THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE AND THE TOWNS OF ELLICOTTVILLE, GREAT VALLEY AND MANSFIELD,
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 22 FREE
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AUGUST 2-8, 2013
Cattaraugus County Fair in Full Swing Midway Rides, Animal Shows and Monster Trucks by Eva Potter
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It’s not too late to check “county fair” off your annual bucket list. The Cattaraugus County Fair will be in full swing at the fairgrounds in Little Valley until Sunday, Aug. 4. Check out loads of agricultural events including animal shows, The week of good, clean fun will feature 21 amusement rides, games, animals, great carnival food, live musical entertainment, demolition derby, horse shows, magic and more. Friday don’t miss the All Breeds Horse Show, Livestock Showman Contest, Barnyard Olympic, Monster Truck Pit Party free with grandstand admission, and Monster Mash Monster Truck Rally. Daytime Saturday events include the Open Class Dairy Show, All Breeds Horse Show and Market Animal Sale. The evening is capped off with the USA East Sanctioned Big Rig Truck Pull & WNY Pro Stock Tractor Pull. Sadly, the fair comes to a close for the year on Sunday. Come and spend the day getting your last fix of delicious carnival fare, midway rides and animal shows. The longawaited WNY Championship Small Car Demolition Derby and WNY Championship Large Car Demolition Derby are the crowning jewel events, drawing crowds from near and far. Evening entertainment for the remainder of the fair will cost an additional $5 grandstand charge, including the Monster Truck Rally on Aug. 2, the USA East Sanctioned Big Rig Pull Series and WNY Pro Stock Tractor Pull on Aug. 3, and the Championship Demolition Derby’s last night on Aug. 4. The fairgrounds are located at Route 353 and N. Ninth St. in Little Valley. General admission at the gate is $9. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.cattarauguscofair. com or call (716) 938-9146. (See Connections on page 6 for an inside look at fairs.)
The Taste of Ellicottville All Trial, No Error
By Jann Wiswall
There’s only one problem with the everpopular Taste of Ellicottville, and that’s how to decide what to try without filling up at the very first stop! This year, 17 of Ellicottville’s best restaurants, including the two newest members of the restaurant community — Bike and Bean and Tim
& Bonnie’s — are offering up their specialties of the house in tasting portions from 12-4 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10–11. Because of the enormity of the selections, here are our recommendations: Take a themed approach to making your gastronomic selections. Bring doggie bags! There are many ways to approach such an event, but we thought it would be fun to look at it as a themed dining adventure based on your personal favorites. For example, if you’re a seafood aficionado, you’ll have many ways to assemble a fabulous meal with choices of crab cakes (Tips Up and Dina’s), scallops (Tips Up and Riley’s), Cajun, coconut, grilled and firecracker shrimp (Gin Mill, The Barn, Tips Up, Silver Fox), mahi mahi tacos (John Harvard’s), mussels (Dina’s) and clam chowder (Gin Mill). See Taste of Ellicottville page 5
ASP Hootenanny Attempting Record-Breaking Sing-Along on August 17 By Alicia Dziak
throughout the summer, this sing-along event The hootenanny has been a long-time tradition has been led by Sally Marsh for over 40 years. at Allegany State Park. Held every Thursday One of the hootenanny favorites is “Old night at 8 p.m. at the Quaker Amphitheater MacDonald” and because of this, Marsh decided to try to make history on Saturday, Aug. 17, Photo by Allegany State Park Hootenanny Facebook page 2013, by attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Records record for most people singing the classic tune at once. “The idea came actually from a comment I made. I love singing ‘Old MacDonald’ with the kids, and I let them each be an animal and sing in the microphone,” said Marsh. “I have 50-75 kids sometimes, and I kiddingly said we should try to set the Guinness record. My friend looked it up See ASP Hootenanny page 4
Holiday Valley Hosts EVL-9 Trail Run This Sunday By Jesse Mast
HoliMont FLITE Team Takes to the Ramps in Lake Placid
by Sean Crotty HoliMont FLITE Team Manager
While most skiers have their skis securely stored for the summer, the HoliMont FLITE Team has been grabbing their skis for training every week of the summer thus far. Athletes have been earning their “frequent
flier miles” on their skis this summer. At home, many athletes have been training on the trampoline, working with personal trainers, as well as enrolling in Core Body Training. In addition to multiple trips to Lake Placid Water Ramps, athletes have made trips to Whistler, British Columbia, for weeks of training on the glacier, and skiing at Mt. Hood, while some of our Canadian athletes have been in Quebec for water ramping. A few athletes will be training in Switzerland for the month of October for on-hill training with many of the national teams from around the world. Three female athletes — Elissa Cole, Lexi Crotty and Magdeline Vasatka — participated in the U.S. Freestyle Team Elite Aerial Development Program Talent ID Camp in June at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center. See Flite Team page 2
Holiday Valley Resort is getting ready to host yet another exciting day of racing. The EVL-9 Train Run offers more than nine miles of challenging trails for a true test of athletic stamina. The action takes place Aug. 4
at the Holiday Valley Mountain Sports Center. Athletes from several surrounding states and Canada are expected to rush into Ellicottville to take advantage of the area’s quality trails. Event organizer Mark Lawrence said the race has
enjoyed quite a bit of popularity in the several years it has been held. Formerly known as the annual Ellicottville Ultra Trail Runs, the EVL-9 Trail Run has added course sections, creating a different but equal See EVL page 3
Summer Soccer Camp in E’ville Lead by Wabash College Coach
By Jann Wiswall
In 2011, Ellicottville Central School’s Varsity Soccer Coach Matt Finn took a group of his team members to the Erie Family Soccer Camp where he and his students met “Coach Chris,” who at the time was the soccer coach at Allegheny College. The team and Coach Chris (Keller) hit it off immediately and promised to stay in touch.
The following year, Finn, who also teaches math for grades 7-8 at ECS, wasn’t able to get enough kids to go back to the camp due to summer jobs, driver’s education and other summertime activities. “Everyone was too busy to spend that much time away from home at a fairly expensive camp,” he explained. He thought, well, maybe I can get Coach Chris to come
to Ellicottville for a camp right here that’s more convenient for the kids. And he did. Now in its second year, Coach Chris was back for camp, despite the fact that he’s now head coach at Wabash College in Indiana. “It’s a long drive, but I enjoyed the camp and the kids last year, so I wanted to do it again. It worked out well. I See Summer Soccer page 4