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ALBANY - On a recent afternoon, Tiana Minervini and Shelley Rettinger, from the Troy-based Joseph's House & Shelter, prepared for another shift of bringing food and supplies to people without homes in Albany. In late October, I joined them for their street outreach aboard a brand new van during the afternoon shift to observe the work they do. The mission of the shelter was evident as I glanced around. There were shelves with bins full of assorted gloves, hats, scarves, jackets, shoes and even ready-to-eat meals. At the first stop, an unsheltered veteran talked about how tired he was of living without a home. He described how cold it gets at night sleeping on the streets in downtown Albany. He explained how bad it made him feel after not being able to take a shower in over a month. He asked for a new blanket from the van to replace his old one that had become tattered from him sleeping on concrete every night. His experience has pushed him to try to get help and find a way to change his life. "I need everything. I need a new life. A redo, restart, or something," he said to the van staff. He expressed that although he hates the condition he lives in, he is not quite ready to take that leap to make a change. But that did not mean that he didn't want to. Acknowledging that, a staffer responded assuredly, "Maybe we can try again tomorrow." Founded in 1983, Joseph's House & Shelter, Inc. is based in Troy and has spent almost 40 years providing support services to residents in the Capital Region. Its mission is to provide nonjudgmental services to end homelessness. The nonprofit's new outreach van was recently purchased with an Emergency Solutions COVID grant in October provided by the city of Albany. In street outreach, clothing and food are distributed, and the staff offer referrals and applications for housing
placement and medical care. In addition to the outreach van, Joseph's House also offers emergency shelter and support services for youth, families, and individuals who are homeless. Minervini, associate director for the outreach, and Rettinger, director of homeless services, explained that they had regular clients with whom they speak and have built relationships over the 12 years they have worked in street outreach. Some they have known for months, others for many years. Regardless of how long or where someone has been living, they are treated with the same humility and kindness. "We are really a constant in their lives," Rettinger said. "We sit and talk to them," said Minervini. "We like to hear their stories. Sometimes, we're really their only sober and consistent support. They love us, most of them." The day I was on the van, every person receiving services had a different background, but they each shared an overwhelming desire to have a better life. As they talked with each client, the van staff listened closely and gave their undivided attention to each individual's needs with locked eye contact. "We are the link to other services and a lot of times we are the ones going out in the community to either help make that phone call, make the appointment, or set up a cab so they can make it to the appointment," Minervini said. Minervini explained the importance of consistency in their work. "We try to see them every day. Our main focus is to work with people that aren't sheltered because they are not getting their services from everyone else," she said. In some areas of the city, there is high demand for the van's services. To keep from being overwhelmed, another outreach van covers areas outside the city of Albany, including Colonie, Menands and Bethlehem. To meet current needs, the outreach van's hours were extended from eight hours to 10 hours daily. In 2020, street outreach services were provided to more than 1,000 unsheltered people in Albany and Rensselaer counties. Clients were approximately 73 percent
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Tiana Minervini, associate director of outreach, hands out food and supplies to a person in Albany from the new Joseph’s House outreach van one chilly Wednesday in October. Shelley Rettinger, director of homeless services, is seen in the driver’s seat.
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Teens expected to rake, instead they poured cement, learned ByLINE: KATHLEEN MOORE
When teens signed up to volunteer with the Saratoga Senior Center, they expected to rake leaves or mow lawns. Instead, two high school students were matched with a retired construction worker in Schuylerville who taught them how to pour concrete. It was part of a strategy for the senior center. It is trying to reach seniors throughout Saratoga County. Seniors in Saratoga Springs tend to have more access to public transportation, stores and medical offices, so there is more need in the rural towns. The senior center is also trying to provide meaningful experiences for volunteers in which they develop connections with seniors. That's the best way to keep them, said volunteer coordinator Lawrence Barisic, who has an almost perfect volunteer retention rate, with 150 active volunteers helping throughout the year.
