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Tomrrow’s going to be a fantastic day for a garage sale. Or better yet, a GIVEAWAY.

St Martin Lutheran Church 813 Bay Road, is holding a used furniture giveaway on Saturday, August 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They’ll have several items from displayed in the parking lot, free for the taking. Items will include chairs, a leather sofa and love seat, lamps, end tables, coffee tables, wall shelves, and a dining room hutch. Come explore and take away.

Get there early because you know they won’t last long.

Tonight’s (Friday night’s) concert at the gazebo has been rescheduled for tomorrow night (Saturday Aug. 14) due to the threat of rain.

The concert will feature Spooky & the Truth, and will begin at 7 p.m. at the gazebo on North Ave. Bring your quad chairs, blankets and coolers and enjoy the beautiful evening of free music.

Looking ahead, the Village Quilt Shoppe is marking its second anniversary. Plans are to hold their celebration on Friday and Saturday, September 10 and 11. Among other events those days, Ruthann Stillwell will be doing a trunk show of some of her and Susan Rooney’s patterns. There will be a demo on a curved table runner, refreshments, and specials.

Visit the Village Quilt Shoppe website for more inormation.

The Village Quilt Shoppe is located at 21 E. Main St. in the Village of Webster.

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Just a short little announcement that many have already read on my Facebook page. But in case anyone else would be interested …

I am honored and humbled to announce that tonight, Thursday evening Aug. 5, at the Webster Town Board meeting, I will be receiving a proclamation for outstanding community service for my work with my Webster on the Web blog.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m., but my presentation should be closer to 7:30. Please feel free to stop by and say hi; the whole thing should only take a few minutes. I would love to see anyone and everyone, because YOU are the people — the ones reading my blog — for whom I have been writing Webster on the Web for 13 years.

Town Hall is located at 1000 Ridge Road. The meeting room is toward the back of the parking lot.

(P.S. There’s a pretty good chance … ok, a certainty .. that we’ll be heading back to Barry’s afterwards.)

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As this weird and very challenging school year draws to a close, I would really like to send some shout-outs to some of the teachers who made the best of a really stinky situation.

As I wrote in my blog a little more than a week ago,

Tell me about a teacher who has made a difference in your child’s life. Someone who has gone above and beyond to make sure this unusual school year was the best it could be. Perhaps it’s the science teacher who spent an extra hour after school to help your daughter finish a tough lab. Or the fourth grade teacher who has a knack for getting to know each student in his class on a personal level. How about that remote teacher who somehow made virtual learning FUN?

Ask your kids who they think their best teachers are, and why. Or better yet, have your kids write to me themselves. It doesn’t even have to be a teacher they had this year. I’d love to hear from seniors who remember their favorite elementary school teachers.

Email me your thoughts and I’ll post them sometime next week. I haven’t heard from many people yet, which is a little disappointing. This year more than any other, I think we need to show our teachers how much we appreciate and respect the job they’re doing.

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Our friendly neighborhood pollinators are getting some respect and attention these days thanks to the efforts of Daisy Girl Scout Troop 60344.

Earlier this spring, the Scouts, all kindergarten or first graders, made posters about why pollinators are important to our ecosystem. It was the “Take Action Project” part of their year-long “Welcome to the Flower Garden” journey badge.

The young artists shared their posters with each other at their meeting on May 17. Each girl then had to find a place in the community to display her poster, and take a photo of the final location.

Keep an eye out for these posters, because they’re all around town (or soon will be). The Scouts, and where they’ve hung their posters (if decided), are:

• Alayna Henrichs
• Alexa Weber: her father’s office
• Claire Frisk: Gosnell Big Woods trailhead (TBD)
• Harper Bozzelli: Four Mile Creek trailhead (TBD)
• Julia Meyers: Maplewood Senior Living Community
• Kennedy Kleps: Whiting Nature Preserve trailhead (TBD)
• Natalie Wigton: her father’s office
• Penelope Patterson: her grandfather’s office
• Sophia Elias

The girls’ troop leaders are Linda Meyers and Daniela Viavattine.

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The weather was gorgeous yesterday — albeit a little warm — for the 36th annual Dancing With Denise recital, held this year in the large grassy yard behind the school’s Gravel Rd. studio.

