Rensselaer County’s Everett Wagar Senior Center, 2 Roxborough Road, Grafton will be holding an AARP Safe Driving Course, on Tuesday, April 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a break at noon for lunch, available at the Center.
Save up to 10% on your car insurance! The cost is $17 for AARP members and $19 for non-members. Please call Penny at 279-3413 or stop at the Center for reservations. Spaces are limited.
Cans For Cancer
Help out yourself and a great cause too! Please bring your redeemable cans and bottles to the Nickelback Redemption Center on lower Carey Avenue in Hoosick Falls and donate them, or some of them, to the Hoosier Hopefuls Relay for Life team! We raise money for the American Cancer Society, hoping to find a cure for this disease! You can also call Terri Burdick at 518-686-7851 for pick-up of your bottles and cans!
The Johnsonville Rescue Squad Breakfast
The Johnsonville Rescue Squad located at 4 River Road in Johnsonville is holding its monthly breakfast on Sunday, April 7, from 7:30 to 11 am.The cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children. Eggs, French toast, pancakes, sausage, omelets, hash browns, juice, fruit and coffee are on the men.
For more information, call 753-9549.
Join The Squad
This would be a good time to drop off your returns and check into signing up to volunteer to become a member of the Rescue Squad.
Berlin Fire Department Breakfast
On Sunday, April 7, from 7 to 11 am, the Berlin Fire Department will be holding its fresh, hot off the griddle, monthly breakfast. For your eating pleasure we include all-you-can-eat pancakes, French toast and biscuits for our homemade sausage gravy, sausage and bacon, toast, home fries and eggs (scrambled, sunny side, over easy or over hard). Beverage choices include coffee, tea, (both decaf available), hot chocolate, milk and orange juice.
Prices are $7 for adults, $4 for kids 5-10 and free for kids under 5. Please join us before church, grocery run or whatever you may be doing for the day and have a great start to the morning.
The Ladies Auxiliary will be holding a bake sale this month and a plant sale at the May breakfast.
LaCroix On Dean’s List At Springfield College
Nicole B. LaCroix from Hoosick Falls, earned Dean’s List status at Springfield College in Springfield, MA, for the 2012 fall semester. LaCroix is currently a Rehabilitation and Disability Studies major with a concentration in Occupational Therapy.
Ashley Bloomfield Makes Dean’s List At RIT
Ashley Bloomfield of Stephentown, a second-year student in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, made the Dean’s List for the Winter 2013 quarter.
Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in computing, engineering, imaging science, sustainability, and fine and applied arts, in addition to unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students
Ryan Sams Re-enlists In New York Army National Guard
Major General Patrick A. Murphy, the Adjutant General, announced the recent re-enlistment of members of the New York Army National Guard in recognition of their continuing commitment to serve community, state and nation as part of the Army National Guard.
Specialist Ryan Sams from Berlin has re-enlisted to continue service with the Headquarters and Support Company, 42nd Infantry Division.
Murphy said, “Keeping those ready forces in our ranks mean that New York is ready to provide forces for state missions here at home, as we saw during Hurricane Sandy, or for the federal missions supporting our nation around the country and around the world.”
The Art Of Constance Alexander At SLCA
The gallery at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts will exhibit the art of Constance Alexander from April 1 to May 15. “The animals, flowers and farmlands that surround me are so captivating, that it only seems right that I should work at representing their purity and simplicity,” she said of her work. [Read more…] about The Art Of Constance Alexander At SLCA
Rensselaer Land Trust April Events
The Rensselaer Land Trust (RTL) invites the public to attend three April events.
On Saturday, April 13, at 9 am the RTL will lead a vernal pool hike at their Geiser Preserve, a beautiful, wooded 95 acres on Perigo Hill on the Rensselaer Plateau. Among the rocky knolls and hemlock-maple-beech woods are vernal pools, which fill with snowmelt and rainwater in the spring, attracting breeding spring peepers, wood frogs and spotted salamanders. On this trip we hope to see or hear these symbols of spring or see their eggs. The hike will be about three miles roundtrip. The charge is $5, free for RLT members. To register contact Francille Egbert at 518-674-3214 or fran.egbert@gmail.com.
In observance of Earth Day, the RTL and the City of Troy will be sponsoring the sixth annual clean-up of the shores of Tomhannock Reservoir, the source of drinking water for 125,000 residents of Troy and other communities. Volunteers are needed on Saturday, April 20, from 9 am to noon. Meet at the NYS DEC public access parking lot on NY Route 7 in Raymertown, just before the causeway over the reservoir. Groups will collect trash along the shore. Garbage bags will be provided. Bring gloves. We will work regardless of weather, so dress appropriately. To register, contact Paul Schroeder at 518-674-2480 or pschroeder1@nycap.rr.com.
RTL is providing a series of opportunities to learn fungi with local mycologist Sue Van Hook. First up is an indoor workshop on Tuesday, April 16, at 7 pm at The Sage Colleges Cowee IV Conference Room in Troy. Learn to identify the different groups of fungi in preparation for Van Hook’s outdoor mushroom walk on Sunday, April 28, at 1:30 pm. Bring a notebook and pen. The charge for each program is $10 per person, $15 per couple. Kids can attend for free. Register for each program online on www.renstrust.org or contact Marcy at 518-674-2171.
For more information on the RTL, visit www.renstrust.org.
Jack Fox
Petersburgh – Jack Vincent Fox, 87, died suddenly and peacefully in his home in Petersburgh, NY, on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. He is pre-deceased by his beloved wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Felton Fox, to whom he was married for 62 years, his parents, Jacob Lewis Fox and Anna Elsie Shank Fox of Hatfield, PA, and his sister, Theresa Irene Fox Reese of Dickinson, TN.
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