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To Love A Child Announces Annual December Angel Match $15,000 Challenge

CAPITAL DISTRICT

- To Love A Child, Inc., a local 501(c)3 nonprofit organization announces its Annual Angel Match $15,000 Challenge. This event kicks off on Giving Tuesday November 30th and will extend thru December 31st.

Two anonymous “angels” have pledged to match every donation during the month of December up to a $15,000 total. Donations assist people suffering from abject poverty—those deprived of basic human needs; including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health care, shelter, and education. Donations will be used to support local families in our community as well as programs and projects in Haiti and Zimbabwe.

To Love A Child invites you to make a difference in a child’s life. Your help and generosity are greatly needed this year to support our vision and mission in helping impov erished children. Over the past 13 years we continue to change lives through our journeys and your support.

Donations can be made on PayPal by visiting the website www.toloveachild. net or by mailing a check to: To Love A Child Inc., PO Box 165, Clifton Park, NY 12065

Your support and gener osity is greatly appreciated.

Siena: It’s not all about jobs

By KATHLEEN MOORE

LATHAM – Even before COVID, students who were heading to college were driven.

They often chose extracurriculars that meshed with their chosen career. Hobbies that didn’t meld with that goal fell away.

Particularly post-pandemic, college pro fessors say they are seeing a generation of students who have forgotten how to have fun.

“We are so focused on our jobs and our careers and our grades. The pendulum has swung so far away from finding a proper worklife balance that I wanted to do my own little part to push the pendulum a wee little bit the other way,” said Siena College professor Dan Moriarty.

Before COVID, to inject fun and build “whole person” students, he had proposed one-credit Life Skills classes in hobbies like judo. Then he doubled down, urging fellow pro fessors to offer pass-fail classes in everything from embroidery to wine tasting.

Now it’s taking off, with many students signing up.

“We spent so much time isolated and staring at each other through computer screens that I just wanted us to be able to come back to col lege and have these fun experiences,” he said.

“Now that we’re back, it just feels much more necessary.”

He’s not sure exactly why students stopped pursuing hobbies. The iso lation of the pandemic hurt them — trauma to their psyche, he said — and people stopped gathering in groups.

“I think you can at least partially blame that on ‘I’m so focused on doing good in high school so I can get into college,’” he added.

One student said he couldn’t draw for fun anymore — only for class.

Others said they couldn’t remem ber when they’d found time for a hobby unrelated to coursework.

“Everything has gotten so very se rious,” said professor Krysta Dennis, who now teaches a one-credit Wines Around the World class. “Students are very focused on their career now. In some ways, that is a good thing. But college is about learning, not getting a job. That’s a wonderful side effect of learning.”

She wants to make sure students find joy in life, outside of their studies and eventual career.

“We want to create nuanced hu man beings,” Dennis said.

Aidan O’Connor, a senior, is pur suing home-brewing, which he said allows him to share something that is “uniquely me.” He’s a sociology major, but now he’s doing a research project on wine tasting.

Dennis kept a group of seniors enthralled for two hours Wednesday as she explained the weather and soil conditions that affected the taste of wines from New Zealand and Aus tralia. The students tasted six wines, doing it the official way: spitting out the wine after each taste. It’s not a class for getting drunk.

Her students will end up with “healthy habits,” Dennis said, “and they’ll be able to confidently order off the wine list and enjoy their meal.”

Saratoga County History Werner Brewery of Halfmoon:

Turning Adversity into Opportunity

Submitted by Dave Waite, November 16, 2022

Dave Waite is a resident of Blue Corners, Saratoga County and has written many articles on upstate New York history, includ ing several in the recently published book, Saratoga County Stories. Dave can be reached at davewaite finearts@gmail.com

Today there are at least two breweries along the Route 9 corridor in East ern Saratoga County, each offering their own brand of unique microbrews to their loyal customers. Looking back in county history, we find that the commercial production of ale can trace its roots to well before the Civil War, with one of the earliest being the Werner family brewery in the town of Halfmoon.

The patriarch of this brewing family was Re inhold A. Werner, born in Gulmuthansen, Bavaria in 1827. At the age of twenty, he emigrated to America with his parents, Melchoir and Rose Werner. After entering the country, Reinhold’s parents moved west, settling in Iowa, while Reinhold stayed in New York, seeking his own opportunities in his new country.

