Forever Young April 2018

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From the Editor

The secret is out: Western New York is a great place to live.

In Travel and Leisure's list of America's Favorite Cities, Buffalo is ranked #3. According to T+L readers, "Buffalo is one of the best cities in the nation for pizza and ice cream — but it also has some of the finest green spaces and architecture.

The city lays claim to seven Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structures."

Sperling's Best Places ranks Buffalo #2 out of 10 in The Best Cities to Relocate To in America.

Buffalo is ranked third best food city worldwide by National Geographic.

Folks from all over are flocking here to experience all the wonderful things WNY has to offer. And they're not the only ones benefitting. Every newcomer, whether immigrant, military personnel, artist, or musician who moves here increases our diversity

and enriches our region. It's no wonder Buffalo is known as the City of Good Neighbors. We're making new neighbors every day.

Welcome!

Wendy Guild Swearingen wswearingen@foreveryoungwny.com 783-9119 ext. 2253

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Mason Bees

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Post-Oscar Picks

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Pittsburgh 22

Cover: Top left: Photo by kc kratt Top Center: Photo by Nancy J. Parisi Top right: Photo by Ed Adamczyk

Humor 4

Features: Newcomers

How We Financed Our Retirement..............................Ted Rickard

18 Ethnic Music............................................................Rick Falkowski

Crossword 5

Spring Break............................................................. StatePoint Media

Mason Bees......................................................................Carol Ann Harlos

Healthy Food Fast.................................................Edward Adamczyk

Arts 8

20 Exploring the Fontana Boathouse............... Olivia Wood McCarthy 22 The Steel City: Pittsburgh...................................... Matthew Biddle

Food 7

19 A New Face at the Military Park...................... Edward Adamczyk

Getaways

Home & Garden 6

16 Senior Immigrant Resources ........................................... Sara Ali

My WNY 24 Jennifer May ......................................................... Anthony Chabala

April Theater.........................................................................Donna Hoke

10 Post-Oscar Analysis...............................................Christopher Schobert

Being Well

11 Local Poets......................................................................... Judith A. Rucki

26 Brain Health............................................................Catherine Stack

Ever y Issue: Calendars 2 | Bingo Buzz 12 | Classifieds 28 | Noteworthy 29

The Olear Team Anne Kader 2nd generation sres, crp

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker NYS Licensed Residential Real Estate Appraiser

Senior Real Estate Specialist

Multi-generational daughter of WNY real estate agent Milton Kader

Call/Text: 716.830.6366 | Alkader@Olear.com 8 8 0 . 4 4 4 2 | W W W. O L E A R . C O M 1244 Niagara Falls Boulevard Buffalo, NY 14150 | 8180 Transit Road Williamsville, NY 14221

1+ Erie County STAY FIT

FOREVER YOUNG APRIL CALENDAR

DINING PROGRAM offers a hot noon meal at 45 locations in Erie County. Menus and site list at erie.gov/ stayfit or 858-7639.

1+ Gowanda HEALTH

COMMUNITY ALLIANCE Activities open to the public age 50+, (no residency requirements) , Concord Senior Center, 1 School Street, Gowanda; for schedule visit communityalliance.org; 5321010, or beemana@hcanetwork.org

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Niagara Falls SENIOR C O M PA N I O N / F O S T E R GRANDPARENT PROGRAM Looking for seniors who enjoy working with their peers or children. Volunteers receive a tax-free stipend, transportation assistance, and supplemental insurance coverage while volunteering. If you are 55+, have a minimum of 15 hours per week to give and want to make a difference, contact Nora Aloian (SCP) at 285-8224 ext. 217or Jennifer Britton (FGP) at 285-8224 ext. 228

1+ PEOPLE, INC. OMBUDSMAN

Phone screenings in progress to become ombudsman volunteer to advocate for seniors in long-term care facilities.

Contact: Nicole Forgione, Marketing Communications Manager, 817-7490, nforgione@people-inc.org

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Buffalo MEDITATION, 2:30 p.m., El Buen Amigo, 114 Elmwood Ave. Free every Sunday. Meditation unites with creative arts and pain management.

Practitioner Sondra Holland welcomes people of all ages. Wear comfortable clothes. For information, Sondra: 9475092; store: 885-6343.

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Tonawanda TONAWANDA TOPS CLUB #50 Weekly meetings on Mondays, weigh-in 6pm/meeting starts at 6:25pm, Zion United Church Koenig & Parker Tonawanda; 912-6875

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Farnham T.O.P.S. CLUB weekly meetings held Tuesdays at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 10633 Church St., starting at 9 a.m. Call 934-9619.

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Kenmore UKULELE SING ALONG Ukuleles provided during

class. All levels welcome beginner experienced. Tuesdays 8 p.m. Church of the Advent, 54 Delaware Rd., Kenmore $5 suggested donation. 481-5735

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Tonawanda T.O.P.S. CLUB, weekly meetings on Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. at Blessed Sacrament Parish, Claremont Avenue. For information, call 834-7992

3+ Buffalo TAI CHI: MOVING FOR

BETTER BALANCE 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday, Tosh Collins Senior Center, 35 Cazenovia St. For more information, contact monicazucco@gmail.com.

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Tonawanda UKULELE SING ALONG Ukuleles provided during class. All levels welcome beginner–experienced Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays 1:30 p.m.

Brighton Place Library 999 Eggert Rd., Tonawanda. Call to register 332-4375 $5 suggested donation

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Niagara Falls T.O.P.S. CLUB, Enjoy light sitting and standing yoga at 5:30 p.m. before weigh in 6 p.m., and a brief interactive educational program at 7 p.m. Facebook: TOPS #173 Niagara Falls, NY, or call 550-1232. Meets Tuesdays at Riverside Presbyterian Church, 815 - 84th St., Niagara Falls

COME HOME TO

Shaarey Zedek Apartments

3, 21 WNY RESPITE SERVICES

for those with Alzheimer’s and related dementia on first Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. in Williamsville, and third Saturday, 11 a.m. in Amherst. Location info: (800) 272-3900.

3, 17 Buffalo HEADWAY

SUPPORT GROUPS, 2635 Delaware Ave. For individuals who have sustained brain injuries as well as their families and caregivers; exchange information and resources, and find mutual support and encouragement. Peer Support (Suite B), first and third Tuesday, 6:30–8 p.m.; Caregivers Support (Suite B), first Tuesday, 6:30–8 p.m.; Women’s Survivors Support (Suite E), first Tuesday, 1–2:30 p.m. Info: 408-3100 or headwayofwny.org

4+Amherst VICTORIAN DANCE

Amherst Victorian Dance Society, a Guild of the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, hosts a Victorian dance open house and workshop.

Experience the grace and charm of Victorian dance, dress, culture, etiquette, music and socialization. amherstvictoriandance.org; bnhv.org; 7–8:45 pm at BNHV, 7755 Tonawanda St., Amherst

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Amherst FREE RESPITE CARE PROGRAM, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Trinity Old Lutheran Church 3445 Sheridan Drive. First Wednesday of the month, for those caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or any form of dementia.

A morning snack and nutritious lunch are provided. For more information on registering for the program, call 836-4868

4+ Boston HATHA YOGA

Wednesdays at 7 pm. Gentle and meditative. Bring your own mat. Faith United Church of Christ, 8651 Boston State Road, Boston, NY. For more info call church office 716-941-3529

1 & 2 BEDROOM STYLES

Stop by for a Tour M, W, F 9 am - 4 pm 834.3711

410 Hartford Road, Amherst, NY 14226 A quiet senior community nestled in the heart of Amherst.

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(off Millersport - 1 Block, North of Sheridan)

4 Williamsville WOMEN’S

LYMPHEDEMA SUPPORT GROUP 5:45 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month. Sheridan Surgical room, 4510 Bailey Ave., Williamsville. Call 908-4149

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Middleport

T.O.P.S.

