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Home My WebLink Aboutnewsletter 1996 fall part 1• Ll Enfield Community Currents 1996 Elise Skalwold, Editc THE HARVEST FESTIVAL IS BACK! d at $300. •y II Muffler, Moosewood Restaurant, Old The event that Enfield ,.os urse, valued residents look forward to every year, ! ♦ Three hours of Intro to the lIl Port Harbor, Snap -on -tools, TCTC, the Enfield Community Council's! Internet, valued at$100 (Triphammer Discount Liquor, The, Harvest Festival, will be here on � ♦ Complimentary studio sitting for I! Frame Shop, Partner's Market, Valley I Saturday, October 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 an individual, couple or family from J Comer, Wilcox Tire. William's Shoes, p m. at the Enfield Community Building; Green Apple Photo, valued at $50 iI Photo U.S.A., Regis Hair Styles, and the Grange. As always, there will ♦ Office exam and shots for cat or,' Seneca Supply, The Box Car, Comics be wonderful hand made crafts, homer dog at Ithaca Small Animallilfor Collectors, Just Desserts, Rita's' baked goods, and a delicious chicken 1 Hospital, valued at $44 j Beauty Shop, Crispell's, The Nines, barbecue put on by the Enfield Fire I ♦ Salsa from Jolly Peno Salsa 1j The Chariot, E.T., Johnnies li Department. The ECC's Youth Group ♦ Dinner for two in Banf- 'Wholesale, Michaleen's, Greentree,' will be selling hotdogs and the Baptist I Restaurant at the Statler Inn, I Flowerfield Florist, Cayuga I Church Youth Group will have fresh' valued at $40. Landscape, Wick's Lumber, Ide's, apple cider. We will also have the ping j ♦ $100 Savings Bond from Fleet I! Rogan's, Roma, Mexicali Rose, i pong drop and other games for kids. Bank. � Trumansburg P&C, and Cayuga Take a chance to win a' ♦ pelligrino's Saab Service'( Mountain Bike. beautiful quilted pillow made by the, certificate for oil and filter change, 11 Enfield Senior Citizen's Group- there check of fluid, belts and hoses and'y Help Wanted are seven pillows to be raffled off. Also ,.]e.,- K-44— —1 ,ea �* cat I being raffled is the special "Nina LintonOther businesses donating'. Quilt" made by the 175th Year i items or certificates include: Agway, Commemorative Committee. Raffle Applegate Tree, ARC Veterinary tickets will be sold still at the Harvest I Clinic, Baskin Robbin's, Burger King, Festival. i Cakes by Linday, Cat's Pajamas, I Cascadilla Tree Care, Fay's, j The Silent Auction I Goodyear, Hill's, Ithaca Building Center, Ithaca Feed and Pet Supply, By popular demand, the Silent l,Ithaca Flower Shop, Bishop's, I Auction is once again back . All new i Coddington Restaurant, Glenwood items have been donated by area � Pines, Turback's, Alphabet Soup, businesses. Here is just a partial listing! Wendy's, Pizza Hut, Friendly's, of some of fabulous items which we Rosetti's, Ludgate Produce, Dino's have to auction: Hairstyle, Midus Mufll Monro ♦ Gortex jacket from Hillendale Golf ♦ If any business or individual would like to donate a new item, gift certificate, or service to the Silent Auction, Please call Carol Barriere at 277-3843. ♦ Also, we need volunteers to work the day of the festival. If interested, call Carol. ♦ Don't forget to bake a cake for the Cake Wheel! ♦ If you would like a booth at the festival to sell crafts, call Jane Conroy at 387-5457. Submitted by Carol Barrier, ECC Harvest Festival Coordinator. • • The Enfield Rural School Reunion III .dI 1112 : _.. a2WI. @..I: �.. .,L.IN ,II:.II .1.11111� , IN, u,.,L �I[LAI.IN ..:aNI_�L I ,. A.:®�, _ The Enfield Rural School] for keeping the kitchen organized; Reunion was held July 6, 19961'so the food line could flow) at the Grange Hall with smoothly. And thanks to Roger' approximately 80 in attendance.. Hubbell for setting up and taking That includes alumni and j down extra tables. special guests. I The Enfield Valley Grange Kenny B., Did you � sponsored our reunion this year. forget again? i They fumished the beverages. Thank You. I Hall and { want to thank Bob and Beatie Bock for bringing me the{ I also want to thank Rob I Lovelace for the interesting talk on, picture of my grandmother, Blanch 1 Enfield history and Jack Hubbell for j D. Tucker, painted as a gift for his I display of school building pictures mother, Martha Bock. It