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At their Holiday Concert, first graders performed “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” with teachers playing the parts of Santa (Mrs. Bourcy) and Mommy (Mrs. Henry). The concert also included “Frosty the Snowman,” “Spin, Spin, Spin,” “Jingle Bells,” “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and “Silent Night.” Taking a bow, from left to right, are Mrs. Bourcy (Santa), Garrett Krieger, Trey Michel and Mrs. Henry (Mommy).

First graders stage Christmas carols

TownThanks go out to our local heroesTo the editor:

Having had the plea-sure of attending the 86th annual Mottville Fire Department’s Banquet, I would like to commend the entire department on their service to the public. I come from a profession where true hours are felt whether I’m sitting alone in a combine or unload-ing a hay truck. I can only imagine what its like to volunteer more than 1,800 hours to the community.

As Tim Baker appoint-ed his officers, I didn’t think of them directly as officers, but rather indirectly as the men and women who would be the first responders to any emergency to help myself personally or anyone in the community. I would like to say Thank You to these firefighters and all the other firemen who serve the Skaneateles com-munity. Thanks for being you.

If you’re out and about this holiday season make sure you wish them a Merry Christmas and thank them as well.

JIM GreenFIelDTown BoArD

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Basketball’s promising start

meetsHydrofracking committee gathering information

By Miranda L. Pennockmiranda.pennock@

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Mary Menapace spoke to the Skaneateles Town Board during its meeting Dec. 16 to provide an up-date about information the hydrofracking committee has gathered.

Menapace said the small group is holding a series of open meetings where residents can learn more about the procedure and what can be done to protect landowners and the envi-ronment.

“There [are] a lot of counties down south ... and a lot of towns gather-ing information,” Mena-pace said.

Primarily the commit-tee is trying to figure out what can be done to pro-tect residents from various dangers associated with hydrofracking. Menapace said the committee is sifting through the information it has and will distill what they have collected.

Menapace said they are also asking the town to extend the hydrofracking moratorium for an addi-tional six months.

At the state level, a mora-torium was recently passed only to then be vetoed by Gov. David Paterson.

laker boys blow out caz, Westhill

By Phil Blackwell

True, the Skaneateles boys bas-ketball team’s 65-59 defeat to Bishop ludden in the Dec. 12 Holiday Classic at the Carrier Dome did not sit well, and may have hurt the lakers’ long-term chances to win the oHSl liberty division.

But Skaneateles got little time to fret about it – which may have proved valuable, for it went to cozy Buckley Gym last Tuesday night and won its battle of the lakers with Cazenovia by a solid margin of 65-49.

Both teams pushed the tempo early, and Cazenovia was not far off, only trailing 22-20. But Skaneateles made timely defensive adjustments

and, over the course of the next two periods, only allowed 13 total points, allowing for a clean getaway.

Up 59-33 going into the fourth quarter, Skaneateles could relax and rest its starters. Pat roberts reclaimed his usual form, the senior forward leading both sides with 20 points, while Kevin rice got 16 points. Bran-don Barron earned nine points and Jimmy Atkinson added seven points. Tanner whiteman led Cazenovia with 15 points.

Then came Friday’s game against Westhill, the reigning state Class B champions. But things were different now, as Skaneateles had played three times while the warriors, replacing most of its lineup from 2009-10, still hadn’t taken the court yet (two games had been snowed out).

what happened on the court only confirmed where both teams stood. Skaneateles, experienced and

game-tested, toyed with the new-look westhill lineup and did not stop until it had produced a 75-49 victory over the warriors.

Pushing the pace early, Sk-naeateles led 22-14 after one quarter. The margin remained steady until the third quarter, when the lakers decided matters by nearly doubling westhill’s output in a 23-12 surge.

Four lakers hit double figures, led by roberts, who had his way against the smaller warrior lineup and fin-ished with 18 points. rice, with 15 points, hit on three 3-pointers as Barron and Paul o’Donnell both finished with 12 points. westhill’s nathan nigolian led both sides with 22 points.

At 3-1 on the season, Skaneateles would host Hannibal on Tuesday be-fore a rest period that, including the holiday break, will cover two weeks.

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Creamery NewsWinter hours update

The Skaneateles His-torical Society’s Museum at the Creamery will be closed to the public from Dec. 20 through Friday Jan. 7 except by appointment.

The Creamery will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Fridays in January through April, or by appointment. Call 685-1360.

Dec. 22Creekside Trivia night

Kid’s Trivia starts at 5:30 p.m. and Adult Trivia starts at 7 p.m. Creekside Cof-feehouse. 35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Dec. 23Traditional Dickens Christmas Tea

Traditional Dicken’s Christmas Tea at Grammie’s Pantry tea room and gift shop from 11:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.). Open Tues-day to Saturday. Menu includes: tea or gourmet coffee, scones with lemon curd and devonshire cream, Grammie’s garlic herb feta spread, with crackers, tea sandwiches, quiche and dessert.

Dec. 24Last day of Dickens

12-2:30 p.m. Happy Christmas to all! Contact Info : Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce 22 Jordan Street Skaneateles, NY 13152 (315) 685-0552 Email : [email protected].

Dec. 27 to 31Learn to Skate Camp

Ages 3 to 10 years Monday through Thurs-day 10:30 to11:30a.m. This four day camp will be offered during school vacations and is designed for students of all skating abilities. Class work will focus on the skill level of the student Y-Members $40 General Public. There is a $60 fee with skate and helmet rental included

Skaneateles YMCA & Community Center Matt Major 685-2266 Email: [email protected].

Bumper cars on iceVisit the Skaneateles Y

Community Center during winter break for a bumpy ride in the ice rink. Y-Members. Free. Matt Major 685-2266

Dec. 28“Loaves & Fishes” FREE Community Dinner

5 to 6:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Mar-cellus. Use Maple Street entrance. Handicapped accessible entrance on Orange Street.

Come for fellowship and a hot meal. All are wel-come.

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ElevationThis week 862.73’Last year 861.87

Lake temperatureThis week 44/41Last year 35/42

Rain/snowfallThis week .95/22.5Last year .89/ 2.5

Skaneateles levels week of Dec. 18

Gingerbread construction revealed

Third graders at State Street Elementary School made gingerbread houses, which became gingerbread towns and villages. Here is Lauren Roney of Tami Rigling’s class with her finished house.

Happy Birthday comma

TEMPEST IN A COFFEE CUP: While working at Creekside Books and Coffee, Barista Millie Petters, created this comma in Roz Schwartz’s latte in honor of her Dec. 15 birthday!

Skaneateles Western Gateway notesHilltop Bottle and Can Redemption Center to open Dec. 26

The Hilltop Restaurant is opening a bottle and can redemption center at

813 W. Genesee St. (in the former Lakeside Video) on Sunday Dec. 26.

The hours of opera-tion will be Wednesday through Friday noon to

6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10a.m. to 4p.m.

Returns are five cents, but also if you want to redeem your bottles and cans for a Hilltop Gift Card, they will pay you seven cents for each item returned.

