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Established . 1824 - 165th Year — No. 27 12/31/99 0 J FOREHAN CO BOX 68 MONMOUTH IL 61462 Wednesday, July 4,1990 YATES COUNTY’S Ol.*, A V t 4~& X U 4 A V YC Tomorrow & IDA com b ined forces to attract jobs to PY area PENN YAN — The Yates CounQr Tomorrow Committee and the Yates County Industrial Development Agency recently combined forces to attract new jobs to the Penn Yan area. The two groups reached an agreement with Artistic Greetings Incorporated, a long-established Elmira-based company, which has Wagner, Artistic Greetings’ per sonnel director, at 607-733-5541 or Yates County Tbrnorrow a t 315- 536-2394. “This development clearly shows that when we all work together, we can make a differ ence,” said Steve Marchionda, chairman of Yates County Tomor row. \Our success in attracting Ar- decided to locate a data entry tistic Greetings to Penn Yan is the CROP Walk f raises nearly k $4,000 tWalkers, above, sign up for ^the CROP Walk, held J u n e 10. A total of 97 w alkers raised more than $3,800 to feed the hungry, both lo- caUy and throughout the world. At right, Robert ^Wadsworth plays the bag* Ipipe as Norma Brown leads [i^ROP w alkers in singing the National Anthem and other inspirational tunes before they started their trek. (Photos by Jenna Mills) facility in Penn Yan. The operation for Artistic Greetings will be located at the Keuka Enterprise Incubator, 100 West Lake Road. Artistic Greetings began conducting initial employment interviews on July 2, and will continue the interview process on July 5, 9, 11 and 16. This new entry site may result in up to 36 new positions. Anyone interested in applying for the positions or wanting more information, should contact Mrs. result of many people working tc^ th e r quickly and effectively — and we’re grateful to all of them.” Representatives of Artistic Greetings said that a lai^e part of their decision involved the responsiveness and enthusiasm of the people working on this project. “We appreciate the efforts of the people from Yates County Tomor row and the Yates County In dustrial Development Agency in terms of the quickness of response, thoroughness of infor mation, and overall cooperation,’ said David Lee, vice president and general manager. Artistic Greetings was es tablished 65 years ago in Elmira, and specializes in a mail-order business of personalized gifts and stationery. Its Penn Yan operation will involve order entry for its sophisticated marketing opera tion. “This is an ideal situation for Yates County involving precisely the type of jobs we’re hoping to at tract,\ said Prank Hicks, chairman of the Yates County In dustrial Development Agency. “The company is strong and grow ing, this type of work is very im portant to their operation, and these are quality jobs that have no adverse impact on our beautiful environment.” Counties discuss cost o f M edicaid By BOB GILFILLAN PENN YAN — The rising costs of Medicaid and its impact on New York State counties was the main focus of a meeting of the In- ter-County Association of Western New York of the New York State Association of Counties, held Thursday, June 21 at the Lakeside Country Club in Penn Yan. According to Edward Crawford, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, “As a result of this budget (state), I think the mqjor concern, measured by doll8''s, is the fact At A q u atic Vegetation Workshop R estoration of lake discussed * By BOB GILFILLAN PENN YAN — Nearly 40 people attended a three-hour i^uatic V^etatibn workshop hosted by the Keuka ' Lake Association (KLA) on Saturday, June 16 in the Yates Coun^' C)ffice Building auditorium in Penn Yan. Among the topics highlighting ihe workshop were: “Understand ing Aquatic Plants in Lake Ecology,\ “Rants as Indicators of Lake Conditions,” “Specific Plant Biology,” “Role of Aquatic Plants in Nutrient Cycles,” “ Weed Management in Lake Restoration Programs\ and “Holistic Lake Idanagement.” According to Professor Bruce Gilman of the Communi^ College of the Finger Lakes, “The purpose ifcof the workshop was mainly to in crease the publics’ awareness. So that, in the case of the individual citizen, they know they might be contributing to part of the problem and there are things they can do to help become part of the solution.” During his presentation, Gil- Lman d iscu^d the steps needed to promote lake restoration. As Gil- n^Tian stated, “Lake restoration is I) the use of ecologically sound prin ciples to attempt to improve lake conditions.