8-24-18 Springville Times

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Work Started on New Great Automobile Race Mural for Main Street

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BY RICH PLACE

The press conference held last week in Orchard Park to announce the agreement between Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail and the Buffalo Pittsburgh Railroad isn’t just a cause worth celebrating, but was a great opportunity for our local officials to put Springville in the spotlight. Our section of trail, thanks to the work of both volunteers and elected leaders, has been open for nearly two years. As mentioned at the press conference (see story, page 2), hopefully the Springville Pop Warner Rail Trail can be an inspiration of what other parts of the 27-mile long corridor will look like as work continues. August certainly is a month of transition, as we start it in the heyday of summertime and it ends on the cusp of football season and kids going back to school. The next couple weeks feature the start of fall sports, including the Scrimmage Fest (story on this page) and the first varsity football game on Aug. 31. We’re excited to cover the fall sports season as it gets underway and have already enjoyed talking to several coaches about what to expect. Be sure to stay tuned to the Springville Times each week for season previews, game recaps and plenty of photos! It was also great to hear about the attendance of this year’s Erie County Fair — a total of nearly 1.2 million people came to celebrate the event. Many of us from the Times visited and enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces — as well as plenty of familiar names in the Creative Arts building. We’re already counting down to 2019. Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.

The mural on Main Street celebrating George Schuster and the Great Automobile Race will soon be covered up by steel siding, but the Concord Historical Society is ensuring the mural’s absence is short-lived. Volunteers earlier this week began creating a new mural that will feature the same graphic painted on three large pieces of aluminum instead of directly on the side of the building. Local artist Tom Irish is now in the process of painting the mural after volunteers on Monday traced an outline for him in the same fashion the current mural on Main Street was completed in July 2008. The difference? Not painting it directly on the side of the building allows the volunteers, including Irish, to work on the mural at a location other than right at the site. This time around, the work began inside the Heritage Building on Franklin Street. The process is still the same: a projector displayed the image from a computer onto the

Volunteers, including Jackie Wilcox, Jenny Burkhalter and Elly Mohr, trace a projected image of the Great Automobile Race mural inside the Heritage Building on Monday. The mural will be painted by local artist Tom Irish, also shown here, and erected on Main Street. Photo by Rich Place.

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Girls’ Soccer Kicks Off Season With Scrimmage Fest on Aug. 27

Recent Grad Builds Custom Guitar

BY ALICIA DZIAK The girls’ varsity soccer team started their season last week with 18 players. The team, consisting of five seniors, eight juniors, two sophomores and three freshmen, is coached by high school business teacher Eric Holler, who has coached soccer for SGI for 10 years, four of which at the varsity level. In the months leading up to the season, girls were given an offseason workout program to do on their own, and many of them played for club teams. This season, the Lady Griffs are in a different division than years past, and league opponents include Holland, Tonawanda, Alden, Eden, JFK and Lackawanna. Holler anticipates Holland to be their toughest competition; Holland’s team is under new

BY ALICIA DZIAK At last week’s SGI school board meeting, recent graduate Auston Bus presented an impressive custom guitar he built. “The idea of building a guitar really occurred to me when I found a locker

See Guitar page 5

See Girls’ Soccer page 4

UPCOMING EVENTS

Aug. 29 Shop Local in the Park at Heritage Park Aug. 30 Taste of Main Sept. 4 First Day of School for SGI Students

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BY JOLENE HAWKINS

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Aug. 26 Wild Wing Festival at Gooseneck Hill Waterfowl Sanctuary

New York State Fair Traces Roots to 1841

As I continue to research the history of fairs, next on my list was the Great New York State Fair. I was amazed to discover the first State Fair was held Sept. 29 and 30, 1841 in Syracuse. One reason the village of Syracuse was selected was because it was the center of farming interests in New York as well as the central point on the Erie Canal and a way-station on developing railroad lines from Albany, on the Hudson River in the east, to Buffalo, the state’s western outpost. From 1842 to 1889, the State Fair traveled amongst 11 cities: Albany, Auburn, Buffalo, Elmira, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Utica and Watertown. In 1849, the fair had a giant 50-foot tall manually-powered ferris wheel. According to the history of the fair, it was an iron and oaken wheel with wooden bucket cars large enough to carry four adults or six children aloft from the end of each of the four arms. This enabled riders to obtain a marvelous view of the newly chartered city and its suburbs. The wheel was so balanced that the entire wheel could be turned by the strength of a child. It was used over and over again throughout the years.

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In 1890, the State Fair moved back to Syracuse permanently. Livestock buildings were constructed and a half-mile track was laid out. (In 1901, it would be expanded to a onemile track.) During the once-a-year event, the interest started to be centered on agriculture, its tools and its products, then lectures and discussions; selection of the dairy cow to winter feeding of sheep was added. Entertainment and band concerts, along with horse races and sometimes bicycle races, started to happen. And, of course, there were fireworks! Around the early 1900s, automobile and motorcycle racing came with names like Barney Oldfield, Ralph DePalma and Wilbur Shaw who brought their speedy autos to town. In 1905, airplanes were zooming

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