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FORT COVINGTON SUN Fort Cbvmgion, N.Y. 12937 Second class postage paid at Fort Covington, N.Y. 12937 Established 1885 Fort Covington, New York 12937 USPS 205-680 Price 30* Edition 346 December 11, 1986 Fort Board Okays Dump Consent Order At last Wednesday night's Fort Covington Town Board meeting, the board passed a resoluion authorizing Town Super- visor Guy \Tim\ Smith to sign a consent order issued by the State De- partment of Environmen- tal Conservation admitting that the local dump was not in compliance with its regulations and agreeing to the implementation of a schedule for solid waste management. Smith, who is also a member of the county landfill committee working on this problem, advised that all county municipal- ities have received this communication and that he felt the town should join the 18 other towns in its signing. \If we don't,\ he added, \you can see in the consent order that the DEC will be able to close the dump right away and heav- ily fine those using it.\ Smith stated that it would probably take five years or so to complete all the studies, surveys and paper work involved with the project which will prob- ably involve the creation of a centralized dump. Dump Capping Estimated to Cost $50,000 Per Acre Fort Gov't Donated Food Cheese is still available to Fort Covington resi- dents who did not receive their commodity food in November. Large families who received only one brick of cheese may obtain another as long as the supply last. Please contact the Fort Covington Adult Center. Eleanor Hunter Dies Eleanor P. Hunter passed away on the morning of Tues- day, Dec. 9, 1986 at the Morton F. Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Florida. Services will be held on Thursday, Dec. 11, 1986 at the Moss Seafter Funeral Home in Florida. Mrs. Hunter was born in Milo, Maine on March 13, 1922, the daughter of Harry M. and Clara Sinchfield Pullen. She and her late husband George, were long time res- idents of Fort Covington. Mrs. Hunter was employed for many years at the St. Regis Mohawk School in Hogasburg where she worked in the library and audio-visual departments. A full obituary is not avail- able at this time but will be printed in the near future. \One of the immediate concerns,\ he continued, \is preparing for the time when the dump has to be capped and the price estimated so far is $50,000.00 per acre. To make matters worse, there are no grants available at this time, which is not to say there won't be in the future, but we cannot count on that. We are talking about a lot of money for the taxpayers to come up with.\ Some discussion ensued regarding tentative courses of action. No further reso- lutions were taken on the matter, however, there was agreement among board- members that funds might be set aside for the future tax pressure. Eastern Milk Producers Coop offers 1.40 Fall Premiums Eastern Milk Producers with new premiums that took next fall for all milk exceeding Cooperative is encouraging effect Sept. 1, 1987. their spring production level, member-farmers to incease Also, farmers will get an milk production in the fall Dairy farmers will earn an extra 40 cents per hundred- and cut back in the spring extra $1 per hundredweight weight next fall for any pro- duction increases over the PAS NY Launches Fund to Bring Jobs to Massena New York Power Authority power to transform a de- Chairman Richard M. Flynn pressed industrial economy announced Thursday that the into a special economic zone,\ Power Authority will launch Flynn toW * aesrsinference a $1 million development fund at Massena Town Hall. \It to bring job-producing busi- provides the region with a nesses and industries to the Massena area. Flynn said the program will supplement public or private funding for companies plan- ning new or expanded facilities down of a second potline at but that conditions in the its plant here. The General aluminum industry were too Motors Corp. (GM) previous- difficult to overcome, ly said it Witild^hase out \Fhe Power Authiirityehair- * • ^ • man began the day by meeting i f k in Massena and other parts of St. Lawrence County. \This program has the competitive edge rivaled by no other in the state. He came to Massena, home of the Power Authority's St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roose- velt hydroelectric project, three days after the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) announced permanent shut- most operations at its Central Foundry plant in Massena. Flynn said the actions re- sulted from foreign compe- tition and, in Alcoa's case, from declining demand for aluminum. He again expressed regret at the Alcoa potline closing, saying the Power Authority had done all it could to reverse the decision with representatives of a task force established last summer to offset impacts of General Motors cutbacks. He briefed the group's Industry and Hydropower Subcommittee on the new development pro- gram and other Power Au- thority efforts to aid the area, including a recently an- SRCS Instrumental Christmas Concert Dec 17th. The middle school band rehearsing for the Instrumental Christmas Concert which will be held on Wednesday, Dec 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the SRCS Auditorium. Other performing groups will be the elementary band under the direction of Jennifer Kelly and the jazz ensemble and high school concert band under the direction of Lyle Crofoot. nounced plan to return surplus St. Lawrence-FDR Project property to the tax rolls. Flynn said at the news conference that the devel- opment program will be ad- ministered by a board com- prised of representatives of the Power Authority, the State Urban Development Corp., the state Job Development Agency (JDA), and the St. Lawrence County and Mas- sena Industrial Agencies (IDAs). Flynn said a major feature of the program will be low- interest loans for companies investing in new facilities or equipment. He said the board will rule on applications for the loans and will develop a nationwide program to attract industries to the area. It also will inform companies of other state in- centive programs and will devise assistance packages. Applications for projects in Massena will be submitted initially to the town IDA, while those for other parts of St. Lawrence County will be channeled to the board through the county IDA. The state JDA will oversee dis- bursements from the fund, which is expected to grow over time through interest payment. Flynn said Power Authority representatives met with the St. Lawrence County Plan- ning Board's Committee on Tax- Exempt Properties this week to obtain advice on the pro- posed sale of up to 5,100 acres of surplus land at the St. Lawrence-FDR Project. He said a meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, Dec. 11, with the full planning board Continued on P. 9 current fall season. Eastern President Earl For- wood, a dairy farmer from Hop Bottom, Pa., said the premiums were \significant incentives*' for farmers to work at improving production during the fall, when milk supplies are tighter. \The primary motivator,\ noted Eastern General Man- ager Michael Donovan, \is to change the seasonally of supplies, and thereby eliminate the need to run uneconomical balancing programs.\ New member-farmers join- ing Eastern will be able to qualify for the premiums with proof of previous production levels, Forwood added. The 40-cent premium will be paid on extra milk produced during September, October and November in 1987, com- pared to the same period this year. The dollar premium will be based on increases over April-May-June 1987 production. Headquartered in Syracuse, Eastern Milk Producers is a dairy cooperative with member-farmers in Vermont, New Hampshire, Masschu- setts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Del- aware and New Jersey. Eastern owns fwo cheese plants in New .York's Southern Tier, which is leases to Leprino Foods. The co-op also operates a milk bottling plant at Homer, N.Y.; a butter and powder plant at Grover, P&., and milk- receiving plants at Sunbury, Pa.; Dover, De., and Hines- burg, Vt. Eastern's Dairy Products Division in Canton, operates four dairy stores in Pennsyl- vania and New York state, and a bulk-buying service for farmers in 11 states.
