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Dear Readers-Well, it is finally Spring; one of my favorite times of the year here because we all get to get out of the house and see our friends and neighbors again! If any of you wish to get a Guilderland town map or Chamber directory of member businesses, stop by our new office at 2050 Western Ave (Star Plaza) and say hello. We are here with information for the community as well as for businesses.

While you are out, look around at some of the businesses that opened up over the winter or recently; there has been quite a lot of activity in our area!

Tesoro’s Italian Restaurant is now where Nicole’s used to be in the 20 Mall, Hint of Paris Salon took over Carolyn’s here in Star Plaza, Little Caesars has $5.00 pizzas at Cosimos Plaza, CM Fox’s New Design Center officially opened up on Western ave by the Golf Course, Our Lady of Grace Gift Shop moved to Carmen Rd, Sauté’s To Go is in Carpenter Village Plaza……and more!!

Within the chamber, spring has sprung with a push to educate all small business owners, independent contractors, and sole proprietors that we offer low cost health insurance to them, as well as other benefits that far outweigh the cost of the annual dues! Spread the word!! We are having a member sign up special thru May 31; with a discount of two months off membership. This is keeping us busy, busy, busyWe are also gearing up for a fun filled spring and summer of big events: May 6-Spring Social and Silent Auction to benefit the Girl Scouts of Northeastern NY June 11-The Chamber Annual Dinner and Business Award ceremony July-Everyone’s favorite-“Restaurant Week!”

August 10-Annual Golf Outing at Pinehaven Country Club

For more information on any of these events or what we do, go to our website-www.guilderlandchamber.com or call us at 456-6611. You are all part of this community and are welcome to any event the chamber has! You might just see your neighbor there too!!

Happy Spring!

Kathy Burbank Executive Director, Guilderland Chamber of Commerce What is Chamber Membership Worth to Your Business?

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Dogs Available for Adoption As a result of the very successful “Spring into Action and Adopt a Pet” campaign, the James A. Brennan Memorial Humane Society (JABMHS) was able to adopt out 26 dogs and 17 cats, for the month of March! Guilderhaven, inc. thanks everyone for supporting our spay/neuter program for JABMHS and wish all the best to the new guardians who added a loving member to their family! For more information on animals that are still available for adoption, please contact us at (518) 439-9264 (Georgia), or (518) 456-2007 (Pat), or email us at guilderhaven@mac.com. Pictures of dogs and cats that are available for adoption at JABMHS (437 Nine Mile Tree Rd, Gloversville, NY (518) 725-0115) can be found at http://web.mac.com/guilderhaven or www.pawsforyou.org.

Billy Jo - 2-3 yr old female Lab mix; stray; sweet dog! Good with dogs and kids; not good with cats. Please call Georgia at (518) 4399264.

Turk – 10 month old neutered male Pitt/ Dalmatian mix; very friendly; good with dogs and kids; ~40 lbs; call Central Vet at (518) 434-2115.

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NEW Over 50 Softball League!

"Softball is in the blood. We play for the love of the game" That's the premise for the Capital District Over 50 Softball League, which will start its first season May 30th. Formed by nine local residents, CDOFSL is a notfor-profit 501(c)(7) organization composed of players (male or female) fifty years and older.

"Many of us have played for years and want to continue in an organized league and we have some players signed up who haven't played in several years, so we're a very diverse group", says Mike Connelly, President of the new League. We expect to play this year at a Guilderland location, on Saturday morning and one weekday evening game. We hope to have enough players for four teams.

We tried to get a league going last year, but not enough players signed up, so we took those that did and played credibly in a local league against the younger set. That group is now the core of our membership.

The objective is to have a fun atmosphere, with a little competition. For the more competitive among the group, we'll try to organize a team to play against others in the area. It will be a modified pitch league, with no fast pitching or high arc allowed.

Registration is taking place now. See our ad in the April issue and use it for an Early Bird discount. We are looking for players from the surrounding area (Albany, Colonie, Bethlehem, Slingerlands, Altamont) and our charter does allow a limited number of players under 50, so if you love the game, sign up. The league is also looking for team and league sponsors, so let us know if your business is interested. For more information, contact Mike Connelly at 518-356-3745 or over50softball@ verizon.net for a registration form.

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CAPITAL NORTHEAST MARTIAL ARTS CELEBRATES 3RD ANNIVERSARY Guilderland, NY -- Bob Esposito is pleased to announce that he is celebrating his 3rd anniversary as the owner of Capital Northeast Martial Arts.

Formerly known as Capital Northeast Tae Kwon Do, the school has been serving the Towns of Guilderland, Voorheesville and Altamont for the past 21 years.

Capital Northeast Martial Arts now teaches a Self Defense discipline called Defensive Hapkido, Tai Chi, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as well as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular style, Tae Kwon Do. They have students ranging in age from 4 to 66 years old.

