A Cafe, LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/29/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box<br />
10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(21-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Bapaz Ash LLC. Arts. of Org.<br />
filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/24/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(22-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Gonsalves-Sabola LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 8/29/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to Usacorp Inc, PO Box<br />
10873, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12201. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(23-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
DM Deals LLC. Arts. of Org. filed<br />
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on<br />
8/24/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY designated agent of LLC<br />
upon whom process against it<br />
may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to PO Box 10873, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
NY 12201. Purpose: General.<br />
(24-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
O’Connor Bait & Tackle LLC.<br />
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State<br />
of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/12. Office in<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated<br />
agent of LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail process to 33 Washington<br />
Ave, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12205. Purpose:<br />
General.<br />
(25-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
VSPS <strong>Enterprise</strong>s LLC. Arts. of<br />
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY<br />
(SSNY) on 7/19/12. Office in <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to 6211 Johnston House<br />
Apt #8, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12203. Purpose:<br />
General<br />
(26-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Capital<br />
Industrial Automation, LLC<br />
Arts. of Org. of this Limited Liability<br />
Company (LLC) were filed<br />
with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY)<br />
on 7/31/12. <strong>The</strong> LLC maintains its<br />
office in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY is<br />
designated as agent of LLC upon<br />
whom process against it may be<br />
served. SSNY shall mail a copy<br />
of any process served to the LLC<br />
at: <strong>The</strong> LLC, 77 Helderhill Road,<br />
Voorheesville, New York 12186.<br />
Purpose: for any lawful activity for<br />
which limited liability companies<br />
may be formed under the law.<br />
(27-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Cellar<br />
Circles, LLC. Articles of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secretary of State (NS)<br />
on August 3, 2012, office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served, NS shall mail service of<br />
process (SOP) to NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC @90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, NW Registered Agent<br />
LLC is designated as agent for SOP<br />
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,<br />
purpose is any lawful purpose.<br />
(28-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of 239 Mulberry<br />
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/13/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 1919 <strong>Post</strong> Oak Park<br />
Dr. #3101, Houston, TX 77227.<br />
Purpose: any lawful activity.<br />
(2-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of ACI Equities<br />
LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/21/12.<br />
Office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
SSNY is designated as agent of<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: 412 8th Ave. 7th Fl.,<br />
New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(3-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of Silvershore<br />
Properties 27 LLC. Arts<br />
of Org. filed with NY Secy of<br />
State (SSNY) on 8/31/12. Office<br />
location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY is<br />
designated as agent of LLC upon<br />
whom process against it may be<br />
served. SSNY shall mail process<br />
to: 1220 Broadway, Suite 707,<br />
New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(4-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
Toren Parking LLC. Arts of<br />
Org. filed with NY Secy of State<br />
(SSNY) on 8/16/12. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY is designated<br />
as agent of LLC upon whom<br />
process against it may be served.<br />
SSNY shall mail process to: 200<br />
E. 69th St., New York, NY 10021.<br />
Purpose: any lawful activity.<br />
(5-8-13)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Cheese<br />
& Jam, LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary<br />
of State (NS) on 09/10/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St<br />
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC is designated as agent<br />
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(17-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of qualification of Sinclair<br />
Consulting Services LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on July 13,<br />
2012, office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>,<br />
NS is designated as agent upon<br />
whom process may be served, NS<br />
shall mail service of process (SOP)<br />
to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State<br />
St STE 700 Office 40, purpose is<br />
any lawful purpose.<br />
(6-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of ScootourNYC<br />
LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary<br />
of State (NS) on 07/23/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St<br />
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC is designated as agent<br />
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(7-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation [domestic]/<br />
qualification [foreign] of _Smith<br />
Property management LLC<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 8/8/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St<br />
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC is designated as agent<br />
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose<br />
(19-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Chilly<br />
Monkey LLC. Articles of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secretary of State (NS)<br />
on September 10, 2012, office<br />
location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is<br />
designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC @ 90 State St<br />
STE 700 Office 40, NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC is designated as agent<br />
for SOP at 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(16-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF<br />
LIBERTY ENERGY & SUSTAIN-<br />
ABILITY SOLUTIONS, LLC <strong>The</strong><br />
name of the company is Liberty<br />
Energy & Sustainability Solutions,<br />
LLC. Articles of Organization were<br />
filed on September 6, 2012. LLC’s<br />
office is in <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />
Secretary of State of the State of<br />
New York is designated as agent<br />
for service of process and shall<br />
mail a copy of process to P.O.<br />
Box 12214, <strong>Albany</strong>, New York,<br />
12212-2214. <strong>The</strong> purpose of LLC<br />
is to engage in any lawful act or<br />
activity.<br />
(5-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF<br />
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.<br />
NAME: DANATOON STUDIOS,<br />
LLC. Articles of Organization were<br />
filed with the Secretary of State of<br />
New York (SSNY) on 03/28/12. Office<br />
location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY<br />
has been designated as agent<br />
of the LLC upon whom process<br />
against it may be served. SSNY<br />
shall mail a copy of process to the<br />
LLC, 269 Western Ave <strong>Albany</strong> NY,<br />
12203. Purpose: For any lawful<br />
purpose. (8-9-14)
22 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
New Scotland<br />
Soccer Club<br />
information<br />
session<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Scotland Soccer Club<br />
spring 2013 registration information<br />
night is Oct. 1 from 7<br />
p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Voorheesville<br />
High School lobby.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be uniforms available<br />
to see during this time for<br />
sizing purposes. Online registration<br />
is available at www.<br />
newscotlandsoccer.com. For more<br />
information, call Wendy Relyea<br />
at 528-2854.<br />
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LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of <strong>The</strong> Voice<br />
Realm LLC. Articles of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secretary of State (NS)<br />
