Honeybee Community Fund awards grants

WESTPOR -- The Honeybee Community Fund has awarded grants for its fall funding cycle.

Funds will go to: Andrea Arnold's From the Ground Up carpentry business, Keeseville Free Library, Dulac's Bookkeeping & Tax Preparation, Westport Fish and Game Club, Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks for ongoing concerts, Rick's Place for historic preservation in Willsboro, Friends of the Whallonsburg Grange seating project, Elizabethtown-Lewis Chamber of Commerce for Web site development and the Adirondack Nature Conservancy/Adirondack Land Trust's Coon Mountain Preserve.

The Honeybee Community Fund offers spring and fall rounds of grants, within Essex County only, of up to $1,500 to assist small businesses, farmers, not-for-profits, environmental projects, the arts and scholarships.

For more information e-mail bzzwords@aol.com or write to Honeybee Community Fund, PO Box 167, Westport, NY 12993.

Brainardsville group collecting mittens

BRAINARDSVILLE -- The United Methodist Women of the Brainardsville United Methodist Church are sponsoring the annual Mitten Tree project.

Donations of hats, mittens, scarves, gloves or money are sought. The items must be new or handmade.

These items will be given to area children and adults. Money received will be used to supply extra hats, mittens, etc., and other necessary needs.

Food package available in Essex County

ELIZABETHTOWN -- The Extra Helpings Program has a food package and several special offers available for December.

The Extra Helpings food package, which costs $20, includes Bavarian holiday ham, chicken patties, hamburger, hot dogs, peeled butternut squash and baby carrots.

Three specials are available:

Special 1, $14.25: cranberry and apple-stuffed boneless pork loin roast.

Special 2, party package, $19: fully cooked meatballs, fully cooked barbecue-flavored chicken wings, sweet Italian sausage rope and cocktail franks.