Photos: The business nook of South Westerlo
Members of the South Westerlo Business Association met with Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy last Thursday.
The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
Holly Tobin pours a drink in the dining room of the Van Winkle Inn, which she owns with her husband, Bert, who also serves as the president of the South Westerlo Business Association. Tobin, a former emergency-room nurse, said she had always wanted to run a bed-and-breakfast inn as an alternative way of caring for people, and so she and her husband opened the inn eight years ago.
The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
A pair of ducks — named Huey and Louie — waddle at the edge of a manmade pond outside of Vince Anna’s Restaurant, part of the South Westerlo Business Association and owned by the association’s vice president, Jim Eufemia.
The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
Bert Tobin, the president of the South Westerlo Business Association, chats with other members at the Van Winkle Inn, which he owns with his wife, Holly. Curled on top of him is Mr. Hobbs, the “inn kitty.”
The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
Jim Eufemia, vice president of the South Westerlo Business Association, holds a proclamation issued by Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Thursday, celebrating the association’s one-year anniversary. Virginia Cantarella, a local artist, looks on in the background.
The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
Members of the South Westerlo Business Association speak on Thursday with Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy, at right. From left are Jim Eufemia, vice president of the association; Bert Tobin, president of the association, Virginia Mangold, secretary and treasurer; and PattiAnn Mangold Andrejcak, who works with Mangold at her real-estate firm.