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C M Y K www.watertowndailytimes.com $1.50 On the Web www.watertowndailytimes.com In print daily. Online always. Facebook Browse to fb.me/wdtnews Twitter Follow: @WDTnews Mobile On the web: wdt.me/m ©2018, Watertown Daily Times, 158 th year, No. 48 WEATHER Showers today. Highs 65 to 70; lows 45 to 50. DETAILS, A2 LOCAL NEWS, A4 Tourist destination Thousand Islands region looks to attract more visitors from China to the north country Find it Inside Advice C4 Business A10 Calendar C2 Classified B8 Comics C4-5 Crossword C5 Editorials A6 Obituaries A7 Sports B1 Sudoku C5 TV B7 Weather A2 THURSDAY JUNE 14, 2018 By MIRANDA MATERAZZO [email protected] When Duffy Rodgers died in December, he left behind hundreds of devoted friends at Belleville Henderson Cen- tral School. Duffy wasn’t a fellow stu- dent, or beloved janitor or faculty member. He was the district’s first therapy dog. The black lab who served in the district for nine years was the trendsetter in Jeffer- son County. Duffy’s handler David G. Rodgers said his adminis- trators were skeptical at first when he brought up the idea of a therapy dog. He said he was used to the idea of dogs in a public setting when he approached the school board. Mr. Rodgers’ wife, a pastor, would often bring her dogs to church. “That year, the school board actually attended a state convention where they talked about the benefits of therapy animals, so they were quite excited about it when they came back,” Mr. Rodgers said. Duffy’s succes- sor, Junie B., is also handled by Mr. Rodgers. Mr. Rodgers said that stu- dents also read to Duffy dur- ing his time there. The dog al- so provided a calming effect on students. “If there was a student in A kid’s best friend DAYTONA NILES nWATERTOWN DAILY TIMES Alexandria Superintendent Christopher M. Clapper said he was first inspired to bring Archer the poodle in ‘because I knew, based on his demeanor, that he had more to give than being just a pet.’ DAYTONA NILES nWATERTOWN DAILY TIMES Third-grade students at Wilson Elementary School pet and read to Wilson the therapy dog on Tuesday. THERAPY DOGS HELP OUT AT SCHOOLS: ‘A lot of students just smile more’ DAYTONA NILES nWATERTOWN DAILY TIMES A kindergarten class surrounds Archer, a therapy dog who spends his days by the side of Alexandria Central School District Superintendent Christopher M. Clapper. By ABRAHAM KENMORE [email protected] Assemblywoman Addie A.E. Jenne, D-Theresa, says her proposal to pay a premium for higher quality New York milk could help with some of the expected hits Northern New York Dairy will take from new tariffs. There is just one problem — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will not implement the proposal. Ms. Jenne says the gover- nor’s office has responded to her proposal by asking, “why aren’t the farmers asking for help?” “(Farmers) don’t think the governor can help,” Ms. Jenne said. “I have been urging the governor to listen to those of us who have direct contact with farmers.” Farmers across the state are in the fourth consecutive year of low milk prices. In March, Ms. Jenne proposed a possible source of relief — a premium payment for milk that meets European standards of somat- ic cells, which are used as an indicator of the quality of milk. The federal level is 750,000 somatic cells per milliliter, while the European standard is 400,000. “Farmers can meet a lower standard,” she said. “And if they are meeting those stan- dards, they should have the as- sistance of New York state.” With dairy products being targeted by both Mexico and Canada in proposed or imple- mented retaliations against U.S. steel and aluminum tar- iffs, Ms. Jenne thinks increas- ing the quality of New York state dairy is all the more im- portant. “(Low quality dairy) just cre- ates another reason not to ex- port dairy,” she said. Furthermore, she feels that by incentivizing high quality milk and branding New York dairy products — cheese, for example — people in Canada and Mexico may purchase New York goods at a higher rate. “There could be consumer Jenne: Dairy relief plan overlooked COMPENSATION EFFORT: Lawmaker says Cuomo won’t implement her proposal By MIRANDA MATERAZZO [email protected] WATERTOWN — Lewis County residents will soon have access to Jefferson Com- munity College’s classes in their own backyard. The school’s assistant vice president of workforce devel- opment and business, Ter- rence H. Harris, said the proj- ect had officially been in the works since late 2015. “We had never had a dedi- cated site for our classes in Lewis County,” Mr. Harris said. “We had offered them in libraries and chambers of commerce, and it had been kind of hit-or-miss. So we were approached by the county to establish a permanent site.” He said that the school then “did (its) due diligence to see if that was an appropriate move.” Mr. Harris said Lewis Coun- ty government and JCC’s