It's Friday!

Sunny and 52 degrees at 7:00 a.m.

The TWCNY Weather Forecast:

"Pleasant Today, Warming Up Through the Weekend.

High pressure will provide us with rather pleasant weather today across Central NY with sun, a few clouds and warmer temperatures. Highs will be in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees. Expect cool, quiet and comfortable conditions tonight with just a few clouds. Lows will be in the 50s.

We'll keep things dry tomorrow and despite some high and mid-level clouds streaming in from the south, temperatures should manage to top out in the low 80s. The forecast calls for a partly sunny/mostly cloudy sky to round out the weekend with highs closer to the mid 80s. A very isolated shower/storm cannot be completely ruled out on Sunday but it will definitely be the exception rather than the rule.

Temperatures will continue to warm heading through the early part of next week as we eventually make it into the upper 80s."

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First Things First

IN THE MAIL

From Ione Barney,

............ this picture of her with BERIT NELSON, left, who was the Guest of Honor at at Retirement Party which took place last Sunday at "Celebrations on Tower."  From all accounts, and despite the fact that Berit "had not been crazy about the idea of a party," "the place was mobbed from start to finish!"

Berit had been the FNP in Dr. Francis Chabot's office for twenty-one years and had been both medical advisor and friend to hundreds of patients, many of whom gathered on Sunday to tell her "Thank You" and "Goodbye!"

Best Wishes, Berit!!

(Thank you, Oney!)

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HAPPENING TODAY

At The Library

"Once Upon a Time in Waterville"

The Old-timers' story swap" at 1:15

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At the Market this week:

"LOCAL" (Mosher's) SWEET CORN, RASPBERRIES, BLACK RASPBERRIES and SUMMER SQUASH

and of course the great produce and products ...from
-Happy pastures (meat)
-Kids market (produce, flowers & baked goods)...
-Stoltzfus products (cheese, yogurt & milk)
-North Star Orchards (berries, apples, potatoes, tomatoes)
-Sugar Top Farm (local maple syrup)
-Ma Ma Rella’s Italian Marinara Sauce
-Candy Confections
-Promise Land Farms (meat & bbq)
-Heidelberg Bakery (Bread)

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"Glitter & Flower Bracelets" at 3:30pm

Ages 6-10 | Sign Up

Come to the library to make a glitter bracelet and a flower bracelet!

Sign up by calling 841-4651 or stop into the library.

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Planning Ahead

'Kids' Movie on Monday at 11:00

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ELSEWHERE

On Saturday

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SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY

"Saturday Night Stargazing"

The Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society (MVAS) will be hosting star gazing on Sat July 19th from dusk to Midnight at the New Hartford Sherrill Brook Park on the basket ball courts.

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N.B.  There will also be a 

Public Star Gazing Event from 

8:30pm – 11:00pm 

on Saturday, July 26, 

at the Waterville Public Library & Barton-Brown Observatory on White Street. 

All stargazing events are free, are open to all ages, begin at dusk and are weather permitting. You do not need to be a library patron to attend 

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

from Matt Patterson - Waterville Football Coordinator

  2014 Season

The Time is Now To Register!!!

Waterville Pop Warner

Football & Cheerleading Registration

Wednesday; July 30^th

(5:30 – 7pm)

Thursday; July 31^st (meet & greet @6 pm)

(5:30 – 7 pm)

@ Waterville HS Football Field

Football & Cheerleading Registration Fees:

Flag Football & Cheer:    $60.00 per player

Tackle Levels (including Cheer) - $70.00 per player

*ALL YOUTH AGES 5 years to 13 years of age are welcome to participate*

(Per National Pop Warner & Tri Valley Guidelines)

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Out & Around

All of our Summer Wildflowers seem to be blooming at the same time .....

.....  including "Bouncing Bet" (or "Soapwort") which was brought to this country by early settlers who used it to make "suds" for washing and, also, to put a "head" on beer!

 Another "alien" species is Purple Loosestrife, admired for its color but disdained for it's overly aggressive behavior in taking over wet areas,  driving out other plants, and using more than its share of water.

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Along with traditional Fireworks, many in this area were treated to a brilliant Double Rainbow in the evening on the Fourth of July.

My thanks to Donna Wicks for the use of this photograph which shows something that I had never noticed, before --- but which many more-observant people than I had apparently spent years studying --- the colors in the  fainter, secondary rainbow are always inverted or reversed.

You can read more about that phenomenon, HERE.

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Have a great weekend, everyone!