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VOLUME 6 ISSUE 45
LIVE Music
Beer and Wine Fest Weekend! Welcome to Holiday Valley’s 14th annual Beer and Wine Festival, Nov. 10 and 11, featuring live music and entertainment, a New Orleansstyle feast and, of course, the best of the best local brews and wines. On Friday, Nov. 10, “Beer on the Bayou” Beer and Wine Dinner starts at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Valley Lodge. This event will boast several dishes prepared with and pairing with unique and special brews, featuring Voodoo Brewery. Guests will begin their journey to the bayous of Louisiana with the “Ragin’ Cajun Cocktail Hour” and the dark magic of the Voodoo Mama, who will entrance guests with her dark magic and shadowy powers. Music and song, provided by Michael Nugent, will be a mixture of jazz, Cajun and Southern rhythms. On Saturday, the fun continues with the Holiday Valley Beer and Wine Festival, legendary for great beers, wines and good times. From 3:30 to 7:30 p.m., take your pick of over 100 beers and wines from New York State and the region, plus take in the entertainment on three floors of the beautiful Holiday Valley Lodge. Tickets include a 3 oz. tasting glass for unlimited sampling. Each ticket includes a $5 voucher redeemable for food in the cafeteria. The menu includes German favorites like sausage and pretzels, plus hot dogs, burgers, fries and poutine. In addition, EVL Cheese, jerky from Dom’s Butcher Block, Kettle Corn and the Bavarian Nut Company will offer snacks for festival patrons. Gary Liota from Santiago Cigars will be hand rolling cigars on the second floor deck. All three floors of the Holiday Valley Lodge will be alive with
Thurs • Joseph & Johnson • 8pm Fri • 2 Guys Drinkin’Beer • 9pm Sat • Live & Kickin’ • 9pm Wed • Wagner & Winston • 8pm
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Fri • Ozone Rangers • 7pm Sat • Strangers • 4pm
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Holiday Valley to Start Making Snow Friday See Snow Friday on page 7
Upcoming Events
November 10-11
Holiday Valley Beer and Wine Festival
November 18
CCAC Winter Arts Festival, Holiday Valley
November 24
See Beer and Wine page 10
Shop Local During Christmas in Ellicottville By Mary Heyl
Celebrate and perhaps discover a small business right in your own neighborhood on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25. While most associate the weekend after Thanksgiving with big box stores and long lines, Small Business Saturday promotes shopping local for unique gifts! Many local businesses throughout the area are participating in this national shopping day, offering sales, specials and simply a better holiday shopping experience that you won’t find anywhere else. See Shop Local page 6
Maple Grove Defends its Title, Knocks Off F/E By Sam Wilson
For two and a half quarters, Franklinville/ Ellicottville looked primed for a sectional title, and perhaps a run at the state championship. But a nine-point thirdquarter Titans lead went for naught Friday night at New Era Field, as they allowed See Titans page 4
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Tentative Opening Day Holiday Valley
November 24-26
Christmas in Ellicottville
December 1
Irish Christmas
December 2
Christmas Stroll & Living Nativity
Mud, Sweat n’ Gears: Growing Thoughtfully By Caitlin Croft
Mud, Sweat n’ Gears (MSG) has seen quite the transformation over the years, from its humble beginnings as a bike shop to the epitome of the Ellicottville snowsports
By Elizabeth Riggs
Veterans Day
On a flat, windy backroad in northwest Ohio, lives a 102-year-old woman named Elizabeth Casselman. For many in the community, my hometown, this remarkable lady is special for numerous reasons. Elizabeth was a kindergarten teacher for more than 30 years, and enjoyed the evergreen
popularity that goes along with a teaching career in a small town. She was also an active member of her church, a friend to many, and to me, a grandmother. But for all, she is a hero, as a World War II Marine. Grandma, who goes by “Betty”, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and living in Manhattan at the time of Pearl
See MSG page 5
See Veterans Day page 11
EVL and WV School Boards to Discuss Pre-Annexation Study By Rich Place
The Ellicottville School Board hopes to meet with West Valley School Board members before embarking on formal proceedings involved with a preannexation study in its
See ECS Board page 6
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