Reporters’ Notebook/ Bits and pieces of news...
Updated: 07/29/08 6:39 AM
OLAF SEZ: FUB According to stand-up comic “Professor” Irwin Corey, born on this date in 1914, “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.”
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PRIZE PACKAGE — The Erie County Home in Alden is looking for donations of items to be used as bingo prizes. Lauren Kennuth, director of volunteers, says that toiletries, room decorations, jewelry, individually packaged food items and stuffed animals are especially welcome. Items may be dropped off at the front desk at 11580 Walden Ave. For information, call Lauren at 937-5640.
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SENIOR DISCOUNT — Patricia Herberger will talk about “Identity Theft Awareness” at 2 p. m. Thursday in the first of five free weekly seminars in the “Let’s Talk Seniors” series in Montgomery Park retirement community, 6363 Transit Road, East Amherst. The seminar is open to the public; refreshments will be served.
Other sessions will discuss senior eyesight, Medicare, veterans’ benefits and prescription drugs. Call 688-7880.
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HEARTFELT — Benefit events don’t get much more musical than the one being held for young Nikolas Vincent Perrone from 3 p. m. to midnight Saturday in Mohawk Place, 47 E. Mohawk St. There will be 15 bands, along with food, raffles and auctions. Tickets are $20.
Nikolas, son of Amherst residents James and Shanlee Perrone, who recently were transplanted to South Carolina, was born on Valentine’s Day with a rare congenital heart defect called Transposition of the Greater Arteries.
Hours after his birth, he was flown to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston for three heart surgeries that took more than 18 hours. Cardiologists tell his parents he should be able to lead a normal life but won’t rule out more surgery.
Proceeds from the benefit will pay for Niky’s medical bills, which total more than $50,000 and are covered only partly by insurance. For info or to donate auction items, contact Denise Perrone at damndatcat@adelphia.net.
••• REUNION NOTES — The annual reunion of the descendants of Giles and Sarah Dodd White will be held at 1 p. m. Sunday, beginning with dinner in the pavilion at Allen Park in Jamestown. Afterward, there will be a business meeting, election of officers and a white elephant auction. Members are encouraged to bring a wrapped item for the auction. Children’s items should be marked appropriately. For information, call Cecile Wilson at 483-0101.
Aug. 6 is the deadline for resevations for the annual luncheon of the salaried employees of the former Chevrolet plant on East Delavan Avenue, plus surviving spouses and guests. The luncheon will be held at 11:30 a. m. on Aug. 13 in Classics V Restaurant, 2425 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Call Frank Meyers at 833-0791, Anne Meyer at 833-6530 or Ron Leavy at 741-2399.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Nia J. Turner, Colleen Sarick, H. McCarthy Gipson, Mike Beebe, Frank Bifaro, Mary Catherine Comerford, Mark McHugh, Airborne Eddy Dobosiewicz, Blanca Rosado, Reese Barbara Vogt, Allison Powell, Molly Coia, Billy Wetter, Elliott Gruber, Donna Schneckenberger, Kelly Zabawa, Jim Sumbrum, David Kerwin, Jack Courtney, Charlotte White, Sister Mary Michelle Mazur, Sister Michelle Marie Stachowiak, Sister Mary Jessica Terek, Luana Westfield, Joseph Zabawa, Karen Byrns, Kim Kamrowski, Janice Klyczek, Jill Skretny, Elaine Richau, Toni Rott and Jay Harte.
