Letter to the Editor - The Millerton News - 12-3-20

Please pay attention to safety and cleanliness

I have noticed for quite some time a number of people walking, jogging, bike riding on the sides of the roads either wearing black, or dark clothing.  

Please be safe and wear the brightest, most obnoxious colors you can if doing any of these activities. If you don’t have any bright clothing, any hardware store can sell you a bright yellow/green safety vest for around $10.

If you are not concerned with your own safety, think about how terrible a driver would feel if he or she were to hit you.

On another note, if you plan on visiting loved ones at the cemetery this holiday season, please do not discard your summertime plastic flower pots in the surrounding woods. Cemeteries are not garbage dumps.  

If you absolutely cannot put a flower pot in your vehicle, leave it on the side of the cemetery driveway and either myself, or someone else who cares will pick it up. 

Keep America beautiful!

Bruce Valentine

Millerton 

 

Selling crafts for important causes

The annual Crafts for a Cause sale will be by appointment on our porch at 153 Over Mountain Road in Ancramdale this year. Because of the coronavirus pandemic we decided not to hold it in the village of Millerton as we have for the past few years. 

There will be salad bowls, platters, rolling pins, candleholders, tea boxes, earrings, toys and other woodcrafts with all proceeds going to Neighbors Helping Neighbors’ COVID-19 relief and Grow Against Poverty’s education and community development projects in Kenya.

Please email growagainstpoverty@gmail.com or call 518-329-2021 to arrange a date and time.

Thanks.

John and Jean Roccanova

Ancramdale

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