WNBZ Community Calendar

New York State Police, Troop “B”, along with theAdirondackMedicalCenter, Tupper Lake Police Department and the Franklin County Traffic Safety Board will be hosting a child safety seat clinic at theMunicipalPark,TupperLakeon Saturday (August 11th, 2012) from 10:00AM to 2:00PM.  Adults who are responsible for providing transportation for children of all ages are encouraged to attend.   Technicians will be on hand to inspect seats, assist with installations, provide information and answer questions regarding child seat safety.  For more information contact T/Sergeant Brian Goetz at (518)897-2023 or email brian.goetz@troopers.ny.gov

Celebrate the Adirondack’s rich snow-sport heritage and support its future!

28^th Annual NYSEF Summer Benefit – Saturday, August 11, 2012, 6:30-9:30 pm
Turf & Field Club, Lake Placid Horseshow Grounds

 Lake Placid, NY, August 11, 2012 – The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF) is hosting the 28^th Annual Summer Benefit, Saturday, August 11^th in the Turf & Field Club at the Lake Placid Horseshow Grounds from 6:30-9:30 pm. Join NYSEF for a special evening to support local youth – step into the past with wooden skis and leather boots, traditional European cuisine, cocktails, music and silent auction.

Adirondack tradition has a history rich in snow sports and Olympic heritage. Let’s preserve that heritage by supporting and investing in its future. Lake Placid has hosted two historical Olympic Winter Games, and continuously aspires to update and maintain the venues for World class competitions and training; and to mold young athletes to pursue their dreams.

NYSEF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to providing professional guidance and support to athletes of all ages in Alpine, Freestyle, Cross-Country Skiing, Ski Jumping, Snowboarding, Biathlon, and Nordic Combined. NYSEF athletes represent the United States Ski and Snowboard Teams competing at Olympic, World, Jr. World and National Team levels. Join us for an evening to support the continuation of this tradition!

Open to ages 21 and up – advance purchase tickets are $80/person, $150/couple and $40/ages 21-35. Tickets are $90 at the door. For details and to purchase tickets visit NYSEF online at: www.nysef.org or call the NYSEF office at 518-946-7001.

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“A.F. Tait: Artist of the Adirondacks” at the Adirondack Museum

Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. - Join Adirondack Museum Senior Art Historian/Director Emerita Caroline Welsh on Monday, August 13 for “A.F. Tait: Artist of the Adirondacks.” The program is part of the Monday Evening Lecture series.

Few painters are so closely associated with images of the Adirondacks as Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905). Tait’s pictures of wildlife, sportsmen, landscape, and rural community life resonated with nineteenth-century Americans seeking respite from the fast pace of urban living. Tait’s iconic paintings were reproduced as prints and marketed to a mass audience, and helped to create and perpetuate an image of the Adirondack wilderness as a sportsman’s paradise, a place to find camaraderie among men and test one’s mettle against the forces of nature. His images defined what is “Adirondack” about the Adirondacks in the public imagination and introduced a new dimension to American landscape and wildlife painting by portraying the interactions between wildlife and sportsmen.

The presentation will be held in the Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be offered at no charge to museum members; the fee for non-members is $5.00. For additional information, please visit www.adirondackmuseum.org or call (518) 352-7311.

The exhibition: “The Adirondack World of A.F. Tait” is currently on display at the Adirondack Museum. The museum is open seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through October 14, 2012.

Caroline Mastin Welsh is an art historian and Director Emerita of the Adirondack Museum. She is a graduate of the Kent School and Wellesley College and was awarded a fellowship in museum studies at the Smithsonian Institution and a fellowship in museum leadership at the Getty Leadership Institute. Her work in the museum profession includes positions at the Smithsonian Institution and the Albany Institute of History and Art in addition to the Adirondack Museum, where she served as both Curator and Director. She is a consultant on museum and exhibit development, and a national peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums. She serves or has served on regional committees and arts organizations in Pennsylvania and New York State as a trustee and advisor including the Friends of the William Penn Museum, the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists, The Exhibition Alliance, the Hale Center for the Study of the Champlain Valley, and the Hamilton College Committee for the Visual Arts.

The Adirondack Museum, accredited by the American Association of Museums, offers 65,000 square feet of exciting exhibitions housed in twenty-two modern and historic buildings. Visitors can explore how people have lived, worked, traveled, and played in the Adirondacks from the 19^th century up to today. The museum is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. For additional information, visit www.adirondackmuseum.org or call (518) 352-7311.

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Purple Loosestrife Management Workshops To Be Held

 KEENE VALLEY, NY  The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) and Cornell Cooperative Extension are hosting a new workshop series focusing on managing purple loosestrife using biological control. Biological control involves raising and releasing beetles that feed on leaves, roots or flowers of purple loosestrife plants. Workshop participants will learn how to identify purple loosestrife, map infestations and determine whether biological control is an appropriate method of treatment for their infestation. Experts will also review the process and permitting for releasing beetles as well as the monitoring protocols used to assess the effectiveness of beetle predation on purple loosestrife plants. Landowners, gardeners, landscapers, community groups and resource managers are encouraged to attend.

