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•> , FWNKLIN CUINTON PAGE 15 PRESS-REPUBLICAN 'Phish is more lively than the Dead' snap up By MARY THILL Staff Writer Sara-Placid Buraau LAKE PLACID - Eighty Phish heads camped out at the Olympic Center Thursday night to get the best tickets for the ' band's two shows here Dec. 16 and 17. Sheltered by the overhang of the Olympic Center over the box office, the gathering passed . the warm and rainy night quietly, except for the occa- sional drumming on a bongo. The Burlington-based band is known for its innovative jams and the devotion of its fans, who are beginning to follow the group with the same zeal that Deadheads showed for the Grateful Dead. Local Phish fans are grateful they won't have to travel to see this show. 'We can just hang out at a restaurant and go,\ said Julie Ball of Lake Placid, waiting in line with her husky, Colden. Some fans do follow Phish in tents, Ball said, but she doesn't expect anyone to camp out in Lake Placid in December. Cory Lamb, Glenn Magnant, Randy Dupuis and Tom San- taski of Clarkson University arrived at 2 a.m. to endure most of the night in sleeping bags. Each bought a block of six tickets at $20 each for both shows. \If you like the Dead you understand (Phish's appeal) because each show is different,\ Magnant'said. \Phish is more lively than the Dead,\ Dupuis said. -Sin<*e the death earlier this year of Grateful Dead guitarist -Jerry—Garcia^ Ehish;=niay be— . picking up more followers-. Matt Cook, a high-school student from Saranac Lake, was missing class to stand in line Friday morning. Standing not far from him was the su- perintendent of Saranac Lake schools, Paul Doyle. \He said, *Why aren't yo_u in school?'\ Cook laughed. Doyle arrived at 5 a.m. to Phish fans line up for tickets aJttjte (Olympic Center Friday. Staff Photo/Mary Thill buy ticket^pfOT* %iP f -wha-is away at .college \You used to just go get your tickets at the show,\ Doyle said; \I haven't been to a concert in 25 years. This is a new phe- nomenon.\ Those who got in line early in Lake Placid were angling for the best seats. Later in the day, tickets went on sale at other outlets in Vermont and Platt- gh/'anicl by'telephone' for credifccard orders. By 5 p.m. Friday, the Satur- day show was approaching the. sold-out point, while about two-thirds of Sunday's tickets were gone, according to Olym- pic Authority Spokesman Don Krone. Capacity is 7,700 for each show. In an effort to address growing concerns about the crowd it draws, the Phish organization sends ticket buyers advance information outlining local rules, lodgings and transportation routes. A Phish Green Crew helps clean up parking lots afterward. The Olympic Regional Devel- opment Authority is offering special skiing, skating and luge-ride discounts to Phish fans, and some local hotels are offering budget rates. Wal-Mart heats up North Elba election By MARY THILL StaffWriter Sara-Placid Bureau LAKE PLACID - Wal-Mart, usually an attention grabber, is a sleeper issue in North Elba right now. As the Planning Board pon- ders whether to approve the retailer's application to build a huge store by local standards, it appears the Town Board has no more influence on the decision. Repeal of law But' one\ candidate for super- visor, Republican Favor Smith, said he'd vote to repeal Local Law No. 3, which gave the Adirondack Park Agency equal jurisdiction over large retail stores. His opponent, Independent Shirley Seney, is also hinting at it. The Town Board enacted Local Law No.' 3 this summer when some members became alarmed at the scale of Wal-Mart's pro- posal. Such a large store will have regional impacts and should be reviewed by a regional agency, proponents argued, to the dismay of the Planning Board. Wal-Mart is suing to repeal the law. \I. think the solution is we give top priority to completion of a consolidated village-town plan ... Then trust and guide our Plan- ning Board and repeal Local Law No. 3,\ Smith said. \The Town of North Elba is perfectly capable of planning its own future.\ Smith has said he thinks Wal-Mart would do more harm than good to the community. \The Planning Board's orders were not clear,\ he said. \That made the Town Board nervous, ai|d their solution was to ask for A|*A review. I think that was a misjake.\ Smith thinks there will be time to put a master plan in place before Wal-Mart gets a permit. He predicts Wal-Mart will be denied on its first try. Will consider repeal Seney said she will explore the option with the rest of the Town Board. The law passed 4 to 1 this summer. \The purpose of a comprehen- sive plan is to do away with APA control, giving local control a broader base from which to work,\ she said. She has not taken a position on whether Wal-Mart should be in North Elba, whose main in- dustry is tourism. Political support Tuesday's vote to fill the highest office in Essex County's most-populous town will pit a former mayor of Lake Placid, Seney, against Smith, a local at- torney who has never run for of- fice but who has political savvy. Seney has the backing of the politician leaving the office after 14 unchallenged years, Matthew Clark. Smith has the backing of Lake Placid's former mayor, Robert Peacock, and the current mayor, Jim Strack. Smith talks most about rein- ing in spending and fighting tax increases. \We could even end up with a tax decrease. I can't promise a decrease.. I. caii' promise ? I will fight an increase,\ he said. Town •mployee raise* Seney called a netys conference Friday afternoon to question Why Smith wrote town employees let- ters describing raises. •-. \The inexperience of my oppo- nent, working with budgets, in- creasing expenditures, decreas- ing taxes, yet hot addressing projects to increase revenue is File Photo Favor Smith: \We could even end up with a tax decrease. I can't promise.a decrease. I can promise I will fight an increase.' troublesome,\ she said. Seney did not understand the letter, Smith said. He wants to restructure raises, not promise employees more money. Currently, the Town Board decides what percent raise all employees will get annually. Smith said employees should get cost-of-living increases and then individual merit raises based on how well they perform. This will narrow the gap between high- and low-paid workers, he said. Revenues Seney * said she will be ag- gressive on the revenue side, of the equation, actively selling North Elba to light industry, sports and resort developers to build the tax base. Smith\ said he will turn the town-owned Craig Wood golf course into a better money- maker. Immunologist named director of Trudeau Institute File Photo Shirley Seney: \The inexperi- ence of my opponent, working with budgets, increasing expen- ditures, decreasing taxes, yet not addressing projects to in- crease revenue is troublesome.