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Post-Standard, The (Syracuse, NY) Click here to go back to the Borodino Bullett May 1, 2003 Illustration: PHOTO Color. SKANEATELES LETTER CARRIER Dave
Guarino delivers mail along Fennell Street Saturday in the village.
Guarino is one of four letter carriers in Skaneateles. He walks
about 13 miles a day, making deliveries to about 300 homes throughout
the village. Color. WINDOW
SHOPPERS are reflected in a mirror Sunday afternoon along Genesee
Street in the village of Skaneateles. Color. "I TOOK MY DAUGHTER'S place here when
she left for college last year," said Jane Cooney, from the porch of
Pomodoro of Skaneateles Inc., a specialty gift shop at 61 E.
Genesee St., Skaneateles, that is owned by Neal and Karen Foltz.
Before taking the job, Cooney had taught and tutored middle and high
school students for 23 years. "I just needed a break from the stress of
teaching, a change of pace. Working here is so much fun," said Cooney,
who still tutors students individually. PLACES WE
WORK "I'VE BEEN TOLD I could move more pieces in town if I
didn't put the snakes and skulls on my work," said Skaneateles
glass blower Phil Austin, owner of Phil Austin's Miraculous Snake Oil
Remedy Co., from his studio at 4247 Jordan Road, Skaneateles.
Color. MOTTVILLE RESIDENT Pat Spillman (right) walks around from her post office box to pick up a certified letter from Stephanie Davis (left), who runs the Mottville community post office. "Saturdays are kind of my easy day," Davis said. "It is nice and quiet." Davis makes coffee and cookies for her patrons every Saturday. She took over the post office at the end of August. It shares the space at 872 Crow Hill Road, Mottville, with Davis' business, The Secret Garden, which specializes in hand-painted furniture. Color. Michelle Dudley/Contributing photographer DR. WILLIAM NICHOLS weighs a cat at his offices on 109 Jordan St.Nichols has been a veterinarian in Skaneateles for more than 28 years.Color.Amy Young/Contributing photographer WANDA SMITH of Auburn dishes soup at The Krebs, 53 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles. Smith has been a server at The Krebs off and on for 12 years. Color. Deborah Silliman/Contributing photographer SUSHI is the main entree at Kabuki, a Skaneateles restaurant at 12 W.Genesee St. Color.Ricky Bloom/Contributing photographer RITA ATWETEN (front), Christine Bisko (hidden) and Christopher Lake (back left) work behind the counter at Doug's Fish Fry, 8 Jordan St., in downtown Skaneateles on a Friday night. Owner Mark Edwards (in the white shirt and hat) helps on busy nights at the cash register. The restaurant is popular with local people, attracting large crowds, especially on the weekends. Color. LIVE AND LEARN FIFTH-GRADER Caroline Stanford, 10, steps back from painting a box in the entrance to State Street Elementary School at 72 State St., Skaneateles, after her hands became suctioned to the box by the acrylic paint. The older students have the option of taking an extra art period called studio art at the end of the day. "This is one of my favorite parts of the day where I get to have fun with my friends," said Caroline. The box was being painted to decorate the entrance to the school. Color. DOUG ADAMS, an emergency medical technician-defibrillation
volunteer with the SAVES Ambulance Corps. in Skaneateles, shows
Angelo Posnick how restricting the neck brace used by EMTs can be for a
patient Sunday at the Big Trucks exhibition. The event, at Hanson
Aggregates East on Route 321, Skaneateles, brought together
children and big ERIC TANGUAY examines a mealworm during
science class at State Street Elementary School in Skaneateles.
He says he enjoys examining mealworms because "I don't have any at
home. I also like going to science class to play with the hissing
cockroach, because I don't have one of those at home either." Pupils
were learning the difference between the words "observation" and
"inference." They must examine a mealworm and make five observations
and five inferences about the AN AERIAL VIEW of the Skaneateles lakefront and the pier. VETERAN BALLOONIST Georgia
Peach, of 80 State St., Skaneateles, takes off from Austin Park
in Skaneateles. JIM BANKY, of Skaneateles, flies his WACO UPF-7 biplane over his town and the Finger Lakes area during the warm months of the year. VOLUNTEER firefighter Gerard "Jersey" Rath of the Skaneateles Fire Department, which has been at 26 Fennell St. for 30 years, poses for a portrait on the ladder of a Skaneateles firetruck along Leitch Avenue in the village of Skaneateles. CLOCKS on buildings like
the former Skaneateles Savings Bank (foreground) - now BSB Bank
& Trust - and St. James' Episcopal Church adorn Skaneateles'
rooftop landscape. "HOLD STILL, I don't want to hurt you," says Katie
Curtis, as she MOTTVILLE
firefighters keep a watchful eye on Skaneateles High School's
homecoming bonfire at the Welch Allyn Inc. grounds at 4341State St.