 Sessions will be held on Tuesday, August 14^th at the Ticonderoga Town Hall from 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. and Monday, August 20^th at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake from 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. Sessions are free. Please RSVP to Sarah Walsh at 518-576-2082 x 120 or sarah_walsh@tnc.org.

 Purple loosestrife is an aggressive wetland and shoreline invader that crowds out native plants and degrades habitat for wildlife and waterfowl. Managing large infestations of purple loosestrife can be difficult, but scientific monitoring and assessment of biological controls shows that it is an effective technique for reducing populations. Organizers of local control projects in Lake Placid and Schroon Lake also report great success in reducing loosestrife infestations using biological control.  “By attending this session, community members will learn the tools to assess their infestation, effectively release biological control on their lands and measure its success over time and protect wetlands for years to come,” said Sarah Walsh, APIPP’s summer educator.

 The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program is a partnership program whose mission is to protect the Adirondack region from the negative impacts of non-native invasive species. Find out more information about APIPP online at www.adkinvasives.com.

A benefit for the Tri-Lakes Relay for Life – Garage Sale is being held at the Saranac Lake Civic Center Tuesday (Tonight) August 14th from 5pm until 7pm. Everything must go!

Historic Saranac Lake Films – On Tuesday, August 14, at 7 p.m., James J. Griebsch will present “Historic Motion Pictures of Saranac Lake’s Past” at the theater in the Paul Smith’s VIC. An award-winning, independent film and video director, Jim has digitized and edited 16 mm and 8mm spools of film from the 1920s through the 1960s which have been archived in the Adirondack Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library. The presentation is free and open to the public. A gift donation to support further restoration and preservation of the Kollecker film collection at the library would be appreciated. Call the library at 891-4190 or The VIC at 327-6241 for more information.

Children’s Acting Workshop – A Children’s Acting Workshop for second to fifth graders will be offered on Wednesday, August 15, and Wednesday, August 22, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the Cantwell Community Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library,109 Main Street. Join the fun at the free workshop with games, costumes, props, skits and more! Call Autumn Buerkett at 327-3567 for more information.

MONTHLY MEAL Wednesday August 15th

The Saranac Lake Adult Center sponsors their Monthly Meal on Wednesday August 15th. Bingo starts at 2pm, social hour begins at 4pm with dinner at 5pm. The dinner menu includes hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, pasta salad, ice cream sundae bars. The cost is $5.00 per person. call 891-2980 for reservations.

PLATINUM LEED HOUSE IN LAKE PLACID

 Creative Healing Connections, a North Country nonprofit group that provides arts and healing retreats, is hosting a benefit cocktail party at the new home of Larry and Nancy Master in Lake Placid on August 16th.  The home just received a Platinum LEED Certification.

 “We use the arts in nature to help women with cancer and chronic illnesses, female veterans and female military spouses to heal,” commented CHC board president and founder Naj Wikoff of Keene Valley.  “What an incredible opportunity to see a platinum LEED certified home that is lovingly built with the planet’s health in mind, while learning about healing women in nature.” 

 LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.  LEED is an international standard created to help building owners with green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building, home or community has met their standards so that the homeowner or home buyer can be assured that it was constructed in an environmentally sound manner ­ and built to last.

 Founded in 1999 and also built to last, Creative Healing Connections gives scholarships to nine out of ten of its female participants, and this event will help raise scholarship funds for 2012 and 2013. 

 “In May we held the nation’s first retreat for female military spouses and partners in Saranac Lake,” said CHC director Martha Spear of Upper Jay.  “It was a huge success and we are so grateful to all our funders for making it possible.” 

 “We are offering three more retreats this year,” remarked CHC co-founder Fran Yardley, of Tupper Lake, who also leads retreats.    “Two for female veterans in August and one for women with cancer and chronic illnesses in September.  All the retreats are filling up fast.” Yardley, a storyteller, will be one of several featured guests at the Masters’ home. 

 “While this event is a fund-raiser for CHC, we want anyone to come who is interested in enjoying this private house and garden opening,” said event co-chair Susan Rose Hockert of Wilmington.   “Entry to the event is free, with an optional donation of $50 per person suggested.” 

 Larry and Nancy Master are “best friends who have been married for 40 years,” according to the website of the Adirondack Community Trust where they have a donor advised fund.  Larry serves on the board of several environmental and conservation groups, while Nancy serves on the board of the North Country SPCA.  The new home is the fulfillment of their lifelong dream to live lightly on the land. 

 “I am very happy we can do this for Creative Healing Connections,” said Larry in a recent phone call.

 “Relatedly, please save the date for our 2013 Mad Hatters Ball featuring Roby Politi as the Mad Hatter:  Thursday, March 21^st at 5:30 p.m. at Heaven Hill Farm in Lake Placid,” added Franny Preston, of Saranac Lake, who co-chairs the event with Hockert and Erin Perkins of Lake Placid.

 To RSVP for this event please contact director Martha Spear at 518-390-3899 or director@creativehealingconnections.org.

