Change at the Getaway
New director Elizabeth Carless teaches Jodie Mandigo, 16, and Kelsey Gilmet, 16, how to weave friendship bracelets on Tuesday evening at the Saranac Lake Youth Center, located on Broadway near the Saranac Lake Adult Center.
(Enterprise photo — Emily Hunkler)
SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Youth Center has seen a lot of change in the past year, and with the hiring of a new director, the teens who frequent the hangout are hoping things will get back to normal. “For a while there, it was kind of like swapsies between directors,” Kelsey Gilmet, 16, said. In August, while former director Sarah Pratt was away on a maternity leave, the center hired Jamal Perry as the interim director for the center. Perry had recently moved to Saranac Lake from Providence, R.I., where he had been working at a group home for troubled teens. In October, after Pratt extended her maternity leave and ultimately decided not to return to the center, the center’s board of directors held an open search for people interested in the job of becoming full-time director of the youth center, also known as The Getaway, which left Perry feeling betrayed, he said. “I thought the unfairness of it was that the center had been very inconsistent up until I opened it up in Aug
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