was a very and other memorabilia. Jack is special surprise. I also responsible for the alumni I Pat Dougherty gets thanks I getting a picture of their school for getting the music ready. We; were going to have a sing along', I1group. Thanks Jack. I after lunch, but everyone got so; Plans are being made fora busy with picture taking and reunion to be held next year; time and place to be announced. Keep reminiscing that we ran out of time. ; a watch of the local papers and Thanks to Florence Laue stores for notices. Just a reminder, I'If you grew up in Enfield during the The Enfield Community 40's or early 50's, or before, you Currents Newsletter - most likely went to a one or two This newsletter is published 'room school. You are the folks we quarterly and is mailed out to 850 _would like to see. We have some! Enfield residents. If you have news of really great gab sessions with our interest to the Enfield community, 'classmates from the past. I for one either of general interest or of 'really enjoy it. community service nature, please contact Elise Skalwold at 277-1757 or ' See you in 1997. write to the address below. The opinions presented in this newsletter are of those who submit ; Submitted by Blanch San Soucre Stout items and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editor nor members of the Enfield Community Council. PLEASE NOTE! Fall 1996 The Nina Linton Quilt A number of years) ao when the 175th Yearl was first formed, the late ]Nina Linton, as part of this (committee, organized a Iquilting project to create a I"Friends and Neighbors" sampler quilt. Made by ten ,Enfield women, this is the last community quilt project 'that Nina Linton organized. Previously, as a member of ,the Enfield Senior Citizens, Ishe had organized many -Iquilt projects on which many 7women participated. - Proceeds from these raffled -,quilts went to the Enfield _ Community Council. _ The "Friends and -Neighbors" quilt is being donated in Nina Linton's memory and the proceeds will go towards activities in the Town of Enfield. Raffle tickets are still available at Quilter's -Comers and Valley Comers -,and will also be available at -the Harvest Festival where -the raffle will be held. _Submitted by Rhoda Linton If you are not on the Enfield - ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL Community Currents mailing list, or you - know someone who is not on it, or if our name is miss II d y pee , cr your . President: Karen Anderson 272-4442 address is wrong, please let us know by _ mailing us a post card with your name Vice President: Marnie Kirch essner 272-2241 and address on it. We would like all _ g Enfield residents to receive our - Secretary: Alicia Febo 277-0942 newsletter. Send it to: Enfield - Community Council,Inc./ Elise Skalwold . Treasurer: Tom Drew 273-5263 , editor/ Enfield Community Currents/ 182 Enfield Main Road/ Ithaca, New York _ 14850 lit I Ull 1, I :,I I. II I I::,,I .It 11 1 a 2 • 0 From the Chief of the Enfield The Enfield Volunteer Fire Department has responded to 149 calls so far this year with our "busy season" yet to come. We have been called to 61 emergency medical calls, 7 fire calls related to structures and 16 mutual aid calls to other fire departments. The other calls are flooding, vehi- cle fires, hazardous condi- tions, service calls and grass fires. With the popularity of home carbon monoxide detec- tors, we expect that our calls for carbon monoxide problems will continue to increase. The members of the fire company have been involved in many activities around town again this year. Besides doing the chicken barbecue for the benefit of the Enfield 5th grade, on October 19th we will do another barbecue at the an- nual Harvest Festival. The proceeds from this go to bene- fit the Community Council. Three years ago our members decided to participate in the State Adopt a Highway Pro- gram. We adopted over 2 miles of Route 327, from Route 79 to Trumbulls Comers Road. We are required to pick Fall 1996 Volunteer Fire Department I up along the road 4 times a year. The state furnishes the garbage bags, helmets and vests and hauls away what is picked up. Members com- pleted the last pick up for this year in September. We will start again in the spring after the