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Residents see steep increase in county property tax

By Ned [email protected]

Residents of Elbridge, Camillus and Marcellus receiv-ing their property tax bills last week saw a hike in the bottom line.

The town of Elbridge (outside the villages) was hit the hardest with an increase of 33.33 percent, from $610 to $813 per assessed value of $100,000 — the result of a 78 percent increase in taxes labeled “state mandated costs.” Elbridge town property taxes decreased one percent.

Town officials point to Onondaga County government

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Chocolate cheerChocolate Pizza Companysees huge boost in holiday sales


Headquartered in the village of Marcellus, the Chocolate Pizza Company had plenty to celebrate this Christmas.

With a new owner and CEO in Ryan Novak, the company added a new sat-ellite shop in Manlius and, as a result, added a new batch of customers.

Sales were up 27 percent from last year.

“It was the busiest year, it was unbelievable,” the Syracuse University busi-ness student said. “We were here (in Marcellus) until four in the morning and back here at 6:30 a.m. cook-ing pizzas.”

Novak said the retailer in Manlius provided a boost in sales — at a level he never predicted.

“It was huge for us,” he said. “Our goal for next year is to make sure that we have more than enough products

for everyone on the shelves so we’re not telling people to come back tomorrow or the next day.”

Novak was a place kicker for SU and then Temple before a leg injury led him to go pro in the chocolate business. He said playing football in college helped him prepare for the long hours of the holiday sea-son.

“It’s a tough job but it’s a rewarding job,” Novak said. “You get to hear people say ‘We couldn’t have Christ-mas without it’ or ‘They wouldn’t let me in the door without a chocolate pizza.’”

The gift of gratitude

Lifetime library patron leaves $15,700 to Maxwell


Some gifts are random — Melvin Penfield’s dona-tion of $15,700 to Maxwell Memorial Library in Camil-lus was anything but.

Melvin died in January of 2009 at the age of 87 and left 2.5 percent of his estate to the library, a place he often called home.

Melvin was known to come into the library every morning to read newspa-pers and make conversa-tion. Every morning, he would leave his copy of the Wall Street Journal for the library’s use, and when he became too ill to come to the library, his son Arik continued the task.

Melvin was a library board member and trea-surer for 30 years, stepping down in 2005 when he was named emeritus trustee. The size of his donation to the library came as a big surprise to library director Katy Benson.

“I could hardly believe it,” Benson said. “It had been almost two years since we’d first heard about the bequest, and I just figured it would come to a couple hundred dollars, if anything came at all.”

Benson received a letter containing the donation’s details during the library’s annual holiday party hosted by trustees for staff and vol-unteers. She was thrilled to announce it then.

“I felt like we’d hit the lot-tery,” she said.

This windfall, however, had nothing to do with luck.

“It came from a man who had served Maxwell Library

in various volunteer capaci-ties for some 30 years, and who had really loved it,” she said. “Mr. Penfield’s resulting generosity is humbling.”

Benson isn’t sure how the donation will be used, but said the library has an ongoing wish list of projects that include repairs, capital improvements and upgrad-ing equipment.

“It will be well used,” Benson said.

Ned Campbell

Maxwell Memorial Library director Katy Benson (right) and Peg Paige, circulation clerk, hold a check for $15,700 that was donated in the will of former board member Melvin Penfield.

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Melvin Penfield pictured at Maxwell Library in May 2004.

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Jan. 5 4 to 7 p.m.: Chicken Parmesan Dinner with the Elks

Camillus Elks Lodge, 6117 New-port Road. $8.50; $7 for takeout. Call 672-3106 for info.

Jan. 810 a..m. to 5 p.m.: Vintage Snowmobile Show

Hosted by Toad Hollow Trail Riders Snowmobile Club at Tanner Valley Golf Course (club house open), 4040 Tanner Road, Syra-cuse. Free admission; 440-0370. Live Music from 7 to 11 p.m.10 a.m. to noon: Seed Savers Workshop

Baltimore Woods Nature Center, 4007 Bishop Hill Road, Marcellus. Talk with local CSA growers and swap gardening stories, tricks, and tips. Bring your saved seeds to participate in the seed exchange. Registration required. Members $10; non-members $15.

Jan. 93 p.m.: Andrew and Noah Van Norstrand

These young, talented brothers will perform at Robinson Memo-rial Presbyterian Church, 126 S. Terry Road, Syracuse. Their original music is a mix of old-time Country and Bluegrass, Celtic and Contra, Swing and Jazz, alternative folk rock and various world music influences.

Jan. 1010 to 11 a.m.: Nature’s Little Explores

Learn about the natural world at Baltimore Woods, Marcellus. Guided explorations designed for children ages 3 to 5. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian; registration required.10 to 11 a.m.: The Snowflake Bentley Story

Learn about snowflakes as Balti-more Woods reads this children’s story. After the story, catch snowflakes on BWNC’s handmade snowflake catchers.6 p.m.: Maxwell Movie Night

Maxwell Memorial Library, Ca-millus, will show “The Wild,” rated G. Free and open to the public; popcorn provided.

Jan. 11 10:30 a.m.: Hike the Woods

Baltimore Woods Nature Center naturalists will lead a midwinter interpretive snowshoe hike on the Griffiths Trail. Hot drinks and snacks included. Members $5; nonmembers $8.2:30 p.m.: Maxwell Matinees

Maxwell Memorial Library will show “Music of the Heart” with Meryl Streep, rated PG. Free and open to the public. Registration recommended; call 672-3661.5 to 7 p.m.: Spaghetti Supper with the Elks

Camillus Elks Lodge, 6117

Newport Road. $8. For info, call 672-3106.

Jan. 1310:30 a.m. to noon: Unraveling Yarns Book Club

Meets the second Thursday of the month in Maxwell Library’s Community Room. Book selec-tions have a mystery or suspense theme. Bring you knitting supplies as well. Stop in for a copy of next month’s book and a reading guide. Non-knitters also welcome.12:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Community Blood Drive

Camillus Elks Lodge, 6117 New-port Road. For info, call Betty at 487-6840.

Jan. 156 to 11 p.m.: Beef and Brew

The Optimist Club of Marcellus will sponsor this Annual dinner sponsored by Marcellus Optimist Club. American Legion Hall, 13 E. Main St., Marcellus. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Will feature live entertainment and drawings for door prizes.4 to 6 p.m.: Spaghetti Supper and Bake Sale

All you can eat spaghetti supper and bake sale hosted by Our Lady of Peace Church,, 203 Halcomb St., Lakeland. Takeouts available. 7$ for adults, $5 for ages 5 to 12, and under 5 eat free. 4 to 6 p.m.: Italian Feast

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Lake levels

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otisco lakeWeek of dec. 30Elevation

This week 785.77’Last year 785.79’Dam -10”

Lake temperaturesThis week 32/40Last year 32/41

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Onondaga County Water Authority

Avg. gallons/day to OCWA 19.075 million.

Avg. gallons/day down outlet: 96.4 million

odist Church, 63 Elbridge, St. $8 for adults, $3.75 for kids 6 to 12, and 5 and under eat free. Call Elaine Ehrlich at 834-6276 for info.

Jan. 162 to 4 p.m.: Snippets and Tales Winter Series

Camillus Erie Canal Park will host ”More tales of the canal era” at the Sims Store, 5750 Devoe Road. One of the guest panelists will be Ralph Sims.

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Betts steps downSeven-year councilor will be sworn in as town justice


George Betts took part in his last meeting as town of Elbridge councilor Wednesday Dec. 29. He will be sworn in as town justice at the Jan. 5 organizational meeting, when a new councilor will also be appointed.

“The next time you him — you don’t want to see him,” said Super-visor Ken Bush. As one of two town justices — he joins Gale Mitchell at the position — Betts will officiate Monday court in town hall.

Betts served as town of Elbridge councilor and deputy su-pervisor for seven years.

“We’re gonna miss you, George,” said Councilor Rita Dygert. “It’s been a pleasure working with you, and we appreciate your service to the board.”

“It’s been a pleasure being one of your constituents,” said David Kochman, of Jordan.

Betts will fill the vacancy left by outgoing town justice Patricia DeRue, who held the position from Sept. 2, 1998 to Dec. 31, 2010. The board passed a resolution expressing its appreciation for DeRue’s many years of diligent community service.

Town hall renovations plannedThe board approved the hire of architect David Curle at

$14,7000 to remodel the west wing of town hall, which con-tains offices for town employees. The meeting room will not be touched.

“That’s been an ongoing process for I can’t tell you how long,” Bush said. The wing will be redesigned to be more space and energy efficient.

“The town clerk’s on one side of the building, and the assistant town clerk’s on the other side of the building, so we’re going to get them all in one area,” Bush said.

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Robert F. Champion, 25, of Weedsport, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.Sept. 12

Tara L. Kemp, 24, of Skaneateles, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.Sept. 16

Michael P. Nuzzo, 24, of Marcellus, was charged with third-degree aggravated unli-

censed operation of a motor vehicle.Nov. 22

Michael F. Burns, 34, of North Lawrence, was charged with operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.Dec. 2

Tammy M. Skinner, 35, of Jordan, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a motor vehicle with suspend-ed registration, and operation of a motor vehicle without insurance.Dec. 13

Calvin H. Moffitt, 32, of Groton, was charged with third-degree aggravated

unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration. Dec. 21

Nicholas D. Wagar, 24, of Fircrest, WA, was charged with second-degree unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and insuffi-cient tail lights.Dec. 27

Lucas W. Livingston, 20, of Baldwinsville, was charged with operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.

Dec. 28Brandon Olschewske, 25, of Syracuse,

was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and speeding.Dec. 29

Marie S. Calkins, 36, of Jordan, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed op-eration of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.Jan. 1

Tiffany A. Skarr, 20, of Fulton, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed op-eration of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle with suspended registration.

Marcellus looks to get greener


The village of Marcellus is still con-sidering an expensive composting proj-ect that would save taxpayers money down the road. The project would allow Marcellus wastewater treatment opera-tors to turn sludge into valuable com-post, rather than transporting it from the village to Seneca Meadows Landfill — which is nearing capacity.

The board held a public hearing in November and will vote on a bond resolution at its Jan. 24 meeting in order to pay for half the project, which is esti-mated at $750,000 total. The other half would be covered by a state Department of Environmental Conservation grant.

Library building sale falls throughThe former library property was

re-surveyed and subdivided to provide parking for the prospective buyer, said Mayor John Curtin

at the village board’s December meeting. “Unfortunately, an offer to buy the property has fallen through in recent weeks, a failure on the part of the buyer to obtain financing.”

The village purchased the building more than a year ago in order to provide parking for village hall, with plans to sell the building itself.

