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Thursday, December 17, 2015

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Sandy Berger’s life reflectedhis childhood in Millerton

By CYNTHIA HOCHSWENDER [email protected]

Part two of two

Sandy Berger, who died Dec. 2, 2015, grew up in Millerton. He served as nation-al security advisory during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

MILLERTON — Sandy Berger andEd Downey met when they were inkindergarten and had been friends eversince. They were part of a small gangof small boys that included GeorgeBeneke, George Kaye and the Scasso

By WHITNEY [email protected]

PINE PLAINS — It’s beenthree years since the Bank of Mill-

brook bought the Pine PlainsFree Library and CommunityCenter building in a foreclosure sale.Ever since, the town of Pine Plains hasbeen trying to purchase the buildingfrom the bank, to reinstate the library(which since moved from the newer,circa-2009 building to the former li-brary space just up the road). But therehave been mitigating circumstances,not the least of which was the tenancyof the International Order of the OddFellows, which refused to vacate thenew library building after it was bought

by the bank.The Odd Fellows had been granted

1,000 square feet of space in that build-ing, in perpetuity, but the bank said af-ter the library foreclosed that the deedguarantee was null and void. It took anumber of years to settle the matter,which wound up in court. The finalresult was that the Odd Fellows vacatedthe building — just this year — and leftit free and clear for the bank to sell it to

By GABRIEL NAPOLEONSpecial to The Millerton News

AMENIA — The Planning Boardgathered to review two projects at ameeting in Town Hall on Wednesday,Dec. 9.

Out Back StorageOut Back Storage which offers

Pine Plains Library building sale finalized

the town. On Thursday, Dec. 3, that’sexactly what happened.

“It’s extremely gratifying becauseit has been a very frustrating threeyears for a variety of reasons,” said Pine

Plains Library President James Mara.Mara also happens to be secretaryfor the Friends of Stissing Landmark(FOSL), the nonprofit that helped thetown finance the library purchase.

“The library is planning on movingback to its former home and the PinePlains community will have a great re-source again,” stated Bank of MillbrookPresident George T. Whalen III in aletter to the editor that ran in The Mil-lerton News Dec. 10 edition. “I wouldlike to thank the town of Pine PlainsBoard, especially Supervisor [Brian]

Coons, for having the vision and un-derstanding that a library is one of thefoundations of a small community.”

The final sale was for $1 million;FOSL paid $555,000 while the townpaid the remainder, though the finan-cial arrangement is slightly more com-plicated than that.

“What we needed was for the non-

PHOTO BY WHITNEY JOSEPH

Holidays in Millerton

A village-wide holiday celebration on Sunday, Dec. 13, included horse-drawn carriage rides. Above, handlerBill Broe drove horse Lily and passenger Daniele Fiore. For full story and more photos, turn to page A3.

twins (Nick and Bob).“I went to the Millerton School,

which was for grades one to 12,” Lau-rie Gross, Sandy’s sister, recalled. Thenew central school wasn’t built untilher senior year in high school.

“Sandy and I were in the first class togo, as seventh-graders, to Webutuck,”Ed said.

Sandy was very involved in schoolorganizations, including the studentcouncil. Public service was a familytradition, and he was also naturallyempathetic. In part because he livedin such a small town (the village ofMillerton’s population then and now

was around 900), tragedy and strugglewere never mere statistics. In a 1999

New York Times article about his lifeand career, Sandy told reporter R.W.

Apple that he recalled visiting an auntin Brooklyn when he was a child. Thesound of fire and police sirens kept himawake. The adults told him to ignorethe sounds, but he c ouldn’t.

In Millerton, he told Apple, whenyou heard a siren, “You knew that you’dknow the people whose house was onfire.”

A teacher named Violet Simmons

Planning Board awaitsTown Board action

als were resolutions for a preliminarysubdivision plat and project site plans— areas requiring subsequent “final”passage from the board.

After Wednesday’s meeting, Fon-taine said the board is “currently await-ing completion of several [Amenia]Town Board actions, along with receiptof approvals from several state/county

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A2 THE MILLERTON NEWS, Thursday, December 17, 2015

Christ Church Episcopal in Sharon9 South Main, Sharon CT 06069

860-364-5260email: [email protected]

www.christchurchsharon.orgReverend Jon Widing

Sunday Holy Eucharist 8 & 10 AM All welcome to join us

North Canaan

Congregational Church, UCCRev. Savage Frieze

172 Lower Rd/Route 44, East Canaan, CT rc ce

A congregation that puts faith into service, in the community and in the world.Worship Services Sundays at 10 amFishes & Loaves Every Wed. 9-11 am

at the Pilgrim House, 30 Granite Ave., Canaan All are welcome. Please join us!

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The Congregational ChurchOf Salisbury, U.C.C

30 Main StreetServing the Lord with Gladness

We bid you warm welcome to comeworship with us Sundays at 10 am.

All are welcome!Child care, moving music,

and Christian fellowship in ahistoric 19th C. Meeting House.The Rev. Diane Monti-Catania

(860) 435-2442www.salisburycongregational.org

Worship ServicesWeek of December 20 , 2015

Trinity Episcopal Church484 Lime Rock Rd., Lime Rock

Sun. 8 & 10:30 a.m. Holy EucharistNursery Care/Sunday School 10:20 a.m.

(860) 435-2627

"Ofering companionship along the way"email: [email protected]: www.trinitylimerock.org

Rev. Heidi Truax

Greenwoods Community Church355 Clayton Road, Ashley Falls, MA

413-229-8560Sunday Service 10:30 AM

Kidz Konnection K-6th grade(during Sun. Service)

Nursery Care All ServicesRev. Richard Woodward

Church of St. Mary 76 Sharon Rd., Lakeville, CT

860-435-2659Weekend Liturgies

Sat. Vigil at 4:00 PMSun. at 8:00 & 10:15 AM

Weekday Liturgies Thurs. & Fri. at 9:00 AM

Wed. at 10:00 AM at Noble Horizons

The Chapel of All Saints, Cornwall An intimate Episcopal service every Sunday

8:00am Holy Eucharist and sermon Th N th C ll M ti H

All Saints of AmericaOrthodox Christian Church313 Twin Lakes Rd., Salisbury, CT

860-824-1340Rev. Fr. John J. Kreta

Vespers Sat. 5PMDivine Liturgy Sun 9:30 AMGo to our website, or call

www.allsaintsofamerica.us

North East Baptist ChurchHistoric Meeting House, Main & Maple

Millerton, NYGod's word Is Always Relevant!

A Warm Welcome Awaits You AtSunday Services:

Family Bible School - 9:30 AMMorning Worship - 11:00

Evening Service - 6:00 PMWeekday Meetings:

Tues. Bible Studies, 1:30 PM,and Weds. Prayer Meeting 7:00 PM at

at Parsonage 33 S. Maple Ave.Fellowship Luncheon firt a f

each month after AM servicesContact Pastor Henry A. Prause

Phone: 518/789-4840Email: [email protected]

St. John's Episcopal Church12 Main Street, Salisbury, CT

“Praising God, Serving Neighbor”

Sunday Services

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I) Said10:00 a.m. Choral Eucharist, Rite 11ee r a ei f

Breakfast Club1st Sunday of the month Oct.-May

Litany for Healing 2nd Sundays of the monthwww.stjohnssalisbury.org

860-435-9290Please join us!

The Lakeville

Unitarian-Universalist

Fellowship of NW CTCobble living Room,

10:30 a.m.Second Sunday of the Month

Noble Horizons

For information call 860-435-2319

St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchRev. Elizabeth Fisher, Vicar

Leedsville Road atHitchcock Corner & Amenia Union

Every Sunday Silent Prayer:10-10:15 am

Worship: Sunday 10:30 amSilent Meditiation Every Sunday

10-10:15 a.m.Tel: 1-845-373-9161

MILLERTON — John AnthonyBruno, 89, a 22-year resident ofMillerton and for-merly of New HydePark, N.Y., died Dec.11, 2015, at his homein Millerton.

Mr. Brunoworked as an oilburner technicianfor Petro Fuel Oilin Queens, N.Y., for45 years prior to hisretirement.

Born Nov. 14,1926, in Corona, N.Y., he was theson of the late Columbia (Blasucci)and Andrew Bruno.

Mr. Bruno was a graduateof Forest Hills High School andserved his country honorably inthe United States Army.

On Feb. 16, 1952, in East Elm-hurst, N.Y., he married Vilma Ber-nardon, his wife of 63 years. Mrs.Bruno survives at home.

Mr. Bruno was an avid readerand enjoyed attending his grand-son’s baseball games. He alsoenjoyed watching the St. LouisCardinals and the Chicago Bears.

In addition to his wife, Vilma,Mr. Bruno is survived by his three

children, John Bruno and his wife,Robin, of Livingston, N.Y., William

Bruno of Massapequa,N.Y., and Lisa Napoli-tano and her husband, Joseph, of Millerton;eight grandchildren,Christa, Erin, Beth-ann, Johnny, Joe, Vicky,Gina and Joey; fourgreat-grandchildren,Lilly, Emma, Rosie and Jake; and a nephew, Andrew Bruno.

