Brothertown Optimist Club

02/14/2026

🎨✨ Be Bold – Be the Change! ✨🎨

The Waterville-Brothertown Optimist Club hosted our annual Visual Arts Contest on February 11th, featuring 19 talented young artists from our community!

🏆 Age 7 & Under
🥇 Joyce Jasek
🥈 Charlotte Pollard
🥉 Sawyer Worwa

🏆 Ages 8–11
🥇 Jane Hecht
🥈 Jaxson Jasek
🥉 Aria Nelson

Our 1st place winners have advanced to the Optimist International level of competition! 🎉
Thank you to the Waterville Public Library for partnering with us to celebrate the creativity of our youth. Also, thank you to our judges.

02/11/2026

Join us this evening!

The Gallery Wall is filling with bold and beautiful artwork!

We welcome all of our community to join us in congratulating the young artists on Wednesday evening between 5:30-6:30 pm. The library will stay open until 6:30 pm to celebrate with you!

02/04/2026

02/04/2026

Last year Jaxon Jasek's artwork moved on from the local Optimist Visual Arts Competition here at the library, and was later chosen as a winner at the international level! This included a monetary prize and a feature on this notecard set!

Be sure to turn in your entry by Monday, February 9th* for this year's competition and art show!

* Please note the library will close at 5 pm on Feb. 9th to allow staff to attend The Librarians Film at the Hamilton Theater.

12/24/2025

🎨 Calling All Young Artists! 🎨

The 3rd Annual Optimist Visual Arts Competition is here with the theme “Be Bold – Be the Change.”

🧒 Ages 11 & under | Waterville CSD
📅 Art due February 9, 2026
🖼️ Art Show & Judging February 11, 2026 | 5:30–6:30 PM
📍 Waterville Public Library

🏆 Prizes by age group | 1st Place advances to International level (up to $250!)

Waterville Public Library Waterville Central School District The Waterville Times Waterville Teachers Association Waterville First Village of Waterville

09/20/2025

These gents are whipping up the best fried dough around! Visit us in front of the old Fireman’s Pavilion from now through 9pm. All proceeds benefit youth programming in Waterville.
Fried dough-$4
Cold drinks-$1

05/06/2025

We're thrilled to share some exciting news! Optimist International has announced the winners of the 2024 Visual Arts Contest, and we’re beaming with pride!

Our local club-level contest, co-hosted with the Waterville Public Library, showcased an amazing collection of creative, colorful, and inspiring artwork from young artists in our community. The talent was truly remarkable!

A huge congratulations to Jaxson Jasek. (age 7) —he's been selected as one of the international winners!

Each winning artist will receive a monetary prize, and their artwork will be featured on a set of notecards available for purchase at the Optimist International Convention in June.

Let’s give Jaxson a big round of applause for this incredible achievement! 🎨

05/04/2025

So grateful for our Brothertown Optimist Club members who volunteered at the Daniel Barden Mudfest!

03/30/2025

Thank you to our sponsors and teams that sponsored and participated in our annual Biddy Basketball tournament for 5th and 6th graders. We are appreciative of our volunteers who served food, refereed games, ran clock, organized, set up, and cleaned up, so that the youth of our community had this opportunity!

03/14/2025

The Brothertown Optimist Club proudly recognizes 3 of our members who worked tirelessly to research, write, and present a NY Forward grant that will benefit the Village of Waterville. This week, Brian Bogan, Patty Louise, and Laurie Feuss discovered their efforts paid off, and were presented with a "check" valued at 4.5 million dollars. Their proposal includes many upgrades to our village, which will benefit the youth and future generations. What could be more optimistic than that? Congratulations!!

03/06/2025

Breaking news! Our 2025 NFL raffle drawing winner for the Super Bowl is....Garry Purcell! Garry is the recipient of the $1,000 grand prize! Across the season, we had 17 weeks of 4 winners each, winning $50 at a time. We appreciate all of our sponsors and folks who purchased books. We are gearing up for our 25-26 raffle.

02/24/2025

Our Waterville-Brothertown Optimist International Club had an amazing time cheering on Utica City FC to victory against the Chihuahua Savage! 🎉⚽

If you're passionate about bringing out the best in youth, the community and yourself and enjoying fun social events, we'd love to have you join our club as a member.