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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to President Warren G. Harding, born on this date in 1865, “I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, . . . they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!”
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Mis-Manners It’s considered rude For one to burp And it’s not nice For one to slurp, Which is why I prefer To stay at home And eat alone Amid the joys
Of my mealtime noise. —Joyce L. Wilson
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ELECTION DAY EATS —After you work up an appetite exercising your right to vote on Tuesday, drop in at an Election Day fundraising feast.
St. Paul Episcopal Church, Fourth and Ridge streets, Lewiston, offers its Election Day Chicken ’N’ Biscuits for lunch from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. and again for dinner from 5 to 7 p. m., with homemade desserts. It’s $7 adults, $5 children.
In South Buffalo, South Park United Methodist Church, 2291 South Park Ave. at Ashton Place, hosts its annual Election Day Turkey Luncheon and Dinner. Luncheon is noon to 1:30 p. m., $5 adults, $4 children. Dinner is 4 to 7 p. m., $9 adults, $4 children. Kids under 4 eat free. There’s also a bazaar from 1 to 7 p. m.
South Wales Presbyterian Church on Emery Road in South Wales holds its Election Day Luncheon from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. with homemade soups, a salad bar, chili, hot dogs and homemade desserts.
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HOMETOWN HERO— Tonight is Military History Night at the North Tonawanda History Museum, 54 Webster St., and, at 7, Niagara County Historian Catherine Emerson will mark the occasion by telling the tale of World War I Pfc. Frank J. Gaffney, a Buffalonian praised as “the second bravest man in the American Army.” The program is free and open to the public.
According to his Congressional Medal of Honor Citation, on Sept. 29, 1918, near Ronssoy, France, Gaffney, “pushing forward alone, after all the other members of his squad had been killed, discovered several Germans placing a heavy machine gun in position. He killed the crew, captured the gun, bombed several dugouts, and, after killing four more of the enemy with his pistol, held the position until reinforcements came up, when 80 prisoners were captured.”
Gaffney died in 1948 at the age of 64 and is buried in the United German and French Cemetery in Cheektowaga.
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BARREL OF FUN—A good, old-fashioned rain barrel is one way to cut down on pollution from storm water runoff after a big rain and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has gotten 161 of them to give away, mostly to community groups for installation in public places, thanks to a grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
To find out how a rain barrel can work for you, stop in at one of their rain barrel workshops. The next one is 1 to 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Power Vista, 5777 Lewiston Road, Lewiston.
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MILITARY NOTES—Six Western New Yorkers recently completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. They are:
• Airman Chad A. Brooks, son of Dale and Kathleen Brooks of Albion. He is a 2006 graduate of Albion High School.
• Reserve Airman Kristie L. Durst, daughter of Donna Gold of Buffalo.
• AirmanMichaelN. Green, son of Louise Seifart of Lyndonville and Albert Green of Lockport. He is a 2008 graduate of Lyndonville High School.
• Airman Mark A. Gustas, a 2005 graduate of Lancaster Central High School.
• AirmanEdwardF. Loughrey III, son of Jane Laughrey of Niagara Falls.
• AirmanKatieE. Strauch, daughter of Larry Strauch and Kathleen Benedict of Buffalo. She is a 2008 graduate of Hutchinson Central Technical High School.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Mary Riordan, Diana Mura, Florence Sodus, Gary Giglia, Joan Guarino, Terrance R. Rooth, Lizzie Ropach, Natalie Sobczynski, Ryan Hennigan, Carol Staszczyk, Shane McNamara, Derek Kania, Mike Dubel, Kathy Pollock, Thom Burnett, Tom Stahl, Jean Burke, Charles Masino and Moose Higgins.
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