NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 5, 2019
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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 48
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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
Celebrate the holidays in Springville this December By Kellen M. Quigley With Thanksgiving now past, the holiday season is officially here and a variety of festive events will be happening in Springville this December. Before you turn the page on your calendar, holiday events begin Nov. 30 with Very Merry Springville, continuing the two-weekend event that began Nov. 23. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the village, enjoy Small Business Saturday with over 40 local businesses participating. There will be activities by the Springville Area Chamber of Commerce in the Lucy Bensley Center and caroling in the streets provided by local singers and musicians. Families and children of all ages can enjoy the atmosphere while getting some early shopping done. Also this Saturday, the Springville Volunteer Fire Department will hold its Thanksgiving Weekend
Antique Auction at the Banquet Hall on West Main Street. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., seeing what treasures and unique holiday gifts await you. Then on Dec. 2, head down to the newly renovated and recently reopened Joylan Theatre for a special showing of the Bing Crosby classic film “White Christmas,” hosted by the Kiwanis Club of Springville. Showing on the big screen at 7 p.m., attending the film is free, but the Kiwanians are asking you to bring a toy to donate for those less fortunate. Toys collected will be used in the Kiwanis and Trading Post Christmas toy distribution projects. Festivities continue Dec. 7 with the annual Concord Country Christmas celebration at the Concord Mercantile/Heritage building at 17 Franklin St. in Springville. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., there is plenty of holiday
cheer to go around. You can pick up some great Christmas cookies starting at 10 a.m. Grab a few dozen and keep them in your freezer until Christmas dinner — if they last that long. There will be some wonderful bakers that donate them for the Concord Historical Society to sell. You can pet a reindeer and get your picture taken with them from noon until 3 p.m. Santa will be there from 1 to 2 p.m. and there will be some great live music from noon until 3 p.m. For some special hometown Christmas shopping, you can stop in the country store and pick up a unique homemade gift as well. Walk through the Heritage Building and see the displays in there as well. Also that Saturday, the Our Savior Lutheran Church is hosting a Free Christmas Kickoff. Held from 2 to 4 p.m. at 431 See Christmas page 4
Christmas time is here
Times file photo Santa and one of his reindeer are set to return to the Concord Historical Society for the Concord Country Christmas on Dec. 7, one of several holiday events planned in the Springville are in the coming weeks.
Tim & Bonnie’s Pizza opens third location in Gowanda
Submitted photo Tim & Bonnie’s Pizza has opened a third location at 17 E. Main St. in Gowanda in the former business space of Red’s Drive-In Restaurant.
By Deb Everts
Photo by Alex Simmons Santa gives the OK to turn on the lights of the Village Christmas tree at Main and Mechanic streets in the Springville as part of the first weekend of Very Merry Springville festivities. The event continues this Saturday for Small Business Saturday with over 40 local businesses participating and activities for families all from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the village. See more photos on page 10.
Tim & Bonnie’s Pizza has opened a third location at 17 E. Main St. in the village of Gowanda. The popular pizzeria is now open in three convenient locations with the other two in Springville and Ellicottville.
The string of pizzerias is owned by Tim and Bonnie Garey of Springville. Their daughter, Tiffany Frentz, who manages the Ellicottville location, will also manage the Gowanda location along with Anthony Procacci of Hinsdale. According to Frentz,
the new location opened Oct. 23. She said opening a third location was an idea her family has been toying around with for a while. Then, the opportunity arose when the building in the former business space of Red’s Drive-In Restaurant was for sale. See Tim & Bonnie’s page 3
A Look Back: Pearl Harbor Day – Part 1 By Jolene Hawkins
By Jolene Hawkins Looking back into history to an event that will stay in all of our minds forever. The event took place on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m., at 11:29 a.m., again at 11:59 a.m. and at 12:41 p.m. This event is known as Pearl Harbor Day, but as I was reading the
account from the Honolulu newspapers I discovered more than the harbor was attacked. I am sharing the history of this in two parts. This article will be from the Honolulu newspaper accounts of that day and the days that followed. The morning headlines of the Honolulu Star Bulletin on December the 7th, 1941, read: “War! Oahu Bombed by Japanese planes.” That edition of the newspaper said six known dead and 21 injured… could any of them imagine what was to come and happened? Civilians
were ordered to stay off the streets, do not drive on the roads and to stay calm. All Navy personnel and Civil Defense workers (except women) were ordered to duty at Pearl Harbor. The areas of the attack were Wheeler field, Hickman field, which took a direct hit and 350 were killed, Kaneohe Bay, Nuuanu, Naval air stations and Pearl Harbor, along with the Governor Mansion. Fragments of bombs were located all over, some weighing up to a pound. Some people who lived in the hills could see the planes. They reported that they were
flying so low, they could look out of their windows and see the faces of the pilots who flew the planes, and they saw the rising sun on the wings of the plane, not knowing at the time what was to happen. Whether they wanted it or not, they were able to watch as the areas were being bombarded and attacked. You can read letters from one such family in a book called “December 7, 1941, Letters from Hilltop House” compiled by Cosette Morrison Harms, the daughter of the family and see what happened and read how they felt over that time. A plane crashed into
Wahiawa, and that plane, along with two houses, was destroyed by fire. By the afternoon edition of the newspaper, the death toll was over 400 people, 300 wounded. The headline is reading that: “Tokyo announces ‘State of War’ with U. S. A, Guam, and Panama.” More than 100 trucks respond for Volunteer
duty and assembled at the Palace grounds for the ambulance committee. Farrington High School was taken over by the army for a hospital. Trucks from the Honolulu Construction and Draying Company were delivering lengths of fire hose about the city where they were See A Look Back page 8