DECEMBER
16 2022
MHA Newsletter Shares Good News
Photo Submitted One of the Chautauqua Grown participants, Haff Acres Farm with Christmas trees for sale.
SUPPORT CHAUTAUQUA GROWN THIS WINTER Consider a locally sourced Christmas tree for this holiday season! -BY CASSANDRA SKAL, AGRICULTURE PROGRAM COORDINATOR WITH CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK (December 12, 2022) -- Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County’s Agriculture Program encourages you to purchase your Christmas tree from one of our fabulous Chautauqua Grown producers! Purchasing locally sourced goods for your holiday needs is a great way to help support local producers even in the winter months! For more information on where to purchase locally sourced trees or even hams, turkeys, or lamb for your holiday meal please visit our Chautauqua Grown directory at https://chautauqua.cce. cornell.edu/chautauqua-grown. Purchasing a local tree is easy, affordable, and helps support our local agriculture industry. Throughout the county there are many local places to pick up a beautiful tree. A few local places that you might have pur-
chased produce from during the harvest months that also have Christmas trees available are: Haff Acres Farm in Mayville and Yerico Farms in Dunkirk. Abers Acres in Kennedy and Scotts Farm and Greenhouse in Sinclairville both offer pre-cut and cut your own trees as well! Cherish an old family tradition or start a new one and check these trees out! Another way to support local this holiday season is purchasing meat from local producers. A lot of them offer by the cut pieces from their farm stands or coolers on their properties. Check out our website and find one that works for you! You can also find a lot of our producers on Facebook where they provide updates frequently on what is available or if they have any ongoing sales! Thank you for supporting local and Chautauqua Grown this holiday season. For more information, contact Cassandra Skal by calling 716-664-9502 ext. 202 or cks83@cornell.edu. The Agriculture Program is one of many programs offered by Cornell Cooperative Exten-
sion of Chautauqua County (CCE-Chautauqua). CCE-Chautauqua is a subordinate governmental agency with an educational mission that operates under a form of organization and administration approved by Cornell University as agent for the State of New York. It is tax-exempt under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The association is part of the national cooperative extension system, an educational partnership between County, State, and Federal governments. As New York’s land grant university Cornell administers the system in this state. Each Cornell Cooperative Extension association is an independent employer that is governed by an elected Board of Directors with general oversight from Cornell. All associations work to meet the needs of the counties in which they are located as well as state and national goals. For more information, call 716-664-9502 or visit our website at www.cce.cornell. edu/chautauqua. Cornell University Cooperative Extension provides equal program and employment opportunities.
Jamestown, N.Y. – The Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County (MHA) is always a busy place, and there was more than the usual quantity of good news to share in its recent biannual newsletter. In fact, there was so much news that the publication was expanded this time to contain it all. Special attention was given to the September announcement of the $500,000 INSPIRE grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission for workforce development. The two-year grant will support MHA’s Occupational Peer Empowerment Network (OPEN) Recovery to Work project that includes Father Bernard’s Blessed Biscuits, its social enterprise program with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. MHA staff, board and participants were all thrilled with the October recognition of Executive Director Steven Cobb as the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce’s Person of the Year. In his regular “Message” on the back cover, Cobb shares his personal reaction to having been homeless and ravaged by drug addiction just a dozen years earlier. Other newsletter stories describe the Art in Recovery Exhibit and Sunday service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church celebrating International Overdose Awareness Day, best-selling author Timber Hawkeye’s visit at the MHA, and the appearance of Overdose Response Advocate Allison Murphy on Pastor Juan Perez’s local radio program “The Latin Inspiration.” News briefs include information on the artwork that resulted from a special Fun Friday, the Law Enforcement Breakfast, Jamestown Pride Festival, support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and more. To access the current and all previous MHA’s newsletters online, go to MHAChautauqua. org/newsletters. For a printed copy, stop in at the Gateway Building Door 14, 31 Water Street in Jamestown, call
Photo Submitted The recent newsletter of the Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County relates many of their activities over the past few months, including the appearance of Overdose Response Advocate Allison Murphy on Pastor Juan Perez’s local radio program “The Latin Inspiration.”
(716) 661-9044, or email newsletter@MHAChautauqua.org. The MHA and Father Bernard’s Blessed Biscuits remind you that for a special holiday treat for your favorite canine(s), visit FatherBernards.com. The Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County is a peer recovery center offering support groups and individual coaching for people looking to improve their lives, deepen wellness, thrive in recovery, or support those on a recovery path. Peers use their personal stories to help people find recovery in their own lives in their own way. All Mental Health Association services are free. Anyone with questions or in need of services for themselves
or a family member is welcome to call or stop in at the Jamestown recovery center. Hours are Monday – Thursday, 9:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The north county recovery center at Grace Lutheran Church, 601 Eagle Street in Dunkirk, is now open Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., with hours extended on Wednesdays to 6:30 p.m. To learn more about the Mental Health Association, call (716) 661-9044 or visit MHAChautauqua.org or facebook.com/ MHAChautauqua. A schedule with descriptions of all groups and classes is at MHAchautauqua.org/groups.