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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007 Winter Enfield Community Currents (2013_12_13 15_50_21 UTC) (2).pdf Enfield Community Currents T' Enfield Community Newsletter Winter 2007 FREE We've had a wonderful warm long autumn. I didn't have a Community Contacts frost until October 29-the latest I ever remember and it's The Town Board: getting so my memory covers more and mom years.Even Jean Owens, Town Supervisor 273-5682 with the extra month of warm weather,I still didn't get all David Bock, Deputy Supervisor 272-3669 my gardening done. I hope you did better with Jennifer Fisher, Councilperson 273-5352 our outdoor fall projects. Robert Harvey, Councilperson 277-7656 Y p j Peggy Hubbell, Councilperson 273-6470 Sandra Small, Councilperson 272-1855 The Harvest Festival was very successful with good Other Town officials: weather(except for light airplanes flying)and a wonderful Alice taus, Town Clerk 272-1690 crowd. Many,many volunteers made this a wonderful event Pat Dougherty, Ass't Town Clerk 272-75 James Varticchio, Justice 272-773735 for the community. special ecial thanks to Carol Givin for Tiffany Poole, Court Clerk 272-0807 chairing the event and to Jack Hubbell for his diligent work Betty Poole, Justice 272-0807 on the Silent Auction.The bar-be-quers were faultless. Dianne McFall, Court Clerk 272-7993 Thanks also to Wayne Snyder for last minute arras David Miller, Highway Supt. 387-9080 Yne Y gements Ron McFall, Dep. Hwy. Supt. 272-7993 to make the ping-pong balls fall from the roof of the school Ron Clark, Code Enf. Officer 277-0571 when Richie Neno couldn't take them up in the plane Sue Thompson, Town Historian 272-6412 Pat Podufalski, Bookeeper 277-0838 because of the wind. County Represenatives: The elections are over with man char cumin Greg Stevenson 273-2439 Y changes g up Jim Dennis 387-4058 locally. Now the darkness has set in but the holiday lights 27 to make things are keeping the early darkness at bay.As we enter this Enfield community Council: period of darkness,do lots of things n s brighter.Carolyn Tschanz, President 7-3960 g g Ann Rider, vice-President 277-3478 Take a day off in the middle of the week-the sun really does Karen Stevenson, Secretary 277-2333 shine in Enfield. Do some baking to make the wonderful Carol Givin, Treasurer 273-7434 push smell Ellen Cale, Editor 277-0175 p back the darkness. -eetanam22@hotmall.com Town Phone Numbers: And in this season of giving,remember the people in our Town Hall 273-8256 community who have less than we do. The Food Pantry can Highway Department 272-6490 always use extra help. Mary Cole, Parent Liaison at the Town Court 272-0363 Elementary School,has projects you can contribute to and Community Building 277-0266 remember-buy local. There's hundreds of locally produced Town Clerk Office Hours: products that we can exchange which does at least two Tues.: 8-11 am.; m pm things-give the receiver o and the producer an extra Wed.: 4-7 pm joy Thurs.: 2-5 pm penny.And maybe there will be snow for skiing after the holidays! —Ann Rider vo oa Youth Programs animals and plants that five around them, and learn other outdoor living skills. Participants will be This Fail: invited to optional overnight campouts. Enfield Autumn has been busy for the Enfield youth Elementary School, who have attended Enfield Community CounciPs Youth Programs—Monday Makers, Primitive Storytelling and Drama: Participants will work with Pursuits, and Video Visions, as well as elementary an Ithaca College Student and Beth Bannister to Programs—Primitive Pursuits and Rocket Building. create stories about families. Students will also Young people were also very active in preparing for ]earn improv and will perform at the end of the and helping at the Harvest Festival—making crafts program. Boynton Middle School to sell at the silent auction before the festival, and helping with set-up, games, activities, and clean up Winter Writing: Join Beth and other Ithaca area at the festival itself. Youth also volunteered at the writers for some creative writing, and publish your Enfield Science Night, and at the Enfield work in our Journal! Any and every style of writing Elementary Halloween Party. Youth from the is welcome, and we will learn about prose, poetry, Monday Makers group organized and planned a songwriting, and other styles. Boynton Middle Youth Event, and received a grant from Tompkins School County Youth Services for the event. Over 20 youth attended the event at Bowl-O-Drome to bowl and Have a Blast!: Come build