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Local woman undergoing radiation treatment looks for support from community By Rachel Fuerschbach THE STAR CORRESPONDENT
After finding a lump on her breast one day, Patty Wells-Veihdeffer contacted her doctor in order to get it checked out. Being a nurse for over six years, Veihdeffer didn’t think anything serious of the lump since there was no family history, but when her doctor came back with the news that she had stage-three breast cancer fear rippled through her body. May 29 held a whole new meaning for Veihdeffer and her husband—it was the day that started the battle for her life. Veihdeffer sat down with her doctor and began looking at all the options in order to find out what the best course of treatment was for her. What they settled on was eight rounds of chemotherapy treatment, surgery, and five weeks of radiation. It wasn’t until Veihdeffer and her husband had all
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The Palace Theatre has continued to produce fan favorite productions and is trending upward choosing more elaborate plays and musicals such as the classic play Harvey directed by Steve Copps. Copps, an actor for over nine years got into directing through the art of acting and has directed one professional play making Harvey his second. “As an actor you progress and start to see the
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Patty Wells-Veihdeffer, a stage-three breast cancer patient, creates a large support system of family, friends, and community members. the facts that they told their four children ages 18, 16 and twins at 13 what was
whole picture [of a production],” Copps said. Copps chose this classic comedy not only because it is a well-made play by Mary Chase, but because he is able to relate to the play because it is one of his first shows he did as a starting up actor. Harvey is a family friendly and fan favorite comedy where Elwood P. Dowd begins to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey—a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party. His sister, Veta, has seen as much of her brother’s
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happening. “They took it as what is expected,” Veihdeffer said.
“But they have been really great and have been helping out around the house a
eccentric behavior as she can tolerate and decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. However, through a bunch of mishaps, Veta finds herself to be mistakenly assumed to be the one on the verge of lunacy. Playing Elwood Dowd is actor Eric Glynn who has been acting on and off for over 15 years. Glynn first started his acting career at the Palace Theatre with the musical ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
and it has taken off from there as he found acting to be a great outlet that allowed him to be goofy, fun and outrageous at times. He has continued to expand his acting career beyond the Palace with other groups such as Lake Plain Players and Batavia Players. Glynn didn’t set his sights on the character of Elwood when first trying out for a part in the play, but is happy nonetheless to play this easy going and likeable character. “I’m just happy to be a part of this show,” Glynn
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said. “It’s a fun show. It’s goofy with a profound message.” Playing alongside him as Elwood’s sister Veta Louise Simmons is Jennifer Ossont who has been acting since her early teenage years. Ossont has loved theatre for years and the action of acting out a role has worked with four season players. She chose to try out for the production of Harvey
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Local band Tom Keefer and Celtic Cross will once again be the featured act at the fourth annual Burns Supper event beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24 at The Wilson House Restaurant & Inn. What exactly is a Burns Supper? It’s an event that honors Robert Burns, an 18th century Scottish poet, who wrote renowned works such as Address to a Haggis and Auld Lang Syne. Burns passed away in 1796 at the age of 37. The suppers are typically held near his birthday, Jan. 25, and have been quite common in Scotland and Northern Ireland since Burns’ death. With the increased popularity of the celebration of Celtic heritage here in Niagara County, Keefer decided to bring the event to his hometown of Wilson. “I was speaking with some folks from the Niagara Celtic Heritage Society and we felt there should be a Burns Supper here in Northern Niagara County,” Keefer explained. “With their help and the help of The Wilson House, I put together the first one four years ago.” While Keefer was nervous about the event, having never put one of this type on before, it was a success and four years later it is still going strong, with people involved from both
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