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Now Family Spring’s promise is CAPITAL DISTRICT

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For every age and stage of family life.

sunnier times ahead

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almost forgot to be excited about spring this year.

From January on, it feels like it’s been a blur of scouring the web for information about vaccine eligibility for my loved ones and wondering when the next stimulus check might arrive. Oh, and trying to keep track of which days my daughters are in school and which days are remote. (School’s going to be over before I finally figure that one out.) I’ve also been waiting anxiously with my older daughter to hear back from the colleges she’s applied to – sight unseen because they weren’t offering tours last year. On top of all this, there’s been an undercurrent of frustration at what has felt like a disintegration of civility among people – in politics and life.

And then one day, I looked up and saw the snow had melted. The next day, I could crack the windows in the house to finally get some fresh air inside. A week later, it was warm enough for just a fleece jacket outside. There was some rain and a cold snap – and then I noticed my chives were coming up. That’s spring for you, fickle but with the promise of light and warmth to come.

As the milder days started to outnumber the cold, I would run into my neighbors out and about in their yards or on walks. We’d exchange some kind words, and I would remember that the “conversations” that take place online don’t reflect how most people actually treat each other. The heavy pall of winter is starting to fade.

Here’s the truth: I’ve never been a big fan of spring. Most years, I would have preferred to skip straight to the leisure and brightness of summer. But this year, spring has been a welcome reminder that even when things seem dark and difficult, hope and light are always around the corner – we just have to remember to look up and notice it.

I hope your spring is filled with hope and renewal.

Check out our articles and more at www.cdfamilynow.com and mail your story ideas and pictures to Capital District Family Now, P.O. Box 100, Delmar, NY 12054, or e-mail me at robertsk@spotlightnews.com.

Kristen Roberts Editor, Capital District Family Now

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Area camps are gearing up for summer, with a number of safety precautions in place. Read more on Pages 14-15 of this issue.

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Learning Center

Education insight for parents

The right motivation Celebrate your child’s interests to keep them engaged in learning

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ow can parents and homework compete with Fortnight and Minecraft? The simple answer is that they can’t. However, parents can use their children’s own interests to motivate tweens and teens to learn more and, in the process, teach their children skills that will transfer to their classroom learning and, ultimately, lead to higher standardized test scores.

Carnegie Mellon University brain researchers Marcel Just and Timothy Keller have said that after just six weeks of intensive reading, students who had been poor readers were not only able to improve their

skills, but grew new white-mat- your child excited and to learn ter connections in their brains. about it yourself. Ongoing This means that the brain can communication with your actually change its connections children is more effective if through learning and adapit can be delivered on comtation, and the study mon ground, rather than shows that whitefrom “on high.” Read by matter improvethe “hot” tween ments had more books, watch the to do with how movies for them, many hours stuand listen to the dents “trained” or movie soundtrack practiced reading together. than how “good they Discuss how the were.” In essence, the book and movie differ. Did more students read, the more enjoyable reading becomes and the plot change? Did the movie introduce new characters? Did the more those skills are used your teen prefer the book or in real-life situations. the movie? In short, learn The first step for you, as a about the books and trends parent, is to identify what gets that dominate your teenager’s

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world. Then, look for creative ways to add an educational component to your child’s favorite activities.

For example, if your teenager can’t get enough of a show that involves foreign countries or outer space, leverage that interest to learn about geography, international culture or the science of manned space exploration. Ask her to identify locations from the books on a map – do they exist or are they fictional? Or, encourage him to find a virtual “pen pal” in Italy to compare his life and everyday activities. Or buy a telescope and track when and

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In Your Neighborhood

Rocking the pandemic Colorful painted stones spread cheer during a difficult time

backside of a found rock. Rocks that are found are done so by happenstance.

