HAMMONDSPORT HAPPENINGS

• What wonderful weather we were given the entire weekend of the Glenn H. Curtiss Seaplane Fly-In. With our home just 1 and a quarter miles down the West Lake Road, we enjoyed sitting out on our porch just about all the time, I confess, to watch the seaplanes come and go! How much my mother, the late Esther Gerow Hooker, would have enjoyed it. She grew up with Curtiss and was thrilled with all his ability of creating the flying machine!!! She was at at his first public announ cement of flight with many others! She was also at his funeral at the Pleasant Valley Cemetary with me for we lived up by the cemetary and I was used to walking down the back field to the gravesites, visiting our started crying and could not stop! It was my first time of knowing or realizing how famous he had become! Never, ever forgot it!

• Today, Sunday the 30th of September the Bath,Hammondsport Bocce Group will be meeting for supper at the home of Hope Hereford on the West Lake Road at 5:00pm. If the night is a warm clear night, Ms Hereford cordially invites the group to come down around 4:00pm to enjoy the outdoors and the lake.

On Thursday, October 4, the group will be enjoying dinner at the Pleasant Valley Inn, to officially close the Bocce Ball play. However, although several members of the group winter in warmer climates, the others still here year School there is a 6:30pm PTO meeting in the high school cafeteria for parents/ teachers. O n Thursday, October 4 there is an Alfred minivisit for seniors. and on Friday the 5th, there is early dismissal.

• The Thursday Nighters, with Janny Koster, president, will be meeting in the Main Street Hammondsport Central Scholl cafeteria at 6:30pm, October 4. Members are asked to bring a dish to pass, and their own table service. The program of the evening will be a visit by the 'Port's former business man, WW2 Airman Richard Falvey.

• The Hammondsport Farmers' Market held at the Citizen Hose Firemen Field from

• The well-known Wineglass Marathon is being held today,

September 30. Up in Bath Police Chief David Rouse is making preparations including necessary parking restrictions on certain streets on which the marathon goes. One will see temporary NO PARKING along the north side of West Steuben and West Morris Streets and on both sides of East Steuben. Bath Police will not allow parking at meters on both sides of West Steuben and the north side of East Steuben. Such restrictions will be over at the end of Wineglass activities!

Church news:

• St. Gabriel's Catholic: Religious Educatioon classes Sermon and Sue Morris; Grade 4: Patty Shippee; Grades 5, 6: Bob Matthewson. The church is extremely grateful for the gift of teaching by these people who share so generously.

Forum Meeting meets after the 11:00am Mass Sunday, the 30th. All church members are members of the Forum so please come and take part!

• St. James: 9:00am Holy Eucharist and Sunday School. Thank you to To Darlene Herrick for scrapping, sanding and repainting the sign in front of the church! I t surely needed it and the church is grateful!

• First United Methodist Church: As by a l0:00am combined service, says pastor Paul Rowlings. Onalee Clark is still looking for old copies of FLAME and MESSENGER from l984 through 2005l. Anyone having any, please call or bring them to the office..

• First Presbyterian Churches of Hammondsport and Pulteney: Remember to hold the date of the annual Crop Walk in this area for all churches: Sunday, October 14, 07. CW is an agency of Church World Service, an organization working to fight hunger and poverty all over the world . CWS also provides self-help during natural disasters. 75% of your donation goes to worldwide

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Great Grandparents just about once a week. But, when planes came overhead dropping flowers on his grave, I around, get together to play dominoes and cards!

• October 1 at Hammondsport Central 1:00am to 5:00pm on Fridays, begun there in August, closes October 1st. They thank all who have gotten goods there this summer. began Sept. 23. The church comissioned the teachers at the 11:00 Mass. The teachers are Grade 1: Denece Gossie; Grade 2 and 3: Diana September has a fifth Sunday of the month there will be a combination of the early service and traditional service relief. In Hammondsport 25% goes to the local Food Pantry and local Meals on Wheels!