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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Lloyd councilman receives stewardship award
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week Neil Curri, Chairman of
the Lloyd Environmental Conservation
Council [ECC], named Town Councilman
Leonard Auchmoody as the recipient of
their Environmental Stewardship Award
for 2018.
Curri said each year the ECC recognizes
an individual in the community for their
work in preserving and protecting the
environment in Lloyd. He said when they
began discussions on who they would
honor, Auchmoody’s name was at the top
of the list.
Curri recalled that several years ago
he heard many people speak highly of the
work Auchmoody has done at the park
over the years.
ECC member Nancy Hammond said
Lloyd Councilman Leonard Auchmoody (L) received the Environmental Conservation
Council’s Stewardship Award for 2018. Pictured L-R Auchmoody, Chairman Neil Curri, Nancy
Hammond and Leonard Hossenlopp.
Auchmoody is the current Manager of
the Bob Shepard Highland Landing Park.
“Lenny has donated time, machinery
and construction material for the
development and completion of the
park,” she said. “Some of his many
accomplishments are the kayak launch,
a handicap ramp for the educational
building, outdoor lighting, the River Walk,
the parking lot and park benches. Lenny
gives meaning to the Bob Shepard Park
being called the People’s Park because of
people like Lenny who make sure we have
a park. Thank you, Lenny.”
Lenny said there were many who
helped at the park.
“There are a lot of other people who
have a lot to do with getting this done. You
can’t mention them all but again, it’s a
labor of love and thank you all very, very
much,” he said.
Developers offer update on Highland senior living complex
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Surveyor Patti Brooks represents a senior retirement
project known as ‘The Villages of the Hudson Valley’
that has been proposed for ages 62 and up on the western
side of Route 9W, opposite the Bridgeview Shopping Plaza
in the Town of Lloyd.
Last week Brooks returned for a second time to the
Planning Board, along with Ronald J. DeVito, President
and CEO of Concordia Senior Communities of Melville,
NY.
“We took all the comments from the board and the
audience and we are working right now on making a full
submission and addressing all of the board’s concerns for
the June [planning board] meeting,” said Brooks.
DeVito said his company has been involved at all levels
of senior care for the past 30 years, from construction and
management to providing a full spectrum of services.
He said the Villages project is a combination of 205 per-
engineered, independent living units and about 127 units
in the Assisted Living.
“We might want to bump that up a little bit to help our
bottom line,” he said.
DeVito said the Assisted Living is for adult homes,
which the NYS Department of Health says are for,
“seniors who are unable to live independently. They
need assistance with their daily living activities and
that involves a lot of services.” He pointed out that the
goal, “is to help seniors age successfully, to helping them
do what they want to do, helping them work things out
for themselves and all sorts of things like intellectual
curiosity.”
Building Department Director Dave Barton informed
the Planning Board that he met with DeVito and Brooks
several weeks ago in Brooks’ Highland office. Barton
asked if there will be a doctor’s office onsite for the
A rendering of ‘The Villages of the Hudson Valley,’ shows the multi-story Assisted Living and Urgent Care facilities at the
bottom of the map, bordering Route 9W, the main entrance off of Mayer Drive and the 205 single family housing units.
housing component that is separate from the institutional
building, “or will that doctor be associated with both
pieces of the puzzle?” DeVito said it will be separate from
both facilities, be free standing, “but it will be accessed
by both the independent living seniors and the Assisted
Living.” He said the doctor’s office will be manned 24/7
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