More Hilltop newsAlso, looking for some

family fun on New Years Eve? The Hilltops Cedar House lanes is hosting a rock and bowl from 7 to 9 p.m. with all you can eat and bowl for $15 adults and $12 kids under 12 years old.

And, out front in the Hill-Top proper, owner Sean Mott is featuring Lobster Tails and Prime Rib among other specials and his regular full menu. Happy New Year!

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Submitted by Kathy Mosher, Skaneateles

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christmas has come early to the Skaneateles library.

We have two new devices and we are pretty sure you are going to love them. They are both wireless and can be used anywhere in the library.

We now have a note-book (a.k.a. laptop), which means that patrons can use a computer while seated comfortably any-where on the main floor of the library.

Skaneateles library patrons are also invited to come and try out our

other new device, possibly the coolest thing to hit the tech world this year – the apple ipad.

in the case of the ipad, you can do all the other things that you do on a pc such as browse the web, and in addition, you can try out the apps we have downloaded, read an e-

book, send email and do it all with your fingertips

We are pretty sure you will really like both of these tech-toys.

We do ask that you pres-ent your ocpl library card and provide us with some valid i.d. (in the case of kids and teens we will require your phone number). Then you can try them out at the library and let us know what you think.

come visit us! We are open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thurs-day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Locals hanging with Charles Dickens!By Ellen Leahy

The weather cooperated Friday nov. 26 for the Dickens opening in Skaneateles. A few snowflakes fluttered down, as Charles Dickens (Jim Greene) thanked the late Karen Foltz for her inception of the Dickens Festival.

People flocked to the front steps of the Sherwood Inn from near and far to greet the Dickens characters as they arrived via the world’s smallest Christmas parade. And ever since residents and visitors have interacted with Charles Dickens many characters from a “Christmas Carol” and beyond, which is staged every weekend during the Christmas season on the streets of the village.

“I was really brought back to those holiday feelings,” said Shawn Quigley from rhode Island, “Simply charming.”

What’s fun for locals is to see what residents are playing what characters

ray lessaongang, a Skaneateles Volunteer Firefighter warmed up the crowd for Charles Dickens entrance. lesson-gang plays the backwoodsman George washington Crockett, a friend to all and especially the squirrels.

Another local resident, Byron lee is dashing and dignified as a young blacksmith, and all smiles, too.

Skaneateles’ Chloe Strang has created the character of eliza Jane Johnson, who works for the Skaneateles Pocket Cleaning Company. The company is directed by Mr. Fagin, a character from Dickens novel “oliver Twist.”

“It’s very fun,” Strang said of performing with the cast. Charles Dickens and his cast of characters are directed by

Jim Greene of Scarlett rat entertainment. They interact with residents and visitors in the streets, stores and restaurants no matter the weather. And before the show opens one can see them practicing around the village for several weeks before the curtain goes up.

Christmas eve will be their last performance of 2010. And it always a smaller than usual show, as last minute shoppers flutter around the village.

There are other regularsBrian Goldblatt who formerly played Mister Fagin, is now

playing Jacob Marley. He has been happy to be back to his favorite haunting grounds. ebenezer Scrooge (Bob Krigbaum) on the other hand has been less enchanted and his old sour self

- especially with the ghost of Marley constantly on his heels.one performer said that if you aren’t a main character from

the “Christmas Carol” you are instead able to create your own character, one which might have lived during that time. Still others are out of other Dickens novels.

Take for example, Permelia Pluckrose who is a debutante and much admired young lady about town. Pluckrose’s char-acter was created by lydia Shahan from Tully, who has been involved in Dickens since she was 8 years old.

Meanwhile, in front of Johnny Angels Heavenly Hamburg-ers, Dickens characters roast chestnuts on a grill and offer samples for free. often the headmistress from the orphanage in the fictitious town, Josephine Kidwell (Fran norsworthy from wolcott) is on chestnut duty. Her husband in real life, Brett norsworthy, is on hand as the undertaker, Barry M. Deep, complete with a coffin shaped notebook.

Sophia Berrata of Marcellus has also grown up with the festival and is now playing one of the older Crachit kids, Martha evangeline Crachit. Her younger sister, Julianna and brother Ben are following in her footsteps, also playing Crachit kids.

For a gallery of pictures go to Skaneateles Press on Face-book!

Clockwise from left, Byron Lee as the young blacksmith, Ray Lessaongang as George Washington Crocket and another Dickens regular, Permelia Pluckrose created by Lydia Shahan from Tully, who has been involved in Dickens since she was 8 years old. Photos by Ellen Leahy and Charlie Major.

Kayleigh Rogers, a junior library assistant, poses with the library’s new iPad.

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Let it snow, but drive safelyCentral new York has seen an incredible amount

of snowfall already and winter has just begun. while we wish everyone safe travels during the holiday season, we also ask you to remember to exercise caution when our children return from their school break, especially considering this is when the weather typically worsens. Motorists should also remember to exercise increased caution during the morning hours when our children are waiting for their school buses.

Frigid winds, snow and ice trigger important winter weather safety reminders to motorists who share the road with school buses. Motorists should use extra precaution and allow plenty of room to stop when approaching or following a school bus as they make frequent stops loading and unloading students.

while school buses are the safest way to get to and from school (nearly 10 times safer than walking to school and as much as 13 times safer than traveling in a passenger vehicle, according to data from the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration), parents also need to exercise extra safety measures during the winter months. Tell your children to fol-low these guidelines:

Dress appropriately for cold, icy weather - warm coats, gloves, hats and waterproof footwear. Passen-gers should not wear clothes with toggles or dangling key chains as they can get caught in the bus doors or on the handrail.

Stop, look and listen – remaining alert is so important for school children. Hoodies, headphones and portable electronic devices can distract students from paying attention to surrounding traffic.

never run after the bus. Plan ahead and allow suf-ficient time to get to the bus stop.

wait for the bus to stop completely before ap-proaching the bus to get on or before standing up to get off. Always use caution when stepping on or off the bus and at crosswalks.

we wish you all a happy and safe holiday season.Source: First Student, Inc.

last wednesday there was an epilogue to the duck report. A large group of diving ducks showed up. It was a mixed bag that contained Mer-gansers, Buffleheads and redheads. There were also about 125 Canada Geese. The Buffleheads are still hang-ing around, popping up and down.

There have also been several reports of white geese to the west of our area. This timing makes sense, because we used to see huge Snow Geese groups on the flats east of lake Champlain and west of Vermont route 7 after spending Thanksgiving at our condo at Sugarbush.

Damage along the shoreThe wind and high water caused a lot of damage Sat-

urday and Sunday along the lee shores of the lake. There was enough easterly in the wind that it really thundered into Bentley Cove with a vengeance. All types of docks and shore stuff were flying by. It caused such turbulence in the water that the City had to issue turbidity alerts.

Electric cars in winteron Thursday, the winter house was erected and the

electric GeM car was tucked in for the snow season. The GeM car has a small fan that blows warm air for defrosting or defogging the windshield. with canvas side curtains, there is no attempt to provide warmth for passengers. If you sucked enough amp hours out of the batteries for creature comfort, there would not be much left for locomotion. I believe that this is one of the drawbacks to using electric vehicles in areas with severe cold or heat.

