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FORTUNE COOKIES (cont’d) • When the fair ended, Hagiwara petitioned to have the temporary garden remain as a permanent fixture of Golden Gate Park. He was granted permission and put in charge of maintaining, expanding, and improving the garden. He added a tea house, and began baking Japanese style fortune-telling cookies to be served with the Japanese tea ceremony. • When demand for the cookies increased, he hired nearby Japanese bakeries to make the fortune cookies for him. When Hagiwara died in 1925, his daughter Takano Hagiwara and her children took over. • When World War II started, over 120,000 Japanese people were sent to internment camps. The Hagiwara family and all of the Japanese bakers in San Francisco were sent to a camp in Utah for the next three years. • In the tea garden, anything that looked Japanese was torn down, the Hagiwara home was destroyed, all their possessions were taken, Chinese replaced the Japanese women as hostesses of the tea ceremony, and the place was renamed “The Oriental Tea Garden.” • During the war, Chinese people escaped internment. Because fortune cookies had been popular and profitable, Chinese people took over and started to manufacture and distribute them to their Chinese friends who ran Chinese restaurants throughout the city. • Because San Francisco was a heavily used military port during the war, soldiers who passed through became acquainted with the newly formed tradition of fortune cookies. When they returned to their hometowns and ate at local Chinese restaurants, they asked for fortune cookies, and when none were available, they complained to the management. Chinese restaurants started ordering Japanese fortune cookies to satisfy the wishes of their American patrons. • In Golden Gate Park, it wasn’t until 1952 that the title “Japanese Tea Garden” was re-instated. The Hagiwara family never regained their posi (continued next page)

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Phone: 716-434-6241 Fax: 716-434-9634 Cell: 585-469-4597 Email: Villagehomes@gmail.com www.villagehomecommunityhomes.com

5665 South Transit Road • Lockport, NY 14094 Cell: 716.392.3520 Office: 716.434.8458 • Fax: 716.434.6589

Jeanie Swatsworth Russell Swatworth Jr.

tammykavneyrose@howardhanna.com HowardHanna.com

Park Managers

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BASEMENT WATERPROOFING DONALD A. YORK INC.

Waterproofing & Drainage Contractor • Wall Bracing • Plugged drain tiles corrected OVER • Bowed, cracked walls 60 YEARS • Wet yards EXPERIENCE • Glass block windows • Basements spray painted: Waterproof paint seals, makes walls look like new!

709 Casey Road, East Amherst, NY • 716-688-6111

Abrasive Water Jet Cutting Specialists 9720 Rochester Rd Middleport, NY 14105 phone: 716-735-3370 fax: 866-323-7402

Jeff Ulrich, President mobile phone: 716-622-9427 www.hydrofabwaterjet.com email: HydroFabrication@verizon.net

PETE HERRIVEN OWNER

716-735-4129

petes.garage@yahoo.com

PETE’S GARAGE

9966 ROCHESTER RD MIDDLEPORT NY 14105

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360 West Avenue • Lockport, NY 14094 Phone: (716)434-2159 • Fax (716) 434-8517

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MARGARINE (cont’d) use, and imposed steep licensing fees on manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. Many states banned its sale outright. • Because margarine was white, manufacturers added coloring to make it look like butter. In fact, 32 states outlawed the artificial coloring of margarine. Manufacturers got around the law by including a packet of yellow dye that had to be mixed into the margarine by hand. Other states required margarine be dyed pink, brown, black, or red, but this was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled it was unlawful to force the adulteration of food. • Still, people kept buying margarine. In 1902, Congress quintupled the tax on margarine. By now it was made from cottonseed and soybean oil. Farmers who raised cotton and soybeans were incensed by the restrictions. • There were butter shortages during World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Consumers got angry about the butter protectionist laws. In 1949, thousands of housewives marched on Washington, D.C. to protest the margarine laws. In 1950 Congress repealed the Margarine Act of 1886. The sales of margarine doubled between 1950 and 1970. • The one hold-out was Wisconsin, which continued to restrict the sale of margarine until 1967. The margarine industry challenged Wisconsin senators to a blind taste test, to see if they could tell the difference between margarine and butter, and to ask which taste they preferred. Wisconsin state senator Gordon Roseleip, who had been the state’s most vocal opponent of margarine, failed the taste test and pointed to the margarine as the best-tasting spread. His wife confessed that she had secretly switched to margarine years prior because she was worried about his heart condition. • At one point Americans were eating three times as much margarine as butter. In 2014 butter sales caught up, and today Americans consume an average of 5.6 pounds of butter a year, as opposed to only 3.5 pounds of margarine.

