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THANKSGIVING DAY-Thursday, November 26th 2015 9:00AM RUN Start | 9:05 WALK Start (Shirt Pickup starts at 7:00am) Bethlehem Middle School - 332 Kenwood Avenue, Delmar Course: 5K (3.1 miles) - through Old Delmar neighborhoods Registration Fees:$25.00 Online/Mail until 10/31/2015 $30.00 11/01/15 until race day Kids 5 & under FREE FREE T-Shirt to Pre-registered participants! Awards:1st Place Overall Male & Female On-line Registration: ourtownebethlehem.com

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4. Improves Behavior Walking daily with your pup is a great way to help Ask the both you and your pet relax and reduce anxiety. Take advantage of your time together and sneak in some useful training lessons on your walk together. Your pup will be easier to manage and you’ll be Approximately 17 million dogs in the United States able to relax and enjoy all that the great outdoors are overweight; that’s over 40% of the canine has to oﬀer. Remember, a well exercised dog is a population! Read below why taking Rover for a well behaved dog. walk is not only important for your pooch, but for you as well. National Walk Your Dog Week is the 5. Happiness first week of October, making it the perfect time to There must be a reason why your pup starts jumping in circles, wagging her tail and howling for joy every get your pup’s(and your) paws moving! time you grab the leash! Although it may not be 1. Improve Overall Health for You and Your Canine scientifically proven, it seems to me that dogs LOVE Let’s face it. Who really enjoys working all day, sitting going on walks. Your excited pooch most likely has in traﬃc and then hopping on a boring treadmill a look of sheer delight on her face as soon as the machine? Doesn’t a nice walk outside with your leash is clipped and all four paws are out the door. four-legged friend sound better? Walking your For most puppy parents, it’s a wonderful feeling pooch for just 30 minutes each day improves your knowing that something as simple as a walk, brings and your pup’s cardiovascular health and increases so much happiness to your four-legged friend. endorphins. Not only will walking your pooch keep both of you physically fit, but it also helps reduce A daily walking routine keeps both you and your cholesterol and high blood pressure and boost the pet healthy. Dogs need exercise in order to stay immune system. At the end of the walk, you and mentally and physically healthy in the long run and your pooch will feel more relaxed, refreshed and the same is true for people. So get out there and start walking! have more confidence!

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To Protect and Serve This November will have a profound impact on Bethlehem’s future and we need your help. As the President of the Bethlehem Police Officers’ Union, I have been elected by my membership to uphold the integrity of the occupation, maintain favorable working conditions and employee rights, and manage our charitable donations. As one could imagine, this is no easy task especially when you factor in the stress of our day-to-day job as our Department typically handles over 50,000 incidents per year. Unfortunately, Town Supervisor John Clarkson has added politics into the mix leaving us no choice but to respond in defense of public safety, employee rights, and the residents of Bethlehem. It all started when Supervisor Clarkson decided to reduce the size of the police department by intentionally delaying hiring and not replacing certain vacated positions. Clarkson’s reductions come at a time when a growing population is placing significant added demands and responsibilities on law enforcement. With an understanding and desire to work with the Town, our Union offered numerous cost saving solutions that were dismissed by Supervisor Clarkson. Clarkson also ignored multiple studies justifying needed police resources and staffing. Clarkson then hired a consultant consistent with his agenda and in an attempt to justify his staff reductions he attempted to implement some very misguided policies. Clarkson and his costly consultant proposed that our officers should no longer respond to unattended death investigations, incidents involving emotionally disturbed people and certain domestic troubles. Given the risk to life and safety, and despite what Clarkson may believe, these are some of the situations where our officers are needed most. Additionally, Clarkson is pursuing a reduction in shift minimum staffing from 1 Sergeant and 3 Officers to 1 Sergeant and 2 Officers. Relying on three police officers to cover a town encompassing 52 square miles and 35,000 residents is severely insufficient and unsafe for residents and officers alike. Clarkson then mismanaged the staffing shortage and resulting overtime he created by implementing a series of contractviolating policies aimed at weakening our Union. These actions forced us and the town to spend tens of thousands of dollars on seemingly endless litigation as we continue to defend our contractual rights. As a taxpayer, I am more than frustrated, and as a Democrat, I am ashamed of Supervisor Clarkson’s policies. Aren’t Democrats supposed to protect employment contracts and public employees? Clarkson himself is a public employee supposedly working for us and our families. We better hope we are getting what we are paying for. Here’s why: Bethlehem is home to one of the highest paid Supervisors in the entire state. Not only is John Clarkson paid $111,000 a year as Town Supervisor --- he collects more than $91,000 a year from taxpayers in the form of a state pension. That’s

