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50th Andover Lions Club Maple Festival is April 5-6 ANDOVER — The Lions Club will present the 50th Andover Maple Festival April 5-6 at Andover Central School. A pancake breakfast with locally produced maple syrup is the centerpiece of an event that gives many local businesses and organizations a showcase. Vendors and exhibits entertain and supply festival goers with sweet and sticky maple products, arts and crafts, history, health testing and more. The Andover Lions Club began the Maple Festival in 1973. The vision of the founders was to serve the community with an event that would give local organizations and businesses a venue to reach a wider audience.
The pancake breakfast, served in the school cafeteria by Andover Haunted House, begins at 7 a.m. both days. In addition to the food and other vendors entertainment is offered in the auditorium. On Saturday, from 10 to 11 a.m., Ellie the therapy dog and her handler will demonstrate nearly a hundred tricks that this talented and charming canine performs. At 11 a.m. to noon, there will be a Kiddie Tractor Pull where children can compete with pedal tractors for prizes. At 1 p.m. there will be a performance of Pastor Phil’s Puppet Show. A second demonstration by Ellie the therapy dog will be at 2 p.m.
The many maple trees lining the streets in the village of Andover made a convenient sugar bush that the Lions Club tapped to supply sap for their sugar shack, which produced syrup as well as an informative display to demonstrate the process. Andover Lions have been serving the community since 1971. The Maple Festival, being the signature event, skipped a few years because of COVID, but has reclaimed its place as the beginning of spring for the local community. The Maple Festival serves as a showcase not just for the Lions Club, but also for many of the other organizations and businesses of the region.
Sunday there is a community worship service at 8:30 a.m., Kiddie Tractor Pull at 11 a.m. and Ellie, once again, from 1 to 2 p.m. The Lions Club, chartered by Lions Clubs International, has monthly dinner meetings to foster good fellowship in service to the community. It provides financial grants to multiple organizations such as the library, Fourth of July celebration, youth sports and many others. Andover Lions also assist community members with the loan of medical supplies such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers and similar supplies. Grants are available for vision related services such as eye exams and eyeglasses.
Photo provided Maple trees are tapped in the village of Andover.
Bump the Dump anniversary celebration in Belmont BELMONT — Thirty-five years ago this week, Allegany County made history by writing its own chapter of civil disobedience engagement. The fight to keep a low-level nuclear waste dump from being sited in the county (“Bump the Dump”) culminated on April 4, 1990, with nonviolent civil disobedience that involved state police, siting committee members, horses, farm equipment, snow, masks, hundreds of protestors, a bridge, a flag and senior citizens. On that day hundreds of protesters —
Photo by Kathryn Ross This photo was taken in Belmont in 1990 as protestors confronted members of the New York State Low-Level Nuclear Waste Siting Commission. Protestors blocked vehicles and prevented state officials from getting out to inspect a potential site for a waste dump.
the largest turnout in nearly a year of defiant actions — blocked the advance of members of the New York State Low-Level Nuclear Waste Siting Commission and the state police from accessing a proposed site off East Hill Road in the town of Caneadea. The action was the same scenario that had taken place time and time again beginning in 1989, whenever the siting commission came to a town in Allegany County — Alfred, Almond, Belfast, Belmont, Wellsville, West Valley, West Almond or Caneadea.
The protesters, including business owners, farmers, college students, housewives, doctors, environmentalists, legislators, ex-military personnel and academics, linked arms and stood shoulder to shoulder, blocking roads and preventing commission members from approaching any of the proposed sites. When one protester was arrested, another stepped in to take that person’s place. Then-Gov. Mario Cuomo had ordered the state police to escort members of the siting commission onto poten-
tial sites. The popularly elected Allegany County Sheriff Larry Scholes walked a thin line between his duty and the safety and goodwill of his constituents during the protests. The story of the Bump the Dump protests in Allegany County will be told at the celebration at noon April 5 in the Belmont Library. The public is invited to attend the free celebration. It will include a special showing of the student made video “My Name is Allegany Bump the Dump continued on PAGE 2
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