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SUN-BULLETIN CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS Family Owned and Operated For Over 35 Years 11 Brink Endwell 785-5160 Call Today for Your Free Estimate! We Handle Insurance Claims www.dickfordsbs.net Dick Quality Body Shop NY-0000764834 NY-0000765813 Town of Union Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Public Hearing Notice As part of the development of the 2016 Annual Action Plan for the use of CDBG funding, the Town Board will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM. The hearing will be held in the second board room at the Town Complex located at 3111 East Main Street, Endwell, NY. The purpose of the hearing is to solicit public input regarding unmet needs in the Town and the use of CDBG funding for Federal Fiscal Year 2016 in an estimated amount of $1,301,095 including estimated program income. Eligible uses of CDBG funding include, but are not limited to: Land and building acquisition and disposition Public facility improvements such as parks and streets Clearance and demolition activities Public services Removal of architectural barriers (handicapped accessibility) Code enforcement Historic preservation Planning and program administration Building and housing rehabilitation Questions or comments regarding suggested uses of CDBG fund-ing may be sent by e-mail to or mailed to: Paul A. Nelson, Director, Town of Union Planning Department 3111 East Main Street, Endwell, NY 13760 or Call The Town Of Union Planning Department At 786-2985 Hearing Or Speech Impaired Persons Should Call The TDD Number At 786-2915 www.townofunion.com Wouldyour child like take part in a new iniseries? Cornell Cooperative Extension is seeking video talent for a new i nitiative it has in store.

Akids casting call audition will be held 9 a.m. to noon April 2 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County on Upper Front Street in Binghamton. Children between the ages of 8 and 13 are welcome to audition as video talent for a new miniseries devoted to healthier eating. The show, Fant astic will conduct on-camera interviews, and will appear on TV and digit al platforms. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome ounty has launched several programs in the ast designed to edu- ate participants on the kills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to improve their overall diet and nutritional ell-being.

A ccording to the website, the goal of these initiatives is to increase fruit and egetable consumption, ecrease sugar-sweet- ned beverage consumption, and to exercise more and balance calories eaten as part of a healthy lifestyle. Appointments for the asting call are pre- erred, so if your child is interested, call 759-7555. Sullivan THE BUZZ Arlene Engle is always willing offer a warm smile and a listening ear to family members of patients who undergo surgery at United Health Services Bing- amton General Hospital Working in the operating room waiting room is favorite assignment at the hospital, here volunteered for 43 ears as a member of the hospi- 140-member auxiliary. A bout half are active members, including Engle, who will be honored later this year for 7,000 hours of volunteer service. a good feeling just to give ack, to spend some time doing omething for somebody she said.

Engle began her volunteer career back in 1973. She was look- i ng for a way to give back and oon found herself hooked. Volunteering is she said. you start, hard to give it Auxiliary members volunteer i several places throughout the hospital, including the gift shop, aiting room and the front hallway, where at least one auxiliary ember serves as a greeter, said Jeanne Carangelo, manager of volunteer services for UHS. a very dedicated roup of she said of the a pproximately 700 volunteers or UHS, which includes Bing- amton General and UHS Wilson Medical Center.

has al- ays set the hen Binghamton General pened its dialysis services in 1999, Engle was there to greet and guide patients to the dialysis room. She came up with the idea decorating a fence outside the ialysis area for holidays hroughout the year. She and another volunteer would go outside on cold, snowy days or wet, rainy ones just to hang up Christmas reaths, Day hearts or shamrocks. Patients loved the ecorations, Carangelo said. On some days, Engle greets hose who enter the hospital.

On other days, she works in the gift shop or wanders the hospital corridors delivering flowers and ards to patients. been nown to open the envelopes for atients too sick or weak to do it hemselves. Her favorite place to work is he hospital operating room. ver the years, developed he ability to judge whether a family member wants to talk or just be left alone. there with a cup of coffee if need be, a mile and the willingness to list en if they need to talk.

just here to do what we can do to make life a little bit she said. hope we make the patients and the people feel Engle also serves as the corre- ponding secretary for the auxiliary. She writes handwritten otes to members who are sick or celebrating a birthday. One of the rewards of volunteering in the hospital is the rateful smiles and the words of hanks she often receives from atients and family members, she said. I think we get more out of this than anybody else does because we know we are doing something to help Engle aid.

know a better person or having done Hospital volunteer Engle has served for over 40 years George Basler and Connie McKinney Giving Back PROVIDED PHOTO From left, Arlene Engle joins fellow Auxilians Sandra Shaw and Norma Starner in beginning a day of volunteering at UHS Binghamton General Hospital. Arlene Engle Home: Vestal. ometown: Kingston. Education: Graduate of Kingston High School. Family: Husband, Bob.

Three grown children, seven grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Employment: Volunteer at Binghamton General Hospital since 1973. obbies: Arts and crafts. How to help: To volunteer for either of the two UHS hospitals, go to hs.net/donate/become-a-volunteer/.