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Pulaski band Best in Show at Lake Placid parade

LAKE PLACID - Lake Placid's July Fourth parade included a wide mix of civic, business, sports and citizen participants as well as musical entertainment.

It was led by Grand Marshall Pat Jorgensen, Lake Placid's 2011 Distinguished Volunteer of the Year, and followed by village Mayor Craig Randall and town of North Elba Supervisor Roby Politi.

Judges named the Pulaski High School Blue Devils Marching Band to be Best of Show. The Blue Devils, who are the defending champions of the Sherburne Pageant of Bands, previously marched here in 2004 and 2007, and traveled to Washington, D.C., in 2005 and 2009 to represent New York in the National Independence Day Parade. Plans are currently under way for a return trip to Washington in 2014. Jack Jennings directs them.

Other awards included first place to Hannaford supermarket's entry, which consisted of a couple of dozen employees pushing patriotically decorated shopping carts and passing out bottled water to the crowd. Second and third places went respectively to Gouverneur High School Marching Band and the St. Andrew's Society entry, which included a corps of bagpipers.

"Our July Fourth parade has grown considerably, and we thank all the participants for making this such a resounding success this year," Kathy Pfohl, the Lake Placid Convention and Visitors Bureau's director of community relations and events - and this year's parade organizer - said in a prepared statement. "The weather certainly helped, and we had huge crowds on Main Street this year."

Several other events contributed to the crowds lining Main Street for the parade. Over the weekend Lake Placid played host to the Lake Placid Horse Show and the I Love Barbeque Festival. As dusk was the annual "Set the Night to Music" fireworks display.

Pedal Pedal Pedal: Day 27 - Pulaski, NY to Boonville, NY 6-17-2011

We left Pulaski at 6:30 this morning and had a long slow climb up and out of Pulaski. We bicycled 20 miles and stopped and ate breakfast at a little Inn in Redfield. The breakfast was delicious and we visited with two men that were from Buffalo and Rochester, NY area that came to this area to fish and hunt throughout the year. We asked the owner of the restaurant how much snow they get in winter and John had told her that we get about 60” of snow in Wisconsin over the winter and she just laughed and said that it is not unheard of  for them to get that much in a 48 hour period. They get a lot of snow and so they also get a lot of snowmobilers in the winter. We had a great breakfast and then continued on our way. As we arrived at the top of a hill we noticed that there was a biker climbing up the other side of the hill towards us so we pulled over onto his side and waited for him to get to the top. Here it was a 70 year old man bicycling up the hill with a completely loaded bike with panniers and pulling a B.O.B. He stopped and told us that he was from Iowa and he had flown from Iowa to Boston and got on his bike in Boston and biked up to Bar Harbor and was now heading towards Michigan. He hopes to be in Michigan for a family reunion on July 4th. He will then leave Michigan and bicycle back home to Iowa. He is one tough man and we found out that when he gets off his bike he walks with a cane because he has had several hip surgeries. Apparently the biking doesn’t bother him but as soon as he gets off the bike he has to walk with assistance. We bicycled into West Leyden around 1:30 this afternoon and decided to stop at a convenience store to get something cool to drink. While there we met Santi Belle from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Ryan Alexander from Maine. They left Bar Harbor about 12 days ago (they had several rainy days where they only bicycled 30 or 40 miles) and are on there way to Seattle, Washington. They were a very nice couple and said that they are camping and trying to do this trip on $10.00 per person per day. John and I can’t imagine doing that but it sounds like they have it figured out. We arrived in Boonville about 2:30 after only biking 48 miles. Yes, we are in the hills and we are just in the foothills of the Adirondacks so it is definitely going to get steeper hills and probably more frequent. We are staying at the Hulbert House B&B.

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