more than $200,000 a year in public dollars. He makes more than our Governor! The question we need to ask, “Is Supervisor Clarkson worth it?” Clarkson talks about being fiscally responsible and doing more with less. Clarkson spearheaded a town wide property reassessment that resulted in significant property tax increases for many land and homeowners. Where has the extra revenue gone? Supervisor Clarkson has given his closest political allies and staﬀ unprecedented pay raises. If an opening is not available for one of his political allies he will and has created a non-civil service position without adequately considering the financial impact on us the taxpayers. Clarkson is more concerned with consolidating power under his administration than working for Bethlehem families. We all know he tried to abolish the elected position of Highway Superintendent in order to put road safety in the hands of one of his political allies. To make matters worse, he attempted to expand his power and control by increasing the term of Town Supervisor from 2 to 4 years. Clarkson goes to extremes to protect his agenda. When lawn signs supporting the Bethlehem Police started popping up around town, he sent our town employees to tell property owners to take them down. Supervisor’s Clarkson’s controversial sign law is a clear restriction of your 1st Amendment rights and enforcement of such is an imprudent use of town resources. This is what happens when you put power, patronage, and politics before families. On Election Day, we have the opportunity to be heard. We must change Bethlehem’s current course, and start to right the wrongs of the past. We need a leader that has the best interests of the community in mind. We need a leader that is willing to work with the workforce he has been entrusted with, not against them. We need a leader that is willing to solve problems with our input, not despite our suggestions As a Bethlehem resident who has done his research, I know that leader is Jim Foster, and we need him now more than ever before. Town Supervisor Candidate Jim Foster has strong morals and a clear vision for the future of our town. Foster will take a genuine and sensible approach to the issues at hand. He was born and raised here and knows the town and what is needed to improve it. Even though I am a Democrat, I recognize that Jim Foster is right for the job and deserves our support regardless of our political aﬃliations. After all, it is not about blind devotion to one group or another. It is about recognizing what the community needs in a leader, and putting that leader to work for the people. As a resident of Bethlehem, I am asking you to please come out and vote for Jim Foster on November 3rd. As always we thank you and appreciate your support. Please follow us on Facebook at

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& Now Bethlehem’s Reformed Churches By Susan E. Leath All of Bethlehem’s Reformed Churches trace their roots back to the Dutch colonial era of the 1600s. Johannes Megapolensis was the first dominie, or pastor, in our area when he arrived in 1642 to serve in Beverwyck (today’s Albany.) First Church in Albany (as in the first church in Albany) records his first worship service as August 17, 1642. Megapolensis, along with his wife Mathilde Willems and four children, lived and served here until 1649 when they relocated to New Amsterdam (today’s New York City.) First Church, with their 373 years of history, continues to worship and work in their magnificent Pearl Street building. Their “new” church was designed by Phillip Hooker and The historic marker in front to the Jerusalem Reformed Church notes that the “current edifice was erected in 1826.” completed in 1799. As the Van Rensselaers continued to develop their manor, and more settlers arrived, folks needed their own churches closer to home. Tradition holds that the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Bethlehem and Jericho, today’s First Reformed Church of Bethlehem, got its start in 1763. Their first minister for whom there is any record is the Rev. George Christian Bork. Bork was called jointly with the Reformed congregation in Schodack in 1798. He was required to preach at Schodack and Bethlehem alternately and to preach in both Dutch and English. Interestingly, First Church in Albany reports that the Dutch language ceased being used in service in 1790 with services in English first appearing regularly in 1782, more than 100 years after the British takeover of the colony in 1664. Bork served in Bethlehem until 1804.

