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«?$S$^W^ * A'-' '\*^ri^^,^t.iVi«r^^W^M^V^i^-.; V TV^ Knfc-fJnxjii^;*-^.^ ; STfte Altamont Enterprise - Thursday, August 24,2006 IS Guilderland ; The Town of Guilderland Senior Services offers the fol- lowing activities for the week of Aug; 28: Monday: Scheduled shop- ping; 10:30 ajn., Strong Bones Plus; 1:30 p.m., Strong Bones The Enterprise — Tyler Schilling Ready for the year: Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board President Joan Adriance and Vice President Edward Ackroyd combine experience and optimism to forma team for the BKW district. Adriance is beginning her fourth year as a BKW board member; Ackroyd is beginning his third. Adriance, Ackroyd at BKW helm Tuesday: 9 a.m., Strong •'. Bones Plus; 9:30 a.m., Strong ' Bones Plus; 11:30 a.m., luncheon of chicken teriyaki or cold plate; 12:30 p.m., bingo and games. Wednesday; Scheduled shop- ping; 10:30 a.m., bridge; 10:30 a.m., Strong Bones Plus; 1 p.m., needlecraft; 1:30 p.m., Strong Bones Plus. Thursday: Scheduled shop- ping; 9 a.m., Strong Bones Plus; 9 atm.,* meii's; tr%'to Hiidene; 1 p.m., pinbchle arid games. Friday: Scheduled shopping; 9:30 a.m., Strong Bones Plus; 10 a.m., painting; 1 p.m., quilting. Farm stand coupons The state's Department of Agriculture provides $20 in coupons to seniors who are income eligible according to HEAP guidelines. Stop by the senior office to get your coupons to use at partici- pating fruit and vegetable stands. By Tyler Schuling BERNE —Joan Adriance, Berne-Knox-Westerlo's newly appointed school board presi- dent, sees herself as a facilitator. She doesn't see her role as one which gives her authority to make decisions. \I'm no more special than any- one else,\ she told The Enter- prise, stating that the five board members \all work together.\ gents diplomas, Adriance said. The Advanced Regents diploma, a more challenging diploma of- fered by the state, requires stu- dents to take additional tests and courses and score higher on Regents exams. \We encourage students to stretch,\ Adriance said. Adriance also thinks the board can better communicate its ex- pectations with students and 'We can use the data from test scores and align the curriculum.' Adriance, whose daughter is entering the ninth grade at BKW, has been .on the school board for just over three years; BKW board members rotate into leadership positions rather than being elected. \My role is to keep meetings on track and focused and to sign diplomas,\ she said. Adriance says she under- stands the importance of hearing multiple opinions and remaining neutral throughout the decision- making process. In 1975, she graduated from Warvick High School, and ma- jored in business administration at Houghton College. In 1989, she received a master's degree in secondary education from the University at Albany. This coming school year, Adri- ance, beginning the fourth year of her five-year term, will have the opportunity to put her lead- ership skills to the test. The BKW School Board, she said, has many goals. It wishes to create courses to improve stu- dents' test-taking skills and SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Tests) and ELA (English and Language Arts) scores. Adriance feels it is important to know what students are capa- ble of, what their strengths and weaknesses aire, 'aiid to under- stand their test scores. \We can use the data from test scores and align the curriculum,\ Adriance said. As well as improving test scores, the board Would like to see ah increase in the number of students seeking Advanced Re- parents and do a better job of creatively providing budget items to the community. In past years, BKW eighth- grade students were visited by representatives from colleges throughout the state of New York. Adriance would like to see this event occur earlier in the year. As well as having many goals for the students and the commu- nity, the board, Adriance said, is planning to improve its facilities. \We're looking at making fa- cilities handicap-accessible in \It takes a year, maybe two, to understand,\ she said. Vice president Ed Ackroyd, BKW's newly- appointed vice president', at- tended BKW. He is a member of the class of 1968, and served in Cambodia and Vietnam. At the BKW graduation ceremony this June he was applauded as he was given a high school diploma under a state program for those who left school to serve in the military. Ackroyd, who ran unopposed for the school board in 2004 after Lynn Countryman stepped down, sees changes at BKW since he was in school. \The classes are smaller now,\ Ackroyd said. \When I was in school, we didn't have teachers' aids....The students today have more opportunities.\ Ackroyd, whose children also attended BKW, is beginning the third year of his three-year term, and says some of the motivation to run for the BKW School Board was curiosity. \I was curious about where the tax dollars were going,\ he said. Like Adriance, Ackroyd is also in favor of gathering multiple opinions on school-related is- sues. \It's important,\ he said, \to be open for a wide variety of influ- ence throughout the commu- nity.