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MARCH 30-APRIL 5, 2018 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 13
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The official newspaper of the Town of Concord, serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
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Happy Spring Break! By Alicia Dziak
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What makes Springville a great place to live, work and play? With your help, we’ll feature good news from our village and surrounding area on our front page each week! As we’re out and about, we’ll discover more reasons why we love Springville and hope you’ll let us know of something to add to the list — no matter how big or small. Contact information will always be at the bottom of this column. We hope you enjoy and thanks for reading! • It was great to hear that after the election results rolled in last week, all the candidates went out to celebrate. And yes, that included Terry Skelton, who lost his seat in the threeway race. In the often cruel and unforgiving world of politics, seeing what are technically political opponents from different parties gathering together to celebrate the election result is definitely worth mentioning. • A welcomed sight was the public attendance and participation at the SGI School Board meeting that included a 110-minute presentation on safety and security. Not only were law enforcement officials on hand to present what they know, but civil dialogue with members of the community enlightened everyone about what is being done and what could be done going forward. A thumbs up to the school leadership for organizing it. Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.
Spring break is here, which means the kids are off, the Easter Bunny is coming, and if you’re not heading south, it’s time to enjoy your “staycation” right here in Springville and Western New York! March 30 and 31, and April 1 are all about Easter. The Lenten season is a perfect excuse to grab a fish fry, and there are numerous options all around
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Springville. Egg hunts, the bunny, religious celebrations and more await all over the area. Check out the article on page 13 for more details. On Monday, April 2, celebrate Dyngus Day at the Broadway Market. The celebration includes Buffalo’s Best Kielbasa Tasting Contest at noon, Melody Line Performing on the Market Stage from 1 to 4 p.m. and Polish beer. For those who want winter to last just a little bit longer, Holiday Valley will be open through April 8, weather permitting. For a real treat, ski and golf on the same day, as HV’s golf course is also set to
open on April 8. The break week is a great time to rediscover all the area’s museums and nature preserves. Head to the Buffalo Botanical Gardens for their Spring Flower Exhibit and baby animals. This year’s exhibit will be dripping with color! Included with the exhibit is the 4-H Farm that will host baby bunnies, chicks, pigs, ducks and so much more. For more info, visit buffalogardens.com. Head to Reinstein Woods, at 93 Honorine Drive in Depew, for some spring break activities! Come for one day or all week. Programs include: April 2 - Solar Solutions; April 3 - Nature Apps;
April 4 - Birding; April 5 - Geocaching Egg Hunt; April 6 - Wind Power Challenge. Registration is required by calling (716) 683-5959. For more info, visit reinsteinwoods.org. The Buffalo History Museum, at One Museum Court in Buffalo, will host Break Out! all week from 1 to 3 p.m. The program will include history-related activities and is free with museum admission. For more info, visit buffalohistory.org. Head to the Buffalo Science Museum to see the digiPlaySpace, an interactive playground for kids and grown-ups alike where they can explore new media technologies, learning-centric games See Spring Break page 8
Presentation Slated for Monday on Village Bike-Walk Enhancement Project
questions about the scope of the Community members work, which is expected to take interested in learning more place this summer and be completed about a project that will by November. It’s included in the enhance pedestrian safety Transportation Alternative Program and walkability on a handful (TAP), a federal reimbursement of village streets are invited program directed by the New York to attend a presentation on State Department of Transportation. Monday prior to the village “The whole goal of it is to board’s reorganizational promote biking and walking,” meeting. explained Ken Kostowniak, who The roughly $480,000 has led the execution of the project Springville Bike Walk since its inception in mid-2016. Enhancement Project, which “It’s to connect parks, schools and was awarded to the village encourage more pedestrian traffic.” about a year ago, will replace All the work is scheduled to a pedestrian footbridge over take place off Main Street on a the creek on Maple Drive, network of side streets in the village, A crossing over Spring Brook on Maple Avenue is planned address drainage issues at including streets in front of both to be part of the Springville Bike Walk Enhancement the Newman and Elm street Springville school campuses in Project. A presentation on the project will be held Monday. intersection and improve the village and near several village Photo by Rich Place. sidewalks and lighting on parks. a handful of streets and One of the expected highlights intersections. of the project is a new culvert crossing on Maple Avenue, where the bridge A presentation on Monday by Watts Engineering will further between Colonial Drive and Spring Street currently features an abandoned outline the project and will allow for village residents to ask By Rich Place
March 30April 6 Spring Break March 31 Community Easter Egg Hunt Fiddler’s Green Park April 1 Easter
SPORTS PAGES 4-5 Season previews: baseball, tennis, JV softball, girls’ track Ski racing
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A Look Back
Woman’s Relief Corps By Jolene Hawkins
Looking back into our past, did our foremothers do anything in their spare time besides cook, clean, raise a family, plant and work the garden or flower beds and preserve her food from the garden? Well, I went on a search through our local newspapers and found out why yes, indeed they did! Our foremothers started to work outside the house and we had several shopkeepers in our town — photographers, bakeries, hatmakers, dressmakers and telephone operators — who were women. And, of course, we cannot forget all the groups that were around then. In 1914, Springville had seven churches: Baptist, Catholic,
Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Universalist. Each one of these churches had committees and groups for the ladies to join, and we can not forget the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, as they boasted a large membership of 100 in 1907 here in Springville. As you read through these newspapers, you will see all of the acronyms and scratch your head and try to understand what they were. They included: • KOTM: Knights of the Maccabees; females were the Ladies of the Maccabees; • IOOF: Independent Order of Odd Fellows; females were the Rebekahs; • American Red Cross; • Free and Accepted
Masons; females were the Eastern Star; • Woman’s Club; • Flower Clubs; • Book Clubs; and • GAR: Grand Army of
the Republic; Females were the WRC, Woman’s Relief Corps. Each organization was See A Look Back page 14
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