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A. The preschool is n located within the Altamont Reformed Church at 129 Lincoln Avenue in Altamont.

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Q. What makes your preschool unique?

A. The Altamont Cooperative Preschooll provides the perfect learning environmentt where parent, teacher and child workk together. This ensures that a child’s first exposure to education and socialization is a positive one. At the preschool, we focus on the academic and social process for the individual child as compared to the final product. Children are treated as individuals.

They are taught in an environment that focuses on literature, art, music, math, science and social awareness.

ffamilies as well. In addition, families often comment c about the positive involvement tthat the preschool has with the community aas a whole. This year, the four year old class was able to take a field trip to the local food w bank. Children were able to make their own b personal contribution with the donation of a p ccanned item. In addition, the children were aable to learn about the service that the food b bank offers to llocal families. A ffavorite field trip iis our annual vvisit to VanEtten’s TTree Farm. On tthis field trip, the cchildren are able tto choose and cut down a Christmas d ttree for their classroom. The field trip concludes with a bon fire in which hot dogs, marshmallows and hot chocolate h aare shared by all.

Q. What changes/options will you implement for the 2009-2010 school year?

A. For the 2009-2010 school year, the preschool will restructure our program to better meet the needs of working families. The first change will involve lengthening the three year old program to 2.5 hours as compared to the 2 hours that it is currently. In addition, we will offer some families the option of joining the preschool without the responsibility of helping in the classroom.

We realize that sometimes families are not able to help in the classroom for a variety of reasons. Offering this option, will allow all families an equal opportunity to participate in the Altamont Cooperative Preschool.

Q. What hours are you open?

A. The preschool provides programs for both three and four year olds. The three year olds currently meet on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 until 11:00 and four year olds meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:00 until 11:30. Interested families are encouraged to stop in during class hours for a first hand view of our program. In addition, families can feel free to call 895-8522 Q. What do you love most about your preschool? if they are interested in registering their child or if they have any A. There are so many wonderful things about the Altamont Cooperative Preschool. It is comforting to know that we provide a questions about the preschool program nurturing environment where parents can feel confident that their Q. Is there anything specific about your preschool that parents child is getting a positive educational and social experience. At our preschool, children are treated as individuals and allowed to come back for?

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Before that we were at other Route 20 locations in Guilderland.

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The songs and tunes that our 16th President heard, inspired and enjoyed will be performed by the 77th New York Balladeers.

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Roger Lipera Web Design & Consulting Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary FaceBook and Twitter, are being incorporated into a firm's Web presence. They are being used as marketing tools, which is quite a significant change over their original purpose. It looks like they are going the way that blogs have. Originally designed to be communication tools for the "regular" person, blogs are now highly corporatized and are being used for marketing purposes everyday.

• Diversified Lighting Associates has been on your client list the longest time. Has that site changed over the years? We are currently in the third or fourth iteration of the site. Although there is a strong visual familiarity between the current version and the previous editions, this site is significantly different. We have Roger currently has about four dozen "active" clients. They are improved the "behind the scenes" techniques and enhanced the listed on his own Web site, www.lipera. u usefulness of the site. In fact, the com. Over the time he has been in DLA site is updated regularly. On D business Roger has developed well over aaverage it is updated about every 150 sites for various businesses and 18 days. The target audience is 1 organizations. He is often asked how aarchitects and engineers, so the site Web design has changed since 1999. is focused toward their interests.

Here are some the most common • What makes a successful Web questions and Roger's answers: ssite? A successful site is one that • What is the most exciting thing meets the needs of the client. We m going on with the Web today? Probably determine those needs by using a d the most interesting component of ccarefully designed questionnaire the World Wide Web these days is aand following up with an interview. how social networking sites, such as TThe goal is to make sure that tthe site's message is effectively G Guilderland, NY -- Roger Lipera, owner of Roger R Lipera Web Design & Consulting, announces a the 10 year anniversary of the launch la of our first Web site design. The client, c Diversified Lighting Associates, has remained our client ever since. This h Web site is www.diversifiedlighting.com.

W O Over the past decade the DLA site has cchanged. In fact, it is updated regularly, b but it retains a strong sense of the original ttheme and purpose.

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• What is your latest Web Design? A few days ago we launched www.ultrabod.com, a Web site for Linda King, a person fitness trainer. This is actually a fairly small Web site. But size is not important as long as visitors decide to contact Linda and setup an appointment. In fact, this is the third site I have constructed for Linda.

• Does this mean you have repeat clients? Definitely!

Magic Touch Entertainment will be celebrating their 10th anniversary with me in a couple of months. I have built sites for three of their domain names, and each one of those has gone through several complete renovations. A few months after that we will be celebrating 10 years with Carol Anne Dunn Realty as clients. Right now I am working on the updates of other two clients, but you will have to wait for the launches to discover who they belong to. We like surprises.

• Do you have a favorite Web site? I am afraid that I like them all. Each poses a unique challenge, and I particularly enjoy working on them.

