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24 May

Here are some events taking place around town in the next few days and weeks:

CDS Monarch Life Transitions Center on Hard Road will host its Monarch Ball on Friday May 25. Entertainment will be provided by DJ Delight, and refreshments will be available. The event runs from 6:30-8:30 pm, and the cost is $5.  Attendees are encouraged to dress to impress and get their picture taken to remember the evening.

CDS is located at 860 Hard Road. Please RSVP to Summer at 347-1661 or Svanscott@cdsunistel.org.

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Webster’s Memorial Day Parade steps off from Spry Middle School at 9:30 am on Monday May 25. It will wind down South Avenue to Main, then down West Main to the Webster Cemetery, where ceremonies will begin around 9:50.

This is always a very nice parade and a very moving ceremony, so bring the whole family, set up some quad chairs, wave some flags and help honor our  veterans.

Webster’s annual Relay For Life takes place Saturday to Sunday June 2 to 3 at the Webster Thomas High School track.

I know the village of Webster always fields a team for this terrific event (the “Village Idiots”) and have heard about several teams from the school district, including the Webster Schroeder Warriors, Thomas Key Club, SparX, Board of Education, State Road Eagles, and the WCSD Transportation Department.

Even if you’re not part of a team this year, please consider coming out to enjoy all the action and show your support.  Stop by after dark if you can; the sight of hundreds of luminaria lining the track is truly inspiring.

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The Webster Central School District will present an informational community workshop on emerging drug trends on Monday, June 4. The workshop will focus particularly on marijuana, synthetic marijuana, and bath salts. National and local data on youth substance abuse will also be shared.  Jennifer Faringer, director of the DePaul National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of Rochester, will be the featured speaker.

The hour-long program will be held at Webster Thomas High School, 800 Five Mile Line Road, beginning at 7 pm.

Mark your calendars now for THE BEST BLOOD DONATION DRIVE EVER, June 6 and 7.  This is the community drive where all sorts of local businesses come together to provide donors packets of coupons for FREE STUFF, including at least three separate ice cream cones (I know. I counted.).

The drives will be held Wednesday, June 6 from noon to 7 pm at St. Paul’s Church, 783 Hard Road, and Thursday, June 7from noon to 7 pm at the West Webster Fire Hall, 1051 Gravel Road.

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Webster Museum’s Annual Barn Sale takes place Thursday-Saturday June 7, 8 and 9, from 9 am to 4 pm. This sale is so big the museum can’t fit everything, so it will be held at 394 Phillips Road, one of Webster’s most beautiful and historic properties.

The sale features art work, books, fancy dishes, dolls, tools, comics, and pottery. There will be items for collectors, and kids of all ages. Donations are welcome and can be dropped off at the barn by June 5. (Please keep in mind the museum cannot accept clothing, large furniture, appliances, TVs, or computers.)

Garage sale patrons can also take a tour of the Victorian home (built in 1856) for a $5 donation.  All money raised from the sale and tours raised supports the museum’s education programs, speakers’ programs, and the Historic Homes Project.

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And finally, don’t forget that Webster’s TWO farm markets open for business on Saturday June 9. The Joe Obbie Market will be moving to Webster Towne Plaza (where Target is) and set up near the gazebo. Plus, Main Street in the village will host a brand new market on the same day.

Hope you want a lot of veggies.

TWO markets to market in Webster this summer

14 May

You may remember a blog I posted last week about how this summer’s village farm market will be located on Main Street instead of the parking lot behind the fire hall. When I wrote that blog, I assumed that the Joe Obbie Farm Market which we have enjoyed for years was simply moving its location, perhaps to get better exposure. I have since found out that I was only half right.

The Joe Obbie Farm Market is indeed moving this year, but it’s going outside the village, to Webster Towne Plaza on Holt Road (the Target plaza). The new location will offer a lot more space and better parking. It will open for business on Saturday June 9 and run from 9 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday.

The village has answered that move by establishing a second, totally separate, farm market, which will set up on Main Street from 8 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday, also beginning June 9.

So now Webster has two farm markets. It will be interesting to see if there’s enough business – and vendors — to support both markets. I like the idea of having a market right on Main Street, which will draw more people into the village, but I wonder what the parking will be like, given that the vendors will be setting up in the parking spaces.

Stay tuned.

Good news for Webster’s Farmer’s Market

10 May

Got a Facebook message this morning that reminded me of a really neat change the Village is making this summer for the Farmer’s Market.

Beginning this year, the market will no longer be hidden back in the parking lot off of South Avenue, but will move out to Main Street proper. This will be a good thing for the vendors, who will get much more visibility, for the local business owners, who will benefit from the Farmer’s Market crowds each Saturday morning, and the market patrons, who will now have one-stop village shopping.

The market opens Saturday June 9, with hours from 8 am to 12:30 pm every Saturday through October 13.  I’ll try to get more details soon about exactly where the market will be setting up and any special events.

 

Free children’s vision screening tops weekend events

2 May

Another busy weekend coming up in Websterland, with some very worthwhile events worth your consideration:

In celebration of Healthy Vision Month in May, ABVI and Goodwill will be hosting a FREE Early Vision Screening for children ages 6 months to 5 years on Saturday May 5. The screening will  provide a quick assessment of a young child’s eyes, making it easy for parents to identify potential vision issues and get them corrected before irreversible damage is done.

