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Norma Strong retires after50 years of danceBy Fred [email protected]

TICONDEROGA — Norma Strong has been a dancerher entire life.

“There’s something about the r hythm of music thatmakes me want to move,” Strong said. “And dance of-fers such variety. There’s tap, ballet, jazz, acro (acrobaticdance). You can dance for days and never do the same

things twice. I love to dance.”Her love of dance became the Norma Str ong Dance

Studio. For the past 50 years she has worked with thou-sands of area children, passing on her love of the art.

It all ended Jan. 10. The studio’s annual r ecital atTiconderoga High School that day was Str ong’s 50th —and final — one. She has retired.

“It’s been a long time; I think I should retire,” Strongsaid. “I have competition now — all of them former stu-dents I had at one time or another. It’s their time.”

Strong started dancing when she was 4 years old.“A couple of dance teachers came to Ticonderoga from

See NORMA STRONG, page 15

The final curtain call

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• RSVP News & Notes ................................p3• Historic designation sought .......................p4• Holocaust survivor tells story ................p6-7• Ti woman turns 100...................................p8• Hobbies for arthritis sufferers....................p9• Moriah man races through the years .......p10• Bolton woman tells her Dad’s story ........p11• Dating tips for single seniors...................p12• Melatonin may slow aging process .........p13• If it sounds too good to be true, it ..........p14• Cook for the fun of it...............................p15

Norma Strong responds to applause from the au-dience at the 50th annual Norma Strong DanceStudio recital. Strong has retired after five decadesteaching dance.

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Area Recognition: The Retir edSenior Volunteer Program held itsfinal area recognition in Moriah onMay 18, 2011. The event was host-ed by Michele Borden of the Mori-ah Nutrition Site. This event hadbeen postponed because of thetown-wide flooding in April. In at-tendance for the festivities wer eRSVP volunteers, Town of Moriahand Village of Port Henry r epre-sentatives, and staf f from the Mo-

riah Highway and W ater Depart-ments as well as the Village of PortHenry Department of PublicWorks.

Assisting were the Essex CountyNutrition Site, Office of the Aging,ACAP, RSVP staff and RSVP Advi-sory Gr oup, with advisory gr oupmember Joe Pr ovoncha as masterof cer emonies. Certificates of ap-preciation wer e pr esented to ar eastations and the attending ‘500

Club’ members; the new RSVP pinswere handed out and a variety ofdoor prizes were awarded. In addi-tion, certificates of appr eciationwere given to the town and villagecrews for all their har d work put-ting Moriah and Port Henry backtogether after the flood.

Also Recognized: Lake Placidholds an annual voluntee r of theyear award and this year RSVP vol-unteer Priscilla Pascarelli was oneof the top five finalists. W ith over848 volunteers to her credit Priscil-la was honored in April with giftsand certificates of appreciation at areception held at the Lake PlacidArts Center.

Handicraft Projects We have two pr ojects in the

works. The first pr oject is makingknitted and crocheted items for thechildren of Essex County. This is apartnership between RSVP andAdirondack Community ActionProgram. RSVP volunteers knitand crochet hats, mittens, scarves,etc. and ACAP distributes themunder their Holidays For SharingProgram. Thanks to a Stewart’sGrant we have yarn available forour volunteers to use to make theneeded it ems. C ontact o ur o fficefor more details.

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‘walker purses’ forHorace Nye r esidents.The goal is to have 100by Christmas time. Ifyou ar e inter ested insewing or crochetingpurses, we have a pat-tern we can send you.

RSVP Annual Me-morial W eekendDrawing W inners:The T own of Moriahstaff assisted with thedrawing and the win-ners wer e: $100 BertConway, $100 E.McKillip, $75 LauraLee, $75 F. Trudeau,$50 Thomas Dolback,$50 Bert Conway , $50Tom Brassar d. Con-gratulations to the winners andthank you to all who bought tick-ets. Your support of RSVP is great-ly appreciated.

Volunteer Opportunities Do you like people? Do you

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Not interested in a weekly com-mitment? We have lots of onetimeevents: The Lake ChamplainBridge Dedication Event will be atwo-day celebration, and in addi-tion, we are always looking for vol-unteers for parades, car shows, andfestivals of all types. A few hoursof your time on one of these dayswould go a long way.

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Rebecca Gilbo, Moriah town account clerk, Barb Brassard, RSVP dir ector, and LaneyAdkins, Moriah town clerk, draw the RSVP Memorial Weekend prize winning tickets.