First Reformed Church of Bethlehem continues today on land first ceded to them by Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1795. The 105 acre plot, located along today’s Route 9W in Selkirk, included a church farm, parsonage and meeting house. The church extant on the property was built in 1890 after the earlier church burned down on the afternoon of March 9, 1890. The late 1700s saw two more Reformed churches forming in Bethlehem, or what at the time was Bethlehem. They are now in the town of New Scotland which was split off in 1832. The New Salem Reformed Church dates from about 1783. The earliest meeting house was erected in 1813 and the church building in New Salem today dates from 1893. The congregation folded in 1998. The old Jerusalem Reformed Church was formed in 1791 by the residents in the area of today’s Feura Bush (then known as Jerusalem) and Unionville. Their stone church was built in the middle, on Unionville-Feura Bush Road. The first pastor, Rev. Harmanus VanHuysen was called in 1793 and split his time with the Jerusalem church as well as New Salem and Helderberg. Helderberg is today’s Altamont Reformed Church. After VanHuysen retired in 1825, the congregants of Jerusalem decided to split and form two new churches – Jerusalem Reformed in Feura Bush and Union Church in Unionville. Both are still going today. Delmar Reformed’s early name, the Second Reformed Dutch Protestant Church of Bethlehem, implies a connection with the First Reformed of Bethlehem; however, Delmar

Delmar Reformed Church is seen here on November 19, 1939 (Courtesy of the Bethlehem Historical Association.)

COVER: The First Reformed Church of Bethlehem circa 1913.

Bethlehem’s newest Reformed Church is Glenmont Community Church which got its start from the Glenmont Chapel Association and the Reformed Church in America in the 1950s. The first worship service in their new church on Chapel Lane was held May 25, 1958 under the auspices of the Rev. Harvey W. Noordsy. Regarding names, you might be curious to know that on the national level, the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the U.S.A. incorporated in 1819 and changed their name to the Reformed Church in America in 1869. All Reformed churches can trace their history to that early reformer Martin Luther, who, tradition has it, nailed his 95 theses against the Catholic Church to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg, Germany church on October 31, 1517.

To the right of the Unionville Reformed Church are the wooden horse sheds built in 1840. The Fellowship Hall on the rear of the church was added in 1906.

got its start as the east branch of the Unionville Reformed Church which is just a few miles west along Delaware Avenue. Congregants in Adamsville (now Delmar) desired a church closer to home so Unionville established an eastern branch in 1841. There was also some competition with the newly formed Methodist Church in Adamsville. The Rev. V. E. Westfall served both Reformed churches until 1847 when he chose to become a missionary. In 1848, the church at Adamsville officially became independent of Unionville. Since 1912, it has been known as the Delmar Reformed Church. Nowadays, few know about the True Dutch Reformed Church that was located on Feura Bush Road from 1827 to 1919. The True Dutch Reformed Church split from the Reformed Dutch Church in 1822 over differences in doctrine. The first pastor of Bethlehem’s True Reformed Church’s was Henry Bellinger who served the church for fifty years. After the congregation disbanded about 1919, the church building lingered until the property was sold in 1949 and it was dismantled. Today nothing remains. It was located just east of the National Grid station at 447 Feura Bush Road.

The New Salem Reformed Church is now a private home.

Susan E. Leath presently serves as Bethlehem’s Town Historian. She is the author of Bethlehem an illustrative history of our town with over 200 images dating from the 1880s to 1960. The book is available at local booksellers and online. ne. Visit her blog at: BethlehemNYHistory.blogspot.com.

Behind this marker on New Scotland Road, is the family home of Rev. Van Huysen.

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The next regular meeting of the Bethlehem Historical Association highlights an important era in our history. On Thursday, October 15 at 7 PM, Dr. William Bartt will give a presentation about the New York Rent Wars of the 1840s. Join us at the Cedar Hill Schoolhouse, 1003 River Road in Selkirk. Free and open to the public. Refreshments and conversation to follow the lecture.

BethlehemHistorical.org for more info.

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Dan – A good good friend friend and and great great coworker: cow • A strong advocate for great customer service and the environment. • He loved working in the store, talking to customers and helping them with their printer needs. • I know the customers appreciated his service.

Dan also loved public broadcasting.

