Roses to Jane Forbes Clark for her quick decision to rebuild the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home only hours after a devastating fire destroyed the historic building. Her commitment to the village and the residents of the Thanksgiving Home is admirable and sets an example for others to follow.

Roses to Hartwick's Doug Geertgens for winning two gold medals at the Hartwick's Doug Geertgens took home two gold medals and achieved All-American status in four of the five events he entered in the Masters division of the Boston Nationals last weekend.

"I was very happy with my times and especially the all-American status," said Geertgens, 60. "There were some really great athletes there from age 30 right up through 80. It's a lot of fun to compete and also just to be around the competitors.

"Those are really great things to see and personally my times are better than they were five years ago so I can at least say I'm getting older but maybe a little better," said Geertgens, a former elementary school teacher at Cooperstown.

Geertgens will be heading to Puerto Rico in July to compete in the World Games.

And, of course, our annual Raspberry to the Governor, Senate and Assembly for another late state budget continuing a streak that was already 18-years-old. Fiscal crunch or not, the budget is the single most important job our elected leaders have each year and again they have failed. We won't bore you with another diatribe about what would happen to someone in the private sector with a failure record like that in the workplace, but suffice it to say, 'throw the bums out!'