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The Post-Star from Glens Falls, New York • 22

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Glens Falls, New York
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C4 Sunday, October 8. 2006 The Post-Star, Glens Falls. N.Y. STATE BRUM Bloomberg takes over Trade Center memorial It is a revealing passage: The mayor, who wears his father's watch as a remembrance, now donates hundreds of millions to medical research. Many say this is how he deals with adversity, by focusing on what can be changed rather than dwelling on the past.

"His energy is totally directed forward, and sometimes his way of grieving is really not to look backwards," Ferer said. He has also given $10 million to the memorial foundation. As its chairman, the Republican mayor will likely tap his business connections and wealthy friends for more donations to the project, which is expected to cost more than $700 million. Nearly $145 million has been raised. His critics also question the appropriateness of a mayor raising money from those who potentially do business with the city; the Conflicts of Interest board has determined it is acceptable.

Meanwhile, construction on the memorial has begun and officials hope to finish in 2009 Bloomberg's last year in office. Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban planning professor, characterized his takeover as "brilliant." The mayor has recently been angling for more say at Ground Zero where most of the land is not under city control and will now have a major role in the first public space there. "What we're really seeing is that he understands how central this is to the nation, to the city and to the families," Moss said. "Even though he has not been that close with them, he understands the power of this and the significance that it has." ened by toxic trade center debris and has ignored demands to reconsider listing the names in random order on the memorial. Many favor grouping victims by where they died and who employed them.

"I don't get any warmth from the man I dont feel that he can understand the need for memorializing the victims or the feelings of the families," Horning said. "Does he understand the financial? Of course he does, but that's not enough." Christy Ferer, who lost her husband on Sept. 1 1 and serves as Bloomberg's liaison to the families, says the public dramatically misunderstands him. Ferer said he cares deeply about the families and has been instrumental in countless projects on their behalf, including the creation of a chapel at the medical examiner's office, where thousands of unidentified remains are stored. He also lobbied behind the scenes when the terms were being created for the federal victims' compensation fund, Ferer said.

"He is an amazing, philanthropic guy, but that doesn't mean he's warm and fuzzy, and sometimes people can potentially misread that," she said. "Maybe these families can't recognize his ability to execute his vision in the long run, and therefore think that he's all about lack of feeling." The mayor lost friends on 911 and endured his own grief early in life, but rarely mentions either. His father, who had a weak heart, died during Bloomberg's junior year in college. In his autobiography, Bloomberg wrote that his father was unconscious when Bloomberg arrived at the hospital, and died days later. In the midst of recounting the story, Bloomberg noted, "Today, he could have survived; medicine wasn't as capable then as it is now." Ely SARA KUGUER Associated I'ress NEW YORK The final truck-loads of rubble had just left the World Trade Center site in the spring of 2002 when Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared before a group of business leaders and foretold the downtown struggle for power that was to come.

When asked for his predictions about a victims' memorial, the former CEO who had been in office barely six months said he couldn't envision the end result. "I can tell you the process, however," Bloomberg said. "The process is everybody yelling and screaming for a number of years and then somebody taking charge and just doing it." Turns out, he was remarkably right. Am.d all the shouting some directed at him the mayor himself is now taking over the memorial's multimillion-dollar foundation, where board members hope his philanthropic credentials and star power will breathe life into lethargic fundraising. But to many, it is a surprise development because of his awkward history with the memorial and victims' families.

From his first day as mayor, Bloomberg was in a difficult position: His predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, suggested as he left office that the entire site should be made into a "soaring, monumental" memorial. But the pragmatic billionaire businessman was focused on stabilizing the city's shaky post-911 economy, and could not support giving up 16 acres of prime downtown Manhattan real estate. When he tried to communicate his view that "less is more" for a memorial, he came across as businesslike and harsh. And when he said downtown residents wouldn't want to live next to a "cemetery," victims' relatives were angered further. They were already unhappy because at the start of his term he did not attend every firefighter's funeral l-'rt.

Mon luo U'-t Cottage 1555 Rt. 9. South ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO New Ifork City Mayor Michael Bloomberg sits In front of an artist rendering of the winning design for the World Trade Center site memorial: 'Reflecting during a press conference to unveil the memorial, In 2004 In flew York. ly identify with their cause because he plans to donate his body to science. Because he was "dismissive and abrupt" about their views on grieving and remains, she says he should not head the emotionally charged memorial effort.

Bloomberg's opponents, who protested at Ground Zero Thursday, also say he lacks compassion for rescue workers sick Worker killed In building collapse NEW YORK A construction worker died Saturday after part of a building under construction in Queens collapsed while concrete was being poured, police said. The midmorning mishap forced transportation officials to stop the No. 7 subway train on an elevated track above the site in the borough's Jackson Heights neighborhood, said Lt. Eugene Whyte, a police spokesman. They were afraid the vibrations from the train could trigger a further collapse," said Whyte.

At least five workers were pouring concrete from the top of the multistory structure on Roosevelt Avenue when it caved in, police said. Four were rescued or managed to escape with minor injuries. Pumpkin producer: Pickings are slim SYRACUSE The pumpkin crop looks scary this Halloween season. Farmers and agriculture experts in the country's traditional pumpkin-growing leader said too-wet weather has cut crops by up to 75 percent "Central and Eastern New York were just inundated with rain this year," said Kathy King, an agricultural statistician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service.

Summer rainstorms led to mold, fungi and rot. Some farmers said just 25 percent of their pumpkin crops are usable. Others estimated yields of about 75 percent. "We have pumpkins that are green that shouldn't be green right now," said Paul Hafner of Paul Hafner Farms in Baldwinsville. The pumpkin harvest season runs through the end of the month.

Anti-terror barriers are coming down NEW YORK The concrete and metal security barriers that flowered on Manhattan sidewalks after Sept. 11, 2001, to deter potential car bomb attacks are beginning to disappear. If blown up, some of the barricades could do more harm than good, according to security experts. In recent weeks, planters that double as security barriers have been removed from sidewalks in front the Reuters Building at 3 Times Square and Morgan Stanley's headquarters at 1585 Broadway. Sixty-three concrete globes that encircled the Times Square Tower are gone, removed by order of the city's Department of Transportation at the advice of police.

Counterterrorism experts concluded that a planter, if struck by an explosive, could become "weaponized," shattering into deadly shards that would go flying. From wire reports as Giuliani had done, although Bloomberg quickly changed his ways. The next year, he tu)k heat for comments reportedly made during a meeting at City Hall with Diane and Kurt Horning, who lost their son in the attack and were upset that the city buried the sifted trade center dust in a Staten Island landfill. They are now suing the city in federal court to remove it because they believe it contains specks of human remains. Diane Horning says Bloomberg implied during that meeting that he doesn't personal- I Teach your family how to adopt a healthier lifestyle with the Healthy Families Program Grouos meet the first and third Monday ol every month.

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Thursdays: Oct. 26; Nov. 2, 9, 16 3 First Presbyterian Church 203 Palmer Avenue, Corinth How will the children's clothing be purchased? The Post-Star and Rotary Club of Glens Falls WARM THE CHILDREN coordinator will make all arrangements with local stores and assign volunteer shoppers to take the children shopping for their winter clothing. Shoppers will be people like you, anyone in the community willing to help by donating a little of their time to this worthwhile cause. If you would like to be a volunteer shopper, please fax 792-0407, Call 742-3283, email giorgiannipoststar.com or write to: The Post-Star P.O.

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