Road. The bonfire is the kickoff for homecoming weekend. KATE
DELMONICO, an 11th-grader at Skaneateles High School, sees
her friend and classmate, Katie Card, on the sidelines at the
homecoming game and gives her a hug. ANNA BARNETT, 6, plays in a pile of leaves she and her sister, Christina, 11, just finished raking in the front yard of their home at 2680 Nunnery Road in neighboring Spafford, south of the Skaneateles village. Every fall, the girls rake the yard and take turns jumping into the leaves and burying each other. THREE-YEAR-OLD Julia Natoli, of Syracuse, dances with her shadow on the pier in the village of Skaneateles. EMILY KUPP, 6, of 2980 E. Lake Road, Skaneateles, pokes at her brother's birthday cake while grocery shopping with her mother, Terry, at the P&C Foods on Fennell Street. Emma was helping her mother buy groceries for brother Ethan's birthday party on Saturday. ETHAN OSBORNE celebrates his seventh birthday at the Skaneateles Community Center, 97 State St., Skaneateles. Osborne's "real" birthday was on Sept. 11, but his family chose to celebrate it later in the month. "He can't understand why such a terrible thing would happen on his birthday," says Wendy Osborne, Ethan's mother. TREVAN SIGNORELLI, 6, of Fayetteville, stares out the window of the Blue Water Grill at 11 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles. Trevan was eating dinner Sunday with his parents, sister and grandmother, but he spent a lot of time peering out the window at boats on the lake near the restaurant. The Signorelli family spends much of the summer at their camp on Skaneateles Lake. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Glen Underwood feeds Autumn Joy, a calf owned by Bill Vinzant (left). Underwood is visiting Vinzant's farm in Spafford, just outside of Skaneateles. Underwood raises chickens on his family's farm and delivers eggs to Vinzant every Saturday for $1 a dozen. THESE THREE LITTLE PIGS are among many
attractions for visitors to Tim's Pumpkin Patch at 2901 Rose Hill Road
in neighboring Marcellus.They are less than a year old. Owner Tim
Leubner has been in business 16 years; he aims to create a family
atmosphere that appeals to all ages. TIM LEUBNER, owner of Tim's
Pumpkin Patch in Marcellus, said his SUZIE TANNER, 6, hides behind an umbrella Friday at the Merryfield horse stable at 1245 Old Seneca Turnpike, just outside Skaneateles. The stable is owned by Suzie's mother, Sharon Tanner. CANDY MILLER, who tends the herd at Twin Birch Dairy at 1850 Benson Road, Skaneateles, helps a cow give birth. "That was the first baby for her," Miller said, "and it was a big baby." After delivering the calf, the cow nudged and licked it without getting any response. The calf was born dead, probably because of too much stress during labor, Miller said. About one in five calves born at the dairy dies from complications, she said. ANNA BARNETT, 6, throws grain to
chickens on the family's farm at 2680 Nunnery Road, Spafford,
where she lives with her parents, Kevin and Joyce Barnett. Every
morning and evening, Anna and her sister, Christina, 11, feed the
chickens, geese, rabbit, goats, pony and horse. THE REV. ROBERT de Wetter gives the
host to a parishioner Sunday during Mass at St. James' Episcopal Church
on East Genesee Street, Skaneateles. SISTER CELESTINE McCann
of the Sisters of Saint Francis returns from closing the Stella Maris
Retreat Center chapel for the night. Although retired, she helps out at
the center. THE VIEW OF
SKANEATELES from the docks of the Skaneateles Country
Club on Saturday evening as the sun begins to set.ARNIE RUBENSTEIN
is the proud owner of a 1941 GarWood Sedan antique wood boat. There are
only two boats of this type known to exist.Rubenstein is one of the
main organizers for the annual Skaneateles Antique &
Classic Boat Show. JOE COLEMAN and Luke Biggnest , both of Skaneateles, take
advantage of a beautiful Sunday morning to launch their boat on the
west side of Skaneateles Lake for a few hours of
fishing. MARTIN MIKOSKI of Skaneateles fishes for trout Sunday
near the south end of Skaneateles Lake. A LIGHT BREEZE moves
off the shore of Skaneateles Lake, along the West | ||