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CONSERVATIVE ROW C FOR MAYOR CITY OF ALBANY NY November 5, 2013 Election U S Navy Veteran BS Geography, U Wisconsin (Korean GI Bill) MA Geography, U Minnesota (National Fellowship) 30 years as founder and president, Buckingham Pond/ Crestwood Neighborhood Assoc. maintaining/improving neighborhood residential integrity and quality of life. Leadership resulted in creation of Buckingham Pond Park in 1993-94, as well as many other open spaces. See bpcnanews.blogspot.com for list of leadership results. Neighborhood website: bpcnanews.blogspot.com/ see also: albanycityconservative.blogspot.com

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Survivorman/Woman

Watched a couple of episodes of suvivorman.

Whether we want to admit it or not, we are
engaged in an urban version of survivorman.

Prudent people will recognize this and do
the best they can to prepare to survive
whatever may befall us in the days and
months ahead.

What to do?

Water is essential to life, we can survive only
a few days without it. Store some water and
periodically refresh your supply. Glass
containers are best. You will need a gallon
a day, per person. Have at least a weeks
supply.

Food with a long shelf life should be stored
including cans, jars and dry goods with a
good shelf life. Use and replentish your
emergency food stock so you always have
a week or more of reserves.

Encourage your local churches and schools
to maintain emergency water/food stocks.

Make sure you have, at least a 30 day supply
of any necessary prescription medicines on
hand at all times.

Assume and plan accordingly for the likelihood
that you may not have electricity, refrigeration
air conditioning, heat, water and sewer service
or garbage pick up.

If your yard soil is not contaminated from
excessive reliance on lawn chemicals, plant
a vegetable garden. Some berries, fruit trees.

You might want to construct a small root
cellar to store crops like potatoes, turnips
beets, cabbage.

Have some firewood, a propane tank, candles
matches and charcoal on hand.

Keep you vehicle gas tank nearly full at all
times.

Keep a go bag of essential supplies/copies
of personal records ready at all times, in
case you have to evacuate your home/city
on short notice.

Have a family emergency/disaster plan.
A telephone contact source outside the
local area. A designated gathering place
in the local area, and also, one beyond
the local area.

Make sure you have a gun, and plenty ammo
and know how to safely use and store both.

Have some cash on hand, but recognize that
if our currency system collapses, cash will
be worthless.

Better to have essential supplies on hand
that will last for a long time, and which can
be traded or bartered.

Learn some first aid and have first aid supplies
on hand.

Recognize that in the event of a major disaster
or terror attack, we will be on on own.
Government can't save us, we must save
ourselves.

Prepare for worst case scenarios. If they never
happen, we will be blessed. If they do, and we
are not prepared, survival will be problematic.

Consult prior posts on this and Lonerangeralbany
for links to emergency/disaster preparedness
sites.

Joe Sullivan



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Thursday, February 19, 2009

ALBANY COUNTY SWCD 2009 TREE/SHRUB SALE

Good place to get seedlings/transplants for yards.

Very good source for improving Buckingham Pond
Park; including Black Alder for bank erosion control
Silky Dogwood and Elderberry shrubs. Cannan Fir
transplants for windbreaks, wildlife.

Order by March.

Check neighboring County SWCD sales for other
trees/shrubs.

http://www.albanycounty.com/uploadedFiles/Programs_and_Services/Health_and_Human_Services/Quality_of_Life/Soil_and_Water_Conservation/Programs/2009-tree-shrub-order.pdf


Joe Sullivan

Friday, February 13, 2009

Be sure to periodically check this site:

http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/

Joe Sullivan

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Winter on the Wane

Still no activity clearing underbrush, vines, trimming/removing dead
branches/trees in Buckingham Pond Park.

This is the best time of the year to do this.

Usable firewood could be stacked at specific locations around the park
boundary where it could be picked up by neighborhood residents.

Joe Sullivan

Thursday, February 05, 2009

2009 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCATION PRIORITIES

Scroll down to Archives Column.
Left side of screen.

