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Rotary Club of Northern Lake GeorgeAccording to Rotary International, the object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: First. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; Second. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; Third. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; Fourth. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. Rotary's motto is: SERVICE ABOVE SELF The Rotary Club of Northern Lake George welcomes visitors and persons interested in joining its membership. The club meets every Tues. morning at 7:30AM at the Silver Bay Assoc. in the Watson Arts Center. If you would like to join us, please call Stan Burdick at 543-8824 or Tom James at 543-6924. The Rotary Club of Northern Lake George would like to extend its sincere appreciation to Ody's Inn of Silver Bay for providing us with delicious meals and a cozy place to meet for nearly a year. Thanks Ody's! Same Place, Another EraBig floods are normal along rivers now. Man cannot control nature. Watersheds are being paved over, strip-mined, roofed over and cut over, all in the interests of big business. Storm water cannot be absorbed if the forests and fields lack humus to retain the flow of runoff. The Hague brook is an excellent example. I have been fishing it more than 75 years and have seen that stream decline from a very productive source of brook trout to a torrent of muddy water during every storm. Sixty years ago I could catch a limit of 20 speckled trout in three hours. Later it was stocked with rainbows. They grew larger and soon forced out the brookies. Trout entered the feeder streams to spawn and the fingerlings keep the big stream populated. Now high water washes road sand, salt and storm water into the lake and the little fish as well. Hundreds of cords of pulpwood have been cut on the brook watershed over the past two years. The results will be evident for a long time. The county puts in a few hundred fingerlings and the lake trout and salmon enjoy them. Summer storms used to bring good-sized trout into the Hague brook to feed. We had great fishing all summer long. Then the brook from 9N to the lake was rip-rapped, widened, and is now so shallow that no trout or salmon will swim up. Our summer guests, especially boys and girls, found pleasure fishing the brook. They did not need a boat. We no longer see fingerlings or herons feeding here. Anyhow property downstream is a nice private park. The loss of the Hague Brook as a source of pleasure is just one of several reasons why Hague is not the lovely town it used to be. . . Clifton West, Hague Town Historian Silver Bay Association Sales Materials Wins Hospitality Association AwardThe Silver Bay Assoc. has won a silver Adrian Award at the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Assoc. International's Adrian and Golden Bell Awards Competition. The award, which was presented at a banquet on Feb. 4 in NYC, was for sales materials developed to promote the 600-acre conference center on Lake George in the Adirondack Mts. The competition drew more than 1,500 entries from 48 countries. It is the largest and most prestigious event of its kind in the travel industry. Gallucci to be at Silver Bay Assoc.A watercolor workshop led by John Gallucci will offer opportunities to improve watercolor skills and paint the stunning scenery of Lake George and the Adirondack Mountains this spring at the Silver Bay Assoc. in Silver Bay. Upstate N.Y. native Gallucci will conduct the workshop June 6-10. Gallucci holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse Univ. and a master's degree from N.Y. Univ. He also spent a year studying in Rome, Italy as a Ford Fellow. He is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and has exhibited in AWS annuals, the National Academy of Design annuals, the Adirondack National Exhibit of American Watercolors and many one-person shows. The cost for the program with lodging and meals is $345 per person, double occupancy and $385 for single occupancy. For commuters (includes meals, but no lodging), the cost is $175. To register or to learn more, contact the Silver Bay Association at (518)543-8833. Mobile Mammography Van
Schedule for the Glens Falls Hospital Community Health Screening Van for the months of May and June in this area are as follows: 55 AliveThere is a planned "55 Alive" course to be held in mid-May. The dates are not yet firm and will be decided after this publication of the Chronicle. Completion of this course will result in a 10% deduction on your auto policy for 3 years. There will be a nominal fee to attend. If you are interested, please give your name to Bertha at the Town Hall. The class size is limited to 30, so don't procrastinate! RafflemaniaMany thanks from the Beste Scholarship Fund Committee, John Barber, Jim Neal, John Brown and Rudy Meola, to our raffle ticket salespeople for their help selling tickets on the CD player. Altogether they sold well over 500 tickets, making this a very successful fundraiser. FLASH: Because the raffle winner donated his prize back to the raffle, another drawing was held at the Fish and Game meeting following the Winter Weekend. The official winner is: Jane Crammond. Sweats on Sale"New logo" Hague Winter Carnival sweatshirts, SIZE LARGE ONLY, are now on sale at the Silver Bay General Store for $10 each. These are a great buy for a quality weight sweatshirt. Special ZBA Meeting - April 8, 1997The Zoning Board of Appeals called a special meeting on April 8 to continue the hearing which was opened on March 24 on Ody's Restaurant extension of hours until 12 midnight. The Ody's had applied for a variance several months ago but no decision could be reached because of a tie vote each time. Mr. Levy, owner of the Ody property made a presentation to the board with an overhead projector, stating the reasons it was necessary for the Ody's to operate more hours. He asked the board to consider the hours of 6:00 am to 2:00 am on weekends and to 12:00 midnight on Sunday through Thursday. Since the variance applied for stated only 7:00 am to 12:00 midnight, the board could not consider his proposal. The board voted 4 - 3 to continue the hours from7:00 am to 10:00 pm. Voting in favor of the variance (against extending the hours) were Clark, Young and Ginn. Against the variance were Goetsch, Neal, Doulin and Steitz. . .djh
