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Share A Little Shade contest opens at the Buffalo Auto Show

By Danielle Jensen

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While roaming the halls of this weekend’s Buffalo Auto Show make sure to “spot” the Towne MINI g i r a ff e - w r a p p e d M I N I Cooper. Did you know, just like human fingerprints, a giraffe’s coat pattern is unique to that individual?

Not only can you see this fun, giraffe-themed, new 4-door MINI in person, you can also purchase raffle tickets for your chance to win a 1-year lease or $5,000 cash.

Community Papers of WNY and Towne MINI are excited to be partnering with one of our areas greatest community resources, the Buffalo Zoo. All proceeds from ticket purchases will be donated to the zoo to help fund the building of a giraffe shade

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Raffle tickets will cost $5 each and anyone donating $10 will receive an original giraffe jump drive, donations of $20 will receive a stuffed animal giraffe, complete with personalized Sampson bandana (must be 21 or older to enter). Additionally, people of all ages can donate $1 and be entered to win a 6-foot stuffed giraffe. Visit Community Papers of WNY at the Towne MINI booth, during the auto show. Raffle tickets will be sold throughout 2015, with winners being drawn in December. Rules and restrictions apply, visit PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER JEFFREY BARNES CPOWNY.com for details.

The world giraffe population is diminishing, with Bob Casell, president of Community Papers of WNY and fewer than 80,000 in exMike Monteith, general manager of Towne MINI, unveil the istence today. In WNY, we are fortunate to have giraffe-themed grand prize. (MINI Cooper provided by Towne the Buffalo Zoo, and their MINI, vehicle wrap provided by Underground Wraps.) newest giraffe addition, baby Sampson.

As a popular recreation spot for WNY families, the conservation. And we need enclosed structure, as well zoo’s accreditation process zoo is able to bring atten- your help. as a large giraffe yard of in 2011, it was noted that tion to the larger issues of Currently, Sampson and approximately one-half there was little to no outanimal health, welfare, and his family have use of an acre. However, during the door shade.

The Association of Zoo’s and Aquariums (AZA) requested that a shade structure be built to help keep the animals cool and out of the direct sunlight of the summer months. The shade structure is one aspect of the Buffalo Zoo’s reaccreditation in 2016.

There will be plenty of opportunities to “spot” the Towne MINI Cooper throughout the year. Sampson’s MINI Cooper will also make appearances at the Buffalo Home & Garden Show, Erie County Fair, WNY Spring & Fall Health Expos, area shopping malls, and classic car shows.

The car will even be displayed on a regular basis near and around the Buffalo Zoo, including at a special community celebration for Sampson’s 1st birthday.

P l e a s e c o n s i d e r p u rchasing raffle tickets, who knows…you may be the one “spotted” in your very own MINI Cooper.

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It’s unfortunate, but true, that some pet owners will surrender their animal to a shelter, because they don’t have the resources to correct or deal with a situation in the home that has made it difficult to take care of their pet.

Whether it’s behavior issues or lack of finances some may feel like they don’t have any choice but to get rid of their pet, but it should never have to be that way. This is where Linkon’s Last Chance Animal Rescue steps in to help.

Started in January 2014 and named in honor of Linkon, a pit bull who lost his life too early, Lisa Blendowski, president and co-founder of Linkon’s Last Chance Animal Rescue, said the rescue was

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The rescue is not-forprofit organization, 100 percent volunteer, and relies solely on donations from people of Western New York. While their main focus is on dogs and cats they will assist any animal in need.

“There are a lot of rescues in the area, but a lot of them pull from out-ofstate, a few do pull from the city shelter, but there are none that are dedicated specifically for the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter,” explained Blendowski, who founded the rescue with Kristen Maccubbin, vice president and Jake Disalvo, a volunteer.

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Blendowski. “We help families from Erie and Niagara counties. We felt that the greatest need is right here.”

Dogs that are pulled from the city shelter are placed into a foster home until they find their forever home.

“We only had one foster home ever not adopt their foster dogs through us, which we love,” said Blendowski.

The rescue is in need of foster families and encourages anyone interested to contact them. Everything for a dog is provided by the rescue, including training, which helps to rehabilitate the animal.

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“The dogs we take from the city shelter are dogs who are in crisis because their ill or it can be because they are breaking down due to kennel stress. If a dog is in crisis those are the ones we take,” remarked Blendowski, adding it’s not just dogs the rescue will help it is any animal in crisis.

But it doesn’t end there as the rescue has taken it to the next level to try and reduce the rate of owner’s surrendering their dog because of behavior issues or monetary issues.

“We have a pet kitchen available to anybody anytime, free training available, and we host seminars. We support pet owning families in the Western New York community,” said Blendowski.

Because no person nor animal should go without a healthy meal each and every day Linkon’s Pet Kitchen is available to anyone struggling to pay for their pet’s food. The food can either be delivered to a person’s home or by picking up the supplies.

“Our pet kitchen is almost a daily thing,” remarked Blendowski. “We are delivering food to families who have fallen upon hard times, especially after ‘Snowvember’ we were hit hard. We had multiple volunteers out all night delivering to multiple families.”

Blendowski added, “there are no requirements. No questions asked. No forms to fill out. No income verification. If you say you have the need… we provide it.”

The rescue will provide food three times in a 12 month calendar year as the need is great and resources are limited.

The rescue has not only provided food for dogs, but all sort of animals including birds, bunnies, hamsters, lizards, and cats.

Did you know that the No. 1 reason that pets are turned into shelters is because of negative behavior?

So, this is why Linkon’s rescue holds seminars at various locations throughout the year that teach the basic obedience, in home doggie-manners training, and how to live a happy life with your animal. If a more hands-on approach is needed and you are dealing with behavior that is causing disruption to your household, a trainer will come out and do an evaluation and teach you

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The free training is either done by Blendowski or Trainer Noelle Nasca at The Barking Lot, who works with the rescue.

Furthermore, within the first 30 days the rescue was formed they were able to help three families pay for medical emergencies for their pets. Knowing that animals sometimes get hurt or ill without notice the rescue offers financial help through an emergency medical fund.

This is to not only help families in the community financially, but to eliminate the thought of deciding between euthanasia or surrendering their pet. The rescue also offers assistance to puppy parents who need assistance providing spay/neuter surgery and/or micro-chipping.

In the past year, Linkon’s Last Chance Animal Rescue has saved more than 15 animals. Blendowski said there were two dogs that didn’t come from the shelter and both were extreme abuse cases.

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“One was found as a stray that was stabbed, beaten, and literally dying in the middle of the street that we saved.

The other one was abused by his owner. He was left out in subzero weather,” she said.

While many of us may not want to recognize that people can be cruel and the harsh reality is that some animals suffer by the hands of their owners, and others are tossed aside, rescues like Linkon’s Last Chance Animal Rescue is the only hope they have and this is why it’s important to support their cause.

“We know now that dogs are loving, nurturing souls that are extremely intelligent, and they have feelings just like we do,” said Blendowski. “They experience grief, fear, loss, happiness, and sadness.”

“Knowing that those dogs did not have a chance and we saved their lives, many of the ones we saved were hours away from not having a life any longer, is very rewarding,” she added. “Also, knowing that families have an option now where if their dog is hit by a car and they

can’t afford the vet bill, we can pay it for them or if people can’t feed their pets we can help. They’re not forced to give up their dog because of financial reasons that’s rewarding.”

The rescue holds several fundraising events throughout the year. The next event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at The Laundromutt, located at 3102 Delaware Ave., in Kenmore. Come give your dog a bath while supporting your local community and Linkon’s. Fifty percent of all proceeds raised will go toward Linkon’s. There will be a basket raffle, professional family photos being taken by Michelle Walters and much much more.

For more information about Linkon’s, fostering, adoption, upcoming events, or to make a donation check out their Facebook Page at “Linkon’s last Chance Animal Rescue or visit www. l l c a r. r e s c u e g r o u p s . o rg / Blendowski can be reached at 907-6402 for further questions.

Trinity Pantry serving shut-ins Free food is available every two weeks at Trinity Pantry, east side door of Trinity Episcopal Church, 5448 Broadway, for income-eligible residents of 14086 and 14026. What if you are income-eligible, but unable to visit the pantry because of a recent surgery or a debilitating illness?

The volunteers at the pantry will try to accommodate you. Call 683-1111 and leave a message explaining your situation. Or, email your message to: TrinityPantry@gmail.com If lack of transportation is your only problem you may want to take advantage of the Lancaster Senior Citizen (60+) van that runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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If you are a shut-in and eligible for pantry services help is a phone call (or email) away. Someone will contact you, discuss your needs, preferences and restrictions and make ever effort to help you deal with your current situation.

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Students make ‘Valentines for Veterans’

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St. Mary’s Elementary School students make ‘Valentines for Veterans.’

By Jennifer Lysiak

THE LANCASTER SUN EDITOR

With Valentine’s Day approaching students at St. Mary’s Elementary School took time to spread the love to the men and women who have and currently protect and serve our country by making handmade Valentine’s Day cards.

Twenty classrooms at the school on Wednesday, Jan. 28 participated in the “Valentines for Veterans” program, a partnership with Erie County Legisla-

tor Ted Morton, who has been organizing the program for two years.

Morton kicked off this year’s program by visiting with St. Mary’s Elementary students on Wednesday.

He thanked them for making the cards, which will be delivered to veteran posts and the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will be assisting in distributing cards to active servicemen and women.

“I was honored that the school made the program part of its Catholic Schools

Week celebration, showing they recognized how important this is,” said Morton. “Several of the students shared stories with me about their family members who have served and it was great to see how proud they were to know a veteran. That is what this program is about.”

“The kids absolutely love it,” added Jessica O’Neil, the Erie County communications director for the Republican Caucus. “They’re so cute.

There are so many different varieties of cards we get.”

Erie County Legislator Ted Morton visits with students on Jan. 28.

St. Mary’s students spent the morning creating their cards and of course writing special notes to the veterans thanking them for their service.

“We are going to present them to all of our soldiers and it just shows them how much we love and appreciate them for everything that they do,” said Morton. “I’ve seen their reactions and it’s fantastic. It’s very emotional for some of them. They really appreciate the children taking the time to do this to show them how much they are appreciated and loved

Statewide organizations embrace two initiatives championed by Jacobs Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs has partnered with county clerks throughout New York State to call on the State to pass legislation that would increase the DMV revenue retention percentage for counties operating Motor Vehicle Offices and to require that a new photo be taken for a driver’s license at the time of renewal.

In Albany this week, two statewide organizations embraced this call to action. The New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) and the New York State Association of County Clerks (NYSACC) unanimously passed two resolutions as priority action items for the State’s 2015 Legislative Session.

“The support by both of these esteemed organizations is a significant advancement in our efforts to have action taken by Gov. Cuomo and the State Legislature,” said Jacobs.

The resolution details are as follows: Increase County Retention Out of the 62 counties in New York, 51 are mandated by the State to operate a Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) Office. Each of these DMV Offices are funded, operated and staffed by the individual coun-

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Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs at a press conference in Albany with county clerks throughout New York State. ty. Under the current law, New York State takes 87.3 percent of all fees collected from the work performed by county-operated DMV offices. The retention rate for counties has been 12.7 percent since the revenue sharing formula was put in place in 1999.