The GM Volt has an onboard fuel-driven generator that will be able to handle this problem. I don’t know how much running AC or heat will detract from the hundred mile range of the nissan leaf. we’ll know soon, as cars are being delivered in select markets right now.

The GeM car was developed in 2000 to meet the Cali-fornia no-discharge requirements. They have been used extensively at state parks and for parking enforcement along the Jersey shore boardwalk communities. The

GeM cars have been in production since 2001, with improvements each year. The battery system is a 72 volt DC system with 660 amp hours of battery storage. This gives me 2 trips to the village or maybe 3, if I don’t climb the east-to-west hills. Scram-bling to put on the side curtains on during a surprise shower is a bit of a problem.

If we lived in the village, it would be an excellent choice for circulating around from March to December. The tires on a GeM car are suited for easy, low-resistance rolling and are in no way suited to tough driveways with snow and ice.

I have never had enough courage to motor into Ska-neateles, venture over to the nAPA next to the Ultimate Goal in Marcellus for auto parts, and then labor back up the four mile hill and hope to get to 2780 w. lake rd all on the same battery charge. I think with new batter-ies and fewer hills, the 35 mile advertised range is very possible. Two round trips from home to the office with an additional lunch run thrown in is about the max I’ve done. This is not such an inconvenience, as I can usually get a four-hour charge when I’m at the office and that works out quite well. The Village voltage is higher, so the charge takes less time.

we got along with one car and the GeM from June 20 until Sue’s Fusion showed up on oct. 1 last year. It just took a bit of planning, because you can’t just decide to head over to Cazenovia on a whim without having the right car.

In a perfect world, the GeM would be good for my grandson Henry to bop around South Campus at SU. However, ensuring that the batteries aren’t removed from the car when parked overnight would be a prob-lem. They’re pretty hefty group-31 size and have a lot of lead for salvage. Joe makes his home on the Western Shore of Skaneateles Lake with Sue. You can reach him through the [email protected].

From the mailbag

Ducks, damage and the GEM gets tucked away

The Friends of Dave Pirro thank youTo the editor:

As 2010 comes to a close, The Friends of Dave Pirro send a heartfelt thank you and wishes for a happy holiday season to the many supporters and contributors of this organization.

2011 will mark the 7th golf tournament named in memory of Dave Pirro whose untimely and tragic death brought forth this charitable event at the bequest of his father, Mike Pirro, of Solvay. Since that first tournament in 2005, over $170,000 has been raised to benefit lo-cal charities and orga-nizations, including the Skaneateles and Marcel-lus food pantries, Cystic Fibrosis, Vincent House, Skaneateles and Solvay high school scholarships, Vera House, SAVeS, CnY Food Bank, enable, elmcrest Children’s Center and After the Ball… just to name a few. Countless other local organizations and individuals have

received financial assis-tance from this annual golf tournament, which is held every year at the Ska-neateles Country Club. A single mother with small children was provided with a desperately needed new fuel tank for their house, the Presbyterian Manor received funding to build a new porch, various children received summer tutoring or a stay at a sum-mer camp, a child who could not afford preschool tuition was provided with a scholarship, and several families will experience the magic of Christmas with our support to the Skaneateles outreach Holiday Basket Program.

Many families face medical setbacks, which result in financial and personal hardships, and assistance was provided for medical bills, insur-ance premiums or a much deserved family vacation. Two brothers suffering from Cerebral Palsy re-quired surgery out of state and travel expenses in-curred by the family were taken care of. A severely

handicapped 6-year-old girl now has the help of a guide/service dog.

Dave’s altruistic spirit continues because of the unending support and actions of so many in our community. Similar to Dave’s “pay it forward” at-titude, the Marcellus Girl’s Soccer Team was provided with financial assistance this past Spring so they could travel to new or-leans to help build houses for those still displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

During this holiday season we remember Dave Pirro for his selfless gener-osity and good will and we wish all of our community a very happy and healthy new year.

AnDreA CoronABoArD MeMBer/

FrIenDS oF DAVe PIrro

Turkey Trot lends huge support to Food PantryTo the editor:

once again 300 plus

wonderful runners came out for the Annual Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiv-ing morning to benefit the Skaneateles ecumenical Food Pantry.

A big heartfelt thank you goes to Dennis owen, Grand Marshall of the race, and his able race organizers, Jim Gregg, Bill Marquardt and Tom Bersani. Jeff and Carter Stregiel passed out 50 olympic Awards to the runners 12 years old and younger. These awards were furnished by the Delaney family.

Bill eberhardt, who is known for his hospital-ity, provided a wonder-ful gathering place for the participants and race watchers. Through all these efforts $1,802 was raised for our local Food Pantry.

Thank you many times over for this wonder-ful event, which makes Christmas merrier for many of our residents.

JUDY GelSTon CHAIrPerSon


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The property of a decedent not disposed of by will shall be distributed as provided in this section. In computing said distribution, debts, administration expenses and reasonable funeral expenses shall be deducted but all estate taxes shall be disregarded, except that nothing contained herein relieves a distributee from contributing to all such taxes the amounts apportioned against him or her under 2-1.8.

Distribution shall then be as follows:

(a) If a decedent is survived by:

(1) A spouse and issue, fifty thousand dollars and one-half of the residue to the spouse, and the balance thereof to the issue by representation.

(2) A spouse and no issue, the whole to the spouse.

(3) Issue and no spouse, the whole to the issue, by representation.

(4) One or both parents, and no spouse and no issue, the whole to the surviving parent or parents.

(5) Issue of parents, and no spouse, issue or parent, the whole to the issue of the parents, by representation.

(6) One or more grandparents or the issue of grandparents (as hereinafter defined), and no spouse, issue, parent or issue of parents, one-half to the surviving paternal grandparent or grandparents, or if neither of them survives the decedent, to their issue, by representation, and the other one-half to the surviving maternal grandparent or grandparents, or if neither of them survives the decedent, to their issue, by representation; provided that if the decedent was not survived by a grandparent or grandparents on one side or by the issue of such grandparents, the whole to the surviving grandparent or grandparents on the other side, or if neither of them survives the decedent, to their issue, by representation, in the same manner as the one-half. For the purposes of this subparagraph, issue of grandparents shall not include issue more remote than grandchildren of such grandparents.

(7) Great-grandchildren of grandparents, and no spouse, issue, parent, issue of parents, grandparent, children of grandparents or grandchildren of grandparents, one-half to the great-grandchildren of the paternal grandparents, per capita, and the other one-half to the great-grandchildren of the maternal grandparents, per capita; provided that if the decedent was not survived by great-grandchildren of grandparents on one side, the whole to the great-grandchildren of grandparents on the other side, in the same manner as the one-half.

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Lottery aids local schools’ budgets

In the past, my office has received calls from constituents who wonder how much money the lottery makes for the state and where that money goes. I thought many of you would like to read in more detail about lottery sales. This department is unlike other state depart-ments in that it is focused on sales.

