SEPTEMBER 13 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 37
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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
Local farms, gardens ready for a promising fall By Kellen M. Quigley As the nights become cooler and the days become shorter, the peak of the harvest is underway leading up to the beautiful fall weather hitting Western New York. On Vaughn Street (Route 240) between Springville and East Concord, several local farms and gardens are looking forward to the fall after a tough start to the season earlier this spring. “It was a challenging spring. May was very cold,” said Ellen Krzemien, owner of The Flower Stand, located at 13187 Vaughn St. “Even when the plants were ready to come out of the greenhouse and go in the ground, the soil was too cold and wet, so we did get a bit of a late start.” According to its website, The Flower Stand’s 2019 garden is just short of two acres and had over 150 varieties of flowers and a weekly community-supported agriculture flower subscription service. A little farther down the road at 12466 Vaughn
St., Wendel’s Poultry Farm offers more than just fresh and frozen chickens. Leading up to Halloween, they will have patches of pumpkins ready for picking. “It was an awful wet spring to get started to get the crops in the ground,” said Marty Wendel, a third-generation co-partner at Wendel’s. “We’re lucky enough that we’re on pretty gravelly ground, so the crops got in on time.” As of mid-August, Wendel said the pumpkins are progressing well and just starting to turn orange. “We’re right on course having orange pumpkins in the yard by the third weekend in September,” he added. Down at 12317 Vaughn St., Waterman’s Greenhouse also had a slow start to the year due to the amount of rain earlier in the season. “We would get a few good days, and then it would rain,” said coowner Ethan Waterman. “People weren’t purchasing plants as early as they normally would.” Although it was a longer and slower year for sales,
Waterman said it ended up working out because people continued to purchase past the normal slow-down time in July. “The first part of the season was very rough, but the second part of the season turned out to be pretty good,” he added. AS THE FALL days approach, Krzemien said the bounty is looking good at The Flower Stand. “The dahlias are just starting to get going,” she said, noting they have six new varieties, along with several late plantings and varieties of sunflowers. “We’ll have beautiful Photo by Kellen M. Quigley Although the main greenhouse season is done, Waterman’s Greenhouse has mums flowers right up until available for sale, one of the most popular fall flowers. the first hard freeze of October.” they have mums available, “The trees have had said maple syrup sales Back at Waterman’s, a seasonal favorite which plenty of rain this spring remained strong and is standout sales this year normally sells until midand plenty of sunshine,” looking forward to 2020. included a lot of different October, and then the he said. “With all that A big part of fall is colors of flowers, greenhouse will close for rain we had, I’m sure the Halloween season, including angelonias. the season. they grew quite well and and The Flower Stand “It’s gotten a lot more Meanwhile, at Wendel’s, healed last year’s holes up. is planning to have colors, a lot more uses Marty Wendel said they Usually, they can heal in pumpkins right through and the quality of the have new people stop one season now because Oct. 31. plant is a lot better,” “I like to grow the by the farm every week, we’re using a smaller Ethan Waterman said of which keeps the business diameter tap. We’re trying decorator pumpkins, the the angelonias. “It’s for rolling along, whether to stay ahead of any health blue and white and flat flowering all season long pumpkins for topiaries, problems that the trees and gives you some height for chickens, pumpkins Indian corn and gourds,” or their maple syrup might have.” in your containers.” During the fall, he said products. During 2019, Wendel See Farms page 3
Pop Warner Hall of Fame inductees announced
The Springville Athletic Scholarship Committee has announced the three inductees into the 2019 Pop Warner Hall of Fame. They are Judy (Schunk) Langworthy, Kyle Bicknell and Coach Jim Rindfuss. Judy (Schunk) Langworthy graduated from Springville-Griffith Institute in 1985. She was a four-sport athlete, participating in tennis, volleyball, basketball and softball. Langworthy was presented with the Pat Haddad Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Senior Female Athlete. She also participated
in Flag Football, was a National Honor Society Member and played flute in both the band and the orchestra. In college, Langworthy was a member of the volleyball and bowling teams. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY Fredonia in Business Administration. She went on to earn a Master’s degree from St. Bonaventure University in International Business and a Doctorate of Business Administration from. Warren National University Langworthy is the daughter of Ann and the
late Kenneth Schunk. She has been married to her husband, Todd, for 30 years and they have two children, Maitland and Travis. She has been employed at SUNY Fredonia for 22 years. — Kyle Bicknell graduated from SGI in 1986. He was a two-sport athlete, participating in basketball and football. Bicknell was honored with the Pop Warner Trophy and Sportsmanship Award. Along with his involvement with sports, he was president of his senior class. After high school,
Bicknell went on to SUNY Delhi where he graduated with a degree in Applied Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Today he works as a Motor Equipment Operator for the village of Depew residing in Depew with his wife, Wendy, of 28 years and two children, Kayla and Jacob. Now he enjoys camping with his family and friends, keeping active running half marathons with Kayla and playing disc golf with Jacob. Bicknell is the son of Jay and Judy Bicknell and younger brother of the 2017 Hall of Fame Inductee Tim Bicknell. — Coach Jim Rindfuss was with the SGI district from 1980 to 1995 when he retired. During his 15 years with the school, he coached the boys varsity basketball team, girls JV basketball team and the girls tennis team. See Inductees page 3
SGI cross country competes at West Seneca West
Photo by Jaime Dickinson The Springville girls cross country team poses for a picture after securing a first-place win as a team at the West Seneca West Invitational on Saturday.
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