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OLAF FUB SEZ: A favorite wish from former Beatle Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey on this date in 1940, “I’d like to be/ Under the sea/ In an octopus’ garden with you.”
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CHEZ NOUS—Nacel Open Door, a student exchange program, has a group of students from France arriving here Thursday and needs a few host families to share their homes for three weeks. Host families will be reimbursed and have the priceless opportunity to get to know a young person from another culture. For information, call program coordinator Carol Clark at 627-4759 or 627-7081.
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GREEK GALORE—If you love Buffalo’s annual Greek Festival, then get ready for an even bigger Greek Festival this weekend as Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 4376 West Lake Road, Erie, Pa., holds its 21st annual Panegyri. The festival features a la carte Greek meals indoors and snacks such as Greek hot dogs and fries outside, live music and Greek folk dance groups, plus a display of iconography and tours of the internationally acclaimed church. Admission to the three-day event is free.
“Our festival has become so popular that patrons of the Erie Times-News have voted our festival as one of the top two celebrations in the tri-state area,” says organizer Sallie Capotis. For information, call (814) 838-8808 or visit www.erieorthodox.org.
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LOST AND FOUND—A few spaces still are open in Forgotten Buffalo’s next tour—“A Clinton Affair: Kaisertown and Beyond”—which kicks off at 5 p. m. Saturday. Led by urban explorers Maxwell Truth, host of Off Beat Cinema, and local historian Marty Biniasz, it originally was going to be a tour of Kaisertown only, but “there were a couple joints on both sides of Kaisertown that we thought were worth a visit,” Truth reports.
Tours are $40. For details, call 833-5211 or visit www.forgottenbuffalo.com.
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MORE REUNIONS— The Reunion Committee of the West Seneca Central High School Class of 1962 is trying to locate missing members of the class to invite them to their annual reunion at 2 p. m. July 18 in Connors Restaurant, 3465 Seneca St., West Seneca. Call Sue Rys at 675-5463.
The 27th annual St. Boniface-Fruit Belt reunion of students, teachers, parish priests and present and former parishioners is set for Aug. 5 in Protocol restaurant, 6766 Transit Road, Amherst. Last year, 121 people attended. For information, call Paul Wieser at 689-8945, Jean DeRouche at 873-1220 or Bob D’Angelo at 876-4458.
The Class of 1957 at Buffalo School 11 will hold a reunion Aug. 8 in Stiglmeier Park in Cheektowaga. For information, call Neal Reynolds at 668-2984.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Sister Jeanette Schregel, Sarah Boehringer, Samantha Cycon, Patty Rogalski, Louise Ganci, Mike Shieber, Paul Mielcarek, Lorna Brewer, Carolyn Raeke, Ray Kaczmarek, Carla Brogcinski, Irene Granica, Irene Vohwinkel, Aaron Giambra and Megan Lichtenthal.
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