By state law, all lottery profit is given back to edu-cation. According to the lottery’s financial state-ments for 2009-2010, this was a record-breaking year for lotto sales. All sales totaled in 2009-10 were $7.818 billion—a 2.1pre-cent increase from the pre-

on a recent flight home from Florida I began to think how busy my life was about to become after having been away for two weeks. In a matter of a few hours, I would find myself back in the rat race of everyday life — laundry, cooking, cleaning, shopping and the “Mom taxi service” all kicking in.

while I love being a Mom and having the responsibility of caring for my family, it can certainly be trying at times. For my own sanity, I have to make every effort to mini-mize the stress that goes along with the job.

Is it easy to do? no. Can it be done? Yes. How? I plan, organize and simplify my daily activities, which creates balance and allows me to live a healthier lifestyle. Sure, it sounds easier said than done, but with a little bit of effort, anyone can create personal effectiveness, balance and joy in their lives.

By determining what matters most, and understanding the value of time, priori-ties can be set and healthy behaviors can be established. we all make choices on how we spend our time and decide what is most important to us.

According to Greg Fullerton, co-founder of both Franklin-Covey and Max Interna-tional, planning is the key to control. Greg has successfully trained most of the Fortune 500 management teams in time manage-ment.

“Take one percent of your day to gain control over the other 99 percent,” Greg said.

I had the pleasure this year of attending

one of Greg’s seminars. It was most benefi-cial and taught me that by implementing a specific set of guidelines for effective daily planning, it is possible to gain control over and create balance in both one’s personal and professional life.

Combined with healthy eating, proper nutritional supplementation, exercise and a positive attitude, anyone can look, live and feel better on a consistent basis.

I have personally implemented these guidelines and have found Greg’s statements to hold true. I established a routine and every morning I review my values and goals, set specific daily tasks, evaluate my time ver-sus the tasks that must be done, anticipate obstacles and prioritize the tasks.

I do all of this first thing, after I greet my boys good morning, of course. It takes just 15 minutes for me to reflect on what I am grateful for and then plan my day. I prioritize my list of “to do’s” including the necessary evil called work, and all activities requiring my attention and my taxi. once I am confident I can accomplish the #1’s on my list, I head to the kitchen to make break-

fast and get my kids off to school. Then, I work on that list attacking the things that must be done.

I have learned through this process that more is not always better. I have to be realistic about how many things I put on my to do list, always being aware of what I can eliminate that doesn’t really matter. That way, when everything is crossed off the list at the end of the day, I feel good about reaching my goals.

Since my family and our health and well being is always my first priority, maximizing my time to fit everything in that needs to be done in a day is critical. Knowing what my priorities are and protecting them keeps me focused on what matters most and prevents me from being distracted and overwhelmed. It allows me the freedom of time and control for which I am grateful.

During the holiday season, take the time to reflect on what matters most to you. Plan your time wisely, set clear goals and enjoy all that life has to offer.

Happy holidays.

Lisa Jo Greenfield is a Skaneateles resident and owner of Essential Health Solutions. Her column l appears monthly. She is committed to educating local residents and creating aware-ness surrounding topics relative to personal health and Essential Health Solutions. For more information about Essential Health Solutions log onto LookLiveFeelBetter.com.

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while grabbing, twisting and pivoting, Skaneateles High School girls worked their way through one of the most important units of the year in Physical educa-tion classes recently.

Physical educat ion teacher Jenel Fortino taught them how to defend them-selves through a series of self defense moves that she hopes will stick with them through life.

She defines self defense as “Actively defending one’s self against violence or potential violence to gain safety.” Fortino focused on eight basic techniques – responses to various grabs and chokes that could be used by a perpetrator – that all end with the message “Get Away, run away, right Away.”

“we go over the most common ways an attacker tries to gain control of their victim,” Fortino said of the moves. She paired students up to be in the role of both attacker and victim and showed them how to use body weight and tech-niques to gain safety.

In addition to physical instruction and practice, students were given verbal and statistical information that can be used to keep

themselves safe. Telling them that “most predators look for your age group,” Trooper Jack Keller of the new York Sate Police gave the girls a long list of Dos and Don’ts.

Principal Georgette Hoskins said the unit is “one of the best things we can offer to our girls.” She said that Fortino started the unit five years ago, when she first came to Skaneateles. “every year she tweaks it and every year it gets even better,” Hoskins said. The addition of Trooper Keller makes it even more valu-able, she said.

Keller said he speaks about safety at many schools, but that Skaneateles High School is unique in that it also teaches students self defense moves.

“This is the only school that I know of out of my 80 school districts that has the self defense piece,” he said.

Safety tips for the holi-days from Trooper Keller

Be aware. Predators are looking for your age group (11 or 12 on up). “All they do all day is look for tar-gets,” he said.

Texting makes the pred-ator’s job easy. “when you text, you are not paying at-tention to what is going on around you.”

Be careful while leaving

the mall. “Your hands are tied up carrying bags … the predator may be watching you from inside or outside the parking lot.”

Be aware before open-ing your car doors. “when you flash the lights from a distance, it tells the preda-tor what car is yours. He might get there before you do. when you unlock the doors, you are unlocking four opportunities.”

walk on by. “If you walk to your car and someone is standing by or near your car, just keep going,” he said.

Pay attention to what is around you. “Bad guys won’t bother targets that look like they are looking around.” He added: “It is a proven fact that these guys are much less likely to at-tack someone who looks them in the eye.”

Use security guards. Most malls have security guards that will walk you to your car.

Don’t forget about the panic button on your key.

Trust your instincts. re-member it is getting darker sooner this time of year.

Keller also talked about date rape, on-line dat-ing crimes, problems with social networking (posts on Facebook and Twitter

inform a perpetrator of your every move and loca-tion), and fake accidents called “bump and run.” He warned girls that if they are ever in an accident and feel the least bit unsafe “don’t get out of the car. roll your window down no more than two inches and call 911.”

Life lessons: Students learn moves to stay safe

Aine Rooney and Brittney Powless work on “the double to one” – learning what to do when an attacker grabs one arm with both hands. Teacher Fortino is in the background working with other students.

Syracuse-based literacy organization and local Rotary volunteers team up CnY Books for the

world - spearheaded by rotary District 7150 in Central new York - ships new and used children’s books by cargo containers

to South Africa Giving a large boost to

the education effort, Pro-literacy of Syracuse has donated nearly 700 boxes of new early-learner books.

The organization mainly focuses on helping new adult readers gain reading and writing skills and pub-lishes materials used in adult literacy instruction.

“Partnerships with other local organizations are so important to Proliteracy,” said David C. Harvey, presi-dent and Ceo of Prolit-eracy. “we are excited to be helping rotary District 7150 with its literacy efforts, and we know that the books we are donating will help the recipients ... improve their reading and writing skills.”

CnY Books for the world started two years ago, and the rotary-sponsored Interact Club at Tully High School provided the first pallet of books for shipment. Since then, 2,930 boxes of

books have been provided by 42 rotary clubs and many other organizations.

The books are forwarded to a warehouse in Houston, Texas, where the pallets (24 boxes per pallet) are loaded onto shipping containers and transported by sea to a distribution center in Johan-nesburg, South Africa. From there they have been taken to countries throughout southern Africa.

