Good Morning, Buffalo: A quick look at what's happening today
This is going to be one of those raw days that toughens us up for winter. The National Weather Service is promising no better than 40 degrees today with rain and wind -- quite a lot of wind. Then tonight, the rain is supposed to turn to snow. It's not expected to accumulate in the Buffalo metro area, but down on the Southern Tier, watch out. There could be an inch or so. With temperatures dipping below freezing, driving could be treacherous in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties tonight.
Come Friday, the snow should turn back to rain and then stop, ushering in what eventually will be a nice weekend. Friday's high is expected to be in the low 40s, but milder days are coming on Saturday and Sunday, when the temperatures should bounce into the mid- to upper 50s.
Christmas in the Country, which recently was voted the Best Craft Show in America, returns for its 25th anniversary weekend at the Agri-Center at the Fairgrounds in Hamburg. New exhibitors among the hundreds on hand include contemporary folk artist J.D. Logan from Massachusetts, wind chime maker Jan Lynn from Michigan and glass blower Jason Ryner from Pennsylvania.
It opens at 10 a.m. today and Friday and continues until 9 p.m. both nights. Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday's finale runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $7 at the door. Kids under 12 get in free. For information, visit www.xmasinthecountry.com.
Perhaps chastened by the election results, which reduced the Democratic majority, the Erie County Legislature meets at 2 p.m. with a lot of budget matters to deal with.
In Hamburg, there's another public forum to discuss downsizing of the Town Board. It's 7 to 9 p.m. in Frontier Middle School, 2751 Amsdell Road.
Meanwhile, in the Town of Tonawanda, there's a public hearing on the preliminary 2010 budget at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at the Municipal Building, 2919 Delaware Ave., Kenmore.
More than 40 exhibitors and eight seminars will be available to provide information to veterans from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. For information, visit www.erie.gov/veterans.
Canisius College commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of communism with "Freedom Without Walls," a program of events that kicks off today.
A 56-foot-long, eight-foot-high sheetrock replica of the Berlin Wall has been constructed in the college's main quadrangle behind the Old Main Building. As part of the observance, Canisius College students will create "wall art" on its panels reminiscent of the original Berlin Wall and compete in an artwork contest. The public is welcome to come to campus and have a look at it.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., more than 400 students from 17 Western New York high schools will come to Canisius, view the wall between noon and 1 p.m. and learn about the events of 1989.
The Hamburg Natural History Society holds its 14th annual Penn Dixie Fundraiser from 7 to 9 p.m. in Romanello's South Restaurant, 5793 South Park Ave., Hamburg. Among the items to be offered in chance auctions and regular auctions are an autographed Buffalo Bills 50th anniversary football, two tickets to the Bruce Springsteen concert in HSBC Arena on Nov. 23, a lottery ticket scarecrow and a variety of gift baskets and gift certificates.
Saved until the end of the evening are drawings for Sabres tickets and a Celestron telescope. Tickets are $25 at the door, and include hors d'oeuvres and a door prize ticket. There's a cash bar. Donations also are welcome. For info, call 627-4560 or visit www.penndixie.org.
Our own Buffalo News political blogger, Jim Heaney, is among the panelists at 7 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center auditorium as Buffalo Spree magazine sponsors a panel discussion with the ungainly title of "Journalism on the Brink: When the daily paper becomes the daily blog, who wins and who loses?" Other panelists include Alan Bedenko of Buffalo Pundit, Elena Cala Buscarino and Newell Nussbaumer of Buffalo Rising Online, Geoff Kelly of Artvoice and Marc Odien and Chris Smith, co-founders of WNYMedia.net. Should be lively. Should produce a whole mess of blog entries afterward. Admission is free.
Remember the Romantics? Remember those hits of theirs back in early 1980s -- "Talking in Your Sleep" and "What I Like About You?" They'll do them tonight in the Bear's Den at Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls. Showtime is 8. Tickets are $25 to $40.
Ravi Shankar is coming to Medaille College tonight, but it's not Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar player. It's Ravi Shankar the poet, the guy who is poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of Drunken Boat, the international online journal of the arts. He also shows up occasionally on National Public Radio. He reads at 7 p.m. in the library at Huber Hall.
Tonight marks the start of Canisius College's fourth annual Polish Film Festival, which will take place not on campus, but in the Riviera Theatre, 67 Webster St., North Tonawanda. It starts at 6 with the animated 2009 short, "Kinematograf," then continues at 6:30 with director Waldemar Krzystek's 2008 "Little Moscow (Mala Moskwa)," about a romance between a married Russian woman and a Polish military officer in the 1960s. Admission is $5. The films are in Polish with English subtitles. There's a reception for Krzystek after the film. Other showings in the festival, which continues through Sunday, will be in Canisius' Montante Cultural Center and the Hamburg Palace Theatre.
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