WNBZ Community Calendar

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

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ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

The Adirondack Artists Guild will host an opening reception for Totems and Vessels, an exhibit of new work in clay by Mary Lou Reid on Friday, August 3, from 5-7 PM at the Artists Guild gallery at 52 Main St., Saranac Lake. The show will run through August 29, 2012.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

Click here for Lacrosse and information about each team, scores, pictures and field locations.

Click here for the Complete listing of competition schedules

ROCK105 and WNBZ welcomes Lake Placid Lacrosse – all 199 teams strong, and all divisions.

The Fall Sports Parent/Athlete meeting will take place on Monday August 6th 6:30pm in the High School Auditorium.  All Modified, JV and Varsity athletes need to attend.  The paperwork needed to participate will be available at this time. The general meeting will be followed by team meetings. Football gets underway on August 13th, and then on Wednesday that week, Soccer, Volleyball and Cross Country..  Modified sports kick off the 23rd for Soccer and the 27th for Football, Cross Country and Volleyball…

Artist Statement for Photographic Exhibit “Simplexity”:

 Simplexity: An emerging theory that proposes a possible complementary relationship between complexity and simplicity.

Local photographer Burdette Parks is the featured artist for the month of August in the lobby gallery of Pendragon Theatre. An exhibit of his photographs titled “Simplexity” opens on August 7th with an Artist’s Reception from 5:30 to 7:00 and will run through Labor Day.

According to Mr. Parks’ artist statement for the show:

“The natural Order (pun intended) of Nature is Chaos. Nature tends not to do things in an orderly way. The natural world is a chaotic jumble of random occurrences of complexly ordered systems. There are too many variables and influences at work for order to be sustained. So when we observe nature in it’s unadulterated state, we see mostly the resulting chaos.

In this series of images, my goal as a photographer has been to make images of the natural world that simplify nature’s inherent chaos. This, I think, is a rather normal impulse for many photographers when framing and composing an image. But for this series, I have concentrated on the essentials. I worked to emphasize the graphic qualities of the subject, eliminating unnecessary detail and focusing on shapes, forms, colors, textures and relationships. As one focuses in more and more closely to natural subjects, the truth of the old aphorism that one can find a world in a grain of sand becomes abundantly clear. Things that appear extremely simple, even orderly, from a distance become intricately complex on closer inspection. On the other hand, by reducing the apparent detail in a larger perspective (akin to squinting at a landscape) detail is diminished and basic forms predominate.”

The display system for the images in this exhibit is a marked departure from the more traditional matting and framing of prints under glass. In collaboration with a skilled woodworker, a unique shadowbox-like presentation was created with the images “floating free” within a finely crafted natural wood box. The images were printed on specially coated photo-canvas using archival pigment inks. After drying, they were given two coatings of sealant to protect the surfaces from scrapes, water and UV light. (Though like any photo image, they should not be displayed in direct sun.) The canvases were then “stretched” onto wooden panels, positioned over background panels and locked in place. “Floating” within the box gives the images an added impression of depth.

William Blake: “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower.”

Burdette’s Photo Bio:

Burdette was born and educated inNorth Dakotareceiving a BA in Theater Arts from the University of North Dakota. He developed an early interest in photography through his father, an inveterate and prolific family picture taker. That interest was cemented in 1964 when he sold two nature slides to the North Dakota State Travel Department. In college at the University of North Dakota, Burdette did yearbook photography for the Journalism Department, learned processing and darkroom basics doing work-study at the University News Bureau and was mentored in photography by a commercial photographer and a successful photojournalist while pursuing first a pre-med degree and ultimately a degree in Theatre Arts. A brief invitational stint with the U.S. Army got him toTexaswhere he managed and owned live theaters over fourteen years in bothSan AntonioandAustin.

During more than two decades directing and producing live theater, Burdette incorporated photography—doing publicity and production photography for his own and other theaters. His first formal gallery show was in 1980 at aSan Antoniogallery and for thirty years a sculptural piece of his has graced theSculptureGardenat the San Antonio Museum of Art.

In 1982, he took his act on the road with one-man theater performances. Frankly, B. Franklin was his first foray into the exhilarating realm of solo performance and his first in-depth exposure to Ben Franklin (if you overlook an earlier episode asFranklinin the musical 1776.) In 1985 he wrote and began performing a second solo show, Shakespeare Live! – resulting in him traveling with two alter-egos, Ben and Will—Benjamin Franklin and William Shakespeare—not bad company.

