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f The Altamont Enterprise - Thursday April 13,2006 r 1 I I I o •a > < m CLIP & SAVE — — — — — — — n '.#i **••.**'' NOTICE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM WATERMAIN FLUSHING PROGRAM — 2006 — — Slingerlands, North Bethlehem, Town of New Scotland —r Delmar, Elsmere — Glenmont, Selkirk Some discoloration may be seen during this flushing program, which could result in staining of laundry. Run water until it clears before doing laundry. U —— — — — — — CLIP & SAVE __—_—_- Area#1 Area #2 Area #3 •4/3- •4/10 •4/18 4/12 -4/21 -5/3 1 HELDERBERG OIL QuaCity !Home : Meating Oil Due to current market conditions, please call for price. We accept HEAP Quantity Discounts Cash, check or credit card on delivery you? mi ^J A\ rf rvK\ \i Come and find out why the Guilderland RealtyUSA office was awarded \The Best Place to Work\ by the Guilderland Chamber of Commerce. RealfyUSA Ph. 518.456.5777 1826 Western Ave. Guilderland, NY 12084 •i cut and send to us • Do You have a subscription? No - Why not? It is easy - just fill out coupon below and mail to us The Enterprise P. O. BOX 654, ALTAMONT, NY 12009 D Albany County Address — $28.00 per year • Out-of-County Address — $30.00 per year (Please send check or money order) Your Name_ Address _ . Box# Zip ? — Photo by Jack Milner Healthy Harvest: The Whitetail Association displayed these two-and-a-half-year old bucks from 1994- 95, when the club was allowed to feed corn to deer. Now, Jack Milner, president of the association, says the bucks are not so big and are far less plentiful. m DEC should have heeded hunters' words To the Editor: The state's Department of Environmental Conservation says 14 percent less deer were killed by hunters than in 2004. That doesn't take hunters by surprise. Now, three full years since the DEC's tragic mistake in the winter of 2002-03 — by putting a total ban on feeding whitetail deer on Jan. 9, 2003, the most severe winter in over., 50 years with 140-plus inches of snow and snow cover over 140 days — we are still in a big reclining mode. The DEC asked for public comments about chronic wasting disease and its new regulations to be sent in by March 31, 2003. So the Whitetail Association members attended the meeting on Feb. 6, 2003 and passed out fliers to the public and DEC and wrote DEC a letter concerning CWD. The DEC should have read the letters hunters sent them in- cluding one from the Whitetail Association. Then it might have put its main effort of stopping CWD on the deer farms instead of the feeding ban, which didn't bring CWD into New York. By not doing this, the DEC left the back door open for CWD to enter and exit into the wild by allowing an Oneida County deer farmer to have a rehab permit and a taxidermy shop on the same parcel of land. Some of his penned deer had CWD brought there from out-of-state transit, or feed from animal by-products or through the taxidermy shop. Then he had rehab farms that had the run of the whole area. When these fawns were old enough, they were set free and, when the DEC finally came awake was when a deer head from a butchered doe was tested and had CWD. Then the hunt was on for hundreds of whitetails and the fawns that were released, which were shot and had CWD. So where is DEC's apology for not doing the job that many hunters' letters suggested; they were just taken as a grain of salt. Back in the fall of 1996 and '97 the Whitetail Association invited to our fall meeting Nathan T. Tripp Sr., wildlife biologist of Division of Wildlife Region 4 of DEC. We had on display mount- ed heads from 1994 and '95. He was greatly impressed by the size of antler growth on two- and-a-half-year-old bucks. He said our program of feeding corn after-deer season and put- ting minerals out in the spring was a lift on the quality of deer we were harvesting. Nathan Tripp has retired and the DEC, since 2003, has ruined our deer herd by the feeding ban, too many doe permits, nuisance per- mits, and doing nothing about the growing coyote population. Jack Milner Westerlo Editor's note: Jack Milner is president of the Whitetail Asso- ciation, based in Westerlo, with 40 members. See related story. Knox church to hold concert and dinner to raise funds to make building accessible To the Editor: A very special late afternoon and early evening is being planned for April 29 at the Knox Reformed Church to raise money for a new lift and entry- way leading to the Knox pre- school, community rooms and sanctuary. It is very difficult to raise funds for church projects even when the project benefits the entire community, as this one does. While the Knox Reformed Church has a ramp leading to the sanctuary for those using wheelchairs, the members of the church wanted to do more by addressing many of the access problems leading to the areas of the building used for community activities. Included in this project are a reconfiguration of the stairways which lead to the community room on the second floor and the preschool rooms —the Knox Nursery School has been housed here for about 30 years — on the lower floors. The current stair- cases are steep and poorly designed for the small legs of three- and four-year-olds. The pre-school has been attended by children throughout the Helderberg communities. Because it is about the only pre- school in the Helderbergs and it has an entirely secular curri- culum, children of every religion or even no religion attend. The April 29 event will start at 4 p.m. in the sanctuary, when Karen Edson will perform selec- tions of classical, Broadway, gospel, and sacred music. Karen has been playing the piano for more than a half century and is proficient in classical, jazz, and other types of music. Karen directs the Hilltowns Gospel Singers, and the Knox Reformed Church choir, and is organist for the South Berne Congregational Church. Additionally, she teaches piano in her home in Knox. Immediately following the concert, everyone will be invited to the stage in the Community Room to view the delectable creations of many of the area's finest bakers at the church's first-ever cakewalk. These cakes are made from scratch. Participants in the cakewalk will have a minimum of 10 chances to win a cake by pur- chasing a group of 10 tickets, and placing all, or a portion of the tickets, in a container in front of the cake, or cakes, of their choice. Only one cake per person will be awarded, so if someone is fortunate enough to be selected to win more than one cake, h e or she will need to choose which cake they will bring home to enjoy. We are still accepting cakes for the cakewalk.- (Call me at 872-2492). Then, around 5:30 p.m., a deli- cious dinner will be served with a menu to include: a salad bar with: tossed salad, homemade breads, and condiments, and a carving station with ham and roast beef, scalloped potatoes, green beans and corn. To top off the evening, there will be a make-your-own sundae bar compliments of Stewart's shops. Coffee, tea, milk, and water will be served. The concert and dinner will be $10 per person. There will be a charge of $5 for the concert only and $8 for the dinner only. Dinners for children two to 10 years old will be $5 and concert and dinner for children two to 10 years old will be $6. Please call Judy Conklin at 872-2615 or Jennie Stevens at 872-2199 to make concert and dinner reser- vations no later than April 26. Tickets for the cakewalk will be for sale following the concert or by purchasing in advance by calling me, again at 872-2492. The drawing will take place im- mediately following the dinner. With pledges and donations already made, we are now half- way to our goal of making $100,000 so that the building is fully accessible. Please come and encourage your friends and neighbors to come to this special fund-raiser. Gayle Burgess Knox
