WNBZ Community Calendar

Advanced Directives Seminar

 Adirondack Medical Center’s Director of Pastoral Care, Steve Kovacevich, will present a Seminar on Advanced Directives at Saranac Village at Will Rogers, on Wednesday, December 5th, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., as part of Saranac Village at Will Rogers’ Road to Retirement Series. The Road to Retirement Series, which began in September, features programs related to the challenges of retiring, solutions for organizing, and information on Veterans’ affairs, and will run through December and then begin again in February.

Advanced health care planning, or Advanced Directives as it is more commonly known, can consist of both oral and written orders intended to address a person’s health care wishes if he or she is unable to speak for themself. Anyone who is 18 years of age or older, or has a chronic disease, should be aware of the need for Advanced Directives. Likewise, it is important to take into consideration the need to plan ahead and inform those closest to you about your wishes for end-of-life decisions before the time comes. There are different forms of Advanced Directives, as well as many situations presenting their own set of individual questions.

This program is free for those 55 and older, open to the public and a special discount will be offered to new residents who attend the program and move in within 30 days of this program. Refreshments will be served. For information, please contact Director of Admissions, Jenn Grisi at (518) 891-7117.

Village Set to Welcome New Biotech Company

 Saranac Lake will officially welcome its newest corporate citizen and biotech company, Active Motif, at 6 pm, December 4^th, with a reception and ribbon-cutting event which will be held at its 21 Main Street location.

This new Active Motif site is in the former “water building” and is leased from the village after having undergone extensive renovations over the last 6 months.

Active Motif follows nearby biotech, Myriad/RBM, which opened last June, into Saranac Lake’s new “Biotech-Cluster,” which is also comprised of nearby Trudeau Institute and Bionique.

Mayor Clyde Rabideau commented, “This emerging industry offers good-paying, sustainable jobs to our Adirondack region as well as a large and positive presence in our downtown.”

The Village of Saranac Lake was recognized earlier this year by the New York Conference of Mayors for developing its biotech-cluster and garnered the first place Local government Achievement Award for Economic Development.

Rabideau said, “We’re now poised to go after other biotechs and bring them into our Saranac Lake community in the years to come.”

The public is invited and encouraged to attend the welcoming event—at no charge—by making reservations with the village Community Development office, at 891-4150.

The cost for the reception is entirely underwritten by Bernier and Carr, the renovation project engineering company, Integrated Rigging and Contracting, the project’s general contractor and Murray Electric, the project’s electrical contractor.

Saranac Lake Middle School Parent Teacher Conferences

12:30-2:30 and 5:30-7:30

Attention Parents/Guardians

The Saranac Lake High School is working to establish a Parent Teacher Organization. A committed PTO helps develop a strong partnership between parents and teachers, with a common goal of providing the best school environment for students to attend and achieve their highest potential.

The PTO meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the SLHS cafeteria.  Parents and teachers are invited to attend.

To view the PTO’s website, please click here.

Contact Paul Van Cott, paulvancott@hotmail.com, 637-3612 for more details.

Saranac Lake’s Middle School Winter Concert -

Petrova Elementary Students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 will present their Holiday Concert

10am and again at 7pm

THE FRANKLIN COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE IS SPONSORING

A PRESENTATION THAT WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

BATH SALTS

SYNTHETIC MARIHUANA

METHAMPHETEMENES

THE PRESENTER WILL BE NEW YORK STATE POLICE

SENIOR INVESTIGATOR SAMUEL MERCADO

SESSIONS WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS:

NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY – DECEMBER 13, 2012

EMERGENCY SERVICES BUILDING (911)

BARE HILL ROAD MALONE, NY –

1:00PM – 3:00PM

SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY – DECEMBER 14, 2012

NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

SCIENCE BUILDING ROOM S-19

SARANAC LAKE, NY

9:00AM – 12:00PM

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

SHERIFF KEVIN MULVERHILL – 483-3304

Petrova School Holiday Concert for parents and friends of students in K, 1, 2.

10am and 7pm

Attention Parents/Guardians

The Saranac Lake High School is working to establish a Parent Teacher Organization. A committed PTO helps develop a strong partnership between parents and teachers, with a common goal of providing the best school environment for students to attend and achieve their highest potential.

The PTO meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the SLHS cafeteria.  Parents and teachers are invited to attend.

To view the PTO’s website, please click here.

Contact Paul Van Cott, paulvancott@hotmail.com, 637-3612 for more details.