The books are used to teach children english, and the cargo containers are converted into school class-rooms for use there, said ward Vuillemot of Ska-neateles, project chair for CnY Books for the world.

“A lot of schools in Af-rica don’t have text books at all, and no blackboards, but there’s a willingness to learn,” he said. “english is the business language. The trick is to get the children to read and write english. If they do, they have a greater

chance of being successful -- in advancing.”

not all of the books sent to Africa are new. Gently used children’s books and text books also are needed. Vuillemot calls them “thrice loved books.”

CnY Books for the world fits well with rotary International’s emphasis on promoting literacy and world peace.

“we are working with people in the world that don’t have the same benefits we do,” Vuillemot said. “If we’re ever going to have world peace, we’re going to have to learn to share cross borders. education is the key to this. The people know where these books come from -- the United States. Then they can see us as humanitarians with a world focus, not just as the powerhouse of the world.”

Vuillemot praised the ef-forts of the many donors of time, money and material

that makes CnY Books for the world successful.

“The trucking commu-nity in Central new York has been phenomenal,” he said. He also said any community organization, not just rotary clubs, can participate.

Any group that wants to provide a pallet of 24 books can pay $165 to CnY Books for the world, and for that the group will receive a kit containing 24 cartons, three rolls of packaging tape and dispenser, labels and collec-tion box posters. The cost also covers part of the ship-ping to South Africa.

Send checks payable to “rotary District 7150, Books for the world” to: ward Vuillemot, 8 Teasel lane, Skaneateles nY 13152.

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The class was rounding out its “Around the world Unit,” a five-week session that took the students to Mexico, Germany, Ire-land, France and Italy — though more accurately, the countries came to them, in the form of guest speakers with experience living abroad.

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“we need to be concerned, we need to push it as far as we can to get protection,” Menapace said.

Protection would come in the form of laws regulating use of roads, lighting, noise and water sources. essentially, there are still a lot of issues the committee is looking into, Menapace said.

Supervisor Terri roney said “distilling”

the information they collect would be very helpful as it is overwhelming.

In other board news:✓ The board accepted a general liability

insurance bid from eastern Shore Insur-ance in the amount of $48,758.01 and is eligible for a rebate through the new York Municipal Insurance reciprocal upon renewal in the amount of $3,141.25. The total cost would be $45,616.76, making eastern Shore the lowest bidder.

The town also received bids from Del-monico Insurance Agency ($52,772) and

Adams & Sons, Inc. ($47,373).roney said the recommendation was to

stay with the town’s current provider, east-ern Shore, because of the municipality’s long-standing relationship with the com-pany and the rebate being offered.

Budget officer Bridgett winkelman said she believes the town can fine-tune the policy it has.

“They’ve been very good to work with,” she said.

✓ The county health department is re-viewing the town’s plan to decommission open reservoirs in the town and go with

the village’s closed system, roney said.“The reservoirs really service the one

district to the north,” roney said. “Hope-fully the Department of Health will get back to us quickly.”

✓ The board held a public hearing on Introductory local law 2010-G regarding the board’s rules of procedure. Following no public comment, Councilor nancy Murray proposed one amendment and the board unanimously approved the law.

✓ The board will hold its annual orga-nizational meeting at 10 a.m. Dec. 28 at Town Hall.

vious year. This includes traditional lottery ticket sales, scratch offs, quick draw, and Take 5 among other games. lottery tickets are sold at approxi-mately 17,000 licensed retail locations. There are also eight licensed video lottery gaming fa-cilities located in Saratoga, Monticello, Farmington, Hamburg, Batavia, Tioga, Vernon, and Yonkers. Administrative costs for traditional lottery sales were about $651 million. This figure includes oper-ating expenses, fees paid to gaming contractors, and commissions for retailers.

As you can imagine, the lottery’s biggest expense

is prize winners, which totals roughly 80percent of direct expenses. For tradi-tional lottery prizes, this amounted to $3.95 billion. After prizes and expenses were paid, the lottery provided $2.67 billion in aid to education for the 2009-10 fiscal year. This is roughly 12 percent of the state’s total education budget. local schools were able to benefit directly from lotto sales. School Districts in onondaga County were awarded nearly $102 million from the new York State lottery Department. In oswego County, schools were awarded about $33 mil-lion.

new York State first began to conduct the Sweet Million drawing in September 2009 and Pow-erball drawing in February 2010. These sales will also contribute more heavily in the lottery’s next financial report.

Other interesting facts about the lottery:

● The lottery was established in 1967. Since that time, it has earned a cumulative $39.3 billion for education.

● roughly $470 mil-lion worth in prizes went unclaimed in the last fiscal year (March 31-March 31).

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for lottery Aid to educa-tion in fiscal year 2010 were up by 4.8 percent from 2009—roughly $122 million.

● All lottery tickets are bearer instruments, meaning they are just like currency. If you lose your ticket, and it does not have your signature on it, anyone can use the ticket to claim a prize.

● Federal, state, and local income taxes are withheld from prizes over $5,000 or from prizes over $600 when the winner does not provide a social security or tax identifica-tion number when claim-ing the prize. withholding varies according to the

winner’s place of resi-dence.

● The new York lot-tery’s leaders of Tomor-row (loT) Scholarship Program was not included in the final new York State budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. As a result no new scholarships were awarded.

● The lottery states on their website that it “adheres to an elaborate regimen for each and ev-ery lottery drawing with strict policies and detailed checks and balances. The drawing process is video-taped and each component is observed by an indepen-dent auditor to ensure the absolute integrity of each

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Cayuga Community College and the Musical Theatre Festival, Inc., have agreed on a 25-year plan to share a new performance space in downtown Au-burn.

The venue, to be located at the Kalet Building site on State Street, will be used by the college for acting and technical courses during the academic year from September to mid-May. During the summer, the planned 384-seat theatre will be one of four area lo-cations for Musical Theatre Festival shows.

The Festival season will offer internships for Cayu-ga students to gain musical theatre experience as they apply related coursework. Student interns will have opportunities to assist in ar-eas including performance, design, lighting, stage man-agement, house manage-ment, box office and other Festival operations, sales and marketing.

Currently owned by the City of Auburn, the vacant building is the former home of Kalet’s department store. Because of its deteriorat-ing condition, the cost of renovation to create an up-to-date, code-compliant performance space would exceed that of new con-struction on the site.

The city has approved a plan to tear down the building in 2011, with the Stardust Foundation of Central new York and the Fred l. emerson Founda-tion reimbursing up to half the demolition cost.

Cayuga Community College will then build and own the new facility.

State University of new York Chancellor nancy Zimpher, during a visit to the College in August 2009, saw the State Street site and voiced her enthusiasm for the theatre concept. Cayuga, one of 64 SUnY campuses, has received a funding commitment for $2.4 million — half of the anticipated $4.8 million building cost — from the SUnY Construction Fund.

The Musical Theatre Festival, a new multi-ven-ue theatre organization

planning a summer 2012 launch, will match that amount through its own fundraising.

