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WATERTOWN — New York Air Brake LLC (NYAB) of Watertown announced it is working with a sister company on an “improved and innovative” brake system for passenger trains. NYAB is partnering on the product with Knorr Brake Company (KBC), which is headquartered in Westminster, Maryland. Both firms are sister companies within Munich, Germany–based Knorr-Bremse. Knorr-Bremse […]

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WATERTOWN — New York Air Brake LLC (NYAB) of Watertown announced it is working with a sister company on an “improved and innovative” brake system for passenger trains.

NYAB is partnering on the product with Knorr Brake Company (KBC), which is headquartered in Westminster, Maryland. Both firms are sister companies within Munich, Germany–based Knorr-Bremse.

Knorr-Bremse specializes in braking systems and is a supplier of other “safety-critical” rail and commercial-vehicle systems.

NYAB and KBC collaborated on a product called the EE-26 brake system, which the company says is “engineered for safety, performance, uptime, and lower total cost of ownership.”

The EE-26 uses electronic closed-loop control to provide “higher reliability, real-time” diagnostic capability, and a “platform for future advancements.” Designed in compliance with an American Public Transportation Association (APTA) standard, EE-26 is “aligned with new standards being adopted by many leading railways.”

“North American passenger railcars have been equipped with the same conventional pneumatic brake control for decades,” Michael Gibbs, KBC’s deputy director of OE sales, said in a release. “Now, with adoption of electropneumatic control technology significantly increasing in North America, we’ve engineered the EE-26 brake system with the capability to handle both true pneumatic and electropneumatic control of a braking system. It’s a bridge to the future of passenger car brake control.”

About NYAB

New York Air Brake develops and supplies air-brake control systems and components, electronically controlled braking systems, foundation brakes, training simulators and train-handling systems, and wayside equipment to the rail industry.

New York Air Brake was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Watertown. The company has 750 total employees and operates manufacturing plants in Nixa, Missouri; Riverside, Missouri; Salisbury, North Carolina; West Chicago, Illinois; and Wheatland, Missouri; along with Train Dynamic Systems (TDS), a technology development unit located in Irving, Texas.

More on the product

In a “traditional purely pneumatic system,” individual passenger-car brakes are activated in response to changes in air pressure through a control pipe that runs the length of a train. In an electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) system, the brakes respond to electronic signals sent from the locomotive.

ECP braking — widely used across the rail industries in Europe, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia — provides “increased safety, improved train-level brake performance, and better diagnostics,” NYAB and KBC said.

“We often relate the comparative communications speed of pneumatic and ECP signals through a brake system to the speed of sound versus the speed of light,” Brendan Crowley, NYAB manager of sales and systems engineering, explained. “In addition to the safety and performance enhancements of greater signal speed, ECP systems deliver real-time diagnostic information and alerts to operators and maintenance staff, which benefits train engineers and technicians, improves train handling, and decreases maintenance downtime.”

Based on NYAB’s EP-60 product line, the EE-26 brake system “represents the future” of passenger ECP braking in North America, the sister companies contend. The system increases the recommended valve overhaul period to 10 years, “more than doubling the previous four-year period,” per the release.

The EE-26’s design, the firms contend, “saves space, makes installation easier for car manufacturers, and provides more accessible maintenance compared to existing traditional pipe-mounted equipment.” Additionally, the EE-26’s integrated diagnostics technology and vehicle networking are supposed to make it easier to spot problems earlier and make repairs more quickly.

The EE-26 system has undergone a “rigorous battery of testing” at both KBC and NYAB’s laboratories and has been under continuous field trial in North America since 2014, accumulating over 1.8 million miles of service, the companies said.

New owners take over two North Country businesses

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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Two North Country businesses have been sold to new owners, according to the North Country Center for Businesses in Transition (CBIT). CBIT made the Jan. 28 announcement as the partnership enters its third year supporting transitioning businesses. Over the last two years, retiring owners of Tug Hill Vineyards and Adirondack Soy

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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Two North Country businesses have been sold to new owners, according to the North Country Center for Businesses in Transition (CBIT).

