The Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County 4-H Program will be offering a four week veterinary science program at the Cornell Cooperative Extension building, 24 Martin Road in Voorheesville. The veterinary science program will take place March 19, 26, April 2 and 9 from 7 to 8:30 pm. Our presenters will be: Dr. John Kearney of the Bethlehem Veterinary Hospital, Dr. Cassidy Sedacca of Upstate Veterinary Specialties, Dr. Kristen Hellreich of the Village Animal Clinic, and Dr. Steve Naile of the Equine Clinic at OakenCroft. The program is open to any youth 10 years and older. There is a participation fee of $10 for each youth. Participants must pre-register and registration will be limited. To register a youth, or for more information, contact Eileen DePaula at 765-3500 or emd32@cornell.edu. For more information about other 4-H youth development opportunities, contact the Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County 4-H program at 765-3500.
Brunswick Library Events
The Brunswick Library will host a Blood Drive on March 9 from 1 to 6 pm. Please call or email the library to make an appointment 279-4023
The Library is now open Sundays! Join us for Family Yoga from 12:30 to 1:15 pm and a Family Movie at 2 pm!
Library Cook-Off -March 23rd at 6 pm
Make your best meatballs and come to the library for a cook off!
Adult Trivia Night – March 30th at 6 pm
$5 at the door, $4 to preregister, winning team splits the pot with the library, BYOB and everyone gets pizza!
The Brunswick Library is located at 4118 NY Route 2 in Brunswick
The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Co. Breakfast
submitted by Elizabeth M. Hurley
The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company, serving Brainard and East Nassau and surrounding community, will hold its monthly Breakfast on Sunday, March 15, from 8 to 11:30 am at their firehouse on Firehouse Lane behind the post office near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66N, in the hamlet of Brainard.
Breakfast offers your choice of pancakes or french toast, together with bacon or sausage, eggs cooked to your order, applesauce and an assortment of beverages for your donation of $7 for adults, children 5 to 12 at $4 and under age five free. Bring your family and join friends to enjoy a delicious breakfast while supporting your local fire company.
Berlin Cemetery Meeting
The Berlin Cemetery meeting will be held at the Cherry Plain Church Building on Monday, March 9 at 7 pm. All lot owners are welcome to attend this meeting.
Mountain Dulcimer Music Fest ~ March 6 – 9
Great folk music can be heard and learned at the 27th Annual Mountain Dulcimer Music Fest on March 6, 7 and 8. Concerts, jams, an open stage, and workshops in mountain dulcimer playing are featured. This event, sponsored by the Dulcimer Association of Albany, takes place at Calvary United Methodist Church, 15 Ridge Place, Latham, New York. Featured performers Nina Zanetti and Heidi and John Cerrigione will perform in concert Saturday evening. Complete information is available at www.DulcimerAssociationofAlbany.com/2015.
Tickets for the three-day festival or for individual concerts are available at the door. Festival admission includes all events: $75, or $35 for full-time students. Registrations and mountain dulcimer rental reservations may be made by contacting Lori Keddell, 518-762-7516, e-mail: lark119@citlink.net.
The festival is one of only a handful of such mountain dulcimer learning opportunities that take place each year in New York and New England. Players ranging from beginning to advanced can choose from a broad menu of workshops taught by eighteen talented and experienced instructors. Events start Friday afternoon with workshops from 3 to 5:15 pm. Doors open for registration at 2 pm. A concert by the instructors Friday at 7 pm provides a quality sampling of many styles of performance, followed by a choice of slow or fast jam sessions.
Saturday registration starts at 8:30 am and classes run all day. New players can rent mountain dulcimers. An open stage for all interested musicians starts at 4 pm.
The Saturday evening concert features Nina Zanetti and Heidi and John Cerrigione. Tickets for this 7:30 pm concert only are $12 and $5 for children 12 and under and are available at the door.
Nina Zanetti, National Mountain Dulcimer Champion of 2008, is especially fond of the “softer side of dulcimer” and shines with Shaker tunes, American folk hymns and Irish harp melodies. This Guilderland resident plays regularly at churches, historic sites, and community events and has taught workshops at dulcimer festivals throughout the country. She has made several recordings and tablature books.
Heidi and John Cerrigione, of Ellington, Connecticut, present the best of traditional music and old time sentimental songs, played on mountain and hammered dulcimer, guitar, autoharp, banjo, and string bass. They blend their voices in songs drawn from many traditional sources, including fiddle and dance music of early America, the British Isles and Switzerland. They have taught week-long classes and festival workshops for the past 15 years at various programs across the country and have many recordings, as a duo, as half of the quartet Doofus, and with Atwater-Donnelly.
Refreshments and pre-ordered lunches will be available. There is also a sales area with recordings, books, and other music-related items and a sales corral of gently used musical instruments of all sorts. Dulcimer builders George Haggerty, Bernd Krause, Jeremy Seeger, and Dwain Wilder will have beautiful hand-crafted dulcimers for sale.