\ Youth center On other issues, Seney and Smith both back the creation of a youth center. \How to fund it is something that is going to have to be work- ed out by all members of this community,\ Seney said. \It should be supported by vol- unteers, the town and village,\ Smith said. Landfill sale Seney favors selling the county landfill, which has been a finan- cial drain. Smith favors lower tipping fees, but not at the ex- pense of increased property taxes for county residents. Athletes Both candidates say the town has to do more to accommodate professional and amateur athletes. SARANAC LAKE - In 1996, an immunologist and professor of biology will become the fourth director of the Trudeau Institute. Dr. Susan L. Swain was ap- pointed director, the research in- stitute's Board of Trustees an- nounced Friday in a news release. Swain succeeds Dr. Robert North, who has been the in- stitute's director since 1976. Swain is currently professor of biology in residence at the Uni- versity of California at San Diego and a member of its cancer center and the center for molecular genetics. Swain received her B.A. magna cum laude from Oberlin College and a PhD from Harvard Medical School. She studied with Dr. Albert Coons, who developed the process of labeling antibodies with fluorescent dyes, a clinical and research tool that continues in wide use today. An author or co-author of 45 scientific articles since 1990, Swain has also served on a num- ber of advisory panels at the na- tional Institutes of Health, as a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and as a committee member of several national and international pro- fessional organizations. Her husband, Richard Dutton, is a respected immunologist and president of the American Association of Immunologists. He will also join the institute. Dutton and their two children, Nicholas and Lisa, will join Swain in Saranac Lake at the close of the school year in June 1996. Quebec vote is over, but the story lives on (Editor's note: This is the final column by Michael Shenker, Page One editor for the Montreal Gazette, who has been writing for the Press-Republican about the Quebec sovereignty issue.) Everybody's tired. But it's clear we can't take a break yet. Immediately after the results came in Monday night, showing the narrowest of defeats for Quebec separatists, the losing team said they would try again. They'd launch another referen- dum to break away from Canada. Since immigrating to this land seven years ago from New York City, my work life has been dominated by the same story in \ one form or another. After a while, the stories at the newspa- per where I workstarted to sound the same. There were two-kinds: either someone was complaining that English Canada was trampling . on French Quebec, or French Quebec was trampling on the English who live within its borders. This year, it all changed. From a creeping tedium came anxiety. On the Thursday before the vote, I saw scores of people line up to apply for Canadian pass- ports. When I returned home, my neighbor told me in passing that she had moved her money into a bank account in Ontario. For months, I could see the tension building. Now, I felt like my adopted city was under siege. My astonishment at how Mon- treal and the rest of Quebec reached the brink so quickly and effortlessly just underscored my ignorance of my own community. I caught up with events just be- fore the referendum, only to be left behind again. The vote that I thought would be the climax to the issue is now just a starting point for a re- juvenated independence move- ment. \On continue. On continue,\ a teacher told his colleagues after his separatist cause lost this week. I can symphathize with this movement but I can't join it. I am not part of the'\we\ that Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau refer- red to in his concession speech on referendum night; I am part of the rest. I can try to chronicle and in- spect this movement, but I can't climb out of its current. It will cause people who are close to me to move away. It will make my future uncertain. I am part of the news story. More than a few people in Plattsburgh understand that feeling. Canada's inability to sew its two peoples into a nation has caused the Canadian dollar to fall, making it more expensive for Michael Shenker Contributing Writer Canadians to shop, buy a meal, take a vacation, tie up their boat or buy a home in Plattsburgh. When a business in Platt- sburgh closes because the Cana- dians aren't coining anymore,- people's lives are disrupted, jobs are lost. The separatist threat has been present in Montreal for so long it has become part of the city's character and its culture. The threat has kept many businesses from locating or expanding here, and it has kept real-estate prices low. Housing is pretty inexpen- sive for a.city of 1 million. It has sent a generation of English-speaking Montrealers to Toronto to find work and new lives, away from parents, aunts and uncles whose roots are too deep to pull out. Those who remain here live with the uncertainty, joke about it, maybe thrive a little on it. Over the years I've lived here, French-English tension was more something you read about rather than experienced in the face. True, we English have had to put up with a ban on non-French signs and suffer a few other un- constitutional indignities. As an American raised to be- lieve there was nothing more im- portant to democracy than the First Amendment right to free speech and expression, I couldn't believe the Quebec government could ban my language from a store sign. But not once has anyone ever been rude to me because of my poor command of French, the language that Quebecers are struggling so hard to protect. On the contrary, store clerks and people on the street would switch into English when they heard me struggle. I haven't felt unwelcome in this city. While the issue of separation has long been part of Montreal's ambience, when it rose to the surface it made the city an un- easy place. Fights broke out in the streets after Monday's refer- endum. Premier Parizeau blam- ed \money and the ethnic vote\ for his loss. With those words, it became clear that separation is no longer an old story, but a new threat to the city I know. How to reach us in Essex thd Fres^Jtepublicatn'a Cefttrat Essex Bureau staff ***»-, Aliaon Calkins, Has takeit another jdb out of the area. Bseaidenta whd would like to apeafc to a reporter may no*r. calro^r Ticonderbga bureau at 585 r 4070. For information about adver- tising or circulation, call the Plattaburgh office at l-800-28$- t
