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The Whitehall Times office will be closed this Monday, March 15, and let me tell you why:
On Friday, before I left for work, my son, Lawrence Blake, was complaining that his side hurt, but insisted that he wanted to go to school. When I got home from work, the nurse called and said she was worried that something might be wrong.
The health center where we live was closed, so off to the ER we go. That was at 4 p.m. After the tests and everything, we were off to CVPH at 9 p.m., where the semi-emergency appendectomy happened at around 1 a.m. So, I'm staying home with my appendix-less son today.
Just as an aside, a thanks to all the nurses, EMT's and doctors who treated Lawrence Blake - you were all awesome!!!!
To help assist Bishop and his family, the University at Buffalo has helped with the Bishop family to established a fund to help offset costs of travel and other medical expenses. Those interested in assisting can send donations to: The Danny Bishop Fund, P.O. Box 5, Whitehall, N.Y. 12887.
Those sending donations via checks are asked to make them out to Danny’s father, Norm Bishop.
Just saw the Mountain West All-Conference team. Jimmer Fredette was not named the conference player of the year???????
The honor went to some guy out of New Mexico???? I know they won the conference, but please, the only guy in your conference that got any national run and he does not get player of the year???
Fredette was also an all-american! in local terms, this would be if anyone but Brittany Sr. Clair was named the MVP of the Adirondack League - it just would not be right, just as Jimmer not being conference player of the year is not right!
There was a lot going on at the town board meeting last night - a lot more than you may have seen elsewhere. Here's a quick recap:
1. The town board set up the rules for the use of the senior citizens building, giving the seniors first rights to the building and exclusive use of the kitchen. To see the public comment before the meeting start by seniors president Barbara Katchel, here's the link (turn up the volume, it's our first try at taping a board meeting):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MwUOlf_YA
2. The town board approved a request by ORCA to move forward with fundraising to purchase new equipment for the town playground and to work with the school in organizing this years free summer lunch program.
3. The town board joined forces with the Southern Adirondack Tobacco Free Environment Coalition to place signs promoting no tobacco use at the town rec center, Skenesborough park and at the museum.
4. Elaine Jones was appointed as the town clerk to serve out the rest of 2010. Jones said that she may run for the position in November.
5. The Troy Shirt Factory will be boarded up on the windows and locked in order to keep the property safe.
6. Richard LaChapelle said that he has looked at five locations for a possible town hall site, and hopes to be ready to talk more about it at April's meeting.
7. Reports from town organizations will be posted at the town hall now after they are received.
There were a couple other housekeeping things, so it was a very eventful meeting. I didn't get out of town until about 10 p.m.
Getting set for what will be a packed evening schedule tonight, starting with the winter sports awards ceremony over at the high school.
All of the winter sports teams will be honored, including the junior varsity and varsity teams in wrestling, boys and girl’s basketball, cheerleading, indoor track, bowling and bobsled (I believe that covers it). The fun starts there at 6 p.m.
I will cover that until about 6:50 p.m., when it will be time to head off to the Pavilion for the monthly town board meeting at 7 p.m. Here's a sampling of what is or might be on the agenda:
Longtin case follow-up, senior center follow-up (this could get heated, again), Troy Shirt Factory clean-up follow-up, town hall move follow-up....
....all leading to the vote over who will be the next town clerk - whether they will stay with their deputy, Elaine Jones, for the rest of the year, or hire someone else. AS Geezer said a couple of times, this one could take a while.
Either way, I'll try to be there for all of it. Maybe even grab a couple of videos, too.
I also took this little piece of video over the weekend from the ice-less fishing derby. I think that everyone still had a good time and there was some fishing done off the pier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-0pyVAYlc
Sorry I didn't write after the game or before today, it has been a busy beginning to the week.
As far as the game goes, I think that I have the same opinion everyone else does - Argyle wanted it more. Don't know why that was, but it was.
When you look back at this season, there are a ton of positives for the girls and all of the sporting teams, even if the way the season ended for each team leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
Anyways, here's the link for the slide show of the Section II/Class D championship game between Whitehall and Argyle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-coA0df27c
