HomeMy WebLinkAboutnewsletter 1990 fall• ENFIELD NEWS
FALL 1990
SPONSORED BY THE ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL, INC
FUNDED BY THE TOMPKINS COUNTY UNITED WAY
ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL NEWS
The Community Council has had an extremely busy Summer and
Fall with lots of new activities to report.
UNITED WAY
of Tompkins County
As most of you are aware, the Enfield School opened two days
late due to renovations to the building. Again this year use of the
gym has been delayed until October. The Community Council was able
to pull together a day program for those children whose parents
needed supervision for them on those two days. Helen Jackson, Cathy
Delsignorie, Kay Woolney and Joel Switzer put together such a creative,
fun filled two days all those participating were ready to come back to
the Community building! This was an excellent display of cooperation
between the school system, the Town of Enfield and the Community
Council and a great example of the "can do" attitude of Enfield.
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• The Enfield Community Council Day Care Program has begun again
with extremely limited space at Enfield because of the construction/
renovations. (As has the rest of the Enfield School Staff). Our
staff has no place for storage and the staff has to bring and take
supplies and equipment for activities daily. Dianne Lovelace is the
Director and is to be congratulated for the smooth operation of the
program. In an effort to keep the cost of the program down, one
staff member was cut but Kaye Wollney, Tammy Doolittle and Tanya
Snyder all returned. Rhonda Connors will be returning for our
Enrichment Program with a special crafts project. The fee for day
care has increased to $25/week with a $25 registration fee.
Our program remains the most economical with the best staff/
child ratio that we are aware of.
A limited number of openings are available. Contact Dianne
Lovelace for more information at 272-4229.
Parental observations are always welcome and the program is
eligible to receive funds from the Department of Social Service
This program operates daily from 2 pm to 5:30 pm and on school
conference and early dismissal days.
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• MUHICIPLE YOUTH SERYICE PROJECT
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The Town of Enfield and Tompkins County through the Tompkins County
Youth Bureau have given the Enfield Community Council $15,560 to work
with teenagers to renovate and enchance the Community Building for
increased community programming use.
The funding provides for a Project Supervisor/Facility Manager
(Greg Kirchgessner), a Construction Consultant (Brad Connors) and
Activity Leaders (Roy Barriers and Matt Steel). What we need now are
youth interested in learning basic building trades to be paid S9/hour.
Any intested youths should contact M. Kirchgessner for an application.
A meeting was held 9/17/90 with representatives of all know current
and potential users to discuss a "wish list" of building modifications.
Etta Gray and Onalee Mente represented the Town Board. The results
were very productive. Brad Connors will be meeting with Greg and Roy
to draw a plan for presentation to the Town Board and the Building
Codes enforcer Roger Rumsey. The Community Council is very excited
about sponsoring this project as we see many good things coming from it.
ROLES FON "a Ust OP SR[ @IELD COMMUNITY BUILDING
*IF YOU OPEN IT, CLOSE IT
*IF YOU TURN IT ON, TURN IT OFF
*IF YOU UNLOCK IT, LOCK IT OF
*IF YOU BREAK IT, ADMIT IT
*IF YOU CAN'T fix IT, CALL IN
SOMEONE WHO CAN
*IF YOU BORROW IT, RETURN IT
*IF YOU VALUE IT, TAKE CARE OF IT
*IF YOU MAKE A MESS, CLEAN IT UP
*IF YOU MOVE IT, PUT IT BACK
*IF IT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE AND
YOU WANT TO USE IT, GET
PERMISSION
*IF YOU DON'T KNOW NOW TO OPERATE
IT, LEAVE IT ALONE
*IF IT'S NOT BROKE, DON'T TRY TO FIX
IT
*IF IT WILL BRIGHTEN SOMEONE'S DAY
... SAY IT!!!!!
the Enfield Town Board has adapted a polity of NO SMOKING AND
!R COMSUMPTION OP ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON TBE PREMISES.
