Fair days

If ever there were two more unlikely people to join a club let alone start one it was me and Hannah Sterbenz.

We laughed at this turn of events—at odds with our visions of our independent selves. Hannah even acquired a gavel (for our more raucous meetings).

So we started a 4-H club for kids which, despite its many ups and downs, is now in its fourth year.

4-H is the statewide youth development program of Cornell Cooperative Extension that connects the resources of Cornell University to young people. The commonly seen 4-H emblem is of a green four-leaf clover with a white “H” on each leaf. The “H”s stand for “Head,” “Heart,” “Hands” and “Health.”

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Glittering stars twinkle over the Catskills

The cosmos is a wonderful thing. At any given moment in time, stars are forming somewhere in the universe. Some are infants, just learning to shine (or walk, as the case may be). Some have already begun their journey through space and some are fully formed, having exploded into consciousness with a Big Bang of their own.

On Friday, August 21, some new galaxies began forming at the CAS Arts Center in Livingston Manor. Ranging in age from 13 to 17, future stars Cindy Zheng, Kelsey Leland, Christine Troianello, Zoe Zurad, Rebecca Pisall, Cooper Zurad and Sam Satanovsky took center stage and premiered a new radio play, replete with music and live sound effects.

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