Reservoir sale approvedThe board approved the sale of the

village reservoir, also known as Rockwell Pond. Curtin said the board has a buyer for the property, and hopes to close the deal by the end of January. The reservoir was the village’s water supply since 1908, but new federal and state regulations forced the village to abandon it.

“To keep it, we would have had to build a very expensive, and unaffordable, filter plant,” Curtin said.

Mural plans underwayCurtin reported that the Marcellus

Mural Committee, which facilitated the completion of the student-painted mu-ral that went up on the side of Nojaim’s Market in September, continues to meet regularly. Next year’s mural is planned to go up on the front of the Chocolate Pizza

Submitted photo

The trees that surround Rockwell Pond, pictured, were planted more than 80 years ago by Marcellus Boy Scouts and have grown to more than 80 feet tall.

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Thanks go out to charitable students

Our students continue to amaze us with their hard work both in and out of the classroom. A few weeks back we highlighted charitable efforts made during the holidays — this week, we’ll focus on those efforts made by students.

We were overwhelmed with the charity of local stu-dents, so much so that most of what was brought to our attention could not fit in the pages of this paper (but you can find it all online at eagle-observer.com). Here are just a few examples:

3 The West Genesee R-Squared Club started and con-tinues to collect blankets to send to babies in Pakistan in February.

3 With the help of the entire school community, West Genesee Middle School collected more than 2,000 food items to donate to the Salvation Army.

3 One class at Stonehedge Elementary School voted to take the money they would normally spend on gifts for each other and donate it through the World Vision Organization to children in Haiti for food and care.

3 Students at elementary schools across the area wrote letters to Santa that were dropped off in the Macy’s “believe” mailbox. Macy’s donated $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for every letter delivered before Christmas.

3 K.C. Heffernan Elementary art students decorated “cheer bags” for the Martisco Lions Club. The bags were filled with essentials and then distributed to elderly per-sons in need within the community.

3 The Marcellus girls basketball program hosted a Coaches vs. Cancer Holiday Tournament on Dec. 28 and 29. All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society and the Coaches vs. Cancer initiative.

A wish list for local governing in 2011In looking ahead

to the year 2011, and beyond, there is an ever-increasing sense of apprehension among many residents of Onondaga County.

The local governments of On-ondaga County, and literally there are dozens of them, potentially are facing extremely significant budget-ary dilemmas.

Possibly the most outstanding attribute of Onondaga County and its governmental units is its rank-ing as one of the top counties in the United States in property taxes paid by residents. This designation is based upon having among the high-est percentage paid in taxes on the full-value assessment of residential property.

Property taxes are certain to rise for most towns of the county at a rate significantly higher than the rate of inflation.

The county has been grappling with its own budgetary problems.

The looming town/county tax bills for 2011 will reflect, in part, the county’s answers to its more imme-diate budgetary difficulties.

In the past, New York State has

been seen as the solution to local financial problems. It is problematic, at best, as to whether or not the state can be depended upon to come to the rescue of local governments in the fore-

seeable future. The state itself in its next fiscal year is facing a deficit esti-mated to be as high as $20 billion.

Instead of trying to obtain greater federal funding (not likely) or try-ing to increase state funding (also unlikely), a concerted effort should be directed toward examining op-tions from within a wish list for local governance.

As a result, a “2011Wish List,” originally advanced in a December 2008 column, is presented again.

Each of the items on the wish list is there because each represents a significant, measurable tax savings for the county/town residents.

Number one on the wish list is for the towns of the county to accept the county’s offer to collect local prop-erty taxes. The advent of computers makes this feasible and would realize significant overall tax savings.

The second wish would be for the establishment of a county-wide purchasing system. The advent of

computers makes this quite feasible. The savings of as much as thousands of dollars is quite possible.

The third wish would be for consolidation between the 57 fire protection districts in the county. With modern computers and im-proved communications, along with more dependable, higher speed apparatus, this is now quite feasible. Such a step has the potential to save local taxpayers across the county millions of dollars each decade on apparatus, building and training costs. Despite obvious benefits, there have been no consolidations of fire departments for as far back as I can remember.

A fourth wish would be for at least one village in the county to undertake a formal study on the merits of dissolving and or merging with the town government. The po-tential savings would be significant, especially if more than one village joins in.

The year 2011 would be better for the taxpayers if, with signifi-cant efforts by the municipalities, we could resolve the apprehension being created by the ever-increasing financial distress.

　

A nation at riskThe salon was busy.

Every workstation was occupied and, as usual, the conversations filled the air with interlacing words, mixing with the Christmas music play-ing in the background. A single voice filtered out of the cacophony.

“Flabby, it says here that we are flabby.” I immediately pulled the salon’s smock

around my middle, thinking that … well, you know.

Another client, waiting for her hair color to process, picked up the thread of the comment. “I think I read this. Was this the columnist in the Post who said that we’ve lost our American Know How, trading it, it seems, for the ease of every-thing digital and electronic?”

“He’s right,” one of the stylists said. “I mean look at what kids do for entertain-ment. No one goes out to play any more. It’s computers and handhelds all the time. You know, maybe that’s why we are now reading about getting more Vitamin D. No one goes outside anymore. It used to be that we had to hide from the sun. All kinds of ugly things are being traced to Vitamin D deficiency, from thinning hair and cancer to ED. I just bought Vitamin D supplements. Who would have thought of that even five years ago.“

“Well,” one gal answered. “You’re not supposed to sunbathe. I think that the recommendation is to be outside for about 10 minutes. Of course, that may refer to places where there is actual sun. In Central New York, I’m not sure that the ten minute rule applies.”

Someone started to talk about all of this evidence as a plot of some kind when someone from the shampoo room yelled out…”must be more like 10 minutes in Florida, two hours in Syracuse.”

The hair-color gal continued. “The article goes on to say that we have

abdicated self reliance in favor of allowing others to provide us with that which we need. Nothing is made here any more because you can make it cheaper elsewhere. So, we give up manufacturing for the money that allows us to buy electronics and so forth. Good

American Know How has disappeared!”A thought popped into my head and

out of my mouth. “No one makes their own soap any more.” That stopped the chatter cold.

“Their own soap? What does that have to do with anything?” the woman sitting next to me commented.

“Well, my grandmother made her own soap, grew and canned her own vegetables, made her own clothing… and on a treadle machine… no electric-ity needed. She was more self-reliant. My husband’s father made wine, knew how to pick mushrooms that wouldn’t kill you, made his own pasta… do you see where I’m going?”

“My little grandson is totally enam-ored with the TV remotes. Take a minute and just think about remotes. How many years ago was it normal to get up to change the TV channel? The kid loves cell phones, car door openers and leaves his wooden blocks in their container. That’s not, well, it’s not something.”

“We’re doomed! We better start learn-ing how to speak Chinese.”

The woman who started the conversa-tion interrupted.

“All this is very interesting and some-what related, but the article I’m reading is by Richard Simmons who said we have become fat and flabby. We need to get moving and reduce our portion sizes.”

“Oh,” I said and started leafing through one of those hairstyle magazines. Maybe we won’t have to learn to speak Chinese, but it might be good to know how to make soap.

Looking back

Seems like we spend a lot of time at this time of year reminiscing – noth-ing 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 has there been so many state champions to fol-low from the first day of practice to their crown-ing 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.

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J-D’s boys lacrosse he-roes 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 cham-pionship 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 come-back 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 Skaneateles 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 fortune. 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 rou-tine, 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 (Brianna Stewart to set, Becca Maher to defend), the Bees survived the round-robin and two deficits to Webster Schro-eder and pulled it out in five.

In the case of Cazeno-via’s field hockey Lakers, it was the same story – a lot of sectional suc-cess, 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 unfair part. Each of the above teams has made their communities 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 Fayette-ville-Manlius girls cross country. 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 oth-er teams (and their sup-porters) 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 re-sponsible 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 Chap-man, 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 Rutledge, Heather Martin, Katie Sis-cho, Jillian Fanning, Katie Brislin and Emily McGur-rin – return for 2011. And the younger runners are bent on maintaining the streak.

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

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K.C. Heffernan Elementary School held its annual Holiday Sing-a-long on Wednesday Dec. 22 in the KCH gymnasium. The music was

led by the KCH Staff/Community Band that included Lisa MacLach-lan/trumpet, Susan Stukus/vocals, Maureen Henesey/guitar, Gary Bis-saillon/percussion, Michael Brown/guitar, Dave Taddeo/guitar, JoAnne Rougeux/vocals, Glen Wagner/big pink bass, Greg Quick/bassoon, Lori

Knapp-Kankus/clarinet, Ellie Molinari/accordion, Dan Poorman/electric bass, Craig Tice/tambourine, Sally Bailey/piano and Abby Donahue/flute(DMS 6th grade student).

Students from Dean Kloss’ first grade class led the singing for “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”. Lisa MacLachlan’s second grade class provided the visual props and movements for “Must Be Santa” while Mary Ellen Koloski’s and Brenda Buso’s Pre-first classes led the singing for “Up on the Housetop.”

This year’s concert included songs such as “He’ll Be Coming Down the Chimney,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “This Little Light of Mine.” The Holiday Sing-along also included a visit from Jolly Old Saint Nick who greeted chil-dren and joined the band for a song or two. Thanks go out to Kevin Young for keeping the spirit of the holiday season alive. The concert featured a special rendition of “Let There Be Peace on Earth” sung by Susan Stukus, Maureen Henesey, Dan Poorman, Janet Kringer, JoAnne Rougeux, Becky Eaton, Jen DeCook, Pat O’Neill, Abby Donahue and Judy Hunt. The sing-a-long came to an inspirational close as Susanna Morrissey’s second grade class signed and led the singing of “Silent Night.”dave taddeo

Students from Lisa MacLachlan’s second grade glass perform “Must Be Santa.”

West Genesee names December ‘Seniors of the Month ‘Joshua Kay has chal-

lenged himself with two AP classes, three SUPA classes and two college level classes. Upon graduation he will have accumulated 16 college credit hours. A member of the National Honors Society, Josh has been on the high honor roll throughout middle and high school.

Josh stays busy outside the classroom. He has been in class senate since ninth grade and is public relations

adviser for student council. He has written for The Wild Times and has been published in the “Voices” section of the Post-Stan-

dard. His knack for public speaking has led him to announce various sport-ing events on Live Sports Video, and he has done the morning announcements since his junior year.

Josh played freshman basketball and baseball, JV baseball, and is currently playing varsity basketball with Holy Family’s CYO.

Josh also teaches reli-gious education at Holy Family Church and is a part of their youth group, Life-teen, which has given him opportunities to volunteer. These include serving food at the Samaritan Center, helping out at Holy Family’s food pantry, and serving as

a Lector and Eucharistic Minister during Sunday mass.

Josh currently holds two jobs, one at Wegmans and the other at Holy Family Church.

He hopes to attend the University of Scranton and major in communications with a concentration in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Theology.

