A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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5 Generations Name: Aidan Robert Durant Born: Friday, June 13, 2008 Weight: 8 lbs, 13 oz. Length: 19 inches Parents: Bobbi Thompson and Justin Durant Grandparents: Dawn Thompson, Robert “Maday” Sunday, Valerie and Walter Hapeman Great Grandparents: Angie and the late Robert “Bobby” Sunday, Dolores and the late Clarence Thompson, Ives and Anna Boulais Great Grandmother: Beatrice Jacobs...
Summer has finally come to an end. September is here and so is some really nice weather. This season just flew by even though some days seemed to last forever. Like when Baby T would throw a fit over something that I have no control over like say the rain. Those were the “It’s still all my fault and I must pay for it” kind of situations. I did enjoy not being on such a strict schedule for a change. But this last month has been a struggle to wake Baby T up early to get him on a routine for school. Mostly a struggle for me, why wake up a perfe...
I live a fair amount away from the station and very rarely get to drive any of the fire trucks. This is very frustrating for me since I attend so much training and I don’t get to use it as often as I want. For example, I attended a pump operators training and for weeks I learned about friction loss, hydrodynamics, pressure relief valves and all kinds of pump related issues. I didn’t get to drive a truck to a call for over a year so all I could do was run the pumps on Monday nights during weekly radio and siren check. Even then, I get moving wat...
Two of Akwesasne’s local men will be participating in The Adirondack Canoe Classic 90-Mile Race: Tom Tarbell and Pat Chubb. Mr. Tarbell and Mr. Chubb have graciously decided to contribute their paddling to the “Without Violence Award Fund”. This event starts in Old Forge on September 5th and ends in Saranac Lake on September 7th, 2008. The WVA Committee will have Pledge sheets made up for this event. Your Pledges’ will be greatly appreciated. The WVA Committee thanks Mr. Tom Tarbell and Mr. Pat Chubb. Good luck guys! May Mother Nature be on y...
A few dozen community members, from Akwesasne, Bombay and Fort Covington, spent one night a week together all summer long to run. The Akwesasne Twilight Fun Runs is a program sponsored by the Mohawk Healthy Heart and Let’s Get Healthy programs. Every Thursday the participants met at Salmon River Central School to compete against one another in a race. The program was open to anyone and the distance of the run varied by age and started at ½ mile for the youngest children, to three miles for ad...
One of the North Country’s most popular divisions in stock car racing, the Action Race Parts UMP/DIRT Pro Stocks, will take center stage on Saturday night September 6th at Mohawk International Raceway in Hogansburg, NY as the UMP/DIRT Pro Stock Super DIRT series comes to town bringing with it the best of the best in Pro Stock racing on the circuit. “This is one of the closest divisions in racing,” said promoter Jody Swamp, “It is the most competitive and the most exciting division to watch on a race track.” Swamp competes week in and week out i...
John Lazore of Akwesasne had a lot to celebrate this past Saturday night as he took home a victory in the “Race of Champions” 50 lap Syracuse qualifier, $2,000.00 in prize money, picked up a guaranteed starting spot for Syracuse in October and the 2008 Coors Light DIRTcar 358 Modified Track Championship. Two former track champions Dave Heaslip and Jeff Sykes started on the front row of the Discount Cigarettes sponsored event with Sykes taking the early lead but it was short lived as “The Ole Master” himself Heaslip came storming back on the...
Teams of children participating in the North Franklin Soccer Program practiced for the first time last week. The athletes range in age and many compete in the program until making the switch to high school or junior high sports. Last Thursday evening, the North Franklin “D” team practiced at Salmon River Central. The team is coached by Tania Leroux and Jim Lindley. For their first time together, the soccer players learned the rules of practice and games and became accustomed to being alert, fol...
