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FMANNUN CLINTON MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1988 REGIONAL PAGE 13 PRESS-REPUBLICAN MHMBHHHHHPHHHBHHBPHHHBBBBHBBBIMHBPBBBBMBHBMHBMPHBBMHMHBH^BPBMI Placid's 'old white church 9 gets new lease on life •y UZA FMNtTTI Stoff Writer LAKE PLACID - It took almost a year to make the ar- rangements, but only about three hours Thursday to actually move the \old white church\ and save it from being demolish- ed. 'It's a great day!\ said the Rev. Robert Bennett, a Baptist minister who acquired the church after ownership\ bounced from Placid Memorial Hospital to the North Elba Historical Society and finally to his non- denominational congregation here — all the while under the threat of ruin. The church had to be moved to make way for an Olympic training center being built here, but no one could find the money to pay for the reloca- tion costs. rflfftT-fftur 8C lowered to vfWny IIHOT QnmQ Wearing a well-worn, white fishing hat, Bennett walked back and forth between the movers and the linemen lowering the thick electric, telephone and cable wires so the church could pass safely beneath. He smiled continually, saying \Oh ye of little faith!\ as the church trav- eled on wheels down Old Mili- tary Road to its new home. Bystanders clapped as the church was pulled away. Cam- eras were clicking. \I thought this day would never come/' said one woman. Within minutes of the site be- Oh, ye of little faith! heavy, twisted wires, suspended between telephone poles, made sharp whistling sounds as each ing emptied, a backhoe operator moved his lumbering equipment over a dirt hill and began digg- ing on the spot. Officials from the Olympic Regional Develop- ment Authority (ORDA) oukkly showed up, walking back and forth in front of the site. The state authority now owns the land and had issued a mid-June deadline for the removal of the church so it could continue con- struction plans for the training center. Ussa os storage shoo Most recently used as a storage shed by the Placid Me* morial Hospital* the church had to go ~wnen hospital ad- ministrators gave 23 acres of land — including the church site — to ORDA for the training center. The church was then given to the Historical Society, which initiated a fund-raising campaign to pay for moving the church. The square, plain build- ing was mounted on moving wheels, but that is as far as that plan went — not enough money could be raised to finish the pro- ject. The church was finally sold to Bennett lor $1. But where to put it? The pastor approached Phil Thayer of Lake Placid Real Estate, who turned to Paul Dooling of Lake Placid, who was able to donate two acres of land further down Old Military Road as a site for the church. It now sits behind the Jewish cemetery. Because of the high cost of moving the wires strung across roadways, Thayer said the pro- ject was ''restricted geographically to this area.\ The one was lowered to the road The church had to travel past a series of poles and up and over a hill in the road before being settled at its new location. Dool- ing owns another 13 acres sur- rounding the site* which is commercially zoned and is prob- ably targeted for future devel- To finance the move, Bennett was able to get a $40,000 mor- tgage from the Essex Champlain National Bank in Keene to pay for moving expenses, site preparation at the new location (water, septic, and electric systems, phis putting in a road and leveling the site) and build- ing a foundation. He figures it wiU take a total of about $70,000 before doors will properly be opened once again. Extra ex- penses include an addition cm the front of the building and a wheelchair ramp. And a steeple. \We'll put a steeple back on/' said Bennett, looking at the barren rooftop of the church. Took a lot of woni The pastor's wife, Norma, said accomplishing the move has taken a lot of work. 'We've been running around and scurrying around!\ she said. The congregation has chosen the name Trinity ChapeL The church first acquired member* ship when Bennett came here from Danville, Pa., to design the architectural work for the remodeling of the Lake Placid Ctab Resort He designed the Peddler's Alley shop and the time-share units, and conducted non-denominational church ser- vices in the club chapel. When club owner John Swaim went bankrupt, Btanett stayed in the area. His church has most recently been meeting above The Woodshed Restaurant on Main Street here. The new church, which was built in 1875 and is the oldest in Lake Placid, according to Ben- nett, wiD hopefully be open within several months. Staff Photos/Ltxa Ff8O6ttc In top photo, utility lines ore moved to make room for the church, and in bottom photo, with the way cleared, a truck pulls the building through to its new location. Supervisor lobbies for landfill changes MORIAH - visor Thomas ing the state servation to closure of rural 1 today, Moriah Super- will be seeking support legislator* in the hopes of tore- of Environmental Con- its stand regarding the Scoft Murtogh, left, and Jay Kalter are pondering future of Malone. Staff Photo/Robert Whtotar Scotzafava will lobby against the DEC at the New York State Supervisors' and Legislators* Conference in rv^y^^gtia, Scozzafava wants the DEC to rnrnpiV) more evidence regarding whether rural i^iw^fjfta are Inarhiijg, into streams and groundwater supplies. \My problem is the amount dollars it's going to cost to dose these landfills,'' Scozzafava said. \I would like to know if we're leaking tozk leachate. If you expect the town to borrow and put it in debt for the not 20 years, the DEC bet- ter have some facts to back it up with. They're just speculating. 