In addition to hisparents, he was predeceased byhis brother and sister-in-law, An-thony and Emma Bruno; and hisdaughter-in-law, Maddie Bruno.

Arrangements are und er thecare of the Scott D. Conklin Fu-neral Home in Millerton. Funeralservices were held Dec. 15 at thefuneral home, the Rev. WilliamMayhew officiating. Burial was atIrondale Cemetery in Millerton.

Memorial contributions maybe made to the Millerton FireCompany and Rescue Squad, P.O.Box 733, Millerton, NY 12546.

To send online condolences,go to www.conklinfuneralhome.com.

John Anthony Bruno

ANCRAM — Ellwood “Woody” Jessie Hoyt, 88, of Ancram, N.Y.,died Dec. 11, 2015,at Albany MedicalCenter, surroundedby family.

He was born

Dec. 8, 1927, to An-nie (Tompkins) andHenry Hoyt. He wasa graduate of Roeliff Jansen High Schoolin 1946 and servedin the U.S. Air Forcefrom 1951 to 1957.

On Aug. 18, 1981, he marriedKatherine Brown of Lee, Mass.

He retired from KimberlyClark-Ancram Division in 1985after 30 years.

He was a member of VFW Post

7955 in Copake. Woody was a 71-year active

volunteer with the Ancram FireCompany.

wife, Annie; four grandchildren; sixgreat-grandchildren; three great-

great-grandchildren;and several nieces andnephews.

A memorial servicewill be held on Jan. 2,

2016, at noon at the An-cram firehouse.

In lieu of flowers, me-morial donations can besent to the Ancram FireCompany, Ancram, NY12502. Arrangements arewith the Peck and Peck

Funeral Home in Copake. To sendan online condolence, go to www.peckandpeck.net.

Ellwood ‘Woody’ Jessie Hoyt

FALLS VILLAGE — Anne (Paul)Law, a longtime resident of Row-ayton, Conn., died on Dec. 7, 2015,at the age of 85, surrounded by her

loving family, at the home of herdaughter and son-in-law, JenniferLaw and Alan Lovejoy of Amesville.

Anne was an artist, a homemak-er, wife and mother, world traveler,gardener, hostess and chef. She wasan adventurous intellectual, withgreat style and a bawdy sense ofhumor, was a pillar of strength toher family, and was dearly loved byher many friends.

Anne, the daughter of Lesley(Landborg) and Gordon Paul, wasborn on Nov. 25, 1930, and raised in

Schenectady, N.Y., as an only childuntil age 13, when her baby brother,

Jonathan Edwards Paul, was born.She graduated from Nott Ter-

race High School in 1948 and en-tered Cleveland College of Art andthen Skidmore College. In 1951, shemoved to New York City, whereshe met her future husband, S. PeterLaw, while working together at aMadison Avenue ad agency. Theywere married on Oct. 2, 1954, at theUnitarian Community Church ofNew York.

As a young couple, Anne andPeter lived first in Bronxville, N.Y.,and then Hartford, Conn., beforemoving to Rowayton in 1959. In1961 they purchased their stuccohome on Jacob Street, a formerbarn to an adjacent property,which was converted in 1919 andinspired a lifetime of loving andartistic improvements. The houseand the family expanded togetherover the years and was the veritablefocus of their life for more than half

a century. Anne and Peter raised four chil-dren, beginning with Stephanie in1955 and followed by Jennifer in

1957, Hilary in 1961 and Anthonyin 1964.

Peter and Anne had just cel-ebrated their 61st wedding anni-

versary in October. Anne’s art was a lifelong pas-

sion inherited from and encour-aged by her mother. She had con-tinued success as a professionalartist. For some years, she was theart editor of the trade magazineGrade Teacher. Her art was strongin both design and color, with aninfusion of humor and irony. Herearly work was in woodcut andsilkscreen. She later worked insteel, learning the trade from John“The Blacksmith” La Sala, and

stayed with that medium for theremainder of her working career.

In addition to her art, Anne’sinterests were many. She was adriver for the volunteer organiza-tion FISH for 25 years, supportingcommunity members with ridesto appointments; an avid runner,which led her to run the Tufts 10Kfor Women for her 70th birthday;and a world traveler. She was fas-cinated by people and culture —from China, where she traveledand attended the People’s Uni-versity in Beijing to further herstudy of the Chinese language,which she pursued at the age of60; to the tranquility of the RiverThames, having walked the 184mile Thames Path from its sourceto the sea with Peter in 1997.

Anne was a ravenous reader,Scrabble player and spiritedconversationalist. Drawing on aseven-decade devotion, she mademany a wry comment beginningwith, “That reminds me of a New

Yorker cartoon …” Above all was her beloved gar-den, where she put into practiceher strong belief in the harmony of

Anne (Paul) Law

CORNWALL — Victoria Marie(Swanson) Levine, 90, died Nov.19, 2015.

She was the widow of HerbertStanley Levine, to whom she had

been married for 60 years. He diedin early 2008 and is buried at Ells-worth Cemetery, in a plot that heand Vicky chose together. She willbe buried there alongside him.

She was born Aug. 29, 1925, thedaughter of Lilian and John Swan-son. She grew up in Cornwall.

Vicky earned an RN degree inthe early 1940s and worked as anurse for several years, until shehad children (after which she wasa stay-at-home mom and house-wife). She and her husband lived

in New York City for more than50 years and wintered in southernFlorida. She moved to Dana Point,Calif., in early 2008, to be near herchildren after her husband died.

She had many lifetime friend-ships, and was known for heroutgoing personality. She lovedto socialize.

She is survived by her twochildren, Deborah Schuster andPeter Levine. In addition to herparents, she was predeceased bythree brothers, Charlie, David andRolly Swanson. All five are buriedin the Cornwall area.

Local arrangements are underthe care of the Newkirk-PalmerFuneral Home in North Canaan.

Victoria Marie (Swanson) Levine

NORTH CANAAN — MarkE. Weaver, 60, died Dec. 7, 2015,at the VA Hospital in West Ha-ven, Conn., after a three-yearbattle with idiopathic pulmonaryfibrosis.

Mark was born in 1955 to Ber-nadette and Archie Weaver. Hegraduated from Oliver WolcottTechnical School in 1973 witha Carpentry Trade diploma.

Mark served in the Seabee’s ofthe U.S. Navy from 1974 to 1978.He played the trumpet in theDrum & Bugle Corp. While in

Dawn and her husband, JamesSpadaccini, of Zephyrhills, Fla.,Dexter and his wife, Dawn (Full-er) Weaver of Norfolk; 12 niecesand nephews, Robert Palmer ofTorrington, Maribeth and herhusband, Tyler Marchi, Heatherand her husband, Brian Tallon,Kenneth Weaver of North Ca-naan, Doug and his wife, Lynelle(Labbee) Weaver Jr., of Pittsfield,

Mass., Kim and her husband,Tony Bleau, of A shley Falls, Mass., Jason Bergenty, Joshua and hiswife, Kimberly (DeAngelis) Ber-

Mark E. Weaver

OBITUARIESorganically grown food and raisedbed horticulture. Her flower gar-den was a delight from spring untilfirst frost.

Anne is survived by her hus-band of 61 years, Peter; four chil-dren, Stephanie, Jennifer, Hilaryand Anthony; seven grandchil-dren, Eric, Jeremy, Hannah, Mol-ly, Hazel, Eleanor and Oliver; herbrother, Jonathan; and her niece,

Victoria. A celebration of Anne’s life will

be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday Jan.9, 2016, at the United Church ofRowayton, www.ucrowayton.org.

For those interested, donations

may be made in Anne’s memoryto her favorite global charitableorganization: Heifer International,www.heifer.org; or locally to theRowayton Arts Center, www.rowaytonartscenter.org, whichinspired and supported her workand with which she was intimatelyinvolved in her younger years.


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MILLERTON — The weathermight have been mild but holidayspirits were high on Sunday, Dec.13 — especially in the villageof Millerton. That’s when theMillerton Business Association,

The Moviehouse, SalisburyBank and Trust, the MillertonFire Company, Over MountainBuilders, Associated LightningRod and Townscape joined forcesto bring area residents a village-wide holiday celebration. Therewere even free horse-drawncarriage rides for all to enjoy.

“That’s what makes acommunity — everybodyworking together — and whatbetter season to do it?” saidTownscape member Cathy Fenn.

Fenn explained the event wasthe brainchild of Moviehouseowner Carol Sadlon.

Celebrating the holidays in Millerton“Carol came to me and

said, ‘Let’s do a festive holidaycommunity day and make itan annual event,’” Fenn said. “Ithought it was a great idea andsaid I would do what I could. Ilove Millerton and love to seeeverybody get involved andparticipate.”