Josh is the son of Mark and Holly Kay. He has one sister, Chloe, who is a soph-omore at West Genesee.

Brianna McGraw is a hard working student and

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It takes a villageThe saying goes that it takes a village to raise a child, but sometimes it takes the children to raise the village. Third grade students from KCH performed and sang holiday favorites for senior citizens at the Marcellus Senior Citizen Peace luncheon held on Dec. 16 at the Marcel-lus Methodist Church. The group sang carols throughout the village as they walked to the luncheon. RIGHT: Third graders sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at the luncheon. BELOW: Members of the Marcellus Senior High School Character Education Committee deliver Christmas presents to more than 100 Kindergar-ten students at McKinley Brighton School. For a full listing of ways Marcellus students gave back this holiday season, go to eagle-observer.com.

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Wildcats bash Bishop Ludden, win holiday tourney

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It wasn’t just the fact that the West Gen-esee boys basketball team went to Bishop Ludden and won the annual Rosemary Corcoran Holiday Classic - it was the way the Wildcats did it.

Led by Eric Spencer’s splendid inside play, WG was, by far, the best team in the tournament, capped off by Tuesday night’s final where, against the hosts from Bishop Ludden, it controlled every phase of the game and beat the Gaelic Knights 69-45.

With the win, the Wildcats improved to 6-0, still undefeated under first-year head coach Fred Kent, and the reasons for this quick start were quite evident in the final against Ludden, who entered the game with its own 6-0 mark.

When the Gaelic Knights packed in the defense against Spencer in the game’s early minutes, Corey Herrington and Greg Wa-dach combined to hit a trio of 3-point shots. And when Ludden chased the guards, Spen-cer had his way inside, with six late points in the first quarter that put WG up 15-9.

But that was just the appetizer for the second quarter, where the Wildcats put up 12 unanswered points to make it 27-9 - and the latter part of that run came with Spencer on the bench with two fouls. He sat the rest of the half, but WG still took a 35-16 lead to the break.

Sharp as the Wildcats were on the offen-sive side, it was even better on defense, not allowing any open looks and using its depth to wear Ludden down. That led to frustra-tion on the Gaelic Knights’ part - and foul trouble, as Dan Kaigler and Corey Hunter both had three fouls before the half.

Spencer made sure that Ludden did not get into the argument. Of his 27 points, 15 of them came in the second half as his series of inside moves baffled the Gaelic Knights at every turn and led to tournament MVP honors

“Eric is a very good athlete and special player,” said Kent. “He finishes very well.”

Herrington, who had eight points, and Wadach joined Spencer on the all-tourna-ment team. Phil Allen also had eight points

Eagles beat West Genny, Marcellus for tourney title


Most of the area’s high school girls basketball teams would engage in some form of holiday ac-tivity, highlighted by un-defeated, state Class B no. 11-ranked Jordan-Elbridge making two local conquests in the Marcellus Tourna-ment to stay unbeaten.

The final Wednesday night in Marcellus pitted the Eagles against West Genesee – and in this rare meeting of neighbors, J-E just had enough to secure a 52-46 victory over the Wildcats.

No single run really decided this contest. All through the first half, the Eagles and Wildcats traded baskets and stayed in close touch, J-E going to the

break clinging to a 25-24 lead.

But the Eagles proceed-ed to shut WG down in the third quarter, holding them to four points and extend-ing its own lead to 35-28 without any prolonged burst. And it withstood all of the Wildcats’ late come-back attempts, too.

Molly Hourigan’s big senior season continued as she poured in 22 points to lead both sides, with Kali Davis adding 12 points. On WG’s side, Melissa Fumano and Marie Temara each had 12 points, with Katie Kolin-ski adding seven points and Kara Datellas contributing six points.

Before this, J-E toyed with Marcellus in the open-ing round, not letting up until it had put together a

WG hockey beaten by Suffern again

By Phil Blackwell

Unlike some years past, the West Genesee ice hock-ey team did work during this holiday break, travel-ing to the northern part of the state for the Massena Christmas Classic – where it ran into a bleak and familiar result against a familiar nemesis.

In the first round last Tuesday night, the Wildcats met host Massena, the team it lost to in the 2008 state Division I finals, and won this time, beating the Red Raiders 2-1.

WG’s pattern of low-scoring games (it had tied Ithaca 1-1 in its last outing on Dec. 22) continued here, as it notched the only goal in the first two periods.

Up 1-0, the Wildcats converted again, which proved enough. Erik Kurz assisted on both scoring plays as Shawn Lynch and Nick Holzhauer earned the goals and Holzhauer got an assist, too. Each of Jacob Pelton’s 15 saves proved important.

Now the Wildcats faced Suffern, the same team it lost to, 3-1, in the finals of the Wildcat Classic on Dec. 11.

As it turned out, 18 days did nothing to change the position of the two teams, as Suffern, the state’s top-ranked Division I team, again won by a 3-1 margin.

Rob Michel gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead in the first period, but that was all WG could muster. Suffern pulled even in the second period and, just like in the first meeting, used a pair of third-period goals to prevail, negating Pelton’s 26 saves.

WG, who has the no. 3 state Division I ranking with a record of 6-2 (both losses to Suffern), is off until Friday, when it hosts Ham-ilton at Shove Park.

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Youth compete in Elks’ national hoop shoot contestSubmitted by Tom Kinsella

Esteemed Leading KnightThe Camillus Elks hosted its annual Elks

Hoop Shoot Free Throw contest on Dec. 11 at West Genesee High School. Students from Jordan Elbridge, West Genesee, Holy Family, Solvay, St. Charles and Westhill schools were invited to participate free of charge.

At West Genesee, this year’s program began in the elementary and middle schools where physical education instructors conducted school contests to determine who would represent their school at the Lodge Contest. Trophies and certificates were awarded to the first and second place winners in each division:Girls 8 and 9 years

Winner: Caroline Sgroi, 9/25 (Split Rock)Runner-up: Chloe Soltys, 6/25 (East Hill)

Boys 8 and 9 yearsWinner: Chris Schahczenski, 16/25 Split RockRunner-up: Ryan Paige, 14/25 (Stonehedge)

Girls 10 and 11 yearsWinner: Madyson Kelly, 14/25 (Stonehedge)Runner-up: Madison Smith, 10/25 (Stone-

hedge)Boys 10 and11 years

Winner: Griffin Zanoni, 17/25 (Stonehedge)Runner-up: Mike Bonacci, 16/25 (W.G. Middle)

Girls 12 and 13 yearsWinner: Katelyn Dattellas, 17/25 (W.G.

Middle)Runner-up: Kara Sweeney, 16/25 (Camillus

Middle)Boys 12 and 13 years

Winner: Jacob Sparks, 20/25 (W.G. Middle)

Winners from the Elks’ contest will represent Camillus at the Ontario District Hoop Shoot contest to be held by the Oswego Lodge #271 at 10 a.m. Jan. 22 at Oswego High School. Win-ners will continue through state regional, state, northeast regional contests up to the national level at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Spring-field, Mass.

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Pictured are the winners of the 2010-11 Camillus Elks Lodge #2367 Hoop Shoot contest.

Marcellus volleyball wins Christmas tournamentBy Phil Blackwell

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A series of high school girls vol-leyball tournaments during the holi-day break involved most of the area’s teams – and all of them finished on top, or came close to it.

Marcellus did prevail at last Tues-day’s Watertown Christmas Clash,

taking the Gold Division with a 5-1 record. The Mustangs swept the host Cyclones in two games to gain first place.

Jordan-Elbridge hosted its own tournament and went 4-2. The Eagles beat Phoenix and Port Byron to reach the championship round, only to fall to Hannibal 25-19, 25-18, 25-16 in the finals. Mallory Snyder and Jessica

Gomes made the All-Tournament team on J-E’s behalf.

Solvay outlasted Faith Heritage, Cato-Meridian, Pulaski and Weed-sport to reach the finals of the Chris-tian Brothers Academy Tournament. CBA prevailed in the final 30-14, leaving the Bearcats to settle for sec-ond place as Cassidy Tanzella gained All-Tournament honors.

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Nothing close to a holiday break was in store for Solvay’s ice hockey team, who instead ventured to the ice three times in four days – includ-ing its annual King of the Coliseum Tournament.

As a first-round treat last Monday night, the Bearcats played Liverpool, with whom it shares the State Fair Coliseum ice. It never proved that close, though, as a dominant second period led to a 6-2 victory over the Warriors.

Solvay already had a 2-1 edge when, in the second period, it tore up Liverpool’s defenses and netted three unanswered goals, making it 5-1 and allowing the Bearcats to cruise in the homestretch.

Tom Missert proved quite active, earning a season-best four assists to go with his lone goal. Ben Carrock found the net twice, adding an assist as Mike Sniffen and David Graf each got one goal and two assists. David Lilly also scored, with Peter Lynch, Jim Farella and Will Downs earning assists.

A day later, Solvay faced a tough title game against Corcoran, who edged past Ontario Bay 3-2 in the other half of the opening round as Cree Cathers scored twice, including the eventual game-winner.

Here, the Bearcats’ offense went

silent in a 3-0 loss to the Cougars. A single burst in the second period made the difference as Corcoran got all three of its goals in that frame.

Ryan Bonk had a terrific effort in the net, finishing with 36 saves, but Corcoran won with goals from tournament MVP Steve Young, Dan Standford and Connor Lyons, with Dillon Brown earning a pair of as-sists.

Still at home Thursday to face Cen-tral Square, the Bearcats lay dormant for a long while, but unleashed a lot of offense in the late going to beat the Red Hawks 4-1.

It was just 1-0 going into the third period before Solvay’s attack, frus-trated by the sharp glove of Central Square goalie Ben Coupe (who made 30 saves), finally started converting on a consistent basis.

Four different players - Graf, Mis-sert, Sniffen and Downs - landed the four Bearcat goals. Sniffen joined Carrock and Tyler O’Mara in the as-sist column.

With that win, Solvay moved back above the .500 mark, to 4-3-1, and got set for a Tuesday trip to Ithaca, its only action in the first full week of 2011.

Solvay hockey has 2-1 finish to 2010

Westhill falls to St. Joe’s; Marcellus, J-E splitBy Phil Blackwell

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As it turned out, the Westhill boys basketball team would not get a full defense of its title earned a year ago in the Bottar-Leone Holiday Classic at Christian Brothers Academy.

The inability of Monsignor McClancy, from New York City, to travel out of its home base due to last weekend’s blizzard left just three teams – Westhill, CBA and St. Joseph’s (Buffalo) – in the field, so each of the local sides would play once.

Westhill went first against St. Joseph’s Wednesday night – and nearly made another remarkable comeback on the CBA floor before falling to the Marauders 51-46.

Following an 18-18 first quarter, Westhill’s offense all but disappeared in the next two periods, allowing St. Joe’s to stretch out to a 44-26 lead with only the fourth quarter to play.

