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OLAFFUB SEZ: According to TV talk show host Johnny Carson, born this date in 1925, “The only thing money gives is the freedom from not worrying about money.”
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LITTLE WHEELS—Motoring in Miniature will hold its 39th annual Toy Show to benefit the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Sunday in the Hearthstone Manor, 333 Dick Road, Depew. Antique and collectible toys will be featured.
••• BENEFIT BEAT—
Friends and family are hosting a benefit for Joel Martin, drummer with the Buffalo rock band The Strangers, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. It starts at 3:30 p. m. Sunday in the Lafayette Tap Room, 391 Washington St. Tickets are $25 and include an open bar and food. For info and donations, call 998-7988.
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STOCK UP—You can fill up the freezer from a variety of meat raffles this weekend:
• Cardinal O’Hara High School’s first holiday meat raffle, 39 O’Hara Road, Town of Tonawanda. Raffle starts at 6 p. m. today. Tickets are $4 and include beer and wine. Also, a freezer raffle, 50/50 club and theme basket auction.
• Bishop Timon-St. Jude High School, 601 McKinley Parkway. Doors open at 6 p. m. today, raffle starts at 7. Admission is $5 and includes beer, pop, snacks and roast beef sandwiches.
• Our Lady of Pompeii, 129 Laverack Ave., Lancaster. Doors open at 5 p. m. Saturday, raffle starts at 7. Admission is $6 and includes beer, wine, soft drinks, sandwiches, pizza and snacks. Also a 50/50 raffle and theme basket auction.
• South Buffalo Post 721, American Legion, 136 Cazenovia St. Doors open at 6 p. m. Saturday, raffle starts at 7. Admission is $3 and includes refreshments, snacks and food.
••• MONDAY ON OUR
MIND—Looking ahead to Monday, a theme tray auction to benefit Loaves and Fishes Dining Room, Variety Kids Telethon and other charities will be held in the Hellenic Orthodox Church Community Center, 146 W. Utica St. at Delaware Avenue. Doors open at 6
p. m., drawings start at 7:45. Admission is $5 and includes an autumn dessert, coffee and 25 auction tickets.
••• REUNION ALERT—
Graduates from all classes at the former Cardinal Dougherty High School are invited to another informal off-the-menu stag supper at 6:30 p. m. Monday in Tom’s Family Restaurant, 3221 Sheridan Drive at Bailey Avenue, Amherst. Reservations are appreciated. Call Steve Ash, Class of 1963, at
694-4492.
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DINNER BELL—After a three-year hiatus, Our Lady of the Lake Church is holding its 90th annual turkey dinner with all traditional recipes from noon to 3 p. m. Saturday at the St. Patrick’s site, 1726 Quaker Road, Barker. $8 adults; $4 kids 5 to 11; under 5 free.
The Annunciation Home School Guild and the Annunciation Holy Name Society jointly hold a pork chop dinner from 3:30 to 7 p. m. Saturday in Selbert Hall, 7580 Clinton St., Elma. Advance tickets only, $9 adults, $5 children under 12. For tickets, call the parish center at 683-5254 or Kelly Bettinger at 685-0125.
Trinity United Methodist Church, 711 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst, sponsors a spaghetti dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 p. m. Saturday. $7 adults; $3 kids 7 to 10; free 6 and under.
Church of the Holy Communion, Route 5 and Old Lake Shore Road, Lake View, hosts its fifth annual Oktoberfest Dinner from 4 to 7 p. m. Saturday, featuring homemade German specialties. $10 adults; $5 children; under 12. For info, call Rosanne Flynn at 947-9135.
Faith Lancaster United Methodist Church, 5505 Broadway, hosts a Chiavetta’s chicken barbecue beginning at 11 a. m. Sunday. $8.50, eat in or takeout.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Michelle L. Jones-Pace, Susan Kelleher, Pattie Mazur, Emily Fruehauf, Mickey Carroll, Sister Mary Edmundine Adamczak, David Troutman, Mark Panek, Steve Glynn, Nancy Gier, Rosa Simmons, Jessica Wild, Sara Marsowicz, Ruth Bernhardt, Stephanie Young, Thomas Farry, Adam Sabadasz, Joe Weiss, Jim Van Oss, Marie Simoncelli, Mary Pohlman, Mary Wiskup, Kyle Pietz, Andrei Reinhorn, Robert Schafer, Pam Murray, Nicholas Castiglione, Patricia T. Osmon, Sharon Urbaniak.
SATURDAY—Carol Feind, Sharon Gleason, Michael Decker, John Gangloff, Carl Austin, Doris O’Connor, Florian May, Rich Holstein, Cathie Zakrzewski, Jane Zakrzewski, Shannon Prell Schultz, Luke Wickett, Mary Washington, Brianna Zanelotti, Fred Ziemecki, Matthew McDonald, Peggy Lalley, Candy Oryszak, Joan Foran, Josephine Romanowski, Norma Winkowski, Nancy Nathan, Terry Jarmuz.
AND SUNDAY—Capt. William Connors, Grace Snyder, Andre Gilbert, Paul Johnson, Mark Lounsbury, Margaret
C. Caldwell, Don Puccio, Deanna Szymkowiak, Lois Comrie, Dr. Norman Stoj, Megan Captain, Tony Scime, Warren Gelman, Lottie Urban, Tyler Tin Han, Priscilla Granville, Kevin Halt, Billye Chilcott, Jon Navratil, Amanda Maynard, Madelynne Smith, Courtney Halligan.
olaffub@buffnews.com
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