LPI Book Club meeting

“Art Lover, A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim,” by Anton Gill is this month’s choice of the Lake Placid Institute Book Club, which will meet at the Lake Placid Library at 7 p.m., Monday, January 28. Ms. Guggenhiem, was left a small fortune at a young age after her father went down on the Titanic. She soon relocated to Europe, moving about with the American expat group of bohemian writers and artists of the day. She has been dubbed by some as the “mistress of modern art” but was equally well known for her colorful and scandalous life style.

The LPI Book Club usually meets 7 p.m. on the last Monday of the month to discuss books about arts and architecture. All are invited to join in the discussion or to come just listen.

Oral History training – at Noon in the John Black Room

Led by Anthropologist Adam Dewbury..

RSVP – 891-4606

The event is free and open to the public – bring a lunch..

Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society

2013 “Odds and Ends” Winter Lecture Series

The Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society is pleased to kick off their 2013 “Odds

and Ends” Winter Lecture Series on Wednesday, January 30 at Howard Johnson’s

Restaurant in Lake Placid. The lecture will begin at 7:00 pm with attendees encouraged

to come for dinner at 6:00pm. The first program in the four-part series is titled “Sandra

Weber, author of Adirondack Roots”.

Sandra Weber, dressed in period costume, delivers a lively program of readings and

portrayals from Adirondack Roots. The book, published by The History Press, is a

collection of Sandra’s finest writings on Adirondack hiking, history, and women. Be

prepared to sob and chuckle as you hear the stories of those who have lived in and loved

the Adirondack mountains, including the presenter’s own tussles. After spending many

summers in the region, she has now permanently put down Adirondack roots at her drafty

log cabin in the woods near Elizabethtown. Sandra’s other books about the region include

Two in the Wilderness (with photos by Carl Heilman), Breaking Trail: Remarkable

Women of the Adirondacks (with Peggy Lynn), Mount Marcy, and The Finest Square

Mile. She is also well-known for her dramatic portrayals of Mary Brown in “Times of

Trouble” and of other Adirondack women in “Mountain Women Can Be Heroes” (with

folksinger Peggy Lynn).

The Winter Lecture Series has been titled “Odds and Ends” in memory of Laura Viscome,

a longtime supporter of the Historical Society. Laura’s weekly “Odds and Ends” column

ran in the Lake Placid News for many years and was a great source of information for

residents and visitors.

Lectures will be offered monthly from January through April 2013. All programs offered

in the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society’s “Odds and Ends” Winter Lecture

Series are free and open to the public. The series will continue at Howard Johnson’s

Restaurant on Wednesday, February 27 with Scott Carroll and Marc Nathanson: “The

making of the documentary, Small Town: Big Dreams”

For more information, please contact Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society at (518)

523-1608 or thehistorymuseum@verizon.net.

Free personal tax computation and filing is being offered again this year by local American Association of Retired People volunteers. “We expect to begin about the end of January,” said Carol Pinney, one of the preparers. There is absolutely no charge for service which is located at the Lake Placid Public Library. It is available to everyone regardless of age or income.

Anyone wishing to use the AARP program should call the library at 523.3200 and leave their name. A representative of the organization will call back to set a time and date and instructions on what information to bring.

The tax preparers are fully recertified each year to keep up with the ever-changing federal and state tax laws. The returns are submitted by email, which is the method preferred by the IRS, and taxpayers receive a folder containing hard copies for their files.

A tour of the Lab will follow the presentation in the John Black Room at Historic Saranac Lake..

For more information call 891-4606

The event is part of the regular Women’s College Scholarship Club Meeting…

The Slideshow about Saranac Lake’s unique history as a pioneer health resort, followed by a tour of the museum. The Business Meeting will follow at 8pm..  - For more details call 891-6717 (Women’s College Scholarship Club)

Stories by Natalie Leduc and other History Buffs – The 2013 Winter Carnival theme “Under The Sea” will bring to mind the norwegian sailors who came to Saranac Lake for the TB cure during WWII -

The event is at noon in the John Black Room at The Historic Saranac Lake Museum on Church Street.

Free and open to the public..

For more information call 891-4606

Attention Parents/Guardians

The Saranac Lake High School is working to establish a Parent Teacher Organization. A committed PTO helps develop a strong partnership between parents and teachers, with a common goal of providing the best school environment for students to attend and achieve their highest potential.

The PTO meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the SLHS cafeteria.  Parents and teachers are invited to attend.

To view the PTO’s website, please click here.

Contact Paul Van Cott, paulvancott@hotmail.com, 637-3612 for more details.

The Monthly meeting of the Saranac Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is held on the third Tuesday of the Month..

at the VFW, Broadway, Saranac Lake.

The Lake Palcid Youth Athletic Association meets at 8pm at the Olympic Training Center on Old Military Road -

www.eteamz.com/LPYAA