CLUB Scout House, Rochester Rd., Middleport. Wednesday weigh-in: 3:15–4 p.m.; meeting: 4–5 p.m. Contact Terry at 735-7666

4+ Orchard Park

TAI CHI

Advanced Tai Chi in the Park at Brush Mountain. Classes are held on Wednesdays at 11 am. Tai Chi builds endurance, increases flexibility and balance. New students are welcome.

Please contact the Orchard Park Senior Center at 662-6452 for information.

Cost $30 for a 8 week session.

5 Amherst WNY FIBROMYALGIA

AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SUPPORT GROUP meets at the John James Audubon Library on the 1st Thursday of the month from 7-8:45 p.m. in Room 1. All sufferers and cargivers welcome. Discuss coping skills and new ways we can improve. Facebook egroup: WNY Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Fatigue. Library: 689-4922

5+ Buffalo T.O.P.S. CLUB Successful

weight management combines support, healthy eating, regular exercise, and wellness information. Every Thursday, 5:30-7 pm, Norwest Buffalo Community Center, 155 Lawn Avenue, Buffalo. Contact Rose at 884-1425 for further information.

5+Tonawanda

LAUGHTER YOGA Come as you are, just bring your laughter! Thursdays 11 a.m.

Brighton Place Library, 999 Eggert Rd., Tonawanda. FREE

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Cheektowaga T.O.P.S. MEETING, Thursdays at 9 a.m., St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 900 Maryvale Dr. (corner of Union Road). Come for the love, support and friendship. For information, call Karen at 247-2334

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Buffalo GENTLE YOGA, 11 a.m. Thursdays, Tosh Collins Senior Center, 35 Cazenovia St. Bring a yoga mat. Info: 828-1093

FOREVER YOUNG APRIL CALENDAR 5+

2699 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville; Daughters’ Support Group, 5 p.m.

Monthly support groups coordinated with the Alzheimer’s Association, with caregiving tips and coping mechanisms.

For more information, call 6323700 or visit mcguiregroup.com

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15 Buffalo I GOT RHYTHM: THE

Akron T.O.P.S. CLUB Every Thursday, 5:30-6:45pm, at the Akron/ Newstead Senior Center, 5691 Cummings Rd. We offer tools, programs, support, fellowship and recognition for healthy living and weight management. For information call Diane 542-4980 Lockport T.O.P.S. 9259, Meets every Saturday morning @ 8:30 for weighin and 9am to 10am for weekly meetings, Christ Episcopal church 7145 Fieldcrest Dr., Lockport. Offers tools, programs, support and friendship for healthy living and weight management. Contac: Wendy, 200-2618 or Mary, 433-1693

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Explore options in senior housing.

Vendors include services for moving, downsizing, aging-in-place, legal issues, professional issues, and technology.

9–11am. Amherst Center for Senior Services, 370 John James Audubon Parkway Event is free and open to public.

636-3055 x3122

8 East Aurora FRANTZ

Anna is a grieving German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in World War I. When a mysterious French man appears in town with knowledge of Frantz, the town is cautious, yet Anna grows closer to him, as she begins to learn of his secrets. $6 members, $8 non-members. 4 p.m., Roycroft Film Society, Parkdale School Auditorium, 141 Girard Ave., East Aurora; roycroftcampuscorp.com

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Hamburg ALZHEIMER’S CARE-GIVER SUPPORT GROUP for males at Wesleyan Church, 4999 McKinley Pkwy. 2nd Tues. 626-0600, alz.org/wnyc

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Orchard Park ALIENATED GRANDPARENTS ANONYMOUS, INC., meetings 1 p.m. the second Tuesday of month, 4295 S. Buffalo St.

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Depew BREAST CANCER NETWORK OF WNY Monthly meeting second Tuesday, 6 p.m., Bella Moglie Bldg., 3297 Walden Ave. Call 706-0060 or visit bcnwny.org. Professional support group will be held at 8 pm

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Williamsville MCGUIRE GROUP MEMORY CARE SUPPORT GROUPS: General Support Group is second Wednesday, 3 p.m. at Harris Hill Nursing Facility,

MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN For this interactive concert, TOY presents some of Gershwin’s most famous songs including, “I Got Rhythm,” “Summertime,” and “Embraceable You.” 2 p.m. Theatre of Youth, 203 Allen St.; 884-4400; theatreofyouth.org

20 Akron HEARTS AND HANDS

Seeks volunteers to support caregivers of loved ones with early stages of dementia by providing an engaging, safe, and friendly environment to leave their loved one while taking care of their own medical, social, and emotional needs. Wright Center, 11 Church Street, Village of Akron the third Friday each month from 1–4:30 p.m. Contact Eugene Abrahamson at 406-8311 ext. 102, e-mail volunteer@ heartsandhandsfia.org or hnhcares.org

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Buffalo LGBTQ MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS PROGRAM: The Pride Center of Western New York offers the LGBTQ Memory Loss Caregivers Program providing support and education for people providing care for a person with Alzheimer’s Diseasend other dementias. Third Tuesday each month at 5:30 p.m., Pride Center, 200 South Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, 8527743 or pridecenterwny.org

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West Seneca FREE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SESSION, hosted by The McGuire Group for anyone coping with grief, sadness or loss at 5 pm at Seneca Health Care Center, 2987 Seneca St. Held third Wednesday of the month. Those interested in attending can call 828-0500.

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Amherst WNY NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI) held third Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. in two locations for families of people living with mental illness: St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4007 Main St., Amherst.

Southtowns: Lake Shore Behavioral Health, 3176 Abbott Rd # A

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Orchard Park SIPS SUDS & SWEETS Senior Wishes is hosting a fundraiser from 6-9pm on Fox Run at Orchard Park.Samples of beer, wine, spirits, desserts and appetizers provided by local businesses. Music Michael Ross Nugent.

Tickets $50 pre-sale seniorwishes.org, info: Wendy Backman, 508-2121; wbackman@ uchsinc.org

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Niagara Falls SPRING CONFERENCE, LUNCHEON, & RESOURCE FAIR. Council for Older Adults in Niagara County presents this spring event where speaker highlight 5 easy, practical tips you can incorporate into your life to help you stay healthy, active & independent! 9:30 a.m.–2 p.m., Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 7001 Buffalo Ave.; 285-8224 x215

20 Niagara Falls NIAGARA FALLS 24 Buffalo TOY BREW BASH SINGLES SOCIAL CLUB, An active

50+ crowd, dances third Friday each month at 7 p.m. at the Buff Social Club, 2565 Young St., NF. $6 ($4 members).

Monthly activities include picnics, parties. Door prizes, 50/50 raffle. Info: 439-8387

Annual Fundraiser for Theatre of Youth.

5:30–9 p.m. Resurgence Brewing Company. Tickets and information at theatreofyouth.org or call 884-4400.

DANCE CALENDAR MONDAYS W. Seneca BALLROOM DANCING

BY CAROL is a 6-week class @ St. David’s Church, 3951 Seneca St. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Info: 824-0504.

Sloan CLOGGING LESSONS by Kickin’ Rhythm Cloggers, 6:30 p.m. @ St. Andrew’s Parish Hall, 111 Crocker St., Bldg. 1. kickinrhythmcloggers.com, (585) 457-4455.

Buffalo HUSTLE FOR HEALTH URBAN LINE DANCING with Phyllis Caver at Gloria Parks: 3242 Main St, Buffalo. 12pm - 1pm. FREE for ages 55+ Call 716 832 1010 TUESDAYS Buffalo LINDY FIX 8–10 p.m. @ Polish Cadets Hall, 927 Grant St. lindyfix.com, swingbuffalo.com.

WEDNESDAYS N. Ton. DANCING WITH DOTTIE AND FRIENDS country-style line lessons, 7:30 p.m. @ Pendleton Center Meth. Church, 6864 Campbell Blvd. 688-6026 or 625-8306.