A year ago, in this same tournament on this same court and in a similar circumstance against St. Peter’s (Staten Island), Westhill had rallied from 18 down to win 44-42 on a Dan Ross shot with 1.8 seconds left.

Perhaps head coach Kevin King reminded his War-riors of that rally – for it nearly happened again. Westhill increased its defensive pressure, forced turnovers and chopped away at the margin, but just ran out of time.

What’s more, no single player really took charge, as Jus-tin Biles led Westhill with just 10 points. Nathan Nigolian had nine points, with Geno Sgroi, Kevin McAvoy and Vitty Freeman each getting six points.

As this went on, Marcellus split its two games at the Fulton Tournament, beating the host Red Raiders 74-42, but losing to East Rochester 56-44 in overtime.

The Mustangs steadily put the Red Raiders away, lead-ing 40-24 by halftime and using a 20-9 third quarter to seal it. Mike Fox, with 13 points, led a balanced attack where Steve Raven, Kyle Hastings and Geoff Crysler each got 10 points. Chaz Hayes and Carey Mielnicki had eight points apiece.

Against East Rochester, Marcellus fell behind when it got just six points in the third quarter, but outscored ER 18-11 in the final period to tie it, 41-41, and force OT. How-ever, it ran out of steam in the four-minute extra period, managing just three points. Hayes, with 15 points, was the only Mustang to score in double figures.

Jordan-Elbridge took its turn in the Hannibal Tourna-ment, starting last Tuesday with a first-round game against the host Warriors that ended in a 63-54 defeat.

The Eagles only trailed by two, 26-24, going into half-time, but watched as Hannibal steadily pulled away behind Alec Nelson, Darryl Rupert (14 points each), Zach Weiling (13 points) and Austin Bettinger (10 points).

For its part, J-E featured Leland Holmes, who led both sides with 18 points, while Brennen Barrigar had 11 points. Tyler Richardson had nine points and Scott Sullivan added eight points.

Finally, the Eagles’ skid ended in Wednesday’s consola-tion game, where it came from behind to beat Cato-Me-ridian 61-56.

A rough first half left J-E down, 42-30, but it didn’t stay there. The Eagles outscored the Blue Devils 19-6 in the third quarter to zoom out in front, then played solid defense in the final period, holding Cato to eight points.

Richardson, with 17 points, led the rally as he sank three 3-pointers. Sullivan and Tom Poppe each had 12 points, with Barrigar contributing eight points and Cody Lewis adding six points.

WG girls finish fifth at Constantino meet


For its third outing of the season, the West Genesee girls indoor track and field team beat the other local sides and earned fifth place in a 21-team field at last Tuesday’s George Constantino Memorial Invitational at SUNY-Cortland.

The Wildcats finished with 26 points, a bit removed from Cicero-North Syracuse’s winning total of 71 points, but still a solid effort.

Nearly half the points came from winning the 2,000 sprint medley as Amy Hannahan, Allison Iles, Kelly Powell and Laura Leff finished in a time of 5:51.38, the only quartet to break the six-minute mark as Homer (6:02.86) was a distant second, more than 11 seconds behind.

Leff, Hannahan, Powell and eighth-grader Lindsay Weaver took second place in the 4x800 relay in 10:27.43, just behind Fayetteville-Manlius (10:25.37). Emily Iles and Brianna Richardson worked their way to fifth place (21.63 seconds) in the 55-meter hurdles as the Wildcats also were fifth in the 1,500-meter run.

Richardson and Abby Uczen were fourth in the triple jump, going 58 feet 1 /2 inches for the only points earned by WG in a field event.

Marcellus, with combined clearances of 8 feet 6 inches, was third in the high jump, while Solvay finished fourth in the pole vault. Jordan-Elbridge’s quartet of Julia Conlan, Brianna Byrnes, Rachel Betts and Rachel Scott were fourth (4:47.45) in the 4x400 relay.

The Mustangs did have the best local boys finish at the Constantino meet, tying for sixth with 22 points as West Genesee (17 points) got ninth place.

Nick Huss and Rob Coon won the pole vault, finish-ing second and third among individuals and clearing 23 feet between them, easily the best result. Huss and Nick Stogsdill also cleared 10 feet 6 inches in the high jump, two inches behind Liverpool and good enough for second place. Marcellus also got fourth in the 2,000 sprint medley in 5:01.08.

WG saw John DeLallo win the individual mile in 4:21.41 as he, along with Billy Gabriel (fourth), Martin Leff (fifth) and Matt Byrnes (14th), took the team event in 18:23.99. WG’s 4x800 relay team claimed fourth place in 9:06.46 and was sixth in the triple jump, pole vault and 55 hurdles.

For Westhill/Bishop Ludden, Alex Phelan and Mike Herholtz finished second to Huss and Coon in the pole vault, combining to clear 20 feet.

Marcellus wrestlers sweep Auburn, LaFayette

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FROZEN MISSLE: Solvay forward David Graf (10) takes a shot at Liverpool goalie Joe Ciciarelli during last Monday’s opening round of the King of the Coliseum Tournament. Graf had a goal and two assists in the Bearcats’ 6-2 win over the Warriors.


During the holiday break, the Marcellus wrestling team picked up a pair of impressive non-league victories, top-ping LaFayette 49-33 and routing Auburn 69-18.

The Mustangs got past the Lancers with help from Kevin Morrissey, at 145 pounds, who pinned Matt Osch-ner in 3:23. John Cavaretta earned the other pin, at 215 pounds, finishing off John Dunn midway through the third period.

Rich Ghezzi impressed at 130 pounds with an 11-0 shutout of Jordan Mitchell, while Andrew Eberle held on at 135 pounds to beat Chris Mueller 4-3. Forfeits went to Zach Ruggles (96 pounds), Nate Long (103 pounds), Dan Tierney (112 pounds), Grady Ryan (152 pounds) and Kyle Tierney (160 pounds).

Against Auburn, Long did wrestle, at 112, beating Dustin Swan 7-2, and Dan Tierney moved up to 119 to pin Pete Casper in 2:39 as Kyle Tierney got a third-period pin of James Murtari.

Brian Barrett (130) pinned Steve Ansteth in 1:46 and Matt Dempsey, at 145, earned his pin over Tom Campag-nola in 1:10. Eberle took 2:15 to pin Jack Hansel as Ryan Long, wrestling at 152, finished off Brandon Formel at

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Jan. 6, 7Half Price Sale

The Marcellus United Methodist Church Gift and Thrift Shop, l Slocombe Avenue, is selling all its merchandise at half-price, excluding the gift cupboard. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jan. 4 to 29Art Display by Michelle Masters

Enjoy the talent of local artist Michelle Masters during Marcellus Library hours: 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday; closed Monday Jan. 17.

Fridays, Saturdays through

april10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Project FeederWatch

Baltimore Woods Nature Center, 4007 Bishop Hill Road, Marcellus, is partner-ing with Cornell Lab of Ornithology to collect important data about birds.Spend a few moments recording which birds are visiting the feeders and contribute to bird conservation efforts. Call ahead to confirm availability. Donations appreciated.

Jan. 3 to Feb. 25Holly Knott : Paintings with a Fabric Palette

Baltimore Woods Nature Center. With her innovative use of material, texture and color, Knott is in the company of quilt makers who work to expand the defini-tion of quilt making from craft to fine art. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Second, fourth tuesday Read Fur Fun

Reading Fur Fun at Fairmount Commu-nity Library, 406 Chapel Drive, Syracuse, has been extended through May. This pro-gram allows young readers the comfort of reading books to trained dogs. Time slots are 6 and 6:30 p.m.; register at the front desk. For more info, call 487-8933.

Submit your eventTo have your event listed for free in the

Datebook, submit the information via e-mail to [email protected]; by fax: 434-8883; or in the mail, 2501 James St., Suite 100, Syracuse, NY, 13206.

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as 11 different Wildcat players got at least two points on this night. Despite his limited minutes, Kaigler led Ludden with 11 points, while Tyler Young added eight points.

Neither of last Monday’s first-round games provided any suspense. WG stomped all over Liverpool 69-47, while Ludden steadily pulled away to beat Onondaga 71-43.

WG met a Liverpool side still in search of its first win – and continued the Warriors’ early-season misery. The Wildcats steadily pulled away, gaining a 39-25 lead by halftime and never letting Liverpool pull closer.

Spencer worked inside for 20 points, while Allen stepped up to earn 13 points and Herrington got 12 points. Wadach contrib-uted nine points.

Onondaga arrived at the tournament with a perfect 5-0 mark, which had estab-lished them as one of the top Section III Class C title contenders.

That meant little against Ludden, though, as the Gaelic Knights used steady produc-tion and consistent defense to build a 38-21 halftime lead on the Tigers. The margin grew to 58-33 in the third period as the hosts never had to worry about an OCS rally.

Hunter led with 16 points, with Kaigler just behind as he got 13 points. Young had nine points as Ben Hackett came off the bench to join Kelly Beaudoin with eight points. Drew Stefanski (13 points) and Tay-lor Bassett (11 points) led the OCS effort.

In the consolation game, Liverpool, fu-eled by hot 3-point shooting, came from be-hind to beat OCS 55-45. Adam Misener, Ian Hamm and Ben Peet each had 14 points to account for most of the Warriors’ offense.

Every team in the tournament had a connection to Jerry Wilcox. The current Liverpool coach had a long and successful stint at Ludden, then coached at West Gen-esee before going to the Warriors. And OCS is coached by Wilcox’s long-time assistant, Ben Kilmartin.

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Living strongCancer survivor benefits

from YMCA program By Judy Salamone

For months, Eileen Altieri, 70, was not feeling well. She was tired and weak and just wasn’t herself. She didn’t want to go to the doctor, as she feared the worst. Finally, last Janu-ary, with some coaxing from her daughter, Altieri, who lives in Syracuse, made the call.

“I was visiting my daughter in Brooklyn and she said to me, ‘mom, if you don’t call the doctor, you are being self-ish,’” Altieri recalled. “I called and I got an appointment right away.”

Altieri’s fears were realized as she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The cancer had metastasized to her lungs and liver and the doctor gave her just three months to live.

“I was numb,” she shared. “All of those months I talked myself out of going to the doctor because I was scared. I was foolish and now I had to face this head-on.”

Altieri immediately had surgery to remove a tumor and began her chemotherapy treatments at Britton-field in East Syracuse. One day, as she was waiting for one of her treatments, she noticed a LIVESTRONG at the YMCA

brochure on the table next to her. She picked it up and started reading.

“It was funny, I was sitting there, thinking to myself, ‘gee, what if there was a program out there where people who were battling cancer or who battled cancer could get together for sup-port and workout’

When I looked down, saw the brochure and started reading it, I was amazed. What a Godsend.”

