The squeamish may want to keep their eyes closed during the Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce's business-after-hours program to be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Dr. John Kearney will give a live demonstration of corrective laser eye surgery to the assembled group.
A lucky participant will even win a free procedure on his or her own eyeballs.
For those who don't win, though, Novartis Pharmaceuticals will supply the refreshments and hors d'oeuvres.
It's all part of an open house for the new Crystal Vision Laser Center, located inside the Cataract Care Center on South Kingsboro Avenue Extension in Gloversville.
``People are getting more creative with these after-hours,'' said Lisa McCoy, president of the chamber.
For the record, McCoy said her own eyesight is fine, and she does not need laser correction.
Considering Cohoes?
Price Chopper has been checking out a number of sites in Cohoes as a possible location for a new supermarket, says city planner John Scavo. Among them is a space on New Street, off Ontario Street, currently used as a Department of Public Works garage.
Mona Golub-Ganz, manager of community and government relations at Rotterdam-based Golub Corp., Price Chopper's parent company, said Golub doesn't comment on new stores until leases are signed. Besides, the company's schedule for new stores is chock-full for at least the next year, she said.
But the company would have reason to want to build a new store in Cohoes. The store it currently has in the city at 240 Congress St. was built in 1961 and is only 16,000 square-feet, making it the smallest and one of the oldest in the 102-store chain.
Number 10, with a bullet:
This is one year-end list that local business backers won't be pointing to.
Internet-services company PSINet Inc., which got its start in Troy 13 years ago, made it to No. 10 on 2001's list of big bankruptcies, according to BusinessWeek.
The company, which listed $4.5 billion in assets when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of May, couldn't hold a candle to the year's biggest filing: Enron Corp., which claimed $63.3 billion in assets at the time of its filing in December.
Other big losers included Pacific Gas & Electric Corp., in second place at $21.5 billion, and broadband provider 360Networks Inc., at eighth place with $5.6 billion in assets.
Start your engines:
Murray Inc., the lawn-mower maker that bought the Chipper Shredder and Chipper Vac product lines once made by Garden Way Inc. for $1.5 million last week, apparently keeps track of such things as where men most want to mow the lawn, and which celebrities women most want to see cut theirs.
The answers would probably not surprise you.
Men want to cut the White House's grass most, with Pebble Beach in second place and the Rose Bowl in third.
Women want Tom Cruise to do their yard work. If he's busy, Mel Gibson and Brad Pitt are next in line.
No word on who or where they'd like to handle the wood-chipping chores.
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