Thursday

It's Garbage Day!

59.4 degrees no precipitation.

From WKTV: "A weak upper level disturbance will be travelling across the area in the morning. This system may be enough to fire up a few showers and thunderstorms through the day. Temperatures in the upper atmosphere will be slowly dropping all day, and as a result, any thunderstorm tomorrow could have some small hail. On Thursday night, the "motherload" of the cold air expected to move into the Northeast will begin to drop in. As this does so, it will be accompanied by another upper level disturbance. Believe it or not, the combination of these, along with northwest winds should be enough to generate lake effect rain showers late Thursday night and Friday morning! Most of that rain will be in or west of the Syracuse area, but some showers may affect western parts of our viewing area."

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Yesterday started out looking as if the skies would open, but - by noontime - the sun was shining and the Farmer's Market in the Park was in full swing. There, as is the case throughout the village, more and more bicycles appear.


Perhaps there should be more bike racks like this one, at the Library.


Whatever one's mode of transportation, you can't miss seeing all of the Garden Club's "tubs," overflowing with flowers! This one is next to the Fire House and there are about a dozen-and-a-half more along Main Street.


Garden Cllub member Shirley Kellogg always plants the 1906 Watering Trough in the Park. It's definitely flooded, now, with petunias and "Fountain grass."

Three of the vines in the new hop yard between the Historical Society and the Library are off to a good start.

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I had E-mail from Mr. John Brouillette (a.k.a. "Jack") yesterday morning alerting me to Snap Bean Picking on Brouillette Road. He told me to look for two yellow PIXALL bean harvesters "creeping along in the field."

There's one!

Yes - there are two.

I went online to see if I could learn just how these harvesters work: they strip the beans from the vine and then a fan blows away leaves and other field debris. I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but Jack was right: whatever they do, they do it very s-l-o-w-l-y!

Parked at the side of Brouillette road was a large truck, already loaded with mountains of beans. Jack had written, " The beans are transferred to a truck and rushed to Seneca Foods in Geneva, NY. To maintain their freshness, there are only a few hours between harvesting and processing."

Also on the road --- an opportunity!

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In Sangerfield, a "lattice" of red-blossomed ornamental Beans at Gorton's.

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Rotarians will have their eyes on the Blue - berries, that is -
as part of their annual preparations for operating the Food Tent at
the
MADISON-BOUCKVILLE ANTIQUE SHOW
on
AUGUST 15 - 16.

(Blueberry Pancakes - a specialty!)

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WEEKEND EVENTS

The Class of 1958 held their Senior Banquet at Dibbles Inn in Vernon, and that's where they'll be again, on Saturday night, at their Fiftieth Reunion! (Photos to follow, I hope!)

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Coming to Town:
Noted actor and star of such memorable stage productions as "The Music Man" and "Dirty Works at the Crossroads," David O'Dowd!

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Tomorrow morning /
Saturday evening Beijing time:

The 2008 OLYMPICS

NBC TV Coverage and Information.

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On Saturday Evening:

SouthGate Ministries will present
the
Mark Bolos Band
in a concert of Christian Rock music
in the Park on Saturday at 6:30.

The event is open to the public free of charge.

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At Glimmerglass Opera
Saturday: Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at 8:00 (limited avail.)
Sunday: SOLD OUT! Wagner's Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love)

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At Beck's Grove Dinner Theater
"The Last of the Red Hot Lovers"

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For the record: down two more.

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Have a Great Day, Everyone!