If You hVi-9 food in, take food vane how.
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• SUMMER PROGRAM REPORT
The good news is the participants loved the program! The bad
news is the program cost more than we planned! The number of children
enrolled far exceeded last years numbers; more than twice as many
children consistently attended and interestingly donations did not
increase correspondingly. Working on a tight budget, conceling the
"free" lunch component of the program and half the staff riding the
bus made for some interesting times, but we survived! But not without
the President, Marnie Kirchgessner vowing no summer program if Enfield
School is not available next year. Ms. Kirchgessner has been known to
utter these vows before but we think she means this!
In spite of the difficulties on August 10 at the Grange and on
August 13 at the Altervative Community School, the Enfield Hall of Fame
performed with a guest appearance of Mickey Mouse. A dish -to -pass for
guests, friends and parents of participants was enjoyed on the loth and
the Senior Citizens were entertained and thanked for their support on
the 13th.
All of the staff should be thanked, for inspite of the many
difficulties they did go the "extra" mile that was needed.
This year's program was also enhanced by the offering of the
Ithaca School District of a Chapter I educational support program in
reading, math and writing as well as weekly field trips. It is the
Community Council's intention to include these aspects next year at
ENFIELD.
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DEADLINES! DEADLINES! DEADLINES!
Administration of Community Council Programs continues to be a
primarily volunteer effort including the writing and publication of
this newsletter. Cathy Delsignorie has and does try to call all
community groups to send news items to Marnie Kirchgessner but please
call Cathy at 387-6756 with a contact person and phone number if we
are not reaching your group. This newsletter is published three times
a year to primarily inform the community about Community Council
activities and programs.
Mark your calendars: Articles for publication should be to
Marnie by the 1st week of January; June and September. We will try
to call to remind you if we have a number. Thanks for your cooperation.
ACE TRANSITION GRANT AWARDED
The Town of Enfield has been awarded a grant of $10,000 by the
Ithaca School system for ACE Transition Programming. These funds are
being given to the Community Council for ACE Programming. Carol
Barriers and Judy Switzer have been hired to co -direct this program
and work with families, children and the school.
Carol and Judy will be meeting with school staff to discuss how
the program will be conducted and will be available at Enfield's Open
House to answer questions. The focus of this program is to reach kids
at risk of dropping out at an early age. The current focus is fourth
• and fifth graders, but a portion of the funds are being utilized to
offer support services for families to be able to participate and
general programming. Thrusday's after school will be "ACE" day
starting in October. If interested, call Carol at 277-3843.
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THE UNITED WAY
• United Way volunteers are working year round all over Tompkins
County: teams of some 40 volunteers have met with the 24 agencies
and 13 town councils to hear their needs; this spring more volunteers
began organizing and conducting a campaign to try to meet these needs.
Scott Heyman, Campaign Chairman, announced the goal of $1,482,000
and this year's slogan of "UNITED WAY, IT BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN ALL
OF US". This goal includes $86,000 in new dollars for increasing and
emerging needs.
Marnie Rirchgessner graciously offered to assist with soliciting
this year. So if you receive a call, visit or letter from her; please
respond generously. The United Way has been very responsive to our
needs locally and provided special emergency assistance to pay for the
increased cost of transportation to our summer program.
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SENIOR CITIZENS
The Senior Citizens group has enjoyed the summer meetings and
trips. Our August meeting was held at Newhart's Lodge. Also in
August we were entertained by the Day Campers at West Hill School and
were served a bountiful luncheon by the Community Council.
Everybody is looking forward to the bus trip and boat ride which
is being planned by Edith Belknap for October to the 1000 Islands.
We have participated in showing the Quilt to be raffled at the
• Fall Harvest Festival. Still pending are plans for a quilt for next
year's Festival.
All Enfield Senior Citizens are invited to attend monthly dish -
to -pass luncheon meetings; the second Tuesday of the month at the
Grange.
