117 Washington Spring Road
PO Box 687, Palisades, NY 10964
845-359-3147
ppc10964@gmail.com,
www.palpresny.org

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00am to 2:00pm Please check out our facebook page! www.facebook.com/ThePalisadesPresbyterianChurch

Stories from the Past: Reconstructing Global Climate Change
March 30, 3:00pm at Lamont-Doherty
Humans are changing global climate at a pace unprecedented in Earth’s history but past climate trends can help us to understand where our modern climate is headed. Although we cannot make direct measurements of the past atmosphere, we can use marine records preserved in fossil plankton that accumulates on the sea floor. The cores of ancient ocean sediments gathered by Lamont-Doherty scientists for more than 50 years tell a compelling story of climate change and its effects.

ONE OF THE SIMPLE PLEASURES of living around here was going to Vince Castagna’s Tappan Auto shop on Route 303 and Oak Tree Road to get my car inspected. I’d walk in to his tiny waiting room furnished with old car seats with the stuffing lolling out, newspapers, vintage magazines with their covers torn off, out-of-date calendars, oil cans, anti-freeze, tires and decades of dirt and whatnot, all that you’d expect from that line of work, and hidden by the clutter in plain sight would be Judy, Vince’s wife, in all her comforting bulk, stationed at her little desk doing crossword puzzles out of a crossword puzzle book. She’d look up at me as if I were interrupting, and I guess I was, but then she’d quickly get down to business and call Vince in from the garage to take care of me. They were a team. He’d drive the car into the work bay, get out, let her climb into it, and she’d call out numbers he’d crunch into some sort of hand-held device, then pronounce me inspected. It was the same year after year. After completing the ritual, Judy would charge me $25 and I’d be on my way.

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

HOURS: Monday to Thursday 11:00 to 9:00pm, Friday, Saturday 11:00 to 5:00pm, Sunday 1:00 to 5:00pm.
Next Meeting of the Board of Trustees: Wednesday, April 9, 7:30pm at the Library. All meetings are open to the public.
HOLIDAYS: Closed Easter Sunday, April 20

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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

Hours: Monday - Thursday 11-9, Friday - Saturday 11-5, Sunday 1-5.
Next Meeting of the Board of Trustees: Wed., December 11, 7:30PM at the Library. All meetings are open to the public.
Holidays: Closed December 24 at 3PM and all day December 25. Closed at 3PM on December 31 and all day on January 1 and January 20.

Director: Maria Gagliardi; Board of Trustees: Sabelle Frasca, President; Michele Kalotkin, Vice President; Helena Power, Secretary; Holly Seeger, Treasurer; Mary Ann Brueckner; Paul Goldman; Leslie Hayes; Roger Hooker; Jonathan Plowe.

Palisadians have a tendency to look south towards NYC, instead of to the rest of Rockland County. But vital issues north of here will eventually affect us as well; it’s important to learn the facts about two of them: the proposed United Water desalination plant in Haverstraw and the problems of the East Ramapo school district.

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This fall the Palisades Free Library will complete an exciting renovation project that will expand and improve the services we can offer our residents. The last major building improvement was in 1996. The renovation will update the functional space and energy efficiency of the building while retaining the library’s warmth and historic charm.

Ernest de la Torre
The August issue of Architectural Digest featured a distinctive SoHo loft recently completed by Palisades resident Ernest de la Torre. Created as a residence for a client of New York and Philadelphia, the apartment interiors are modern and classic. A cozy outdoor living space, complete with fireplace, renders this loft a versatile indoor and outdoor living space year-round.

The building of the new Tappan Zee Bridge requires dredging of the river bottom for the construction of pylons to support two new spans. The degree of damage this dredging will inflict on the local ecosystem is not precisely known, but what is known is that the dredging project is the largest in the history of the Hudson.

A beautiful summer evening — four of us having dinner together outside on the terrace below the house. My tenants Danny and Aline Lehrecke had invited me to share their grilled chicken, and we were catching up on events, since I had been away for three weeks. It was a peaceful night, although there were the usual late-day noises: a passing train across the river, a cricket or two, a distant barking dog.

JOIN US AT OUR END OF SEASON FARMERS' MARKET DINNER

the Market dinner 2010 celebration
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Saturday, May 18, 7:00 to 9:00pm.
Under twinkling lights, enjoy food straight from the farm to our table in the company of friends and neighbors.

Please R.S.V.P. so we can get a headcount. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/372261
Volunteers and underwriters are needed!

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Palisades Free Library
Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System and ANSER Network
19 Closter Road, Palisades, N.Y. 10964
Phone: 845-359-0136, Fax: 845-359- 6124.
www.palisadeslibrary.org
Visit our website for a full listing of pro grams and events: Like us on Facebook www.palisadeslibrary.org

Block Party

The Strange Bedfellows will appear at the Union Street Arts Center from May 30 through June 2, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:00pm, Sunday matinee at 3:00pm in a production of Twelfth Night that will begin in the street and then take you inside and up and down the stairs. Adults: $15; Seniors: $12; Children under eighteen: $10. For reservations, go to www.brownpapertickets.com.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Pancake Breakfast

Memorial Day, May 27, 8 to 10:30 AM

Strawberry Festival

Saturday June 8, 2 to 6 PM

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By the time you read this, the place could be carpeted with cicadas driving you nuts with noise — music to their ears, but not to ours — more like the sound of a roaring train that never quite passes all the way through.

What the? you might ask.

Photo by Eric Vorenkamp
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On February 21, 2013, the Northvale Planning Board approved a plan submitted by Northvale Shopping Center Associates for an expansion of 15,000 square feet to be added to the north side of the existing ShopRite supermarket in Northvale, N.J. The Board also approved plans for a new 24,500 square foot freestanding retail building and space for an additional 590 parking spaces to be located between Pegasus and Livingston Streets (Rte. 303), part of which will encompass the TECT/Danzig site. Two buildings where Bobʼs Carpets is currently located will be demolished to make way for additional parking.

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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

Hours:
Monday - Thursday 11-9, Friday - Saturday 11-5, Sunday 1-5.

Next Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Wed., April 10, 7:30 pm at the Library. All meetings are open to the public.

Antiques

Repaired, Refinished and Restored
Contact Robert Adzema, Palisades, NY.
845 359-5421.

Cemetery Update

Tour the Historic Palisades Cemetery April 14th, 3PM. Tour originally done for Palisades History Day in June of 2005. Come explore the beautiful treasure of our cemetery and learn about local history from grave stones dating from the Revolutionary War to the recent past of notable people in Palisades. Meet at the Cemetery Gate and gather at the Community Center afterwards for a reception.

A Title Company is presently researching conditions on the property and we expect to have their report shortly. The next step will be another meeting at the Community Center in May, when we can discuss possible futures for our historic cemetery.

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The Palisades Presbyterian Church invites you to attend a professional reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, on Sunday, December 16, at 5:00 pm. This early evening hour was chosen so that families with elementary school-aged children could attend and, for some, be introduced to Dickens for the first time.

Palisades Presbyterian Church 1900
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ADVENT POTLUCK DINNER AND WREATH MAKING:
Sunday, December 2, 5:30 pm

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT:
Sunday, December 16, 10:00 am