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exam room, dressing rooms and a waiting room. The book is available in Hardcover and paperback as
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers well as an e-book. They are available at Romas Sausage
in women, effecting one in 8 women. It is also one and Deli in Washington Mills or in Utica on Bleecker
of the most treatable cancers when detected early. Street. Also, it is available at Chanatry’s Hometown
Market in Utica as well as Amazon Books.com. The
TBR Book Group Mammograms—x-rays of the breasts—are the most cost is $7.99 for the e-book, $15.00 for paperback, and
effective screening procedure for the early signs of
Are you on Facebook? Are you always looking for breast cancer. For information, contact: Wendy Hunt $25 for Hardcover.

your next book? We have the perfect group for you. at 315-492-3353.
We have created a group called the To Be Read (TBR) From the Friends of the New
Book Group where readers can comment what they're Flag Raising at NHPL Monday, Hartford Public Library
reading and look for suggestions for their next book.
With over 100 members, you will never wonder what November 11th, 2024
you should read next! The New Hartford Public Library has a stately addition CANCELLED:
Join here: to the front of its building, located at 2 Library Lane, "Murder by the Book".
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1532390520153487/ New Hartford, NY. Richard Sherman, Town of New We are very disappointed to have to cancel the
Hartford Highway Superintendent, recently installed drama but we haven't given up yet. Watch for future
Yoga for Seniors a 20-foot-tall structure that adorns subtle lighting at information.

Join Bill Skinner every Monday at 3:00pm for a Yoga dusk to add to the ambiance of the beautiful library Decorate the Library:
landscape. Susan Fountain, President of the Friends of
program geared towards seniors! the New Hartford Public Library for over 20 years said, December 6. 10:00am, Friday. Come decorate the
Chair Yoga Class “We, The Friends of the Library, are proud to sponsor the library with the Friends for the holidays. Look forward
new flag pole and American flag. It was made possible
Join us each Monday and Friday mornings for a Chair through various donations by our patrons and loyal to meeting you and help is always needed!!!
Yoga class taught by Donna Reale. Classes start at 11 members of our community. Thank you for making Mitten Tree:
and will last until noon. this addition possible.” The Library Board of Trustees Roll your skeins, get those needles clacking. Mitten
will host a formal Flag Raising at 10:00 am on Monday, tree time is coming!!!! Bring your mittens any time and
After Breast Cancer Group November 11th, at the NHPL, as part of their Veteran’s we will set them aside until the tree is up or put them on

Join us for our November 2nd meeting which will Day activities. Honorable Brian D. Miller, New York the tree yourself. Everybody needs a mitten especially
State Assemblyman District 122, will have the honor
start at 11:00 am in the Sammon Room. of commemorating the raising of the flag. Students for cold little hands. (children's mittens especially needed).
Mindy Robinson will be speaking, regarding NH Central High School Music Department, under
cancer research affiliated with Basset health care in the direction of Joanne Goodemote, will provide Save the Date:
Cooperstown. patriotic music for the event. Cider and Donuts will be Bill Bonsted Indoor Miniature
The Upstate University Hospital’s Mammography Van served. The New Hartford Public Library’s Flag Raising Golf Tournament. April 5, 2025
is returning to the New Hartford Public Library on Ceremony is opened to the general public.
November 7th. The 2024 tournament raised $3,440 from donations
Upstate University Hospital’s Mammography Van will Reflections From Utica and golfers. Our course has shrunk to 9 holes due to
return to the New Hartford Public Library at 2 Library a shortage of hours the library is open on Saturdays but
Lane in New Hartford, on Thursday, November 7, 2024. Book Signing that didn't stop 80 enthusiastic golfers. Put on your
The screenings will be available between 10 a.m. and 4 Join us on Monday, December 2nd at 6:30 as Tim thinking "visors" and come and create a hole or show
p.m. Appointments are recommended for women who Flihan, author of Reflections from Utica, will do a book your putting skills. Look forward to seeing you.
want to get a mammogram, to ensure they will be seen reading and signing.
that day. Tim was born and raised in Utica, where he attended Annette Barber
To schedule an appointment for a mammogram with Proctor High School graduating in 1978. He then Used Book Room
the van, women should call 315-464-2588. attended Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY where he ACCEPT: hardbound and paperback books,
Appointments can also be requested online at: www. graduated with a BS in Behavioral Science. magazines as well as records, DVDs, children’s books,
upstate.edu/noexcuses. More importantly is the book, which is 26 short puzzles
To be eligible for a mammogram on the van, stories about growing up in Utica and the surrounding DO NOT ACCEPT: moldy/damaged books (WE
women should be 40 years and older, not have had Mohawk Valley. They are an eclectic group of stories have to throw them out!!!), textbooks, medical books,
a mammogram in the past 12 months, and not be providing the reader a snapshot of life in the 1960's ,70’s National Geographic Magazine, Reader's Digest, multi-
experiencing breast problems. and 80's. The stories are meant to spark memories not volume book sets. No longer accepting audio cassettes,
The mobile mammography program was started by the writer but by the reader who instills their own VHS tapes and computer games/books or CDs.
through New York State’s “Get Screened, No Excuses” memories awoken by the shared experience. The library and community greatly appreciate your
Breast Cancer Initiative, and continues with the support The book was released on Amazon Kindle Direct "gently" used books but please limit your donations
of Upstate University Hospital. or Amazon books.com on June 27th 2024. It was the to one box/bag at a time and drop them off at the
The program aim is to get rid of obstacles to breast number one new release for the month of July on the circulation desk.
cancer screening for women in New York. The average US regional Biography category and was number one DO NOT drop them off in the hallway, at drop boxes,
rate for screening mammography in New York is 81 nationally for two weeks of the month. The book sold or outside the door when the library is closed. Thank
percent. The mammography van is equipped with a best in the Southern part of the country as well as Mid- you.
state-of-the art 3D digital mammogram system, private Atlantic region, which we are a part of.

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