This is a program that will introduce the community to the Healthy Neighborhoods Program. This program is free for all Columbia County residents and provides free home visits and free safety products to its participants. The informational session will be about fire safety in the home covering smoke detector placement and expiration, fire extinguisher use and placement, carbon monoxide safety as well general knowledge about how best to protect ones home from fire.

Award-winning poet, Irene Willis will be performing some selections from her latest book release: Rehearsal.

Ms. Willis is the author of five collections of poetry:  They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida, 1995); At the Fortune Café, winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize and National Book Award nominee (Snake Nation Press, 2005); Those Flames (Bay Oak, 2009);  Reminder (Word Poetry, 2014), and Rehearsal (IP Books, 2018).  She is also the editor of an anthology, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund  Freud in Poetry ( IP Books, 2017). Three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has also co-authored several textbooks and children's books. A longtime educator who has "retired" three times, she has taught at a number of secondary schools and colleges, most recently at Westfield State University and American International College in Massachusetts.  Awards for her poetry include a Distinguished Artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire/Taconic Foundation. She is Poetry Editor of the online publication, International Psychoanalysis, where she has a monthly column, "Poetry Monday."