Buffalo HUSTLE FOR HEALTH URBAN LINE DANCING with Phyllis Caver at Gloria Parks: 3242 Main St, Buffalo. 11am- 12pm. FREE for ages 55+ Call 716 832 1010 Amherst AMHERST VICTORIAN DANCE SOCIETY Authentic music, dress and dance of Queen Victoria's time. New members and guests welcomed! 1st Wednesdays @ Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village in Amherst & 4th Wednesdays @ VFW

Post in Village of Williamsville. 7:00 p.m. Info: Geraldine, 877-0222 or amherstvictoriandance.org THURSDAYS Kenmore JACKIE’S THURSDAY NIGHT DANCES @ Brounshidle Post, 3354 Delaware Ave. Lessons: 7 p.m. Open dancing: 8 p.m. 691-8654.

Ongoing WNY BELLYDANCE CLASSES 560-1891, nadiaibrahim.com.

Kenmore JACKIE’S DANCE Monthly dance. Call691-8654 fordetails.

WNY BALLROOM SOCIAL DANCE, Argentine tango and belly dance instruction with Carol Allen; N. Collins and Amherst. 337-3092 or callen8801@aol.com.

West Seneca BALLROOM DANCE classes @ 1761 Orchard Park Rd., 7713110, ballroomiliana.com.

WNY DANCE W/ ERIN BAHN 9977190 or erinbahn.com.

ARGENTINE TANGO IN BUFFALO Dancing & Classes. traviswidricktango.com. Contact Travis @ 517-7047 SATURDAYS Buffalo HUSTLE FOR HEALTH URBAN LINE DANCING at East Community High School 820 Northampton St, Buffalo. 11:30am 12:30pm. FREE for all ages. Free Lunch.

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LIFE & LEISURE

How We Financed Our Retirement

BY TED RICKARD

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he first thing my bride of many years and I learned about financing retirement is that we didn’t do nearly enough of it. The second is that it’s too late to do anything about it now.

We see those smugly happy couples in the mutual fund ads—the silvermaned, hand-in-hand ones who stare off the page in a trance-like state of self-satisfaction. For all we know, they are full of funny mushrooms.

But, according to the copy in the ad, they are simply mesmerized by wonderment of the success of their

retirement investments and their consequent ability to live like the most profligate sybarite now that they have called it quits.

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little wonder they look happy! The ad’s purpose, apparently, is to remind us that if we had used our brains, we would have feathered our own nest a good bit more thickly than we have. And it would be we who’d be over-tipping the maître d’ at La Manger instead of checking the time to make sure we qualify for the “early bird special” at Friendly’s Family Restaurant, where “there’s never a charge for a second cup of coffee.”

There are dozens of magazine articles every month helping me feel like a fool because I didn’t invest wisely and aggressively during the Kennedy administration. In those early years, we squandered our money frivolously on an Admiral TV set, instead of taking the children with us to the public library to read the Wall Street Journal. With a little forwardthinking frugality, we could have bought at least a few shares in what is today a household word in electronics, or maybe it’s intergalactic telephony.

But, when investment time was prime, there always seemed to be something else that called for investment, things like car payments that lasted longer than the transmission did. Thus, what should have gone into IBM was reallocated to replacing the washing machine, since there were two kids in diapers at the time and the machine stopped making sloshing sounds and was now making motionless grinding noises.

Instead of Chevron and perpetual

dividends, we invested in rabies and distemper shots for a stray mutt who later paid us dividends by giving birth to five puppies beneath the basement stairs. The vet bought Chevron warrants, sent his single child through medical school, and now lives in Palm Beach. Meanwhile, every time we gassed up the car, the dog would remind us of the missed market opportunity by barking at us out the rear window.

It’s simply not true that children always become their parents. One of our adult offspring has purchased a duplex, which he remodeled himself with the aid of self-help books purchased via the Internet. He rents out the other half, which pays his mortgage—an idea he got from a magazine on personal finance—and he has a fully-funded insurance policy to pay for his only child’s education including graduate school because “it takes so little to do it when they’re infants.”

Unlike his father, this grandchild wouldn’t think of eating chocolate bars for breakfast. And, instead of the back of the cereal box, he reads Barron’s while he chews his granola. Heaven knows what else the youngster’s been reading, but I’ll bet it has nothing to do with genetics. FY Ted Rickard’s book, Anything Worth Knowing I Learned from the Grandkids, is available from Amazon. com

CROSSWORD 11. Domain 12. Say you didn't do it 15. *In two pieces 20. *____ life 22. *In high demand during Spring Break 24. With two axes 25. *Top destination 26. Immature ovum 27. Pavarotti, e.g.

29. Potato's soup mate 31. Wet nurse 32. Shriver or Sharapova 33. Leaf-eating moth 34. ____ tooth 36. Render speechless 38. Buddies

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42. Time on the job 45. Take weapon away 49. Lungful 51. Like medieval European society 54. Reduce pressure 56. Possible allergic reaction 57. Antioxidant-rich berry 58. Misfortunes 59. ____ Madrid 60. Taxi payment 61. Roofed colonnade 62. Red carpet purse 63. What birds do 64. Three pointer 67. Away from the bow

THEME: SPRING BREAK ACROSS 1. Out of whack 6. Greek H 9. Goodness gracious!

13. Swahili or Zulu 14. "Was ist ____?"

15. *What speakers do 16. Concluded 17. Chain letters 18. "A Doll's House" playwright 19. *____ Beach 21. Take advantage of an opportunity 23. *Spring Break beach alternative 24. *Resort island in Indonesia 25. Web robot 28. Tangerine plus grapefruit 30. Canine's coat 35. "The Three Faces of ____," pl.

37. Mound 39. Idealized image 40. Polly to Tom Sawyer 41. *South Padre Island, ____ 43. Jason's vessel 44. Intangible storage 46. Jamie Fraser's tartan 47. Hurries 48. Heavy lifting injury

50. "In your dreams!"

52. *"Where the Boys ____," movie 53. Perfect houseplant spot 55. Clinton ____ Rodham 57. *Tough to raise?

61. *Like typical Spring Break traveler 65. *Desired forecast 66. Sylvester to Tweety 68. Show opposition 69. Smoke detector, e.g.

70. Flying saucer acronym 71. Make laugh 72. Same as island 73. School org.

74. Everyone but clergy DOWN 1. Tucked in 2. Supernatural life force 3. Indiana Jones 4. Cancel an edit, pl.

5. Logic-based puzzle 6. Icelandic epic 7. *Sign of a Spring Break trip 8. Volcano near Nagano 9. Major European river 10. Knife wound

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HOME & GARDEN

Mason Bees

BY CAROL ANN HARLOS

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ne of my favorite things in the month of April is the emergence of mason bees. Mason bees are native solitary bees that are so very easy to raise. (Solitary means they don’t form a hive as honeybees do. It is said that all female solitary bees are queens!) Mason bees are very gentle bees. It is almost impossible to get stung by them. They are among the first spring pollinators, even ahead of honeybees, which is why I am helping them. The hairy bodies of the females pick up and then lose pollen very easily, making them incredible pollinators.

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You might think that since mason bees are native bees they don’t need any help. Just as each of us has certain biological needs to survive, so do mason bees. A number of years ago, I realized that I rarely saw them on our property.

I ordered some online. What I received were cocoons that I stuck in tubes and hung on the back fence. I never saw the bees emerge. I found empty tubes in

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Dry lovage stems are used to produce mason bee nurseries Photos by Carol Ann Harlos

June, so the mason bees must have left.

My next step was purchasing a small mason bee house. This time I hung it off a trellis on one side of our front porch so I could watch. I did not purchase any bees. To my delight, beginning in late April into May and June, there were many mason bees entering and leaving the tubes. They sure scared people who visited us! After several weeks, the adult female bees cemented the tubes closed with mud.

It was April again. The mason bee house was still hanging on the porch.

Our neighbor Ben came to visit and said, “There are a lot of insects flying around on your front porch.” Bees were emerging! The males, which live for about two weeks, came out first, foraged for nectar, returned, and waited for the females to emerge. I could tell they were male mason bees because they have a white “mustache” and long antennae. Then the females emerged.

They are smaller than the males, have no mustache, and short antennae.

Mating takes place. The males die soon after. The females forage for nectar and pollen, inadvertently pollinating many plant species such as apple and other fruits. They live up to about six weeks so they do a great deal of pollinating!