All day, young ballerinas strutted their stuff for an adoring audience who watched from quad chairs spread across the lawn, braving the hot sun for hours. At the end of the day the dancers extended their love even further when they made a donation to Webster-based Bella’s Bumbas, a nonprofit grassroots organization which builds pint-sized “Bumba” wheelchairs for children with mobility issues.

The generous donation was enough to cover the cost of building several of the pint-sized Bumbas.

Kudos to Denise Baller for taking her lessons beyond just dance, and teaching her students to think about others. Or, as she wrote on the Dancing With Denise Facebook page, teaching them “how spreading compassion and love can make little ones who aren’t as mobile ‘feel better when they are dancing’!”

Thank you to Rebecca Orr for providing me with a lot of photos for this gallery from the event:

Read more about Bella’s Bumbas and the great work they do on their Facebook page and webpage.

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The Schroeder Theater Company is gearing up to bring a live-streamed theatrical performance to the Webster community this Thursday and Friday night, May 21 and 22.

Here’s a run-down of what’s happening, taken directly from the press release I received:

The challenging year we have all endured has led to many innovative and creative solutions. From contactless delivery to holidays spent over FaceTime with loved ones, we have found ways to connect and celebrate.

As humans, that’s just what we do. Adapt. Overcome. Rise above.

Last May, we played into the novelty of Zoom and gave you an experience like you have never seen before with “Clue: On Zoom.”

This year we wanted to push the boundaries of theater, the performing arts, and storytelling even further. That is why we elected to take the cast off stage, off Zoom, and into the real world. That’s right. For the first time ever, The Schroeder Theater Company is proud to present “Our Place”: an entirely filmed, on-location production.

The show will be available via live stream on Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 each. Click here to reserve yours.

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On the happy occasion of my birthday yesterday, my husband and I had dinner at the Cobblestone on Main, Webster’s newest restaurant.

It was our second time there. A few weeks ago we were honored to be among the Cobblestone’s very first customers the evening before they officially opened, and we couldn’t wait to go back again. It was that good.

Last night we not only had a delicious dinner, but were pleased to see that the Cobblestone’s new front patio is already being installed. When I last talked to owners Dan and Sarah Bresnahan a few weeks ago, they told me about their plans for a patio, but I had no idea it would be happening so soon.

The new patio will accommodate five or six tables, Dan told me, and they hope to complete it by the end of May. They also have plans to put “comfy furniture” out on the side patio/porch by the main entrance where patrons can sit and enjoy cocktails while they wait for their table to become available.

So basically the Cobblestone, already an excellent addition to our village, is getting better every day. Make sure to check them out if you haven’t yet. The renovations are beautiful, the servers are friendly and super competent, and the menu offers delightful twists on some perennial favorites (like the huge chicken wings which are more like chicken legs, and the “pou-tots,” poutine made out of tater tots).

The Cobblestone on Main is located at 109 West Main St. in the Village of Webster. Click here to visit their Facebook page.

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A new water feature just installed in the Webster Schroeder senior courtyard should go a long way to help our students relax and unwind a bit as this difficult school year comes to a close.

The new feature is the beautiful result of a partnership between Webster Schroeder Principal Paul Benz and the Schroeder PTSA. They’ve been working together since September 2019 to beautify and enhance the often-used courtyard.

Schroeder PTSA chair Stacie Peters wrote,

We both wanted a calming water feature for the students to enjoy while outside in the courtyard. We worked with Gary Smith, owner of Nature’s Accents, and we decided a bubbling rock feature would be perfect for this space. Gary was wonderful to work with and students/staff are so happy with the results.

PTSA representatives, Smith, Principal Benz, and several student and parent volunteers worked together one day over Spring Break to create the feature, prepping the area for bubbling rock, laying stone around a trio of pottery art pieces and trees, and creating a separate area for teachers to use as an outdoor classoom.

“A huge thanks go to our volunteers Andy P., Sawyer P., Ryan P., Robin M., Benjamin M., Jack S., Brendan M.,
Sean S., Zach P., Abby N., Jason L., Sophie W., Stephen W., and Jake M.,” Peters wroite. Plus, “we can’t thank (Gary Smith) enough for all his patience, time, and support in helping us bring this water feature to Schroeder.”

Seniors are already enjoying the newly beautified courtyard, soaking up the sun and relaxing by the water feature, reveling in the new, peaceful corner of their high school world.

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