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Northern New York's Greatest Weekly A Prize Winning Town & Countrv Newspaper Vol. 102 No. 42 - Gouverneur, N.Y. © 1989 MRS Printing Inc. Wednesday, June 7,1989 20 Pages - 35 Cents Merits of Adult Day Care Center Being Evaluated By Lisa L. Reape It's been nearly three months since St. Lawrence County's first Adult Social Day Care Center opened its doors in Gouverneur, and very shortly, a decision will be made on whether the program should con- tinue. The program, designed to give respite to family care givers who often provide round-the-clock care to a loved one with a debilitating disease, debuted on April 1 in the Geriatric Day Care Center at Cambray Court. . . Betsy Kirby, supervisor of Medical Services for the County Department of Social Services and an organ- izer of the center, admitted that the program to date has not been as successful as she had hoped, a fact that she said surprised her, given the number of people known in the community who could make use of such a service. Mrs. Kirby said she had several people comment that the less than favorable reception to the center may have been due to perhaps an overemphasis on the center as a haven for those who look after patients with Alzheimer's disease. Although the center is intended to benefit anyone who may have need for a break' from caring for spouses or relatives with debilitating diseases, Mrs. Kirby had stated that Alzheimer's disease is par- ticularly stressful on the care giver. It was thought that singling out Alzheimer's disease may have caused some users of the center to shy away from the program. \Society hasn't come to accept it yet,\ Mrs. Kirby said. \People dorj't want their neighbors to know their relative has Alzheimer*s disease. They don't want to be associated with people who have Alz- heimer's di&eas*r-it make* them uncomfortable.\ She said what makes people feel uncomfortable about Alzheimer's is that u nothing can be done for the patient)—they're only going to get worse. It's very difficult to watch someone you love deteriorate —become a child again,\ Mrs. Kirby said. \Maybe I stressed Alzheimer's disease too much. I said (the center) was for 'care givers' and I men- tioned people with Alzheimer's disease. We know that care givers need respite.\ Unfortunately, she said, some of the people who could benefit from the center the most—those who care for patients with Alzheimer's disease—may in fact be the most unlikely to seek it. \People who take care of Alzheimer's patients have a strong feeling of guilt,\ she said. \They have ,a strong feeling of responsibility. They feel they are the only one who can (take care of the patient). They say '(the patient) will be very upset if I'm not there.' What they don't realize, or don't want to admit, is that the patient probably won't know the differ- ence.\ . Family care givers need not feel guilty in leaving their loved one at the center for a few hours. Mrs. Kirby said family care givers often have jobs during the day, then come home and provide supervison to their spouse or parent until it's time to go to work again outside the home. A loved one who needs 24- hour supervision, but not constant medical care, nonetheless places a strain on the one who looks after him day after day. The care giver may not realize that he occasionally needs time to himself for such simple things as dining in a restaurant, shop- ping, or even going to church—things he may have had to forego for a while. At the Adult Social Day Care Center, care givers . ....... . See Decision Pg. 6 GOUVERNEUR FIREMEN, above, took second place in the marching unit competition. Meanwhile, at left, flag- bearers lead Indian River Central School Band, which captured first place in the Class A band competition. SAC Experiments For 1 Year The US Air Force Strategic Air Command has . announced that it will commence low altitude flight operations on a one-year trial basis, using low level route IR-806 to enter the Fort Drum weapons range. An average of 100 sorties per month would be scheduled on the proposed route. A spokesman said . SAC expects about 60 percent of the sorties to be B- • 52 bombers and 40 percent to be FB-11 aircraft. Each aircraft would make an average of three passes over the range using the IR-806 racetrack, which ex- tends over portions of Southern St. Lawrence County. SAC will initiate operations on a one-year trial basis, with the institution of a monitoring progTam. Public comments are welcome for this one-year time . frame. While conducting operations, the spokesman said, SAC will monitor the \potential impacts to threat- ened and endangered species and will continue to consider further mitigation measures and make reasonable and timely adjustments to their activi- ties in response to public comment.\ The spokesman added that Sac \does recognize KYLE AND CRYSTAL HANSON, children of Debbie Hanson, and Missy Hitchcock, right, daughter of Tom and the specific concerns of those that live around the IR- Debbie Hitchcock of Gouverneur, plant their first tree, a blue spruce. Tribune Photo/Jan Phillips 806 racetrack and will make alutude or other appro- priate adjustments, where operationally feasible.