Good Morning, Buffalo: A quick look at what's happening today
Published: February 08, 2010, 6:00 am
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Though the day will be too chilly for common-sense comfort, we will be able to face the week warmed by a sunny disposish. Honest. Workers will head out the door under mostly sunny skies but tempered by biting cold temperatures, which will peak at 24 degrees. Windchills will be a factor, with the airflow from the west coming at us at 10-15 mph. The night's low will be 15 degrees. Look for some snowfall by midweek.
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Flight 3407 widows Robin Tolsma and Jennifer West will urge the public to "Light the Way Home," in memory of the victims of Flight 3407, during a news conference today. From 10 to 11 p.m. Friday, the anniversary of the crash, residents will be urged to turn on porch lights to signify the hour Flight 3407 was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Tolsma and West also will plug the 3407 Family Web site -- www.3407memorial.com -- where the public is being urged to write to senators and help the cause.
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The Veterans Creative Arts Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 301 of Freedom Hall, on the campus of the VA Western New York Healthcare System, 3495 Bailey Ave. The public is invited to enjoy a wide variety of arts created and displayed by local vets. Winning entries will be judged by a national selection committee, which chooses first-, second- and third-place winners. Select winners will be invited to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, Oct. 18 to 24 in La Crosse, Wis. Nationwide, VA medical facilities rely on the creative arts to help vets recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities.
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That singular act of kindness that led to the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 will be re-enacted at 4 p.m., when the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts celebrates its 100th anniversary in the council's service center at 2860 Genesee St., Cheektowaga. That act of kindness? 'Twas the moment an anonymous British Boy Scout helped American businessman William D. Boyce navigate a foggy London street. Boyce was so impressed that he researched the Boy Scout program in England and incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on Feb. 8, 1910. The program kicks off a yearlong centennial celebration. The Greater Niagara Frontier Council serves about 15,000 young men and women in Erie and Niagara counties.
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Local playwright/poets Randall Rumley and Kathleen Betsko Yale will read from their works at 7 p.m. in the Crane Library, 633 Elmwood Ave. Their appearance is part of the Wordflight reading series, sponsored by the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and Just Buffalo Literary Center.
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WWMD? A gaggle of devotees of Charles Mingus, the legendary jazz bassist-composer-rights activist, will brainstorm and barnstorm in the Jazz Composers Workshop, which gets under way at about 7:30 p.m. in Central Park Grill, 2519 Main St. On hand will be Nelson Starr, John Werick, Michael McNeill, John Anderson, Joe Hochulski, Kelly Bucheger and Tim Clarke.
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Ani is in the house. Asbury Hall at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., will host Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco and guest Gaby Moreno in concert from 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $38 at the door.
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Hilbert College's newly opened campus wellness facility will be dedicated at 5:30 p.m. as the Cappuccino Family Wellness Center, recognizing a generous gift from local husband-wife physicians Dr. Andrew G. and Dr. Helen H. Cappuccino. The facility -- on the first floor of St. Joseph Hall, the Hamburg campus' original residence building -- was developed to accommodate the college's largest-ever residential population. The wellness center provides clinic support, including physicals, first aid and wellness programming, and is staffed and managed by a nurse practitioner and medical assistant from Catholic Health in Buffalo.
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