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Copake Grange gears up for busy February weekends

COPAKE — The Copake Grange will be busy on weekends in February.

On Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb. 15, starting at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 3 p.m., The Two of Us Productions is putting on a production of “CLUE on Stage — The Comedy Murder Mystery.”

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Healing chronic pain at the Roe-Jan library

COPAKE — Roeliff-Jansen Community Library is hosting Hillsdale resident Maria Socolof for a discussion of her memoir “Turning the Key: Unlocking the Mystery of my Chronic Pain,” Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m.

The memoir details Socolof’s journey healing her chronic pain caused by a ruptured disc in her neck.

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Honoring the past: bearing witness at Auschwitz

Jan. 27 marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. I traveled to Poland as part of a delegation for the commemoration and spent a few days before the event with my father and sister learning, remembering and gathering information.

My dad’s parents, Miriam and Yehuda, of blessed memory, were deported to Auschwitz -Birkenau from the Lódz Ghetto. They both had families that perished and met each other after the camp was liberated.

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