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vO in o TJ^^AhumotitJixt tp**™ .\< » OUR CENTENNIAL Y§£jb fl J*l tc^'it /T'linniY Guilderland, New Scotland, Bethlehem, including Akamont, VoorheeavUh, Wmbmmrs t GuUdesksid Center, SSngenmds, Deb Serving the K*7p/Q^ D _ zthlehem, Berne, JfiSSg^K Number 6 Thursday, September 1, 1983 KEPT JCiCJOf itte Cents Scottish Games Saturday At Fairgrounds The Capital District Scottish Games, the annual celebration of North America's Celtic heritage, returns to the Altamont Fair- grounds this Saturday. A full program of events will begin at 9 a.m. with Highland dancing, solo piping and drumming and con- clude shortly before 6 p.m. with a mass bagpipe finale (including a rendition of \Amazing Grace\) featuring 25 pipe bands. Highlander Encampment This year's major new feature will be a day-long encampment by the 78th Highland Regiment of Foot (\Fraser's Highlanders\) an important military unit of the American Revolution. It should offer spectators a glimpse into army camp life of the period. Soldiers in period dress will per- form the manual of arms, march- ing maneuvers and volley firing with replica flintlock muskets. The women's auxiliary of the unit will demonstrate spinning, needlework and other crafts. Scheduled Activities At 10 a.m., Highland athletic events will get underway at the infield. All are invited to compete in the haggis hurl event at 11, in which contestants will throw frozen haggis (sausage and oat cakes) for distance; this event will be repeated at 3 p.m. for latecomers. At 11:30, Irish step dancing will be featured. The annual parade of tartans will begin at noon, followed by opening ceremonies and a 12;45 p.m. parade and mass concert of the 25 We're On Vacation The Enterprise office staff went on Vacation following publication of the Aug. 25 issue. This issue was printed simultaneously and mailed out to subscribers and news dealers this Thursday. Contributors are again reminded that because the U.S. Postal Ser- vice will be closed next Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 5, we will have one less day to receive and prepare copy mailed to us for publication next week. Deadline for all letters to the editor, columns, news stories, feature matter and calen- dar items for publication Sept. 8 must be received at the office no later than 5 p.m. next Tuesday, Sept. 6. Items received after that point will not be considered. The Enterprise office will reopen at 9 a.m. next Tuesday. invited pipe bands at the infield. Midday spectators are invted to sample the variety of Scottish and American foods available at the north end of the infield; Competition for Northeastern U.S. championships in High- land dancing (1:30), pipe band (2) and fiddling (2:30 p.m.) will follow the midday mass concert. Caber toss competition (throw- ing a 20-foot, 100-pound log for distance and accuracy) will start at 3. A Scottish country dancing exhibition follows at 3:30; At 4, the last of three sheepdog exhibitions will take place. Others are set for 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Scheduled for 4:30 is a new event for the Games—a Scottie dog con- test featuring Scottish, Border, and West Highland White terriers as well as Cairns, Dandie Dinmounts and and Skyes. A grand parade of dogs will follow during which breed origins -wilHte explained by the. master of ceremonies. A West ' Highland White champion, \Happy Hills Jaunty Ladd,\ will be on exhibition; Through the afternoon, informa- tional booths and traditional sales tables will be open. Again a number of clans will be repre- sented for those wishing to pursue genealogical research. Day Admission Tickets at the gate for this year's Scottish Games are $5 tor adults and $2 for children ages 6 through 12. Children under 6 will be admitted free. Presale tickets priced at $4 adults and $1 children 6-12 are now available at all Albany Public Markets locations as well as at the Tartan Pub in Scotia. The Games are sponsored by the Schenectady Pipe Band. GOP Primary Candidate Night At Town Center Richard Murray, Ray Ross, John Smireich and Shirley Swan- son, Republican primary candi- dates for.Guilderland Town Coun- cil seats, will answer questions at an issues forum, 8 p.m. next Thursday at the Guilderland Com- munity Center. The forum is spon- sored by the Guilderland Civic Action Group. Dance Instructor Bill Quirk adjusts the arm positions of the students of a pre-ballet class of the Guilderland Classical Ballet Program, which begins a new season on Sept. 10. Ballet Program Resumes At Middle School The Guilderland Classical Ballet Program begins a new season of instruction in ballet and jazz with an orientation and demonstration program on Saturday, Sept. 10, from I to 3 p.m., in the cafetorium of the Farnsworth Middle School, Route 155, Guilderland. Purpose of this event is to acquaint anyone interested in dance instruction with the Guilder- land program through demonstra- tions in ballet and jazz by the teachers and some students. Time