THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE TOWN AND VILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE, NEW YORK THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF GREAT VALLEY, NEW YORK
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 14 FREE www.EllicottvilleTimes.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012
Mountain Bikes + Runners + Dirt = Hardcore Athletes at HV Dirty Duathlon Provides Good Clean Fun If you donʼt mind a little grit and sweat, then come to Ellicottville for the Dirty Duathlon and 4-Mile Dirty Bit Trail Run to benefit the American Diabetes Association. The event kicks off on June 10 at 10 a.m. at the Holiday Valley Mountain Sports Center. Put on something you donʼt mind throwing out later, grab your helmet, tie your running shoes and mount your mountain bike for a heart-racing, grueling challenge that takes you on a four-mile trail run followed by a 10mile singletrack mountain bike ride including a 620foot vertical climb per lap. Itʼs a course designed for intermediate to advanced level competitors. Enter as a two-person team or be brave and go solo. If biking isnʼt for you, opt for only the trail run. Just remember – no guts, no glory!
The Wednesday Night Mountain Bike Race Series is back! Get ready for some muddy and rugged fun on the Holiday Valley Race Loop, a 4+ mile loop of lung busting uphill, exhilarating downhill and technical single-track. Summer 2012 Race dates are June 13, 20, 27 and July 11, 18 and 25. Registration is at the Mountain Sports Center from 5 PM to 6:15 PM each night and the race starts at 6:30. You can race the entire series or just individual races. The Open Men category pays cash prizes to the top 3 riders each night!
Italian-American Charity Golf ECS Offers Unconventional Committed to Cancer Care Education in Big Picture by Eva Potter
The 2012 ItalianAmerican Golf Charity Association, held at
Holiday Valley on June 7–9, marks the 42nd year of the tournament and the organization’s
support of local cancer treatment and diagnosis at WCA Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y. According to the charity’s website at www. iacharitygolf.com, “The Italian American Charity Golf Association event was the brainstorm of a small group of community-minded men who wanted to raise money for a local charity. Their dream was to create a golf tournament where one member of each two-man team was of Italian decent and the partner was of another nationality.” The tournament has been held at Holiday Valley since 1989. In March 2012, the IACGA presented a $50,000 check to WCA Hospital as part of their pledge for a total of $150,000 to go toward the purchase of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy equipment used in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. This check represented the proceeds from the See Italian-American page 5
Learning Program
by Jeff Cole
A traditional sevenhour school day in which students journey from classroom to classroom,
listen to lectures, jot down notes and pour over several homework assignments may suffice for many pupils. But for others, this can be a challenge. According to www. bigpicture.org, 1 student drops out of school every 12 seconds in America for one reason or another. One plausible factor could be difficulty in adhering to what may be considered a
“conventional school day.” Chris McNell, principal of Elm Street Academy in Cuba and supervisor of the Ellicottville Central School Big Picture Learning program, said that students having a hard time with school aren’t given many options. “I mean, if you’re in a traditional school and you’re struggling, what are you going to do? See Big Picture page 7
County Encourages Community Participation in Comprehensive Planning Process by Jeff Cole
In 1978, Cattaraugus County adopted a comprehensive plan that was intended to guide the development of the county through the year 2000. Since then, the plan has not been improved upon ... that is, until now. On May 31,
Cattaraugus County held the first of six public forums to take place once a month for the next six months to gather public input on the planning process for a new comprehensive plan. Each forum will concentrate on a specific topic as it relates to Cattaraugus County. According to www.
cattco.org, “a new comprehensive planning update is needed to address the challenges of the 21st century and build upon more recent planning initiatives.” The website further states that the “goals and policies of the 1978 plan do not adequately address the changes that See Comprehensive Plan page 7