MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2019
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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 22
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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
Springville Village Board to go with original treatment plant roof bid By Kellen M. Quigley More than three months after the initial malfunction at the Springville Wastewater Treatment Plant, the village board is moving ahead with plants to replace the cover of plant’s digester which blew up in February. At the Board of Trustees May 20 meeting, the board rescinded a resolution approved at the May 6 meeting to re-bid for both a replacement membrane cover and permanent steel cover. Initially, the village only did bids for the steel cover.
After rescinding the previous resolution, the village approved a contract with H&K Services $549,500 to install a permanent steel cover to the plant’s digester in place of the membrane cover. “We’ve been talking about this for quite a few minutes,” said Mayor Bill Krebs. “The steel cover, which is more expensive than the replacement cover, should be our best option.” The fixed stainless steel cover is the best replacement in value and effectiveness, providing for a longer lifespan of 30 to 40 years.
The village also considered installing a replacement membrane cover on the digester, which are expected to last 15 to 18 years. “Even though it’s more expensive now, over the length of the life of the steel digester cover … it would be much cheaper to the village,” Krebs said. According to Krebs, the cost of the steel cover would be offset with $350,000 from insurance, leaving about $200,000 for the village to cover, which would be paid for with a BAN barowed in July 2018 for a North Central sewer project no See A Look Back page 6
Remembering the fallen in Springville
Photo by Kellen M. Quigley The annual Memorial Day Parade led by the Springville Police and Fiddler’s Green Militia makes its way down West Main Street towards Maplewood Cemetery where ceremonies were held Monday. See additional coverage inside.
The Probables to kick off Thursdays, Downtown concerts in Springville By Kellen M. Quigley Folkgrass band The Probables will kick off the new Thursdays, Downtown concert series in Springville’s Heritage Park on Thursday, June 6. With a new lineup, The Probables features lead singer and songwriter Steve Johnson; Matt Gronquist on accordion, fiddle and vocals; Adam McKillip on mandolin and vocals; Ryan Ecklund on bass and Nick Campbell playing drums. Their blend of bluegrass instrumentation with a rock underpinning has increasingly brought them notoriety at music festivals. Johnson is well known to many concert goers in Western New York as the lead singer and main songwriter for the popular jam band Big Leg Emma. The band’s sets at Town Ballroom, Nietzsche’s, Club Infinity and other venues earned them many fans. After Big Leg Emma went on hiatus in 2015, Johnson picked up the pieces and created The
Submitted photo Folkgrass band The Probables will kick off the new Thursdays, Downtown concert series in Springville’s Heritage Park next Thursday, June 6.
Probables. When writing material for the band, he stayed true to his rock, folk and bluegrass influences. Now with an EP, full-length album and a few band member changes, The Probables appear to be firing on all cylinders. The group’s name was given during an exchange with the
Looking back to when we were kids, who didn’t fold up paper into a airplane and fly it across the room. And of course, there were the kits you could get, made out of balsa wood, that you could assemble and fly the airplane. How fun we thought that was! But can you imagine, at the age of 13, having a dream and making a glider model to fly, and then the next year, designing another model that was the longest model glider flight ever
At 6 p.m., Steve Bell will introduce African drumming before the main concert. Bell leads a Monday-night drum circle in Heritage Park and will provide several instruments so visitors may join in. Parents with young children can watch the concert while children are engaged in art
making. With funding from the SpringvilleGriffith Community Education Foundation, Springville Center for the Arts will bring their popular Spark! creativity program outdoors. Preschool and early elementary school students can stop at the Spark in the Park tent for free activities.
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organizer of the annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman. The band had not yet chosen a name when they expressed interest in making a debut at the annual festival. The organizer of the festival responded, “I’ll probably book you, so I guess we should just call you The Probables.”
Food will be available from Jake and The Fatman BBQ. A small farmer’s market will be set up with beef and maple from Kwilos Farms, fresh produce and hemp products from Farm and Peace, and eggs and produce from Crown Hill Farm. Thursdays, Downtown is a partnership between the town of Concord, village of Springville and Springville Center for the Arts. Future concerts include Volver on June 13, Canal Street String Band on June 20 and Buffalo Silver Band June 27. The series runs every Thursday through August 22. Heritage Park is located on Factory Street, Springville. Main acts begin at 6:30 p.m. The park is handicap accessible and bathroom facilities are available. In the event of rain, the concert may be moved to the Mongerson Theater at Springville Center for the Arts, 37 North Buffalo St. For details or more information on vending, contact the arts center at 592-9038.
By Jolene Hawkins
achieved in America at the time? What time was that? The year was 1894. Who was the kid who did it? Charles Morgan Olmsted, the sixth son of John Bartow Olmsted, the man who Olmsted camp is named after. In 1894 and 1895, Charles attended Harvard University, and afterwards, he went to Gottingen University and Wilhelm Institute and got his PhD from Kaiser Wilhelm. By 1909, Olmsted had returned to Western New York, when the Buffalo Pitts Co, a manufacturer of threshers and steam engines for tractors and other farm equipment,
decided to expand to airplanes as well. Olmsted was given $50,000 and designed a sleek plane of gauge chrome vanadium steel and other material. His efficiency propeller, mounted as a “pusher” behind the engine, would drive it. In 1910, Olmsted and Buffalo Pitts formed a syndicate and became only the third company in the nation, after the Wright Brothers and Curtiss, to be incorporated as an aircraft maker. In 1912, the Olmsted-BuffaloPitts Monocoque Bird airplane, with wings made of chromevanadium steel,
aluminum and basswood lamination, had a fuselage molded of Monocoque laminated birch. It was the first time an “airplane” of scientifically engineered
design and structure was to be manufactured. It was also one of the first airplanes to be built in Buffalo. Olmsted established his own firm to make his propellers, which were
used by Glenn Curtiss in the flying sea boat airplane the America and Edith, in 1914 and in various World War I military planes. These flying boats See A Look Back page 2