While it is not recorded if Reinhold and his wife Mary had married before leaving Germany, it was in 1850 in Albany, New York that their first child, Emily was born. Their second, a son named Henry A., followed three years later. Reinhold Werner was granted citizenship in May of 1852 and within three years he and his family had moved to Saratoga County where they purchased twenty acres of farmland in the town of Halfmoon.

By 1860 Reinhold had established a brewery and farm on their property along the north side of what is now Werner Road. In 1865 the Werners in creased their family again. with Mary giving birth to their third child, a son who they named Herold.

In 1880 Reinhold made his oldest son, 26-year-old Henry, a partner in the family brewery business. The business prospered over the next four years, enabling Reinhold to enlarge and upgrade the brewery and build a new house on his property in Halfmoon. In an attempt to destroy the family business an unidentified arsonist burned down the brewery building in Sep tember of 1884. The fire also destroyed a nearby wagon house and storage sheds. Through a deter mined effort by those who responded to the call for assistance the fire that had

One of her students is also taking two other one-credit hobby classes this semester, in painting and drawing. She said many of her friends used to take college and career prepa ration very seriously, but she’s seen a change this year.

“I feel like they kind of grow out of it by senior year,” she said. “Let’s take fun classes. Let’s enjoy our time.”

spread to the Werner home was extinguished before that building was also destroyed. The loss, estimated at fifteen thou sand dollars, was covered by less than five thousand dollars of insurance. Reinhold and his family immediately set to work together rebuilding their brewery and home.

After the business was rebuilt, Reinhold and his son Henry together ran the operation in Halfmoon until Reinhold died in 1887. At that time Rein hold’s younger son, Herold took his father’s place in the family business, the boys changing the busi ness name to R. Werner’s Sons in honor of their father. In 1890 the plant in Halfmoon was sold to a joint-stock company and was incorporated under

the name of Werner Brew ing Company. At this time management of the busi ness was split between the two brothers, with Henry moving the Ale business to Mechanicville and Harold overseeing both the lager production and the recent ly created Malt Medicine Company at that original plant in Halfmoon. The medicine com pany came to be known throughout the region for the manufacture of patent medicine products includ ing Werner’s Malt Tonic, Werner’s Malt Sarsaparil la, Werner’s Malt Cough Syrup, Werner’s Malt and Beef, and Werner’s Great American Anodyne. The Werner medicine products were marketed through salesmen who each cov ered specific territories so licited sales and delivered

Siena College student Chris Tarasco pours a glass of wine while Chris Michel takes notes during a Wines of the World class last Wednesday in Loudonville, NY.

Siena College Wines of the World class instructor Krysta Dennis points to a winemaking region of Australia. “We want to create nuanced human beings,” she said.

PHOTOS BY JIM FRANCO / TIMES UNION

Siena College students Taylor Russin, front, and Cate Cosgrove, examine wines during a Wines of the World class last Wednesday.

Werner brewery and farm in Halfmoon

Cherry Hill’s Would-Be SistersFree Lecture at New York State Museum

ALBANY - Join us on Thursday, December 1st at 5:30pm at the New York State Museum for a free presentation- “Agency & Identity: Cherry Hill’s Would-Be Sisters.” His toric Cherry Hill’s Shawna Reilly will compare the experiences of two women who came of age at Cherry Hill during the Gilded Age.

“Kittie” Putman and “Minnie” Knapp each came to Cherry Hill after her mother’s death to be raised by Van Rensselaer descendant and 3rd-gen eration mistress of the estate, Harriet Maria Van Elmendorf. Both wards, but not quite sisters, Kittie was herself a Van Rens selaer descendant while Minnie was likely de scended from Dinah Jack son, an enslaved woman. Examining the clothing, photographs, possessions and accounts left behind by the two Gilded Age women, this presentation will explore the lives of “Kittie” and “Minnie” in terms of their plights, identities, relative vulner abilities, opportunities, and the choices they made within their prescribed social roles.

Special highlight: Be the first to see a historical rec reation of Minnie Knapp’s

dress, created by Costume Historian and Historical Seamstress Brittney Belz, and modeled by Jocelyn Khoury.

