Purchase locally grown and produced New York products at Montezuma Winery Farmer's Market Fridays from 3-7pm from June 11th through October 8th. During holiday weeks on 7/2 and 9/3 we will have a chicken BBQ and live entertainment. Located at the corners of Rte. 89 and Rte. 5&20 in Seneca Falls.

Flying Whale Studios in conjunction with Finger Lakes Credit Union presents "Every Specimen Becomes a Relic," an exhibition of photographs by local artist Kevin Schoonover, beginning Aug. 5 at the Credit Union, 27 Seneca St. in Geneva. The images will be on display in the lobby and upper offices until Oct. 28. An opening reception with the artist is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m., Aug. 5. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments, including a wine tasting from Billsboro Winery, will be available. "Every Specimen Becomes a Relic" is composed of over 20 photos offering depictions of rural and urban blight, and some of the natural wonders that surround us but often go unnoticed. Semi-abstract patterns and textures play an important role in Schoonover's pieces. The interplay of light and shadow on ordinary surfaces combined with muted or jarringly bright colors all help create an original way of seeing the world. "I've always loved sad, broken buildings and places," noted Schoonover. "There's something wistful and heartbreaking in the decay and ruin that calls to me. At the same time, I'm also drawn to those spontaneous and uninhibited moments of joy that are constantly occurring... if you know where to look. I hope my work reflects this duality and that the audience shares and appreciates this sensibility." Whether it's a weather-pounded dune fence receding to the ocean's edge, or the crumbling brick backside of a downtown Geneva tenement, or the serenity of an endless blue sky hugging the even bluer horizon line of Lake Ontario, Schoonover's eye is always on the lookout for that which we all look at, but rarely see. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's graphic design program, Schoonover served as executive director of Wayne County Council for the Arts for five years and the Finger Lakes Regional Arts Council/Smith Opera House, where he had the same title, for nearly 10. He left The Smith last year and started Flying Whale Studios, a professional arts business specializing in the creation of photography and fine art, graphic design, and grant writing and publicity for area non-profit organizations. He lives in Geneva with his wife, Mary. They have two grown children, Zachary and Hannah. This is the first local exhibition of the award-winning photographer's work. Regular Credit Union hours are Monday to Wednesday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Call FLCU at 315-781-1334 for details. Visit www.FlyingWhaleStudios.com to see examples of Schoonover's work.

The program is available to all micro-enterprises, which by definition, are businesses with 5 or fewer employees. To kick off this new program, we will hold a competition in which we will fund the top 5 projects. Each applicant is eligible to receive $3,000. Additional Details: Amount: up to $3,000 per business; $1,500 Grant / $1,500 Loan Frequency: Applications due by September 7th 2010 Term: Loans are fixed with 3% interest for 2 years. To be paid in monthly installments. Industry Focus: (ALL) including: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism, Financial, Retail Process: We will promote a competitive funding round where we will award the top 5 projects (or as many necessary to utilize full $15,000 allocation). Each pre-application will be reviewed and evaluated to determine its economic impact by the Our Town Rocks Economic Opportunities Committee. Anyone that currently owns a business or plans to start a new business is invited to apply. Applications are available at the Dundee Community Center and the Finger Lakes Economic Development Center in Penn Yan. The deadline to submit applications is September 7th 2010. For more information contact Ryan Hallings at 315-536-7328 or ryan@fingerlakesedc.com.

The program is available to all micro-enterprises, which by definition, are businesses with 5 or fewer employees. To kick off this new program, we will hold a competition in which we will fund the top 5 projects. Each applicant is eligible to receive $3,000. Additional Details: Amount: up to $3,000 per business; $1,500 Grant / $1,500 Loan Frequency: Competitive Funding Round- Applications due by September 7th 2010 Term: Loans are fixed with 3% interest for 2 years. To be paid in monthly installments

Hosmer Winery is celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year. Join the merriment at our fall extravaganza, Some Like it Hot, on Saturday, September 11 Noon till 4:00. The festivities will be held outside overlooking our lush vineyards. We will have a Basil Pesto Taste Off, live entertainment, local cuisine available á la carte, wine by the glass or bottle, great wine specials and much more. Several local artisans will be showcasing their hand-crafted specialties including quilts, pottery, and hot pepper jellies to name a few. The event starts at noon, and admission is free. Bring along your lawn chair and plan to spend the afternoon.

