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I received this email just yesterday, and since this is happening this weekend, I wanted to make sure to pass it along.

A large group of students and adults, including many from Webster, will be traveling to Costa Rica this summer to conduct several outreach projects, from cleaning up beaches to planting trees.

This Saturday the group will be holding a huge garage sale as a fundraiser to help offset travel expenses and some of their projects.

The sale will take place on Saturday, April 1, from 9 a.m. to  4 p.m., at the Living Word Assembly of God Church, 2344 Ridge Road, Ontario. There will be antiques, home furnishings, clothing, toys, Legos, and much more.

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And now just a side note …

When I finally got to share my 2016 Tour de Parks experience with the Adirondack Club a few weeks ago, I had so much fun that I decided I want to do it again. And again.

So I’m taking the show on the road. In May and June I’ll be speaking at the Pittsford, Webster and Brighton libraries. So if the win storm and snow storm scared you away from the Adirondack meeting, you still have a chance (or three) to hear all about my adventures to visit 100 of Rochester’s east-side parks.

More details about dates and times to come.

(And many thanks to Gail Schott for getting me thinking about this idea.)

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Carolyn Montanaro of Neubert Financial Services accepts the Webster Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Business Person of the Year award from Chamber Board Chair Joe Vitello. (Provided photo) 

Note: I misspelled Carolyn’s name in an earlier version of this blog. Sorry!

Congratulations to Carolyn Montanaro, from Neubert Financial Services, who was recently named 2017 Business Person of the Year by the Webster Chamber of Commerce.

The announcement was made at the Chamber’s monthly breakfast meeting, and was presented by Barry Howard, President/CEO of the Webster Chamber of Commerce and Joe Vitello, Chair of the Chamber Board of Directors.

The press release I received from the Chamber gave several reasons for Montanaro’s selection:

This year’s honoree is a ‘behind the scenes’ force in her company’s success, a mother, a philanthropist with human and financial resources, an active Chamber committee chair, a daughter and a wife who not only talks about the importance of family, church, school and community, she lives it every day.

She is a committed chamber member whose involvement has furthered the Chamber’s mission and its ongoing successes in the Webster community.

Carolyn and Neubert Financial Services have been very active in the Chamber since they became members more than a decade ago. As the company’s Director of Administration when her Dad formed the company in 2005, Carolyn has been a quiet influence that has helped the company grow and has helped the Chamber grow as well.

Mrs. Montanaro has been on the Membership Services Committee for many years and is currently serving as co-chair of that committee. Her passion about the Chamber is real and she never misses a chance to remind Chamber members that participation in the Chamber via committee work and attending events and breakfast has helped their business grow and has forged lifelong relationships with fellow Chamber members.

The “Business Person of the Year” is someone recognized as having set a standard of accomplishment in both business and the community. Nominations are from the Chamber’s business members who have made a significant impact on the role of business in the community. The nominee must be a member of the Chamber for at least 18 months; must be an active member who is always willing to go above and beyond, a leader that motivates others; and they must have a level of community participation by contributing resources in the form of time, talent, money, etc. to the community via projects, clubs, churches, and not-for-profits.

The Webster Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Person of the Year honor is awarded to someone recognized as having set a standard of accomplishment in both business and the community.  The Chamber Board of Directors received several nominations this year in addition to Montanaro.

Montanaro was presented an engraved plaque which read, “2017 Business Person of the Year presented to Carolyn Montanaro in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the Chamber and your commitment to the Webster community.”

Neubert Financial Services is located at 599 Ridge Road in Webster.

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Some of you have been following the trials and tribulations of the presentation I’m planning to make for the Adirondack Club about my Tour de Parks adventure.

Basically it was originally scheduled for Wednesday March 8. Then we had the windstorm. It was rescheduled for the following Tuesday. Then we had a snowstorm. So it was rescheduled AGAIN for this coming Tuesday March 21.

Barring another natural calamity, third time should be the charm.

So I would like to invite everyone again to attend the free presentation. To tell you more about it, here’s (most of) the original invitation blog I posted a few weeks ago.

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Remember how I went out and explored 100 parks last year? I called it my 2016 Tour de Parks Challenge, and it pretty much consumed my life. I wrote about it several times in my East Extra column (the most recent one is here) and probably touched on it a few times here in my blog as well.

Well, you’re going to have to hear about it one more time.

Shortly after I began my quest last year, I realized exactly how much of a challenge I had shouldered. I actually considered letting it fade off unnoticed. But then I got an email from the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, inviting me to be the featured speaker at one of their meetings.

I was stuck.

That meeting has finally arrived, and I would like to invite all of my readers to attend, if you’re at all interested in hearing about my adventures.

The event takes place on Tuesday March 21, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Eisenhart Auditorium of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave.

It should be interesting, I hope. I’m working up a fancy-pants display board with pins showing all the parks I visited, and a PowerPoint presentation highlighting some of the funny, surprising, beautiful and disappointing things I saw and learned. And yes, I’ll even tell everyone which one was my favorite. Sort of. The whole shebang should only be about 45 minutes.

Please join me. There’s no admission charge. Maybe you could grab dinner beforehand and make it a night out.

And if you’d like to read up on all the parks I visited, here’s a link to the 2016 Tour de Parks blog I maintained through it all.

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Barry’s Old School Irish, 2 West Main Street, Webster. Officially one of the best Irish pubs in the country.

In honor of today being St. Patrick’s Day, this little bit of news that many of us already know. Barry’s Old School Irish, at 2 West Main Street in the village of Webster, is officially one of the best Irish pubs in the country.

In a recent ranking published by Foursquare City, Barry’s came in at #18 on a list of the best Irish pubs in America.

It’s big news for the pub, drawing stories from Channel 10, Channel 13, and the Democrat and Chronicle.

This latest achievement follows in the footsteps of another survey released by Yelp.com several days ago, in which Barry’s Old School Irish landed at #45 in a list of the top 50 pubs in the United States for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.

The pub has been celebrating the holiday all week (when they didn’t have to close for the snow), and the fun continues today with a special lunch, traditional Irish music jam session with the Fox Hunters from 3 to 7 p.m., corned beef and cabbage dinner, Irish dancers at 7 p.m., music by Gavin Barry from 7 to 10 p.m., a bagpiper at 9 p.m., a free Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey toast at 9:30 p.m., and Guinness giveaways all day.

Local Irish duo Barry’s Crossing features Sarah King and Sean Rosenberry. (Provided photo)

Local Irish duo Barry’s Crossing closes the night with their annual Last Man Standing show from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Sláinte!

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And another one bites the dust.

Thanks to this past week’s wicked weather, the Webster Public Library’s Community Volunteer Fair was rescheduled from last Wednesday and will now be held on Wednesday March 29 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Residents can connect with the following organizations that have volunteer opportunities available in the Webster community:

AutismUp, Challenger Miracle Field, Friends of the Webster Public Library, Friends of Webster Trails, Heritage Christian Services, Hill Haven Nursing and Rehab, Hope Ministry, Maplewood Nursing Home, Never Say Never Foundation, WASP Webster Association of Senior Program Supporters, Webster Arboretum, Webster Central PTSA, Webster Comfort Care Home, Webster Community Chest, Webster Museum and Historical Society.

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