The Lake Placid Community Day Planning Committee would like to say thank you to the Lake Placid/North Elba community. This year’s Community Day was a great success and the organizing committee is overwhelmed with gratitude to the many individuals and organizations that helped make OUR 2024 Community Day so very special.

– Our Distinguished Volunteers of the Year: Debbie Erenstone and JT Wint

– Our guest speakers: Assemblyman Billy Jones, Mayor Art Devlin, Deputy Supervisor Rick Preston

– Our sponsors: Highmark Blue Shield of Northeastern New York, Premier Lacrosse League, Rotary Club of Lake Placid, The Cloudsplitter Foundation, Wildwood on the Lake, Community Investment Services, Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism

Our partners that supported us this year with generous donations and time: Bear Essentials, Big Slide Brewery & Public House, BIG Zs Hangout, Camp Eagle Island, Cornell University Maple Research Forest, Experience Outdoors, Forever Wild Farm, Trish Friedlander, Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Gordon Pratt Insurance, Heaven Hill Farm, Imagination Station, Irish Treasures, Lake Placid Ironman, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department, Mary Ballou Designs, Mirror Lake Boat Rental, New York Ski Educational Foundation, Olympic Regional Development Authority, Outpost Wine & Spirits, Palace Theatre, Price Chopper, Pure Placid, ROOST, Raquette River Brewing, Simpli Nature, Sparkle Jewelry & Gifts, Station Street Wine & Liquor, Terry Robard Wines & Spirits, Boat Tasting Room, The Bookstore Plus, Mirror Lake Inn, Smoking Cork, Zig Zags Pub, village of Lake Placid and town of North Elba.

Special thanks to Matt St. Louis and the North Elba Park District crew for setting up the grounds, Stuart Hemsley and his great voice and talent as emcee, the Lake Placid Public Library for their awesome job with the children’s activities and Kathy Briggs for her beautiful rendition of the national anthem. Big thanks to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center for returning to provide the food and a first time welcome and thanks to Ben & Jerry’s for providing the ice cream.

And thank you to the more than 40 community organizations that shared the day with us and told us more about all of the amazing work that they do to make this community so special.

Lake Placid Community Day is a joint initiative of the Lake Placid/North Elba Community Development Commission and ROOST.

We look forward to seeing you next year on the first Sunday after Memorial Day, June 1, 2025!

Community Day Organizing Committee: Chair Val Abraham-Rogers and committee members: Karen Armstrong, John Bickford, Denise Bujold, Jill Cardinale, Catherine Ericson, Celeste Gabai, Macie Huwiler, Danielle LaCavalla, Bambi Pedu, Stephanie Pianka, Don Poulsen, Stu Ruttan