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July 7, 2010
Webster Jazz Fest and the Tastes of the Village launch the entertainment season
The Village events this summer could very well read like a weather forecast- HOT! So, be cool and come to the village this Saturday when jazz will be in the air and the tastes of the village will be spotlighted. An eager Village Board and an enthusiastic Business Improvement District (BID) with the support of great sponsors are behind the events happening in the heart of Webster.
The lists of events are endless. For starters, picture Main Street once again being transformed into an outdoor starry night café. It only happens once a year. This is truly THE event of the summer and it will take place this Saturday, July 10, starting at 6 p.m. Two stages – seven restaurants participating, three pubs, and great jazz groups. Hard Logic will play from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; the Mambo Kings from 7:30 to 9 pm, and Paradigm Shift from 9 until…well, they stop.
Presented by M&T Bank, you are invited to listen to the best jazz from the Rochester area, while sampling delicious foods. Listening and entertainment continues on Main Street until 10 pm when Paradigm Shift moves into Hatter’s Pub - to keep the music flowing and the good times goin’.
More on the Village events
Direct your feet; meet and greet your neighbors at the Concerts in the Park on Friday nights.
Great bands have been lined up through the month of July at the Veterans Memorial Park starting with the Mark Cassara Band on July 9 starting at 7 p.m. Check the Business Improvement District’s website for a complete listing. www.websterbid.com. Each and every Tuesday evening the Eggman Acoustic entertains at Hatters Pub…so consider yourself invited to that party too.
Movies in the Park:
Bring a lawn chair, a cooler and the kids and get comfy on Tuesday evenings at dusk at the Veterans Memorial Park Gazebo on Route 250, north of Main Street in the village.
This year’s series starts with Jackie Chan’s, “The Spy Next Door” on Tuesday, July 13.
If you like a late picnic bring it …the ants will be grateful. The village supplies the popcorn.
For more information always check either the village website at villageofwebster.com or the Webster Bid website at websterbid.com.
Village Band Concerts
Every Thursday evening starting at 7 p.m. there will be music in the air as the Village Band performs for your enjoyment at the Band Shell at Harmony Park on Phillips Road.
Bring the kids and grandma- it is for everyone.
Info on Firemen’s Carnival
Also, always, like night follows day, like sun follows rain, July brings the Webster Volunteer Firemen’s Carnival on July 14, 15, 16, and 17.
The Kiddie Parade, (an old and fun tradition) will be held on July 14. Children may register at Spry Middle School at 6 p.m.
Making a Difference
This week we should and will recognize someone who is making a difference in the village. Marty Kaptein, the new owner of the corner building (Heart to Heart Bridal and The Art Stop) in the northwest quadrant is making beautiful changes. He is seen there often - high on a ladder, paint brush in hand and making great strides in little ways.
He has proved beyond a doubt that:
A hammer and a nail and a can of paint,
Makes a place look new that ain’t.
He said that next year he will complete his makeover.
A Pat on the Back
It isn’t what you know…it’s who you know.
It is true, always has been true.
Knowing Jeff from Jeff’s Computers in the village (Four Corners) has saved my life again. Okay, do I exaggerate? Maybe a little – a dot – but he has always come to my rescue. Who knows where I would be without him…probably jobless to say the least.
So consider this a thank-you to Jeff and if you are smart you will call him if you need a computer problem solved.
More about the Garden Tour July 24
We have a wonderful assortment of serious and not-so-serious gardeners involved in this years garden tour to be held on Saturday, July 24, from 1 to 4 p.m. to benefit the Webster Museum and Historical Preservation Commission.
One of the things I enjoy the most about covering these gardens for Village Focus is meeting and visiting with the gardeners.
I smiled all the way home after visiting 37 Park Avenue, remembering how I enjoyed meeting Tom Foster and Elizabeth Li. I loved their passion for gardening – their humor and humility. I also appreciated their honesty. They call it an economy garden as they love a bargain almost as much as their plants. ”Everything we bought on sale, (even Craig’s List) or at an auction, or from another gardener,” Tom said.
