NCPR listeners serve the North Country and the world

Andrew Eagan says Paul Smith’s College forestry students have been helping local needy families. WCAX.com reports:
“With hard hats on their heads and a determination to do good, a dozen Paul Smith’s college students trekked into the Adirondack forest this week. Their goal was to saw, split and pile up enough wood to keep one needy Franklin County family warm for the whole winter. . . .”
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“Much of my volunteer work is serving on Boards and going to meetings. It’s a far cry from my earlier youth when stridency was the watchword and I protested against everything. Now I work for reducing the use of fossil fuels and helping others, particularly those on limited incomes, do the same. I serve on the Board of Hospice and the Coordinating Council of Seedcorn. But I really look forward to delivering holiday baskets each December. Service is the deepest source of joy in my life.”
Robin McClellan

How Vici and Steve Diehl serve:

• Board member: Indian River Lakes Conservancy
• NY Natural Heritage Program/Draqgonfly and Damselfly Survey (Stephen and I…250+ hours each). This is ending, so now we’re helping with the ATBI (Adirondack All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory) and the New York Odonate Group.
• Make desserts for local groups…fundraisers,dinners,etc.
• Love growing anything and sharing…plants,flowers (glads, sunflowers, lilies), and veggies with about 5 familys, friends and others (asparagus right now)
• Recycling?….Steve brings home paper from RIT’s Printing Applications Lab….sheets and rolls left over after testing…given to local schools and organizations. Used ink cartridges from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences…. Staples allows a person to bring in up to 10 cartridges a month; they give a $3 store credit per ($30.00 month
  max). We distribute these cartridges (10, 20, 30 a month) to
  Thompson Park Conservancy, Crosby Public Library, Indian River Lakes Conservancy, Thousand Islands Art Center, Jefferson County Hospice and the North Country Children’s Clinic. Staff members take in cartridges and use the coupons for needed supplies.
• The NCCC got webcams for everyone (at their 4 locations) and are using Skype now for conference calls.

“I was a volunteer FD ambulance driver for 10 years til my arthritis-like condition got in the way too much. I sing with Chrysalis, the High Peaks Hospice meditative singing group (en masse for biannual memorial services, like May 22 in Moriah; ad hoc small groups for patients & families) as well as church vocal & bell choirs, sometimes a community chorus; church/community projects; community garden… a finger in many pies to share and get people involved in do-it-yourself entertainment & nourishment”
Sarah S. Prince

“I volunteer Friday mornings at the Canton Free Library. I enter into the computer a list of all the new acquisitions for the week. This goes into the Library column in the Plaindealer and on the library web site.”
Connie Meng

“Among other things I pick up the empty beer cans in Averyville. I am the ‘blue can group.'”
Nancie Battaglia

Gail Brill works with The Adirondack Green Circle:
“We are working to move ourselves and others in our circles of influence towards sustainable and regenerative living practices. How do we do that?”

• By leading “Lost Arts Workshops” that teach people skills: cheese making, kraut making, bread making, wild edible plant identification and more.
  Leading workshops on Ecological Eating and Sustainable Living
• We collect all the recyclables at the 90 Miler Canoe Race
• We bring pertinent and ground breaking films to the community to raise consciousness
• We are advocates for the small sustainable farming community that supports and surrounds us
• We promote local shopping and support of our downtown merchants
• We are connected with the area college and high school environmental groups
• We work with the area recycling facilities to promote and encourage area wide recycling and composting.