Birthday wishes to Morgan VanKueren, Elizabeth Scardino-Percoco, Mia Bloom, Tanya and Shira, Tim Dollard, Debbie Moore, Kim Phillips, JP Gaebel, Honey Wohl, Keith Newman, Jesse Florance, Jennifer VanEtten, and our favorite hippy, Duke Devlin.

Anniversary wishes to Sam and Eric Garchik.

To Do: Send me your news. National Farmers Market Week is celebrated Aug 7-13th. Drop by the many area markets to support our local farmers and purveyors. By the way, it’s time for local corn! (sullivancofarmersmarket.com).

Town of Bethel or Parks & Rec: Townofbethelny.us. Discover the Bethel Park Pool, playground, hoops and pickle ball. Lake Superior State Park is open. FMI:807-0287. Parks and museums: SCParks@sullivanny.us. Hiking: trailkeeper.org.

PSA: Mask up! Remain vigilant about virus and Monkey Pox transmission. FMI: 807-0925 or 292-5910.

Save a Life: Be careful and patient on the roads. Know water safety, boating rules and use life jackets properly. Use and volunteer at the Past Perfect Bookstore at Duggan. Literacy tutoring is available. FMI:794-0017. Business Watch: What’s happening at SC International Airport? When will construction begin for the Bethel solar array?

Support our local and on-line businesses. Use the www.bethelbusiness.com Members List as a reference.

Did you know that the Bethel Business Association has a ‘BBA Member to Member Discount Program’? Members can soon be added to the ‘Showcase Business’ list for the Fall campaign. Sticky Fingers Delectables offers Rewards Certificate points every time you indulge. Scream for ice cream and sign up!

The ‘22 BBA Bethel Guide is available on the website or by request at bethelnybba@gmail.com.

Enjoy the Wayne Co Fair in Honesdale until the 13th. FMI and schedule: www.waynecountyfair.com.

Rock Hill Music Series hosts ‘Shades’, a favorite, on the 10th at 6:30 pm. View “The Day the Music Died”, in conjunction with the Big Eddy Film Festival, screens at Bethel Woods Terrace Stage on Wednesday, the 10th, at 7:30pm.

Bethel Lakeside Music continues on Thursday at the KL Community Gazebo Park at 6:30pm. Support our local musicians and BYO chair and refreshments. ‘Callicoon Station-Elizabeth Rose’ and ‘Cliff Westfall’ will perform.

‘Rich & the Jumpstarts’ play at Cab Franks on Thursday at 7 pm. Yasgur Road Welcome Home (YR Productions) offers “Woodstock! A Celebration of Life” Reunion Weekend / ‘Celebrating 53 Years of Woodstock In Memory of Michael Lang’ from the 11th at 11am to the 14th at 5pm. Camping, love, peace and music are included. The YR Campground provides ongoing RV, car and tent camping.

Start Saturday morning with Yoga class at KL Community Park at 9:30am. The Kauneonga Lake Farm & Makers Market is held every Saturday from11 - 2 pm with vendors and music on hand. The Smallwood-Mongaup Valley Fire Dept hosts a Drive-Thru Chicken BBQ on Ballard Road on the 13th at 2pm until sold out! ($14). The ZacMax Flashburn XI Art Festival is all day on the 13th with a Fashion Show at 4 and Music-Tiger Crone and The Electric Chords- at 8 pm(115 Butrick Rd, Ferndale). This week, Liberty Sound Stage hosts ‘‘Con Queso” on Saturday at 6pm (796-6113).

Attend the annual Bagel Festival on Sunday, the 14th, from 9-4 pm on Bway in Monticello with vendors, organizations, activities, music and food.

Arts & Culture contacts: Bethelwoodscenter.org, Catskillartsociety.org, Delawarevalleyartsalliance.org, delawarevalleyopera.com, www.ebcpl.org, fbplayhouse.org, gallery222.org, harmonyinthewoods.org, Hurleyvilleartscentre.org, nacl.org, Narrowsburgunion.com, Nesinculturalarts.org, sccoplayers.org and scdw.net.

Bethel Woods hosts “Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival” with Willie & Family, ZZ Top, Zach Bryan and others on the 13th. “The Backroads Blues Festival” with Buddy Guy, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram take the Pavilion stage on the 14th.

Enjoy BCA’s Kauneonga ‘ArtSpace’ exhibit (bca@bethelart.org).

The DH Conservancy Photo Contest accepts entries until the 31st. FMI: www.delawarehighlands.org.

Callicoon Theater is showing “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” on the 12th- 15th at 7:30 pm and 2 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Hurleyville PAC hosts an Afrofuturism Celebration exhibit until the 31st and screens “Neptune Frost” on the 12-14th (Friday, Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2 pm).

The SC Dramatic Workshop at the Rivoli Theater in So Fallsburg offers “The Little Mermaid” on the 12-14th.

Forestburgh Playhouse offers a fabulous show, ‘Something Rotten’, until the 14th. Note: Jonathan Fox and Dharma are in the show! ‘Alice in Wonderland’, a FBP show for families, runs through Aug 20th.

Suz sez, “How will you be celebrating the anniversary of Woodstock, the best kept secret in Bethel?”