Kick up your heels and dance to the sounds of old fashioned country fiddlin’ music as we celebrate the harvest season with a Harvest Hoedown at Montezuma Winery Sat 9/18 from noon-5. Enjoy a lip-smacking BBQ, a farm market of local seasonal produce, jams & jellies, maple products, baked goods, kettle corn, home-made fudge and of course wine! There’s fun for the kids including show goats with milking demonstrations and alpacas with fiber weaving demonstrations. Get your pumpkins for decorating this fall season. There’s even a “Best Pumpkin Pie” and a “Potato Bocce” contest. If you came to Montezuma Winery during the Cayuga Wine Trail’s Wine & Herb event this spring, now’s your chance to show off the fruits of your labor. Bring your best Pumpkin Pie or play a game of Potato Bocce for prizes. Don’t miss the old fashioned, foot stompin’, country fiddlin’ music by Polarus from 12-2pm and The Griddle Greasers from 2:30-4:30pm.

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FISH FRY SEPT.3RD $9.95 SECOND SPECIAL WILL BE PORK LOIN FOR $7.95. BOTH DINNERS COME WITH A HUGH SALAD BAR, ROLLS AND BEVERAGE. JUST SALAD IS $5.00. COME OUT AND SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

The Annual Ontario Barn Festival will be held Saturday, September 4th from 11-7pm at Ontario Barn Vineyards, 513 Whitney Road, Ontario, NY The festival features all day live music, BBQ, ares & crafts, promotions of solar energy, apple picking, free ice cream and face painting and lots of fun! Bring the entire family!

Sheriff David S. Gould of Cayuga County announces the Operation SAFE CHILD program will be offered again this year at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, which runs from August 26 through Labor Day, September 6. The Operation SAFE CHILD booth is located in the Center of Progress Building, Booth S-1, next to the main lobby entrance.

Diabetes community program with Nephrologist M.S. Rehmani, MD. Dr. Rehmani will discuss and provide up-to-date information about diabetes and kidney disease. Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Location: Dining Room # 1, Clifton Springs Hospital, 2 Coulter Road, Clifton Springs, NY Program is free--Lunch is available for $5.00 per person. Reservations are required. Please RSVP to the Diabetes Health Center at (315) 462-0220.

The Keuka Comfort Care home is hosting its Fifth Annual Pig Roast, Sunday, September 12, at The VALLEY INN in Guyanoga, from 1 to 4 PM. Bring your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers, and join in all the fun with the folks from the Keuka Comfort Care Home for their 5th Annual Pig Roast. Willie and Jennifer Allison, along with the fine staff at The Valley Inn, and the wonderful volunteers from the Keuka Comfort Care Home, make this an enjoyable day with all you can eat, spit roasted pig, fabulous salads and fine accompaniments, and of course great friends, both old and new. Takeouts will be available for those who cant stay and socialize or if you cant get enough of this mouthwatering meal. Tickets are a $12.00 donation. and are available at THE VALLEY INN, THE MOOSE CLUB, PINCKNEY HARDWARE, and LONGS CARDS AND BOOKS, or call BILL KAYS at 315-536-9651, BILL MCEVILY at 315-536-0067 OR THE KEUKA COMFORT CARE HOME at 315-536-1690, and as always, at the door on SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 from 1 to 4pm.

Burdett Presbyterian Church, 3995 Church Street, Burdett, NY, will host "Compassion, Presence and Care: Basic Training for Caregivers" Friday Oct 1 from 7 to 9pm and Saturday, October 2nd from 9am to 4pm. Rev. Wayne Gustafson, D.Min. will lead this 2-day workshop, designed for deacons, elders, volunteer visitors and is open to anyone who is interested in lay pastoral care ministry. For details and registration information, call 607-546-8560 or email dkevansbpc@aol.com.

Schuyler Habitat for Humanity plans a September 23rd meeting to form committees that will assist with the task of providing affordable housing to local families who have not qualified for conventional home financing. The meeting, from 7 to 8:30pm, is planned in Room 120 at the Human Services Complex, 323 Owego Street, Montour Falls. It’s open to the public. If you’d like to be part of Schuyler Habitat for Humanity, and would be willing to serve on a committee, please plan to attend this meeting. For more information, call 607-546-8560.

