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Yoga instructor Beth Griffin will host the event, which is designed to get children feeling happy and excited about going to kindergarten. It will feature stories about starting school, fun yoga poses designed to teach children how to deal with any emotions they may be feeling about entering kindergarten, and a great school bus craft. Griffin is a certified yoga instructor who teaches yoga to children and families. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the University of Connecticut.  "Overlooking East Beach In Watch Hill, R.I." / Art Chouinard Story time is free. Registration is required. Participants should dress in comfortable clothes they can stretch and move around in. “Art Chouinard: Maritime Oil Paintings” continues through August in the Canton Public Library gallery. Chouinard, a resident of Avon, is known for his realistic and detailed paintings, and has produced limited-edition prints of some of his originals. Chouinard sets up his easel at the library one day a month so patrons can watch him work. He will be at the library on Thursday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maritime scenes are the primary focus of the ongoing show, but a few local and northeastern New England scenes are included. Chouinard’s paintings also are on display at Puffins in Watch Hill, R.I. The library continues to celebrate its summer reading theme of “Monsters & Dragons & Aliens, Oh My!” for children and teens, 2 to 18. The Summer Reading Program will end the week of Aug. 15. A pool party for school-age participants who earn their way in is set for Tuesday, Aug. 16, at Mills Pond Pool, and a preschool music party at the library with guest musicians Peter and Ellen Allard is set for Thursday, Aug. 18, at 11 a.m. The wrap party, which is a family concert, is for ages 2 and up. Free. No registration necessary. Continue reading Library Briefs, August  A crew from Pettinelli & Associates of Burlington, Vt., works Saturday, July 23, on the gazebo that's going up in open space south of the waste water treatment plant on River Road (Route 179). The crew expects the gazebo, a component of Phase III of the Farmington River Trail project, to be finished by Wednesday, July 27.  Serenity in Marcia Marsted's "Garden of Whimsy." Photos: dotCANTON  A burst of blue, with a lion on the watch. Marcia Marsted nods in agreement when a visitor comments that her property looks different than it did the last time he was there, just before her September 2010 show as part of The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. Of course it does, she says, this is July, that was September. “I (moved the date up) on purpose,” Marsted says. “If I do it again next year, it will be at the end of June (when, blooms being blooms, it will look different again).” Marsted’s “Garden of Whimsy” at 125 Indian Hill Road in Canton will be open to the public this Sunday, July 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., once again in conjunction with The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. It is a rain or shine event and no registration is required. Admission for a self-guided tour is $5 per person; children 12 and under are admitted free. Marsted is continuing to recover from a devastating three-car crash on Avon Mountain that left her in critical condition less than three weeks after her Sept. 12, 2010, “Open Days” show. She has undergone multiple surgeries to repair injuries to her arms and legs, most recently on May 3. She says a metal plate needs to come out of her left arm in October. The Avon Mountain crash occurred as Marsted was returning home from a fishing trip with her husband, Jeff, to Idaho and Wyoming. On Wednesday evening, July 20, Marcia and Jeff went fishing for the first time since the accident, testing their luck on the Farmington River in New Hartford. Marcia, who lists fishing and photography among her passions, came up empty, but “Jeff caught (and released) a brown trout.” she says. A two-time cancer survivor, Marsted published “About My Hair: A Journey to Recovery” in 2001, and in 2004 she established the Capelli d’Angeli Foundation, which is dedicated to helping women artists with cancer. The Garden Conservancy is based in Cold Spring, N.Y. Its stated mission “is to preserve exceptional American gardens for the education and enjoyment of the public.” The Open Days program runs from March 26 to early November and includes gardens from southern Maine to southern California. Click here to find out more about The Garden Conservancy. For a sneak peek at Marcia Marsted’s “Garden of Whimsy,” click on any of the images in the gallery below and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing. 
– dotCANTON  Renovation work continues at the transfer station, where three drop-off ports were being installed on Friday, July 22. Large, removable containers eventually will be connected to the backs of these permanent fixtures (there's room for a fourth port in the future). The pull-up area in front of these receptacles has been torn up and widened, and will need to be repaved. When the work is completed, transfer station users will pull up to the receptacles, walk across a short bridge (safety railings will be installed) and deposit their household trash. Photo: dotCANTON (This photo, taken on Saturday, July 23, replaces the photo originally included in this post, which was taken on July 22.)  Photo: dotCANTON (1/31/11) The heat is on. Now. But do you remember how much snow fell last January? Just six months ago? Do you remember how roofs were collapsing from the weight? Remember the ice dams? Do you remember how cold it was? The photo above comes from a dotCANTON post on Jan. 31, 2011. Click here for a look back.  Joe Angelori, "Bossy Frog" (aka Jill Liflander) and Jeffrey Friedberg perform in Mills Pond Park Thursday evening, July 21. Photos: dotCANTON  "Crabbie" The godsend of a breeze that was blowing Thursday evening, July 21, in Mills Pond Park was able to camouflage reality only slightly. The broiling bottom line: It was nasty hot, 90 degrees hot in the shade … and miserably muggy … at 6:30 p.m. That’s when Jeffrey Friedberg and The Bossy Frog Band began a 90-minute performance clearly geared for the kids in the crowd. It was Week 3 of Canton’s Summer Music Series, and the audience was obviously the smallest of the season so far. Nearby, Mills Pond Pool was packed. Anyone shocked?  "Bossy Frog" and the kids. Still, moms and dads had brought a decent number of children to The Bossy Frog show, at it wasn’t long after “Crabbie” showed up onstage in the opening minutes that about 20 curious kids moved closer to the portable platform for a look. Friedberg started working them, and then “Bossy Frog” replaced “Crabbie.” By now the kids were singing along and dancing and jumping in the grass, fully engaged. What heat? Thursday wasn’t the easiest of days for The Bossy Frog Band. Friedberg, the lead guitarist from Nyack, N.Y., bass guitarist Joe Angelori of Yonkers, N.Y., and Jill Liflander, aka “Bossy Frog” and “Crabbie,” of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., had begun their day with a 10:30 a.m. performance at Riverside Park Pier I in Manhattan. But they weren’t complaining just before showtime, and the kids weren’t complaining about the heat shortly thereafter. * * * Next up in the park, Thursday, July 28, 6:30 p.m.: The Bus Drivers, a classic rock band, return for an encore performance. Click here for a look at The Bus Drivers performance in the park on July 15, 2010. Click here to check out The Bus Drivers’ website. – dotCANTON |
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Starting kindergarten is an exciting time for youngsters. To help these new students anticipate the challenges and emotions of their first school experience, the Canton Public Library will hold a special “Kindergarten: Welcome to School Story Time” on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 10:30 a.m.