99 Moriah, like 134 municipal dumps state-wide, must close its landfill at a cost local officials say will be staggering, Soozzafava said Moriah tax- payers will be paying about $100,000 per acre to dose the town's 15-aot dump. \It's expensive, it's very expensive,\ Scoz- zafava said. Who's going to pay for it? How many times can you go back to the property owner and increase taxes?'* Since 1983, the state has shut down 210 land* mis in New York. The DEC, little by Uttia, is for- cing dumps to dose, at a cost of $6 bQKon state- wide, because they were built an poorly chosen sites, next to streams or swamps. Toxic leachate from these dumps, the DEC has said, is leaking into and polluting water sources. \I'm not telling my constituents I want to pour pollutants into a stream, but there's no proof at all we're polluting the environment/' Scozzafava said. Scozzafava is irked because, he says, the DEC is comparing rural landfills with urban dumps, which Moriah's chief executive says is ludicrous. \I think we have a good operation up there/' Scozzafava said \When you're in a small township, you have a pretty good idea what goes into the landfill. I want the DEC to prove to me that what we're leaking is toxic/' DEC officials say dumps such as the one in Moriah historically leak pollutants into water sources. Science, DEC has said, has proved that unlined l<n*HfJi)<* pollute. Scozzafava said he is hoping to find support against the DEC from other lawmakers. He be- lieves he will be successful because other com- munities are now standing up to the department. \I think that's the message the DEC is getting, not just from Essex County, but from other community* in the state,\ he said. Malone master plan a blueprint for future 56oH Writer MALONE — The village erf Malone is in the process of taking a kmg look in the mirror and rtockiing what its appearance wiU be like when the 21st century dawns. Earlier this spring, the Makme Office of Community Development hired urban planning specialist Jay Kalter to develop a \master plan\ that wiD direct the municipality's growth for the next 20 This master plan, once it is codified into law by the village board, is designed to serve as a \blueprint\ for Maine's growth until 2010, aocorouig to C^ujminuikity Develo|,MHffit Director Scott Murtagh. Kalter will develop plans for infrastructure dcvfilopnimt, zoning or- dinances, land use and expropriate signage, Mu \Obviously there are gong to be rhaiigne in The key is for the vulage to expand and prosper, and at the same tons keep its quality of fife.\ As such, the master plan wiB have to strike a defecate balance be- the interests of those already living in the village Once these surveys are finished, they will be analyzed so that \priority\ concerns are identified, Kalter said. \You then try to make recommendations that wiD solve most of those concerns, al- though you naturally can't solve them alL You know that there will be political, financial andphysical restraints on what you can do/* In addition, Malone village •»§»«••• Frank Christie has been com- piling information on the municipality's existing infrastructure, such as its roads, sidewalks, sewers and water lines. Makme historian Edward Tattershall has also been r^njM^C a hst of historic build- ings in the village, Malone had a similar tion of downtown, and plan written m 1971. This document Malooe to obtain grants for the ravitalixa- honmrtg in the village, Murtagh That was the secret for the village receiving grants that amount — on a pur-capita basis — to as much grant money received by any other northern New York cooumnity, and maybe more,\ Murtagh and providing for future growth, both commercial and step for Kaitef, who is working under T&t ifirtefiai of tte The village is now hoping that having this updated plan will enable it tooteamfttoniadsvalo^ Kalter s $50,000 fss was faadsd from artminisualive monies that Murtagh's office had bass awarded for performing con> for ths (oms <rf Malona and W is that it didn't pi oridc guidance to Local realtor* have complained in the rOUce zoned for Mattme He has 'plots that would be find out \what hoops they m*. - - & a survey off \Wem to hear from input.\ Kaker Ckateangay camp damaged by fire Sudsy CHATEAUGAY - A canp the to be at the A spokesman at the bete* the
