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Thanks to the following individuals for their contributions of time and energy to make the Adirondack News Fund Challenge possible. Steering Committee: Rhonda Butler, Co-Chair Margot Ernst, Co-Chair Meredith Prime, Co-Chair Michael Ellis Dick Fay Stephen Hopkins Barbara Glaser Nancy Keet Carol Pearsall Harriet Singer Tricia Winterer Tony Zazula Advisory Board: Charity and Jim Marlatt Louise Gaylord Sarah & Linda Cohen John Colston Bill Knoble Pooh & Charlie Ritchie John Rosenthal Jeffrey Sellon George Studnickey Woody & Elise Widlund

 

Endowing NCPR: Adirondack News Fund

Make a secure online gift to the NCPR Adirondack Endowment Questions? Call or email: Ellen Rocco ellen@ncpr.org 1-877-388-6277

Adirondack News Fund Campaign: OVER GOAL!

Your generosity, from $5 gifts to $300,000 gifts was quite extraordinary. Our Adirondack News Bureau Campaign surpassed our $2 million goal by over $200,0000. That's a lot of money in a place famous for its many trees and mountains, and not the number of people with big paychecks. We're humbled by your belief and trust and generosity. $2,000,000 seemed an impossible goal just a few years ago. But, we were wrong.

Thanks to our volunteers from New York City to Johnsburg to Lake Placid who worked tirelessly on our behalf.

Thanks to our listeners who gave generously.

Thanks to the Adirondack Community Trust for its support.

Together, WE did it... Like all truly good things, our community made it happen. Thank you.

Thanks to our Final Challenge Fund Donors:

Margot and John Ernst, Elk Lake; Lee and Nancy Keet, Saranac Lake; Meredith Prime, Lake Placid; Michael Ellis and Kathleen Hanna, North River; Sarah and Linda Cohen, Old Forge; Larry and Nancy Master, Lake Placid.

Thanks to our Newest Adirondack News Fund Donors: (Gifts made to meet our Final Challenge --list updated December 31, 2008)

