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SMA Golf Scramble

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The 2012 Annual St. Mary’s Academy Golf Scramble will be held on  Friday, August 3, at the Hoosick Falls Country Club. The event is Scramble Format/Shot Gun Starts with 8 am or 1 pm tee times. Cost is $70 per person with four person teams and includes greens fees, cart, lunch and light fair dinner. Spectators are welcome to watch the fun and enjoy lunch and dinner for $10.
For more information or to sign up contact Pat Hayes at 686-4314, ext. 202 or e-mail patriciakhayes@yahoo.com.

Girl Scouts Sponsoring Car Show

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The Hoosick Falls Girl Scout Community, in conjunction with Hoosick Hometown Days, will be sponsoring a car show at the Town Athletic Fields on Barton Avenue, Hoosick Falls on Saturday, August 4 from 10 am to 3 pm.
Cars, motorcycles, trucks, hot rods, and street rods; all model years are welcome! The cost is $10 to participate, spectators are free. Goodie bags will be given to the first 100 entrants. Prizes will be awarded for car show participants and spectators. Other fun activities include a Chinese raffle, bake sale, glitter tattoos, facepainting for kids and more!
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Over $10,000 Raised For Three Water Tanks

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submitted by Gail Smith

Through the generosity of the community, the Hoosick Falls Community Alliance Church has received the last of monies needed to purchase three rainwater collection tanks for Ugandan villages.
Christianity Today reported recently that “providing potable water has the greatest impact and cost effectiveness per dollar than any other poverty intervention.” Children in Uganda cannot attend school nor can mothers help support their families because they have to walk 2-5 miles, sometimes twice a day, to retrieve water, typically from a murky pond or river shared by livestock, wildlife or micro-organisms. Consuming this water leads to disease and often death.
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County Takes Over WCW Property In Hoosick Falls

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by Kieron Kramer
At the monthly meeting of the Rensselaer County Legislature on Tuesday, July 10,  a resolution was adopted unanimously authorizing acceptance by the County of a deed in lieu of in rem tax foreclosure from Four J’s One Mechanic Street, LLC. This LLC is the current owner of the WCW property at One Mechanic Street in Hoosick Falls, previously owned by JW Realty. Five years after purchasing the two parcels on Mechanic Street in 2006, and owing a tax obligation for those years to the Village, WCW moved its mattress manufacturing business to Manchester, Vermont, in 2011.
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Village of Hoosick Falls Board Action – Water Shortage Possible

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by Bea Peterson
Though there is no shortage of water for the Village at this moment, Water Superintendent Jim Hurlburt told the Board at its Tuesday, July 10, meeting, “The water is down to 13 inches in one well, and that’s not good.” He added that if there is no rain by August 1, he would suggest water conservation practices be put in place, banning outside water use such as lawn watering and car washing.
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Father Tom Zelker Honored As PTA Founders’ Day Award Winner

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The Hoosick Falls Central School PTA annually seeks nominations to honor community members who make outstanding contributions to the well being of children and youth. This year’s award recipient was Father Thomas Zelker, priest at Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls. He also serves as Sacramental Minister at St. Patrick’s Church in Cambridge.
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