FREE! TAKE ONE! VOLUME 4 ISSUE 35
AUGUST 28- SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
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New Events and Old Favorites this September in Ellicottville Pumpkins, Music, Alpacas, Night Lights and More
Fri • RT Live • 9pm
Sat• 3 Easy Pieces • 9pm
Tues • The Hick-Ups • 6:30pm Wed • Wagner & Winston • 8pm Thursday • Fred ‘N Tuck • 8pm
By Eva Potter
It’s been an amazing summer in Ellicottville and this fall looks to be just as actionpacked. This weekend, there’s still time to make plans to attend the annual tribute to Michael Kerns on Aug. 29. Under a Tuscan Moon, a party filled with delicious Italian fare and a decadent dessert table prepared by local chefs, starts at 6 p.m. at John Harvard’s Cabana Bar & Pool Complex at Holiday Valley. Call (716) 699-8758 for tickets or buy them at the Ellicottville Chamber office, E’Ville Spirits or Katy’s Café. If you’re in the mood for Crawdads, Clams and BBQ, then visit the Woods at Bear Creek on Aug. 29. The event runs from 11 a.m.–11 p.m. and includes live music. Tickets are $30 at the gate. For details call (716) 676-2327. September kicks off with Slyfest 10 on Sept. 5–6 at Griffis Sculpture Park’s Mill Valley site at 6902 Rohr Rd. in East Otto. Beginning at 10 a.m., you’ll see and hear internationally known performers like Kaki King, Arthur Lipner, The Slyboots Circus, Crit’s Juke Joint, Family Funktion & the Sitar Jams and The Buffalo Afro Beat Orchestra. Participate in cool interactive workshops, shop the vendor village or take a park tour. For details and tickets, visit www.ticketfly. com/event/925391. Everybody anxiously awaits the opening of Pumpkinville and this year it gets going on
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2nd Generation
‘Adventure Bound’ Opening Oct. 10 Ellic o t t ville Times S taff
Ellicottville native John Rounds, owner of SUPonthefly, an online specialty retail outfitter of outdoor, paddle sport and fishing gear, is opening ‘Adventure Bound’ in the location of his parents’ former store of the same name in Ellicottville, thus continuing a story that started half a century ago. The store at 16 Washington Street is scheduled to open October 10, during Ellicottville’s Fall Festival. Rounds is the son of Chris and Heidi Rounds, who moved to Ellicottville more than 50 years ago to manage the Holiday Valley Ski Resort and direct its ski school. In 1971, the Rounds’ started summer camps for kids offering backpacking, river trips and cycling trips in the U.S. and Europe.
ECS Board Gets for Back to School
By Jann Wiswall
ECS doesn’t much look like it’s ready for kids right now, with construction materials, dust and workers filling the halls, but it will be ready for the first day of school on September 3, Superintendent Mark Ward assured the school board at its meeting on
See Back to School page 4
By Eva Potter
As home to two world class ski resorts, winter visitors to Ellicottville have come to expect a high standard of quality and service from Holiday Valley and HoliMont, and they won’t be disappointed to hear all about the high-tech, creative improvements that are underway at both resorts.
Fall Means Pumpkinville! Sept. 12- Oct. 31
By Jann Wiswall
See Pumpkinville page 6
Ward said most of the new space will be ready in time for next week’s opening, including the new band and chorus rooms; the gym and several other new spaces will open soon after. Ward also said students, parents and staff should be
Holiday Valley and HoliMont Prepping for Snow!
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With the unmistakable scent of fall in the air, folks around these parts know that in just about two weeks, a normally quiet farm on Sugartown Rd. in nearby Great Valley magically becomes a six-week long celebration of the pumpkin and everything else that ripens in autumn. Pumpkinville is a one-of-a-kind destination for the entire family. Owners Dan and Diane Pawlowski work yearround planning and preparing for this annual festival. And everything – from the pumpkins to the games to the mouthwatering treats – comes directly from the family’s instinctive understanding of what it means to have fun.
Tuesday, Aug. 25. In fact, 46 of the 52 members of the class of 2016 gathered at school the same evening for the annual senior ice cream social hosted by Principal Bob Miller and students were visibly excited about the new space and selecting their new lockers.
See Prepping for Snow page 8
42 Degrees North Auction POSTPONED
New Date to Be Announced
By Jann Wiswall
The auction to sell the first lots of the new 42 Degrees North resort in Ellicottville has been postponed until October. According to developer Alex Porritt, the Homeowners Association handbook is still awaiting final approval from the state Attorney General’s
office. “It may be approved in time for the originally scheduled auction, but we decided to delay it just in case,” Porritt explained. So, if you’re interested in building your next vacation home at Ellicottville’s newest See Auction page 5