The Berlin Free Town Library cordially invites the public to an Open House on Saturday, December 6, from 4 to 6 pm. Please come, and enjoy visiting with friends and enjoy a tasty treat. Library trustees and friends will supply treats and live music. Visit with current friends and meet new friends.
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Holiday Gathering At The Grafton Library
The Grafton Community Library is hosting a holiday gathering from 10:30 am until 1 pm on Saturday, December 6. The public is invited to come enjoy treats and refreshments, connect with friends and neighbors, and help decorate the Library’s tree for the Senior Center Christmas Tree Festival.
There will be a special program for children at 11 am featuring local children’s book author William Middleton reading from his work. For more information visit graftoncommunitylibrary.org.
Make Your New Year’s Resolution Now! Sign Up For A Tutor Training Workshop
Make your New Year’s resolution now and start making a difference in the life of a learner. Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County’s winter 2015 Tutor Training Workshop will begin at 9:30 am, Saturday, January 10, at the HVCC Viking Child Care Center. If you would like to be a tutor, please come to a one hour volunteer opportunities information session on Saturday, December 6, at 9:30 am in the HVCC Viking Child Care Center, DCC Room BO5, Williams Road, Troy.
For more information and to register, call Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County at 274-8526 or see our events calendar at www.lvorc.org.
HVCC Foundation Awards Scholarships To Pelletier
Nearly 100 Hudson Valley Community College students received honors and scholarships at the annual Hudson Valley Community College Foundation Scholarship Reception on Friday, November 14.
Each year the college Foundation recognizes students who were awarded scholarships this past year as well as the donors who make these scholarships possible. The reception took place in the McDonough Sports Complex.
Erika Pelletier of Petersburgh received the CAP COM Federal Credit Union Scholarship, the NYSFHB Scholarship – Early Child/Human Services and the Women’s Enterprises at Hudson Valley Community College Scholarship.
Sullivan-Jones VFW Post 7466 And The Ladies Auxiliary Of Poestenkill Breakfast Buffet And Bake Sale
Join the Sullivan-Jones VFW Post 7466 on December 14 from 8 to 11 am for its next monthly VFW Breakfast Buffet and Ladies Auxiliary Bake Sale. Enjoy our regular buffet including scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, home fries, pancakes, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. Build your own omelets ham, bacon, sausage, cheeses, mushrooms, peppers and onions. Look what’s new this month – home made French toast.
The cost of the buffet is $8 for adults, $10 with the omelet, $4 for children 6 to 12 years old and no charge for children under 5.
Our Ladies will be holding a bake sale during the breakfast. Enjoy homemade goodies great for holiday gifting, or treat yourself. May you all have a happy and safe holiday season.
Berlin FD Breakfast
On Sunday, December 7, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its monthly breakfast. Breakfast includes all you can eat pancakes, French toast, biscuits with homemade sausage gravy, bacon and sausage, home fries, toast and eggs (sunny side, over easy or over hard or scrambled). Beverage choice is coffee or tea (both available as decaf), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice.
Prices are $8 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-12 and no charge for children under 5. Take-outs available at 658-2890.
Santa will be making a special appearance during the breakfast from 7 to 11 am.
The Ladies Auxiliary will be tempting you with their homemade pie sale.
Please join us for breakfast, a visit with Santa and then take home some desert.
Are You Ready? Bring It On
Dyken Pond Center Historical Research Project
We are gathering information on the land use history of the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center and surrounding area. We would like to document past uses and history of the Dyken Pond Center for a future exhibit. We are looking for photographs, maps, stories and/or personal knowledge of the lake itself, historic farms and businesses, land use practices and people who have historically visited or vacationed in this area. If you are willing to share items or information, please contact Mary Alice Pasanen at Mary_Alice_Smith@hotmail.com or 229-1936.
Contact the Center at 658-2055 or dykenpond@fairpoint.net or visit our website at www.dykenpond.org for more information and a complete schedule of our events.
Rensselaer Land Trust Annual Meeting
Please join Rensselaer Land Trust (RLT) at its annual meeting on Saturday, December 6, from 8:30 to 11:30 am at Brown’s Brewing Co., Revolution Hall, Troy. The keynote speaker will be Tom Lake, presenting “Climate Change: We’ve Been Here Before!”
In the first half of the meeting learn about the RLT’s exciting 2014 accomplishments for land conservation and watershed protection in Rensselaer County. Over 150 community members will also be inducted into RLT’s new Blue Bird Society for their continued loyalty and support to RLT over the last decade.
The second half of the meeting will include a lecture by Tom Lake, NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program naturalist. Lake’s talk will bring guests back to earlier times in human history when severe climate change forced life on Earth to either adapt or become extinct. From Ice Ages to severe droughts, climate extremes have long been the catalyst for human change.
The Brown’s Brewing Co. breakfast buffet costs $15 per person. Please RSVP to Julie@renstrust.org or online at www.renstrust.org.
Thanksgiving Boxes And Bags Filled
by Bea Peterson
Weeb’s Fish Fry on Main Street in Hoosick Falls is closed for the season. However, on Thursday evening, November 20, the place was crowded with boxes and boxes of food and, at times, as many as 70 volunteers. [Read more…] about Thanksgiving Boxes And Bags Filled