on 01/25/2012, office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served, NS shall mail service of<br />
process (SOP) to NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, NW Registered Agent<br />
LLC is designated as agent for SOP<br />
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,<br />
purpose is any lawful purpose.<br />
(9-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Myriade<br />
LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary<br />
of State (NS) on August 24,<br />
2012, office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>,<br />
NS is designated as agent upon<br />
whom process may be served, NS<br />
shall mail service of process (SOP)<br />
to NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(10-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Little<br />
Chopins LLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 8/8/2012,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(11-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of LIBERTY<br />
BELLE SPECTACULAR LLC. Articles<br />
of Org. filed with NY Secretary<br />
of State (NS) on 04/11/2012, office<br />
location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is<br />
designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(12-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF<br />
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.<br />
NAME: Veteran’s Electrical LLC.<br />
Articles of Organization were filed<br />
with the Secretary of State of New<br />
York (SSNY) on 8/1/12. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY has<br />
been designated as agent of the<br />
LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
a copy of process to the LLC, 48<br />
South Main Avenue, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY<br />
12208. Purpose: For any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(14-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of professional<br />
service limited liability company.<br />
Name: Kevin J. Hanratty,<br />
Attorney at Law LLC. Articles of<br />
Organization were filed with Secretary<br />
of State of New York (NS)<br />
on 09/05/2012. Office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. NS is designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served. NS shall mail service of<br />
process (SOP) to NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC at 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12207. NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12207.<br />
Purpose is the practice of the profession<br />
of law.<br />
(13-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation [domestic]/<br />
qualification [foreign] of tidiani<br />
international trading.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 05/11/12,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 1773<br />
Western Ave <strong>Albany</strong> NY 12203, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 1773 Western<br />
Ave <strong>Albany</strong> NY 12203, purpose is<br />
any lawful purpose.<br />
(15-9-14)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE TO BIDDERS<br />
Notice is hereby given that the<br />
Board of Fire Commissioners of the<br />
Westmere Fire District will accept<br />
bids for the delivery and installation<br />
of 60 firefighter gear lockers to be<br />
installed in the new fire station currently<br />
under construction.<br />
Copies of specifications may be<br />
obtained at the temporary Westmere<br />
Fire District offices, located<br />
at 1732 Western Avenue, <strong>Albany</strong>,<br />
New York 12203, between the hours<br />
of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday,<br />
Wednesday or Friday, or by calling<br />
the district offices at (518) 456-6734<br />
to make an appointment. Specifications<br />
are also available at www.<br />
WestmereFD.org.<br />
All bids must be submitted in a<br />
sealed, opaque envelope, marked<br />
“Locker Bid” which will be opened<br />
at 6:30 p.m. on October 1, 2012 at<br />
the fire district offices.<br />
Bids must be valid for 90 days.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Board of Fire Commissioners<br />
reserves the right to reject any<br />
and all bids.<br />
Sean Maguire<br />
Secretary<br />
Westmere Fire District<br />
(1-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF<br />
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY<br />
Articles of Organization of Better<br />
Welding, LLC filed with Secy. of<br />
State of N.Y. (SSNY) on September<br />
10, 2012. Office location: <strong>Albany</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated as agent<br />
of LLC upon whom process against<br />
it may be served. SSNY shall mail<br />
process to: <strong>The</strong> LLC, P. O. Box 43,<br />
Glenmont, NY 12077. Purpose: Any<br />
lawful activities.<br />
(2-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF FORMATION of<br />
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FUR-<br />
NITURE CITY LLC, a Limited Liability<br />
Company. Arts. of Org. filed<br />
with Secretary of State of New York<br />
(SSNY) on 09/12/2012. Office loc.:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. SSNY designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served. SSNY shall mail process<br />
to: c/o Lightman Law Firm LLC,<br />
345 Seventh Avenue, Floor 21,<br />
New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any<br />
lawful activity.<br />
(3-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Lynch<br />
Ray Media LLC Articles of Org.<br />
filed with NY Secretary of State<br />
(NS) on 5/15/2012 office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served, NS shall mail service of<br />
process (SOP) to NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, NW Registered Agent<br />
LLC is designated as agent for SOP<br />
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,<br />
purpose is any lawful purpose.<br />
(4-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of Formation of TL GEN-<br />
ERAL LLC. Arts of Org. filed with<br />
NY Secy of State (NS) on 12/21/10,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(7-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of New World<br />
Dentistry, PLLC.<br />
Articles of Org. filed with NY<br />
Secretary of State (NS) on 9/24/12,<br />
office location: <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS<br />
is designated as agent upon whom<br />
process may be served, NS shall<br />
mail service of process (SOP) to<br />
NW Registered Agent LLC @ 90<br />
State St STE 700 Office 40, NW<br />
Registered Agent LLC is designated<br />
as agent for SOP at 90 State St STE<br />
700 Office 40, purpose is any lawful<br />
purpose.<br />
(9-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice of formation of Wine<br />
by Rx, LLC. Articles of Org. filed<br />
with NY Secretary of State (NS)<br />
on Sept 21, 2012, office location:<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, NS is designated<br />
as agent upon whom process may<br />
be served, NS shall mail service of<br />
process (SOP) to NW Registered<br />
Agent LLC @ 90 State St STE 700<br />
Office 40, NW Registered Agent<br />
LLC is designated as agent for SOP<br />
at 90 State St STE 700 Office 40,<br />
purpose is any lawful purpose.<br />
(6-10-15)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
NOTICE OF SPECIAL<br />
DISTRICT MEETING<br />
Voorheesville Central<br />
School District,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, New York<br />
<strong>The</strong> Board of Education of Voorheesville<br />
Central School District,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>, New York, HEREBY<br />
GIVES NOTICE that a Special District<br />
Meeting of the qualified voters<br />
of said School District will be held at<br />
Voorheesville Middle School Foyer,<br />
in Voorheesville, New York, in said<br />
School District, on the 13th day<br />
of November, 2012, at 2:00 P.M.,<br />
Prevailing Time, for the purpose of<br />
voting by voting machine upon the<br />
proposition hereinafter set forth.<br />
Polls for the purpose of voting will<br />
be kept open between the hours<br />
of 2:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. Prevailing<br />
Time.<br />
PROPOSITION<br />
Shall the following resolution be<br />
adopted, to-wit:<br />
RESOLVED that the Board of<br />
Education of Voorheesville Central<br />
School District, <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>,<br />
New York and the Board of Trustees<br />
of the Voorheesville Public Library,<br />
are hereby authorized (1) to provide<br />
for the sale of (a) the existing library<br />
facility located at 51 School Road,<br />
Voorheesville, New York, and (b) a<br />
certain vacant parcel of real estate<br />
located at 78 Prospect Street,<br />
Voorheesville, New York, and (2)<br />
to assist the Voorheesville Public<br />
Library in undertaking the (a) acquisition<br />
of approximately 5.9 acres<br />
of land located at the intersection<br />
of NYS Route 156 and Dommorro<br />
Drive, in Voorheesville, New York,<br />
and (b) construction thereon of a<br />