Jerry’s Loose Threads

Kustom Upholstery, Tops, Boats

Jerry Chambers Owner

2800 Bebee Road Newfane, NY 14108

716-628-8503 jerrysloosethreads@gmail.com

JEST I N TYME A S RTISAN HOPPE

A Unique Gallery & Craft Shoppe Featuring the Works of 59 Local Artisans

More Than Just a Store!

www.jestintyme.com 2714 Main Street Newfane, NY 14108 jestintyme513@gmail.com 716-778-5273

Tues.-Sat. 10am-6pm, Thurs. til 9pm • Sun. Noon-4pm • Closed Mon.

SHAAREY ZEDEK Apartments

THE SMART CHOICE IN SENIOR HOUSING

Family Owned Since 1947

Home of the living memorial

A quiet senior community nestled in the heart of Amherst

Stop by for a Tour Mon, Wed or Fri 9am - 4pm

1 & 2 BEDROOM STYLES

716-834-3711

410 Hartford Road • Amherst, NY 14226 (off Millersport - 1 Block North of Sheridan)

Carl E. Fretthold • Michael R. Fretthold • James P. Fretthold

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BIRD FACTS

Some pranksters came up with the “Unfortunate Cookie” with sayings such as “This cookie just fell on the ground” and “Is that your car outside? Just got towed?”

The Old Chapel Antique & Artisan Market

172 Robinson St. N. Tonawanda Located in the former Ascension Church

This Historic Landmark is over 6500 sq. ft., featuring a mix of antiques, handmade artisan goods, gifts, decor and much more!

OVER 100 VENDORS NOW OPEN

ORANGE BRICK CAFE

Open 7 days a week 10-6pm

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• If a songbird is raised in complete silence, will it still sing properly? Well, it will still sing, but the song will be only a garbled version of what it’s supposed to sound like. Young birds in the nest depend upon their parents and other birds of their species to train them in the proper techniques for their species. Songbirds of different regions also develop specialized “accents” that differ from members of their own species found in other regions. When blackbirds were imported to Australia from their native Britain, within a short period they had developed their own distinct calls. • A number of birds know how to sew. Three different types of warblers have long thin pointy beaks that they use to poke holes in adjacent leaves, and then thread fibers through. For thread they use cottony fibers from seeds such as thistle down, stringy fibers from bark, and even spider silk. They give the fibers a twist after threading them through the holes, locking them into place. Several leaves stitched together act as a cup which can hold a nest. Orioles are also adept at weaving, constructing precise nests by threading fibrous strips from leaves over and under other strips. • When green-backed herons stand in shallow water waiting for fish to swim into range, they spread their wings on hot days, offering a patch of shade while standing still. Fish swim into this shady spot where they are easily nabbed by the patient and clever heron. They also stand nearby when people come down to the water to throw bread to the fish. They’ll pick up a piece of floating bread and drop it in the water near where they are standing, then wait for a fish to swim up to take the bait. They will also pick up bugs they find on the shore and drop them into the water as bait. • Kiwis, ground-dwelling birds native to New Zealand, are one of the few species of birds that hunt by smell. • Penduline tits are small birds native to Europe. The male weaves an impressive nest that (continued next page)

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A dead sperm whale that washed up on the shore of Spain was found to have consumed 59 plastic items that weighed a total of 37.4 pounds. The immediate cause of death was plastic sheeting that had clogged the whale’s stomach. The whale weighed 4.5 tons and was killed by 37.4 pounds of plastic.

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Barb’s Sweet Treats

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Wholesale & Retail 716-609-0931

Barbara Wickman 238 Oliver Street • North Tonawanda, NY

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TUESDAYS & SUNDAYS LARGE CHEESE PIZZA & 1 TOPPING & 10 WINGS

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Country Cottage Restaurant 4072 Beach Ridge Rd • Pendleton, NY 716-693-4911 (Corner of Town Line & Beach Road)

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

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