Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, December 8, 2021
With Thanksgiving now behind us, the holidays are coming up fast! I can’t think of a better way to get into the spirit than by decorating a tree. And this year, we’ll have a doozy of a community holiday tree in Orsini Park!
Pick up a blank ornament from the library, bring it home and decorate in your and your family’s own unique style, and hang it on the big community holiday tree out in the park (the one in the middle in the park, not the one in the gazebo).
Then on Sunday, Dec. 19, at the Altamont Festival of Lights, join us as we light it up! Thanks to Leanne Royer for coordinating the ornaments, and to Altamont Community Tradition for sponsoring this fun holiday activity!
Library Lights
Speaking of lighting things up, it’s also time to light up the Orsini Park Gazebo! You still have another day or so to honor the memory of a friend, loved one, or pet with a light on the Altamont Village Gazebo in Orsini Park.
The lights cost $5 each and all proceeds benefit the Altamont Free Library. The honorees’ names will be read during the annual lighting ceremony on Friday, Dec. 10, at 6 p.m., and be published on the library’s website.
Forms are available in the library’s entryway and in last week’s edition of The Altamont Enterprise. Please join us at the gazebo on Friday, Dec. 10, for what is always a lovely and moving (masked-up and socially distant) ceremony.
ACT Quilt Raffle
Are you getting excited for the Altamont Celebration of Lights? I know we are!
This year, the Celebration of Lights (what we used to call the Victorian Holiday Celebration) will take place on Sunday, Dec. 19. It will be full of fun activities, including a pet parade, Orsini Park tree-lighting, wreath raffle, and an extra-special evening car parade featuring a jolly old friend on a fire truck at the end. (Sadly, there won’t be a Santa Train this year.)
All of these activities are put on by our friends at Altamont Community Tradition. In order to raise money for ACT, so that the not-for-profit group can continue putting on wonderful events like this, the annual springtime park cleanup, and Strawberry Social, we’re helping to raffle off an antique quilt from the 1930s donated by Sally Dague and fixed up by the amazing Train Station Quilters.
Tickets may be purchased at the library on the day of the event for $1 each or six for $5. The lucky winner will be drawn at the Celebration of Lights. Please help support this important civic organization and take a chance at winning a one-of-a-kind heirloom at the same time!
Story time
Story time is on the move! Now that the weather is getting colder, we’ve moved story times a few blocks away and indoors! Please join us in the Community Room at Altamont Reformed Church at 129 Lincoln Ave. in Altamont every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for a super fun morning of songs, stories, and activities!
We’re moving to ARC so that our story-time families have lots of room to stretch out and distance themselves from one another. Since this is an indoor program, all participants over the age of 2 must wear masks for the duration of the program. Please enter through the back, and head right upstairs to the Community Room. Many thanks to Altamont Reformed Church for hosting us this fall and winter. We hope to see you there!