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The Enfield Community Council is a non-profit organization whose
purpose is to ogranize, operate and maintain recreational, social,
cultural and instructional activities for the youth of Enfield and to
involve parents and other residents of the community in the programs
and meeting the objectives of the organization.
To fund our programs, the ECC receives money from the Tompkins
County United Way, The New York State Division for Youth, The Town of
Enfield, The New York State Council for the Arts through the Tompkins
County Decentralization Program, fundraising, fees and your donations.
ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL - ANNUAL MEETING
Pursuant to our bylaws the Enfield Community Council's Annual
meeting is January 1991. Rhonda Connors (273-8268 has again agreed to
chair our nomination committee. If you are interested in running for
an office or helping in any way, please call Rhonda.
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• GREETINGS FROM THE ENFIELD VALLEY GRANGE #295
As usual we have been very busy. In July we served the Finger
Lakes Kennel Club a banquet at the Trumansburg Fair Grounds. In
August our booth at the fair took third place. That gives us some-
thing to shoot for -- FIRST. Also in August a plaque was put on the
handicapped ramp in memory of Louis San Soucie. Election of officers
took place at our August meeting and at the September meeting Phillip
Stanard, Master of the Covert Grange, and a team of Covert Grange
members installed our new officers for the next year.
We are looking forward to participating in the Harvest Festival
that is coming up in October. Raffle tickets for a quilt that Sarah
Carpenter is making for the Grange are available and we will be selling
them at the Harvest Festival. The drawing for the quilt will be at
our Election Night Supper -- November 6th. We will be serving our
usual -- GOOD FOOD from 4:30 pm on.
We are always looking for new members. If you are interested,
contact any Grange member. There is never a dull minute.
Wishing all of you a good Fall and Holiday Season.
Respectfully yours,
Leah Carpenter
Master -- Again ,
• PRESCHOOL
The Preschool Program began 9/19/90 under the Direction of Jody
Clark. Cathy Delsignorie is the Pre-K aide this year. We are lucky
to have them both. Parents who contacted us were primarily interested
in a 2 day program so it was decided to operate Wednesdays and Fridays
from 9:05 to 12:00 so as not to conflict with Pre-K at Enfield.
If registration warrants expansion, we can also offer Mondays.
This is a fee program but the fee is minimal due to a subsidy from
The United Way. Currently the fee is $30/month or $4/day.
If you are interested in registering or want to observe just bring
your child to the program as we have openings. A registration form is
included in this newsletter.
ENRICHMENT
Enrichment Programming will begin after the Harvest Festival. We
hope to offer dance/gymnastics lessons again; as well as instructional
music. Information will be advertised in the Pennysaver and specifics
and registration forms will be available at the Harvest Festival. The
format may change yet again because of limited space at the school
until the new wing opens in January.
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HARVEST FESTIVAL
Many volunteer hours are going into making this year's Harvest
Festival a success. Rhonda Connors, Chair, has marshalled a small
army of volunteers to provide many new and exciting events. Our list
of craftspersons is the largest ever and our events include the
addition of a magic show at 1:00 and a ping pong drop at 3:00 in
addition to our luncheon and quilt raffle which was once again made
and donated by the Enfield Senior Citizrns. The quilt is on display,
alternating between valley Corner and Pardner's Market and tickets
are available there at a bargain price of 25C each or 5 for $1.00.
Members of the Community Council also have tickets. So don't miss
your chance to win!
ENFIELD FOOD PANTRY
The Enfield Food Pantry continues to operate every other Monday
from 4 to 5pm at the Enfield Center Baptist Church on Rte. 327 (in
front of the new fire station). September 17, 1990 is the next date
of operation.
