Picture of the week — The 1971-72 Tupper Lake Lumberjack team of junior varsity cheerleaders included, from left, Julie Nichols, Marva Pickering (top), Carrie (Zande) Riley (doing a split), Holly Root, Marcy Fuller (center), Donna Bombard, Karla Garrelts, Janice (Lavigne) Gonyea and Jan Lavalley (doing a split). (Photo provided)

Not many newspaper columnists have their own editor to take control of that weekly e-mail and whip it into shape; perfectly positioned illustrations and photos, no dangling participles and always 10 jumps ahead of the spell check. Well, dear reader, my editor is none other than Brittany Bombard, news editor at the Enterprise and a stalwart guardian of the printed word. She has come up with a picture to match those from Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, which have run in this space for the last two weeks. This week’s photo is of the Tupper Lake Lumberjack junior varsity cheerleading squad from 1971-72, which features her mother, Carrie (Zande) Riley and her cousin Donna Bombard. In my teen years, I may have been better acquainted with the Tupper Lake cheerleaders than the Saranac Lake cheerleaders. Now that I have told you all about my relationship with Ms. Bombard, one must understand that if something goes terribly wrong with the column, don’t blame me, blame Brittany.