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hope that everyone in Guilderland had a pleasant New Year’s holiday, and is enjoying the relatively calm winter season that we have experienced this far in 2012. It certainly has been quite different so far from the winter of 2011.

When the opportunity presents itself, as I’m sure it will, I encourage our residents to take advantage of the full range of cold-weather activities available in Guilderland’s parks. When weather permits, we have cross-country skiing available at Western Turnpike Golf Course, and snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and sledding available at the Winter Recreation Area. Please check the Town website, www.townofguilderland.org, or call our Parks Office at 456-3150 for more information.

We have made some changes that involve dogs in our Town parks.

The Town Board has adopted a new law which requires that all dogs in Town parks be on a leash at all times. The only exception under this law is the Guilderland dog park, located at the Town’s Nott Road Park facility. Residents who wish to allow their dogs to exercise off leash are encouraged to use this facility. At the same time that the new leash law was adopted, the Town Board also voted to eliminate the fee that had been formerly charged for the use of the dog park facility. As long as your dog is properly licensed in Guilderland, including required vaccinations, you may use the

Nott Road facility without charge. Please remember that, whether your dog is off leash at Nott Road or on leash at any off our other park facilities, you are required to remove and properly dispose of any animal waste.

I’d also like to remind our residents that the speed limit on Route 146 as it passes through the hamlet of Guilderland Center was reduced from 40 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour several months ago. We are grateful that so many of the people whose travels take them through the hamlet have been observant of the reduced limit. We are monitoring traffic in the hamlet periodically, and the Guilderland Police Department is enforcing the new speed limit, so please be mindful of this in your travels.

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We have a Coffee with Women in Business group meeting at Panera Bread at Crossgates Commons that meets Thurs, Feb 16 at 8 am that is free and casual networking. We also have a huge business networking event on Feb. 29-Leap Year-that is a combined Guilderland, Colonie and Bethlehem Chamber event at Milestone Restaurant in Glenmont. The event is open to anyone, $10 for members and $20 for non members.

Our Friday Breakfast series for March will feature the UAlbany Small Business Development Center and NY Business Development Center in financing for small business, again open to anyone, at 7:30-9 am on March 2 at the chamber offices, 2050 Western ave.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR OF EVENTS Friday, February 10: Lynwood Elementary School PTA: Dad’s Spaghetti Dinner—6pm.

Pine Bush Elementary School: Grade 5 Musical---7pm.

Saturday, February 11: Pine Bush Elementary School: Grade 5 Musical---7pm.

Altamont Free Library Annual Gala and Auction at Altamont Library Community Room---5:30pm. Call AFL 861-7239 for details and ticket information. Proceeds to benefit the Renovations Project.

Old Songs Presents Hanneke Cassel, Fiddle Champion with Trio---8pm. Tickets $20 at Old Songs, 37 S.Main Street, Voorheesville. 765-2815 Sunday, February 12: Guilderland Public Library hosts 2nd Sunday Concert Series with “Lost Radio Rounders”. Tom Lindsay and Michael Eck have played historic American music for the past 25 years. Celebrate President Lincoln’s birthday with a Civil-War era songbook called Lincoln & Liberty: Songs from the Time of Honest Abe--- 2pm in the Large Community Room. Seating is limited so arrive early.

Monday, February 13: AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

By appointment only. Please call Library to schedule 456-2400.

Wednesday, February 15: Farnsworth Middle School “Select” Concert---7pm.

Friday, February 17: Local Irish sensation “Hair of the Dog” sings a St. Patrick’s Day warm-up at St. Thomas School in Delmar. Doors open at 6pm. Concert begins at 7pm. Tickets are $25 p/p. Call 439-5573 for details and directions. Food and beverages are available for purchase. Must be 21 years of age to attend.

Guilderland High School Musical “Hair Spray”----7pm.

Call 861-8591 for ticket information.