And that’s exactly what hap-pened. Merchants and shoppersalike said they enjoyed the factthat so many worked so hard forall to enjoy.

“I think it’s a great idea,” saidSaperstein’s clerk Barbara Snyder.“It’s a really homey idea.”

“We’re busy on weekendsregardless of the holidays, butit makes people want to comeout,” added Saperstein’s clerkSamantha Ball. “And it being niceweather some people are losing

some business, so to have peoplecome in to the village for this isnice.”

Many started the day earlywith brunch at the OakhurstDiner or Harney’s Tearoom.Others headed right to a free 11a.m. screening of “It’s a WonderfulLife,” shown at The Moviehouse.Others roamed from store tostore, shopping for the holidayseason.

“We’re browsing around,” saidBill Separy of Torrington, Conn.“It’s pretty here.”

Kyra Walters was visitingher grandmother, Diane, fromRavena, N.Y. They were lookingforward to the horse-drawncarriage rides, said Diane.

“We’re also celebrating Kyra’sbirthday, and doing a pre-Christmas lunch,” she said. “I livehere and we came downtown inthe Christmas spirit to checkout the shops. We hope to see

the horses, and maybe get a littleride.”

The festivities lasted

throughout the day. Most agreedit was the ideal way to celebratethe season.

“It’s good,” said Lawrence Wong, from Singapore. “It livensup the village and gives peoplesomething to look forward to.”

“It’s fantastic,” agreed Su-en Wong.

PHOTOS BY WHITNEY JOSEPH

Front row, from left, Lucien Goedhuis, Su-en Wong and OndineGoedhuis spent the day with, back row, from left, Lawrence andMei Wong, on Sunday, Dec. 13. The family enjoyed the sightsand sounds of Millerton and its holiday celebrations that day.

Lori Harrigan, Bill Separy and Oscar visited Millerton fromTorrington, Conn., on Sunday, Dec. 13. The trio stopped by theHarney Tearoom before making their way to the rest of theshops in the village. They said the holiday festivities added totheir enjoyment.

Kyra Walters, of Ravena, N.Y., enjoyed the day in Millerton with her mother and grandmother on Sunday, Dec. 13.

MILLERTONIN BRIEF

Library hoursThe NorthEast-

Millerton Library is nowopen on Sundays from 1 to4 p.m.

The library will beclosed on Thursday andFriday, Dec. 24 and 25, andalso on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.


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AMENIA — On an e veningmore reminiscent of spring, Amenia reside nts and manyfrom neighboring communitiesgathered on Saturday, Dec. 12,to celebrate the second annualParade of Lights, sponsored bythe Amenia Fire Company. Therewere many opportunities for cel-ebration and many events that

were fun for all ages, bringing inthe warmth of the holiday seasonwith the unusual warmth of themonth of December.

The celebrations began early,with the lineup for the paradebeginning at 4 p.m. at the Me-chanic Street firehouse. A rib-bon cutting at Monte’s HealthNut Hut was already under way,with several events going on atthe same time.

At Town Hall , a musical re-view was underway, with chil-

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PHOTOS BY JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

The Voorhees float was be-decked with strings andstrings of lights at Amenia’sParade of Lights, which madeits way through town on Sat-urday, Dec. 12. Also that day was a ribbon cutting at Mon-te’s Health Nut Hut, in cel-ebration of the holidays andthe store’s recent opening.

free Dance and Theater ArtsProgram sponsored by the townof Amenia. The troupe, havingstarted in September under theinstruction of Heather Holohan-Guarnieri, has been preparingfor the winter concert for manymonths.

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On the corner of Route 44and Mechanic Street, patronsof Monte’s Local Kitchen andTaproom could look out of thewindows while they dined, andwatch Patches the horse, fromLucky Orphans Horse Rescue,give horseback rides to the chil-dren. Lucky Orphans had a raffle,with proceeds going to the horse

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There was a wine bar, an as-sortment of finger foods andmusician Mark Ward, whostrummed his guitar as he sang.

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decorated in lights of every color,ending at Town Hall. Candy wasthrown to children en route, andthe Amenia Free Library spon-sored its 23rd visit with Santa atTown Hall. Refreshments wereserved, and children receivedpictures of themselves sittingwith Santa.

All agreed , especially th e chil-dren, that the Amenia Parade ofLights was a festive, lively andcolorful way to kick off the holi-

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COPAKE — It’s Christmastime— the perfect time for homemadeChristmas cookies. Now, thanksto the Friends of the Roe Jan Li-brary, a new cookbook has all thecookie recipes one could desire.

“It’s all local bakers or peoplewho are connected to local bakers,and we’re famous for our cook-ies,” said Cookbook Committeemember Jeanne Kiefer. “We do acookie sale every Christmas holi-

day season and sell pounds andpounds of cookies. We know allthe bakers in the area.”

And well they should. TheFriends have been holding cookiesales since 1976, when the groupfirst organized.

“We’re celebrating our 40thanniversary of cookie baking andcookie sales,” said Kiefer. “This isreally a celebration, so that makesall the difference. To a large extentthese are time-honored recipes,not recipes that were made up

last week. It’s the be st of the best.”Those time-honored recipes

include family heirloom cookies

from yesteryear and creative cre-ations from more recently. Theone thing they don’t include isthe run-of-the-mill cookie recipe.

“These aren’t the usual ones,”said Kiefer. “There are no snick-erdoodles, oatmeal cookies orchocolate chips. A high percent-age are recipes people have beenmaking for decades.”

Kiefer herself has a couple ofrecipes included in the 100-rec-ipe cookbook. So, too, does hersister and cousin. For her part,

Kiefer shared recipes for her AuntDelle’s chocolate coconut cook-ies, “which are fabulous,” and heroatmeal lace cookie.

Along with her committeecolleagues Rose Marie Francis,vice president of the Friends, andCharlotte Shutts, president of theFriends, Kiefer said she had a lotof fun putting the cookbook to-gether.

“It was a lot of work but it wa sa lot of fun,” she said.

The cookbook, entitled, “The

Friends of the Roe Jan LibraryCookie Cookbook,” costs $10.

Half of the proceeds go toward

the library; the other half coverproduction costs.“It cost just under $5 to print,

which means a nice profit,” saidKiefer. “So you’re not only gettingthe book, you’re giving $5 to thelibrary.”

The Friends group helps payfor extraneous library expenses.The library’s Board of Trusteestakes care of the library’s mainbudget. The Friends, Kiefer said,help with smaller items. Justrecently the group purchased a

loveseat for the children’s read-ing section because there wasnowhere comfortable to sit. Thegroup also pays to get the libr ary’scarpets cleaned. But some of thegroup’s contributions are larger,like the $50,000 donation theFriends made when the new li-brary building was being con-structed.

The Friends operate a bookstore on the lower level of thelibrary, which is open on Jan. 9— after that, it will be open on

the first Saturday of each monthfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tasty treats bound in a new bookCopies of the cookie cookbook

will be available at the book store.They will also be available insidethe library at the main circula-tion desk during regular businesshours.

A total of 500 copies wereprinted of the cookbook. Kiefersaid she was in favor of printingmore but that the Friends tendto be conservative. Regardless,those keen on getting a copyshould act soon. Kiefer herselfalready bought 20 copies to giveout as presents during the holiday

season.“We just hope they fly off the

shelves,” she said. “The libraryloves us, and we love them, andthis is a way to make everybodyhappy. People love to see theirrecipes out in the world and theseare pretty special. Let’s hope ev-erybody gets at least one greatcookie out of it.”

For more information on theFriends of the Roe Jan LibraryCookie Cookbook call the libraryat 518-325-4101; the library serves

the towns of Copake, Ancram andHillsdale.

By GABRIEL NAPOLEONSpecial to The Millerton News

PINE PLAINS — Personnelfrom the Memorial Hall projectappeared before the PlanningBoard on Wednesday, Dec. 9, atTown Hall.

“Tonight’s meeting is to bringyou up to speed … as to what hashappened with the Pine PlainsMemorial Hall (PPMH) projectand where we are and where wewould like to go with your help,”said Memorial Hall Executive Di-rector Brian Keeler.

Keeler was joined by PPMH

board members, including Presi-dent Jack Banning.“The whole basis of this proj-

ect, you can sum it up in oneword, and that is community,”Keeler said. “Everything we dofrom here on out and we’ve doneup to this point is about what isbest for the community of PinePlains.”

Keeler offered some geo-graphical information to beginhis presentation. Memorial Hallis in the business zoning district

and the owners recently mergedtwo area parcels — one .25 acresand the other .26.

Keeler then laid out function-

ality plans: the bottom floor willserve as a community center, themiddle level will be a performing

arts center and the top floor isto be subdivided for offices andartist studio space.

As of the meeting, three addi-tions will be proposed in PPMH’sapplication: an extended frontlobby built with glass and steel,that will bring the building to thesidewalk; an east porch facing theStissing House lawn, to be usedduring show intermissions andpossibly for outdoor concerts;and an elevator and stairwaystructure in the back, with access

to all three floors.By extending the building’sfootprint, PPMH will need to seeka size variance from the ZoningBoard of Appeals (ZBA).

