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In speaking to different people, I find that there are people who don't like fall because it means summer is over and winter is coming. Winter is just more difficult because you need to fight with the weather and it's cold. Fall is a season to be celebrated. If you think about it, it is the season where things slow down and you can breathe; reflect on the summer events and get ready for the winter season to come. Celebrate the harvest and prepare for (what we'd all love to be able to do): hibernation. There are so many fun things to do during the fall. You just have to jump in there and try them. There are fun decorations to hang up, going for a walk is much more comfortable, hayrides through the orchards. Make fall a fun time by celebrating it. (And I will try harder to get into winter, though I can't promise anything.) Next Sunday, October 8, from 11 to 5 is the 2nd Annual Apple Feast - A Fall Harvest Celebration in Downtown Sodus Point. Great Sodus Bay Association sponsors this Family Fun, Fall Harvest Celebration which features the Best Apple Recipe Cook-off Contest with prizes, as well as the Apple Pie Eating Contest ($5 entry fee; winner takes all!) that starts at 2. Also, 50/50 and raffles with drawings at 3. A special feature this year will be the display of the OCC Custom Built, Jim Kelly Hall of Fame Chopper, with limited raffle tickets available for the National drawing to benefit Hunter's Hope. Taste and purchase fresh Apples, Apple Cider & Donuts, Cheese, Produce, Crafts, Flowers, Apple Wine and Wines from local growers and vineyards. Food concessions will be there. While in Sodus Point, visit local restaurants and shops, take a walk along the most scenic bay on Lake Ontario, or let the kids play at one of the area's playgrounds. October will be a busy month for the Sodus Chamber of Commerce. The monthly meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 5 at Nick's Family Restaurant starting at 6 p.m. All monthly meetings are open to the public, please call Patty Paprocki for reservation (483.6878) since this will be a 'meet and eat' meeting. Topics to be discussed will include nomination committee results for Board of Directors openings, coming public Halloween Party and Community Christmas party. On Sunday, October 8, the Chamber will be team up with the Wallington Fire Dept. to put on a Chicken BBQ with all proceeds going to the Community Christmas Fireworks scheduled for Dec. 17. The BBQ will be at the Wallington Fire Hall with eat in or take out dinners from 11 to 3. Cost will be $7 for chicken, salt potatoes, baked beans, rolls and dessert. October 31, Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. the Chamber is joining with Blossom View Nursing Home for some safe (and free) Halloween Fun. Kids 12 and under, dressed in costume (and accompanied by an adult) are invited to Blossom View Nursing Home on Maple Ave. They will be warm, safe, and dry depending on weather, plus they will enjoy games, cookies, and of course, candy. The residents of Blossom View will be getting ready for this with decorations, stuffing candy bags and getting their costumes ready as well. The Sodus Chamber of Commerce is open to businesses or individuals interested in making Sodus a good place to live, work, shop and visit. For more information contact the Chamber at 315.398.8473. Are Ralph and Betty still here or did they go South? Betty, Eileen Hooper's mom is going back to Florida very soon, too. They can send some news of the warmer weather back to us and keep us going. The only thing is though, they feel chilled when it's 65 ish. (We know what cold really is.) Sodus Free Library news: Banned Books Week, September 23-30 marks the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week, held during the last week of September each year. This event celebrates the freedom to read, and reminds Americans not to take this precious freedom for granted. According to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, the following books were the ten most frequently challenged in 2005: It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris; Forever by Judy Blume; The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger; The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier; Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher; Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds; What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones; Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey; Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly; and It's So Amazing: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families by Robie H. Harris. This weekend is Alasa Family Camping Weekend. If you haven't made plans to go yet, call 315.573.1470. Watch for info on Cracker Box Palace's 'FALL EXTRAVAGANZA.' There will be a Kid's Costume Contest, Pumpkin Art Contest, Pumpkin Chuckin' and an Apple Bake Off and Auction. Also games, scary story tellers, Psychic readings, farm tours, hay rides, good food & fun! Another fall filled with great events. Get out the sweaters. Plan with your families ways they might like to celebrate the fall season. Also a great time, since the nights get dark so much sooner get some fun books out of the library. You can curl up on the couch with the kids and have your own storytime together. Write to me if you get the chance and let me know what you and your families do to enjoy the fall season, and we'll share. Have a great week and enjoy the weather and each other's company. Copyright
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