Tanya Underwood started the movement last spring. Like 1.4 DELMAR — Casting rocks at your neighbors is frowned upon, million other New Yorkers last normally. Delmar Rocks, a local April, the mother of one was group of artists, has changed that newly unemployed in the midst of a pandemic. Time spent perception by spreading home was suddenly in friendlier messages abundance. It was and with a kinder by then she opted to delivery. round up a few The loosely friends from the organized troupe neighborhood to follows a simple paint. goal. They paint “It was a panrocks with positive demic. I had just been messages and deposit them around town with laid off from my job. We the hope people find them. It’s were all kind of home quarana bit of a makeshift cache hunt, tining it,” said Underwood. “I except there are no instructions talked to a couple of my friends other than those found on the and I said let’s get our friends

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Delmar Rocks started as a way to spread good cheer during the pandemic. The colorful rocks are now turning up all over the Capital District. together and paint some rocks, try to start something up in Delmar.”

messages upon rocks. Rocks, because they’re sustainable and could weather the elements.

Underwood said she was inspired by a similar movement in Berlin, Conn. The idea was to paint hearts and positive

On the first day, Underwood corralled a few fellow moms and their children, and they all

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continued from Page 6 painted a dozen rocks. Afterwards, the rocks were taken to a few public locations with the intent that they would be found. The first of such locations was the Albany County Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail.

The 10-mile rail trail that runs through Delmar seemed to be the ideal spot. With state-mandated shutdowns, the trail was choked by increasing numbers of residents with idle time. The trail has served as a community place, hosting charity runs and chalk walks since it opened in 2016. In that first year, the county estimated 164,000 people used the Delmar spur of the trail.

It was even more popular last April, as one biker observed.

“A bit crowded, but that’s to be expected when the weather is finally in the 60s and COVID-19 has been cooping us all

up in the house,” wrote Aarika Moak on Alltrails.com.

one of hers, which only makes her happy, she said. She has watched talented artists take up the mantle, spreading more smiles across town. She went back outside to go see and recognized the work. “Yep. That’s one of Aleta’s,” she said.

The project itself has taken legs of its own, Underwood said. People have found rocks, joined the group’s social media channels, and have painted their own rocks to be found around town.

The group’s Facebook page has garnered more than 600 followers since Underwood launched it last spring. Today, it has a rolling news feed of pictures from people who found a rock, some of whom posed with it for a selfie soon after discovery.

The evolution of the movement has also created a means to support local businesses.

Aleta Lyons, one of Underwood’s friends, has recently painted rocks representing restaurants and dropped them off to be found near their doorsteps. One of her rocks depicting peeping eyes reading an open newspaper was found

It’s been nearly a year since Underwood rolled with the idea of painting those first rocks, and the movement doesn’t appear to be gathering any moss.

She’s now working, but still keeps tabs with the group.

She’s since learned that local rocks have been discovered in Waterford and Syracuse.

The Delmar Rocks Facebook group She’s also connected with the now has more than 600 followers. Berlin Rocks group for each to exchange and hide rocks across in front of The Spotlight office. New England.

Underwood was introduced to one of the rocks on a recent visit to O’Slatterey’s. When she walked in, one of the restaurant’s staff members excitedly asked if she saw the rock outside. She knew it wasn’t

“It’s been so tough, that’s why in some ways this was so therapeutic,” Underwood said.

“It helps you to meet people.

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Olivia and Ben weigh in on what it means to to them to be on the spectrum

s April is Autism Awareness Month, and as a mother of two children with autism spectrum disorder, I would love to share my experience. First, there are many variables for any one child and their diagnosis. Second, if you have seen one child with autism, you have seen one child with autism. No two kids are the same, even if they are siblings. Third, there are ups and downs in all families and mine is no different. I try to be a good mom to my children, but there are times Rebecca gets the short end of my patience.

Benjamin was diagnosed with Autism at 6 years old

during the summer between kindergarten and first grade.

I would love to say that his diagnosis was a surprise to Harlan and me, but it wasn’t.