Chair John Forelle asked Kee-ler what PPMH was seeking fromthe Planning Board.

“What we wanted from thisparticular meeting was to comein and introduce you to the proj-ect,” Keeler said in response, “to

answer any questions you mighthave.”

The board directed the subject

to its attorney, Warren Replansky.Replansky said PPMH shouldcompete a full Environmental As-sessment Form (EAF).

Once the Planning Board re-ceives the EAF, it’s to vote on a co-ordinated or uncoordinated StateEnvironmental Quality Review

Act (SEQRA) process.If coordinated with other

agencies, the Planning Boardmust decide if it’s to declare itselflead agency for SEQRA. If unco-ordinated, each agency involved

would carry out its own S EQRAprocess.Besides the Planning and

Zoning boards, other agenciesinvolved include state transpor-tation and environmental conser-vation departments.

After addressing that business,the applicant can approach theZBA on any needed variances.

Keeler said PPMH hoped itcould receive site plan approval

Memorial Hall plans updated

before Planning Boardfrom the Planning Board byMarch 2016.

Replansky noted the Planning

Board cannot issue site plan ap-proval until the ZBA issues need-ed variances.

“I don’t think this is an is-sue of, ‘Is this a good plan and agood project for the town?’” saidForelle. “That’s not the issue. Theissue is following procedures thatwe have to follow by law in orderto make sure that you get a siteplan approval that is legitimateand not subject to attack anddoesn’t establish precedence forother projects that we might not

think are such good projects forthe town.”Keeler said PPMH would pur-

sue the full EAF.The Planning Board meets on

the second Wednesday of everymonth at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall,when there is business to review.

The ZBA meets on the fourthTuesday of every month at 7:30p.m. in Town Hall, when there isbusiness to review.

PHOTO SUBMITTED

A sporty signing Stissing Mountain High School senior Rachel Beam signeda letter of intent to play field hockey at Pace University in2016 during a ceremony in the high school gym. Pictured areRachel’s parents Deborah and Terrance.

AREA IN BRIEF

PINE PLAINS — An all-you-can-eat breakfast spon-sored by the Pine Plains HoseCompany No. 1 will be heldSunday, Dec. 27, from 8 to 11a.m. at the firehouse at 7 LakeRoad.

The price is adults $7 andseniors and children ages 6 to12 $5. Children under 6 are free.

The menu consists of pan-cakes, French toast, eggs (anystyle), bacon, sausage, toast,

juice, coffee and tea.

STANFORDVILLE — Stan-ford Grange 808 will host itsannual Defensive DrivingCourse on Saturday, Jan. 30,at the Stanford Grange Hall,

6043 Route 82, from 9 a.m. to 3p.m. The cost is $35 per person.This course allows New

York drivers to receive a 10percent discount off their col-lision and auto liability insur-ance and remove up to fourpoints on their license for any

violations incurred in the last18 months.

The class includes informa-tive movies as well as a deli-cious homemade lunch served

by the Grange Family ActivitiesCommittee, with a free will of-fering asked.

For more information orto request an application forthe course, contact GrangeSecretary Ryan Orton at 845-868-7869.

Pancake breakfast at the firehouse Dec. 27

Defensive driving at the Stanford Grange

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MILLBROOK — About 20people came together at GraceEpiscopal Church in Millbrookon Sunday, Dec. 13. The happyoccasion was the lighting of themenorah, which stands on thegreen across from the church.This was the sixth year Hanuk-kah was celebrated in this way;the number of participants hasgrown each year.

The event began with a recep-

tion in the Parish Hall at GraceChurch, where donuts, coffee andapple cider were served, c ompli-ments of the church. Rabbi Ha-noch Hecht arrived with bagsof chocolate coins, or geld, andhomemade potato latkes, or pan-

cakes, with apple sauce. Because

they are fried in oil, the donutsand the latkes symbolize the sto-ry in the Talmud of there beingvery little oil left in the temple,with only enough to burn for onenight.

Hanukkah, or the festival oflights, celebrates the legend thatthe one-day supply of oil burnedfor eight days. Hence the signifi-cance of lighting the candles ofthe menorah for eight days.

Among the attendees at t heMillbrook menorah lighting was

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett(D-106).

“It’s nice to be able to light thecandles somewhere outside yourown home,” she said.

Mike and Maryanne Herzog, Ann Gifford and Sheldon and

Adele Lobell also helped cel-

ebrate the holiday, as well as theRev. Matt Calkin, pastor of GraceChurch.

An added treat was the cookieplatter brought to the receptionby Barbara Jean, of Rose RandolphCookies in Millbrook. She attend-ed with her daughter, Sidney Rose.

Following the lighting of thecandles, Alice Pandaleon playedtraditional Hanukkah songs onthe violin as the crowd sang along.Rabbi Hecht, of the Rhinebeck Jewish Center, spoke briefly about

the glorious weather, remember-ing past celebrations carried outin the snow and the cold. Hechtthanked Grace Church for beingso helpful and welcoming to the

Jewish community each and ev-ery year.

By JUDITH O’HARA BALFE [email protected]

MILLBROOK — DouglasTompkins, 72, died in a kayak-ing accident in Coyhaique, Chile,on Dec. 8. The cause of death waslisted as hypothermia. Born inConneaut, Ohio, in 1943, DouglasTompkins lived in New York Cityuntil his family eventually settledin Millbrook.

He attended Indian MountainSchool in Lakeville, Conn., andPomfret Preparatory School,

also in Connecticut. He did notgraduate, and returned to Mill-brook. In the Hudson River Valley

he learned how to climb in theShawangunk Mountains. Thisexposure to the natural world inhis teens may have been the startof his great love of nature andconservation.

Tompkins eventually movedwest to Colorado, where he skiedand climbed. He also spent timein South America, and became anenvironmentalist in the 1960s. Hebecame an experienced outdoors-

man, and passionate about con-servation, wildlife recovery, parkcreation and bio-diversity. He

spent time in Chile, Patagonia and Argentina.

He was known as a visionary,philanthropist and agriculturalist,and was involved in making a filmof a 1968 trip he made to Patago-nia, which was recreated in the2010 film “180 Degrees South.” Hecreated and endowed the Founda-tion for Deep Ecology, and wasdevoted to saving the wildernessand many species of endangered

animals. Although he was a high school

dropout, he was an astute busi-

nessman. With his first wife, Su-sie, he founded both The NorthFace — an outdoor equipmentand clothing line — and Esprit— a separate clothing line. Thetwo were hugely successful busi-nesses. Tompkins left the busi-ness world in 1989 and devotedhimself to his other interests,primarily conservation efforts.

At the time of his death hewas married to Kristine McDivitt

By JUDITH O’HARA BALFE [email protected]

MILLBROOK — As rainpoured down and temperaturesdropped on Wednesday, Dec. 2,a group of crafters at the Mill-brook Library stayed warmand dry inside, happily craftingholiday cards. With stamps, cardstock, ribbons, glitter and paint,

the nine participants made fourcards each. The activity was ledby Cindy Senese-Sherilla, seniormanager of Stampin’ Up.

The group quickly learnedfrom the instructor that herartistically-crafted card samplescould be duplicated. At the endof the session, everyone had four

cards to show, send or save forposterity. They celebrated withcookies from Marona’s.

The Millbrook Library spon-sors many such programs, allfree-of-charge to patrons. DianaBontecou is director of Adult Ser-vices at the library; Joan Frenzelis director of Youth Services. Bothwomen work in collaboration tobring a variety of activities to the

library.To learn more about the art ofstamping, go to www.cindysenese.stampinup.net.

To learn more about the pro-grams offered or to register for anyof the programs at the MillbrookLibrary, call 845-677-3611 or goto www.millbrook library.com.

PHOTO BY JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

Rabbi Hanoch Hecht led participants in t he singing of Hanuk-kah songs.

Lighting the menorah in Millbrook

North Face founder dies in kayaking accident

PHOTO BY JUDITH O’HARA BALFE

From left, Maaike and Serafina Wiltse participated in theMillbrook Library’s Christmas arts and crafts.

Getting crafty at the Millbrook Library

Tompkins, and had two children,Summer Tompkins Walker andQuincey Tompkins Imhoff. His

mother, Faith Tompkins, and hisbrother, John C. Tompkins, arestill residents of Millbrook.

For more on Tompkins goto www.tricornernews.com/content/tompkins.

MILLBROOKIN BRIEF

A blood drive will beheld on Friday, Dec. 18,from 2 to 7 p.m. at theMillbrook Engine Hookand Ladder Company, at20 Front St.

To make an appoint-ment to donate blood,download the free RedCross Blood Donor Appfrom app stores, go www.redcrossblood.org or call

800-733-2767.Donors can now use the

Blood Donor App to accesstheir donor card and viewvital signs from previousdonations.