Besides the State Street location, three other ven-ues form the cluster of local performance spaces envisioned by the Musical Theatre Festival. on Gen-esee Street in Auburn, the existing 199-seat Auburn Public Theater and the planned 115-seat Carriage House space at Cayuga Museum of History and Art will form a triangle with the Kalet site, presenting shows from smaller musicals to off-Broadway and Broad-way shows. The existing 501-seat Merry-Go-round Playhouse at emerson Park will round out the Festival mix, presenting recent and classic Broadway hits.

The Festival’s annual economic impact, through ticket sales, dining, lodg-ing and related activity, is projected by the organizers at approximately $30 mil-lion. Plans are in progress by other developers for additional downtown hotel space to accommodate an expected influx of theatre-goers.

There is still time to support our Troops by donating discarded cell phones

Are you buying a new cell phone for a family member or friend this holiday season as a gift? Do you have old cell phones lying around the house? Instead of throwing away that used cell phone, or stuffing it in a drawer, I urge you to think twice. By donating that phone to Cell Phones for Soldiers, it can help the men and women serving in the military overseas stay connected with their families.

once again, I kicked off the holi-day season this year by calling on Central new Yorkers to support our troops by donating their used cell phones to Cell Phones for Soldiers. our military men and women make a tremendous sacrifice for all of us. In return, let us show our appreciation and help them stay connected. what better gift to give than to help our troops reach their loved ones.

last year, Central new Yorkers showed an overwhelming amount of support and delivered more than 1,500 phones through this program. The generosity of our community provided 2,200 soldiers with a half hour of talk time each.

I am proud to be able to contribute to a worthy cause and to give back to those men and women who make such

incredible sacrifice for us all.

local residents can support the collection drive by delivering their used cell phones to my District office:

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to drop-off points at the Information Centers at Shoppingtown Mall, Great northern Mall, and Carousel Mall, and to Solvay Public library. The cell phone drive will run through January.

Donated phones will be sent to reCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each phone – enough to provide an hour of talk time to a soldier abroad.

About half of the phones reCellular processes are reconditioned and resold to wholesale companies in more than 40 countries around the world. Phones and components that cannot be refur-bished are dismantled and recycled to reclaim materials, including gold, silver and platinum from circuit boards; cop-per wiring from phone chargers; nickel, iron, cadmium and lead from battery packs; and plastic from phone cases and accessories.


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Where are the Cocoa Puffs?Marietta author stresses empathy in debut novel about one family’s struggle with mental illness

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Is it fiction? And what’s up with the title?These are the questions people ask Marietta resident

Karen winters Schwartz most often when they learn she’s written a book. winters Schwartz did her best to answer both at a book reading and signing earlier this month at Creekside Books in Skaneateles — her first bookstore event as a published author.

And yes, it’s fiction. “I wrote ‘where Are the Cocoa Puffs?’ as a novel — fic-

tion — not only to protect myself from family wrath, be-cause it is at the core of my story, but primarily so I could tell this story from everybody’s point of view,” winters Schwartz told the standing-room-only crowd gathered at Creekside.

In “where Are the Cocoa Puffs? A Family Journey Through Bipolar Disorder,” two parents learn that their 18-year-old daughter Amanda is more than just a moody teenager when the father, a psychiatrist, diagnoses her with bipolar disorder.

winters Schwartz, an optometrist by profession, tried her hand at writing about mental illness 10 years ago using research alone, and without much success. She claims she knew nothing about mental illness at the time.

“But when mental illness assaulted my world in a very personal way, I was moved to write again,” winters Schwartz said. “But this time I wrote with a voice and an honesty that you really can’t get without going through the effects of having a loved one with mental illness.”

when their own daughter’s behavior turned beyond

normal teenage angst, winters Schwartz and her husband, Paul, struggled. They needed community and family sup-port, but winters Schwartz realized it just wasn’t there.

“what got to me the most was the very real, or per-ceived, lack of support from my friends and my family,” she said. “There was no one.”

She was often met with either anger toward her child, or well meaning wordings of “you and Paul are so nice, you’re such good people — you don’t deserve this.”

She realized that those sentiments were at the core of the stigma surrounding mental illness, which according to the national Alliance on Mental Illness affects one in five people in the U.S. “It insinuates that there are people that aren’t nice, that aren’t good, that deserve such a thing,” she said.

winters Schwartz stresses that empathy, not sympathy, is the key to breaking through the stigma, which “slows the vital process of moving out of despair and into acceptance.” This is why her novel is told from the point of view of all the major characters.

So what about the title? winters Schwartz concluded her talk by reaching into a box of Cocoa Puffs and spelling out the metaphor once and for all.

“Think of these little chocolaty nuggets as little balls of empathy, and compassion, and comfort,” she said. “The answer to the question of ‘where Are the Cocoa Puffs?’ lies within us, and all of you, with organizations such as nAMI, with getting the word out there, with opening up the closet, with talking and advocating and breaking down the 100 years of false evidence, and not being afraid to do so.”

“where Are the Cocoa Puffs?” has received positive reviews from the professional community, including Alan Gettis, Ph.D., author of the award-winning “The Happi-ness Solution: Finding Joy & Meaning in an Upside Down world.”

“welcome to the world of mental illness,” Gettis wrote. “This emotionally raw novel pulls you into the belly of the beast — in this case, into the chaos of the Benson family, where survival and sanity hang by a thread…”

Schwartz is an active board member of the Syracuse af-filiate of nAMI, and encourages others looking for support to become involved. For more information on nAMI, go to namisyracuse.org.

Support can also be found in the pages of “where Are the Cocoa Puffs?,” which is on sale now at Creekside Books, Amazon, Borders and Barnes & noble.

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Marietta resident Karen Winters Schwartz at her book reading and signing earlier this month at Creekside Books in Skaneateles.

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Patricia Higgins, 63educator on many fronts

Patricia Padden Hig-gins, 63, of Skaneateles, died Tuesday Dec. 14, 2010.

Born in Brooklyn she had lived in Central new York since the mid 1970s.

A schoolteacher, she had taught at the Auburn School District, eisenhow-

er College, and the SAT prep course at Skaneateles Central Schools for many years.

She was a communicant of St. Mary’s of the lake Church in Skaneateles and was a volunteer confirma-tion course instructor.

She was also a member

of the Skaneateles Book Club.

Surviving are her hus-band Thomas D. Higgins, two daughters Kelli Hig-gins-roche (Paul), and Jillian Higgins Murphy (Jack) her mother Ann Padden, two brothers John and Michael Padden, a

sister Carol Padden and a grandson liam Murphy.

She was predeceased by her father Philip and a brother Mark Padden.

A Mass of Christian burial was offered Friday Dec. 17 in St. Mary’s of the lake Church.

Burial was in St. Mary’s

Cemetery, Skaneateles. In lieu of flowers contri-

butions may be made to the Skaneateles Public library Association Book Fund or the Skaneateles ecumeni-cal Food Pantry.

To sign the guestbook visit: robertdgrayfuneral-home.com.patricia Higgins

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Wrestlers shine in early tournaments

Skaneateles hockey beats Cortland-Homer

Three riflemen gath-ered at our range at 0900, Saturday Dec.11 to shoot our regular weekly high power match. The sky was overcast, the tem-perature was 32 degrees and the wind was calm. Dave Spearing and his snow thrower had the range all cleaned out, the targets patched and up. He had everything ready for the match and we all thank him.

