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Beer Destinations
the menu trying to figure out how to get the most food for the least money. I pull around. There was a big car in front. They ordered food then couldn’t pay. From the window she offered me their food saying if I didn’t want it they were just gonna throw it out. I go back to the house and ask for 5 guys to help carry it in. They didn’t believe it.
Joe Bastedo.
The Bridge Project is a non-profit organizationthatbeganasaRotary Club initiative The goal was to provide a space where people could feelcomfortableaskingforhelp.Since itsinceptionin2016,TheBridgeProject has grown to support hundreds of Lincolnand Woodstock community members by connecting them with individual and group support networks. Their primary work focuses on assisting at-risk individuals struggling with addiction, poverty and other difficult life circumstances.
Many think Jerry Garcia died too soon. He passed away back in August 1995 from a heart attack in a residential drug-treatment facility in Forest Knolls, California. So, six degrees of Joe Bastedo culminates in a t-shirt raising money for a local charity that supports people that are in similar drug and
alcohol situations like Garcia.
Joe is visiting Woodstock Inn Brewery in August
and I can’t wait to grab a beer with him.
Matt Champy and Sasa Marinkovic.
Jerry was at the top of the steps.
Shook his head. Asked, ‘how did you end up here in San Fran?’
I answered, I finished up a tour with another band. Went to a Grateful Dead concert. Why?
He said, “you left here with $18 to feed 12 people. Came back with all this food. You’re like Winnie the Pooh. You go out and good things happen to you. Grateful Pooh.’”
Joe’s on your top 3 list to get a beer with now too, right?
Going back to what I said about kismet. I mentioned Potsdam, NY Joe lived there too, on May Road. I grew up in Fulton. Joe played in the... that’s right, Fulton Gauchos, a drum and bugle corps. Coincidence? Maybe. The group won the Drum Corps International Championships one of the years he participated.
“We’re excited to have Joe visit and I love the name he suggested. “Our guests are one of a kind,” said Molly Rice, General Manager of the Woodstock Inn Brewery. “We are so lucky to have the interactions that we do on social media. My Dad started this business 40 years ago because of his passion for hospitality: doing the little things while people are here enjoying their limited free time to make their visit special. We take that concept virtual in a lot of our social posts.”
The brewery did a small run of a similar version of the Lifty McKeggerson t-shirt and it’s available for sale in the gift shop at the brewery and can also be ordered online at woodstockinnbrewery. com. Joe’s name is written toward the bottom of the logo as a way to honor him.
“For 2022 we chose a local charity called The Bridge Project to support all year long,” said Rice. “To start, $1 from each Lifty t-shirt will be donated.”
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