aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com From left, Beverley Reid and Claire Thayer are seen in December 2020. They co-wrote a history book on the Adirondack Community Church in Lake Placid. (Photo provided) The stone Adirondack Community Church on Main Street, Lake Placid, was dedicated in 1927. (News photo Andy Flynn) The Benson Memorial Cross, a World War I memorial on the grounds of the Adirondack Community Church on Main Street, Lake Placid, was dedicated in 1929. (News photo Andy Flynn)
The stone Adirondack Community Church on Main Street, Lake Placid, was dedicated in 1927. (News photo Andy Flynn)
LAKE PLACID Beverley Reid’s history with the Adirondack Community Church on Main Street goes way back 88 years to the time she was baptized on Feb. 26, 1933, one year after the III Olympic Winter Games came to town. Now she’s helped write the history of the church with fellow parishioner Claire Thayer.
Mary MacKenzie - reporter, political PR and mother of journalists Kelvin, Craig and Drew - dies aged 92
Mary MacKenzie, a journalist and political PR and the mother to journalists Kelvin, Craig and Drew, has died aged 92.
Her long life was never easy. Born in Ealing, West London, she was adopted as a child and moved around the country before settling in Ramsgate. Mary left school with no qualifications but her drive and energy (and a good dollop of glamour) landed her a junior reporter job on the local paper in Thanet, Kent.
It was there she met fellow local paper reporter Ian MacKenzie (just back from the war) at an amdram production of The Mikado.