Click on January 2009

Scroll down to January 17, 2009 post.

Joe Sullivan


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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

DOG OWNERS BEWARE!


lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

DOG OWNERS BEWARE.
FAR LEFT LOONS GONE MAD.

THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR SECOND
AMENDMENT RIGHTS. NOW, OUR DOGS!

read more: http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/


Joe Sullivan

Monday, February 02, 2009

Feb 2nd 2009 1:20PM

Six More Weeks of Winter

Don't plan on packing away the snow shovel and winter boots any time soon. The world's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow this morning and we are in for six more weeks of winter. Do you believe his prediction? ... Happy Groundhog Day!

source AOL News Joe Sullivan

Buckingham Pond Park

Shrubs and Trees suitable for planting:

Shrubs: Clethra, Blueberry, Pussy Willow, Sweetspire

Mountain Laurel, Inkberry, Winterberry

Red Chokecherry, American Cranberry Bush

Arrowwood, Lilac, Forysythia, Spirea, Weigela


Trees: Dogwood, Hemlock, Linden, Red Maple

Serviceberry, Oak, Willow

Joe Sullivan


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BUCKINGHAM POND

Contour Map (Depths)

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/bckhmlkmap.pdf


JS

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NOON TRAVERSE AROUND
BUCKINGHAM POND PARK.

1. Within the next 20 or so days, while
we have snow cover , temperatures are
below freezing and tick problems at
a minimum, the following should occur

* Remove dead or fallen trees and dead
tree branches that overhang pathways
and children's play area.

Many of the old growth cottonwoods
are in decline. For example, two over-
hanging the path at the foot of Lenox
South shore pose a hazard to hikers.

March winds will soon be here.

* Remove (cut) vines that are strangling
trees, so that the trees may grow to
maturity. This is most needed South
shore and West End of pond park

* Cut brush and saplings from around
desireable young trees so that they may
mature. Most needed South shore
in particular, the around the young
conifers on the dredging fill site, Rafts Way
between Colonial and Milner.

2. Excessive road salt dumping is in
evidence Pond North shore and South
shore between Euclid and Lenox. This
kills vegetation and adds to pond water
quality decline.

3. Dog droppings are on paths everywhere.
A disease/parasite hazard to adults, children
and pets.
Pick up after your dog(s). Feed them less
and better quality food to reduce waste piles.

4. Select (mark) sites for planting new trees
and water/salt tolerant shrubs to counter
shore slumping, shore erosion and pond
in filling. Particularly, North shore, frpm
Colonial to Euclid, East End, and South shore
Euclid to Lenox.
Use wood stakes with green tips for conifers
orange tips for deciduous trees and blue tips
for water tolerant trees (like willows) and water
tolerant shrubs like Red Osier Dogwood,

Planting time of replacement trees and
shrubs in April.

Get tree stock from City tree program.
Also, Albany and neighboring
County Soil and Water Conservation units
offer tree/shrub stock and wildflower seeds.
The sales occur in late March to early May.

5. Select and prep wildflower sites. Some
seeds sown this Spring will bloom this year
but most next year and thereafter.

6. Obtain and spread coarse blue stone
and resurface pathways after snow/ice
melt, but before paths become muddy and
slippery.

These are but a few things to do to get the
park in shape for Spring.

Much more to follow.

Who is going to do all this work?

Ideally, the City of Albany, with
perhaps the 30 or so interested
residents who showed up at the
organizational meeting of the
would be Buckingham Pond
Conservancy on 1/24/09 and
those who show at the follow up
meeting this week or next at a
yet to be announced location.

Joe Sullivan



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TOOK MICK AND PADDY TO ALBANY
MUNI GOLF COURSE

1. Lovely morning. The crisp air, snow covered
hills and Catskill/Helderberg Mountains to
the SW and W were a delight.

2. Mick , Paddy and me took a long hike
on the old back 9.

3. The only negative was the abundance of
dog droppings, particularly in the vicinity of
the driving range.

Not only unsightly, but a disease/parasite
hazard to adults, children and pets,

Come on offenders. Do not ruin it for
law abiding adults, children and their pets.