Center for Community Stud- ies conducted surveys of resi- dents and local businesses to gauge interest in a site. “I spoke to representa- tives from Kraft, New York Air Brake, Great Lakes Cheese...” said JCC president Ty A. Stone, “and they had all said that they were seeing a lack of workers with advanced manufacturing skills.” “We also had a roundtable discussion with people in the construction trade fields, and we’re hearing that they’re having a difficult time finding people who are qualified and skilled,” Ms. Stone said, “so that may be something that we also look at in this facility.” Mr. Harris said that the new Lewis County site would, at first, offer non-credit classes in areas like entrepreneur- ial training and certificates in coding, social media market- ing, human resources man- agement, grant writing, and drone operation. “Drone op- eration is very big now,” Mr. Harris said. “And we’ll also offer your typical personal en- richment classes like photog- raphy.” “If there’s enough interest in offering for-credit courses, we definitely hope to expand,” said Mr. Harris. To house the project, JCC officials discuss site in Lewis County MAPLE RIDGE CENTER BUILDING: On track to start with non-credit classes in 2019 By ABRAHAM KENMORE [email protected] U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer still has vivid memories of his first car — a 1971 Plymouth Duster that got six miles to the gallon. During a news conference Wednesday, Sen. Schumer shared fond memories of driving around Long Island in it at 80 miles an hour. But that, he said, was back in the days when gas was cheap. Sen. Schumer is not keen to return to those days of automotive manufactur- ing. “On average, we’re paying 58 cents more (per gallon of gas) than we were a year ago,” he said. Gas prices have risen substantially in the last year — in the Watertown area, it has increased in the last year from an av- erage of $2.46 to $3.09 a gallon, according to the senator. Backed by other senators, he is send- ing a letter to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt opposing roll- backs to 2012 efficiency standards that committed manufacturers to double fuel efficiency rates by 2025. Under these standards, cars would be getting over 50 miles per gallon within the decade. With Mr. Pruitt’s rollback, Mr. Schumer said, there is little hope for lowering gasoline prices. “This was done without congressio- nal approval,” Mr. Schumer said. “I am urging the EPA to make a U-turn on this decision.” The more efficient standards would Schumer urges EPA to rethink fuel GAS PRICES: Senator to send letter to chief Pruitt opposing rollbacks of efficiency standards See DOGS A9 See JCC A9 See DAIRY A9 See FUEL A9 Look For The Coupons in Sunday’s June 17th - Newspaper SAVE SAVE SAVE $ 74 05
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THURSDAYJUNE 14, 2018
By MIRANDA [email protected]
When Duffy Rodgers died in December, he left behind hundreds of devoted friends at Belleville Henderson Cen-tral School.
Duffy wasn’t a fellow stu-dent, or beloved janitor or faculty member. He was the district’s first therapy dog.
The black lab who served in the district for nine years was the trendsetter in Jeffer-son County.
Duffy’s handler David G. Rodgers said his adminis-trators were skeptical at first when he brought up the idea of a therapy dog. He said he was used to the idea of dogs in a public setting when he approached the school board. Mr. Rodgers’ wife, a pastor, would often bring her dogs to church.
“That year, the school board actually attended a state convention where they talked about the benefits
of therapy animals, so they were quite excited about it when they came back,” Mr. Rodgers said. Duffy’s succes-sor, Junie B., is also handled by Mr. Rodgers.
Mr. Rodgers said that stu-dents also read to Duffy dur-ing his time there. The dog al-so provided a calming effect on students.
“If there was a student in
A kid’s best friend
DAYTONA NILES n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES
Alexandria Superintendent Christopher M. Clapper said he was first inspired to bring Archer the poodle in ‘because I knew, based on his demeanor, that he had more to give than being just a pet.’
DAYTONA NILES n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES
Third-grade students at Wilson Elementary School pet and read to Wilson the therapy dog on Tuesday.
THERAPY DOGS HELP OUT AT SCHOOLS: ‘A lot of students just smile more’
DAYTONA NILES n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES
A kindergarten class surrounds Archer, a therapy dog who spends his
days by the side of Alexandria Central School District Superintendent
Christopher M. Clapper.
By ABRAHAM [email protected]
Assemblywoman Addie A.E. Jenne, D-Theresa, says her proposal to pay a premium for higher quality New York milk could help with some of the expected hits Northern New York Dairy will take from new tariffs.
