The Annual Sherburne Pageant of Bands will be held this weekend, at the Sherburne High School. Pageant competitions will be held tonight & tomorrow, the Parade will begin Saturday at 1:00 PM on Route 12 in downtown Sherburne.
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This weekend is the MX Rewind Weekend at the Unadilla Valley Sports Center on State Route 8, in New Berlin. MX Rewind is a full weekend of vintage racing and has become the largest vintage event of its kind in the nation. Racing begins on Friday with AHRMA cross-country racing and moves into motocross racing on Saturday and Sunday. More information is available at 965-8450 or unadillamx.com.
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The Northeast Classic Car Museum at 24 Rexford Street in Norwich has a new exhibit starting this weekend featuring 70’s Muscle Cars. Among the vehicles on display, a ’70 Mustang Boss 302, a ’71 Mercury Cougar, a ’79 Pontiac Trans Am, Hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily, more information is available at 334-2886 or classicarmuseum.org.
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The Family Resource Network will have a presentation on Puberty & Sexuality tomorrow at SUNY Delhi from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; Network Spokesperson Robin Piefer explains;
(Robin Piefer 5-31-19)
More information is available at 432-0001 at familyrn.org.
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Greater Chenango Cares is once again coming to Norwich to provide services for families in need. Greater Chenango Cares is a Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training event. It gives joint training opportunities to reservists to increase their deployment readiness while also providing free medical, dental, vision and veterinary services to the community. This year’s Chenango Cares will be held at Norwich High School from July 11th through the 20th. The Chenango United Way is looking for volunteers for the event; those interested can call 334-8815.
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Norwich city officials are monitoring the situation at 33 Mitchell Street, after part of a wall at the building fell to the ground Wednesday. All tenants were evacuated & city officials blocked off the intersection of Mitchell & State Street while they try to determine of the 1855 building can be safely repaired, or needs to be razed.
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The Scripps National Spelling Bee had to name 8 champions yesterday, after the 8 winners continued to spell words correctly round after round after round. Organizers said that they ran out of difficult words to give to the last 8, Scripps officials gave up and declared them all co-champions, each will win the $50,000 grand prize. Melodie Loya of Bainbridge made it to the final day for the 3rd straight year, before being stumped during an afternoon round Thursday.
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Governor Cuomo today announced the application window is now open for round one of the Grow-NY food and agriculture competition. The competition is focused on growing an enduring food and agriculture innovation cluster in New York’s Finger Lakes, Central New York and Southern Tier regions. The competition will run for 3 & will offer a total of $3 million in funding for each round to innovative high-growth start-ups that are focused on the food and agriculture industry. More information is available at grow-ny.com.
Today is World No Tobacco Day, where people are trying to get the word out about the dangers of Tobacco use & the growing Concern of children getting addicted to Nicotine through fruit flavored E-Cigarettes Like Juul. Linda Wegner of Advancing Tobacco free Communities of Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie Counties said that they are hoping the state & the Federal Government do something soon:
(Linda Wegner 5-31-19)
Currently, the state wide rate of smoking is about 14%, but Delaware County is much higher at 24%, there has also been a 160% increase in E-Cigarette usage among teens in the last 2 years, each Juul cartridge contains the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of traditional cigarettes.
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A.O. Fox Hospital is offering a program this summer for individuals interested in becoming junior volunteers, to offer a helping hand to hospitalized patients, nursing home residents, and staff in a multitude of capacities. Training for accepted applicants is scheduled for Monday, July 1st from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 PM in Fox Hospital’s Education Department. Applicants must be at least 14 years of age & applications are available in the guidance offices of area high schools, all applications are due by June 18th . More Information is available at 431-5042.
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