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Updated: 07/25/08 6:34 AM
OLAF SEZ: FUB According to social critic Eric Hoffer, born this date in 1902, “It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.”
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CENTURY MARK — They’re having a 100th birthday celebration for Evelyn Manley of South Buffalo on Saturday and it will not be a small affair. Family and friends are getting together in Our Lady of Bistrica Hall on Abbott Road in Lackawanna to honor her on reaching the milestone.
Her daughter, Eleanor Neri, says her mother’s goal is to outlive HER mother, the late Emma Schill, who made it to just short of 102. Born July 25, 1908, in the Old First Ward, she married Charles Manley, a tug boat captain who died in the 1960s, and they raised five children, one of whom is former South Council Member Dennis Manley. After her husband’s death, she worked for the City of Buffalo as an aide in the senior centers.
Mrs. Manley lives independently with help from her children, belongs to the Valley Community Center Senior Citizens and is a member of St. Theresa’s Church, where she was president of the Woman’s Club. A devoted Yankees fan, she watches them faithfully on TV.
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WEEKEND FEASTS — Chiavetta’s chicken barbecue, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Saturday. Trade Fair Plaza, East Delavan and Courtland avenues. Also yard sale, sponsored by the Courtland Avenue Block Club.
Second annual chicken and rib dinner, also hot dogs, noon to 4 p. m. Saturday, Good Shepherd Temple, 820 Hyde Park Blvd., Niagara Falls.
Annual chicken barbecue featuring Wendel’s Secret Sauce, 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. m. Sunday, $8; Covenant United Church of Christ, 4449 Main St., Gasport. Theme basket raffle at 1:30 p. m.
Krolick’s chicken barbecue, 11:30 a. m. to 3 p. m. Sunday. $8. Fruit pies $1.50 a slice. Kids 5 and under free. St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church, Abbott and Weber roads, Lackawanna.
Wendel’s chicken barbecue, 11:30 a. m. Sunday until sold out, in conjunction with the Town of Marilla Car Show. $8, $4 kids 10 and under. Firemen’s Recreation Hall, Two Rod Road and West Avenue, benefits Mercy Flight and Marilla Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary.
Chiavetta’s chicken barbecue, noon to 4 p. m. Sunday. City of Tonawanda Police Station, 200 Niagara St., benefits Tonawanda High School cheerleaders.
Sheldon Firemen’s Picnic and chicken barbecue. Noon Sunday in conjunction with daylong Town of Sheldon Bicentennial, with raffles, sour milk baking contests and crowning of “King of Sheldon” at 2 p. m. Music by Innocent Bystander 8 p. m. to midnight. St. Cecelia’s Church Grounds, Sheldon and Centerline roads, Sheldon.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Minister Michael Chapman, Derek Watson, Miguel Santos, Torey Lovullo, Annie Brown, Elenore Oddo, Daniel Murray, Sally Cukierski, John Myers, Jackie Sullivan, Karen Schaller, Kristy Schaller, John Koziej, Carolyn Pilarz, Monsignor James Kelly, Sister Mary Sabine Boczar, Ann Calabotta, Bill Mara, Anne Sadowski, Lori Antecki, Debra Brucato and Heather Schwartzmeyer.
SATURDAY —Virginia Benzow, Gretchen Banaszak, Janet Murphy, Charles R. Penney, Amie Zimmer, Helen Kosobucki, Suzie Pietrowski, Linda Coe, Amelia Adema, Jessica Giordano, Marie Triplett, Alex Scott Prell, Rev. Bernard T. Sokolowski, Jack Kerwin, Natalie Drebot, Allie Hess, Jeff Wannemacher, Gary Webb, Tim Carroll, Gary Fazio and Patty Colon.
AND SUNDAY —Megan Hanrahan, Annette Watts, Bonnie Flickinger, Teena Wise, Tom Safe, Millie Schmid, Samantha Toepfer, Phil Salemi, Rose Pietrusik, Deacon Tom McDonnell, Jack Regan, Linda Gleason, Paul Kamrowski Jr., Lisa Grisanti and Natalie M. Lachut.