There is just one problem — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will not implement the proposal.
Ms. Jenne says the gover-nor’s office has responded to her proposal by asking, “why aren’t the farmers asking for help?”
“(Farmers) don’t think the governor can help,” Ms. Jenne said. “I have been urging the governor to listen to those of us who have direct contact with farmers.”
Farmers across the state are in the fourth consecutive year of low milk prices. In March, Ms. Jenne proposed a possible source of relief — a premium payment for milk that meets European standards of somat-ic cells, which are used as an
indicator of the quality of milk. The federal level is 750,000 somatic cells per milliliter, while the European standard is 400,000.
“Farmers can meet a lower standard,” she said. “And if they are meeting those stan-dards, they should have the as-sistance of New York state.”
With dairy products being targeted by both Mexico and Canada in proposed or imple-mented retaliations against U.S. steel and aluminum tar-iffs, Ms. Jenne thinks increas-ing the quality of New York state dairy is all the more im-portant.
“(Low quality dairy) just cre-ates another reason not to ex-port dairy,” she said.
Furthermore, she feels that by incentivizing high quality milk and branding New York dairy products — cheese, for example — people in Canada and Mexico may purchase New York goods at a higher rate.
“There could be consumer
Jenne: Dairy relief plan
overlookedCOMPENSATION EFFORT: Lawmaker says
Cuomo won’t implement her proposal
By MIRANDA [email protected]
WATERTOWN — Lewis County residents will soon have access to Jefferson Com-munity College’s classes in their own backyard.
The school’s assistant vice president of workforce devel-opment and business, Ter-rence H. Harris, said the proj-ect had officially been in the works since late 2015.
“We had never had a dedi-cated site for our classes in Lewis County,” Mr. Harris said. “We had offered them in libraries and chambers of commerce, and it had been kind of hit-or-miss. So we were approached by the county to establish a permanent site.”
He said that the school then “did (its) due diligence to see if that was an appropriate move.”
Mr. Harris said Lewis Coun-ty government and JCC’s Center for Community Stud-ies conducted surveys of resi-dents and local businesses to gauge interest in a site.
“I spoke to representa-tives from Kraft, New York Air Brake, Great Lakes Cheese...”
said JCC president Ty A. Stone, “and they had all said that they were seeing a lack of workers with advanced manufacturing skills.”
“We also had a roundtable discussion with people in the construction trade fields, and we’re hearing that they’re having a difficult time finding people who are qualified and skilled,” Ms. Stone said, “so that may be something that we also look at in this facility.”
Mr. Harris said that the new Lewis County site would, at first, offer non-credit classes in areas like entrepreneur-ial training and certificates in coding, social media market-ing, human resources man-agement, grant writing, and drone operation. “Drone op-eration is very big now,” Mr. Harris said. “And we’ll also offer your typical personal en-richment classes like photog-raphy.”
“If there’s enough interest in offering for-credit courses, we definitely hope to expand,” said Mr. Harris.
To house the project,
JCC officials discuss site in Lewis County
MAPLE RIDGE CENTER BUILDING: On track to start with non-credit classes in 2019
By ABRAHAM [email protected]
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer still has vivid memories of his first car — a 1971 Plymouth Duster that got six miles to the gallon. During a news conference Wednesday, Sen. Schumer shared fond memories of driving around Long Island in it at 80 miles an hour. But that, he said, was back in the days when gas was cheap.
Sen. Schumer is not keen to return to those days of automotive manufactur-ing.
“On average, we’re paying 58 cents more (per gallon of gas) than we were a year ago,” he said.
Gas prices have risen substantially in the last year — in the Watertown area, it has increased in the last year from an av-erage of $2.46 to $3.09 a gallon, according to the senator.
Backed by other senators, he is send-ing a letter to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt opposing roll-backs to 2012 efficiency standards that committed manufacturers to double
fuel efficiency rates by 2025. Under these standards, cars would be getting over 50 miles per gallon within the decade. With Mr. Pruitt’s rollback, Mr. Schumer said, there is little hope for lowering gasoline prices.
“This was done without congressio-nal approval,” Mr. Schumer said. “I am urging the EPA to make a U-turn on this decision.”
The more efficient standards would
Schumer urges EPA to rethink fuel GAS PRICES: Senator to send letter to chief Pruitt opposing rollbacks of efficiency standards
See DOGS A9
See JCC A9
See DAIRY A9
See FUEL A9
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June 17th - Newspaper
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