Paul Straka won the match with his .30’06 Smith-Carona made 1903-A3 Springfield. He hit 95-1X+91-4X’s+76-1X=262-6X’s. If he had been firing at Camp Perry he would have won a bronze medal too, and we all congratulate him. Dave Spearing fired his Eddys-tone Arsenal made .30’06 Model 1917 Enfield and hit 91+82+78=251. I fired my .30’06 Remington made 1903-A3 Springfield and hit 88+89+71=248, making me the tail gunner again.

We all went to the excellent Willow Glen Café after the match for hot beverages. Carrie and Aryana poured, and Straka paid. We thank them all.

On Tuesday night, Dec. 11, nine hand gunners attended the 11th week of the winter league. George Newton won the match with a center fire score of 270-5X’s. Newt fired ahead on another squad and hit 255-3X’s. Lynn Lepak was high rim fire shooter with 257-3X’s. Chuck Chernoff was second in rim fire with 255-1X. Lepak fired a make-up on another squad and hit a rim fire score of 239-1X for third place. Stuart Cook was high and second in two handed rim fire with 173-1X and 164-1X. I was third with 158-1X. Congratulations to all.

The Club’s ten week winter trap league starts at 0900 Sunday, Jan. 2.

Shoot safely.

By Phil Blackwell

Even the vast winter snowstorms that have wiped out both practices and games have not stopped the Skaneateles boys ice hockey team – not yet, anyway.

The Lakers, who saw last Wednesday’s home game against CBA/J-D postponed, returned to action Saturday at Allyn Arena and worked hard for a 5-3 victory over the Cortland-Homer Golden Eagles.

Cortland-Homer is one of the many teams that moved from Division II to I in the off-season realignment, but it had given Skaneateles all kinds of fits when they played in the same league in recent years.

So it figured that the Golden Eagles would give the Lakers a hard time here, only trailing 3-2 after two periods before Skaneateles built itself a cushion in the late going.

Five different players – Brendan Major, Jon Rogalia, Tyler Stanton, Tom Jones and Mike Benson – earned the five Skaneateles goals. Jim Rodgers and Scott Longtin joined Jones in the assist column as Trevor Diamond and Josh Lotkowicz, splitting the duties in goal, made 14 saves between them.

This led to a big Tuesday trip to the Morrisville State Ice-Plex to face Cazenovia, the team that knocked Skaneateles out of the Division II semifinals a season ago. The Lakers also face Oswego Thursday night at Allyn Arena.

In girls hockey action, Skaneateles went 1-0-1 over the weekend, tying Massena 2-2 and edging past Albany Academy 1-0 on Saturday.

Right now, the Lakers are tied with Canton for third place in the Upstate Girls Hockey League, only trailing Ithaca and Lake Placid as it plays at Alexandria Bay on Wednesday night.

Charlie Major

EARLIER THIS YEAR: Lakers Jon Rogalia, top, scoring against Whiteboro. Dan Tarolli, above, scoring on abreakaway. Lakers won opening game 5-0 vs Whitesboro.

Winter trap starts Jan. 2

By Phil Blackwell

In its first serious tour-nament action of the sea-son, the Skaneateles wres-tling team made a strong effort at the Dec. 4 Portville Invitational.

Skaneateles picked up 176.5 points, putting them in third place in a 14-team field, just behind the run-ner-up, host Portville, who had 178 points. Southwest-ern won with 232 points.

K e v i n P e m b r i d g e emerged with the champi-onship at 140 pounds. He beat Gunnar VanCuren (Portville) and Dylan Han-sen (Hornell) to reach the finals, then quickly prevailed in the title match as he took just 1:12 to pin his Cattaraugus opponent, Jesse Perry.

Tyler Saunders made his way to the 119-pound final, only to fall to FIllmore’s Coty Voss. Jacob Valentino also had a second place fin-

ish, advancing to the 145-pound title match before Ryan Grey (Cattaraugus) beat him with a third-pe-riod pin.

Elsewhere, Jon Leubner went 4-1 and claimed third place at 152 pounds, while Chris Wise did the same at 171 pounds by pin-ning Franklinville’s Joshua McKune in the second period of the consolation bracket final.

Josh Brillo (96 pounds) and Ryan Dick (125 pounds) both had fourth-place efforts, while Neil Ruggles beat Garren Mc-Daniels (Hornell) for fifth place at 160 pounds and, at 285 pounds, Garrett Navarolli pinned Rich El-dred (Bucktail) to also finish fifth. Jacob Brillo (160 pounds) and Conor Rourke (215 pounds) each finished sixth, with Domi-nic Petrocci (135 pounds) going 2-2.

Otherwise, the Lakers

were, like so many other high school teams in Cen-tral New York, frustrated by the winter, as snow postponed both the Dec. 8 league opener against Homer and last Wednes-day’s showdown with Mar-cellus.

Skaneateles sweep at Fabius-Pompey Duals

Though the Skaneateles wrestling team got tem-porarily sidelined by the winter snowstorms, it was ready for action once things cleared up.

The Lakers went to the Dec. 18 Fabius-Pompey Duals and beat all five of its opponents to claim the top spot.

Skaneateles ripped Au-burn 75-12, beat Herkimer by a similar 73-12 margin, topped host Fabius-Pom-pey 69-18, battled past Tully 48-36 and defeated Deposit by a score of 54-30.

During that event, five Five Skaneateles wrestlers went 5-0 in individual matches. They were Josh Brillo (96 pounds), Tyler Saunders (119 pounds), Kevin Pembridge (140 pounds), Jake Valentino (145 pounds) and Garrett Navarolli (285 pounds).

Not far behind, Ryan Dick (125 pounds), Dom Petrocci (135 pounds), Jon Leubner (152 pounds) and Conor Rourke all had 4-1 marks. Neil Ruggles went 3-1 at 160 pounds, while Jacob Brillo went 3-2 at 171 pounds. Brad Ditch, at 103 pounds, and Owen Shep-pard, at 130 pounds, each won twice.

Two previously sched-uled meets, against Hom-er and Marcellus, were snowed out, so the Lakers could not open OHSL Lib-erty division competition until Wednesday’s visit to Hannibal, considered to be the league favorites.

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Skaneateles girls b-ball fall to Caz, Westhill

Girls indoor track Lakers are fifth at Arcaro meet

Random Thoughts: Looking back, Part I

By Phil Blackwell

In its second outing of the season, the Skaneateles g irls basketbal l team seemed to catch a break in facing Cazenovia – but still watched that other group of lakers prevail 62-38.

Cazenovia was playing without Ashley Stec, its Manhattan College-bound senior forward. Stec had sprained her ankle in Ca-zenovia’s season-opening win at Bishop ludden on Dec. 10.

