Getting Crafty At Schroon Lake Library!
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Walk in Crafts for Kids Every day. All day during the Christmas Season!
Come see what you can make. The Schroon Lake Public Library is open on December 23 and December 24th from 10am -2pm.
Free Eye Screenings for Kids by Schroon Lake Lions
/By Dennis DAmico
The Schroon Lake Lions Club has been offering free eye screenings for pre-K and kindergarten children in local elementary schools for the past several years.
The program is called “LION S.E.E. (Screening Eyes Early)” and is in partnership with KIDSIGHT USA.
So far this year, the club has screened 112 students, with approximately 10 percent needing additional follow-up.
Our goal is to reach out to parents, schools and caregivers emphasizing the importance of early identification of potential vision problems and refer those that need further evaluation to an eye care professional.
Our state of the art equipment can screen for six different risk factors that may lead to amblyopia and hopefully be corrected through early detection.
The procedure is simple and non-intrusive. No equipment touches the child. According to educational experts, 80 percent of learning is visual. So if a child can’t see well, they can’t learn well. Yet most young children don’t get their vision screened until they have problems learning or paying attention in school.
By then, it may already be too late.
Unless vision problems are detected early, they risk becoming permanent by age seven. With this in mind, we will continue to reach out to schools and other organizations in order to screen as many young children as possible.
RIP Keene Barn
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Photo: Schroon Laker Collection. Copyright Anthony Batson. 2106.
An old, red iconic barn in Keene, literally a barn stopper as folks pulled over to take a picture with the High Peaks in the background, has vanished from the landscape.
Those post card moments came to an end Tuesday, when Keene officials, fearing it had become a potential hazard, pulled it down. In a photo in The Sun newspaper, it looks like a sad, deflated balloon.
The red barn, near the intersection of state Route 73 and Route 9N, had been on its last kegs for the last couple of years. Years on heavy snow had push in the roof, scavengers had taken parts of its much prized barn wood, and it had been used as a bathroom.
Schroon's unofficial photographer about town, Sharron Hozley Tyrrell mourned its loss today.
“I knew every time I went by that it may be the last chance to catch a photo. Now it is just an icon gone ! Really bad and leaning in these photos they unfortunately did what they had to do but it is so sad!,” Sharron posted on Facebook. You can check out a recent montage of Sharron’s photos below.
