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Updated: 07/02/08 7:03 AM
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to civil rights activist Medgar Evers, born on this date in 1925, “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.”
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LIGHTS . . . CAMERA — Time is running out to put together your fantastic entry for the I Love NY Short Film Contest, in which you depict what you adore about the Empire State in 60 seconds of video. Deadline is July 15 to submit it to www.metacafe.com/iloveny.
A panel of celebrity judges, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Fey and our former colleague, Anthony Bannon, now director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, will decide the winners.
Prizes, which include camcorders, a scholarship and airline tickets, will be given for best overall film, best young filmmaker 18 and under, best
student filmmaker and best regional film in six regions. The winning film will air on NBC during Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and many other places, including on the TV screens in JetBlue flights.
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BIRD CALL — Did you know that the two largest covered aviaries in the world are right here in Western New York? According to the folks at Gooseneck Hill Waterfowl Sanctuary, they’ve got them and they’re opening for the season starting Sunday.
Gooseneck Hill, located at 5067 Townline Road, Delevan, will be open from 2 to 5 p. m. every Sunday in July and August for viewing of more than 350 endangered and protected swans, geese and ducks, some of whom are babies. Visitors also can hand-feed the birds. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for children and seniors. For information, call 942-6835 or visit www.gooseneckhillwaterfowlfarm.com . ••• MORE REUNIONS— St. Ann’s Church and Shrine at Broadway and Emslie Street is looking for all former students of St. Ann’s Elementary School and High School to attend a reunion Mass in the church at 10 a. m. on July 13. For information, call Dave Hirschbine at 632-8748.
All classes up to the mid- 1950s at the former Blasdell High School are getting together on July 18 at the Big Tree Fire Hall, 4037 South Park Ave., Blasdell. For information, call Karen Lang at 823-0292.
The Class of 1958 at Kensington High School will hold its 50th reunion with a dinner on Aug. 8 in the Protocol Restaurant, 6766 Transit Road, Cheektowaga. For information, call Ellen Dusenbury Incorvia at 649-1649 or Barbara Jehle Bright at 833-0194.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Kathy Kurtz, Cathy Riso, Bernie Weber, Nicholas Burns, Warren Campbell, Jeanne Stresing Campbell, Steve Hietanen, Kyle Byrns, Bernadine Rathbun, Larry Michalski, Barbara Schlant and Helen Marien.
AND THURSDAY — Denise Jewell Gee, Victoria T. Sutton, Don Angelo, Teppo Numminen, Jim Mabry, Danielle Szymkowiak, Betty Safe, Joe Amorosi, Dan Stoklosa, Kelsey Bishop, Millie Collins, Evelyn Gibb, Ray Kicman, Mella Menno, Grace Martorana, Amy Gilbert, Wende Hall, Ann Kilmurray and Bob Schintzius.
