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FORT COVINGTON SUN Fort Covington, N.Y. 12937 Second class postage paid at FortCovington, N.Y. 12H37 Established 1885 Fort Covington, New York 12937 Price 30c USPS 205-680 , Edition 330 August 21,1986 Central Foundry Phase-Out Task Force to be Named From the Office of Eco- nomic Opportunity's manager Ed Russell, word was received that a Task Force will be formed within the next four or five days to study the situation caused by General Motors announced phase out. Following a \town board\ type of meeting last Thursday during which about 175 people gathered to express their con- cerns and ideas at the surprise announcement by G.M. The ad hoc committee of about fifteen people will be for the promotion of Industrial Development, 2. The entry into a compre- hensive negotiations with the General Motors Corporation for the retention of as many jobs as possible in the North Country, 3. An all out effort to seek another major manufacturing plant for the Massena area to replace General Motors, 4. The funding and devel- opment of a comprehensive plan for the upgrading of the York State Power Authority. Local residents are urged to join the Franklin County Board of Legislators by send- ing their thoughts to the above at the following addresses: Legislator Charles O. Smith Bombay, New York 12914 A Glimmer of Hope? Some Possibilities for the Area? New Office of Rural Affairs By Pat Musante Amidst the considerable concern around the area regarding shakey economic future, two bright gleams of hope emerged this week. Governor Cuomo has Congressman David O'B. signed legislation to create a state Office of Rural Affairs to coordinate efforts to assist rural areas. The law takes the Legislative Commission transportation facilities), on Rural Resources. One of housing, public facilities, bus- the State Assembly sponsors iness and industry, education O Neil (R-St. and culture, governmental and environmental management Martin Room 502 Cannon Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Senator Ronald B. Stafford 502 Capitol Building Albany, New York 12247 - - transportation facilities of the named by Massena Mayor No rth Country to encourage Arsen Markarian and Super- ^ North Country t0 become visor Duane Hazelton. a destination both for manu- Representing Franklin Coun- facturing Industry and Tour- Assemblvman Chris Ortloff tv's interest will be Steve ism> and, be it. 59 Clinton St, Dutton, head of the Franklin FURTHER RESOLVED: Pittsburgh, N.Y. 12901 County Industrial Develop- j^ certified copies of the ment program. Deemed a Resolution shall be^forwarded -workable size\ Russell t0 Governor Cuomo, Com- pointed out that this commit- missi oner Moss of the tee will have to break down Department of Commerce, Alb^New York 12248 into four or five sub commit- Congressman Martin, Senator AIoany > wcw Yor * 12248 tees to work on specific prob- Moynihan, Senator D'Amato, Steven Dutton lems, and make recommenda- Senator Stafford, Assembly- Franklin County Indus- man Casale, Assemblyman Ortloff, St. Lawrence County and the Chairman of the New effect April 1, 1987 and we hope it does not turn out to be an April's Fool Day joke. The bill was introduced by was John Lawrence). It is expected that the Office of Rural Affairs will streng- then the state's administrative ability to do more to address the unique needs of rural New York by using existing agency resources to a fuller extent. These needs will focus on transportation (roads and highways as well as public and health and human services. We in the area are well aware that the words of rural residents are quite different from our city cousins. Approx- imately three million people live in population in the major- ity of states. Economic Development Zones g^emblyman Anthony T e «ri«l a tt V <> nrr- diT in the first 18 months, with another nine designated within the second 18 months. These opportunity zones tions bade to the task force. Primary on the list of actions to take will be for the task force to promote a dialog with GM to discuss their future plans for their lost foam casting opera- tion which is still in the exper- imental stage. The \Lost foam\ casting process> the only one in the world, uses plastic polystryene particles molded in a plastic foam-like mold into cylinder heads. At this point this opera- tion is a great unknown. Also, on the agenda for the task force is the promotion of 12 megawatts of power which they would like to convince the State of New York and the Power Authority to keep the power in Massena as an inticement for industrial development. The power makes Massena unique, said Russell, in that the combina- tion of cheap power with con- ventional power would give a competitive edge to Massena. The task force will be made up of volunteers with little time to handle all of the prob- lems which will need to be handled. Therefore, sub committees will make their mark in this important operation. The Franklin County Board of Legislators passed a resolu- tion on Tuesday which stated: RESOLVED: By the Franklin County Legislature that they jsequest the Gover- nor, Senator Moynihan and D'Axntto, President of the Qeneral Motors Corporation and its State and Federal representatives to act promptly to achieve the fol- lowing goals: 1. The preservation of the allocation of low cost Hydro Power in the North Countrv trial Development 63 West Main Street Malone, New York 12953 Although the idea has been bantered around for several years, Governor Mario Cuomo has recently signed legislation under which some North Country towns, villages were created to target pockets and cities will qualify for pos- of poverty for job creation and sible designation as Economic Development Zones. The new legislation calls for as many, as 40 zones over a period of seven Nancy Mills Bruso She's the Boss By Jennie Bartlett Associate Degree in account- \Hey Nancy, will the boss ing, Nancy will receive her B. let you work in the travel S. degree this year through the agency?