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Hoodie-Hoo Day: Scaring winter away in Allegany County And, like everything else, the celebration also went on hiatus during the COVID-19 andemic. The owners of 2 Sisters and a Smoker, Robin Gatch and Shelly Brown, who purchased Mama’s nearly a year ago, opened the doors earlier in the day and cooked up a huge vat of chili and pans of cornbread to serve to celebrants, who started arriving at 11 a.m. Hoodie-Hoo Day was created in 1986 by Thomas Roy of Wellcat Holidays of central Pennsylvania. The idea was to give winter-weary people the chance to celebrate the eventual coming of spring, so the date of the holiday was set for a month before
BY KATHRYN ROSS
SHONGO — Close to 200 people faced into the sun Saturday and shouted “Hoodie-Hoo!” to scare winter away. Hoodie-Hoo Day has been an annual event celebrated here for the past 15 years thanks to the organizing efforts of former County Legislator Bill Dibble, president of Allegany Trails Inc., but it was a first time for the 2 Sisters and a Smoker restaurant in Shongo — formerly Mama’s Smokin’ Barbecue. Mamas was the site of the seasonal celebration for several years, halting only when the establishment had a fire that closed the business for several months.
spring — Feb. 20 this year. Hoodie-Hoo Day is celebrated throughout the Northern Hemisphere, mostly in the north, and in New Zealand. It is celebrated in the Southern Hemisphere in August. Not long after the holiday was created, Betty Tomack, who at the time owned the General Store in Gold, Potter County, Pa., found the holiday on a calendar she had received for Christmas. Always looking for something fun to do at the store, she organized the celebration, setting the standard for free food, noisemakers and fun that is part of
Photo by Kathryn Ross A crowd gathered outside 2 Sisters and A Smoker in Shongo Saturday to shout “Hoodie-Hoo!” and scare winter away.
Hoodie-Hoo Day continued on PAGE 3
Cyr fighting his removal from Allegany County Legislature seat BY JIM ECKSTROM
Adam B. Cyr, a declared candidate for Allegany County treasurer, is fighting back after his removal from a County Board of Legislators seat representing District III. In a statement Feb. 21, Cyr said a judge has ordered the county to explain why he was stripped of his elected position on the legislature. Allegany County Supreme Court Judge Frank Caruso ordered Board of Legislators Chairman Brooke Harris to show cause on March 5. “The public has
Photo provided Adam B. Cyr, a declared candidate for Allegany County treasurer, is fighting his removal from his elected county legislature seat.
also seen the vendetta against me,” Cyr said. “This all started when I announced my intention to run for Allegany County treasurer. Since
then, I was stripped of all committee seats. I am the only legislator not on a sub-committee. “At the public hearing for the budget, I was
told by Harris in open session I was not qualified to be treasurer as I warned the board about the consequences of a $10 million increase in the budget for 2025,” he continued. “My support for volunteer firefighters and public safety was ignored and then ridiculed in public sessions.” Harris, asked to comment on Cyr’s claims, issued a statement Feb. 21: “It is the county’s position that the law requires us to treat Mr. Cyr’s legislative seat as vacant. Mr. Cyr has commenced litigation challenging that de-
termination, but the county’s determination remains in effect. “The county will respond at a proceeding to be held on March 5th at 2 p.m. in Allegany County Supreme Court. Considering the pending litigation, it would be inappropriate to discuss Mr. Cyr’s status further.” Harris announced in early February that the seat was vacated “as a result of Mr. Cyr’s self-reported change of both legal address and voter registration from the town of Wirt to the town of Andover.” In announcing his run for treasurer in
August, Cyr indicated he lived in Bolivar, which is in District III. A Republican — as are all members of the 15-seat county legislature — Cyr was elected in 2021, representing the towns of Alma, Bolivar, Genesee, Independence, Scio, Willing and Wirt. The county’s statement earlier this month noted that Andover is in District IV, and under Section 30 of the New York State Public Officer’s Law and an Allegany County local law, legislators who change their addresses to outCyr continued on PAGE 3
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