CBIT made the Jan. 28 announcement as the partnership enters its third year supporting transitioning businesses.

Over the last two years, retiring owners of Tug Hill Vineyards and Adirondack Soy Candles used local business-support services and resources — including CBIT’s community liaison network — to develop business-succession plans and connect with potential buyers.

“Preparing to sell a business can be intimidating,” Jenna Kraeger, economic-development specialist at Lewis County Economic Development, one of CBIT’s new community liaisons, said in a release. “These stories are testament to the hard work and dedication of these business owners, their professional services team and the economic development staff who supported them through the transition process.”

The North Country Center for Businesses in Transition works to “to help owners sell their businesses on the open market, complete intergenerational family transitions or convert to an employee-owned or cooperative model,” per the website of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA)

CBIT is a collaboration of regional organizations and leaders that seeks to support existing business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs in developing successful business-transition strategies, ANCA said.

Tug Hill Vineyards

Sue and Mike Maring decided it was time to sell Tug Hill Vineyards in Lowville, a farm winery that grows French-American cold-hardy grapes.

The Marings planned, connected with professional support, and were “patient and flexible” in finding the right buyers. As a result, they successfully passed on their business to the Beller family this past January, CBIT said.

Jon and Taren Beller — and their three sons, Owen, Ty, and Dax — are long-time Lewis County residents. Jon Beller is an owner at Beller Farms where his family has milked cows for more than 100 years. Taren Beller is a special-education teacher in Beaver Falls, a hamlet in the town of Croghan in Lewis County.

“We are very excited to be purchasing Tug Hill Vineyards,” Jon Beller said. “It is truly a dream come true for us and combines Taren’s love of cooking and country style with my hobby of fruit trees and all things orchard related. We look forward to working together as a family to maintain and grow the wonderful business the Marings have established. We plan to make small changes, growing the restaurant and events, and adding more family-friendly activities. The staff at Tug Hill Vineyards are all maintaining their current roles and have been very patient teaching us about a business we knew little about.”

Adirondack Soy Candles

Another business — Adirondack Soy Candles, a home-based candle company in Saranac Lake — also transferred to new ownership. The 17-year-old business now belongs to Terry Reed, who is the store manager at The Village Mercantile, also in Saranac Lake.

Previous owner Sue Amell moved out of the region and continued to operate the business from out of state. She explored various transition options and contacted CBIT in 2018. She wanted her candle company to continue to grow in the place where it “took root.”

Reed told Patrick Murphy, executive director of the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, that she credits CBIT and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for “making the transition process run smoothly,” per the CBIT release.

“The connection with SBDC made possible by CBIT was wonderful. We had a great conversation with them to help start our business. The resources they provided were great and being able to go back to them to review was really good too,” Reed said. “SBDC provided the resources to help us understand how to finance the purchase … I had no clue on how to even get a tax ID number. [CBIT] really got me moving forward and where I needed to go to get the business moving.”

Reed also praised Amell, who supported her with an informal “apprenticeship” over the phone in the months leading up to the sale.

March 8, 2021 People on the Move News

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Want to be listed in our weekly People on the Move? Email your information to movers@cnybj.com ACCOUNTINGD’Arcangelo & Co., LLP recently announced several promotions and new hires. JENNIFER TAYLOR is a tax partner and a CPA with more than nine years of experience with the firm. She has extensive experience in individual and small- to

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ACCOUNTING
D’Arcangelo & Co., LLP recently announced several promotions and new hires.

JENNIFER TAYLOR is a tax partner and a CPA with more than nine years of experience with the firm. She has extensive experience in individual and small- to medium-sized business taxation. Taylor specializes in tax preparation for individuals and businesses, compilation and review engagements in various industries, QuickBooks consulting, and small-business consulting. She works out of the East Syracuse office. Taylor is a graduate of Clarkson University and Syracuse University.

