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June 4, 2012

Cheers and Jeers: June 4, 2012

-- Press-Republican

JEERS to grocery stores that sell drinks, charge the standard deposit on each bottle but then don’t have their redemption machines

programmed to accept the empties If you sell it, redeem it.

C

HEERS to Pyramid Management Group

, owner of Champlain Centre in Plattsburgh, for banning all tobacco use at its properties. Pyramid owns 15 shopping malls throughout New York and Massachusetts and decided to on a property-wide ban for the health of employees and customers. The company chose May 31, which is dubbed World No Tobacco Day, to implement the new policy. Based on New York state law, you already couldn’t smoke cigarettes in Champlain Centre. But there were still heard plenty of complaints about people smoking outside the mall doors. It seemed, at times, that you had to walk through a cloud of smoke on your way to a movie, for example. Sometimes it was employees slipping outside for a smoke; sometimes customers getting in a couple of last drags before heading inside to shop. Any way you looked at it, it was not pleasant for people passing by. Now, Pyramid forbids cigarettes, cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco anywhere on its property. To ease the impact in Plattsburgh, the company offered stop-smoking classes in conjunction with the North Country Tobacco Cessation Center for anyone interested. The ban is a breath of fresh air to lungs everywhere.

— If you have a Cheers and Jeers suggestion that you want the

Editorial Board to consider, email it to Editor Lois Clermont

at letters@pressrepublican.com.

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  • Cheers and Jeers: May 20, 2013

    CHEERS to Jessica Buehler, who has made it her mission to pick up discarded cigarette butts during her walks in Elizabethtown, and CHEERS to U.S. Border Patrol personnel for participating in community events and fundraising.

    May 20, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: May 13, 2013

    CHEERS to the kind crew at M.A. Jerry and Co.; JEERS to professional singers who mutilate "The Star Spangled Banner."

    May 13, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: May 6, 2013

    CHEERS to volunteers who participated in the state-parks cleanup last Saturday; CHEERS to a man whose kind gesture changed the day for an upset special-needs child.

    May 6, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: April 29, 2013 CHEERS to high-school clubs, advisers and members who perform community-service projects and volunteer work.

    April 29, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: April 22, 2013

    Cheers to coaches and play directors who compromise on time conflicts; Cheers to a busy crossing guard; Cheers to residents who pick up garbage blown on windy days.

    April 22, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: April 15, 2013

    CHEERS to students from area colleges who perform local community service.

    April 15, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: April 8, 2013

    CHEERS to the way two women handled a car accident; JEERS, on the other hand, to drivers who engage in road rage.

    April 8, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: April 1, 2013

    CHEERS to the Foundation of CVPH and Auxiliary for the annual Easter Egg Hunt.

    April 1, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: March 25, 2013

    CHEERS to Ethel Barkley, a customer-service clerk at Wal-Mart, and to Walter Chmura, a concerned Plattsburgh taxpayer.

    March 25, 2013

  • Cheers and Jeers: March 18, 2013 Cheers to restaurant employees who graciously help senior citizens and people with disabilities; Jeers to bingo operators who allow smoking; and Jeers to drivers who block traffic to run into stores and offices.

    March 18, 2013