Good Evening. Thank you Mr. Pitkin for allowing me time to address the community and clear up the confusion the media may have created.

As many of you know, I am the owner and club operator of a lifestyle community, commonly referred to as "Swingers."

The first misconception I'd like to address is a very obvious one: our purpose.

If you'll notice, my club's name is not, "Lake George Sex Club."

It is, "Lake George SOCIAL club." I do not offer a place for people to gather for the purpose of having sex.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with our lifestyle, approximately 80 percent of the lifestyle community NEVER has sex with another couple on the "first date." Out of this percentage, less than one third actually have sexual interactions more than four times in a calendar year with people other than their spouses.

As one of my members wrote in a letter to various media members,

"Choosing to be in a polyamorous relationship is a very private choice. There are many benefits to this type of relationship. We are very open and honest people with professional jobs in which we serve, work in and are a part of our own communities in which we live.

This is no longer the 1960's where we are all free-spirited, acid-doping, and disease infested. Our fellow lifestyle "ancestors," if you will, have taught us many lessons about being safe, and drug and disease free.

When a couple enters the main hall of this establishment, they are not greeted with streaking dancers who are high on drugs. You see something that looks very similar to a wedding reception, without the bride and groom or gowns and tuxes."

My intent here today, is not to provide a "Swingers 101," seminar. If you need to understand more about this lifestyle, or why people choose to live this way, I welcome all of you to visit the public sections of our website to answer those questions, however; I did feel the need to explain to you that in your community, my club is one of the few respectable clubs remaining in upstate New York.

Any person cannot just join, become a member, or show up at one of our events. There is a security process in place for each and every member.

My rules are strict for a reason. We like our small group of decent people who feel secure and private visiting us. After going through the new membership process, if a couple or individual attends a Meet and Greet, and are acting inappropriately, they are permanently banned from any future Meet and Greets that we host. We also have in place what is referred to as an "IP Block." This means if we ban an individual, they would not be allowed to visit the website and join up again because their IP address, which is the internet service in which they are using to have access to the internet will be blocked. this is to avoid them signing up under a different name. It is also for the security of our members.

Due to the fact that my club is a very private group of people who have proven themselves respectable enough to frequent our Meet and Greets, those who have been turned away because they didn't want to provide us with their state issued identifications, or who did not want to sign our membership forms listing our strict codes of conduct, get upset.

At this time, it is those people who were turned away that we are suspecting of acting as "concerned neighbors." We could be very wrong but, based on the readers' comment sections provided by the media that covered this story, there is less than one percent that made any negative comments at all. A larger percentage commented basically, "live and let live."

As a community you can also rest assure that we have the appropriate adult content labels on our website. This means that if a parent takes the appropriate measures to utilize parental controls on their home computers, our website would not show up on any search engines.

The last topic I would like to address today is the concern some of you may have that we have "moved in" to Thurman.

Again, I will say, our club is a private one. A high percentage of our members have professional careers, as you all do. Due to the fact that there are moral issues involved that not everyone agrees upon, our members choose to have this part of their lives private, as it is their legal right to do so. As a result, in order to protect the privacy of our members, we move around. The location for our Meet and Greets is NOT public information. We do NOT advertise our events too far in advance. You will not find a "calendar of events" listed anywhere on our website.

Our members never know too far in advance when or where our next event may be.

In the past, we have rented the facilities on Bear Pond Road in the resorts "off season" to generate additional revenue to this community.

We had a Meet and Greet last Saturday evening. Last Monday, before any story was in the media, our guest list was up to 39 couples. Due to the recent media coverage and our members' need for privacy, that number dropped 50 percent by Wednesday evening. On Saturday, NINE couples attended the event. Now some of you may be saying, "Good! Let's keep the sinners out of Thurman!"

If you will follow me please for just a moment as business owners.

Jan lost 30 reservations. Jan needed to buy paint at the local hardware store, he needed to buy food to feed 78 people at his local produce, meat, and vegetable markets.

How many pizzas did we buy for those that checked in a night early? TWO. If half of those 78 people checked in on Friday night, we would have needed to purchase TWELVE pizzas to feed them. We would have needed to purchase beverages, ice, paper products, health and beauty aids, condoms, for those who may have forgotten to pack essential items. 39 vehicles would have needed to gas up before they left town to return home. At least half of these people would have visited the organic farm next door and placed orders for their Thanksgiving Day turkeys or picked up a carton of eggs. At least half of these people would have gone in to Lake George and visited Jan's restaurant to eat dinner, and stopped at a few of the numerous shops along the way.

Instead, we purchased two pizza's, 6 bags of ice, 4 posters and 2 markers to write up Private Property signs to inform those who may have been attempting to look through the windows, a couple of bottles of wine at the local liquor store, and four Dura Flame blocks to start the fireplace in the dance hall because there was a chill in the air that night and there is no sex allowed in that room and we all had to stay warm somehow.

In closing, I'd like to reassure this community that our club members are all just common folk like you and I. We all have jobs to go to, meetings to attend, children to care for, and wives to satisfy. How we do this is our own private choice, because this is America.

Let us not turn away opportunities of revenue, especially in today's bruised economy.

I do welcome questions at this time, however, please keep in mind any questions you may have regarding legal property matters, I am not allowed to answer because I do not own The Bear Pond Lodge.

I am also not willing to discuss moral issues because, I have taken up enough of your town's meeting time to discuss non fiscal related matters.