Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!

56 degrees, and WKTV predicts:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny and warm with scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 82
• Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Low 57
• Thursday: Partly sunny. High 79 Low 58

We had some very dark skies , a few sprinkles and lots of rumbling but nothing like this:

"Rusty" sent me a photograph and note!

"Picture of hail we got in Brookfield around 5 PM. With 8 flower gardens and a big veggie garden it's really not what we needed."

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SPECIAL NOTE!

Remember when Waterville students won first prize in "It's a Zoo!" - a trip to the Bronx Zoo?

Well - they went there yesterday and I've been told that WKTV will do a story about them on tonight's 5 o'clock News!!

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Karl Davis took the next two photographs at the "D.F.P." at "Michael's" on Sunday.

Sandy Davis chatting with Mark and Kathryn McLane while Kelly Falk talks with another group of guests.

There's Joe Falk and Kristin Strohmeyer; Nora Keating and Marty Cleary and - I think - Bill Vetter.

Sandy must have taken this shot, because there's Karl next to Lori Meszler, then Allison talking with Jean Davis and, again, Bill Vetter.

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There was excitement on Putnam Street, yesterday morning:
the Falks' new Swimming Pool arrived!

Nancy's garden on the side lawn of the Rectory at St. Bernard's Catholic Church is filled, now, with lupine, poppies, lemon lilies, peonies and daisies.


Earlier, yesterday, I did drive down Sanger Avenue to take an "After" picture to go with yesterday's "Before" photograph. Some difference!!

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I took a ride to Deansboro at around 3:30 yesterday afternoon to check out the D.O.T. paving project.

The Northbound lane has been completed and now paving moves Southward, back towards Waterville. It was single lane traffic all the way from Edie Eastman's (this side of Shanley Road) to the old Depot in Deansboro with the worst traffic tie-up right at the junction of 12B where at least twenty vehicles sat waiting for at least ten minutes. Plan accordingly!

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(Please click to enlarge.)

Margaret Bornick sent me this program of Tapestry's June 25 program - part of the Utica Monday Night series. (These are very impressive and outstandingly beautiful compositions. It should be a grand concert!)

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And Pat Stone sent this to me, yesterday, announcing

HELMES FAMILY REUNION
for descendants of

Bernard Henry Helmes (1851-1918)
and his wife,Anna Tresa Afenslag (1851-1923)
who immigrated to Herkimer County in 1885.

Their children were

Frederick A. Helmes, Hannah/Anna M. Helmes,

William J. Helmes, Sr., Bernard/Ben F. Helmes, and

Louis R. Helmes.

Bernard's parents were Henry

& Elizabeth Blomer Helmes from Germany.
Many family members lived in Utica, Sauquoit, & Waterville areas.

The family who settled in Waterville, before April 1930,

were William, Sr. and his wife, Josephine H. Roth Helmes.

Their children were Frank, Betty, Bill, Jr., Fred, Dorothy, Hilda

and June. All the children settled in Waterville when they

married, except Dorothy who died when she was a child.

Reunion Date: July 15, 2007 at Verona Beach State Park.

For more info, contact Pat (Rowe) Stone at (585) 427-2120.

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