Since October of 2009, the YMCA of Greater Syracuse has offered the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA physical ac-tivity and well-being program. Over 100 cancer survivors have participated in the program which is offered at the three branches-Downtown, East Area Family YMCA, and the North Area Family YMCA. The program, which is free to YMCA members and non-members, addresses the special wants, needs and interests of cancer survivors. The programs and services have been developed for and with cancer survivors, which include services in the area of wellness and childcare.

Altieri began the Strive & Thrive Program at the

Eileen Altieri, 70, is a participant in the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA

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“Once you begin to feel better, there’s more hope, you feel more powerful and it

reinforces a positive attitude.”-Eileen Altieri

diet . exercise . education

How to make sure your gym is a ‘fit’

Whatever their preference, individuals should be sure an exercise facility can meet their fitness needs before becoming a member.

Running news

First-ever Empire State Marathon, Half Marathon held Oct. 16

The Empire State Marathon and Half Marathon’s inaugural debut is Oct. 16, 2011, in Syracuse and includes the New York State Health and Wellness Expo on Friday and Saturday Oct. 14 and 15.

Current divisions available for registrations include: Fire/Police/Emergency, Open Male, Open Fe-male and Open Mixed Relay. The race is hosted by Achieve Fitness LLC.

Achieve Fitness is a 12-year-old sports marketing, training and event company out of Phoenix, AZ. It has been a leader in training, event man-agement, travel, charity consulting and sports marketing.

Achieve Fitness LLC was one of the lead consultants for the success-ful PF Chang’ Rock n’ Roll Marathon in Phoenix, AZ. They are cur-rently the managing entity of First Marathon, First Triathlon Training Programs, the recently reacquired Valley of the Sun Marathon and Half Marathon and now the Empire State Marathon and Half Marathon.

For more information contact Brian Collins at empirestatemara-thon.com, by phone at 480-543-0008 or mail at 2733 Power Road, Ste 102-300, Mesa, AZ 85215.

What to look for in an exercise facility

When a person decides to make a commitment to a healthier lifestyle, that decision is often ac-companied by the decision to join a gym. Gyms can vary greatly. Some cater to specific activities, such as kick boxing or martial arts, while others are more general in scope, with weight training and cardiovascular equipment and access to per-sonal trainers.

Regardless of which type of facility an indi-vidual is hoping to join, certain external factors go a long way to dictating whether or not joining the gym will be a success. When looking for an ex-ercise facility, the following items should be taken into consideration before signing an agreement.Location

Even the most ardent of gym rats would say it helps a great deal to find a gym that’s conveniently located. If the gym is too far away or getting there requires sitting in heavy traffic, then men and women are much less likely to visit the gym as they would be to visit a gym that’s right down the street or easy to get to.

When looking for an exercise facility, find one that’s either close to home or close to the office (preferably both if you work close to home). For those who work far away from home, the gym’s location should ideally be closer to home to pro-mote working out on weekends when you won’t be anywhere near the office.Fellow members

Certain gyms might prove intimidating or uncomfortable because of their existing members. While the members themselves might be warm and friendly, those new to working out might be intimidated if everyone else in the building looks

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like a professional body-builder. In addition, women sometimes feel more com-fortable working out at an

all-female gym.Cost

The cost of gym mem-bership is arguably the

foremost consideration for many people when choos-ing a gym, especially since the economy remains large-

ly unpredictable. When looking for an exercise facility, inquire about mem-bership costs as well as any

initiation fees you may incur or discounts you may be eligible for. Because of the struggling economy, many gyms have waived or are open to waiving sign-up or initiation costs, which can cost in the hundreds of dollars at some facilities.

Also, when discussing cost with a facility employ-ee, ask if there are family discounts or if member-ships are reduced if fees are paid all at once instead of every month. For example, a gym might charge $600 annually ($50 per month), but give a 10 percent dis-count to any members who pay a year’s worth of dues at sign-up. When discussing membership costs, keep in mind many gyms are open to negotiation, but prospec-tive members must initiate any such negotiations.Membership rights

Many gyms boast dif-ferent types of member-ships. Some memberships are all-access and allow members to use the weight room, sauna, pool, etc. Other memberships might cost less but not offer as much access. For instance, a basic membership might offer access to the weight room and cardiovascular machines, but not to the pool or sauna. Choosing the right membership de-pends on the individual. For those who don’t swim and won’t enjoy a post-

workout steam, then the basic membership can save money while still meeting all of the desired needs. For those who want all-ac-cess, the more expensive membership might be more up your alley. Whichever membership is the better fit, be sure the membership agreement lists your rights as a member before signing any paperwork.Hours of operation

Some people prefer to workout before going to work, while others want to sleep in and exercise after a day at the office. Individuals should find a gym that fits their schedules and work-out preferences. It’s also good to inquire about holi-day hours of operation. A good gym won’t shut down entirely during a holiday, and instead stay open on at least a limited schedule.Equipment

Even those new to work-ing out should be able to tell if equipment is up-to-date or outdated. A gym with outdated equipment is best to avoid, as older equip-ment could increase risk of injury. A gym with the lat-est equipment is a gym that likely emphasizes giving its members the best possible environment in which to workout, and that’s impor-tant for all fitness enthu-siasts, but especially those who are just beginning.

East Area Family YMCA last April. Strive & Thrive is for adult cancer survivors who wish to build muscle strength, increase flexibility and endurance, improve overall functional ability, and reduce the severity of therapy side effects.

The program incorporates stretching, balance, core work and strength training and consists of six to eight participants.

“I was always active,” Altieri said. “When I started the program in April, I was very weak. I came in very thin and really needed to build muscle mass and strength.”

During her first few weeks of the program, Alt-ieri was only able to lift five-pound weights. By the end of the program in July, she was back lifting 15 pounds, her pre-illness weight, and bench-pressing 100 pounds.

“The support of the trainers at the Y is amazing,” said Altieri, who continues her workouts. “They push you in an encouraging way. They definitely encourage you to stretch yourself and do more. I walk out of there (the exercise room) on cloud nine.

“More importantly,” she added. “The sense of com-munity is what it’s all about. We are all here because of a commonality. But, we don’t talk about our illness. It’s all very positive. It’s just a magnificent program.”

Altieri said that her cancer is almost gone. Her lungs are clear and her liver is almost back to normal. And, she no longer thinks about the prognosis that the doctor gave her back in January.

“The LIVESTRONG Program at the Y has been beneficial to me in so many ways,” Altieri said. “Once you begin to feel better, there’s more hope, you feel more powerful and it reinforces a positive attitude. I feel so good, I forgot how I felt when I first came in.”

Judy Salamone is the membership and marketing director at the East Area Family YMCA. Judy has been a freelance writer and editor for the past 25 years.

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Seneca Federal an important part of the CNY community

Seneca Federal Savings and Loan Association, founded in 1928, has been supporting the Central New York community in many ways since it was founded.

“We’re fortunate to have the resources to pro-vide not only financial support, but also the hu-man resources required by charitable and civic organizations to carry out their most necessary work,” said Katrina Russo, president – CEO. “Wheth-er it’s scholarship funds, ‘Celebrate Baldwinsville,’ replacement of holiday decorations destroyed by vandals, financial support of such organizations as the volunteer fire depart-ments, youth sports, the Baldwinsville 100-year-old Lock celebration, Syra-cuse Home, or YMCA, our communities have always been able to count on Seneca Federal,” said Anna Custer, senior vice president.

Seneca Federal is cur-rently a member of the Baldwinsville Chamber of Commerce. Custer is a past president of the chamber, as well as a board member of the Baldwins-

ville Community Scholar-ship Foundation, Inc. and head of the student loan nursing fund for The Fe-male Charitable Society.

There are several other employees who similarly serve the CNY community in similar capacities. Lisa Hetko, branch manager, has recently joined the North Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and coor-dinates events such as the Making Strides against Breast Cancer walk, which Seneca Federal employees took part in again this year. She also spearheads the Costume for a Cause fundraiser at the Associa-tion.

“ This annual event takes place around Hal-loween and raises mon-etary and other appli-cable donations for a local cause,” Hetko said.

“We’re also proud of the financial services we provide to the Central New York community,” Russo said. “We want to actively participate in as-sisting households who have fallen victim to the sub-prime and adjustable rate mortgage market.”

“Concentrating on the needs of Central New Yorkers is what Seneca Federal is all about,” Russo concluded.

Lisa Hetko, branch manager at Seneca Federal, presents donations collected at this year’s Costume for a Cause to Chris Benton of Vera House.

Prostate cancer and the CyberKnifeHematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York is involved in a nationwide

study to assess the efficacy of the CyberKnife for the treatment of prostate cancer. Early evidence of CyberKnife prostate radiosurgery is very promising and comparable to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) – one of the current standards for treatment. In fact, the CyberKnife is revolutionizing prostate treatments. In addition to being more precise and as effective as IMRT, CyberKnife prostate ra-diosurgery is completed in five treatments, typically in one calendar week – as compared to 43 treatments or eight to ten weeks of IMRT. The CyberKnife provides a unique and promising treatment for early stage prostate cancer. For more information contact one of HOA’s radiation oncologists or physicists at 472-7504, visit hoacny.com or check out Can-cerBeware.com.

Hemotaology-Oncology Associates are the only provider of CyberKnife services in Central New York.

Springside residents enjoy active community

The residents of Springside at Seneca Hill can enjoy many fun and informative community programs brought right to their door on a regular basis. At the senior com-munity, whether it’s taking part in a creative writing program taught by a SUNY Oswego professor, or an osteoporosis exercise program, the nearly 70 residents have many programs available right where they live. Recently, there have been Health Information Workshops of-fered including those on nutrition and heart health.

In turn, community organiza-tions utilize Springside’s facilities when holding meetings and other functions in their grand dining room or library. Springside hosts between 40 and 50 events each year, for organizations including local service clubs, retiree groups, RSVP workshops, and SUNY-Os-wego. The facility is also often the location for many Oswego Health functions such as board meetings and social gatherings.

Then there are the ever popu-lar Soup Lovers luncheons held October through April the second Wednesday of the month. These luncheons, which are open to the public, attract nearly 200 indi-viduals each month. In addition

to the Soup Lovers events, there is an annual and strawberry festival held in mid-June and summertime hotdog lunch bars.

“These events keep our resi-dents connected with the com-munity,” said Vice President/COO Teresa Ferlito. “Their interest is always piqued as to what organiza-tion is using their beautiful facility for a meeting.”

Along with these outside groups, quarterly education programs are held for the residents. The selected presenters talk about a topic of interest to the residents, which would be either health-related or on a hobby. The presenters are typically local individuals. “These workshops encourage our resi-dents to use their talents and helps them maintain their social lives,” Ferlito said.

Springside at Seneca Hill offers both apartment living with sup-port services, and maintenance free duplexes and cottages for people age 62 and over. There are homes available now and anyone may contact the office for more information at 343-5658.