Recently, with the gas /oil crisis the food pantry provided 170
grocery bags of food to needy Enfield families. Most of this food is
"purchased from the Southern Tier Food Bank" so donations are always
welcome. The County government provides a very small portion of total
funds required to meet our local food needs. A tremendous effort is
put out by the volunteers who assist with this effort. The Town Board
has assisted this community effort by allowing space for frozen prod-
ucts in the Community Building and hauling refuse. Another way
Enfield works together for the good of the community!
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A sign seen at a local store and an "elect Matt McHugh" sign
seen locally lead us to believe the Enfield Community should be
advised our local Congressman is currently Amory "Amos' Houghton.
Both Enfield and Newfield are in the 34th Congressional District not
the 28th (Matt McHugh's). Mr. Houghton is up for reelection this year
and facing Joe Leahy, a retired civil engineer from Valois. What
district Enfield will be in after reapportionment due to our most
recent census is anyone's guess!
Other political races include Governor, State Comptroller,
Assemblymen, County Judge and, of course, Sheriff.
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SOMMERr DROP-OFF CENTER OPENING IN TOWN
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i60n 27DROP-OFF CENTER OPENING IN TOWN
The Tompkins County Solid Waste Management Division announces
the opening of a Recycling Drop —Off Center at the Enfield Community
Building on Rte. 327 (the old fire house). Beginning Saturday,
November 3, 1990 operating hours will be Saturdays, from 9:00 am to
3:00 pm. The site will be supervised to assist you with your
recycling efforts.
Materials accepted at the Omp•Off Center include:
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ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL
AUCTION
Friday October 19
6:30 PM
• Antiques Furniture Appliances
• New Items Collectibles Toys
• Books Anything and Everything
Auctioneer: Bruce Lott
Auction will be held at Enfleld Community Building (Rt. 327 off Rt. 79). We are still look-
ing for good usable donations. Call Brenda Smith 272-5826 for pickup.
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HARVEST FESTIVAL
Saturday October 20
11 an-4pn
LUNCHEON: 12 PM
Chicken caccitori
Spaghetti
Scalloped potatoes and ham
not Dogs, not Sausage and Hamburgers
Homemade pies
Festival will be held at Enfield Grange and Community Building (Rt. 327 off Rt. 79)
Come have a fun time - take a chance on a beautiful quilt made by Enfield Senior Citizens
and - even try your hand at milking a cow!!
• Crafts Quilt Raffle Hay Rides
• Gates Pumpkin Contest Haunted House
• Enfield History Baked Goods Apple Cider
• Cake Walk Fire Truck Rides Finger printing for children
• Blood Pressure Clinic Ping Pong Drop @3 pm Magic Show @I pm
MUCH MORE
Proceeds Benefit Enfield Youth Proerams.
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ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL PRESCHOOL APPLICATION
Child's Name
Nickname Birthdate
Parent's (Guardians') Name
Address
Telephone
Names of other Children in home Age School Attending
Emergency numbers, if you cannot be reached
Doctor
Name
Name
ADDITIONAL NOTES about the child which would be of help to the teacher, including any
allergies and disabilities:
Do you have any hobbies, skills, or interests that you would be willing to bring into the
program and share with the children (i.e. woodworking, sewing, plant propagation,
international cooking, crafts)???
Mother
Father
At least one member of each family is expected tp participate on one or more of the
preschool's committees (Fund Raising Organizer, Telephone Committee, Special Events
Organizer, Fail and Spring Clean Up Organizer, or Executive Committee members which
consists of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer). Which committee(s) do you
prefer? Committee choices will be made at the first meeting.
Parents Agreement:
I agree to enroll my child in the Enfield Community Council Preschool for the year
. I understand the tutition is to be paid on a monthly basis. 1 also
agree to assume my share of the responsibilities of assisting the teacher, if needed, providing
snack for the children in the preschool, or serving on one of the organization committees and
participating in fundraising. There will be occassional meetings that are very important for
parents to attend to help make decisions that affect the preschool.
Name
Date
Date received by Vice President