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Page 10 Hipper Lake Free Press Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Local Habitat volunteers, led by Sam and John Churco, poured the cement floor in the basement of Tupper Lake's newest Adirondack Habitat for Humanity home, on Facteau Ave., last Saturday. Volunteers are welcome to come at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 1, to help build the flooring/cap over the basement. At the same time, on Saturday, October S, volunteers will raise the walls of the new home! For information and schedules, please call Beth Johnson at 359- 2652. Inge Sapp recalls early life just after second World War * Part m Food was our primary obsession. The meager food stamps were simply not enough and sometimes eggs or cheese substituted for the 500 gr of meat we were al lotted weekly. My mother always served Vati the biggest piece of meat-available only once a week- and she ended up with a tiny piece left at the end. We learned about eatable weeds, we raised rabbits on our balconies- anything to supplement the meager rations. Tomatoes grew in our flowerboxes. One day, Vati returned with some seeds. He was very secretive about them. He \schmunzelte'-grinned. There is no word in English to describe this self-satisfied half smile. He seeded them into a box, watered them and tended them carefully. When questioned he told us they were \Magic\ and would be more productive than anything else. He transplanted them to \our\ patch and they developed into strong but gangly plants. Soon Vati harvested the lowest and largest leaves, Strang them on a rope and bung them on our balcony above the rabbit hutches to dry. When they were almost brittle, be had another surprise. It was a small bottle with liquid marked \Virginia.\ Carefully he took leaf by leaf and flattened them on the table. Then he boiled some water, added some precious sugar and part of the Virginia liquid and brushed them gently and stacked them to \sweat. My father, who had never smoked, who made my grandfather sit in the kitchen to smoke his cigar-my father... had raised tobacco plants! He bought a manual cutter and a cigarette roller and paper. Soon the entire family was rolling cigarettes and all his friends showed up lo get a taste. Cigarettes were very scarce. So scarce in fact, that men collected the discarded butts on the streets and recycled them into new cigarettes. Vati met a butcher on the black market The butcher liked \his\ brand. We were able to barter cigarettes for meat. He packaged his cigarettes carefully and once a week he met his \business partner\ and returned with same meat or sausage. Vati \schmunzelte\ even more when he sunk his teeth into a Wiener Schnitzel, a breaded pork cutlet, and was proven right- it was indeed a \Magic Plant\ and more productive than anything else being raised on the \Sacred Lawn.\ In addition to Vali's tobacco plants for bartering, we also raised rabbits. First we had all the hutches on a back wall of our horseshoe shaped apartment complex. It was the place for male bonding. All the men who owned hutches would gather to feed them early in the evening. They would decide what rabbit should mate with whose bock in order to keep the meat coming. It also was in the open with no unwanted ears to listen to their conversations. This all had started in the last years of the war. It was hard to eat what we raised and petted but the smell of the roast was irresistible and our hesitance was overcome by ravenous appetite. Recipes to change the flavor of the roast circulated. The butcher would put them in his smoke chamber to add a different flavor. The rabbit's fur was stretched on a frame to dry. We then would sell it to a fur dealer and got extra sugar sumps for it. It was judged by the thickness of the fur. The colder the weather- the thicker the fur. The First Ball My parents had said, \Yes!** I really and truly could join my classmates and participate in the Tanzstuodc\- a necessity for young people to learn the proper manners and learn ballroom dancing. It also was the first exposure to BOYS- since we grew up in boys and girls schools. flowers-1 had to be careful not to press ihcm too hard under the coat. My date picked me up and we took ihc streetcar to get lo the big event. All the girls and boys were in their finest- we never had seen each other like that The band was there, the teachers were smiling and we curtsied and bowed and danced. At first, I thought I imagined things- but. as the time passed my dress got longer and longer. My beau stepped on it... 1 stepped on it and almost fell. It finally dragged on the floor and I was in tears. The knitted material had hopelessly stretched from the weight of the material- it had been used in a way it was not designed for. One innovative boy came with scissors. 1 was lifted on a table and with laughter and cheering, my hem was cut lo a manageable length and the evening was saved and we danced away to Ihc early morning hours. After this lightheartcd happening il was \back to reality.