Submitted by Amy Radic, director of alumni affairs and foundation projects, FMCC

What could be better than a terrific day of golf, knowing your participation is helping to support and increase scholarships for our local students, enhance our community college’s teaching and learning facilities, expand cultural enrichment of our region, and fund academic healthcare facilities?

If you can’t think of anything, then FM’s 17th Annual Golf Classic is for you!

The Foundation of FM, together with NBT Bank, will be hosting FM’s 17th Annual Golf Classic Wednesday, May 26 at Fox Run Golf Club in Johnstown. This year, we expect 100 golfers and over 30 volunteers who will enjoy the prizes and the camaraderie that the Golf Classic annually brings.
Yes, the Golf Classic may sound like just a good time, which of course it is, in fact it’s a great time! But it is also the College’s largest fundraiser netting over $280,000 over the past 17 years. This could not be made possible without the support from our local businesses and community members, many of which you yourself may belong.

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Schoharie County ARC

Legacy of Love Celebration

Saturday, April 25, 2009
7pm-10pm
SUNY Cobleskill Ballroom
Assorted Hors D’ Oeuvres and Desserts
Live Silent Auction
Cash Bar
Music by Flame!

Master of Ceremonies Lydia Kulbida

To become a sponsor please contact Tammy Ruise at 295-8130 ext 256

The World Renowned (or, at the very least, regionally loved) Brooks Bar-B-Que will be in Cobleskill featuring their original style chicken and ribs for a fundraiser event. Proceeds will be raised for the Central Bridge United Methodist Church.

They will be set up in front of Selkirk Ace Hardware on 783 East Main Street, Cobleskill. Chicken halves will be available for $5.50 and Ribs are $6.50

They will start selling at 11am, and will continue until they are out, so stop in early!

Submitted by FOVAPA.
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FOVAPA is currently planning our annual Summer Music and Art Festival, which will take place August 1, 2010.  As a way of raising funds for this event, we like to implement a Public Arts Project. This year, we have decided on birdhouses.  Businesses and organizations in the area will sponsor a birdhouse and decorate it.  The birdhouses would then be displayed during our Summer Festival. 

Here’s the scoop on the project:  

1.)You choose to sponsor a birdhouse to display in your place of business or community location. 

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Yes, I said it, SPRING! Spring is officially here, the clocks have sprung forward, and it’s time for the Landis Arboretum’s version of March Madness!

Join your friends and associates Sunday, March 21st from 12 noon till 3pm for this special brunch and auction.  Music, delicious food — and a champagne fountain.  

The Arboretum Rite of Spring will be held at  The Settles Hill Tree Farm, 1123 Settles Hill Road, Route 20, Altamont, NY.

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Submitted by The Fort Plain Free Library.
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The Fort Plain Free Library offers area residents the opportunity to participate in the Central Asia Institute’s worldwide Pennies for Peace campaign running through the end of March, 2010.

Pennies for Peace helps well-known author Greg Mortenson promote peace through education by building schools and libraries, most of them for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The program began in 1994 in Wisconsin at which time students collected 62,340 pennies to help Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones Into Schools”, build his very first school in Pakistan.

How can a penny bring peace? It doesn’t buy much in Fort Plain. But in the villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, it can buy a pencil, start an education, and transform a life. In a region where terrorist organizations recruit uneducated, illiterate children, that penny can help to empower a child to read, write, learn, and think for himself. The pennies that are collected can add up to make a real difference.

1 penny = a pencil
2-3 pennies = an eraser
15 pennies = one notebook
$20 = one child’s school supplies for one year
$50 = one treadle sewing machine and supplies
$100 = maternal healthcare supplies for one year
$300 = one advanced student’s annual scholarship
$600 = one teacher’s annual salary
$5,000 = support for existing school for one year
$50,000 = one school building and support for up to five years.

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The Bulls Head Inn, Cobleskill, will be hosting a fundraiser for the Ryan T Daly Memorial Skate Park on Monday, March 15th 2010 at 6pm.

There will be live entertainment from the Backstreet Music student bands, and there is no admission free.

$1.00 per meal will be donated to the park from the Pub menu. They will also be “passing the hat” for the park.

Rock Blues Oldies and more! Support the park, and the students!

There will be a Spaghetti Dinner on Tuesday, March 16th 2010 at Parillo’s in Historic Southside Amsterdam.

The dinner is to benefit Easy Street Horse Rescue, a Not-For-Profit Charitable Organization located at 109 Langley Road, Amsterdam.

The mission of Easy Street Horse Rescue is:

•To provide for the rescue and care of abused and/or unwanted horses and other farm animals, which if not rescued would lead to the physical and/or mental detriment of the animal.
•To provide for the rescue and care for horses being auctioned for slaughter.
•To provide for the rescue and care of PMU (pregnant mare urine) or NMF (nurse mare foals) foals and horses due to PMU/NMF activities.
•To provide for the rescue, rehabilitation and care of thoroughbred, standardbred, draft, and other working horses who are being disposed of due to age and/or inability to meet racing/working standards of the breed.
•All horses and animals rescued will receive loving kindness in their rehabilitation and care, and will be either allowed to permanently retire at Easy Street Horse & Barnyard Rescue, Inc., facilities or will be available for adoption to homes where love and quality care will be given.
•Where possible Easy Street Horse & Barnyard Rescue, Inc., will provide non-political, basic education to the unknowing about the realities of horses sent to slaughter, PMU foals, and NM foals.

The dinner is $12.00 per person. There will be a Chinese Auction, 50/50 and other raffles.

Tickets available through the Easy Street website or by contacting Barb @ belle51062@msn.com

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The Schenectady Firefighters will be hosting their First Annual Run For Your Life Fundraiser to benefit the American Heart Association on Saturday, March 27th 2010.

There will be a 5K race, a free Kids Fun Run, 3 Person Relay and Team Scoring.  Awards will be given for the top 3 overall male and female participants.

The fee is a $20 early registration, or $25 registration after March 17th.

T-shirts will be given to the first 300 registrants.

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The American Cancer Society

Presents:

Relay For Life of Amsterdam, NY

May, 21st 2010!

Be a part of the largest cancer fighting effort in the world!

Come learn about Relay For Life and join in the fight!

Join us for our event kickoff:
Wednesday, March 10th at 6:00 pm
St. Mary’s Hospital, Carondelet Pavilion
380 Guy Park Ave, Amsterdam
 (located across the street from the hospital)
Register online and attend the kickoff and receive a free gift!
(must be registered online by 12pm on March 10th)

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