March 2015

Fleischmanns First Meeting Notes

Meeting was convened by Vice President Winifred Zubin at 9:30

Maple Festival report was made by Michelle Sidrane. Activities and events of Saturday, March 21 were reviewed with emphasis to the new Sap House 5K Run/Walk and the addition of live music to the Maple Bake Off Caf-see Save the Date on page 1 for times and details

Memorial Day Update-Currently seeking ven-dors-see vendor application inside

Membership Report- Marilyn Ringel and Anita Rubin have done an outstanding job of contact-ing members and getting them to renew. In ad-dition, Marilyn has called everyone in the Fleischmanns phone book and invited them to participate. Thank you to Marilyn and Anita for a job well done.

Fleischmanns Forums initiative will now be chaired by Carol Birnbaum and John Hoeko.

Todd Pascarella, Mayor, reported that the play-ground work will begin April 1 and should be completed by June 1. There will be a call out for volunteers to help with the construction. The Bridge Street foot bridge design is in pro-cess.

Fleischmanns First will participate in Main Street Boot Camp on March 23 and 24.

***CELEBRATING ONE HUNDRED YEARS***

SAVE THE DATE March 21, 2015

8-Noon Maple Pancake Breakfast, Fleischmanns Community Church $7 adults, $5 children 3-12

8:30am Registration Sap House 5 K Run/Walk, $30 fee, includes breakfast, shirt and shuttle

8:45am Shuttle to Vly Creek Maple Farm

9:00am Run/Walk begins

1-3:30pm Maple Bake Off Caf at La Cabana Pick up a Maple savory meal from La Cabana or Ate O Ate Food Truck. Judging and Ribbon awards for Bake Off entries at 2pm-Auction to follow. $15 entrance fee includes music by Jeanne Palmer and Friends, coffee, tea, maple sugar cookies, maple walnut ice cream from Pine Hill/Fleischmanns Rotary

3:30pm Crowning of the Maple Royalty Remember to Vote ~

March 18th Skene Library Noon - 9pm

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Fleischmanns Then

MARCH/APRIL CALENDAR ~ Fleischmanns Events - Save the Date!

March 18th Wednesday, Village Elections, noon-9pm, Skene Library

March 21st Saturday, Maple Festival

April 11th Saturday, Fleischmanns First Monthly Meeting at 9:30 am, LaCabana Come & meet your neighbors and support your village

April 13th Monday, Village Board Meeting at 6:00 pm at the Skene Memorial Library

The Village Planning Board Meeting, as needed, (1st Tuesday) @ 5:30 pm, Skene Library Zoning Board Meeting, as needed, (3rd Thursday) @ 6:30 pm, Skene Library

Check with Village Clerk regarding meeting statuses & agendas.

For Village info, please contact the Village Clerk, Lorraine DeMarfio @ 845 254 5514 To have your activity posted here, please contact the Fleischmann's Flyer

Making a Living in Fleischmanns...

The sport of skiing in the Fleischmanns area began several decades before Belleayre opened. As early as the 1930's, skiing was becom-ing popular in New York State, and by 1936, the New York Central Rail Road was running special ski trains from NYC up to the Cats-kills. The first commercial ski slope was in Phoenicia, but quickly small slopes were created all over. There was one in Fleischmanns, off of Todd Mountain Road run by DePitts. In prior years, hotels and guest houses all closed in the early fall. Now they could house guests and make money in the winter as well. The Museum has in its collection a 1937 document created by the Catskill Mountain Ski Club listing places one could stay in the Fleischmanns area--with 57 entries! Rooms could be had for as little as a dollar per night. If you felt rich, you could take one of the four dollar rooms. Although the ski trains ran only until the late 1940's,skiing is still a major factor in our local economy.

HAPPENINGS AT SKENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY Preparations are underway for the eventful Memorial Day Week-end; Skene Library will be holding its annual book sale on Satur-day, May 23, in conjunction with the Fleischmanns First Street Fair. We are looking for donations of good used books and DVDs for the sale, and to add to the Librarys collections. (No textbooks please!) Books and DVDs may be dropped off at the Library any time during regular hours.

FLEISCHMANNS FIRST TO PRESENT AT THE FIRST MAIN STREET BOOT CAMP

Fleischmanns First will participate in MAIN STREET BOOT CAMP to be held at Hannah on March 23 and 24. This is a two day intensive training and network conference intended to help us embrace opportunities and address issues on our Main Streets. For more information go to www.markproject.org.

