In just four weeks, the Hoosick Falls Central School’s Drama Club will be performing Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and like many musicals in the past, it is offered as free entertainment to people of all ages. The performances are on Friday and Saturday, March 22 and 23, beginning at 7 pm, with the final performance on Sunday, March 24, at 2 pm. Food and beverages will be available for purchase during the intermission in the cafeteria.
The movie and musical have won many awards and have several unforgettable songs and moments. Lumiere (the candelabra) sings the show-stopping “Be Our Guest” and Mrs. Potts sings the eternal and Oscar winning “Beauty and the Beast” while Belle and Beast dance together. The music is wonderful, and the performance promises to be full of laughs and tears. This promises to be an enormous show, with over 60 middle and high school students involved in the production, along with several elementary students as well.
Program Advertising
Local businesses or friends and families are invited to financially support the Drama Club by purchasing advertisement space in the program and placing either a message or information about your business (or both).
If you are interested, please contact Rob Allen through email at hfdrama@gmail.com or by phone at 686-7321 x1106.
Annual Pre-Musical Spaghetti Supper
On Saturday, March 16, the Berlin Class of 2013 will be serving spaghetti, meatballs, salad, bread and butter, beverages and dessert in the MS/HS cafeteria from 4:30 until 7 pm. The cost of the dinner is $5 for adults and $3 for children 10 and under and senior citizens. Come for dinner and stay to see this year’s High School Drama Club production of The Wizard of Oz.
HFCS PTA Bingo
“Say it loud, Say it often!”
The HFCS PTA is pleased to host its annual “fun for the whole family” Family Fun Bingo on Saturday, March 9, from 9 to 11:30 am in the Hoosick Falls Junior-Senior High School cafeteria. Come one, come all – kids with their moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas join the fun. Play Bingo with your family and friends and win great prizes donated by many local vendors!
The PTA is pleased to have Jim Martinez, returning as Bingo caller at this increasingly popular event. Snacks and beverages will be served, and school spirit items will be for sale. Folks are also welcome to participate in the raffles. Don’t forget to bring your Box Tops for Education labels that help the school purchase supplies and equipment.
For more information about Family Fun Bingo, please contact Sarah Bushey, Chair, at 518-686-9492 ext.1010 or busheys@hoosickfallscsd.org.
Next ADAPT Meeting
Parents/guardians of HFCS juniors interested in joining ADAPT – the alcohol and drug-abuse prevention team responsible for planning and hosting a safe, substance-free, after-prom activity for the HFCS junior class and their guests – are encouraged to attend the next meeting on Monday, March 11, at 6:30 pm, in the HFCS Elementary School Library. Many hands make light work!
Letter To The Editor – Supporting The Legislative District Public Library
To the editor,
I am writing this to express the benefit it is to have our Library in Stephentown. The Stephentown Memorial Library is very important to the community. The resources and services they offer create opportunities for learning and support education. The library is needed now and especially for our future generations. Our library welcomes the growing community with its family programs.
In order for the Stephentown Memorial Library to keep operating, we need the library to become a public library. This will allow and offer more funding that is needed for funding basic operations, (open hours) at the library.
Andrew Schrump
Route 43, Stephentown
Small Business Owner
Letter To The Editor – Supporting The Legislative District Public Library
To the Eastwick Press Editor:
I wish could vote Yes on March 19th.
The library is the most important part of the village of Stephentown. It honors our history and our veterans. Stephentown is a community. The idea of community is right there in the library. It is has the tradition of a village kind of library with everything you need from a big city library right there. When you ask a question, you receive a polite and articulate answer. People are genuinely friendly. It is a place to go for some.
Our family has owned land in Stephentown for three generations. We return every summer for vacation and make many visits to the library. The letter and information you sent about your special district initiative was so well done and clearly written. I wish I could help the library become a district library. It is time. It is right. I truly wish I could vote Yes on March 19th .
Claudia Hodder
410 Manitoba
Playa del Rey, CA
Petersburgh Public Library News
The Petersburgh Public Library book discussion group will meet Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 pm to discuss the book, The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht. Copies of the book are available at the Library. If you have already read the book you are welcome to join us for the discussion. Refreshments will be served and new members are always welcome.
Story Time
Pre-school story hour continues on Tuesday mornings at 11 am. On March 12 stories will focus on the letter “M.” March 19 will feature the letter “N,” and March 26 the letter “O.” Pre-schoolers are invited to join us for stories, songs, activities, crafts and snacks.
Images Of Women In Norman Rockwell’s Paintings
In recognition of Women’s History Month, Norman Rockwell Museum Curator of Education Thomas Daly will present “Positive Images of Women in the Work of Norman Rockwell” on Thursday, March 14, at 7 pm at the New Lebanon Library.
The presentation will explore the positive images of women that Norman Rockwell created during his long career as an illustrator for books and magazines. Daly will share images that tell the story of the importance of women’s roles during the 20th century in such paintings as “The Problem We All Live With,” “Rosie the Riveter,” and “Political Opponents,” as well as many other Rockwell images, and will connect these images to national and local figures to illustrate the current events of those times.
Thomas Daly is the Curator of Education for The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge. His programs have served tens of thousands of visitors, and he has traveled to many parts of the country to speak on Rockwell’s work. During his 14 years with the Norman Rockwell Museum he has taken on a number of different roles and authored many articles about the work that Rockwell created during his nearly 70 year career as an illustrator.
This program is free and open to the public. The New Lebanon Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.
Hoosick Falls Youth Lacrosse Registration
Hoosick Falls youth lacrosse registration will be held on March 12 at 6 pm in the HFCS Elementary School gym.
Berlin Free Town Library Plant Sale
The Berlin Free Town Library announces its spring plant sale. Support the Library by purchasing Shamrock plants (oxalis) in four and a half inch pots. The sale will run the week of March 11- 16, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.