Altamont Library Notes for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
— Photo from Joe Burke
Almost 500 honorees — some of them, like Keen Hilton and Dick Howie, with multiple sponsors — had their names read during the Library Lights ceremony in Orsini Park hosted by the Altamont Free Library. Then the lights on the gazebo and community tree were lit.
Last weekend, the Altamont Free Library celebrated our 23nd annual Library Lights gazebo lighting ceremony in Orsini Park. The purpose of Library Lights is to take some time at the beginning of the holiday season to remember friends, family members, and other loved ones and to honor their memory with a light on the Orsini Park gazebo.
This year, we had a record number of honorees — almost 500 — whose names were read aloud at the ceremony. Thank you to all of our friends who contributed, and to those of you who joined us in Orsini Park last Friday.
A full list of this year’s honorees may be found on our website at AltamontFreeLibrary.org and will appear in next week’s edition of The Altamont Enterprise.
I’d especially like to thank Mayor Kerry Dineen, Jeff Moller, Larry Adams, and the team at the Village Department of Public Works for all of their invaluable help in making a space in the park for setting up the lights, as well as to Dan Capuano, Christine Carpenter, and Deborah Katz for helping with the reading of names. Thank you all!
Last weekend we also celebrated Altamont WinterFest, sponsored by our friends at Altamont Community Tradition. Thank you to all of the ACT volunteers who dedicate so much of their time, energy, and creativity to putting on this event.
If you love the sense of community that is so unique to this village, it is in no small part the ACT volunteers who you have to thank for putting on events like WinterFest, the annual Strawberry Social, and the springtime Green and Clean, which contribute so much to that atmosphere of neighborliness and fellow-feeling. Thank you all for all your hard work!
Amazon Smile
Here’s a great, easy, cost-free way to support the library: If you do some of your holiday shopping on Amazon, please consider going to Smile.Amazon.com (instead of just regular old Amazon.com).
Everything on the website will be exactly the same as usual, but you’ll have the opportunity to choose Altamont Free Library as your charity of choice and a portion of your purchase will go to support the Altamont Free Library, even though your gifts won’t cost you a penny more than they normally would! (You can do that all year round, if you like, but we just thought we’d mention it now.)
Bundle Up
Story Time
It’s almost time for another fantastic outdoor children’s story time with Thacher Park Nature Center Educator Shannon Duerr! Please join us in the Orsini Park gazebo on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 11 a.m. This month, we’ll be learning all about those joyful symbols of the season, evergreen trees!
We’ll read a story, and do some fun and educational activities all around the Altamont Village holiday tree, so bundle up, wear your mittens (they’ll keep you warm and keep the sap off!) and meet us outside for this always fun program!
Holiday hours
Please note that Altamont Free Library will be closing at 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 23, and will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 24. Happy holidays to all!