Malta's Most Famous Hero

At Thursday's meeting, Malta Town Historian Paul Perreault talked to us about the young man who was Abraham Lincoln's friend and one of the first casualties of the Civil War, Elmer Ellsworth. The future colonel was born on the site of what is now the Malta Diner, where we hold our weekly meetings.

No meeting this Thursday, though, Dec. 28, as we take a break for the holidays, resuming our usual schedule in the first week of January. Happy New Year!

Business to Party

At this week's board and business meetings, we inducted new member Mark Braaten, and agreed to make an $800 charity donation which will be announced next month. We also OK'd $200 donations to ShelterBox and the Malta Food Pantry.
Members should contact by tomorrow (Sunday) evening either Estelle Genest or Miles Cornthwaite to sign up for our annual holiday party, to be held Thursday Dec. 14 at the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, from 6 p.m.  to around 8. No morning meeting that day.

History Man

Roy Arnold (shown here with Malta Sunrise Rotary's Arlene Schmidt) was our speaker Thursday, talking about local history. He is a leader of the Malta Memories Historical Group, which meets at the Malta Ridge United Methodist Church.