Springside at Seneca Hill is a not-for-profit organization and an affiliate of Oswego Health.

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Staff changes at Syracuse HomeStaff reports

Dave Horan, president of the Syracuse Home Foundation, recently an-nounced two major staff changes within the Foun-dation. Audrey Gibbs has been appointed director

of philanthropy and Kelly O’Neill-Rossi has been named director of develop-ment and marketing.

The restructuring plan will enable Gibbs to focus on major gifts and planned giving. She was the director of development and public

relations at the Syracuse Home Foundation for the past 15 years. A graduate of Vermont/Norwich Uni-versity at Montpelier, Ver-mont, she held positions in several local organizations including: director of an-nual giving at Crouse Hos-

pital Foundation; director of major gifts and planned giving at the United Way of Central New York; and director of development at the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Gibbs has resided in Baldwinsville for more than

20 years with her husband, John and two children. She is a former board mem-ber of the YMCA and has served on various commit-tees and PTA’s within the Baldwinsville School Dis-trict. She also volunteers for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and is a member of the Associa-tion of Fundraising Profes-sionals and Association of Healthcare Professionals.

O’Neill-Rossi will focus on fundraising, community relations and marketing. She was previously the volunteer coordinator at Syracuse Home. Prior to that, she held positions in several local organizations including: director of devel-opment and public relations at Hope for Bereaved, Inc.; and associate director of the CNY Children’s Miracle Network at Upstate Medical University Foundation. She holds a bachelor of science degree in communications from Brockport State Col-lege.

O’Neill-Rossi resides in Baldwinsville with her husband, Michael and three children. She is currently an advisory board member at Maureen’s Hope Founda-tion and past vice president of Van Buren Elementary

PTA. O’Neill-Rossi also volunteers her time as a development consultant to help small not-for-profit agencies assess their cur-rent development efforts and create new and in-novative strategies for the future.

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67-38 victory.Playing at a fast pace, J-E was

strong on the offensive end in the first half, working its way to a 42-25 lead. As if that wasn’t enough, the Eagles held Marcellus to two points in the third quarter, all but putting the game away.

Hourigan earned 19 points, adding 11 blocks and 16 rebounds. In five games this season, she has earned three triple-doubles.

And Hourigan didn’t work alone, as Kali Davis finished with 13 points and Natalie Andrianos had a season-best 10 points. Kelsey Richardson had nine points and Grace Dungey contributed eight points. Marcellus saw Emily Bris-sette earn 12 points and Melissa Lee add 10 points.

West Genesee beat Fulton 53-

41 in the other part of the opening round. A 15-7 first quarter set the tone as WG eventually gained a 46-30 lead through three periods. Fumano continued to impress in her freshman campaign, earning 22 points as Temara added 10 points.

Marcellus recovered from the J-E loss to beat Fulton 60-47 in the consolation game. Two big runs – a 17-6 tear through the first quarter, then a 21-11 opening to the second half – made the difference as Lee gained 19 points and Brissette added 14 points and Jessie Nye picked up seven points.

Westhill, who entered the week no. 12 in the state Class B poll, played in the Oswego Tournament – and suffered its first defeat of the season last Tuesday night, falling to Class AA power Fayetteville-Manlius 50-45.

A high-scoring first quarter saw

the Warriors move in front 18-16. But it managed just 15 points in the next two periods against an inspired F-M defense as the Hor-nets worked its way to a 40-33 lead, then held on down the stretch.

Again, the Warriors got little offense beyond Ashley Cianfriglia, who had 20 points (including three 3-pointers), and Anna Ross, who got 16 points. F-M had a bit more depth, with Charlotte Beers (16 points) and Ali Pliszka (14 points) in front and two others, Alexis Rios (eight points) and Kiley Shoe-maker (six points), close behind.

Bouncing back on Wednesday, Westhill beat Oswego 61-48 – and finally got major production out-side of its vaunted backcourt as it used a 19-10 surge through the second quarter to move ahead for good.

Sam Peebles hit on a trio of 3-pointers, accounting for most

of her 15 points as she took pres-sure off Cianfriglia, who earned 20 points, and Ross, who got 15 points of her own.

Solvay did not have any tour-nament – but when it made up its snowed-out Dec. 7 opener against Phoenix, it struggled in a 44-34 loss.

Without Abbey Jones in the lineup, the Bearcats could only watch as the Firebirds kept adding to its margin over the course of the game – this despite Tessa Pucello dropping in 20 points.

Outside of Pucello, Solvay man-aged just six field goals. Phoenix, meanwhile, spread things out as Sarah Bregg (10 points), Kaylee May (nine points), Meghan Barry and Alyssa Cassano (eight points each) all made solid contribu-tions.

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prepares herself for college by taking rigorous courses each year. She will have taken four AP courses and one SUPA class upon graduation. She has been on the high honor every marking period since sixth grade.

Brianna is also involved in many extracurriculars. A cellist since third grade, Brianna qualified for symphony her senior year. Brianna was captain of the varsity soccer team this year, and has been a mem-ber of the varsity track team since eighth grade.

Brianna had the honor of traveling to Brazil two summers ago through the People to People organiza-tion. Brianna is interested in the medical field and volunteered at Crouse Hospital last summer.

She is also a member of the Scrabble League at West Genesee.

Brianna is not sure where she will attend college next year, but she hopes to major in biology.

Brianna is the daughter of Bob McGraw and Mary Ann Russo.

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Brianna McGraw

the end of the first period. Dave Breuer, at 189, and A.J. Knickerbocker, at 215, both claimed forfeits, as did Ruggles and Mike Perry.

West Genesee went to Central Square’s Brett Dix-on Memorial Duals and fared quite well, going 3-2 to share fifth place in the 10-team field as Holland Patent (5-0) was the only undefeated entry.

The Wildcats lost its first two matches, to Vestal 54-26 and to the host Red Hawks 64-18, but roared back with three straight wins as it beat Fayetteville-Manlius 41-28, routed Ly-ons 63-18 and handled Port Byron 46-34. Matt Nichols, at 171 pounds, was named WG’s Most Outstanding Wrestler.

Jordan-Elbridge, also in the Dixon meet, went 2-3. Derrick Cheney, at 160/171 pounds, earned top honors for the Eagles as it beat Port Byron 49-21 and Lyons 36-27, but lost to Holland Pat-ent 72-6, Cazenovia 45-30 and East Syracuse-Minoa 38-28.

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ObituariesWilliam R. Mulvaney, 78Owner of Mulvaney Packaging & Supply Co.

William “Bill” R. Mulvaney, 78, of El-bridge, passed away Saturday Dec. 25, 2010, at University Hospital, Syracuse, surround-ed by his loving family. He was born March 28, 1932, in Boston, MA., a son of the late Thomas E. and Eileen (Aylward) Mulvaney. Bill graduated from Boston College High School. He was a sergeant at Sampson Air Force Hospital, Geneva, where he met his future wife, Mary Ann Bolich. They were married at St. Patrick’s Church in Seneca Falls on June 12, 1954, and moved to Syra-cuse and later to Baldwinsville to raise their family. Bill was the owner of Mulvaney Packaging & Supply Co.

He was a fourth degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus Council #5082. One of Bill’s greatest pleasures was organizing the Knights of Columbus annual Christmas party. He also enjoyed the “Thursday Night Prayer Group.” Bill was a eucharistic minis-ter for the hospitalized, a lector for St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Baldwinsville and also helped with the food pantry at St. Patrick’s Church in Jordan. He had a great sense of humor and shared words of wisdom with others. Bill had a strong faith and was a living example for his children. He was a wonderful husband, father and

grandfather. Bill was predeceased

by his wife of 56 years, Mary Ann. He is sur-vived by his seven chil-dren, Colleen Mulvaney, Sharon (Jack) Flanagan, Sean Mulvaney, Dion (Laurie) Mulvaney, Bri-an Mulvaney, Eileen (James) Stanistreet and Erin (Anthony) Agresta; sister Marie Melanson; sisters-in-law Katherine Mulvaney and Grace Mulvaney; 12 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

A mass of Christian burial: 10 a.m. Wednesday Dec. 29 at St. Mary of the As-sumption Church in Baldwinsville. Calling hours: 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 28 at Bush Funeral Home, 120 E. Main Street (Rte. 5), Elbridge, NY.

Contributions may be made to The National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, 2 Prospect Hill Rd., Stockbridge, MA 01262 or the Knights of Columbus Council #5082, P.O. Box 656, Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027-0656.

William R. Mulvaney

Richard J. Knobloch, 88Former Jordan resident

Richard J. Knobloch 88, of Lowville, formerly of Jordan went to be with the Lord Dec. 23, 2010, surrounded by his loving fam-ily. Born in town of VanBuren, Richard lived in Jordan for sev-eral years before moving to the Watertown area. A 1941 graduate of Jordan High School, Richard served in the Navy from 1942 to 1946. He was employed at Conrail for several years before retiring in 1976 due to a disability. He was an avid photographer who had several photos published in the Syracuse newspapers. Richard loved the outdoors and fishing. He was a member of Christ Church, Jordan.

He was predeceased by his parents John and Ruth Cooper Knobloch, bother Bernard and sister Anita Ashby. Surviving are two sons Terry of Warners and Richard F. of Oswego, a daughter Elizabeth (Ann) Creighton of Lorraine, NY, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Services: 1 p.m. Monday Dec. 27 at the Bush Funeral Home 120 E. Main St. (Route 5) Elbridge with the Rev. Terry Fenton officiating. Spring burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Friends are invited to call 11am to 1pm Monday prior to the services.

Richard J. Knobloch

Esther B. Lamoreaux, 86Wife and mother

Esther B. Mathew Lamor-eaux, 86, of Syracuse passed away Sunday Dec. 26, 2010, at VanDuyn Home & Hospi-tal. She was born in Dorset, VT, and resided in Syracuse for many years. She was a housewife and also worked at Schuler’s Chips, Cato Show Print and Peerless Press. Es-ther was predeceased by her husband, Corwin in 1986 and son Francis C. in 2007.

Survivors: her daughters; Linda Ann (James) Baxter of Geddes and Ann Marie (Mark) Cain of Georgia.

Services: There will be no services or calling hours per Esther’s wishes.

Contributions: Lakeside Fire Dept., 1002 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse, NY 13209.

Thomas F. Dowling, 86Enjoyed fishing, tennis, playing cards

Thomas F. Dowling, 86, of Camillus, passed away peacefully on Fri-day Dec. 24, 2010, at James Square Health & Rehabilitation Cen-tre. Born in Manhattan on Tuesday Nov. 25, 1924, he was the son of John Dowling and Mary Hayden Dowling. He lived in Camillus since 1976. Tom was employed by Nationwide Insurance Co. for 35 years, retiring in 1988. He was a Navy veteran of WWII and communicant of Holy Family Church. He enjoyed fishing, tennis and playing cards. He was quick-witted and many enjoyed his sense of humor.