snow is gone. The Enfield Volunteer Fire Department received a $2,500 matching grant earlierthis year towards the purchase of a Semi Automatic Defibrillator, a machine used to try to restart a person's heart after a heart attack. Because of this the members decided that the profits from our other barbe- cues and Car Show would also go towards this purchase. Both the Car Show and our barbecues showed good profit this year, so we were able to obtain this piece of equipment with no cost to the taxpayers. We are now in the process of getting our Emergency Medi- cal Technicians and First Re- sponders refreshed on the use of the defibrillator. It will be put in service and be available for use very shortly. Along with these activities, the members have also partici- Enfield Volunteer Fire Department Line Officers Chief: Larry Stilwell Deputy Chief: Rich Neno First Asst. Chief: Roger Lauper Second Asst. Chief: Greg Stevenson Captain: Wayne Snyder Lieutenant: Art Covert patedTin many training and work details at the fire station. Both as Fire Chief and a resi- dent of the Town for Enfield, I would like to thank the mem- bers for their time and the ded- ication given to the Enfield Vol- unteer Fire Department. The Fire Department is presently involved in negotia- tions with the Town of Enfield regarding our contract price for 1997. We sincerely hope that the outcome does not affect the level or quality of service that the volunteers are able to provide for the residents of the Town of Enfield. As always, we welcome anyone who might wish to be- come a member. The depart- ment needs people not only for fire fighting and medical fields, but also for such things as computer skills, business man- agement and many other ar- eas. Call Larry Stilwell at 277- 0764 or call the Enfield Fire Station at 272-8757 and leave a message for more informa- tion. Submitted by Larry Stilwell, Chief, Enfield Volunteer Fire Dept. • • Fall 1996 A LETTER FROM REPRESENTATIVE DANIEL M. WINCH Dear Residents of Enfield, Fall is upon us and nature is sending us signals of what is com- ing; cooler nights, squirrels stor- ing up food, birds flocking to mi- grate south, and leaves are turn- ing, and some cases, falling. Gar- deners and farmers are doing their final harvests. At the government level fall means the budget process is in full swing. Quite frankly this is the hardest time of the year for representatives because of the budget deliberations; final deci- sions are made that will impact your tax bill and how and what the impact will be on services provided in the next year. These services include road and bridge upkeep, sheriff depart- ment road patrols and jail manage- ment, fire and disaster, as well as, u EMS issues, health department ser- vices from human health issues to (health protection at stores and food 'I establishments, human services by I� county departments as well as agencies, and a whole host of other services too long to list here. Now is the time to make your it interests known by letters to the ed- itors and by calling all fifteen rep- resentatives that serve on the van- ous program committees. Your in- put is valued and does make a dif- 11 ference in the decision making pro- 1! cess. So call many representatives. Of course I welcome your The Enfield Senior Citizens would like to thank the Enfield Community Council for, the luncheon that they put on for the Seniors. As usual, it was wonderful and everyone enjoyed the children's program afterwards. The things that they made were really nice! Sabmtned by Della Snyder, secretary Enfield Senior Citizens. phone call (564-7813) and really appreciate letters that I can copy to respective board members on a particular subject. Just write me at 310 Burdge Hill Road, New- I field, NY 14867. I sincerely hope that your summer has been good and hope that your fall harvest will demon- strate that you too are prepared for the winter! Please keep in touch, I value your input. Sincerely, Daniel M. Winch District 8 Representative Enfield/Newfield Submitted by Dame1 M. Winch Enfield Fireman's Ladies Auxiliary The newly elected officers Avon as a fund raising event. for the Enfield Ladies Auxiliary for We will start by having an Avon 1996-97 are: Open House on the porch of