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M| 10A | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020 | THE CHRONICLE-EXPRESS 2020 Continued from Page 9A and deaths grow in the state, with fatal ities reaching 7,067 people on Thursday. Empire State Development, the state ’ s economic development arm, keeps a running list of industries that are deemed essential during the pan demic. Golf courses were not listed either way until Thursday, leaving it up to local leaders to decide what to do. The state ’ s guidance said that parks and other open public spaces can re main open, “ except playgrounds and other areas of congregation where so cial distancing cannot be abided. ” But it notes, “ However, golf courses are not essential ” and also “ use of boat launches and marinas for recreational vessels is not considered essential. ” Cruisin ’ night 2020 cancelled It is normally that time of year when the Cruisin ’ Night Committee would be in full swing in preparation for the 24th Annual event. The event has been held the Friday evening of Father ’ s Day weekend for the last 23 years — a night of true community spirit along Main Street in Penn Yan for car enthusiasts. With the current events that are occur ring throughout the world due to CO- VID-19, the Yates County Chamber of Commerce board of directors has voted to cancel the event that was scheduled for Friday, June 19. “ It was a hard decision that our entire team, committee and board of directors thoroughly discussed and evaluated the health risks that could be involved with large gatherings. ” said Jessica Bacher, President & CEO Yates County Chamber of Commerce. Details for a way to celebrate Cruisin ’ Night virtually are in the works and will be released nearer the end of May on the Yates County Chamber of Commerce social media pages and website. The committee will be taking this extra time of planning to create a more exciting and vibrant event for 2021. MAY 2020 All systems go - Finger Lakes to start reopening Friday Friday marks the end of the state wide closure due to COVID-19, and local leaders in Ontario and Wayne counties say they are ready to begin the process of reopening. The Rochester-Finger Lakes region had met state goals and was prepared to begin a gradual move toward normalcy, as were the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley regions. Cuomo reviewed each region in the state against seven key cri teria outlined for areas to qualify for re opening. Level of testing is one of the key ele ments of the reopening plan. As part of the Finger Lakes Region, Yates County has a testing target of 750 per month or around 25 tests per day according to Public Health Director Deb Minor. That is the county ’ s part of the region-wide target of 1,500 tests per day. Cuomo also issued an order mandating that nursing home staff be tested at least two times weekly. Quest Diagnostics, in collaboration with regional officials and local health care providers, has committed to dra matically boost testing capacity and kits in the region. Details include pro viding an initial quantity of 3,000 tests per day, which, added to existing capac ity, will exceed the reopening standards covering 3 million people in New York, according to the announcement. Sup plies will be shipped multiple times per week to meet demand in the Southern Tier, Finger Lakes, and Western New York regions — available for rapid de ployment to specific locations or com munities across the area that need quick access as new COVID-19 hotspots. Memorial Day parades cancelled Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional Memorial Day parades in Dresden, Dundee, and Penn Yan will not take place. The Memorial Services in Dresden and Dundee are also cancelled, but the Penn Yan community Memorial Day ceremony will be held virtually, ac cording to a joint announcement from the Johnson-Costello American Legion Post #355 and the Penn Yan VFW Post #745. The service will be aired on the radio by WFLR at 10 a.m. Monday, May 25, the Memorial Day holiday. WFLR can be found at 1570 AM and at 96.1, 96.9, and 1019 FM. The ceremony will also be streamed on fingerlakesdailynews.com . Also at 10 a.m., church bells throughout Penn Yan will ring. The ceremony can also be accessed at the website for later replay. Master of ceremonies will be Carrie Ahearn, 1st Vice Commander of the Johnson-Costello Post. Rev. John Busch, Johnson-Costello Post Chaplain, will offer the Invocation. The featured address will be given by Ellen Hey, Le gion Post Commander. Some other tra ditional elements of the annual ceremo- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported that 4,100 \Muskie\ fingerlings were stocked in Waneta Lake in 2019, it was reported in May. PHOTO PROVIDED/THE CHRONICLE-EXPRESS ny will also be included. Johnson-Cos tello Auxiliary President Lyn Johnson will recite the poem “ Flanders Field, ” and VFW Auxiliary President Ron Dai ley will provide the “ Response to Flan ders Field. ” Each year ’ s ceremony includes the reading of the Honor Roll of Yates Coun ty Veterans who have died and been transferred to “ Post Everlasting ” since Memorial Day of the previous year. Phil Rouin, Director to the Yates County Vet erans ’ Service Agency and Chaplain of the Yates County American Legion, will recite the names of the 44 veterans lost in the past year. The ceremony will con clude with a gun salute rendered by the VFW/American Legion Color Guard un der the direction of Captain Andy Swar- thout. Then the ceremony will conclude with “ Taps ” played by Phil Rouin. Phase 2 reopening announced for Rochester and Finger Lakes Rochester and the Finger Lakes re gion has been given the green light to head into Phase Two of reopening from restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during his daily briefing Fri day in Westchester. The move will enable retail business es to open their doors for the first time since mid-March. The second phase of reopening of economic activity