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DECEMBER 7 - 13 , 2017
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 49
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Serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
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Upcoming Events Dec. 9 Farm to Table Seasonal Supper Dec. 9 Rally to Rescue Holiday Pet Expo McKinley Mall Dec. 9 Drive-In Living Nativity Dec. 15 Holiday Diva by Diva Springville Center for the Arts Dec. 15 Community Christmas Party Emerling CDJR
Find Your Perfect Pine
By Jennifer Weber
When it comes to Christmas Trees, every family has their own special tradition. I fondly recall watching my parents drag the giant, tattered, taped up cornered cardboard box from the attic each year into the living room and meticulously separating each limb of our tree into piles of different letters. Somehow all those branches ended up organized and fluffed along a metal spine with holes to make the most magical Christmas tree ever. A process for sure, and that’s before trying to figure out untangling the lights! Other families choose to take a drive out to their favorite Christmas tree farm, trek through the acres of trees available—robust and round, tall and thin, festive and fluffy and cut down their own tree.
See Tree Farms page 5
Residents Suggest All-way Stop at 240-Genesee Intersection
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David Askinazi, of Clark, Patterson & Lee, explains aspects of the roundabout option for the Genesee Road-Route 240 intersection during a public hearing held Monday at the East Concord Fire Hall.
Coaches Corner Basketball
By Rich Place
Attendees at a public hearing Monday met to discuss potential work at the Genesee Road-Route 240 intersection and vocalized
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opposition to a roundabout there. Instead, they opined for a four-way stop with no change to road configuration in that vicinity. Following a 20-minute
presentation from Clark, Patterson and Lee, an engineering firm hired by the county, members of the public commented for about an hour. About 50 people, many of whom identified with living near the intersection, were in attendance. Gina Wilkolaski, P.E., traffic safety engineer with Erie County Department of Public Works (DPW), said the public has the opportunity to comment about potential changes to the intersection through the end of the month, when a decision will be made at the county level.
David Askinazi, of Clark, Patterson & Lee, presented four options for the intersection: a roundabout, a traffic signal, a four-way stop that also realigns Sibley Road to intersect Route 240 north of the intersection, and a final option of doing no work there. The recommendations for the project came following a three-year traffic study that spanned June 2013 to May 2016. A total of 27 accidents took place there during that time period, with 25 being right-angle accidents, Askinazi said. He noted the accident rate of
kitchen building, a dining room, and a dance hall, where 300 couples could dance. The BR&P Railroad was making daily round trips to bring folks from Buffalo down to Springville to enjoy
a day in the sun and country at this park. In 1905, the BR&P ordered 15 new coaches for the use of the Cascade Park Run. In 1906, a merry go
See Genesee/240 page 5
A Look Back: Cascade Park By Jolene Hawkins
In 1899, The Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh (BR&P) Railway Company secured a farm on the banks of the Cattaraugus— about 150 acres— where a picnic area was established and called it Cascade Park. It was intended for a place to go after church on Sundays, for social and school gatherings and parties, as well as for family reunions for those that desired a day outing where they could be free from the disturbing elements often found at pleasure resorts of this kind. By July 1899, one could get a round trip tickets from Buffalo for 15 cents! With fine graveled walks that went up and down hillsides, and songbirds that were heard in the woods singing, and the woods themselves
were full of maples, beech, elm and evergreen trees, it was always a pleasure to get off the train and walk through the woods. Visitors could go and see the cascade falls as it flowed over the
rocky escarpments, or go wading or swimming if they wanted to. Every year, the popularity of the park grew, as well as the park itself, with the addition of a pavilion, a
See A Look Back page 12
Community Christmas Party Friday Dec 15 6-8 PM
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