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CROWN POINT — Crown Point may seekfederal designation as a historic district in or-der to make repairs to the Knapp Senior Cen-ter.

The building, located at the edge of V eter-ans Park, is in disrepair and needs substantialwork, Supervisor Bethany Kosmider said.

“We called in a str uctural engineer to lookat it,” she said. “Ther e are problems with thefoundation that must be fixed.”

The century-old building, which serves ashome to Crown Point senior citizens, was giv-en to the town in the 1970s by the Masons. Thedeed requires the town to consult with the Ma-sons before making any changes to the build-ing.

The real issue, though, is money. Kosmidersaid the town doesn’t have the money to makethe repairs — which is the reason for the pos-sible historic district designation.

If the area surrounding the park becomes ahistoric district, it becomes eligible for grantfunding, Kosmider explained.

“At this point we’re just looking into it,” thesupervisor said of the designation. “Adir on-dack Architectural Heritage is doing the legwork. We can opt out at any time.”

Steven Engelhart, executive dir ector of theKeeseville-based Adir ondack Ar chitecturalHeritage, is assisting the town.

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project was historic preservation funding fromNew York State,” Engelhart explained. “In or-der to qualify for this funding, the buildingwould have to be on the National Register ofHistoric Places. In discussing this, it also be-came apparent that several other structures inthe vicinity, like the Congr egational Chur chand Hammond Chapel, might also benefitfrom b eing l isted on t he N ational R egister.Hence, the idea to create an historic district.”

At this point the town has applied for agrant to hire AAH to prepare a “national reg-ister” nomination for the district.

Before a nomination is submitted to the stateOffice of Parks, Recr eation and HistoricPreservation, a public hearing must be heldand the town board must approve the applica-tion. A majority of the owners of the buildingsin the historic district must also approve.

If the nomination is appr oved by the state,it then goes to the National Park Service for fi-nal approval. The entir e process takes abouttwo years.

“Crown Point, like many Adirondack andLake Champlain V alley communities, has arich history,” Engelhart said. “In addition tothe historical themes the town has in commonwith many other communities, like ir on min-ing and manufacturing and agricultur e, thetown has the great distinction of its 18th cen-tury forts (military history) and the Cham-plain Memorial Lighthouse (lake transporta-tion).

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green r eflect the town’s rich history and thepeople who made Cr own Point gr ow andthrive,” he said. “Most of the buildings in thisdistrict ar e ar chitecturally inter esting andnoteworthy and represent several different ar-chitectural styles — Federal, Gr eek Revival,Italianate and Colonial Revival. The buildingsand landscapes ar e also very intact and thismakes them worthy and special.”

Engelhart believes the Cr own Point parkarea is a good candidate for the historic desig-nation.

“This collection of buildings, str uctures,and the landscape of the gr een in the Cr ownPoint hamlet center measur e up very favor-ably with other historic communities in EssexCounty, including Essex and W estport,” hesaid. “I am very impressed by the handsome-ness and quality of the ar chitecture and thethings that these buildings tell us about whowe are and where we came from.”

Other Essex County communities and or-ganizations have used the historic district des-ignation to fund improvements. Examples in-clude Camp Santanoni in Newcomb, the Mo-riah town hall, the W itherbee CommunityBuilding, Frazier Bridge in T iconderoga, andFort Ticonderoga.

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TICONDEROGA — A Holocaust sur-vivor, Murray Jaros has seen the worst of hu-manity. He’s also seen the best.

“My story is not really about the suffering,but of the people who helped us,” Jaros said.“It’s a story of hope. What’s r emarkable isnot my story of survival, but what’s remark-able is what others did so I could survive.”

Jaros told his story to a gr oup of T icon-deroga High School students June 2. Hecame at the invitation of his friend John La-Pointe, Putnam supervisor.

“He has an amazing story,” LaPointe said.“I think everyone should hear it. I’m glad hewas able to come to Ti.”

A summer day in 1941 the 8-year-old Jaroswas outside when he heard a noise in the sky.It was a plane, the first he had ever seen inrural Poland. Moments later, bombs began tofall.

“We lived in a very rural, small town,” hesaid. “We didn’t have electricity or commu-nication with other towns. I didn’t evenknow there was a war.”

Soon the German army arrived, setting up

camp near his home. The Nazi war machinewas little more than a curiosity for Jaros.