“Agency & Identity” is the third lecture in Histor ic Cherry Hill’s fall series, Glimpses of the Gilded Age. Historic Cherry Hill is a historic house muse um at 523 ½ South Pearl Street in Albany, NY, and the five-generation home of one Van Rensselaer family and their household from 1787-1963. For more information about this se ries, visit our events page: www.historiccherryhill. org/news/.

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Gone with the Wind Film Expert to Hold Book Signing

SCHENECTADY - Gone With the Wind film expert Pauline Bartel will hold a book signing at the Open Door Bookstore, 128 Jay Street, Schenectady, NY, on Sunday, December 11, 2022 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

She will sign copies of Gone With the Wind: 1939 Day by Day (Lyons Press, $19.95). Her new book chronicles the production, premieres, and reception of the iconic film from January 1, 1939 to Decem ber 31, 1939. Engaging, daily, behind-the-scenes entries provide a snapshot of what was happening on and off the set.

According to Bartel:

“Fans will enjoy following the drama and intrigue of Gone With the Wind’s production on each event’s exact date, especially in 2023 when the calendar matches the days of the 1939 calendar.”

For further information, contact the Open Door Bookstore at 518.346.2719. Visit the website at www.opendoor-book store.com

East Glenville Community Church to Host

“One Starry Night”

GLENVILLE - East Glenville Community Church, 335 Saratoga Rd (Rt 50), will host One Star ry Night, an engaging fam ily Christmas event open to the public on Saturday, December 10th from 2-4pm and 6-8pm. Enter the town of Bethlehem and experience what life was like when Jesus was born. It’s an interactive walk through living exhibits including a Bethlehem marketplace, the inn Jo seph and Mary visited, and a nativity scene with real animals to see. Families and children are welcome! Free admission. For infor mation see church website, www.egcchurch.org or call church office, (518) 399-3151.

Latham-Colonie Columbiettes

December Breakfast Buffet

LATHAM - The Latham-Colonie Columbi ettes are hosting a Break fast Buffet on Sun., Dec. 11th, 2022 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at the Latham-Colonie Knights of Columbus Council, 328 Troy-Schenectady Road, Latham, N.Y. 12110.

Menu includes; Scram bled Eggs, an Omelet Station, Home Fries, Corned Beef Hash, Bacon

and Sausage, Pancakes and French Toast served w/ Warm syrup, A Variety of Cereals and Juices, Banan as and Hot Tea, Coffee or Hot Chocolate.

*$12 Adults, $6 Children (5-10) and under 5 Free! www.lathamcoloniekofc. com/dinners&events

Music Company Orchestra is Performing Two Holiday Concerts Entitled Holiday Magic

NISKAYUNA / CLIF TON PARK - The con certs are free and include holiday favorites and sing along. Separate flyer is at tached. Thank you for ad vertising/posting at your facility or publication.

Sun, Dec 11, 3pm – Ni skayuna Reformed Church Mon, Dec 12, 7pm Coburg Village (residents only)

Southern Saratoga Art Society

SARATOGA COUNTY - The Southern Saratoga Art Society will meet on Monday, November 28, 2022 , 6:30 p.m., and have a special art demon stration hosted by the Blooming Artist Gallery, 675 Grooms Road Clifton Park., Rexford Landing Plaza. Featured will be artist, Ilona Zabolotna demonstrating a “Cof fee Painting” using her recently developed unique technique of brewed expresso as a medium. Her style flows much like watercolor and champions combining refined detail with pouring coffee and freely expressive splatter. Her portraits are full of emotions with knowledge of anatomy.

The demonstration is open to the public and made possible by Saratoga Arts through the Commu nity Arts Regrant Pro

gram, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. For more information about SSAS, visit: south ernsaratogaartist.com

Friendship Singers Concerts

SLINGERLANDS

/ DELMAR - Join the Friendship Singers of Delmar as we welcome the Christmas season with two public concerts—one at the Presbyterian Church of Slingerlands, 2010 New Scotland Road, on December 14, 2022 at 7 pm, and the other at the Delmar Reformed Church, 386 Delaware Avenue, on December 21 at 7 pm . With our director Marie Liddle and our accompanist Peg Dorgan, we are presenting a mixed program of sing-along and traditional music with a twist, and some surprises. It’s a joy to be back singing, and we’d like to share it with you!

