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LAST WEEK'S WEATHER TUBS. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Hi 45 46 29 29 7 2 10 VOL. 136 NO. Lo IS 30 12 5 -2 •12 -16 39 Pep far .01 sn .10 sn .80 sn sntr sn tr 0 A PARK NEWSPAPER COURIER ft FREEMAN, (USPS 135460) POTSDAM, N.Y.-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1988 28 PAGES Museum buys Thatcher bottle. See story this week. 35 CENTS Potsdam Recycling Project Newest To Get Underway BY THOM PARDOE Village of Potsdam residents will receive or have already received the containers to be used in the village's recycling project, slated to begin next Monday. But the Potsdam project is not the only recycling effort in St. Lawrence County, nor is it the first. Recycling projects in Colton, Parishville and most recently, in Lisbon have sprung up in the past year to deal with the ever growing problem of solid waste disposal. Panshvllle's project, according tf' To*r Supervisor Joseph Snel' n '.in '.mm RECYCLING START-UP — Richard Grover <center) and Dan Mackey (right) from Waste Stream Management sorted buckets, boxes and lids for the Potsdam recycling project, while vUlage workers Karl Baxter (left) and Wayne Andrus (not shown) delivered them to residences Monday after- noon. Distribution of the containers began early Monday morning and will continue until all 1,500 residences in the village's municipal trash collection system have a set of the containers. Collection of recycleable metal, clear glass and clean dry paper will begin next Monday. (Thorn Pardoe photo) Lawmakers Approve Issuance Of $4 Million SWDA Bonds BY RYNE MARTIN CANTON — The county legislature has approved the is- suance of $4 million in bonds by the Solid Waste Disposal Authority, but not before several legislators sent a message to SWDA that they wanted specific language banning the im- portation of garbage. The measure approved by the control the purse strings,\ he noted. Purvis, during the discussion on the resolution, asked Paul O'Con- nor, executive director of SWDA, if the Authority had the authority to import from out of the county without input from the county legislature. The only restriction on the im- The Authority moved forward with a plan calling for a 250-ton a day incinerator with 40 percent of the waste stream recycled and no importation of garbage. He suggested the sentiment on the SWDA board is an opposition to the importation of garbage. Legislator James Halpen CD- Madrid), the county legislature's ;ai(t i lie imvn now recycles about 1\ per cent of its solid waste, with* hopes of increasing that figure. \We're quite happy with it,\ Snell said. One aspect of the Parishville pro- ject that Snell emphasized is the in- volvement of the Parishvllle- Hopkinton school district in getting the recycling effort started. He said that most of the work on the recycling effort came from elementary students at the school. According to Snell, elementary students took part in a class project to study recycling, and from that, as parents and teachers became more involved in recycling, an ef- fort to start recycling in Parishville grew. According to Anne Marie Fit- zrandolph, principal of the Parishville-Hopkinton elementary school, recycling at the school began last year as a participation project for the fifth and sixth grades as part of the New York State social studies curriculum. She said that since the town had just decided to begin recycling, the school decided to use recycling as the participation project. The school wrote to other schools county legislature will allow SWDA portation of garbage in the contract representative on the SWDA board, to have a federal tax exemption for between the county legislature and said a number of SWDA members the Interest generated \by the bonds. '^MMfEVVjSOMMMMfe WflMI SMMBWVttQ by 9t 19-2 vote, with legislators Donald Purvis (D-Norfolk) and Josephine Cataniarite (D-Massena) voting against the proposal. Canton Democrat James Smith was not in attendance at Monday night's ses- sion. Legislator James McFaddin (D- Norwood) said he could also be on the other side of the fence the next time SWDA comes looking for assistance from the county legislature. \When you come up for bonding again, there needs to be a plan to recycle 40 percent of the waste stream and come up with an in- cinerator that is for only St. Lawrence County waste. We do SWDA is language requiring the Authority to give first call to waste toy imaMm Of owwrty • County Attorney William Maglnh also said the the contract language allows SWDA to import garbage for the incinerator. But O'Connor stressed that SWDA's economic analysis of the incinerator does not include scenarios calling for the importation of garbage. SWDA member Robert Buhts went one step further. He noted SWDA passed a resolution in July calling for the importation of gar- bage to be excluded from proposals for the economic analysis and bon- ding. Stealing a line from President-elect George Bush, Buhts told the legislators, \Read my lips. We do not want to import out-of-county waste.