The Fields, a restaurant in the former Canton Club on Court Street in Canton, is scheduled to open at the beginning of November. The Canton Initiative has assisted in the financing of the project. The Canton Initiative is also participating in financing the Partridge Coffee Den, a restaurant on Main Street, owned and operated by Brad Mintener. St. Lawrence is continuing to pursue the possibility of a partnership with the Village of Canton and the owner of Willow Island to do an environmental clean-up of the property, the site of a former gasoline station. A Phase II environmental audit is being conducted to help in determining the approximate costs of a clean-up.
Discussions continue regarding improvement of housing in the Village of Canton.
St. Lawrence will participate in a focus-group study on housing, conducted by Canton Economic Developer Pat Tubbs. Vice President for Administration Thomas Coakley says that the University will be soliciting possible partnering proposals from local developers for housing projects, as well as what we have received from a New Hampshire-based developer that has assisted Dartmouth College. Six seniors were inducted into the academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa during Family Weekend this fall. They are Kelley Banagan, Catherine Bush, Melissa Henrichon, Keely Parisian, Scott Spicer and Page Wages. Esther Lopez-Bernstein was invited as a consultant by the Affirmative Action Committee at Empire State College for workshops in June and September, designed to implement diversity efforts.