17th Annual Community Chanukah Hakhel Celebration

CLIFTON PARK - The community is invited to celebrate the fourth night of Chanukah at 5 pm on Wednesday, December 21st with a car menorah parade and grand Chanu kah celebration at Clifton Common- Senior Center. There will be Music, Food, Crafts, a Grand Menorah Lighting and Entertain ment for all ages!

The event is free; RSVP is at cliftonparkchabad.com Sponsorships available! Seeking volunteers to help make this event an amazing success! To help sponsor, volunteer or for more info, contact Leah at cliftonparkchabad@gmail. com

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CAPITAL DISTRICTIt’s that time again. Rotary Club is selling SaveAround coupon books still at the same price as previous years, $25. You can buy now and start using now… good until end of 2023.

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local, early 18th century Dutch families and the un trained artists who creat ed them. She explores the “golden age” of American folk art from 1830 to 1850.

518-878-0883 for your books.

Where: 435 New Karner Road (Hanover Square Building) at “Hill” door entrance. Friday – Dec. 2 at 7 pm: Don Hyman (The Soul Man), popular area entertainer, will treat us to a Holiday Concert on our stage. He is sure to get you in the mood for the upcoming holiday season. Beverages and snacks included. ($12) Call 518452-6883 for info.

ClayWorks Holiday Sale at Saratoga Clay Arts Center

Mechanicville District Public Library 190 N. Main St. Mechan icville, NY 12118 518-664-4646 • meclib. sals.edu

Living Nativity at Clifton Park Center Baptist Church

In folk art, the most com mon, workaday objects are decorated turning them into true artistic expres sions. From portraits and landscapes to weather vanes and carousel horses, the art is created by untrained individuals with an innate talent for color and design.

Grief Support Group

DELMAR - Bethle hem Lutheran Church is sponsoring a Grief support group called “Surviving the Holidays”.

This time of year is one of the most difficult after you have lost a loved one. Let us help you through this struggle of emotion and grief.

Saturday, December 3, 2022 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. There is no charge or fee to attend.

N. Church St. The program will feature John Rutter’s Dancing Day, a collec tion of traditional carols accompanied by harpist Karlinda Caldicott. Addi tional carols from France, Germany, Spain, and the Ukraine will be included.

ALBANY - Dozens of the area’s finest artists will be represented in this newly expanded gallery space.

Gallery hours MTWF 12-6, Thurs 12-8, Sat 10-3 or by appointment. Closed

Sundays

Special “Meet-the-Art ists” night on Friday Octo ber 7th, 5:30-8pm. Event runs through November 28th

Art Associates Gallery 21 Railroad Avenue, Alba ny 12205. 518-459-1307

Bethlehem Grange 137 Girl Scout Bake Sale and Craft Fair

SELKIRK - Saturday 12/10/22 at Bethlehem Grange 137. We’re Hand icap Accessible. Lots of different crafts to check out and finish your holiday shopping. Plenty of Conve nient parking. 2 Handicap Ramps for easy access.

For additional infor mation, please call or text Jackie at 518-810-6031. We’re located at 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, NY 12158St.

SCHUYLERVILLEMeet the Artists at SCAC Studio Tours, Demonstra tions, Ceramic Art for Sale -- Functional and Sculp tural and Refreshments

November 26th, 2022 10am - 3pm December 4th, 2022 12pm - 5pm or by appoint ment from November 27th -December 3rd

Please email: artistsofs cac@gmail.com

Address: Saratoga Clay Arts Center 167 Hayes Rd, Schuyler ville, NY 12871

Small Business Saturday at Mechanicville Library

MECHANICVILLE -

On November 26th from 9 am - 2 pm, we will be hosting local vendors and crafters here in the Me chanicville Library. Drop in and check out! If you are a small business owner who would like would like to join us for our event & receive free marketing to

CLIFTON PARKThe Clifton Park Center Baptist Church invites the community to the Living Nativity with Christmas Carols on Saturday, December 3rd at 5:00 p.m. followed by hot cocoa and cookies. The Living Nativity will take place on the church’s lawn and then we will proceed to the church’s foyer to warm up and have some fellow ship together. Copies of the Christmas carols and candles will be provided to all. Clifton Park Center Baptist Church is locat ed at 713 Clifton Park Center Rd, Clifton Park, NY 12065. For questions please contact the church’s office (518) 371-6023.