There was a nagging feeling in the back of my head, and I by trusted my mom gut. I pushed for an evaluation, and we finally got on the doctor’s schedule.

Three months later it was official: autism.

We didn’t keep Ben’s diagnosis a secret from him because I thought it would be empowering.

own words: My elementary school had an autism awareness fair and it was really fun, but unfortunately stupid COVID ruined it for last year and now this year too. It really upset me as I really enjoyed it, but ... for me every day is about autism awareness because it is who I am. I respect that, and you should too!

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This is Ben’s reality in his

And also April is a weird month because A.) it’s autism awareness month, and B.) it’s full of rain. Is that supposed to signify that having autism is

sad? Because it’s nothing close to that, it’s really just something that makes you cooler or different than anyone else, and you shouldn’t feel down about yourself because of it. You should embrace it and love it because you will have it for the rest of your life. If anyone is bullying you about it just say, “If you don’t like it so much, then why don’t you go along and make a cure for it, eh?” Then watch their face start glowing bright red.

My mom instinct pushed me hard with Olivia, too. She was always a social child, and when she started having troubles with people, it was a sign. One

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“The Comeback” is a story of redemption and finding your place. In it, figure skater Maxine Chen, 12, is tasked with balancing her life as a gifted skater while dealing with the pitfalls and perils of middle inspirations was a “comeback list” she would write as a kid. school. As Maxine is dealing On it, she would write down with bullying from a peer over the mean things people said to her Chinese heritage, she’s her, come up with witty facing another talented comebacks and then skater, Hollie, in force her friends the rink, whose by to practice with abilities threaten her. Her friends Maxine’s place eventually said in her upcoming the idea would competition. make a fantas“Much of Maxtic book, as the ine’s story was based journey of middleon a very exaggerated schoolers through bulversion of my own childhood,” lying and the pressure to stand Shen said. “I did figure skate as up to bullies can feel insura kid, but I was nowhere near mountable. as good as Maxine is. Also, I Shen said she wanted Maxine was bullied for being Asian to have a full voice, as she and short. While the book is a felt many characters aimed super fictionalized version of toward middle-grade students my own journey, Maxine and are passive. Because Maxine I deal with some of the same is dealing with adult issues, hurdles.” including microaggressions over Shen was a short story writer her heritage, she’s forced to before digging her heels into take a definable stance against fiction. One of her biggest

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2014 Shaker High School graduate has released her first book.

E.L. Shen, who is currently living in Manhattan, released “The Comeback” in January.

The work, geared toward middle-schoolers, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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n The Write Stuff continued from Page 10 the people trying to tear her down.

While the talk about race relations and microaggressions couldn’t be more timely in our political climate, Shen said the recent spike in hate crimes against Asian Americans did not contribute to the storyline in “The Comeback.”

Shen started working on her book in 2018 and was putting on the final touches in 2020 when hate crimes started spiking. While the release’s timing turned into a very fortunate coincidence, Shen wants to convey to middle-grade students the importance of embracing diversity and persevering through adversity.

E.L. Shen hopes to convey the importance of facing adversity through 12-year-old Maxine’s story. Maxine is challenged several times through “The Comeback” but uses the hurdles to bring forth a greater message.

“I want children of color to understand they are valued and needed in our society,” Shen said. “I spent a lot of time plotting out Maxine’s character growth and figuring

out ways to convey the message I hope people take from her story. When people act out on you, it’s a reflection of them, not you. Maxine is able

Photo courtesy of E.L. Shen to face these struggles because she has such a strong community around her. Everyone has a community around them to ease their struggles, even if

they don’t feel like it.”

To buy a copy of “The Comeback,” visit elshenwrites. com.

Words Are Powerful.

Use Yours to Help Stop Bullying.

Bullying can make kids feel isolated, sad and hopeless, but a kind word or gesture from a classmate can make a world of difference. Help fight bullying by setting an example of kindness and caring with your words and actions at home, and encouraging your child to do the same at school.

