SENIOR NEWS
Town hall listening session for vets on Aug. 2
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. » The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Hudson Valley Health Care System will be hosting a town hall listening session for veterans, family members and the public on Wednesday, Aug. 2nd, at 2 p.m., at the Dutchess County Emergency Response Center, 392 Creek Road.
The meeting is intended to provide local veterans an open forum and for VA officials to hear directly from beneficiaries. For more information, call (914) 737-4400, ext. 2255, or send an email to VHAHVHPAOInfo@va.gov.
Dutchess Office for Aging seeks people to deliver meals
DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. » The Dutchess County Office for the Aging is looking for people who would like to help bring hot, nutritious midday meals to seniors who are unable to prepare their own.
People who are interested should call the Office for the Aging at (845) 486-2555 or send an email to ofa@dutchessny.gov.
With the agency’s expansion of home-delivered meals to Fridays throughout the county, it is in need of additional volunteers to help with deliveries throughout the county on any weekday. There are particular areas of need in Beacon, East Fishkill, Pawling, Poughkeepsie, and the Amenia/Millerton area of northeastern Dutchess.
Foster Grandparent program offers volunteer opportunities
HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y. » The WestCOP Foster Grandparent Program has volunteer opportunities for low-income senior citizens.
The program places eligible seniors in academic settings to work with young people in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Putnam and Westchester counties.
A Foster Grandparent volunteer must be a minimum of 55 years of age and income eligible (for a family of 1, cannot exceed $24,120). Volunteers receive a tax-free hourly stipend for their 15 to 40 hours of weekly service activities. The volunteers are also provided paid time off, holidays, sick leave and mileage reimbursement.
Foster Grandparents serve children who need some extra help in the classroom as a tutor and a mentor. They help children learn to read and discover math while assisting the teacher with a variety of other classroom activities. Currently, there are over 200 seniors serving hundreds of children in numerous Head Start centers, pre-schools and elementary schools throughout our WestCOP Foster Grandparent Program.
For more information about the program, call Liz Magier at (914) 592-5600, ext. 114, or send an email to LMagier@westcop.org.
Senior groups list meeting schedules
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. » The Woodstock Senior Citizens Club will meet Wednesday, Aug. 2, at noon at Woodstock Fire Co. No. 1.
The guest speaker will be Lt. Wallace Fulford from the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office. He will be speaking about the K-9 unit.
PORT EWEN, N.Y. » The Town of Esopus Seniors will meet Monday, Aug. 7, at noon at the Town of Esopus Beach Pavilion at George Freer Memorial Park. for a Kentucky Friend Chicken picnic. The event is weather-permitting.
The deadline to sign up for the picnic is Tuesday, Aug. 1. The cost is $5 per person. Advance notice and payment for the lunch is required. Call (845) 3317358 for more information.
A reminder that the bus for the luncheon cruise on Lake George will leave the Town Hall Community Center on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at precisely 8 a.m.
The Southern Tier Seniors will
meet on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at 11 a.m. in the picnic area at the Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Ave., Germantown, for a social gathering.
Those planning to attend should bring lunch and a lawn chair and enjoy an afternoon with fellow group members overlooking the river.
Seats are still available for the following trips:
• Aug. 16, A barbecue & boat ride on Lake Hopatcong, NJ.
• Sept. 20, Friesians musical horse show, with lunch and area touring.
• Oct. 11, Octoberfest at the Royal Manor in New Jersey.
• Oct. 26, Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., with bonuses.
• Nov. 16, A holiday lunch and show at Stony Hill, N.J.
Call Joan at (845) 7562960 to make reservations.
Meetings will resume at the Clermont Firehouse on Route 9G starting Sept. 6 with an ice cream social. All seniors are welcome to attend. Meetings take place the first Wednesday of each month.
For more information, call Betty at (845) 758-5758 or Jim at (845) 756-2960. COLLEGIANS
Alekzandar Obry of New Paltz graduated from LeMoyne College in Syracuse on May 21, with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. ••• Ciara Lewis of Phoenicia graduated, magna cum laude, from Ithaca College, with a degree in journalism. Hein.
• Herbert H. Reuner Memorial Award — Colton Crump and Garrett Ressa.
• Lea Jade Naccarato Memorial — Katelyn LaValle.
Lewis was a student in the college’s School of Communications.
••• Nathan Trachte of New Paltz graudaged, summa cum laude, from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., on April 29, with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies.
• The Thomas W. Dalton Memorial Award — Vincent Santo.
••• Two Kingston residents — Lauren T. Mead and Laura A. Sonnenberg — graduated from Binghamton University.
Mead received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematical sciences. Sonnenberg received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry.
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• Helen M. Kuhn Memorial Award — Mackenzie Prosser.
Danielle Diacovo of Kingston was named to the dean’s list at the University of Rochester for the spring semester.
A senior, she is majoring in epidemiology.
A Kingston High School graduate, she is the daughter of Joseph Diacovo and Mary Kay Diacovo. Emma Sharp.