new library facility, at a maximum<br />
estimated cost of $7,600,000, the<br />
foregoing to include the purchase<br />
of original furnishings, equipment,<br />
machinery and apparatus required<br />
in connection with the purposes<br />
for which such new facility and site<br />
are to be used, and all ancillary or<br />
related work required in connection<br />
therewith; and to expend therefor,<br />
including for preliminary costs and<br />
costs incidental thereto and to the<br />
financing thereof, an amount not<br />
to exceed the maximum estimated<br />
total cost of $7,600,000; and that<br />
such sum, or so much thereof as<br />
may be necessary after application<br />
of State aid, if applicable, and proceeds<br />
from the sale of the existing<br />
library and the 78 Prospect Street<br />
parcel, to the extent received by<br />
the Public Library and available for<br />
application to the financing, shall<br />
be raised by the levy of a tax to be<br />
collected in annual installments as<br />
provided by Section 416 of the Education<br />
Law; and, in anticipation of<br />
such tax, obligations of said School<br />
District shall be issued.<br />
SEQRA STATUS OF PROJECT:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Voorheesville Public Library as<br />
lead agency has determined that<br />
the project constitutes an Unlisted<br />
Action under the State Environmental<br />
Quality Review Act and the<br />
regulations promulgated thereunder<br />
for which a negative declaration has<br />
been made in connection therewith.<br />
SEQRA information is available at<br />
the Voorheesville Public Library for<br />
inspection during regular business<br />
hours.<br />
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY<br />
GIVEN that applications for absentee<br />
ballots may be applied for<br />
at the office of the School District<br />
Clerk. Any such application must<br />
be received by the District Clerk at<br />
least seven days before the date<br />
of the aforesaid Special District<br />
Meeting if the ballot is to be mailed<br />
to the voter, or the day before such<br />
Special District Meeting, if the ballot<br />
is to be delivered personally to<br />
the voter. A list of all persons to<br />
whom absentee ballots shall have<br />
been issued shall be available for<br />
public inspection in the office of the<br />
School District Clerk not less than<br />
five days prior to the date of the<br />
Special District Meeting (excluding<br />
Saturdays and Sundays) during<br />
regular office hours until the date<br />
of the aforesaid Special District<br />
Meeting. In addition, such list shall<br />
also be posted conspicuously at the<br />
places of voting during the hours of<br />
such Special District Meeting.<br />
Dated: Voorheesville, New York<br />
September 24, 2012.<br />
BY ORDER OF THE<br />
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF<br />
VOORHEESVILLE CENTRAL<br />
SCHOOL DISTRICT,<br />
ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK<br />
By School District Clerk<br />
(10-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
TOWN OF GUILDERLAND<br />
<strong>The</strong> case of Carver Realty will<br />
be heard on Wednesday, October<br />
10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the<br />
Guilderland Town Hall, Route 20,<br />
Guilderland, New York 12084 for<br />
the purpose of obtaining preliminary<br />
plat approval for a subdivision<br />
known as Lynwood Estates.<br />
Such subdivision is proposed<br />
as 13 single family lots cut from<br />
23 acres.<br />
<strong>The</strong> general location of the site<br />
is on the north side of Old State<br />
Road, formerly State Farm<br />
<strong>The</strong> property is zoned: R-30<br />
Tax Map # 27.00-1-23<br />
Plans are open for inspection,<br />
by appointment, at the Planning<br />
Department during normal business<br />
hours.<br />
Dated: September 21, 2012<br />
Stephen Feeney<br />
Chairman Planning Board<br />
(8-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that<br />
the Town Board has introduced<br />
proposed Local Law No. 1 of 2012<br />
entitled “A Local Law Overriding<br />
the Real Property Tax Levy Limit<br />
for Fiscal Year 2013” A copy of the<br />
proposed local law is on file in the<br />
office of the Town Clerk. <strong>The</strong> Town<br />
Board will hold a Public Hearing<br />
on the proposed law on October<br />
9, 2012 at 7PM at the Rensselaerville<br />
Town Hall, 87 Barger Road,<br />
Medusa, NY 12120, at which time<br />
and place all those wishing to<br />
comment on the proposed Local<br />
Law will have the oppommity to be<br />
heard. Written comments will also<br />
be accepted at that time and place,<br />
<strong>The</strong> text of the proposed Local Law<br />
is as follows:<br />
BE IT ENACTED by the Town<br />
Board of the Town of Rensselaerville<br />
as follows:<br />
Section l. Legislative Authority<br />
Chapter 97 of the Laws of 2011<br />
of New York State, incorporated<br />
in Section 3-c of the General Municipal<br />
Law, established a ‘tax cap’<br />
that generally limits the amount of<br />
a municipality’s real property tax<br />
levy for the upcoming fiscal year<br />
according to a formula set out in<br />
the statute, but the statute also<br />
authorizes local govemments, pursuant<br />
to General Municipal Law §<br />
3-c(5), to override the tax levy limit<br />
for the upcoming fiscal year.<br />
Section 2. Override of Tax Levy<br />
Limit for Fiscal Year 2013<br />
<strong>The</strong> real property tax levy limit<br />
set out in Section 3-c of the General<br />
Municipal Law is overridden,<br />
pursuant to New York General Municipal<br />
Law § 3-c(5), for Fiscal Year<br />
2013, and the Town may adopt a<br />
budget for Fiscal Year 2013 that<br />
incorporates a real property tax<br />
increase in excess of the otherwise<br />
applicable tax levy limit.<br />
A copy of the proposed Local<br />
Law is available for review at<br />
the Town Hall and on the Town’s<br />
website (http:www.rensselaerville.<br />
com).<br />
<strong>The</strong> Work Meeting of the Town<br />
Board will follow the Public Hearing.<br />
September 27, 2012<br />
(5-10)<br />
BY ORDER OF THE<br />
TOWN BOARD<br />
Kathleen A. Hallenbeck<br />
Town Clerk<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING<br />
BEFORE THE ZONING<br />
BOARD OF APPEALS<br />
Notice is hereby given that the<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals of the<br />
Town of Guilderland, New York, will<br />
hold a public hearing pursuant to<br />
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on<br />
the following proposition:<br />
Amend Special Use Permit #04-<br />
00/Request No. 4351<br />
Request of Elizabeth Adams for<br />
an amendment to Special Use Permit<br />
#04-00 under the Zoning Law<br />
to permit: the conversion of a real<br />
estate office to a psychic consultation<br />
office. Site characteristics<br />
have been previously reviewed<br />
and approved by the Board for<br />
office use.<br />
Per Articles III & V Sections<br />
280-19 & 280-52 respectively<br />
For property owned by Robert<br />
Smith dba Western Avenue Properties,<br />
LLC<br />
Situated as follows: 1859 Western<br />
Avenue <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12203<br />
Tax Map # 52.07-1-37<br />
Zoned: BNRP<br />
Plans open for public inspection<br />
at the Building Department during<br />
normal business hours. Said<br />
hearing will take place on the 3rd<br />
of October, 2012 at the Guilderland<br />
Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm.<br />
Dated: September 25, 2012<br />
Donald F. Cropsey, Jr.<br />
Chief Building Inspector<br />
and Zoning Administrator<br />
(12-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING<br />
BEFORE THE ZONING<br />
BOARD OF APPEALS<br />
Notice is hereby given that the<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals of the<br />
Town of Guilderland, New York, will<br />
hold a public hearing pursuant to<br />
Articles IV & V of the Zoning Law<br />
on the following proposition:<br />
Variance Request No. 4352<br />
Request of A. Colaruotolo of<br />
Vital Sign and Graphics Co., Inc.<br />
for a Variance of the regulations<br />
under the Zoning Law to permit:<br />
the installation of a 144sf freestanding<br />
sign. A maximum area<br />
of 50sf of signage is permitted;<br />
144sf is proposed (72sf per side),<br />
a variance of 94sf (47sf per side)<br />
is requested.<br />
Per Articles IV & V Sections<br />
280-26 & 280-51 respectively<br />
For property owned by Seventy<br />
One Fuller Road Colonie LLC<br />
Situated as follows: 95 Fuller<br />
Road (NW corner of Fuller Rd. and<br />
Railroad Ave.) <strong>Albany</strong>, NY 12205<br />
Tax Map # 53.05-1-1<br />
Zoned: IND<br />
Plans open for public inspection<br />
at the Building Department during<br />
normal business hours. Said<br />
hearing will take place on the 3rd<br />
of October, 2012 at the Guilderland<br />
Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm.<br />
Dated: September 25, 2012<br />
Donald F. Cropsey, Jr.<br />
Chief Building Inspector<br />
