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DECEMBER 21-28 , 2017
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 51
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Serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
Merry Christmas Break!
Upcoming Events
By Alicia Dziak
Dec. 25 Merry Christmas! Now-Jan. 1 Jozwiak’s Mill Street Light Show Dec. 27-29 Emerling Holiday Basketball Tournament Dec. 29 Late Night Great Night Kissing Bridge Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve Celebration and Torchlight Parade Kissing Bridge Jan. 5-7 Everything Buffalo Weekend Kissing Bridge
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The kids (and hopefully adults!) are off until 2018, and it’s time to celebrate the season with endless fun over this holiday break. Hit the slopes! Kissing Bridge is now open. Lifts are spinning and the powder is calling all skiers and snowboarders! Take advantage of 11 Days of Christmas specials that include $45 – Unlimited Weekend Tickets, $25 – Unlimited Weekday Tickets and $25 Night Tickets now through Christmas. Night skiing begins at 3 p.m. Monday-Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. This season brings many improvements to KB. One that guests will immediately notice is the new entrance to the Central Area’s ticket center, and the carpeted interior of the lodge. KB
merchandise will now be for sale at the ticket center. There is also a new children’s center, located just across from the ticket center entrance.
Other improvements the Holly chair has been include expanded terrain on resurfaced. the beginner’s slope, which Visit www.kbski.com for now gives newbies a basic more info. slope and an intermediate run to work with, and See Christmas Break page 5
Eppolito Gives Final Farewell at Concord Town Board Meeting
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The recent meeting of the Concord Town Board was a bittersweet one for outgoing Town Supervisor Gary
Eppolito, who served in the position since 2005 and concludes a local political career that spans nearly 40 years.
During a relatively light meeting in terms of business, Eppolito took time to reflect on his political career. He did not seek reelection and will be succeeded in January by current board member Clyde Drake. “I must admit my retirement is bittersweet, as I know I’ll miss all of you,” Eppolito said, often fighting back tears. “I know in my heart it is the right thing for my health, for my family (and) for the town.” He added that “new blood” in town government “often brings new ideas and new enthusiasm.”
Eppolito thanked, by name, a handful of town employees, including members of the town board and spanning a range of departments including the clerk, librarians, dog control officer, assessor, attorneys and plenty of others. But when he got to his secretary, Denise Ciszak, Eppolito became choked up and had to pause as he read from his prepared remarks. “I don’t know how this lady does it,” he said, noting the plethora of responsibilities Ciszak oversees. “God bless you. You are our heart and soul. “I don’t recall Denise
duty whenever and wherever that care may be needed; second, to shorten the war by strengthening the morale of the allied peoples and their amines and alleviating their sufferings; and third,
to lay the foundations for the enduring peace by extending practical relief and sympathy. A box of magazines and books were gathered together and sent to Camp
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A Look Back: Christmas 1917 By Jolene Hawkins
As Christmas is upon us, I wonder what Christmases of the past looked forward to getting. Two hundred years ago, in 1817, books were a great gift to give to young people, for amusement and entertainment. Among some of the titles were Barton’s lectures on Female Education and Manners, Foster’s Essays on various subjects, Rassclas Chatechism of Nature, said to be an excellent little book. And Mrs. Chapane’s Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Prints, medallions, fine letter paper, visiting cards, ladies and gentlemen’s pocketbooks, wallets, penknives, cases of silvereyed needles and we can not forget the opera glasses
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and snuff boxes were other popular gifts. Of course, the familiar fruit cake, I am sure, was around then, as well as other food items. In 1917, H D Smith Store in Springville still offered Crane Linen Lawn paper, saying it was the writing paper of the correct size, shape and shade. So letter writing was still a popular thing to do then. The Red Cross was selling Christmas Seals with the money going toward tuberculosis and its effect during the World War 1 (going on at that time). The Red Cross did a lot during 1917; one such thing was knitting for the soldiers. 1,128 articles were sent from Springville to the Buffalo Chapter of the Red Cross, and the Springville
Branch outfitted 50 soldiers. The outfits were valued at $10 a man of $500 in all. In case you forgot the aims of the Red Cross, they were: first, to be ready to care for our soldiers and sailors on
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