your own model rocket, had the opportunity to meet some new people—and learn about rocket science and meet a real Rocket the planning group learned a lot about planning an Scientist, and then bring your family for a rocket event! blasting event! Check out upcoming Winter Programs: For Enfield High School Students: Enfield Youth and Families can contact me if you World of Work: This Program is for youth who would like more information on any of these future recently have, or would like to work in the Enfield programs. Most programs are free!! Youth Employment Program. Youth 14 and older will be trained to work at jobs in Enfield in the For 5th Graders at Enfield Elementary: Youth Programs as an assistant or at jobs in other Primitive Pursuits: an outdoor program where sites in Enfield. Youth will have opportunities to youth learn to build shelters from wood and snow, learn about and practice interviewing skills, how create nature crafts such as baskets, learn about the write resumes, and learn skills from the job in animals and plants that Eve around them, and learn which they work. Enfield youth have worked in the other outdoor living skills. Enfield youth programs, the Enfield Summer camp, gardening in the Enfield community, as well as in For Enfield Middle School Students: Ithaca at the Museum of the Earth and at the Monday Makers: This long standing program Sciencenter. features cooking, arts, crafts, gardening, and more. We have made stone mosaics, paper, jewelry, A brochure will be coming out in early January.Please let me baskets and hula-hoops. Come join us any or every know if you would like one and 1 will get it to you. e Monday.Enfield Community Building You can contact me with questions or comments at 272-2292 eat 229,or email at bab47Qeornell.edu , Primitive Pursuits: An outdoor program where our Also—You b will find more infmmatim and the pmgmm brochure on p gram page at www.cce.Cornell.edultompkinslrys/index.htm youth learn to build shelters from wood and snow, create nature crafts such as baskets,learn about the Beth Bannister From Enfield Elementary School person, to residents of a nursing home or senior facility. We all can hone our empathy skills. Enfield Elementary. School had a wonderful . I have also learned that there are people who start to the school year. The children are learning would enjoy learning more about our school and new and great academics and they are looking what goes on during the school day. In response to forward to the snow these questions, I have decided to design a "ROAD We have 10 new members in the student SHOW" for community gatherings, which will banking program. That brings it to a total of 20 more fully explain "What Education Looks Like at children in this program. For more information on Enfield Elementary School." Some of the faculty this great program, contact Mary Cole at 274-2221. and staff have developed a power point presentation The food backpack program is very and booklets for reference and showing. We would successful and about 65 families are receiving this enjoy being invited to any group events or meetings valuable service. where our Road Show would be appropriate. We also have the honor and distinction of Please feel free to call the school ay 274-2221 to being the First Elementary School in Tompkins schedule a "Road Show" event or time. County to "GO GREEN." - Our own Fifth Grade Class, Mrs. Caitlin Baxter(teacher) and Mrs. Susan We at Enfield Elementary School WISH YOU ALL Phillips(teacher) initiated the project and they have HAPPY HOLIDAYS! all of the students, staff and faculty involved in the program endeavors. The students feel strongly that we need to take care of our world and to be conscious of our environmental needs. Our. school Basketball community supports "TOMORROW" and we will help to make our earth cleaner for the future! A About 40 of our 4th and 5th graders are busy round of applause to Tomorrow's Leaders! developing the skills necessary to play basketball. Our school is teaching Second Step: a Coaches John and Cathy Hicks, Steve Waight and Violence Prevention Curriculum. This curriculum Faye Coyle are drilling the basics, and teaching the teaches three competencies: Empathy, Impulse rules, including good sportsmanship and keeping Control, and Problem Solving and Anger/Emotions everyone having fun as our kids host and play Management. Empathy is the cornerstone of this against the other elementary schools in the Ithaca curriculum. Empathy is understanding, being aware City School District. The Enfield Community of, and being