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Celebrate Our 14th Annual
Family Night!
Come out to the Shenantaha Creek Park and enjoy a
fun family evening featuring activities such as: face painting,
bounce house, Disc Jockey, pony rides, petting zoo,
balloon animals, free food!
This fun event is sponsored by grant funding from the
GLOBALFOUNDRIES - Town of Malta Foundation, Inc.
Wednesday, July 24 • 4:00 pm-7:00 pm
Free of charge
Wednesday, August 7
Tales ’n Tunes
Malta Community Center
• 6:30pm
Unleash your imaginations! Explore new places! Meet a
wild animal or two! In their “Once Upon a Tune”
program, Tales 'n Tunes provides a lively and highly participatory
show and invites kids to listen to and take part
in stories and songs.
A combination of music and storytelling excitement,
this performance includes folk and fairy tales that will
spark kids' imaginations, encourage them to explore new
places and picture new and familiar characters.
Tales ‘n Tunes is composed of a duo, Carol Connolly
and Don Darmer, who present original songs and
musical stories which allow for plenty of audience participation.
Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, August 21
“Singing Around the Campfire”
Shenantaha Creek Park
7:00pm
Join us for an evening of traditional campfire songs,
favorite folk tunes, cowboy songs, rounds, patriotic songs
and sing-a-longs for the entire family! There will also be
s’mores (roasted marshmallows with melted chocolate on
graham crackers) to enjoy.
Please bring lawn chairs or blankets. Registration is
required for this free event. Call 899-4411 to register.
News from Saratoga Tackle
Saratoga County Fair Archery Booth
On Tuesday July 16 the 172 year of the Saratoga
County Fair will start at 9am. Saratoga Tackle & Archery
is once again proud to sponsor the 4-H Archery booth.
Tim has spent many hours with lots of volunteers improving
the booth this year, a fresh look for a new season. At
the booth children and adults get to try out the wonderful
sport of archery. Using a recurve bow they will try to
hit targets and balloons. The excitement on children’s
faces is worth seeing!
We hope you will stop by the Conservation area to try
your hand and while you’re there take a try at laser or
rifle shooting. There are also wonderful displays of fish
and wildlife providing lots of information on the diversity
in NYS. There is also Dutch oven cooking, soap making,
living history & blacksmith demonstrations. And you
cannot go wrong stopping by the Maple Sugar Shack for a
maple sugar snack; we personally never miss getting a bag
of Maple Sugar Cotton Candy. Hope to see you there.
Preparing for Archery Season
We are only a few short months
away from the start of hunting season.
If you are interested in archery
hunting you need to start now. It
takes time to prepare and get ready
for this challenging, but rewarding,
way of hunting. You not only have to tune your bow, you
need to tune your body. The muscles you use when drawing
a bow are not ‘everyday’ ones. It doesn’t just take
practice to be an accurate shot it takes having your body
in shape to perform. Spending at least a half hour or
hour a day or few times a week practicing will get you
ready.
Many bow hunters will also take to tree stands and
long treks into the woods. This also takes conditioning.
Before you head out into the woods take time to check
over your equipment to make sure it isn’t worn and it
will work properly. Again though look to tune your body.
That trek out in the woods carrying a bow and tree stand
will not be easy. If you are lucky and have a regular spot
to hunt you can get that tree stand set up long before you
are ready to hunt. But if not you’ll be carting all that stuff
– are you ready for that?
If you are not maybe hitting the gym, taking walks,
going for a hike, biking – you know best what activity will
keep you interested and into shape. You want to enjoy
your time out hunting and preparing for it is the only way
to accomplish this. So always make it a goal to pull out
your equipment long before you need it, check it, prepare
it and just don’t forget your body is part of that program.
Good Luck! (submitted by Tim and Rose Blodgett)