 | Dancing Into Life
When I first moved home after a rough break up, I was looking for a nice group of people to enjoy activities with. I did like dancing and casually mentioned this to some people at my church. They mentioned a dancing open house that I might like and promised to ...
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| | A Dog’s Best Friend
Jim Beverly has over 45 years experience in training retrievers and being involved with the waterfowl hunting industry. He explains, “God has blessed me with the ability to successfully train retrievers. During the early days of working with them, I used to wonder, ‘What is that dog thinking?’ That was ...
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| | JC's HAIRPORT supports the PINK HEART FUNDS
For the last twenty years Joyce Sikes, the owner of JC's HAIRPORT in Canandaigua, has been collecting and sending hair to organizations that assist those who have experienced hair loss due to cancer or other illnesses. A few years ago, Joyce became aware of an organization that does not sell donated ...
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| | Simple Church
As he drove around the area, Pastor Andy noticed many church signs for all kinds of "religions” and “programs." What he felt was needed, instead, was "Jesus and relationships." So with that simple premise, the idea went into action. He started asking neighbors and folks if they wanted to study ...
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| | The Calmest Water
The plane of this channel has the look of hammered metal this night. A late spring blizzard obscures the scenery as cottonwoods lay a quilt of feather white down onto the shimmering steel. The fading sun puts its tired eye on the liquid and melts the soul as a warm ...
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| | Can't Bully Me Now!
My name is Lisa Barrett. I am a Singer/Songwriter and Teaching Artist and I'm thrilled to share that I completed my first musical for kids called, "Can't Bully Me Now!" This hands-on musical allows kids to "feel" what it's like to be bullied. They become the cast and crew.
My nephew was bullied over a few years, ...
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| | The 4th of July Parade
By Shari Vaudo
Hidey Hole Hollow does not have a 4th of July parade for two reasons:
1. Because they have a Memorial Day (Weekend) festival and celebrations of any kind have been rationed in HHH since the town was formed, in 1822
2. Our Main Street is so short that by the ...
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| | Dear Dad
You’ve been gone since ’97 but I can still see your face; your bright eyes— the eyes of a friend. I remember how many friends you had. So many we couldn’t count. Like the stars you showed me as a boy. The big dipper was our favorite. You showed me ...
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| | One Hour to Fish
The southern part of the lake is the first to warm in the April sun. Plant life begins to absorb solar power and grow. Diatoms, along with green and blue green algae, become abundant. Plankton line up and make themselves a salad. Smelt, Alewives and other small fishes take notice ...
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| | Lori Allison and Team LA PInk Take to the Streets
Lori Allison has joined thousands of breast cancer supporters in preparing for the 2010 Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure, presented by Energizer. After months of training and fundraising, Allison will travel to Atlanta to walk 60 miles during three days, along with thousands of others, to raise awareness ...
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| | Neighbors Helping Neighbors
A concerned sister called the Faith in Action office about her brother, “Andy” who had terminal cancer and been given a year to live. Andy’s family lived out of state and was trying to line up rides for him to get to chemotherapy appointments at Strong Hospital, a 45 minute ...
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| | Avon Horsewoman to Compete in International Games
Brenna Donegan is a 4th Generation horse person. Her great-grandfather, Walter Kingston Sr., owned a dairy farm on Groveland Road in Geneseo and was a lifelong horseman. Carol Kingston Coyne, Brenna’s grandmother, is an avid horsewoman who continues to ride at age 75, and Brenna’s mother, Mary Coyne Donegan, has ...
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| | Antoinette Brown Blackwell Henrietta Woman of the Year
Elizabeth Pixley, Antoinette Brown Blackwell Society’s 2010 Henrietta Woman of the Year. grew up in Michigan, graduated from Albion College, and came to New York for graduate study at Cornell University. Since 1967 she has lived in Henrietta where she raised her children, Dawn and Tom.
A member of the ...
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| | Steelhead
An old friend worked with us one day on the city project— urban renewal they call it. They tear down abandoned, squalid houses, dig a hole in the ground and we build a new one. This year we’re on the East side of the river- the Genesee River. “I don’t ...
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| | A Living Legacy
Grace Ziemba’s involvement with the Canandaigua VA hospital began in 1956 when someone she met at a Catholic War Veterans Auxiliary meeting volunteered her. When she started in 1957, there were approximately 1,700 vets in residence. Today, the majority of veterans are helped through outpatient care and the number of ...
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