and Zoning Administrator<br />
(13-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING<br />
BEFORE THE ZONING<br />
BOARD OF APPEALS<br />
Notice is hereby given that the<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals of the<br />
Town of Guilderland, New York, will<br />
hold a public hearing pursuant to<br />
Articles III & V of the Zoning Law on<br />
the following proposition:<br />
Variance Request No. 4353<br />
Request of Serafini Builders for<br />
a Variance of the regulations under<br />
the Zoning Law to permit: the construction<br />
of a two-story addition<br />
to an existing single-family home<br />
to be used as a second dwelling<br />
unit. Minimum land area for a twofamily<br />
home is 22,500sf; 20,995sf<br />
is provided, a variance of 1505sf<br />
is requested. A 5’ wide concrete<br />
sidewalk will be constructed along<br />
the Carman Road frontage of the<br />
parcel.<br />
Per Articles III & V Sections<br />
280-14 & 280-51 respectively<br />
For property owned by Serafini<br />
Builders, Inc.<br />
Situated as follows: 3679 Carman<br />
Road Schenectady, NY<br />
12303<br />
Tax Map # 27.15-1-83<br />
Zoned: R15<br />
Plans open for public inspection<br />
at the Building Department during<br />
normal business hours. Said<br />
hearing will take place on the 3rd<br />
of October, 2012 at the Guilderland<br />
Town Hall beginning at 7:30pm.<br />
Dated: September 25, 2012<br />
Donald F. Cropsey, Jr.<br />
Chief Building Inspector<br />
and Zoning Administrator<br />
(14-10)<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Public Notice of Hearing<br />
<strong>The</strong> Town of New Scotland<br />
Planning Board<br />
Notice is hereby given that the<br />
Planning Board of Town of New<br />
Scotland, New York will hold a<br />
public hearing pursuant to Article<br />
IV, Section 190~41 of the Zoning<br />
Law on the following proposition:<br />
A Publlc Hearing for Special Use<br />
Permit # 550<br />
Special Use Permit Application<br />
#550: This request is to allow for<br />
the construction of a single family<br />
dwelling on a 6.049 acre parcel<br />
owned by Mike Cecunjanin. <strong>The</strong><br />
property is located within the Industrial<br />
District at 64 Waldenmaier<br />
Road as shown on subdivision plat<br />
# 386 “Lot #2” and is identified as<br />
New Scotland tax parcel # 95.-3-<br />
33.22. This application is a Special<br />
use of Article Il, Section 190-18 of<br />
the Town Zoning Law.<br />
Hearing will take place on October<br />
2, 2012 at the New Scotland<br />
Town Hall beginning at 7:00 P.M.<br />
Charles Voss, Chairman<br />
Planning Board<br />
<strong>The</strong> Town of New Scotland is<br />
an equal opportunity provider and<br />
employer.<br />
(11-10)<br />
Same Day<br />
Digital Photos<br />
Every weekday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photos<br />
made daily from digital cards, flash sticks,<br />
CD’s, slides, negatives and reprints.<br />
Film Processing<br />
Same day film processing on Monday,<br />
Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
Or drop your film off on Tuesday or<br />
Thursday with pickup the following day.<br />
Bring us your digital camera, disposable<br />
camera, CDs, slides, or media sticks full<br />
of pictures and we’ll turn those digital files<br />
into photographs that will last for a lifetime.<br />
We’ll even create passport photos. With<br />
friendly service that is specific to your<br />
needs and prices competitive with stores<br />
miles away — our process is fast and<br />
convenient. <strong>The</strong> quality is superior to<br />
home inkjets and less expensive. You will<br />
get professional photos that will fill albums<br />
for generations to come. Same day digital<br />
service for all types of media. Same day<br />
film processing on Monday, Wednesday<br />
and Friday. Photo prints of your choosing<br />
in sizes from wallets to 12 x 18 on all same<br />
day and next day service, digital and film.<br />
All photo processing done on premises.<br />
Any media type<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
Photo Shop<br />
861-6641 • 123 Maple Ave., <strong>Altamont</strong>
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 23<br />
Classified Ads Info<br />
Rates:<br />
$15.00 First 20 Words or Less<br />
35¢ for each additional word over 20.<br />
$9.50 each Consecutive Repeat<br />
35¢ for each additional word over 20.<br />
Deadline: Wednesday, Noon – Firm<br />
Ad copy may be e-mailed, faxed or mailed along with payment to:<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong>, P.O. Box 654, <strong>Altamont</strong>, NY 12009. In case there is a<br />
question, please include a daytime phone number. Ads may also be brought<br />
in to the office at 123 Maple Avenue. All ads must be paid in advance by cash,<br />
check, money order or Visa and Mastercard. No ads will be taken over the<br />
phone, but credit card payment may be made by phone at 861-6641.<br />
All ads also appear on our website www.altamontenterprise.com<br />
Crafts & Bazaars<br />
Wanted – craft & vendor people<br />
for 5th annual craft-vendor fair,<br />
Berne Fire House, Nov. 10th,<br />
9-3pm. Call 872-0377 for info.<br />
9-4t<br />
Meat and Poultry Cutters and Trimmers<br />
New Haven, Vermont Area<br />
Meat and Poultry Cutters and Trimmers<br />
New Haven, Vermont Area<br />
Poultry Cutters and Trimmers<br />
Orwell, Vermont Area<br />
instruction<br />
Instrument Classes, Voorheesville.<br />
Six weeks, beginning October<br />
1. Fiddle, Mandolin, Ukulele,<br />
Banjo, Guitar, Accordion, Pennywhistle,<br />
Music <strong>The</strong>ory, Mountain<br />
Dulcimer, How To Jam. Call Old<br />
Songs, 518-765-2815. 9-2t<br />
8 temporary positions at Misty Knoll Farm. Workers needed to<br />
slaughter, trim and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and<br />
perform cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 11/17/12.<br />
A great deal of heavy lifting, standing and bending for long periods<br />
of time.<br />
Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract<br />
period. Tools are provided without cost. Housing provided at<br />
no cost to workers who reside outside of the normal commuting<br />
distance. Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of<br />
contract period, whichever comes first.<br />
Contact the nearest Department of Labor Office for application and referral.<br />
Job order # 129539.<br />
4 temporary positions at Misty Knoll Farm. Workers needed to<br />
slaughter, trim and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and<br />
perform cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 12/19/12.<br />
A great deal of heavy lifting, standing and bending for long periods<br />
of time.<br />
Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 ofcontract<br />
period. Tools are provided without cost. Housing provided at<br />
no cost to workers who reside outside of the normal commuting<br />
distance.Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of<br />
contract period, whichever comes first.<br />
Contact the nearest Department of Labor Office for application and referral.<br />
Job order # 129540.<br />
18 temporary positions at Stonewood Farm, Inc. Workers needed<br />
to slaughter and pack poultry. Will perform slaughtering task and<br />
dressing/cutting operations. To start approx. 10/08/12 to 12/12/12.<br />
A great deal of heavy lifting, standing and bending for long periods<br />
of time.<br />
Wage is $ 10.56 per hr. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of contract<br />
period. Tools are provided without cost. Housing provided at<br />
no cost to workers who reside outside of the normal commuting<br />
distance. Transportation cost reimbursed after 15 days or 50% of<br />
contract period, whichever comes first.<br />
Contact the nearest Department of Labor Office for application and referral.<br />
Job order # 129313.<br />
autos<br />
2005 KIA Optima LX 4dr sedan.<br />
95K Runs great. $4300. 356-<br />
1787. 10-2t<br />
DONATE A CAR- HELP HOME-<br />
LESS PETS! Free Next-Day Towing.<br />
Tax Deductible. Non- Runners<br />
OK. Receive $1,000 Grocery<br />
Coupons. Call National Animal<br />
Welfare Foundation 1-888-333-<br />
3848 (NYSCAN)<br />
Real estate<br />
HOME FOR SALE 1717 Thacher<br />
Park Rd. East Berne. Cottage on<br />
1/2 acre atop hill, stream in back. 2<br />
bedrooms,2 three season porches.<br />
Bamboo floors, wood stove, Skiers,<br />
hikers, bikers live where you<br />
play! Price reduced: $105,000. Call<br />
577-1160, Irene<br />
Will buy income property –<br />
look at all/any condition, call Jim<br />
518-279-6111. 34-tf<br />
NY CABIN AND LAND BAR-<br />
GAINS 6 acres- w/ stream- Was<br />
$29,995 Now $19,995 3 acres -<br />
long range views- Was $29,995<br />
Now $15,995 5 acres- “Alaskan<br />
style” river lodge- Was $89,995<br />
Now $59,995 Many more deals<br />
now Call anytime 800-229-7843<br />
VISIT LANDANDCAMPS.COM<br />
<br />
(NYSCAN)<br />
COURT ORDERED LAND<br />
LIQUIDATION 17 acres -$29,900<br />
Just off NY’s I-90, Cooperstown<br />
Lake Region! Nice views, hardwoods,<br />
