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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 20
DECEMBER 2-8, 2016
The Official Newspaper
of the Village of Springville, NY Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
Christmas Carols in the Park Dec. 3 By Alicia Dziak
If you’re looking for a fun way to get into the holiday spirit, look no further than Christmas Carols in the Park, happening this Saturday, Dec. 3. At 6:30 p.m., meet up with friends old and new at Fiddler’s Green Park, where an evening of festive music will be centered around the gazebo. “This event will be for the community,” said Debbie Hintz, director of the Trading Post, who is sponsoring the event. “It is a way to bring everyone together to celebrate the Christmas season.” Local musicians Hintz of Thunder and George Miller will lead the caroling. “There will be a candle lighting for our last song of Silent Night,” Hintz stated.
Oh Christmas Tree! Upcoming Local Tree Farms
Events
Springville Area
By Alicia Dziak
The holiday season is here, which means checking off the gift-giving lists, preparing holiday treats and of course, dragging out all of those bins and decorating the house. For many, transforming your space into a winter wonderland isn’t complete without the addition of a Christmas tree, and lucky for us, the Springville area boasts many spots to find your perfect pine.
December 3 Christmas Carols in the Park December 3 Concord Country Christmas
See Tree Farms page 5
December 10 Fuller Family Holiday Event at Springville Health & Fitness
A LOOK BACK:
Hintz envisions the event as “a simple production in a great setting.” “Our goal is to make this an annual event,” she added. This is an outdoor event, so come dressed for the weather.
Spend an evening celebrating the season and enjoying the company of your neighbors. Christmas Carols in the Park is sure to become a new community tradition!
Christmas Clubs Promoted Holiday Savings
December 15 SGI Staff/Alumni and Celebrity Basketball Game to benefit Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Fuller Family Holiday Event Dec. 10
By Alicia Dziak
Pictured is Citizens Bank at the corner Main and North Buffalo Streets around 1911. The building was originally built as the First National Bank of Springville in the 1883. The old First National Bank was dissolved and the Citizens Bank took over the building in 1902. This Citizens Bank is not to be confused with the larger chain Citizens Bank in Tops Supermarket. The old Citizens Bank was a local bank; its depositors and the board were comprised of local businessman. The bank was known offering loans and building up Springville’s manufacturing base as well as its Christmas Club. In 1927, at its Silver anniversary, it claimed to have financed Winsmith, the Canning Factory, Smith and Smith Manufacturing, Walling Brothers and many more. The building was razed in 1935 to build the new yellow brick structure that still stands today as the Springville Municipal Office Building. (If you walk by the village offices in the back of the building and look up, you can still see the vault alarm.) The bank itself was sold to Marine Midland in 1956. Marine Midland then built the new structure on Buffalo Street before being bought by HSBC, and is now Community Bank.
As the community continues to band together and be #springvillestrong, we head into the holiday season looking for additional ways to help the family of Alyssa Hearn. Community members would like to give Alyssa’s family a special Christmas this year, and so was planned the Fuller Family Holiday Event and Zumbathon. This event takes place on Saturday, Dec. 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Springville Health & Fitness, 243 West Main Street in Springville. It’s open to all and admission will be an unwrapped gift for the family. Gift suggestions include: Ideas for Alyssa’s 9-year-old brother Kyle and 10-year-old brother Parker—Disney Gift Cards (Alyssa always wanted to go to Disney World, so Kyle wants to plan a trip), anything Nerf, art/drawing supplies, an airbrush kit, anything remote control, video games for Xbox. Ideas for Alyssa’s baby brother, MJ — baby dirt devil vacuum, balls, cars, trucks, 24 months clothes. Ideas for Alyssa’s mom, Katie— Any
By Derek M. Otto
Do you have the Black Friday blues? This is that horrible feeling that you spent too much on holiday shopping or even worse, charged way too much on your credit card.
See A Look Back page 8
KB’s Goslin Receives Kubicki Award
See Fuller Family page 5
By Jennie Acklin
Middle School Musical Dec. 9-10
It’s time again for the Middle School’s annual musical production! If you thought you knew the story of The Princess and The Pea, you may be in for quite a surprise! The mischievous Minstrel (Christian Safford) and Jester (Rachel Stressinger) bring you the little-known ‘true story’ that begins long ago on a stormy night. The quest to find a princess for Prince
This syndrome could also be caused by the reality you had not put enough away. In the last century, banks tried to help customers by creating Christmas club accounts. By the 1900s, Christmas
shopping was really starting to flourish in American cities. To help customers better prepare for the holiday, the treasurer of the Carlisle Trust Company in Carlisle, PA started a Christmas Club to help people save for the holiday. This first Christmas club in America grew to have 350 patrons and each saved about $28. The money was dispersed on Dec. 1. The concept didn’t spread readily. Neither the bankers nor the customers were going to make money; the interest was zero or very small. The small savings accounts were more or less safe guards for the money.
Dauntless the Drab (Wyeth Messer) turns out to be a hilarious adventure, featuring many colorful characters, including an overbearing Queen (Morgan Harrington), a mute King (Austin Yetter) and a brave Knight (Zachary Scime). The ladies and gentleman of the kingdom cheer on the boisterous Princess Winnifred (Campbell Brown) as she See MS Musical page 4
Debbie Goslin, snowsports director of Kissing Bridge, is the 2016 recipient of the Ron Kubicki Staff Appreciation Award. This is only the second year of the award, and was presented to Goslin at the Snowsports Management Seminar at Killington, VT, on Tuesday, Nov. 29. In October 2015, the Professional Ski Instructors of America, Eastern Division’s Board of Directors approved the creation of the new award for snowsports school directors, and named it after Holiday Valley’s Ron Kubicki, who retired in November 2015 after decades of service at the resort. The award recognizes snowsports school directors of smaller, and perhaps less-known, resorts that have demonstrated support and advocacy for their staff and earned tremendous respect, admiration and loyalty from their school staff members. Goslin started teaching at Kissing Bridge in the winter of 1976. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she and her husband, Tim, welcomed three children
See Goslin page 3
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