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SENECA FALLS - Waterloo-based Sessler Cos. is proposing a $1.3 million project to redevelop 2,300 acres of vacant land at the north end of the former Seneca Army Depot in Varick. Company officials LaVerne Sessler II and Thomas Battaglia unveiled their preliminary plans at Thursday's Seneca County Industrial Development Agency meeting at the Deerhead Inn. The plan was approved Oct. 16 by the Seneca County Economic Development Corp.

Notice the blue areas on the map marked "Proposed Managed Forestry and Fee Hunting." Most of the 2400 acre area is proposed as  a canned hunt facility in Sessler's proposal.

A“hearing” has been scheduled for the Proposal to convert 2400 acres of prime real estate in the former Seneca Army Depot to a canned hunt for deer, migrating geese and other waterfowl and “non-native species:”
Varick Town Hall
4782 State Route 96
Romulus, New York 14541
Thursday, December 13 10 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
Written comments can be sent to:
Steve Dennis, Executive Director
Seneca County Industrial Development Agency
One Di Pronio Drive
 Waterloo, New York 13165-1681
 Telephone: 315.539.1725
Fax: 315.539.4340
Email: pjones@co.seneca.ny.us; sdennis@co.seneca.ny.us

Action required:
1) Sign a Petition against the "Canned Hunt" Facility
2) Attend the hearing and speak out against the proposal if at all possible-
3)  If not possible to attend write politely worded comments and send above to addresses before 12/12/07
4) Send Letters to the editor to:
     a) Finger Lakes Times: Ann Schule, Editor, email: editor@fltimes.net
     b) Between the Lakes
         Seneca County's Official Newspaper,
          weekly, articles need to be in by Tuesday of each week, it comes out on Thursday.
          Joseph Siccardi, Sr., publisher/executive editor, email: revblt@rochester.rr.com
5) sample comment -- please rephrase, modify and add your own points -- don't just copy
6) Spread the word far and wide