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100 years

Save the Dates! Chappaqua Library to Celebrate 100-Year Anniversary with Variety of Centennial-Themed Programs

April 20, 2022 by The Inside Press

The Chappaqua Library recognizes a significant milestone in 2022 as it reaches its one-hundredth anniversary. Partnering with community groups, the library has planned a series of programs and activities including a Centennial Ceremony on Saturday, June 4, 2022, with community guests and burying a time capsule.

A complete list of programs centered around “Celebrating the Past, Inspiring the Future” will be available by mail and provided below. Activities have been developed for all ages, including in-person and outdoor programs.

The library has worked closely with the Chappaqua Garden Club, the New Castle Historical Society, the Town of New Castle, and the Friends of the Chappaqua Library to create programs that will showcase the library’s history and provide interactive ways for the community to contribute towards the library’s sustainable future.

CENTENNIAL CEREMONY 

Centennial Ceremony: Celebrating the Past, Inspiring the Future

June 4, 2022 | 11:00 AM 

Join us for a community ceremony to honor the library’s 100 years of service. A time capsule will be buried in the library’s courtyard to memorialize our history for future generations. Stay tuned as we announce special guests and activities.

CENTENNIAL PROGRAMS

Embroidery Class for Teens

April 4, 18, 25. May 2, 9, 16, 23 | 3:30-5:00 PM

In this 7-week series, teens will learn embroidery’s ancient and rich art; embellish your clothing with designs–Grades 5 & up. Please register

Teen Garden Club: Planting Heirloom Seeds

May 2, 2022, kickoff through summer | Thursday at 3:30 PM

The Teen Garden Club highlights heritage seeds this season as we honor the beautiful and unique varieties of vegetables and flowers from the past century. The Teen Garden Club meets every Thursday at 3:30 pm. 

Sponsored by the Friends, with a gift from the Linda Zhang Foundation.

Library for a Day: Revisiting Senter Street

May 7, 2022 | 2:00-5:00

The Chappaqua Library revisits our first home on Senter Street as we turn the New Castle Community Center back into a library for the day! Drop by the Community Center for some family fun. Learn about the library circa 1922, try your hand date-stamping a book, and play with some traditional wooden toys. Then, travel through the town center and a century of history with a family scavenger hunt starting at Senter Street! 

Storyteller Carol Birch Presents: “Our Storied Lives”

May 10, 2022 | 7:00 PM 

From the Roaring Twenties until today, family lives weave hiccuping hilarity and drenching sorrows in and out of numberless “ordinary days.” Those ordinary days shimmer in memory’s flickering light. Join Carol Birch for one family’s journey through our storied Centennial year. Carol’s conversational style is fiercely honest as she reminds us how wonderfully strange and strangely wonderful families are! 

Author Talk: “Almost Happy”

May 12, 2022 | 7:00 PM | Online

At the center of the library in the community. Community connects us, and so does laughter. The authors of Almost Happy invite you to “find your buttons, laugh at your inner joke, and be warmly provoked to change for the better.” 

Planting 100 for 100 Years

May 13, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 PM

May 14, 2022 | 11:00-12:00 PM

Kids and families are invited to leave a lasting mark for future library visitors in this plant-one, take-one home program with the help of the Chappaqua Garden Club. Families will be able to bring a tiny part of the library home with them! Learn about native landscape plugs, hear a story and enjoy activities.

Sponsored by the Friends; in partnership with the Chappaqua Garden Club. 

Jr. Garden Club: Milkweed for Monarchs

June 8, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 PM

Kids and families are invited to help with a permanent landscape planting of young milkweed plants to support migrating monarch butterflies at the library. Learn about butterflies, hear a story, and enjoy activities. Grades K-6. Please register.

Sponsored by the Friends; in partnership with the Chappaqua Garden Club. 

Bubbles Bus & Birthday Party

June 22, 2022 | 5:00-7:00 PM 

Kick-off summer reading with a library birthday blowout and treats! The Bubble Bus brings the party to us with music, dancing, and tons of bubbles

The Chappaqua Library is located at 195 S. Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, New York.

More information about the library can be found here:

www.chappaqualibrary.org

Filed Under: Happenings, New Castle News Tagged With: 100 years, Centennial, Centennial Celebration, Centennial Ceremony, Chappaqua library

Wallauer Paint and Design Centers Celebrates 100 Years of Beautifying Westchester Homes

November 12, 2021 by Stacey Pfeffer

Edward Klein, CEO, Wallauer

For more than a hundred years, customers throughout Westchester have turned to Wallauer Paint and Design Centers to help revamp their homes. The fourth-generation family-owned business offers an extensive selection of paints from Benjamin Moore, specialty products and accessories from Ace Hardware, window treatments from Hunter Douglas, designer fabrics and wall coverings, area rugs, and has 15 stores across Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties. 