ABIGAIL (ABBY) DRUMM is a tax partner and a CPA with more than eight years of public-accounting experience. Drumm’s experience has been focused on federal and state income tax compliance and consultation. She specializes in individual income-tax preparation and planning; federal and multi-state income-tax preparation and planning for corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietors in a variety of industries; new-business consultation; bookkeeping support, payroll, and payroll taxes; and financial-statement preparation, reviews, and compilations. Drumm works from the firm’s Utica office. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

BEN MACIEWICZ has been promoted to audit manager. He is a graduate of SUNY Brockport and has been with the firm since 2015 working on a variety of complex audit engagements. Maciewicz works primarily from the firm’s Utica office.

Additional promotions at the firm are NIKKI TUBBS, ERIC ARMITAGE, CHASE LARSEN, and STEVEN NEUHAUSER to senior accountant. ANDREW MUCICA, KATIE MARRIS, DALTON ELIAS, MARY ELLEN BROCKWAY, VALERIE HAMILTON, and NICK BARNES have also joined the firm as new hires.

ARCHITECTS
Keystone Associates Architects, Engineers and Surveyors, LLC, has hired ANTHONY AMBROSIO as a technician in the architectural department. His duties include CADD drafting, design, field investigations, and conducting code reviews. Ambrosio has nine years of experience in project management and CADD drafting for hospitality, residential, and commercial facilities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Capiz State University in the Philippines.

BANKING
KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) has appointed KATE DE LA GARZA as a senior relationship manager to expand community development lending and investment activity in the Northeast. She will be focused on KeyBank’s community-development banking efforts in New York state and the surrounding markets, which are critical to the bank’s affordable-housing growth plan. De La Garza is based in Syracuse and reports to Kyle Kolesar, CDLI eastern region manager. She brings more that 15 years of affordable-housing experience in finance, development, and consulting. Prior to joining Key, she was a VP and senior project manager at US Bank Community Development Corporation. De La Garza also previously worked at Beacon Development Group and Capitol Hill Housing. She earned her master’s degree in urban planning & public affairs from the University of Washington and her bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Massachusetts.

EDUCATION
Herkimer County Community College has appointed FREDDY J. CICCHETTI, III as admissions assistant. He is the former senior adviser of international admissions and outreach at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where he oversaw all aspects of international student recruitment and enrollment. Cicchetti earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from CUNY Baruch College and his master’s degree in communication arts from the New York Institute of Technology. He also served as the assistant director of admissions and then the associate director of international admissions at the New York Institute of Technology. In his new role with the Herkimer College Admissions Office, Cicchetti will help the college meet undergraduate enrollment goals through a variety of marketing and recruitment initiatives, as well as help prospective students with the admission and enrollment process.

ENGINEERING
RANDY ARNOLD has joined C&S as a senior project environmental scientist. He will serve as the manager for C&S’s new hazardous building materials consulting services line. Arnold has more than 20 years of diverse environmental consulting experience. His expertise is in performing and managing hazardous-material surveys, abatement design, and monitoring services for asbestos, lead, PCBs, and other hazardous materials. His background includes providing extensive services to public and private-sector clients, including health care, pharmaceutical, private developers, K-12 education, colleges/universities, municipalities, industrial, commercial, and the energy sector. Arnold was previously a senior project manager at Asbestos & Environmental Consulting Corp, where he performed hazardous-material services and managed complex hazardous material and environmental projects for clients throughout New York. He also previously worked at Kleinfelder Inc., and AECOM. Arnold is a New York-certified asbestos project monitor, building inspector and designer.

HEALTH CARE
DR. THOMAS J. WELCH II recently joined the St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute in DeWitt, which provides cardiology care to the community. Welch earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Welch completed a residency at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s Health, he served as a fellow at the University of Rochester, focusing on complex coronary intervention and structural heart interventions. Dr. Welch is board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. He specializes in interventional cardiology and is an active member of the American College of Cardiology. St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute is located at 4939 Brittonfield Pkwy.

REAL ESTATE
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices CNY Realty announced that SEAN HAGAN has earned his associate real estate broker license. He became a licensed salesperson in 2011 and has been the top producing agent in the Cazenovia School District for several consecutive years with a total volume of more than $47 million in sales. Hagan works from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices CNY Realty’s Cazenovia office serving Madison and Onondaga counties. He served six years in the Marine Corps as a military police officer. Hagan owned a landscaping company prior to earning his real-estate license.

