The kids at the HAYC3 Youth Center love LEGO®. LEGO® allows children to be creative and innovative in a fun, hands-on, interactive way. LEGO® pushes kids to use their minds to build complex and interesting constructions and solve visual and structural problems. They help kids learn to work and play together.
The more LEGO® bricks we have at the Youth Center, the better it is for our kids. Please look around your house for LEGO® bricks that your children (or child-at-heart adults) no longer use. Or take a moment to purchase new sets from your local store. Either way, your donation, new or used, large or small, will be a huge benefit to our kids and help us to help them build teamwork, creativity and motor skills.
Be a part of HAYC3’s Build a LEGO® Collection Movement. Bring your LEGO® bricks to the Youth Center at 115 Church Street, Hoosick Falls. Call 518-686-9050 or email HAYC3@gmail.com for more information.
Cemetery Of The Evergreens Benefit
The second annual benefit to support the Cemetery of the Evergreens in New Lebanon will be held at The Theater Barn, 654 Route 20, New Lebanon, on Wednesday, July 24.
“Songs From the 50s,” a musical cabaret, will be presented at 7:30 pm and will be followed with a reception of soft drinks and homemade baked goods. Besides benefiting a worthy cause, it will be a fun night and one that you won’t want to miss.
Tickets can be purchased from the members of the cemetery Board or at The Theater Barn.
Hubbard Hall Presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night In The Park
All Hubbard Hall performances of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night are at 7 pm. Admission is free. Bring your own chair. This play is suitable for all ages. Among the performers are local students and young adults from Hoosick Falls – Katherine Danforth, Adrianna Kalenian and Ana Anderson, Eagle Bridge – Gabriel Patterson, Greenwich – Virginia Edinger and Alice Durning and Cambridge – Digby Baker-Porazinski, Jack Boggan, Jonas Werger and Madeline Matthers.
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Wonderful Weasels At Dyken Pond
On Tuesday, July 23, from 1 to 3 pm, a Junior Naturalist Program, Wonderful Weasels, will be offered at Dyken Pond. Weasels are some of the more curious creatures on the planet. Weasels indigenous to Dyken Pond include river otter, mink and fisher. On this easy hike we will look for different weasel signs. There is a $1 suggested donation.
Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center is a Rensselaer County Park located at 475 Dyken Pond Road, Cropseyville. It is open daily during daylight hours for hiking, fishing and non-motor boating. Canoes and kayaks are available for rent each day from 9 am until 3 pm.
A complete list of programs can be found at www.dykenpond.org.
Correct Fees For GLSP Dance In The Park
Registration is $15 per person without dinner and $25 per person with dinner. Both fees also cover the dance lessons and a night of live music. Pre-registration for those who want dinner is required by Monday, July 22. [Read more…] about Correct Fees For GLSP Dance In The Park
Allen W. Alderman
Cherry Plain, NY – In loving memory, Allen Wayne “Hooter” Alderman, age 58, passed away on Friday, July 12, 2013, at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. He was born on September 1, 1954, in Troy, NY, to Rodney Alderman and Joanne Mooney Simmons.
Allen grew up in Berlin, NY. He graduated from Berlin High School in 1972. After high school he enlisted in the United States Army in Troy. He served in the Army for nine years with the 82nd Airborne Division on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Allen was a member of American Legion Post 13 in Bennington, VT. He loved deer hunting, fishing, watching western movies, playing baseball/softball and spending time with his family and friends. He was an avid New York Yankees and New York Jets fan.
Allen was preceded in death by his father, Rodney Alderman, and his first wife, Audrey Kimball Alderman.
Allen is survived by his mother, Joanne Mooney Simmons, his stepmother, Judith Perham, his fiancé, Florence Church, his former wife, Ann Smith, his brothers, David, Scott and Eric Alderman and Tom Baldwin, Jr., his sisters Theresa Stevens, Tammy Perham, Michelle Brown, Kimberly Stuckman and Tammy Carollo, his sons, Corey and Randy Alderman and Casey Kimball, his daughter, Christina Alderman, six grandchildren, Samantha, Alex, Eva, Audrey, Charlie and Carly, his loving nieces and nephews and numerous other relatives and many friends.