Several months ago, the Western Region County Clerks, chaired by Jacobs, passed a unanimous resolution calling upon New York State to share the revenue generated at local auto bureaus more equitably. In 2013, Erie County alone remitted more than $32 million to Albany while retain-

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“New York State receives hundreds of millions of dollars from counties for DMV work they aren’t doing. It’s time for counties that operate, fund and manage DMV offices to receive a fair share for the work we do and keep our county money working at home,” said NYSACC President and Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo.

Jacobs mentioned that even the local retention rate increasing from 12.7 percent to 17 percent would mean approximately $1 million more remaining in

Erie County every year. The proposal will in no way increase any fees, just keep more revenue locally, and reduce the property tax burden to all.

Driver’s License Photos New York State is one of two states in the entire country that doesn’t require an updated photo on a driver’s licenses at the time of renewal. A driver’s license is a primary form of government identification and the most widely used form of ID in New York State and throughout the country. Updated photos are imperative to prevent fraud, provide accurate information to law enforcement and strengthen homeland security efforts.

“Establishing an identity is crucial to law enforcement, given ID fraud and counterfeit cases along with terrorism concerns we are seeing across New York State,” said Yates County Sheriff and NYSAC Public Safety Chair Ron Spike.

“The new drivers’ licenses can have the most cutting edge technology, but when a person can have the same photo on their ID for almost two decades it is dangerous to public safety, considering licenses are used for so many purposes from purchasing alcohol and financial transactions to boarding an aircraft,” said Jacobs.

and we certainly love what they do to keep us safe and to keep us free.”

St. Mary’s Elementary was just one of several local schools that participated in the program. Other schools that participated included Cayuga Heights, Hillview Elementary, John Sciole Elementary, and St. John the Baptist of Alden.

Thousands of cards will be delivered to local veterans and active servicemen and women to thank them and remind them they are

remembered and honored this holiday.

“I want to thank the schools and students for participating in ‘Valentines for Veterans’ and working very hard to create cards for our past and present military members for Valentine’s Day. Through a simple act of kindness we can remind those who served that they are appreciated and we haven’t forgotten what they did to keep our country safe and free,” said Morton.

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Dear Lancaster residents: Do you ever feel the need to get something off of your chest? Do you have something important to say, but don’t know how to get your voice heard?

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The letter to the editor page is designed to have community members write in and voice their concerns and/or opinions.

If you have a city issue you would like to address, please send me a letter. If you want to recognize someone for doing a good deed, please send me a letter.

Any topic that you feel is important, I would like to hear about it. All I ask is the

letter be well written and you include your name and address in the letter.

Please refrain from using any profanity or name calling. The letter to the editor is strictly a constructive way for members of the community to voice their opinions on matters and have it be published for our readers.

I hope this opportunity will pique your interest. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Please send your letters to: Attn: Jennifer Lysiak, Lancaster Sun Editor Community Papers of Western New York 75 Boxwood Lane Cheektowaga, NY 14227 Email: jlysiak@cpowny. com.

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Express an opinion: One of our basic freedoms is to be able to express ones views. I’m going to say something that I never thought I would have to say. We are rapidly becoming, if we are not already there, an also ran as the rest of the world views us.

It appears any allies are had can no longer look to us for help in eliminating the plaque in the form of the maniacs that are running wild. For whatever reason or agenda our president can’t even call these maniacs what they are or admit it.

They’re a danger to us and the free world. It’s past time for his party to drop the “party line,” get him in step with the rest of the world.

Please tell him we have a bigger problem at hand than worrying about global warming. Wait much longer and you

won’t have a world to worry about. As I said, do we really know what his agenda is? I have my doubts.

Also it is past time that the Muslims who also condemn these maniacs do more than talk the same way our leader does. These people don’t play by any rules so it’s past time we throw our rule book away.

Please get your head out of the sand and face the fact we’re rapidly losing a war your ego won’t let you accept. Even the best people in the world can say I made a mistake. That’s what helps make them the best.

All of you people wake up and serve the people you were elected to serve.

Frank Maddock Village of Lancaster, NY

Lancaster School District to host Family Fun Night The Lancaster Central School District will be hosting a Family Fun Night during the second annual Day of Kindness on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Family Fun Night will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Lancaster High School Field House, located at One Forton Drive.

Activities include crafts, face painting, mini golf, arcade and carnival games, visits from Buster Bison, the Erie County Fair Bear, and Disney princesses, and prizes.

The cost is $5 per family and includes pizza, beverages, and desserts made by the LHS Academy of Hospitality and Tourism.

There will also be a nonperishable food collection at the door. Families are asked to bring non-perishable food items as an act of kindness.

Pre-sale tickets are available at all schools or by calling Pat Burgio at 6863214. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.

Thruway should not close for a few inches of snow Like many of you, I awoke on Jan. 9 to some snow and blowing wind. It wasn’t anything we hadn’t dealt with before. For many of us, after the 7-foot Snovember storm, it seemed like nothing. Because of the conditions, the roads were a little treacherous, plows hadn’t yet reached some roadways before commuters hit the streets, and everyone had to give themselves extra time to get to work. Nothing too extreme.

In addition, the Thruway was closed for the morning commute. It had closed at midnight in anticipation of the storm that started to hit Erie County in the early morning hours.

However, by 9-10 a.m. the snow had moved out of most of our communities.

Yet, the Thruway remained closed. I heard from several motorists that were forced onto secondary streets who

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said their commutes were extremely dangerous as a result. Around 1 p.m., as the sun was shining on the metro area, and myself and many residents were baffled that the Thruway had not reopened.

Furthermore, not only was it not open but there were no updates on when it would be or why it was closed.

Very slowly, sections of the Thruway reopened but not in time to save motorists traveling to the Southtowns from a nightmare of a commute home.

The entire length of the Thruway finally reopened on Jan. 10 after approximately 36 hours. This was several hours after the storm, which wasn’t even crippling to begin with, moved out of area.

This situation was extremely frustrating, and to be honest, quite mind boggling. I believe the clo-

sure of the Thruway, with regard to the Jan. 9 snow fall, created a much more dangerous situation and that the extended length of the closure was completely unnecessary.

I would have hoped that our Lieutenant Governor, a Hamburg native, would have been able to provide more insight into these decisions that she did. All in all, the State and Thruway Authority failed our region, shutdown commerce and overreacted in this situation. We have a lot of winter left ahead of us and I hope those in charge are better equipped to respond appropriately.

In discussions I have had recently with “Buffalonians,” we have questioned what happened to our region, the unofficial snow capital of the country.

We used to pride ourselves on handling the snow, getting plows down streets

quickly and efficiently, and not letting a few inches of snow bring daily life to a screeching halt.

We have great county and town DPW crews but unfortunately this winter there have been a few morning commutes that left drivers frazzled after plows didn’t touch the main routes soon enough. Hopefully going forward we can improve and keep roads clear of snow and ice as much as possible.

Of course what most of us are hoping for is a short winter season, but in the likely case that doesn’t happen, all levels of government need to remain diligent.

If you ever have a question of concern about a county issue, please contact me at 858-8922 or joseph.

Lorigo@erie.gov.

Erie County Legislator Joseph C. Lorigo

Jacobs’ office generates more than $100,000 in additional revenue for county I n h i s e ff o r t t o m a k e county government more customer-centered and entrepreneurial, Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs announced that since taking office in 2012 his administration has processed 2,867 new passport applications.

This alone has generated more than $100,000 in additional revenue for the county. In 2014, Jacobs’ office processed 1,044 passport applications – double the number prior to him taking office.

Jacobs stated that his office has been proactive in offering this service by hosting “Passports on the Move” outreaches at area businesses, shopping malls, colleges, local municipalities and at

the Federal Court House after each Naturalization Ceremony. Additionally, the clerk’s office hosts “Passports on the Move” outreach events the second Tuesday of every month from 5 to 7 p.m at the Erie County Auto Bureau at the Northtown Plaza in Amherst.

This January the clerks’ office was re-approved to be an official Passport Application Acceptance Agency of the United States Passport Service and employees were re-certified to be Passport Acceptance Agents.

“This is a service we provide to the citizens of Erie County, with no additional staff, that generates revenues which we give back to Erie County,” stated Jacobs.

“All who work in the clerk’s office are proud of the fact that we are the only division of county government that, after expenses, returns revenues to the county. We continue to find ways to offer more services to our citizens without additional cost to the taxpayer,” added Jacobs.

For every passport processed, the clerk’s office retains $25, as well as $10 for every photo taken.

Those interested in obtaining a passport through the clerk’s office or have additional questions on the “Passports on the Move” program can contact the Erie County Clerk’s Office at 858-8866 or visit www.erie.gov/passports.

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Unlawful Possession of Marijuana At 10:25 a.m., Jan. 23, the Lancaster High School resource officer received a complaint of a strong suspicious odor coming from a student’s locker on the second floor on the school. The locker was searched and a baggie with suspected marijuana was found inside.

The locker belonged to a female student who was questioned and she stated that the offender, 17, of Lancaster, asked her if he could keep marijuana in her locker. The offender was brought to the principal’s office where he admitted the marijuana was his.

He was suspended five days from school and arrested by the school’s resource officer for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Aggravated Unlicensed Operation At 10:34 a.m., Jan. 23, patrol observed a black 2002 Acura traveling south on Transit Road near William Street. The vehicle had an expired New York State inspection sticker from March 2014. The registration was also expired as

of Jan. 8, 2014.

In addition, both tires on the driver’s side of the vehicle were almost completely bald and unsafe. Patrol initiated a traffic stop and identified the driver as Saidar A. Shakur, 28, of Depew. The DMV indicated that Shakur’s driver’s license was suspended. Also, he has 12 suspensions on six dates for failing to answer a summons in the Village of Depew and the Towns of Lancaster, Elma, and Orchard Park.

Shakur was taken into custody and transported to the station. He was charged with operation of a motor vehicle without an inspection sticker, operation of an unregistered motor vehicle on the highway, unsafe tires, and aggravated unlicensed operation.

Arrest on Warrant At 8:02 p.m., Jan. 23. patrols responded to the area of Aurora Street and Garfield Street for a possible domestic situation between two parties. Patrols located a male, Chad J. Jordan, 39, of Lancaster, in the parking lot of 99 Brick Oven.

After an inquiry it was learned that Jordan has an outstanding warrant with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO). Jordan was taken into custody and transported to the station where he was taken into custody by ECSO.

Arrest on Warrant At 7:18 p.m., Jan. 24, patrols responded to the area of Townline Road and Broadway for customer trouble at Mooney’s Bar. The complainant stated two subjects had exited the bar and proceed on foot northbound on Townline Road.

Patrol caught up to both parties to obtain information.

After an inquiry it was learned that the male, Steven Lawrinowicz, 35, of Alden, had an outstanding warrant from the ECSO. Lawrinowicz was taken into custody and transported to the station where he was taken into custody

by ECSO.

Petit Larceny At 10:19 a.m., Jan. 25, patrol responded to Walmart, 4975 Transit Road, for a report of a shoplifter. The offender, Lori A. Weismore, 44, of Lancaster, walked passed all points of sale with a shopping cart full of various items, totaling $382.32.

Weismore was apprehended by the complainant and the police were called. Patrol took custody of Weismore without incident and transported her to the station. She was charged with petit larceny and released on an appearance ticket.

Criminal Mischief At 6:23 p.m., Jan. 29, patrol responded to Walmart, 4975 Transit Road, for a person who damaged property.

The complainant observed the offender, Jessica J. Bentley, 31, of Depew, remove and open several items.