sensitive to the feeling, thoughts, and Council is sponsoring this program in conjunction experiences of another. Teachers will be using a with the Extended Day Program. The ECC has vocabulary of feelings words to help children provided new uniforms this year and a big thanks to express how they feel. They will encourage child to Stacey Payette for providing T-shirts for the girls. use "I feel" statements. They will also be helping 'Thank you Stacey! children to recognize non-verbal cues such as body language and facial expressions. Parents can The schedule is: reinforce the empathy lessons at home by Dec.8- Fall Creek(here) encouraging the use of "I feel" statements with Dec. 15- Northeast(here) their children. Situations where children think of Jan.5- Caroline(here) Jan. 12- Cayuga Heights(here) other people, who are different from them, help Jan.26- Enfield at Belle Sherman them to deveolop empathy. Activites that Feb.2- Enfield at BJM demonstrate emphathy are things like making some small gifts or drawings and delivering them, in Viewing space is limited but it's quite the Saturday morning happening this winter. Enfield School Age Program outdoor fire pit and ate ranch style beans and cornbread. We wore our personalized cowboy hats This school year has many new families and bandannas while sitting on our own bedrolls participating as well as some new staff. Welcome made of felt. We shared the names of our ranches to all the new Enfield School Age Program and the names of our cowboys/cowgirls, and we families- we hope your year with us will be an read two stories about cowboys. Everyone had a exceptional year in services to the parents/ good time and the weather was quite agreeable. guardians and an enjoyable one for your children. Every cowboy and cowgirl went home with their Our new staff are Colleen Spercel, the new director hats, bandannas, bedrolls, spoons and trays. All the of the program, Tammy and Sierra, teachers, and items were purchased through a grant that Abbie Sonja, our substitute. (Vera remains as the Juett was awarded from the Ronald McDonald coordinator of the daily activities and children of Organization. the program). We still have Marge and Miss Abbie December's theme is the gift of giving. We as returning teachers of the program, are continuing with legendary/folktale stories and Our daily schedule includes time for are also going to read stories about giving to others homework and quieter activities, outside and/or throughout the year and the special pleasure of gym time (depending on weather), group time giving. We will acknowledge those we appreciate centered on the theme of the month including a and love, with the reminder that this can and should chapter book reading (this year we are reading the be done throughout the year. Lion, Witch and Wardrobe series), riddles, poem recitation, vocabulary/character development Several children have helped Ann Rider plant challenges, quote interpretation, and group art bulbs around the new Welcome to Enfield sign and activities. The children are allowed structured and_ many children are helping with the new ost_comp unstructured time throughout the day. program at the school. The program also has monthly themes. September we got to know each other and Our community projects, of which we do established new friendships. We learned about our several times a year, have been to donate school likes and dislikes, friends, what friendship means supplies, gently used children items, and blankets and how to make friends. We created friendship knitted from the program for the children who have hand wreaths and doll figures of ourselves with suffered from Huricane Katrina. various craft items. And we drew pictures showing As always we accept donations of gently used us with our friends as well as a favorite activity we toys, puzzles, board games, building toys, books, like to do together. Barbie dolls, and craft items. Since knitting is done October and November's theme was about throughout the year we are always accepting yarn cowboys and cowgirls. We learned the origins of to knit children's blankets that are donated to cowboys, key words about them, legendary people organizations for distribution. of that time, clothing they wore, food they ate, the In April, we have a major fundraiser event. bunkhouses they lived in, the various jobs a We call it the Art Gallery Opening Night and Art cowboy does throughout his/her life, branding the Auction. It is a formal event with sparkling juice cattle, and naming their ranches. We made our own and finger