Friendship.

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n Learning Center continued from Page 4 where they’ll find a satellite that just launched from Florida.

Science is just as easy to incorporate into everyday activities. Ask your tween to calculate the distance between Forks, Washington, and Rome, Italy. Compare the speed of a downhill motorbike ride versus an uphill ride. Research other methods of transportation and the scientific explanation of balance and speed.

Yes, even Linkin Park and Muse have lessons to teach.

Your child’s favorite bands can be avenues for self-expression.

By memorizing lyrics or even writing their own, students

n Triple Threat continued from Page 9 day, Olivia had a huge meltdown, very common in children on the spectrum, and it felt like an electric shock or realization: Olivia has autism!

Statistically, girls are diagnosed later than boys. Olivia was two months shy of turning 13 when we got the official diagnosis. So many things slipped into place and made so much sense.

This is Olivia’s reality with autism: What is it like having autism?

Well you have asked the milliondollar question, but first you have to know it’s not a disease so it’s not like I am sick. I have something and it’s a part of me.

And second, I can’t give you the full view because I am just one of out of many people with autism, and everyone has different things and challenges that comes with autism so don’t think this is it.

Yes, even Linkin Park and Muse have lessons to teach. Your child’s favorite bands can be avenues for self-expression. can learn the importance of the written and spoken word.

They can research the artists’ backgrounds and find out the process to make a CD. Parents can combine these enjoyable activities with the basics of motivating a student – goal-setting, rewards, and reinforcement. Plan out activities and classroom assignments with your child. Determine together the steps of the process and when the assignment will be finished. Provide the tools to complete the task. For larger projects, consider offer-

Social media is one of the biggest challenges for me because it’s hard to get the jokes and the sarcasm. But social media isn’t all that bad. I have found many people on there that have helped answer my questions about autism and made me feel less alone. Someone named Paige has helped me in so many ways, including talking about what it’s like living with autism as a girl because it is not as common for girls to be diagnosed with autism.

Another thing is I like having a routine. If my routine changes, that is a big problem, I get so overwhelmed and it’s hard to process. If you know me, then you know that I make lists. I make them for everything from school work to what I want to do over

ing mini-rewards throughout the process to keep your tween motivated to see it through.

We all like a nominal bonus for achieving an interim goal at work! Rewards can be as simple as a pat on the back or the ability to stay out an hour later on the weekend.

When the project is complete, review it together, and congratulate him or her on a job well done. Share your child’s success with other family members – nothing makes your teen feel better than to “overhear” you singing his or her praises. the weekend. I have gone through countless sticky notes writing down anything that comes to mind. I also have a white board above my desk telling me what class I have that day and what we are doing in that class and stuff I have to do afterwards. If you want an expert on list-making, you know where to find me.

Rebecca is neurotypical. She gets amazing grades and is so creative. Rebecca is kind and has a sense of humor that will keep us in stitches for the rest of our lives. I look at Rebecca and see a future of adventure, family, happiness and being the center of her own universe. Rebecca has us wrapped around her little finger. The hardest part of being the mom to two children on

The more your teen reads, the more he or she will know. All of the skills learned through these activities will translate into the classroom by reinforcing geography, analytical comprehension, reading and research skills. By joining in your tween’s fun, you’ll also demonstrate that learning takes place everywhere and that it is enjoyable.

For additional tips on instilling the joy of reading and making learning a fun family endeavor, visit the “Sylvan Source” area of www.SylvanLearning.com.

Patrick McNamara is the owner and executive director at Sylvan Learning of Albany and Clifton Park. For more information, visit SylvanLearning.com. the spectrum and one neurotypical child is that Rebecca has had to grow up faster than most 13 year olds. She has seen her siblings bullied and tormented. She sees us prepare Olivia for fireworks starting in June and again in December because the unexpected noises create such anxiety for her.

