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OLAF FUB SEZ: The favorite jingle of Allan G. Odell, president of the company that made Bur-ma Shave and creator of those renowned rhyming roadside signs, born on this date in 1903: “Within This Vale/ Of Toil and Sin/ Your Head Grows Bald/ But Not Your Chin/ Burma Shave.”
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POINTS IN HEAVEN— Parishioners of St. John Catholic Church in Olean exceeded everyone’s wildest dreams last month when the Rev. James Vacco, parish administrator, told them that the local Warming House soup kitchen needed more meat products.
“When the secretary of the church counted the returned envelopes on the Monday of Holy Week, I was elated,” Vacco says. The donations totaled more than $2,500, enough to put meat on the table at the Warming House for the next four to five months.
Warming House has operated as an outreach and service ministry of St. Bonaventure University for 35 years and is believed to be the oldest student-run soup kitchen in the nation.
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REUNION TIME—The McKinley Vocational High School Alumni Association will hold its All Alumni Picnic from 1 to 5 p. m. on June 13 in Niagara Frontier Post 1041, American Legion, 533 Amherst St.
Also on June 13 is the all-year reunion for alumni of the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. It will be from 2 to 6 p. m. at the school’s new multi-million-dollar building, Masten Avenue and East Ferry Street. For information, call 783-7527 or visit http://bavpa.net.
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PASS THE PASTA—It’s time for another spaghetti dinner from 5 to 7 p. m. Thursday in Sikora Post 1322, American Legion, 950 Payne Ave., North Tonawanda. For $6, you get spaghetti, meatballs, salad, bread and butter, and a beverage; for an extra $1.50, a choice of homemade desserts.
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TISKETS, TASKETS— The Friends of Arcade Free Library are holding their annual theme basket auction from 10 a. m. to noon Saturday in Hope Lutheran Church, 2 E. Main St., Arcade. Before then, Friends President Janet Simons says, basket donations will be gratefully accepted at the library, 365 W. Main St.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Jenna Golden, Billy Hughes, Ken Kopacz, Phil Jarosz, Alexandra Kuhns, Nicholas Sikorski, Larry O’Connor, Myrtle Stackpoole, Larry Norton, Tom Stelmach, Kathy Cieslik, Gerard Nowak, Chuck Michalewski, Debbie Romano, Kerry Santucci, Kim Everett and Quinn Caroline Flaherty.
AND THURSDAY—Lori Piniewski, Gary Lutz, Joseph Sparacio, Patti Meyer, Elizabeth Hastie, Stella Janus, Grace Kozak, Andy Beale, Grace Elizabeth Rooth, Sue Dreier, Teresa Britzzalaro, Stella Czech, Rose Gallagher, Bryce Benham, Dee Birkemeier, Peter Wittmeyer, Lucy Wargo and Cherie Escott.
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