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WHAT’S
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Today
Canton Philadelphia Fire Hall, 3 Antwerp St.
“Movement Stories”: Spring dance Cost: $9; half chicken only, $6. Takeouts
concert, 6 p.m. today, Edson R. Miles available. Information: 315-489-4228.
Black Box Theatre, St. Lawrence Uni- Potsdam
versity, 23 Romoda Drive. Information: Easter Vespers of Love: Presented by
www.stlawu.edu. St. Olympia Orthodox Church, Pots-
Book signing and talk: “The Trails of dam, 2 p.m. today, Trinity Episcopal
the Adirondacks,” by Neal Burdick, 1:30 Church, 8 Maple St. Followed by ethnic
to 3:30 p.m. today, Traditional Arts in food celebration. Information: www.
Upstate New York (TAUNY), 53 Main St. saintolympiaorthodoxchurch.org.
Books available for purchase. Informa- Original play: SUNY Potsdam de-
tion: 315-386-4289 or www.tauny.org. partment of theatre and dance, “Slan-
Civil War round table: “Women Spies guage,” 2 p.m. today, SUNY Potsdam,
in the Civil War,” 2 p.m. today, St. Law- 44 Pierrepont Ave. Free. Information:
rence County Historical Association, 3 www.potsdam.edu.
E. Main St. Featuring Jim Dawson. In- Program of Native American stories and
formation: www.slcha.org. music: Presented by LoKo Arts Festi-
Chateaugay val, 4 to 5 p.m. today, Potsdam Public
Library, 2 Park St. Information: 315-
Spaghetti dinner: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 265-7230.
today, St. Patrick’s Church, 132 W. Main West African drum and dance ensemble:
St. Cost: $9; 5 to 11, $5; 4 and younger, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. today, Sara M. Snell
free. Music Theater, SUNY Potsdam, 44 Pier-
Clayton repont Ave. Information: www.pots-
“For the Trees”: Arbor Day celebration dam.edu.
with Thousand Islands Land Trust, 9:30 Redwood
a.m. today, Zenda Farms, Route 12E. Spaghetti dinner: Presented by Kin-
Free. Information: TILT, 315-686-5345. ney Drugs, 5 to 7 p.m. today, Redwood
Croghan Fire Department, 43676 Stine Road.
AdironDuck Race: Held today, Oswe- Cost: $10; 5 to 12, $8; 4 and younger,
gatchie Educational Center, 9340 Long free. Raffle, silent auctions. Benefits
Pond Road. Pancake breakfast, 8 a.m. Children’s Miracle Network.
to noon; Troy Wunderle One Man Circus, Saranac
10 a.m.; Bill Smith, Adirondack storytell- Baroque music concert: With Ensemble
er, 11 a.m.; ecumenical church service, Caprice, Montreal-based Ensemble
9:30 a.m.; and AdironDuck 6K trail run, 9 Caprice, 3 p.m. today, Saranac United
a.m. Information; www.adironduckrace. Methodist Church, 8 UMC Road. Cost: ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
com or 315-346-1222. $15; 11 and younger, free. Special rates Brookfield Zoo’s male polar bear “Hudson” is put into position for his CT-scan during his annual physical April 23.