However there is nothing bargain basement or second rate about this wonderfully cozy fenced back yard. Both Elizabeth and Tom have a distinct flair but Tom’s experience as an art teacher, along with a home deign/staging business gives him a definite edge. The whole package – including the picket fence, forms the backdrop for the gardens which incorporates a variety of colorful blooms, including cone flowers, peonies, daisies, black eyed Susan’s, hostas, ferns, grasses, coreopsis, lamb’s ear, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, magenta loose strife and more including …”flowers we don’t know the name of,” they laugh.
The stories that you will enjoy while visiting this garden are almost equal to the flowers themselves. Many of the accounts will pertain to amount of rocks and fossils that are incorporated in the garden design and how the came to acquire them.
Scores of them were collected from travels across the country – ( weighing their car down, practically to the ground) Quite a few rocks came while visiting the Crazy Horse Monument that is being built in he Black Hills of South Dakota as a tribute to Oglala Lakota Indian warrior on ground deemed sacred by Native Americans.
Although this yard was a blank slate when they moved in three years ago, Tom and Elizabeth want to be known as “trial and error gardeners” and quite miraculously then, they have created a tranquil space to relax and spend time with friends
Next garden - Keith and Amelia Rickard
Keith, Amelia Rickard and their three children moved to the Webster village in March 2010. Their home was built in 1916. They are learning what plants they have and how to care for them. The large front porch is flanked with two Japanese fringe maples. The back yard features a beautiful stonescape patio A pergola with wisteria opens out to the back yard and the childrens’ play area. The stonescape features raised beds with perennials. They are just learning the names of the plants. Some of these are hostas, climbing hydrangea, black-eyed Susans, coral bells, hollyhocks, roses, clematis and lilies.
Look Familiar?
If you happened to leaf through the July issue of the Oprah magazine you will find a local connection. There is a story written by Syracuse University Professor Mark Obbie , who just happens to be the son of Pat Obbie and the late Joe Obbie for whom the Farmer’s Market was named. Mark Obbie has been a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, focusing on lawyers, courts, crime, and business news. He teaches magazine editing (basic and advanced) and magazine management. He has also taught news reporting and writing, media law, and a law/politics/media course. He founded and previously directed the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at Newhouse.
Starting in the fall he will be on leave from the University to write a book on the case that profiles the case of Timothy Ginocchetti, who killed his mother in 2006, and focuses on Ginocchetti’s grandmother, Esther Rufo. Rufo, the article says, stood by Ginocchetti after he killed her daughter. She still visits him regularly, the article says, and plans on being there when he is scheduled to be released from prison in nine years, six months before she turns 80.
We’ll keep you posted.
GIVE ME A “W”
It was fun listening to WARM 101.3 last week when Barry Howard of the Webster Chamber of Commerce and radio host Tony Infantino were trying to raise funds to replace the “W” on the Webster sign as you cross the Rt. 104 Bridge.
They did great as many, many of you know. Kind residents came by with checks and it appears that thanks to the generosity of Thomas Florists and WARM 101.3, we can expect to see a new exciting welcome on the hill.
My personal favorite quote came from the Red Hot Dish who said, “How can life be worth living when our bushes are vandalized?”
Founders Day at the Museum –Gratifying
History is recorded in various ways. Word of mouth, books, diaries, pictures, newspapers, (even folklore -or God-forbid, gossip) however, we in Webster enjoy a wonderful resource that many towns do not possess. That is, a museum …a special place where history is recorded – where we can visit the past and where school children and adults can see and learn about their town’s beginnings and compare it with their life today.
It wasn’t always here. But recently those who had a part in the conception and birth of the museum were honored and they toasted themselves (as they should!), and those who have gone before them. (Who have attained the distinction of being part of Webster’s history.)
“It appears that the idea of a Museum of Webster’s History germinated prior to the formation of the Bicentennial Committee, Carol Saylor said.
The Bicentennial Committee appointed by the Webster Town Board at the time provided the structure that made the implementation of the idea possible, Carol said.