Bentley was observed putting the items in a bag and then leaving. Bentley paid for her items and started to leave the store without the damaged items. The complainant stopped Bentley and contacted the police.

Bentley was caught shoplifting at the Cheektowaga store and at that time she signed a trespass sheet.

Bentley was transported to the station and charged with trespass and criminal mischief with intent to damage property.

Obituaries

Warrant Watch

Curtis O’Neill

The following person (s) are wanted by the Lancaster Police Department.

Do not approach these individuals on your own. Please contact Det. Lt. James Robinson at 683-3120, ext. 37 or JNRobinson@police.lancasterny.gov with current information regarding the whereabouts of these people. All persons listed are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

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Curtis D. O’Neill, of Lancaster, passed away January 24, 2015 O’NEILL - Curtis D. of Lancaster passed away January 24, 2015; beloved husband of the late Irene M. (Huber) O’Neill; dearest father of Bonnie S. and Sandra A. O’Neill (John A. Imiola); son of the late George and Martha E. (Webster) O’Neill; survived by brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews in Haines City, FL. No prior visitation. Private services. O’Neill was former President and Owner of Alden Trucks LTD and a U.S. Army veteran of WWII. Memorials to The SPCA. Arrangements by Erie County Cremation Service. Please share your condolences at www.cfhecc.com

Marlene Brown Marlene Brown of Lancaster, passed away January 27, 2015 BROWN - Marlene (nee Crawford) of Lancaster died January 27, 2015; beloved wife of George “Butch” for 55 years; proud mother of Janet Wiepert and Ron (Sheri) Brown of Colorado; loving grandmother of Jason (Lindsay Romanchuk) Wiepert, Kristin (Jeremy) Adolf, Garret and Jeremy (Haley King) Brown of Colorado; loving step-grandmother of Samantha and Alexandra (William Schneider) LaPres of Louisiana; caring great-grandmother of Colton Adolf.

Funeral services were held privately with the family. If desired, donations may be made in Marlene’s name to Hospice Buffalo. Arrangements by Wendel & Loecher, Inc.

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Family was present at the Charles Meyer Funeral Home, in Alden, on Friday. Memorials may be made to Greenfields Health Care and Rehab, 5949 Broadway, Lancaster, NY or Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. Share your condolences at meyerfuneralhome.com

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Lancaster Stadium blueprints found at Erie County Legislature

By Amy Robb

LANCASTER SUN CORRESPONDENT

When Erie County Legislator Ted Morton, along with his peers, were cleaning out a storage area in the building, they never expected to come across a detailed set of blue prints from 1970. Approximately 100 pages were dated Jan. 30, 1970, and was a complete design for a domed stadium to be located on Pleasant View Drive in Lancaster.

The stadium would have a baseball diamond and football field, completely enclosed, where it is assumed both the Bisons and Bills would play.

“At a time when most everyone in Western New York is weighing in on the next location for a new stadium, it is very interesting to see what was being discussed in 1970,” said Jessica O’Neil, communications director for the Republican Caucus.

History is repeating itself, as the exact same issues of location, and open

Blueprints from 1970

Sample of page from report air versus a domed stadium is being brought up today.

Back when everything was being discussed in 1970 amongst Ralph Wilson and the two architectural firms, the site was ultimately deemed inappropriate for a variety of reasons, one of which being its close proximity to the Lancaster High School.

“I had also heard that Mr. Ralph Wilson wanted a larger, open air stadium that was strictly for his football team and this proposal was for multi-sport use, in addition to being a dome,” added Morton.

Some residents may recall the lawsuit that took place back in 1984 regarding this decision to have the stadium built in Or-

chard Park instead of Lancaster. Erie County was required to pay $54 million to Edward Cottrell and the Kenford Corporation since the county backed out of an agreement to build the stadium in Lancaster back in 1969. Cottrell claimed the cost of acquiring the land, out-of-pocket expenses, and a loss of profits added up to at least $619.3 mil-

lion overall, according to an article published in the New York Times on Aug. 4, 1984. The county only paid out $54 million because the construction bids went beyond the original $50 million estimate.

The proposed stadium would have had 50,000 seats, much smaller than the current stadium in Orchard Park, and architecturally speaking were very basic. “[The drawings are] not like the designs and renderings we see today,” said Morton.

Morton is currently

looking into having the blue prints donated to a local museum, once they are taken down from their display at the Legislature.

“I have thought about talking with the Buffalo Museum of History to see if they would be interested or had a suggestion,” remarked Morton.

The documents for the stadium are on display in the Erie County Legislature, 92 Franklin St., Fourth Floor in Buffalo.

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LHS goes under the sea with annual musical

By Sallie Moppert

LANCASTER SUN CORRESPONDENT

While the annual spring musical performance is always a fun and special time for the students and staff at Lancaster High School, this year’s show will be one to remember for both those on stage and those in the audience.

Lancaster High School was chosen as one of the few schools across the nation to perform “The Little Mermaid” before the show is officially released to all schools. The students and staff involved in the show were honored to receive this opportunity.

“It is such an honor to be one of the first schools chosen to do this show,” said LHS Senior Erica Kilgore, who plays the starring role of Ariel.

Lancaster High School Music Teacher Gary Lee explained the school was contacted by Music Theatre International, which is the company that helps schools and other acting companies to obtain the rights to perform a musical. The school was asked to be one of the few schools that would be al-

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lowed to perform “The Little Mermaid” before it is released to all other schools to perform in September of 2016. Lee accepted the opportunity and the students involved in the show are looking forward to bringing this family Disney classic to life on the stage.

“The kids are really excited about being able to combine the characters and the aspects from the movie that they love with the music and live performances of the Broadway show,” Lee said. “Disney shows are always very high tech shows so this is going to be a very fun show.”

Because the live version of “The Little Mermaid” differs from the Disney movie version, the audience will be treated to brand new music and songs. Ryan Blunt, a senior at LHS, who plays the role of Prince Eric, was especially looking forward to this aspect of the performance because it gives new musical opportunities to characters that may not have originally had them.

“I really like the fact that I get to perform the new

be able to bring to life something like Disney because it is so well known,” added Donnie Luther, a LHS junior who plays the role of Flounder. “It is a great feeling to pretend to be someone else and become that character.”

David Peita, a LHS sophomore playing the role of King Triton, agreed with Luther.

“Disney shows are always great to perform,” Peita said. “I just love being on stage because it takes you to a different place.”

“The Little Mermaid” will be performed by Lancaster High School on Feb. 11, 12, 13 and 14. All performances will take place at 7:30 p.m., except for the Saturday matinee on Feb. 14, which will take place at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12 for evening performances and $10 for the matinee.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office at Lancaster High School, located at One Forton Drive, or can be reserved by contacting the high school.

To reserve tickets or for more information, call 686-3255 ext. 9342.

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(Back row, left to right): Ryan Blunt, senior, will be performing as Prince Eric, David Peita, sophomore, will be playing the role of King Triton, Erica Kilgore, senior, plays the role of Ariel, and (front row) Donnie Luther, junior, plays the role of Flounder in ‘The Little Mermaid.’ songs, especially since Prince Eric doesn’t get to sing in the movie,” Blunt explained.

Two of the new songs that will be in Lancaster High School’s perfor-

mance include “Her Voice” and “One Step Closer.”

In addition to the new music and the opportunity to be the first to perform a show, the students are also looking forward to

immersing themselves in the undersea world of Atlantica and bringing some of their favorite characters from childhood to life on stage.

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Students test out custom math games at St. Mary’s High School

St. Mary’s Technology Coordinator Paul Meyerhofer demostrates the use of a 3D printer.

By Sallie Moppert

LANCASTER SUN CORRESPONDENT

Learning might not always seem like it is fun and games but for the fourth-grade students at some local elementary schools, learning actually was. The sophomore students at St. Mary’s High School in Lancaster had been challenged to create their very own math video games as a part of STEAM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

Once the games were created, St. Mary’s invited fourth graders from various local elementary schools to try out these one of a kind educational games. Students from Our

Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Depew attended Tuesday, Feb. 3 and students from Christ the King School in Snyder attended Wednesday, Feb. 4.

“This is such an exciting opportunity not only for our students at St. Mary’s but for the students that get to try out these games,” explained Jennifer Anthone, science teacher and student coordinator at St. Mary’s.

The idea for the STEAM games came from the time Anthone spent at Boston University during her studies. The local eighth graders would design math games for the third graders. The junior high students would get to learn about programming and information technology

while the elementary students would get to improve their math skills.

Inspired by this collaborative education effort, Anthone brought the idea to St. Mary’s.

“It is so great to see how creative the kids can get.”

Anthone added. “They are just exceeding our expectations. They are learning from one another and all levels and skills are achieving success.”

The sophomores were required to create a game that was not only interesting and fun to play, but also incorporated a math concept at the fourth grade level, including topics such as multiplication, division, fractions, measurements and mathematical expressions. The games

Policeman’s Ball to be held, tickets on sale now

By Jennifer Lysiak

THE LANCASTER SUN EDITOR

Every dollar raised during the upcoming annual Policeman’s Ball Fundraiser will truly make a difference in someone’s life. This is an event hosted for many years that has helped residents right in the Depew community and beyond.

Hosted by the Depew Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Patrick Canna, who is chairman of the ball, vice president of the Depew PBA, and a Depew police officer, said the association doesn’t have an exact date on when the first policeman’s ball was held, but the earliest ball they know of is 1964.

“So, if that was the first one it will be 51 years this year,” said Canna.

Keeping a long tradition alive, with the support of the community over the years, the Depew PBA has been able to assist more than 30 local and national charities and scholarships.

Some of these include, Make- A-Wish Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Variety Kids Telethon, Depew Lancaster Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts of America, and Special Olympics of WNY. Some local pro-

grams include Depew School’s sports and music programs, Hospice Memorial Walk, Tim Horton’s Children Fund, and the TriCommunity Food Pantry.

“We usually spread [donations] out to a whole bunch of different charities,” remarked Canna.

“Basically, if we get a request or we hear about a local resident who went through some kind of medical issue or a house burnt down, something to that effect, we vote on it and make a donation and send it out to the family in need or charity in need. It’s not one specific one we constantly always donate too.”

The event on a conservative side draws between 300 to 600 people every year, said Canna. It is a great way to enjoy a night out, support the community and the PBA. And let’s not forget to mention that those who attend will be able to meet the officers who serve on the Depew Police force, a great way to meet the community’s local heroes.

Canna said a police officer is there to serve the community and “help as many people as they can,” and an event like this has and will certainly do that.

In addition, the Policeman’s Ball Fundraiser is a casual event. Canna said back in the day he’s pret-

ty sure it was a black tie event, but throughout the years it has changed to a relaxed, informal evening.

The ball will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Feb. 28, at the new Grapevine Banquet Facility (old Hearthstone) located at 333 Dick Road.

Tickets for the event are $25 each, and include food, adult refreshments, and live music by Buffalo’s own Hit N’ Run band.

There will be a Chinese auction, 50/50 raffles, and a NFL/NHL Jersey Raffle, and a few other things. Included with your ticket is also a chance to win one of three prizes: First prize - A weekend trip to New York City with airfare and hotel included; second prize- a 55-inch LED High Def Smart TV; and third prize - an Apple iPad. Tickets can be purchased the day of or pre-sale by emailing DepewPBAball@gmail.com The evening will offer great music, food, refreshments, and company, and an opportunity to support the Depew PBA, which gives back so much to so many programs in the village and surrounding communities. Make sure you get your tickets to make this year a success.