foods. There will be piano playing as brands for our hats and made a range scene (each well, courtesy of Miss N. (the school music child made their own cowboy, cowgirl, horse, cow, teacher). Everyone is invited to view the art prior to cactus, etc.) which we taped on the background the auction. The Art Night displays work done by range scenery colored by the kindergarten and first all the children in the program, as well as donations grade children.We also had an actual cookout on an from artists including school staff, parents, relatives, and artists from the Ithaca area Silent Auction If you are interested in attending and/or donating an item, please contact Vera at 274-2368 between The following businesses and individuals 2:00-5:30 Monday through Friday. generously donated to the Silent Auction at the Harvest Festival. Many thanks to Rob Harvey for Also, if you would like to volunteer for the program chairing the Silent Auction and Jack Hubbell for to help with homework, present, read, etc. contact soliciting donations. Great job! Vera -Cayuga Daylilies* -The Unfinished Furniture -Pete's Liquor Store& Store Grocery&Deli -William Eisenhardt -Enfield Youth Program* -The House Doctor Supporting our Fire Company -Town Historian—Sue -Hub's Place Thompson* -First Niagra -Tompkins County Recycle -Heavenly Transformation The Enfield Fire Company Auxiliary held our Center Salon * Annual Banquet on October 8th. We installed our -Applegate Tree Farm * -Annemiek Haralson officers: President -Monique Morse, Vice -Greentree Nursery -Hillendale Golf Course -Jack Hubbell -Bradco/Wickes Lumber President- Judy Hetherington, Secretary- Sue -Deb's Awards* Company Reynolds and Treasurer- Carol Barriere. Our -Christine Finnigan* -NAPA Auto Parts conductress for this year is Helen Hetherington and -RiderSport Honda -M&L Service* -Charles Hubbell -Lamb Chop Hill our Chaplain is Fern Ferris. -Ithaca Flower Shop Ceramics We are also very proud of members Fern -H&H Auto sales* -Snap on Tools -Maxie's Supper Club -Booth Electric Supply Ferris, Judy Hetherington and Pam Whittaker who -Pellegrino's SAAB Service* -Ithaca Auto Paint Supplies hold offices in the Tompkins County Ladies -Mama Goose -Gordan J.Veley Auxiliary. Judy Hetherington was elected in July to -Sherwin Williams Company -Cayuga Lumber,Inc. -Tompkins Trust Company -Tioga Auto Parts be a three year director for the Central New York -Fingerlakes Electric Supply -Zehna Originals Ladies Auxiliary and, in August, Pam Whittaker -Julia Williammee -Island Health&Fitness was elected for a second term as 2nd Vice President -Mary Northrup* -Styles by Shaunna and -Dolly Clark* Company of the Ladies Auxiliary of the State of New York. -Cascadilla Tree Care -Curves As you can see our ladies are very active in -Bookery U -Northeast Gas supporting our volunteer firemen. -Abbie Lynn Juett* Technologies -Wilcox Centers -Night Owl Construction Beginning in January we will be helping out -Rick's Rental World with the Chicken BBQ's that will be held at the -The Boat Yard&Grill firehouse. We will be havingour Bake Sales in -Arcs Forest Archery -Precision Golf Center conjunction with the BBQ's. So come and enjoy a -John Rancich great meal, good fellowship and take home dessert -I.D.Booth,Inc. -G.R.VanValen Inc. for afternoon TV watching. -Ithaca Agway Farm&Home Center -Ithaca Beer&Soda Company -Feather Vision -Sal's Pizzeria -Cornell University Athletics Have a safe and happy Holiday Season and a "City Lights Antiques, Inc. -Ithaca College Athletics joyous New Year! -Johnny's Wholesale,Inc. -Classic Optical denotes local businessesAndividuals Upcoming events at the Enfield Valley time, talent, and equipment to this wonderful Grange addition to our community. Special thanks go to Tom Trenchard, Chuck Belleview, Taylor The members of the Enfield Valley Grange Trenchard, Alan Teeter, the Highway Department, would like to thank the community for their support Conor Reilly, Vaughn Stevenson, Anna Gallegos, at our annual Election Night Dinner. Jaina Swanhart, and Mathew Kessler from Afterschool and the Monday MerryMakers for The Grange in holding its second Annual helping with this project. Now we're looking for 2 Holiday Decoration contest. Judging will take place large pink stones (glacial "irradics") to finish the on Thursday evening, December 20th. Entry forms plantings.Anybody into stones? are available at the Valley Corner Store. Applications should be mailed to 121 S. Applegate Mier this summer, with the help of the local Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.On Saturday, December 22 