the fire house during the Harvest Officers Elected: Festival. Please stop by and so President: Hester Covert some early Christmas shopping. Vice President: Marge Slater We have been helping the Secretary: Holly Covert Firemen at the Car Show and Treasurer: Pam Whittaker Barbecues, by making salads, cupcakes, baked beans and Officers Appointed: serving the food. Chaplin: Fein Ferris If anyone would like to Sunshine: Jeanette Hubbard join our Auxiliary, please call Conductress: Helena Williams Hester Covert at 277-4235 for Historian: Linda Stilwell an application. We would like to thank you for supporting your Firemen and Auxilia Our annual banquet will be held at Willowood on October 18th. The Auxiliary will be selling ry. Submitted by Linda Stilwell III • • • Fall 1996 The Enfield Senior Citizens I It has been some summer for us 'I seniors! We had a picnic at f Toughanock State Park and had a great turn out. We went to Captain Bill's in Watkin's Glenn, had a boat ride, lunch and entertainment: a re- view of the 1940's Andrew Sisters. Lunch another time at Rosetti's and also a trip to Bellhurst Castle. We are selling tickets for the seven quilted pillows which we have made to be raffled at the Harvest Fes- tival on October 19th. The money goes to the Enfield Community Council. We will have a table at the festival where we will be selling more raffle tickets, as well as, crafts and baked goods made by our mem- bers. Hope we have a good turn out! 1n November we will be having our traditional turkey luncheon and in December we will be having our traditional Christmas luncheon with exchanging of gifts. At Christmas we draw names and get gifts for needy children. At Thanksgiving and Christmas we generally put together special meals to take to our members who can't make it out to the lun- cheons so that they can share our meal. At Christmas we also bring in can goods to give to needy families in the community. We are very pleased to report that we have gained many new mem- bers and we would love to see more join. The Senior Citizens meet every second Tuesday of the month at the Enfield Grange Hall at 12:00. A brief meeting is held, followed by a dish -to -pass dinner. This month we had some entertainment following our dinner. If there are any seniors out there who would like to join this great organization, please contact Virginia Mead, president, at 564- 0605 or Della Snyder, secretary, at 272-1149. Submitted by Virginia Mead ENFIELD CHURCHES Agape Bible Church Pastor: Mike Corriero 264 South Applegate Road 273-7419 We welcome you to join us Sundays at 1 Oam for our Morning Worship Celebration. We are reaching out to the area and campuses with the life changing message of a relationship with Jesus Christ. Call us for more information about Bible studies and fel- lowship groups. We also invite you to watch our Time/Warner cable T.V. program: "God is Greater" on channel 13, Friday lOpm and Saturday 4pm or channel 57, Sunday 6:05pm. Submitted by Mike Corriero, Pastor First Baptist Church Enfield Main Road 277-6301 Monday: 7pm Sr./Jr. Youth Group Wednesday: 6-7pm Choir 7-8pm Prayer and Praise Singing 8-9 pm Women's and Men's Bible Study Sunday: 9:45am Children's and Adult's Bible Study 10:45am Service United Methodist Church Pastor: Earl Andrews Enfield Center Road 273-3919 Handicapped accessible Sunday Service at 11:00, Sunday School at loam 5 • Fall 1996 NATIONAL ADULT IMMUNIZATION AWARENESS WEEK OCTOBER 20-26, 1996 Have you had a tetanus diptheriais to inform adults of the importance ofthem booster shot in the last ten yearn If you obtaining protection through " What is the flu vacine° The flu can't remember or know, it's probably been li immunizations against 10 potentially fatal it vaccine for the 1996-1997 flu season I longer than ten years Come to one of the or debilitating illnesses influenza, !, includes three different flu viruses believed I Tompkins County Health Department's 11 pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis A and j to be most likely to come to the United'; Walk-in Clinics to get a tetanus diptheria II B, measles, mumps, rubella, diptheria, 9 States this year. All the viruses in the booster for $5 I tetanus, and varicella (chicken pox). I vaccine are killed so you can not get the Walk-in Clinics I The Tompkin's County Health flu from the flu shot. • Ist Tuesday of the month atliDepartment Walk-in Clinics provide the Clinics are held at the following Tompkin's County Library, 4:30- � following immunizations for free for ii times and locations. 