Saturday, February 18: Bus trip to NYC Museum of Modern Art OR Metropolitan Museum of Art, you choose one, sponsored by Desolation Road Studios. Price per seat is $69 and includes bus fare and one museum admission. Depart 7am from Crossgates on 2/18, drop off at museum of your choice. Pick-up at 7pm at Bryant Park for return trip. Call Jim 608-4749 for additional details and to see if tickets are still available.

AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

By appointment only. Please call Library to schedule 456-2400.

Guilderland High School Musical “Hair Spray”----7pm.

Call 861-8591 for ticket information.

Monday, February 20 thru Friday, February 24: NO SCHOOL. Winter Break.

Monday, February 20: AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

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Tuesday, February 21: An afternoon with young-adult author, Coleen Paratore, of “The Wedding Planners Daughter”---2pm at the Guilderland Public Library.

Wednesday, February 22: Teen Anime-niacs at the Guilderland Public Library--6:30pm. Hang out with fellow anime-lovers, watch some peer selected anime- series episodes and movies, create your own manga artwork. Grades 7-12. No registration necessary.

Thursday, February 23: Join an informative talk at the Guilderland Public Library--7pm. “Local Stops on the Underground Railroad”.

Learn how local citizens participated with fleeing slaves.

Paul Stewart, Independent Scholar and Co-Founder of the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region Inc., presents.

Saturday, February 25: AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

By appointment only. Please call Library to schedule 456-2400.

Christian Brothers Academy “Yard Sale” 9am to 3pm.

Pre-sale--Friday 6-8:30pm. Clothing, home goods, electronics, seasonal items, furniture. Donations of items in good condition accepted all month long by calling 452-9809 x115. Pick-up available by appointment.

Monday, February 27: AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

By appointment only. Please call Library to schedule 456-2400.

Wednesday, February 29: Albany Medical College Health Topics: “The New You”--6:30pm at the Guilderland Public Library, Large Meeting Room. Bianca Schaeffer, Ph.D, Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at AMC, shares some challenges and strategies for making and keeping a commitment to “a new you” in this new year!

Thursday, March 1: Alzheimer’s Association presents, “Validation Theory and Therapeutic Fibbing”---1pm at the Guilderland Public Library, Large Meeting Room. This interactive discussion teaches how to communicate with someone who lives in the past. To register, please call Jamie Mott 867-4999 x209 or email, Jamie.Mott@alz.org.

Saturday, March 3: AARP Tax-Aide at the Guilderland Public Library---9am.

By appointment only. Please call Library to schedule 456-2400.

Girl Scout Centennial Exhibit…..all month at Guilderland Public Library starting today.

Wednesday, March 7: Teen Anime-niacs at the Guilderland Public Library--6:30pm. Hang out with fellow anime-lovers, watch some peer selected anime- series episodes and movies, create your own manga artwork. Grades 7-12. No registration necessary.

Open House 7pm at Academy of the Holy Names, Upper School grades 6-12, 1073 New Scotland Rd, Albany.

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2012 Spay/Neuter Clinics

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Cat Spay/Neuter Clinics: Cat Care Coalition Spay/Neuter Clinic: Eligibility: Low income; <$42,000/year for single household; application available in the PAWS office or on Guilderhaven, inc.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at http://web.mac.com/guilderhaven.

Service: Distemper & rabies vaccinations, worming meds, exam, and spay/neuter - $65; Testing for feline leukemia or FIV: $15 additional The Village Animal Clinic: Eligibility: Low income Service: Distemper & rabies vaccinations, feline leukemia/FIV testing, and spay/neuter- $81 Aqueduct Animal Hospital:

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private homes and from shelters and rescue groups. Guilderhaven, inc. has also delivered thousands of pounds of dog/cat food, and many supplies, to pet owners and rescue groups.

In addition, we continued assisting PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support) of the Albany Damien Center, in providing spay/neuter and additional veterinary services for their clients' pets. Since the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inception in April of 2010, we have facilitated and paid for the neutering of 68 cats and 56 dogs!

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Please consider sending a tax deductible. donation to Guilderhaven, inc. 6655 Route 158 Altamont, NY 12009 and help us help the animals!

