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Firefighters want in on Town of Wellsville’s emergency plan revisions
Gabby Hayes
their input. By KATHRYN ROSS “It’s time we bring WELLSVILLE — that focus back,” he The fire department is said. alarmed about reviIn other business, sions to the Emergency the board approved Management Plan that slight revisions to its are underway. sexual harassment Wednesday night policy. The updated Fire Chief Barney Dilplan was approved lie attended the town in 2020 and the only board meeting to let George F. Hayes changes, according to the council members know that the departCouncil member Patty ment wants a piece of Graves, is the town’s the emergency plan address and the people being revised with the to contact in cases of help of Emergency harassment. Management CoordiShe also noted that a ball player. son Hayes and Clark nator Chris Martelle. all employees must In his teens he Hayes. And although Dillie told the board, sign off on the plan his birthplace is legally became enamored with “You’re supposed to before the board apthe greasepaint and Stannards, in his later have an Emergency proves it. She added spotlights he’d expeyears Hayes always Management Council,” that yearly training rienced in Wellsville, gave Wellsville as his he added that such a for the employees is where he occasionbirthplace and the council is required by offered by the state and the state to meet every is also required by the ally appeared on the village embraced him plan. Baldwin theater stage. other month. as a native son. For Town SuperviIsland Park will In 1902, when he was several years, the local sor Shad Alsworth reopen May 1 under Chamber of Commerce 17, he left home and said that the revised current COVID-19 rejoined a stock comhosted a festival in his (1,000-page) plan will strictions, according to pany passing through name. ultimately come under Highway Superintentown. On his way to Growing up in the purview of the dent Dean Arnold. becoming an accomWestern New York, fire chief, assistant fire He told the board plished actor, he travHayes did not come chiefs, police chief, that he is starting to get eled with a circus and from a cowboy backthe village mayor and calls from those wantbecame a successful ground and did not rescue and ambulance ing to use the park vaudevillian. ride horses until he chiefs before it is comfacilities. Under curren History has it that was in his 40s. His pleted. state guidelines the Hayes had become so father, Clark, oper“It sounds to me as park facilities must be successful that by 1928, we go forward with the disinfected daily. ated the Hayes Hotel at age 43, he was able in Stannards and was revisions that we need Arnold also disto retire to his home on their input,” Alsworth also involved in oil cussed the interim Long Island. But like production. Hayes said, adding that there mutual aid agreement many, in 1929 he lost grew up in Stannards is a state deadline for between Wellsville and his fortune when the and attended Stanthe plan. other towns concernHe will send letters Stock Market crashed. nards School where he See Firefighters on page 2... See Gabby on page 2... to the stakeholders for earned a reputation as
‘Yer durn tootin’,’ Gabby to get a historical marker
By KATHRYN ROSS For the last several years, the Wellsville Lions Club has been educating locals and tourists alike by placing historical markers about the town. They can be found in places like Island Park, on the hospital lawn, on the library lawn, on Main Street and at the post office touting everything from the contribution of William and Gertrude Jones to Tan Bark City. Now the Lions Club says it will place one of the blue historical markers near Pizza King to honor George Francis Hayes. At one time his was a household name to kids and adults
across the nation. He’d starred in more than 200 movies and programs from the silver screen to the small screen with matinee idols and icons, from Hop-Along Cassidy to Roy Rogers and John Wayne. He was the ultimate sidekick — grizzled, grumpy and outspoken. He was Gabby Hayes. Hayes was born in Stannards in his father’s hotel in 1885, but as a lad he was drawn to the bright lights of Wellsville, where there were theaters and vaudeville stages with renowned thespians and entertainers treading the boards. He was the third of seven children born to Elizabeth Morri-
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