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A Guide To Online Grant Seeker Resources At The Stephentown Memorial Library

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Learn to navigate and use the wide range of resources made available by the Foundation Center. The Stephentown Memorial Library will host a free workshop for nonprofit organizations that will introduce you to the resources made available by the Foundation Center – Grantspace, Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Maps. The workshop will be held Monday, November 10, from 11:30 am to 1 pm.

The session will be led by Julieta Mendez, Engagement & Outreach Specialist, Social Sector Outreach with the Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org). This class will show you how to get the most out of the Foundation Center’s online resources to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to get grants, manage your nonprofit and improve your community. Mendez will offer tips on how best to identify funding sources for your organization, highlighting the electronic and print resources available for your free use at the Stephentown Memorial Library, a Funding Information Network partner of the Foundation Center.

The workshop will include a demonstration of Foundation Directory Online, the Foundation Center’s top tier searchable database providing information on nearly 100,000 grant makers and more than 2 million grant records and will provide an overview of the free resources on the Foundation Center’s web site.

A light lunch will be served, and there will be ample time for individual questions. There is limited seating so reservations required. Please call the Stephentown Memorial Library at 518-733-5750 or email director@stephentownlibrary.org to reserve a space.

Jerry Powell Basketball Results Clinic Returns to Hoosac School

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Jerry Powell and his elite team of trainers will be returning to Hoosac School to conduct a tune up basketball clinic on Sunday, November 9. This clinic will focus on fine tuning the fundamentals prior to beginning the basketball season.

The clinic is open to boys and girls in grades 4-12.  The cost is $25 per player.  Payment for clinic is due at the door on the day of the clinic.  Checks should be made payable to Jerry Powell’s Basketball Results Clinic.

Clinic times are  9 to 11:15 am for fourth-sixth grades, 11:30 am to 1:15 pm  for seventh and eighth grades and 1:30 to 3:15 pm for ninth-twelfth grades

Pre-registration is required by November 9.  You can register online at: https://sites.google.com/site/basketballresultsclinics/ or by email to basketballresultsclinics@gmail.com. Email basketballresultsclinics@gmail.com or call Noordin Said at 347-581-5004 with questions.

Jerry has trained NBA superstars such as LeBron James, Paul George and Rajon Rondo and WNBA standouts Bria Hartley and Sammy Prahalis.

For more information about Jerry Powell’s Basketball Results Academy go to www.basketballresults.net and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/basketballresults.

Grafton Historical Society Program On The Grafton Inn

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The Grafton Historical Society will present a program on Sunday, November 16, at 2 pm at the historic Grafton Inn.

Built about 1795 by Abel Owens, the first settler in Grafton, the building was later purchased by Lemuel Stewart, who then moved it. It was owned by Stewart’s descendents for more than 100 years, later becoming a restaurant, inn and bed and breakfast among other things.

Learn about not only the early history, such as moving the house, the stairway to nowhere and fun times when it was the Mountain Top House as well as more recent history.   Share your recollections of times spent here.

The program will be presented by Anne Kiely, a member of the Grafton Historical Society who has researched the building and some of the interesting people who have lived there. Following the presentation current owner Elsie Risedorf will offer a tour of the upper floors of the Inn .

Refreshments will be served following the program.

Hoosick Cemetery 2014 Fall Clean- Up

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Notice is hereby given that seasonal and unsightly decorations should be removed from all lots on or before November 15. Please take all refuse with you. Do not dump debris over the fence or leave on cemetery grounds.

By order of the Trustees, Hoosick Cemetery Association.

Dyken Pond Educational Center Upcoming Events

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November 2014 – Holiday Wreath Sale. Balsam fir wreaths are for sale each year in November. An 18” wreath decorated with a handmade Dyken Pond collectible nature ornament, pine cones, berries and a red bow costs just $20. Decorate your home for the holidays and support the Friends of Dyken Pond Center. Proceeds from this fundraiser go towards scholarships for children at the Summer Nature Camp and land protection efforts.

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Blue Horse At Sand Lake

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The Sand Lake Center for the Arts is hosting the Blue Horse Repertory Co. with director Lora Lee Ecobelli on Friday, November 7, at 8 pm. They will be performing scenes from the works of great playwrights – Tennessee Williams, Christopher Durang, William Shakespeare and more. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Center at 674-2007 or reservations@slca-ctp.org . SLCA, located at 2880 NY 43, Averill Park, has plenty of free parking and is fully handicapped accessible.

Hubbard Hall Presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall will present The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Tony Award winning musical comedy classic by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin from November 7 to 30.

Perfect for family audiences, this hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. For this quirky yet charming band of kids, a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

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Eva Mary Fleming

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Hoosick Falls – Eva Mary Fleming, 86, passed away on Friday, October 31, 2014, at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center with her family by her side. She resided on Saratoga Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, and was the wife of the late David B. Fleming.

Born on June 7, 1928, in Hoosick Falls, Eva was the daughter of the late Fred and Eva (Gibbons) Motsiff. She graduated from Walter A. Wood High School in Hoosick Falls. Eva worked for New York Telephone in the Hoosick Falls office as an operator and later in the Hoosick Falls Central School cafeteria.

Eva was well known for her love of life and her indomitable spirit with friends from every generation, occupation and situation. She could be found at the casino, at the track or at the Health Center visiting a friend. Eva was a life long Hoosick Falls resident and knew every kid who went through her school lunch line and every bettor in line at OTB. She played cards with 20-somethings, helped set up football pools with 40-somethings and shared gossip with 80-somethings. Eva enjoyed following “her” New York Mets and “her” Pittsburgh Steelers.

Eva enjoyed games of chance, bowling, ping pong and shopping, and she belonged to several card clubs. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America, of the Health Center Auxiliary, a Lifetime Member of the St. Stanislaw Society, of the Elks Auxiliary, and she was a communicant of the Immaculate Conception Church.

Survivors include her children, Mary Beth and husband Richard Dickinson and David and wife Sharon Fleming, her sister, Nelma Motsiff, all of Hoosick Falls, her grandchildren, Carly, David and Rachel Dickinson and Matthew, Jason and Molly Fleming, as well as several nieces and nephews. Eva is pre-deceased by three sisters, Addie Kjelgaard, Clara Salluzzo and Gladys Coonradt, and two brothers, Stanley and Fred Motsiff.

A Mass of Christian Burial is being offered on Friday, November 7, at 11 am from the Immaculate Conception Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial will follow the Mass at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hoosick Falls.

Relatives and friends may call at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Friday morning from 9 to 10:30 am. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary’s Academy through the funeral home.