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FRANKLIN CLINTON REGIONA PAGE 11 PRESS-REPUBLICAN I build cabinets to help hospital ByLOHRMcKINSTRY Staff Writer Southern E»m Bureau ELIZABETHTOWN - Stu- dents at Yandon-Dillon Educa- tional Center have given Eliza- bethtown Community Hospital a touch of home. Old institutional metal lockers in patient rooms are being replaced with stained wooden shelf-and-compartment units for people to store their belongings in. \It creates more of a home at- mosphere in the room,\ hospital Administrator Anthony Deobil said. \Lockers just don't do it. BOCES said.they'd love to take on a project like this.\ So the Building Trades classes at the state Board of Cooperative Educational Services Yandon- Dillon Educational Center in Mirieville got to work. \We had a good time working on it,\ student Rebecca Burl- ingame said. \Now we're working on the rest.\ . The first item was recently put in place in one of the hospital's 25 patient rooms, and 15 shelv- ing units are being created altogether. \It fit perfectly, although we had to take the hinges off the room's door to get it in,\ BOCES Building Trades Instructor James Sherman said. \We have another one made and five glued up.\ Hospital Maintenance Super- visor Warren Haseltine said Bryant's Lumber of Port Henry donated plywood and Cornwright Lumber of Lewis gave rough lumber for the project. The hospi- tal bought the varnish. \BOCES wanted the rough-cut lumber so they could plane it down,\ Deobil said. \They'll bring them over as they're finished.\ \It was taken to BOCES and they did the rest,\ Haseltine said. \The finished product is beautiful.\ \It's really great that we're able to do something like this,\ Deobil said. \It's nice to have a project that benefits the com- munity as a whole.\ Sherman said each cabinet takes about seven hours to make and then gets three coats of var- nish. \The students take it from rough lumber to finished product in that amount of time,\ he said, Deobil said the new cabinets are only the beginning at the hospital. \The local quilter's guild will make quilts for the walls,\ he said. \We'll paint the room. We want people to be more comfor- table, to feel like home.\ \We're doing something to help the rooms, and it's a great project for these guys to get into,\ Yan- don-Dillon Principal Bruce Tubbs said. The students who delivered the first cabinet were George Clark Jr., Timothy Mclntyre, Edward Decker, Scott Burnett and Rebecca Burlingame. \Now that we've done one, it's ••-\\ : • '•' StaffWofd/ibfifli/lcKinstry Elegant wood cabinets are replacing metal lockers in patient rooms at Elizabethtown Community Hospital, thanks to students from the Yandon-Dillon Educational Center in Mineville. Several students recently installed the first of 15 units at the hospital. going to be easier putting them together,\ Decker said. Deobil treated the students to sodas, coffee and snacks in the hospital cafeteria when they were finished installing the cabi- net. \As you're walking out, look at some of the patients,\ Deobil told them. \Think how they're going to feel, not having to look at those ugly bus-station lockers.\ \It'll be a nice improvement,\ Haseltine said. • Sparkle Village Craft Show coming up SARANAC LAKE - The Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and Hotel Saranac of Paul Smith's College will present the 8th-Annual Sparkle Village Craft Show and Sale Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will take place at two sites — the'Harrietstown Town Hall, at 30 Main St., and the Hotel Saranac, at 101 Main St. — in downtown Saranac Lake. Holding the show in two places reflects an effort by the chamber to expand and enhance what is already one of the most well-regard- ed craft shows in the Adirondacks. With the cooperation of the Hotel Saranac, the show will now be able to accommodate a greater number of artisans. Fifty-nine booths in the hotel's Grand Lobby and the Town Hall's auditorium and lobbies will offer handmade jewelry, fur- niture, pottery, baskets, candles, quilts, clothing, herbal creations, wreaths and Christmas decorations, as well as paintings, photographs, wood carvings and metal sculptures. . • Admission to the craft show is free, with refreshments available at both sites. At 12:30 p.m., the Adirondack Singers will perform at the Town Hall, offering a preview of their Winter Holiday Choral Concert, be- ing held at 3 p.m. Dec. 10 at St. Bernard's Church. Following the craft show, the chamber, in cooperaton. with the Hotel Saranac, will host a Holiday Mixer in the Hotel's Grand Lobby from 5 to 6 p.m. It is open to all. The winners of the Decoration Contest will be announced. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. The Mixer will be a prelude to the Hotel Saranac's annual Village Holiday Party, be- ing held in the Hotel's Grand Hall; the party will kick off with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner at 7 p.m. and then dancing to the music of DJ Gary Peacock from 8 p.m. until midnight. For more information, contact the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, 30 Main St., Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983, or call 1- 800-347-1992 or 891-1990. Zebra mussels improve water CLEVELAND (AP) - Several underwater plant species have reappeared in Lake Erie amid improved water clarity helped by fast-feeding zebra mussels. Researchers at Ohio State University's Stone Laboratory near Put-in-Bay have found nine species of underwater plants thought to have become extinct because of pollution, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday. Ronald L. Stuckey, a retired Ohio State plant-biology pro- fessor, and other researchers recently found an array of once- absent plants which apparently were energized by sunlight penetrating clearing waters. \Essentially what we found was that half the species were gone by 1967,\ Stuckey said. \Now we're seeing them return.\ The lake's improving clarity apparently was caused by the ever-hungry zebra mussel, a tiny European mollusk that filters water while eating algae and other microscopic plants. The reappearance of clear- water plants in the lake is another symptom of the upheav- al zebra mussels have on. the Great Lakes ecosystem, said Jef- frey Reutter, director of the OSU-led research program Ohio Sea Grant. \The ultimate impact on the ecosystem from zebra mussels has not been reached,\ Reutter said. \We're not even close to a steady state. It's changing very quickly.\ One worry, so far unproven, is that zebra mussels might be sucking toxic contaminants such as PCBs from the bottom of the lake and passing them up the food chain, possibly to humans. Zebra mussels began invading the Great Lakes in the mid- 1980s as stowaways from Europe living in the ballast water of oceangoing vessels. The mussels have few natural predators in the Great Lakes and reproduce quickly: A single thumbnail-sized female can lay 1 million eggs. Phbio/P. Maicus FOR THE BIRDS: Residents of Jay turned out this weekend to decorate the Christmas tree in the village park. Jeshua Hundt of Lynchburg, Va., who was visiting her grandmother, gathered pine cones, which she said she would feed to the birds. By RICHARD C. TEN WOLDE Staff Writer MALQNE - As some hit white-tiled department store ai- sles, carving sharp turns through fellow shoppers this past weekend, others attacked the white stuff on area ski slopes. Malone's Mt. Titus hosted a crowd of 600, three times the size of last year's Thanksgiving weekend. \I'm pleased with the numbers,\ said Emily Lloyd, the general manager. \It's a bonus because we didn't have much going for us last year.\ Dry, warm weather shortened the 1994/95 sk i season, evaporating almost all profits. Some resort managers even wor- ried they could not suffer another such season. \We had to start over three times last year,\ Lloyd said. \We couldn't afford to do it again.\ Last season intermittent warm spells melted the snow-making efforts at the local mountains, leaving the resorts little profit for the expense and effort. Whiteface Mountain opened Saturday, a week behind Titus. Staffs at the mountains have been making snow for about two weeks in preparation. Saturday skiers at Whiteface had three trails to slice down, five at Titus. Whiteface opened another four for Sunday's en- thusiasts. Both resorts will add trails as cold weather permits. Early season tickets are $10 at Titus and $25 at Whiteface. \If the season is anything like this weekend, we'll have an out- standing year,\ said Ted Blazer, Whiteface's manager. Whiteface sold about 1,000 tickets on Saturday, but at press time, the staff hadn't tallied Sunday's results. However, Blazer said the opener was the best'for the resort in four years. Even after last year's losses, both mountains invested in im- provements for the future. Whiteface upgraded sections of its snow-making system, adding compressors, spray cannons, pumps and a cooling system. And Titus expanded its night- skiing lighting system to cover 10 trails. \People seem anxious and pent up because of last year's late start and early finish,\ Lloyd said. \The skiers will come if we get snow, so all we can do is hope the temperatures stay down.