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FORT COVINGTON SUN FortCovtngton, N.Y. 12937 • 0 0Utt Second class postage paid at Fort Covington, N.Y. 12W7 Established 1885 - Our Centennial Year Fort Covington, New York 12937 Price 30c USPS 205-680 SRCS Recruitment of Swedish Hockey Players The Other Side Edition 297 December 12, 1985 Butcher Indicted by Grand Jury BY Sandy Cook An article published a week ago in a North Country daily newspaper has started a con- troversy over whether the two Swedish players now on the Salmon River Central varsity hockey team were illegally recruited. That implication was made in a story written in last Thurs- day's Watertown Daily Times. Since then, rumors have flown, tempers have grown short, and SRCS Officials Sued for $1,000,000. By Jennie Bartlett SRCS Baord of Education amendment have been vio- President,Ronaldinglee,called lated. The first amendment ^anTjjrv) 'TeZ'r^TZ , anerm . sae P\ tl€S f ls c°^red an emergency meeting on guarantees freedom of speech 2^ecZ EC ^heeltht h wa £? to*! Friday evening, December 6th. and the right to petition for a R rou , n Tu eri> wor ' „, , h > u r JMieei wnicn ~ as liea '? a After a brief executive session redress of grievances. The SKcnts sevJseXd S P ' 6Ce ° Tl? • scr<?e T 3 the board voted to adopt fourteenth amendment guaran- one ooen Th e P sfAn T™? a J' 9ht j lxtu u rc in fl ? e Article ISofthePublicOfficers tees due process of law and XS ,S ^*2*l!2^ ^ On Wednesday, December 11, 1985 the Franklin County Gd J Tuesday, December 3rd. Sheriffs deputies discovered id Jesper Rommel and Andreas Birch-Iensen Next, phone calls were Law which in effect will allow equal protection under the law. murderin thesecon^degle 0 ' the school district to be liable School Superintendent. T , T . D for any expenses incurred as a Lewis stated that \he reallyj ' neresa ' u P ia Butcher of Mrs. Butcher's body. Mrs. Butcher is being held, without bail, after she was ^. wi ! h ^shooting her husband Clayton result of impending litigation, doesn't know what the law suit ^ ma ! n % m cus I to . dv u in ^ e Although no member of the is about, other than the rumors tOne!da Countv Jai 1 ? hlle s ^ e R , , M • * :• school district has yet been which have been around.\ receives treatment from the Butcher on November 4tlr , r .. __ served, an article in last Commenting on the statement M * rc * Psychiatric Center Application for bail was turned many questions have been made. And herein lies most of Thursday issue of the that Lewis and board hadH ere she was transported down by the court although asked regarding the players- the question of recruitment. As \Massena Observer\ stated implemented policy a n d' oll °T 9 • ?\ \uTP* to . h ?\ S ™ tu \[ e application-may be made Andreas Birch-Iensen and f ar as we can determine, that Elizabeth Buchanan and practices which prohibit £ ersef . wlt £ a bedsheet in her by her attorney, Kenneth Jesper Romell-the foreign through interviews with several William Plante had filed a civil communication between staff hrankI m Count V J aij cell on Murtagn. -^ exchange program they came sources, Coach Plante did not action suit against Superin- members and the board, ~ ~ZT ~ ~^T\ T~ here with-ASSE—and the ma k e any of those calls. The tendent Robert B. Lewis and Lewis responded that, \the OlOrytllTlC \^nl*lStllU}S coach —Bill Plante —under calls were made, on school the nine members of the school only thing I have said is that whom they play. phones, on behalf of the stu- \fo an effort to answer some of dent council and possible host these queries and perhaps shed a bit more light on how Andreas and Jesper got here, and why, The SUN's sports department did a bit of investigative report- ing. The results are now printed the nine members of the school board in the United States when it comes to school District Court in Albany. problems, it is necessary to The law suit maintains that follow channels, first your Plante and Buchanan's rights immediate supervisor, then the under the first and fourteenth Party Dec. 19 for your digestion. We interviewed the following people for the record: Robert B. Lewis, Superintendant of (Cont'd on Pg. 14) (Cont'd on Pg. 14) Mark Wells Protests 'Closed Club' The Franklin County Agri cultural Society has come Salmon River Central Schools, under criticfem recently from Coach Plante, and Fred Find- f° r , Covington attorney Mark Wells and other members of the Ag Society. \No one is arguing that the current directors have not done an excellent job in running the County Fair,\ stated Wells, ley, the New York State coor- dinator for the American- Scandanavian Student Ex- change program,through which our Swedish visitors were brought to the school district. First, a chronology of how SRCS came to have these two y \but through the misuse of proxy voting, the Ag Society has become a 'closed club.' The At the Annual Meeting held Monday, Dec. 9, 1985, at the Franklin County Court House at 1:00 p.m., four directors were to be elected. Wells and three other members who share his sympathies Dale Chapin, Terry Moore and Larry Sauve-were running for seats. Wells stated last week that mittee candidate, Art Kankin. However, a large number of votes were challenged. Approx There will be a Christinas party at the Fort Covington Reading Center's Preschool Storytime on Thursday, December 19 at 10:30 a.m. The little ones will present a short Christmas Program 1 after which Santa is expected to visit. Parents of those children stated on the pioAy vote; 150- 175 were witnessed by the same people who were receiv ing the proxy. A motion was approved their child. Girls' gifts are to be adorned with red ribon and boy's gifts with blue ribbon. Santa will distribute the gifts to the tots accordingly. Guests of the children are invited to attend. Refreshments will con- clude the festivities. Alice Langelier Invitation he didn't give himself or fellow which could eliminate proxy candidates much of a chance voting in the future. If after The Presbytery of North- ern New York and The con- gregations of The First Presbyterian Church, Fort Ci Donald C. Alexander and his installation as their Pas- tor Sunday afternoon, December 15, 1985 at three ' foreiqn exchange students. It movement ] support is essen- because of the proxy voting investigation by the board's Covington and The United o'clock at the First Presby- , g g was Plante, who heard about the programs while at last year's state hockey champion- tially an exercize in demo cracy.