“They had tanks, trucks, machine guns,”he recalled. “I’d never seen any of thosethings. They never threatened us.”

That changed that fall when German SS of-ficers arrived. The SS, the Schutzstaf fel,were a special unit assigned the task of iden-tifying and eliminating thr eats to the Thir dReich. It became infamous for its war crimesand for advocating the Final Solution — theexecution of 6 million Jews.

One night a few SS officers and a group ofcollaborators identified the Jar os family asJewish and br oke into their home. As Jarosand a young cousin watched, his grand-mother was beaten. She eventually died ofher injuries. His mother and father wer estripped naked, beaten and tortur ed as theNazis demanded gold and money — whichthe Jaros family didn’t have. When the painbecame too much and the par ents passedout, the intruders threw water on them andrepeated the process.

“I wanted to do something; I wanted tohelp my parents,” Jaros said. “But I couldn’tmove. My feet wer e stuck to the floor . I’llnever for get the cries, the painful scr eams.They tore out my father ’s toe nails.”

When the SS gave up their pursuit of gold,

the Jar os family was placed in a tr uck andtaken to the local school. Ther e they foundthe town’s Jews, all locked in the building.They were held several days without food orwater.

During that time a local priest was al-lowed to visit. A friend of Jar os family, hesmuggled in br ead and water. He became acentral figure in the family’s survival.

The Jews were then taken to a ghetto builtby the Nazis to contain them. Enclosed bybarbed wire and guarded by Nazi soldiers,the ghetto became home to hundreds of peo-ple who str uggled to find medicine, foodand water.

Before the war Jaros’ mother, Belka, oper-ated a general store. She was known for hercompassion and kindness, allowing peopleto buy on cr edit and giving a little extrawhen people made purchases.

Realizing the plight of the Jaros family andothers in the ghetto, the friendly priest vis-ited area farmers asking them to providefood for the Jews. “Belka was good to you,”the priest would tell farmers. “Now , youmust be good to Belka.” The p lea workedand the priest was able to smuggle food andwater into the ghetto for a year.

One night in 1942 a few men snuck into theghetto with alarming news. All the Jews in a

nearby ghetto — hundreds — had been exe-cuted. The Germans wer e systematicallyworking their way toward the Jaros family.

“A plan was made to escape,” Jar os r e-called.

The priest who had smuggled in food,helped arrange an attack by partisans awayfrom the ghetto as a diversion. When theGerman guar ds r esponded to the attack,about half the Jews escaped into the nearbywoods.

“There wer e people who decided to staybehind,” Jaros said. “Some had sick or eld-erly relatives and they stayed to care forthem. If my grandmother had not died wewould have stayed. Others wer e afraid andothers didn’t believe the stories of the exe-cutions. All of those who stayed behind wereexecuted.”

Jaros’ parents decided to join with the par-tisans and fight the Nazis. To ensure the safe-ty of their son and niece they asked a localfarmer to take in the childr en and pr etendthey were their own. Jaros was forced to poseas a girl, wearing dresses. He tied a kerchiefaround his head to hide his short hair untilit grew long.

The Jews, at the urging of their friend thepriest, learned to pretend they were

See SURVIVOR, page 7

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TICONDEROGA — Alice Shul-tis may be 100 years old, but shecan still party.

Shultis hosted about 50 peoplefor her 100th birthday party June27 at heritage Commons nursinghome in Ticonderoga.

“I can’t believe so many peopleare her e,” Shultis said, lookingaround at smiling faces. “There arepeople I haven’t seen in a longtime.”

Shultis is the oldest r esident atheritage Commons and is believedto be Ticonderoga’s oldest citizen.

Highlighting the centennialevent was the attendance of hertwo childr en. Barbara made thetrip to Ticonderoga from Texas andBill arrived fr om Florida. Formerneighbors from Vermont and the Tiarea also joined in the party.

“I never thought about it,” Shul-tis said when asked about turning100 years young. “I think it’s great,though. I’d had a wonderful life.”

A native of Shelburne, Vt., Shul-tis started coming to the Ticon-deroga ar ea in the 1950s to vaca-tion at Eagle Lake. Eventually shemoved to Eagle Lake. She moved toLord Howe Estates in T i 19 yearsago and stayed there until movingto Heritage Commons thr ee yearsago.

