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Years Ago in History By Cindy Bell Tobey
90 years ago – May 5, 1932
As the special school election held in the Rippleton district Tuesday night, the proposition to permanently abandon the Rippleton school was carried. The voters by a vote of 20 - 1 decided to sell the school house and property and divide the proceeds among the taxpayers. This sale will be conducted as a public auction under the direction of the Cazenovia Central School Board. This school and site will make a desirable piece of property for either a summer or permanent home. The Rippleton district is a part of the Cazenovia Central school system and all of the Rippleton pupils commencing next fall will be brought by bus to the Cazenovia Central school. At the present time the pupils of the first six grades attend the Rippleton school and those above the sixth grade attend the Central School.
70 years ago – May 1, 1952
Airplane Observer Post Here to be Manned 24 hours daily; Need 100 Volunteers – John P. Ledyard of 27 Corwin St., chief air observer for Cazenovia village, is asking for 100 volunteers to man the observation post in Cazenovia. If you are willing to volunteer, call Mr. Ledyard’s home, Phone 133-W. On or about May 17 the post goes on a 24-hour, 7-day a week permanent basis. Included among volunteers it is hoped there will be many housewives and high school young men and women of the junior and senior years. During the past year the local observation post has been operating on a spot alert basis from Mr. Ledyard’s home with personnel of 16 men and women. Recently they were given only a fiveminute alert. Another location will have to be obtained under the new full-time setup as the post cannot be operated on a full-time basis from a residence.
40 years ago – May 5, 1982
If you’re looking for a top for your stove or “Stove Top Stuffing” and you can’t find it at Buyea’s you’re probably not looking hard enough. Irving Buyea quonset hut contains just about everything old-fashioned general stores are famous for, except maybe a cracker barrel. Mr. Buyea, who knows where everything from hunting shirts to bicycle locks is kept, will be honored by the Association of Cazenovia Businesses at a dinner at the Cazenovia Country Club at 6:15 p.m., May 11, for the service his store has provided to the community for 45 years. He started out in the old church building on Williams Street back in 1937 but when Harry Gage, the landlord, decided to go into the chicken broiler business, Irv moved to the old wagon and sleigh works on Albany Street by the railroad track that he had bought earlier from the Grange. After World War II, he put up the quonset hut, a business he had also been engaged in.
20 years ago – May 1, 2002
Just behind all the traffic and business on Albany Street there is a unique piece of nature many know as the “willow patch.” In the last two weeks anyone walking by the willow patch on Mill Street might have caught a glimpse of students from the landscape architecture program at SUNY-ESF at work cutting, planting and weaving and in many other ways shaping the willow patch. The results of their efforts, a series of living willow landscapes and interpretive sculptures, will be open for public viewing and discussion May 4 at 11 a.m from the bridge on Mill Street. Through research and interviews with residents and town officials, students discovered many of the stories of the willow patch. The water in this wetland comes from many sources, including the lake and Carpenter’s Pond, but much of it is underground and hidden. Few Cazenovians may know that approximately two-thirds of the surface runoff from the roofs, yards and streets of the village flows into the willow patch. The willows do some of the work of filtering pollutants in the runoff before it reaches Chittenango Creek.
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To the editor: The Fayetteville Senior Center would like to extend grateful appreciation to Mayor Mark Olson for once again sponsoring the annual Mayor’s Dinner that was recently held at the Center. Thanks to the generosity of Mayor Olson and the volunteer efforts of the Center’s board of directors and various Village of Fayetteville personnel, we served more than 300 delicious turkey dinners, complete with everything from stuffing to pie, on what proved to be a glorious Sunday afternoon. The dinner, which is an important annual fundraiser for the senior center, was a resounding success and raised money for programs and meals for our local senior population. Without the ongoing support of Mayor Olson and the village, we would not be able to fulfill our mission of meeting the challenges facing the senior community by offering social events, educational and exercise programs, health screenings, meals, movies, games and other activities. Thank you, Mayor Olson, we are grateful for everything you do for the Center. Janet Callahan, Secretary Fayetteville Senior Center Board
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To the editor: Mother’s Day didn’t start out as a commercial holiday. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the stirring Battle Hymn of the Republic during the Civil War had a change of heart. Sick of the carnage of continuing wars, in 1870 she proposed Mother’s Day be celebrated as a day for the women of the world to come together and demand an end to war. Part of the universal peace movement, she endorsed their plan to get every country to agree to mandatory, binding arbitration of any disputes they had with each other. When Matilda Joslyn Gage supported Belva Lockwood’s presidential campaign in 1884, Lockwood
had declared, “war is a barbarism of the past.” Her Equal Rights Party platform endorsed the Universal Peace Union’s plan to end war. If all the nations of the world agreed to settle disputes between them by engaging in mandatory, binding arbitration, war would be taken off the table as an option. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel to create a society based on peace among nations. Over 1,000 years ago, on the shores of Onondaga Lake, five warring nations came together and agreed to form a confederacy of peace among themselves, inviting other nations to join them if they agreed to a peaceful resolution of conflicts. Women were given the final word in maintaining the peace since it was their sons who would be killed in war. The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy of now six nations gives us a model today for living the original Mother’s Day dream of Julia Ward Howe. The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation will hold a “Mother’s Day Call for Peace” in front of the Gage Home (210 E Genesee St, Fayetteville) on Sunday, May 8, at 3pm. We will share sunflower seeds, the Ukranian national flower, a symbol of peace throughout Ukraine’s history, and we will be joined by choristers to sing John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Please join us. We also have Mother’s Day cards and copies of Julia Ward Howe’s proclamation available, with 10% of proceeds to benefit . Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. Founder and Co-Executive Director, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Inc. and Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue Fayetteville
Leadership, openness and vision To the editor: As districts prepare for their board of education elections one can become rather excited about the new developments that schools across the State of New York will be implementing in the years ahead. All schools are to broaden their entire fabric of operation with a new focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. It was however deeply troubling to have heard comments after a recent FayettevilleManlius School Board Meeting where language of hate, racism and ignorance condemned such initiatives. It is for such inappropriate language and thoughts that makes the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI] initiative essential here in the “enlightened time” of the 21st century. It will take leadership, openness and vision to create a school
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