SPORTS
MIKE SCHMIDT has joined the Syracuse Orange football program as the offensive-line coach. Schmidt comes to Syracuse from San Diego State, where he served as an assistant coach for the last 12 years, after graduating from the university, including the last nine years as offensive-line coach. Schmidt replaces Mike Cavanaugh, who left Syracuse after three seasons, to take the offensive-line coach position at Arizona State. Under Schmidt’s tutelage, San Diego State consistently ran the ball well and 15 different offensive linemen earned All-Mountain West honors, including six first-team honorees in the past six seasons. In 2017, Schmidt’s line paved the way for All-American running back Rashaad Penny to lead the nation in rushing. The year prior, Donnell Pumphrey became the NCAA’s all-time leading rusher with 6,405 yards and the Aztec offense set program records in rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, and points. Prior to coaching the offensive line, Schmidt worked with the San Diego State program as an offensive graduate assistant from 2010-11. He got into coaching after a successful playing career at San Diego State from 2005-08 that saw him transition from a walk-on defensive lineman to a scholarship offensive lineman and team captain in his senior season.

AMEER RILEY has joined the Colgate Raiders football program as an assistant coach for the secondary. Riley, a Colgate alum and former football star, joins the team’s coaching staff after one season of coaching at Miami Northwestern Senior High School and five seasons at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He served as defensive coordinator at both stops and also as the strength and conditioning coach for St. Thomas Aquinas, a high-school football powerhouse. Riley graduated from Colgate in 2002. He played safety for the Raiders football team from 1998-2001 and was a two-time All-Patriot League selection. He earned First Team honors in 2001 and was named to the 2001 Don Hansen Football National Gazette All-American Team. A native of Norwood, Massachusetts, Riley went on to play professionally for three seasons in the Arena Football League, before later getting into coaching.

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OPINION: Health-Budget Hearing Offers No Closure in Nursing-Home Cover-Up

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[On Feb. 25], New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker was questioned regarding the Department of Health’s (DOH) budget and response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The budget hearing was designed to review the public-health portion of the executive’s budget proposal. As such, it fell woefully short as a platform to obtain an understanding of the full

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The question-and-answer portion of the meeting was severely limited — legislators barely had enough time to ask their questions, let alone time enough to get adequate answers. The need for more hearings is evident. When the topic of nursing-home deaths did come up, Zucker was predictably evasive. He stuck to the same narrative he has in recent months, saying he needs more time to get information requested and the DOH followed relevant directives. Zucker maintained that the March 25 order requiring nursing homes to admit COVID-19-positive patients had little to do with the spread of the virus.

On this matter, Zucker’s testimony is in direct contradiction to an Empire Center report that found a direct correlation between that order and additional nursing-home deaths. According to their analysis, as many as 1,000 more residents died between March and early May due to the DOH directive.

Our Assembly Minority Conference has continually called for both state and federal subpoenas and a full investigation into potential criminal actions that took place during the pandemic and subsequent cover-up of the true number of deaths that occurred in elder-care facilities. [The Feb. 25] budget hearing must not be construed as a means of closure. Until a full investigation is launched, and answers are provided under oath, we are still in the beginning stages of finding the truth.

It is disheartening that we are still so far from a full picture of what took place. The Assembly and Senate Majority Conferences continue to rebuff our calls for subpoenas, and they have still not acted to remove Gov. Cuomo’s emergency powers as some indicated they would. State government is moving far too slowly for the people of New York. Every day the families of those who died do not have answers is a day that this state has broken its promise to deliver equity and justice for all its residents.

William (Will) A. Barclay, Republican, is the New York Assembly Minority Leader and represents the 120th New York Assembly District, which encompasses most of Oswego County, including the cities of Oswego and Fulton, as well as the town of Lysander in Onondaga County and town of Ellisburg in Jefferson County. Contact Barclay at barclaw@assembly.state.ny.us.