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Vendor/Org. Name:_____________________________ Contact Person:______________________________

Address:_________________________________________________________________________________ Street City/Town State & Zip Code

Phone:____________________________ Email:________________________________________________

Circle the type of goods you will bring *Antiques *Specialty Foods *Tag sale

*Handmade Crafts/Goods *Art *Clothes Org. (Tax ID # _______________)

Describe Your Merchandise or Organizations Tabling Materials:___________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________ Who Will be Staffing Your Table? (Name & Contact #):_________________________________________

Memorial Day Street Fair Application ~ Saturday May 23th 2015 9am to 4pm

Fleischmanns First

PLEASE READ & SIGN BELOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE:

The Village of Fleischmanns, Fleischmanns First, its organizers & committees assume no responsibility whatsoever for any property

brought to the street fair & are hereby discharged from any & all liability for any loss, injury or damage to persons or property that may

be sus-tained while on the premises. The signatory below is responsible for keeping space clean & orderly and for removing all tarps,

merchandise, etc. from the site by 6 PM on Saturday.

SIGNATURE OF VENDOR OR ORGANIZATION REPRESENTATIVE

Once your application & check are received, your spot is reserved.

Make a copy of this form for your reference before mailing! No Refunds

Make checks payable (in the amount of $30, non-profits $10) to MARK Group/Fleischmanns First and send with completed application by May 1st 2015 to: Yvonne Reuter, c/o Fleischmanns First, PO Box 111, Fleischmanns, NY 12430-0274.

For information, please contact Yvonne Reuter at 845-254-3030 or 201-447-4632, e-mail evyg3399@verizon.net

Fleischmanns First and our Community mourn the loss of Hilton Kelly who passed away last week at the age of 89. We reprint here, from the March 2009 issue of Fleischmanns Flyer a piece on Stella and Hilton Kelly based on an interview with them in their former home on Big Red Kill. Hilton, we will miss you!

Playin to the Dance

Stella Mech Kelly was born in New York City but has lived all her life but two years in Fleischmanns. Along with her two sisters, Helen and Anna, and two brothers, Ed and Carl, Stella grew up on a farm on Breezy Hill Road. Upon graduation from high school, she worked for the telephone company in the building across from the supermarket in the village. Until the year before last, for forty-three years she had a postal route and she knows every mailbox and their owners in the terri-tory.

Well loved and cherished by her neighbors, far and wide, her retirement party was so well attended they had to have two sheet cakes. But her biggest fan is Hilton Kelly also known as fiddle1. Hilton grew up at the head of the valley, above the old Bedell post office, no longer in existence. Most of us know that area as the Red Kill Valley. Although they both went to Fleischmanns school they didnt meet until one fateful night at the Halcott Grange when Hilton was playin to the dance. Hilton who started playing fiddle when he was 5 and called his first dance when he was 12, was fiddling and calling the square dancing, and Stella had arrived with her sister Anna and beau Stanley. Although Hilton first picked Anna out to dance with, it is Stella who captured his heart.

Hiltons family farm on Red Kill Road didnt have electricity until 1947. That year he wanted to surprise his mother with a refrigerator. He asked Stella to help him pick one out. They were hard to come by but a store in Stamford was sell-ing them so he and Stella traveled there to pick one out. When the farm was sold his brother and sister insisted Hilton take it and use it as an extra in their basement. Today 61 years later it is still in use in the house Hilton built in 1953 and in which Stella and Hilton raised their two children, Linda and Lynn. Stella and Hilton have four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Together theyve been playin to the dance for over sixty years. October will be their 60th wedding anniversary!

Letter from Mayor Pascarella..

Greetings Fleischmanns Community,

Winston Churchill once said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." That just about sums it up for this second consecutive beyond- brutal winter that we are enduring. The good news is that Fleischmanns is about to come out the other side, and there is good stuff to look forward to this spring. Over the win-ter, the Village awarded a contract for building the new playground in the park. Construction can begin on April 1st, or soon thereafter, weather permitting. The funding for this project has been in place for some time now, and is a combination of private donations, a NYS grant, and FEMA flood recovery money. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who made a donation towards the play-ground, the M-ARK project for procuring the grant funds, and Larry Reilly and Ben Fenton for wran-gling as much as they could from FEMA for the project. It will be great to have a state-or-the-art play-ground in Fleischmanns for the children of this community to play on once again. There will be commu-nity participation in the construction of the playground so stay tuned if you are interested in helping. Once this is done, there are still many projects left to work on, including the concession stand/restroom building, and Village pool. If we stay positive, we can continue to build on the progress made thus far. Be well, and happy spring!

Sincerely,

Todd Pascarella, Mayor

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