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General News: Celebrating 25 Years of Village Bandstand
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| The bandstand was decorated for the 25th anniversary celebration. |
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| Mayor Gross and Colette Fulton at a celebration of the bandstand's 25th anniversary in June. |
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| The birthday cake. |
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| James and Mary Lulves chat with Betty and Adair Santaro. |
June 08, 2010
The village bandstand committee staged a small ceremony to mark its 25th anniversary on Sunday afternoon as high winds blew thunderclouds overhead and rain threatened.
Earlier in the afternoon, bandstand committee member and amateur metereologist Andrew Maroney convinced his colleagues to cancel the concert by the trombone section of the West Point Concert Band after he saw dark storm clouds set to converge in Cornwall at 3 pm, the time scheduled for the anniversary concert.
Despite losing the music, bandstand committee head Colette Fulton, went ahead with a ceremony to honor those who contributed to the creation of the replica of a bandstand that once stood in the middle of village square. Colette and her husband, Bill, had festooned the gazebo with red, white and blue banners for the occasion and two shiny new copper drainpipes and a small wrought iron fence were evidence of recent improvements to the bandstand.
Shortly before 3 pm, the dozen or so people who braved the threat of bad weather brought their chairs inside the gazebo where Mayor Joseph Gross read the names of the original bandstand committee members and handed out certificates acknowledging the contributions of several people, including Steve Shand, who works in copper, Betty and Alissa Santoro, whose family donated the weathervane on top of the bandstand and Mary Donahue, whose mother, Loraine, was the treasurer of the original bandstand committee 25 years ago. The Cornwall garden club and the Friends of the Cornwall Public Library were also recognized.
After the brief ceremony, Colette Fulton asked Mayor Gross and former mayor Ed Moulton to cut the anniversary cake and soon the sun was shining outside the bandstand.
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