\ are working to have language detailing the Authority's plans not ^hlh included in the Incinerator Foes Come To Canton Bearing Gifts BY RYNE MARTIN CANTON — The holiday season was in the air in the county legislative chambers as critics of the county's proposed incinerator came to Monday night's meeting with their arms filled with gifts. — Ogdensburg resident Thomas Seguin Drought a petition, which he said contained 1,130 signatures, urging county officials to move the proposed incinerator from Ogdensburg to Newton Falls. He noted officials from the Newton Falls Paper Company have expressed an interest in having the resource recovery plant located in Newton Falls. The proposed site in the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority's industrial park, on the other hand, has met with a great deal of opposition, Seguin said. County officials have said the cost of moving the incinerator to a new location would be prohibitive. The proposed location for the in- cinerator Is in a densely populated area, according to Seguin. \The people of St. Lawrence County do not want it where it is now,\ he said. — Joyce Callahan of Gouverneur Street, Canton, a representative of the Universalist-Unitarian Chur- ch's Social Action Committee, gave the legislators a lengthy list of potential candidates for openings on the Solid Waste Disposal Authority (SWDA) board. The Social Action Committee's Christmas wish list included the names of Lisbon residents Dr. David S. Lenes and Dr. Pedro Alvarez; Wendell Brown, Canton; Rev. Joseph Bailey, Heuvelton; John Casserly, Canton; and Michael Owen, Canton. The county contained approximately five per- cent DDT. He told the legislators he had called SWDA officials and the New York State Department of Conser- vation in an effort to garner the most appropriate method of dispos- ing of the toxic material. When he was not satisfied with the answers he recieved from those two organizations, Nelson said he decided to give the insect spray to the legislators to let county of- ficials decide what to do with the material. bonding issue: That issue will be put out in the spring, he noted. No Downsizing O'Connor drew the ire of Catan- zarite, who will be replaced on the board next month by Republican Charles Romigh, when he told legislators that downsizing of the incinerator is not a realistic alter- native. The executive director of SWDA said the 250-ton a day facility is under permit. \Under the current contract with Harbert-Triga, you don't have the option of downsizing. You either do it, or you don't do it. The question then is what alter- natives does this community have,\ he suggested. Catanzarite questioned why the Authority was doing an economic analysis on the 250-ton a day facili- ty when it is too late to downsize the facility. \We were told recently that a 250-ton facility was not cast in stone. Now, we are told it is,\ she charged. \I have some very serious con- cerns about this whole thing — size, importation and why no mandatory recycling. It seems to me that no one knows what we are doing,\ she said. Buhts, who noted he had given Catanzarite copies of the Authori- ty's previous sizing studies, argued the 250-ton a day facility is ap- propriately sized. \I'm sure State PrfSOn Next , Potsdam Man Is Warned CANTON - A 52-year-old Potsdam man was warned Tues- day that if he doesn't get his drink- ing problems under control he is going to be doing time in a state prison. Eugene Osgood was fined $500 and placed on probation for five years for his conviction on a felony count of driving while intoxicated. Osgood was warned that his next sentence will be a state prison term. He had been convicted on driving while intoxicated counts in 1985 and 1986. St. Lawrence County Court Judge Eugene L. Nicandri noted Osgood's driving while intoxicated arrest had been made approx- imately two months after he had his license returned from the 1986 DWI conviction. The latest arrest also violated the terms of his probation from the 1986 conviction, Judge Nicandri ad- ded. He noted Osgood had a blood you to know that if you violate in&w>itcicA unui t vaui-uut J,U « wuutj — —— —— o ——— «—— — w«. M**J *)I Ulc ICrmS 0* yOUX pFOD&tlOnf legislature did not make any ap- alcohol content of .24 at the time of you could be sentenced to up to four pointments to SWDA at last night's his latest arrest. years in a state correctional facili- — Russell Nelson of ll Grant St., Potsdam, donning a red elf's hat for the occasion, had a wrapped Christmas present for legislator Duana Carey (R-Stocknolm), chairman of the county legislature's Planning and Conser- vation Committee. 