December 31,1986
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r • December 31, 1986 Vol. XXX. No. 54 The weekly newspaper serving the towns of Bethlehem and New Scotland •: Family traditions bring the holidays home By Lorraine C. Smith family, the birth of a tradition began with started passing the candlesticks around, ilver icicles, still sparkling, the death of their parents, the death of and what started out as a joke evolved as •• now but a carpet trail of their father just two years after their the perfect solution. The one who hosts Christmas past. The candles, mother. In years past, the two brothers Thanksgivingdinnerhasthecandlesticks_ last week tall, slender, and two sisters had always gathered all year long. fragrant...S low, spent, but a suggestion of together at their parents' home for Now Thanksgiving and the candlestick holiday's flicker. Falling needles from Thanksgiving. tradition bring bring the four children the tree, leftover cakes, the decorations ... At the table, always, there had been the and their families from Rome, from one by one the lights grow dim. silver candlesticks. When their mother Rochester,from Buffalo and Slingerlands, died, an aunt had expressed interest in together. Already, the next generation, bringing them to her house. Their father their children, talk of exchanging the Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah. had said no, he wanted to keep them in candlesticks when the reunions become Another year, again, with only memories his home. Then when he died, the their tum. to bum brightlyoffamilytradition. With l a foundation of religious observance, children wondered, What do we do with For Betty and Alan Guard of the candlesticks? Delmar, the leave taking of r nativity scenes, festival of lights, family reunions, favorite foods it is our "Nobody would say they wanted them. theirfive children introduced L \·'- reflection ori individual customs that They had been important to Mother.. thelf annual gift of tree become the holiday itself. because it belonged to her mother. She ornaments. Inscribing the '' { used them only occasionally on Friday year, the Guards present a handmade tree night," Whiting recalled. She described decoration, perhaps smocked, maybe How are traditions begun? How long the significance of their continued yearly cross stitched, quilted, something does a family continue Jjtual? What is meaningful to those of us, reliving part of family reunion, ''Once that nucleus is admired during the year. our past - some with origins unknown gone -your parents are always there -it Also at the Guards, for more than 30 .,-· attaching significance . · to our became more important for us to come years, the Santa Claus mugs are celebrations, to our futUre, each winter? together." unpacked and used again. Originally For Shari Kaplan Whiting and her The brothers and sisters jokingly (Turn to Page 13) Civic center ready for construction A lesson By voice vote with the nays part of a routine agenda during a ations that include an annual $1.5 and federal environmental rules learned overpowered, Albany County half-hour meeting last week. million amount from the county governing health hazards because legislators have authorized pay One of the items, a $310,000 operating budget). air-borne asbestos fibers are By Patricia Mitchell ments totaling $2.2 million for contract with Clough Harbour In addition to the Clough linked with respiratory ailments State Health Department officials property on the site of the county and Associates for inspection and Harbour contract, which covers and cancer. have learned a lesson .)n civic center, making its construction testing services during the center quality control inspections during A $89,693 contract went to Voorheesville. start in January a virtual construction, was protested by the two-year estimated construction Cristo Demolition Inc. of Albany A new approach to release certainty. Minority Leader W. Gordon time, the county legislature for demolition of 12 buildings on results of radon tests in the Town The legislators also approved Morris, Jr., of Delmar. But his approved contracts for asbestos the site after the asbestos has been of Schodack is apparently the four contracts related to the center' protest went unanswered and the removal and the demOlition of removed. result of the department's handling construction, which will be authorizing resolution, like the buildings on the center site, and A $150,000 per year contract of the release of similar testing in partially financed by a $35 million others, was approved by voice authorized a contract for parking was approved for leasing .330 the village, said Mayor Edward bond sale negotiated ·two