creek, Beautiful fields!<br />
Great bldg site! Terms avail! Must<br />
sell NOW! (888) 905-8847 www.<br />
NewYorkLandandLakes.com<br />
<br />
(NYSCAN)<br />
REAL ESTATE<br />
for rent<br />
3BR house, Route 85 , Rensselaerville<br />
parking, country setting,<br />
sec/dep. $800/month + util. Available,<br />
October 1st., please leave a<br />
message. 518-797-3921 10-2t<br />
Newly renovated 1 Br. Apartment<br />
in Berne $550/month<br />
225-4953. 10-2t<br />
2BR Apt., Westerlo/Greenville,<br />
parking, storage, country<br />
setting, sec/dep. $695,000 + util.<br />
518-495-8090. 9-2t<br />
1 BD Apt, <strong>Altamont</strong>, heat/hot<br />
water incl. quiet setting, nonsmoker,<br />
no dogs. Ref & sec dep.<br />
requires, month-month rent, $700<br />
a month 872-1259 9-3t<br />
Apartment – Village of <strong>Altamont</strong><br />
– one bdr., furnished or<br />
unfurnished, heat, parking, 2nd fl,<br />
private entrance, quiet. $700/mo.<br />
Call 330-2855 or 330-2844 7-tf<br />
2 bedroom Apt. available, Voorheesville<br />
schools, new appliances,<br />
utilities not included, no pets,<br />
$750 - $800 per month. Call Craig<br />
(518) 669-1166. 8-3t<br />
Winter Storage Available, boat,<br />
cars, RV’s, <strong>Altamont</strong> Fairgrounds.<br />
Call or email for storage applications<br />
518-861-6671 or storage@<br />
altamontfair.com. Storage dates:<br />
October 13, 14, 2012, removal<br />
dates April 6, 7, 2013. 8-3t<br />
Guilderland secluded 1 bdrm<br />
apt on bus line , no smoking/pets<br />
ht/hot water included, security<br />
plus references. 518-847-6215<br />
8-4t<br />
1 bdrm apt Ht/hw included, Near<br />
library on bus line, no smoking,<br />
security plus references 518-847-<br />
6215 8-4t<br />
2390 Western Avenue<br />
Guilderland, NY 12084<br />
518-861-7030<br />
FIRST OPEN - Sunday, Sept 30th, 1 pm - 3 pm<br />
1 Toll Lane, Guilderland $214,000<br />
Split Ranch on Lg Treed Lot, 4BR, 2FBA(1Updtd),1GAR, FDR, HWFs, GFP,<br />
Full B’ment, Fresh Paint, Pub W+S, GasHeat, GuildSD, Newer: Rf,<br />
VnylSdng, C/A, Wndw’s, Shed, Needs some TLC.<br />
MLS#: 201222272 • Mark Burlingame 424-5915<br />
www.1TollLane.com<br />
Weichert, realtors ® Northeast Group<br />
Independently owned and operated<br />
rock road, Knox. 5 Ac buildable lot. Great view of Fox Creek valley. High, dry, slopes to SE,<br />
perfect for solar. Agricultural area. BKW .......................................................................... $25,000<br />
1396 helderberg trail, Berne Best Deal on Hill just got better! Grandma’s house.-<br />
Solid.4-6 BR, 1 BA. New furnace. 1ac. Needs update. BKW. ...........................sold $110,000<br />
1747 helderberg trail, Berne Must see inside! 3BR, 1BA completely renovated: roof,<br />
siding, well, windows, kitchen, bath, AG pool. Sunken LR,<br />
3 walls cabinets in kit. BKW ......................................................................................... $169,000<br />
6 Koko ln, Warner’s lake. 4-5 BR, 2BA with water/dock rights. Dbl lot.<br />
2-car gar. Walkout basement. Privacy on deadend cul-de-sac. BKW. reduced ......$174,900<br />
1170 township rd, Knox. Solid 3 BR, 2 BA house with 31 acres. Needs updating.<br />
Attached 2-car gar. Sun porch. Agric area. BKW. ......................................................... $229,900<br />
18 Pine Knoll ln, Warner’s lake. Yr-round 3 BR, 2 BA on cul-de-sac with water/dock<br />
rights. Totally redone with too many upgrades to list. A must see! BKW. ................... $269,900<br />
11 circle dr, helderberg lake. Large chalet with 62 ft lake front. 3-4 BR, 3 full baths,<br />
garage under. Balconies overlook lake. New kit. Wood floors. Deck, patio, view year-round!<br />
V’ville Schls .................................................................................................................. $289,900<br />
For more information, please call ZeNie Gladieux<br />
cell 518-894-8589 ZenieGladieux@gmail.com<br />
Please send all classifieds to<br />
classifieds@altamontenterprise.com<br />
help wanted<br />
Full-time Customer Service<br />
position in private medical office.<br />
Ideal candidate must have previous<br />
medical office experience; able<br />
to multi-task; be a team player;<br />
work one-on-one with patients;<br />
make patient appointments; work<br />
in medical records and have a<br />
pleasant demeanor, Interested<br />
candidates, fax resume to 518-<br />
694-5322. 10-2t<br />
Maintenance person, some<br />
knowledge of electrical, plumbing<br />
and carpentry work, 20hrs<br />
weekly, call 861-5396 for more<br />
information. 10-3<br />
A I R L I N E S A R E H I R I N G<br />
–Train for hands on Aviation<br />
Career. FAA approved program.<br />
Financial aid if qualified -Job<br />
placement assistance. CALL Aviation<br />
Institute of Maintenance<br />
866-296-7093 (NYSCAN)<br />
Driver- $0.01 increase per mile<br />
after 6 months. Quarterly bonuses.<br />
Annual Salary $45K to<br />
$60K. CDL-A, 3 months current<br />
OTR exp. 800-414-9569 www.<br />
driveknight.com (NYSCAN)<br />
Drivers- HIRING EXPERI-<br />
ENCED/ INEXPERIENCED<br />
TANKER DRIVERS! Earn up<br />
to $.51/mile! New Fleet Volvo<br />
Tractors! 1 Year OTR Exp. Req.-<br />
Tanker Training Available. Call<br />
Today: 877-882-6537 www.OakleyTransport.com<br />
(NYSCAN)<br />
Pets<br />
Puppy pre-school classes begin<br />
Saturday, October 6, 10-11:30<br />
a.m. <strong>Altamont</strong> Country Values<br />
Agway, $99 for 4 classes and a<br />
private training consultation. All<br />
breeds, under 16 weeks old. Must<br />
present proof of vaccinations. To<br />
register contact: Emily Shako,<br />
518-487-1974. Dogwood Canine<br />
Services, LLC. All breed training<br />
at both ends of the leash! 9-2t<br />
building<br />
& remodeling<br />
Remodeling and Renovations<br />
you can afford. Windows,<br />
doors, kitchens and baths; ALL<br />
FLOORING, tile, lino, laminate<br />
and wood installs and floor<br />
refinishing. Drywall, finishing,<br />
paint. Call Ed w/ C&C at (518)<br />
872-0288. 8-tf<br />
ANTHONY<br />
THE WASHERMAN<br />
Washer & Dryer Repair<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> • 356-1311<br />
364-7061<br />
www.greenwoodrealty.biz<br />
GREENWOOD REALTY<br />
Exclusive Dealer for<br />
Bill Lake Custom<br />
Modular Homes<br />
689 New Salem Rd<br />
Voorheesville<br />
Office open Mon. – Fri. 12N – 5 p.m.<br />
or by Appointment<br />
ALTAMONT OAKS<br />
950 <strong>Altamont</strong> Blvd.<br />
1 & 2 BedrOOM ApTS.<br />
FAMILY COMpLeX<br />
Call (518) 861-5396<br />
Modern • Disabled Accessibility<br />
For more information or application, contact<br />
(518) 861-5396 or TDD Relay (800) 662-1220<br />
Belmont Management Co., Inc.<br />
950 <strong>Altamont</strong> Blvd.<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong>, N.Y. 12009
24 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Services Available<br />
NWCS Wildlife control. Animal<br />
damage repair, complete handyman<br />
service. 30 years exp. NYS-DEC<br />
licensed 518-641-9066. 10-4t<br />
Local Electrician; reasonable<br />
prices; free estimates, call Steve at<br />
810-8857. 9-2t<br />
Handyman-plus, no job too small,<br />
fully insured, over 25 years experience,<br />
free estimates, senior discount,<br />
calls returned promptly. 518-522-<br />
4464. 4-Oct 4<br />
JHI <strong>Enterprise</strong>s, 2261 Western<br />
Tpke., Duanesburg. Rentals, Sales,<br />
Welding, Excavation, Landscaping,<br />
Chippers, Stumpers, Trailers, Trenchers.<br />
We buy and sell industrial<br />
and agricultural equipment. (518)<br />
355-1709 (10-11/14)<br />
THE HANDY GUY, Haytham<br />
Bajouwa; home renovations, kitchens<br />
& bathrooms, doors & windows,<br />
drywall taping & painting,<br />
plumbing, home maintenance<br />
& repair — Fully insured.<br />
Phone: 518-872-0434 22-tf<br />
JHI EntErprIsEs<br />
Rentals and sales<br />
Excavators, Trenchers,<br />
Trailers, Chippers,<br />
Stumpers; Trucking,<br />
Welding and Landscaping.<br />
We buy & sell<br />
industrial and agricultural<br />
equipment.<br />
(518) 355-1709<br />
2261 Western Turnpike, Duanesburg, NY<br />
Fully Insured<br />
Custom Baths by Ryan. Locally<br />
owned and operated bathroom<br />
specialist. 518-817-5039. 48-tf<br />
DAVE’S REDECORATING seeks<br />
discerning clients for paint and wallpaper<br />
projects. Honey-do lists also!<br />
Since 1968, (518) 256-2148 16-tf<br />
THE MAINTENANCE DEPT.<br />
expert lawn tractor and snowblower<br />
repair. Over 35 years experience.<br />
Full line of new and used parts. Call<br />
Bill 872-0393. 14-tf<br />
VINNICK CONSTRUCTION:<br />
New construction, additions, remodeling,<br />
kitchens, bathrooms, replacement<br />
windows, fully insured. FREE<br />
ESTIMATES. Call 861-8688. 19-tf<br />
J.C. LOCK SERVICE. Residential,<br />
commercial, rekeying,<br />
lost keys, safe opening,<br />
locks, dead bolts. Ph: 366-2337.<br />
(Dec. 29)<br />
Tree Removal, Trimming<br />
Stump Grinding<br />
Gutter Cleaning • Firewood<br />
Fully Insured – Free Estimates<br />
253-1789<br />
SUNY Certified Fully Insured<br />
Your local Plumber<br />
Bill Frisbee<br />