6:30pm. i,l children under 18 years of age tetanus, it • Oct. 16 Danby Federated Church 9am- • di then polio, measles, mumps, rubella 12 m. Sou[hside daCotnmunityy of the m Centeronth , li a d hepatitis B. The pfollowing II • Oct. 16 Ithaca High School 4:30- II 1:00-3:OOpm. immunizations are available for adults for! 6:30pm. 3rd Tuesday of the month at $5 per shot: tetanus booster, measles, II • Oct. 18 Sr. Citizen Center 9am-1_' pm • �I mumps and rubella. • Oct. 21 Dryden Fire Hall 9am-12pm. Tompkin's County Health'„ If you would rather have a',. • Oct. 22 Saint Catherine of Siena 9am- Department, 4:30-6:30pm, j schedualed appointment at a daytime clinic, !1 12pm For more information, just call 1� call 274-6616. You can also register your !11 • Oct 23 Groton Sr. Center 2-4pm 274-6616. i1 child's immunization record with the • Oct. 24 Slaterville Community Center While immunization rates for Health Department's Immunization,! 4-6pm. children have improved dramatically in II Registry.Ili • Oct 25 Ellis Hollow Apts 9am-12pm. recent years, many adolescents and adults Ij Flu Clinics 1996 '� • Oct. 28 T-burg Presbyterian Church are not adequately protected against,! Believe it or not flu season is fast j; 9am-12pm. dangerous disease. Each year in the United 'l, approaching Your best defense is to eat II • Oct. 29 Lansing Methodist Church States, as many as 50,000 to 70,000 adults right, stay fit and get a flu shot The Ii1�, 9am-12pm. die needlessly from vaccine -preventable Tompkin's County Health Department and • Oct. 30 Ame Zion Church 10am-12pm. diseases or thew complications. Influenza, II Senior Citizen's Council are sponsoring flu Nov 1 Newfield Fire Hall 9am-12pm. pneumonia and hepatitis B lead the list. clinics throughout the county in October "i • Nov. 1 Enfield School 4-6pm. Deaths from these three infections are ;j and November. !� • Nov. 7 Sr. Citizen Center 4-6:30pm. estimated to be 60 times greater than deaths:! Flu vaccine is available every fall',i If you have any questions, please from all vaccine -preventable diseases in jl to people with chronic illness and for those II call 274-6616. children. II 65 and older for a nominal fee of $8. No lj Information reprinted with permission, from October 20-26 is the nation's i,i one will be denied based on their inability to materials provided courtesy of the Tompkin's annual National Adult Immunizationl'I pay Remember... Senior Citizens are;l County Health Department Prevention Awareness Week The campaign's message jl required to bring their medicare card with �j Services FREE RABIES CLINICS All clinics are from 7-9pm $5 Donation Clinics are sponsored by the Tompkins County Health Department Tuesday October 8th Danby Fire Station Dryden Fire Station Enfield Highway Garage Wednesday October 9th Ithaca Central Fire Station - use State St. side Lansing Fire Station tr Newfield School Bus Garage Thursday October loth vk Groton Fire Station 1t Trumansburg School Bus Garage Caroline Town Highway Garage 4 Pet Vaccination • All cats and dogs are required by Tompkins County to be vaccinated for rabies. • A pet must be proven to be currently vaccinated, or it will be regarded by Tompkins County rabies policy to be unvaccinated. Your vaccination certificate is the best method of proof. • Regardless of age, your pet's first inoculation is valid for just one year. Subsequent vaccinations must be repeated every three years Information provided by the Tompkins County Department of Health Division of Environmental Health V' 6 • • • BACKYARD BURNING NOT WITHOUT COSTS... Backyard burning: Is it the Neighborly Thing to Do? Over the past few years, the number of bum barrels in Tompkins County has increased as residents have avoided higher garbage fees by burning their trash, This may seem like a good idea, but a great deal more than saving money is involved in that choice. As air pollution from burn barrels has increased, so have complaints from neighbors bothered by