Beary good boy

Dexter for students and senior citizens. Infor-
Drive-thru chicken barbecue: Takeouts mation: 518-293-8142.
only, 11:30 a.m. today, Dexter Fire Hall, Saranac Lake
213 Water St. Cost: $10. Benefits the Adirondack Voters for Change Sympo-
department. Information: 315-639- sium: On actions combating climate
6271. change, 1 to 4:30 p.m. today, Saranac
Harrisville Lake Presbyterian Church, 57 Church
Breakfast buffet: 7:30 to 11 a.m. St. Information: vfc2014ny@gmail.
com or 518-637-6653.
today, Adirondack Grange 530, 7734 BROOKFIELD ZOO: A taking advantage of having
Marshey Road. Cost: $10; 5 to 12, $5; South Colton him under anesthesia to do se-
4 and younger, free. Information: 315- 3-D archery shoot: Registration, 7 to polar bear may have men collection on him, hope-
854-4085. 11 a.m. today, Racquette Valley Fish and
Game Club, 233 Cold Brook Drive. Cost:
just made history fully for successful artificial
LaFargeville insemination, which has not
Chicken barbecue: 11 a.m. until gone $10; 13 to 17, $5; cubs and peewees, during his exam been done in a polar bear be-
today, LaFargeville Fire Department, $3. Prizes. Breakfast: 7 to 11 a.m. ($6);
20411 Sunrise Ave. Cost: $10; half/ lunch after 11 a.m. Information: 315- By STEVE JOHNSON fore,” said the veterinarian.
child, $6. 262-2947. Chicago Tribune Captive polar bears have
Lyons Falls Watertown Of course there was duct been mating but have not
“Come to the Music”: With Adirondack 13th annual Trinity Concert Series: tape. been as successful in repro-
Community Chorus, 4 p.m. today, For- Sackets Harbor Vocal Arts Ensemble ducing as species manage-
and Orchestra, 3 p.m. today, Trin- Amid the precise admin-
est Presbyterian Church, 4019 Center istration of anesthetics, the ment experts hoped. De-
ity Episcopal Church, 227 Sherman St.
St. Information: [email protected]. heart-rate monitoring and the veloping reliable artificial
Discounts available for senior citizens
Massena and military. Information, tickets: The many other cautious scien- insemination techniques, as
St. Lawrence University string orchestra: church, 315-788-6290. tific preparations involved in has been done in other large
2 p.m. today; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, 49th annual all-star auction: 5 p.m. to getting a polar bear into a CT- mammals, would be a big
Massena Central School, 84 Nighten- midnight Saturdays; 5 to 9 p.m. Sun- plus for bears and their keep-
gale Ave. Free. Information: 315-229- days; and 7 p.m. to midnight Monday scan machine at Brookfield
5184. through Friday, through Sunday, May 5, Zoo recently, it came down to ers.
WPBS-TV. Information: www.wpbstv. good old duct tape (laid over “We would then be able to
Ogdensburg just move semen between fa-
org. cloth strapping) to hold the
“Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette cilities and we wouldn’t have
Black River Valley Fiddlers: 1 to 4 p.m. animal in place so that de-
Story”: 4 p.m. today, George Hall Audito-
today, Watertown Eagles Club, 19260 tailed images could be made to actually move the bear,” he
rium, Ogdensburg Free Academy, 1100
Route 11. Cost: $4. Information: 315- said.
State St. Cost: $19 to $43. Information: of its innards.
782-5495.
315-393-2625 or www.ilovetheatre. The animal strapped to the So the semen was taken
org. Lasagna dinner: To benefit Northern
Choral Society, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today, high-tech, high-weight capac- from the animal in a proce-
Philadelphia First Presbyterian Church, 403 Wash- ity, medical device table like dure that did not involve a
Chicken barbecue: Hosted by Philadel- ington St. Cost: $12. Takeouts available. a loose (and furry!) pipe in a magazine and a private room.
phia Masonic Lodge, 11:30 a.m. today, Information: 315-782-1750. handyman’s basement was (A chemical stimulates the re-
Hudson, Brookfield’s 12-year- productive system and pushes
ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
old male. He had been put un- sperm toward the tip of the

NNY Funny
The CT scan will be the first, or at least one of the first, Brookfield
der earlier in the morning for a urethra, where specialists
veterinary radiologist Marina Ivancic believes, of a living polar
variety of procedures. draw it out.)
bear.
More than just the ursine Good news: In the two sam-
equivalent of an annual physi- wake-up would not be a happy we’ve had to get an animal this ples taken, microscopic exam-
cal, these included the poten- moment, for bear or, especial- size through a CT scan,” said ination showed “about 90 per-
tially groundbreaking ones of ly, humans. Dr. Michael Adkesson, the cent motility, which is about
undergoing the CT scan and The CT scan will be the zoo’s vice president of clini- as good as you can do” on the
having semen extracted for a first, or at least one of the first, cal medicine. Only six zoos fertility scale, explained Erin
couple of tries at artificial in- Brookfield veterinary radiolo- have a version of the device Curry, a reproductive physiol-
semination. (Hello, lady po- gist Marina Ivancic believes, of at all, and Brookfield has the ogist from Cincinnati Zoo, as-
lar bears of Brookfield and of a living polar bear, helpful in biggest, but it only recently ac- sisting with the process. “We
Madison, Wisconsin’s Dane building a baseline of knowl- quired a new, sliding, spinning were very pleased with the col-
County Zoo!) edge for the species whose ex- table — made for horses, with lection today.”
And, yes, making sure an istence in captivity becomes a 2,100-pound capacity — that Fresh semen is the best se-
apex predator is effectively increasingly important as its lets it feed its biggest animals men so Curry planned to drive
sedated is an especially im- icy natural habitats diminish. through the CT imaging “do- immediately to Madison the
portant job when you con- More immediately, it will let nut.” next day to perform procedure
sider that, at one point, more the zoo’s veterinary staff ex- “We’ve got the largest scan- No. 1, then return to Brook-
than 40 Brookfield staff got in- amine Hudson in areas stan- ner, and with this table, we’re field the next day to try to im-
volved in the pushing, pulling, dard medical exams or even also now not limited by the pregnate Hudson’s sometime
truck driving, strapping and ultrasounds cannot reach, weight of the patient,” Adkes- natural partner there.
gurney wheeling involved in probing deep into the body to son said. Hudson checks in at “So if you see the Cincinnati
getting the bear from its enclo- see anything from a tumor to about 1,025 pounds. Zoo truck driving on the high-
sure to the computerized to- arthritis. In addition to the routine way, you know we’ve got the
mography machine. An early “This is the first opportunity checkup plus scan, “we’re polar bear sperm,” she said.

An emperor penguin colony in Antarctica vanishes

BY KAREN WEINTRAUB previously,” Trathan said. December when their chicks peror penguins live in 54 colo-
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