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OLAF FUB SEZ: It was French author and dramatist Honore de Balzac, born on this date in 1799, who observed: “A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
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FLAPS UP—Crank up the Cessna and wing on out to Akron Airport, off John Street behind Akron Central High School, between 7 a. m. and noon on Memorial Day, Monday, to join the Western New York Group of the Civil Air Patrol at its annual Pancake Breakfast. If you don’t have a plane, drive-ins and walk-ins are welcome, too.
A breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage, juice and beverage is just $5 for adults, $2.50 for kids 6 to 12. Those 5 and under are free. Hamburgers, hot dogs and soft drinks will be offered from noon to 1:30 p. m. Airplane rides will be available from Christian Airmen, and many planes will be on display. Visitors are invited to bring along lawn chairs to watch all the aerial activity.
For information on the Civil Air Patrol, an official volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force, call Charles Jones, 754-2005, or e-mail cbjones3@verizon.net .
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WELL-HEELED— There’s one more weekend left to help out the Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown in its Shoe Drive to Benefit Soles4Souls, the shoe charity, during the theater’s current production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.”
Donations of gently used footwear or cash for people in need of shoes can be dropped off Thursday through Sunday at the theater box office, 18-24 E. Second St. Call 483-1095 or visit www.giveshoes.org.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Ashley Erickson, Jake Brancato, Adam Pyszczynski, Matt Marinaro, Renee Nicotera, Cindy Carlson, Sandra Yund, Diana Notaro, Jeanne Love, Solomon Konesky, Caroline Zurek, Stan Buczkowski, Sister Mercy Assarukudiyil, Sister Mary Albertine Stachowski, Sister Mary Fracella Turajski, Karen Miller, Cameron Schlegel, Dawn Prusinski, Deana Gnorek, William M. Finnegan, Anthony Fiorentino, Sara Lesswing, Fred E. Gatlin Sr., George Edward Stokes, Brynn Zaranek, David A. Quagliana, Tom Fronczak, Paula Stampfer and Michael Fox.
AND THURSDAY—Alissa Wilson, Julie Porter, Donna Dailey, Heather Paler, George Captain, Ann Ziemba, Linda Gaughan, Paully Dombrowski, Clare Esis, Edwin Rajewski, Jennifer Montante, Frank Di-Gennaro, Cheryl Fuller, Jason Schafer, Joe Prusinski, Virginia Zachowicz, Eileen Stocum and Tony Harasimowicz.
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