P l u m b i n g<br />
In Business Since 1986<br />
861-8060<br />
All Weather Construction<br />
Complete Site Work<br />
Excavating<br />
Call Today<br />
Locally owned and operated<br />
D.C. BUCKET<br />
• tree trimming & removal<br />
• lot Clearing/Brush Chipping<br />
• Stump grinding/Brush Hogging<br />
• lawn maintenance/landscaping<br />
• Firewood<br />
DenniS Carl<br />
(518) 797-3924<br />
518-872-9136<br />
Driveways - Foundations<br />
Septic Systems - Ponds<br />
Free Estimates — Fully Insured<br />
Roofing:<br />
Commercial and Residential<br />
• Single ply<br />
• Built-up<br />
• Standing seam<br />
• Shingles<br />
• Licensed in asbestos removal<br />
Deadline for classifieds<br />
is Tuesday at noon.<br />
Robert Lawyer Jr.<br />
• Free Estimates<br />
• Fully Insured<br />
• References Available<br />
• Licensed with<br />
Carlisle, Firestone,<br />
Johns Manville, JP Stevens,<br />
GAF, Owens Corning<br />
and others.<br />
Mention<br />
this ad<br />
and receive<br />
$150 OFF!<br />
firewood<br />
All hardwood seasoned one<br />
year. Split, cut, and delivered.<br />
Full cord: $225 face cord: $100,<br />
527-2591 10-4t<br />
Cut, slpit, delivered, $250 per<br />
cord. Also available, rough cut<br />
lumber, slabwood. Small backhoe<br />
and dump truck for hire. 518-872-<br />
2807. 10-4t<br />
All Hardwood, cut, split, delivered.<br />
HEAP accepted. 872-1702<br />
or 355-4331<br />
7-tf<br />
Log length firewood. $900<br />
delivered by tractor trailer in<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. About 8 cords, all<br />
quality hardwood. Call 765-4159.<br />
9-4t<br />
Seasoned hardwood, cut and<br />
split - $210 full cord – delivery<br />
possible – 518-827-4016 9-2t<br />
RobeRt building<br />
& excavation<br />
Driveways New & Resurfaced<br />
Underground Water, Sewer<br />
Shale, Stone, Crusher Run<br />
Land Clearing, Site Development,<br />
Grading, Drainage, Septic Systems,<br />
Ponds, Foundations Dug & Repaired,<br />
Camp & House Leveling.<br />
New Foundations<br />
Under Old Houses<br />
Insured<br />
872-9693<br />
$$ CASH $$<br />
PAID<br />
for your<br />
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GUILDERLAND –– Seniors<br />
Billy Duncan and Gabe August<br />
both shot an identical even par<br />
score of 36 on Monday at Western<br />
Turnpike Golf Course. Guilderland’s<br />
top two golfers paired<br />
together, each made a birdie on<br />
the eighth hole before matching<br />
bogeys on the ninth hole.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only thing better than<br />
matching 36s would have been<br />
equal 35s.<br />
August’s 10-foot par putt on<br />
the ninth came up just short,<br />
causing him yell and throw his<br />
ball towards his golf bag. Duncan<br />
also missed his par putt, but<br />
contained his frustration.<br />
After the scores were tallied,<br />
Guilderland beat Mohonasen,<br />
236 to 279, to move to 6-4 on the<br />
season. <strong>The</strong> rest of the Dutchmen<br />
team had left, but Duncan and<br />
August stayed behind to practice<br />
their chipping and putting.<br />
“I can always improve on my<br />
game,” Duncan said. He has a<br />
37.5 average for this year and<br />
shot a 34 at Saratoga State Park.<br />
“This game makes you want to<br />
play more and more,” he said.<br />
“It’s constant work.”<br />
“Every round is different,”<br />
August added.<br />
On Monday, August made<br />
a birdie on the third hole and<br />
bogeyed the fifth hole. Duncan<br />
made par on the other seven<br />
holes. Also, Ethan Bartlett scored<br />
a 37 and Dan Rhoades had a 39<br />
for Guilderland.<br />
No Mohonasen golfers were<br />
able to shoot under a score of<br />
42, which is six over par for the<br />
course. Guilderland’s top four<br />
scores were all under 40. Dmitri<br />
Aldershoff shot a 42 for the<br />
Warriors.<br />
August, the captain of Guilderland’s<br />
student fan base, called<br />
the Red Sea, was wearing red<br />
and white striped pants, which<br />
resemble an inmate’s attire. <strong>The</strong><br />
bold pants are passed down to<br />
each Red Sea captain from year<br />
to year.<br />
During warm-ups on Monday,<br />
August lost his grip on his<br />
teammate’s chipping wedge and<br />
watched as it flew over a parked<br />
car.<br />
“I probably wouldn’t have<br />
played my round if that club<br />
hit that car,” August said with<br />
a laugh. “I would have been out<br />
of here.”<br />
Guilderland Head Coach Andy<br />
Ryan said that his team is a<br />
“loose bunch” of guys. <strong>The</strong> Dutch<br />
have fun playing golf, and the<br />
team will most likely send six<br />
golfers to sectionals in a few<br />
weeks.<br />
August told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
that he couldn’t play without<br />
Duncan. <strong>The</strong>y share clubs and<br />
talk distances.<br />
“He’s usually a step ahead of<br />
me,” said August of Duncan. “We<br />
help each other play better.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guilderland golf team is 6-4 after beating Mohonasen at<br />
the Western Turnpike Golf Course on Monday, 236 to 279. Here,<br />
the Dutch’s number-one player, Billy Duncan, spots his ball on the<br />
ninth green. He bogeyed the hole, but shot a 36.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
On the ninth hole of the Western Turnpike Golf Course is Guilderland<br />
senior Gabe August during a match against Mohonasen<br />
on Monday. August, wearing flamboyant red and white striped<br />
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Down the hole: Ethan Bartlett makes his par putt at the ninth<br />
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26 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
Voorheesville soccer gets trounced at home by <strong>Albany</strong> Academy, 10-1<br />
By Jordan J. Michael<br />
VOORHEESVILLE –– A quick<br />
ambush of five goals in six minutes<br />
by <strong>Albany</strong> Academy buried<br />
Voorheesville in an 8-to-0 hole on<br />
its home field Tuesday afternoon.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was still 31 minutes to<br />
play in regulation, but the Birds’<br />
spirit was crushed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> final score was 10 to 1. It<br />
was one of the worst defeats in<br />
Voorheesville soccer history, and<br />
very unexpected.<br />
Ahead, 8 to 0, on Tuesday,<br />
Academy’s head coach, Adam<br />
Collett, decided to keep some of<br />
his Cadets starters on the field.<br />
Voorheesville Head Coach Willie<br />
Sanchez did<br />
the opposite,<br />
subbing in<br />
players from<br />
the bench.<br />
Senior Josh<br />
Newton and<br />
junior John<br />
Moutopoulos<br />
already had<br />
matching hat<br />
tricks for <strong>Albany</strong> Academy. Each<br />
player pushed through Voorheesville’s<br />
depleted defense in the final<br />
minutes to score their fourth<br />
goals of the day. Those final two<br />
goals made the Blackbirds’ awful<br />
day even worse.<br />
Sanchez said that <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Academy’s pursuit of more goals,<br />
while keeping starters in the<br />
game, lacked class. Collett said<br />
that he would expect Voorheesville<br />
to do the same if the roles<br />
were reversed. On Sept. 5, <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Academy scored 12 goals against<br />
Cobleskill.<br />
“I don’t appreciate him putting<br />
words in my mouth or making<br />
assumptions about me or my<br />
team,” Sanchez said of Collett.<br />
“He doesn’t know me. I wouldn’t<br />
have kept my best players in the<br />
game at that point. That was not<br />
the right thing to do, but that’s<br />
fine because it’s his team and<br />
his decision.”<br />
Collett did put some bench<br />
players on the field, but also<br />
kept his most successful scorers<br />
in play. Not every coach makes<br />
the same choice.<br />
“It’s not about pouring on<br />
goals, it’s about having respect<br />
for your opposition,” Collett said.<br />
“I never tell my guys to not take<br />
an opportunity, and I never tell<br />
them to not play their best. It’s<br />
disrespectful to the opposition<br />
to not take advantage of opportunities.”<br />
Collett said he respected<br />
Sanchez “greatly,” and told his<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Academy (9-0) team that<br />
Voorheesville (4-3) would be its<br />
toughest test of the season. <strong>The</strong><br />
game didn’t turn out to be much<br />
of a fight.<br />
“ I d o n ’ t<br />
want to have<br />
pity for the<br />
other team<br />
“If one thing isn’t working,<br />
then you have to switch it up”<br />
or take pity<br />
on them,”<br />
said Collett.<br />
“That’s like<br />
s a y i n g , ‘ I<br />
could have<br />
scored, but<br />
I didn’t.’ If it were the other<br />
way around, I would expect<br />
Voorheesville to keep going, and<br />
going like we did. It’s not about<br />
embarrassing the opposition. You<br />
just do what you can do.”<br />
Kevin Clark, who scored the<br />
Blackbirds’ only goal, said that,<br />
no matter what the circumstance,<br />