** Please let us know if you should be on this list and aren't! We'll make it right.

• Several Generous Anonymous Friends
  Stuart and Joyce Angert
  Ellie Berger and Mike DiNunzio
  Bill and Percilla Chappell
  John and Beverly DeWeese
  Ted Edwards
  Fidelity Fund
  Louise and Ted Gaylord
  Joan and Reg Gignoux
  Barbara Glaser
  Tony and Bunny Goodwin
  Mary Lynn Heldman
  David Henry and Erica Neufeld
  Margaret Huskins
  Chris and Audrey Hyson
  Ron Johnson and Nikki Coates
  Jack and Marina LaDuke
  Lake Placid Education Fund
  Serge and Caroline Lussi
  Tom and Nadine Magee
  Phyllis Magnus
  Chuck Martin
  Kelly C. and Robert Nessle
  Marcy Neville
  Ewa Reid Hammer
  Brian and Ginny Ruder
  Kathy Sinnott
  Dr. and Mrs. Slaunwhite
  Bill and Susan Sweeney
  Peter and Francine Walker
  Tom and Patricia Willis
  David and Marcy Woodland
  Fran Yardley and Burdette Parks
  Susan Washburn and Kristin Rehder
  Curt and Katherine Welling
  Ted and Marge Glowa
  Lew Kinter
  Phyllis Wendt Pierce
  Charles and Nancy Buck
  Ruth Pelmas
  Steve and Judy Hopkins
  Robert and Monica Bradbury
  Laurence and Karen Meltzer
  George and Margaret Nagle
  Marjory Moeller
  Elizabeth and Irvine Flinn
  Ed and Lisa Weibrecht
  Isis Melhado
  Jane Castaneda
  Sue Stewart
  Julia Cadbury
  Helen Herzer
  J. Edward and Carolyn Fowler
  Richard Morrow
  Ed and Betsy Blodgett
  Kathy and Mike Clarke
  Donald and Mary Clifford
  Jackie Altman
  Chris & Kiri Brandy
  Melinda Little
  Mark Berninghausen
  Marsha Stanley and Tom Curley
  Rod and Dodie Giltz (Port Jackson Fund at ACT)
  Liam Hunt and Kathleen Stein
  Ray Curran and Kathleen Daggett
  Mary Kays
  Ruth Kuhfahl
  Fred and Connie Vanacore
  Phil Newton / Diane Fortado
  Bud and Joanne Maddocks
  Jay and Dorothy Federman
  Robert and Michalene Glennon
  Laurence and Marie Shorr
  Eleanor Sweeney
  Carl Hoffman and Elizabeth Naumberg
  Mark Chamberlain
  Rev Dudley Sarfaty
  Joe Beck and Bonnie Robinson
  Ted and Norma Wickersham
  Kathleen and Pete Wirth
  Barbara Rottier
  Hans Barner Rasmussen
  Robin Brown
  Christi Barber
  Emily Tyner / David Bielfield
  Michelle Pinard
  Anna Hoyt
  Patrick and Rolene O'Brien
  Roger Hart
  Besty Hodge
  Kathy Merritt
  Lynn Meyers
  Tom Warrington / Betsy Folwell
  Mark and Janet Collier
  Charlotte Mehrtens
  Richard Brandt / Ellen Bieberman
  Jeffrey and Donna Fink (with corp match)
  David Craig
  Brenda White
  Mitchell Edelstein
  Rob and Dawn Sprogell
  Ronald Bretsch
  Eugenie Ledesky
  John and Catherine Werley
  Andy and Sally Joachim
  Stacy McNulty and Paul Hai
  Mark Johnson / Lauren Glenn Johnson
  Andy Manigel and Daun Martin
  Jim and Cindy Bisson
  Laurie and Mike Trudo
  Robin Brown
  Paul and Linda Gutmann
  Jennifer Knapp McGrew / Chris McGrew
  Janis Lee/Mike Secone
  Michael and Christina McCarthy
  Whitney McDermut
  Don Ream and Amy Smith
  Eddie and Joan Reed
  Chuck Bruha and Kathy Reagan
  Mary Lou Reed
  John A. Schaff
  Allen Spiegel
  Norm and Nancy Howard
  Steve and Judy Hopkins
  Charles McCutchen
  Jeffrey Sellon
  Bob and Judy Lievense
  John Flanzer
  Elise Tupper
  Randy Giltz
  Michael and Mary Lou Marien
  Michael and Laura Gouthreau
  Robert and Kathleen Wiley
  Andrew Hahn
  Mark and Cecily Morris
  M/M Carl Huttel
  Carol Jean Pinney
  Robert Segall
  Joyce and Thomas Tuffey
  Eugene and Carol Kaczka
  Steve Baker
  Holly Chambers
  Jill and Wesley Vaughn
  Ronile Lawrence
  Randy Lalonde
  Don Mackay
  Cynthia Eyler
  Bill and Jan Localio
  Ann K. Van Delinder
  

Thanks to our Generous Leadership Donors

• Anonymous Generous Friends: North Creek, Inlet, Glens Falls, Keene Valley, Blue Mountain Lake, Lake Placid, Lake Clear
• Ann Adams & Gerry Kusler
• Jackie Altman
• Michael & Ellen Bettmann
• Chip & Sandy Bissell
• Jack & Eve Bogle
• Jim & Marcia Brooks Family
• Rhonda Butler & David Brunner
• David & Lucy Carson
• Mike & Kathy Clarke
• Sarah & Linda Cohen
• Joe & Rita Coney
• Sara Jane & William DeHoff
• Paul Dooling & Sandra Danussi
• Baird & Nancy Edmonds
• Michael Ellis & Kathleen Hanna
• Margot & John Ernst
• Evergreen Fund
• Gloria Fant
• Jay & Dorothy Federman
• Linda & John Friedlander
• Joan & Reg Gignoux
• Barbara Glaser
• Hank & Marion Hofmann
• Steve & Judy Hopkins
• Jack & Connie Hume
• Tim Kemp & Suzanne Miller
• Chris & Tom Kershner
• Leslie Anne & Jim King
• Bob & Judy Lievense
• Dan & Carol Luthringshauser
• Bud & Joanne Maddocks
• Brian Mann & Susan Waters
• Larry & Nancy Master
• Charles McCutchen
• Ed & Becky Milner
• Allan Newell
• Bengt & Polly Ohman
• Mary Beth & Michael Peabody
• Carol & Glenn Pearsall
• Carol Poole
• Rooney & Dick Poole
• Meredith Prime
• Prospect Hill Foundation
• Pooh & Charlie Ritchie
• Ellen Rocco
• Mike & Lora Schultz
• Grant Simmons
• Harriet & Andrew Singer
• Charles & Sally Svenson
• Susan Sweeney Smith
• Aileen Townsend & Peter Paravati
• Barrie Vanderpoel
• Carter & Julia Walker
• Phyllis Wendt Pierce
• Sandy & Joan Weill
• Tricia & Philip Winterer
• Cecil & Gilda Wray
• Peter & Kathy Wyckoff
• Fran Yardley & Burdette Parks
• Tony Zazula
  

