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June 26 – July 20, 2020

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Friday, July 3

Chicken BBQ
Brookside Museum, 6 Charlton St., Ballston Spa
2 – 6 p.m. | Join Brookside and enjoy a delicious holiday meal and support a great cause. For over forty years SCHS has provided high quality K-12 educational programming sharing and preserving our local history. COVID 19 has impacted what we share. Please help us continue to be able to provide high quality programs for our entire community. SCHS/Brookside Museum will be selling complete, freshly made chicken barbecue dinners to go. Meals include: 1/2 chicken, baked potato, baked beans, roll, drink, and a cookie. Children’s meals come with a special Fourth of July themed Arts and Crafts goodie bag.

Fire on the Mountain
West Mountain, 59 West Mountain Rd., Queensbury
4 p.m. | There will be live music, fireworks, chairlift rides, and more. They are kicking off Phase 4 summer opening July 4th with West’s first “Music with a View” Concert Series. Entertainment One presents tribute bands ACDC – Back in Black and Beatles – Across the Pond. Note: This event will sell out. More details will come on how to buy tickets, etc. These are unprecedented times, they need your help to pull this off properly and adhere to the protocols. See more on Facebook: facebook.com/193979154012511/posts/2961152670628465?sfns=mo

Wednesday, July 8

The Peach Brothers Tour
Hewitts Garden Center, 621 Maple Ave., Saratoga Springs
9 – 10:30 a.m. | Three genuine friends who enjoy working alongside each other and have a deep passion for people and peaches. The Peach Brothers are coming to a city near you with a distinct goal: Creating Memorable Experiences One Bite at A Time. They will sell their farm fresh peaches by the 25 lb. box and 10 oz. bags of mouth-watering pecans too.  For more information and other locations, visit www.thepeachbrothers.com. 

Monday, July 20

Drama Camps
Malta Community Center, 1 Bayberry Dr., Malta
Elyse Young’s Drama Camps a GO! Town of Malta Parks and Recreation will be holding limited in-person Drama Camps this summer!  Each camp will be limited to 10 students and will follow New York State’s Department of Health Covid-19 guidelines. The first camp Fairytales and Fantasies Drama Camp is for ages 6-9 and will run from 1:30- 3 p.m., Monday, July 20 through Friday, July 24. Students will play theater games, learn acting skills, rehearse, and perform on the last day! Additional camps include Acting and Performance Drama Camp (2 weeks) for ages 10-15 from 1:30-4:30 p.m., August 3-14 and Broadway Stars Drama Camp for ages 6-10 from 1 -3 p.m., August 24-28. For guidelines and registration information www.maltparksrec.com or contact Elyse Young, Artistic Director at theater@malta-town.org or 518-899-4411, ext. 305.

June 26 – July 2, 2020

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Friday, June 26

Fantastic Food Truck Corral
Washington County Fairgrounds
392 Old Schuylerville Rd., Greenwich | 4 – 8 p.m.
Enjoy fair food from the comfort of your own home! Get some of your fair food favorites for takeout or curbside pickup. Each week the Washington County Fairgrounds will be posting information about the food trucks joining them as well as their menu options. Keep an eye on their Facebook page for more information: www.facebook.com/WashingtonCountyFairNewYork

Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival Stay Home Sessions
Online via Caffe Lena’s YouTube Channel | 8 p.m.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Absolutely Live Entertainment, in partnership with Caffè Lena announce “Freihofer’s Jazz Fest Stay Home Sessions,” presented in lieu of the 2020 Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival. Headlined by national artists, Jazz Fest Stay Home Sessions will also feature acclaimed local musicians. The festival will be free to experience and hosted through Caffè Lena’s “Stay Home Sessions” YouTube platform. Lineup: Friday, June 26, 8 p.m. Pedrito Martinez and Chuck Lamb & Jorge Gomez. Saturday, June 27, 8 p.m. Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn and Skidmore Jazz Institute Alumni Trio. Sunday, June 28, 8 p.m. Jon Batiste and Garland Nelson’s “Reflections: A Motown Tribute Ensemble.”

Saturday, June 27

9th Annual Shred Event
Fingerpaint Parking Lot
18 Division St., Saratoga Springs | 9 – 11 a.m.
Saratoga Financial Services will be hosting the event in recognition of Earth Day! All paper will be shredded, baled, and shipped to local paper mills to be recycled for reuse. The event is free of charge, but monetary donations will be accepted to benefit the local Act With Respect Always program to help spread the “pay it forward” movement! First come, first serve. 5 box minimum. Feel free to call ahead of time. 518-584-2555.

Sunday, June 28

Slow Roll Bike Ride
Palette Cafe, 493 Broadway, Saratoga Springs | 10 a.m.
Pump up your tires and celebrate summer biking with an all ages slow roll on the streets of Saratoga Springs.  Helmets encouraged; masks are a must.  Hosted by Bicycle Benefits, Palette Cafe, Bikeatoga and Impressions of Saratoga on the last Sunday of EVERY month.  Ride rolls out from Palette Cafe at 10:15 a.m. sharp so roll over early to grab a bite to eat or drink.  Cruisers, road bikes, tandems welcome.  We will ride at ~10 mph for 6-8 miles and finish at Humpty Dumpty’s Ice Cream at ~12 p.m. 