Blood Drive

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Friday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m., GirlsBasketball, Varsity, Webutuck atMillbrook, League, MillbrookHigh School.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m.,Indoor Track, Millbrook atOCIAA, B Meet, West Point.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 3:30 p.m.,Basketball, Varsity, Millbrookat Pine Plains, League, BardCollege.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity,Pawling at Millbrook, Non-

League, Millbrook High School.Monday, Dec. 21, at 4:30 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Junior Varsity,Millbrook at Pawling, Non-League.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 6 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Varsity, Pawlingat Millbrook, Non-League,Millbrook High School.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 6:15p.m., Girls Basketball, Varsity,Millbrook at Pawling, Non-League.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 4:15 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity, John A. Coleman at Millbrook,League, Millbrook High School.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 4:15

SPORTS SCHEDULES

Boys Basketball, Modified,Rhinebeck at Pine Plains, 5Quarters, Stissing MountainMiddle/High School.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified, PinePlains at Rhinebeck, 5 Quarters,Stissing Mountain Middle/HighSchool.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 6 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, OurLady of Lourdes at Pine Plains,Scrimmage Stissing MountainMiddle/High School.

WebutuckFriday, Dec. 18, at 4:15 p.m.,

Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity,Millbrook at Webutuck, League, Webutuck High School.

Friday, Dec. 18, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Junior Varsity, Webutuck at Millbrook, League,Millbrook High School.

Friday, Dec. 18, at 5:30p.m., Boys Basketball, Varsity,Millbrook at Webutuck, League, Webutuck High School.

Friday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m., GirlsBasketball, Varsity, Webutuck atMillbrook, League, MillbrookHigh School.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Varsity, Webutuck at Chester Academy,Consolation, Chester Academy.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, Webutuck at Chester Academy,Consolation.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 5p.m., Boys Basketball, Varsity, Webutuck at Chester Academy,Championship.

Saturday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity, Webutuck at Chester Academy,Championship.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Modified, Webutuck at Dover, 5 Quarters,Dover High School.

Monday, Dec. 21, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Modified,Dover at Webutuck, 5 Quarters, Webutuck High School.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 4:15 p.m.,Boys Basketball, Junior Varsity, Webutuck at Rhinebeck, League,Rhinebeck High School.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 4:15 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Junior Varsity,Rhinebeck at Webutuck, League,

Webutuck High School.Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 5:45p.m., Boys Basketball, Varsity, Webutuck at Rhinebeck, League,Rhinebeck High School.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 7 p.m.,Girls Basketball, Varsity,Rhinebeck at Webutuck, League.

PHOTO BY JOSEPH MEEHAN

Hotchkiss and Salisbury School battle it out on ice A three-goal flurry in a span of 1:15 in the second period lifted the Salisbury School to a 6-1 winover Hotchkiss on Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Salisbury’s Rudd Rink. It was the crosstown rivals’first meeting of the 2015-16 season, with at least one more to follow. Above, Hotchkiss forwardChris Theodore attempted a shot on Salisbury School goalie Nick Sorgio as Salisbury’s MichaelFogia played defense in the match.

Send sports news and photos to [email protected]

By GABRIEL NAPOLEON

Special to The Millerton News

PINE PLAINS — The town’spee wee basketball program isback in full swing for the 2015-16 season.

The program is organizedby Pine Plains RecreationDirector Catherine Prentice,who has been in charge since2011. Prentice recalled theprogram was around evenwhile she growing up in PinePlains.

Participants are, for themost part, ages 5 through12 — kindergarten throughgrade 6. Sessions are everySaturday starting at 10 a.m. inthe Stissing Mountain Middle/High School gymnasium.

This year’s program startedSaturday, Dec. 5, and will rununtil the end of February 2016.

Pee wee players take to the courtThe youngest — the

kindergartners to second-graders — play together, in-house only. They’re learninghow to dribble, shoot lay-upsand jump shots and, toward theend of the season, will competeagainst each other in games.

Older students have theopportunity to compete ontravel teams, in addition totheir own in-house play, givenenough participants.

Prentice said at this point,third- and fourth-grade boys,

fifth- and sixth-grade boys, andfifth- and sixth-grade girls willhave travel teams.

Travel teams play againstother local communitieswith teams like Webutuck,Germantown, Chatham, NewLebanon and Taconic Hills.

At the end of the seas on,many of those teams will come

to Pine Plains for a Fifth- and

Sixth-Grade Tournament.New this year are one-on-one lessons for special needschildren, up to age 16.

“I was just asked by a parentand I don’t like to turn awayanybody, so as long as I canget the volunteers to comeand help, I’d like to offer ourprogram to anybody,” Prenticesaid.

So far, there are fivechildren enrolled for thisservice. Interested parties

need to pre-register for this asit is dependent upon availablevolunteers.

All int ere ste d vol unt eer sfor the Pine Plains pee weebasketball program shouldcontact Prentice as 518-567-7270. Businesses interested insponsoring children may alsocall that number.


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OPINION

THE MILLERTON NEWSEDITORIAL PAGE 8 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015

LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR

EDITORIAL

Cartoon by Bill Lee of Sharon, Conn., and New York City

A VIEW FROMTHE EDGEPeter Riva

EARTHTALK Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine

Helping to sustainsmall business

S

ometimes what may seem like small changes, in the largerscheme of things, can have greater effects on a communi-

ty than the sum of their parts. The closure of several arearestaurants this month could seem unrelated to the generaleconomic health of the Tri-state region. Each eatery had itsown reasons to close, and one (No. 9 in Millerton) will bereopening with a new owner and chef and a Mediterraneanmenu. Yet the business community feels such change, as do theworking people who have lost jobs because of the closures.

Pastorale Bistro in Lakeville, Conn., served many of us notonly on regular evenings, but also for special occasions inour lives, over the past 13 years. A truly welcoming and warmvenue, one could find refuge there for a summer brunch ora winter dinner on a snowy evening. It will be sorely missed,and so will all those who kept it going so very well for all thoseyears, but especially owners Karen Hamilton and FredericFaveau. While all wish them well in their next steps in life,the unique and homey atmosphere of Pastorale is irreplace-able, and this closure marks the end of an era in Lakeville.

The announcement of the impending closure of McDon-ald’s in Millerton, the village’s only fast food restaurant,has met with mixed reactions. Some express gratitude thata corporate entity serving generally unhealthy food will beshut down; others, in great numbers, express regret that afriendly and efficiently run shop, staffed by local people,some of them immigrants to this country, will no longerbe available for a quick and economic bite to eat. Whilethere are those who would never even admit to going toa McDonald’s (let it be said here and now that the staff atthis newspaper will miss this restaurant sorely), the park-ing lot and drive-through are very often busy and full.

This is a tough time of year, as if there is an easy one, foranyone to lose a job. And for those who work and live in thearea, such closures create anxiety, even if they are not per-sonally affected. Here’s hoping these closures don’t reflecta weakening of a local economy that finally seemed to berecovering from the slow years following the recession.

All the more reason, however, to consider supportinglocal businesses during the holiday season, when so many areworking to make enough in revenues to take them through thelean winter months to come. Every local dollar spent makesit easier for a small business owner to maintain a presence in

the area towns. While making merry, and wishing good willand peace on earth, please buy holiday gifts and food locally. Itbenefits your community by keeping dollars local, and sup-ports your neighbors who run the businesses and try to makeends meet every week, every month and every year. Buyinglocally and living locally create the stability of a sustainablelocal economy and strengthens the region as a whole.

Thanks for makingholiday event shine

From the dance and theaterprogram, to decorating trees,caroling, the parades, seeingSanta and mingling with friendsand neighbors while enjoyingrefreshments, the Holiday ofLights celebrations in the townof Amenia were filled with mer-riment and fun due to the con-tributions of so many that we

needed two letters!To continue our whole-

hearted thanks to all those whocontributed to the hamlets of

Amenia and Wassaic Holidayof Lights, we would also like tothank the following business-es who donated gift certificatesfor the town of Amenia’s holi-day of lights celebration: LarryHavens, Metro Café, Monte’sHealth Nut Hut, Page Home& Hardware, Ritchie’s AmeniaDeli, Spa Nails, Santos, Studio

343, Voorhess Events and Tentsand Yi Kitchen.

Gretchen HitselbergerTown Councilwoman

Amenia

So much generosityis appreciated

Our wholehearted thanks toall those who contributed to the

Amenia and Wassaic Holiday ofLights celebrations, with a spe-cial mention to Ritchie’s AmeniaDeli, which donated 70 wedgesplaced into gift bags for all theparticipants in the parade. Un-like other towns where there isample parking for vehicles soparticipants could enter TownHall, in Amenia cars are unableto park and just have to drive onand go home. To these generouspeople, who gave their time andeffort decorating the firetrucks,floats and vehicles that made ourparade so special, we decided

since they couldn’t come to thefeast, we would bring the feastto them.