Each female lays an egg in a tube and releases a sperm cell to create a female.

The first six to eight eggs laid in a tube develop into females, the rest are males who develop from unfertilized eggs.

As the female lays an egg, she deposits

A finished mason bee nursery

pollen and nectar as food for the developing larva and uses mud to create chambers separating the eggs from each other. Finally, the entrance to each tube is sealed. The eggs hatch into larvae shortly after they are laid. The larvae eat the pollen, form a cocoon, and hibernate until the next year as an adult.

(Note my photo above of a mason bee home filled with sealed tubes.)

Each April, right about the time that dandelions and fruit trees bloom, the process begins again. Some sources say that the tubes are not reused, but I don’t find this to be true all the time. This spring, I am adding a second house to encourage even more mason bees. I see some rather neat setups for mason bees in catalogs that are very tempting!

You can also tie bundles of hollow stems together for mason bees. The hollow stems need to be about 3/8 inch in diameter. Hang bundles in a convenient place or construct a simple holder for them. The other picture above shows dry lovage stems, which produce ideal mason bee nurseries!

I am writing this to encourage my readers to consider helping out mason bees. Although I am a keeper of honeybees, I realize that keeping them is expensive, requiring equipment, time, and acquired skills—not for everyone! FY Thank you to those of you who take the time to write. I love it! caharlos@verizon. net or herbgardener.net

FOOD

Healthy Food Fast

BY ED ADAMCZYK

meal is not new. McDonald’s has been doing it for generations, and supermarkets and other food stores now prepare takeout food for customers. Eat Rite meals typically stay between 350 and 400 calories, and include sirloin steak, skinless chicken, turkey, or fish—plenty of protein— with vegetables and carbohydrates that include rice and couscous, all for six dollars.

“No fat, no cream cheese,” Del Zoppo notes.

It is all prepared fresh in the 800-square-foot kitchen adjacent to the 4,500 square foot shop.

In a typical week, thirteen lunch and dinner variations are available, as well as three breakfast options. Most customers order meals online or by phone—any where from a day’s worth to a week’s worth—but a grab-and-go refrigerator is also available for walkins.

The health-conscious fast food restaurant offers low fat, low-calorie, unprocessed lunches and dinners to a

customer base eager to have it. While the majority of customers park, enter, buy, and go home to enjoy their meals, tables are available for in-store dining, largely for a lunchtime clientele from local businesses and government.

Bright and Del Zoppo are clearly filling a need with Eat Rite Foods.

In the twenty-first century, we are accustomed to finding fast food, accustomed to making mealtime the part of the day that’s sacrificed to other parts of the day, accustomed to less-than-nutritious foods to fuel busy schedules. Eat Rite offers healthier options that are just as quick to get as pulling into a drive-through.

Eat Rite Foods 1 Delaware Road, Kenmore eatritefoods716.com 445-1067 FY Ed Adamczyk is a historian and contributing writer for the Niagara Gazette and Forever Young.

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They are there to pick up a supply of pre-ordered prepared meals: low-calorie, high-protein breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to take home, freeze, and enjoy until the following Sunday.

“There was a need for this in Buffalo,” says co-owner Mike Del Zoppo, twenty-nine, of a business plan that intentionally combines improved nutrition with ease of use for those who find themselves with not enough time to prepare meals at home. He and business partner Luke Bright, twenty-nine, have backgrounds in powerlifting and have traveled the world through the sport. Each knows, from experience, a few things about healthy eating and what belongs in a diet. Each is also a former DuPont Niagara employee. When Bright

and Del Zoppo faced layoffs, they envisioned collaborating on a business that was not quite a restaurant and more than a health food store.

“We could do it better,” Del Zoppo says. This is the way we would do it.

You have to live through it before you can do it better.”

They opened a store in Cheektowaga in 2016, outgrew it, and moved to Kenmore, where their first anniversary is about to be celebrated. The result?

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April Theater Preview

BY DONNA HOKE

I Do, I Do O’Connell and Company Music: Harvey Schmidt Book and lyrics: Tom Jones Director: Charles Basil Cast: Greg and Mary Coppola Gjurich Adapted from a play called The Fourposter (referencing the bed that is the focal point of the set), I Do, I Do made its Broadway debut in 1966.

The musical follows newlyweds Michael and Agnes from their wedding day and through the next fifty years, until they sell their home to the next pair of newlyweds. This production is extra special because it stars real-life marrieds Greg and Mary Coppola Gjurich singing about exploring the trials and triumphs of a five-decade union. Here’s what they have to say about their collaboration: How did this project come about?

Greg: Um…I looked at her and said, “Wanna do I Do, I Do?” She did, she did… If someone else was sitting next to me in the living room, there might have been a different cast.

Mary: Wow, you’re so romantic.

Good thing you weren’t sitting next to Uncle Dan! Greg: We have talked about doing

this show for about ten years, and now we are finally the right age to hopefully bring the right perspective to it. The production team is a dream, and of course, to be performing it at our dear friend Mary Kate’s theater is the icing on the cake. Oh, and the song from the show, “My Cup Runneth Over With Love,” is actually what we danced to at our wedding.

Mary: So I guess we’ve actually been thinking about this show for over thirty years.

What’s it like trying to run lines at home? How does the show invade your home life?

Mary: It’s fun… and convenient!

We’ll read the script together many times, then take to our corners to begin our own processes. Greg works from the outside in; memorizes lines then goes from there. [For me], the lines stick better after I get to know the character and the show is on its feet. In short, memorizing lines first sucks, but is necessary for this show.

Have you worked together as a married couple before? When/ where? How does it affect the work?

Greg: Have we ever worked together?! Pshaw. Actually, we prefer

to work together. There’s just a level of trust with that other actor on stage that takes time to develop with someone else. For us, it’s there from the beginning. It allows us to experiment and be vulnerable while developing a character. We have done a number of shows together, [both] opposite each other and also just in the same show. Most recently, we did Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for Second Generation at Lancaster Opera House and had a blast playing opposite each other. We’ve also had the good fortune to play all three couples in the musical Baby— twice for each couple/pair. That was in Buffalo, Washington DC, Tennessee, Long Island, and then back to Buffalo with Kaleidoscope productions.

Throughout the years, we’ve played Lola and Joe in Damn Yankees, The Baker’s Wife, and Wolf/Prince in Into The Woods, Rosie and Albert in Bye Bye Birdie, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain, Josephine and Alfred in Romance/ Romance, Velma Kelly and Billy Flynn in Chicago, and, though not opposite each other, one of our favorite shows together was, many years ago, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine.”

Image courtesy of O'Connell and Company

How did you meet?

Greg: We met at the first rehearsal of Annie for the twentyfifth anniversary celebration of St. Gregory the Great Church, where we were eventually married. When she walked into the room, not even knowing who she was, I leaned over to fellow Buffalo actor Brian Harkins and said, “That’s the girl I’m gonna marry.” Not wanting to be a liar, I pursued her with a vengeance.

Mary: Awww, so sweet! My recollection is, “Who’s that loud guy picking on the orphans? Greg who?”

The rest is history.

What do your kids think of this?

Mary: The girls pretty much grew up backstage of any given theatre, so this is nothing new. Both girls studied musical theater at Syracuse University and are living in New York City starting careers of their own. We tried to stop them, but I guess they found their passion!

Will the show be updated at all?

Greg: Gosh, I hope not. Yes, it’s a period piece, but it also harkens back to a time when life was much simpler.

Maintaining the simplicity allows the focus to remain on the relationships.

By leaving it set in the first half of the last century, it also highlights how far we have evolved in those relationships. It’s not just “a woman’s place is in the home” anymore. It allows the audience to reflect that great strides have been made with

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ARTS equality in a relationship, though there are still strides left to be taken.

Has the show caused you to reflect on your own marriage; if so, how?

How long have you been married?

Greg: Mary gave me permission to answer this one. Absolutely we have reflected on our own marriage. Mary just gave me a look. I’ll stop talking.