\ He went on to elaborate, “Three ways that this might be ac complished are; 1) control of plant ^owth through manipulation of light, nutrien^, or substrates. 2) improvements of conditions for I specific organism that are capable lft>f controlling excessive vegeta tion. 3) removal of nuisance or ganisms or substrates.” In addition to guest speakers; display posters, pamphlets, slides, labelled trays containing a variety of aquatic vegetation, and other a information was available to help facilitate public awareness. As Professor Frank Smith, Community College of the Finger Lakes, noted, “The workshop enabled people to learn more about the entire situation. Maybe it (the workshop) destroyed some preconceive notions that people may have had and will give them more information to work with.’ As he continued, “I think that’s what people need, when you start going off with little bits or pieces of information you’re in trouble. Once you get a broader picture and awareness of the situation than I think you have something more substantial to help you in your understanding.\ In speaking on one of the most serious problems currently facing area lakes. Smith stated, “People right on the lake shore, it bothers me a lot when you drive by and see all those little yellow signs on everybody’s house one right after another, “Don’t go in here for 24 hours. Fertilizer added.’ Espe cially the ones on the steep slopes because its going run right back (into the lake). Just like giving your lawn, you’re giving the lake a shot of fertilizer.” Of the public’s increased inter est in lake conservation, Smith observed. “I have seen it (an in crease in public concern). We are doing a lot of work with Canan daigua and Honeoye and some of the other lakes and the people are more concerned.\ As Smith explained, “There is a more of an awareness. The ter minology, people know the terms, they are familiar with it. Now when they see an erosion process going on whether it be from residential or agricultural; people recognize whats going on and they know its affecting their lake.” Of the possibility of improving the water quality of the lakes, Smith reflected, “I would hope so. I go back to when I was in school when we were reading the articles back when I was an under graduate - there would be no clean water left by 1990. We have got ten past 1990 and we are now aware of it.” “Situations,” he went on to say, “like the Hudson River, the Lake Erie - the scenarios that they had for Lake Erie it was known as the ‘dead sea’, now its back. We have to live with the problems that we have created, due to some of the toxic chemicals we put in.” “But”, he said, “the people in many cases didn’t know; now we are aware of what we are doing. It will take a while to clean up what we’ve done, but if we can keep going I think we have a good shot at it.” that we will have another hike this year and next in our local costs — in our local share of Medicaid.” As he explained about the state increase for the year that just started, “the state had to come up with $762 million new state dol lars. That will translate for us (county governments) into about $350 million. “The governor assured us,” Crawford went on to stress, “in his budget message that our share of the state’s Medicaid program would rise to $2.2 billion. That’s the local costs. He told us. He didn’t mince any words.” Crawford went on to point out that although New York’s economy has been “reasonably good” and the current caseload of people on Medicaid has been relatively stable, certain concerns remain. As he stated, “What really scares the bejabbers out of ad ministrators and probably has them thinking about retirement is ‘suppose our caseload went up?* Suppose we had another 10 per cent increase? We did in 1975 when we had a recession and our caseload skyrocketed.” Crawford observed, “So, all of this is against the backdrop of relative stability in the caseload. One has to think that county governments face this risk. I hope numbers are 85 percent of those beds are occupied by Medicaid patients.” As Crawford noted, ‘That has become a big piece of this program (Medicaid). The program, itself, is now over $10 billion, our share is $2.2 billion.” In speaking of other areas of concern for Medicaid recipients, Crawford stated, “The or ganizations in Albany that represent the applicants, people who are the recipients, the poor people, the welfare people, the welfare rights people, — we have found that thej/re not happy with the system either for difterent reasons.” As he explained, “in othv-i' words, we’re spending by our standards, the average man and