Considering that 20 percent of most new businesses fail within the first year and that number increases to almost 66 percent after ten years, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, what keeps both contractors and homeowners coming back to their local Wallauer store? The answer can best be summed up by the company’s Chief Operating Officer Edward Klein. “It really comes down to having a knowledgeable group of people who know their craft and provide excellent customer service. Then it is word-of-mouth recommendations from satisfied customers that Wallauer is the go-to place for home improvement locally.” 

Many of their employees are local and have worked for the company for a decade or more. When they hire employees, they are looking for people with a broad base of knowledge. Customers may ask about everything from painting projects, to lawn care to plumbing products, so the company looks for employees that can help homeowners with a multitude of products from start to finish. 

Spurred by the COVID crisis, New Castle and North Castle and surrounding towns are hot housing markets with an influx of new residents, many of them first time homeowners. “We can help people with anything they want to do in their homes ranging from the walls, the windows to the floors with premium high-quality products and even in-home color consultations,” said Klein. 

Wallauer offers home design services in six of their stores and offers Ace Hardware Departments in five. Every Wallauer Design department features window displays from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, specializing in motorization and full house automation of blinds and shades. Designers featured in top shelter magazines including fabrics from Robert Allen, Kravet, Fabricut and Kasmir and top wallpaper brands such as Schumacher, Thibaut, Nina Campbell and Candice Olson are also available. 

The company prides itself on offering products that you wouldn’t find in a big box store. Klein points out Benjamin Moore Paints as a prime example. Owned by billionaire Warren Buffet, the paint is only sold in independent home improvement stores. “Would Home Depot or Lowe’s like to sell Benjamin Moore? I assure you they would,” quips Klein. In fact, the company is the largest Benjamin Moore paint, hardware and decorating retailer in Westchester, Rockland & Putnam. 

They also have a long-standing relationship with the paint company spanning a hundred years when company founder Clarence Rudolph Wallauer opened his first Wallauer store in White Plains in 1921. The company initially had a strong focus on paint and wallpaper coverings but over the years their product line expanded and diversified as did the company’s footprint with 15 stores in the county ranging from the largest store in White Plains to popular ones further north such as the Carmel and South New Rochelle locations.

The Challenges of COVID

Like every other business, Wallauer has been affected by the COVID crisis. Luckily, they have seen their business grow 20 percent in the past two years but recruiting employees and maintaining stock has been challenging. “There are supply chain issues all over the housing market with fulfillment but we do have product and warehouses to store our stock,” notes Klein.

Additionally, the customer base has changed dramatically throughout COVID.  Prior to COVID, 75 percent of their customers were contractors and 25 percent were homeowners. One year into COVID, the customer base shifted to 75 percent DIY homeowners so the importance of having knowledgeable staff who could explain projects to first time homeowners was a key differentiator for the business.  In addition, they had to enhance their online focus with curbside pickup and fulfillment of mobile orders. Currently, their customers are 60 percent contractors and 40 percent homeowners. “Many of our customers didn’t even know about us but once they come here, they’d rather go to us than a big box store. The pandemic has shown people the value of making investments in their homes,” notes Klein.

Giving Back to The Community & Customers

As a long-standing local business, Wallauer has also contributed to The Pink Fund, a non-profit breast cancer organization that provides 90-day non-medical cost-of-living expenses to breast cancer patients who are in active treatment. This year marks the fourth year in a row that Wallauer has supported the organization. The company cares greatly about the communities and customers they serve. They match every donation made at the point of sale by customers and to date have donated over $15,000. 

In addition, to celebrate their 100th anniversary and to thank long time customers as well as new, a $100 gift certificate will be awarded to one shopper in every Wallauer store every month through December 2021. To register for the drawings, visit www.wallauer.com/100-years/. In addition, Wallauer will offer a “buy one paint sample, get a second one at ‘100%’ off” throughout the year.  Sprucing up your home in time for the holidays has never been easier.

Filed Under: Health and Wellness with our Sponsors Tagged With: 100 years, Benjamin Moore, family-owned business, Wallauer, Wallauer Paint and Design Centers, Wallpaper

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