Mary: But, seriously, while working on this piece, we had many discussions about our personal relationship and how we might react to Agnes and Michael’s circumstances. Some were similar and others very different. It was an interesting process. Incidentally, we celebrate our thirtieth anniversary during the run of this show. We are proud that we have an equal partnership and, though we will always be dependent on each other,

we fully support the other person exploring their individuality. Does that make sense?

Greg: How lucky am I? Mary: How lucky are we?

Greg: [sigh] O’Connell and Company opens I Do, I Do on April 5 (oconnellandcompany.com, 8480800). FY Playwright Donna Hoke writes about theater for Buffalo Spree and Forever Young.

Opening This Month • School of Rock runs April 3-8 at Shea’s (sheas.org, 847-0850).

• Smell of the Greasepaint, Roar of the Crowd hits Lancaster Opera House April 6 (lancopera.org, 683-1776).

• The Full Monty begins at Subversive Theatre Collective April 12 (subversivetheatre.org, 408-0499).

• Alleyway starts the annual Buffalo Quickies April 19 (alleyway.com, 852-2600).

• Jewish Repertory Theatre opens Sight Unseen April 19 (jewishrepertorytheatre.com, 888-718-4253).

• The Awful Truth opens April 20 at Irish Classical Theatre Company (irishclassicaltheatre.com, 853-4282).

• Shea’s presents The Phantom of the Opera beginning April 23 (sheas. org, 847-0850).

• MusicalFare opens Once April 26 (sheas.org, 847-0850).

• Kavinoky welcomes The Foreigner beginning April 27 (kavinokytheatre. com, 829-7668).

• Road Less Traveled Productions presents The Christians beginning April 27 (roadlesstraveledproductions.com; 629-3069).

Also Playing (in order of closing) • Jesus Christ Superstar closes at American Repertory Theater opens of Western New York on March 31 (artofwny.org, 634-1102).

• Road Less Traveled Productions closes Disgraced March 31 (roadlesstraveledproductions.com; 629-3069).

That Championship Season closes April 7 at New Phoenix (newphoenixtheatre.org, 853-1334).

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Post-Oscars Analysis Who Should Have Won BY CHRISTOPHER SCHOBERT

Timothée Chalamet stars is Call Me By Your Name Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

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scar season ended with a bit of a whimper on Sunday, March 4, as Guillermo del Toro’s lovely fantasy romance, The Shape of Water, took home Best Picture honors. Why a whimper? Only because there were bolder choices in this category—and nearly every other.

It is hard to find fault with most of the winners in major categories; who can truly be upset to see the likes of Gary Oldman and Allison Janney take home an Academy Award after decades of great work?

Still, every movie fan has his or her personal picks. Here are mine from this year’s Oscars. Best of all, many of these films are now available for home viewing; see my notes after each category.

Best Lead Actress: Who won: Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who should have won: Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird McDormand’s victory was no surprise. Her performance as a griefstricken mother who takes matters into her own hands was a powerhouse and led to several honors during awards season.

However, Ronan’s work as a high school senior in Sacramento is so fresh, so funny, and so real that she deserved to take home the gold. Her Lady Bird will be remembered long after McDormand’s is forgotten.

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Lady Bird and Three Billboards are now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital.

Best Lead Actor: Who won: Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour Who should have won: Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name Best Actor was the lock of the night; there was no chance Gary Oldman was losing. He was marvelous as Winston Churchill, giving a force-of-nature performance under gobs of makeup.

Timothée Chalamet, on the other hand, was extraordinarily subtle as a teenager who falls for an older man. The performance was equally conflicted and joyful, and that’s thanks to this fantastic young star. Like Ronan in Lady Bird, Chalamet in Name is unforgettable.

Can I watch these at home yet? Yes! Call Me By Your Name and Darkest Hour are now available on DVD, Bluray and digital.

Best Supporting Actress: Who won: Allison Janney – I, Tonya Who should have won: Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread The nomination that most excited

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me here was Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread, my pick as the finest film of 2017. She is a quiet hurricane as the devoted sister of a genius fashion designer.

However, Allison Janney was not to be ignored as the mother of figure skater Tonya Harding. Hers is a showy role in a noisy film, and she nails it. Janney has been good for years, and is tremendously wellliked.

Can I watch these at home yet? Yes! Phantom Thread is available now to rent or buy on digital and arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on April 10, while I, Tonya is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital.

Best Supporting Actor: Who won: Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who should have won: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project How is it possible that Dafoe has never won an Oscar? Think about his work, in everything from Platoon to The Last Temptation of Christ. He was so, so good as the caring manager of a Florida motel.

Rockwell had a showier role in Three Billboards, as a racist cop who

(sort of) redeems himself. It’s a fine performance, but it’s no Dafoe.

Can I watch these at home yet?

Yes! The Florida Project and Three Billboards are now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital.

Best Director: Who won: Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water Who should have won: Jordan Peele – Get Out/Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird I adored The Shape of Water, so I’m not saddened that del Toro was the winner. Still, what a thrill it would have been to see Peele or Gerwig take the crown. Peele earned an Oscar for his Get Out screenplay, and it was a deserving one. But Gerwig’s script and direction of Lady Bird is just as noteworthy.

Can I watch these at home yet? Yes! Get Out, Lady Bird and The Shape of Water are now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital.

Best Picture: What won: The Shape of Water What should have won: Phantom Thread There are several deserving picks here, especially Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, and Get Out. And I was happy to see a big win for The Shape of Water, a Cold War-set tale in which a mute woman falls in love with an amphibious man.

But the best film of 2017 was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. Strange, funny, and entirely mesmerizing, the Daniel Day-Lewisstarrer is utterly unique. Rent it, cook up some mushrooms, and prepare to be Phantom’d.

Can I watch these at home yet? Yes! Phantom Thread is available now to rent or buy on digital and arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on April 10, while The Shape of Water is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital. FY Christopher Schobert is a film critic whose work appears in Forever Young, Buffalo Spree, and other outlets.

HOME & GARDEN

Celebrating Poetry Month

BY JUDITH A. RUCKI

Local poet Verneice Turner Photo courtesy of Verneice Turner

April is Poetry Month, and what better time to meet two local poets and get a feel for how popular the genre is around town?

Verneice Turner is more than just a poet. The Buffalo native is also a performance artist, Artie awardwinning actor, a director, and the recipient of honorary awards from Alemaedae Theatre Co., and Express Entertainment.

Turner says she started out at the African American Cultural Center, studying under June L. Saunders-Duell, Glynnis Green, Malcolm Ernie, and Senor Haynesworth. She continued her studies in the performing arts at SUNY at Buffalo. She has worked with directors Edward G. Smith, Saul Elkin, Richard Gant, and Lorna C. Hill, among others.

She has performed in numerous productions here in Western New York as well as in New York City (“offoff-” and off-Broadway), Washington, D.C., and other cities as an actor, singer, dancer and poet. She ran the art space Buffalo East from 2009-13 and says she is “grateful to have shared that experience with so many other artists and young people.”

She adds, “I, along with poets Perry Nicholas and Jennifer Campbell, produced the three-volume series of poetry Beyond Bones.” She is featured in the anthology A Celebration of Western New York Poets, edited by Patricia Tansey.

Turner also produced two CDs, the solo work Pieces of Me, and Poetry of Black & White with D.C. poet Cliff Bernier. Additionally, she has written a collection of poems, Sweetness,

P

oetry means different things to different people. Some think it begins and ends with greeting cards and has to rhyme. Others may find it sappy or meant for teenage girls in the throes of first love. Poetry can even seem to be a “love it or hate it” proposition.

edited by Jennifer Campbell and Perry Nicholas.

Her “poetic mentor,” Rosemary Kothe, along with her husband, Bill Kothe, founded the Screening Room Series in 1993. After the passing of Rosemary Kothe, Turner assumed hosting duties along with other area poets, including Marge Merrill and Marek Parker.

Turner says she loved poetry since she was a child and found comfort in books. “Words sustain me. You need to have words to hold and keep you. You need to know who you are.”

