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Free Program: Using The Internet For Your Job Search At Grafton Community Library

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On Thursday, February 26 at 4 pm, Grafton Community Library will present a free program on using the Internet in your job search. Taught by professional job counselors from Rensselaer County One Stop, the program will cover topics including how the Internet has changed the way we look for work, how to effectively search for jobs on the Internet, and how to make sure that employers see your application.

It is the first in a series of eight programs that the library will present this spring covering a wide range of skills necessary for job seekers today. Future topics will include effective resume writing, computer skills for job seekers, acing the interview, and using social media in your job search. Grafton Library staff and community volunteers are also available at the library by appointment to provide one-on-one help with all aspects of your job search. For more information call the library at 279-0580, email director@graftoncommunitylibrary.org, or visit graftoncommunitylibrary.org.

Grafton Fire Dept. Breakfast

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The Grafton Volunteer Fire Department along with the Grafton Ladies Auxiliary will be serving you an All You Can Eat Buffet Breakfast on Saturday, February 28 from 8 to 11 am at the Grafton VFW – Fire Hall on South Road (County Route 85).  On the menu: Belgian waffles, pancakes, french toast, eggs (made to order) , sausage gravy and biscuits, bacon, sausage, home fries, toast, orange juice, coffee, and milk.  Cost is $10 per adult, kids 12 and under $5, kids 5 and under FREE!  We look forward to serving you!

Friends Of Dyken Pond Seeking To Add A Parcel To the Preserve

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The Friends of Dyken Pond are seeking to purchase a parcel of land bordering the existing nature preserve, that will help protect wildlife habitat for river otter, great blue heron nesting sites, fox, beaver, coyote and bobcat. This parcel will connect two existing parcels and add an additional mile of trail.

The Friends of Dyken Pond completed purchase of a 40 acre parcel on Newcomb Pond in the spring of 2014. A new trail is in place connecting the Center’s existing trails to this first Newcomb Pond parcel, although permanent trail markers still need to go up in 2015.

With the purchase of this second parcel, the Friends of the Dyken Pond Center will protect high quality beech, maple and hemlock forestland, a 9 acre pond, emergent wetland and forested shrub wetland. And there’s more! With the additional fifty-six acres, the trail to Newcomb Pond will be extended to connect to the existing Spring Trail forming a complete looped trail.

With this additional purchase, the protected open space corridor around the Dyken Pond Center will include 489 acres of private and public conservation lands. Acquisition of the new parcel also ensures that it remains a component of the open space of the Rensselaer Plateau, home of one of the largest forest blocks in New York State. These large forest tracts provide habitat for wildlife found at the Center that require large areas of unbroken forest, such as fisher, bear, moose, and porcupine.

Visitors to Dyken Pond will have access to fifty-six more acres for hiking, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, birding, and Dyken Pond Center educational programs.

The Friends need help paying for it. They need to fundraise $100,000 to purchase this land, and are asking the public to help. Donations can be made by making checks to Friends of Dyken Pond and mailing to: 475 Dyken Pond Road, Cropseyville, New York 12052.

For more information about the Friends of Dyken Pond and the Dyken Pond Environemental Education Center, please visit our website at: http://www.dykenpond.org.

If you would like more information, please contact Friends President, Leonard Tremblay at bones0655@aol.com or 518.429-0393.

Book Sale at Grafton Library

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The Grafton Community Library, located at 2455 NY Route 2, will be opening the doors at 9 am  on Saturday, February 21 for a book sale on Take Your Child to the Library Day. The sale will run until 1 pm in the basement.  Stop by the library to pick up some fresh reading material at bargain prices and stay for a morning of fun activities, snacks and more.  Hardcovers are one dollar, and paperbacks are fifty cents. You never know what you’ll find!

Visit the Grafton Community Library on Facebook or www.graftoncommunitylibrary.org for more news about programs and events, or call 279-0580.

Take Your Child To the Library Day At Grafton Community Library

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On Saturday, February 21st, from 10:30 am – 1 pm kids and their families are invited to come over to Grafton Community Library for a morning of fun including games, a scavenger hunt, door prizes, stories, snacks and more.  The celebration this year will have a special “Frozen” theme.  If the weather cooperates there will be activities outside too. Take Your Child to the Library Day is a nation-wide event designed to get kids and their families excited about the magic of public libraries and all the opportunities they can offer for exploration, discovery, and a life time of learning. For little ones who don’t have their own library card yet, this is the chance to sign them up and give them free access to the more than 100,000 items available through the Upper Hudson Library System including books, DVDs, audiobooks, CDs, ebooks, magazines, and more. Grafton Community Library is located at 2455 NY Route 2 in Grafton. For more information visit graftoncommunitylibrary.org or call 279-0580.

Sullivan-Jones VFW #7466 Breakfast Buffet, Poestenkill

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Treat your Valentine early!!  Join us for our Breakfast Buffet on February 8  – 8 am – 11 am. Enjoy our regular buffet including fresh scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, home fries, pancakes, homemade French Toast, fruit, juice, tea and coffee. “Build your own Omelets” ham, bacon, sausage, cheeses, mushrooms, peppers and onions and try our NEW Country Style Sausage Gravy-n-Biscuits.     Adults – regular buffet $8 with Omelet $10. Children 6-12 $4.00 and Children under 5 free.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:  March 14 for our St. Patrick’s Dinner – corned beef and cabbage – details to follow.

Woods Forum Scheduled For February 25

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Did you know that the Rensselaer Plateau is the fifth largest forest in New York State, and that it is 90% forested, and that those forests are 90% privately owned?

Whether its two, 20 or 200 acres, do you love your land and value your woods?  Then attend a Woods Forum conducted by the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance (RPA) on Wednesday, February 25 at 7 pm at the Poestenkill Town Hall (38 Davis Drive, Poestenkill, NY).

Join fellow woodland owners and forestry professionals for a discussion on how to maintain the value of your woods for timber harvesting, recreation, wildlife and for future generations.   Discuss how to care for your woods today and plan for its future.  Talk with and hear about the experiences of other landowners. Attendees will receive a copy of the new Guide for Landowners intended to help landowners find information in the recently published Rensselaer Plateau Regional Conservation Plan that is useful to them. Both of these resources and much more are now on the RPA website at http://rensselaerplateau.org/RensselaerPlateau/ConservationPlan.aspx. Refreshments will be served.  Please call Sarah Parks at 302-584-7748 for additional information.  This program is co-sponsored by New York Forest Owners Association, the Rensselaer Land Trust and the Agricultural Stewardship Association.

Keep informed of the many activities going on with RPA or the more than 30 Alliance organizations by checking out our new data-base driven calendar of events at http://renpa.azurewebsites.net/.