THANK YOU, GJ'ers!!! Very appreciated! 8 more days of voting starting tomorrow ...last day of voting May 30...winners top 5 announced May 31st ...we want to be one of them! THANK YOU! Progress is being made in our town... 4 Seasons Perennial Garden is almost complete...now only the grassy area needs seeded when rains come back again...flowers done, mulching done, arbor built, bird baths ...everything looking very beautiful! another lot ...the Veteran's Memorial...concrete slab has been poured ...dirt/grassy area worked up ...flag pole & electric installed ...volunteer is starting to install memorial tomorrow night ...hopefully, for Memorial Day on Monday! Oh, this is so awesome! another FEMA lot ...Gazebo...costs lots & lots of money...money has been raised ...some grant ...lots of donations, concrete poured, sidewalk forms laid & truck bringing in 6000 lbs. worth of Gazebo pieces tomorrow...volunteers will be building it ...hoping to be done for New Hartford yearly celebration ...'Beaver Creek Days' ...the 1st weekend of June. So we're hoping to announce that we are a WINNER of the free orchard on May 31st also!!! another lot...has been tilled up ...& 8 garden plots laid out for community...one 6th grade class started plants in terraium & now have them in the garden...they will tend to the plot this summer! We have a grant in progress for this lot & hoping to hear by June 1st! so, lots of good things happening ...APPRECIATE your votes! Anyone can still vote...last day of school today so am afraid we will lose some voters!!! Thank you so much, GJers!!! Jeanne S. www.communitiestakeroot.com 'Plant your vote for New Hartford!'

great type casting for me, and nothing to do with looks: ten years ago I,d be Sally Fields in Steel Magnolias. Today , more like Shirley Mclaine as Weezer :>\ oops, think I played backwards. Still works, though.

I think Gran Torino got bad reviews also, but I loved it. What was funny/strange, though, was the fact that after the movie was over, no one moved...everyone stayed seated while Clint Eastwood sang that song...and he's no singer. I know someone else who went at another time, and he is the one who brought up the fact that no one made a move to leave after the movie was over...usually people get up and try to be the first ones out the door :o)

Going with the "I don't look like her, I just like her work" as a guide, I pick Sigourney Weaver to portray me. If not SW, then maybe Meryl Streep or Susan Sarandon....again, not due to similarity of appearance...just admire their work. Colleen, I'm with you on Ashley Judd...and Ceph, Laura Linney is so talented, don't you think?