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Silver Creek Irving Heritage Fund Announces Sept 20th Grants Deadline DUNKIRK, N.Y.-- The Silver Creek Irving Heritage Fund (SCIHF) Committee will be accepting grant applications until September 20, 2022. The Silver Creek Irving Heritage Fund (SCIHF) provides funding to charitable organizations, programs and initiatives that address the most pressing issues within the Silver Creek Irving communities. Their slogan is “Remembering Our Past – Securing Our Future”. Grant applications can be found at https://www. nc c fou nd at ion .or g /s c ihf. The annual deadline for grant submissions is September 20th. Applications can be mailed to NCCF-Silver Creek Irving Heritage Fund at 212 Lake Shore Drive W., Dunkirk, NY 14048 or emailed to eardillo@nccfoundation. org. Past grant recipients have included: Anderson Lee Library, Festival of Grapes, Meals on Wheels, Silver Creek Hanover Garden Club, and the Village of Silver Creek Music in the Park. Current SCIHF committee members are Maureen Morabito, Jerry Rocque, Donna Roof, and Kathy Tampio. Residents interested in serving on the Silver Creek Irving Heritage Fund Grants Committee can reach out to any committee member
or contact the NCCF for more information. Memorial and tribute gifts and contributions to the Silver Creek Irving Heritage fund can be made at https://www. nccfoundation.org/scihf. For more information, contact the NCCF at 716366-4892 The SCIHF is a community donor advised fund of the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation. Since its incorporation in 1986, the NCCF has invested more than $18 million in northern Chautauqua County through strategic grantmaking, targeted scholarships, and leadership and community collaborations. The NCCF is a tax-exempt charitable organization inherently committed to enhancing the northern Chautauqua community and encouraging local philanthropy. As a Nationally Accredited Community Foundation, the NCCF has proven compliance with the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations, demonstrating integrity, equity, accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in meeting the needs of their community. For more information on the NCCF, visit www. nccfoundation.org or call 716-366-4892.
Gowanda Chosen for Big 30 Scholarship BY SAM WILSON AND BILL PEGLOWSKI BRADFORD, PA. — It took 48 years, but the Big 30 AllStar Charities Classic’s alltime series has a new leader. Tied at 22-22-3 entering Saturday’s showdown with New York, Pennsylvania finally took control of the annual showcase event for the area’s top graduated senior football players founded in 1974. Pennsy extended its unbeaten streak by another year with another dominant defensive effort in a 27-13 victory at Bradford High’s Parkway Field. While it didn’t repeat last year’s shutout, Pennsy largely kept the New York offense in check while its offense did just enough — a pair of 1-yard touchdowns, a run and a pass by Smethport quarterback Noah Lent — to stake a 14-0 halftime lead and never trailed. But New York came out of halftime with its strongest drive of the night, 80 yards on 11 plays, on hard running by Olean tailback Jamison Pittman and Randolph fullback Luke Pagett, culminating in a 4-yard Pittman touchdown run to cut the lead to 14-7. New York got the ball back in a one-score game but stalled out both times. First, a sack and back-to-back 15-yard penalties pushed it from the red zone back into its own territory. New York drove deep into Pennsy territory again but sputtered with incompletions on third and fourth downs. “They punched us in the mouth,” Pennsy coach Justin Bienkowski, of Port Allegany, said of the half’s opening drive. “I (said) coming out of
Gowanda Central School photo From left, Gavin Phillips, Charlesa LeTran, Laila Moon and Maddox Browning represented Gowanda at the Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic football game.
the locker room, this is an important drive. They came out, punched us in the mouth, showed us that fullback trap we hadn’t seen on film. Credit to their coaches making that adjustment. We just made a little bit of an adjustment but (on) the sideline, nobody freaked out, just a couple guys saying, ‘Hey, this isn’t us. We’re not losing this game.’ “It’s a credit to the leadership of those kids. You get those Ridgway kids, those Kane kids, those St. Marys kids, they’re used to winning and they just kind of grabbed ahold of everybody and said let’s freaking go. That’s how it happened, and then we made
those adjustments and then we ended up on the good end.” The Gowanda football team was represented by Gavin Phillips and Maddox Browning. On the sidelines, Gowanda cheerleaders Charlesa LeTran and Laila Moon were selected for the Big 30 All-Star Cheer Squad. Each year, both New York and Pennsylvania teams are awarded $1,000 scholarships to one of the represented schools. The selection is based on the sportsmanship and good play exhibited during the two-week practice sessions leading up to the game. This year, the New York coaches selected Gowanda for that
honor.
IN OTHER NEWS, the Gowanda cross country team began practice sessions in mid-July. In the past few weeks, several members of the team have also been running in 5K races in the area. Those included the Eden Corn Festival Run For the Corn on Aug. 5 and the Christine Padasak Memorial Autism Awareness 5k on Aug. 6 in Springville. While the full results of those races were not available, Gowanda’s Autumn Pupo was a standout in both races. At Springville, she was 3rd for females and 19th overall with a time of 8:16.