Lee Jones, Kiwanis Club of Western Turnpike,   Jerry Houser, Guilderland Community Gardens

“It’s like I’m the keeper of their stories,” Cindy Pollard once said of using her Home Front Café as a memory trove for veterans. “They’re important, each and every one of them … For the ground soldiers in the Pacific, it was kill or be killed. They saw such horror, they can’t talk about it … If they do, they’re back there. They smell the smells and have weeks of bad dreams.”

Father Young “spawned a movement,” The Enterprise editorialized in 2014, that eventually treated more than 18,000 people each day at 121 not-for-profit addiction treatment and rehabilitation programs across New York State. 

Beginning on Thursday, Dec. 10, Guilderland students in eighth through 12th grade will learn from home due to staff shortages caused by quarantine requirements.

Walter and (Gloria) Jean Thatcher marked the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 8 in the same low-key manner they celebrated their wedding in 1960: without telling anyone or doing anything special.

ALTAMONT — Hillary R. Raimo of Altamont died unexpectedly on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, with her loving family by her side. She was 47.

“Hillary was a visionary artist, award-winning photographer, author, radio talk-show host, and founder at Love, Breath, Earth,” her family wrote in a tribute.

GUILDERLAND — Francis J. Welnhofer, a World War II veteran and family man who worked at General Electric, died on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, at his home. He was 101.

Maria Buhl, Dept. Head, President, CSEA Unit 2,  Ann Wemple-Person, Librarian, President, CSEA Unit 1