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V Northern New York's Greatest Weekly A Prize Winning Town & Count rv.\ Vol. 103 No. 14 - (Jouverneur, N.Y. <D 1989 MRS Printing Inc. Wednesday, November 22, 1989 20 Pages- 35 Cents Trinity Avenue Project Fi Be Finished By Lisa L. Reape After being given the \cold shoulder\ for more than four years, it looks as though the Trinity Ave- nue reconstruction project will finally be completed, following a commitment by the village board to \do Something\ to resolve the problems of faulty drain- age that has plagued the street for years. • The project was the subject of a lengthy dis- cussion at Monday night's village board meeting. The topic had been listed for discussion on the meeting agenda after village resi- dent William Scozzafava had inquired again re- cently whether the drain- age problems on Trinity Avenue would be ad- dressed this fall. Although the street it- self was completed back in 1985, the onset of bad weather had prohibited the shoulder work from finished, the street unpaved. Mr. Scozzafava said he had inquired with Mr. Hudson at the time whether the work would be completed at a later date. He said the admin- istrator had stated the shoulders would be paved, thus resolving the drain- age problems that street had known for some time. Instead, however, Mr. Scozzafava said, another year passed with nothing being done. He said it has been the same each year. He said he is told the money is in the budget to finish the work, yet the project season ends before any work is done. . - • At Monday night's meet- ing, Mr. Scozzafava re- acted to the way the topic had been presented, which he said was described as though he had made a ''personal request\ that the unfinished section be completed, \just because :my mother lives on Trin- four-foot-wide section of \In the spring, if wehave a thaw, you can't get into her (his mother's) house without wadingthrough a pond,\ Mr. Scozzafava said. While he acknowledged the flooding at his mother's bouse is a problem, he maintained it was not his personal request that the work be done. \It seems to me that after the thousands and thou- sands of dollars spent on rebuilding Trinity Ave- nue, someone would put a culvert in\ to allow the water to drain, he said. Mr. Scozzafava called the flooding situation on the north side of Trinitx .'Avenue \a quagmire.\ \We've got this situation on a lot of streets/* he said. \We have brand new streets in this village where the drainage is ter- rible.\ Mr. Scozzafava cited numerous deficiencies he has found with the way projects are beinghandled •in the village, such as drop basins m the street that are covered with gravel. \Then when it rains, the gravel goes into the ba- sins. Why isn't it paved?\ he asked. \I think we have some people who are very well paid that aren't look- ing out for our village.\ Mr. 'Hudrson said that the question of whether to pave the shoulder or in- stall curbs along Trinity Avenue \va< brought up, based on the opinion of Department of Public Works Director Ronald Co- chrane. who Mr. Hudson said feels that paving won't solve the drainage problems Mr Cochrane has proposed curbing a> an alternative. Mr Sco/./afava said he didn't can what was done, only that a solution he found. ... . *if \ou've £ot a ho'u^e you can't enter without wading through four inches of water. becau>e of something the village has doncu.it shouldn't be Sec Trinity Vg. fi :»-^9 L-J J LAWfeS OF THE ELKS held thiir craft fair Saturday, Nov. 1S, with more than 45 craft tables O liWhhe^tnlet £ t. - ';; ^ a, ; *> Photos arid Interviews Phillips Question: Medical care in the North Country has been the subject of ptanch discussion lately. Recently a team of health care consultants ifeviewed the situation and suggested the possibility of Watertown's two hospitals merging. They also recommended that rural hospitals in the outlying regions, like Gooverneur, Carthage and Star Lake, consider eliminating &eir surgical services and remaining open only for emergency cases and clinical care* How do you feel about the pos- sibility of rural hospitals bring eliminated? Gouverneur, g 7 feel that