Saturday August 18, 2012. 15th Annual Olga Memorial Footrace. Berkeley Green, Saranac Lake.

5K Walk and Run, 10K Run and 1/2 K kids

Fun Run. $15 mailed entry by 8/11 or $20 race day. $5 Fun Run.

Race day registration 8AM. Fun run starts at 9:15, 5K/10K to follow.  Refreshments, awards and post race raffle.

Benefits the Saranac Lake SkatePark. Contact: 518-637-4297 or slskatepark @yahoo.com.

Peggy Wiltberger

Purple Loosestrife Management Workshops To Be Held

 KEENE VALLEY, NY  The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) and Cornell Cooperative Extension are hosting a new workshop series focusing on managing purple loosestrife using biological control. Biological control involves raising and releasing beetles that feed on leaves, roots or flowers of purple loosestrife plants. Workshop participants will learn how to identify purple loosestrife, map infestations and determine whether biological control is an appropriate method of treatment for their infestation. Experts will also review the process and permitting for releasing beetles as well as the monitoring protocols used to assess the effectiveness of beetle predation on purple loosestrife plants. Landowners, gardeners, landscapers, community groups and resource managers are encouraged to attend.

 Sessions will be held on Tuesday, August 14^th at the Ticonderoga Town Hall from 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. and Monday, August 20^th at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake from 2 p.m.- 4 p.m. Sessions are free. Please RSVP to Sarah Walsh at 518-576-2082 x 120 or sarah_walsh@tnc.org.

 Purple loosestrife is an aggressive wetland and shoreline invader that crowds out native plants and degrades habitat for wildlife and waterfowl. Managing large infestations of purple loosestrife can be difficult, but scientific monitoring and assessment of biological controls shows that it is an effective technique for reducing populations. Organizers of local control projects in Lake Placid and Schroon Lake also report great success in reducing loosestrife infestations using biological control.  “By attending this session, community members will learn the tools to assess their infestation, effectively release biological control on their lands and measure its success over time and protect wetlands for years to come,” said Sarah Walsh, APIPP’s summer educator.

 The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program is a partnership program whose mission is to protect the Adirondack region from the negative impacts of non-native invasive species. Find out more information about APIPP online at www.adkinvasives.com.

Fidelis holds Health Insurance open house at CVPH

 Plattsburgh, NY (August 3, 2012) – On Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21, from 10 A.M. to 7 P.M., Fidelis Care will provide a free Health Insurance Open House at CVPH Medical Center in the front lobby.

 To provide community members of the Champlain Valley with low-cost or free coverage, Fidelis Care has become partners with CVPH Medical Center.  Fidelis representatives will be available at the open house to provide information, answer questions and to discuss options for your health-care.   

 Fidelis Care offers New York State’s Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus, and Medicaid Managed Care programs.  Children under the age of 19 will be eligible for Child Health Plus, which may be free or $9 a month per child.  Adults between the ages of 19 and 64 are eligible for the low-cost health coverage through Family Health Plus.  Eligibility is based on the size of the household and gross monthly income.  Regular checkups, preventive care, hospital and emergency care, eye exams and dental are all covered under Fidelis Care.  In order to apply for enrollment, please provide identification of age, income and address.  

 CVPH is a regional medical center dedicated to providing the Champlain Valley with quality healthcare and services.

Children’s Acting Workshop – A Children’s Acting Workshop for second to fifth graders will be offered on Wednesday, August 15, and Wednesday, August 22, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the Cantwell Community Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library,109 Main Street. Join the fun at the free workshop with games, costumes, props, skits and more! Call Autumn Buerkett at 327-3567 for more information.

On Friday, August 24th there will be a trivia night at Captain Cooks Bar and Grill on Broadway in Saranac Lake.  Entry fee is $5.00 per player and teams are limited to 8 players. All proceeds go to benefit the 2012 Tri-Lakes Relay for Life in Lake Placid.

WILMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO PRESENT “LINKS, CHAINS AND THE MALLORY GRANT” —August 24

The Wilmington Historical Society will present the program “Links, Chains and the Mallory Grant” with Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha as the speaker, to be held on Friday, August 24th at 7 pm at the Wilmington Community Center. The program on the history of surveying and property ownership in Essex County includes a display of actual “links and chains” used in land measurements and other historical objects related to surveying. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided by the Country Bear Bakery in Wilmington. For further information, contact Karen Peters at (518) 524-1023 or Merri Peck at (518) 946- 7627

WILMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO PRESENT “LINKS, CHAINS AND THE MALLORY GRANT” —August 24

WILMINGTON – The Wilmington Historical Society will present the program “Links, Chains and the Mallory Grant” with Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha as the speaker, to be held on Friday, August 24th at 7 pm at the Wilmington Community Center. The program on the history of surveying and property ownership in Essex County includes a display of actual “links and chains” used in land measurements and other historical objects related to surveying. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshmentswill be provided by the Country Bear Bakery in Wilmington. For further information, contact Karen Peters at (518) 524-1023 or Merri Peck at (518) 946- 7627. 

Friday, August 24, 7:30 p.m.  Lake Placid Center for the Arts