Fort Edward Healthy Community Initiative 

We are happy to report a steady 100+ hits a week on the site, so we know people are visiting and checking things out.  We've also been receiving comments through the private response portal.  We hope to hear more.  Keep in touch!

Thursday July 10 is our first community meeting and after the post card mailing, we've had some inquiries on being able to comment privately.  We have that in place already.  On the menu bar to the left it says "Submit Comments Privately".   Click on that and your comments will be viewed by one person only.  No contact information is shared with anyone.  We don't judge, address compliance or enforcement issues or provide legal advice.   We will however gladly offer direction on where one can direct concerns to address a specific issue.   Let's work together to make our community a healthier place, by sharing information and seeking solutions.   

Thanks to a great referral and way cool webinar by EPA staff, CARE has a website: www.fortedwardcare.weebly.com.  Being a techno-dummy, I can assure even the most tech-challenged person can use this site.  If you have a small non-profit with limited resources, check it out! 

Our site stats for our five week old site are:

April 13-19: 90 hits
April 20-26: 40 hits
April 27-May2: 89 hits
May 4-10: 114 hits
May 11-17: 64 hits

 

The Community Coordinator sheepishly admits an oversight... unintentional, but nonetheless an oversight.  Before the website was done and published we had other partners come on board with us.  PLEASE VISIT THE CARE PARTNERS page and learn a bit more about those who have been with us from the start:  The Town of FE, Village of FE, FE Chamber of Commerce, Town of FE LDC, Rogers Island Visitor Center and Heritage Development Alliance.  Adirondack Community College and the Washington County Public Health Department have been very supportive and active too.   Sorry everyone...and welcome!

The CARE project formally welcomes the Adirondack Glens Falls Transportation Council as a partner.  Go to the CARE Partner page to find out a bit more about A/GFTC and the good things they are doing in the region.

Check out the Air Quality page for the basics of the AQI (Air Quality Index).  Also go to the link page and click the link to AirNow and get up to date information on AQI in the region!

John Nevin of eLotRecycling attended a CARE meeting in March.  eLot, a company that handles electronics recycling reached out to get invovled as a partner in the FE CARE project!  We hope to have some great news on some possible new initiatives with eLot and Fort Edward.  For more information check out their link.  If you get in touch with them, let them know the FE CARE project referred you! 

Tuesday April 22, 2008 we had two guest speakers address the CARE group.  Aaron Frankenfeld of the Adirondack/Glens Falls Transportation Council shared information on the Choose Not To Ride Alone program  and other initiatives A/GFTC has. Matt Brown from Washington County Public Health shared information on the countywide Home Radon Testing initiative. Anyone intersted in learning more about either program contact the CARE Community Coordinator!  Oh, and kudos and thank you to Aaron and Matt!