Cheney Library staff and volunteers have been working hard to create a room to be used just for the monthly book sales. The first book sale in the new room will be on October 6. There is a lot more room to browse in, so there are a lot more books on the shelves. Please be sure to join us as we make more use of Cheney Library. The book sale is held each month on Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm. The Cheney Library is open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 8 pm, Tuesday from 10 am to 5 pm, Friday from 11 am to 4 pm and Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm.
Archives for September 2012
The Stephentown Food Pantry Is Busy
The Stephentown Food Pantry volunteers have been kept very busy lately. So far this month the pantry has provided food for 123 people, with as many as fourteen families being helped on a Saturday morning. The Stephentown Food Pantry offers short term assistance to residents of Stephentown and Hancock, MA. The pantry is open every Saturday morning, weather permitting, from 9 to 11 am at the Stephentown Federated Church, Garfield Road (County Route 26). Appointments are not needed. As always, requests for help are confidential. For information, call 518-733-5923 or 733-5675.
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AARP Defensive Driving Course In Grafton
Rensselaer County’s Everett Wagar Senior Center, 2 Roxborough Road, Grafton, will be holding an AARP Safe Driving Course, Thursday, October 25, from 9 am to 3:30 pm with a break at noon for lunch, available at the Center.
Save up to 10% on your car insurance! The cost will be $17 for AARP members and $19 for non-members. Please call Penny at 279-3413 for reservations – spaces are limited!
Tsatsawassa Fire Company Breakfast
The Tsatsawassa Protective Fire Company will resume its monthly breakfast on Sunday, October 21, with servings from 8 to 11:30 am. Breakfast consists of your choice of French toast or pancakes, as well as bacon or sausage, toast, orange juice, applesauce, beverages and eggs prepared to your specifications for a cost of $6 with children under five served free.
Support your local fire company while visiting with friends and neighbors and enjoying a hearty breakfast to start your day. The firehouse is located behind the post office near the intersection of Routes 20 and 66 North in the hamlet of Brainard. For more information call 766-3815.
Texas Hold’em In Stephentown
The Stephentown Volunteer Fire Department will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, September 29, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located at 35 Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. The doors will open at 5:30 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.
A free buffet will be served at the first break, and refreshments will be available.
No advance registration is required, and a donation of $35 per player will be accepted. Players can make an additional $10 donation at the door for 1,000 extra chips. This tournament will pay one place for every ten players with a minimum of four places and a maximum of 9 places.
For more information, please call John Linton – 518-733-0469.
Charlotte A. Ellis
Buskirk – Charlotte A. Ellis, 90, passed away on Saturday, September 22, 2012, at the Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls. She had resided on Jay Harrington Road in Buskirk, NY, and was the wife of the late Robert T. Ellis.
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Deborah Springer
Hoosick – Deborah Lee (Kilton) Springer, 61, passed away from lung cancer on Thursday, September 20, 2012, at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, NY, surrounded by her loving family. Debbie leaves behind her husband and soul mate of 18 years, Robert Springer.
Debbie was born to the late Clarence and Millicent (Bryant) Kilton on December 14, 1950, in Caribou, ME. She is pre-deceased by her sisters, Maureen Roberts and Jean Roche, and her sisters-in-law, Lucy Mosley and Patricia McGarvin.
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Dyken Pond Bird Seed Sale
The Dyken Pond 20th Annual Bird Seed Sale is a fundraiser to benefit the Friends of the Dyken Pond Center. Order a premium bag of bird seed while supporting the programs of the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. Proceeds from this fundraiser go towards scholarships for children to attend the Summer Nature Camp and land protection efforts. Stock up to last the winter!
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The Life Of George Holcomb – The Funeral of George’s Father Beriah Holcomb (1748 – 1827)
Wednesday, March 17, 1827: On this forenoon our connections and neighbors met at our house, and the Freemasons moved the corpse about twelve to the Meeting House, and the Episcopalian priest Humphrey in procession with them while the mourners followed in sleighs and more distant connections in wagons. Priest Hunter waited on the Episcopalian priest in to his pulpit and then he opened the meeting by reading Service, and prayer and Priest Hunter read a psalm and sung in the gallery. We then had a sermon from said Humphrey. His text was in Luke the 2nd chapter, 29th and 30th verses. We had a very entertaining discourse, and then he addressed the connections of the deceased and likewise addressed his Masonic Bretheren, and then Hunter read a psalm and singing in the gallery, and Humphrey closed with a prayer.
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Father Tom Zelker To Speak At HACA Brunch
Fr. Tom Zelker, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church in Hoosick Falls and parish priest at St. Patrick’s Church in Cambridge, will be the keynote speaker at the HACA Volunteer and Community Partners Appreciation Brunch to be held on October 20 from 10 am to noon at the First United Presbyterian Church. [Read more…] about Father Tom Zelker To Speak At HACA Brunch