Wednesday, July 1

Chicken Parmigiana Dinner
Saratoga-Wilton Elks
1 Elks Lane, Saratoga Springs | 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
For curbside pick up only. Call Monday and Tuesday between 10 a.m. – noon to place an order: 518-584-2585. Menu: Chicken Parmigiana, penne pasta, tossed salad, garlic toast. Dinner for two, $25 (cash only).

…And the Winner Is: Tiz the Law Wins 152 Belmont Stakes

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Photos by Dan Heary.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Principal owners of Sackatoga Stables, Jack Knowlton and Ed Mitzen celebrate with other partners and friends as Tiz the Law won the 152nd Belmont Stakes. “Tiz” is the first New York bred since 1882 to win the event. The “watch party was at Pennell’s fine eatery in Saratoga Springs.

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Gary Barnes

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Gary Barnes

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Gary Barnes, 75, passed away peacefully on June 22, 2020 at home in ”the loving care” of his sister Suzanne.

Born in Troy, NY on March 26, 1945, he was the son of the late William M. and Lydia (Wills) Barnes. In addition to his parents, Gary is predeceased by his son Gary.

He is survived by his sister Suzanne of Saratoga Springs, brother Ronald of White Plains, NY, nephew Todd Gaynor, also of Saratoga Springs, and former wife and mother of his son, Mary Ann Barnes of West Palm Beach, FL.

Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of funeral services, we ask that all who wish to participate make a memorial donation in Gary’s name to the Community Hospice of Saratoga Springs, NY, 179 Lawrence St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Theresa (Teri) Alice Stevens

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SARATOGA SPRINGS —Theresa (Teri) Alice Stevens died on June 10, 2020 at home in Saratoga Springs, attended by her two sons and daughter-in-law. She was a lifelong resident of Saratoga County. 

Theresa was born on March 24, 1930, to William and Marie Yvonne Bouchard Hebert, French Canadian immigrants, at her maternal grandmother’s home in Smithville, NY. 

She was raised in Schuylerville and graduated from Schuylerville High School in 1947. 

She married James E. Stevens, Jr., on January 30, 1949, at Notre Dame de Lourdes rectory in Schuylerville. 

She first worked at the Van Raalte Textile Mill on High Rock Avenue in Saratoga where she met her husband. Then she worked at Espey Manufacturing Company, where she worked on an electronic part that was used in the first manned space flight to the moon. Then she worked at Skidmore College Admissions Office from which she retired. She was also self-employed in Avon sales, clowning, and storytelling. 

She attended Hudson Valley Community College where she studied clownology, and Tenkara Karate School. She also took a course at Saratoga BOCES for body car repair and, with the guys in the class, repaired her car with which she hit a deer. 

She entertained scores of people under the clown names of Here, There, Everywhere, or Ida Know for over thirty years,

She was a member of Clowns of America International, Electric City Clown Alley, Happy Valley Clown Alley, Saratoga Springs Senior Center Board of Directors, Saratoga Turf Talkers Toastmasters International, Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves, Glens Falls Operetta Club, Catholic Daughters of America, Christian Women’s Club, Capital District Mental Health Players, Saratoga Hospital Legacy Society, Richards Brothers and Daddy Dick Fan Club, and Northeast Storytelling.

She received a State of New York, Capital District Mental Health Players Award; from the Electric City Clown Alley (ECCA) Founders Award for enthusiasm for the art of clowning, Founders Award, 2008 Clown of the Year Award; and the Shorty Award in 2000. She was nominated twice as the Clowns of America International Clown of the Year. 

She served as a cub scout den mother, a co-president of Electric City Clown Alley, and a Board Member of the Saratoga Springs Senior Center. 

She taught clown arts at Hudson Valley Community College, Saratoga Springs Senior Center, and various clown workshops and meetings throughout the United States. 

She volunteered at Saratoga Performing Arts as an usher, Saratoga Springs Senior Center as an officer, as the conductor of the Young at Heart Chorus. 

Her hobbies were knitting sweaters and socks for family, making flannel pajamas, house coats, and Christmas stockings for her young family, baking and cooking, needlepoint, square dancing, belly dancing, clowning, toastmasters, and storytelling.

She is predeceased by her parents, her husband, her youngest son, Patrick, as well as her sister, Matilda DiNovo in 2007 and last March her first cousin, Leona Mayton, who was 102 years young. 

She is survived by three children: Thomas of Dallas, TX; Karen of Hoosick Falls, NY; Joseph (Janie) of Bothell, WA; one brother, Leo Hebert of Vero Beach, FL; two grandchildren Cindy Stevens Thenhaus of Renton, WA; Robert Stevens (Rachel) of Mill Creek, WA; two step-grandchildren, Ryan Orth (Gail) of Burien, WA; and Christa Orth (Ali Cotterill) of Brooklyn, NY, and five great-grandchildren, Leilah and Jaidyn Thenhaus, Garnet and Edgar Orth, and Rhiannon Stevens, and two nephews. 

