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The Chronicle-Express i W ednesday , D ecember 30,2020 1 ib PEOPLE PLACES 'One village at a time': Local nonprofit brings water to Congo residents Staff reports Imagine navigating the Covid-19 pandemic without a flowing supply of clean water. This is a reality for more than 800 million people around the world already vulnerable to deadly wa terborne diseases. More than a million people, half of them children, die each year from diarrhea illnesses alone. These tragic losses could be prevent ed by access to clean water. Efforts to improve water, sanitation and hygiene, collectively known as WASH, are a top priority for humanitarian aid organiza tions, both large and small. These ef forts have shifted to incorporate the challenges of COVID-19, and one of these organizations is a small non-profit based in Upstate New York. For nearly a decade, Habitat Tech nologies Solutions for the Congo (HTSCongo) has been aiding the hard est to reach areas of The Democratic Re public of the Congo, a continent away in Central Africa. The director of HTSCongo, longtime Penn Yan resident Leon Fontier, was born in the Congo. When he retired from a successful career as a metal craftsman and designer, Fontier made a commit ment to give back to his birth country. His trade gave him the skills needed to design and build water systems for mar ginalized populations in one of the poorest countries in the world; where many small rural villages rely on con taminated creeks for their water supply. \We specialize in techniques that al low us to go into the small villages.\ says Fontier. \For example, we drill manually because those big rigs for drilling wells cannot reach the small villages because the roads are impassable. We can do it because we use small equipment that can be carried in.\ See WATER, Page 2B Above, HTSCongo founder Leon Fontier, shown on a previous trip to the Congo with some happy children at a well dispensing water used for drinking, cooking and handwashing, photo provided / the chronicle - express Right, Christelle Mujinga, a student shown utilizing a facemask and pedal-powered handwashing station, photo provided / the chronicle - express FROM PAGES PAST The Chronicle-Express Consolidation, January 1,1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and the Gorham New Age (1902) The Yates County History Center ’ s volunteers have gleaned these entries a for your enjoyment from their digitized newspapers. You can access them at the free site www.nyshistoricnewspaper- s.com . For more information about the YCHC, visit www.yatespast.org . ' 1870 Dec. 29,1870 Resolved, That a stone side-walk six feet in width, be laid in front of the County Buildings, on the west side of Main Street in Penn Yan, the same to be of Cayuga Lake flagging, each stone not to be less than six feet, and across the entire walk, and to be laid upon a uni form grade, all excavations to be proper ly made, and the stones to be properly laid upon sand or fine gravel, and when completed to be similar in every part to the side-walk in front of the residence of E. B. Jones, Esq. That when such a side-walk is com pleted, upon the presentation of the cer tificate of the President of the village of Penn Yan, and the Sheriff of Yates Coun ty, who are hereby made a committee for that purpose, that the said side-walk is properly done as above specified, the Treasurer of the County do pay upon the presentation of such certificate, and the receipt of the contractor thereon a sum not to exceed $397 therefor out of the Contingent Fund of Yates County. Dec. 29,1870 The Courts for the Year 1871. The transfer of Mr. Justice Johnson to the General Term Bench of the Fourth Department, having made it necessary to change the assignment of Judges heretofore made to hold the Courts ap pointed to be held in the Seventh Judi cial District, notice is hereby given that by arrangement among the under signed, the Circuits and Special Terms heretofore appointed to be held in said District in the year 1871, will be held at the times and places so appointed, ac cording to the allotment or schedule fol lowing; BY JUSTICE E. DARWIN SMITH. Monroe Circuit, 1st Monday in Jan ’ y. Livingston Circuit, 4 th “ “ Monroe Special Term, last “ February Steuben Circuit - Bath, 1 st “ in April Wayne Circuit, 4 th “ “ Seneca Circuit - Waterloo, 1 st “ in May Livingston Special Term, last “ in July Monroe Special Term, last “ Septem ber Cayuga Circuit, 1 st “ October Wayne Circuit, 4 th ” “ Ontario Circuit, 2d “ November Monroe Special Term, last “ Decem ber BY JUSTICE JAMES C. SMITH Steuben Circuit - Corning, 1st Mon day in Jan ’ y. Monroe Special Term, last Monroe Circuit, 1st “ February Yates Circuit, 4th “ March Cayuga Circuit, 1st “ April Ontario Special Term, last See PAST, Page 2B