“She’s a terrific lady ,” saidChristine Swinton, who was onceShultis’ caretaker and became herclose friend. “She’s like a gra nd-mother to me. I think the world ofhere.”

Shultis was well known for hergarden, which she maintained un-til a injury forced to Heritage Com-mons in 2008.

“This is a great party, but I knowshe would rather be ina gar denworking on her tomato plants,” herdaughter said.

Today Shultis stays busy playingbingo and car ds with other Her-itage Commons residents.

“We play a lot of cards,” Shultissaid. “I enjoy that a lot, especiallywhen I win.”

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Alice Shultis celebrated her 100th birthday June 27 at heritage Commons nursing home in Ticonderoga with her children, Barbarafrom Texas and Bill from Florida.

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My father, Philip Br own, turned a young100 years old on July 3. He has always main-tained a childlike enjoyment and appr ecia-tion for life, although his 100 years has beenanything but easy. I’d like to share a few ex-cerpts from his life.

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•When a toddler , his father deserted thefamily to follow a wealthy woman summer-ing on Lake George.

•At age 6, he truly became the man of thehouse when he survived the gr eat flu epi-demic of 1918, but he helped his mother buryhis 17-year-old brother, young married sis-ter and her baby girl.

•He saw his mother adamantly refuse of-ficials fr om taking him away fr om her (noadult male pr oviding for them/no otherpublic assistance in those days), and he criedwhen she gave him flour and water pancakesto take for his school lunch (he always addedhis mouth would water when others took outchocolate cake to eat).

•He w orked a s a w ater b oy f or w orkersconstructing the Sagamore Golf Course andwent that extra distance and ef fort to getclean, clear and good cold water fr om aspring (instead of the close by water barr el

with warm and stale water) and received anapple or orange as a tip.

•He had to quit school in the eighth gradein order to support his mother (and shortlyhis grandmother) with finances for taxes andother necessities they couldn’t grow or raise.

•Newly married in 1941, he paid off a $900mortgage in one year and has never owneda single penny on it since.

•He worked midnights at the Imperialfactory in Glens Falls during WWII makingnapalm for the troops overseas, bearing con-ditions so hot that the workers passed outfrom the extreme heat and little, if any, pro-tection fr om the chemicals being manufac-tured. Shortly before the end of the war , hewas vomiting blood with other medical is-sues and the doctor told him to get out orhe’d be dead in months. Of the five or sixmen he worked with at the factory , he wasthe only one alive in a year ’s time; the doc-tor told him it was all the fresh air and sun-shine from working in the garden and eatingthe vegetables. I can still hear the pride inhis voice about that comment because he al-ways loved his garden.

•He r escued his Norwegian wolfhoundfrom being drown in the middle of a pond atnight by facing down a huge raccoon(perched on the dog’s head keep it sub-merged) with only his old long handledflashlight. He walloped it over the head andpulled the nearly drown dog to the shore and

carried the lar ge wet and limp body homeand nursed it back to life.

•He milked a cantankerous cow at the bot-tom of the pastur e at nightfall when it did-n’t come to the barn and then wrenched hisankle on a stone so badly he couldn’t walk,bringing the two pails of milk back to thehouse by crawling on his knees and placingone pail in front of him at a time.

•He came to my rescue as a little girl afterI had disturbed a nest of angry yellow jack-ets. My arms and legs were covered, and heused h is b are h ands t o s wipe t hem o ff m eand carried me to the house to put on bak-ing soda and water.

•While working as caretaker on an estate,he fell two stories onto concr ete and br okehis back and yet walked to the ambulance.In his 50s at the time, he continued to workwhile he wore a back brace.

•He used a scythe to cut brush while in his70s.

•While tilling the garden on his tractor inhis 80s, even with failing eyesight, he wouldspot toads in the soil, stop the tractor, get offand put them out of harm’s way.

My father may be small in stature, but theshadow his life has cast over the years is thatof a giant, my her o. He has lived a life de-void of malice, greed, self-pity, cruelty, arro-gance, or deceit. He has lived year after year,season after season, quietly, gently, proudlyshowing true strength, true virtue and great-

ness. During any serious discussion, he’d al-ways add a bit of wisdom pr efaced with ...“Mother always said ...” This one he told mea short while back: “Mother always said todo what’s right, even if it’s hard ... and in theend it will be all right.”

I love you, Daddy . You embody the sim-plicity of the pureness of a soul. Thank you.