drifting clouds of offensive smoke. It's unfair that people have to shut their families into a closed house during the nice weather to avoid exposure to health -threatening, smelly fumes coming from their neighbors burn barrel. What's So Bad About a Little Smoke? It is difficult to determine exactly what compounds are released from as individual burn barrel- what comes out depends on the types of trash that went in and the temperature of the fire Burn barrels usually have fires that burn at low temperatures compared to large incinerator plants. The National Center for Air Pollution Control has stated that lower burning temperatures result in more harmful fumes in the air and hazardous materials in the ash. According to the NYS Department of Health, among the toxic chemicals released by burning modem household trash and their potential effects are: ♦ Benzene (induces leukemia). ♦ Toluene diisocyanate (causes asthma). ♦ Nitrogen oxides (damages lungs). ♦ Nitrile compounds (metabolic poisons and carcinogens). Other toxic compounds released from burning trash may include: ♦ Dioxins and formaldehyde. ♦ Hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid. Fall 1996 .9 e� Environmental Conservation have! been considering a statewide ban on bum barrels. Vermont, Connecticut!, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and', !many other New York counties have I !already banned open burning of 1 jgarbage. Recreational fires such as; !barbecues, marshmallow roasts, and! campfires will continue to be acceptable. No change In their legal I status is anticipated. Please be considerate of your i neighbors! Many bum barrels are placed near property lines or near' (areas where children and pets play. ,;Much of the smoke from bum barrels I is toxic and may cause adverse health � effects Children, nursing or pregnant Iwomen, and people with respiratory I illness are especially vulnerable. So think of your neighbors downwind! What are the alternatives to (burning trash? By following these) I simple tips, you can reduce the i amount of material that might l otherwise end up polluting your neighborhood air. ♦ Reduce the generation of waste. I Buy products that have less i packaging. ♦ Reuse as much waste material as possible by composting, salvaging construction material, and reusing containers. ♦ Recycle what you can't use. ♦ Finally, as an alternative to backyard burning, send all remaining trash that can't be composted or recycled to the county's waste transfer station. A monthly pick-up schedule is offered by some haulers and ndiscriminate y uming eu saves money over weekly household waste. The plastics and; pickups. other potentially harmful materials in their trash produce toxic air emissions Reprinted in part with permission of and hazardous ash. Because of then the Tompkins County Environmental difficulties of monitoring how burn Management Council. For more barrels are being used, the NYS (information they can be reached at Departments of Health and 274-5560. ♦ Hydrogen cyanide. • Carbon monoxide. ♦ Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. • Cadmium, lead and chromium. Besides the cancer -causing aspects of these chemicals, some may also cause: ♦ Eye, nose and throat irritation ♦ Lung irritation and congestion. ♦ Skin irritations or burns. ♦ Stomach or intestinal upset. ♦ Eye damage. ♦ Headaches or memory loss. But Its Legal, Isn't It? Current New York State law bans bum barrels in cities and villages, and in towns with more than 20,000 !f you can smell the smoke, you are being exposed to potentially harmful substances. residents. In addition, the Tompkins County sanitary code also bans burn barrels within one -eighth mile of a city, village, and explicitly limits trash burning in rural areas to residential rubbish consisting only of paper products, cartons and some yard waste. Buming of plastics, food waste, demolition materials, and hazardous wastes is specifically prohibited. Furthermore, county law says that release of smoke that is a nuisance or annoyance to a number of persons, or that is a threat to the health and safety of any individual, is grounds for legal action. It is likely that most owners of burn barrels are unaware of these restrictions and may be I b th