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Students playing the math games. utilized a story and illustrations to help the players learn a math concept.

After playing the games, the fourth graders filled out a math game evaluation survey. The students evaluated how well the sophomores did in designing their game, as well the game difficulty and how interesting the game was. The students were also able to offer a suggestion on how to improve the math game that they played. Even though they could make suggestions, it appeared that the kids were in agreement that the games were pretty enjoyable.

“All of the games were

so cool,” said fourth grader Paige Landen.

Classmate Alex Walter agreed.

“It was pretty cool that they made math games to help you learn,” Walter said. “I liked the challenging math games.”

In addition to trying out the math games, the students were also treated to a demonstration by St. Mary’s Technology Coordinator Paul Meyerhofer on the use of the school’s 3D printer. After making a three dimensional design on a computer program, Meyerhofer showed the students how the printer could create the item designed, which was a single

dice in the demonstration.

Overall, the first annual STEAM games seemed to be a success for both the sophomores and the fourth graders.

“The students were happy, smiling and congratulating each other when they completed a level,” Anthone said. “We hope that this can increase their interest in STEAM subjects and maybe inspire them to pursue a career in these fields.”

Another local school is expected to try out the math games in the coming weeks.

For more information, visit http://www.smhlancers.org/.

Canisius presents award-winning performer Canisius College presents Maria Costa’s award-winning one woman show “Macho Men and the Women Who Love Them” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. in the Montante Cultural Center.

The event, which is co-sponsored by the Afro-American Society and the ALANA Student Center, is free and open to the public.

Costa’s performance will be followed by a question and answer session. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Costa is a performer, writer, producer and change maker who has sold out the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and toured in 16 cities and six countries worldwide with her one-woman theatrical comedy show called Macho Men and The Women Who Love Them. She has been described by critics as the female John Leguizamo

and the Latina Lucille Ball and has appeared on a number of prime-time television shows like Ugly Betty. Macho Men was also filmed as a comedy concert film which won an Imagen Award for excellence in Latino film and TV and is distributed worldwide on DVD by Image Entertainment.

Costa’s newest film, Viva America also performed, written and produced by Costa - is nominated for an Imagen Award and is in development as a television series with Bravo TV producers. She recently co-hosted the Urban Wheel Awards with fellow actor Morris Chestnut and is set to receive a star on the Motown Walk of Fame alongside Kid Rock and Aretha Franklin.

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St. Mary’s awarded ‘Favorite City’ at future city competition

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St. Mary’s Elmentary School students recently competed in the Western New York Regional Future City Competition.

On Saturday, Jan. 24, St. Mary’s Elementary School competed in the Western New York Regional Future City Competition at Mount St. Mary’s Academy. This was the first time a team from St. Mary’s Elementary was involved in the competition.

Mr. Menzie, St. Mary’s Middle School teacher, and

his eighth-grade team spent the past five months creating a virtual and physical model of a city. They had to write an essay about urban agriculture and plan an oral presentation.

Countless hours were spent researching, designing, altering, and overcoming a variety of challenges.

Doug Furminger, a parent at St. Mary’s Elementary,

served as the team’s engineer mentor and donated his time and energy to assist the students weekly. The pinnacle of this hard work arrived on Saturday as St. Mary’s Elementary received the award for “Favorite City,” voted on by fellow students.

For more information about St. Mary’s Elementary School please call 683-2112

Test your knowledge at ‘Trivia Night’ T h e L a n c a s t e r Yo u t h Foundation is excited to announce that they will be hosting its second annual “Trivia Night” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26 at St. Mary’s High School. They invite the entire Lancaster-Depew community to be part of the fun.

There are three ways to support the foundation and get involved: Enter a team in the exciting “Trivia Night” contest, become a sponsor, or purchase a program ad.

The “Trivia Night” process is simple, and the evening will be great fun. Who can form a “Trivia Night”

team? Anyone. All you need is a team of four people, an entry fee of $100, and your trivia knowledge. Your team members could walk away with some nice prizes, including the $500 grand prize.

Audience and team members will also have a chance to have their names drawn to participate in a few extras.

Teams can include, but are certainly not limited to: faculty groups, school clubs, organizations, co-workers, civic or business groups, friends or family members, or any other group of four you can think of.

Instead of forming a team, or in addition to having a team, you can still help support the foundation by advertising in the “Trivia Night” program, making a cash donation, donating a gift certificate or other prizes for use during the event, passing along information to anyone who would be interested in supporting this worthwhile endeavor.

For more information, you can contact the Lancaster Youth Bureau at 683-4444, or go to the website: lancasteryouthfoundation.org.

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Lancaster Area Chamber of Commerce AM Business Exchange will be held from 8 to 9 a.m. every Wednesday in February at Olive Tree Family Restaurant, 5240 Broadway, Lancaster Village. No admission cost to members or member guests .Valentine’s Dance All are welcome from 8 p.m. to midnight Sat., Feb. 7 at the Depew Falcons, 445 Columbia Ave., Depew. Music by Double Take, 50/50 drawing, drink specials and free snacks. $9 admission.

Info: 413-1872 or 684-2373.

The Lancaster Garden Club will meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.11 at St. John Lutheran Hall, 55 Pleasant Ave., Lancaster.

Assemblywoman Angela Wozniak will be the guest at Concerned Women for America, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 at Lancaster Presbyterian Church, 5461 Broadway. The public is invited to hear Wozniak speak about current issues affecting New York State. She is New York State Assembly Representative for Cheektowaga and Lancaster.

Sweetheart Cross-Country Ski Tour Enjoy an adults-only guided cross-country ski tour through the preserve at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Feb. 14 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Ski rental: $5 each, $2 Friends of Reinstein members. Registration required; call 683-5959.

Valentine’s Steak Dinner Our Lady of Pompeii Church is hosting a delicious Valentine’s Day steak dinner Sat., Feb. 14 from 4 to 7 p.m. at 129 Laverack Ave., Lancaster. For tickets, call 683-6522.

The Faith United Methodist Women will hold its annual Valentine Luncheon Saturday, Feb. 14 at 5505 Broadway, Lancaster. A silent auction and bake sale will begin at noon with the luncheon beginning at 12:30 p.m. Those who attend the luncheon will enjoy a traditional chicken casserole.

Following the luncheon, attendees will be entertained by Denise Reichert portraying Babe Zaharias, professional golfer, LPGA pioneer and Olympic champion. Luncheon donation is $10. Paid reservations are needed by Feb. 1. For tickets or information, call Loretta at 683-3311 or the church office at 683-5293.

First Lancaster Village and Town Hall Meeting will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.17 at the Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Ave., in Lancaster.

Guest panelists include: Town Supervisor Dino Fudoli, Depew Village Mayor Steve Hoffman and Lancaster Village Mayor Paul Maute. Hear from town and village officials on their 2015 plans to support our business community.

Registration: Online at www. wnychamber.com/events or via email to Next 20@wnychamber.com Cost: $10 to members and member guests – food and beverages included.

Trackathon Kids ages 6 and up will compete to see who can find and identify the most animal tracks on this guided walk at 10:30 a.m. Thurs., Feb. 19 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Free. Registration required; call 683-5959.

Track and Scat Snowshoe Walk Come investigate our trails for animal tracks and scat, and learn about wildlife living in the woods at 11 a.m. Fri., Feb. 20 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Snowshoe fee: $5 each, $2 Friends of Reinstein members. Registration required; call 683-5959.

James Metz Memorial Fundraiser Come support the renovation of Keysa Park Basketball Courts Saturday, Feb. 21 from 7 to 11 p.m. at Magruders Restaurant, 4995 Broadway in Lancaster. Event includes basket raffle, karaoke, music and more! $10 at the door includes a sheet of tickets.

Those interested in presale tickets for a 55 inch Smart TV

call Noreen 480-4261.

Frozen Forest Snowshoe Walk Explore the beauty of winter woods on this guided walk at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Feb.21 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Snowshoe fee: $5 each, $2 Friends of Reinstein members. Registration required; call 683-5959.

Birding 101 - Class 2 Adults and kids ages 8 and older will go on a bird identification adventure at 2:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 21 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Free. Learn to identify birds by sight and sound. Registration required; call 683-5959.

Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Fundraiser The Breast Cancer Network of WNY will be hosting a fundraiser Feb. 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bella Moglle building, located at 3297 Walden Ave. in Depew.

Event includes a basket raffle, 50/50 split and 42 inch TV raffle. Tickets are $20 per person, and can be purchased online at bcnwny.org or over the phone: 706-0060.

Snowbirds Snowshoe Walk Search for our winter resident birds and early spring migrants on a guided walk at 10:30 a.m. Sat., Feb. 28 at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, 93 Honorine Dr., Depew. Snowshoe fee: $5 each, $2 Friends of Reinstein members. Registration required; call 683-5959.

Lawyers for the Arts The 4th annual benefit event will take place Sat. Feb. 28, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Sportsmen’s Tavern in Buffalo. Live music, and art for sale, all crafted by attorneys. Single tickets are $20, $10 for law students. Presale tickets available Feb. 6 by visiting giveforgreatness.org. For more information call Lauren Rojek at 362-8389 x512 or asiwnydevelopment@gmail. com. All proceeds benefit Give for Greatness, a program of Arts Services Initiative of WNY. Quality of Life Classes For Survivors including water color, drawing, tai chi, jewelry making, cooking, exercise, Zumba as well as book club.

Held at the Breast Cancer Network of WNY, Bella Moglie Building, 3297 Walden Ave., Depew. Info: www.bcnwny. org or call Sharon Faraci at 759-1176.

Breast Cancer Support Group meets at 8 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at the Breast Cancer Network of WNY, Bella Moglie Building, 3297 Walden Ave., Depew.

Info: Christine Bylewski at 585-2092.

Cultivating the Faith Program Focus on “Making Church Relevant” with Deacon John Gaulin from 7-9 p.m.

Thursdays at Our Lady of Pompeii’s New Ministry Center, 129 Laverack Ave., Lancaster.

Discover its purpose, unleash its power, share its passion.

Learning the way of the saints, engaging in Christ. Purchase a copy of the book “Rebuilt,” written by Fr. Michael White and Thomas Corcoran. Info: 683-6522.

Metastatic Therapy Group meets from 12-1:20 p.m. every other Tuesday of the month at the Breast Cancer Network of WNY, Bella Moglie Building, 3297 Walden Ave., Depew.

Info: Christine Bylewski at 585-2092.

Young Survivors Group meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of the month at the Breast Cancer Network of WNY, Bella Moglie Building, 3297 Walden Ave., Depew.

Info: Christine Bylewski at 585-2092.

Gathering In His Name A women’s Bible Study presents: Daughters of Eve – an in-depth study of the women in the Bible (the women who made godly choices in their lives as well as the women who did not).

Meets from 9:30-11:30 a.m. every Thursday morning. Free childcare provided for nursery through pre-k ages. Feel free to invite friends, neighbors and co-workers. Info: 684-2277 or

www.l-p-c.org.

The Buffalo Button Club organized in 1946 and invites new members to join them in learning the history and appreciation of Button Sewing. We meet the third Monday of every month. Call Diane at 834-5799 for more info regarding time and meeting location.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) weight loss support meets 5:45 p.m. Wed. at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1135 Oliver St., North Tonawanda.

Info: 692-9073.

Pain-Relieving Laser Therapy Workshop Learn and experience safe ‘alternative therapies’ for pain relief of back, neck and arm/leg problems. Free monthly classes, 5580 Broadway, Lancaster.

