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Photo: Trunk or Treat

A Trunk or Treat event on Jan. 28 at Voorheesville’s high school, organized by senior parents Tricia Puccini and Tara Wight, was attended by Dianne Luci and her grandson, Mason Wright

Photo: Elks Help Food Pantry

The Guilderland Elks donated $2,000 to the Guilderland Food Pantry, which Executive Director Mac McDonnell, center, said will be used for holiday meals and for backpack programs at six Guilderland schools.

Photo: Showering Newborns

Each year, the Christ Child Society provides 500 layettes, 500 comfort bags, and 1,000 books to agencies in 10 counties in New York State, and one county in Vermont. Layettes consist of a handcrafted blanket, sweater and hat, hooded bath towel, diapers, onesies, sleepers and receiving blankets.

Hilltowns Community Resource Center thanks ‘very generous’ donors; asks for meat

The Hilltowns Community Resource Center is on track to keep in-need residents well-stocked  for the time being, thanks to a donation from the Carey Institute totaling around $3,000 of food items, as well as the generosity of residents in Guilderland and Altamont, Program Coordinator Mary Beth Peterson told The Enterprise.

Lounsbury brings decades of experience in human services to her new job as director of Community Caregivers

“I learned what an honor it is to care for an aging family member with increasing needs and also what a huge responsibility it is to be a caretaker,” said Lee Lounsbury, speaking about the years when her father came to live in her Guilderland home. She is now the executive director of

Photos: Helping Hands

Westmere Elementary students collected nearly 1,000 food items to the Guilderland Food Pantry on Wednesday morning.

Hilltown Resource Center steps up its giving for the holidays

HCRC finds resourceful ways to help make the holidays happier for the Hilltown elderly and low-income families.

Golf tourney set for Oct. 3

The fifth annual Wyatt Spencer Memorial – Berne-Knox-Westerlo Class of 2014 Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Colonie Country Club.

Have your cake and eat it, too

Feed your soul by giving, and getting satisfaction. Donating to causes close to home avoids paying more than half to telemarketers.

Photo: Giving for a reason

On Nov. 24, the Kiwanis Club of Western Turnpike Guilderland prepared packages of Thanksgiving foods for people who need them. 

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