The following is a list of someof those who donated gift certif-icates for the town of Amenia’sHoliday of Lights celebration(others are thanked in Council-woman Gretchen Hitselberger’sletter to the editor): AmeniaSteakhouse, Back-In-the-Kitch-en, Bank of Millbrook, BlackEagle Currency & Coin, Cas-cade Spirit Shoppe, Drug World,

Freshtown, The Hard Roll Ex-press, Horse Leap, Jack’s Autoand Kelly & Company Hair Sa-lon.

Dear EarthTalk: Whateverhappened to Al Gore? He was allover the media around the time of“An Inconvenient Truth,” but late-ly I haven’t heard anything abouthim.

Jim MercerSt. Paul, Minn.

Al Gore, one of the first recog-

nizable faces of the environ-mental movement, sent ripplesthroughout the political worldwhen he released his enormouslysuccessful book, “An Inconve-nient Truth,” back in 2006. Hisenvironmental leadership datesback much further, however: Hewas traveling the country warn-ing about the impending climate

crisis in the early 1990s, and asvice president under Bill Clinton,Gore was a key proponent of U.S.and international participation inthe Kyoto Protocol, an ultimatelyunsuccessful effort to align inter-national efforts on greenhouse gasemissions reductions back in 1997.

After losing his bid for thepresidency on a technicality in2000, Gore left politics and de-voted himself to raising awarenessabout climate change throughspeeches, activism and the publi-

cation of “An Inconvenient Truth”— as well as production of the fol-low-up documentary film of thesame name, which took home an

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Al Gore may not be in the spotlight as much these days, buthe’s been busy campaigning for climate reform and revolu-tionizing how the private sector invests.

What happened to Al Gore?

vestments since he lost the WhiteHouse to George W. Bush haveturned Gore into a rich man witha net worth in the hundreds ofmillions of dollars, less is known

about the methods employed tomake this money. GenerationInvestment Management (GIM),the firm he founded in 2004 withex-Goldman Sachs executive, Da-vid Blood, practices an entirelynew form of capitalism — a modelthey hope the entire world econ-omy will one day share. Insteadof religiously following the high-est short-term revenue strategy,GIM’s “sustainable investment”approach takes into account en-vironmental, social and economic

damage. Though not a new idea,here is the kicker: They are enor-mously profitable, with a 10-yearaverage of 12.1 percent yearly in-

long haul for similar reasons: Themore oil that’s burned, the biggerthe reaction will be against it. Thenew approach that allows Gener-ation to actually profit from this

idealistic mentality is their abilityto see ethical investments as anadvantage, rather than an inher-ent negative.

This revolutionary model isone of the newest trends in capi-talism, and just might be its savior.Consuming at an unsustainablerate cannot continue for muchlonger, so adapting to this newsystem could be one of the mostimportant legacies of Al Gore.

Contacts: Climate RealityProject, www.climaterealityproj-

ect.org; GIM, www.generationim.com.

EarthTalk is produced by Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer and is aT

he food company General

Mills, not Disney, origi-nally controlled the toy

universe of “Star Wars.” But in January 1977 when General Mills’

For all you ‘Star Wars’ fans


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VIEWPOINT

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Formation ofLimited Liability Company Bougades Company, LLC.

Articles of Organization

Dutchess, New York, will be held

on the 2nd day of January, 2015,at noon at the firehouse, 7 LakeRoad, Pine Plains, NY.

By order of the Board of

envelope.

All bids must be delivered nolater than 1:00 p.m. EST, Monday,December 21st, 2015 to: Villageof Millerton, 21 Dutchess Av-

ill

Brain TeasersCLUES ACROSS 1. Teletype (Computers) 4. Loose-fitting sleeveless

garment 7. They __ 8. Extinct Turkish

caucasian language 10. Tall N Zealand timber

tree12. Piedmont city on the

Raising the wage is

a necessary realityT

he season of giving isupon us and it’s a starkreminder of how in-

equitable our economy hasbecome. Numerous large cor-porations are making recordprofits, paying their CEOshuge sums and hiding profitsoffshore to evade taxes. Mean-while, the American peopleare paying over $150 billiondollars for public assistance

programs to help these cor-porations’ minimum-wageworkers pay for food, health-care and housing. And, BigBusiness is paying lobbyistsmillions to keep governmentfrom doing anything about it.

No taxpayer should haveto subsidize a profitable cor-poration’s payroll, and no per-son who works full time earn-ing the minimum wage shouldhave to live in poverty.

Let’s put this in local per-

spective. In New York, a full-time minimum wage workerearns about $18,000 a year.That’s $1,500 per month forrent, utilities, food, trans-portation and other needslike health care and clothing.The median monthly rent inDutchess County is over $900.The numbers are stretchedeven thinner for those in the30 percent of minimum wagehouseholds with children,and the majority of minimumwage earners are women.

Dutchess has a povertyrate of 9 percent and censusfigures show at least 25,000local employees would direct-ly benefit from a raise in theminimum wage: they’d havemore money to spend in ourlocal economy. This could re-duce government spending bymillions, reduce the numberof households on public assis-tance and free up more money

to help modernize our Hud-son Valley infrastructure. Minimum wage jobs used

to provide hard workers the

GUESTCOLUMNTerry Gipson

opportunity to build a careerand improve their standing inlife. As a young man growingup, I myself was able to help

pay my way through college,buy a used car and rent asmall apartment by workingat minimum wage jobs. Thisafforded me the independenceto move up the career ladder,work in a variety of reward-ing fields and start my ownbusiness. Personal stories likethis are common to peopleof my generation because theminimum wage was more inbalance with the cost of living.This is not the case today.

There needs to be a con-structive dialogue among pol-icy makers, business ownersand workers to establish thebest wage increase and time-line. Special considerationneeds to be given to smallbusinesses as well as nonprof-its that provide essential hu-man services. Regressive statepolicies like the MTA PayrollTax and the 18A Utility Taxneed to be repealed, whichwill further assist small busi-nesses in offering living wagesto their employees.

Without government, busi-nesses and labor working to-gether to achieve a sustainableminimum wage policy, wewill not be able to achieve thenecessary reality of movingour economy forward, takinghardworking families off ofpublic assistance, and liftingover one million New Yorkersfrom poverty.

Terry Gipson is a former statesenator who resides in Rhine-beck.

Part 2

Edward Jenner, a physicianin Gloucestershire in thewest of England, noted

that milkmaids and blacksmithsgot cowpox sores from cows andhorses and these quickly healed.Even before Jenner took an in-terest, the milkmaids knew thatthey could care for people ill withsmallpox and not get the diseasethemselves. Jenner records thisacquired immunity in a 1798publication and confirmed it byexperiment: he removed mate-

rial from a milkmaid’s pustules,pricked the skin of a boy, who de-veloped a sore, and then becameimmune to smallpox, which Jen-ner also inoculated into his arm.The ethics and other aspects ofthe experiment deserve moredetailed explanation, but Jenner’sresults and their publication ledto the first effective vaccine fora disease. It was used until small-pox was eliminated in the 1970s.

What was missing in the yearsafter Jenner’s discovery was a sci-

ence of microbiology and whatbecame the germ theory of infec-tion and disease.

Beginning in 1857, Louis Pas-teur showed that all fermenta-tion was due to microorganisms.

Wine, for example, is the productof a fermentation carried out byyeast. The wine of his native re-gion, the Jura, was not very good.

Wondering why, Pasteur lookedat it under a microscope anddiscovered yeast and bacteria.Bacteria were ruining the wine.The vintners had to avoid bacte-rial contamination, which he toldthem how to do. In France, if youcan save the wine industry of aregion, you become a hero. Usingthe principles of microbiology,Pasteur improved French andBritish beer and rescued the silkindustry in the south of France.He also realized that bacteria ina wound would grow at the ex-pense of the patient and causeinfection and disease. Reading

these reports in about 1864 led Joseph Lister to develop antisep-tic surgery.

Pasteur infuriated the medicalprofession, which did not believe

Infection and its control: the first vaccines

THE BODY

SCIENTIFIC Richard H. Kessin

that anything as small as bacteriacould kill a human being. Mostphysicians thought that the bac-teria found in animals or patientswere the result of disease and notits cause. They chastised Pasteurfor being a chemist and not aphysician. Pasteur, who was ar-ticulate and combative, almost

a warrior, barely concealed hiscontempt. There were a few doc-tors who were exceptions — like

Joseph Lister.Pasteur came to vaccines late

in his career. His laboratory wasworking on chicken cholera,which could kill all of the chick-ens or rabbits on a farm. His stu-dent, Charles Chamberland, hadlearned to grow the cholera bac-teria in chicken broth and provedthat these bacteria would quick-ly kill chickens. In the spring of

1879, Chamberland went fishingand left a flask of cholera bacte-ria on his lab bench for weeks.

When he returned, he inoculat-ed a batch of chickens with thisstale culture, but the chickens didnot become sick. He was aboutto start over with a fresh cultureof bacteria and a new batch ofchickens when Pasteur told himto inoculate lethal cholera bac-teria into the chickens that hadsurvived the stale culture. Theysurvived, while the new batchof chickens all died. The cholerabacteria that had been left on thebench had become weakened,but could still cause immunity inchickens.