Call 206-7526 to schedule.

Zoning Board of Appeals Meetings for the Town of Lancaster begin at 7 p.m. on the second Tues. of each month at the Town Hall, 21 Central Ave., Town of Lancaster.

If You Would Like to Serve as a Knight of the Blind, please contact Lion Mary at 681-8372 or Lion Irene, 6682929. The Lancaster Lions meet on the first and third Tuesday of every month at Ripa’s Restaurant in Lancaster.

Donate Blood 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Tues., Thurs., 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. second and fourth Sat. of each month Cheektowaga Center, 576 Dick Rd., suite 1, Dick Urban Plaza. American Red Cross. Info: 1-800-GIVEBLOOD, donatebloodnow.org.

The Lancaster Lions Loan Closet is open to serve the area residents. If you are in need of a wheelchair, cane, walker, crutches, hearing aid or batteries for hearing aids and other medical equipment, please call 681-8372 or 668-2929.

Free Exercise for Breast Cancer Survivors will be held from 6 – 7 p.m., Wed., Breast Cancer Network Bella Moglie Building, 3297 Walden Ave. Depew. Info: 759-1176.

Healing Qigong Class 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., every Mon. Cobra wrestling, Urbandale Shopping Center, 2106 George Urban Blvd., corner of George Urban and Dick Road. Free.

Info: 912-9895.

Alcoholics Victorious Meeting 7 p.m. Wed. Faith Wesleyan Church, 4600 Union Rd., Cheektowaga. Held in room next to sanctuary. All addictions welcomed. Info: 634-2578.

G.M. Salaried Retirees Club invites new members to join. Events include luncheons, cruises, summer activities, and more. Info: Harold Kern, 741-4461.

The Empty Leash Pet Loss Support Group for anyone grieving over the loss of their pet meets from 6:30-8 p.m. every other Monday at the Abbott Road Veterinary Hospital, 3816 Abbott Rd., Orchard Park. Register before attending. Info: 714-5785.

Low Back Safety & Injury Prevention workshop 7 – 8:30 p.m. first and third Wed. every month, 3685 Harlem Rd., Cheek. Free to BC/S Comm.

Blue, Senior Blue, Universal, Senior Choice. Info: 834-4950.

Recovery, Inc., a self-help group for persons who struggle with anger, panic, anxiety, depression, obsessions, compulsions or phobias, meetings held 7:30 p.m. Tues., St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 900 Maryvale Dr. at Union Rd., Cheek. Info: 668-2380.

SOS-Save Our Selves a 12-step alternative or complementary support group for recovery. Leave a message at 636-4869 ext. 318, or visit www.sos-nys.org for schedules.

VFW Post No. 7275 Events: Live music with Pride and Joy and open mike alternating with Wild Bill Karaoke will be held from 8 – 11 p.m., Friday nights, and ladies nights with two for one drinks from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. on Tues. and Thurs. All at the VFW Post No. 7275, 3741 Walden Ave. Lancaster.

Info: 681-8387.

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LHS swimmers use ECICs to prep for bigger waters

By William ‘Ski’ Wilczewski SPORTS REPORTER

No team title was won like so often was the case in the late 1990s.

No school records were broken, nor were any personal best time recorded.

That doesn’t mean, however, that the Lancaster boys swim team didn’t do what it set out to do on Saturday, Jan. 31 at the Erie County Interscholastic Conference large school swimming and diving team championships at Sweet Home High School.

“Overall, our kids did pretty well,” Redskins coach Dan Szymanski said that night after his squad took sixth place. “A lot of them were sore because of the workouts during the week, but we really haven’t started tapering yet, so I suspect they’ll do better when we do—or at least that’s the hope.”

Szymanski was talking about his squads training regimen that’s geared to lead up to the Class A, Sectional and state meets that follow the ECICs throughout the month of February.

It’s not that the ECICs aren’t important, but with 37 years of coaching in the sport, Szymanski knows he has to pick and choose his battles wisely, so the Redskins looked at the ECIC championships—which were won by Hamburg (309 points)—as more of a prep race for the ones to follow.

Lancaster also lost its diver—who took third at ECICs last season—in the middle of December for personal reasons, so Szymanski saw no need to push for a title without a complete lineup.

The team he had Jan. 31, though, pulled in two fourth place patches (200 medley relay and 100 breaststroke), plus narrowly missed two others with a pair fifth place finishes (200 individual medley and 100 backstroke).

Leading the charge indi-

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Seen here during a recent practice, Lancaster freshman Jacob Machalski was part of the Redskins’ fourth place 200 medley relay team at the Erie County Interscholastic Conference large school swimming and diving team championships at Sweet Home High School on Jan. 31. Other team members were Jacob Maciejewski, Trevor Wyse and Collin Kowalski. vidually for the Redskins was junior Trevor Wyse and freshman Jacob Maciejewski. Wyse took fourth in the breaststroke (1:06.39) and fifth in the individual medley (2:12.07), while Maciejewski’s fifth in the backstroke (1:00.33) bodes well for Lancaster’s present and future.

“The ninth and tenth graders really came on strong for us; gave us that extra few kids that we needed to get a good nucleus for later,” Szymanski said. “Those ninth and tenth graders are doing pretty good in ECIC overall, and in the section, so that’s nice to see.”

In fact, Lancaster’s fourth

place 200 medley relay team has two freshmen on it with Maciejewski and Jacob Machalski, plus Wyse and senior Collin Kowalski. Their time of 1:49.58 was also “pretty decent for them,” Szymanski said. “Our medley relays are strong, because they’re strong in their individual events. They stand pretty well in the section … so the expectation in the medley is for them to do pretty well, but they’re also good freestylers, so when we get to the Class A and Sectionals, they should make the top eight.

Regardless, it’s been a good relay for us all season long.”

That season gave the

Redskins a 5-5-1 dual meet record this season—one that could have easily been 8-3 if the diver had remained on the squad, according to Szymanski. Missing those points on Jan. 31 also cost Lancaster, but a couple top 10 finishes from Kowalski helped them put points on the board.

The senior took seventh in the 100 freestyle and tenth in the 50 freestyle, plus was part of the 200 freestyle relay team that took seventh. Also on that team was Wyse, Daniel Rudz and Ryan Robinson.

Rudz and Robinson also joined Maciejewski and Machalski to make up the

400 freestyle relay team that took tenth on Jan. 31.

Maciejewski also added a seventh place individually in the in the 200 IM finals.

“In retrospect, it’s been a successful season for us so far because we lost six seniors last year,” Szymanski explained, “and we only have three this year, so were doing okay.”

The goal, though, is obviously to get back to the form of the 90s, which took a blow when the school lost its swim club in 1999-2000. Because it was a feeder program, “that hurt us as far as new kids coming in,” Szymanski said, “but now we have a modified team … which

provides the kids with some background in swimming competition now, so that feeder program’s helping us.

“It’s the clubs, though, where you get the quality swimmers,” he added, “because they’ve been swimming for a number of years.”

That’s the case for Robinson, Maciejewski and Wyse, who compete for the Stingrays in Cheektowaga.

“I swim club all year around so it helps out,” Maciejewski said.

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Winning slate still not enough for shorthanded Lancers Five forfeits cost St. Mary’s against visiting Ravens

By William ‘Ski’ Wilczewski SPORTS REPORTER

WILLIAM ‘SKI’ WILCZEWSKI

St. Mary’s’ Will Story (138 pounds) controls Gow’s Carson Wildrick on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Story won by tech fall (21-6) in the third period.

Win the matches, lose the dual.

That was case Tuesday, Feb. 3 in Lancaster when the St. Mary’s Lancers wrestling team did all it could on the mat to take care of the visiting Gow Ravens.

Off the mat, though, St. Mary’s had to forfeit five weight classes, so Gow went home with a 36-23 win despite falling to four of the five Lancers they faced.

With only six wrestlers on its roster, that’s been the case for St. Mary’s all season long,

so one could say the Lancers are used to it. That doesn’t mean, however, that they’re happy about it.

“It’s never fun when you lose duals and only lose one match on the night,” St. Mary’s skipper Zach Wiess said, “but that comes with numbers. We need to get more kids here ... and maybe get some kids back that made a mistake and didn’t come out this year. After that, we can go from there.”

As for Tuesday, though, Wiess was impressed with his men—for the most part.

“We did get pinned in that (126 pound) match,” he said, “and that’s the one that I was focused on, to be honest, but other than that we did what we needed to do. Everybody executed how they were supposed to.”

Everyone included Zach Szpila (132 pounds), who

pinned Sora Sekiquchi in the second period; Will Story (138), who topped Carson Wildrick by tech fall (21-6) in the third period; Brandon “Station” Weber (145), who pinned Tyson Neely in the second period; and Brad Stephens (182), who also pinned Bryan King in the second period.

“We did what we had to do,” Szpila said. “We came out here with a lot of energy, and I think the guys did really well.

Everyone stayed focused, and it paid off. We’re just trying to build momentum for Sunday.”

Szpila was talking about the fact that St. Mary’s will host the All-Catholic tournament in Lancaster on Sunday, Feb. 8 for the first time since 2005.

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Lancaster proves a tough challenge for three-time champ Girls hockey team falls — but competes with Kenmore

By William ‘Ski’ Wilczewski SPORTS REPORTER

Three-time defending Section VI girls hockey champion Kenmore took a step toward a fourth title on Monday, Feb. 2, while steadily improving Lancaster/Iroquois took a different kind of step.

It all happened at the Northtown Center that night when the favorite—No. 1-ranked Kenmore—did what they were supposed to, while the underdog—No. 4 Lancaster—didn’t.

And while Lancaster didn’t roll over, that didn’t stop Kenmore from gutting out a 2-0 victory that kept them in the playoff mix. An early second period goal by Taylor Story, plus an empty-netter from Ana Orzechowski inside the final minute, made sure of that.

“One thing we’ve talked about all year long is that we don’t care who gets the goal, we just want to score it,” Kenmore head coach Jeff Orlowski said after his

squad advanced to 8-2-3.

“This team has been pretty dominant over the last few years and the core players have worked hard for us to get there, and Taylor optimizes that. She is a hard worker, and she scored the goal because she went hard to the net.”

Story was able to do that after teammate Emily King fought through the Lancaster defense on her way to the assist.

“That’s the kind of goals we’ve scored this year; the hard-working, slam-the-net kind,” Orlowski said. “It’s selfless team hockey; that’s what it is.”

“It’s always a physical game playing against Lancaster, so we had to keep our heads in it and go out there and try our best,” Story said. “That’s what got us through.”

Lancaster’s downfall, on the other hand, was obvious.

Despite holding Kenmore below its season average in goals, they didn’t create enough chances of their own.

“They played a good game, no question,” Santoro said of Kenmore, “but going up against a three-time defending league champ and keeping them to basically one goal was a great job. Our goaltending and defense were to task; no question about it,

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Lancaster’s Brianna Keppner advances the puck up ice against a Kenmore defender during her team’s 2-0 loss in the Section VI playoffs. but we needed to generate more offense—and we just didn’t.”

That’s generally been the case all season long for a young Lancaster squad that’s relied on senior keeper Madeline Norton to keep them within striking distance.

She had 32 saves against Kenmore.

“She’s a clutch player,” Santoro said. “She made key saves … but when she makes saves like that, we need to cash in on our opportunities on the other end.”

