At Home in the Huddle 2012: Weekend Special

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It's 45 degrees and gray at 4:30 on Sunday afternoon.

WKTV's Weather Forecast: "By the late (Sunday) evening another round of rain is slated to return as a storm system develops along the frontal boundary. Rain will be steady and heavy at times throughout the overnight and into Monday morning. Lows drop back to near 40 degrees.

Soggy start to Monday with steady rain tapering off to scattered showers. Any snow will be well off to our west, closer to Jamestown and Buffalo. Temperatures will once again be in the low 50s.

Cool, wet weather continues into the middle of the week. Highs will stay in the 50s."

I don't really want to cause a panic, but ACCUWEATHER is predicting
a "powerful, cold storm" along the northeast.

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Earth Day Weekend Village Cleanup

Even before I reached Municipal Hall, where Rotarian Lou Langone was registering volunteers,
I passed two smiling groups on White Street.

I didn't think that there had been so many children, before .................

..... but Amanda Briggs explained that many of the girls were members of Brownie Scout Troop #931 and that some of them had brought their parents, brothers and sisters along to help, too!

They found plenty of junk along the roailroad tracks.

A volunteer holds a trash bag for Rotarian Deb Conway who was cleaning up the hillside next to the sidewalk over the culvert on West Main Street.

Rotarians Sue and Bill Getman also knew where to find the most - and heaviest - trash:
Sue was out on Madison Street, beyond Jack Prior's place........

............. and I found Bill north of the village, beyond the crest of the hill before Daytonville Road, working his way back to a waiting pickup truck that already had a couple of bags in it.

All of the junk that was collected filled the dumpster behind the Fire House.

If you see any of the Rotarians or the Brownies,

please thank them for all of their work!

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For a special Earth Day greeting from Google, click HERE.

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Now in Bloom

Norway Maple blossoms - one of the sweetest flowers to put in a bouquet.

The blossoms on the ornamental Pear Trees along West Main Street must be sweet, too - bees and bugs of several varieties were making the trees "hum."