2012 Rabies Clinics Mohawk and Hudson Humane Society call 434-8128 Albany County call 447-4620 Roman ~2yr old, small, gentle, neutered male; VERY affectionate; favorite thing is to be held and have his head rubbed; Roman gets along w/ the other cats and loves to play, took out windows, and sleep w/ you at night. He is a very interactive cat looking and will make a great companion. Call Laurie at 518-461-0251 or brightsky@nycap.rr.com

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Maintaining a positive attitude, even in the face of adversity, is one of the main qualities expected of blackbelts in Taekwondo. It is also probably the most difficult character aspect to be completely successful with. We are all able to maintain a positive attitude in different situations some of the time, but most of us have trouble keeping it up all of the time.

Here’s the good news: we are right on normal. Very few people actually live up to this high goal. I think that the trick is to at least keep the negativity inside. I need to work on this.

I talk too much and it is not always the best thing that comes out. I have always been the kind of person that evaluates everything that can go wrong in a situation. This is clearly not a positive attitude, but it keeps me reasonably safe and out of trouble. What I need to do is hold in the thoughts, evaluate, then shift gears to positive attitude. By keeping negativity inside until it can be sorted out means that I do not negatively impact the people around me. Later showing the positive attitude means that I affect the people around me positively; a perfect combination.

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What a surprise, here comes the football reference. Nobody performed better in a football game by starting the match stating that they were going to do poorly. Yes they consider the things that can go wrong, but a great player will calculate the bad, justifying how they will overcome it and replace the thoughts with positivity. In addition, the accomplished player will be able to let go of the bad things that happen and focus on each subsequent event as a new start with a new positive attitude. The same is of course true of any sport, like Taekwondo sparring matches, or any event in our lives. Live each start positively, and let go of the bad as it slips into the past. Holding on will only bring you down and lessen your ability to succeed. It is hard to do, but beneficial to try.

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f I had to choose one phrase to describe the Library it would be jampacked. In the past year we have squeezed more materials, programs and people into the Library than in any previous year. The Library is open seven days a week , 11 hours each weekday and 11 hours on the weekend. We average 197 people an hour through our doors or over 2,100 people a day on weekdays.

Last year, I told you that because of our building constraints we had to withdraw an older item for each new item we add to the collection. This practice remains the same. Our collection currently stands at almost 200,000 items or 6 items per capita which is the recommended size for a medium sized library. We did add about 2,200 more items to the Library’s adult and children’s fiction collection by reconfiguring and adding some more shelving. Unfortunately by doing this we have lost some study space and some materials are shelved on both the highest and lowest shelves which are hard for most patrons to both browse and reach. Our circulation of materials, particularly our electronic materials, increased by 1% to 731,932.

This translates to 21 items per resident.

Our space needs limit what we can offer both as programs for the community and the number of meetings community groups held at the Library. The Library was able to hold 12 more programs last year than the previous year, yet program attendance increased by 8%. One hundred and ninety-two community groups used our meeting rooms, and tutors held over 1,000 tutoring sessions in the Library.

We continue to apply for grants to improve our both facility and our programming. We currently have three programming grants and one construction grant. The construction work which we hope to complete in April will result in a relocation of our sewer connection, a slight expansion and repaving of the parking lot, a drive-up book drop and drilling for three

or more geothermal wells. The wells will eventually allow us to convert our facility to using geothermal energy for heating and cooling. We are continuing our other efforts to save money and to “go” green. If you visit the library from December through March you will see that we have once again closed the main lobby doors resulting in heat savings. You also can see on both our website and in our lobby the kilowatts we have saved with our solar panels. So far we have saved 40,500 kWh or the equivalent of two and one half weeks of electrical use each year.

We hope to continue our outreach and partnerships in the community. Last year 90 seniors a month were served by our homebound outreach volunteers.

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We held a number of programs last year where local businesses were our sponsors. Our popular Friday Family Movie Night is just one example of successful partnerships with local Guilderland businesses.

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