\ Wells maintains that the ships in Glens Fails, who gave directors a , re usin S the proxy opened up. The issue should be dure will be discarded. Attor the student council of Salmon River Central the idea of possi- bly sponsoring an exchange student for this school. Repre- E system to keep themselves in office year after yer. In the present system, one member may easily acquire the system but at least \we will counsel, James Bessette, it is Methodist Church, Bombay have succeeded in making the found that a proxy voting sys cordially invite you to be point that things have to be tern is not required, the proce- present at the ordination to the Ministry of the Word of brought to the people.\ ney Bessette's report is to be As he predicted, Wells and issued in a month, his fellow candidates were Wells and those who agree defeated in the election by with him, will continue to attend y terian Church, Fort Coving- ton, New York. A Reception will follow in Fellowship Hall. sentative Joel Emery took the vo ! ins power o f hundreds b V incumbents Donald Dumont, monthly meetings. He stated bull by the horns, asking first cn » stm S the proxy voted of j irnrny Johnston, Howard that the board members seem the SC for approval. After the other ' non actlV€ members - Maneely and nominating com- receptive to change, council gave the go-ahead, Emery and then- Vice-President Chris Perkins went to Robert Lewis, and he gave an enthusi- astic OK. That was done, in writing, on April 2,1985. Emery then went back to the council and asked students if they knew of any families who were willing to host a foreign student. When some interest was expressed, an agency for the exchange was chosen—the ASSE. This particular organi- zation was picked for two dif- Sr. Shirley Anne Brown Elected to Mater Dei Board Dinner Honoring Donald Durant to be Held At a meeting of the Board of Trustees recently held at mater Dei College, Sister Shirley Anne Brown, SSJ was elected to the oard to complete the term of Sister Bethany Fitzge ld SSJ h i A 9 A dinner honoring retiring Bombay Supervisor Donald Durant's twenty six years of government service will be held Central in Watertown where at the Crossroads, Moira, on she completed high school. Saturday, January 18th. r ,, . ... , , Durant, who opted not to Following high school gra- seek rdcction to the t fo r Af ,. . . • Ration she entered the Sis the e i hth ti ^ st down At one time in her career ers of St. Joseph of Water- O n January 1,1986and will turn Teaching assignments have included intermediate and Jun- ior High grade levels in various schools of the Ogdensburg Diocese. ferent reasons: 1.) There would raid, SSJ,who, in August 1985, Sister Shirley Anne was named town and later pursued higher the responsi bj| itv o f the town be no fee or cost to the school was assigned to the Mater Dei district, whereas with all the Faculty in the areas of Religious other programs looked at, the Sadies and Campus Ministry, district would be charged for having the student there. 2.) The host family could choose for themselves what kind of person they wanted living in h h f (Th Sister Shirley Anne is pres- ently Administrator of Trinity Catholic School in Massena. Previous to her current to the Adminsitration of Mater education in preparation for a over to Dei College where she spent teaching apostolate. Sister three years> including one year Shirley Anne holds a B.S. as Financial Aid Officer, and degree in Interdisciplinary Ser- two years as Treasurer. vice from S.U.C. at Potsdam Born in Fort Covington, New and the M.A. degree in Educa- York, she is the daughter of tional Administration from Richard Brown and the late S.U.C. at Pittsburgh. She is R earc j ()n Friends, relatives and col leagues are cordially invited to participate in this testimonial. Tickets for the event nkiy be purchased from Sue Fullum, John Cushman, Collet te's Grocery, the Akwesasne Library and Cultural Center or from either Jim or Bob Durant. Each ticket will cost $10.00 for either steamship round, stuffed chicken breast or baked had dock. The dinner will be held 'it 7:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour preceeding. Santa's Helpers their home for a vear (The assignment, she was appointed Catherine Perry Brown. She currently enrolled at Boston AM f . • ,, M , ieJc™\ Jl^l.t Administrator of St. Joseph's received her *J\u fcHnratirtn in COIIPOP in a nmoram for A Cpr- Any Uim ^ m th \ Mdl ASSE program, according to bd Joseph School in Massena, and earlier, A received her early education in College in a program for a Cer the Fort Covington Public tificate of Advanced Study in surrounding .irca who feels h call bocuil Servn cs. 483 6767, Extension 321, on December FrorJ FinHlou ic h^cori o n w ~ iiv \-\•»• **\-»^^^I*M IHK run v^ovinqion JTUO1IC niicdic ui novdnce a oiuay in f i • ~ \ i x / i ,« S^sS-Tufsis; T.^ssrj.sssr ^s»^A^s^. as-?si*t**—^ - SSK\.™^ 1 :^^ 12 ™\ \• IM ™ '\' - m p that later). ily School in Watertown. enrolled at Immaculate Heart Catholic Schools. and \2,