includes the catego ries of professional services; finance and insurance; in-person retail; admin istrative support; and real estate, rental and leasing. Salons and barber shops will be able to reopen in phase two, according to Cu omo, but they will have to have strict so cial distancing .and density-reduction measures in place and the governor is recommending that hairdressers and barbers get tested before opening, and then get tested again every two weeks. Barbers and hairdressers must wear a mask and can cut, color but nail salons and facial clinics remain shut. Missing man ’ s body recovered from Seneca Lake The body of Daniel Manganaro, 27, of Horseheads, who drowned almost one month ago, has been recovered from one of the deepest parts of Seneca Lake. Yates County Sheriff Ron Spike is sued a press release saying the New York State Police Underwater Recovery Team (URT), using underwater sonar along with Sheriff's Marine Patrols have been searching the lake with boats arid drones since the official search ended April 25. Manganaro was reported miss ing the evening of April 19. The URT re turned to the area searching with sonar this week at the deeper depths of the lake in an area near the middle of the lake off Plum Point. “ Using newly purchased additional cable length for their sonar purchased by the Manganaro family, the URT re ported they had sonar confirmation of the likelihood of a body at the 571 foot depth earlier this week, and were get ting the location marked, which is chal lenging in itself, ” says Spike. Saturday morning, the URT vessel and Sheriffs Marine Patrol returned to the marked location. The URT deployed their underwater remotely operated ve hicle (ROV) unit and located the body at 10:17 a.m. Using the arm on the ROV, they were able to bring Manganaro ’ s body to the surface where State Police divers entered the water and brought him into their vessel, says Spike. It was brought to the command post (CP) at Severne Point for processing by Sher iff ’ s Investigators, and Yates Coroner Ron Daily ordered the body taken to the Soldier ’ s & Sailors Memorial Hospital morgue in Penn Yan for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Sunday, April 19 at approx. 6:20 p.m., Daniel and Keith Seymore, 27, of Mill port, left the Manganaro summer cot tage on North Plum Point Road, Himrod, to paddle a canoe across the lake. They were not wearing life vests and were fully clothed. The canoe mishap with the two men occurred before sunset. A search was started following the 911 call. It was just before midnight when Sey more, suffering from hyperthermia, was spotted by an Onondaga County Sher iff ’ s helicopter with spotlight, and was rescued by Yates County Sheriff ’ s Ma A public hearing on a proposed coun ty law to expand the legislators ’ terms of office from two to four years will be held Monday, June 8 by remote access. Local Law 4-2020 would amend the length of term of the legislators so that at the general election in November 2021, seven legislators would be elected by the voters for a term of four years, and the other seven legislators would be elected for a term of two years. There after, all legislators would be elected for four year terms. Proposed by Legislator Daniel Ba nach, the intent is to provide a cyclical election schedule, rather than the possi bility of all 14 legislators being voted out at once. Several legislators have been vocal in their opposition to the law, cit ing federal and state elected terms of of fice. Chairman Doug Paddock pointed out the challenge it poses for newly elected legislators to learn all the re sponsibilities of the office and restric tions placed on counties of what can and cannot be done. Live music “Hotspots ” to start Sat urday in Penn Yan Why hot celebrate the first day of summer this Saturday, June 20 by com ing into Penn Yan, patronizing our many fine establishments, and catching the sounds of some of our best area musi cians wafting in the summer air? What a great way to usher in a new season in a year that has given us so many unpleas ant surprises! The Yates Concert Series proudly presents our 2020 pop-up concert se ries starting this Saturday June 20. Mu sicians from all over the Finger Lakes will be performing Wednesday and Sat urday mini-concerts throughout Yates County through July. This weeks ’ artists will be kicking off the series in multiple downtown Penn Yan locations between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Drop into Penn Yan on Satur day and keep your eyes and ears peeled for our live music HotSpots! You might enjoy them by the grocery store, farmers market, post office, or down on the Out let! While enjoying a tune, please adhere to social distancing and mask guide lines. Penn Yan: Black Lives Matter dem onstration planned June 20 Yates County citizens have organized an ongoing series of peaceful demon strations to decry our nation ’ s history of racial injustice and violence against un armed Black men, women and children. Now, local organizers and a number of justice-oriented groups invite sup porters of progress and equity to come together at Indian Pines Park in Penn Yan on Saturday, June 20 at 5 pm for a rally featuring speakers, music, and re flection. An optional silent car proces sion will precede the event at 4:30, be ginning at Lake Street Plaza and ending at the park, during which participants are invited to display messages on their vehicles. Plans for this grassroots and respon sive event are still evolving, but organiz ers will welcome several speakers cen tering the experiences of Black Ameri cans. Black Lives Matter-themed artwork by a local artist will be available for sale, with proceeds going to the Geneva chapter of the NAACP, organizers said. UPDATE: New COVID-19 cases in Benton After three weeks with no new CO VID-19 cases reported, Yates County Public Health learned of three new cases in the Town of Benton, though neither case is associated with The Homestead nursing home. YCPH Deputy