Dear Friends,
Please help us spread the word about a new young people’s meeting:
The Gratitude Group
Mondays, 7 – 8:30 PM
At the offices of Insight Counseling
103 Danbury Rd, Ridgefield, CT
(Entrance in the back)
Open, speaker discussion meeting
Please come and share your experience, strength, and hope!
All are welcome
The following cancellations have been made:
The Youth Agency Board of Directors meeting scheduled for Monday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 PM at the Agency’s offices at 50 East Street has been cancelled.
Interviews for the Advocate / Programmer position are cancelled and will be
rescheduled.
Positive Discipline Introduction program at the Maxx is cancelled and will be rescheduled.
For questions, call the Agency’s office at 860.210.2030
The Agency is about to enter into its 30th year of maple syruping. Normally, the last two weeks of January are spent out in the woods making sure that all the lines have made it through the summer without being damaged by fallen trees. It is also a time to clean out the sugar house, get the evaporator ready and prepare to begin tapping.
This year has been a little bit different. It has been so cold and there is so much snow in the woods, that we haven’t been able to do very much.
We were lucky that Nate Jejer, a student from Paul Smith College, came home over the holidays and supervised the repair and set up of all our sugar bushes. He was also able to clear out several trees which had found their way into the sugar bush. With this major piece of the preseason completed, we are not left to wait for the weather to warm up so that we can begin tapping the trees. At this point, the sugar house is straightened out and ready to go, buckets have been cleaned and ready to be hung. It’s now all up to mother nature. With temperatures in the teens, it’s just been too cold to send our crews out.
We are still looking for high school and middle school students who may be interested in learning one of New England’s most important artisanal skill sets. If you or someone you know are interested in participating, you can contact the Youth Agency at 860.210.2030.
Each week the Youth Agency’s video crew puts together a ten minute update on not only Agency programs but current happenings within the community. This informative and sometimes humorous video is available each Friday not only on the Agency’s website, but also on Facebook. Please take the time to view this fascinating production and pass it on to your friends.