Pick up after your hound(s).

Joe Sullivan

NOTICE/WARNING

The Buckingham Pond/Crestwood NA
does not sponsor park clean ups,
plantings and other volunteer efforts
involving physical labor because of
liability and insurance issues.

Neighbors wishing to engage in such
physical volunteerism do so at their
own risk. The City of Albany and
Buckingham Pond/Crestwood NA
shall be held harmless by any persons
who undertake such physical
volunteer activities.

Park volunteers, as well as people
and pets who use the park, may be
exposed to a variety of risks/hazards
including, but not limited to:
physical injury, parasites
tick , bird, and water borne diseases
rabies, tetanus, poison ivy, injury
by speeding vehicles on perimeter
roads , injury from out of control
vehicles entering the children's play
area because of lack of an adequate
guard rail or stone wall, falling
through thin ice or falling into
the unfenced holding pond in the
NW corner of the park , falling
trees or rotted tree limbs, particularly
on windy days, falls on slippery
eroded foot paths in need of coarse
blue stone/ crushed stone surfacing
and exposure to chemicals/pesticides
road salt.

Joe Sullivan



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Buckingham Pond/Park
Maps and Air photos

The Park Boundaries are:

N and East Berkshire Blvd

S Berkshire Blvd and Rafts Way

W Davis Ave from Greenway to Berkshire N.


The Pond Park may be divided into
the following sectors:

1. East End bordered by Berkshire
from Euclid N to Euclid S

2. North Shore

a) Euclid to Colonial
b) Colonial to Milner

3. South Shore

a) Euclid to Lenox
b) Lenox to Holmes Dale
c) Holmes Dale to Milner

3. West End

bordered by Berkshire N
Davis Ave W
Greenway S
Milner Ave residential
property lines E

For maps/air photos go to:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Buckingham-Pond

click on External Links
for Latitude/Longitude
Coordinates

Joe Sullivan

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

NO NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL

Why is there a need to create the
Buckingham Pond Conservancy?

Read:
http://buckinghampondconservancy.org/
(January 10, 2009 Archives)

Why don't the organizers, both
newcomers to the hood, work
through, and with the
Buckingham Pond/Crestwood
Neighborhood Association
which has existed and functioned
well, maintaining and improving
the residential integrity and
quality of life in this neighborhood
for the past 21 years?

Why don't these people, and those
who attended their 1/24/09
meeting work with the
BPCNA which is responsible for
the creation of Buckingham Pond
Park in 1994?

Just read our BPNANEWS
website:
http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/

in particular the posting relating
to Buckingham Pond:


2008
2007 12/3, 10/26, 10/06, 5/3, 4/7
2006 8/5, 6/23, 5/2, 4/10
2006 11/29, 11/14, 10/2, 8/7, 4/27, 4/20, 2/7

and the posting for 11/23/05
which contains a statement of the goals
and objectives of the BPCNA as well
as a list of accomplishments, including
creation of Buckingham Pond park.

Any rational person will conclude that
all that is necessary is for persons who
want to improve Buckingham Pond Park
is to volunteer for the Park Committee
of this Assocation. To study and select
the best ideas from what has already been
posted here and get to work making those
ideas a reality.

We suspect that those who seek to form
this "Buckingham Pond Conservancy"
have ulterior motives.

Read:

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
HABITAT ALERT

***********INVASIVE SPECIES INVADES
BUCKINGHAM POND HABITAT

read more:http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/

Any neighborhood residents who
genuinely want to maintain and
improve the residential integrity
and quality of life in this neighborhood
including Buckingham Pond Park
are invited to contact me.

Scroll down to 1/17/09 post this blog
for a statement of BPCNA neighborhood
priorities for 2009.

There is plenty to volunteer for.

HAPPY GROUND HOG DAY, FEB 2.

Joe Sullivan
President BPCNA

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