President Jeff presiding  --  Invocation by Bill W.  --  Greeter Jerry T.

This K-Toon was distributed by K-Toon Joe the "wining" entry is to be found below - before you read down to find it see if you can come up with a better caption that will finish the line "Repeat after me ...".

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

•  President Jeff reported to the club that a banner patch for the contribution to the Kiwanis International Foundation's Annual Birthday Campaign had been received and would be put on the banner with our other honors.

• Community Services Committee Chair Barb announced that there would be a meeting of the committee in 2 weeks and requested that all SLKC members make suggestions for new projects for the committee.

• The Church of the Covenant will be holding a blood drive on 7/27 and Chair Barb wanted to give the members ample notice of the need for volunteer workers as well as donors

• The concert by Skidmore College's Bandersnatchers will be on April 7th at Averill Park High School.  It is free to the public.

• The Annual Memorial Day Parade will be on May 28th from Crystal Lake Park to the Sand Lake Elementary School - the club will again march in this event with peanuts.

PROGRAM:

Mary and Ross French presented a pictorial history of the town of Sand Lake based on the book Images of America - Sand Lake authored by Mary French and Bob Lilly for the Sand Lake Historical Society which is now being printed and soon to be distributed .

The program was filled with many interesting pictures

Many interesting facts:

Many people (including Teddy Roosevelt) came from NYC to summer at the many hotels the Burden Lake House, Totem Lodge, the Crooked Lake House, Sand Lake Central Hotel etc.  The Averill Park Hotel (located on the site of the present day Church of the Covenant) was originally a boarding school for young men being converted to a hotel in 1875.

The products of the area included farming, power (some of the areas first electricity and the water to power North America's largest water wheel at the Burden Iron Works in Troy - some 60' tall), fabrics (most of the US Army's wool long johns in WWI and WWII were produced here), glass, lumber, charcoal, strawberries (up to 7600 quarts in one day from only 2 farms) and the picking of wild fancy ferns (mostly for wholesale florists).

On the site of the West Sand Lake Elementary School  was a horse race track.

The deed of a Salt Box home requires the annual rent of 2 bushels of winter wheat, the service of a horse and cart for one day and 4 fat fowl be paid to the Patroon.

Taborton was South Sand Lake, Snyder's Corners was East Sand Lake, Averill Park was simply Averill prior to 1882, Moscow is indeed buried in the Union Cemetery (Moscow was a horse).

Images of America - Sand Lake is available from the Sand Lake Historical Society, PO Box 492, West Sand Lake, NY 12196 for $23.50 (includes shipping and sales tax).  This book features 234 pictures and captions from the hamlets of West Sand Lake, Averill Park and Burden Lakes, Sand Lake, Glass Lake and Crooked Lake, and Taborton as well as townwide events and more.  Reserve your copy at the address above or for further information call (518)283-1067.

HAPPY DOLLARS:

• Phil P. for the honor of having been made a VIP of the Poestenkill Schools

• Dudley D. for the week spent in the Napa Valley wineries with his grandchildren

• Barb F. in recognition of the 8 lbs. 13 oz grand daughter of former SLK Jim Gould

• Dave B. first for the realization that the E-piper is one year old and a second for the fact that Sandpiper Editor Peg W. is due back next week

• President Jeff for the memories that the program evoked

NEXT WEEK'S MEETING:

• Program - Young Children Priority 1 and a Board of Directors meeting

• Greeter John LaRose

• Invocation by Bob Loveridge

K-Toon caption: the $3.00 wining entry came from the Head Table (trying to conceal their identity - they win so often - by using a Orwellian doublespeak and calling themselves the "Front Table") and was "...I really want to be SLK President next year, I really want to be SLK President next year."

DRAWINGS:

Door Prize - to Joe T.

50/50 of $23 to Gary M. (note this line is exactly the same as last week)

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