woman (in the county) if you say locals are spending $2.2 billion thinks that a lot of money. They are not quite sure what it all represents. But, the average per son in Yates or Steuben County or wherever you might be out this way, thinks its a helluva lot of money. It is a lot of money! “But”, he emphasized, “they (welfare rights adVocates) are very upset with the system, be cause although they don’t get as excited about the expenditure as we do, they know it’s a lot of money; they know that sooner or $ Cooperative Extension ' notes transition period FENN YAN — Cornell Coopera tive Extension of Yates County will be in transition in the next few months. Joe Donahoe, association direc tor, retired as of July 1. The ^search for a new director is begin- *’mng. A job description became avail able July 1 at the Yates County tension office. Meanwhile. Jane Jensen Rauth, home economics agent, will be acting- director. Donahoe h as agreed to continue to lead the Ag Program on a two-day a week basis through the summer months. Although Extension programs may be slightly limited during this transition period, Yates County residents are encouraged to continue to take advantage of Extension services. it doesn’t happen. I’m not rooting later these kinds of increases have for a recesrion, I’m just pointing got to stop and it’s rotten care that they are getting. It’s lousy care. By any standards, when you com pare health care in our country with other nations, it ranks very poorly. “And”, he continued, “when you rank the quality of care we give to our Medicaid recipients, which is suppose to be equal to what you and I have, it’s even worse. And they are not happy about that. “They. are tired of emergency rooms; they’re tired of not being able to find a primary physician; they’re tired of getting second hand, second-class, second-rate medical care. So they have become an ally with us and what our goal is, we think, is that let’s see if we can get a handle on expenditures’; direct the money into far better channels for expenditures; and improve the quality of care.\ this out. If one comes (it could have dire consequences.) “There are two and a half mil lion citizens in our state,” he con tinued, “from infants to 90-year- olds that are eligible (for Medicaid.) About one half of that number will take some form of service during the year.” He went on to add, |Statistic8 show that something like a mil lion and a quarter of those people, it may be something minor or something quite serious, but at least they take some kind of ser vice. Some of course are in stitutionalized in nursing homes, and that of course has become one of the major portions of the ex pense. We have about 100,000 nursing home beds in New York State, including those in the city (New York City) and I think the Planners OK further study By BOB GILFILLAN PENN YAN — The Yates County Planning Board, in com pliance with State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Act guidelines, unanimously approved a motion that would enable fur ther environmental impact studies to be conducted regarding the proposed expansion of the Penn Yan Airport. By a 9-0 vote, board members, at their meeting held Thursday, June 28 in the Yates County Building Auditorium, approved the preparation of a “positive declaration”. According to the “positive declaration”, the Yates County Running Board \declared that the Professor Prank Smith o f Community College o f the Fin- ger Lakes holds a display tray ^ o u m u ucv.a.eu .i. pie of large-leaf pond-weed. Display trays con i i g^ project may result in one or rtgutunuiai impaci; s variety o f a q u a tic vegetation were am ong th e exniD its a t important impacts that Social/Economic Concerns, the A auatic Vegetation Workshop held » a t ^ d ^ , may have a significant impact on The work groups are to report in the Yates County auditorium . (Photo by Bob Gilfiilan) the environment.” their findings by July 19. Prior to the vote, Yates County Ranning Board Chairman Nancy Bailey stated. “At this point, all we’re saying, ‘are we concerned?’ (with the possible environmental impact), and we have received and identified some areas of concern, very superficially it may be, but that’s all it needs to be at this point. It may (have an impact) and that’s the key word.” Following the approval of the motion, five work groups were es tablished to further study and identify the areas most likely to be affected by the expansion. These are: 1) Wetlands; 2) Soil and Drainage; 3) Hazardous Was te; 4) Wooda and Wildlife; 5) Agricultural Impact; and 6)