The family will have a celebration of life later TBD. You may go to www.burkefuneralhome.com/gallery/theresa-teri-stevens to sign the guest book, leave a sentiment and post pictures.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Saratoga Senior Center or NAMI Eastside in Redmond, WA.

Saratoga County’s Sundae’on the Farm Has Gone VIRTUAL!

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SARATOGA COUNTY — ‘Sundae’ on the Farm moved to online for the 2020 event. 

The community is welcomed to join from the comfort of their own home while the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Saratoga County takes them on a pre-recorded tour of three local dairy farms, one of which is a Stewart’s Shops Producer. This fun family online activity, ‘Sundae” on the Farm will be released Fathers’ Day, Sunday June 21. 

It is the perfect way to get a closer look at Koval Brother’s Dairy, Turning Point Dairy, and Willow Marsh Farm. Meanwhile, the Stewart’s Shops throughout Saratoga County will be featuring the Farm footage in each of their shops.

The ‘Sundae’ on the Farm Virtual tour is brought to you by Saratoga County Agricultural Promotional Committee. The video will be shown on the CCE Saratoga County’s Ag Economic Development Program Facebook Page and the CCE Saratoga County website (ccesaratoga.org). For questions or general inquiries, please contact Nicolina Foti, nvf5@cornell.edu. 

MLK Saratoga Presents Livestream Performances for Juneteenth

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Caffe Lena and MLK Saratoga present a livestream program featuring theatrical performances by Archie, D. Colin, Tim Martin, Aaron Moore, Julian Tushabe and Siobhan Shea. 

The program is a collaborative production of Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York, Creative Action Unlimited and Soul Session Edu-tainment, and will be hosted by local resident Soulist Garland Nelson.

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. The observance of June 19 – Juneteenth – is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

The local event takes place 7 – 9 p.m. Friday, June 19 and will be livestreamed via Caffelena.org. Donations will be shared with performing artists. 

June 30 Panel: Local Immigrants and the Consequences of COVID-19

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The experiences of low-income local immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic will be explored in a live stream panel discussion at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30. 

Panelists include Alberto Matos, Assistant Chaplain with the New York Race Track Chaplaincy at Saratoga Racecourse, and Joan Odess, Immigrant Services Manager for Saratoga County Economic Opportunity Council (EOC). The moderator will be Terry Diggory, co-coordinator of the Saratoga Immigration Coalition, the event sponsor. The event is hosted by Caffe Lena as part of their community outreach effort. 

“The goal of the program is to inform the broader community about a particular group of community members who have been specially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Diggory said in a statement. Some are “essential workers” who face greater risk of exposure to the virus. Some have lost jobs in businesses (such as restaurants and hotels) that have been closed under pandemic restrictions. As immigrants, some do not qualify for government assistance programs that have been created in response to the pandemic. 

As service providers working directly with local immigrants, Matos and Odess have first-hand knowledge about these situations and the range of assistance that is available. The Saratoga Immigration Coalition is providing direct assistance through an emergency fund supported by donations to a GoFundMe campaign.

Community members are invited to send questions to the panel in advance by email: saratogaimmigration@gmail.com. During the program, questions can also be submitted in a live “chat” feature. 

Viewers may access the program through the events calendar on the Caffe Lena website (caffelena.org) or directly through the Caffe Lena YouTube channel. Access is free although donations are invited. Half of the proceeds will support the work of Caffe Lena and half will go to the Saratoga Immigration Coalition emergency fund in support of local immigrants.

Mohawk Hudson Humane Society’s Gala for Animals Slated for Dance Museum Goes Virtual on June 20

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MENANDS — The Mohawk Hudson Humane Society (MHHS) has replaced its traditional gala with a virtual event. The Benson’s Pet Centers “Hope Grows Here” Gala for Animals will be streamed live on the Society’s Facebook page at 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. 

The community is invited to participate at no charge. The event will be emceed by MHHS CEO Ashley Jeffrey Bouck and award-winning actor and entertainer Greg Aidala. WTEN’s Steve Caporizzo, host of Pet Connection, will be sharing several of the Society’s most inspiring success stories.

Those who wish to add dining to their virtual gala experience can order handcrafted, curbside pick-up meals for two from catering partner, Nicole’s Restaurant. Two three-course meal packages are available, one vegan, along with a choice of two specialty cocktails. Meals may be picked up on June 20, between 2:30 and 4:30 pm from either Nicole’s at 556 Delaware Avenue in Albany, or the National Museum of Dance at 99 S. Broadway in Saratoga Springs, which was the originally planned site for the gala. Complete details about the event can be found here: mohawkhumane.org/gala-animals-2020.

The Society’s work is essential and throughout the COVID-19 pause it has continued to care for hundreds of animals and placed over 260 pets in new homes.
The Society has also coordinated two large-scale pet food distributions of over 79,000 lbs. to pet owners and other humane organizations. Its Pet Food Pantry is always available for anyone needing assistance.