\ quipped the gasoline SUNY Regents External station attendant. Just as Degree Program, quickly, Nancy retorted, \I \Why and-a-half years. No more than 10 zones would be created business development. The zones will help selected dis- tressed areas by providing a broad range of state and local incentives designed to draw in new investments and jobs and encourage existing businesses to expand. So far, Governeur, Pots- dam, Brasher, Dekalb, WUna, Moira, Altoona and Plats- burgh seem to have a good chance. During the first three years of the program no coun- try would be awarded more than one zone. Designations of /ones will be made by a board consisting of seven voting members. New Laws to Help Rural Communities retorted, may let him work for me.\ Nancy Mills Bruso is the boss of this corporation. Nancy is going to run the bus- a Travel Agency?\ asked this reporter. Both Nancy and Joe have a keen interest in travel and \owning a travel agency will give us an iness. Nancy Mills Bruso is a opportunity to do more travel- woman of the 80's and she will ing and since there is no better be the first to tell you so. educational experience for On July 1,1986/Nancy and children than travel...\ Joe Bruso assumed ownership Since it is well known that of the World Wide Travel the more actual experience a Agency from Joseph Leone, travel agent has, the better the Such things as waiting for advice and the service that approval by the airlines for agent can give his/her clients, whom the agency will write tickets, and clearance for the new name for the new corpora- By Pat Musante In addition to the newly created State Office of Rural Affairs, three new laws were passed to help rural areas. Assemblyman Chris Ortloff in his usual very lucid statement explains them and adds, \If you're interested in seeing any of these opportunities expanded for your local com- munity, call me at (518) 455- 5943 and I'll be happy to help you.\ LOCAL ROAD CLASSIFICATION TASK FORCE \Especially here in the North Country, our area's needs in transportation differ greatly from the state's more heavily populated urban and suburban areas. With that thought in mind, the Commis- sion (Legislative Commission on Rural Resources) recom- possibilities .... especially the role in the life of North Coun- last sentence. Remember when try residents. The winter's DOT would not listen to our might not seem so long if some local town and school officials residents could \get out more\ regarding the light on the Rt which they just might if they 37 and Rt 1 intersection? Ditto knew they didn't have to drive on the speed limit signs at on hazardous roads. SRCS. And what about the The third law provides places where there are still no health care grants to establish warning barriers at railroad pilot programs in rural corn- Nancy is on the right road. Joe Leone will remain on hand to work on tours and will tion have impeded the formal be accompanying the group on announcement of the owner- the Canadian Rockies tour ship change. scheduled for this fall. Nancy _ _„ ^^^, .- Nancy, thedaughterof Fort stated that they will be plan- men ded legislation to establish Covington attorneys, Jim and ning more tours of interest to a state Local Road Oassifica- Mary Louise Mills may be fol- area residents, lowing in the footsteps of her Melodye Russell and Linda mother. Mrs. Mills was an FairchildwiU remain with the attorney in the days when it agency to render their custom- was not very common for a ary good service to local tra- young woman to pursue such a velers. Even if you haven't male dominiated and orient- planned a trip, they will be ated profession. , happy to suggest something Currently employed as a within the range of your purse, support investigator for die Linked by computers, Franklin County Department leased from Eastern airlines, to of Social Services, Nancy will all airlines, the travel agency is leave this job on September able to offer the most recent 3rd to assume a more active prices and specials which may not have yet been received through the mail. They can even issue boarding passes for (Continued on pg. 6) crossings? PUBLIC TRANSPORTA- TION AND RURAL HEALTHCARE PROGRAM GRANTS The second law deals with expanding rural public trans- portation programs. The win- ter roads play a very important munities. Awards up to 50,000 a year for over a three year period are allowed to improve existing programs and develop new ones. All the areas covered by the new laws seem to provide opportunities which are appli- cable to the area. It never hurts to ask about them. role in the operation of the travel agency as well as pursu- ing her studies. A graduate of Champlain College with an tion Task Force. The task force will recommend alterna- tive guidelines for classifica- tion of rural town and country roads using such things as traf- fic volume and principal use as its criteria; guidelines for con- struction and driving surface width for the different classes of rural roads; appropriate signs and speed limits; main- tenance procedures for each road classification and parameters by which roads could be classified by LOCAL officials,\ he stated. Now this law evokes many It's a Small World... in Iceland? Mrs. Lesley Dempsey was \Fort Covington,\ replied the recently enroute from a return gentleman. \Oh yes. Do you trip from Wachtrum, Nether- lands were she had gone to visit her son and daughter in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Ward (Col- leen) Dempsey and new grandchild, James Patrick. She was in Reykajavik, Ice- land waiting to take a bus tour when she struck up a conver- sation with a man with an obvious Manhattan accent. When he asked her where she was from, she replied, \Oh a small town in northern New York which no one has ever heard of...Fort Covington.\ know Johnny Francis? He waj my roomate at St. Lawrence University.\ The gentlemar was a Mr. Michael Steinberg who is presently an attorney ir New York City. Lesley said she had to buy 8 coat while in Iceland since the temperature was around fort} degrees and a pair of boots which she needed when sh< visited an Eskimo village. We don't know whether it h related, but Lesley now has i case of laryngitis.
