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4 0 June 1@. 1996 □ FRiiMAN^S JOURNAt Opinion p: M ms / c scholars Scholarships to attend the Sign^hire Band and Choir Jones, Katie Yost, Stephanie Johnson and Nicholas Camp at Ithaca College this summer were awarded to Welcome. These scholarships were announced at the Cherry Valley-Springfield students, from the left, Tristan school's annua! banquet, held May 31 at the school. In Qnr Viewpoint Parking woes still on agenda Now that the Doubleday Parking Lot has been repaved, the Citizens Cominitlee on Parking is taking the issue o f paying for the lot to the people. The CCP has issued a survey soliciting the opinions of the residents of Cooperstown regarding which approach is best to maintain the lot. Tlie issue o f a user fee for die lot has been dis cussed much in meetings of the Cooperstown Village Bo^d, but no decisions have yet been made. There are four options, as the committee sees it, about how to best collect money for maintenance of the lot. Those four include paid hourly parking; permit parking; a combination of paid hourly parking and permit parking; and a special business distnct tax on businesses located in the Main Street Business District. There is also a spac« set aside for \other\ suggestions. We would like to see numerous responses to this survey, and we would like to see the suggestiom with the greatest number o f supporters discussed in meetings o f die Parking Committee and the village board as a whole. It is certainly up to die village and not the state to maintain this lot - money for repaving came from the state via a grant • and, then, it should be up to the residents using the lot year- round to come up with a way in which to pay. Find the survey on the front page o f this edition, fill it out and return it to either our office or to the Citizens Committee on Parking. We will attempt to tally the results in coming weeks and relay they to you. Violence cycle Stressed out; oh, my stomach I’m so stressed out! Everyone's ffitpeiffindng tmin « a ! Q o o n if fatigue. |»r^steni headaches, ohhh, iny stomach! Stress management There are ^ n u n ais. books, video tapes ' ail on t e s t i n g and control ling stress. Millions o f (btUars are l»ured into stress management (what abwjt the s&ess o f all th a money Spent‘S) Pills to quiet the nerves, pills to steep, pills to elevate mood, pills to lx»st energy. Oh dear, oh d ^ , things just keep getung worse. Ohhh. my stomach! My fadier should hear all this - he used to say everyone was paranoid - and (hat was 40 years ago. Compulsive (Asessive. that's what it is. Face it, if someone else seems more frazded. more hyped, he or she must ire more pnxiuctive, more unirertant. Isn't that Ute hallmark for success? Stress? So get to it. Do drink? Some pills? Both?Take a course in stress m anag^nent?H tat's a good idea. With a better handle on Barbara L. Loltsch more, worn more more, more Anxiety? Yeah! Now you can feel worse, lt», more on edge. That's it - now you're getting it! With just a h it more effort, your stress can be worse than h is - you can be orj Let's see, what’s needed here? A stress, you should Ire ahle to do even more. But you gotta reinember to get some sleeping pills. A vacation! That's the ticket Let’s see - how far away can you get in two weeks? How much can be crammed into 14 days - well, actually only 12; you have t o get there and back. ^ k . How muich mone; can you out a loan. No sense depriving yourself while relieving frayed nerves. Go first class. Oil, yes, d o n 't leave home without plerily o f \plas tic.\ Live it up: Sight-see, don’t miss a single thing. Eat, drink, party into the wee hours. Take lots of pie- nires so everyone will know whm your success bought. b How muich money spend? No problem - take Egad! How could the lawn get so ragged in two weeks?'0hhh, my stomach. You’ll never get through this week! The work's just like you left It. Nobody did anything while you were gone. Paper is piled sky-high - and the phone messages! Oh, God, where to start? Let’s see, that stress tape said to \delegate.” Right' What? She’s on vacation? Needed to recoup? Oh, well, take w»me uppers, no, maybe a valium would be better. Pul in 12 hour day.s - that’ll prove - something or other. Ohhh, my stomach! You'll have to excuse me. I ’ve got to stop writing this. You just don’t understand what it’s like: all the pressure - it’s been so draining. I’m so stressed, suffering burn out. Ohhhlih, my stomach! By DENNIS C. VACCO Attorney General A recent Court of Appeals ruling strips the state of its ability to man date an effective prison drag and alcohol b^tment program that is designed to'help criminals stop tire cycle o f violence and crime. The raling defies oiinmon sswe and is completely at odds with efforts by law enforcement and prisoner advocates to address the serious underlying problems dial lead crimi nals to lives of violence, namely their dependency on alcohol and drags. The court soiously ertml by nanow' ly fcKustng on one small part of tire prison system's b i^ly successful ASAT program, whidi traais as many as a third of New Yorit’s inmate radi year, ignoriiig tire comprehensive counseling, d i ^ s i o n am! otirer «Hn- ponents that help awaksti witiiin inmat» a d ^ iie to mte iesi»nsibilily fire tiremselwss and iinpiove tireir lives. In addition, it ignores federal court decisions tiiat programs such as AA are not inherently religious. This ruling erodes the authority of corrections officials to set certain requirements in order for inmates to enjoy their prison perks, in this case, conjugal visits by a convicted pimp with a history of drug abuse. In real ity. this inmate was not fonred to participate in the ASAT program but rather chose to do so in order to avail himself of this dubious peik. This wrong-heodKl raling exiwses the court's liheral frent even when (ronsidming a program aimoi at reha bilitating ccmvtctai felons to help ^ u i p tirera fire their retuni to streiety. I shore Judge Bellireosa's concern that this ruling could have implica tions that go beyond the ASAT pro gram and oHild impact on programs o u t s it the prison system dial are frequently employed as alternatives in iticaiceration. 