Writing and teaching Tara Heavern is an English teacher with the Buffalo Public Schools. She says, “When students say they hate poetry, which sadly is often, I encourage them to keep an open mind. If you don’t like a song, you don’t say you don’t like music. I tell them to keep searching for one that speaks to them.”

Heavern says she always enjoyed

poetry, “the economy of it all and unwrapping them.” She adds, “I began writing more earnestly about twelve years ago. I was experiencing some life events that had the potential to be very debilitating. Writing became a lifesaver and game changer for me. Yoga, too!”

She has had pieces published in Earth’s Daughters and steel bellow, Fred Whitehead’s Destitute Press micro-book. She says, “A short story of mine was included in Gary Earl Ross’s Queen City Flash.”

Heavern says, “My writing draws on shedding light in potentially dark corners. I like to think that the subjects I write about are accessible and invite people into a part of life they have not experienced in a non-threatening way and honor our universal brokenness.

“I live on the West Side of Buffalo, so I also am eternally amazed by the refugee population and sometimes weave my sheer awe of their resilience into some of my pieces. Writing has so many steps and the sharing of it is part

There’s always something happening at

Local poet Tara Heavern Photo courtesy of Tara Heavern

of those steps, all very therapeutic.”

She adds, “Sometimes just the putting down of words on paper can provide a great clarity and release, and the process can help to sort out feelings and ideas in ways you never knew imaginable. To be able to share those words in print for others is a vulnerable thing to do but also very affirming. To read those poems to others takes it that much further. Again, vulnerable but a great way to assert who you are.

“I think that many of us can go through situations in life where we find that people have sought to define us. Writing has always been an act of reclamation for me. I am grateful to a very supportive and encouraging community of poets with which to do that.” FY Judith A. Rucki is a public relations consultant and freelance writer. Readers may contact her via the editor at wswearingen@buffalospree.com with ideas for making the golden years sparkle, sizzle, and shine.

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Navigating a New World

BY SARA ALI

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ears ago, I sat down at a Tim Hortons with a Burmese refugee. He was a former political prisoner who barely spoke English and was trying to communicate to me his experience in Burma. I took vigorous notes as he told me what life was like in his native country, and what he is doing now that he is in Buffalo. The conversation was difficult, trying to make out what he was saying in broken English. I asked him how he navigates daily life tasks, and he stated that he relies on family members to assist him.

This is not a unique experience to the refugee community. Often, seniors come to Buffalo knowing little to no English and are illiterate

in their own language, making it difficult to learn English and become independent.

Bill Sukaly, program director of

Catholic Charities’ Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program, identified the main obstacle senior refugees face. “Needs and wants

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COVER from a low education background makes it difficult to learn. Luckily, many refugees have family members who are younger and know the English language to assist them, or services such as Jericho Road’s Hope Refugee Drop-In Center, where they can receive

help filling out different forms and being referred to other services out there. FY Sara Ali writes for Forever Young and Buffalo Spree.

Immigrant and Refugee Resources Catholic Charities Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program 856-4494 ccwny.org/services/immigrationrefugee-assistance Global Villages 216 Grant Street, Buffalo 887-3889 for refugees are the same as in the English speaking community. The biggest difference is the language needs,” he says.

In order for refugees to become a US citizen, they need to pass a citizenship test in English. If they do not pass the test, they do not become citizens, and thus lose some benefits they were previously entitled to. Senior refugees are eligible for social security benefits when they reach retirement, but only for five years. At the end of the five years, if they are not yet US citizens, they lose their benefits, leaving them to rely on family members for help.

“Refugees have strong families.

Seniors are considered to be the elders, so the rest of the family takes care of them from that point forward,” Sukaly says.

Seldom do refugees send their elders to nursing homes. According to Sukaly, refugees who have been here for a long time, such as the Vietnamese community, may be more Americanized and send senior members to assistant living housing. As for refugees from the last ten to fifteen years, families are very close.

Currently, there are no community centers focused on gathering senior refugees. Lamin

Tamang, a Nepali refugee and Cultural Specialist for the Buffalo Public Schools, stated that there is a generation gap and senior folks need a common place to share and care for each other. He also identifies the language barrier as the biggest issue within the Nepali community. “Transportation and achieving citizenship are most common problems as well,” he says.

Louise Sano, owner of the small west side boutique named Global Villages, says that senior refugees’ number one want to is to learn English and become productive members of society. Not knowing the language and being illiterate in their language makes this difficult.

Simple tasks such as going to the doctor can be daunting when it comes to filling out paperwork and communicating with the doctor.

“There needs to be a system,” she says. “We need to find a way to teach somebody who is not literate in their language and has never been to school what kind of English can they be taught so that they can be able to function.”

There are ESL classes available to the community, but the lack of transportation makes it difficult for senior refugees to attend these classes. Even when they are able to attend, being illiterate and coming

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Western New York’s Entertainment Melting Pot

BY RICK FALKOWSKI

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he diversity of ethnic groups in Western New York is what shaped the entertainment of our community. Members of some immigrant groups assimilated into the general popular music scene, but others retained their rich ethnic heritage, which continues through the present day.

Historically, the Germans were the first ethnic group to settle in WNY and, during the 1800s, people of German ancestry were the largest population group in the area. In fact, more people had immigrated to the United States from Germany than any other country. The Germans brought their beer halls and singing societies to the Fruit Belt and East Side near Genesee Street. Of the many singing groups, the Buffalo Turn Verein and Saengerbund were the most active.

To host a large national German music singing festival in 1883, the Saengergerhall or First Music Hall was built at Main and Edward Street. It later became the Teck Theater.

German bands were one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the 1900s, performing at the many German restaurants in Buffalo. In addition to music, German immigrants brought their brewing knowledge. In 1900, the US Brewmasters Association met in Buffalo and voted to retain German as the official language of the group. On the eve of Prohibition in 1920, there were twenty-nine breweries operating in Buffalo. During Prohibition, many establishments illegally served alcohol, with Buffalo Mayor Schwab being a former brewmeister who opposed the Volstead Act. Many Italian and Jewish immigrants, along with African American musicians, performed jazz at clubs where you had to know the password to enter. These clubs continued operating, despite the 18th Amendment, and kept going without missing a beat when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

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Frankfurters 1982. Front: Wendy Pace, Bob Prigl, Jan Richter; Middle: Bob Bieger, Dick Rine, Clint Koetzle; Back: Glenn Call, Geoff Richter, Jim Pace Photo courtesy Jim Pace

The first Oktoberfest in WNY was sponsored by the German American Musicians Association and held in 1964 at the Chuckwagon Banquet Hall in Lackawanna. It has become an October tradition in WNY. Authentic German bands like the Auslanders and Frankfurters have been entertaining audiences for almost forty years.

The Irish began arriving in Buffalo to help build the Erie Canal. Many remained in the area after the canal was completed in 1825, settling in the First Ward area. The Irish brought Irish folk music and dancing to the South Buffalo taverns and later to The Shannon Pub or Buffalo Irish Center.

On St. Patrick’s Day, as the saying goes, everyone attending the First Ward or Delaware Avenue parade is Irish. The Buffalo Irish Festival has

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been an annual tradition since 1982.

On the East Side of Buffalo, polka music was performed at numerous East Side bars and Polish weddings.

Polka music was even featured during the summer at The Crystal Beach Ballroom in Canada, and there was a type of polka called the Buffalo Style. Some of the popular bands included the Pic-A-Polka Orchestra, New Yorkers, Musicals, Bel-Aires, Jumping Jacks, G-Notes, Dynatones, Krew Brothers, Goral Boys, Wanda & Stephanie, and the Buffalo Touch, who were nominated for three Grammy Awards.

Dyngus Day is a traditional Polish holiday held on Easter Monday to celebrate the end of restrictive observances during Lent. In Europe, Polish farm boys would throw water

at girls and hit their legs with pussy willows to attract their attention. This tradition was brought to America and has been celebrated since the 1870s in Polish American neighborhoods.

In 1961, Chopin Singing Society on Kosciuszko Street began the modern Dyngus Day, and during the 1960s it spread throughout the Broadway Fillmore neighborhood to the Broadway Grill, Warsaw Inn, and Central Terminal. Over time, both males and females pursued the opposite sex with squirt guns and pussy willows.

