Your Best Shot: Community groups in action
May 21, 2021
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Here is a picture of the installation of Grassroot Givers 21st Little Free Library on the Rail Trail in Slingerlands.
Pictured are Mary Partridge-Brown and Roberta Sandler, Co-Directors of Grassroot GiversGrassroot GiversShow MoreShow Less
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Members of Ballston Lake Cub Scout Pack 83 volunteered, along with some 72 other volunteers and scout troops at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Clean Up Day, which began in the early 1970’s as a grass roots, educational, environmental initiative. The major sponsors are the Ballston Lake Improvement Association and the BH-BL Business and Professionals Association. (Joann Devoe)
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HIGH NOTES: Neighborhood cleanups, feeding the hungry, bingo for school groups | The Daily Gazette
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In Ballston Lake, 30 Scouts and family members of Troop 3056 (Boys and Girls) recently collected 110 pounds of trash at the recent Ballston Lake / Burnt Hills Community Clean Up Day. Seventy-two volunteers registered to join in with the annual effort to promote awareness of the environment through a hands on initiative, including F.L Stevens School Daisy Troop 38, and Cub Pack 83. Clean Up Day began in the early 1970s. Its major sponsors are the Ballston Lake Improvement Association and the BH-BL BPA.
In Albany, the Feed Albany hunger relief effort has received a $25,000 challenge grant from Rick and Diana Ostroff of the Albany lobbying firm Ostroff Associates, and will be raising $25,000 to match the grant. Proceeds will be used to purchase equipment for a dedicated commercial kitchen that Feed Albany will open later this spring. Since it was founded shortly after the pande