Lifestyle

The Penn Yan Rotary Club was pleased to honor Grace Roberts as Student of the Month on Tuesday, April 11, at Knapper’s Canalside Pub & Music Café in Penn Yan. For many of the months in each school year the club honors an outstanding Penn Yan student who demonstrates The Rotary Four Way Test, which values “truth, fairness, and beneficial actions which build goodwill and friendships.” Grace’s Penn Yan Academy art teacher, Jillian Volpe, and her mother, Carrie Roberts, joined Grace for her celebration lunch and presentation.

DUNDEE - The Dundee Library Board of Trustees, staff and volunteers invite you to the unveiling of a N.Y. State Historic Marker, at the front of the library, 32 Water St., Dundee at 1 p.m. Friday, April 28.

The Chronicle-Express: Consolidation, January 1, 1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and the Gorham New Age (1902) The Yates County History Center’s volunteers have gleaned these entries for your enjoyment from their digitized newspapers. You can access them at the free site www.nyshistoricnewspapers.com. For more information about the YCHC, visit www.yatespast.org.

The Penn Yan Action Coalition (PYAC) invites the community to join in reading and discussing books on current topics surrounding immigrant experiences in America. PYAC recommend two very different books: Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang, and/or Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali. Both books are available at Longs’ Cards & Books on Main Street in Penn Yan for $14.99 each, or for $13.99 each if you purchase both. You may choose to read either or both; they will provoke stimulating conversation on their distinct styles and on the ideas they present.

Branchport Methodist Church We hope you all had a joyous Easter! Our church was decorated with Easter flowers and the pews filled with people who came to worship the Risen Lord with triumphant singing and meaningful prayer.

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Artists in any medium are invited to apply before May 1 KEUKA LAKE -- The Arts Center of Yates County offers two 10-day Artist Residency opportunities at Sunny Point, a seasonal lakeside property on the eastern shore of Keuka Lake in New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes. • The first residency runs from Saturday, July 1 to Sunday, July 9.

PENN YAN - The lanes were full, the pizza was cheesy, and the pins were splitting. The FUNdraising Event Sunday, March 12 at Brock’s Bowl and Pizzeria, hosted 15 teams composed of Rainbow families, friends and staff of all ages.