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Kate Fish New Ex. Dir.
ANCA Selects Kate Fish to be Executive Director
November 10, 2009 – The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) has appointed Kate Fish of Lake Placid, NY, as its new Executive Director. She replaces Terry Martino, who served in that capacity for nearly two decades before becoming Executive Director at the Adirondack Park Agency in August, 2009. Greg Hill, ANCA’s Interim Executive Director, will return to assisting grassroots-based, community planning and outreach initiatives for ANCA on a regional basis.
“ANCA is delighted and thankful to have Kate Fish assume this crucial position, helping to proactively address local issues, regional concerns, and emerging opportunities in the Adirondack North Country region of New York,” said Donald Caldera, ANCA President. According to Caldera, “Kate brings a wealth of international and local experience to ANCA and we look forward to her leading the organization.” “While transitioning operations, she also will maintain continuity of ANCA programs and services familiar to businesses, organizations, government officials, and citizens throughout our fourteen-county region,”he added.
ANCA’s leadership, coordination, and support endeavors in areas such as Scenic Byway corridor planning and marketing, tourism and art and craft industrial development, natural grazing and direct to consumer agriculture, and wood products marketing have been hallmarks of the ANCA “brand” for nearly a decade. The recently completed Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project is an additional endeavor in which ANCA was a major participant in partnership with the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages.
Fish has worked extensively with Adirondack North Country stakeholders since returning to the Adirondacks in 2007. Her family started coming to the region in the 1930s.
Upon relocating to the Adirondack North Country, she started an independent sustainability consultancy, building upon her U.S. corporate and international not-for-profit leadership roles. Most recently she has worked with, and involved people and organizations from across all sectors of the region. Her efforts in leading the development, coordination and implementation of major conferences at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, and follow-up planning to drive economic development through improved energy efficiency and support for renewable energy initiatives are significant.
As ANCA’s Executive Director, Fish will be assuming management of the not-for-profit corporation that since 1954 has strengthened the vitality and quality of life in communities across all of northern New York. ANCA has worked continuously to provide informed, open debate and opportunities for advocacy on economic issues critical to the region, and it has engaged in region-wide support of numerous community and business development activities throughout the region. For more information visit www.adirondack.org.
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Contact: Greg Hill, Interim Executive Director. He can be reached at 518-891-6200 or at anca-hill@northnet.org.
Hill Interim Ex. Dir.
ANCA Names Greg Hill Interim Executive Director
August 5, 2009 – The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) has appointed Gregory Hill of Lake Clear, NY as Interim Executive Director to replace Terry Martino, who is becoming the Executive Director at the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). Hill has served as a Community Assistance Specialist at ANCA since 2006.
“ANCA is delighted and thankful to have Greg Hill assume this vital position to ensure the continuity of programs and services throughout the Adirondack North Country and a seamless transition in ANCA’s operations,” said Don Caldera, ANCA President. “He has worked directly with Martino on a wide range of programming which makes his appointment extremely valuable to our Board, staff and members. He also brings over forty years of professional experience to ANCA’s commitment to economically viable communities and an improved rural quality of life.”
Since 2006, Hill has assisted with the Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project (APRAP), the Common Ground Alliance, and implementation of the Saranac Lake Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. With Martino’s departure, he will assume Board participation with CBN Connect and will engage in NYS DEC Steering Committee work on the Adirondack Economy. His responsibilities now will also include fiscal and personnel management, public communications, fund development, and coordination on a wide range of public and private North Country initiatives, including implementation of ANCA’s current Strategic Plan.
Hill’s professional experience includes 22 years on the Adirondack Park Agency staff before retiring as the Assistant Director of Regulatory Programs there. Previously he directed the Hartwick College Environmental Studies Center and was the assistant director at the Cortland College Outdoor Education Center in Raquette Lake. Early in his career he worked as a forester with the NYSDEC in Sherburne, New York. Prior to joining ANCA, he pursued a doctoral degree in geography from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He holds degrees from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Cornell University.
ANCA’s Board of Directors has committed to a search for an Executive Director. Interested applicants can submit their resume by writing to ANCA at 67 Main Street Suite 201, Saranac Lake, NY 12983. ANCA is a fifty-five year-old not-for-profit corporation that strengthens the economy and quality of life in the 14 counties of Northern New York. It does this through informed, open debate and advocacy on economic issues critical to the region, and through region-wide action on projects in agriculture, business and community development, forestry, human services, the arts and tourism. For more information visit www.adirondack.org.
Executive Director Description of duties
Contact: Judith Tonks, Executive Secretary. She can be reached at (518) 891-6200 or at anca@northnet.org.
Martino Appointed as APA Ex. Dir.
ANCA President Lauds Martino’s Appointment as APA Executive Director
July 14, 2009 – “The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) Board of Directors congratulates its friend Terry Martino on her appointment as the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) Executive Director”, said Don Caldera of Lake Placid, President of ANCA’s twenty-five member Board of Directors. “This post will call upon her twenty-three year North Country background, her energy, her articulate presence and her balance of skills and perspective.”
“ANCA wishes Terry well on this wonderful development for her, her career, her family and the North Country. We are all proud of Terry’s contribution to ANCA. She has espoused and nurtured a balanced view of economic and community development, coupled with environmental stewardship, that ANCA has represented and fostered. We are certain she will bring a fair perspective to her work at the Agency that will benefit our Park communities and residents. She is clearly equal to this new challenge.”
The ANCA Executive Committee has scheduled a special meeting in a week to discuss a transition situation and its program for going forward.
ANCA is a fifty-five year-old not-for-profit private corporation that strengthens the economy and quality of life in the 14 counties of Northern New York through informed, open debate and advocacy on economic issues critical to the region; and through region-wide action on projects in agriculture, business and community development, forestry, human services, the arts and tourism. ANCA is committed to economically viable communities and an improved rural quality of life. For more information visit www.adirondack.org.
Contact: Judith Tonks, Executive Secretary. She can be reached at (518) 891-6200 or at anca@northnet.org.