weeks vote over Republican dissenters. spaces needed by state workers parking spaces from Maiden Lane Clark. ln November, the Health ago with Dillon-Reade Inc., a "This appears to be another who will be ousted from their Auto Park. That contract carries Department came under fire when New York City financial firm. $310,000 that is increasing the cost parking spaces on the site. out an agreement between the it released the results of a canister Although the 15,000-seat center of the civic center to the people of A $17,777 contract went to county and state under which the test immediately after village to be built in downtown Albany Albany County," Morris said. AAC Contracting Inc. of Rochester county buys land from the state residents learned the results and has generated long and loud (The civic center cost is estimated for the removal of asbestos pipe about five acres on the civic center before they had a chance to digest legislative debates, the county at $42.5 million to be financed by coverings and ceiling tiles in site- and in return leases parking them, and held a public meeting lawmakers handled the wind the bond sale, a $6.5 million state buildings on the construction site. • (Turn to page 3) (Turn to Page 10) down authorizations quietly as loan, and county budget appropri- The removal is required by state The home of Mr. and Mrs John Vanderpoel on Rt. 9W in Glenmont, left, won first place place in the commercial division in the contest sponsored by the Bethlehem Chamber of in the residential category of the 1986 Holiday Decorating Contest. The working model Commerce and the Bethlehem Garden Club. For a list of other winners, see story on Page railroad display by the Delmar Bootery and Gail Sundling at the Four Corners won first 3. Lynn Finley photos ~~ ~. ' --1~ : ">." • ,;~- ) ·, ·--' Y{(])liJ <CAN1r Wll§IHI IffiA<COC • • • ,-:' Good Friends ~- ) "• Don't Let .. ~ ;, Drunk \' ; ~ Friends Drive ~ ~ ...- .J This message sponsored by:.,...-..,....--------------..,.-----'---------- LEON.ARDO ERA BUTLER & BROWN, INC. JOHN'S NORMANSIDE HAIR DESIGNERS JOHN J. HEALY REALTORS 197 Delaware Ave. J Becker Terrace 412 Kenwood Ave., Delmar 125 Adams St., Delmar Delmar Delmar · 439-6066 439-7615 439-9301 439-5621 DELMAR CAR WASH HANDY ANDY MARK T. RAYMOND JONES SERVICE INSURANCE AUTO REPAIRING Bethlehem Court Four Corners Elsmere Delmar 155 Delaware·Ave.,'Delmar Grove St., Delmar 439-2839 439-3936 439-6222 439-2725 '' PRATT VAl~ ASSOCIATES KLERSY BUILDING CORP. 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DELAWARE PLAZA REAL ESTATE ! . ~ LIQUOR STORE, INC. 341 Delaware Ave.· ' 241 Delaware Ave., Delmar .~~ .>De!IJiar. :~ Delaware Plaza, Elsmere 439-2494 ..... .... .439•9966 439-4361 -: ,..,, ·.. ·""'· ' • ~North Bethlehem 'community' proposed Apartments: 8 units/bldg. 96 units 5.5 Acres+- By Kevin Mullen 2 Family in·l<:~w apt 1/4 Acre 25 lots A self-contained community, Brookhill Village 6.5 Acres+- Northway Exchange: 1973 Chev- • with 184d welling units, convenience rolet dump truck from the st.ores and professional offices has Department of Public Works been proposed for land on (69,030 miles); 1981 Plymouth from DPW; 1976 Plymouth from Krumkill Rd. and Blessing Rd. in A RES North Bethlehem. the Building Department (80,423 miles); 1980 Plymouth from DPW The Bethlehem Town Board One Family: 1/3 Acre +- 65 lots/22 Acres (126,952 miles); 1984 Dodge from last week forwarded to the t!)e Police Department (I 09,166); planning board a request to 1984 Dodge from the Police rezone a portion of ~ 70-acre Department (94,748 miles). parcel from A-Residential to Townhouses 44 units • Approved a resolution creating Planned C.ommercial District, 5.5+- acres which allows for construction of two new election districts, numbers multiple dwelling units. 26 and 27. Districts 10 (North . Bethlehem) and 15 (Slingerlands) Paul E. Hite, a land surveyor, were the two biggest districts with Ble~ing Rd. made t.he presentation for David, 905 voters in 10 and 880 in '5. John and Dennis Quadrini, the Carriage homes 28 units 5 +-acres Town attorney Bernard Kaplowitz owners. Hite said that at least 360 New Blessing Rd. will connect Schoolhouse Rd. developers, John and Dennis Quadrini, have asked said that no other election district and possibly as many as 500 and Blessing Rd. in the proposed Brookbill Village the town to rezone a portion of the 7~acre A in the town has more than 800 persons would live in the at the intersection of Krumkill and Blessing roads Residential parcel to Planned Commercial District voters; he said that the "ideal development. The complex would in North Bethlehem, Realligning the intersection to accomodate apartments, offices and neighborhood__..