NCPR's Adirondack Service Fund is managed by the The Adirondack Community Trust based in Lake Placid.

About Listening

from Bill McKibben

Think of the Adirondacks and what sound comes to mind? The crack of a beavertail against an evening pond, perhaps, or the pines sighing in the breeze. Depending on the season, maybe the sound of a skate blade cutting into black ice, or the muffled semi-silence of a fat-flaked snowfall.

But 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, only one sound can be heard in virtually every corner of the park: the sound of North Country Public Radio. This vast region, bigger than Vermont or Massachusetts, has no newspaper that reaches every town, no tv station of its own. The only media source that ties together the park comes from the 19 transmitters scattered around the region.

Those antennas transmit dependable news from the outside world: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and the rest of public radio's national offerings. But they also bring engaged, accurate, and comprehensive coverage of the Adirondacks, knitting together the diverse towns and hamlets.

One day Brian Mann, the Adirondack bureau chief, may be covering the ninety-miler canoe race, or following forest rangers as they try to cope with the bears at Marcy Dam. The next he may be focusing on how tiny North Country parishes cope with the loss of priests, or finding out what life is like inside the park's many prisons. Meanwhile, station manager Ellen Rocco, host of Readers and Writers on the Air, regularly interviews some of the nation's finest authors. Local folk and classical musicians appear many afternoons on the station's diverse music programs. Every year NCPR wins a skein of regional and national awards for its news and cultural coverage; and every year it wins new listeners among all kinds of Adirondackers.

Church supper coming up? Snowstorm appearing on the western horizon? North Country Public Radio is not only the best place to find out, it's often the only place. And in an emergency-the great ice storm of 1998, the creeping forest fires of 2002--it becomes clear just how much all of us who live and vacation here depend on the station. Not only that--if you listen to NPR's national news programs, you've doubtless heard how often NCPR's features are picked up for airing across the country. No station its size matches its contribution to the national network, a real tribute to its journalistic skill.

Now is the chance to guarantee the future of the station. Its listeners and business underwriters continue to be generous in their contributions, supporting the basic day to day expense of running the station with annual pledges. But that support is stretched thin in an area of modest incomes and sparse population. It's hard to make ends meet when trees outnumber people a thousand to one in your broadcast area.

And in recent years NCPR has taken on additional expenses. The Adirondack News Bureau, based at Paul Smith's College, represents the station's unique commitment to coverage of the mountains. But it's extraordinarily rare for a public radio station to operate a satellite bureau, and the cost is considerable. Meanwhile, the advent of new technologies represents new opportunities and new costs. The station's website has become the clear hub for regional news and events--one of the best in the nation. This service needs sustaining support.

And so, for the first time, the station is undertaking a major endowment drive. The money, which will be invested by an external proven team of advisors, will be used to underwrite those new programs that go beyond the daily operations of the station

I believe in North Country Public Radio. I know and trust its staff. Most important: none of us who live or vacation in the Park could really imagine being in the Adirondacks without the station.