The statistics are startling: one in every four children in our community between the ages of 6 months and 5 years have an undiagnosed vision issue that will adversely impact their ability to learn and could potentially lead to blindness. Those numbers can be reduced significantly if parents simply had their children’s vision tested regularly –and what a great opportunity this is to do that.

The free screening event will take place from 10 to 2 pm at the Webster Goodwill Store (in the Ridge Road plaza across from Towne Center).

Some of the Friends having fun in the dirt at last month’s workday.

When you were a kid, did you like to play in the dirt?  The Friends of Webster Trails asks, why’d you stop? There are still plenty of opportunities to dig and get dirty at the group’s monthly workdays, a time when the Friends get together to maintain Webster’s awesome trail system.

This Saturday is the next scheduled workday, at the Whiting Road Nature Preserve. Plans are to to fix the wet and muddy trouble spots on the Blue trail and across the street leading into Webster Park. There’ll be plenty of stone-shoveling, wheelbarrow-pushing and trench digging to go around.

New workers are always welcome. Meet in the Whiting Road Nature Preserve parking lot parking lot Saturday morning at 9:00 AM. Wear gloves, bring drinking water and dress for the weather. (P.S. Don’t wear your Sunday best.) If you’ve got some loppers, shovels, mattocks and maybe even an extra wheelbarrow laying around, you could bring those, too.

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Don’t forget about the performance by the University of Rochester YellowJackets this Saturday afternoon at 4 pm, sponsored by the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at 131 West Main Street in the Village.

The YellowJackets are a fourteen-member vocal ensemble that sings a cappella arrangements of popular songs. They have performed and traveled both domestically and abroad. They were also contestants on season three of the nationally televised Sing Off. There is no admission charge for the event, however, a free will offering will be given. The group will also give a presentation on their recent humanitarian trip to Kenya.

There is no cost for the presentation but a free-will offering will be accepted.

There’s been a lot of chatter around town lately about the state of the village water system. As the village considers options to improve the system through reverse osmosis or changing over to MCWA water — or doing nothing — pro and con arguments are being hurled from all sides. Most recently I’ve heard talk that there are actually dangerous chemicals in the local water supply.

On Monday May 7, a group called Webster Village Residents for MCWA will be holding a public meeting beginning at 7 pm at the Webster Public Library to argue their side of the issue and to kick off something they’re calling their “Blue Ribbons for County Water Campaign.”  You can check out their Facebook page here for more information.

Time to start putting this summer’s village events on the calendar

29 Apr

We have two months’ worth of calendars on our refrigerator — this month and next month, of course. Today my husband noted, with something that sounded like disbelief in his voice, that we can officially erase April and replace it with June.

As busy as the end of the school year is for all of us (especially this year when I have a high school senior, college senior and graduate student all graduating), summer is even worse. I’ve already got half a dozen June events scribbled on various pieces of scrap paper, waiting to take their spots on the June calendar.  I have to get them written down somewhere fast or they’re going to start pushing each other out of the corners of my brain.

I’m sure many of you understand. So as a community service, here is a (fairly) comprehensive list of this summer’s village events so you can get them on your calendars ASAP and not miss any of them. I’ll write more about each one as the dates approach, but in the meantime, here are some basics:

* This Saturday, village merchants will be out in force for the first-ever Spring Sidewalk Sale. Look for sale tables all along Main Street from 11 am to 2 pm, and get some great bargains. Rumor has it there will also be some sort of street entertainment to keep things hopping while you’re shopping.  And make sure you wear your best purple fashions while you’re there, because Saturday is also the village’s Paint the Town Purple Relay For Life kick-off event. This annual celebration helps raise awareness for Relay For Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. You’ll be hearing lots more about this soon.

* Memorial Day Parade and ceremony at Webster Rural Cemetery: Monday, May 28. The parade usually starts at 9 am.

* Village of Webster Farmer’s Market opens on Saturday June 9, and continues every weekend through october 13, from 8 am to 12:3- pm. I’ve heard talk that the location might be changed this year, so stay tuned.

* Jazz Festival, Saturday July 7.  Word from the village is that this year’s festival will be expanded, so it should be better than ever. And it’s already pretty awesome.

* Firemen’s Kiddie Parade: Wednesday July 11 beginning at 7:00 pm.

* Firemen’s Parade: Thursday July 12, beginning at 6:30 pm, and Firemen’s Carnival, July 11-14

* Movies in the Park begin on Tuesday July 10 and run every Tuesday through August 14.

* Village Days this year will move to September 21 and feature a German Oktoberfest theme. It will be a three-day event and include a fall sidewalk sale and the Soap Box Derby on North Avenue.

Some other events for which I do not yet have exact dates are the Friday Night Gazebo Concerts at the gazebo on North Ave., and the Village Band Concerts at the band shell at Harmony Park on Phillips Rd. They both begin in the middle of June and run through August, but I don’t think the schedules have been finalized yet.

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