I want to thank everyone for being so wonderful to me for the past few months of my illness.
Thank you for the prayers, Mass cards, flowers, plants, the delicious meals, and for the many, many cards and visits.
What a caring community. I can’t thank everyone enough.
Betty Nunn Draper, Eagle Bay
From ringing phones to potties, Mr. Murphy pretty much nailed it
It’s probably safe to assume that most of us are familiar with Murphy’s Law, the old ‘If anything can go wrong, it will.’
Many say that this law was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949.
Edward A. Murphy was an engineer working on an Air Force Project designed to see how much deceleration a person can stand in a crash.
One day he found that a transducer was wired wrong, cursed an inept technician, and stated, ‘If there is any way to do it wrong, he’ll find it.’
How right he turned out to be, because quite frankly I am reminded constantly of Murphy.
Of course, in my world the Law is applicable in way more trivial instances.
I will share some with you:
• The bank drive-thru: Inevitably, there’s nary a soul in line until my vehicle crosses the street and enters the parking lot. Continue reading
Use of assault rifles gives legitimate hunters bad nameWe continue to be very dry, as does much of the country. Perhaps it’s the higher projected price of corn this fall that’s affecting the increase in gas price.
Farmers growing corn in the mid west that don’t have irrigation are hurting for sure.
Without any watering, my garden and flowers are at a standstill. My pond is down about a foot and I’m hoping for water soon.
Most of the bodies of water that I’ve been on in the last week show signs of the lowest water I’ve seen in a long time.
Streams in the area are just a trickle and the trout are looking for a spring hole to have some cold water to live in.
Some folks got a good dose of rain during the week, but with it came violent winds.
Up in the Potsdam area they had winds up to 100 mph, which did a lot of damage to power lines and travel corridors.
This storm cut across the upper part of the north country hitting Lake Placid and parts of the Champlain Valley.
The marina where my brother keeps his boat was hit with very strong winds that pushed all the docks together and caused damage to many of the boats tied up there.
Luckily his boat was on the north side of the dock system and he only lost a couple of down riggers off the side of the boat.
Many others were not so lucky as their boats were sandwiched in between the docks.
Sails were torn apart on some of the bigger sailboats.
Pond fishing has been good even with the warmer temperatures. The water is deep enough to support trout.
These fish should be on a feeding frenzy and getting nothing but bigger. Continue reading
Tyler Fish (Fishy) of Inlet, Project Manager at Limekiln Land-scaping, hit a hole-in-one on hole #11 of the Inlet Golf Club on Sunday, July 8th during a company team-building day. He nailed the ace on the hole that measures 148-yard from the back tee using a 9-iron. Witness to the feat was Limekiln Landscaping CEO and President George Nolan of Inlet.
Sam Phaneuf of Old Forge is this year’s recipient of the Mary Russell Continuing Education Scholarship which is adminstered by the Old Forge Covey-Pashley American Legion Auxiliary Unit #893. Sam, the son of Joe and Janine Phaneuf, currently attends Norwich University.
An AARP Driving Course will be held Thursday and Friday, August 2 and 3 at White Otter Fish and Game Club in Woodgate. The course will be held both days from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The cost is $17 for AARP members and $19 for non-members. Registration is available by calling Bob Seager at (315) 392-3808.
A cappella group Wide Variety will bring a high-energy performance to View on Thursday, August 2 at 7 p.m.
The New Jersey-based group takes the best of R&B, rock & roll, and popular standards and adds their own blend of vocal harmonies.
Among the selections they will perform include Another Saturday Night by Sam Cooke, Banana Boat Song (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte, Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin, and Beach Boys and Four Seasons medlies.
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted at the door. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
The performance is sponsored by Community Bank and the Central Adirondack Association (CAA).
For more information call View at (315) 369-6411.