teams shouldn’t stop<br />
trying for goals. “That’s what<br />
soccer is,” he said.<br />
“A tough loss”<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Academy got on the<br />
board in the 11th minute of the<br />
first half when Newton played<br />
a pass to Moutopoulos, who<br />
touched the ball over a defender<br />
and ran around, striking the ball<br />
under goalkeeper Scott Warren.<br />
Two minutes later, Newton<br />
scored on a direct kick from 20<br />
yards, slicing it into the bottom<br />
left corner. Newton scored again<br />
four minutes later, wrapping a<br />
corner kick right into the goal.<br />
“You play hard and fair for<br />
80 minutes and keep working,”<br />
Collett said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
Let’s dance: Voorheesville junior Nick Windsor (left) touches<br />
the ball past <strong>Albany</strong> Academy’s Dami Osofisan during Tuesday’s<br />
soccer match in Voorheesville. <strong>The</strong> Cadets’ offense took it to the<br />
Blackbirds, winning 10 to 1, remaining undefeated at 9-0. Osofisan<br />
scored a goal.<br />
This week’s BKW Cross Country results<br />
<strong>The</strong> Berne-Knox-Westerlo<br />
and Voorheesville cross-country<br />
teams each had a dual meet on<br />
Tuesday. BKW was at Duanesburg<br />
and Voorheesville was at<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Academy.<br />
Senior Courtney Tedeschi and<br />
her younger sister, Allie, took<br />
first and second place for BKW<br />
at Duanesburg, posting times of<br />
21:11 and 21:25. <strong>The</strong> BKW girls<br />
won the dual meet, beating both<br />
Duanesburg and Spa Catholic.<br />
Shannon Quay came in fifth<br />
with a time of 22:57 and Annie<br />
Laura Shafer was eighth with a<br />
time of 23:43.<br />
Voorheesville’s Joe Becker<br />
posted a time of 17:43 at <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Academy for second place<br />
on Tuesday. <strong>The</strong> Birds lost to<br />
Academy, 23 to 34, but beat Watervliet,<br />
15 to 45. Richard Decker<br />
came in fifth place and Ethan<br />
(Continued on page 27)<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
Full throttle: Sophomore Luke Gorka (left) tries to keep possession for Voorheesville on Tuesday during<br />
a 10-to-1 loss to <strong>Albany</strong> Academy at home. Gorka was able to cross the ball before Cameron Walker<br />
(right) got to the ball.<br />
Voorheesville started the second<br />
half with a few solid chances<br />
on the Cadets’ net, but the ball<br />
went to the other end, and Dami<br />
Osofisan wasted no time giving<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Academy a 4-to-0 lead.<br />
Thirty seconds later, Newton<br />
schooled the Birds’ defense with<br />
some nice footwork, then slid a<br />
shot under Warren to make the<br />
score 5 to 0.<br />
This is when Voorheesville lost<br />
its cool, and most of its hope.<br />
Sanchez couldn’t even bear to<br />
watch, taking a walk behind<br />
the bench.<br />
Moutopoulos was taken down<br />
in the box, setting up a penalty<br />
kick, which he nailed into the<br />
goal off the post. Next, it was Ray<br />
Jerome putting a shot top shelf<br />
over Warren off an assist from<br />
Moutopoulos. For an 8-to-0 lead,<br />
Montopoulos got his hat trick on<br />
an assist from Newton.<br />
Warren was helpless in goal.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Voorheesville defense had<br />
practically given up.<br />
“If one thing isn’t working,<br />
then you have to switch it up,”<br />
said Warren after the game. “<strong>The</strong><br />
defense stopped playing, stopped<br />
challenging, and waited for them<br />
to fling the ball in randomly.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was nothing I could do.”<br />
<strong>Albany</strong> Academy went to the<br />
ball faster and harder than Voorheesville.<br />
Every Cadet player<br />
knew his role.<br />
“It was a tough loss, but every<br />
game is a learning experience,<br />
and this one needs to be a turning<br />
point in our season,” Clark said.<br />
“We need to keep playing despite<br />
adversity. We can’t get down on<br />
ourselves and yell at each other.<br />
No matter what, we’re a team.<br />
We need to stay a team.”<br />
Newton told <strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong><br />
that his team laid off the gas<br />
for the final 20 minutes. “If we<br />
play to our best ability, we can<br />
win sectionals,” he said. <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Academy is a Class A school.<br />
“That wasn’t even our best play,<br />
so we should be able to beat<br />
anybody.”<br />
Collett thought that Voorheesville<br />
was capable of scoring five<br />
goals in six minutes, too.<br />
“Obviously, we didn’t play<br />
well,” Sanchez said. “We got our<br />
butts handed to us. Now, we find<br />
out what we’re made of. That’s<br />
life.”<br />
Will Voorheesville forget the<br />
terrible loss or learn from it<br />
“I think it goes both ways,”<br />
said Clark. “We’re going to try<br />
and forget, but also use it as<br />
experience.”<br />
“We need to learn from this<br />
game and figure some stuff out,”<br />
Warren added.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 10-to-1 loss to <strong>Albany</strong><br />
Academy won’t define Voorheesville’s<br />
season. Sanchez said the<br />
team would show up the next day<br />
and continue to work on its goal<br />
of getting better.<br />
“You have to pick yourself up<br />
and keep going,” he said.<br />
Will the Blackbirds stay down<br />
or get motivated<br />
“That’s what you find out<br />
because you never really know,”<br />
Sanchez said. “We didn’t expect<br />
to get killed like this, but, in<br />
times of adversity, you find out<br />
about your character.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
Lift off: <strong>The</strong> Blackbirds’ soccer team suffered a terrible 10-to-1<br />
loss at home to <strong>Albany</strong> Academy on Tuesday. Here, Voorheesville<br />
sophomore Luke Gorka (#19) heads the ball off a cross. Jordan<br />
Newton and John Moutopoulos each scored four goals for the<br />
Cadets.
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012 27<br />
Chi wins Schenectady<br />
Speed Championship<br />
By Peter Henner<br />
<strong>The</strong> Capital District’s newest<br />
master, 14-year-old Patrick Chi,<br />
followed up his strong performance<br />
in the New York State<br />
championship by winning the<br />
annual Schenectady Chess Club<br />
blitz championship with a perfect<br />
score of 14-0.<br />
Ashok Aaron, the father of<br />
soon-to-be senior master and<br />
New York State high school<br />
champion Deepak Aaron, finished<br />
second with 13-1.<br />
Jon Leisner was a distant third<br />
with 10 ½ -3 ½, Dilip Aaron was<br />
top under 1900 with 8 ½ -5 ½, and<br />
Cory Northrup won top under<br />
1600 with 8-6.<br />
Blitz chess, played at the time<br />
control of five minutes for the<br />
entire game, does not lead to high<br />
quality chess games. In addition,<br />
in blitz games, a player can take<br />
his opponent’s King, which is<br />
not permitted in normal chess<br />
games.<br />
In my game against Carlos<br />
Varela, I had 40 seconds left to<br />
his 20 seconds, was a rook ahead,<br />
and had a forced checkmate on<br />
the next move. However, I failed<br />
to notice that my King was in<br />
check, and Varela simply took<br />
it, to win the game to the great<br />
amusement of a crowd of spectators;<br />
it is part of the fun of a<br />
speed chess tournament.<br />
Patrick Chi, who traveled to<br />
play in internationally rated<br />
tournaments in New York and<br />
Hartford this summer, is now<br />
rated 157th in the world among<br />
players 14 and under, and 14th<br />
in the United States, despite the<br />
fact that his international rating<br />
of 2048 is artificially low due to<br />
the lack of opportunity to play<br />
internationally rated players (his<br />
United States Chess Federation<br />
rating is 2219).<br />
In the third round of the state<br />
championship, he defeated veteran<br />
International Master Jay<br />
Bonin. <strong>The</strong> game ended suddenly<br />
with an obvious blunder, and<br />
both players missed a variety<br />
of opportunities. However, the<br />
next day, Bonin was commenting<br />
publicly on how well Patrick<br />
had played.<br />
Chi – Bonin<br />
2012 NYS Championship<br />
Round 3<br />
Sept. 2, 2012<br />
1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Be7<br />
4.Nc3 Nd7 5.Nf3 a5 6.e4 Ngf6<br />
7.g3 With this move, the game<br />
is already out of any ‘book” lines<br />
or games known to my 2011 Fritz<br />
(2600 level computer program)<br />
Powerbook.<br />
7…Nc5 8.Qe2 c6 9.Nd2 a4<br />
10.Rb1 0–0 Black is now clearly<br />
better after several passive moves<br />
by White – Fritz rates Bonin’s position<br />
as approximately a pawn<br />
ahead, 11.b4 axb3 12.axb3 and<br />
White is now close to losing:<br />
Bonin has an open file, better<br />
placed pieces, and Chi’s King is<br />
still uncastled. 12…Ne8 Giving<br />
