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JUNE 7-13, 2019
VOLUME 4 ISSUE 23
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
Springville readies for Dairy/Ag Festival this weekend By Deb Everts Residents of the Springville area are excited to have the 30th annual Western New York Dairy/Agricultural Festival back in the village this year, which will take place June 7-9. The event celebrates the dairy industry and the role of agriculture in people’s daily lives. This year’s theme is “Celebrating WNY Dairy/Ag Festival’s 30th Anniversary.” Festivities kick off Friday morning with “Drive Your Tractor to School Day.” The festival officially begins at 5 p.m. when rides by American Amusements open. Crafters will have their booths open until 8 p.m. that night and the Farm Tent will be open
until 9 p.m. Some of the highlights of this year’s festival will include the festival parade on Saturday at 10 a.m., the crowning of the Erie County Dairy Princess and ambassadors, a presentation of Western New York Dairy of Distinction awards, an “Ice Cream Eating Contest” sponsored by the Future Farmers of America (FFA) at 2 p.m. Saturday, and a “Name the Calf and Goat” contest at the Farm Tent all weekend. Meet the 201819 Dairy Princess Kristen Brown and her ambassadors at the Music Tent on Friday night from 8 to 9 p.m. The princess and her entourage will be in attendance all weekend
and have a stand set up with Upstate Farm’s Intense Milk. There will be live entertainment at the Music Tent all weekend. The Friday lineup includes the Springville School Chorus, Gene Hiltz & The Rustic Ramblers, and the Ozone Rangers. Saturday entertainers include Down Home Country Cloggers, Bill Coca and the Springville Jazz Band, Dark Red Duo, Band of Brothers, Dave Jeffer’s Magic Show, and Q. Phunk. Sunday’s music will include Ken Cornell and The Country Poor Boys, Backwoods Country Cloggers, Dave Tucker with Nip-N-Tuck. The crowning of the new Dairy Princess will also take place at the
Springville village board approves new look for Splash Park pad By Kellen M. Quigley A new look will be coming to the Springville Spray Park on Franklin Street thanks to support from the Springville Center for the Arts (SCA). At its regular meeting Monday, the Springville Village Board of Trustees approved a new design to be painted on the splash pad and will work with SCA to have it painted before the park opens. Tracy Maybray, director of operations at SCA, said she, Mayor William Krebs and Liz Melock, village administrator, had talked earlier in the spring about painting the Spray Park’s cement pad with an adjustment to the color. “We could easily design something to create more interest and have it be more colorful for the children who use it,” Maybray said. The design chosen is of a large fish bowl that features several sea creatures, including a whale, as well as some ocean plants inside. Krebs said approving a new design is a timely
matter since the Splash Park is scheduled to open June 15 and it would need to be painted and have a period to dry before then. “The Splash Park pad would be the perfect place to have some sort of art that draws people into the action,” he said. The mayor said they looked at other artwork from other municipalities. He said it’s an opportunity to stand right on a piece of community artwork and be a part of it. Maybray said they wanted to stick with a simpler design because it’d be easier to repaint each year. She said it would take about 15 gallons of paint to cover the whole pad. It was noted the village has blue paint to use as the base and background of the design. “A large amount of one color and then some adding in some primary colors and white can really do a lot with it,” Maybray added. Maybray also mentioned the success of some other the art projects from last year and said SCA hopes to do more projects this
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Looking back to when we were little, what stands out the most in your mind? Was it dinners during the week when the whole family sat down and talked? Not using a cell phone, but really looked at each other and talked. Maybe it was when we went on family outings, with mom and dad and all your siblings or cousins, running around playing games, laughing and enjoying each other company… again, no cell phones
summer, includes sidewalk stencils for kids to draw in chalk. IN OTHER BUSINESS, the village board approved the village being the lead agency and approved the SEQR and negative declarations concerning two proposed changes in the village. Two local laws concerning the changes, which are revisions of trees in the subways and the rezoning of Waverly, will be held at the June 17 meeting. The mayor was also authorized to sign the DWI contract with Erie County and the Time Warner tax bill correcting petition. Melock updated the board on the new recycling carts, which should be delivered to all residents taking part in the recycling program. On June 18, all recycling items must be in the carts. Melock said notices were sent to residents in the utility bills. Additionally, Melock said the 2019-20 tax bills were mailed out May 31
See Village Meeting page 2
Music Tent on Saturday, as well as the Dairy of Distinction awards. The Music Tent reopens Sunday morning at 10 a.m. with a service by the Faith Baptist Church. Other features and attractions include an arts and crafts show with 30 or more craft vendors,
new and antique farm equipment displays, farm activities for kids, an animal farm zoo and a food court. Pastor Kevin Friedman, who is organizing the event, said the event has been held at Springville-Griffith Institute High School
for three previous years, but it was not held at all last year due to grounds construction at the school. “We couldn’t find a place large enough to hold our event last year,” he said. “The grounds at Springville-Griffith are very well-kept and very nice. We have the use of the grass fields now when we used to be on dirt, which was kind of annoying to some folks.” According to Friedman, the idea of a festival became a reality 30 years ago at a kitchen table when an agriculture teacher and a farm family got together and planned the first one. They were thinking about the fun everyone could have, but also wanted to give people the opportunity See DAIRY page 6
Legislator Mills visits Springville board
Photo by Kellen M. Quigley Erie County Legislator John Mills, R-Orchard Park, stopped by the Village of Springville Board of Trustees meeting Monday to update the board with what’s happening in the area at the county level and to hear any comments or questions from the village. Mills discussed the tourism opportunities the Springville area has to offer, such as the Cattaraugus Creek and the Scenic Byway, calling Springville the “springboard” from Erie County to Cattaraugus County. Mills also addressed some questions the village had, including road work, recycling and school bus safety.
A Look Back:
The Founding Fathers of Springville and Concord
By Jolene Hawkins allowed. well as other men who The were fathers, would be Welsh honored on. We have have a word, been celebrating and “hiraeth,” that means honoring our fathers a homesickness for a ever since. home to which you People starting to cannot return, a home settle here in the village which maybe never of Springville and town was: the nostalgia, the of Concord in the year yearning, the grief for 1807, and we have a the lost places of your large list of “founding past, and maybe that is fathers” we can draw what we all have tucked from. Of course, there is away in our minds. Christopher Stone, the The First Father’s Day first settler in town, and celebration was held at his son Lucius, the first the YMCA on June 19, white child born in the 1910, in Spokane, Wash. town of Concord, in the William Jackson Smart year 1809. was a Civil War veteran, Rufus Eaton, in 1818, and a single parent to had a map or survey of his six children. One of the village made, and on his daughters, Sonora that map was included Smart Dodd, wanted a lot numbers two, day that her father, as three, eight and nine of
township six, range six of the Holland Land Company surveys. The first election of the Village officers was held on May 6, 1834, where Carlos Emmons,
Ebenezer Dibble, Jacob Rushmore, Joseph McMillen and Samuel Cochran were elected as trustees. Johnson Bensley, Richard Wadsworth,
Theodore Smith were elected assessors, Peter V.S. Wendover was clerk, Mortimer L. Arnold was collector, Pliny Smith was treasurer, Freeman Baily See A Look Back page 9