This week the United States all too quietly celebrated a fiftieth anniversary. On February 20, 1962 astronaut John Glenn embarked on the first manned earth orbit. Many are too young to remember this great acomplishment, and many more were not even born yet. I was approaching my sixth birthday when Mr. Glenn made his historic flight, but even at that young age I remember the excitement and national pride that was felt by all Americans. The first step of a goal set by president John F Kennedy in a speech to a joint session of congress on May 25 1961 to safely send a man to the moon before the end of the decade. That goal was achieved on July 20, 1969 when Apollo 11 landed astronauts Neil Armstrong, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldren Jr. on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon. To quote Mr. Armstrong. “One small step for man. One giant step for mankind.”  I was by that time twelve years old. I can remember the pride the whole country felt. We were Americans and we beat the Russians to the moon. Despite all the controversy in the country over wars that shouldn’t be, and racial tensions to be resolved one thing rang true. We were still America. We were number one.

 I thought this worth posting given the large number of waterfront properties in the Adirondacks. This situation could easily apply to many with homes on Sacandaga lake,and given a different reason dreamed up by some agency it could apply to any waterfront property. Expect more of this sort of thing with regulatory agencies running wild these days.

Snowstorm closes schools, workplaces, roads; valleys have flooding

March 7, 2011 - By CHRIS KNIGHT, Enterprise Senior Staff Writer

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