It's Back - the Annual Duane Lake Rowing Feast!The 2025 Duane Lake Rowing Feast will be held next Saturday, August 9th starting at noon. Everyone is invited to join in, bring a dish to share, enjoy the water and just visit with your neighbors. The Rowing Feast is basically a progressive lunch by way of sailing, rowing, kayaking, walking or driving from one host location on the lake to the next for each course. Please refer to the Duane Lake Rowing Feast host map (attached and above). Hard copies of the map will be available at the first host stop, Sue and Bob Bollentin's house as well.The day starts off with refreshments/and a meet & greet, then we shift over for appetizers, next is your salad course, followed by the main course(s) and finally a dessert stop. Each stop is hosted by one of your neighbors who will provide one or two refreshments/vittles and everyone is requested to contribute a dish to supplement one of the courses. Please call our party planner Kim Roberts to let him know of your planned dish as he will coordinate the day and make sure there are sufficient munchies at each host stop. Kim's number is 518-522-6811.Since this was quite fun and successful last year - for those that would like to participate, a 50/50 poker row game. It will work like this: each entry will pay $20; the player will pick a card at each stop and at the end of the afternoon, whoever has the best hand will win the 50/50 pot with the winner taking home 50% of the funds and the remaining 50% will be donated to the Lake Association.
Your hosts for this year's Rowing Feast are as follows:
#1 Sue & Bob Bollentin, 604 Duane Lake Rd
12:00 Refreshments / Meet & Greet and first card dealt to poker row participants.#2 Dave & Ann Vincent, 558 North Mansion Rd (N. Mansion Rd)1:30 for appetizers and 2nd card of poker row card#3 Tom & Carol McClenahan, 491 West Duane Lake Rd2:30 for Salad and 3rd card of poker row#4 Dennis Decelli & Ian Colgan, 382 Duane Lake Rd4:00 the Main Course and 4th card#5 Vicki & Jay Tanzman, 1143 West Duane Lake Rd6:00 the dessert stop and last card / winner announced of 50/50 poker row.
Duane Lake Neighborhood Garage Sale is set for
Friday and SaturdayAugust 22 & 23
The lake wide garage sale will be advertised in the Times Union, the Schenectady Gazette, the Altamont Enterprise and on several digital sites. The advertised hours will be from 9 - 4. There will be corner signs placed in strategic locations as well. If you have any specific items for sale that you think will draw people in for the garage sale, please reach out to Pat Huff by August 15 at 518-469-0153. So don't forget to set aside your items to sell.Pop-Up Art Gallery will be offered!
Duane Lake's got talent! A surprisingly lot of it. Two art teachers, a very fine nature photographer, and two painters who have exhibited elsewhere will offer their works, as will three other excellent Duanesburg artists.
And - just to take advantage of the effort going into this - the gallery will open one day before the Duane Lake Garage Sale and close one day after (4 days - from Thursday, the 21st through Sunday, the 24th). A good deal of the works offered will be Duane Lake landscapes and Duane Lake wildlife. All artists have agreed to grant the DLA a 25 % commission in support of the Duane Lake Association's lake stewardship work. The Pop-Up Gallery will be at 1399 West Duane Lake Road. It will open each day at 9:30 a.m. and close at 4:00 p.m.