\ 'I think it's best to pull the emotions out and deal in facts.' the high school,\ Adriance said. BKW School Board members had once rotated board members through a graduated five-year term, but now elected board members are on a three-year term. The change from a five- year ternlLto.athrpe-year., Adri- ance said, was to try to get more people to run for the board. Though the ballot measure; to re- turn board members' terms, to five years was voted down in this spring's election, Adriance Would still like to see the board return to the fiye-year term so that its members would have a better grasp of its wort Ackroyd, who owns his own business, Northeast Power Sup- ply, thinks it is best to be objec- tive throughout the decision- making process. \I think it's best to pull the emotions out and deal in facts,\ he said. Like Adriance, Ackroyd favors a five-year term over a three- year term for board members, because he thinks it allows a person to get more experience. \The first three years, you get knowledge of how it works. The last two years, you cbuld. use that knowledge and apply it,\ he said. Altamont By Eileen McKenney This Tuesday, Aug. 22, Alta- mont Seniors had their lunch date at the 76 Diner in Latham. There were 32 of us, each ordering individually from the very large menu. Service was slowed because of only two servers but a lot of conversation filled the time, and meals were served fairly\quickly as soon as ready. It was a lovely day to be out for a ride, although the stretch of the Northway undergoing some road work, with reduced lanes, made the ride longer than expected. Fair Week seems to have come and gone in a rush. The week started out with such good weather that the outlook was for a successful affair. However, things went downhill during Saturday and Sunday with periods of rain and thunder showers. I hope folks got to make a visit on one of the nice days. It's a long time till we have the opportunity again. Coming up Next Tuesday, Aug. 29, will have us back at St. Lucy's Parish Center and a special luncheon of an Italian dinner by Sister Mary Lou Liptak, of St. Lucy's church, and our volunteers. Sister Lou has offered this meal on pre- vious occasions, and we all anti- cipate the treat. Chances on the 50-50 drawing will continue to be available for purchase before lunch, and the drawing will take place after lunch. Seniors will not meet on Sept. 5, in observance of the Labor Day Holiday. The Tuesday, Sept. 12 date will be replaced by our bus trip to the Log Cabin Restaurant at Holyoke, Mass. on Thursday, Sept. 14. Those making this trip are reminded that a check made out to Village of Altamont must reach Gil by next Tuesday, August 29. To look ahead, we are sched- uled for our return to the Guilderland High School lunch program on Sept. 19. Details will follow in a later column. Well wishes On our sick list is Dorothy Heath who was\ recently hospi- talized following a fall at home, and is currently at The Avenue Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre. Cards or notes would reach' her if sent to her home address,, 128 Halfmoon Drive, Altamont, NY 12009. I'm sure it would mean a lot to her to be remem- bered and wished Well. Memorial mystery Sometime if you have, a few moments and are looking for a little diversion, and have a magnifying glass and a five- dollar bill at hand, turn the bill to the reverse side. Focus an the detailing on the top two levels of the Lincoln Memorial, and look very closely. You might just be, surprised at what you read printed there. Isn't this fun! Looking back Looking back in our history book, on Aug, 26 in 1975, a picnic planned for that Tuesday, had to be moved inside because of bad weather. The time that would have been spent sitting lakeside, enjoying a sunny day and the camaraderie and the meal, saw, instead, a variety of cards, games, and fun for the 35 Seniors following their indoor picnic. Signup Any Seniors who have not signed up to attend next week, on Aug. 29, please be in touch with Helen Marion at 861-5278, and Stan Dean if you require transportation, by 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 27. In the mean- time, i hope you have a lovely week with lots of nice summer weather. Peace. Announce birth GUILDERLAND — Alana Nicole Colloton was born on July 8, 2006. Her parents are Garry and Carie Colloton of Guilderland. She was born at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces and measur- ing 21-and-a-half inches. She joins her big brother, Anthony. Potter Hollow celebrates 200 years RENSSELAERVILLE — On Sept. 10, Potter Hollow is celebrating its 200th anniver- sary, andithe public is invited to festivities starting at noon. Events will include: — A postal cancellation fea- turing the Potter Hollow school- house; — The Haskin Family Re- union; — Local music; — Old-fashioned horseshoe- pitching and board games; — Heritage crafts, including wool-spinning and weaving, and blacksmi thing; — The Missing and Exploited Children Clearing House, which will answer questions, have information handouts, and make ID cards of children for parents to keep; — Two local women will entertain children with old-time games; — Nature studies; — The Rensselaerville Historical Society and Rensse- laerville Library, which will be on hand; — Food, including potluck, a bake sale, and hamburgers and hot dogs; — A history of Potter Hollow in pictures; and — A donation box for the restoration of the Potter Hollow Schoolhouse. Festivities will be held at the Cotter Equestrian Center in the hamlet of Pottejr Hollow. Contact Sue Lynch at 239- 4748 for further information. ^-birAUfoU'u