Since 1990, he has been living in the Adirondacks with the wife he met through the amorous influence ofSaranacLake’s Pendragon Theater and since 2001, has enthusiastically resumed a decades long affair with photography.

Photographically, the shift from film to digital happened for Burdette in 2001 and he has been diligently working to keep pace with this rapidly advancing technology ever since. Specializing in fine art landscape/nature work, he has had work showcased in numerous juried shows in the Adirondack region (photographs of his were awarded Best of Show in the Art’s Council of the Northern Adirondack’s 2009 Cover Art competition and an Honorable Mention in their 2011 show) and has been featured in numerous exhibits. As a relatively early convert to digital photography, Burdette has accumulated a vast store of information on this rapidly evolving medium and has been sharing his discoveries and enthusiasm through classes and workshops. And as a year-round resident in the endlessly scenicAdirondackPark, he is constantly striving to refine and improve his vision of this special landscape.

While people and theatre remain strong photographic interests, Burdette finds the natural studio of the Adirondacksa beguiling place to explore expanding photographic horizons. His web address is: www.roundlakestudios.com.

For further information about Pendragon’s gallery or any of the summer offerings, contact the theatre at 518-891-1854, on the web: pendragontheatre.org or via e-mail: pdragon@northnet.org.

There will be a board meeting of the Lake Placid Central School Board of Education on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 beginning at 6:30 p.m.   A motion to go into executive session to discuss personnel is anticipated at 6:30 p.m. Executive session will last until 7:00 p.m.  The meeting will be held in the Board of Education Conference Room, Administrative Services Center, 50 Cummings Road, Lake Placid, New York

 II. Reports to the Board

A. Director of Special Education Overview by Javier Perez

B. Shared Services Discussion

C. Committee Reports

 Technology Committee

 Policy Committee – First Read

 III. Superintendent’s Report

 IV. Action Items

 A. Minutes of the Board of Education Meeting dated July 3, 2012 and July 17, 2012

B. Personnel

Temporary Administrative Appointment

Teaching Staff Resignation

Temporary Teaching Staff Appointment

Salary Adjustment

Salary Approvals

Extra Service Coaching Assignments

C. Budget Transfers

D. Elementary School Handbook

E. Middle/High School Handbook

F. School Meal Prices

G. Food Service Consultant

H. Sports Mergers

I. Transportation Contract

J. Special Education (July 3, 2012)

K. Other

 V. For the Good of the Cause

 - 5 minute time limit

 VI. Anticipated Executive Session

 VII. Adjournment

 Location: ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES CENTER

Lake Placid, New York

The Honorable

Clyde Rabideau

Mayor of the Village of Saranac Lake,

The Saranac Lake Board of Trustees and the

Saranac Lake Local Development Corporation Members

Cordially Invite the Honor of Your Presence

To a Grand Reception

Welcoming and Saluting the Commencement of Biotech Operations of

Myriad-RBM

In its New 3 Main Street Saranac Lake Location

Wednesday Evening, August Eighth

Commencing at Five O’clock

In Riverside Park

The Evening’s Theme is

“The Good Old Summer Time”

Old Fashioned Ice Cream and Root Beer

Will be served to the Music

Of a Dixieland Band

With Complimentary Boater Straw Hats

Tours of the New Myriad RBM Facility Will be Conducted During the Reception

RSVP-By August Sixth-VSL Community Development Office

39 Main Street

comdevassistant@saranaclakeny.gov

This Event is Primarily Underwritten By

J. Hogan Refrigeration and Mechanical, Inc.

Peru, NY

www.jhoganrefrigeration.com

There will be a regular meeting of the Saranac Lake Central School Board at 6:30pm in the Petrova Library at 6:30pm

REGULAR MEETING  7:00 P.M.