The meetings of the Webster Bicentennial Committee began in 1974. The Museum opened its door in a wing of the Webster Town Hall on May 2, 1976.
Many people hiked along the trails of the past, they tried to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and to give us an idea of what life was like in Webster years ago.
“Listening to memories of those who were around at that time and participated in the early activities of the Museum we hear the names of Dick Batzing, Lois Bircher, Tessa Martin and the Webster Historical Society all working toward a Museum for Webster”, Carol Saylor said.
“Then as now the Webster Museum and Historical Society is and was an organization of persons who maintain and share Webster’s History from the time of Mammoths and Hunter/Gatherers, thru its development as a farming community, thru the growing years of small business and a multi-national corporation, and then evolving into a vibrant suburban community. It is a story that has occurred all over the world. It provides an opportunity to explore and to reflect upon the development of a “community”, she said.
And so we honor those founders, hoping that we are not missing anyone: Nancy Theis, Thelma Vander Mallie, Ruth Batzing, Doug Lundy, Carol Martin, Helen Miller, Robert and Kay Holtz ,Rick Leisenring, James Barringer Pam Bleir Tessa Martin, Ann Schneider, Bob and Irene Bauerschmidt , John Clements, Wanda and Bill Partridge, Mary Grace and Jack Thomas; Lorraine Burr, John and Mildred Palmer, Esther Dunn, Ruth Langdon, Thelma Van Alystyne, Glenn Dayton, Erva Wright, Ralph Bircher, George Curtice, Roberta Dayton, Ken Quinby, Herb Schroeder, John Thomas and Marion Witmer.
We thank-you for your contribution and interest. And now let’s toast the future!!
Blood drive at Webster Masonic Temple
Pete Bowers wants to remind us that the greatest wealth is health so please be grateful and support the American Red Cross Blood Drive on Saturday, July 10, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Webster Masonic Temple on Orchard Street in the village.
Appointments are NOT necessary.
I have found that in about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. Besides every donation receives a coupon for Friendly's Ice Cream.
June 23, 2010
If you were to name the most important, most memorable days in your life, I would wager, they will revolve around family – and that pretty much starts and ends with your wedding.
It was all about Weddings at “Wellness on Wednesdays” last week at the Immanuel Lutheran Church on Main Street in the village. Each week an interesting line up of activities is presented as a part of a community outreach program that involves health screenings, low impact exercise, a great lunch (which I watched being prepared) a terrific program but mostly tons of fun, laughs, and fellowship.
Possibly because it was June, the month of brides – the topic was weddings. The speakers were the guests, the display was made up of wedding pictures, and the stories that were told were…well, priceless.
When I say everything revolved around weddings, I mean it. Exercising, led by Bonnie Slack, (doing the “Hand Jive”) to “Goin’ to the Chapel and We’re Goin’ to get Married” and ankle exercises to the classical Pachelbel Canon in B Major (often used in weddings) gives you a little idea of how “into the marriage bit” everybody was.
It wasn’t the perfect June day. It rained cats and dogs just as I left home but the hospitality I found inside was as good as the sunshine.
I was welcomed by Pat Fritsch, whom I remembered from nursery school on the other side of town at St. Martin Lutheran Church about 28 years ago “Hearty people are here today,” she said, meaning not too many wanted to brave the rain, however I thought it was a really good-size crowd.
Spirited fun people have found this little social niche the perfect place to spend one morning a week. It is the church’s outreach to the community, explained Karen Ross.
Volunteer nurse Laura Geckle was on hand to check blood pressure and answer concerns residents may have about their health.
It appeared that Robert Browning was right when he wrote, “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.”
First off I noticed that most of the people there had been married a long time.
Two love birds, Marian and Dick Campbell who celebrated 57 years of connubial bliss had their wedding picture on display. Marian commented on Dick’s dimples and Dick bragged a bit…”I can still do what I did fifty years ago,” he said, adding, three little words…”in my head.”
Although Kay Kennedy lost her husband Don 15 years ago the memories linger on. She remembered their third anniversary. They celebrated at Hedges. “We promised each other we would give little tiny gifts…and that’s all.” She said. Well, Don gave her a diamond ring, and when she carried on…he explained that it was a tiny diamond. It was a wonderful memory now for Kay.
