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! The Altamo Our Serving th Guilderland, New Scotland, Bethlehem, Including Altamont, VoorheesvlMe, Weatmere, Guttderkmd C T? prise K?;;rr -,. f , , K TV 1 J c) J Number 4 Thursday, nd fiensselaerville Jr. . ' \* \'^ AUESlliiBP 8 \' 8 Altamont Fair Builds To Finale By BRYCE BUTLER The Altamont Fair has enjoyed perfect weather so far. Fair officials are looking to the last three days for a grand climax. One crowd,pleaser, Capital's Big Band, takes over the Freihofer Country Time Theater tonight. This concert was rained on last year; Fredi Hart, fair publicity chairman, hopes for better weath- er this year. \It's a real big band,\ Hart said. The group plays big band stand- ards by Glen Miller, Benny Goodman and other stars of the swing era. A concrete floor is available for dancing, or folks can just listen. The four-hour concert starts at 7 p.m. French's Hollow Bridge Termed 'Too Expensive' By BRYCE BUTLER The proposal to rebuild the bridge over the Normanskill at 'French's Hollow ' may be 'too expensive, according to Bob Lam- bert; regional design engineer for the-Bept; of-Transportation. The project, as described last spring, wouldi cost $2.3 million— $76o;000 over the $1:6 million in federal funds allocated for the project. The $1.6 million is firm, accor- ding to Lambert. The money in /(Continued on Page 4) Champions Friday brings the Parade of Champions to the track in front of the grandstand. This display of winners climaxes ( the livestock judging that has gone on all week — fairgoers can sit in the grandstand and see the best that Albany, Schenectady and Greene Counties have to offer pass before them. Friday is also the second Young America ©ay, with bicycles to be given'away to a boy and a girl. Saturday brings a new event this year. Pedal-powered tractors will hold a pulling competition in the infield at noon and 7 p.m. Children from 3 to 10 will compete for prizes by age class in this event, which has been popular at other fairs, according to Hart. The western horse show opens in the infield show ring at 10 a.m. Saturday. Pony pulling, another popular event, comes to the pull ring at 1 and 5 p.m. Fireworks The fair ends with a bang Sunday; the fireworks start at 9:30 pun-., following the Royal Hahne- • ford Circus. Preceding and accom- panying'the show will be a concert by the Suburban* Sounds, a choral group made up of local singers. The combination of choral music and fireworks was featured during the recent tricentennial celebra- tion in Albany, tbut this is the first ' time it has come to Altamont: fittingly, -on Tricentennial Day. (Continued on Page 19) Mood Cleanup Continues ByJOHNADDYMAN John Boucher was having trouble sleeping at night. \Every time those clouds would come over and we'd start to get a little rain, I'd go down to that bridge.,\ said Boucher. The bridge is over the creek that normally runs under Park Street. On the night of Aug, 1, the culvert beneath the bridge got clogged fast,and!theibridge:becameadam, spilling great volumes around its headwall, across Park Street, and down into the Park and Lark neighborhoods. Wednesday morning last week, Boucher had tossed and turned enough. He called Herm Van Burerii Guilderland's highway superintendent, and pleaded for help. Boucher promised equip- ment, manpower, whatever it would take to have Guilderland crews come down and unplug the mess underthe Park Street bridge. \I can't sleep at night,\ said Boucher to Van Buren. \He couldn't free his men for a whole day because he had other projects going on,\ said Boucher, \but he was here for half a day Wednesday, and we worked from noon until late afternoon again on Thursday, and we gdt it Cleaned out.\ Guilderland owns the bridges that cross the creeks that run through Altamont, creeks that are normally dry this time of year. When the creeks burst their banks Friday night, the Village sustained heavy damage to its streets and houses, damage that hasn't' been totaled up yet. The water flow was so swift and in such volume that the shallow 'creek bedscould not contain it, and the creeks jumped their banks, in some instances carving out new' courses. When Mayor James Caruso reported to the board of trustees Tuesday night, he said his efforts to. get some help inicleaning up the village were falling on -mostly inattentive ears. Only the Soil Conservation Service, a federal agency, would even send out people to look at the damage. Mark Franze of the Soil Conser- vation Service came out Tuesday, visited again on Wednesday, and Friday called with some good news. He had applied and gotten approved $45,000 in emergency disaster relief for Altamont. The money, Franze explained, would put the village's streams back where they were before the eight-inch rainfall of Aug. 1. Village officials were concerned that even a two-inch rainfall would put streets under water again because the stream beds were choked with so much rock and debris. As Franze explained it Saturday morning at a special meeting of the trustees and village officials, once the scope of the work was laid out, bids would go out within 10 days, and the village could expect work to start in something like two weeks. • \We must continue to stress the emergency nature of this project,\ (Continued on Page 9) Allan ont Enterprise MISS ALTAMONT FAIR and her court appeared at opening ceremonies Monday evening in front of the grandstand. From left are: Kimberly Williams of Colonie, second runner-up; Miss Altamont Fair, Katrina PierceofColonie; Terri Douglas of Selkirk, first runner-up; and Jennifer Fredrickson of Altamont, Miss Congeniality. See story on Page 6. Enterprise Office Will Close Aug, 23 For Vacation The Altamont Enterprise will •take a vacation the last week of August. The issue for Aug. 28 will be printed Thursday, Aug. 21. We must have church notices for the vacation week, ad copy and legal notices in advance, preferably by tomorrow -(Friday). The Office will he closed Satur- day, Aug. 23 through Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 1>). It will reopen Tuesday, ;Sept. 2. Alttmont Enlcrpriie — Bob. Haiyard SCHEDULED REPAIR WORK continues on the Dunnsville Road bridge over the Bozenkill north of the Village of Altamont. Earlier this year, DOT let out a repainting contract for the structure; upon inspect- ing the four wing walls < concrete lateral braces), engineers found this one in rough shape from the wear and tear of years of seasonal floods. Work crew shown here will pour a bigger wingwall that should also divert water back to the center of the channel. \If the weather holds up we'll have it done in two weeks*\ says Ray LaMarco, the white-shirted figure supervising the crew. Still mid-August waters in foreground belie the Bozenkill's other nature as indicated by debris further upstream.