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I will miss my times with Dan and the support he has given me. ~Mark Tremont (owner)

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Make it a fall to remember by joining the Bethlehem YMCA. Coming to the Y and working out will help you lead a healthier lifestyle and even help create a healthier community.

Salon: 518.439.8171 / Cell: 518.961.0485

At the Y you can do almost anything you like: swim, run, spin, zumba, yoga, lift weights, ice skate, play basketball, pickleball, volleyball, box, kickbox, and karate. You can sign your children up for lessons and clinics on tennis, golf, baseball, softball, soccer, acting, singing, running, and, of course, swimming lessons. And that’s not even the full list of what we oﬀer.

Treat yourself to the styling and coloring that has made Bea so celebrated!

Your teenager can join our educational programs like youth in government, ICan, or the Black and Latino achievers program.

If your kids are toddlers you can bring them to our child care while you work out, or drop your kids off on a Saturday night of fun while you enjoy a parents night out. You can bring the whole family to the Y to watch a movie and have free pizza or sign up for family boot camp. You can bring everyone to our special family pool days and bring your floats and pool toys. And in the middle of winter when it’s freezing and the cold wind is blowing, the Y pools, whirlpool, who may not otherwise have a Christmas. We collect donated backpacks and school supplies for back-to-school and old suits of and steamroom are the warmest places in town! clothing to provide to people looking for jobs. Our Togetherness If you are facing a challenging and threatening illness, the Y has program brings in people from outside the Y community to special programs such as Pedaling for Parkinsons, Livestrong, and organize events to meet special needs, such as baby supplies for diabetes prevention. If you have a child with a life-threatening young mothers and assistance for senior citizens. illness, the Y’s Circle of Champs program brings together families, children with serious illnesses, and their siblings, for fun outings as In fact, the Bethlehem YMCA has become our town’s community center for activities that bring together friends and neighbors for well as support and encouragement. a good time and for a good cause. Please come by the Bethlehem Many of our members are older adults that enjoy aquatics and YMCA for a tour and check out all we have to offer you and your exercise programs tailored for older people, as well as social events family. from card games to lunches with expert public speakers. Older adults can even have their Y visits paid for by their health insurers. If you want a good workout, lose weight and get in better shape, the Y is the place to go. If you want even more, you’ll find that the The Bethlehem YMCA is much more than a gym. Anyone can put Bethlehem YMCA can also give you a good feeling that goes much some exercise equipment in a warehouse and call it a gym. The big deeper than a sweaty T-shirt. difference is that the Y has a heart. The YMCA’s Annual Campaign provides funds for scholarships that help struggling families in our town to take advantage of the programs and services that the YMCA has to offer. Each year we raise money and help thousands Member, Bethlehem YMCA Board of Advisors of Bethlehem families in need.

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Trick -orTreating Tips:

Limited Openings for the 2015-2016 School Year!

• Carry a flashlight with fresh batteries after dark.

• Take along money for a phone call. • Wear identification that’s easy to read. • Always trick or treat in groups, accompanied by an adult. • Follow a curfew and take a watch with a backlight. • Plan your route ahead of time. • Stay on the sidewalks and out of the streets. Cross only at intersections and designated crosswalks. • Walk. No running. • Don’t trample through flower beds and gardens. • Watch out for open flames in jack-o-Lanterns. • Trick or treat in familiar neighborhoods. • Walk with your head up and be aware of your surroundings. • Only visit well lit houses. Don’t stop at dark houses. • Don’t enter any houses unless you know the people. • Carry a spare Halloween bag—in case yours breaks or you fill your original one. • Don’t approach unfamiliar pets and animals. • Don’t cut across yards and stay out of back yards. • Follow traffic signals and don’t jaywalk. • Always watch for cars backing up or turning. • Review the “stop, drop and roll” procedure in case your costume catches on fire. • Never accept rides from strangers. • Respect other people and their property. • Be polite and say “thank you.” • Don’t eat any candy until it’s inspected for tampering under bright lights. • Avoid candy that has loose wrappings, is unwrapped, has puncture holes, or is homemade. • Small children should not be allowed hard candy they may choke on. • Report suspicious or criminal activity to an adult or police. • Consider having a party instead of Trick or Treating.