1 will continue to study tiiis ruling, in consitirattQD witii priron ofTtcials, to detennine whetiier to p e ^ r e an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. B o u n d V o l n m O S b y M a r ion B r o p h y One Hundred Fifty Years Ago During the present w ^ k Gen. Burnside succeeded in raising forty volunteers for the Mexican War. To the Public. In answer to rejreated inquiries why the railing of the side-walks around my premises has been removed? I would state tiiat the act was not a voluntary one on my pa^ but it has bren forced upon nre by the actions o f the Trustees of the Village, who on Satireday last, without any previous notitre (except an informal one for which I am indebted to the courtesy of the patit-mast^) removed the rails which pre vented the eottance o f animals and thus destroyed the advantage o f c t ^ walks, which has been by village and strangers for seven y ^ ra past at my cost and charge. When this railing was fijsi con- strac^, peimjssion was cheeriuUy granted l^.the f^esident of the village, as it was thERight to he a public benefit. One Hundred Years Ago The annual sale of @and stand boxes will Ire held on tire C.A. A. grounds on Wednesday. June 24 at 4 p.m. Those desir ing boxes are requested to be present per sonally or by representation. And now, gen tlemen of the C.A.A. Game Committee, give us a first class umpire for die season of ‘96. A fair, square man, of quick judgement, one who “knows the game,” will mxiive tiie hearty support of players and specrators. Mr Reese's model of “Ofiego Hall\ dtp home of Cooper has ireen loaned for a few days to the Mohican Club and is now at their House. The Reese family have this week vacated “Edgewater\ for die summer, and Dr. Janvrut and family are to rake pos session. Mr. and Mrs. Reese will remain in town for a foitni^t, and then join their daughters who have gone to the seaside. It is a matter of complaint that i^ople who are driving horses do not give as much idgewater room as is n e e ^ m ftose who ate riding Jam 20,1846 on bicycles. June 18.1896 Seventy Five Years Ago The iich gate at the entrance to the grounds a t Christ Church which has been made possible by about two hundred sub scriptions from members of the parish, and which is in honor of the late Rev. Ralph Biidsail, is now being constructed. Concrete fouitdottons have been laid and tire tlnibea^ are now being hewn by David Willsey. 1116 timbers are massive, comer posts beirag ^ o u t twelve inches square with plates and rafters in proportion. The itwf will I jc shingled with hand made shin gles, also of extra size. Tturae EUtenested in die weather may be glad to kaow that the records kept by die late G. P le n t y Keese, and continued by his daugh:ter. Elizabeth Cooper Reese, have been placed on file in the Village Library. &tcb year is recorded from 18S0 to 1918. Tlie offices oflTie Knox School have been ratin^ened b i the gymnasium for the summer, Jtme IS. m i Fifly Years Ago Tire Village of Crw|renstown has purehas»l a new fire truck, it was announc«i (his wedi by Mayor T. Whisker. It increases to four tire nnmlrerofpiec^ of fine-fitting a p im - tus which the village p tK s ^ s ^ The v^icle, a light pumper, vras p irehas^ from (Ire War Assets coipTMation for $1,800. Tire tnrek, built for tire U.S. Army, Ires never ixren used. Members of the Board o f Trustees felt tlijrc was great nred o f a l i f t e r plere ofa^taiatiis for answering alanns from mit of town which require travel over poor roads. • Before a crowd estimated at 8,0&{) peisons asreiiibled at Dmibk^y Held, tire G ^ t s took a Gnre-hiting contest from the wedd champion Detroit Hgers. Hie ^ o ts tiras 9 to 5. A &tafl of twen^ iwo State Trottpeis pm tnro effKt tireir eMxnate plans to dlnret baffic tfumi^oui fire the game. Hrere plam. weQ in after many emifeieim viStI} resulted in the smsKitlre^ fiow o f traiie ever exfreiienced at one of tire big duties frere. JtrnI9,im Twenty Five ll^rs Ago The distinguished ^ o c i a i e Awani of the Eastern Nationai Park and Monument Asroclation has been piesmued to Frederick L. Rath, Jr., vire direcror o f the New Yorit State Association. The crertificate areompanying the award cites the valuable contributions made to the Eastern National Path and MMument Association by Mr. Rath as a charter member and member of the first Board o f tire Association. Judge Joseph A. Mogavero, Jr.. Otsego County Judge and Judge of Fsmiiiy Otuit, was tire principal s p e o ^ at the tegular lun cheon meeting o f the Coo^rstown Rotary Club held Turesday at the Cooper Inn. Sedge Mogmeso was appointed to (he post last December by Gov. Rockefeller. h^ss FaMcia MBbalko, jnstnigtor of Htysieal Education #€oo|^fscowo High SchooLteaffiiMcediy Theiing* Norittn W c i y , Ifil Robbtsci' and Ann j^atlng teve eanred the Ptesidential Fitnsss Award. June 16, m n |:FreeniTO*s Jomwal r . . . .. Poblisbsrs: Robert C Miller Judy S. Milter M itar: Dan Sheridan FroductloisPireetefs Bd. 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