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the News staff LAKE PLACID Mercy Care for the Adirondacks is recruiting new volunteers and has scheduled a Friendship Volunteer Training Program in Saranac Lake on the mornings of May 18 and May 19. Both mornings are required to complete the training.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it has been more than a year since Mercy Care for the Adirondacks has been able to invite people to join its 100-plus volunteers helping elder neighbors age in place more successfully in Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and surrounding areas. Mercy Care is seeking to extend its program in AuSable Forks, Keene Valley, Keene, Wilmington and Jay.
To the editor: A Wilmington reader recently attributed objections to a proposed Dollar General store to outsiders. He welcomes the new store as a modern convenience, where one could buy (imported) “T-shirts, flowerpots and socks,” just like they supposedly do to pass rainy days in Keeseville. Objections to dollar stores involve the negative effects upon on locally owned businesses and degradation to small-town aesthetics, well documented in articles by the Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere. For instance, the nearby Little Supermarket can expect a 10-30% loss of sales. Profit margins would also vanish as local stores are forced to compete with Dollar General’s vast wholesale network.
Bottled water at the town of Jay highway garage (News photo Andy Flynn) Bottled water can be picked up by residents affected by the boil water order in Jay and Upper Jay at the town highway garage in Upper Jay. (News photo Andy Flynn) This water tanker at the Upper Jay firehouse is providing free drinking water to families affected by the boil water order in the hamlets of Jay and Upper Jay. (News photo Andy Flynn)
This water tanker at the Upper Jay firehouse is providing free drinking water to families affected by the boil water order in the hamlets of Jay and Upper Jay. (News photo Andy Flynn)
Don Morrison (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Katie Bidelspach and her son pose the Riverside Thrift Store in Wilmington (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Carol McDonald and Barbara Signorelli work the checkout. (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Nancy Rine (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
Katie Bidelspach and her son pose the Riverside Thrift Store in Wilmington (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
In Wilmington, the Riverside Thrift Store is a thriving asset led by volunteers from the Whiteface Community United Methodist Church. Thrift shops exist in many communities such as Elizabethtown, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Wilmington, but they are not as old a community asset as one might think.