Currently, the Dyngus Day tradition has grown to a parade from the Broadway Market to Central Terminal that draws about 40,000 revelers. The celebrations have been extended to bars and halls across WNY, with Buffalo being known as the Dyngus Day Capital of America.

This year Dyngus Day is April 2.

Other ethnic groups have also contributed to the diversity of music in WNY. Some European nationalities’ music is only heard at festivals, church, or neighborhood events. Greek music is featured at the Delaware & West Utica Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Festival “OPA!” Traditional African musicians and dancers perform at Juneteenth.

Oriental, Middle Eastern, and Indian music is heard at area restaurants.

Jamaican reggae and Puerto Rican salsa and merengue music is heard across the area.

Events like St. Patrick’s Day, Dyngus Day, Juneteenth, and Oktoberfest have helped make Buffalo a great place to live. It is only a matter of time until we see what celebrations recently arrived ethnic groups will contribute to the diversity of WNY. FY Rick Falkowski is the author of History of Buffalo Music & Entertainment and co-founder of The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame.

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Retired Coast Guard Captain Commands Military Park STORY AND PHOTOS BY ED ADAMCZYK

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ou can’t keep Captain Brian Roche away from the water. After a thirty-six-year career in the US Coast Guard, he is now completing his first year as executive director of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, one of the lynchpins of economic and cultural revival on the city’s waterfront.

Roche, fifty-eight, grew up on Long Island, joined the Coast Guard at age nineteen, and can easily recite a list of stations only military lifers can, including New Jersey, the District of Columbia as an honor guard member, the Caribbean, North Carolina, officer training in Virginia, and Washington State’s Columbia River.

There’s more: Roche was on duty in Washington, D.C., in 1982 when a passenger plane fell into the Potomac River, killing seventy-eight people. He participated in the recovery of TWA 800, the commercial aircraft that exploded while flying off the coast of Long Island in 1996 in which 230 people died. He was commanding staff officer at New Jersey’s Station Atlantic City on September 11, 2001. When the Miss America Pageant was held in Atlantic City, his office was involved in area security, a trickier undertaking than you might think. He headed the Coast Guard’s National Special Security Events department in Washington.

And there were always ice storms, oil spills, icebreaking procedures on the Great Lakes, and, in his first year at the Naval Park, the commissioning ceremony of the combat ship USS Little Rock in December.

“I like to go to busy places. It gives you a chance to excel,” Roche notes.

He is physically fit and all business—except when he reminisces about a Led Zeppelin concert he attended in Central Park as a

teenager—and prepared for his latest mission. Surrounded by nautical memorabilia in the Naval & Military Park’s museum building with two warships and a submarine parked in the harbor and visible from the window, he spoke about the progress of Buffalo’s Canalside area and of the museum.

“Many of the artifacts are on loan from the Navy Heritage Command,” Roche says, as are the three ships.

Referring to a long line of monuments along an outdoor walkway, he says, “an African American Veterans Monument is coming in 2018,” which will be the only monument in America honoring African Americans involvement in all US combat operations.

The museum itself is well organized, with plenty of military artifacts and information. It includes ship models galore, as well as an M-41 Army tank, a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter, an F-101F

fighter plane, a made-in-Western New York Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter plane, and the Navy uniform worn by Lieutenant Commander Ralph Wilson before he founded the Buffalo Bills. Models comingle with bells and steering wheels from actual ships. Aircraft hang from the ceiling, and displays highlighting combat operations, notably from the War of 1812–much of which was fought within twenty miles of the museum– provide a remarkable opportunity to learn and, for veterans, to remember.

The park, which is owned by the City of Buffalo, hosts over 100,000 visitors per year, and a three percent increase in patronage is expected in 2018.

Roche is also developing a sense of what life in Buffalo is all about.

He noted that many former Buffalo residents return to his part of Canalside and are stunned to observe the improvements after decades of promises and unfulfilled plans.

Roche’s latest success involved the commissioning ceremony of the new USS Little Rock, adjacent to the decommissioned guided missile cruiser that shares its name. The old ship is moored at the park and is available for overnight campouts and parties on the fantail, with the destroyer USS The Sullivans and the World War II-era submarine USS Croaker. The event received national attention on a snowy and cold December Saturday.

“We sent out 9,000 invitations, and expected 6,000 people,” Roche remembers.

They anticipated declining attendance as the weather got worse. “But, we thought, hey, this is Buffalo. We had 8,000 people by the time the ceremony ended.” FY Ed Adamczyk is a historian and contributing writer for the Niagara Gazette and Forever Young.

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Explore Buffalo’s Tour of the Month Fontana Boathouse

BY OLIVIA WOOD MCCARTHY Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fontana Boathouse Photos courtesy of Explore Buffalo

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xplore Buffalo is excited to present its tour of the month. Thousands of people join Explore Buffalo tours each year to learn more about Buffalo’s history and architecture. Like most historically prominent cities, Buffalo has defining eras that left their mark and have created rich layers of history to be discovered.

Haven’t heard of Explore Buffalo or not quite sure what it is? Explore Buffalo is a volunteerdriven (200 strong) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Buffalo’s architecture, history, and neighborhoods through quality education to learners of all ages.

One of the main ways that Explore Buffalo promotes Buffalo is through

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walking tours. With more than seventy different tours on the website, it may be hard to choose, so this is a chance to narrow the focus by sharing the tour of the month.

April means the beginning of the new tour season, and the calendar begins to fill up. American Masters, Turn of the Century Treasures, and Lincoln Parkway are a few tours

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added to the calendar, but the tour launch that I'm most excited about is a waterfront favorite, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fontana Boathouse.

This tour is a personal favorite of mine because of its location along the waterfront. We’ve seen our inner and outer harbor come back to life over the past decade with unique activities and hot spots, but the views from the

balcony of the Fontana Boathouse, sitting along the Black Rock Channel, are truly one-of-a-kind.

Wright’s Fontana Boathouse is one of a diverse number of Frank Lloyd Wright sites in Buffalo. Some sites like the Darwin Martin House (martinhouse. org) and Graycliff (experiencegraycliff. org) are extant buildings and sites of restoration, while others are “legacy” projects, constructed after Frank Lloyd Wright’s lifetime. Those buildings and sites include Wright’s Fontana Boathouse (wrightboathouse.com), The Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery (blueskymausoleum. com), and The Frank Lloyd Wright Filling Station inside of the Pierce Arrow Museum (pierce-arrow.com).

There are many ways to dive into the world of Frank Lloyd Wright, even if you aren’t a Wright fanatic.

Wright’s Fontana Boathouse tour is a nice introduction to the architect, combining sport, architecture, and

GETAWAYS and experience rowing in action on Sunday, May 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the West Side Rowing Club’s annual John Bennett Regatta, which is free and open to the public.

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the waterfront. Surprisingly, this 4,800-square-foot building was never meant for Buffalo at all. Sketched out

by Wright in 1905, the design was originally called the Yahara Boathouse and was intended for use by the University of Wisconsin rowing team and located on the Yahara River in Madison, Wisconsin. This tour dives into the questions surrounding this design like, who commissioned it, why did Wright feel inclined to design a rowing boathouse, why it was built in Buffalo and not Madison, and what’s the significance of the Fontana name? As a history buff myself, I’d love to answer all those questions now, but have to leave something for the tour experience.

Wright’s Fontana Boathouse finds itself in good company in its current location next to the 106-year-old West Side Rowing Club. As the home of crew teams from Canisius College and Mount Saint Mary’s Academy, the Fontana Boathouse serves its original purpose as an active rowing boathouse participating in local regattas held at the West Side Rowing Club several times a year. The Frank Lloyd Wright Fontana Boathouse tour combines the history of the design and the striking Prairie Style architecture with its function as a rowing boathouse.

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Steel City Rising

BY MATTHEW BIDDLE Pittsburgh skyline at night Photo by Dave DiCello

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uffalo and Pittsburgh share many similarities: After years of decline, both Rust Belt towns are experiencing a resurgence, with booming restaurant and craft beer scenes, and a vibrant, renewed sense of optimism.