Kenmore’s experience and solid puck control on their side of the ice limited those opportunities for Lancaster, giving Lauren Pray—argu-

ably one of the better keepers in the league along with Norton—the 15-save shutout and a shot at another title. That doesn’t mean, though, that the underdog didn’t earn a little respect.

“Maddie Norton is unbelievable in net,” Orlowski said, “and Dave (Santoro) and (assistant) Pete (Tonsoline)

do such a great job with the team. I can’t believe how much that program’s turned around. The last two years, Lancaster/Iroquois has been a team that you have to look out for. They are a hardworking team, and have two of the best defenseman in the league in (Brianna) Colucci and (Megan) Reukauf, who played well.”

The loss, though, bounced Lancaster (4-6-1, plus 2 overtime wins) out of the Section VI playoffs again. Still, Santoro hopes the program can use the game as a building block.

“This is our fifth season, so where we’ve come from, to be in the section semifinal game and have it basically be a one-goal game, is huge for us,” he said. “The program is growing … and I think we’ve got a bright future coming. We fell short tonight, but I think we’ve got a good future coming with the girls that we have.

“I think down the road, we’re going to be in good shape,” Santoro added. “We’ve got a good core group of players that we’ll be able to count on to play and do as well as they did today. A year or two from now, and a little more seasoned, they’ll also have that game experience that it takes to win games like this.”

Lancaster boys win championship Wyse credits coaching staff

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Wyse—more of a seasoned couple weeks.”

Feb. 12-13: Sectional prelims veteran already—also gives Upcoming postseason and finals; 4:30 p.m.; Maryvale credit to the coaching staff, schedule High School which includes assistant Jeff Feb. 7: Class A swimming; Feb. 27-28: State prelims and Petherick.

8:30 a.m.; Flickinger Center finals; 10 a.m.; Ithaca College “The coaches know what they’re doing,” he said.

“They’ve got a lot of experience, plus we’re working hard and having a half-decent season for how young we are. We’ve been hitting it really hard this last week for championships … but the best will be a couple weeks down the road at the later meets.”

JEFFREY T. BARNES “This is the most important time of the year,” he added, Lancaster junior Trevor Wyse took fourth place “because this is right before in the breaststroke (1:06.39) and fifth in the indiwe tapper down, so we’ve revidual medley (2:12.07) at ECICs. ally got to hit it hard the next

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The Lancaster Boys and Girls Club boys team won the fifth and sixth grade championship on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the EMW Boys and Girls Club. Pictured in front row, left to right: Sean Brown, Logan Sionko and Jackson Jerebko. Top row, left to right: Brandon Thome, Jason Mansell, Dominic Fulciniti, Solomon Konesky, Will Pieroni and Charlie Carlone

Czechowski signs letter of intent

LHS shows strong at ninth/10th grade championships The Lancaster indoor track team’s youthful competitors had a chance last Saturday to show their stuff, and they took full advantage of that opportunity.

The girls underclassmen had seven first place finishes starting with Maria Wild winning the ninth grade 55-meter hurdles in a best-ever time of 9.88.

Sophomore Katy Jargiello won the 10th grade 1500-meter racewalk in a personal-best time of 8:19.0 Sophomore Olivia Gervan

won her specialty, the high jump, with a clearance of 5 feet 2 inches. She also joined Morgan Foster, Julie Ali and Carrie O’Neil to win the 10th grade 4x200-meter relay in 1:58.7.

The frosh 4x200-meter relay team of Wild, Iabelle Licata, Hannah Kufel and Mary Banks also won in a time of 2:03.8.

Frosh Emily McEwen won t he ninth grade pole vault with a clearance of 7 feet. Sophomore Brianna McKenzie won the shotput with a very respectable toss of 33 feet, 9 inches.

The boys team also enjoyed some success with a sectional qualifying performance by sophomore Carson Valley, winning the pole vault at 10

feet 6 inches.

Eighth grader Jon Surdej also won his event, the shotput, with a toss of 37 feet 1/2 inch.

Tony DeAngelis took second in the pole vault with a personalbest of 9 feet 6 inches.

Sophomore Krischan Pietrantoni was second in the shotput at 38 feet. Frosh Chris Krull had a great race in the 1600-meter run with a best-ever time of 5:07.3 for third place.

Sophomore Dave Farace was fourth in the 55-meter dash in a time of 7.17. Seventh grader Jared Rogalski was fourth in the 1000 with a time of 3:09.1.

The varsity squad has the indoor league team championships at 10 a.m. this Saturday at Houghton College.

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Emily Czechowski (bottom row, middle) signed her letter of intent on Wednesday, Feb. 4 to play soccer next season for Canisius College. times).

• National English Honor Society.

• National Spanish Honor Society.

• Health Care Academy.

Lancaster High’s Emily • ALL WNY scholar-athlete, Czechowski (bottom row, midhonorable mention. dle) signed her letter of intent on • All-WNY honorable mention Wednesday, Feb. 4 to play next (senior year). season for Canisius College. Her • ECIC first team — junior and other accomplishments include: senior years.

• National Honor Society • ECIC second team — sopho(honor roll 12 consecutive

more year.

• Heart of A Champion Award — senior year.

• Lancaster team leader in total points (goals/assists) — junior and senior years.

• Lancaster team leader in goals — sophomore and senior years.

• Most Improved Player in basketball —junior year.

• Basketball captain — senior year.

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The Lancaster Sun / Saturday, February 07, 2015

Top-ranked Lancaster senior has Stephens feels confi dent heading come a long way in a short time

WILLIAM ‘SKI’ WILCZEWSKI

Lancaster High 220-pound grappler Mitch Lattuca gets the better of Frontier’s Patrick Kennedy on Wednesday, Jan. 29. He pinned Kennedy with just 21 seconds left in the first period and helped the Redskins defeat the Falcons 67-9.

By William ‘Ski’ Wilczewski SPORTS REPORTER

Prior to his match against Frontier ’s Patrick Kennedy on Wednesday, Jan. 29, Lancaster High 220-pound grappler Mitch Lattuca posed for pictures with his mother and father. Lattuca had a stern look on his face, Dad had his chest puffed out with a small smile and mom carries roses and a bigger smile.

It was Senior Day for Division I Lancaster wrestling, and Lattuca’s look was proof

positive that he wasn’t about to let his Wrestling Review of Western New York No. 2 ranking slip because of the pre-match ceremonies.

By the time he pinned Kennedy with just 21 seconds left in the first period, the Falcons knew it, too, and had to travel home with a devastating 67-9 loss to the Redskins on their mind.

On Lattuca’s mind, however, was a recent loss to Clarence’s Ryan Schlager, who’s ranked No. 2 in WNY at 182 pounds.

“I don’t like to lose. No one does,” the senior said, “so I had something to prove.”

Lattuca, though, has done just that since his late start in the sport in eighth-grade. He only wrestled two matches that season, and wasn’t sure if he wanted to come out

again. After he decided to, he took a shine to the sport quickly.

“I realized I do like this; it’s kind of fun,” he said in retrospect. “I like the coaches, and everything just fell into place.”

There was a learning curve at the time, but a little success went along way.

“My first varsity match was as a freshman and I won it, so that kind of gave me motivation,” he said. “I guess I wanted to keep doing that.”

It’s resulted in a 62-22 career record so far for Lattuca, who is 27-7 on the season.

Three of those losses this year—and one last year— have come to East Aurora’s Tyler Hall, who’s had the No. 1 slot at 220 all season long in the Wrestling Review of Western New York.

Hall, though, is also ranked in New York State and has signed to wrestle for a Division I school next season, according to Lancaster skipper Ron Lorenz.

“The kid’s great. I mean, he’s tough,” Lorenz said of Hall. “He was a placewinner in the state last year, and he’ll be a place-winner again this year, but he’s a small school (D-III) so we don’t have to worry about him.

“But Mitch is still a favorite at 220 in the large schools,” he added. “He’s still the one to beat at 220 right now, though, so he’s one of the guys we’re confident in to get to the state tournament. We’ll see how it goes, but he’s wrestling the best he’s wrestled so far in his career. He’s attacking more, he’s more aggressive and he’s starting to control more matches. He’s hitting his stride perfectly so far.”

The same could be said for the rest of Lancaster’s squad, which only lost two matches on the entire night against Frontier and got wins from three of their four other seniors.

The only senior that didn’t win individually was Mike Pawlak, but it took Frontier’s Josh Cuillo an overtime period to get the better of his foe, 5-3, in the 195-pound weight class. Lancaster’s other loss was at 182, where Falcon Roy Cuthbert pinned Trevor Wilson in the second period.

Other than that, Lancaster was perfect, including wins from seniors Tyler Hartinger (152, pinfall), Jake Recor (160, 16-2 decision) and Mike Kania (170, pinfall).

“It was really good for our seniors to get a nice big win at the end of their run here,” Lorenz said.

The win bumped Lancaster’s record 5-2, while dropping Frontier to 1-5.

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“I’m excited to have it back here because it’s good to showcase St. Mary’s wrestling as a whole, and also the school as a whole,” Wiess said. “It gives us the chance to show that we have this beautiful facility—and then, hopefully, my guys will go out there and do what they’re supposed to and everything will come up roses.”

Those roses would result in a state berth for those that qualify—something that Weber and Stephens are particularly eager to do.

“I’m feeling pretty good going into All-Catholics,” said Stephens, who is 1510 on the season so far.

“I’m looking for Richie Jones (St. Joe’s) and Jake Braunscheidel (St. Francis).

They’re two top competitors out there, so I hope we meet.”

“It’s cool that All-Catholics are here,” added Weber,

who’s 18-12. “Hopefully, in the finals, I’ll be there and all the people from around here will be cheering me on and stuff; that’d be cool.”

Weber says he sees St. Joe’s’ Garrett Baugher as his top target come Sunday, when Canisius and Gow will also be on hand. Action is scheduled to start at noon. It will be the last home match for Szpila and Weber, St. Mary’s’ only two seniors.

“I think it’s a great way to end strong wrestling careers for both of us,” Szpila said.

“I’m really proud to show off what we have here, and I think it’s really going to give us a home field advantage.

“I think this performance tonight really echoes what we’re trying to get on Sunday, too,” he added. “If we come out this weekend like we did here today, we’re going to have a hell of a day.”

WILLIAM ‘SKI’ WILCZEWSKI

St. Mary’s’ Brad Stephens (182 pounds) gets the better of Gow’s Bryan King on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

Stephens won by pinfall in the second period.

Lancaster Recreation Department youth hoops results Girls Bantam Division

Caroline Helenbrook contributed with seven points.

• Spartan 30, Bulldogs 27. Molly Mescall added four The Spartans remained at points. Rebecca Au and the top of the division after Kaylee Kocher chipped in defeating the Bulldogs. The with two points.

• Bears 32, Huskies 26.

Spartans scored 18 points in The Bears continued their the second half.

Riley Hebeler’s hot hand winning ways by defeating led the way with 10 points. the Huskies.

Ciarra Dunne scored eight Grace Harrington and Grace Szpylman scored six points of her 10 points in the second each. Brooke C. Bauer tallied half to lead the way for the four points. Avery O’Carroll Bears. Wille Weidman helped and Sheridan Olsen netted out the cause with eight points. Ella Stoldt threw in two points apiece.

Scoring for the Bulldogs three baskets. Karen Favata was led by Mckenna Corco- added four points. Morgan ran and her eight points. Molino and Bridget Brown

scored two points each.

