Allegany County Community Source | 05/28/21

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File photo Attendees at the 175th Allegany County Fair in 2019 queue up to ride the Zipper.

Allegany County’s Memorial Day events BY KATHRYN ROSS Memorial Day in Allegany County will be marked by two celebrations leading up to the day and several more reverent memorials across the county. Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 restrictions, some communities in the county are foregoing parades and will mark Memorial Day with small ceremonies at local cemeteries and at war memorials in parks — but not in Belfast and Belmont. The two communities have set aside days prior to Memorial Day to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Herbert DeLong American Legion Post 808 in Belmont, while in Belfast the annual festivities and ceremony for the Bare-Knuckle Boxing Museum Hall of Fame Induction will be taking

place. In Belmont, the 100th birthday celebration for the Herbert W. DeLong Post 808 American Legion Parking Lot Party will get started at 2 p.m. Saturday next to the building. All events are open to the community. DJ Rod Evans will entertain. There will be 50/50 raffles, kid’s games, bowling, horseshoes, corn hole and a bake sale. At 9:30 p.m. the Hintz of Thunder band will perform. There will also be a fi reworks display, which will be visible from within the village Belmont. Social distancing guidelines apply. No parade has been scheduled and memorial services by the Legion will take place in Memorial Park on Memorial Day. North on Route 19 in Belfast the annual festivities

for the Bare-Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame will be taking place throughout the weekend starting with a car show at 5:30 p.m. Friday on Hughes Street, followed by a street dance in the park at 8 p.m. Yard sales will take place throughout the weekend. On Memorial Day there will be a parade at 11 a.m. followed by a salute to veterans in the park. There will be a chicken barbecue at the fi re department at noon. Angelica Memorial Day services will take place on Monday with the traditional march along Main Street to the Until the Day Dawn Cemetery for ceremonies at the Civil War monument. The parade will step off from the intersection of West Main and Olean Street at 9 a.m. In Canaseraga a parade

has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Memorial Day followed by a service honoring veterans at the American Legion Fawcett Post 1582. The fi refighters will host a chicken barbecue at noon until gone. In Cuba, a Memorial Day Parade is scheduled for 10 a.m. followed by a memorial service for veterans in the Genesee Parkway park. While no Memorial Day parade has been scheduled in Scio on Sunday, all eyes will be turned to the Coca Cola 600 or the NTT INDYCAR Series Indianapolis 500 where two drivers will be honoring the memory of Scio’s Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham. NASCAR driver Kurt Busch will honor Dunham

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of others across the state to make the call to close up, including Cattaraugus and Erie counties just days earlier. On July 2, Western New York entered Phase IV of reopening — which allowed for festivals and fairs — but the two-week timetable was too short to allow for planning the fair for a 2020 opening, and limits of attendance to just 50 people at a time complicated matters. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in April that the New York State Fair would be able to run, giving Allegany County Fair organizers reserved hope for this year’s event in Angelica. The governor announced Monday that county fairs would be permitted with permits from the local county health department. Fairs with more than 5,000 attendees will require approval from the state Department of Health.

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