Bethlehem Historical Association Lecture

DELMAR - Presen tation begins at 7 pm. at Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Avenue, Delmar

Free and open to the public. Registration suggested as seating is limited. Call 518-439-9314 or online at Bethlehem.

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Marilyn Sassi pres ents American Folk Art on November 30

Sassi begins her talk with painted portraits of

Marilyn Sassi is an adjunct professor at Sche nectady County Commu nity College and Hudson Valley Community Col lege. She is a past curator of Schenectady County Historical Society and the Fulton County Museum. In addition to her teaching and museum experience Marilyn has been involved in the field of antiques for many years.

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For more information contact us at 518-439-4328 or email Deacon Melissa Derenches at derenches@ blcdelmar.com. You can also register online at bit.

ly/blcgriefholidays.

Loudonville Church Cookie Walk

LOUDONVILLE - On Saturday December 10, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 510 Albany Shaker Road

Michaela O’Donnell, recipient of the Thursday Musical Club scholarship for a student at SUNY/ Schenectady, will perform. The chorus is directed by Julie Panke and accompa nied by Elinore Farnum, piano and organ. Tickets are $15.

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/ Woods Way20th Annual Toys For Tots Drive

CLIFTON PARK - Sat urday December 3, 2022 we will be holding our 20th Annual Toys for Tots Drive.

Teen “collection elves” will be going to door to door in the above neigh borhoods collecting new unwrapped toys.

The drive starts approx imately at noon. There will be drop boxes available through 12/4 at 3 Georgio Court and 43 Pepper Hol low Clifton Park.

If you or your teen would like to volunteer 2 hours on December 3rd please register with Mar garet Gregory by 11/28th. Margregory3@hotmail or 518-588-3778

Loudonville will be having our Annual Cookie Walk from 9:00 a.m. until we sell out of cookies. You will have your choice of many homemade cookies. The price for a medium box of cookies will be $10 and $20 for a large box. The proceeds of the sale will go to support the many ministries of Good Shepherd.

For more information please call the church office at (518) 458-1562.

Thursday Musical Club Announces December Concert

SCHENECTADY - The Thursday Musical Club will present “Christ mas Peace” on Sunday, December 4th at 3:00 pm at the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, 8

HEM – Come join us for our Holiday Craft Fair on December 10, 2022 from 9-3. Breakfast sandwiches and lunch will be available plus a bake sale to support our church United Women in Faith. Our Thrift Shop ‘Boutique’ will be open as well. Please come out to support small business, do your Christmas shopping and grab a bite to eat.

Contact Emily Shutter at 518: 813-0661 for further information.

Mother Teresa’s Thrift Shop

MECHANICVILLEMother Teresa’s Thrift Store, 52 William Street, Mechanicville, will be opened on Saturdays for the month of December from 10 - 2. December 3, 10, 17. Hours each week for the month of De cember will be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 10 - 2. Stop in for some great bargains. New inventory arrives every day! Donations always welcome.

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directly to local businesses. The Werner brand was also advertised in newspapers across the region, with one example from the Hammond Advertiser in St. Lawrence County. In these advertisements, the products were tout ed as offering cures for ailments as varied as indigestion and “obstinate malarial diseases” at the cost of only one dollar for 112 doses.

In the early hours of June 30, 1891, and only seven years after the first fire, flames again destroyed the Werner lager and medicine plant in Halfmoon. Starting in the boiler house, it quickly spread to the main brewery building, laboratory, then to their home, which was com pletely destroyed. In the laboratory at the time of the fire were 26,000 bottles of malt extract ready for shipment, none of which were able to be saved. The business was again drastically underinsured, with the loss of buildings and equipment estimated at upwards of twenty thousand dollars.

As part of rebuilding after the fire, the brewing of lager was transferred to the plant in Mechanicville and only the medicine company continued in Halfmoon. The Werner Brewing Company, situated on Viall Avenue in Mechanicville, was housed in a seventy-two by eightyfoot four-story building. In its heyday, the plant pro duced sixty thousand barrels per year that were distrib uted in both New England and the Northern counties of New York.