OPINION: Our Country Rests on People Doing the Right Thing

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As the events of the past few months have unfolded, I have often found myself wondering what our Founders would have made of it all. Impossible to know, of course, but they had plenty of insight to offer. In particular, I keep returning to these lines from James Madison. He delivered them during the Virginia convention to

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In particular, I keep returning to these lines from James Madison. He delivered them during the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution, arguing that the surest safeguard against legislators and a government bent on malfeasance is the people themselves. “I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom,” he said. “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure.” We depend, he said, not on the virtue of the people we elect, but of “the people who are to choose them.”

That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? Our country rests on the faith that we the people will do the right thing. The design of our government may be remarkable, but it does not matter nearly as much as the qualities of the American people and their capacity to make it work. If we do not step up, if we do not invest our time and energy and abilities in making the system work, it will not.

One of the remarkable aspects of the founding era was that a relative handful of people, in a country that did not even number 4 million at the time, developed a constitution with very little to go on and then made it work. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and a few others had the skills, knowledge, and insight to hammer out, debate, and craft a system from the ground up, then to articulate it and persuade the political elite that this republican form of government could work.

And what may have been most impressive was that they had confidence in the notion that people had the capacity to govern themselves. Yes, they hedged, both in the elaborate balance of power they built and in who actually got to vote. But they also created a system that, over the centuries, was capable of expanding the franchise and delivering a more equitable, broader voice in government because that was the idea at its core.

A key aspect of that idea, as Madison articulated, is that virtue is part of republican government. This sounds strange to say in the modern world. We tend to think of “virtue” as moral probity or honesty or integrity. Madison and the other Founders had something more encompassing in mind. They thought of virtue as including a sense of civic self-sacrifice — the ability to overcome self-interest and act for the benefit of the broader community. And they expected it not just in political leaders, but in citizens themselves.

What may be most striking is that they had confidence in the American people to carry out this grand experiment and believed in the patriotism and capacity of those people to serve as protectors of civil liberties and of the due process of democracy. I could not help but think of that faith in the wake of last November’s election, as countless poll workers and elections officials in towns and cities and states around the country stoically carried on their work to the best of their ability in the face of unrelenting antagonism.

We remain in a time of great testing for the system Madison and his generation created. Though it is a remarkable constitutional design, created during a period of enormous change, turmoil, and confusion, they understood that the whole thing would fail if the people lacked the capacity to make it work. A lot of Americans have lost trust in the government, in the system as a whole, and in one another. This is not without reason. But it helps to look back and remember that everything rests on us — on our ability to choose our leaders wisely, to work with one another, and to reward the Founders’ faith that ordinary people can, by dint of their efforts, make this a more perfect union.

Lee Hamilton, 89, is a senior advisor for the Indiana University (IU) Center on Representative Government, distinguished scholar at IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, and professor of practice at the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Hamilton, a Democrat, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years (1965-1999), representing a district in south central Indiana.

North Country airports get new TSA shields at checkpoints

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has recently installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoints at two North Country airports. The Watertown International Airport in Dexter in Jefferson County and the Ogdensburg International Airport in Oswegatchie in St. Lawrence County have received the protection devices. The shield installations are part of the federal agency’s ongoing efforts to

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Jefferson Economic Development Fund awards $10K for education projects

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WATERTOWN, N.Y. — The Jefferson Economic Development Fund of the Northern New York Community Foundation recently awarded $10,000 in grant support to two education projects. WPBS-TV in Watertown will use a $6,000 grant to support its “GPS For Success” initiative. It’s an online resource that provides educational information to encourage local career exploration by Northern

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WATERTOWN, N.Y. — The Jefferson Economic Development Fund of the Northern New York Community Foundation recently awarded $10,000 in grant support to two education projects.

WPBS-TV in Watertown will use a $6,000 grant to support its “GPS For Success” initiative. It’s an online resource that provides educational information to encourage local career exploration by Northern New York students and adult learners.

The website offers research, data, and videos highlighting 16 professional careers relevant to the North Country. In collaboration with other local partners, WPBS is building a platform to feature soft skills such as résumé writing and entrepreneurship.

