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Christine Primomo — Answer the census, get engaged
Christine Primomo, a retired nurse living in Coeymans, is an activist who is passionate about many initiatives, among them the need for every Albany County resident to be counted in the 2020 census. In this week’s podcast, she notes that currently only 59 percent of county residents have filled out the brief survey. Primomo stresses that the census can be answered by phone, by mail, or online — and that the responses remain confidential. “We each need to do our part. It’s up to us. It’s our money. It’s our community,” she says. A member of the nonpartisan, not-for-profit League of Women Voters, Primomo remembers, as a grammar student, being taught civics. “That doesn’t happen any more,” she said. “People have lost their faith and just don’t feel their vote counts … If you don’t like the way something is working, get engaged,” she urges.
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Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
31:33|Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current. The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dragon boat paddlers. Matthew, the mother, is an art professor at Union College. Judge, her daughter, is a certified personal trainer who led her mother into the sport. “A dragon boat is a 40-foot long, very narrow racing boat,” explains Matthew in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “That became standardized in the 20th Century but it’s based on a thousands-year-old Chinese tradition of racing the big rivers in China.” A dragon boat has 20 paddlers, two to a seat, with a person in the stern who steers and a person in the bow signaling directions, traditionally by drumming. “It’s the national sport of China,” said Judge “so it’s quite big in Asia and has subsequently spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.” It came to the United States through Canada, she said, citing the work of a doctor in British Columbia who changed prevailing medical opinion on exercise for breast-cancer survivors.
Angelica Sofia Parker and Elca Hubbard prepare for a pageant while supporting each other
27:03|https://altamontenterprise.com/07242023/angelica-sofia-parker-and-elca-hubbard-prepare-pageant-while-supporting-each-other
