Reporters’ Notebook/
Bits and pieces of news...
Updated: 10/06/08 6:31 AM
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to Irish political leader Gerry Adams, born on this date in 1948, “Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.”
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REUNION ALERT — Attention, members West Seneca East High School’s Class of 1983. You have until 4 p. m. today to call in your reservation for the dinner part of your 25th reunion this weekend. Dinner is from 7 to 11 p. m. Saturday at Darcy McGee’s Irish Pub, 257 Franklin St., which will be closed to the public for the occasion. Tickets are $50 and include an open bar. Call Jim Fagan at 308-3820, Maria Brant at 674-8339, Dan McCartan at 913-7114 or Rob Robson at (585) 225-0563.
Second part of the reunion comes next Sunday afternoon at Strikers, the former Southgate Lanes, at 50 Michael Road, West Seneca. Now owned by classmate Mike Grieble, there will be no cover charge, a cash bar and plenty of snacks and drink specials.
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Zoom! The last bridge is built In the Colden hamlet. You no longer have to detour To get where you want to get.
We citizens have been Pictures of grim patience As we took the long way to the post office (etc.)
Now is the new time Of a great day To get where you’re going Without delay. — Dorothy Fleckenstein Hrycik
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WET PAINT — Oil painting techniques will be the topic of a presentation by artist Jamie Weil of Lockport at the monthly meeting of the Lancaster-Depew Twin Village Art Society at 7 p. m. today in the Lancaster Municipal Building, Broadway and Central Avenue, Lancaster. Admission is free. Guests are welcome. Please enter through the back parking lot.
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COUNTRY ROADS — Discover autumn leafscapes in Erie, Cattaraugus, Wyoming and Allegany counties on a 115-mile route from Hamburg to Arcade to Holland next Sunday in the Discover America Road Rally sponsored by Rallymasters of WNY. All vehicles are eligible in the competition and no special equipment is needed.
Registration begins at 9:30 a. m. at the Holiday Inn on Camp Road in Hamburg and the first car rolls away at noon. Finish is at the Holland Willows Restaurant in Holland. For details, call Tom Krajewski at 941-6504 or visit www.rallywny.com.
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MILITARY NOTES — Army Reserve Spec. Kimberly R. Trudeau has been deployed to a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A civil affairs specialist with six years of services, she is normally assigned to the 448th Civil Affairs Battalion, Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. A 1998 graduate of Hamburg High School, she is the daughter of Diane Hull of Hamburg and Paul D. Ruh of Buffalo.
Spec. Andrew R. Allbright has returned to the 126th Aviation Battalion in Rochester after being deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A medium helicopter repairer with four years of service, he is the son of Patty D. Million of Warsaw and a 2001 graduate of Letchworth Central High School.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Frank Richards, Lynn Whitford, Brian Higgins, Jay Rey, Barbara Ganis, John LaFalce, Janet Rokitka, Courtney Williams, Mike Waltz, Maria Ganci, Joseph D. Zanghi, Ron Locke, Margie Panek, Wally Kupkowski, Sister Mary Christine Ganczewski, Joe Zelasko, Scott Patrzyk, Jeremy Wasielewski, Don Grzebielucha, McKenzie Lore, Kenny Winkelsas, Quantrell Tate II, Butch Halliman and Brandon Lysenco.