Rebecca knows that Ben’s favorite meal is something with cheese, with a side of cheese, and for dessert he wants cheesecake. Rebecca is loved tremendously!

I am a mom with one neurotypical child and two children with autism. Lots of days I feel like I am in over my head, but that’s OK because I love swimming underwater, and I am good at it.

Jennifer Steuer is an Albany mom whose busy household includes her husband, Harlan, and 13-year-old triplets Olivia, Benjamin and Rebecca.

Follow her on Instagram: jennifersteuer.

There was a nagging feeling in the back of my head, and I trusted my mom gut. I pushed for an evaluation, and we finally got on the doctor’s schedule. Three months later it was official: autism.

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“The science demonstrates that camps that have implemented strict, layered mitigation strategies — including masking, cohorting, physical distancing, cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, proper handwashing, and respiratory etiquette — have been able to safely operate in person.”

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un, music, nature walks, arts and crafts — these are the staples from which every summer camp memory is made. They are accentuated by the friendships and smiles that accompany them. That, my friend, has not changed.

The kids today just wear masks, but Andrew Katz, director of youth services at Albany Jewish Community Center on Whitehall Road, said the smiles are still there.

“You can still kind of see they’re smiling,” he said, “with their cheekbones raised and their eyebrows up. There’s still some face recognition there.”

Albany JCC is just one of many camps across the Capital District that are using last summer’s pandemic experience as a learning tool. Kids are broken up into small groups, or pods. They wear masks. They’re mostly outside. And, sharing isn’t necessarily caring.

In February, the American Camp Association announced the release of an independent study on last year’s summer camp experience.

Led by Dr. Helen Suh of Tufts University with support from Maine Medical and Environmental Health & Engineering, the study offered critical information on the pediatric experience in child congregate settings, such as camps, schools, and community and recreation centers.

The ACA worked with the YMCA of the USA to provide educational resources to both day and overnight camps, state and local health departments, guardians and campers. The resources were developed last year, and revised for this summer, by an independent expert panel coordinated by Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm specializing in environmental health.

“This research illustrates the success of summer camps as stewards of public health in pan-

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create safe spaces for a traditional summertime activity demic response and management,” said Tom Rosenberg, president and CEO of ACA. “Since April 2020, ACA has continuously focused on the development of responsible guidelines for day and overnight camps on behalf of the outof-school community.”

ACA guidelines are often used as a resource to protect the estimated 26 million children attending camp, as well as those taking care of your children while they are there. For the association, the study demonstrated how their efforts created a safe and successful year in the sun by mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

“The low incidence rates are comparable to similar studies of the experience of children in school and day care settings,” said Dr. Suh. A recent ACA study of 486 camps serving 90,000 campers reported only 30 campers had confirmed COVID-19 cases in 2020.

“The science demonstrates that camps that have implemented strict, layered mitigation strategies — including masking, cohorting, physical distancing, cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, proper handwashing, and respiratory etiquette — have been able to safely operate in person,” Rosenberg said.

As the pandemic continues to evolve and we learn more from researchers and scientists, the ACA will continually update its guidelines with the latest and most accurate scientific research and practices.

“Summer camps provide the optimal context for kids to practice social-emotional learning.

After such an isolating and traumatic year of disruption and loss, the SEL outcomes that result from camp experiences will help young people prepare to thrive in school this fall,” Rosenberg said.

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“Everyone is still being very cautious, but we’re all thrilled to have people back in our spaces. We’re very happy to have people back in — even at a limited capacity.”

Nicole Peterson, director of external relations at The Arts Center of the Capital Region

Find a list of local camps on Page 13

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n Summer camp continued from Page 15 Albany JCC has transformed the summer camp experience of the past, when children would spend their days at Camp Olam off of Grafton Lake. All the staples — including the swimming and the nature trails — have been brought back home to Albany, in some shape or form.

Swimming can happen at the pool off Whitehall Road, and trails have been cut into the land.

