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Meet the queen

Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Queen Anita Meserole is escorted to the stage by Attendant to the Queen Joseph Viscardo of Saranac Lake High School at Friday night’s Coronation. (Enterprise photo — Antonio Olivero)

SARANAC LAKE — This year’s Winter Carnival queen was born and raised in — where else? — Queens.

Anita Meserole moved to Saranac Lake in the early 1980s to be near her children.

Her first job here was in the Hotel Saranac Bake Shop, where she worked closely with Paul Smith’s College students. She was promoted to baker ten years before she retired.

In recognition of her extensive volunteer work, in 2013 the Girl Scouts of New York gave her the Distinguished Community Leader award for making outstanding contributions to her community as a role model, leader and mentor.

Her volunteering includes the Adirondack Medical Center gift shop, High Peaks Hospice, the Saranac Lake Youth Center, the Wednesday night community dinners at the First United Methodist Church of Saranac Lake, the Saranac Lake Adult Center, the St. Paul’s Food Pantry in Vermontville, Pendragon Theatre, Saranac Lake Winter Carnival as judge and headquarters volunteer, the Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary, Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Essex County, and the Bloomingdale Elementary School reading program.

She is on the boards of many organizations, including Senior Citizens Overlook Apartments, as treasurer for the Methodist church in Bloomingdale, and the Saranac Lake Adult Center.

She is a proud mother of five children — Marlene, Marc, Rhonda, John and Caroleigh — and proud grandmother to 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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