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JULY 12 - JULY 18, 2019
VOLUME 4 ISSUE 28
CAR. TR. MKTG MAIL US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 244 BRADFORD, PA
L I L V E G SP RIN TIMES
The official newspaper of the Town of Concord, and the Village of Springville. Serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
Springville hoping to update Heritage Park skatepark with grant
By Kellen M. Quigley Those who like to bike and skateboard could see a new facility for just that in Heritage Park in the coming years with the help of the Tony Hawk Foundation. Local Springville and Concord officials and other community members interested in seeing a new skatepark in the village met Monday at the current skate park to discuss the possibility of such a project. Also at the meeting was Trevor Staples, a Built to Play Skatepark Manager with the Tony Hawk Foundation, who said there are a series of grants through the
Photo by Kellen M. Quigley Springville Mayor Bill Krebs (right) discusses the possibility of a new skatepark in Springville with youth bikers who use the current outdated park Monday afternoon.
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation that offer up to $250,000 in matching funds to help build skateparks in Western New York. “I came out a few weeks ago and met
with some folks about the possibility of developing a permanent, concrete skatepark to replace the somewhat dangerous skate park that we have here,” he
said. Staples said his role is to help the community apply for the grant and, if awarded, help the community develop the skatepark.
A community group who will lead the process is set to meet at 7 p.m. Monday, July 22 at the Concord Town Hall. All See Skatepark page 3
Roof of SGI’s P-TECH Springville couple goes back in time for Academy building Old Fort Niagara collapses after heavy rain reenactment
Photo by Kellen M. Quigley A portion of the roof in the future CAM P-TECH Academy building next to the Springville Elementary School collapsed on July 4 after a significant rainfall in the afternoon. Officials say the renovation project is still on target for its September 2020 completion date.
By Kellen M. Quigley A portion of the roof at the future CAM P-TECH Academy building near Springville Elementary School collapsed on July 4 after a significant rainfall in the afternoon.
The building on Newman Street, which has been in renovation since early May, will have to be cleared of debris and the roof repaired before moving forward with the project, Superintendent Kimberly Moritz told
the Times. In a post on the Springville-Griffith Institute website July 6, Moritz wrote that she was thankful to the local fire department volunteers who came to ensure that the site See SGI Roof page 6
Photo submitted Springville couple Chuck and Jennifer Weber spent part of last weekend at Old Fort Niagara reenacting the French and Indian War.
By Alex Simmons This past weekend, Springville residents Chuck and Jennifer Weber spent their day
out at Old Fort Niagara, reenacting the French and Indian War. At this event visitors can take a step back to 1759, visiting people “of the time.”
A reenactor’s typical day consists of “getting up after a night of sleeping in a tent, making breakfast over a fire or in See Fort Niagara page 9
A Look Back: How to Name a Road
Looking back and seeing all the names that are on the maps for the roads and little hamlets and crossroads, I began to wonder how did they get named? So I began to research to see what I could find out. From the book, “History of the Town of Concord” by Erasmus Briggs, printed in 1883, I found some great information. Townsend Hill was named for Jonathan Townsend and family
By Jolene Hawkins who settled know why it is so called there in the early that. Nichols Corners days. He was born in was named after Lewis 1765 in Massachusetts Nichols who settled and came to this area there. Lewis was born in with his family in 1811. 1773 and moved to this He had a grist mill, area in 1818. a hotel located on How about the area Townsend Road and called “The Branch”? in 1822 built the first Who knows where brick house in town. that is? Well, along the It connected with the creek from Woodward’s framed house that was Hollow to the town of there, this house was North Collins was called used for town meetings “The Branch” for the fact for several years. that the west branch of Morton’s Corners was the Eighteen-mile Creek so-called as Wendell flowed through it. I learn Morton and his sons something new with this bought a farm and built a one. hotel there. Sadly there is This one is an easy not a lot left of Morton’s one. East Concord Corner, but now you was named because
it was situated in the eastern part of the town. Waterville was named because two branches of the Buffalo creek meet there and at one time there were several mills all within a mile of the place. Colden Hill was the southern part of what is called the Colden Hill, in the town of Concord, and it is named from the town of Colden, into which it extends. Vaughan Street was named as several families of Vaughans were settled on the streets there Liberty Pole Corner at Main and Vaughan
street got its name for the fact that the first Liberty-pole was raised
at that location on, July 4, 1819. The pioneers got See A Look Back page 2