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JUNE 15-21, 2018
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 24
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The official newspaper of the Town of Concord and the Village of Springville, serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
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Celebrate Dad This Weekend! BY ALICIA DZIAK
It was great last week to get a personal tour of the Heritage Building on Franklin Street. The museum opened last autumn and visitors can be immediately impressed by the replica of Main Street as soon as they walk in. The time, effort and dedication into recreating old time Springville is sure to bring a sense of nostalgia for some and hopefully kindle interest in history for others. We hope you get a chance to visit. Kudos to the Springville Garden Club for recently planting flowers on the gateway signs that welcome commuters to the village. Because it’s the first thing visitors see when coming into Springville, it’s wonderful that the signage looks so good. The club keeps busy throughout local parks and should be commended for their efforts. These next few weeks will be all about congratulating area graduates, so why not get started early? We’d like to say congratulations to Elle Russell, who signed a letter of intent to attend Niagara University in the fall to compete on the cross-country and track teams. Way to go, Elle! Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.
UPCOMING EVENTS June 17 Father’s Day June 21 Last day of school for students
This weekend, it’s all about dad! On June 17, celebrate everything that makes yours so great by doing all the things that he loves best. If you need gift ideas, look no further than right here in Springville. There are so many great places to choose from. Spices and barbecue seasoning? A grill? A new recliner? A round of golf? Or how about a gift certificate to his favorite restaurant? You can find it all here without spending any money on gas! Some of our favorites include the all-new Dilly Dallies and Witter-Davis Furniture on Main Street and Shamel Milling Co. in East Concord. This weekend, how about treating dad to a Wendel’s chicken barbecue? Choose from numerous sides, like German potato salad, coleslaw, macaroni salad and many more — eat at their picnic tables or grab some to go! Head to Sky High at Holiday Valley, where dad can climb free on June 17 with a paid admission. Take him into the Aerial Park, where he can choose from courses of varying difficulty, making his way from one platform to the next on ladders, ropes, ziplines and everything in between. Make reservations to secure your spot. As part of Griffis Sculpture Park’s free summer series, take dad on a guided hike through the park from noon to 2 p.m. on June 16. Check out the park’s 250 sculptures while meandering through the woods and taking advantage of numerous photo opps. How about a little competition with dad? Head to Holiday Valley’s annual Mudslide and challenge him to complete the course that consists of numerous See Father’s Day page 10
Capital Project Work This Summer Highlighted By New Track BY RICH PLACE The high school track and field season may be over, but this summer will feature plenty of action on the track behind SGI High School with anticipation of crossing the finish line by early September. When the Griffins varsity football team takes the field for its first home game of the season on Sept. 7, they’ll do so in the middle of the district’s new track with plenty of other visual changes around the field. Most notable will be the track itself, which will be widened from six to eight lanes and include a water pit for steeplechase. A new stone Pop Warner Field sign will also be an aesthetic improvement along with a relocated scoreboard, a new press box, new fencing around the track and also new vinyl chain link fencing on the
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work throughout the district is roof-top units and upgrading things like that.” Although work on this phase of the project commenced in February in the high school basement and the new
office area at the middle school, construction at the track began following the Pageant of Bands last month. See Capital Project page 2
The Springville Academy BY JOLENE HAWKINS
With graduation just around the corner and kids getting ready to get out and away from school, I thought I would share with you some local information that all local school kids should know, or at least I think so. Have you ever wondered how Good Ole Griffith Institute get its name? I can hear all the people saying.. yeah, yeah, we know because of Archibald Griffith. Well yes, that is true; however, what did he do to get the schools named after him? Now that is where you will need a little history of the school at the time and what he did. So here goes: The raising or building of Springville Academy was dated Dec. 14, 1825. It was a serious matter for the people of Springville and vicinity to undertake building the school as the country was new and the people were poor. In 1825, there was no large city or good markets within hundreds of miles of this place and people could get but very little money for their products. Remember that at the time, this was still considered wild country. That being said, the desire for there to be a school was so strong that there were over 100 people in the area who bought shares at $15 each to raise the money to build the school. See A Look Back page 6
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Michael Perkins, field manager with Campus Construction, explains some of the work being performed on the SGI High School track and field during a tour of the facility last week. Photo by Rich Place.
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bleachers. Work in this part of the project — deemed Phase 1B after the roof work in Phase 1A was completed last year — isn’t limited to the track, though. There will be plenty of other improvements taking place throughout the district including new parking lots and a variety of behind-the-scenes work like new boilers in the high school and improvements above and below the high school pool. Other than the track, “this project really isn’t glitz and glamour, it’s all infrastructure,” explained David Seiflein, director of facilities at SGI, during a tour of the work with a handful of other project officials. “So much of the
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