HAMMONDSPORT HAPPENINGS

+ The Hammondsport Alumni Association will hold its 105th Annual Meeting and Dinner at the Hammondsport Fire Department Hall, just 27 days from today: Saturday, July 28. Contact Kelly Bussmann, Alumni Association Secretary at hportalu@linkny. com for more information.

+ The Director of the Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum and Art Gallery, Paul Sprague, is happy to report that the Museum has recently received a collection of wine glass stemware of some 500 pieces from Mrs. Cora Tubbs, Bluff Point. Miss. Tubbs has been collecting this glasssware for over forty years! The Museum owes a special debt of gratitude to Mrs. Hubbs for her thoughfulness and generosity with this donation. Part of this unique colletion is now on display within he museum and the public is invited to come up and see it!

+ The June area Red Hat Society, The Corkers, headed by Lillian Elwood, enjoyed a luncheon at Esperanza on Keuka Lake Thursday, June 28th. This months plans are being made for a trip to to be sold at their annual Fundraiser in August! They will accept hardback books, paperbacks plus movies and puzzles. (Please no Reader's Digest Condensed Books or encylopedia sets.) The book sale donations will be welcomed anytime during open hours. For more information call the Fred and Harriett Taylor Memorial at 607-569-2045.

+ From July 1 through 31 at the Curtiss Museum there is a Vintage Motorcycle Exhibit. Call the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum for more info: 569-2160.

+ The Hammondsport Central School Spanish Club wishes to thank all their supporters who helped make their trip to Mexico possible. Special thanks goes to the Five Star Bank of Hammondsport, Bobber's Fishing Excursionse and both the Hammondsport American Legion and Heron Hill Winery for the use of their coolers. Muchas Graciasto all. Congratulations also goes to Kelly Fitzpatrick, winner of the 3 hour Bobber's Fishing Excursion.

+ The Steuben Arc Foundation, established in will match campaign dollar for dollar. The Foundation has approved grants to help Special Olympics athletes and disability advocates with travel expenses, providing funds to support art projects and to buy education and training equipment and support vocational programs.

+ This afternoon, July 1 at Heron Hill Winery, there will be Tunes in the Tent begining at l2:30 and ending at 4:30pm. The opening program will be Big Leg Emma. Free admission.

+ The Hammondsport Summer Concert Series in the Band Stand on the Village Square held their Kick-Off concert on Thursday, June 21 with Summer Solstice with Andrea Dodge and its second one on the 28th was with Jamie Notarthomas. Sponsored this season by Hammondsport's Five Star Bank, July 5 sees the Town Pants offering their music from 6-8 p.m. The every Thursday evening musicales continue through August 30, 2007! Come and enjoy!

+ Next Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, the 41st Annual Art Show will Strawberry Festival on Saturday, July 14, from 4-7 p.m. The full menu includes hot dogs with meat sauce and chips for $3.00 PLUS EITHER/OR Strawberry sundae with homemade ice cream; Strawberry shortcake with biscuit: $3.50 and beverages.

+ First Friday Fellowship meets in the undercroft of St. James Episcopal Church in Hammondsport, Friday evening, July 6, at 7 p.m. This ecumenical gathering is open to anyone who enjoys Christian praise and worship music. Bring your musical instruments to help make a joyful noise! For more information, see www.fffship.com.

+ Hammondsport church news: St. Gabriel's Catholic Church: 78 Shethar Street. St. Gabriels welcomes back its summer parishioners once again. Remember the Parish Cookbooks are being sold after the Masses for a low $10. You will have recipes from Hammondsport's Finest Cooks (and some of the rest of us,) right in your kitchen.

Congratulations to Robert Matthewson and Katelin Isaacson of our parish both of whom graduated from live a life of faith and patriotism set forth by the many examples of the Knights of Columbus members in our communities.

+ St. James Episcopal Church, corner of Lake and Main Street: 9 a.m. today, Holy Eucharist and Sunday School. July 1 is 5th Pentecost; Assisting the Rector with the service this morning are C. Skinner, Chalice; L. Nichiporuk, Acolytes; D. Erway, Connie Van Houten, Readers; P. Mannikas, C. Manikas, Ushers.

+ First United Methodist Church, lower Lake Street. The week-long ecumenical Bible School at this church began June 25, going through the 29th. Classes ran daily from 9 a.m.-12 noon. Community Vacation Bible School theme was "Take the Plunge and Make a Splash with Jesus." There was a water park and Bible adventures the kids loved. Many teens and adults assisted from each church and the churches thanked the Methodist Church for hosting this annual Ecumenical Bible School and the host church thanked all the churches for helping them. Hammondsport is a

+ First Presbyterian Churches of Hammondsport and Pulteney: Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Pulteney; 11 a.m. in Hammondsport. Next Sunday, July 8 at 9:30 a.m., The Touch of Brass will be returning to the Hammondsport Church. Friends and summer tourist are free to join in the celebration. No charge to anyone. Each Thursday at l0 a.m. at the Pulteney Church, all are invited to come to the church for prayer and Bible study focusing on Wayne Muller's book, Sabbath.

Each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. there is a Farmer's Market sale in front of the Hammondsport Church. Members are asked to contribute any fruit or vegetable produce and baked goods for sale that they can. If you can work a few hours, see Georgina or Bryan. On Art Show weekend, all the community are welcome to hear The Touch of Brass beginning at 9:39 a.m. Before the program there is a continuing breakfast in the undercroft for a good will offering from 8- 9:15 a.m. headed by Jane Griswold and Linda Kressly,

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+ Skyland in Hector!

+ The brand new public library, 21 William Street, The Fred and Harriett Taylor Memorial Library, are asking for book donations l997 to help developmentally disabled men and women or the Arc of Steuben Agency, is committing $20,000, toward a challenge grant to support the Together We Soar capital campaign. The Foundation be held on the Village Square. Call 776-7774 for more information.

Church news:

+ Mitchellsville Methodist Church welcomes you to a high school last weekend, for being awarded a 2007 Bath Knights of Columbus memorial graduation grant. It is the hoe of the Knights that through this grant they can inspire graduating senior to small village where all the churches love each other and work diligently together. Another testimony is Lenten time where they are work together. We are truly blessed. Pulteney. Come and enjoy! On the Saturday and Sunday of the Art Show, Strawberry Shortcake will be sold all day Saturday and Sunday after worship.