Schenectady Today -- In and Around the Capital Region
Filmed November 8, 2011 (Show #697)
Photographs by Dick Paterek -- Website by Gregg Millett
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- Professor Michael Kane, Pharm D. from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will discuss Diabetes.
- He’ll give us an update on current treatments. He is also the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist with The Endocrine Group in Albany.
- Website: www.acphs.edu

- Bill Douglas & Steve Suriano (playwrights – play & music) represents the Circle Theatre Players at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts.
- They will talk about their upcoming production of ‘T’was the Land of the Night Before’. This is a play for the whole family.
- CarolLynn Langley is the Director and Joan Fuess is the producer.
- Production dates: Dec 9-11 and 16-18 at 8 pm except for Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $16 for adults and $10 for students under 18.
- Website: www.slca-ctp.org

- Jim Salengo (Executive Director) from the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation will discuss upcoming holiday events:
- Holiday Open House (Dec 3), Holiday Business Promotions, Holiday Window Decorating contest.
- The Annual Holiday Parade will be held on November 19 starting at 5 pm in downtown Schenectady. It is believed to be the largest nighttime holiday parade in the nation.
- Website: www.DowntownSchenectady.org

- Pat Finlayson (HIICAP Coordinator) with Catholic Charities discusses the NYS Elderly Drug Plan and the new changes and how they may affect you.
- Seniors will no longer be able to use EPIC as primary prescription drug coverage with a health plan that doesn’t offer drug coverage.
- Websites:

- Curtis Funk (Director) from the Octavo Singers will tell us about their upcoming concerts.
- The next one is on Sunday, Nov 13 at 3 pm at the First Reformed Church of Scotia.
- On Dec 18 they will perform their traditional Handel’s Messiah at St. John the Evangelist Church at 1:30 pm. This will be a very exciting concert.
- Website: www.OctavoSingers.com

- Carole Merrill (Women Services Program Director) from the YWCA of Northeastern NY will discuss the topic of Homelessness in Schenectady.
- Website: www.YWCA-neny.org also you can become a fan on Facebook