Thank you to our community! Thank you to all who have become members of the PCC and have given financial donations. Since volunteers operate the PCC, all donations and membership go directly to the up keep and restoration of this historic building. We invite everyone to become a member! Thanks to all who donated to our Annual Earth Day Tag Sale and our Annual Spring Clothing drive for People to People and pet supplies for Hi- Tor Animal Shelter.

PALISADES COMMUNITY CENTER BOARD MEMBERS

Carol Baxter, President
Alice Buchanan, Vice President
Carol Knudson, Secretary
Andrew Nelson, Treasurer
Michele Balm, Keith Buterbaugh, Dr. Leo Keegan, Dr. Jeffrey Levine, and Lynn Sandhaus
Honorary Board member: Dr. Virginia McCauley

RENTAL COORDINATOR:
Eileen Larkin
845-359-6589
Ileenog@aol.com

MAILING ADDRESS:
PO Box 222
Palisades, NY 10964
Join our e-mail list! PCC@palisadesny.com Website: www.Palisadescc.org

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Palisades Presbyterian Church
117 Washington Spring Road, PO Box 687
(845)359-3147
ppc10964@gmail.com www.palpresny.org

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12 - 5:00pm

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A white van with bright pink lettering and black paw prints speckling the side rumbles down our driveway. An hour later, our household princess, a small one-year-old Havanese, is runway ready. Washed, trimmed, brushed and fluffed, she is stress and mess free – definitely better groomed than her owners.

Palisades Presbyterian Church
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Palisades Presbyterian Church Annual Strawberry Festival

The Palisades Presbyterian Church will host its annual strawberry festival on Saturday, June 13, from 2:00 – 6:00 pm, rain or shine.
Come join us as we serve up our delicious strawberry shortcake with homemade whipped cream – a truly memorable treat! Quarts of tasty strawberries will also be on sale.

The Board of the Palisades Cemetery Association has been meeting regularly and dealing with the many tasks necessary to make the cemetery operational again. On May 16, as part of History Day at the Palisades Community Center, Carol Knudson will lead tours of the cemetery, starting at 10:00 am. We hope that many of you will take the opportunity to visit the cemetery and learn more about the former residents buried there. The grounds will have had their spring cleanup by that date, and if the flowers and foliage cooperate, you will see how beautiful the cemetery can be.

A few weeks back, a couple walking their dog on Washington Spring Road had to literally jump off the road to avoid being hit by a car speeding past them. This is not an unfamiliar story in Palisades. For the last ten years, at every Palisades Community Center Annual Meeting, traffic safety has been the most heated discussion item with speeding at the top of the list. In 2009, a traffic study on Oak Tree Road revealed that 85% of cars were traveling at least 10 mph over the 30 mph speed limit.

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Palisades Free Library
Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System
and ANSER Network
19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964
845-359-0136, Fax 845-359-6124
www.palisadeslibrary.org

Palisades Presbyterian Church
117 Washington Spring Road, PO Box 687
845-359-3147
Email: ppc10964@gmail.com
Website: www.palpresny.org

THANK YOU to all those who donated books and household items to our recent sales! Also, Michael Tersigni for his architectural design services, David Palachek and Paul Goldman for their graphic design services and volunteers Kathy Sykes, Elizabeth Quinn, David and Thomas Fowler, Bailey and Scarlet Ottley and their goats, Alex Chin, Vienna and Ellis Guzewich and Bernie Doyle. Along with the efforts of our board members, we could not run our programs without the help of Eileen Larkin, Joyce Gavin and Susan Nemesdy.

Watch for the new 2015 PALISADES COMMUNITY DIRECTORY mid-winter!

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The Palisades Cemetery, one of the hidden gems of the hamlet, is the final resting place for many individuals who have had a major impact on our small community as well as the entire Hudson Valley. I have chosen the Palisades Cemetery as my Girl Scout Gold Award Project because I am fascinated with the history behind the people who have been laid to rest here.