Trying to take advantage, Skaneateles pushed the ear-ly tempo and found some success against Cazenovia’s defense. Yet it still trailed 23-15, and when the attack

cooled off, Cazenovia got away, eventually building its margin to 52-28 by the end of the third quarter.

elizabeth lane had 13 points, including a trio of successful 3-pointers. Ashley Sheldon had seven points, while Jackie leslie produced six points. Ca-zenovia featured raeanne Clabeaux, who had 21 points, and ellen Burr, who added 16 points.

The lakers then visited westhill on Friday night and got an up-close glimpse of a lethal scoring combina-tion during a 73-33 loss to the warriors.

westhill, who went 17-3 a season ago (losing in the Section III Class B semifi-nals to Jordan-elbridge),

got a major boost when Ashley Cianfriglia, who starred at Bishop ludden, arrived as a transfer, giv-ing the warriors one of the area’s top outside shooters.

Both Cianfriglia and f reshman Anna ross proved unstoppable on this night. ross nearly matched Skaneateles by herself, earning 32 points as Cianfriglia sank four 3-pointers and had 26 points overall. In defeat, leslie had 13 points, with lane getting seven points and emily Call adding six points.

Skaneateles would visit Hannibal on Tuesday, then rest a week before playing in the wayne Tournament on Dec. 28 and 29.

By Phil Blackwell

Continuing its strong start, the Ska-neateles girls indoor track and field team made its way to fifth place in a 19-team field at last Saturday’s John Arcaro Memorial Invitational at SUnY-Cortland.

At meet’s end, the lakers had earned 31 points, just behind Fayetteville-Manlius (33 points) for the fourth spot as liverpool, with 63 points, earned its second win in as many weeks.

Gabby eckles took second among indi-viduals in the triple jump (32 feet 11 inches) and teamed with Diane Vitkus for second in the team event with 63 feet 5 inches, half an inch behind Phoenix. eckles and Kelly Dunn were third in the high jump (9 feet 4 inches), too.

Caroline walton, with her shot put toss of 33 feet 11 inches, was second and got the runner-up spot with Kelly Dunn as their throws added up to 56 feet 11 inches.

Casey Van Slyke and Danielle Mazzeo combined to land second place in the 1,000-meter run in 6:54.19, with Cicero-north Syracuse (6:45.73) in first. Madeline Adams and Virginia Hamlin were fifth in the 3,000-meter run in 23:43.57.

Though the lakers did not earn points in the 300-meter dash, freshman Taylor woodruff still took the individual champi-onship, her time of 44.79 seconds enough to hold off Fulton’s Morgan Cooper (45.10) and the rest of the field.

The Skaneateles boys team was ninth in its version of the Arcaro meet, with 13 points. In the 55-meter hurdles, Sean Coo-per and Taylor weyneth worked to third place in a total time of 18.42 seconds.

later, weyneth and Carson Schwab took fourth in the pole vault with 18 feet 6 inches, with Patrick Biver and Ian Smith fifth in the triple jump (68 feet 5 ¼ inches). Tim lewis and Max weiss were sixth in the 55-meter dash.

By Phil Blackwell

Seems like we spend a lot of time at this time of year reminiscing - nothing wrong with that, if there are things worth reminiscing about.

And there’s plenty in 2010 that falls into the “memorable category”, so if you don’t mind I’ll spend the next couple of columns touching on the seminal moments of this sports year. This week, it’s the high school picture, and quite a pretty one.

not in the decade-plus time I’ve spent at this desk as there been so many state champions to follow from the first day of practice to their crowning glory. And no two of them were alike, even if they were from the same schools and featured, at times, the same athletes.

Jamesville-Dewitt and westhill both pulled off winter-spring state cham-pionship doubles. with the boys basketball red rams, it’s turning into an annual rite (three in a row now), and the threat for four and five is real with two more years of DaJuan Coleman.

J-D’s boys lacrosse heroes had it tougher, losing Jake Bratek to injury – but it still went to long Island and rolled past Garden City, proving that a great team is far more than just one star.

As for westhill, the key factors were obvious. with trademark defense and great senior leadership, Kevin King’s basketball charges beat everyone back as it gained a championship to match the last one it earned in 1997.

And with Kevin McA-voy’s live arm, the baseball

warriors avenged two losses to Bishop ludden, then cruised the rest of the way to a second straight title in Binghamton – even through a state final four that saw a venue change and a last out recorded close to midnight.

You also had an ice hockey sweep. west Genesee somehow made it through 25 games without a blemish, capping it off with the miraculous comeback against Suffern in the semifinals and the title-game shutout of Saratoga Springs. new Hartford had it tougher in Division II, needing overtime just to get out of the sectional finals, but then handling the rest to go back-to-back as it beat Queensbury 5-2 in front of the home folks in Utica.

The fall brought four more instances of great teams reaching the top spot.

Three were quite familiar, while the other took the perfect route.

It was, of course, the Ska-neateles boys soccer lakers going 22-0 and winning it all in Class B. To do that required a deep and lethal offense, a superb defense (two goals allowed in the entire post-season) and some amount of good for-tune. It also meant beating good local Class AA teams (CnS, west Genesee, CBA) and handling the pressure of staying undefeated, which they did, to say the least.

For two other state champions, it was an event years in the making. Bald-winsville, in Class AA girls volleyball, had made the sectional title part routine, but had just missed in two previous trips to the state Class AA show in Glens Falls. This time, with a deep front line and two rock-solid anchors in the back (Bri-anna Stewart to set, Becca Maher to defend), the Bees survived the round-robin and two deficits to webster Schroeder and pulled it out in five.

In the case of Cazenovia’s field hockey lakers, it was the same story – a lot of sec-tional success, but nothing

more, prior to 2010. It all fit this time, though, especially a record-setting offense where Tori widrick, Belle Hoagland, Abby eschen and Jillian Vogl supplied the goals. And it was Vogl, with two tallies in the state semifinal and the overtime game-winner in the finals, that had the final say to get her school a first-ever team state championship.

now here comes the un-fair part. each of the above teams has made their com-munities proud, going as far as one can in our system. The only drawback is an ability to compare them to other great programs across the country.

Then there’s Fayetteville-Manlius girls cross coun-try. Providing yet another exclamation point to yet another wondrous autumn of running far ahead of the pack, the Hornets went to oregon and, when done there, brought home the nike nationals top prize for the fifth year in a row.

word has it that, in Portland, some of the other teams (and their supporters) openly whispered about the F-M methods as the girls won and the boys finished second. everything from

maniacal training to the old standby, steroids, was brought up. A bit jealous, are we?

Bill Aris, the coach responsible for this dynasty, clearly says otherwise. Yes, they train hard and they give up lots of typical teen-age rituals to run, but it’s their own choice. They are self-motivated, and best of all none of them cares who gets the ultimate credit, as long as they all win.

expect more of it, too. Courtney Chapman, part of all five of the championship journeys, is on her way to nCAA champion Villanova, but the other six that won this year – Christie rut-ledge, Heather Martin, Katie Sischo, Jillian Fanning, Katie Brislin and emily McGurrin – return for 2011. And the younger runners are bent on maintaining the streak.

So yes, 2010 was full of winning efforts at the high-est level, and one wonders whether it starts a trend, or is just an instance where everything clicked, over and over..

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