\ Mt. Van Hoevenberg ski passes go on sale LAKE PLACID - Season passes to the cross-country skiing center at Mt. Van Hoevenberg are now on sale at the Cross- Country Ski Center, the Bobsled/Luge Building at the Olympic Sports Complex, and the Olympic Center Box Office. The season passes cost $90 for adults and $40 for children and students. A special family pass is also available for $150. Along with the access to the. more than 50 kilometers of Olympic cross-country trails at Mt. Van Hoevenberg, the new feature for season-pass holders is an \interpass\ agreement with Gatineau Park, 10 minutes out- side of Ottawa. Anyone purchasing a season pass at Mt. Van Hoevenberg also receives unlimited access to Gatineau Park's 180 kilometers of trail. Lake Placid Super Season Passes, good for skiing at Mt. Van Hoevenberg, the Jackrabbit Trail, the Cascade Touring Center, Cunningham's Ski Barn and the Whiteface Inn Golf Course are also on sale now for $125. For more information about the cross-country skiing at Mt. Van Hoevenberg contact the Olympic Regional Development Authority at 523-1655, or visit the ORDA web site on the In- ternet at http://www.orda.org. REGIONAL ROUNDUP Traffic Safety Board meets today MALONE - The next meeting of the Franklin County Traffic Safety Board will be today at 11 a.m. at the Conference Room, first floor, Court House, Malonfe, and on Dec. 11 at 9 a.m. at the Con- ference Room, fourth floor, Court House, Malone. The following members were appointed to select a slate of officers for 1996 and present them at the Dec. 11 meeting. Election will be at thefirst meeting in January. Chairman Dave F. Werner, Chief James Phillips and Curt Barton will serve on the selection committee. Comments on what you are doing to help prevent accidents and save lives are welcome. School bus safety and driving when fatigued are issues high on the Traffic Safety List for 1996. Saranac Lake Zoning Board meeting set SARANAC LAKE - The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Saranac Lake will hold a meeting at the Village Offices, 2 Main St, Saranac Lake, Monday, Dec. 4, following a public hearing for a use- variance application submitted by Donald and Victoria Whittemore, 36 Church St., Saranac Lake. At the meeting, scheduled for 4:30 p.m., the board may make a decision on the variance application. Greens Tea in Elizabethtown is fund-raiser ELIZABETHTOWN - Merrie Olde Christmas, the 45th-annual Greens Tea of the Elizabethtown-Westport Garden Club, will be held Friday, Dec. 1, at Hale House here. This event features the sale of homemade crafts, baked goods, plants and wreaths. Open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Greens Tea also offers a home- made lunch, with soup donated by the Westport Hotel, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The club raises money for the Elizabethtown Community Hospital, Westport Health Center, Mineville -Health Center, High Peaks Hospice and.ambulance services i-n Moriah, Westport, Elizabethtown and Essex. The tea is noted for wreaths and hangings of all kinds. Many are the traditional balsam, sporting pine cones and red velvet bows. Some are made of dried plants brought in from members' gardens. Members' have met at each others homes for months to make deco- rations, gluing, sewing, painting and stringing hundreds of trimm- ings. Suzanne Perley, president of Elizabethtown Community Hospital's Board of Directors, said \over $85,000 has been raised by the Garden Club for the hospital with this event. We are very appreciative and hope the whole community supports this year's Greens Tea.\ Send us your holiday memories The Press-Republican wants to celebrate the holiday season with our readers by publishing your favorite holiday memories They can be funny or touching, any memory you want to share Entries must be no more than 400 words long and must be submitted no later than Nov 30 at 5 p m Include your name, full address and telephone number Send your memories to Denue A Raymo, Press-Republican, 170 Margaret St, P O Box 409, PlaUsburgh, N Y 12901, or by fax at 561-3362, or by e-mail at PRepub&aol com 1
