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JUNE 22-28, 2018
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 25
Happy summer vacation!
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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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The finals, field on Tuesdays trips and end-of-year and Thursdays for celebrations have come swimming lessons.) to an end, and now it’s time SYI also offers an to embark on that wonderful abundance of camps to keep the summer vacation adventure! kids busy all summer. Choose After nine months from soccer, tennis, of note taking, test volleyball and golf taking, studying and camps, bowling, and homework, it’s time children’s art program for some fun, and run in conjunction there’s plenty to do with the Springville to keep everyone Center for the Arts. busy from now until Visit syionline.com September. for more info. SYI’s Spray Park Of course, on Franklin St. is the anyone who lives Middle school music students celebrated perfect place for the in Springville knows the end of the school year with a trip to little ones to cool off Darien Lake on Tuesday. another great spot to Photo by Sydney Fuller on hot days. The park cool off is the creek at will be open every day, Sprague Brook Park. While 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and the best you’re there, you can also enjoy part? It’s free! the hiking and biking trails, tennis The SYI outdoor pool on courts, playgrounds and open South Buffalo St. will open for spaces for lots of fun lawn the season on June 22, and games. Pack a picnic will be open daily from lunch and make a day 1 to 8 p.m. (but of it, or reserve closes at 6 your spot at
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It’s the end of the school year, which means long days of fun in the sun, ice cream, swimming, campfires and traveling. It also means it’s time for the Class of 2018 to move on to the next chapter of their lives. We hope you’ll enjoy the Salute to Seniors section included in this week’s issue, which includes graduates from SGI as well as from many of our neighboring school districts. Page 3 also features SGI’s Top 10 students. Kudos to these students for making academics a priority during their four years of high school and for being so involved in their school and community. What do area students have planned for their summer break? Check out the article by one of our student reporters on page 4. Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.
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GRAND OPENING The nation’s official museum of comedy
‘Saturday Night Live’ Originators
DAN AYKRYOD
LARAINE NEWMAN
AMY SCHUMER
GARRETT MORRIS
Tickets: ComedyCenter.org 716.484.2222 / Jamestown, NY OVER 50 EVENTS IN FIVE DAYS
See Summer Vacation page 8
The Club, SYI Officials 37 S. Central Inform Concord Town and Owner Granted Village Boards About Merger Last Chance to
UPCOMING EVENTS
BY RICH PLACE
June 28 Springville Jazz Band at Fiddlers Green Park July 4 Fireworks at Community Park July 5 The Road Runners at Fiddlers Green Park
The former Boys and Girls Club facility on Maple Ave. recently got new signage reflecting their name change to The Club of Springville, a division of SYI. Photo by Alicia Dziak
PAGES 4-5 Summer vacation Club soccer
A public hearing was held Monday on 37 S. Central Ave. concerning its status and potential demolition. Photo by Rich Place.
BY RICH PLACE The Springville Village Board on Monday granted the owner of 37 South Central Ave. one last chance to fix the deteriorating structures at the site within a predetermined period of time or face demolition.
See Merger page 5
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July 12 Mercantile Musicians at Fiddlers Green Park July 22 Food Trucks, Fire Trucks and Car Show at Fireman’s Park
Officials from Springville Youth Incorporated (SYI) and the former Boys & Girls Club of Springville provided both the Springville Village Board and Concord Town Board with an update at their respective meetings on the groups’ impending merger. Wende Pukay, SYI president, and Bill Gugino, president of The Club of Springville, were present at the June 14 town meeting as well as the village meeting on Monday to officially inform members the two groups are working on a merger and intend to provide updates during the process.
Remedy Property
Archibald Griffith and SGI BY JOLENE HAWKINS
Last week, we learned all about the schools in the 1800s. You paid for classes you took and sometimes even paid to stay in a home near the school instead of going home each day. So let’s move on to Archibald Griffith. He was one of the founding families in Springville, coming from Rhode Island in 1815. He was a farmer, a teacher and surveyor in town. He was also a successful businessman and at one time held the office of Justice of the Peace. In 1822, Archibald was a member of the Masons and was one of the signers to request that Springville be able to form a new Lodge for the Free and Accepted Mason and Lodge No. 346 was indeed formed. The land for the Evergreen Cemetery in East Concord was donated by Archibald Griffith in 1858, with the provision that six bodies that were buried elsewhere be reburied in this cemetery. A Board of Directors was appointed and the land taken over with the provision that each lot be one rod square and sell for not
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more than $2 or less than $1. It was incorporated in 1921. In 1867, he made a liberal donation to the Springville Academy. During that year, an addition was built, making the building three stories and adding a bell tower. Eight instructors were employed. When he died, Mr. Griffith bequeathed over $10,000 to the institute as a permanent fund, to be used mainly for the education of orphan and indigent children of the town of Concord. His will read in part “…leaving $10,000 that the interest and income of these funds shall be appropriated annually by the board of trustees as follows: One third of the payment be used of the term, bills and incidental expenses attending upon the instructions or tuition of such students attending the Academy See A Look Back page 6
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