'I would guess that is pretty close to hands and knees, ability as far as being able to navigate a vehi- cle,\ the county court judge said. Osgood's attorney, Andrew Purltz, had asked Judge Nicandri to avoid using jail tune as part of his client's sentence. He noted Osgood takes care of his grand- across the nation that already had a recycling unit as part of their social studies curriculum, and ask- ed for all the information they had to help write a curriculum for Parishville, she said. They also contacted organizations like the American Paper Institute and en- vironmnetallst groups to obtain more Information. Fitzrandolph aid the school \pieced together\ their curriculum somewhat, drawing ideas from curricula in Minnesota and Wiscon- sin, and also from people mvoheM it '.ti> ,II!;' 4 > ii i> Mi ipu ,i v\'\ . . 'Mlldlllt V' n:i.' \.' . full .1 ili.ii{;' Ill'U I What ilu> school Is looking lor now, she said is a Department of Environmental Conservation grant to organize and expand the recycl- ing education effort at the school. Colton's Project Colton Town Supervisor Timothy Hennessy said that Colton's project started in October of 1987 as well. Hennessy said that the town started recycling as a result of a survey sent to residents asking them about recycling. Hennessy said one of the key questions was if people would be willing to participate in a recycling effort that involved source separa- tion of recyclable materials. He said that particular question received an \overwhelming\ response, indicating that people in the town of Colton were indeed con- cerned. Just from that survey, he said, the town decided to begin a recycl- ing effort. The two projects in Colton and Parishville and the one in Madrid are all quite similar. Colton and Parishville have contracts with Waste Stream Management, a Potsdam-based solid waste disposal firm, to lease transfer sta- tions where town residents bring EMC Names 4 New Members BY RYNE MARTIN CANTON — Four new members have been appointed to the ad- visory panel that advises county legislators on environmental issues affecting the residents of St. Lawrence County. The county legislature appointed Thomas Caruso, Norwood; Charles Rabeler, Potsdam; Astacia (Stacy) Hammill, Canton; and Marijean Remington, Potsdam, to one-year terms on the St. Lawrence County Environmental Manage- ment Council. Legislators also reappointed John Green, David Hassig, David Jordan, James Monroe and Orvo Markkula to one-year terms on the EMC. Thomas Duffy, Raymond Dumas, Ed Fuhr, Ken Giffin, Charles Petty, Clarence Petty, Ross Pfieffer, Thomas Plastino, Fred Wilhelm and Bruce Piasecki were reappointed to two-year terms. The county legislature also made two new appointments to the St. Lawrence County Planning Board. William Rogers, Potsdam, and Bruce Petrie, whose wife is the county's administrative assistant, were appointed to one-year terms on the Planning Board. Former Planning Board member William Axtell, Canton, resigned from the panel, while Ogdensburg resident Donald Burns declined the opportunity to be reappointed to the board. In other action: — The county legislature held a brief memorial service to recognize the efforts of three former members of the St. Lawrence County Board of Super- visors and the county legislature. Harry W. Sharpe, the former supervisor of the town of Dekalb; James H. Donovan, the former supervisor from the town of Lawrence and a former legislator from District 3; and Dr. Clive B. Chambers, the former supervisor of the town of Oswegatchie, passed away in 1988. — The county legislature voted 20-1 to place the receipts from in- mate's use of telephones at the county jail into the correctional facility's commisary account. daughter in light of his driving record. \If your granddaughter is of so little concern to you, I don't know why I should be concerned,\ he said. The county court judge noted Osgood had been employed by the state of New York as a heavy equipment operator for a number of years. He reportedly lost that position when he lost his license on an alcohol-related offense. \Thirty-two years later, it is your wife working, and you have lost your job. Things have gotten turn- ed around. The thing that has turn- ed it around is your use of alcohol,\ Judge Nicandri charged. He noted the St. Lawrence Coun- ty, ^Probation Department had recommended a sentence that in- cluded Osgood serving six months in the county jail. \I'm not going to impose any jail sentence at this juncture, but I want any o: Carey unwrapped the present daughter during the day. - - - • 12-1 in- But Judge Nicandri < and found a can of Kilzlum sect spray. Nelson said the