During the same period, thelab was working on anthrax,which killed many cattle andsheep in Europe. Pasteur sentChamberland and Emile Roux, aphysician who had joined the lab,to a farm near Chartres wherethey observed that anthrax was

killing cattle and sheep, but notchickens. Pasteur reasoned that

birds have a higher tempera-ture (about 105F) than mam-

mals (98.6F) and perhaps thatwas what protected the birds. Itturned out to be true — anthraxbacteria could grow at 105F, butwould not kill the animals. Herewas a way to create anotherweakened bacteria for anothervaccine, which Chamberlandand Roux created and published.There was derision about theeffectiveness of anthrax vaccina-tion from veterinarians; after adispute, a challenge was arrangedat a village outside Paris called

Pouilly-le-fort. Under a strictprotocol, 25 sheep were inocu-lated with the vaccine (there wasone booster shot for them) and 25left as unvaccinated controls. OnMay 31, 1881, all of the animalswere infected with lethal anthrax.Two days later, the animals thathad not been vaccinated weredead or dying.

Today there is a plaque on astone barn in Pouilly-le-fort, but

this very public trial, based on theideas that microbes cause diseaseand that they can be weakened tomake vaccines, introduced a newera to medicine. Soon hundredsof thousands of cattle and sheepacross Europe were vaccinatedfor anthrax and losses dropped.

This short account leaves outa lot of detail, drama, doubt andeven a little skullduggery, but itcelebrates a milestone. Pasteurhad not yet attacked a humandisease, but the laboratory was

working on rabies, a difficult anddangerous proposition.

Richard Kessin is professor of pathology and microbiology emeri-tus at Columbia University. He livesin Norfolk, Conn. This series of col-umns on Infection and its Control(and all previous columns) can be found at www.tricornernews.com/ search/node/Richard%20Kessin/.

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profit to step up and accept theterms and hold the funds,” saidMara. “The library could not do

that nor could the town.”Those details have since been

ironed out. The town took out a25-year bond at an interest ratearound 4 percent, according totown Supervisor Brian Coons.Coons said it was a long time

coming.“Everyone is happy, even our

two new board members, Rich

[Brenner] and Gary [Cooper],who replaced Sandra [David] andRosie [Lyons Chase], are along thesame lines as the old board,” hesaid. “The town wanted the build-ing but it didn’t want to purchaseit with strings attached or deed

was an important influence onhim, Ed said. She was an out-standing history teacher whoincorporated current events intoevery class.

Also important: The dramaprogram at Webutuck, whichwas under the guidance of Eng-lish teacher Jack Bower. Sandyeventually became president ofthe Drama Club, as well as theNational Honor Society at theschool. He was the valedictorianof his graduating class in 1963.

He really loved sports, though,and both Ed and Laurie said oneof the most important influenc-es in his young life was his highschool athletics coach, Dick Wat-kins.

All of the national newspa-

per articles note that Sandy wasa baseball fanatic. It’s temptingto think that’s maybe where hisnickname came from (his realname was Samuel, but no onecan remember anyone ever call-ing him that). Sandy was not infact short for “sandlot,” but no oneseems to know exactly where thename came from.

“I can’t remember anyoneever calling him anything else,”both Laurie and Ed said. Laurietheorized that it was the color of

his hair.“Sandy had red hair when he

was a kid, as did our mother,” shesaid. By the time his photo beganto appear in the newspapers ona regular basis, she said, it hadgrown darker and maybe a littlemore gray.

A lifelong baseball fanBut about baseball. Every ar-

ticle about Sandy’s life mentionshis love of the sport. Accordingto Ed, Sandy loved pretty muchevery sport he played. That in-

cluded baseball (he started withLittle League and continued play-ing through high school) and soc-cer which was an unusual sport

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previous mayor).“Hedge fund types” in the al-

ready gentrifying district were

interested in philanthropy. “Theywanted something of their own.”

So the park was the result ofmultiple factors coming togeth-er, and was a function of timing.Or luck.

What is needed to make suchprojects work is “a shared beliefin strong design.”

But “design does not have thepower to realize itself,” Gold-berger continued.

It requires political and eco-nomic power to become reality.

Goldberger, referring to realestate developer Gerald Hines(Pennzoil Plaza in Houston),said commercial real estate andquality architecture have cometogether, with tenants willing topay more for a better product,preferably attached to some kindof architectural identity.

The general public is nowmore aware of individual archi-tects and more visually awareoverall. “They make the con-

nection between design and thequality of life.”The flip side of this is the

“starchitect” phenomenon, whichGoldberger said has more to dowith the public’s “weakness forcelebrity” than anything else.

“I resent the implication thatstarchitects don’t have a senseof social responsibility.”

He said there are cases wherethat has happened, but the client,who can always say no, sharesresponsibility.

“Incompetence and lack ofimagination is far more of athreat than arrogance.”

Goldberger said the challengemoving ahead isn’t about “one-off, special buildings, “but aboutordinary, everyday architecture.

“This is not a new problem,”he said. “The legacy of modern-ism is great buildings and poorurbanism.

“Modernists wanted to de-stroy the street,” finding it old,pedestrian and slow. They were

oriented toward the automo-bile, and toward moving peopleacross space — not people mov-ing within a space

are actually more important thanbuildings. “To make a city workyou need great streets. Great

buildings are an exclamationpoint. You need a lot of ordinarybuildings for them to make animpact.”

He cited New York, Chicago,Seattle and San Francisco as cit-ies with good downtowns — witha lot of residents, a “dense web”of buildings without vacant and/or parking lots, and where “theonly open space is intentional.”

Every building has an obliga-tion to the larger whole, he said. Architects “cannot design as ifother buildings aren’t there.”

And a success ful street orneighborhood will have a mixof “background and foregroundbuildings.”

Goldberger said that mod-ern architecture is much betterat foreground buildings, citingthe Seagrams building in New

York, which looked quite differ-ent when it was built in 1958 andtoday, surrounded not by olderbackground buildings but by

“lesser modern towers.”Looking ahead, Goldbergersaid “economic forces aren’t go-ing away,” but they can be man-aged.

Iconic buildings aren’t goingaway either, nor should they.

In the best examples, suchforeground buildings “confer anew identity” on their cities.

“There was nothing Parisianabout the Eiffel Tower until itwas built.”

Goldberger said that urban

planners need to incorporategreater central density, and torecognize pedestrian scale. “Themore walkable a city is, the bet-ter day-to-day life is.”

Historic preservation efforts,often neighborhoods ratherthan single buildings, shouldcontinue because they cannotbe recreated.

However, the old buildingsshould not be preserved “as hothouse orchids, but integratedinto modern life.

“We need to be willing totrust architecture to help. Itcan’t save the day, but it canmake an extraordinary differ-

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offer back in the 1960s. Ed creditsCoach Watkins with that.

“When we were freshmen inhigh school there was a big de-bate over whether we should havefootball or soccer,” he said. “Coach Watkins, who coached prettymuch everything, wanted soccer.”

He seemed to think it was abetter sport and gave the athletesbetter conditioning.

“So we played soccer. Sandywas not a natural athlete, but heworked hard. He was the lead-ing scorer in soccer in his senioryear, and he was on the leaguechampionship baseball team inhis junior year.”

Al Berger had also been a base-ball fan, and played on a Millertonteam called Brizzie’s Fords. He

was a passionate fan of the Brook-lyn Dodgers; his son carried onthe tradition (even after the teammoved to Los Angeles), perhapsas a way to honor his lost father.

Bar mitzvah at Beth DavidPerhaps also to honor his fa-

ther’s memory, Sandy studiedthe torah under the guidance ofa rabbi who split his time betweenCongregation Beth David in

Amenia and the Wassaic DDSO.His religion wasn’t “really

something he talked about a lot,”

Ed recalled. Certainly there wasnot at that time a huge Jewish

population in the Tri-state region.But he did have his bar mitz-

vah at Beth David, and his twodaughters and his son had theirbar and bat mitvahs.

Tradition and continuity wereimportant to him. “He had a senseof honor and a sense of social re-sponsibility,” Ed said.

But what mattered to himmost was other people.

“He loved people,” Ed said.“He was the kind of person whowould listen carefully to every-thing you said.”

In October, when Sandy al-ready knew his cancer would endhis life very soon, his daughterDebbie threw a big 70th birthdayparty for him.

“It was bittersweet,” Laurie

said. “Everyone was smiling but… you knew.”There were a hundred peo-

ple there, including Bill Clinton(who gave a speech). Ed wasn’table to make it to the party, buthe and Meg visited Sandy a fewweeks later, in November, justweeks before Sandy died.

“We spent an hour and a halftogether. We knew it was prob-ably the last time we would seeeach other. And after he askedabout our family, as always what

he wanted to know about waswhat was happening in Miller-

ton, what was going on with thepeople we knew growing up.”