\ My crew coach had approached me with a very tempting offer. Right in my hometown was the \Hochscbulc fucr Kocrper Cultur*\- the institution where lop athletes were developed. Remember when little East Germany won so many gold medals in ihe Olympics- totally out of proportion for its size? This institution was the place where they were groomed. He told me that he would make sure I would gel a scholarship. He was certain that 1 would gel in. Women's rowing had just been accepted as an Olympic sport and they wanted to \produce.\ 1 would get a car (a normal citizen had to wait seven years for one), an apartment would be available and I could shop at the stores where ihc Intelligentsia shopped and would be able to train full time. Of course, I would have to join the Communis! party and \tow the line.\ On the other hand, my apprenticeship ncared its end and exams were close. After passing them. I would be able to get a job in East or West Germany. My parents wanted me lo make ihc choice- as all parents, they wanted me to have the best life possible. Three more of my friends bad left in the meantime.and 1 could not. and would not \tow the line.\ The idea of joining Ihe party and standing for something I despised was unacceptable. I had to leave, no matter how tempting Ihc offer was. CvactndM ant week Local woman makes pitch to village board members My mother's .«-£ fo| , J^^^ Huf||ane ^ was plundered- since was neither material or ready made domes available - our dressmaker used two of her dresses to make one for me and I really had three presentable new dresses while her wardrobe shrank. The real problem arose when the ball, the final event, came close. The Black Market merchandise was unaflbrdabie. She discovered that somebody had camouflage material, which had been used to cover tanks but was - she thought- maybe usable. I was distraught Finally she found something like knitted lace with die proper material to go underneath the transparent clod). I was in seventh heaven! Our seamstress suggested some purple feathers and flowers to go on both shoulders- great! It turned out to be just beautiful- a soft peach color with the purple Tri-Lakes Federal Credit Union ALSO GOOD FOR THAT RAINY DAY OR THAT MUCH NEEDED GjX^\ VACATION! PF^ l /** *4iJ ** Start* October 1,200S 1.75% * * tanrt s dotrt tarty cam* raopan until Ukmng guar 197 Broadway. Sannac Late. NY 12963 453 WesvaNay Rn.. Late Hand, NY 16 Daman BNd.. Tuppar Late, NY Phone ($18) 891-1666.523-2775 or 359-6100 Fax (516) 891-1797 •*3^ WoQ«fcu1.oom www.Wcu1.oom /Y^M Tri-Lakes* Choice Credit Union * A Tupper Lake woman who has been spending a great deal of time and money of her own in an effort lo find loving homes for abandoned animals mux community, look her case to the village board this month but officials there could do little more than hear her plea and advise her that il was the town's problem. Since February, Linda Gilligan and Iwo other local people have been attempting to find homes for dogs thai are unclaimed al the town's dog pound, before they arc put to sleep. She said she has been responsible for taking calls from local individuals or families needing, for one reason or another, to place Ihcir animal somewhere. She is also in charge of printing all posters and articles for the media, caring for the animals, coordinating bake sales to raise funds for the animals which arc taken in from the pound, traveling to and from the veterinarian clinic, etc.. etc. \1 cannot run an animal shelter,\ she told the board, stressing thai Ihe town desperately needs to find a way lo replace the money dial was al one lime paid to the Tri- Lakes Humane Society. Ms. Gilligan stressed that Tupper Lake docs have an animal issue and it needs to be dealt with. Ms. Gilligan related to the village board members lhai she had attended a town board meeting in May of this year asking the board if they could give lo \Friends of Animals- Tupper Lake,\ the $3,500 that was al one time meant to go to a shelter for animals. \If when I adopl a dog from the pound, and gat all medical, food and other bills. could the cost be deducted from that S3.50OT The answer she received, she said, was that ihe board members did not know if that money could be given to a private group lo use. \Tbcy needed lo check with the comptroller, and that was in May* she said. \This is now September and 1 haven't beard anything from any town board member whether the money ($3,500) earmarked for the Tri Lakes Humane Society, which is still budgeted each year, could be used toward Ihc caring for dogs from ihc pound or homeless animals around town that need new homes.\ \Seven thousand dollars is a very tittle amount compared to the numbers of animals that used to go to ihc Saranac Lake shelter from Tupper Lake,\ she said \I'm sure the Humane Society would be more than willing lo work with Tupper Lake again, and they're certainly not overpaid.\ Internet Unhmiied Hows, No Contracts! *9S5M • teattUesagr^ • Kaap your buddy Ml »1«i »H«MnnnwWiVHbm»le • FRK Tadncat Supeot • Cutfom start Pagt News, VteMhw 4 more! 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