Wednesday, April 9, 2014

It's Recyclable Collection Day
37 degrees and gray at 7:30 a.m.

The TWCNY Weather Forecast:

"Chilly Today, Big Warmup Coming!

As an area of low pressure continues to pull away to the north and east, we'll be able to tap into drier conditions todaywith more in the way of sun. However, temperatures will be running a good 10 degrees below average with highs between 40 and 45.

Luckily, this chilly air mass isn't expected to stay in place for too long and temperatures should recover into the low 60s on Thursday under a partly sunny sky.

 Wet weather returns to the forecast heading into Thursday night as a cold front works through but showers look to pull away from us on Friday. In the wake of this front, temperatures will still end up at or above average with highs in the 50s/near 60 degrees right through the weekend."



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1992 -2014

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IN THE NEWS

Front Page Headlines from
THE WATERVILLE TIMES

"The 2014 Baby of the Year"
"Fun in the Mud"
"Antiques On The Agenda"
"Scholarship Fund Seeks Donations"
"Find A Dress For Free"

To read more, please click HERE.


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IN THE MAIL

(In case you missed this yesterday afternoon.)
From Brenda Knoeller:

 "A pair of prescription sunglasses has been found on Main Street and they are brown with  pink hearts on the back of the bows.    The owner can stop by the Village office to pick them up."

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From Linda Rauscher:

"The WCS Class of '69 will be holding their 45th class reunion this summer.  
The event will be held on Saturday, July 12 at 6 p.m. at the White Eagle Lodge in Hamilton.  We're having trouble finding mailing addresses for all who graduated that year.  If anyone out there can help us spread the word through family or friends, it would be appreciated.  Please contact Linda Sanderson Reilly-Rauscher at lrauscher1345@gmail.com for details or with missing addresses."

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Here & There

Blog readers who have spent the Winter in places where  there are always leaves on trees and the grass is always green may have a hard time appreciating the beauty that we , here in Waterville,  find in scenes like these, in which the colors are mostly muddy, grungy brown but look  wonderful to us because - there's almost no snow! 


Looking ESE toward Tassell Hill from Hanover....


....  and WSW, to the icicle-clad quarry north of Oriskany Falls and the hilltop windmills beyond Solsville.

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Cleanup has continued, in the Village, and now it looks as if the street sweeper has been along West Bacon Street.


No small project: wintertime covers have been removed from all 96 hydrants.

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New decorations:  the Easter Bunny at Joan Albert's ......


..........  and a pretty Spring pinwheel on this Madison Street doorway.

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Waiting for ......



............ an "Opening Soon" sign at Roc's!


........... and wondering what the DEC "Trout Truck" was doing parked at Nice 'n Easy!

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TODAY'S EVENTS

At WCS


Sports Booster's Meeting at 6:00 p.m.
MPS Recital Concert at 6:30 p.m.

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At the Library


"Walking Group" at 6:00 p.m.



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DATES TO REMEMBER

Tomorrow


"At the Waterville Indoors Farmers’ Market, we are working to increase the entire community’s access to fresh local foods. 

That is why we are pleased to announce that starting this Thursday, April 1Oth,  we can began to accept benefits received through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)."

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Craft Show at the N. Brookfield Fire House
Saturday from 10:00 - 2:00

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49th Annual Palm Sunday Ham Dinner
at the Deansboro Fire House.

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The Marshall Parks and Recreations Department will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt that will take place behind the Deansboro Town Hall at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday April 19. 

Kids will be divided up depending on age. 
The Easter Bunny will be there so we would encourage the kids to bring a basket along to collect filled eggs. 

There will be a special GOLDEN egg to look for also!

And then .......

The Bunny will make a hopping fast dash over to Waterville and the Annual Rotary Club Easter Egg Hunt at noon
on the grounds of Harding Nursing Home!



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FOR YOUR CALENDAR

The Waterville United Methodist Church's

ANNUAL CHICKEN BARBEQUE

Sunday, May 4, noon - 'til sold out!

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ALSO IN MAY

Special Opportunity Announced!

WHS POWDER HORN RAFFLE

Here is your chance to own an authentic reproduction of 
A Squirrel Hunter's Powder Horn. 


The set includes a leather Pouch, made and antiqued by Mr. Gary Elsenbeck of Lee Center, and a custom pouch knife made by Brian Barker.  

Similar items are highly collectible and sell for hundreds of dollars.  This is not only a collector's item, it is a work of art.
Chances sell for $2 each or 3 for $5. They are available at the Waterville Historical Society on Main Street, open Wednesdays 10 to 4, or by calling 315 841 4018, or ask any Society member.  Drawing will be at the Society's annual meeting on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. 

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Should the CDC be notified?

From what I can gather, more and more area residents are showing signs of seasonal Springtime maladies whose primary symptoms are a feverish eagerness to clean houses and grounds, to buy new sneakers and (in some cases) bright lycra outfits and add an hour or two of outdoor exercise to their daily routines, or to even abandon all regular routines and simply pack their suitcases and seek "treatment" by leaving cabin and community for a week or so!

My personal form of "self-medication" has been the acquisition of a new iPhone - and I love it!  (Just think - at MY rapidly advancing age I can even "text"!)

Although I used the iPhone to take the pictures for today's blog post I will not be throwing away my old Olympus Camadia because, although the phone shots are good, the process of getting iPhone photos through my computer and onto the blog is much more time-consuming.  Fun for other pictures, 'tho!

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I'll post a small before-vacation wrap-up tomorrow.  
Is there anything that I've forgotten or that you want to add? Remember: I won't be back until the day that WCS classes resume - April 22.


Have a good day, everyone!

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