At Home in the Huddle 2013

It's Green Waste Collection Day.

32.7 degrees with blue sky and sunshine at 7:00 a.m.

The WKTV Weather Forecast: "High pressure remains in effect for today with sunshine and highs near 60.  A few high clouds east of Utica.  Clouds increase tonight as a cold front approaches from the west.  Overnight lows near 40.

Clouds with a period of rain on Wednesday.  Highs in the lower 60s.  Cooler, sunny weather returns on Thursday, with highs in the 50s.  A round of rain showers Thursday night into Friday.  

Sunshine in abundance on Friday and Saturday."

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IN THE MAIL

- from Lisa Flaherty:   Happy Earth Day!!  
The Oriskany Falls Rotary Club participates in a Highway Cleanup Project every year just in time for Earth Day. We always cleanup the stretch of road in Oriskany Falls starting at the Firehouse and work our way to Route 20. The fire department is there slowing down traffic and there are adult volunteers to help drive and pick up garbage and sometimes volunteers! This year it will be held on Wednesday, April 24th at 6pm - we will have a pizza party at the firehouse after to show appreciation to our volunteers-WE DESPERATELY NEED VOLUNTEERS...CAN YOU HELP? :-)

-from Vicki Sabol:  "I want to give you the Food Pantry statistics on March.   While we were down a little in February, we were back up to:

•  44 households in March, which reflects 
• 26 children, 
• 65 adults,  
• 21 seniors 

• for a total of 112 individuals and 1680 meals.

We give out a package of 3 meals a day for 5 days. 

"While we are pretty well stocked now, we never can become complacent, so we are looking forward to the Post Office Food Drive on Saturday, May 11, when the postal carriers will pick up any foodstuffs left by your mailbox. As a reminder, we are open on Mondays from 3 to 4:30 except for second Monday of the month or Federal holidays."

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YESTERDAY

Roadside showrooms on West Main Street......

............ and Fuess-Cleary Road.

Twice, in recent days, I've come across folks happily gathering wild leeks - some calling them "ramps," as their grandmothers did. They had their grandma's recipes for creamy, 
slightly onion-y, slightly garlic-y soup, too.

If you're not that fortunate but want to give it a good old-fashioned try, here is  the link for that great video in which two young experts show you exactly how to harvest wild leeks and then prepare potato-leek soup!

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What a difference a few sunny days make, and now winter rye is turning bright green.

Tractors of all sizes rule the fields ......

......... but you can see how dry the ground is by the clouds of dust that follow wherever they go.

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TODAY

WCS SPORTS

At the Library

Oscar Movie Night at 6:00 p.m.

Today's Feature

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Pajama Story Hour

 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Ages 3-8 | Sign Up

Come in your pj’s for a story and craft! 

This month we'll read books by Laura Numeroff!

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"Knit 2gether" at 7:00!

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Save the Date!

Jeff Reynolds has advised me that, due to conflicting activities, the date of the 
Formal Dedication of the Observatory 
has been moved from June 21 to 
Thursday, June 20,
the eve of the Summer Solstice.


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Enjoy the Sunshine
and have a great day!