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New Patriot Monument dedicated during Angelica Heritage Days Star-Spangled Banner.” After recognition of the monument’s supporters and congratulations offered by both local officials and statewide DAR officials, the members of the America 250 Committee were announced: co-chairs Joan Sinclair and Laura Shields, Cindi Bentley, Meredith Chilson, Ellen Donovan, Sandra Edwards, Joan Fancher, Glenda Hooker, Darla Indralingam, Margaret Secor, Deborah Snyder and Kathy Sevens. They then announced the names of their patriot forebears. After the names
Days, commemorates “the men and women who believed in the noble cause of liberty and valiantly strove to found a new nation from 1775 to 1785.” Allegany County was founded in 1806 by those patriots seeking a new life in the wilderness that would become western New York state. Sandra Edwards, Chapter Regent of the local DAR, opened the dedication ceremony following a procession through the park crowded with alumni and others celebrating Heritage Days. The ceremony opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and singing of “The
BY KATHRYN ROSS
ANGELICA — The Spirit of ‘76 was remembered Saturday during Angelica Heritage Days with the dedication of a monument recognizing the Revolutionary War patriots who settled in Allegany County. Members of the Catherine Schuyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution gathered to unveil a triptych monument that “will serve as a lasting tribute to the patriots of Allegany County, both known and unknown.” The America 250 Patriot Monument, dedicated during the 57th Annual Heritage
Angelica Heritage Days continued on PAGE 4
Photo by Kathryn Ross Joan Sinclair (left) and Sandra Edwards reveal the center stone of the Allegany County Patriot’s Monument on Saturday in Angelica.
With community’s support, Beardsley beating biggest foe an unforgiving, but one of those most curable forms of cancer. “Those were the two things that I was really nervous about giving up. “And he just said, ‘well, it can take on many different forms and you need to be prepared for a lot of different things.’” So prepare, he did. Beardsley turned the day-to-day reins over to former star player and top assistant Cassandra Mills. He relied, and comfortably so, on a staff that had been with him for multiple years — one that provided crucial continuity, but also maintained the program’s high stan-
BY J.P. BUTLER
In late February, just when he was about to begin his 17th season as the Fillmore Central School softball coach, Jon Beardsley was dealt a devastating blow. Beardsley, already an Allegany County coaching icon, was told he had cancer. Upon hearing those dreaded words, the Fillmore athletics leader and physical education teacher could easily, and understandably, have focused solely on his prognosis. Beardsley, however, was more worried about something else … His passion(s).
Jon Beardsley
“One of the first things I asked my doctor was ‘am I going to be able to teach kids and am I going to be able to coach softball?’” recalled Beardsley, who’d been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
dard (Fillmore, with and without Beardsley in the dugout, went 13-6 and reached the Section 5 Class D championship game). Mostly, he dug in for the physical toll he was about to face, one that left him, on many days, unable to walk. “Cancer did kick my butt for a couple of months, unfortunately,” he acknowledged, “particularly in March and April, and really knocked me off my feet. I was able to get to home games, but I really had to lean heavily on my staff. “It was obviously hard for someone like me to have to step back
(Beardsley’s helmed the girls soccer program for over 30 years), but I was also very happy … it was refreshing to know that I had the people behind me that I did before we even found out what it was going to turn into.” ALONG THE way, he attempted to downplay his condition. But this was Beardsley, Allegany County’s all-time leader in girls soccer coaching victories, who owns over 450 wins, has guided the Eagles to multiple state final four appearances and is deeply devoted to his players. And this was Fillmore, a community that cares immense-
ly for its own. There was no way this was going to take a back seat. And for the softball team, their coach became the cause around which to rally. “I think it certainly was motivating for the kids and for the community,” Beardsley agreed, “just to buy into something. We talked on a daily basis — and you’ll hear it at every one of my practices, or every one of my programs that I’m working with — that things are bigger than yourself. “I think the kids, Beardsley continued on PAGE 4
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