Tom was predeceased by his daughter, Theresa.

Surviving are his wife of 60 years, the former Agatha Bonafede; daughters, Mary-anne K. Dowling of Camillus and Joanie G. Dowling-Kell of Rush; sons, James J. Dowl-

ing of Brooklyn and Thomas M. Dowling of Lebanon, New Jersey; grandsons, Justen and Shawn Dowling; sister, Sister Clare Dowling of Long Island City; sister-in-law, Clare Dowling of New Jersey; many nieces and nephews; and granddogs.

A special thank you to the staff at James Square for their fine care and friendship.

Relatives and friends called from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday Dec. 27 at the Buranich Fu-neral Home, 5431 W. Genesee St., Camillus. Services followed at 7 p.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Charles Bratt officiating. Private burial was at Greenlawn Cemetery, Warners.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association of CNY, 441 W. Kirkpatrick St., Syracuse, NY 13204, St. Charles Borromeo Church Food Pantry, 417 S. Orchard Rd., Syracuse, NY 13219, SPCA, 5878 E. Molloy Rd., Mattydale, NY 13211 or to Parkinson’s Disease Foun-dation, c/o Upstate Medical University Foundation, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210.

Thomas F. Dowling

Frederick G. Homeyer, 93Lifetime Camillus resident

Frederick G. Homeyer, 93, of Syracuse, passed away Friday, December 24, 2010 at Loretto. Born in Syracuse on Monday Sept. 10, 1917, he was the son of Conrad Ho-meyer and Mary “Mae” Corrigan Homeyer. A lifetime resident of Camillus, he was an Army Air Corps veteran of WWII.

Fred was employed for 42 years by Crouse-Hinds. He was a communicant of Holy Family Church and member of the Holy Name Society. He was also a member of the Pastime Athletic Club.

Fred’s wife, the former Mary Louise Lynch, died Dec. 31, 2000.

Surviving are his sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas Homeyer of Tully, Michael and Clara of Homeyer of Skaneateles and Richard and Karen Homeyer of Camillus; grandchildren, Michael, Jennifer, Chris-tina, Patrick, Matthew and Ryan.

Relatives and friends called from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday Dec. 27 at the Buranich Funeral Home, 5431 W. Genesee St., Camillus. Services were at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday Dec. 28 at the funeral home and at 10 a.m. in Holy Family Church where Rev. Richard P. Prior Jr. and Deacon Nick Alvaro celebrated a funeral Mass. Fred was laid to rest in Greenlawn Cemetery, Warners.

Contributions may be made to Holy Family Church, 127 Chapel Dr., Syracuse, NY 13219.

Please share condolences at buranichfu-neralhome.com.

Frederick G. Homeyer

Daniel R. Moore, Sr., 67Husband, father, grandfather

Lillian Reeves, 93Retired county records clerk

Lillian Hatch Reeves, 93, of Jordan died Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, at home with her family at her side. Born in Solvay, the daughter of John and Ruth Bryers Hatch, Lillian lived in the Jordan area since 1943. She was the widow of Richard Reeves who died in 1991.

Lillian was a 1935 graduate of Solvay High School. She retired in 1982 as a re-cords clerk in the Onondaga County Clerk’s office. Lillian was a long time member of the First Baptist Church, Jordan and a member of the former Elbridge Grange 220.

She was predeceased by her parents, three brothers George, Nelson and Ber-nard, three sisters Norma Watkins, Shirley Colella, and Evelyn Lydon.

Surviving are a son John R. (Deborah) Reeves of Jordan, two daughters Carol R. (Phillip) Hubbell of Liverpool, and Doreen E. (Ken) Maute of Jordan, a sister Elva

Cavedine of Syracuse, seven grandchildren, three great-grandchil-dren, two brothers-in-law Harold Reeves of W.Va. and Sam Colella of Oneida, three sis-ters–in-law Elizabeth Champion of Ind., Rena Hatch of Solvay and Marion Hatch of MD, several nieces and nephews.

Services: 11 a.m. Monday Jan. 3 in the First Baptist Church of Jordan. Spring burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery. Friends are invited to call 2-4 p.m. Sunday Jan. 2 at the Bush Funeral Home, 120 E. Main St. (Route 5) Elbridge. Contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 605, Jordan, 13080.

Daniel R. Moore, Sr., 67, of Fairmount, died Sunday Dec. 26, 2101, at Community General Hospital. Born in Syra-cuse he had worked for John King Landscapers and Riverview Cem-etery. Dan was prede-ceased by his brother Wayne in April and his mother Betty in August.

Surviving are his wife of 42 years Pamela (Hamacher); four sons Daniel Richard Moore, Jr, Phillip Joseph Moore, Paul James Moore and Robert Charles Moore; two sis-ters Carleen Calkins and Suzanne Soutar; seven grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held in spring in Belle Isle Cemetery. Arrangements by the B.L. Bush & Sons Funeral Home in Camillus.

Please sign his guestbook at blbush.com.

Lillian Reeves

Daniel R. Moore, Sr.

Please send obituaries to [email protected].


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NOTICE OFFORMATION

OFMGKP, LLC

(Under Section 206 of theLimited LiabilityCompany Law)

1.The name of the limitedliability company is MGKP,LLC. 2.The date of filing ofthe articles of organizationwith the New York Secretaryof State was July 23, 2009.The articles of organizationbecame effective on that date.

3.The office of the limitedliability company is locatedin Onondaga County at 3922Fennell Street, Skaneateles,New York 13152.

4.The New YorkSecretary of State has beendesignated as agent of thelimited liability companyupon whom process againstit may be served. TheSecretary shall mail a copy ofany process served to thelimited liability company atthe following address: POBox 70, 3922 Fennell Street,Skaneateles, New York13152.

5.The purpose of thelimited liability companyshall be to transact any andall business which may betransacted legally by alimited liability companypursuant to the New YorkLimited Liability CompanyLaw.

SK-1NOTICE OF

FORMATIONNotice of Formation ofNicePowerUSA, LLC.

Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy.Of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/2010. Office in OnondagaCo. SSNY designated asagent of LLC upon whomprocess may be served. SSNYshall mail copy of process toPO Box 995 Tully, NY13159. Principal Businesslocation:3965 Bailer Road,Syracuse, NY 13215. Anylawful purpose.

EO-2LEGAL NOTICELegal Notice of

Formation of LLC. Robin’sSong Too, LLC (LLC) filedArts. of Org. with Secy. ofState of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/2010. Office location:Onondaga County. SSNYdesignated as agent of theLLC upon whom process maybe served and SSNY shallmail process to c/o Gerald F.Stack, Esq., Hiscock &Barclay, LLP, 300 SouthState Street, Syracuse, NY13202. Purpose: anybusiness permitted underlaw.

EO-2NOTICE OF

FORMATIONNotice of Formation of a

Limited Liability Company(LLC): Name: BAPSSyracuse, LLC, Applicationfor Authority filed with theSecretary of State of New York(SSNY) on 11/28/2007.Jurisdiction and Date ofFormation: Delaware, 11/07/2007. Office location:Onondaga County. SSNYhas been designated as agentof the LLC upon whomprocess against it may beserved. SSNY shall mail acopy of process to: 81Suttons Lane, Piscataway, NJ08854. Address inJurisdiction of Formation:344 Churchmans Rd, NewCastle, DE 19720. LLC is inexistence in its jurisdictionof formation at the time offiling of this application. Name and Address ofSecretary of State inJurisdiction of Formation: DE Secretary of State,Division of Corporations,401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover,DE 19901.

EO-3Notice of FormationNotice of Formation of

CHADES’S GARAGEDOOR SERVICE, LLCArticles of Organization filedwith Secy. of State OF NY(SSNY) on 12/6/2010. Officelocation: Onondaga County.SSNY designated as agent ofLLC upon whom processagainst it may be served.SSNY shall mail process to:c/o Chad C. Etienne, 225Emann Dr., Camillus, NY13031. Purpose: any lawfulactivities. Latest date uponwhich LLC is to dissolve:no specific date.

EO-3

NOTICE OF FILING OFARTICLES OF

ORGANIZATIONOF RYAN PHELPS AUTO

SALES LLC1.Name: Ryan Phelps

Auto Sales LLC (the “LLC”)2.Date Filed: December 2,2010 3.County of Office:Onondaga 4.The Secretary ofState has been designated asagent of the LLC upon whomprocess against it may beserved. The street address ofthe principal businesslocation and the address towhich process shall be mailedis c/o the LLC, 6 Route 31,Jordan, New York, 13060.

5.Purpose: Any lawfulbusiness not statutorilyprohibited.

EO-3NOTICE

Name of LLC: RSS TAX& ADVISORY, LLC.Articles of Organization filedwith NY Dept. of State on12/6/2010. Office location:Onondaga County. Sec. ofState designated as agent ofLLC upon whom processagainst it may be served andshall mail process to principalbusiness location: 397Route 281, P.O. Box 430,Tully, NY 13159. Purpose:any lawful activity.

EO-4NOTICE OF

FORMATIONNotice of Formation of

Cakes by Michele, LLC, adomestic Limited LiabilityCompany (LLC). Article ofOrganization filed withSecretary of State on 11/23/10. NY Office location:Onondaga County. Secretaryof State is designated as agentupon whom process againstthe LLC may be served. Secretary of State shall mail acopy of any process againstthe LLC served upon him/her to c/o Michele Swindell,312 Second Street, Solvay,NY 13209. Purpose: Anylawful activity.

EO-4LEGAL NOTICEI, Patricia J. Fletcher,

having received the tax rolland warrant for the collectionof taxes for the Town ofCamillus, County ofOnondaga, State of NewYork, will receive paymentof same from January 3, 2011– January 31, 2011 – at nopenalty. February 1, 2011 –March 1, 2011 – at 1%penalty, March 2, 2011 -March 14, 2011 at 1.50%penalty, March 15, 2011 -March 31, 2011 at 1.50%penalty, plus $1.00 cost ofsecond notice. Payments willbe received at the CamillusMunicipal Building, 4600West Genesee Street,Syracuse, New York, 13219,Room 112. Office hours are8:30 A.M. to 4:30P.M.MONDAY thru FRIDAY.From April 1, 2011 - April29, 2011 payments must bemade to the County FinanceDepartment for the entirebalance, at the OnondagaCounty Civic Center, P.O.Box 1004, Syracuse, NewYork 13201-1004

PATRICIA J.FLETCHER, Receiver ofTaxes, Town of Camillus

EO-1TOWN OF OTISCO

TAX NOTICETAKE NOTICE that I,

Cheryl Brunet, Tax Collectorfor the town of Otisco, inOnondaga County in theState of New York, havereceived the tax roll andwarrant for the collection oftaxes within the Town ofOtisco for the year 2011.Taxes may be paid in personto me at the Town Hall, 1924Barker St. or mailed to thesame address.

