Valentine’s Day. The mere mention of the holiday conjures up images of greeting cards, red roses and heart-shaped boxes filled with chocolates.

But this coming February 14, a group of local women will be bringing awareness of another V-Day to View.

They will join women and men worldwide in recognition of the 15th anniversary of V-Day—the movement to end violence against women and girls.

The V-Day event, One Billion Rising, will bring attention to the statistic that one billion women—one of every three women on the planet—will be violated in some way during their lifetime by rape, incest, battery, genital mutilation, bullying, or sexual harassment.

In an act of solidarity for victims of violence, participants from around the globe will gather to dance, rise up, and demand an end to this violence.

Connie Perry of Inlet—who only last week became aware of One Billion Rising—is responsible for spearheading the local event.

The urgency to pull a local awareness event together was inspired by an internet article she read on gendercide in China and other countries.

“Female children are aborted, killed, or left to die simply because they are girls. That’s where this started for me. It was two related postings that led me to One Billion Rising,” she said.

Perry immediately went into action. She contacted friends Linda Valette, a life coach, and Robin Dwyer, minister of Inlet’s Church of the Lakes, to help pull a program together. Continue reading →

Update you calendar: Inlet summer pops concert  moving to earlier in July

Jerry Dupuis, on behalf of the Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, Inc. has announced that the organization has reached an agreement with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for a repeat appearance at Inlet’s Pops Concert this coming summer.

Dupuis reported that the negotiations with the RPO were made somewhat more difficult than in the prior year due to the fact that the RPO’s management had decided to cut three weeks from the orchestra’s summer 2013 schedule.

Eliminated were the last weeks of June and July, and the first week in August, he said.

Given that the FCLPAC has, for 14 years, always sponsored a symphonic performance on the last Friday in July, a new date had to be selected.

The RPO advised that it had only one open date in July, and that was to be Saturday, July 6, 2013.  Continue reading →

Barbara Green was appointed to the Town of Webb Planning Board at the Town of Webb monthly board meeting on Tuesday, January 8. Her term will run through December 31, 2019. Brian Morgan will serve as an alternate on the board through December 31, 2018.

Also at the meeting, Don McKenna, who was serving as an alternate on the Zoning Board of Appeals, was appointed to fill the remainder of the term of resigning member, Sheila Rivet.

McKenna’s term will run through December 31, 2013.

Carolynn McCann (Dufft) with her award winning Adirondack photograph

Two photographs by Old Forge photographer Carolynn McCann (Dufft) are currently on display at the downtown Rochester gallery, Image City Photography Gallery.

The 6th annual “The Magic of Life” juried exhibit, which opened January 2, features 176 photographs by 83 artists in a wide range of photographic styles.

During the exhibit’s opening reception it was announced that McCann’s winter scene photograph of The Little Red Boathouse, located on the channel to First Lake, was selected as one of three grand prize winners.

The photo is one of seven featured on the gallery’s website as a preview of the show.

The Little Red Boathouse by Old Forge photographer Carolynn McCann (Dufft)

It also appeared in a December 28 article promoting the exhibit in the Time Out section of the Rochester Business Journal.

Having moved to Old Forge in the fourth grade, McCann’s family owned the former McCann’s Corner newsstand, where Ozzie’s Coffee Bar is now located.

Next door lived the late photographer Bill Weedmark whose work inspired her to pursue the art of photography at the Town of Webb School.

She also credits another local photographer, Ted Russell, with inspiring her interest when she was a high school student.

Russell, who at the time worked at the local newspaper, The Adirondack Echo, helped acquaint her with the darkroom, she said. Continue reading →

The Adirondack Landowners Association (ALA) has announced that Cornell University’s Adirondack Fishery Research program will be the recipient of their 2012 Stewardship Award.

The award will be presented at the ALA winter meeting taking place Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 8 at the Adirondack League Club in Old Forge. In addition to the Cornell presentation, NYS DEC Commissioner Joe Martens has been invited to be a special guest on Friday evening. The Cornell partnership with various Adirondack landowners over the last 60 years has focused on Brook Trout stocking programs, acid rain research and overall ecosystem science and management.

“This collaboration has proven to be a great example of the value of citizen supported research and how these partnerships can benefit society on a regional and national level. In recognizing Cornell we hope others will embrace this concept and hopefully build on these accomplishments,” according to ALA President Tom Williams.

The ALA was founded to encourage continued stewardship and sound resource management of lands in the Adirondacks; to promote public awareness of the valuable role played by private landowners in the Park; to advocate laws, regulations and governmental policies that promote and facilitate good stewardship by private landowners and to recognize and preserve their rights in the land.

You can learn more about this event and the ALA at www.adklandowners.org.