Saturday September 11th, 2010 1pm Shotgun start. $65 per person includes 18 holes with cart, SKINS, Lunch on coarse and Steak dinner and prizes back at the Knights to follow. If interested Please call the Council home after 3pm @ 789-1606.

Yates Office for the Aging will be offering community meetings to discuss and answer questions concerning the up coming changes to the EPIC program. These changes will take affect on October 1, 2010. The meetings will be held at the following locations and times: Monday September 13, 2010, 10:00am -11:00am, Yates County Auditorium, 417 Liberty St., Penn Yan Thursday September 16, 2010, 10:00am-11:00am, Dundee Youth Center, Main Street, Dundee Friday September 17, 2010, 10:00am-11:00am, Rushville Village Hall, 1 Main Street, Rushville, NY These meetings are open and free to the public. For reservations please call 315-536-5515

Operatic baritone Jimi James, international pianist/composer Roger Steptoe, cellist Andrew Yee, and speaker Eleanor Stearns perform a musical homage to Theodore Roosevelt at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 18 at the Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. The program includes repertoire performed between 1904 and 1908 at The Smith and at Roosevelt's White House by "America's Greatest Baritone," David Bispham, and Spanish cellist Pablo Casals. Jimi James sings works that Bispham performed at the Smith Opera House in 1906 including "Danny Deever" and the Prologue from Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" -- a Verdi aria Bispham sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1902 -- and other works popular in Theodore Roosevelt's day. Founding member of the acclaimed Attacca Quartet, cellist Andrew Yee will perform works Casals played at the White House on January 15, 1904 by Boccherini, David Popper and Saint-Saens, the great cello sonata Debussy wrote in 1915 during the First World War, and "Sonatine II" composed by Roger Steptoe in memory of cellist Hilayama Manabu, first cellist of the Ibaraki Symphony Orchestra and father to local arts patron Nozomi Williams. David Bisham sang at the White House on January 8, 1904 in a program that featured works by American composers such as Edward MacDowell and "the harrowing Danny Deever" by opera conductor Walter Damrosch, to which Roosevelt responded: "By Jove, Mr. Bispham, that was bully! With a song such as that you could lead a nation into battle!" On the roster of the Metropolitan Opera from 1900 to 1903, Bispham performed on the Smith Opera House stage in 1906 and again in 1908 under the auspices of the Geneva Choral Society, a group that presented events at The Smith from 1894 until the 1950s. Bispham was Roosevelt's "favorite" baritone. His recordings include "Long Day to Tipperary" and "Danny Deever." Casals remained in the public eye for more than half a century after playing for Roosevelt. A musical icon known world wide through recordings and international festivals bearing his name, he again played in the White House for President John Kennedy in the 1960s. With the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. Presented by American Landmark Festivals with the Smith Center for the Arts, the concert is dedicated to its founding director, conductor/pianist Francis Heilbut, a life-long admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he shared a birthday and a commitment to the "life of strenuous endeavor." Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for college students and senior citizens, and no charge for children K -12. Tickets are available at the Smith Opera House, by calling 315-781-LIVE (5483) or toll-free 1-866-355-LIVE (5483), and online at www.TheSmith.org. The Smith accepts MasterCard, Visa and Discover. Box office hours are weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Contact the box office for more information.

The Penn Yan Public Library will spend an evening exploring the mysteries of Jemima Wilkinson and the Universal Friends. 7:00-9:00pm Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 Yates County Historian Fran Dumas will discuss her recently published book, “The Unquiet World” and explore the life and times of this local historical icon. Dumas’ book traces the history of Jemima Wilkinson and places her into the context of the history of the United States. As part of the evening we will view the recently recorded (and locally filmed) PBS “History Detectives” episode which explores the relationship between Jemima Wilkinson and the 1791 document titled, “Act of Incorporation of the Universal Friends.” This promises to be a fascinating program. All are welcome. There is no registration and no fee for this program. For more information contact: Penn Yan Public Library at 315.536.6114 or www.pypl.org

Chicken BBQ at the Branchport United Methodist Church Saturday 9/4 4:30 - ? Adults $8 Under 10 $4 Call 607-868-4280