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Reversing Diabetes Seminar

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On Thursday, November 14, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm there will be a seminar on reversing diabetes. Discover natural strategies to prevent and reverse the effects of high blood sugar. The good news is that diabetes is 90% preventable.
Learn how a simple comprehensive lifestyle can help reduce diabetes risk or delay or reverse its progression.
The seminar will take place at the  Buskirk Better Living Center at the Buskirk Seventh-day Adventist Church, 2176 W. Hoosick Road (County 103 and NY 67), Buskirk. To pre-register call 518-686-4524.

Veterans Day Ceremony Offered At The Bennington Battlefield

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In honor of American veterans, from Revolutionary times through today, the Bennington Battlefield Historic Site will host a flag retirement ceremony on Veterans Day, November 11. The ceremony will take place at 1pm in the afternoon at the Visitors Center on Caretaker Road.
Local Scout troop members and the Sons of the American Revolution will be in attendance to conduct the flag retirement ceremony.  Phyllis Chapman, a history interpreter from Vintage Voices, will offer some remarks about the Bennington Battlefield.   A musket salute and patriotic song will also be part of the program.
The Bennington Battlefield Historic Site will be open on Veterans Day from 10 am to 7 pm and then will be closed for the season until May 1, 2014.  Please note that the Visitors Center is only open during the program. For more information, please call 279-1155.

HFCS PTA November Family Movie Night

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The Hoosick Falls Central School PTA announces its November family night film series co-sponsored with the Hoosick Federal Credit Union. Here is an opportunity for families to enjoy an outing free of charge. The movie scheduled is “The Croods.”
Film critic David Valdes Greenwood of the Huffington Post says, “The film is a rip-snorting barn-burner. Inventive minds were clearly at work coming up with ways to turn a prehistoric world into a playground or amusement park for adrenaline junkies, with sequences that blend kinetic action with slapstick humor.” The film airs on Friday, November 8, at 6 pm in the High School Auditorium. Doors open at 5:30 pm, and refreshments will be for sale in the Elementary School cafeteria with the proceeds going to the Hoosick Falls PTA. This movie is rated PG for some scary action.
The event is open to the general public, and school spirit items will be available for sale.

Cheney Library Festival Of Wreaths

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The Friends of Cheney Library will host the Love Your Library Festival of Wreaths on November 2 in the basement of Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls. The preview of the wreaths is at 6:30 pm with the auction to follow. There will be live music during the preview time and lots of delicious desserts. Last year we had Awesome Wreaths, but this year we have  Fantastic Wreaths. There are wreaths with gift certificates attached, a hop wreath with bags of hop tea and a bottle of micro-brew beer, a wreath on a sled, wreaths for fall and wreaths for the holidays, a wreath surrounding a party for the Super Bowl and, of course, a wreath with a quilt attached. There are 43 wreaths in all, so there is something for everyone’s taste. This event supports the Children’s Room which is being renovated in the basement of the Cheney Library.

Cambridge Area Woman’s Farm And Garden Event

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Beginning on Tuesday, November 5, at 12 noon, the Cambridge Area Branch of the Woman’s National Farm and Garden will hold the second annual Dried Flower Arrangements Silent Auction at the Glens Falls Bank in Cambridge. This was a big success last year, and there will once again be many beautiful floral arrangements for you to bid on. The bidding will end on Tuesday, November 19, at 2 pm, and the final bidders will be the lucky ones to take their arrangements home.
Farm and Garden awards scholarships to two seniors each year in area high schools who are entering the fields of agriculture, horticulture, marine biology and other related fields. All proceeds from this fund raiser will go toward these scholarships. We hope you will support this important fundraiser once again this year.

Gertrude Hoffman

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Hoosick – Gertrude (North, Bentley) Hoffman, 90, passed away on Tuesday, October 29, 2013, at her daughter’s house in Rotterdam, NY, surrounded by her family. She was the wife of the late Lawrence P. Bentley and then married the late John H. Hoffman.
Born on January 1, 1923, in Potter Hill, NY, Gertrude was the daughter of the late Arthur and Edith (Burgess) North. She graduated from the Walter A. Wood High School in Hoosick Falls, NY, in 1940. Gertrude worked as a sewing machine operator for the Cluett & Peabody Company and the Arrow Shirt Company, both in Troy, NY, until retiring in 1985. She was a former member of the Eagles in Hoosick Falls, the Old Potter Hill Methodist Church and the Senior Citizens in Troy.
She is survived by her daughter, Carol Gaige and husband Galen of Schenectady, NY, and her step-sons, John Allen and Donald Hoffman and wife Susan, both of Stephentown, NY. She is also survived by fifteen grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, one great-great-granddaughter, several nieces and nephews and two brothers-in-law, Robert Bentley of Troy and Robert Foley. Gertrude is pre-deceased by a daughter, Hazel Foley, two sisters, Mabel Worthington and Mildred Pilling, and two brothers, James North Sr. and Arthur North.
Funeral services will be Saturday, November 2, at 1 pm from the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090. Burial at the Hoosick Rural Cemetery in Hoosick will follow the service. Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from 11 am until the start of the service. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to The Joan Nicole Prince Home or the Community Hospice of Schenectady County.