Sid Ward poses in July 2018 in his home in Jay with cutting boards he made. All the proceeds made from selling the boards went to local charities he and his wife supported. (Enterprise photo — Griffin Kelly)

KEENE VALLEY — North Country Life Flight will sell the late Sid Ward’s hand-crafted cutting boards with members of the Ward family on Sunday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Keene Farmers Market at Marcy Field, state Route 73, Keene Valley.

Ward had planned this sale for Life Flight before he unexpectedly died at his home in Jay on Aug. 24. Sid’s wife Jan decided this would be the final sale, with all proceeds donated to North Country Life Flight.

North Country Life Flight Inc. is a nonprofit air medical rescue service serving northern New York. It is based at the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear, and its flight nurses team up with a New York State Police helicopter and pilot to provide an air ambulance service shuttling seriously ill or injured people to trauma centers where they can get specialized care.

Sid Ward began selling his cutting boards in 2001, selling 20 that year. Over the years, he sold more than 10,000, all to benefit local charities he and wife support.

“It is a privilege and an honor to be part of this memorial sale of Sid Ward’s cutting boards,” Mary Jane Connors, president and CEO of North Country Life Flight, said in a press release. “It is fitting that it is taking place on Labor Day weekend, because I don’t think I ever met a harder-working man. Our hearts are broken here at North Country Life Flight with the news of Sid Ward’s passing, but we will rise to the occasion and endeavor to sell a record number of cutting boards in memory of the ‘Chairman of the (Cutting) Boards.’ We hope to see a lot of people there buying boards, be they gifts, for personal use in kitchens and barbecues, on coffee tables or decorating a wall, knowing that each time we use them we will think of the very talented and generous Sid Ward.”

Life Flight requests that people not contact them or the Ward family for pre-orders.

Safety protocols for the farmers market can be seen at http://adirondackfarmersmarket.com/covid-19-farmers-market-protocols.