Dorothy In Wonderland
Come and join the Highlight Acting Troupe as they present Dorothy in Wonderland written by Brian D. Taylor and directed by Kathryn Capalbo assisted by Steven Salhoff.
Dorothy Gale has made her way to the end of the Yellow Brick Rd, and the wonderful Wizard of Oz is just about to help her get back home to Kansas. But, before she can hop into the wizard’s balloon, another whirlwind appears over the Emerald City, sweeping Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion away to Wonderland.Equipped with her new assests- brain, heart and courage- Dorothy ‘s friends try to help her find her way home, meeting many other interesting characters along the way, including Alice, the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and many more. They also face a dangerous new foe – The Queen of Hearts!! Dorothy and Alice team up to defeat the queen at croquet, but will that be enough to return Wonderland to normal? And how will they ever get back home to Kansas and to London?
The production will take place on Friday, and Saturday, March 20 and 21 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 22 at 2 pm at the Brunswick Grange, Rte. 7, and Rte. 142 (behind Stewart’s). Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $7 for students. For reservations call Ethel at 518-237-6936. Dorothy in Wonderland is produced by special arrangements with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado.
Maple Sugaring At GLSP
Saturday, March 14 – Backyard Maple Sugaring at 1 pm. Do you long to set up a family-scale syruping operation in your backyard? Join us for a short film, demo and samples of sap and fresh syrup. $2/person and $5/family.
Saturday, March 21 – Backyard Maple Sugaring at 1 pm. Savor a delicious sign of Spring and learn how to make syrup in your backyard. $2/person and $5/family.
Grafton Lakes State Park is open daily from 8 am to dusk. For more information, please call the park naturalist at 279-1155.
Blues & Brews – A Smokin’ Hot Fundraiser for Hubbard Hall
Beat the Winter Blues at Hubbard Hall! Come out to listen to hot sounds of the Roadside Blues Band, enjoy some warming jambalaya, chili and corn bread, desserts and partake of the cash beer and wine bar! Dance it all off, all night long on Saturday, March 28 beginning at 7 pm.
$20 admission includes all the food and music and soft drinks, with cash bar available for beer and wine. Get your tickets in advance online at www.hubbardhall.org, call 518-677-2495 or at the door that night. This event is for everyone 21 and over, with ID please. Support the arts and beat the blues! You more than deserve it this winter!
Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education, located in a renovated 1878 rural opera house and adjacent former freight yard complex, is a community arts center dedicated to bringing the best of the arts to the region. Hubbard Hall is located at 25 East Main Street in Cambridge, NY. For more information, visit www.hubbardhall.org or call 518-677-2495.
Irene M. Gundrum
Grafton – Irene M. Gundrum, 73, died Friday, February 27, 2015 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy. Born in Petersburgh on February 21, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Florence Church Gundrum. Irene was a resident of Petersburgh for most of her life before moving to Grafton 15 years ago.
She was employed by the Berlin Central School District as a bus driver for eight years, General Cable in North Pownal, VT, Tansitor in Bennington, VT and for over 20 years by the Troy Housing Authority as a maintenance worker before retiring in 2007.
Irene had a big heart and loved kids whether in her own family or looking out for the kids in the projects at the Troy Housing Authority.
She is the beloved sister of Retta Dunlop of Berlin and the late Clifford Gundrum and Wesley Vars; loving aunt of Cynthia (Charles) Minkler of Petersburgh, Bonnie (Vickie Squires) Dunlop of Bennington, VT and is survived by many other nieces, nephews and family members that loved her; her best friend since childhood, Gloria Arya of Cupertino, CA and longtime friend, Pam Eggsware of Petersburgh.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a graveside service to be held in the spring at the Meadowlawn Cemetery in Petersburgh at a time to be announced.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or stjude.org.
Arrangements are by the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home in Petersburgh. Condolence book at ParkerBrosMemorial.com.
Larry Stowell
Hoosick Falls – Lawrence M. “Larry” Stowell 55, passed away on Sunday March 1 at the Samaritan Hospital in Troy, New York. He was the son of Ruth Ann (Brown) Stowell of Hoosick Falls and the late Charles LeRoy Stowell.
Larry was born on August 4, 1959 in Cambridge, New York. He graduated from Hoosick Falls Central School in 1978. He was employed at Rocco Plumbing in Schenectady, New York. Larry was an active member of the St. Stanislaw Society in Hoosick Falls where he was a past president. He enjoyed spending time at the Club with his friends. He also liked playing golf and was an avid Washington Redskins fan.
Survivors other than his mother Ruth include his sons Michael Stowell and Christopher Stowell both of Troy, New York, sisters Kimberly (Wayne) Houghton, Stacy (Danny) Merrills and Cheryl “Sherri” (Keith) Stowell all of Hoosick Falls, Robin (Bill) Stowell of Athens, New York, brothers Richard (Rose) Stowell and Neil (Roseanne) Stowell all of Hoosick Falls, granddaughter Chloe Stowell of Troy, New York, also several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Thursday March 5 at 6 pm from the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls, New York. Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday from 4 pm until the start of the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Karen & Molly McGovern Memorial Fund through the Funeral Home.