there u a •a hospital. Granted, we*re not utry ^populated, but people desperately care What if the time it took to patient to Watertown for health that person th*it r lifet You should be othtr *Ukms for + The*e days anything that* : c up with the state or friend< i**#ch* financial M*> G m MEMBERS OF FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY hand paint holiday cards to be sold in their latest fundraiser for the Gouverneur Public Library. The cards, created by artist MalcombMcCorrrnck. depict the Gouverneur Reading Room, established in 1886. From left are Cassie. Mason, 11, Susan Li!l»e. Laura Conkiin, Kay Leonard, and Debbie Mason. Participants not pictured include Rita Mason, Jan Peters. Elizabeth Gieason, Carol Antoine, Cindy Edick and Ginny Palmatier. . . . : Tribune Photo Group Truly Befriends Library By Trac> Gerlach Over the pa>t year, the Friends of the Librar\ orpnmzation ha? indeed been a true fnend to the Gouverneur Public Li- ney and S-ar- catalog stores. The Basket Case and the hhr.ir* One thou- sand carci^ have hfen pro- duced and arf s» v 11inp at &h fora colored \er-ion. S\ > > nee Apr;*, the p-ouc ha> contr.buted over $350 in support of the Gou- verneur Reading Room ard it- pro-ams In the most recent fun- d^ms^nc effort, which be^an Nov. 1. members hive been selling station- a^y and hciiday ca r ds beannc the 1inrar\ anan*st s^fndennc librar> u^ifdoiieb* Mal- combMrCorrr,<k Canton. fcr^->eriv of Gouvemeur Tre card* VJJT^J colored bv jT'wp vrembprs, «re at the JCPen fcrSl r >n • The 7\* meTTitx-r croup uas forced in April to ensure the future of the ]ibrar\ in Gouverneur Their f^rst taste of <-ucces* came May 24 *hen voters appr- -ed a $ J$.(KH) sepa- rate line item to the Gou- vemeu^ Central School Distnct annual budget lhat th«> croup had re- queried to tund the pubi>c hbrar\ TV <- Nictorv sa\*ed the hbrar\ f^orr its f;nan- cval difficulties ar>d at the roposition i? votvd upon yearly,\ said the group's president. K^-f-- rr;ar> Mrrrow, addinp. \The library is on'.y sale f^r ? short time *\ Mr- Marrow said the Friend^ of the Librarv. in xhe few thinp 1 they have done tc date, have been *p!acinp the machinery for larper fundraisers Duri :i£ the Gouverneur sidewalk sale in August. the group held a book^ale which raised S250for the librar* In the midst of their Chri>tmas fundraiser, the pr^up ba-s hf'crur. plannirji an \Art- in thr Park\ craft show to be held in th^ vil- lage park rv^vt fall They've apphf-d for a c^ant from the N» ^ York Slate Council on the A^t - to help fund the one-day event. Sf-pt 29 which will tea ture nonh count r\ craf ter^ deman^tratinc and Selling thr'.r warrs The pToup h»>pe< r to attract between .»« r »-l <^craft*r^ lo the shovi AH prr»ce<-d«- w ill benefit the Fnends of the Librarv U> beef up fundnm School Awards Phase V Contracts In a special meetinglast week, the Gouverneur Central School Distnct Board of Education awarded Phase V con- tract.- totalling more than $-M million. The Phase V construc- tion project will provide fo.r additional classrooms, .'athletic fields, and play- ground facilities Some of the classroom space will hi- leased to St. Lawrence County B()CE> The di>tnct received t;i\pa\er authorization for a total package cost of >.^07.i)0o for the im- provements The addi- tional monies provided for will he used for contractu- ral exp^nseh. legal serv- ices, and site improve- ments rr-qum-d The general construc- tion contract, worth ?2 39*.35«j. went to North- land Associates The p;umhing contract wa> awarded to Norwood Plumhmp. uhosubmitted an apparent low bid of $:32.-<X> Northern Mechanicals was awarded the heating and ventilation contract, after submitting an appar- ent low bid of $308,900 The contract for electri- cal work went to Collins Hammond Electrical Con- r^act.r-. uho submitted a W of $266,366 The board voteJ to elim i- mau* a corridor at East Side School which would have connected two w est w in^s in order t o re<x>up $115. VJO of the project s co»t, after Ibids fo*\ general construc- tion + or* car^e in subftan- tiaJly higher than had been predicted B>ds for heat nd ventilation, and el^ctncal all came l than ex
