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Inside -Back to School/Education supplement Christopher Junco dies after bout with leukemia By Susan Graves the department who are undergoing hard and Greg Brockley of Brockley's restau Throughout the ordeal, he said, the Five-year-old Christopher Junco of ship. rant had sponsored a "Chris Junco Day," Junco family held up well, handling each Delmar died Monday, Aug. 8, at Albany · Christopher, who suffered from juve and more than $6,500 was raised. Friends day as it came. Medical Center Hos nile chronic myelocytic also arranged fund-raisers, including a · Born on March 4, 1989, Christopher pital. Throughout the leu!,emia, had to have spaghetti supper at the First United Meth was the child of Robert and Jill Junco and summer, the commu his spleen removed, pre odist Church in Delmar and a community the younger brother of Amy Junco. Chris nity had rallied to help cludirrg the bone-mar day in ·Voorheesville, that raised more topher had attended Tri-Village Nursery the Junco family, who row procedure, accord than $5,000. ·School in Delmar. But even after the community-wide were facing over ing to Wroblewski. Burial will be private and at the conve events, donations continued to come in on whelming medical On Monday, the fam nience of the family. expenses incurred af ily had planned an out a daily basis. "We've been getting checks Contributions to the Delmar Fire De ter Christopher was ingto i:he Double HHole every day - even today," Wroblewski diagnosed with leuke in the Woods Ranch in said Monday evening. D JUNCO/pll,ge 20 mia last February. Lake Luzerne, Christopher was to Wroblewski said, but have undergone a Christopher took ill and bone-marrow trans was taken to the medi Residents should display plantinJuly, butmedi cal center. "The family cal complications was together at this forced doctors to de time," he said. lay the procedure, The child died some street numbers on homes said Ed Wroblewski, time Monday morning. By Mel Hyman characters, which should be in block style. a family friend and Area businesses and With the 911 emergency telephone It is recommended that the numbers Delmar Fire Depart community residents in system slated to go on line in mid-Octo be lighted at night, Vanderbilt said. If you ment president. The Christopher Junco Bethlehem and Voor- ber, residents ofBethlehem and New Scot have a rural delivery box, placement of the fire department had heesville had participated in fund-raising land are advised to make numbers on the box is established a catastrophic account to help efforts for the family. The fire department sure their street ad-. helpful to emergency the Junco family and other members of dresses are clearly vis You shouldn1 dial 911 personnel trying to lo ible. tor emergency assistance cate your home or busi To ensure promptre ness. sponses to emergen until an official If you live in a multi cies, local officials have announcement is made. dwelliog building where assigned all residences Lt. Richard Vanderbilt all units use the same and businesses actual street number, num street numbers. bers should be followed "By this time you should no longer be by a letter suffix, Vanderbilt said, as in 2A, using rural route box numbers," said Be 2B and 2C. thlehem Police U. Richard Vanderbilt. "Especially in the middle of the night, The street numbers should be con we don't want to have to go knocking on spicuously posted on the street side of doors to find out which is the right apart ment" your building in at least three-inch high 0 RESIDENTS/page 20 New ~ditor joins Spotlight By Mel Hyman · paper business to enter the world of Spotlight Newspapers editor and pub academia, where he will serve as execu lisher Richard Ahlstrom announce~ a key tive assistant to James Ross, president of personnel change this week, as long-time the Albany-based Commission. editorial page editor Dan Button "Dan has done a fantastic job stepped down to take a position with our editorial pages," at the Commission on Indepen Ahlstrom said. "We've regularly dent Colleges and Universities. won awards from the New York A former U.S. Congressman, State Press Association for the Button had edited the Spotlight's content and layout of our edito editorial pages since the section rial pages." was introduced in 1987. Before A Hillsdale resident, Larabee that he headed up the editorial most recently worked as pub team for an area book publisher, lisher and editor of The Berk and from 196().66 Button served shire Courier, a weekly paper as executive editor of Albany's based in Great Barrington, Times Union. Larabee Mass. He began his career as a John Larabee, a career jour- beatreporterfortheAkronBea- nalist who's worked for daily and weekly con]ournal more than three decades ago newspapers in Ohio, New York and Mas and was