WELCOME TO LAKE PLACID NY AND THE BEAUTIFUL ADIRONDACK PARK
SERVICE ABOVE SELF
 
Whether you're just visiting or you live in Lake Placid and would like to visit with us as a guest, please email rotarylakeplacid@gmail.com and we'll contact you.  Our meetings are held weekly at the Hampton Inn and Suites, 801 Mirror Lake Drive, Lake Placid NY.  Meetings are each Thursday at 7:20am unless a special event or meeting is planned.
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Home Page Stories
We welcomed Dan Kelleher, CEO of ROOST, to explain how ROOST manages and diversifies the all-important tourism economy.  Did you know that 35¢ of every tourism dollar spent in North Elba/Lake Placid is by a visitor.  Tourism accounts for 26% of employment in North Elba/Lake Placid.  ROOST ties economic development to destination management by focusing on several strategies such as improving housing opportunities, sensible large event management, multi-generational travel or luxury travel.  Unique opportunities to attract visitors such as the Dark Skies Project are also pursued.  Of course there is a noted decline in visits from our Canadian friends.  Dan hopes this will change as ROOST creates plans to attract our northern neighbors back to a friendly and welcoming vacation venue.  Dan is shown with Rotarian Chandler Ralph who introduced Dan at our meeting.  Visit ROOST at https://www.roostadk.com/  Dan may be contacted at dan@roostadk.com
We recently were forwarded a picture of Hailey Giles, a member of the Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance Service.  Hailey is seen here practicing her IV skills on a training arm obtained with funds from a grant from our club.
Brittany Barney, leader of the Winter Nights Basketball Program for Girls, stopped by to share her story of the AAU program.  In its second year this program offers middle and high school girls many opportunities when participating in a high-level competitive basket ball program ..... expand basketball skills, travel to new places, grow more confident and become more comfortable with meeting new people.   Two to three days per week, practices give the players time to enhance their individual skills, to learn how to push through difficulties and to be an effective team member.  The Winter Nights Basketball Program also helps to keep the players safe with a constructive activity - one that supports goal development and exposure to college-level coaches.  Thanks to Brittany and her team for supporting these girls.   We also were visited by Jim and Diane Lubin from the Middletown NY Rotary Club.  We always welcome members from other clubs when they're in the Lake Placid area as we enjoy hearing about the activities of different Rotary clubs.
Two presentations today focused on activities to educate and care for children.  St. Agnes’ Katie Turner presented some new approaches to a pre-school / pre-reading program featuring a new methodology in learning the A B C’s.  Using tactile skills to develop letter recognition as part of learning to read and discovering the enjoyment reading can provide.  Next, Dean Dietrich, Catherine Bemis and Katie Brennan presented the Lake Placid & North Elba First Steps Project which seeks to ensure high quality childcare is available to residents and workers in our community.  This is a sorely needed program for parents.  Click on the images for the full story.  Like everything, there’s a cost attached, and the Lake Placid NY Rotary Foundation will serve as a conduit for tax-advantaged donations.  An initial $50,000 donation received from the Town of North Elba as part of establishing an endowment fund. LPNYRF Chair Chandler Ralph is flanked by Katie Turner and Catherine Bemis
 
Members of the RCLP are certainly globetrotters.  Today we find members Lee and Stephanie (2nd and 3rd from right) in Oslo Norway where they visited the Oslo International Rotary Club - a club which has members from more than 14 countries.  They heard a presentation from Treefadder, a company that is creating a climate  forest to combat climate change and doing it as a business.   https://trefadder.no/en/nordicgsa/
From the Plattsburgh Noon Rotary Club, long-time Rotarian Bob Parks visited us to share his knowledge and offer suggestions on several areas of concern to any Rotary club.   It's always an issue how to gain and keep members' interest in club activities and Bob outlined several things that can be done to keep a club energized.  Another issue is gaining new membership to a club.  There are many sources of potential members - it's a matter of knowing where to look and making an effort reach out and establish contacts.  Our membership committee made careful note of things to do.  Shown L to R are President-Elect Stephanie, Bob, Membership Committee Member Greg and President Kate.
James Appleton is a Lake Placid native who lives here in Lake Placid with his wife (also a Lake Placid native) and three daughters. For 17 years he's worked in the film and TV industry out of NYC and has spent countless hours driving up and down I-87. Over the last couple of years he's transitioned away from the film industry and full time into his own business, the 46 Outdoors Company, where he helps hikers and outdoors enthusiasts get into the mountains in the Adirondacks and beyond. He is a 46'er, a licensed guide, and the host of the only podcast about the Adirondacks, The 46 of 46 Podcast. He is also the founder of the Lake Placid 9'er hiking challenge. The mission of his business and podcast is to help people have safe, and successful outdoors Adventures here in the Adirondacks. He has published multiple books with North Country Books including his latest release "The Adirondack 46 in 18 Hikes" and his 2023 release "Adirondack Campfire Stories".   https://46outdoors.com/     
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Floods, earthquakes, severe storms happen 24/7/365.  A gift to ShelterBox, a Rotary sponsored program. can provide several different types of urgently needed emergency equipment.    Just use the link on the left side of this page to download the ShelterBox gift form showing many ideas . Your one gift will bring much help and aid to those in need.  Learn about ShelterBox by visiting https://www.shelterbox.org 
 
 
 
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