with Town Crew on the job. February is the worse Then March will huff and puff Ôtil April brings us sun enough to melt it down and off. As part of The Hague Chronicle's service to the commnity of Hague, a duplicator is now located in the Community Center which will be available for use of organizations or the town for printing large quantities of circulars, letters, etc. (at least 50 or more). Please call Dottie Henry, Editor/Publisher for information. (543-6633) There will be no charge for the service, just for the paper and ink used. Hague Senior Citizens ClubAt the March meeting of the Hague Senior Citizens Club a new constitution was read and approved. Like all other clubs in Warren County, we have established a membership fee ($5 annually). We also included the requirement that a valid member attend 4 BUSINESS meetings per calendar year. Two trustees will be nominated and elected in November when officers will also be chosen. Prospective members should make a check PAYABLE TO MARGUERITE WEST who is the Club's treasurer. Because of the new publication date of The Hague Chronicle, it is not always possible for us to get each month's program into the paper. Please be aware that we meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month; go through your engagement calendar and make a note of this. We appeal again for ideas for programs. If you have an idea for a program that would appeal, please call Janet Hoffay at 543-6807 or Martin Brown at 543-6403. All suggestions will be welcome and all seriously considered. Our May meeting will be on Tuesday, May 27th. . .ewa Women Helping WomenOn Monday, May 12, Amy Ivy will present the second half of her program (continued from the March meeting) on Herb Gardens and Perennial Plants. This was such a successful program that she was urged to continue. Since Amy is an agent from the Essex County Cooperative Extension, she is required to make a minimal charge for programs outside her territory. Therefore, we are asking if those who attend will be prepared to give a voluntary $1.00 contribution to defray her expenses. June 9 program will present Al Hicks from the Dept. of Conservation Wildlife Service and his talk will be on "Bats in the Adirondacks". Women Helping Women meets the second Monday of every month at the Community Center in Hague at 7PM. Men and women are invited to attend. Spellbound
It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your please too no, Its letter perfect in it's weight, My checker tolled me sew. "Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the flowers iz?" Warren County Council of Senior CitizensThe Warren County Council of Senior Citizens has engaged a 55 passenger bus to transport seniors to the Seniorama at Lake Placid on Thursday, May 22. The arrangements are being made by Eleanor Jenks, and Eleanor's phone number is 251-2877. Unfortunately, the nearest boarding place for Hague residents will be Chestertown. It is suggested that some Hague residents might wish to carpool with the Ticonderoga group. For information about this, please call Mrs. Putnam at the Ticonderoga Nutrition Site at 585-7682. Mrs. Putnam is on duty from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. . .ewa Hague Historical SocietyThe May meeting of the Hague Historical Society will be the annual combined meeting with the Ticonderoga Historical Society, and will be held on Friday, May 23 at 7:30 pmat the Hancock House in Ticonderoga. Our speaker will be Nicholas Westbrook of Fort Ticonderoga, and he will speak about the French Village. We urge all members to attend this sure-to-be-interesting program. Refreshments will be served following the programs. In June we will return to the Hague Community Center on Thursday, June 19, and our speaker will be Craig Lonergan who will educate us on antiques and collectibles. This meeting will be at 7:30 pm, with a social hour hosted by Mrs. Den Bleyker, just before the official meeting. . .ewa NEWBERRY's Ticonderoga's downtown anchor store for the past 38 years, has closed its doors for the final time. In March 1957 The Ticonderoga Sentinel announced the purchase of an entire downtown block to build what was then the largest retail store in Ticonderoga. On March 3, 1959 the doors were opened to fully stocked shelves including many opening bargains. A lunch counter served many local residents breakfasts and lunches and was a great meeting place to sit and relax with friends. Mike Connery, town supervisor hopes to have another business locate in the Newberry's store. Downtown merchants say the store will be sadly missed. FLASH FLOOD! Certainly not to be compared with the floods now afflicting the Dakotas and Minnesota, but very exciting to a couple of Hague residents for about an hour on Monday, April 7. On that day, Ethel Andrus had just delivered a Home Delivered Meal to the residence of George and Marion Shoemaker in West Hague. While Ethel was there, Marion was called to the phone, and suddenly she screamed "Ethel look out back", so Ethel looked - the back yard was filled with dirty, rushing water. The front yard, calm and peaceful only minutes before, was filling up fast. The 2 ladies moved their cars; the driveway became a brook, fed by what is usually a peaceful, ambling stream that flows between the Shoemaker and Yaw properties. It is surmised that a beaver dam had broken upstream. The ladies were now unable to get back to the Shoemaker house, so they waited it out, hoping that George Shoemaker, asleep in the house, was still asleep. The water receded so that Marion, a braver soul than Ethel, waded through the chilly remains, but Ethel, less hardy, waited until the driveway had returned to normal. And, yes, George slept through it all! File: http://tracylee.com/haguechronicle/97april/bitsnbytes.shtml Last Modified: Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 00:36:35 EDT Local Date and Time: Wednesday, 19-Nov-2008 19:03:31 EST This site brought to you by Tracy Lee Designs |
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