at 6:00 PM the Girl Scout troop led by Christine McNeal, we Grange will hold a Community Christmas dish to planted the barrels at the base of the light poles share dinner. Please bring your table service and a with annuals, which have put on quite a show this dish to share. Beverage will be provided. At this summer. Helen and Ed Hetherington and Roy time, prizes will be awarded for the Holiday Barriere helped with watering. Now they have Decorations contest. Music will be provided and holidayized the light poles and winterized the Santa will make an appearance. Alberta spruces. The beautification project is funded by the County room tax. Our Town Board applied for these funds last spring, and agreed to match them. Most of the match is done with volunteer hours. I Our breakfasts will begin on Saturday, think everyone will agree that this is a wonderful January 5th at 7:30 AM. All you can eat. Come example of how a little local money can go a long hungry, leave happy! way towards making our community a more enjoyable place to live! Watch for more information as the members of the Grange work with the Enfield Historical Co-Chairman: Debbie Teeter-277-4547, Ann Society to bring the community an open program Rider-277-3478 and Helen Hetherington-273-6699 this spring. Beautification Committee The Beautification Committee has completed the two `Welcome to Enfield' signs. The incredibly beautiful wooden signs, hand carved by David DeGrout of Virgil, are placed and mounted (one in the lawn of the school and one on the new town property) and the bases have been planted with a selection of shrubs, grasses, spring bulbs and daylilies to give .an attractive appearance year round. Many community members have contributed History at the New York State Archives files for the prohibition legislative time period. (NYSA) One of the files 1 reviewed was the Sue Thompson, Enfield Town Historian "Governor's Letters", which included files belonging to New York State Governors including In September I had the pleasure of attending Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., (1907) and Al Smith r the New York State Archives (NYSA) Local (1921). I found letters in reference to prohibition Historians Seminar, where I was among 6 New from Ithaca, Cornell University (Minns),Treman. York State historians receiving the Public Historian A search throuh the various files of the Grant Award. While there I learned some Constitutional Convention of 1915 (various fascinating state history: Have you heard of the committee correspondences, minutes, etc.) early morning fire, which swept through the New provided many documents regarding the Anti York State Library on March 29, 1911? It Saloon League, Ella Boole-Prohibition Group,and destroyed or badly damaged hundreds of thousands Carrie Chapman Catt—Women's suffrage. of books and manuscripts.After the fire, the library It was recommended that I look at the 1915 materials were stored in bundles which were only New York State Census for Enfield and look up recently opened. The archivist involved in the WCTU members from Enfield. I noticed that a restoration of these materials told seminar attendees percentage of the Enfield members of the WCTU about one of the documents they discovered: an were heads of households. A few of the families we account of a revolutionary war soldier who went to found in the census records that corresponded to the congress to get a divorce(at that time divorces were 1915 minutes of -the WCTU for Enfield were not granted). There is no indication of whether or Blanche, Emmett and Grace Tucker, Sarah J. and not the divorce was granted. NYSA staff said Edwin S. Bagley; Carrie and Theo. Schaber, Cora reading through this material was amazing, as no and Clifford Leonard; Della and Fremont Wilson one has looked at since at least 1911. You can learn with their granddaughter Margaret Bossard; Lettie more about the library and its collections by Rolfe; Lina and Charles Jones; Ella and John searching the intemet for "The 1911 State Library Johnson; Ida, Bertha, and Alphonso Griffin; Fire and Its Effect on New York Genealogy by Mildred and Amelia Bullard (both listed as Harry Macy,Jr." telephone operators);and David and Ida Fisher. At the seminar Jim Folts, Head of the NYSA On a side note we found and copied, "A Research, introduced attendees to the NYSA and Sermon, on Christian Progress,delivered at Enfield, explained how it functions. Some of the other Tompkins County,NY, Before the Central Christian topics covered during the seminar were: Records Conference at their