 ROLL CALL/PLEDGE TO THE FLAG

 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF July 26, 2012

 WARRANT # 15 OF 2012:

 GENERAL FUND    $2,971.34   342-355

 AIRPORT FUND    $174,661.44     405-428

 GENERAL OUTSIDE FUND   $53.14    67-68

 HIGHWAY FUND OUTSIDE     $47,889.81     138-143

 TRUST AND AGENCY     $900.00

 WATER DISTRICT     $1,214.09   1

 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUD       $9.00

 SUPERVISOR:

 CAPITAL PROJECTS

Authorize Deputy Supervisor to sign Federal/State paperwork for services performed by Passero Associates and M.J. Raymond, LLC for the listed invoices and approval of payments and Federal and State draw downs:

1. Passero voucher FAA Project 3-36-0105-51-11 Perform Airport Master Study Update with GIS Component, Perform Wildlife Hazard Management Study Phase II, Invoice #14942 $23,821.23
2. Authorize to sign FAA Letter of Credit Transfer FAA Project 3-36-0105-51-11 Perform Airport Master Study Update with GIS Component, Perform Wildlife Hazard Management Study Phase II amount $22,630.17 FAA Share 95%.
3. Passero voucher NYSDOT Pin 7905.32 GA Terminal Site Improvements Invoice #56289 $1,300.09
4. Authorization to sign NYSDOT Application for Payment, Certificate #26 NYSDOT Pin #7905.32 in the amount of $1.170.08 NYSDOT share 90%
5. M.J. Raymond, LLC voucher NYSDOT Pin 7905.32 GA Terminal Site Improvements Payment Application #3 in the amount of $67,221.62.
6. Authorization to sign NYSDOT Application for Payment, Certificate #27 NYSDOT Pin #7905.32 in the amount of $60,499.46 NYSDOT Share 90%

RESOULTION # 16  OF 2012

Authorization for Deputy Supervisor DeFuria to sign grant offer for AIP Project Number 3-36-0105-54-12 in the amount of $627,140.00 for the following project, Reconstruct Transient Aircraft Parking Apron, approximately 140,000 square feet including associated drainage (Design & Construction) Total project amount $660,148.00 FAA Share $627,140.00, Local Share $16,504.00, State Share $16504.00.

Authorization for Deputy Supervisor DeFuria to sign grant offer for AIP Project Number 3-36-0105-55-12 in the amount of $167,770.00 for the following project, Conduct Pavement Management Plan Study; Terminal Expansion – TSA & Passenger Screening  (Design Only) Total project amount $176,600.00 FAA Share $167.770.00, Local Share $4,415.00, State Share $4,415.00.

AIRPORT

Airport Managers Report

Permission for Airport Manager to attend New York Aviation Management Association Fall Conference and Exhibit Show inNiagara FallsSeptember 19-21.  Registration $375, Lodging $109/night for $218, $70 for meals and request permission to use personal vehicle cost of $343.66, grand total $1,007.00.

 HIGHWAY:

 BUILDINGS:

 SPECIAL DISTRICTS LAKE COLBY PUMP STATION FORCE MAIN RELOCATION:

 Authorization to go to bid  for the relocation of the pump station force main with bidding specifications being done by AES Northeast. 

 COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS:

 ADJOURN:

The Town of North Elba endeavors to reduce solid waste, promote the recycling of material, and maintain and advance a clean, sustainable and environmentally conscious community. It is the ultimate goal of our program to foster educational links and stimulate collaboration between local government and all segments of our population; our youth, employees, visitors, homeowners, businesses, and seasonal residents. Environmental responsibility requires a commitment from everyone!  The Town has formed a Recycling Advisory Committee to help accomplish this mission.

Location

74 Recycle Circle Lane
Lake Placid, NY 12946

Contact Phone:  (518) 523-2940

The North Elba Transfer Station invites residents of the Town of North Elba to bring Hazardous Waste to the Transfer Station on Recycle Way this Saturday from 8am until 4pm.

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

“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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Lake Placid Blue Bombers Girls Soccer First Practice  (Jim Kordziel Field)

Lake Placid Blue Bombers volleyball First Practice  (Gymnasium)

Lake PlacidBlue Bombers Boys Soccer First Practice  (Jim Kordziel Field)

The annual Re-Dedication Ceremony of Whiteface Mountain to the Army’s 10^th Mountain Division based inFortDrum, happens today at noon..

The ceremony honors the World War II 10^th Mountain Division veterans and the modern day 10^th Mountain Division Soldiers serving throughout the world. A memorial plaque is located on the summit of Little Whiteface Mountain. Today’s ceremony will be held at Whiteface outside the Base Lodge, and will include a Military Band, Color Guard, and Firing Detail. This event is open to the public and free of charge.

For more information on ORDA’s Olympic venues and events, visit www.whitefacelakeplacid.com.

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.