will also be provided to meet the teachers and to ask questions of them. Students may enroll in classes for the fall semester at this time. Refreshments will be served. Dance classes, which will begin on Sept. 12, include creative movement, for boys and girls three and four years old; pre-ballet, for boys and girls five through seven years old; beginning, intermedi- ate, and advanced ballet; a beginning all-boys class; begin- ning and intermediate pointe; beginning, intermediate, and ad- vanced jazz; and both jazz and ballet workshops, for which there will be auditions later in Septem- ber. Also, a new class in beginning ballet for teenagers and adults will be added to the program this year. All classes wiii be given on Monday through Friday between 4 and 7:30 p.m., in the Farnsworth Middle School gymnasiums. The Guilderland Classical Ballet Program has a staff of four dance instructors. Returning to the program is William Quirk, who is trained both in theater and in dance, including ballet, jazz, modern, and tap. Mr. Quirk was a principle dancer with the Theatre Dance Company and the lead dancer and assistant choreograph- er for the South Massachusetts Regional Theater. Besides teach- ing jazz and pre-ballet classes for the Guilderland program, he also teaches dance at the College of Saint Rose, the Doane-Stuart School, and SUNYA. AnnMarie Truppi also returns to the Guilderland program this season. She studied at Le Danse Studio in Riverdale, N.J., with the American Ballet Theater, and with Jacqueline Walker of the Harkness Ballet. She also studied jazz at the Luigi School of Dance in New York City. She has taught jazz, ballet, and modern dance at the Doane- Stuart School and Le Danse Studio, and currently teaches jazz at Union College. Ms. Truppi will teach creative movement, begin- ning ballet, the all-boys class, and the new beginning ballet ciass for teenagers and adults. Also returning as a ballet instructor is Bon Ellis, who has studied extensively in New York City at the. School of American Ballet, the Jeffrey Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre. She has performed and toured as a soloist with the Augusta Ballet Company and with Michael Steele and the Skidmore Dancers. She has taught classical ballet for 19 years, most recently at SUNYA, the Hallen- beck School of Dance, and the DDB School in Latham. The Guilderland Classical Ballet Program announces the addition of a new ballet instructor, Tomislav Vukovich, to its staff. Mr. Vuko- vich presently teaches with Michael Steele at the Ballet School of Saratoga. The Guilderland Classical Ballet Program is sponsored by the Guilderland Youth Commission, and welcomes non-residents to its classes. For further information or [enrollment call Alice Gelley at 456-2107 (after 6 p.m.) or Nancy iClarke at 456-5092. How Tough Is The Cross-Country Course At Walters-Tawasentha Park? By LINDSAY CHILDS Last summer we reported in this column about a cross-country run at Tawasentha Park, sponsored by the Hudson-Mohawk Road Run- ners Club. The race was written up in the club's newsletter under the title, \If you fall, you will die!\ This year we decided to see what the fuss was about* The club scheduled three of these runs on the past three Monday openings. So we put on an old set of funning rlothes and went out to Tawasentha at 5:45 on Monday, Aug. 15, to try it out, first making sure that the family knew where my will was. We arrived to find some 30 or so people waiting for the run. Most of them were wearing just shorts, socks and running shoes (except for the women, who wore a bit more, of course). Many were doing stretching exercises of various sorts; some were jogging around the parking lot; some • were studying the two maps of the course. Almost all of them'looked fit and trim and tan. Runners are to football players as thorough- breds are to Clydesdales. Some of the runners were looking at a display of photographs of last year's race. Two photos showed some competitors wading through waist-deep water. Alongside the photographs was the \If you fall you will die\ article about last year's race. We looked at the pictures and decided that, with the temperature in the mid-80s, a little trekking through a stream wouldn't be half bad. We studied the maps of the course. The route was four and a quarter miles long and wandered all through Tawasentha Park. Of particular interest were the eleva- tions of various parts of the course on the topographic map. The course included two cross- ings of the Normnnski!!, at elevation 170 feet abo-e sea level, and also included a stretch at the top of the hill where the ski lift is overlooking the Performing Arts Center, elevation about 320 feet, 150 feet of elevation change. Then Bob Oates, the organizer of the Tawasentha races, announced that the race would start in 6 minutes. He pointed out the map and the pictures, and said, \I want you all to know that this course includes a stream crossing.\ he went on to say that while getting (Continued on Page 2)