Displayed was a wedding picture of long time church members, William Edward and Arlene Alma Schutt Wackerow who were married in the Webster Lutheran Church on Feb. 13, 1943 …if I can add and subtract that looks like 67 years ago….and that merits mention.
Barb and Lucius Hall were married in Palmyra 57 years ago and Karen (a June bride) and Gary Ross eloped ten years earlier in Raleigh, N.C.
Many more stories were told and probably a favorite was told by Marian Campbell who related an incident at Lynn and Dave Reville’s wedding. Seems the bride was standing just a tad too close to a candelabra and her veil started on fire. “She was a flaming bride!” Marian said.
Stories about bargain wedding gowns, and snow that put a white damper on Nancy Witmer’s wedding, a bride and groom without a pastor to marry them and a fire behind the church …were revisited and enjoyed. They were all entertaining stories of marriages that have passed the test of time…and keep on running.
Missing a lot of the fun were the dedicated cooks Karen White, Marguerite Manning (who also starred as the pianist) and Marge Ovens – they were making an Okoboji Chicken Casserole with a strawberry Caesar salad and strawberry pie. Ummm, ummm good.
On July 7 the program will be given by attorney, John Witmeyer on everything you may want to know about wills; the 14th, Joan Panepinto will present a program on nutrition for seniors and on July 21 all are invited to bring an antique to share and talk about. Lyn Kraus will be the leader.
Remember this is open to everybody…it is fun and you are invited.
Two back yard gardens just a nice walk away will be featured on the July garden tour
Maryjean and Jack Yengo
It will be forty years in December that Maryjean and Jack Yengo moved into their landmark Colonial Revival home on Park Avenue, Webster. If the late Fred and Eliza Keller could return they would recognize their home immediately. The cast concrete block construction, the pocket doors, the beamed ceilings in the dining room and the pressed metal ceilings. They would love the family room addition and would most likely be in awe of the back yard gardens – something the women and men of decades ago, had little time for.
The gardens act as an addition to their home. A small paved patio surrounded by blooms and perfectly appointed potted flowers along with an old crabapple tree is the perfect setting for morning coffee or a visit with friends.
Across the back of the house a thick – my kind of cottage garden features yellow loose strife, Clematis vines , a couple of Mandeville and clematis on trellises …
Let it be known that clematis is plentiful in the Yengo garden – it is also Maryjean’s favorite garden flower.
Although Maryjean is the primary gardener, tucked here and there are Jack’s projects. The most impressive of Jack’s endeavors, I found to be a grapefruit tree - thriving in a pot by the garage – “She started it from seed,” Maryjean said. After writing about gardens for four years this is a first …however Maryjean is quick to point out that it hasn’t born a grapefruit YET. (I am inclined to hang one from it)
Jack also has found, discovered or made unique pieces of garden art, trellises and bird houses. One of my favorite is a little plaque tucked on an old picket fence along the east side of the house, amidst a mixture of flowery vines. It says, “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
The back of the yard is a work in progress as a shade garden is beginning to take shape.
A little garden path behind the neighbors garage, and voila! Maryjean and Jack are transported in seconds to their daughter’s Kelly Van Appledorne's on Gordon Park.
Pam and John Stuart
A hop, skip and a jump away from Yengo’s is the Stuart home and gardens at 26 Fuller Avenue…
The entrance to Pam Stuart’s Fuller Avenue home is welcoming – the paving blocks leading to the front door, the surrounding flower garden, the landscaping …so artistically arranged with ornamental shrubs, ceramic mushrooms, stone walls, a flag pole and flowers…beautiful blooms for every season. She refers to her style as “English”.
For someone who was never a gardener she caught the bug shortly after she and John moved into their 1922 home in 1979. John had some useable knowledge from a past life working for a landscaper and thanks to that, their lawn has prospered.