The combination of the financial loss from the fire and

the death of Henry A. Werner at the age of thirty-nine two years later started a downhill slide for the Werner brewery in Mechanicville. In 1896 the Saratoga Brewing Company of Saratoga purchased the plant, taking over that part of the business.

Herold Werner continued to operate the medicine side of the business, and in 1909 incorporated under the name of Werner Extract Company to manufacture medicines and flavoring extracts. Over time mail order perfumes were added to Werner’s business, with newspaper adver tisements as far west as Michigan for Werner’s American Rose fragrance, a product that offered “refined, fascinat ing odors, distinctly individual,” for one dollar an ounce.

While the original business model of Werner Extract Company was medicines and bottled extracts, within two years of their incorporation they had switched to the manufacture of fertilizer made by grinding and mixing potash-bearing rock, coal, and bone. One reason for this change could have been the recent enactment of the first Pure Food and Drug Act, which required the labeling of ingredients, including alcohol, on all patent medicines. Over the next 18 years, Werner continued to refine the process of making fertilizer as new and more efficient machinery became available.

After a large quarry of four percent potash-bearing shale had been discovered in Halfmoon, the Werner Extract Company took advantage of this business op portunity and in 1920 invested in additional machinery to convert the rock into fertilizer. Advertised as a top dressing for meadows and supplement for fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, the Werner company sold Werner’s Natural Fertilizer for the next ten years both by the ton or in 100-pound sacks.

On October 24, 1930, Herold J. Werner was stricken with a fatal heart attack. With his passing the last of the family businesses were closed, ending 70 years and two generations of Werner brewery and patent medicine production in the town of Halfmoon.

Clifton Park Jewish Women’s Circle Will Host a

Chanukah Party

CLIFTON PARK - The party will be just for the ladies “Friends, Fondant and Cookie Decorating!” At 7 pm on Monday, December 19th at Clifton Park Chabad. No affiliation on membership necessary to join for this fun Chanukah evening. Chanukah Refreshments will be served. No artistic skills required!!

RSVP at cliftonparkchabad.com, or contact Leah at 5184950779cliftonparkchabad@gmail.com

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rose more than 60 percent in the 12-month period ending in June 2022, part of the energy category. However, during that same period, electricity prices rose by nearly 14 percent while natural gas prices increased by 38 per cent. Both of those increases were more significant than the more publicized rise in food prices, which rose by right around 10 percent.

Families need to eat and many professionals now must return to in-per son work after years of pandemic-related remote working, which means they must confront higher fuel costs. That leaves little room to save money in those areas. However, there are ways for families to reduce home energy costs without adversely affecting their quality of life.

• Run applianc es during off-peak hours. According to the United States Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the best time to use appliances in a home is when overall electricity use is low. Though this time changes depending on the season and can vary based on geography, the DOE and the EPA both note that after 9 p.m. and before 9 a.m. are generally the off-peak hours in most areas.

• Strategically use your shades and blinds. The energy providers at ConEd estimate that about 40 percent of unwanted heat comes through windows. Strategic use of curtains, shades and blinds can keep heat out on hot days, thus allowing homeowners to turn the thermostat up on their air conditioning units in summer. Opening curtains, blinds and shades on winter mornings and afternoons will allow more sunlight in, allowing homeowners to control heating costs more effec tively.

• Reorganize your refrigerator. There are plenty of contradictory strategies regarding how best to store foods in a refrigerator so the unit consumes as little energy as possible while still keep ing foods fresh and chilled. But various energy provid ers, including ConEd, rec ommend that consumers avoid packing a fridge too tightly. By allowing cold air to circulate within the refrigerator, the refriger ator won’t need to work as hard, and thus consume as much energy, to keep foods cool. It’s important to note that the opposite should govern how the freezer is packed. Packing frozen items tightly in the freezer will help the refrigerator work a little less hard.

• Turn off the lights. Estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration indicate that electricity for lighting accounts for around 10 percent of electricity consumption in homes. A concerted effort to turn off lights in rooms that aren’t being used can help consumers save money.

Rising utility bills are compelling millions of people to seek ways to trim their energy consump tion. Thankfully, there are many ways to do that without upsetting daily routines.