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Youʼve passed it many times. Maybe it even caught your eye - that glint of white through the evergreens off Route 9W, just south of the light at Washington Spring Road. Formerly the “Tree Ring Lab” division of The Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Campus, this single story structure is now home to Bright Horizons, a Daycare/Preschool facility accredited by the NAEYC (National Association of Education for Young Children).

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Thanks to your financial, goods and services donations and volunteer involvement, we have come a long way with our restoration projects. Our last phase is the installation of a handicap bathroom and a renovated kitchen (that is currently unusable.) With your help we can achieve this goal!

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117 Washington Spring Road, PO Box 687
845-359-3147
ppc10964@gmail.com
www.palpresny.org

Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Greta Nettleton's book The Quack's Daughter has been picked up by the University of Iowa Press and will be coming out in a second edition in the spring of 2014 under that imprint.

Most of us had a look at the attractive lobby and large, cosy living room of the Esplanade when we voted on November 5th. In the future, if age and debility make staying in our own homes impractical, some of us may consider the idea of moving there. Some of my friends are already residents. I decided to write this article to answer questions about the Esplanade and how it came here.

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Blooming Hill Organic Farm CSA
While we wait for our Winter farmers’ market to begin in mid-January, every Friday morning individual bags of just-picked organic fruit and veggies are dropped off at the PCC.

Palisades Presbyterian Church to Celebrate its 150th Anniversary

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The Palisades Presbyterian Church located on Washington Spring Road in Snedens Landing will celebrate its 150th anniversary beginning this October.

A four-way stoplight blinks above Sparkill’s main intersection like a lullaby. Underneath, Bauer Crowley Insurance stands stolid sentry on one corner, the U.S. Post Office and a barbershop on the other. A turn of the century bank is gussied up with bright blue Chase awnings and Central Garage & Machine Works looks ready for Rosie the Riveter on nearby Union Street.

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If you think wealth equals well being, this is not the class for you. If you think you have to be young to exercise, this is not the class for you. If you are afraid of getting to know yourself better then this DEFINITELY is not the class for you.

This is the class for you if you want to live longer, get sick less, and control your breathing and blood pressure.

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We have two NEW websites!
Palisades Community Center www.Palisadescc.org
Palisades Farmers’ Market www.Palisadesfm.org

For everything Palisades, visit the 10964 website at www.Palisadesny.com
To sign up for Palisades Alerts and Palisades Community Center news: PCC@Palisadesny.com
We now have WiFi internet service. Our password is posted on our bulletin board.

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Pastor: Reverend Angela Maddalone
Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Bible Study: Wednesdays 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Choir Rehearsal: Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Sanctuary Healing Service:

Starting in April every 3rd Sunday of the month at 11:30 a.m. a Sanctuary Healing Service will take place. Prayer for the healing of body, mind and spirit. Whether you are in need of healing or you wish to pray on behalf of someone else, you are most welcome to join us.

I have been reading a great deal of and about Henry James recently and just finished Colm Toibin’s The Master, his virtuoso fictional biography of James, with the result that I am more acutely attuned than usual to the powers of place. So maybe it’s just me, but it does seem that some spaces have lives of their own, with their own consciousness, exerting their own influence on the human activities occurring within them. Not a haunting, exactly, but a living, breathing entity giving shelter and replenishment to those who enter. Take, for example, the old firehouse in Sparkill, an unprepossessing, two-story building tucked between a mechanics garage and a former dry cleaning establishment on a snippet of a street that also once had within my own living memory a shoe repair place, long since gone. Gone as have many businesses come and gone since the shuttering of the Sparkill train station over fifty years ago. The old firehouse, however, is a place that insists on living.

Children's Programs All programs are free and held at the library. Registration is required.

Two Dates for this popular program! Choose one.
Wednesday, December 5 and December 12, 4:30 pm
Gingerbread House Building. Ages 5 to 12

Tuesday, December 11, 4:30 pm
Winter Holiday Fun. Ages 2 ½ to 5

Dear Residents of 10964,

Your property taxes now rank third highest in the country. Your town board wishes to raise them higher. Our elected officials have voted to override the state-mandated cap of a 2% property tax increase. Their proposed increase will exceed 6%.