It's Garbage Day!

Tracy Olivera and Evan Casey were married, yesterday, at St. Bernard's Catholic Church!

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Right on the Front Page of yesterday morning's O-D!

The WCS Color Guard and Marching Band
also performed in the Hamilton parade in the morning.

Their next appearance will be at the
45th Annual Waterville Fire Department Field Days Parade
on Saturday, the 18th.

After that, next stop: ORLANDO!


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On The Fourth there were Flags ......

... enough wild strawberries for traditional shortcake ..........

............ and the corn surely must have been "knee high by the Fourth of July," even though I couldn't find any knees but my own to prove it!

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This morning it's 49 degrees and not very bright.

From the WKTV Weather Center: "After such a nice weekend, it looks like we're heading back to more unsettled weather. A cold front will drag in a pocket of cool air this afternoon. This cold front will be accompanied by a few showers and thunderstorms. Highs this afternoon in the mid 70s. A few leftover showers and storms tonight, followed by partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures once again. Highs in the low 50s.
Cooler weather expected tomorrow and Wednesday, with instability showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon hours. High temperatures both days only near 70.
Drying out, with a return to sunshine Thursday with highs in the mid to upper 70s. Warming up for Friday and Saturday, with temperatures climbing into the 80s. Boilermaker weekend looks unsettled at this point, but not a washout."

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This brief notice appears in today's Observer-Dispatch:

Robert J. Ford, Jr. Clinton
Robert J. (Bob) Ford, Jr., 64, of Clinton, passed away Saturday, July 4, 2009, in his home that he built, with his wife by his side. Arrangements with the Kloster-Northrop & Bentz Funeral Home, Waterville, are incomplete. A full obituary will be in Tuesday's paper.

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Linda Rauscher has sent me an Email request:

"Glenys Jones Williams and I are planning the WCS Class of ’69 40th reunion. Unfortunately, we are having trouble locating some of our classmates and are hoping that one of your blog readers might be able to help us out. These are the folks we can’t find: Tom Barron, Jane Doughty, Linda Hamm Plano, Phyllis Heim Tarbox, Sue Lewis Traylor, Joan Stephens and Ron Wisnoski. If anyone knows how to reach them, we would appreciate it if they would contact glenyswilliams@windstream.net."

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-and from Sandy Martin:

" The Waterville Red Hats met the last Thursday in June at the pavilion in Deansoro for a "brown bag" lunch. Each member brought an extra special lunch. The lunches were numbered and each member drew a number and received a lunch other then their own. It was a pleasant surprise to enjoy a lunch made by someone else. After lunch we played a few fun games of bingo. The weather was beautiful and the park was a great place to gather. Our thanks to Barb for arranging the get together."

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The first time that Norman P. Deep, Jr. ever saw the Sanger Mansion was on May 22, 1976, when he was just a boy. Along with his two sisters and his mother and father, he had boarded a horse-drawn Conestoga wagon at their home in Clinton and riden to Waterville to join seven other wagons of the New York State Bicentennial Wagon Train, all making an historic trip to Valley Forge. The seventy-five or so wagon- and horse-borne travelers were encamped on the grounds of the mansion that night, guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Hall.

Norm Deep never forgot being there!

Over the years Mr. Deep, now a Social Studies teacher and track coach at Clinton High School, has come back to visit the mansion many times. He mourned its decline; he met the McLanes early in 2006 and followed their stunning and successful rehabilitation of what Kathryn McLane always called, simply, "the house."

Last Wednesday, Norm and his wife, Erika VonSchiller-Deep, came again to the top of Sanger Hill, followed the long driveway and parked in the courtyard, but this time they didn't come to visit: they came to stay. After all these years, Norman Deep's childhood dream has come true and the elegant old home - along with the deer and foxes and wild bunnies and heaps of history - now really is theirs.

Welcome to Waterville!

In the meantime, the McLanes, having spent the holiday with their children and Mark's parents, are now heading southward, looking for a new home in Florida: preferably, said Kathryn, one that is "already finished!"

Thank you for being here!

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Another "Welcome" to Cheryl and John Lincoln-Lovely. The couple has purchased the early 19th-century building on Buell Avenue that was most recently owned by Mrs. Leigh and they are in the process of turning it into a year-'round residence!

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FOR THE RECORD

Village Board is on Vacation: there is no meeting tonight.

TOMORROW IS BIG TRASH DAY

Have a Great Day, Everyone!