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Sports: Not The Season of Joy XtBB Northern New York's Greatest Weekly A Town & Country Newspaper VOL. 102 NO. 20 — GOUVERNEUR. N.Y. WEDNKSDAY, JAM ARS 4, 1989 12 PAGES — THIRTY-FIVE CENTS Mayor Slate Looks Ahead Busy Year For Village Eyed MAYOR LAURA M. SLATE attends to the job of guiding the villages progress In 1989. Tribune Photo/Lisa L. Reape By Lisa L. Reape As Gouverneur Mayor Laura M. Slate sees it, 1989 will be a year of addressing unfinshed business. A good many projects and issues from 1988 remain for the village board to consider in the months ahead. • Here is just a sampling of the items the mayor has set on her agenda for 1989: THE PRISON Mayor Slate said she plans to move forward on the village and town's joint venture of promoting sites in the town of Gouverneur for a medium or maximum security prison facility. Already on this month's -agenda is a tour of the new Riverview medium secu- rity - facility at Ogdensburg. Village and town offi- cials, along with represen- tatives of a number of lo- cal organizations and the media, will tour the River- view prison on Wednes- day, Jan. 11. (Besides those organizations named in last week's ^Vib- une-Press, the Gou- vernetxr Senior Citizens has been added to the list of organizations the vil- lage will ask to send a rep- resentative on the tour.) Mrs. Slate and Town Supervisor Donald Peck are also making arrange- ments for a group to tour the maximum security facility at Seuthpon in Chemung County. \Hopefully after the Riverview tour, we will have a public informa- tional meeting on the prison (issue),\Mrs. Slate said. The mayor said she would like to conduct that session in the high school auditorium to accomo- date. a large crowd of people who would be ex- pected to turn out. A prison superintendent and corrections guards •would be on hand to make a presentation and to answer questions from the audience. An . informational packet containing a de- scription of Gouverneur, along with possible sites for a prison and other data, hasnotyet been sent to the state Corrections Department in Albany. Mrs. Slate said they are still collecting data for the packet. It is expected that packet will be sent out after the informaticmal meeting for the public. The informational packet \is like buying a lottery ticket,\ Mrs. Slate said. \It gives you the chance of having a site selected for a prison. \Once the funding is made available, then the corrections people go look- ing at all the sites. And they choose the site that best suits their needs.\ Mrs. Slate said thay have been advised by As- sistant Corrections Com- missioner Kevin Travis that the community need not concern itself over forming a prison task force unless a Gouverneur site is actually chosen. Meanwhile, Mrs. Slate said she's lookingforward to the Riverview tour. She said she is hoping-there will be people of opposing viewpoints in the group that makes the trip. ZONING Mayor Slate also said she would like to address the issue of zoning in the coming year. Efforts to revise the zon- ' ing code begart two years ago, when a new proposed .code was presented in three public hearings. Following those hearings, the code went back to the zoning committee mem- bers, who reviewed sev- eral areas that came un- der criticism by the pub- lic. According to Mrs. Slate, .the controversial provisions were deleted, and the newly revi sed code was sent to the county planning board for review. That revised code came back to the village board in August, 1987. It \then came before the new board under Mayor Slate as Mayor Pg. 3 Campaign Continues On Sept. 14, the Tribune-Press launched a community fund drive to help defray the costs of repairing our eagle. Through overwhelming community support, that fund drive has made great strides towards raising the money needed to restore the eagle to its previous grandeur. Over the past few weeks, however, the pace of the fund drive has slowed, as holiday shopping has placed an additional strain on budgets. The Fix the Eagle campaign is drawing close to reaching its goal, but donations are still needed. ^Remember, every dollar helps. * ADDRESS comiireutiON Send to: ^•; }} ••>••• i - -- > '•-£' ^ Pix the Eagle Fund The Gbuverneur Tribune-Press 40-42 Clinton St. , N.Y. 13642 ••a \..'*. ,- *l TTw eaffe U bonk restored bjLYonkers Conservator Douglass Kwart I (Some feel it •Ko«M have a copper patina sarface, which would cost rj] 4.000. Otfacn, ittdadmx the Village Board, fe«l it should be covered 'with goldteaffbr an estra $3,500. s- . :.. Jf ytm hmv an opinion on how yo« would like to see O»e eagie restored. let as know. Qncraply pe Leaf Surface, IPCwr SIX-YEAR-OLD JASON PARENT, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Parent, Gouverneur, hugs Michael Bartholomew, left, manager of Rainbow Video, and Colin Graves, right, sales representative for the Tribune-Press, as heaccepts his first place prize in theTribune's Christmas coloring contest Jason received ET and Cinderella videotapes from Rainbow Video. .. •'••\.- Tribune Photo ARTHUR ANDREWS/JR., •ge 1 %V«frccepts a cassette player/recorder from Gouverneur Ames manager, Dale Johnson, after winning third place in the Tribune Press Christmas coloring contest. Tribune Photo County Schedules Sale of Firewood ICHARUES AND PORTIA BUSH p; C J. Bush Ha won eotortog contest. Emily he tfie E-nHy KtenHlon wtn her S30 gm piaoe in the Tribune TheSt I-awrenceCoun tv I>*pislatim- through th'* efforts of the Countv Forestry jif-partment will a^rain offer To sell firew(K>d from county owned land The Forestry Impart ment manapf? 4.4>O ( acres of forest land in the county From this 4<* individual contracts will he sold for cutting A lottery is used to determine the wood cut ners due to the demand for wood as a home heatinp fuel A maximum of five standard cords will he isold per family at a cost of S'ft per cord. Applicants have a tractor, oxen or other means -of |r«*tt»n£ the wood Most of the wrjod sales be located in the of Hopkmton and Panabvilfe but wood will alao be told in Colton and Pttrrepoot Applications and further information on the location of the sale areas can he picked up at the St l^wrence County Forester's office Applica- tions will he accepted until Sp.nv.-lan. 31. 19 KC V The drawing will he held on Wed n esd ay. F eh ]. 19 wQ The cutting of wood lev fulfill these sales will he^rin in the late spring, as soon as weather per mits and continue through the summer In the past years the •county has harvested over 2.700 cords for fire- wood alone Along with firewood the Forestry De- partment also market* sawtimber. pulpwood and cahin pole* This forest land 15 ai^o open to the puhl>c for year iroond recreational oae and en- joyment 7Vail|rt])dee de- peri Nng the eiirht mile* of cro*z country *ki and hikinjr trail* maintained by the Forestry Depart ment are available to anyone interested •^-