Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!

It's 25.5 degrees.

There appears to have been only an inch or two of new accumulation overnight, but it's arranged in a parfait of snow, sleet, rain and some more snow!

Some schools are closed or on one- or two-hour delays, but Waterville is NOT on the list.

There is a Winter Weather Advisory

"A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON.

A MIX OF SNOW... SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS UPSTATE NEW YORK INCLUDING THE FINGER LAKES... MOHAWK VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TUG HILL PLATEAU THIS MORNING. MOST LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE NEW YORK THRUWAY WILL MAINLY SEE SNOW... ALTHOUGH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL MIX IN AT TIMES THIS MORNING. THE WINTERY MIX WILL TAPER TO PATCHY DRIZZLE BY LATE MORNING.

BY LATE MORNING WEDNESDAY... TOTAL SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. A LIGHT GLAZE OF ICE WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS... BEFORE TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING.

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Out and Around, Yesterday

I stopped on White Street to see how Kevin Nasypany's lighting project had turned out:

both front and side porches look great!


There are classic colors at the Ashforths' on East Bacon Street .....



.......... and an elegant entryway at the Plourde residence on Tower Street.


Out at Jack Prior's place - a Gingerbread House and Family!


An Annual Favorite: the super-sized mural at Nancy Eastman's about a mile south of Deansboro on Route 12B.

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Behind the Scenes

Donald Brown II, Dale Meszler and Vocal Music Director Jessica Daniluk talk set design at a meeting on Tuesday evening.

Three months from now the curtains in the WCS High school auditorium will open on "Hello Dolly!" and the audience will applaud - they always do! - but many will be applauding for what they see, right then, and what they hear, without giving much thought at all to what's been going on behind the scenes for nearly four months!

The cast has been announced; lines are being learned and now comes the technical part of the production --- the set design and construction and the dozens of specific lighting effects to be planned. I'm going to be following this process, NOT because the musical needs the publicity, but because there will be a great many people who will spend scores of hours but are never seen or heard on the stage (and sometimes never mentioned in the program or in press reviews!) who deserve our appreciation!

Will you be one of them?

There will be an

adult volunteer meeting

in the High School Vocal Music Room

Thursday night at 7:00 p.m.

for any members of the community who would be interested in helping with the High School spring musical.

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Jill Getman is doing a grand job keeping me updated on Library happenings:

"Monday was the drawing for our Ralph Murray Painting Raffle, and our winner was Debbie Jeff. She was quite lucky, happy, and surprised to win again this year (although the sheer number of tickets that she bought might have done it)! The library would like to congratulate her, and thank all of the people who bought tickets.

We also have our holiday movies this week. Thursday @ 6pm is "Christmas with the Cranks." And of course, they're free!

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Paul Fleischmann and his wife both have good memories - here's what they wrote in answer to yesterday's History Mystery:

"Jan's memory of an oil delivery company in Waterville back in the 50's to early 60's could have been P. N. Lewis Co. on Conger Ave. Lewis's had car sales, hardware items, and, we think, oil.
The other oil delivery company was Hazelden's 'Cherry Valley Oil', but that was on Route 20 and Osborne Ave."

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In my morning mail, from Don Hazard:

"More on the oil dealers...When I started driving a oil truck for GLF ( later Agway ) down below your house in 1955 I don't recall PN Lewis( Dick ) being in that business at that time. Al Hazelton's Cherry Valley oil was the only competition we had. "

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Also, these reminiscences from Gil Condon, entitled "Two Cents Worth:"

"Nice picture of the snow scene on Cleary Fuess Rd.......Bro Bern and meself used to work for EJ Manion , haying on the big field on the left , never any cold water to drink ...... we found a neat little springs down in that gully ....... I wouldn't trust the water quality today..... another cent....I remember the long white house next to the cemetery ,,,Earl Altmeyer and ?? lived there ...... then Earl built a new concrete block house down in the hollow, on the right . Earl was a concrete mason and always had a chew going, Red Man , I think. He got it at Betsy's for a nickel."

(And didn't Earl Altmire marry Margaret Greene, referred to a few days ago as running a candy store on East Main Street next to Alsheimer's "Modern Electric?")

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Ione Barney wrote to to add her memories to the topic of Miss Korbel:

"Miss Helen Korbel was my sixth grade teacher, I was teachers pet that year. Her sister Em Korbel was also my Sunday school teacher at the Waterville Baptist Church which we all attended...I spent many happy hours at their home on Sanger Ave. I was invited with my sister for dinners there and after we would gather around the piano which Em Korbel played and sing songs..these dear ladies were very kind and loving and I have never forgotten the wonderful hours I spent with them...or the wisdom they shared with me that forever became a part of my life..."

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Thanks for your input, everyone!

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I've done two Christmas cards, this year - one that's personal, which I'll "send" just before Christmas - and this scene, which I simply couldn't resist!

Click the image for an 8" x 10" copy.

If you want to send the image to somone by Email, include this URL as a hypertext link:

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just send me an Email!

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Drive carefully, and Have a Great Day!