Coming from as far away as California and Arizona, 13 “Volunteer Vacationers” arrived in Westport to spend a week working on Champlain Area Trails (CATS) projects. The American Hiking Society’s Volunteer Vacation program supports people who spend their vacation in diverse locations around the country, building and maintaining trails. CATS has hosted Volunteer Vacationers five times over recent years, providing accommodations and food in exchange for volunteers’ time and muscle. This session’s … [Read more...]
Get Out of the Mud! Campaign Underway
Champlain Area Trails (CATS) is raising the funds needed to complete a trail improvement project using something new for CATS: a crowdfunding program offered through Adirondack Gives, part of the Adirondack Foundation. The Get Out of the Mud! campaign will provide the $1,500 needed to complete the Bobcat Trail Improvement Project; the Essex Community Fund previously provided $1,500 for the project in memory of two early CATS supporters, Bruce Klink and Baird Voorhis. The trail improvement … [Read more...]
Community Raising Funds to Aid Family of Essex Restaurant Owner (THE SUN)
Donations are pouring in for the family of a local restaurant owner who died last week. As of Tuesday, the crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe has generated $7,585 for the family of Raymond Faville, who drowned in Lake Champlain on Monday. Faville operated Chez Lin & Rays with his wife, Linda, since 2012. Close friends set up the campaign to defray the costs of his burial and the “loss of revenue this seasonal restaurant will incur during these peak July days while the family takes time … [Read more...]
Memorial Fund for Owners’ Family of Chez Lin & Rays Restaurant
Raymond C Faville, age 60, was the owner of Lock 12 Marina and the Finch and Chubb Restaurant with his wife and business partner, Linda Faville for 26 memorable years. This Whitehall, NY community embraced and supported them during these years for which they were always grateful! Since 2012, Ray and Linda operated their family restaurant Chez Lin & Rays at 2270 Lake Shore Road on the shores of Lake Champlain in Essex, NY. Ray took great pride in providing a stellar menu, but more … [Read more...]
Volunteer at the Adirondack Art Association
The season has started, Sign up for your volunteer shifts now! Volunteers play a pivotal role here at the Adirondack Art Association. They cheerfully help with hanging shows, working the front desk, assisting with children's classes and special events, cleaning, and staffing gallery openings. We can't thank them enough!! With the season starting, we have plenty of volunteer opportunities! Currently we are looking for front desk attendants to fill the following shifts: Sunday, June 5 from … [Read more...]
Ticonderoga Historical Society Receives Corridor of Commerce Grant
The Ticonderoga Historical Society has been awarded a $5,000 Corridor of Commerce Grant from the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership. The grant will fund the creation of a website and student writing competition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of steamboat operations in the Champlain Valley and surrounding area. "With this grant, we will be able to provide an interesting website populated with specific primary source material about steamboating," noted Historical Society … [Read more...]
Whallonsburg Grange Hall Receives Major Grant to Support Full-Time Manager
The Whallonsburg Grange Hall, a non-profit community center in the Champlain Valley, has appointed a full-time manager, thanks to a generous grant from the Cloudsplitter Foundation. Cloudsplitter, based in Saranac Lake, is "dedicated to improving the future for the flora, fauna, communities, and people of the Adirondacks." The rebirth of the Grange Hall is the product of a large volunteer effort over the past eight years to save and renovate the 100-year old building and to reopen it as a … [Read more...]
Local Horse Rescue Announces Capital Campaign (THE SUN)
Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue has raised $66,550 toward its $75,000 capital campaign to build the Sally E. Morehouse Memorial Rehabilitation and Training Center. The purpose of the campaign is to build an indoor facility that will enable the rescue operation to rehabilitate horses and offer education and outreach programs to the local community in all seasons. The rescue aims to complete the project by Spring 2017. “To do so, we need to complete the fundraising. We have just under … [Read more...]
Friends of Refugees Looks to New Projects, Outreach in 2017 (THE SUN)
Outreach for refugees of global conflict entered 2017 with more action planned. The local organization, Champlain Valley Friends of Refugees, met at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Essex last week to recharge for the new year. The group is one of three sister chapters organized after the Keene Valley Congregational Church facilitated a gathering last January to strategize about how stakeholders could make the region more welcoming. Outgoing facilitator Lyn Barrett, of Westport, shared some of … [Read more...]
Help CATS Save Land & Make Trails
We want CATS trails to pass through a landscape where forests stay forests, farms stay farms, wetlands stay wet, and scenic vistas stay scenic. That’s the "saving land" part of the CATS tagline – "saving land – making trails." Your end-of-year donation can help CATS save land. Just click here and we’ll do all the rest. You will help add to the lands CATS has already protected—like the 319-acre farm and forest in Willsboro, the 70-acre Wildway Passage in Westport, the 30-acre Beaver Bend Preserve … [Read more...]
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