general manager of the Albany sachusetts, takes over Button's duties Times Union and now defunct . beginning with this issue. Knickerbocker News from 1977-83. Button has decided to leave the news- D EO/TOR/page 20 ~~ . .'I .' .. ,.. ,t t I O ... .. , PAGE 2-August 10, 1994 THE SPOTLIGHT Top· management John H. Shaler of Delmar, left, executive director of the New York Stale Thruway Authority, receives the Governor Charles Evans Hughes Award from Thruway Authority Director of Administrative Services Michael Zimmerman. The award, given by the Empire State Capital Area Chapter olthe American Society lor Public Adminstration, recognizes superior management and administration in New York State. Carbon Monoxide. It can come from appliances that • Be sure all space heaters and wood stoves are in good aren't working right, from a malfunctioning furnace or a condition, and follow manufacturer's instructions. wood stove, a charcoal fire or a car left idling You can't see it You can't smell it. And you can't live with it. For !)lore tips on how to safeguard your home and your family from carbon monoxide. call l-800-NIAGARA. Ext. 668, But you can do something about it, right now: and ask for our free brochure on carbon monoxide safety. • Have your heating system inspected by a licensed professional before your furnace goes on this fall This message is brought to you as a public service by • Check your chimney for debris. birds' nests or other Niagara Mohawk Gas. blockage that may have occurred over the summer. Development dig unearths artifacts By Mel Hyman bustling with farms, saw mills and decided whether to redesign the Additional archaeological tests related commerce. subdivision to avoid building on on the site of an upscale housing An 1851 map of the area en lot 17 or whether they will pay for development planned between compassing lot 17 of the proposed a stage 3 investigation, which Hudson Avenue and the Norman development shows a home be would involve a much more exten skill could make it eligible for longing to G. Bradt, assumed to sive archaeological dig. inclusion on theN ational Register be a descendant of Albert An "Some people think Oot 17) of Historic Places. driessen Bradt-one of the earli might have been the dumping Castleton archaeologist Ed est and most famous settlers of ground for a local pottery maker," the town. ward V. Curtin reached that con-~ Breen said. "It doesn't look to be elusion based upon a stage 2 in 'The Bradt site has the poten significant." vestigation of lot 17 of the prO: tial to yield important data for the But that won't be determined posed McCormack's Hollow sub study of history," Curtin said in until a stage 3 dig is conducted, division. his report. If the plot is deemed according to planning board chair His findings were reported last eligible for the National Historic man Martin Barr. ''What (Curtin) week to the Bethlehem Planning Register; then "all construction is suggesting is that a much more Board, which cannot assess the activity on the site should be extensive dig might lead to the environmental impact of the proj avoided." foundation of a home on the site." ect until the significance of his ·If that is qot possible, then an ''We've never had a stage 3 toric remains on the site are deter- "archaeological data recovery archaeological dig in the town," mined. ~ program should be implemented," he said. ''We can't really ignore it, .In Curtin's view, the numerous Curtin said, to retrieve as much especially since there have been artifacts he has uncovered in data as possible. enough reports over the years that shovel tests point to considerable Real estate developer James the Normanskill was inhabited by human activity on the site. While Breen said the owners of Indians going back to pre-historic Curtin has yet to unearth evidence McCormack's Hollow have not yet times." that a house existed on the site, the additional pieces of ceramics and glass discovered during the stage 2 excavations all date to the period between 1770 and 1850, when the Normanskill area was New Scotland weighs bank change ' ByDevTobin depositatOnBankfortheOrchard ments would present a specific ' Uke many consumers and Park Water District earns about 1 written proposal to the town in , small businesses, the town ofNew percent more in interest than at the next few weeks. The pension r Scotland is concerned with rising Key Bank. plan would need to be approved _ r bank fees and charges, and will In other business, the board by a vote of fire district residents. investigate taking its $3 million heard a preliminary presentation . In another matter, Reilly pro account out of Key Bank, the only on a proposed pension plan for posed raising the estimate of commercial bank with an office in volunteer firefighters from the mortgage tax revenues this year town.