For Pam, it was a rose garden that came with the house that got her started. Then it was her next door neighbors, the late Beth and Vic Marra who little by little encouraged her - helped her by giving her their overflow and advice. It began by “Trial and Error,” Pam said. Then she started leafing through magazines and books. Now she seems to have developed an addiction…but it is a good one, as we gardeners know.
“I always liked flowers,” she said. She admits she loves to pick them and plop them into a vase. She likes flowers on her desk at work…now she appears to like flowers everywhere – as gardens overflow in her back yard.
The peonies, rhododendron and azaleas will be past their prime, as will many of the spring and early summer flowers. Gardeners know that this has been an unusual growing season but you can count on seeing the ferns, astilbe, hostas, lobelia, snapdragons, zinnias, orange poppies, geraniums, planters full of impatiens, and wonderful hydrangeas from Beth Marra’s garden, a mystery flower from a friend in Irondequoit, Russian sage and roses, roses, roses.
She has blooms from friends like Marian Chard across the street, upside –down tomato and pepper plants from Audrey Deane, the Tomato Queen. Granted she has a green thumb but she also has a pretty neat son who shows up every year from Houston for Mother’s Day with mulch and muscle. “It’s his gift”, she says.
I think the fact that she planted hibiscuses from seed from her dad’s garden in St. Louis and that they thrive is amazing and proof that she is indeed a homegrown gardener.
Go online for village board meetings
Mayor Peter Elder, hopes to make village government more accessible and accountable according to his last column in the newspapers and on the village website. (www.villageofwebster.com) “Residents need to know what their government is doing and the more residents that know, the better.
And so if you cannot attend or tune in to Cable 12 for a village board meeting on the second and fourth Thursday of the month you will be able to access the meetings online, anytime. Check out the village website. There is nothing that you cannot find there pertaining to the village.
Memorial Tribute Sunday for Mike Smith
In April the community lost a lifetime village member, beloved friend and amazing volunteer, (and so much more) in Mike Smith. A memorial tribute will take place this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Firemen’s Exempt on Sanford Street in the village. All are invited to join his family and friends as they try to honor his memory and acknowledge his life and good works
With Sympathy
There was a line in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that has always been tucked in my head with other trivial little sayings. This one rings true now. It is: “When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.”
I guess what we are trying to say ( for everyone) is that we are saddened by the death on June 9, 2010 of Lib Judge and extend our deepest sympathy to our former Mayor Jack Judge and his wonderful family
Things will be great when you’re downtown Webster Village this summer
In an effort to bring people to downtown Webster Village many are working to transform the downtown business district into a destination for summer fun and entertainment.
Much is going on thanks to the Webster Business improvement District and those wonderful people they call sponsors and advertisers.
Concerts on Fridays nights, movies on Tuesday evenings all add to the fun happening in the village.
So mark your calendar for this Friday when The Business Improvement District will be holding a chicken barbeque from 5:30 to 7:30 in the northwest quadrant (otherwise known as the entertainment district) by the Veterans Memorial Park to add to your enjoyment - a concert will begin in the Gazebo at 7 p.m. starring Soul on Tap.
The 2010 Jazz Festival and Tastes of the Village is slated for July 10. DON'T MISS IT!
Movies start July 13th with the new Jackie Chan comedy / adventure film " The Spy Next Door" so get ready …things will be great when your downtown…Webster Village.
June 9, 2010
Say yes to THIS dress at the newest Bridal Shoppe in the village
Oh my! How I wished I was planning a wedding again.
Although wedding planning is in my past, I can direct all Brides-to-be, mothers of the brides and bridegrooms, bridesmaids and flower girls to stop by Four Corners in the village and meet Sarah Berkley. She may be your key to a “fashionable “wedding.
Young and pretty Sarah, a six year employee of Heart to Heart Bridal in Manchester, N.Y., is the manager of Heart To Heart’s second shop. And it is smack dab in the heart of Webster Village. This is truly the newest and whitest – brightest new shop I’ve seen in a while. It will be known as Heart to Heart Bridal North.