Annabella Persico kept the Huskies close by scoring 10 points. Abi Ceisner knocked down four shots. Mattea Gill netted four points. Samantha Stinson and Ava Westfield rounded out the scoring with two points.

points, respectively, for the Braves. Ryan Teichmann keyed in six points. Michael Wolski had four points. Griffin Smith chipped in with two points.

Harald Rehm led the scoring for the Bulls with 10 points. Matt Jandzinski tallied four points. Ryan Klein, Jack Martindale and Dean Boys Midget Wendel netted two points Division • Braves 33, Bulls 20. The apiece.

Braves used a strong offen• Grizzlies 35, Clippers sive start to the game, scoring 29. The Grizzlies took and 21 first-half points. early advantage and never Andrew Molino and Joshua looked back. Jack Harrington Jelonek combined for 20 went on an offensive scoring points, scoring 11 and nine attack, lighting up the nets

with 14 points.

The scoring duo of Joe Harrington and Adam Devic combined for 17 points.

Carter Tadusz knocked down two big baskets in the victory.

The Clippers were led by Jacob Elias and his nine points. Travis Bauer tallied seven points. Matthew Bauer had four points. Jason Mendola, Adam Gabryszak and Bobby Bashor all scored two points each.

• Spurs 34, Lakers 16. The Spurs opened the game on a 16-2 run in the first half. The Spurs’ well-balanced scoring attack included scoring from

every player.

Adam Bagley led the charge with 12 points. Peter Skulski netted six points. Zachary Doering and Mitchell Mycek each scored four points. Andrew Caligiuri and Thomas Carlsen knocked down one basket each. Christopher Wargo and Matthew Kaler scored two points apiece.

The Lakers were led by Byran Schuman and his six points. Braden Callahan added four points. The scoring trio of Joshua Conklin, Brayden Monk and Andrew Williams each scored two points.

Lancaster Recreation Department volleyball results, standings Now in the depths of winter, the Lancaster Recreation Department adult volleyball leagues are heating up the nights in Lancaster. With the last night of play in January done for 2015, the season is slowly drifting towards March Madness.

three from Team MJ, while Delta Cappa did likewise to the Free Agents.

Wednesday Night “B” League: Good Tymes South moved into first with a sweep of Serves You Right. The Chucksters took two of three from Elma Towne Grille, knocking them out of first.

Green Buffalo Pub-Nuwer Men’s League Tuesday Night League: took advantage of Elma Division-leading Green Towne Grille’s misfortune Buffalo-Klock swept Sal’s. and moved into second with Fireside Inn-Tarpy moved a sweep of Green Buffalo into second with a sweep of Pub-Kicak.

99 Brick Oven. Green Buffalo Pub-Batt opened up a Men’s standings little space in fourth with a Tuesday Night League: sweep of fifth place Frank’s. Green Buffalo Pub-Klock The Green Buffalo Pub-Wife 19-2; Fireside Inn-Tarpy 16Dodgers had a strong evening 5; Sal’s-Rudz 14-7; Green in a 2-1 win over the Attack. Buffalo Pub-Batt 13-8; Wednesday Night “A” Frank’s-Payne 9-12; 99 Brick League: Division leader Oven-Ziegler 6-15; Green Bradford Ale House took Buffalo Pub-Wife Dodgers

5-16; The Attack-Amey 2-19.

Wendesday Night “A” League: Bradford Ale House 14-4; Delta Cappa 13-5; Free Agents 5-13; Team MJ 4-14.

Wednesday Night “B” League: Good Tymes SouthGriffin 15-6; Green Buffalo Pub-Nuwer 14-7; Elma Towne Grille-Beltz 13-8; Serves You Right 9-12; Chucksters 9-12; Green Buffalo Pub-Kicak 3-18.

Women’s League

Women’s “A” League: The Crusaders moved into third with a sweep of Fireside Inn. Division-leading Mooney’s took two of three from Fassel’s Upholstering, allowing the 99 Brick Oven to gain a game on them with their sweep of Fireside Inn-Guari.

Women’s “B1” League: The division-leading Fire-

side Inn-Funsters opened up a three-game lead in the division with a sweep of The Thirsty Dog. Secondplace Fireside Inn-Hubert took two of three from the Basil Ford Outlaws. Good Tymes South-Schalberg has a share of third after a pair of wins against The Girls.

Frank’s-Rudz moves up in the standings with a sweep of the Spinoffs.

Women’s B2” League: Smith’s Gun Shop surprised the division-leading Frank’s-Wohlrab, 2-1. Side Out Sisters took three from Over The Top. The Volleydolls took two of three from Frank’s Hot Saucies.

Women’s “C” League: The division-leading Caster Gurls are on a roll after a sweep of the Nite Crew.

Good Tymes South took

three from the Villagers, Sisters 13-11; Over the while Chicks That Hit took Top 9-15; Smith’s Gun two of three from Ball of Shop 6-18.

Confusion.

Women’s “C” League: Caster Gurls 20-1; Serves Women’s standings You Right 1 2 - 6 ; Women’s “A” League: Chicks that Hit 12-9; Good Mooney’s-Mazurek 18- Tymes South 10-11; Villag3; 99 Brick Oven-Weber ers 9-12; Ball of Confusion 16-5; Crusaders 13-8; Fas- 6-15; Nite Crew 3-18. sel’s Upholstering 11-10; Co-ed League Fireside Inn-Guari 7-17; The division-leading FireFireside Inn Jansma 1-23. side Inn-Fury improved to Women’s “B1” League: 15-0 with a sweep of Good Fireside Inn Funsters 19-5; Tymes South. In doubleFireside Inn-Hubert 17-7; header action for Sal’s, they Thirsty Dog 12-12; Good take three from Prime Time, Tymes South-Schalberg 12- then drop two of three to 12; Basil Ford Outlaws Green Buffalo Pub. 11-13; The Girls 10-14; Frank’s-Rudz 10-14; SpiCo-ed standings noffs 5-19.

Fireside Inn-Fury 15-0; Women’s “B2” League: Sal’s 14-4; Good Tymes Frank’s-Wohlrab 14-7; South 9-9; Green Buffalo Frank’s Hot Saucies 15-9; Pub-Wohlrab 7-8; Prime Volleydolls 12-9; Side Out Time 3-12; Wide Right 0-15.

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Rod, Gun & Game: It’s ice fishing season — time for tactics and tips

By Forrest Fisher OUTDOOR COLUMNIST

The weather helps all of us decide our options for outdoor fun, especially this winter! Now that the cold has finally settled in for good, if you like fishing, it means heading for hard water and finding fish in their winter lairs — not always an easy job.

If finding the fish is the hard part, then the visit I enjoyed with Lake Erie charter captain Bobby Rustowicz and Maki-Plastic/Clam/Ice-Team Pro Scott Brauer has already started to make life on the ice a bit easier.

They both believe that the angler needs to stay in touch with the fish. It doesn’t matter if it is winter or summer. For both of them, that means using sonar, a high-tech fish finder of sorts.

For Brauer, ice fishing success means using a Vexilar ice-fishing sonar that can identify hard bottom, soft bottom, weeds, fish movement, and also allows for interference rejection, to tune out the sonar of nearby anglers. These units are compact, portable and effective, with prices ranging from $299 to the top of the line, FLX-28, for $560 or so.

Brauer says, “One of the most important factors for catching fish in the winter is identifying what the fish are looking for on the day you go fishing. The size of the bait below is your key as to what to fish with. If the bait in the area is smaller, then smaller lures will be more effective, bigger forage means larger baits and lures. There are weight forward jig heads for swimming a plastic tail vertically or horizontally, flat front side jig heads that stand

straight up that can be used to tease dormant fish into feeding, and many other options.”

An expert at winning winter ice fishing contests, Brauer is not shy about telling all when it comes to helping others catch fish, find fun on the ice and adding folks to the long list of people who love to ice fish.

Brauer says, “Most folks don’t really know where to start when they first think about going out to ice fish. They can be lost, never to return, if someone doesn’t help them learn the right things to do. I try to help them so they will learn so much they will get others involved too.”

Brauer is autonomous. He never asks for bylines or credit; he is a super humble human.

As Brauer continued to discuss his winning ice fishing finesse with Rustowicz and I, he said, “How folks know best present their offerings to the fish? How do you rig things to catch fish? It can depend on the fish mood, too; are the fish aggressive feeders today? Are the fish up-feeding today looking for minnows or rising larvae, or are they down-feeding and looking for bottom dwellers, blood worms, blue worms, stonefly nymphs and other bottom-oriented crustacean type forage?”

To start out, to make your day on the ice more productive, be prepared to fish with several manners of presentation.

One starting point is a simple one: the drop shot rig, using 2-pound test Trilene micro-ice line (red color is his preferred color, but likes clear on busy ice) with a bb-shot for weight and a small size 12 scud hook with a simple plastic mini-scud or mini-maki tied tail about 6 inches above the weight. You

SCOTT BRAUER

Ice fishing jigs, baits and hooks are numerous, colorful and plentiful – and tiny, adding to remove the simplicity and fun of ice fishing until the right combination of size and color and action is discovered for productive and successful fish catching. can also tie a loop knot above that single drop shot hook and add another micro-jig or another hook and bait too.

Brauer is an ice-fishing master educator that uses ice jigs with live grubs and maggots, or rigged with micro-tiny maki plastic jig tails in combination with bare hooks, micro-sized titanium or lead jig heads. He will fish with bite indicators that include tip-ups and tipdowns, light action spring bobber rods, and a host of other mechanical display rigs.

Brauer admits that there is really no possible way to tell someone what to use before the actual day of fishing in the spot the angler is fishing, but he adds, “Combinations can be the most deadly of winter icefishing tricks.” Brauer likes to use Hali-Sekkula spoon jigs for perch, digger head jigs that

dig into the bottom for stubborn crappie, Grumpi jigs, Doti jigs, Darti jigs and vertical jigs rigged for horizontal fishing by bending the hook to create an upward pointing elevation to allow easier hook-up with the fish. To learn more about the plastic critter jigs and head that Brauer uses, check out http:// www.makiplastic.com/bait/.

It’s not always the great big things that you do when you ice fish – granted you need to be able to detect a strike and the sonar helps a lot, but to be more effective, it is often the really small changes you make to present something different, something subtle, or less colorful, or that has more action, or different action, such as jig tails hooked up backwards at times - that can make the biggest difference in catching winter fish on any single day.

To meet Brauer and learn about ice-fishing first-hand, meet with him this Saturday, Feb. 7, at the seventh free “Kids Ice-Fishing Clinic” sponsored by the Honeoye Fish and Game Club on Honeoye Lake at the state boat launch (southeast end of lake). The event begins at 9 a.m. There will be free use of equipment, ice huts, free bait and refreshments (hot chocolate) for the first 150 kids aged 15 years and under. All kids must be accompanied by a parent. For more information regarding details give Al Lis a call at 585-451-8451.

Last word, get your coat on, put your gloves on, rod or not, get in your car and get out there. We can’t walk on water at too many times of the year! Enjoy!

New York Coyote Contest With deer populations in some parts of New York falling rapidly due to suspected coyote over-predation of fawns during spring season, the Sullivan County Federation of Sportsmen extends an open invitation to sportsmen to attend and participate in its eighth annual Statewide 3-Day Coyote Contest set for this weekend, Feb. 6–8. Prizes are substantial, with $2,000 going to the hunter with the heaviest coyote, though a $100 prize is offered for every coyote entered. Last year, 560 hunters were registered and 53 coyotes were taken. The heaviest and winning coyote in 2014 weighed 49.30 pounds, taken by Charles Wacha of Walton, New York, hunting in Delaware County. There is a free banquet dinner to follow, entry fee is $35. For more

information and coyote applications, call 845-482-4985.

