Senior Meals

SENIOR MEALS FOR SEPTEMBER

To reserve a meal, call the Herkimer County Office for the Aging at least one business day in advance, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 315-867-1204 or 315-867-1634.

If you will not be home for meals, call 315-867-1204 at least a day in advance. All sites are handicapped accessible. Menu for Little Falls:

Sep 01: Three cheese penne pasta, tossed salad, garlic roll, fresh fruit. Sep 02: BBQ chicken, German potato salad, green beans, lemon cake. Sep 03: Turkey cold plate, coleslaw, cottage cheese, Kaiser roll, brownie. Sep 06: Closed for Labor Day Sep 07: Fiesta chicken, seasoned rice, Pacific blend vegetables, peaches. Sep 08: Ham and cheese cold plate, tomato and cucumber salad, potato salad, pudding. Sep 09: Macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes and zucchini, green beans, sugar cookie. Sep 10: Goulash, corn, cauliflower, pears. Sep 13: Turkey divan with broccoli sauce, egg nodles, squash, fruit cocktail. Sep 14: Tuna casserole, beets, carrots, brownie. Sep 15: Chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, peas, ice cream. Sep 16: Lasagna, garlic roll, tossed salad, apple crisp. Sep 17: Pot roast, carrots, potatoes, cooked. Sep 20: Spanish rice, corn, green beans, pineapple. Sep 21: Lemon chicken, au gratin potatoes, Brussels sprouts, banana cake. Sep 22: Frittata, hash browns, sausage patty, muffin, fruit cup. Sep 23: Tangy meatloaf, mashed potatoes, country blend vegetables, chef’s choice pie. Sep 24: Turkey dinner with gravey, stuffing, spinach, oatmeal raisin cookie. Sep 27: Cheddar baked fish, beets, confetti rice, Mandarin oranges. Sep 28: Beef stew with vegetables, biscuit, fruited gelatin. Sep 29: Chicken florentine with fettucine, California blend vegetables, garlic roll, banana. Sep 30: Ham and plum sauce, scalloped potatoes, peas and carrots, pudding.

All meals are served with 8 ounces of milk, a slice of bread, and margarine. Desserts have no concentrated sweets. The suggested donation is $3. Mail donations to Herkimer County OFA, 109 Mary St., Suite 2501, Herkimer, NY 13350. Envelopes are available from drivers.

Richard Ruggiero, owner of Ruggiero’s Trattoria & Italian Steakhouse, Tap and Tavern, 546 E. Main St. in Little Falls, makes homemade pizza dough.

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Additional specials will be offered throughout the city as part of Third Thursday. For more information on the Pizza Challenge, visit thinklocalittlefalls.com or follow ‘Think Local Little Falls’ on Facebook and Instagram. Third Thursday is a Think Local event co-sponsored by the Little Falls Youth and Family Center, the City of Little Falls Tourism Committee, and the City of Little Falls.

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Let’s All Get Vaccinated

Vaccines are one of the tools we have to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Over 338 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through July 22, 2021. • Vaccines are one of the most effective tool to protect your health and prevent disease. Vaccines work with your body’s natural defenses so your body will be ready to fight the virus, if they you are exposed (also called immunity). • Studies have shown the COVID 19 vaccinations are safe, effective, & it’s free. • Different types of vaccines are available. Most vaccines are given in two shots, one at a time and spaced apart. If you are told that you need two shots make sure that you get both. • The vaccines may cause side mild effects in some people, like sore muscles, feeling tired, or mild fever. These reactions mean that the vaccine is working to help teach your body how to fight

COVID-19 if you are exposed. Most side effects will not last more than a day or two. • COVID-19 Variants are present in the community and the unvaccinated are at risk of getting sick and being hospitalized. • Please consider getting vaccinated so that we can protect all of the children that cannot be vaccinated.

Cap Off Game Day with an All-Star Combo

Pregame festivities call for salty snacks and meaty morsels, but halftime eating and postgame celebrations are perfect for sweet treats.

You can sweeten up your tailgate or homegate with a shareable option like Marbled Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies made with Domino Golden Sugar, which is made from pure cane sugar and dissolves and measures cup for cup just like white granulated sugar without compromising performance or taste. Featuring an undefeated combination of peanut butter and chocolate, this dessert is ideal for baking a day ahead so you can manage the clock on game day.

