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JUNE 1-7, 2018
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 22
Your Hometown Newspaper
The official newspaper of the Town of Concord and the Village of Springville, serving Springville, the surrounding communities and Springville-Griffith Institute Central Schools
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SGI senior plays lacrosse for Eden ...see page 4
Summer Concert Series Schedule Announced BY RICH PLACE
There are so many great things going on in Springville this week! Two well known local organizations—SYI and the Boys & Girls Club of Springville—have decided to merge and combine their resources and ideas to create even more opportunities for the youth in our community. Springville now has an official Village seal and a new police vehicle graphic, thanks to two hardworking high school students. The spring sports postseason continued this week for many SGI athletes competing in track and field events, in ECICs last weekend. Up next are Sectionals. Springville has four all-new club soccer teams, playing most Mondays and Thursdays now through the end of July. Come cheer them on at the school soccer fields! With the rising temps this week, it’s time to think about all the outdoor summer fun to be had. We’re happy to see the Fiddlers Green concert series return next week, and hope to see many of you at the Thursday evening concerts running all summer long. Have good news to share? Email us at info@ springvilletimes.com or stop by our office at 65 E. Main St. in Springville.
Warm weather and the anticipation of summer means concerts are once again set to return to Fiddlers Green Park at the corner of Franklin and North Buffalo streets in Springville. The town of Concord and village of Springville recently released the schedule for the free concert series, a tradition on summer Thursday nights in Springville for decades. The series begins June 7 with Buffalo Silver Band and continues every Thursday through Aug. 30. Nearly all the musicians are returning acts with the exception of newcomer Band of Brothers on June 21. In addition to the Thursday night concerts is the traditional July 4 show, this year featuring Gene Hilts & the Rustic Ramblers, at Concord Community Park at 5 p.m. The show will be followed by fireworks. Denise Ciszak, secretary for the Concord town supervisor, has the unique task each year of coordinating the annual schedule. “I’m always looking for the public reaction to all of the bands,” she said. “Ones that I get the most reaction to the year before I try to bring back. And we always give consideration to new bands as well.” What’s involved with discovering a new band in a schedule often full of traditional favorites year in and year out? It involves some honest music critiquing after bands send in CD albums. “We listen to them up here on the second floor,” Ciszak said, referring to the second floor of Goddard Memorial Hall where the town offices are located. “Anybody coming up on the second floor during that time, they put their input in.” See Summer Concerts page 9
SYI and Boys & Girls Club to Merge
SGI Students Design New Village Seal and Police Car Graphic
UPCOMING EVENTS June 9 SCA Gala June 9 Relay for Life Little Valley Fairgrounds
BY ALICIA DZIAK Over the years in Springville, two organizations have provided numerous programming to the youth in the community—Springville Youth Inc. (SYI) and the Boys & Girls Club of Springville. SYI is possibly best known for their huge rec soccer and baseball programs, offering swimming lessons at their pool in the Village, and for their variety of summer programming, many of which relate to sports or the arts; the Boys & Girls Club of Springville has provided the community
June 10 Hike for Hunger Sprague Brook
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Looking Back ….. have you ever sat around a table having coffee and snacks , chatting with friends and say ..” wouldn’t it be cool if there was a place where…” and then all present would rattle off ideas? Well, that is kind of what happened in 1988 when Harland and Jane Kester, along with Jerry and Joni Taylor, were sitting around the kitchen table throwing ideas around and well, The WNY Dairy Festival was formed. On June 17, 1989, a few months later, in the TOPS parking lot, was the first Dairy Festival. Now that day was memorable for several reasons. One was, I had moved up late in the summer the year before, and the Cub Scout group our son was in, Cub Pack 642, had games for others to play set up so I was there, for the whole day, and I got sunburned for the first time. Second was that I was introduced to Bossie Bingo. Now folks, I kid you not…. there was a calf in a pen with a grid chalked into the grass, along with numbers, a fence around the area, and you could buy a chance on where the calf would .. well poop. I had moved up from Texas and had never, ever heard of this before. But I learned that day that not only would folks stand around and wait for a cow to poop, but that we had a HUGE dairy following in this area. Why, you ask? We have some of the most beautiful, family owned dairy farms around! Everyone either has a dairy farm, worked on one or knows someone who does. The parade that year was just around the parking lot. Games were set up, grills
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Before now, the Village of Springville didn’t have an official seal or custom-designed police car graphics, but that is the case no more, thanks to SGI high school art teacher Christy Komenda and her graphic design class. Last week, the new seal and police car design were officially
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June 21 Last day of school for students
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