Monday morning update

It's Garbage Day.
50 degrees at 6:30 a.m. and overnight rain has ended.

The YNN Weather Forecast as of very early Monday: 

"Monday morning will start mild, but look for temperatures to tumble into the 30s by the late afternoon. Lake effect rain/snow showers will be possible by early Monday evening. Look for lake effect snow showers east of Lake Ontario Monday night.
Lake snow showers will shift southeast of the lake Tuesday morning, before coming to an end during the afternoon. Tuesday afternoon will be semi bright, but breezy and cold with highs not getting out of the 30s."

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Paul A. Bridge, Sr.

1940 - 2013

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Here & There

Saturday was a perfect day for being outdoors, and Jim and Connie, on Elmwood Avenue, used the day decorate their home ....

..... and someone hung garlands and bows on the Fire House.

Sunday afternoon was a different story, however. The plastic covering on the new masonry at St. Bernard's billowed like a ship's sails .....

 ...  and the folks from the China Cafe had all they could do to anchor strings of Christmas "icicle" lights above the windows and door.

Out in Hanover, one field of corn blew in the wind ....

...... while that in another location had been harvested and baled.

(Is this a common practice? I don't think I'd seen bales of corn, before.)

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Searching for more likely photo images , I drove along Camp Road to "Bird Land" where I found a wonderful treat: a pair of very vocal black-beaked "Trumpeter" Swans and their cygnet.  

In other parts of the Bird Land pond there were three or four more swans and several dozen exotic waterfowl of various sorts ...

... plus some Alpaca which, apparently, had all decided that they were thirsty at the same time.

If you aren't familiar with Bird Land, here's how to find it:
Camp Road is 4.15 miles west of Sangerfield on Route 20 and
Bird Land is just about half a mile North of Route 20.

(Click to enlarge the image.)

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IN THE MAIL

From Library Director Jeff Reynolds:  this spectacular image of the Triangulum Galaxy photographed by Don Yacco and Jim Dulak of the Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society earlier in November at the Barton-Brown Observatory.  (Click the image for full view!)

Plus.....   this Announcement!

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From Vincent Elacqua at WCS re: Prize Speaking:

"Last Thursday night, eleven students competed in three different categories in the 140^th Annual Prize Speaking Contest in our school’s auditorium. .

In the category Drama, Kenna Williams won third prize for her rendition of a piece called “Grandpa’s Hands” by RdFahey. In second place, Anders Larson performed Shel Silverstein’s “A Boy Named Sue”, and Zac Brown  won first prize for his performance of  an excerpt from Hamlet by Shakespeare.

In the category of comedic monologues, fifth prize  went to Jessica Scoones who played the role of Cinderella’s stepsister in “The Step-sister Gets Her Way by Chris Wind." The  fourth prize went to Anna Rae Martin who performed “I’m Telling You for the Last Time” by Jerry Seinfeld. Mary Lourdes Erlichman won third prize with “the Yoga Fart” and “I’m Starving,” pieces by Gabriel Davis and John Pinette. Second prize went to Kaelee Cleary for her “revenge” monologue written by Bill Cosby,  and first prize went to Chloe Keating for her rendition of “Thank You for Stopping” by Jack Handy.

In the category of  Poetry, third place went to Kaitlyn Roys who did “Totally, Like, Whatever, You Know? By Taylor Mali. Second place went to Emily Belouin who performed a very creative medley of two Lewis Carroll poems, “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and First prize went to Cassie Perrin for her rendition of “If” and “The Type,” poems ny Rudyard Kipling and Sarah Kay ”

Musical selections by Jared Wentrick were appreciated by all.

The performers and advisors extend their thanks to the student council for providing refreshments and to the many students who helped out with ushering and prompting, lighting and sound. Keith Eisenhut, Kristen Strohmeyer, and Jessica Lotyczewski were the judges. Thanks too to all involved in making it a very enjoyable evening."

(Thank you!)

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From Lawrence Gilley:

"The Outreach Committees of Deansboro Congregational UCC 

and Three Steeples United Church 

invite the community to join us 

at the Waterville Public Library 

on Tuesday, November 19 at 7.00 PM 

for a screening and discussion of the film 'A Place at the Table'."

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Monday's Events

Village Board Meeting at 7:00 p.m.

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At the Library

LEGO Mania at 3:00

"Do you want to get together with LEGO-minded people to build great things? All you need to bring is your creativity and natural engineering ability; we will have the building blocks for your next great creation. We'll display all creations in the Children's Room for the week. 

The last Monday of every month we'll have a "Tallest Tower Competition" at 4pm! The winner will get his or her name on a trophy in the library!"

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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More when it happens.

Have a great day!