Bolton woman reflects on father’s 100th birthday

Crafting is another fun hobbyfor arthritis sufferers

Many people with arthritis find thefine-detail work they grew accustomed tois not very comfortable with arthritis. In-stead, there are many other crafts that canbe practical.

Ceramics are one craft where the activ-ity can also be the exercise. Using a pot-tery wheel or hand-molding doughs andother modeling media can be a way tostretch and work the hands and fingers.Using paintbrushes equipped with widergrips can make painting possible.

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The loss of a spouse through an unexpect-ed death or a planned divorce is seldom easy.It can be difficult to cope with the new lifethe loss of a spouse brings, including livinglife without a partner -- especially if a per-son has had a long marriage and gr own ac-customed to being part of a team. Many peo-ple don't know the pr oper etiquette of dat-ing after a divor ce or when a spouse is de-ceased.

Once the pain of loss subsides and a per-son is left alone, he may once again look forthe companionship of another person. At thesame time, he may wonder what others maysay about getting back into the dating pool.Is it too soon? W ill it be good for the kids?Do you really want to try that again? Haveyou forgotten about (name spouse)already?

The r ules h ave c hanged o ver t he y ears.Did you know that it was expected for a wid-ow to marry her deceased husband's br oth-er at one time in history? Many people en-tered a pre-determined period of mourningafter a loss. Even after a divor ce, individu-als often thought that it was alright to dateagain only after a set amount of time afterthe marriage was dissolved. On average inthe United States, people wait three years af-ter a divor ce bef ore r emarrying. The timevaries after the death of a spouse.

What's more, people who have been mar-ried before often come with emotional feel-ings, childr en and r elationships with thefamily members of the pr evious spouse.

Since these familial ties aren't easily severed,newly single people often take their feelingsinto consideration before dating as well.

While there are no hard-set rules regard-ing returning to the world of dating, individ-uals should take a har d look at their situa-tion. They must be sure that they're emotion-ally r eady for a n ew r elationship and notsimply looking to fill the void left by the pre-vious spouse.

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California,” she recalled. “I started workingwith them. They moved away and I becamean on-and-off student. There were no regu-lar classes back then, but whenever a danceteacher came to town I’d take lessons.

“My last teacher came fr om New YorkCity,” she continued. “She was very profes-sional and she encouraged me to seek outopportunities. She was always after me to dothis or that.”

Strong started taking classes in New YorkCity and became well-known in the r egionas a dancer. She performed in summer showswhenever possible.

With her skill a s a dancer, Str ong oftenworked with other Ticonderoga students.

“One of my (high school) teachers askedme to work with other students during thesummer one year ,” Str ong said. “I enjoyedthat a lot.”

One day years later she received a call.“A lady knew I was a dancer,” Strong said.

“She called and asked if I could show herdaughter a few steps. I was happy to help.The daughter came and then started to bringa friend. That’s how it all started.”

That was 50 years ago. The Norma StrongDance Studio expanded to of fer classes intap, ballet, jazz and acr o to students ages 4and older. It peaked with about 200 studentsone year.

“I’ve worked with just about every girl inTiconderoga the last 50 years,” Str ong said.“There h ave b een h undreds, t housands o fstudents.”

Some of those former students ar e stilldancing. Three groups of adult performersreunited to dance at this year ’s recital as atribute to Strong.

“I’ve be en v ery f ortunate t o h ave g reatstudents who gained a life-long love fordance,” Strong said. “It’s very nice that someof these ladies are coming back for my finalrecital. Everyone will be able to see the toolsand lessons I taught have stayed with them.It’s a wonderful feeling for me so see themstill dancing.”

Strong will no longer teach dance lessons,but she’ll stay busy . She has been involvedin vintage clothing sales for several yearsand hopes to expand that business.

Cooking is another fun hobby Cooking and baking is an art form that

can be enjoyed by anyone. Furthermor e,with ergonomic spoons, ladles and otherkitchen tools, it has never been more con-venient or less labor-intensive to be an ac-complished home chef.

Baking and pastry creation is one areawhere people can show off creative skills.For those who love to bake but have trou-ble kneading and working dough, foodprocessors, br ead machines and kitchenstand mixers can take the work out ofthose processes.

Cooking is not only a rewarding hobbybut also an activity that can benefit thehousehold. Having arthritis doesn't meana person has to give up on the activitieshe or she enjoys. It merely involves a fewtweaks that can still make these hobbiesenjoyable.


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