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Clyde Lions Club – Annual Ham & Cabbage Dinner
Annual Ham & Cabbage Supper
Includes – Scalloped potatoes, rolls &. dessert
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 5 – 6:30 PM
Take Outs Available
Clyde Fire Hall
Donation: $3.00 Children 10 & Under - $7.00 Adults
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Open for Season Wildlife Viewing and Volunteer Opportunities!
The Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, located on US Route 20 East, Seneca Falls, invites you to come out to where the WILD things are this spring! As the ice and snow melt away, the Refuge comes alive with birds of all kinds. From bald eagles and osprey to geese, shorebirds, and thousands of ducks, you can take advantage of the facilities and opportunities to view wildlife virtually in your own backyard. The popular self-guided auto-tour route through the Refuge’s Main Pool, two observation towers, viewing decks, a photography blind, and walking trails reveal the sights and sounds of migration.
Be sure to stop in at the Visitor Center to check out our viewing room! From the Visitor Center deck, you can spot a bald eagle nest—the refuge’s fourth nest since 1986. For the best chance to see any of the refuge’s wildlife, visit during the first two hours or last two hours of sunlight—and bring your binoculars!
The Visitor Center and the Wildlife Drive auto-tour route are open to visitors!
The Visitor Center and The Lodge nature store are open beginning Saturday, March 19, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. On Sunday, March 20, from 1:30 – 3:30 PM, stop in the Visitor Center to meet members of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex – a dedicated group supporting refuge, NYSDEC and Montezuma Audubon Center projects and programs. Refreshments will be served.
The Wildlife Drive is open to foot, ski and snowshoe traffic from now until April 1. Once the ice and snow melt, take a short walk up the Drive to experience the best waterfowl migration around! Canada geese, snow geese and swans are already passing through!
Beginning April 1, weather-permitting, the Wildlife Drive will be open to motor vehicles.
Want to Volunteer?
We are currently looking for volunteers for our MARSH! program: Join this volunteer group — the Montezuma Alliance for the Restoration of Species & Habitats — to help refuge and NYSDEC biologists and partners combat invasive species and restore healthy homes for wildlife. The work is hands-on as we cut and pull invasive species and replant with natives that will be more beneficial to wildlife and less harmful to Montezuma habitats overall! Work days will be Tuesdays and Saturdays, with lunch provided by the Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex. Please visit www.friendsofmontezuma.org for a schedule of work days; note that work days will be either at the refuge or at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah, NY.
For more information, call (315) 568-5987 or visit www.fws.gov/r5mnwr or www.friendsofmontezuma.org.
Lincoln Celebration a Rousing Success!
In a wonderful feat of working together, 9 local service organizations teemed up for an early morning reenactment of Abraham Lincoln’s train stop in Clyde, which took place on his way to be inaugurated as President of the United States.
Lincoln’s trip across New York
Register to Cycle the Erie Canal
All you bicycle enthusiasts, this activity comes right through Clyde every year.
Cycling the Erie Canal 2011
July 10 -17
Details: http://www.ptny.org/canaltour/index.shtml
And, if you are from Clyde, and you do this, be sure to let us know so we can write about it here!
Winter Breakout at the Audubon Center
The Monetzuma Audubon Center will be hosting a Winter Breakout for school children in grades K-5. This event will take place on Wednesday, February 23rd from 9am to 4pm.
Celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s Historic Train Stop in Clyde
All rights reserved by csplibNine Clyde, NY service groups and the Village of Clyde are coming together on Friday morning, Feb. 18th, to observe the stop by President-Elect Abraham Lincoln in Clyde 150 years ago. Lincoln’s train, taking him to his inauguration in Washington in 1861, stopped in Clyde for just five minutes to get wood and water, between 8:44 and 8:49 a.m. Thousands turned out to see the President, who made an appearance and said a few words on that morning.
The observance in Clyde will be but one part of four years of commemorations across the country as Americans remember the Civil War era. That day, Feb. 18th, was also the day that representatives of southern states witnessed the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederates States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. Lincoln’s challenges greatly increased on that day.
The Clyde event will begin outside the Mill Museum at 8:30 a.m. and a re-enactment will follow. Several individuals will be in costume and will mingle among the spectators gathering in front of the porch of the museum, which will be transformed into the back of a passenger coach. Appropriate sound effects will also be heard.
By 9:00 a.m. the spectators will walk to the Clyde Fire Hall where cocoa and cookies will be provided. The program will feature short comments by historians Wayne and Pat Morrison, by author John Fagant, by school principal Tom Castellano, and by James Darnell, who will introduce the commemorative envelope that will be cancelled at the post office that day.
Mr. Fagant’s recent publication is The Best of the Bargain: Abraham Lincoln in Western New York and it will be for sale that morning. Pat Morrison’s Of Wood and Water, a children’s book, will also be available along with other items.
Hospice Volunteers Needed in Clyde
Lifetime Care is looking for ordinary, hard-working people with gentle spirits and helping hearts to assist patients and families at the end-of-life. Hospice volunteers visit patients, sit with patients while caregivers get a break, run simple errands for patients, offer support during bereavement and undertake other caring acts.
Volunteer assignments are geared to your schedule and what you wish to offer. Typically, our volunteers provide simple acts: companionship and friendship, emotional support, someone to listen — but the small things you do can make an enormous difference.
For more information, please call 315-332-4020 or email diana.becker @ lifetimecare.org. The volunteer process includes completing an application and interview, a background check, drug screening and comprehensive training program all a no cost to you.
Clyde Community Players Host Murder Mystery
The Clyde Community Players are up to alot of fun in our new performance of “A Murder In Crooked House”. A murder mystery musical that will be performed as a dinner theatre to raise funds for the summer show of “Annie”.
Crooked House has all the makings of a classic whodunnit down to a wild eccentric neighbor Colonel Chutney played by Dave Price. And one can’t have a whodunnit without the typical old English butler, Jeeves, played by Lawrence Dapolito.
The Clyde Community Players have a new member they have added to their group who happens to be Mayor Jerry Fremouw, who plays Leon Russell, a TV executive. Leon is trying to get out of being blackmailed by playing a dead man, but is found out by super sleuth Hercules Porridge, Brennan Bastedo.
This whodunnit is a very comical, intelligent mystery that brings wonderful singing and dancing with songs like “What Kind of Funny Farm Is This?” and “A Dark and Stormy Night”.
The Clyde Community Players will be performing this show for Valentine’s Day, February 11, at Studebaker’s Restaurant in Lyons with an Hors D’ Ourves Bar, and February 12 at the Clyde VFW and March 18 for St. Patrick’s Day at Donselaar’s Restaurant in Clyde for sit down dinners.
Each show will be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate these holidays with your loved one and win great prizes – if you are able to solve the mystery !
Please help support the Clyde Community Players raise funds by attending any of these performances. Seating is limited so get your tickets now at these participating businesses: in Lyons at Studebaker’s Restaurant, in Clyde at Robert’s Hardware, Key Bank and The Berry Patch Floral Shop.
Tickets are $20 per person per show or $50 for all three shows. Thank you for your support, the Clyde Community Players are confident you won’t go away disappointed. This is just the event you need to break up the winter doldrums.
Galen Historical Society Hosts Carolyn Adriaansen on “Outhouses”
The Galen Historical Society invites the public to attend our Quarterly program featuring Carolyn Adriaansen on the topic of “Outhouses”.
Find out everything you wanted to know about “Outhouses” and have an enjoyable evening of free entertainment.
January 17th at 6pm in the Brick Church Museum located on the corner of Sodus and North Park Streets in Clyde.
For more information call 315-923-7138.