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Marbled Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies

Prep time: 25 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Yield: 24 brownies

Chocolate Brownies: 1/2 cup (1/4 pound) butter 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped 1 cup Domino Golden Sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 1/2 cup all-purpose flour Peanut Butter Marble: 1/4 cup natural (no added sugar) peanut butter 4 tablespoons butter, softened 1/2 cup Domino Golden Sugar 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

powdered sugar, for topping (optional)

Heat oven to 350 F.

To make chocolate brownies: In medium saucepot over low heat, melt butter and chocolate. Remove pot from heat; stir in sugar and vanilla until blended.

In small mixing bowl, whisk eggs until frothy then stir into chocolate mixture.

Sift flour into batter and stir just until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing to edges.

To make peanut butter marble: In mixing bowl, cream peanut butter, butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla; beat just until blended. In separate bowl, sift or whisk flour and baking powder then stir into batter just until combined.

Carefully spread peanut butter marble over chocolate batter. Use knife to swirl batters together, first horizontally then diagonally.

Bake 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out almost clean. Cool completely on wire rack before cutting. Top with powdered sugar, if desired, before serving.

Photo by Dave Warner - Ann Street Wine and Liquors now stocks between 30 and 35 different kinds of bourbons.

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might have some specialty products that they want.”

They also have a new selection of New York State wines that are now part of that inventory. “It’s not the typical sweet wines that you find in New York,” she said.

The other big thing that she says she’s done, is expanding the bourbon section. “When I started, we only had three bourbons on the shelf. Bourbon is a huge category and some are very hard to get. They have to be allocated based on how many other bourbons that you bring in,” she stated. She says that they now have anywhere between 30 and 35 different kinds in the store. “Now I’m starting to get some of the allocated ones, so I’m going to be starting a bourbon club this fall. If you join, you’ll get a card. Every time you purchase a bottle, you’ll get put on a point system.”

When those specialty bottles come in, they’ll be in the backroom and those folks on the list with the most points will get first choice.

She also intends to do a lottery for Christmas

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Little Falls Historical Socity Back in Time Segment

The Lost Village of Beardlee’s Mill - Thriving Frontier Community In 1800 on Banks of East Canada Creek

John Beardslee left Sharon, Connecticut in 1781 at the age of twenty-two, skilled as a mechanic, surveyor, and an architect. He came to Herkimer County in 1792 as a government employee. John was hired to build a mill for the Oneida Indians, helping them to rebuild the Mohawk Castle in Danube. His next job was to build the first bridge over the Mohawk River at Little Falls, with building the “Red Mill” next to it. He also was hired to build a bridge, east of Little Falls, known to this day as the Gulf Bridge. The Mohawk Valley had been previously ravished by war during The Revolution. Beardslee was given the job of rebuilding John Joost Petrie’s mill, the grist mill of the massacre of 1782. These projects required John to need considerable amounts of cut timber. In March of 1794 he purchased a hundred acre lot on the west bank of the East Canada Creek, with setting up a saw mill at the falls. He also built a stone bridge spanning the East Canada Creek. During this time period, there was a flood tide of emigration to the Royal Grant, as well as Western United States, with the village growing rapidly on this lot of land. By 1800, the town consisted of two stores, two taverns, a blacksmith shop, a nail factory, cooperage, and a brewery as well as the sawmill and a grist mill. The village also had a doctor, Dr. Daniel Ayers, and lawyers and school teachers all settling in his frontier town, which was nearly self- sufficient. The population was nearly 2,000. The first decline began in 1802 with the toll road, the Mohawk Turnpike was completed, which was three miles south of Beardslee’s City as he now called the town. When Mr. Beardslee noted that the highway was taking trade away from his settlement. He purchased another 350 acres in 1810 at the cost of 330 pounds, to expand the village to meet the turnpike. The new “Beardslee City “was built in 1815. The next decline which the city never recovered from was the opening of the Erie Canal on October 26, 1825, which was on the Mohawk River, taking all the trade from the Mohawk Turnpike. In addition to this, a dam was built on the canal changing water levels so mills could not be built below the “New City.” Prior to the opening of the canal in October 3, 1825, John Beardslee died from a stomach condition. Lavina Pardee, his widow whom he married in 1795, bore him three sons and three daughters. The three daughters and one son died young, unmarried with leaving no descendants. Their last surviving son was born in 1801, Augustus Beardslee, who became a judge and

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an assemblyman. He built the mausoleum above the cemetery at Beardslee City in 1847, with Lavina being laid to rest there in 1855. Lavina lived long enough to watch the decline of the city. As business declined, the mill closed and one by one the residents moved away.