Director Sara Christen sen says the case reported Friday, June 19 was a person in their 40s who was symptomatic. The case reported Mon day morning, June 22 was a person in their 60s who also showed Coronavirus symptoms. Christensen says both peo ple are in isolation in their homes, their contacts have been traced, and those people who were in contact will remain in 14-day quarantine. A third case was reported Tuesday, June 23 after press time. This person in their 50s, is also a resident of Benton and not connected in any way with The Homestead. Christensen says there is a connection between the second and third new cases. New cases reported in Yates Coun ty Two new cases of COVID-19 have been reported to Yates County Public Health. The first, reported Friday, June 26, is a Town of Potter resident in their 50s. The second, reported Monday, June 29, is a Jerusalem resident in their 20s. Neither is connected to health care or nursing homes. Public Health Director Deb Minor says both cases were related to out-of- state travel by that person visiting a hot spot state or being in contact with rela tive or visitor who had done so. They are observing self-isolation, and their close contacts are in 14-day quarantine. Excerpts from articles published in July through December 2020 will ap pear in next week's Chronicle-Express. rine Patrol Officers from the flooded ca noe on its side. The water at that loca tion near the center of the lake is 583 feet deep. 2020 Keuka Arts Festival cancelled by COVID-19 After much thought, organizers of the annual Keuka Arts Festival have de cided to cancel rather than postpone this year’ s event. The annual festival has been held for the past decade along the Village of Penn Yan ’ s portion of the historic Outlet Trail. The Arts Center of Yates County assumed management of the event two years ago. “ Initially we thought it might be pos sible to move the Festival to August, ” said Festival Committee co-chair Cindy Kowalski. “ But with the uncertainties of the current situation, the Committee ul timately decided it was safest for our artists, vendors, volunteers, visitors, and the community as a whole to cancel the event altogether. ” Work was well underway for the 2020 event, which usually involves 100 artists, performers and vendors and at tracts up to 10,000 visitors during the two-day event. More than a dozen free musical performances had been sched uled and a great line-up of new and re turning artists had reserved spots for the Festival. For many potters, painters, photographers, woodworkers, jewelry designers and other local and regional artists, summer festival sales represent the majority of their annual income. The cascade of festival and event cancella tions will leave many of these artists and performers in dire financial straits. “ We ’ re exploring ways we can help celebrate the work done by these talent ed artists, ” says Festival Committee co- chair Karen Morris. “ We ’ re hoping to spread the word by highlighting many of them on the Keuka Arts Festival website throughout the remainder of the year and we ’ re looking forward to seeing them at our 2021 event. ” Truck driver dead after shootout with deputies Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty has identified the man, a Vir ginia resident, who led police on a reck less chase through three counties before he was shot and killed Wednesday night. The driver, Joshua Blessed, 58, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, also went by the name Sergei Jourev, Dougherty said. He had traveled to New York on behalf of a Yurman Express LLC., a freight-trans port company based in Virginia, to re trieve dairy products from Batavia, Dougherty said. Dougherty said it was not yet clear why the driver fled police and repeated ly fired at officers attempting to stop the tractor-trailer. He said police do not yet know what led to such an extreme en counter with police. Blessed ’ s body was taken to the Mon roe County Medical Examiner ’ s Office on Thursday morning. Dougherty said Blessed suffered multiple gun shot wounds, and it ’ s not yet clear if any shots where self-inflicted. “ It ’ s simply unbelievable that nobody was injured, aside from the suspect, ” given the massive number of shots fired, the dangerous pursuit and the size and weight of the tractor-trailer, Dough erty said. The incident started just after 8:35 p.m. in LeRoy, Genesee County, when a police officer stopped the driver for speeding on West Main Street. LeRoy Village Police Chief Chris Hayward said that the driver refused to follow the offi cer’ s directions and drove away while an officer was still on the truck, forcing the officer to jump off the moving vehicle. According to Dougherty, the driver made multiple U-turns during the pur suit, tried to run down numerous police cars and repeatedly fired shots at police. Dougherty said the driver first trav eled to Batavia, made a U-turn and re turned to LeRoy and passed through Pa vilion before entering Livingston Coun ty, driving over two sets of police spike strips and driving into Geneseo. At one point he drove onto Interstate 390, but turned again and returned to Geneseo. The pursuit ended shortly before 10 p.m. near the Applebee ’ s restaurant on Route 20A in Geneseo, when officers fired multiple shots at the driver, Dougherty said. Blessed was pro nounced dead at the scene, he said. “He had no regard for human life, weaving this semi all over both lanes, specifically at our patrol cars, ” Dougher ty said. The driver rammed at least four po lice cars, including two cars from the Le Roy Police Department. Four police cars were also struck with gunfire, including one Livingston County Sheriff ’ s Office investigator ’ s car that was hit with 10 bullets. One bullet went through the front windshield of a Genesee County Sheriff’ s Office patrol car and missed a deputy ’ s head by inches, Dougherty said. JUNE 2020 Public hearing to expand county legislator terms to four years I I f g / C tl