• Has the recent economic situation affected the Web business? Right now people realize that the World Wide Web is an excellent medium for communicating a message. The reach is nearly unlimited, and is extremely cost effective as a marketing tool. Some of my clients, such as The Vermont Inn, use it to reach out world-wide for additional business.

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In addition to owning and operating his Web design business, Roger Lipera is a member of the Guilderland Chamber of Commerce and is current the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. In 2004 he received the Chamber Champion Award from the GCC, the highest award presented by the organization. He has also been a guest speaker at the GCC on a number of occasions, and in recent

years has made presentations to SCORE, the Southern Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, organizations at the University at Albany, and the Albany Ad Club. Roger is a certified Web Developer.

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Family Book BINGO What’s a great way to have fun during those April showers?

How about playing BINGO and reading together with our Family Book BINGO? Stop on by Youth Services to pick up a BINGO sheet. Complete a row of squares for BINGO, and bring it back to Youth Services by the end of April for a free prize!

Open to participants in preschool – grade 5 and their families.

Kids: Where were you born? Come on in and show us! Fill out a piece of paper and answer a few simple questions about your roots, and we will add your information to the Big Map on the bulletin board in the youth services area. It will be fun to see where our wonderful Guilderland Public Library boys and girls were born. How many cities, states, and countries will be involved? We can’t wait to find out!

This Roots program been going on since early March, and will continue through April, so come in and “put yourself on the map!”

These programs are free. The Guilderland Public Library is located at 2228 Western Avenue, Guilderland. Call 456-2400 x 12 for more information, or visit the Library’s website at www.guilpl.org. E-mail comments to pio@guilpl.org.

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GUILDERLAND ELEMENTARY TO HOST YOUNG AUTHORS’ CELEBRATION APRIL 6 – 24, 2009 GUILDERLAND, NY—Guilderland Elementary School is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a Young Authors’ Celebration from Monday, April 6 through Friday, April 24, 2009. During this time, parents, teachers, and students all join together in recognizing and celebrating the Young Authors of Guilderland Elementary School.

As part of the celebration, GES welcomes children’s author Doreen Rappaport to the school on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Rappaport is the author of numerous nonfiction works including: Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln; We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians; John’s Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon; and Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story Of The Young Women Who Won The World Championship, to name just a few. She will be sharing her ideas, experiences, and love of writing with all students in grades kindergarten through five at various workshops throughout the day. To learn more about the author, please visit her Web site at: http://www.doreenrappaport.com.

Other exciting highlights of the upcoming Young Authors’ Celebration will include: • A creative calendar of daily events to highlight love of the written word: literary line of the day; clever quotes day; sharing of poetry over the PA during morning announcements; reading the walls while looking for new, unusual, interesting words; Award Winning book day; Favorite Author Day. • The infamous Author’s Chair. Students will share their work in a special setting...it’s their time to shine!

• Posting Written Word and Illustrations. The hallways of the school will be covered with fabulous student writing and artwork.

Writing, writing, everywhere!

For more information on the Guilderland Elementary School Young Authors’ Celebration, please contact Jo-Ann Gejay at (518) 869-0293.

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The Guilderland Public Library Wants Your Yearbook!

Guilderland, NY, – The Guilderland Public Library needs your help organizing a class reunion – yours!

Our current collection of school yearbooks provides snapshots in time, allowing you to reconnect with your youth any time you like – kind of like having a class reunion of the mind. But the true worth of this yearbook library is as a primary source of local history and genealogical data. Sure, these yearbooks are full of fun bits such as pictures of your great aunt playing JV field hockey, or the fact that you went on your senior class trip to Colonial Williamsburg.

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Imagine the value a century or more from now of portraits and other primary data available from today’s yearbooks.

The problem is, though, that our collection is incomplete.

That’s why we need your help. With your donation of old school yearbooks, we can improve our local history collection so that future generations will have access to this information. Our goal is to encompass yearbooks from every school throughout the region. We want your school yearbooks, your parents’ school yearbooks – the older the yearbook, the better.

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Personal Training and Nutritional Consultations available to members and program members.

Right now you can view yearbooks dating back to 1949 in our Local History Collection in the library’s Guilderland Room. We hope to make this collection available online. Through a digitization partnership with Ancestry.com – one of many genealogy databases that the Guilderland Public Library gives library users access to – we’ll be able to scan our yearbook collection and add it to their online library of thousands of high school, junior high and elementary school yearbooks. This online collection spans the country, and has a combined total of over six million searchable names! In addition to yearbooks, this database allows library users to search census records dating back to 1790, military and immigration records, and many other types of historical material vital for tracing your family’s history.

Please contact the Adult Services Department at (518) 456-2400 x 7 if you would like to donate your yearbooks. Yearbooks can also be dropped off at the library any time we are open. You are encouraged to e-mail your questions about this program to info@ guilpl.org.

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