up much of the advantage: Bg4<br />
or Qb6 were much better.<br />
13.Bg2 Nc7. It is almost even<br />
now – Qc7 or Bd7 would have<br />
a kept a slight edge for Black.<br />
14.0–0 cxd5 15.exd5 f5 16.b4<br />
Na4 17.Nxa4 Rxa4 18.Qd1 Bd7<br />
19.c5 Bb5 20.Re1 Qa8 This<br />
move looks obvious, but is actually<br />
wrong. Had Bonin retreated<br />
his Rook, say Ra6, he could have<br />
answered Chi’s next move with<br />
e4, and maintained an edge.<br />
21.Bb2 e4 Now e4 is a blunder,<br />
because it permits a winning<br />
sacrifice: 22 N:e4 after which<br />
play might continue 22…fe 23<br />
B:e4 Qe8, 24 cd B:d6 25 B:h7+<br />
K:h7, 26 R;e8 R:e8 and White<br />
should win easily. 22.Qb3 But<br />
Chi misses it. Now the game is<br />
once again even. 22... Rf7 23.g4<br />
dxc5 24.bxc5 Bxc5 25.gxf5<br />
Rb4. Both sides have attacking<br />
chances. Fritz says that White is<br />
slightly better, and recommends<br />
26 Qc3 26.Qg3 26... Bd3 would<br />
be close to winning for Black,<br />
but he plays 26…Qa2 27.Nxe4<br />
Bd4 R:b2 was better. 28.Nc3 d6!<br />
would have been decisive 28…<br />
Bxc3 29.Qxc3 White is clearly<br />
winning: Fritz says he is better<br />
by more than two pawns, but the<br />
next final blunder ends the game<br />
quickly. 29…Nxd5 30.Qc8+<br />
the fastest win 30…Rf8 31.Qe6+<br />
Kh8 32.Bxd5 32 B:g7+ is significantly<br />
stronger, but it doesn’t<br />
matter Black resigns.<br />
Chess Olympiad<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2012 Chess Olympiad<br />
was held in Istanbul last month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> United States Open team<br />
finished fifth, behind Armenia,<br />
Russia, the Ukraine, and China.<br />
Nakamura finished fourth on<br />
Board 1, Kamsky won a Bronze<br />
medal on Board 2, Onischuk was<br />
ninth on Board 3, Robson was<br />
sixth on Board 5. Akobian on<br />
Board 4 did not place.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Women’s Olympiad was<br />
won by Russia ahead of China<br />
and the Ukraine, with the United<br />
States finishing 10 th . Zatonskih<br />
finished 20 th on Board 1, Krush<br />
was eighth on Board 2, Goletiani<br />
finished 20 th on Board 4. Foisor<br />
on Board 3 and Abrahamyan on<br />
board 5 did not place.<br />
<strong>The</strong> full results, including all<br />
the games, are on the tournament<br />
website, www.chessolympiadistanbul.com<br />
Upcoming events<br />
This Sunday, Sept. 30, the<br />
Continental Chess Association<br />
will conduct the Fourth Capital<br />
District Open at the Studio of<br />
Bridge and Games at1639 Union<br />
St. in Schenectady. <strong>The</strong> tournament<br />
begins at 10 a.m. and full<br />
details are available on the CCA<br />
website.<br />
Next Sunday, Oct. 7, the first<br />
Sunday Quad tournaments will<br />
resume at 25 Watervliet Ave.<br />
in <strong>Albany</strong>. Contact Chuck Eson<br />
at 221-6332 or hawkphil2@aol.<br />
com.<br />
This week’s problem<br />
In the last round of the 2012<br />
Olympiad, the United States<br />
women defeated Israel 3-1.<br />
On the 86 th move, third board,<br />
Rusudan Goletiani found a way<br />
to win her game against Masha<br />
Klinova.<br />
Can you see it<br />
Solution on page 6B<br />
… This week’s BKW<br />
cross-country results<br />
(Continued from page 26)<br />
Bain finished in sixth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Voorheesville girls’ team<br />
beat Watervliet, 20 to 35, and<br />
lost to <strong>Albany</strong> Academy, 16 to 39.<br />
Faith Cunningham had a time of<br />
23:03 for sixth place. Courtney<br />
Reilly, Robin Wakeley, and Maeve<br />
Brennan finished eighth, ninth,<br />
and 10th.<br />
BKW’s Adam Forti was the<br />
second runner to cross the finish<br />
line in Duanesburg with a time<br />
of 17:26. <strong>The</strong> Bulldogs beat Spa<br />
Catholic, 19 to 39, and lost to<br />
Duanesburg, 23 to 32. Finishing<br />
in fifth place for BKW was Lukus<br />
Becker with a time of 19:12.<br />
–– Jordan J. Michael<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Eluding tacklers: Voorheesville quarterback Mike Young, center, runs past three Taconic Hills<br />
defenders on his way to scoring from 25 yards out during the second quarter of Voorheesville’s<br />
27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills on Friday. Young ran for 101 yards on 12 carries with three touchdowns;<br />
he also threw for 89 yards with seven completions on 14 attempts.<br />
Scores 3 TDs<br />
Mike Young<br />
has big game<br />
for Birds<br />
in 27-6 win<br />
over<br />
Taconic Hills<br />
Friday night<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Dominating runner: Last Friday night, Matt Fuller ran<br />
for 89 yards on 24 carries, including one touchdown from a<br />
yard out, in Voorheesville’s 27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills in<br />
Craryville, N.Y.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Michael Koff<br />
Shoving off: During Voorheesville’s 27-to-6 win over Taconic Hills last Friday night, Voorheesville’s<br />
receiver Sam Weiss shakes off Cole Baxter of Taconic Hills.
28 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, September 27, 2012<br />
SPORTS<br />
“In it to win it”<br />
Voorheesville controls match<br />
for victory over Holy Names<br />
By Jordan J. Michael<br />
ALBANY –– Pressuring Holy<br />
Names’ goal for the majority of<br />
last Thursday’s soccer match,<br />
Voorheesville could have won by<br />
more than the final 4 to 0 score.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Birds had great touches on<br />
the ball and played smart.<br />
Voorheesville (3-3) controlled<br />
the match. Holy Names (1-5)<br />
rarely played the ball in the<br />
Blackbirds’ half.<br />
“We played really well,” said<br />
senior Hannah Brackett, who<br />
scored two goals and assisted on<br />
another for Voorheesville. “We<br />
came out stronger than usual,<br />
and were in it to win it.”<br />
Brackett was accountable<br />
for both of the Birds’ scores in<br />
the first half. One of her corner<br />
kicks deflected off a Holy Names’<br />
player, and, in the 33rd minute,<br />
Brackett made a nice trap on the<br />
ball, knocking it over goalkeeper<br />
Megan Gallagher for the second<br />
goal.<br />
Voorheesville continued<br />
threatening Holy Names’ goal<br />
in the second half. Six minutes<br />
in, Chelsea Duncan got her head<br />
on a corner kick by Caroline<br />
Weiss, and the ball sailed in for a<br />
goal. In the 67th minute, eighthgrader<br />
Veda Hensel scored on an<br />
assist from Brackett.<br />
“Together, as a team, I thought<br />
we played really well,” Hensel<br />
said. Despite being a lot younger<br />
and shorter than the other 21<br />
players on the field, she was always<br />
in the mix during the game.<br />
Hensel had great touches on the<br />
ball and led her teammates to<br />
open space.<br />
“She loves us,” Brackett said<br />
with a huge smile as Hensel<br />
blushed next to her. Brackett<br />
played for Voorheesville as an<br />
eighth-grader, too, so the two<br />
share a special bond.<br />
“I know how intimidating<br />
things can be at that age,” said<br />
Brackett, “but Veda does very,<br />
very well.”<br />
“I like playing at a high level,”<br />
said Hensel, who also plays travel<br />
soccer with Capital United.<br />
“It’s fun.”<br />
Last Thursday, Voorheesville<br />
was without direction from its<br />
coach, Joe Santos, who was in<br />
Portugal for family business.<br />
Filling in was junior varsity<br />
Head Coach Tim Kelley, who<br />
uses a quieter and less critical<br />
approach than Santos.<br />
“It’s kind of sad that he’s not<br />
here,” Brackett said. “I felt a little<br />
lost without his guidance.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> game may have been different<br />
without Santos present,<br />
but the Blackbirds took it to Holy<br />
Names anyway. It didn’t seem<br />
like the team needed much direction<br />
during the shutout victory.<br />
“I don’t know how he’d feel<br />
about our play today,” said<br />
Brackett. “He has varying opinions.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
Power ball: <strong>The</strong> Voorheesville girls’ soccer team shut out Holy Names last Thursday, 4 to 0, controlling<br />
the majority of possession during the game. Here, senior Hannah Brackett (left) kicks the ball off<br />
of Holy Names’ Julia Willox in the second half. Brackett scored two goals and had one assist.<br />
Come join us in the celebration<br />
of the 65th Anniversary of<br />
Mike and Whilma Willsey.<br />
It will take place on Saturday,<br />
October 6, 2012<br />
from 1 to 4 pm<br />
at the home of their<br />
son and daugher-in-law<br />
Joel and Patty Willsey.<br />
86 Stage Rd, East Berne, NY<br />
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> –– Jordan J. Michael<br />
Levitation: Junior Ashley Bates eyes the soccer ball before heading<br />
it for Voorheesville during last Thursday’s match at Holy<br />
Names. <strong>The</strong> Blackbirds moved to 3-3 on the season after the 4-to-0<br />
shutout victory.