{"id":3241,"date":"2010-11-18T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:22:24","slug":"saranac-lake-mayor-warns-of-trudeau-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/18\/saranac-lake-mayor-warns-of-trudeau-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Saranac Lake Mayor warns of Trudeau departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saranac Lake village Mayor Clyde Rabideau has sent out a commentary offering additional details and raising new concerns about the possibility that Trudeau Institute — the bio-research lab that anchors a big part of the village economy — could move to North Carolina.<\/div>\n
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In the editorial, he promises a serious fight to try to retain the facility.\u00a0 Here is his commentary in full.<\/div>\n
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Trudeau Institute might leave us\u2014an option affirmed by senior management—something most Saranac Lakers thought impossible until few weeks ago.<\/span> <\/span>After all, Trudeau Institute has been around for 126 years and was founded by the village\u2019s first mayor, Edward L. Trudeau.<\/span> <\/span>Nothing could be more Saranac Lake than Trudeau Institute.<\/span><\/div>\n

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There\u2019s a buzz that representatives will soon head to Kannapolis, North Carolina, home to the North Carolina Research Center\u2014nestled in the Charlottesville-University-Research Hospital-hotbed\u2014to check out its one million square feet of<\/span> <\/span>state-of-the art, ready-to-go lab space, equipment and prime research facilities. <\/span> <\/span>A Trudeau spokesman said they did not want their staff \u201cbuying houses\u201d until their \u201cstrategic planning,\u201d now underway, was complete.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now, like most buzzes, it may or may not be true, but Trudeau\u2019s Chairman of the Board lives in Charlottesville and Trudeau management say they need an urban research hospital environment like Kannapolis to get more federal funding, so it is believable.<\/span> <\/span>And, even if it isn\u2019t true, Saranac Lakers should still take its measure and gird for battle.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So what might magnetize Trudeau to Kannapolis?<\/span> <\/span>A heck of a lot, truth be told.<\/span> <\/span>It\u2019s one of the fastest growing areas of the country in which a multi-millionaire visionary by the name of David Murdock, bulldozed the Cannon Textile\/Towel mills in the city\u2019s downtown and built<\/span> <\/span>a Land of Biotech Oz through a public-private partnership with all the bells and whistles for<\/span> <\/span>research innovation and profit. <\/span> <\/span> <\/span>It is a one-stop-shop for biotech research and for-profit ventures, with plenty of moolah to back it up, alongside universities like Duke, UNC and UC State and beau coup hospitals.<\/span> <\/span>It\u2019s got mojo to spare.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Who would blame Trudeau\u2019s management for checking it out and sending its \u201cfaculty\u201d there?<\/span><\/div>\n
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I do and here\u2019s why:<\/span> <\/span>We\u2019re not like Kannapolis or the rest of the country for that matter, and that is our strong point.<\/span> <\/span>We\u2019re unique and grand discoveries regularly take root here\u2014in the Capital of the Adirondacks–amidst the solitude and serenity of our evergreens and lakes where great ideas take flight.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Saranac Lake has never been the epicenter of \u201curban-based, biotech, throw-the-money-at-\u2018em science.\u201d<\/span> <\/span>No, we\u2019re the epicenter of humanity\u2014right where we want to be\u2014where our forbearers gave comfort and solace to those that were ill.<\/span> <\/span>We always cared and always will, regardless of how much \u201cmoolah\u201d is involved.<\/span> <\/span>Our scientists carry backpacks to work and not briefcases. <\/span> <\/span>They wear hiking boots and not high-heels. <\/span> <\/span>Backpacks and hiking boots probably aren\u2019t that sexy in Kannapolis\u2026but are more practical.<\/span> <\/span>We are unique and meaningful and so shall be the future discoveries at Trudeau<\/span> IN<\/strong><\/span> Saranac Lake.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Kannapolis is a wake-up call, as is the so-called \u201cStrategic planning\u201d now underway at Trudeau, which many say is just window-dressing for a move to Kannapolis.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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Saranac Lake and the State of New York must invest in real intellectual infrastructure that is uniquely \u201cours\u201d and fearlessly compassionate, if it is to survive and thrive in the biotech future where money seduces, just as Kannapolis, our most fearsome competitor, is doing in its own way.<\/span> <\/span>We must lower our shoulder and push ahead with our own strategic plan and a solid, never-give-up commitment, staking our future on what has sustained us for generations, yet adapting as we must.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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If federal grant money is Trudeau\u2019s answer, we must devise ways to get it to them.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We must also make sure in the days ahead that the Trudeau Board of Trustees, though they may not live here, understand that the very lifeblood of the institution they safeguard pulsates <\/span>only <\/em><\/strong><\/span>if it has our indomitable Adirondack people, place and purpose…a people, a place and a purpose that will not go gentle into that good night. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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