Both Laurie and Sandy leftMillerton after college. Laurienow lives in Pinebrook, N.J., andPalm Beach Gardens, Fla. Sandyand his wife, Susan, lived for fourdecades in Washington.

“He didn’t come back here tolive, but he came back to visit,certainly more often than I did,”Laurie said. “He loved Millertonand this whole area. He and Su-san used to rent summer housesin Lakeville on the lakeshore. Heloved it here.”

But not enough to stay. Why?Ed thought about that one fora minute and then said, “Hewas obviously someone whohad talent and aspirations. He

was very committed to publicservice, and he needed a largerstage to achieve what he wantedto achieve.”

Through it all, Ed said, he re-mained remarkably grounded.

“He had a sense of perspectiveand an emotional maturity thatwas rare. He had a first-rate mindand a first-rate per sonality.”

His funeral service was heldDec. 4 in Washington at TempleSinai. Memorial donations maybe sent to the Samuel R. Berger

Humanitarian Fund at the WorldFood Program.

restrictions. Now we’re happy it’sdone and all behind us. There’s just some polishing to do and

then the library can get movedin soon.”

Coons said he doesn’t have amove-in date yet because thereare still some last minute detailsto take care of. The building hasbeen cleaned, however, and thelocksmith has already been there.

“So it’s going to cost the town$500,000,” said Coons. “Over25 years. We’re pretty elated, wehave some plans and are work-ing those out right now. Come

January we’re hoping to hold an

open house.”Those plans, as Coons men-

tioned, include reinstating the li-brary on the main floor, leavingthe bottom level vacant (though

the building’s basement is fin-ished) and keeping the top flooravailable for community groupsand events.

“That’s something that has tobe hashed out,” said Coons. “Wewant to be able to provide spacefor everyone who is a taxpayer.No one owns the space — thetaxpayers own everything.”

Coons reiterated that the onlyspace that’s been designated thusfar is the library space on themain floor.

That’s good news, accordingto Mara, who said the library’s

current accommodations areway too small.

“The library has been at its

old location for well over a year,”he said. “We’ve got about 3,000books in storage now and we’repaying for six complete com-puter setups to be in storage.

We can’t make them available tothe public because we don’t havespace. More than half our tech-nology is offline and not avail-able, so we need that space backto make our resources availableto the public.”

The new library building isroughly 3,200 square feet; the

old library building is about 900square feet.

Though the journey has beenlong and challenging, Mara saidhe can now see the light at the

end of the tunnel.“I guess I can say thank you

to the community at large for itssupport,” he said. “They’ve con-tinued to support us and use th elibrary, though on a less frequentbasis, and I hope they will con-tinue to support us as we moveback.

“We’ll do some strategic plan-ning for what services everyonewould like to see for the library,”Mara added. “We’ll be refresh-ing our look, to see how we can

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Christmas dinner

MILLERTON — Everyone isinvited to share a free commu-nity cares Italian Christmas din-ner at the Millerton PresbyterianChurch, 58 Main St., on Friday,Dec. 18, from 6 to 7 p.m. In ad-dition to the meal, there will bethe opportunity to shop for freehousehold items and clothing forthe family. For more informationcall Nicole LeGrand at 518-592-1327.

The dinner is made possiblethrough a grant from the North-east Dutchess Fund, a fund of theBerkshire Taconic Communityfoundation.

Blue worship service

MILLERTON — A BlueChristmas worship service, ledby Pastor Zora F. Cheatham,will be held Sunday, Dec. 20, at 4p.m., at the Millerton Presbyte-rian Church. Those feeling blueor missing a loved one are invited

to join this service and be upliftedinto the spirit of Christmas. Thechurch is located at 58 Main St.,Millerton.

Fountains holidayevent

MILLBROOK — The Foun-tains at Millbrook, 79 Flint Road,offers the following event, freeof charge and open to the publicwith advanced reservations to845-677-8550.

Join special guests Peter and Judith Muir of the Institute ofMusic and Health as they presentan evening of song with the Sing-

Holiday party

MILLERTON — Celebratethe season and the end of anotheryear at the NorthEast-MillertonLibrary with a holiday partyon Saturday, Dec. 19, at 1 p.m.Coffee and homemade dessertswill be provided by the library’sCookbook Group. Musical groupRoger and Lenny will be perform-ing seasonal favorites. The libraryis located at 75 Main St. in Mil-lerton.

Berkshire Hillsmen Holiday ConcertCOPAKE — The Berkshire

Hillsmen vocal group will pres-ent their annual holiday concerton Sunday, Dec. 20, at 5 p.m., atthe Roeliff Jansen CommunityLibrary. This all-male acappellachorus will sing holiday favoritesas well as standards.

Roeliff Jansen Community Li-brary is located at 9091 Route 22.

For information call 518-325-

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New Year’s Eve

in MillbrookMILLBROOK — Millbrook

Rotary will celebrate its 12th yearhosting its New Year’s Eve fam-ily event from 4 to 8:15 p.m. onThursday, Dec. 31. The eveningwill feature both new performersand returning favorites.

Refreshments will be availablefrom VFW Post 9008 and the

Millbrook Lions Club. The New Year’s Eve Millbrook lighted, col-lectable buttons can be obtainedfor a suggested donation of $5.

EPIC potluck dinner

MILLBROOK — EngagingPeople in Change (EPIC) at GraceChurch is a nonprofit groupheaded by Abby Nathanson. Itengages young people from thisarea to engage in social change.Started in April by Rev. MatthewCalkin and Nathanson, the groupis celebrating its first Christmastogether at Grace Church. It is thenewest youth leadership programin the area.

EPIC has a wish list of thingsthe group could use, such as com-fortable furniture, art and officesupplies, an electric kettle, non-perishable foods for meals andsnacks for overnight trips. Airmattresses, sleeping bags, andfolding cots would also be helpful.

EPIC invites everyone to itsholiday celebration on Friday,Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. in the GraceChurch Parish Hall. To learn moreabout EPIC’s accomplishmentsand future plans, or to RSVP,email [email protected]. At-

tendees are encouraged to bringa dish as this is a potluck dinner.To make a donation to EPIC

call Rev. Calkin at 203-216-2287.

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A Christmastime concert

The Webutuck Winter Concert was held on Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Eugene Brooks Intermedi-ate School. Students from the fourth and fifth grades participated. Jay Bradley conducted the band. Eric Wiener led the chorus.

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By LIZETT PAJUELOSpecial to The Millerton News

WASSAIC — The annualParade of Lights was held Sunday,Dec. 13. The night welcomedrevelers onto the streets withunusually warm weather so theycould watch majestic floats maketheir way down the main street ofthis quiet little hamlet.

By LIZETT PAJUELOSpecial to The Millerton News

WASSAIC — The Lantern Innhosted Paint by the Glass withCasey Swift — a fundraiser eventfor the Amenia Recreation Cheer-leading (ARC) — on Thursday,Dec. 3. ARC’s fundraising goalis to raise $3,000 to help covercheerleading competition costs.

All proceeds from the event willgo to benefit this cause.

Michelle Winters, a fundraiservolunteer with ARC, coordinated

with Swift to put on the event. Winters had the opportunity tomeet Swift at a previous art classhosted by Swift at No. 9 restau-rant in Millerton.

A small crowd showed up atthe Lantern to delight in lightrefreshments and a glass of winewhile painting four of their veryown holiday wine glasses — in-cluded with the admission fee— under the guidance of artistSwift. Swift has been an art teach-er at the Dover High School for

20 years, and has been teachingcanvas and cocktail art classes tothe public for two years.

Swift offered tips for paintingon glass.

“Be sure to wipe clean yourglasses with alcohol,” she said.

It is also important to cleanone’s hands to minimize the pres-ence of skin oils on the glass. Fol-lowing these simple steps help thepaint adhere to the glass better.

Once the glasses have been

Notable floats included Wassaic Fire Company’s vintage1935 Seagrave firetruck, onwhich Frosty the Snowman satcomfortably waving at children;the NorthEast-MillertonLibrary’s starry float; MJAPlumbing Heating and AC Inc.’s“Frozen” themed float; and afloat carrying the season’s guestsof honor, Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The beloved spunky sisters fromthe “Frozen” motion pictures,Elsa and Ana, waved and tossedcandy to the smiling children onthe sidelines.

At the end of the parade,community members gathered

in the center of the hamlet by TheLantern Inn and sang Christmascarols while Santa and Mrs. Clausinteracted with the children.

Wassaic parade lights up hamlet

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Santa and Mrs. Claus visited the hamlet of Wassaic on Sunday, Dec. 13, and posed with theParasztis: Makenzie, Dylan and dad, Steven.

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painted with special glass paint,they must be baked at 350 degreesfor 15 minutes, to set the paint soit does not wear off with wash.

The atmosphere at TheLantern Inn was laid back and

friendly, with participants sharingcomical conversations about theirglass paintings. People from as faras Hopewell Junction and Pough-keepsie were present. Everyoneappeared to en

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