“Every week, we do a Shabbat,” Katz said. “When we started the summer [last year], we just had it at our pavilion.

Then, our staff constructed a fire pit, and we did it around a campfire like we did at our camps.”

Katz said it’s part of an effort in utilizing as much outdoor space as they can use.

The Troy neighborhood in which The Arts Center of the

Capital Region resides doesn’t conjure the serenity of the Adirondacks, but it possesses the tools to cultivate creativity in a child.

Nicole Peterson, director of external relations at the center, explained how there’s still much to explore in Troy, as well as create. One such class the center will provide is called “Explore Troy,” where children will be encouraged to navigate, explore and discover the great city.

They’ll also take part in transforming the studio into an “interactive mini-city,” where they will construct buildings, plant trees, build a park or catch the trolley to the Farmers’ Market.

“Everyone is still being very cautious, but we’re all thrilled to have people back in our spaces,” said Peterson, who added the center’s gallery had recently opened its doors for last month’s Troy Night Out. “We’re very happy to have people back in — even at a limited capacity.”

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t’s been a long haul of and found many baseball cards days never going above 32 and old stamps. This alerted me degrees, too little sunto my many baseball cards in shine and pandemic news boxes and binders. All winter I 24 hours a day on eight news have taken on a cleanup venture channels. Since last April, on my third-floor cave. our lives have been Years ago, I was into not only a road collectibles and by less traveled but a some antiques. As road never built.

I write this article Books, music, in the cave, I see hobbies, puzzles the many old and other seldomradios (not workused or seen items ing) that make a occupied our time. nice appearance and When the virus hit last some say “the good old April, the spring cleaning, garage days.” I have a 1929 radio that sales and fresh air went into gets two channels, and I wonder hibernation. if people listened when the stock market crashed or Babe Ruth The spring cleaning work for was playing. I was called a utili2020 disappeared, but there tarian once by a school superinis the hope for a renewal. It tendent, and so my collections returned to me from my friend grow and are cherished.

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The cover of the quarterly Baseball Hall of Fame magazine features baseball cards of Hall of Famers who passed away in 2020 are Aaron, Brock, Ford, Gibson, Kaline, Lasorda, Morgan, Niekro, Seaver and Sutton.

As I look around the cave, there is much of my WW II memorabilia in terms of books, articles and old magazines. With the heartfelt belief that books should be donated or sold, I never throw out books. Maybe it is a WWII thing as I recall Germany did it over 85 years ago. My Time Life book collection about WWII has me reflecting on the time I explained to my son in the 1970s that I bought these books because there will not be another World War. As Einstein said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought; but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Next to that book collection is one entitled “The Old West.” Good reading, good pictures, and now I see them on the All Heroes

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pril is Financial Literacy Month, a time focused on educating people about the importance of planning for a secure financial future. Social Security is a vital part of any financial plan. We have online tools to help you understand your potential Social Security benefits and how they fit into your financial future.

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ixty-six-year-old psychologist Dr. Brian Fast of CCAHope in Delmar discovered that mandated or voluntary separation and even isolation during the pandemic didn’t change the need to be known and to know.

“We need interaction,” Fast said, “and to understand where people are at and what’s going on in their lives and to offer support to others.”

Fast draws on theology for such reasoning. He says that God is described in The Bible as “love” and He is a three-part being who is eternally and perpetually other-focused, selfsacrificial and unconditionally related as Father, Son and Holy

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nothing else does,” Fast said.

“If we are created in God’s image and God is a ‘community’ of three persons,” Fast concludes, “then humans are not going to do well by ourselves. It may sound romantic to be self-sufficient and to say, ‘I did it my way,’ but that’s not how we’re made.”

Drawing on his faith, Fast quotes a telling scripture about community: “Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our by meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another.”

Robert LaCosta

Fast explains that there is an inexplicable dynamic when people get together whether in-person or through technology.