Everything romantic, everything girly …shoes, beautiful veils of illusion, head pieces, and hand designed artisan jewelry by Carol Ann Bosek to compliment every Gown, dress, neckline, ear or wrist can be found here.
Nosy me… skimmed through a rack of Mikaella gowns, all silk and absolutely beautiful.
I found my favorite – “I just sold that gown yesterday,” Sarah said. Good! - Not being in the market for a wedding gown anyway, there will always be that fascination –
There are a lot of things that Sarah can help you with when deciding on dress.
She will help you choose a gown that actually looks good on you.
There are points to consider when choosing a gown…one is where you are getting married, when and how much money you are willing to spend. Remember there is a gown for every pocketbook, every body shape and every season.
Janice Burkhart founded the bridal boutique in 2003 in Manchester with the intention of creating an enjoyable and successful shopping experience for brides.
Sarah and Janice expect clients to come in and stay a while- find something they love and never settle until it is the right gown.
Sarah tells of the time she interviewed for a position in New York City in one of those high-fallutin bridal shoppes. “I would have been expected to sell a gown in an hour,” she said. It was all about sales- not at all the way Sarah operates. She is there to help.
A major aspect of getting the bridal gown of your dreams is having it fit properly. Unlike many other bridal boutiques, all wedding gowns are altered free of charge by Janice at the Manchester store.
What’s in fashion for brides and attendants? Answer: Strapless, tea- length and teal.
First you find the right guy…then you find the right dress…then you live happily ever after, right?
A double treat of a garden on Southwick Drive
Maryjean Yengo is the leader. I am a follower. I follow the leader around the village peering into the lives and the gardens of people who plant everything from the simplest daisy to the most plush – profusely showy rose arbor.
Maryjean is the organizer of the annual Village Garden Tour that benefits the Webster Museum Historical Preservation Society.
Most important to this tour are those who welcome all of you to their gardens. They are to be applauded because they work very hard to make their yards perfect for you, the viewers.
Always the love for the garden and the earth is evident. Such was the case when we visited a double garden…the first of its kind, to my knowledge.
In fact this is not just a story about gardens. It is a story about friendship,
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Dara Smith and Rebecca Weston are next door neighbors who live on Southwick Drive. They share everything – from plants to ideas. Then, like many of us, they turn to their husbands to implement their dreams with their carpentry skills.
This particular summer we might refer to Rebecca as an absentee gardener. Although her fingerprints are all over her back yard, she has been spending much of her time in NYC. Rebecca practiced law in Massachusetts and currently concentrating on passing the N.Y. State Bar exam. Her classes unfortunately took her to the Big Apple so she left her lovely gardens to the loving and capable hands of her good friend, Dara.
Dara, an accountant – keeps all things neat and legible, like her books. She said that she spends pretty much every week-end in the two yards, weeding and trimming, planting and pruning and it shows - as nary a weed can be seen.
The two friends have focused much of their attention to the far back of their yards …where you would least expect to see an adjoining white latticed deck nestled in the pine trees. Back there they live large in a small space – away from the maddening crowd. They enjoy a late dinner or a glass of wine there in comfortable chairs, along with good conversation. Back in this corner of their yards, amid the plants, they can hear the birds chirping and the waterfall from a neighbor’s garden on Katherine Court. . Life seems perfect as the sun goes down. This area is surrounded by hostas and perennials that bloom throughout the summer months.
The two cannot claim any old flowers from Grandmas garden because the entire setting started only five years ago when Dara and her husband Donald (“the carpenter, lugger and laborer) first moved here from Greece, N.Y. In Greece the couple lived in an apartment so “this is a whole new adventure,” she said.
Then the Westons moved in. Since then the two gals have been like the double mint twins…doubling their pleasure and fun in the sun in their gardens or gazebos – in the dirt. A number of gardens dot their landscape and surround the houses. Probably the most prevalent flower is the old stand-by hosta yet between the two homes you will find almost every perennial known to this part of the state.
