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JANUARY 17, 2020
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 3
CAR. TR. MKTG MAIL US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 244 BRADFORD, PA
L I L V E G SP RIN TIMES
The official newspaper of the Town of Concord, and the Village of Springville. Serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
The Ladles to perform Saturday at SCA By Alex Simmons This week, the musical trio The Ladles will bring a blend of swing, oldtime, folk, pop and choral music to the Springville Center for the Arts stage. On Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m., The Ladles will perform various songs creating a “dreamy out worldly atmosphere that draws audiences in and demands attention,” according to the Springville Center for the Arts website. The band formed in the winter of 2014 at the New England Conservatory of Music, “where Katie, Caroline and Lucia were students in the Contemporary Improvisation department,” the band said. They “spent hours singing and singing together in the NEC dormitories which led
Photo submitted The Ladles will bring their blend of swing, old-time, folk, pop and choral music to the Springville Center for the Arts this Saturday.
to a house concert at a friends house,” the band states.
The trio then began to perform regularly around the Boston area as “The
Concord Senior Center progress reported to town board By Kellen M. Quigley Big things are happening at the Concord Senior Center, and its director hopes things keep going that way in the months to come. During the reorganizational meeting of the Concord Town Board, senior center director Eleanor Eschborn updated the board on all that’s been happening in recent months, including the expansions and progress that has been made for seniors in the town and what she hopes to keep rolling in 2020. “First of all, I wish to thank the town board and all the board members for all the help you’ve given the senior center last year,” she said. “The senior center has really grown.”
In 2019, Eschborn said the center served 5,003 lunches, compared to the roughly 1,200 served just a few years ago. She said this is partially due to increasing lunches to five days a week instead of only three. In the fall, the center also began offering breakfasts on select days, but has since expanded to five days. “It’s starting slow, but we’re having quite a few for breakfast now,” Eschborn said. Also in the fall, Eschborn and the center have begun managing the scheduling and operation of the town’s senior van. With a few new policies in place, including having to be registered in order to utilize the service, she said things are in much better control.
“Since I have taken over, I’ve been having people riding together,” she said. “We’re doing the same amount or even more appointments, but doing less miles because people are riding together, so that should help the van.” Eschborn said the van’s gas is now coming from the town. Additionally in 2019, the center and Eschborn assisted 247 seniors with social service work. “That goes to show that we need something for a social worker in the area,” she said. “It’s really a hardship for a lot of the seniors to go to Buffalo. So far this year, I have 11 people already that come to me for social service work.” Looking to the new year, two pilot programs with Erie County are See Town Board page 2
Ladles.” The name comes from an altered “ladies room”
sign in Jordan Hall. The members Katie Martucci (guitar, voice),
Lucia Pontoniere (fiddle, voice) and Caroline Kuhn (tenor banjo, voice), are joined on stage by Dan Klingsberg on upright bass and Dan Kleederman on electric guitar. The band creates a beautiful three-part harmony. Their sound has been said to “quiets noisy bars and liven up staid concert halls,” the band said. Within a year, The Ladles recorded their debut EP and “booked a six-week summer tour.” In 2019, they released their first full length album called “The Line.” If you are interested in seeing The Ladles at the Springville Center for the Arts, you can buy tickets at www.springvillearts. org, call the Arts Center at (716) 592-9038, or buy tickets at the door. Tickets cost $14 Pre-Sale and $17 at the door.
SGI swimmers top Iroquois; Fuller sets records at diving invite
Photo by Jaime Dickinson Springville’s Austin Yetter competes in the 200-meter individual medley on Jan. 10 against Iroquois.
On Friday, Jan. 10, the Springville boys varsity swimming and diving team improved its record to 7-2 on the year by defeating Iroquois. Individual winners on the night were Eric
Schweickert in the 200 Freestyle, Austin Yetter in the 200 IM, Wyatt Fuller in Diving, and Zach Hughey in the 100 Backstroke. Springville also took first in all three relays.
Contributing key finishes as well were Connor Hughey, Elliot Emley, Justin Buczek, Garrett Casey, Max Boettger and James Snyder. The following day, See Swimming page 7
A Look Back:
The Concept of Dating with Fans By Jolene Hawkins
Looking back to the concept of dating, how has it evolved? Throughout the Victorian era, (the 1830s to 1900), there was a strict set of rules and etiquette that governed all aspects of everyday life. The day-to-day life of the average middle class or upper class was directed by rule after rule. It was during this
time period that a coded message became popular, but how was the coded message relayed? Why, though the lost art of fan language! You seldom see a photograph or drawing of a lady who is dressed up during that time that does not have a fan in her hands or nearby. Some had ivory handles, with hand-embroidered or painted flowers on one side or bird on the other. It was the perfect gift for a lady of good taste. These fans became works of arts and here in Springville. There are ads
as early as 1846 where you could purchase a fan at Butterworth & Fox under the items for Ladies, fancy Gingham, lace and fancy silks, cravats, veils, shawls, gloves and delicate fans. Spencer & Blake in 1848 advertised boxes of fans and laces to choose from. In 1878, William H. Freeman store, at greatly reduced prices, had shawls, parasols, gloves, fans, hosiery and more. Smith Brothers store carried them, as did N.K. Thomson’s store. Beebe & Myers advertised them in the 1880s. Now they are made of feathers, usually composed of ostrich feathers, swan or peacock
feathers, gilt paper, hand painted, some were oval-shaped, some made of gauze or lace, silk fans as well. A few had semiprecious gems were in delicate colors of pink, cream, yellow and mauve. They were described as having delicate handpainted fans, and the sticks or reed could be mother of pearl or onyx. They could have had silver sticks covered with spangles and could be hung from the waist with style with slender silver linked chains. They often matched the dress or gown. By the 1920s, the ostrich feathers plume would be dyed to match the dress color.
And what of the coded message? Like nowadays, where you have LOL (laugh out loud) or TTYL (talk to you later), the movements of the fans had meanings too. I would need a cheat sheet to keep up with all of them. “Fan flirtation rules” were a way to cope with the restricting
social etiquette. You must have had to practice them just to remember them all, not to mention that the young fellows had to learn the language of fans. Holding the fan in the left hand signified a “desired to get acquainted.” Resting the fan on the right cheek See A Look Back page 2