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FEBRUARY 8-15, 2018 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 6
Your Hometown Newspaper
The official newspaper of the Town of Concord, serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
Upcoming Events Feb. 9-11 Retro Weekend Kissing Bridge
P-TECH Program Presented at SGI Board Meeting
By Jennifer Weber
Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day Feb. 16 Late Night Great Night Kissing Bridge Feb. 18 Spragie Brook Scramble Snowshoe Race Feb. 19-23 Mid-Winter Recess Feb. 23 SCA Kids Rave Dance Party Arts Underground
The SGI school board held its regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at the Colden Elementary School cafeteria. Colden Elementary School principal Marcole Feuz and 5th grade teacher Lynne Loomis led an interactive presentation on the program Playworks. “The four core values of the Playworks program are respect, inclusion, healthy play and healthy community,” said Loomis. Teachers who completed the Playworks training are equipped to provide interactive ways to help students learn in and outside the classroom.
By Rich Place
Sports schedule Swimming Coaches Corner
Board members joined teachers and students in the gym and participated in physical activities such as the game “Switch” before returning from the brain break and back to the business of the board.
The race would later serve as the inspiration for the 1965 movie “The Great Race” starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood and Peter Falk. But that’s not the only inspiration created by the
memorable race and Jeff Mahl, Schuster’s greatgrandson who grew up in Springville, is now looking to continue that legacy this summer. The 2018 Great Race, which is set to begin June
clerk, Justice of the Peace, assessors, restrooms, vaults and court room. A police office and three detention cells were all going on the first floor. The upper floor was converted into an end of the auditorium is a Rip Van Winkle. auditorium, the stage was hanging gallery of steel. Over the years, the enlarged, and the stationary About 1,000 can be seated Lyceum courses were seats were changed into in the large auditorium. On presented at the hall, along moveable ones, so the the south end of the building with troupes, and speakers, floor space could be used is the stage, and on one side such as Honorable J. Wright by various clubs and other of the stage is an office and Giddings, Rev. Russell H. types of meeting. restroom. All of this was Conwell and Arctic Explorer Since that time, the built in 10 months! Signor Campanari; various Godard Hall has continued On March 20, 1902, plays and even a few to be used by the public the hall was opened to the political meetings have also for meetings and events, public where 650 people been held there. attended the opening. The In 1935, the building first person to speak from went through alterations the new platform was where the labor was donated Professor Steel, the principal under ERB, according to of Griffith Institute. He the newspaper. A gang of 30 gave a few words of men did the work. The floor merited praise from the was raised in line with the philanthropic spirit, which first floor windowsills; the provided the elegant and ground floor story windows commodious building for were enlarged to give more the benefit of Springville. light. A new waterproof The entertainment of the cement floor and walls were evening was a monologue laid for the ground story, rendering of Joseph which included offices Jefferson’s dramatization of for the village clerk, town
Godard Memorial Hall How many of us have attended an event at the Godard Memorial Hall? Ever wonder how the hall got its name? In 1901, Calista Godard contracted with L. J. Shuttleworth to build a large fireproof building to be devoted to religious, scientific and educational purposes, and when completed, it was to be presented to the Village of Springville. The building was to have a seating capacity of upwards of 1,000 people. The Godard Memorial Hall was erected on the corner of Franklin and Mechanic Streets in the year 1902. It measures 50 by 100 feet; the floor is on an incline from the lobby to the stage. Across the north
Alfred State College, Erie 2 BOCES and local businesses which prepares students to enter electrical construction and maintenance and computer information system training starting in See SGI Board page 9
George Schuster’s Thomas Flyer takes the lead while traveling through Buffalo during the 1908 Great Race. Photo submitted.
A Look Back
By Jolene Hawkins
The next presentation was a preview of the P-TECH (Pathways to Early College High School) program and proposed capital project. The P-TECH program is a partnership between Springville Griffith Institute,
Revisiting and Reliving The Great Race
This upcoming Monday is an important anniversary in automotive history, as the date marks 110 years since the beginning of the 1908 Great Race that took participants from New York City to Paris over a 169-day span. And as many in this community know, the race has quite the local connection with Springville native George Schuster winning that race by arriving in Paris on July 30 behind the wheel of the Buffalo-built Thomas Flyer automobile. In the event, Schuster’s team went headto-head against five other teams from Italy, France and Germany — all of which took off from Times Square in what would become the longest automobile competition in history.
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Jeff Nunn, Senior Project Manager, of Gordon W Jones Associates and Nick Humphrey of Campus Construction Management Group present on P-TECH. Photo by Jennifer Weber
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23 in Buffalo and end July 1 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is expected to include two teams from Alfred State, Mahl’s alma mater. But while more than 100 cars will be heading from
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and the courthouse and offices are still being filled. What a wonderful idea that Calista Godard had, back in 1902 to build and donate the building for the Village— she wanted the hall to be used for the higher education of the young people and it has been! She died on Sept. 28, 1904, and in her obituary, it says that she was the oldest of 10 children and was born on July 8, 1822. Her mother died in 1846 and she and her father came to live in See A Look Back page 4