All that led to the senior center telling Tom Baxter of Schuylerville that if he ever needed help, he should call. At age 78, he wanted to replace a wooden platform at the bottom of his front stairs with a concrete pad. The platform was rotting, so he had to do something. But a back injury meant he could no longer lift bags of cement. "I wouldn't have anybody doing it for me if I could do it, even if it took me 10 times longer," he said. Then he recalled that offer from the Saratoga Senior Center. So he gave them a call. And soon he had two young men on his lawn, ready for anything. "Neither of them knew one end of a shovel from the other. They'd never done anything like this. That did not stop them one little bit," Baxter said. As he explained, they poured gravel, fetched his manual concrete mixer, poured in the bags
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The Tale of a Headless Rooster SARATOGA COUNTY - Submitted by John L. Scherer, November 25, 2021 - John Scherer is the Clifton Park Town Historian and also Senior Historian Emeritus at the New York State Museum. He holds a Master’s degree in Museum Studies and American Folk Life from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. John can be reached at jlscherer@aol. com Dr. John R. MacElroy was a country doctor who served the residents Dr. John MacElroy in his of the Jonesville area for over 60 years. He began his Jonesville office, c. 1950 medical practice in Jonesville at age 22 in 1894, and continued to care for his patients until he died in 1954 at age 81. He was known to generations of Jonesville patients, hundreds of whom he brought into life. Dr. MacElroy was also very interested in farm animals. He ran a large dairy farm of 140 acres on the road now named for him in Jonesville, and was also fond of animal breeding. The physician exhibited livestock in the Saratoga County Fair for 50 years and served on the board of directors of Saratoga County Agricultural Society for 35 years. He was also chairman of the annual horse show for many years, and judged numerous animal shows. In December of 1905, all of Clifton Park was abuzz about a rooster that continued to live for days after having its head cut off. Naturally, Dr. MacElroy was curious to see Please see ROOSTER 10
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March 1906. In January of 1938, Jennie Quivey wrote to Dr. MacElroy in Jonesville to see if he remembered his visit to her family farm to see the headless rooster. Dr. MacElroy responded on February 3 with this eyewitness account: “We went to see the cause of all the weird tales that were being passed from mouth to mouth, and appearing in a rather skeptical way in the local papers. After tying and blanketing the horse we
went in the house, got warm and then were escorted to the woodshed, where by the light of a kitchen lamp held by your mother, your father got the rooster out of the box coop and set him down on the shed floor. His head had been cleanly severed at a slight angle running from the front of the wattles upward and backward leaving about one third of the comb in tact. The edges of the wound gaped rather widely, showed evidence of healing nicely,
leaving a fairly large opening into the esophagus. While slightly uncertain in his gait, he walked about, carrying himself very erect, and showed plenty of desire for food when both of us dropped corn into his gullet at intervals, he reaching and stretching his neck upwards after each morsel was swallowed.” The next time you use the old expression to describe someone running hither, dither and yon and being overly busy yet
accomplishing nothing as a person running around like a chicken with its head cut off, remember the saga of poor O’dell who evidently was not phased in the least about losing his head. It actually prolonged his life for a little longer and gave him some notoriety. After all, we are still talking about this headless rooster one hundred years later. Source: “More Bits of Clifton Park History”. John L. Scherer, 2020
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Ballston Spa Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee Seeks Members BALLSTON SPA - The Village of Ballston Spa is looking to update its Comprehensive Plan to best define the needs of this evolving community and articulate a vision that will guide decisions affecting physical development and redevelopment within the village. The Comprehensive Plan is expected to focus most significantly on effects of IT and climate change, buildings and village character, non-conforming land uses, village infrastructure, quality of life, & local and regional economics. A steering committee has been formed to work in conjunction with a professional planning consultant to identify and study several topics over the course of the next year in order to create a final plan for approval by the
Village board of trustees. The committee is currently looking for additional members from the Ballston Spa community who would be interested in contributing their knowledge, skills and ideas. Meetings will be held twice a month, on the first and third Thursdays, at 7 pm at the Saratoga County Office building at 50 West High Street. All meetings are open to the public and will be Zoom accessible. Interested persons can contact steering committee chairperson Karen Martell at karenmartell27@gmail. com or the Village Office at 518 885-5711, villageclerk@villageofballstonspa.org.
Ballston Area Seniors Meetings BALLSTON SPA - We are moving to a new temporary meeting place. The Ballston Area Seniors will be holding temporary meetings at the VFW 358. Location is 68 East North St. in Ballston Spa. Dec.
meetings will be Dec. 2, 9, 16 . Hours for the VFW 358—11:30 AM TO 4 PM, we can accommodate 97 members. Do not arrive any earlier then 11:30 am . All exercise classes have
been cancelled, along with bingo for the rest of the year. During the Winter months if the Schools are closed for inclement weather, Seniors meetings are closed.
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