spray Osgood's concern for questioned his grand- •/ ty,\ Judge Nicandri said. The county court judge also directed a message at Osgood and his wife, Helen, during the sentenc- ing. \If you start drinking, you are not looking at six months in the county jail,\ he warned Osgood. \If there is any indication at all, she better run you into the Proba- tion Department. If there is a viola- tion, you are looking at a serious amount of tune,\ he said. their separated recyclables and trash. Waste Stream handles the trash; the towns handle the recycl- ing. What has created controversy in the past few months, though, is the lack of involvement in these pro- jects by the county's Solid Waste Disposal Authority, the agency responsible for the control of waste disposal. While Potsdam's project was organized In part by SWDA, Hennessy and Snell both say SWDA had nothing to do with their pro- jects at all ,'.'.ii r tliiiit' '.i '.[.''ii '.in '.(>•>• t i \tul.»:l \\ .i.tr\ '.\ •'!uii( tlliG V'»:tl tlll'.ll l Vili t lllMV llKilv'tllllll )'•'! • jects with the help ot Waste Stream Management. SWDA has come under fire in the past few weeks for being to slow in getting a recycling project off the ground and for letting companies like Waste Stream Management start projects for communities. Recycling Coordinator Gerard Galvin resigned his post Nov. 28, apparently to pursue a position in the private solid waste disposal field. Assistant Recycling Coordinator and head of the Potsdam projetct Linda M. McQuinn feels there is nothing wrong with Waste Stream doing recycling with the towns, and that it won't affect SWDA's work. \People went to Waste Stream because they are visible,\ she said in an interview several weeks ago. But McQuinn has also said that since SWDA is a government agen- cy and always under public scrutiny, it takes time to get a recycling project underway especially a large scale project in- volving many agencies and a lot of money, like Potsdam's project. Town Planners Approve Sign BY THOM PARDOE The Town of Potsdam Planning Board approved a sign permit for Market Street Liquors, Outer Market Street, Potsdam at the regular meeting Dec. 6. The permit will allow the store to place a sign underneath another sign. The liquor store, which just recently moved to its present loca- tion in the same building as the Sears catalog store, applied to put a one foot by four foot sign underneath the Sears sign. The li- quor store sign, according to the plans submitted with the applica- tion by the store's owner, William Dow, would have the word \liquor\ on it in capital letters with an ar- row underneath. According to board member Tom Dodds, the town codes require a sign to be at least eight feet off the ground; the liquor store sign would only be four feet six inches off the ground. The board approved the sign per- mit, with the reason that the view of the road would not be further blocked by the sign. The board was to consider a site plan from Pondo, Inc., a partner- ship of area businessmen who want to build a Ponderosa Steakhouse in Potsdam. According to town building inspector Otis Blanchard, Lawrence P. Demo, one of the part- ners, told him Tuesday afternoon that he had not received some data that was important for their ap- plication, and that they were not ready at that time for the planning board's review. Demo could not be reached for comment. Pondo, Inc., has been trying since September to build the restaurant, which according to Demo would employ 30 to 40 people. But problems securing clear title to the property originally intended for the restaurant reportedly forced them to find a new place to build. Planning Board Meets The Village of Potsdam Planning Board will meet at 77:30 p.m. tonight, in the Civic Center board room. The board is expected to give final site plan approval to the pro- posed Canton-Potsdam Hospital on the corner of Grove and Leroy streets. The board is also expected to review the applications submitted by Joel Ward, Paul Bogosian and Howard Manhoff for Studio 34 at 34 Market St. Their applications are for a sign permit and to place a satellite dish on the roof of the building. Also on the agenda is a sign per- mit application submitted by Robert Twyman. ARTIST AT WORK - A«ton Stunner, a student at Potsdam High School, concentrates on nU artistic endeavor — painting \Merry Christmas\ on the clan door panel at the Courier and Freeman. Two other Potsdam High School ttudent-artteU. Jerry Gordon and Dalma Tanczos, painted holiday picture* on the Courier editorial office win- dows. (Betsy Baker photo) In The Courier DArts .....Page7 D Church Page 12 • Classifieds Page 25-27 D Editorials Page 4 D Events Page 2 D Letters Page 4 D Local News .... Pages 1,5, IS D Obituaries Page 12 QSports Pages 22-24 •Weddings Page 8
