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AUG. 17-23, 2018
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 33
Your Hometown Newspaper
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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New Emerling Dealership Expected to Open Monday BY RICH PLACE
We don’t need to tell you there’s a community on Facebook called Be Neighborly Springville Area, and one of the best examples of that was is taking place down at the East Concord Community Church. We won’t spoil the story — you can read it for yourself on page 6. But it’s another great example of why we love Springville … and East Concord! There’s no doubt the public art around downtown Springville is a great outlet for the arts community itself, but here’s another positive aspect of it: it showing government at work. Through meetings with the village board and historic preservation board, officials from the Springville Center for the Arts developed a plan to make and display this public art. Through conversations at board meetings and sometimes through friendly debate, they found appropriate places to display it. Sure it’s obviously art, but it’s also a testament to different boards working together for the betterment of the community. Among the abundant amounts of local representation at the Erie County Fair — starting with SGI graduate Jessica Underberg as CEO — we heard Springville mentioned numerous times in the barns, saw the great displays in the Historical Building by the Concord Historical Society and Echoes Through Time Civil War Museum, and saw plenty of familiar faces walking around. We also said hello to our Look Back writer, Jolene Hawkins, in the Historical Building. There’s only a few days of the fair left! 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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Come Monday morning, you’ll be able to purchase a new vehicle from Emerling Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and drive it off the lot and onto South Cascade Drive. That’s the plan anyway for Emerling employees, who are expected to make the move this weekend from their current dealership on West Main Street to the spacious new location across from Emerling Ford. “We are going to do a fullout team effort on Friday and Saturday,” explained Evan Emerling, vice president and son of owner Carl Emerling. Evan gave the Springville Times a tour of the new facility earlier this week as construction
crews continued to work both inside and outside of the building to prepare for its opening. The plan this week remained opening the store to the public on Monday. The first improvement of the new building customers will likely notice is, quite obviously, the larger space. The new facility is about 40,000 square feet, nearly four times the space at the current Main Street location. “In the showroom we’ll actually have a Dodge, a Chrysler, a Jeep and a Ram on display,” Emerling said, referencing the four varieties of vehicles sold at the dealership. And with the upgrades to space — as well as simply
The new Emerling Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, located at 135 South Cascade Drive, is expected to open on Monday. Photo by Rich Place.
See Emerling page 9
2018 Springville Griffins Varsity Football: Rebuild
Village Board Sets Hearing on Food Truck Permits BY RICH PLACE
BY TIM OAKLEY Throughout this summer, many have witnessed the Springville Griffith school grounds blocked off while each of the three schools undergo much needed improvements. Construction has been plugging along through the past months to tear down failed driveways and rebuild them to be as clean and pristine as ever. Likewise, the boys of the Springville Griffins football team began
The Springville Village Board on Monday approved a handful of resolutions during its only board meeting of the month and also set a public hearing that will make changes to village code for food truck vendors. The board received proposed changes from the village planning board to the licenses and permits section of village code that will add a section specifically for mobile food vendors. A public hearing on the changes was set for 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10. “We can have the public hearing that night and, between now and then, the trustees should look it over and see what they like,” said Mayor Bill Krebs. “We had requested the planning board look at this matter and they have done their due diligence and there has been a lot of discussion about it.” Among the language proposed by the planning board, a mobile food vendor — more commonly referred to as a food truck — shall not park within 200 feet of the entrance to any food establishment unless permission is granted and they cannot park within 100 feet of an intersection. A vendor is also not permitted to park for more than three hours a day in any one location unless, among other exceptions, it is part of a permitted public event or for a private event on private property. The vendors are also not permitted to erect additional signage other than what is already on the vehicles and they shall supply garbage receptacles and take garbage with them. See Village Board page 3
See Football page 4
Aug. 17-18 Staged Shorts at Springville Center for the Arts Aug. 19 Griffis Sculpture Park Summer Festival Aug. 23 Low Blue Flame concert at Fiddlers Green Park
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Continuing to Look Back at the Erie County Fair BY JOLENE HAWKINS
By 1874, the Erie County Fair had the need for a permanent place. The Society appointed a five-member committee and, by 1875, the Society had agreed on a contract with the Hamburg Driving Association to lease its grounds. Where before they had met without charge, now the annual fee was $50 a year, as long as the association held the lease. That relationship lasted for a very long time! As the fair advanced in years, the entertainment and dining facilities increased. Fairgoers wanted more than exhibits and livestock — they wanted visual and audible excitement, they wanted entertainment! By 1884, there were three stands with exclusive rights to sell “smokes.” W.S. Wilson had exclusive rights to operate an Air Gun, and the dining hall space was granted to Myron Colvin, for which he furnished Society members 100 meals and what more they had at 25 cents per head. Gradually, more substantial buildings began to rise on the fair site, which now covered 25 acres of land, fenced with substantial post and boards. Water was taken from the springs on the grounds and carried by pipes to reservoirs situated in various parts of the enclosure. In 1885, Hoffman and Getz constructed the Women’s Department Octagonal Building for $2,037. There were dance floors and swings that
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Our Look Back author, Jolene Hawkins, churns butter at the Historical Building at the Erie County Fair. Be sure to stop in and say hello, and she’s there just about every day! Photo by Rich Place.
furnished plenty of amusement for the festive bells and beaux. In 1887, the fair accepted a proposition by H.D. Squire to make a balloon ascension on the fairgrounds. The size of the balloonist’s fee was $150. In 1888, Prof. Carl Meyers was engaged to make two balloon ascensions on the grounds. The balloon was 65 feet high and 45 feet in diameter. It was very quickly inflated with air heated by a fire kindled in a hole, dug in the ground. See A Look Back page 8
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