Ice Fishing Report Silver Lake, Honeoye Lake, Conesus Lake and Chautauqua Lake all have 9-12 inches of hard ice. Silver Lake is slow for perch and sunfish at the south end access point at Silver Lake State Park.

Honeoye Lake has good sunfish action in 6-15 feet of depth with jigs and grubs, and some chain pickerel on tip-ups and shiners for bait, all near the state boat launch at the southeast corner of the lake.

At Conesus Lake, bluegills and occasional crappie are coming from the north end of the lake in 6-10 feet of water off Vitale Park. Northern pike and tiger musky are reported in 8-12 feet off McPherson point.

At Chautauqua Lake, anglers are finding good action from smaller bluegill and perch in 8-15 feet of water off Mayville using jigs and grubs, or salted minnows. Most perch caught from all the lakes mentioned here have been hard to catch right now, with bigger fish in 20 feet or deeper water.

Outdoors Calendar Feb. 7: Honeoye Lake Kids Ice Fishing Clinic, Scott Brauer, State Boat Paunch, 9 a.m. < info: 585-451-8451 Feb. 6-8: NYS Coyote Hunt Contest, Sullivan County, info: 845-482-4985 Feb. 8: 3D Winter Archery, 2015 league, walk-ons welcome, Glen-Coe Conservation, 9869 Foote Rd., Glenwood, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. info: 432-6035 Send outdoors info to Forrest Fisher Column 10 days in advance, email: nugdor@ yahoo.com

Clingersmith, NCCC baseball introduce 20 recruits

By Nick Sabato SPORTS REPORTER

Niagara County Community College head coach Matt Clingersmith welcomed his newest recruiting class in what he hopes will help continue the strong tradition that he has built in his nine years at the helm.

Twenty student-athletes signed national letters of intent, many of whom are local products, last weekend.

Clingersmith believes the group can be the next great group of Thunderwolves.

Many schools and players choose to sign individual letters of intent, but Clingersmith chose to invite each of his recruits in at the same time in a celebration of the next step on their baseball paths.

“I think it’s good,” said Clingersmith. “I want to make

it as memorable as possible for them. I remember signing my national letter of intent to Canisius, and it should be a special day for these kids because they are putting in the work and confidence in us to develop them.”

One of the new signees has become a bit of a legacy in the NCCC baseball family, especially since his brothers played for the Thunderwolves and he played youth baseball for the Niagara Jr. Thunderwolves under current NCCC assistant Jeff Ziemecki.

Soon-to-be Lockport graduate Kyle Waple comes from a baseball family, as his father Mark is the skipper for Lewiston-Porter high school.

Waple has a lot of fire and leadership qualities that the coaching staff at NCCC like and Clingersmith believes he can be the leader of an infield on a top notch squad.

The decision for the Lions’ second baseman was one that came down to finances and his comfort level with Clingersmith and Ziemecki.

“It was financially better to come here before a four-year school,” said Waple. “Once I got my idea of coming here, I started talking to Jeff Ziemecki, and I played for him over the summer. I spoke to Clingersmith a lot more and it was just positive.”

Another local signee is another middle infielder in Angelo Vilardo of NiagaraWheatfield, who has helped shore up the Falcons’ infield since his sophomore season.

Clingersmith hopes that Vilardo’s versatility and ability to play various positions across the board will be an asset to the Thunderwolves in 2015-2016.

“Angelo is a good kid,” said Clingersmith. “He’s very

athletic. He’s a glue guy. He can play a lot of positions and that’s what you look for in guys like that. He’s Johnny Utility. He can play the infield, he can play the outfield, he can hit, he can run, he’s a good bunter – he’s just a hardworking kid.”

NCCC went 31-15 last season before falling in the Region III Final Four, which has become a regular occurrence under Clingersmith.

Since he took over in 2007, the Thunderwolves have won the Region III championship and gone on to appear in the NJCAA Division III World Series on three occasions (2009, 2012 and 2013).

That success has enabled them to expand the recruiting umbrella into Southern Ontario and into Rochester, which had been unheard of prior because of schools like Genesee Community College

and Erie Community College.

“I think it’s because we are one of the better programs in the east,” said Clingersmith.

“It has helped us grow and the reputation has gotten out.

When I first started, it was unheard of for Rochester kids to come here because of Monroe and Genesee being so close.”

For a kid like Waple, signing so much earlier and making his college decision while many of his friends are still agonizing over where they are going to attend next year takes a large burden off of his shoulders.

Now he can focus on the remainder of his senior year and play his final scholastic baseball season with a clear head before he pursues a baseball career at the collegiate level while aspiring to be in the medical field.

“It’s a big relief,” said Waple. “I’ve been getting all

of these college emails saying to go here or go there. I knew NCCC was the right fit for me to grow and become a better person.”

Along with Waple and Vilardo NCCC also signed 18 other recruits including Loukas Bechakas (Williamsville North), James Brnik (West Seneca East), Nate Chase (Webster Schroeder), Zarley Cina (Huron Heights), Kyle Crotty (Springville), Hayden Owell (Pavilion), Dylan Flasch (South Central), Ryan Green (Penfield), Brian Hodges (Le Roy), Jordan Hrynczak (Clarence), Joel Krywcun (Maryvale), Jaret Loran (South Central), Dave Lyskawa (Williamsville North), Joe Milkowski (St. Francis), Chad Nelson (Jamestown), Brandon Nicholson (Orchard Park), Mitchell Racz (Grand Island) and Cameron Voss (Fredonia).

National telecast brings out the best for UB Bulls

By Mike Haim COLUMNIST

Part of me wants to cringe every time I hear about a collegiate sporting event being played “under the bright lights” of a national television broadcast.

Realistically, the lights aren’t any brighter in an arena or stadium when ESPN is in town (except for that one time about seven or eight years ago when UB had to bring in auxiliary lights for a national football telecast – but I digress).

Don’t say anything about the “bright lights myth” to the 5,797 who turned out

last Friday night for a 10 p.m. game between UB and division-leading Kent State, a contest which was carried nationally on ESPN-U. The students turned out in force, complete with largehead representations of a disparate cast of characters including Bills coach Rex Ryan, “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin, and Abraham Lincoln. Reports stated that students were still flowing in midway through the first half, a vast improvement over last fall’s UB-Baylor football game (incidentally also a national broadcast), when students raced for the exits by halftime.

And then there was the “mop guy” who got caught

wiping the floor as a turnover created a fast break towards his end; his mad scramble turned him into a locally trending topic on social media repositories Twitter and Vine.

The sideshow was merely window dressing, though: the Bulls drew upon the energy at Alumni Arena and dominated in an 80-55 trouncing. The whole night had a magical feeling to it, as if coach Bobby Hurley’s squad treated the contest as a coming-out party.

“It was a great game to be part of,” Hurley said in his post-game comments. “The energy of the crowd and the atmosphere and the way we played defensively was great.”

In addition, in a season

which has seen various players take up the leadership torch, another star emerged Friday night in senior forward Xavier Ford. The 6-7 forward, the team’s only four-year member and a front-runner for Sixth Man honors, netted a career-high 25 points in his second start of the season.

Toss in his 16-point performance in his first start against Western Michigan three days prior, and it’s easy to see why Ford was named MAC East Division player of the week.

But it’s really been a steady, balanced show in Amherst all season: the Bulls are still undefeated (8-0) at home this season and have played a pair of highly competitive road

games against highly-ranked opponents, even holding halftime leads against Kentucky and Wisconsin. On the way, the Bulls have compiled a 14-6 overall record and are 5-3 in the Mid-American Conference; surely they’ve turning many heads after the MAC coaches’ pre-season poll placed them to finish fourth in their six-team division.

At this point, a division title isn’t out of the question: the Bulls went into this past Wednesday’s road tilt against Ball State tied for 3rd in the MAC East Division, just one game behind Kent State and Akron. UB still has a road rematch with Kent State remaining (on Feb. 28) and

two games against Akron (on the road this Saturday and at home on Feb. 24).

In addition, UB has yet to play Bowling Green, with whom they’re tied; the teams will play on the rural Ohio campus on Feb. 21 and again to close out regular season play on Mar. 6.

In less than two seasons, Hurley has already logged an impressive 33-16 record and owns the best winning percentage ever by a UB hoops coach. He appears to be getting the Bulls on track for some remarkable success, along with any “bright lights” that may shine on them along the way. www.twitter.com/mikehaim

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YMCA appoints staff YMCA Buffalo Niagara is pleased to announce the appointment of Lauren Dlugosz, Amanda Hamilton, Ehrin Hughes, and Emily MacKay and the promotion of Jennifer Eckborg, to YMCA Buffalo Niagara.

Lauren Dlugosz has been appointed to the position of Wellness Director at the Southtowns Family YMCA. Lauren was the Health and Wellbeing Director at the Northwest Family Branch Y in Greece, NY before relocating to the Buffalo area earlier this year. She successfully supervised all aspects of the Wellness department, including the development and management of the Diabetes Prevention Program, the LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA Program, and the Bariatric Program. Lauren also has experience as a Health Coach, an Exercise Coach/Rehab Aide, a Personal Trainer, and as Director of the SilverSneakers® Program.

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Her past experiences include: lifeguard supervisor for Cayuga Parks and Recreation, teaching as an athletic department instructor, managing a healthy eating and physical activity wellness initiative on a college campus, collaborating with different departments to bring public health initiatives into realization with the World Health Organization, and developing youth sports programs in conjunction with the Syracuse YMCA. Amanda has over 10 years of experience working for the Y in various capacities in the aquatics and fitness departments.

She has a BA in Communications from Geneseo College and a MS degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Syracuse University. Amanda is a resident of Buffalo.

Ehrin Hughes has been appointed to the position of Aquatics Director at the Independent Health Family Branch YMCA. Ehrin has been the program director

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Emily MacKay was recently appointed to the position of Program Director at the Lancaster Family YMCA where she is responsible for SACC, Day Camp, and Youth Sports programs.

She started working at the Ken-Ton YMCA as a parttime employee in 2004 and became a program director at that branch in 2011. Emily is actively involved in our teen program and serves in a leadership role for the annual teen leader’s conference.

She is looking forward to expanding teen and family programs in the Lancaster area. Emily is a resident of Kenmore.

Jennifer Eckborg has been promoted to the position of Membership Coordinator at the Ken-Ton Family YMCA. She has been working as a Member Service Representative at the Delaware Branch since May 2014. She also has several years of previous experience in customer service and administration. Jennifer has an AAS degree in Human Resources from Bryant and Stratton College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Jennifer resides in Buffalo.

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“It has been an honor to represent Alden, Cheektowaga, Depew, and Lancaster in the Erie County Legislature, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed meeting community leaders and constituents through the countless events and activities I’ve attended throughout our district” said Morton.

“In my short tenure in office, I’ve worked with my colleagues to deliver the first tax rate cut in Erie County in nearly a decade, shed the light on the issue of high gas prices in Western New York, helped local businesses expand and create new jobs, and led the fight to increase funding to our ailing infrastructure” added Morton. “We’ve only begun and I look forward to earning the voters trust for a second term so we can continue to make Erie County a great place to live and raise a family.”

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