“Neuro-psychology suggests that humans are pre-wired to experience intense pleasure with one another’s stories that light up centers of the brain like

“Gathering at church, for example,” he says, “makes life pour out of you and into me and out of me and into you in a way that we’re better from being together. That’s how the church is meant to function and how humans are meant to function.”

During the pandemic, the

Dr. Brian Fast idea of being known and knowing others seemed to bring a greater meaning to the oft-asked and frequently flippant ageold question, “So, what’s your story?”

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Colonie Senior Services Center 6 Winners Circle, Albany (518) 459-2857 In the interest of everyone’s health and safety, April events will be held virtually. CSSC has a limited number of laptops to lend for anyone who does not have a computer. All Zoom events are free and for Center members only.

Zoom instruction by appointment: Meet with our staff for a one-on-one session on how to use Zoom to stay connected to friends and family.

Zoom Cooking Demonstrations with Diane: Polish Tasting Plate – Tuesday, April 13, at 11 a.m.: Follow along via Zoom and work alongside Diane Conroy LaCivita, CSSC’s executive director, or just watch and learn something new. Ingredients delivery, $10.

Virtual Tour with Albany Institute ­– Monday, April 12, at 1 p.m.: Be transported back in time to when the Hudson River was a major highway with vessels of all shapes and sizes plying the

Eat Well, Feel Great – Friday, April 16, at 1:30 p.m.: Join in on a Zoom presentation with Hannaford’s Registered Dietician Fran Weiss who will address how to feel good through healthy eating when times are hard.

Mindfulness – Wednesday, April 28 at 12:30 p.m.: Come learn simple ways to incorporate mindfulness into every day, using activities that reduce stress and increase happiness.

98 Acres in Albany – Friday, April 16 at 1:30 p.m.: 98 Acres in Albany is a collaborative digital history project of Ann Pfau, Dave Hochfelder, and Stacy Sewell. The project brings to life the area demolished for Albany’s South Mall.Hear about this very important part of our city’s history.

Archaeological Sites of the ADK – Thursday, April 21, at 1 p.m.: The archaeological history of the Adirondacks spans the past 12,000 years and includes a diversity of sites which document the range of resources utilized by past groups.

With Dr. Christina Rieth. New York State Archaeologist Library Resources – Thursday, April 15 at 1 p.m.: Ever wonder what your library has available? Here’s a hint: it’s a whole lot more than just books!

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n Patriot Remembers continued from Page 17 channel on Cable TV. I find old record albums and turntables I gave to my children in the 1970s. Now I see my current inexpensive turntable that plays albums I bought in the late 50s through the 1980s. There are more than a few sentimental feelings when I see some of the artist who have left us. On March 8, I received my quarterly Baseball Hall of Fame magazine entitled “Memories and Dreams.” The cover displays baseball cards of Hall of Famers and the theme is “Legends Lost.” The cards of those who left us in 2020 are Aaron, Brock, Ford, Gibson, Kaline, Lasorda, Morgan, Niekro, Seaver and Sutton.

radio or TV, only on big screen closed circuit at $10 a seat. My 18-year-old grandson old found this very interesting and intriguing. Also there was another 14-by-22-inch poster of the 1955 World Champions Brooklyn Dodgers. Then there is a collection of VHS tapes. There is the original Jackie Robinson Story that stars Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickie. Who has a VHS player nowadays?

So how do we clean, organize, dispose or reminisce with our things that helped us get through the last 12 months.

Maybe we should focus on how lucky we are to be here.

Roy Campanella, a childhood Dodger idol wrote a book called “It’s Good to Be Home is Alive.”

Where Roy was paralyzed in 1957 in a car accident and never walked again. We should all have his spirit as we clean, recollect and see brighter days.

I found replicate posters to commemorate big events. The Home heavyweight boxing fight is Where You’ll Find Us between Ali and Joe Frazier, The author is a Capital entitled Super Fight II. The District resident and freelance date was Jan. 28, 1974 – no writer and guest speaker.

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