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Thursday, May 1, 1986, p. 1.
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[photo of roller skates on shelves]
Roller skating is just one of the activities and services which the Delaware Community Center in Callicoon will no long be able to offer if funds cannot be raised to Pay a liability. insurance premium of $11,082.

New board gets to work

By TOM RUE


CALLICOON -- Peri Hennig, newly elected president of the Delaware Community Center, announced at Tuesday night's regular board meeting that the Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Fund of Philadelphia has agreed to write a public liability policy for the center for an annual premium of $11,082. The policy has a $500 deductible.

Hennig stressed that this amount is for liability coverage only. Fire insurance for the center will run an additional $840, plus the regular operating and maintenance expenses normally incurred in the course of a year.

Treasurer Batty Schuchman said that $3500 of the insurance premium will be paid immediately, with the balance due in 30 days. After the first payment is made, the center's coffers will contain $77.55. "We don't know where the next dollar is coming from," Schuchman said, "We just know what's going out."

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"There's a real plague in this country. You just don't get people who are willing to roll their sleeves up and volunteer anymore."
-- Ed Sykes

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Insurance agent Ed Sykes of Callicoon told the board, "You probably don't even know the extent of your debt."

When he asked the treasurer, "How deep are you in'?", Schuchman replied, tongue in cheek, "How high is up?"

Sykes urged board members to make full use of the community's resources and good will toward the center.

His comments were echoed by Ed Curtis, chairman of the Delaware Town Planning Board, who added, "I know [there's strong support] because I helped dig the hole for that pool out there."

Curtis and Sykes told the center's directors that former Delaware supervisor Craig Stewart had agreed to support them in approaching town boards on both sides of the river -- where members of the center reside -- for broad-based support for next year.

Addressing what he called a more fundamental problem, Sykes said, "There's a real plague in this country. You just don't get people who are willing to roll their sleeves up and volunteer anymore."

To help generate revenue in support of the center, the board voted to send a mass mailing to "postal patrons" in a 15 to 20 mile radius, and also to raise rental fees for use of the facilities. The main hall will rent for $200, up from $150; and a field will go for $50 plus $10 for each additional playing field reserved.

Elected April 22, new officers include: Peri Hennig, president; Cindy Gorr, vice-president; Joyce Sykes, secretary; and Batty Schuchman, treasurer. Board members are: Glen Hester, Phil Jacobi, Tom Rue, Michelle Schuchman, and Linda Stafford.