Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Tuesday afternoon add-ons!

 Since I posted this morning's "news," many more items have come my way.

First Things First!


JAN KELLEY
(A few days late, but ........!)

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IN THE MAIL

Karen Cronkhite sent me a nice new poster for the WCS Drama Clubs presentation of "The Importance of Being Ernest" and the following synopsis.




"The Waterville Central School Drama Club is pleased to present Oscar Wilde’s perennial comedy favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest.  John Worthing is "Jack" in the country and "Ernest" in the city. He has met his true love, Gwendolen, in the city, which he thinks will work out very well as she will only marry a man named Ernest. But what happens when Gwendolen unexpectedly visits him in the country and finds out who he really is? To complicate things even more, “Ernest’s” friend, Algernon, also arrives in the country, pretending to be the fictional brother whom “Jack” created for his cover story.  As Oscar Wilde wrote, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."  

Come and see just how important it is to be earnest (and Ernest) on Friday, October 10th and Saturday, October 11th at 7:30pm 
in the WCS Auditorium.  
Tickets are $6.50.  Bunburyists are welcome!"

(Thank you, Karen!)

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ALSO IN THE MAIL

From Virginia Keith, a nice note offering me the blog use of photographs that she took at the dedication of the Maurice Hindus Historic Marker, on Saturday, and posted on the Town of Brookfield Historical Society's Facebook page.
I appreciate that!  Thank you, Virginia!



Members of the Hindus family.......



......... and onlookers.

"On September 27th, we unveiled a new historical marker honor in of Maurice Hindus. What a great day! Our Historical Society dedicated the new roadside marker and then toured around Hindus' "Green Worlds" including Colgate and Jim Moore's buildings, now at Americana Village within White Eagle conference Center on Lake Moraine."



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And from Rusty and Joan Frederick, this photograph taken on Giles Road, just beyond Brown Road,  in Brookfield.



(Thanks for all of that beauty, Rusty!)

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IN THE NEWS

Front Page Headlines from
THE WATERVILLE TIMES

"Pop Warner"
"Marshall Bonds For Salt Barn"
"NY State Test Scores Reviewed "
"Co-op Sets Meeting"
"Arrest Made In Car Thefts"

To read more, please click HERE.

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Here and There, Tuesday afternoon.

Painters at Work ....




...  on West Main Street, where the upper floors of the Liquor Store building are finished ..........



.... and right next door, at Morgan's Hardware Store, some of the "gingerbread" along the roofline has been painted the same dark brown and the rest of the facade is being painted the same  "coffee ice cream" (or pale putty) as the first building.

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Scraping and painting are in progress at the Burgess & Tedesco Funeral Home on East Main Street, and ......



............... also at Don and Sharon Brown's home on White Street.


Painting is complete, at the former Zirkle residence on Sanger Avenue, and I've just noticed the pretty Italianate arches on the side entryway!


Just up the street a little way, there's another sort of change: the old porch is being removed from the Karl Davis residence.


On East Bacon Street, it looks as if this house will gain a new front porch - and it's getting new "schoolhouse red" paint, too!

More when it happens!

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It's another beautiful day!
53 degrees and sunny at 8:00 a.m.

The TWCNY Weather Forecast:
"Risk for a Shower, Still Warm.
A weak front will be close by so this afternoon will also be partly sunny and temperatures are expected to end up above average once again with highs in the 70s.
A few clouds and a couple of showers will linger into Wednesday and then a drier air mass should build in by Thursday. Temperatures will continue to top out in the 70s through the rest of the week but the forecast calls for a big cool down this weekend as highs drop back into the 50s and 60s!"


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While many of us are roaming country roads looking for the most perfect views of brilliant Autumn foliage and cleaning out our tired-looking flower beds, the residents of the Schoolhouse Apartments on Stafford Avenue - formerly the Waterville Central School, built in 1930-31 -  and fortunate visitors, like me, are still enjoying the outdoor Summertime "oasis" of the Courtyard Garden - once the school Gymnasium!


The first view, from the hallway, is inviting ...........


..........  and once "outdoors," sitting on the Courtyard balcony, the view of the garden is delightful.


It was the Garden's volunteer "Chief Gardener," Virginia Sparks,  above, who tends the plants both here and around the sign in front of the building, who invited me to visit this wonderful Secret Garden. Along with the Lally Memorial Garden behind the Waterville Public Library, this surely must be one of the Village's "hidden treasures"!

Thank you, Virginia!

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
from Cindy Gallagher for the
Creekside Community Outreach Center in Oriskany Falls.

SATURDAY  OCT.4  10-12   
"FREE PUMPKIN TO EACH CHILD WHO BRINGS IN AN ITEM FOR THE WATERVILLE FOOD PANTRY. WE WILL BE SETUP RIGHT OUTSIDE THE THRIFT STORE. 
THESE ARE VERY LARGE PUMPKINS SO BE SURE THERE IS AN ADULT TO CARRY THEM."

STOP IN AND SEE OUR SELECTION OF HALLOWEEN COSTUMES AND FALL DECORATIONS. WE ALSO HAVE A CHRISTMAS DISPLAY NOW."

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And now -- your October
CALENDARS.

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WCS - October 2014

For Interactive Calendar, please click HERE.

WCS SPORTS


SPECIAL EVENTS

Music Boosters Meeting Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

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The WCS DRAMA CLUB
presents
Friday, October 10
Saturday, October 11
7:30 p.m.

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WATERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

For Interactive Calendar, please click HERE.

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Happening this Week

WEDNESDAY
"Drop-in Craft"  2:00 - 5:00
"All ages can stop into the library to make Autumn Tree sculptures out of paper bags."

FRIDAY
Matinée Movie at 1:00

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THE VILLAGE OF WATERVILLE

For Municipal Directory, please click HERE.

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Waterville Book Discussion Group
Wednesday, Oct. 22
- from Doris Stephan


"Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg,  is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980:  of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. From this modest beginning develops  a story of love, laughter and even an occasional murder. 

"Join the Waterville Book Discussion Group on Wednesday, October 22, at 12 noon in the Meeting Room at the Waterville Public Library. Bring your lunch, we will provide coffee, tea and dessert.  After lunch, we will be viewing the movie which starred Kathy Bates, Jessica  Tandy,  Mary Stuart  Masterson, Mary Louis Parker and Cecily Tyson. You can order a copy of the book by calling the library at 841 4651."


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Come back this evening!

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