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Updated: 07/18/08 7:21 AM
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to former South African president Nelson Mandela, born on this date in 1918, “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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ALPHA DOG — The Clarence Summer Orchestra has scored a coup for its “Come Two by Two to the Musical Zoo” concert at 7 p. m. Sunday in Clarence Town Park, 10405 Main St.
Narrating Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” will be none other than Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo. Other selections include excerpts from “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King.”
Admission is free. If it rains, the concert moves into Clarence High School auditorium, Main Street and Gunnville Road.
Preceding the concert at 5
p. m., the Clarence Orchestra Association holds its annual dinner in the park clubhouse. Tickets are $20. For info, call 759-6428 or visit www.clarenceconcert.org.
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MULTI-FACETED — There’s more than one attraction to catch Sunday at the North Java Fire Company picnic at 1549 Beaver Meadow Road, Java Center.
The chicken barbecue starts at noon. There’s a garden tractor pull, beginning at 1 p. m. And then there’s Bogus Otis playing blues and rock from 8 p. m. to midnight. All day long, there will be kiddie rides, games, a raffle, steamed clams and the fire company’s famous Manhattan clam chowder.
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MORE REUNIONS —
The Bennett High School Classes of 1948 and 1949 are joining forces to celebrate their 60th and 59th reunions at 5:30 p. m. Aug. 9 in Fairdale Banquet Center, 672 Wehrle Drive, Amherst. Tickets are $60. For information and reservations, call Sue Braun Leman at 649-2102 or Sissy Leman Van Slyke at 646-5608. There also will be a tour of the renovated school that same day at 10 a. m.
Another record turnout is expected for the annual St. Boniface-Fruit Belt reunion of students, teachers, parish priests and present and former parishioners Aug. 6 in Protocol restaurant, 6766 Transit Road, Amherst. For information, call Paul Wieser at 689-8945, Jean DeRouche at 873-1220 or Bob D’Angelo at 876-4458.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Dale Anderson, Sue Currey, Cher Schoenle, Jenna Schunke, Val Derenda, Eleanor Whelan, Frank Mesiah, William J. Jefferson, Mayra Colon, Elaine Applebaum, Amanda Sobczyk, Ruth Heimburg, Janina Barsum, Donny Wutz, Betty Jackowiak, Colleen Cash, the Rev. G. Scott Comrie, Caitlin Bondanza Louth, Jerry Marino, James Patrick Gallagher, Judy Spindler, Suzanne Smith, Bill Laurent, Terri Richter, Dick Foran, Charlotte Grigg, Anthony Fazzino, Danielle Crane, Chloe Freedenberg, Kyle Ratajczak, Richard Anthony Fontana and Rimas Musteikis.
SATURDAY — Helen Lawandus, Liliana Jassy, Barb Sullivan, Jeanne Ptak, Sherry Byrnes, Addison Zimmer, Joe Wutz, Joey Sacco, Dave Gonzalez, David Charles, Lori Griffin, Francine Benzel, Marlene Gunsalas, Dolores Paluch, Eoin Greg, Sister Joseph Marie Marczak, Shannon Zaranek, Karen Crane, Ramblin’ Lou Schriver, Tracy Gerace and Gary Maybach.
AND SUNDAY —Cara Lynn Klopp, Jack Dumpert, Chris Aguglia, Dennis Gorski, Mark Badaszewski, Courtney Knauber, John Patrick Delaney Jr., Guy Vadala, Annette Sengbusch, Dick Nola, Noah Smith, Elenore Pruchniewski, Michael McCarthy, Bill Clotfelter, Jessica Ciambor, Sister Christine Marie Nizialek, Matthew Maciejewski, Dylan Hennigan, Tom Keenan and Steve Kaczmarek Jr.
