Ride Up, Slide Down: More About Gore and North Creek

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Tonight (Saturday, Feb 11, 2017)  at  7:30 pm, The Tannery Pond Center hosts what they are calling Old Ski Movie Night II: “Ride up-Slide Down”

This is a terrific piece of North Country skiing history. It's one of a few early films of the Gore Mountain's Ski Trails. Adults: $5.00 Children: $2.00.

And for President's Day there's Charles Cornell and the Square One Project. Music and storytelling combined in an exciting new show of all original jazz, rock and classically influenced music. We are told there's a surprise ending for all who wait. Ticket price: $20, Students: FREE! (Saturday 2/18 7:30 pm). Email: director@tannerypondcenter.org to reserve your seats. You may also call 518-251- 2505 and leave your name, call back phone and the number of seats you'd like to reserve.

RIP: Alice T. Wanits 1926 - 2017

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Schroon Laker Alice Wanits passed away peacefully on Sunday January, 15, 2017 at the Pines in Glens Falls. She was 90.

From her official obit:

Alice was born May 13, 1926 in New York City, the daughter of the late Joseph C. and Margaret Logan. Alice was predeceased by her husband Frank Charles Wanits, brother Edward Logan and grandson Jeffrey Welch.

Alice was employed for many years at the Continental Insurance Company in Glens Falls. Alice was an active parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Schroon Lake She was an avid gardener and enjoyed various arts and crafts. She believed in the power of education and volunteered at the Schroon Lake, Central School in their reading programs. She loved spending time with her friends and was sorry to move away from them.

Alice is survived by her children, Theresa Palmer (Charles Rhatigan), Allison Welch, Charles (Lisa) Wanits, Corinne Wanits (Steven Horton), Galen (Denise) Wanits and Nicole Wanits Strothenke, sisters-in-law Dorothy Logan, Evelyn Ligon, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian was offered on Friday, January 20 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Interment will take place at Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in the spring. The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to the Schroon Lake Emergency Squad, Schroon Lake, NY 12870.

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