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But what struck my family and me most on a recent weekend trip was the contrast between the two cities—those unique traits that make an excursion to the Steel City well worth the threeand-a-half-hour drive. There, you’ll find funky neighborhoods like the Strip District and Lawrenceville, rich cultural attractions, and opportunities to take in the stunning cityscape from the steep slopes that characterize the area.

Upon arriving, our first stop was the Church Brew Works, a brewery opened in a magnificently restored

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former church, first constructed in 1902. Where the altar once stood in the sanctuary, you’ll find tanks containing some of the dozen house-brewed beers on the draft menu. For dinner, the restaurant offers an extensive lineup of sandwiches and wraps, salads, pasta, and other entrees; I opted for the lamb Bolognese, a delicious house specialty.

We stayed in an Airbnb nearby, and the next day, woke up early to take our daughter to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, one of several family-friendly destinations for those traveling with little ones. The three-

story museum has exhibits and play areas for infants and toddlers through older elementary-aged children. (Local Explore & More members with explorer-level memberships can receive discounted admission.)

Our favorite section was the Waterplay floor, where our eighteenmonth-old had a blast splashing in the water, standing under a fountain, and playing with snow. (For maximum fun, remember a bathing suit or change of clothes for the kids!) We also enjoyed the special exhibit—up through September—celebrating the work of three-time Caldecott-winning author Mo Willems (the Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant and Piggie series), as well as the Studio, where kids can paint, screen-print, and participate in daily art activities.

Later that afternoon, we rode the cable car up the Duquesne Incline— first opened in 1877—to Mount Washington, from which we could see the entire city. Pittsburgh sits where the Allegheny River and Monongahela River meet to form the Ohio River, and from this observation deck, we could see many of the bridges that cross these waterways and connect various sections of the city.

Another highlight of our trip was the Andy Warhol Museum, whose collection spans the Pittsburgh-born artist’s childhood to his later years, with examples of his films, paintings, commercial work, wallpaper, and sculptures throughout the gallery. Art lovers will also want to check out the Carnegie Museum of Art, Frick Art Museum, and Mattress Factory, a contemporary art gallery.

GETAWAYS neighborhoods. We particularly enjoyed the South Side Flats, part of which is a historic district on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. There, we stumbled upon the Colombian Spot for dinner and followed up our empanadas and arepas with dessert at the Milk Shake Factory a few blocks away.

Like Buffalo, festival season is about to begin in Pittsburgh and will run throughout the summer, making any

weekend an enjoyable time to visit.

Later this month, Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week will be in full swing; other upcoming events include Pittsburgh Wine Festival (May 5), Kennywood Kidsfest (June 28-29) and PicklesBurgh (July). FY Matthew Biddle is a Tonawandabased writer.

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MY WNY STORY

Jennifer May A Life Immersed in Music

BY ANTHONY CHABALA

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ennifer May has entertained audiences with her bass guitar playing for decades. However, May offers WNY much more than just her musical abilities, for she truly treats music as one of life’s great gifts and makes it her mission to get as many people as possible involved.

Although May is about to enter her sixth decade of residence in Tonawanda, she was born in London, England. Her family crossed over to the United States in 1963 aboard the original Queen Mary. After living various places, May entered a New York Citybound train, got off at the Buffalo

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train stop, and instantly knew that she found her new home.

A musician and a secretary for years, May finally took the leap and made music her full time profession in 2017. Proudly, she could not be busier. May’s main projects include leading weekly ukulele sing-a-long classes, managing and playing bass

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in the Ladies First Jazz Big Band, playing bass in the Patti Parks Blues Band, giving private instrument lessons, and, perhaps most interesting, running a laughter yoga class.

What is laughter yoga? Obviously, that was my first question. “It was developed by an Indian doctor,” says

May. “The only thing it borrows from traditional yoga is the breathing technique. We do actual laughter exercises. It is mostly improvisational activities that simply make people laugh. There are no mats. There is no special clothing. You simply laugh and breathe. It does amazing things to relieve stress and other ailments, and everyone really has a good time!”

The class meets Wednesdays at 1 p.m. at the Church of the Advent on Delaware Road in Kenmore, with an additional session at the Brighton Place Library on Thursdays at 11 a.m.

Having a good time is a reoccurring theme in May’s life; she not only loves music, she also loves the effect it has on people. She frequently sees the benefits of music when running her ukulele sing-a-long club. The club is designed so that everyone, no matter his or her musical ability or knowledge, can have a good time.

“We play standard sing-a-long songs everyone knows—from “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” to hits by the Beatles and Elvis Presley—we play and sing it all,” says May. If you do not have a ukulele, fear not. May brings a dozen or so of her own for those who are new to the instrument. The group meets Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. at the Brighton Place Library ($5 per person); Tuesdays at 8 p.m at the Church of the Advent ($5); and Mondays at 10 a.m. at the Amherst Senior Center (registration required).

MY WNY STORY May has received multiple awards for her two jazz projects, The Ladies First Big Band and The Ladies First Combo. The Big Band is a sixteen-piece, all-female group that has toured regionally and has played outdoor concert festivals and venues such as The Tralf. The Combo consists of anywhere from three to six members and plays when a stage or event is not suited for the Big Band. As if organizing these bands and schedules were not time consuming enough, both acts practice weekly at Buffalo’s historic Colored Musicians Club where May is a board member.

May’s list of accolades is simply too long to print here in its entirety.

Humbly, she states, “my favorite awards, the ones that mean the most, are the ones where my fellow musicians vote.” She has won Best R&B Bassist and Best Jazz Bassist from various organizations, and has sixteen Buffalo Music Awards that she and her acts have earned.

According to Tony Zambito, the authority on local jazz and founder of JazzBuffalo, “Jennifer has been one of the pioneering women in jazz in our area. A first rate bassist who has created a top rate all-female jazz big band. Not a lot of cities can say they have such a group as we do in Buffalo.”

May has played music all over the world, including Africa, Iceland, and Ecuador, completing six tours overseas with an R&B group playing to military bases and embassies. But she keeps coming back to Buffalo. “I love it here. I love the excitement. I love teaching the people here. Music is such a strong part of our lives, I just want to expose more people to it and show them how to read music and listen to it and eventually be able to teach themselves,” May says.

Of the many highlights of her musical career, two moments truly stand out. First, when one of her students gave her boss his “most

memorable birthday” by bringing her ukulele into the office and singing her boss’s favorite song (one she and May had worked on together). And, second, when she brought ukuleles to her ninety-fiveyear-old friend’s birthday party and sang his favorite childhood songs all night. (Her friend just turned 100 years old).

May claims she has one goal, “to be immersed only in musical

endeavors and teach someone how to read, play, and listen to music every day.” Obviously, she is one of our area’s true gems, and we are lucky she calls Buffalo home. FY Anthony Chabala is a local attorney and musician.

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Sleep Sleep is critically important to the health and longevity potential of all humans. On average, humans spend about 25 to 35 percent of their lives sleeping. Sleep allows both the body and brain to rest and recover from the stress of daily life. Trouble sleeping can cause a range of health problems, and, if left untreated, dire consequences.

Even if sleep duration is good, sleep quality can be quite poor. This is an area of your life that deserves time and attention. If you are not sleeping well, there are many helpful YouTube videos, meditations, and websites

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Train your brain Artistic endeavors such as coloring, drawing, or painting make use of your subconscious by allowing your creativity to surface and making space for the expression of your true feelings.

Because the goal is to tap into your unconscious mind, you don’t need to be a great artist, just open to the creative process. This is also very helpful for those who feel stuck in their lives. It opens up new thought processes and ideas.

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Write Write down your thoughts and clear the clutter from your brain. This would actually be a great exercise to promote better sleep as well. Don’t worry about editing yourself, just let go of the negativity or what ever seems to bog you down. When left unchecked, lingering negative feelings and the emotional stress accompanying them can wreak havoc on your brain health. This is a great way to get the negative out.

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