A memorial service with full military honors was held at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, NY, on July 16 at 1 pm by the United States Army and cemetery volunteers.
A local memorial service will be held at the Berlin Baptist Cemetery in Center Berlin, NY, on July 20 at 10 am. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Baylor College of Medicine Office of Development, 1 Baylor Plaza MS: BCM160, Houston, TX, 77030. Arrangements are under the guidance of the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home of Petersburgh, NY.
Robert J. Mabeus, Jr.
Stephentown – Robert J. “Bobby” Mabeus, Jr. (known to many as Long Hair Bob), age 54, of Browns Road, Stephentown, NY, died on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA, after being stricken at his home.
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Fr. Zelker Honored
Fr. Tom Zelker listened to a proclamation from Hoosick Falls Mayor David Borge, read by Deputy Mayor Ric DiDonato on Saturday afternoon in front of the Municipal Building. He rode in his special “Popemobile” that took him through Village streets as part of a grand parade that included marchers, bicyclists, cars, a tractor and hay wagon filled with people, an ambulance and a fire truck. [Read more…] about Fr. Zelker Honored
Fr. Gregory Honored
In May members of Our Lady of the Snow parish, formerly St. John Francis Regis Church in Grafton and Sacred Heart Church in Berlin, had a lavish buffet dinner for Fr. Ken Gregory commemorating his 40 years in the priesthood. The event was held at the Grafton VFW/Fire Hall and was attended by just about everyone in the two communities. [Read more…] about Fr. Gregory Honored
The Life Of George Holcomb – Governor Clinton Dies
by Alex Brooks
Friday, Feb. 15, 1828: In the forenoon I piled up wood to the door and then I put both yoke of my steers on with Wm’s oxen to brake them, and went with him into the swamp and got a load of wood for Mother.
Monday: This morning our Governor died, DeWitt Clinton, died in a fit, if I get the information right.
DeWitt Clinton served two terms in the United States Senate and was the Federalist candidate for President in the election of 1812, which he lost to James Madison in a rather close election.
From 1810 to 1824, he was a member of the Erie Canal Commission. He was among the first members, appointed in 1810, who projected and surveyed the route to be taken. After 1816, he became the driving force during the construction of the canal.
He served as Governor of New York from 1817 to 1822, and again from 1824 until his death in 1828. His first major accomplishment as Governor was to get the legislature to appropriate $7 million for construction of the canal, which was finished in 1825. This was derided as a boondoggle by critics who called it “Clinton’s ditch,” but it made New York State the most prosperous state in the nation, and New York City the greatest city in the new world.
Wednesday, February 27, 1828: Today a thaw, and rainy. I mended my horse sled and then I took the cutter and carried my wife and daughter Charlotte to Hancock Village and traded to Gregory’s and Hadsells.
Thursday: On this evening Hiram Hastings, brother Sylvester, and I Newton made us a short visit, and said Hastings planed off the comers of my wife’s bureau drawers, or the bottoms, to make them slide in easier. This morning Squ. James Sweet died.
Friday: I tended to chores and some unwell and the rest of my family unwell, with colds. Tonight I called and made the widow Landers a short visit.
Sunday: This evening I walked to the post office to Nathan Howard’s and took out a letter from my wife’s sister Hannah Twichel in Cincinnati, Ohio, price 25 cents, and I paid one cent for a Cincinnati newspaper sent. Said Howard lent me a Freemasons Monitor. Today snowy and tonight rainy.
Monday: Today Gideon Barnhart helped me cut a walnut and he works it into ax helves, and we draw it the remainder for wood. I tried to shave ox bows, but I did not make any.
Tuesday: I took the horse team and sled and fetched a load of hay from my Rodgers barn, and drew a load of wood or walnut limbs off the hill and then we drew out manure with our oldest steers.