I will be available forpayments in person duringthe months of January,February and March at thefollowing times:

Wednesday 4:00 to 7:00pm

Thursday 8:00 to 10:00am

Saturday 9:00 to 11:00am

I will also be at the TownHall on:

Friday 12/31 - 9:00 amto 12:00 pm

Monday 1/31 - 3:00 to7:00 pm

Monday 2/28 - 3:00 to7:00 pm

Thursday 3/31 - 3:00 to7:00 pm

TAKE FURTHERNOTICE that taxes may bepaid on or before January 31,2011 without charge orinterest. On all taxes receivedafter such date, there shall bea 1% interest added for themonth of February. There willbe an additional ½% interestadded for the month of March.After March 15, 2011 therewill also be a $2.00 fee for asecond notice to be sent.

TAKE FURTHERNOTICE that pursuant to theprovisions of the law, the taxroll of the Town of Otiscowill be returned to theCounty of Onondaga onApril 1, 2011.

Cheryl BrunetTax CollectorTown of Otisco

SK-1LEGAL NOTICEI, Patricia J. Fletcher,

having received the tax rolland warrant for the collectionof taxes for the Town ofCamillus, County ofOnondaga, State of NewYork, will receive paymentof same from January 3, 2011– January 31, 2011 – at nopenalty. February 1, 2011 –March 1, 2011 – at 1%penalty, March 2, 2011 -March 14, 2011 at 1.50%penalty, March 15, 2011 -March 31, 2011 at 1.50%penalty, plus $1.00 cost ofsecond notice. Payments willbe received at the CamillusMunicipal Building, 4600West Genesee Street,Syracuse, New York, 13219,Room 112. Office hours are8:30 A.M. to 4:30P.M.MONDAY thru FRIDAY.From April 1, 2011 - April29, 2011 payments must bemade to the County FinanceDepartment for the entirebalance, at the OnondagaCounty Civic Center, P.O.Box 1004, Syracuse, NewYork 13201-1004

PATRICIA J.FLETCHER, Receiver ofTaxes, Town of Camillus

EO-1TOWN OF MARCELLUS

NOTICE OF RECEIPTOF

TAX ROLL ANDWARRANTNOTICE OF

COLLECTIONThe undersigned Tax

Collector of the Town ofMarcellus, New York,having received the Tax Rolland Warrant, will receivetaxes, without penalty, at theMarcellus Town Hall, 24East Main Street, Marcellus,NY from January 4, 2011,through January 31, 2011,Tuesday through Friday,9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., as wellas, Monday, January 31,2011, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noonand 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Beginning February 1,2011 through February 28,2011, taxes will be collectedwith penalties at 1 percent(1%), Tuesdays andThursdays, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00noon and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00p.m., as well as, Monday,February 28, 2011, 9:00 a.m.to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m.to 3:00 p.m.

Beginning March 1,2011 through March 31,2011, taxes will be collectedwith penalties at 1.5 percent(1.5%), Tuesdays andThursdays, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00noon and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00p.m.

If taxes are unpaid as ofMarch 15, 2011, a secondnotice of taxes due isprocessed and an additionalcharge of two dollars ($2.00)will be levied and becomepart of the taxes due.

Beginning April 1, 2011,all unpaid taxes are returnedto the Onondaga CountyDepartment of Finance,Syracuse, NY.

Elaine M. PotterTax CollectorTown of Marcellus

EO-2Legal Notice

Please be advised, theTown of Spafford FireCommissioners will beholding their annualOrganization Meeting, at theBorodino Fire Station, 2500Nunnery Road, in the Townof Spafford, Thursday, January6th, 2011. The meeting will beheld commencing at 7:00pm.

Sandy WiseDistrict Secretary

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NOTICE OFFORMATION

NOTICE OFFORMATION of Joe’s DeliWashington Street, LLC. Art.of Org. filed with NYSecretary of State (SSNY) 11/12/10. Office location:Onondaga County. SSNYdesignated as agent of LLCupon whom process may beserved. SSNY shall mail copyof process to: 3100 WestSeneca Turnpike, Marcellus,NY 13108. Purpose: Anylawful activity.

EO-52

Notice of FormationNotice of Formation of

KJHP PROPERTIES LLC, adomestic Limited LiabilityCompany (LLC). Articles ofOrganization filed withSecretary of State on 9/24/10. NY Office location:ONONDAGA County.Secretary of State isdesignated as agent uponwhom process against theLLC may be served. Secretaryof State shall mail a copy ofany process against the LLCserved upon him/her to C/OR. KEVIN JOHNSON, P.O.BOX 10, CAMILLUS, NY13031. Purpose: Any lawfulpurpose.

EO-52TOWN OF ELBRIDGE

LEGAL NOTICEI, Debra H. Stapleton,

having received the 2011 taxroll and warrant for thecollection of taxes for theTown of Elbridge, OnondagaCounty, State of New York,will receive payment for sameduring the month of January(January 1-January 31, 2011)without fee, also 50PERCENT partial paymentsaccepted in January only; themonth of February (February1- February 28,) add onepercent fee (1%); the month ofMarch (March 1- March 31)add one and one half percentfee (1½ %). Taxes will becollected through March 31,2011. If a second notice issent on March 14th, you mustadd an additional $1.00 toyour tax payment collected(March 15- March 31). Taxeswill be collected Mondaythrough Friday from 9:00AM to 4:30 PM at the TownClerk’s Office, 5 Route 31,Jordan, NY. The TownClerk’s Office will be closedweekends, and legalholidays. Unpaid taxes afterMarch 31, 2011 will bereturned to the OnondagaCounty Chief Fiscal Officer,John H. Mulroy Civic Center,15th Floor, 421 MontgomeryStreet, Syracuse, NY 13201,where delinquent taxes maybe paid.

EO-2Town of Spafford NoticeOf Receipt of Tax Roll

and WarrantThe Town of Spafford

Taxes will be collected atSpafford Town Hall, 1984RTE 174,

Borodino, New YorkEvery Saturday beginningJanuary 8th thru February 1,2010, 9:00 Am to noon andMonday and Thursdayevenings from 7:00PM to9:00 PM including January3rd and 6th, 10th, 13th, 20th, 24th

and 31st inclusive at no fee.If you wish to pay in the

current year, your check mustbe post marked by December31st, 2010.

Starting February 1,2010 taxes will be collectedat the Spafford Town Hallevery Saturday beginningFebruary 5th through March26th with fees for February atone percent, fees for March atone and one half percent.

After March 31st, 2010all unpaid taxes are returnedto the Onondaga CountyChief Fiscal Officer, Civiccenter, 15th floor, PO Box1004, Syracuse NY 13201-1004. Fees at six percent andincrease each month untiltaxes are paid.

If taxes are unpaid as ofMarch 15th, a second notice oftaxes due will be processed:an additional charge of onedollar (1.00) will be leviedand become a part of theamount due.

Ann M. WarnerTax CollectorTown of Spafford

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Camillus Elks news

Elks memorialize passed members

Submitted by Tom KinsellaEsteemed Leading Knight

The Camillus Elks hosted the families of members who have passed during their annual Memorial Sunday service. Current Elks State Vice President for the Ontario District Don Fittipaldi described the his-tory and purpose of Memorial Sunday while Lodge Secretary and Past State Vice President Richard Flaherty read the names of all deceased Lodge members.

New York State Assemblyman of the

124th district Will Barkley spoke of the importance of community service and volunteerism which the passed members had so exemplified. Elks Past Grand Ex-alted Ruler of the Ontario District Irene Pashley delivered the Eleven O’Clock toast, an Elks tradition which pays tribute to past members. The Tom Dooley Choraliers complimented the service with Amazing Grace, Auld Lang Syne, God Bless America and The Irish Blessing. A reception was held immediately following the service for family members.

Submitted photo

Lisa Welch, director of the Tom Dooley Choraliers, leads the group during the Elks Memorial Sunday service.

for the increase. The county chose to phase out by 2013 its sharing of millions of dol-lars in sales tax revenue with towns, which most towns had used to offset the county tax. Villages had taken the money in cash, so their county taxes will not increase.

County officials, however, point to the state.

“The reasoning for this is the ever in-creasing state mandates that the New York State Legislature passes down to counties for federal and state programs, that are not fully funded by the state and federal government, and that the county has no control over,” said county legislator Bob Warner, representing Van Buren, Elbridge and portions of Camilus, in a letter to the Observer. He sited a steep increase in costs for Medicaid, toward which the county now pays close to $100 million per year.

Town of Elbridge Supervisor Ken Bush said the line item labeled “state mandated costs” should be labeled as a county tax.

“It doesn’t say county tax on it,” Bush said. “We send the bills out in the towns and [residents] come [to town hall] to pay the bill. They look at the bottom line.”

In Camillus, combined taxes went up 15.5 percent, from $756 to $873 per $100,000. That factors in a local tax de-crease of 5.74 percent, which officials noted as the second largest tax decrease

in 20 years.The town of Marcellus’s combined

property tax rate increased 16.7 percent, factoring in a local tax decrease of 10 cents per $1,000 assessed value.

Onondaga County Legislature Chair-man James Rhinehart commended the Marcellus Town Board at its December meeting for keeping its local property tax down. He said the increase in the county tax for Marcellus is not only due to in-creases in state mandated costs, but also the new tax formula, which assesses towns based on their property value rather than population.

The same applies for Elbridge and Ca-millus.

“We’re a poorer assessed town, so we’re getting less credit even,” Bush said.

Marcellus Town Supervisor Dan Ross said the town used to get around $1 million to offset county property taxes, but this year received around $300,000.

Some towns, like Clay and Van Buren, elected to take the remaining sales tax revenue in cash to use for town purposes. Marcellus chose to continue to use it as a credit against the county tax.

“I was concerned about the looming property tax gap,” Ross said, adding that he didn’t want to artificially lower the town tax with county sales tax revenue that wouldn’t be there in 2013.

“By formula, it’s going away,” he said.

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Company on Main Street, Curtin said.Lower Crown demo permit issued

William Lucchetti, owner of the Lower Crown Mill building, recently provided Marcellus codes enforcement officer Bill Reagan with a copy of an asbestos survey done on the North Street property. The survey came up clean.

The building’s north and west wings were condemned by the village board in August.

“A demolition permit has been issued … and according to our codes officer,

the building should be down within four months,” Curtin said.

Residents request reduced speed limitMayor John Curtin noted concerns of

Reed Street residents related to the finished reconstruction, and overall improvement, of the road. Residents suggested a decrease in the speed limit to 25 mph and the addi-tion of a stop sign at Reed and Kelly (going west). Both would require increased police patrol in the area.

The board is interested in hearing feedback from residents on the measures proposed.

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