annual meeting in June 1851, from Towns Sent to the Archives, Credit Sources and published by their request. By Eld. Alvin Used from the NY Archives, the Civil War Data Coburn, a member of said conference" This Base, and Popular Data Bases such as film scripts, meeting was held at the Christian meeting House in school districts, and pictures. Enfield, 8 a.m.,June 16, 1951. The historians at the seminar each had a Since my research focused on the year 1915, 1 project they wanted to learn more about, and each thought it would interesting to take a look at the was assigned an archivist to provide assistance. My local news from that year: ' project was the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): from Enfield, to Ithaca, to Enfield in 1915 from the Ithaca Journal Tompkins County,to New York State. The Archives did not hold a lot of information about the WCTU, April 9 — Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hill entertained last since it was a private organization, so I focused my Friday night: Mr. Edward Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. research on the Prohibition Laws and Governors' Fred Marshal and children, Mr.And Mrs. Victor Wright, Mr. and Mrs. John Rockwell, Mr.And Mrs. "Touring The Towns of Tompkins County" Edgar Newman, Mr. And Mrs. Forest Baker, and son Maurice. Mr. and Mrs.Alice Sheldon visited at The Municipal Historians of Tompkins the home of Mr, and Mrs. Andrew Gibbs last County have prepared handsome brochures for the Sunday- Alva Van Gorder met with a very painful nine towns entitled, "Touring The Towns of accident last Thursday, while trimming the trees in Tompkins County" (Destination Enfield) in the his orchard, a limb broke and he fell and broke one county featuring historic, geologic, and sites of of his ribs. particular interest or curiosity. The brochures have ' May 19, 1915 — Quite a large crowd attended the been supported by the Tompkins County Strategic lecture of Rev. G.W. Winkworth at the M.E. church Tourism Board and with small stipends from each Monday evening. Title of lecture was"Man's Place of the towns and they have been a production of the in the World". Frank Lindow was in Ithaca, Office of the Tompkins County Historian. Creating Saturday. these brochures has blended historical research with May 20, 1915 — Mrs. Addie Parsels gave a lecture the needs of tourists. at the Kennedy's Comers M.E. Church last Friday Participating are Barbara Kone, Town of afternoon. The Women's Christian Temperature Caroline Historian; Joan Grant, Town of Danby Union of Kennedy's Comers will meet with Mrs. Historian; Sue Thompson, Town of Enfield Alice Sheldon Thursday, May 27. While working Historian; Robin Andersen and Alan Chaffee,Town on Alvin Sheldon's bam last Friday Captain Harvey of Newfield Deputy and Historian; Laura Johnson- Beardsley fell from the roof to the floor and broke Kelly, Town of Ithaca Historian; Louise Bement, his collarbone. He is up and around and getting Town of Lansing Historian; and Elsie Gutchess, along very nicely, independent historian for the Town of Dryden, May 22, 1915—Enfield Falls School District (#14 - _aided by Joan Manning, Village of Freeville Budd was located in the front of Budd Cemetery on Historian; Nancy Dean Town of Ulysses Deputy the south side of Gray Road), held their annual Historian; and Rosemarie Tucker, Town of Groton meeting where L.D. Rumsey was elected trustee. Historian, Miss Nellie Rumsey will be the teacher for another The brochure features a map marked with year. School District #7 - (Woodard) located special symbols showing cemeteries, historical northeast comer Woodard and Hines Roads, re- markers, specialty shops, scenic views, and elected Kirk Fowler for trustee and Anna Brown recreational areas. There is a section devoted to would be the teacher for the coming year. The Rev. annual events and festivals. The brochures have Mr. Baker will teach the Noble district school this been edited by Jane Dieckmann, City of Ithaca coming year. The local union met Tuesday at the Historian and designed by Deena Rambaum, a Christian Church. Mrs. Bates of Ithaca will talk on Town of Enfield resident suffrage in the grange meeting next Tuesday night. The brochure for the Town of Enfield may be Coffee and Cake will be served. A large number of found at the Enfield Town Hall or from Sue relatives and friends attended the funeral of Charles Thompson, Enfield Town Historian — Wright at Enfield Center of M.E. Church sdtl@comefl.edu/272-6412 or at the Visitor and Wednesday.The town of Enfield has to build a new