The grant will support a module focused on critical interview fundamentals, while also helping to develop complementary materials for students and teachers.

At the same time, Jefferson-Lewis BOCES will use a $4,000 grant to purchase equipment to produce a student-driven video series focusing on features of career and technical education.

Educators and staff will work with students to generate creative, online content that explains local vocational and trade professions to the broader community. Technical centers in Jefferson and Lewis counties will share the equipment.

“We are pleased to see the recently established fund deploying resources that make investments that have the potential to continue to build strength and capacity for the workforce of the future and invest in programs that can help increase the awareness of career paths right here in our local communities,” Rande Richardson, executive director of the Northern New York Community Foundation, said in a statement.

The Jefferson Economic Development Fund was established at the Community Foundation to support programs, projects, and efforts that help “stimulate economic development and promote general welfare” in Jefferson County.

The foundation says it encourages Jefferson County nonprofits annually to consider this funding opportunity if an organization’s mission and work may include — but is not limited to — workforce development; initiatives that aim to improve the general health and economic well-being of residents; and strengthening access to arts, culture, educational experiences, social impact, and community leadership.

The Northern New York Community Foundation, founded in 1929, serves Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties, awarding grants and scholarships from an endowment and collection of funds. The foundation is located at the Northern New York Philanthropy Center in Watertown.

Downtown Utica MVHS hospital to get new name after $50 million donation from casino mogul

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UTICA, N.Y. — Casino magnate Steve Wynn’s family foundation has donated $50 million to the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) for services at the upcoming

New York cabbage production jumped 26 percent in 2020

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New York farms produced an estimated 562 million pounds of cabbage in 2020, up 26 percent from the 2019 estimate, according to a USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 2020 vegetable production summary report issued on Feb. 12. The average yield per acre was estimated at 48,000 pounds last year, 26 percent higher than the 2019 average

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ANCA adds Heidecorn to board

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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) recently announced the addition of David Heidecorn, senior advisor to L Catterton Real Estate, to its board of directors. L Catterton Real Estate is headquartered in New York City. ANCA is an independent, nonprofit corporation that works to promote economic development across a 14-county region

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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) recently announced the addition of David Heidecorn, senior advisor to L Catterton Real Estate, to its board of directors.

L Catterton Real Estate is headquartered in New York City.

ANCA is an independent, nonprofit corporation that works to promote economic development across a 14-county region of Northern New York, with a focus on entrepreneurship, local agriculture, and clean energy. Since 1955, ANCA has leveraged the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars into key sectors that drive sustainable local economic development.

Heidecorn joins the organization’s board as it deals with issues that include the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, local food-system resilience, a transition to a clean-energy economy, and the “creation and retention” of new and existing businesses in the region.

The ANCA board of directors elected Heidecorn at its quarterly meeting in December 2020.

“We are thrilled to have David on the board. He brings broad economic development and oversight experience to our deliberations and is excited about ANCA’s mission and work,” Kate Fish, executive director of ANCA, said in a statement. “David’s participation on the board and staff committees that move our programs forward will be so helpful.”

Fish said Heidecorn has already helped in the planning and implementation of new projects, including an upcoming partnership with a Virginia–based community development financial institution (CDFI), to offer low-interest loans to regional farmers.

“ANCA continues to push the envelope in the world of local and regional economic development,” Heidecorn said. “I’ve admired the board and staff’s focus on important issues like diversity and equity and their commitment to addressing the longstanding challenges rural communities face. I’m proud to support this team as we take on big issues like access to capital, business retention and job growth in ANCA’s focus areas of entrepreneurship, local food, and clean energy.”

Heidecorn has more than 30 years of professional finance and operations experience including 20 years as L Catterton chief risk officer. He also held senior positions at Alarmguard Holdings, Inc., Nantucket Holding Company, and GE Capital.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Lehigh University and an MBA in finance degree from Columbia Business School.

Heidecorn lives in Westchester County and spends time at his new home in Lake Placid, ANCA said.

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