\ BeforeSAC's decision on a long-term commitment to the proposal, either a supplemental environmental •assessment (EA) or an environmental impact state- ment (EIS) will be prepared, based upon the findings .of the one-year monitoring program, according to the spokesman. . . ^ During the course of the monitoring program, additional mitigation measures will be considered as appropriate in consultation with the affected parties. The monitoring program is currently being developed with the assistance of the state Depart- ment of Environmental Conservation. While operations are taking place and the moni- toring program is being established, all noise con- cerns should be directed to the Plattsburgh AFB Public Attains Office at (518 > 565-70C6 or Gnffiss AFB Public AfTiars Office at f3i5) 330-3057 Noise concerns should include date, approximate times of flights, type of aircraft: 'If able to identify), approxi- mate location, and any other pertinent information. These concerns will be submitted to Headquarters SAC in Omaha, Neb., for evaluation. Trio Survives Buffoonery, Booze, Wet Pasta By Bill Pike PARTTWO Driving under the influence of alcohol is one of \the dumbest things you can do. Take it from an r authonty an booze who's driven drunk, been drove drunk, and urns once arrested for DWI. The outrageous events that follow took place alma* twenty years ago. at a time when our nation was coUedively doing a real dumb thing in Vietnam. This <• o pretty good yam for three reasons: 1.) It's ridiculous. 2j Nobody was killed. -3. A The three principals have reformed •J Well. This is the second and final part of the bushy tittle tale dealing with Lee Gate* and myself (home from the warm) and my brother (owner and desifrnated driver of a brand new black Tru-»«Am • and how we endared vanoos adventnra whik* doing preooos hole deer hunting in the victims 7 -the Indian River about twenty years afro. Tf you .wereable to wade through the first installment . you know know why trip-boots were invented. You also know thai last month's episode ended L*e. Mike, and myself had left [jmr hunting camp at sundown on a Saturday nijrht \m stttii of happiness We'd timbered ap oar ' elbows in one roadhovse. been teased oat of a • second for fiffhtmjr aver ltntfuistirs. and repaired to a third to lick our wounds ». Put your boots back <m and rejoin as. in the dun a so4ien joint in the fears of Nataral We'll like vulture* on a branch, waiting for the times to start rolling . . two half-crazed-looking veterans of the Vietnam War and a wild-eyed »peed-demony lead-foot maniac chewing a long thin red-hot sausage like a cigar. By now all three of us are wearing reflector sunglasses, in the dead of night. NOT GOING TO ROCHESTER According to the labels on the cans the bartender wan bringing us, oar beer was brewed from an elixier-like water extracted exclusively from the Wilds around Hemlock Lake, a spring-fed and naturally pore marvel, he that as it may I still maintain to this day that there was something wrong with the staff. Probably a bad batch Darn hard to explain the rest of the night otherwise We were choking it down though The more we drank, the better the beer tasted m fact Ks tops popped like corn, the brand new. black TranaAM waited ominously outside, in the softly falling snow The night had just begun \Hey ~ said I** hw bush hat cocked hack peering st a can through his reflector sunglai«* \Where's Hewilock Lak*^ My brother took uroe off froia examining some damage itme to hut new Hawaiian shirt during the recent melee down the street and replied around Itts *au*ag*\ ''Rochester \ \Wanta go down ther* and make *ure*~ f iruggeMed rationally \It e oniy three four hundred nules \ thought was swgpl ander the head for IjowvilU*. It v*a« at it-aM higtr»T than Natural Bridge and a little hit ci«»t*r than the big city All my life I have ht^n ntMereo 1 hv lark of enthusiasm in mv friends The inef f ahle lure of I/mville is hard t«» explain thes*- many years hence but back then for I>ee and Mike it was jirresistable The full m«*»n. hanpnp coWly above u« might have had a ht-ck of -* lot to Ho with it Anyway, awav we THE FAMILY RKl'MON My brother w;ts in his element lost in the serenity that comes fmm listen me to Three Dog Night, howling like a thousand starving wolves outside a Burger King He gnawed at his firey fa usages and gargled occasionally with Pepto Bismol. He was in the cruise mode 10ft mph Lee rode shotgun lost in the music. I sat alone in the backseat stannc at the rapidly passing farmland along the highway philosophizing anout war. remembrance, and food It wa5 getting ck>*e to midnight by now Even veterans of the Vietnam war get hungry A TV dinner would hit the ftpoC Or a coopie pounds ^f French fries and gravy. \Stop the car*\ Mv brother applied the brake* rocnrr&catty no doubt thinking s»ocn* emergency had come «pUke alcoholic shock OPT* \Back up Back up ~ I continued to wrream wiMly. There mu*t be a fci mtred ca^ j»t that farmhouse Hack there A r*art\ % \ Mifc* turned the car around and headed back *tr*ithUy: 50 mph W<* parked the car in the front a hundred other* A party? It looked more like Wr>odsU>ck Right here on the fringe of I/>wvilie. \Well boys.\ not ed I^e \We ain't exactly been invited \ Luckily, an old fellow with suspender? wa« stageenng around in some rose bushes nearhy We asked him what was going on He was rather incoherent Seemed to be lost, disoriented Something about Oregon Or oregano. After a few minutes of patient questioning. I was able to translate The festivities which were transpiring before our very eyes were closed to the general puhlic This was a family reunion A big one. complete with all the trimming* Folks had come from all over our great nation to participate, the codger said We were all mightily impr«*sed ^Any food 0 \ I asked THE GIFT OF SPAGHETTI When we went inside, it wa$ obvious that the jrood time* were well underway There was food evervwhere And boote too I'd been hoping foT French fines and gravy and here wan turkey, dressing and mashed potato** Mo#t of the relative*! had already eaten of cours*. JM? I just Rat down at the nearest table and pot the feed bag on jSon>e guy introduced him»hf \Glad to nwet rou/* I replied, heaping more potatoes \My name's Orvill* From Ohm. C*n*t tell yrwham me and the rrtuum* en>oy the** little igathenhgs I introduced my brother who WM m the process of pounng hunaeif a couple of ahots of Seagrams to go with h» cherry pie *~T\HB here •