Convention Bureau at the Chamber of Commerce bridge on the new road along John King's land. in Ithaca. June 1, 1915 — Census enumerators start work today. Thirty-nine enumerators for Tompkins County started work this morning on the work of obtaining census data. Simultaneously the work is beginning today all over the state # A Special Thanks paperwork but this year farmers will also receive the Ag District Review Worksheet and the Ag The Enfield Community Council would like to Census fort. thank the following businesses and people for Ag Assessment: sponsoring the Harvest Festival. These donations of Look for a packet from Tompkins County cash and goods helped defray our costs and added Assessment just after the first of the year; the to the wonderful festival we were able to put on: pertinent form is green and paperwork is due March Ist. The Tompkins Comfy Soil and Water District -Shursave ofTrumansburg (SWCD) staff reminds owners of newly created or -Target-Tops purchased P �parcels that they will need new Soils -Paradise Cefd Group Worksheets. If this applies to you, contact -Shortstop SWCD (257-2340) in January (or February at the Wegmen's -Mano's latest) to make sure there's time to get what you -McDonald's need before the March I at deadline. -Pete's Aa District Review Worksheet: -Tompkins Trust Company -Lowe's of Ithaca Look for a mailing from Cornell Cooperative -Amos Forest Archery Extension of Tompkins County in January with -Walmart-Valley Komer Store information about the 8-year Ag District review -Gmentree Nursery process; included Will be a pink form to complete -EddydaleFarms and return. The data provided by farmers is -Sal's Pizzeria -Fingmlakes Post 961 VFW extremely important for justifying the continuation -Fraternal Order of Eagles of the Ag District and thereby continuing its -Loyal Order Moose benefits. -Home Depot -Dale Laue AC Census: -Enfield Elementary School These forms are also expected to arrive in -Johnny's Wholesale farmers' mailboxes after the first of the year, and -Staples -Enfield Volunteer Fire Department the information farmers provide during the census -Kathy Carman helps determine farm policy and develop new ag -Quitters Guild -Quitters Comer programs—make sure your information is included! -Tompkins County Recycling -Tom Duffy -Jack Hubbel The purpose of the Enfield Community Council shall be -F&T Distributing Company -Enfield Women's Fire Auxiliary to promote the welfare of the community by giving -Dan's Cookies greater efficiency in existing organizations through -A Touch of Country B&B mutual cooperation and coordination,and when necessary, -Mwyar ne's Upholstery b sponsoring new activities. -ET Discount y po g -Sandy Creek Mobile Homes Inc. -B&W Supply Company The Enfield Currents is published 3 times a year. -Ithaca College Articles are due April 1,August 1,and December 1. -The Museum of the Earth a Articles should be e-mailed to asr104comeltedu or For the Agricultural Community eetenam220hotmail.com. Forms.Forms,Forms: All Enfield Community Council The beginning of 2008 will bring a host of Programming,including this newsletter, .r is made possible in part through funding forms farmers and agricultural landowners by the United Way of Tompkins County. mailboxes. It's always the time for Ag Assessment Enfield Community Council,Inc. Non-Profit Organization Enfield Community Currents U.S.Postage PO Box 214 PAID Jacksonville,NY 14854 Permit No.00780 Ithaca,NY """"'"`AUTO"5-DIGIT 14850 Resident 487 ENFIELD CENTER RD E ITHACA NY 14850-9392 2007.2008 Winter Calendar Regular monthly meetings: Enfield Community Council- 2nd Monday of the month at 6:30 pm at the Community Bldg. Enfield Historical Society- 3rd Wednesday of some months at the Community Bldg at 7:30 pm,Call Doris Rothermich, 272-5930 for more info Enfield Planning Board- 1st Wednesday at 7 pm at the Community Bldg Enfield PTA- the tat Thursday of the month at the Elementary School Enfield Senior Citizens- 3rd Wednesday of the month for a dish-to-pass luncheon at the Grange at l l:30 am Enfield Town Board meeting- 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7pm at the Community Bldg. Enfield Volunteer Fire Co: 1st Thursday of the month at 7 pm at the Fire House Enfield Valley Grange- 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at the Grange Food Pantry- 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at the Community Bldg. Enhance Fitness with Sue Karin- Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:15-11:15 at the Community Bldg Women's Fire Auxiliary- 2nd Monday of the month at 7:30