Morning glories, hydrangeas, summer spirea, black-eyed Susans, sedum, Shasta daisies, chives, cushion spurge, green envy cone flowers and double-decker cone flowers, perennial geraniums, even rhubarb,
Rebecca is a lover of roses and peonies and her gardens are dominated by many of these. She also has small stepping stones throughout her gardens and has artistically painted the name of the flower on each. She also made lovely stepping stones in the shape of leaves
Dora will go “wherever” for a flower - “I am a tramp – I will go anywhere for plants,” she said. She has visited the garden tour in the past and picked up on a few ideas, she said. In particular she found a fascinating way to trim an arborvitae hedge that she incorporated in her back yard.
It’s a fact: flowers make people happy- so do yourself a favor – pin a flower to your clothes, give a treat to your nose and mark July 24 on your calendar and visit this year’s village gardens.
You’re a poet - your feet show it…they’re Longfellows.
Ah ha! So you love reading or writing poetry….
You are probably someone who would enjoy the relaxed atmosphere – at the monthly poetry readings at Yesterdays Muse, the charming little book store at 32 West Main Street in the village…that fills your need to read.
The shop showcases a new poet on the last Friday of every month.
Past readings have been varied… many different types of poetry have been read – some spoken with bass guitar, accordion, singing, and much more!
For more information stop by and see Jonathon Smalter.
Attention Artists and Crafters
This is your time to shine – to show off –to open that window of opportunity - to sell your art or craft. Village Days are scheduled for Aug. 14. To sign up to set up a booth applications are available on the Business Improvement District’s website at www.websterbid.com. Or call Tom Spoonhower at Metro Sports at 585- 872-3843.
Grand Opening 2010 Farmer’s Market
Another opening of another market will take place this Saturday, June 12 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony marking a new beginning for the Webster Farmer’s Market. Vendors and shoppers will celebrate the return to the original location behind the Baptist Church. Special entertainment will be provided by the Rochester Rhapsody, an a cappella chorus comprised of 26 members…one amazing award-winning group.
What else? Of course! There will be more homegrown, home spun, home baked, home-made goodies, for every hometown girl or boy. (Sorry- no home brew – unless it’s coffee) Kids’ will get a free balloon.
Webster Museum Barn sale
There are many ways to recycle and the Webster Museum people know how to do it. There annual barn sale will be held on the Historic property of the Naujaukis’s at 394 Phillips Road June 10, 11, 12 from 9 to 4 p.m.
Jan said that the tents and carriage house is full with antiques, vintage items, collections, comics, records, Barbie’s, Gund Bears, pottery, children’s books, and toys.
Also…optional option…tours will be given of the home and gardens for $5. All money goes to the museum.
Fill Thursday nights with music
Nothing says “hometown” like a village band concert.
Support your village band by attending their opening concert this Thursday evening starting at 7 p.m. Bring your blanket, lawn chair, lemonade, your neighbors and the kids and kick back for a while to the songs you grew up with…a little bit of everything. For more information call Marcia at 872-4938.
Maplewood Planning a Blast from the Past
Maplewood Nursing and Rehabilitation is planning a 2nd annual street rod and classic car show at the facility on Daniel Drive in the village.
The Good Time Oldies club, from the local area, has agreed to sponsor this event featuring the display of
street rods as well as classic cars for residents and their families on Saturday, June 19, 2010.
The Maple Bay Café will be open for this event and music will be provided by Disc Jockey Duke of Earl.
Trivia contests and prizes will be awarded during the event. Join us as we stroll down memory lane and remember the good old days.
Cars will be displayed in the parking lot beginning at 2:00 PM and remain until 4:00 PM. Admission is free for both car owners and the public.
All are invited to view the cars and spend some time with the residents at the Maple Bay Café.
Volunteers Needed – Comfort Care Home
It’s the truth. Sometime you earn more doing the jobs that pay nothing. Ask those who volunteer at the Webster Comfort Care Home. It isn’t unusual for many people with families to take summers off from their volunteer jobs. The Comfort Care Home is finding it necessary to recruit some new caring individuals who are looking to improve their quality of life…YES!!!! If you are here to add to – not get from – life – this is where you consider spending some time.
Call Annie at the Webster Comfort care Home – 872-5290.
