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OBSERVE MAPS BIRD BANDING AT AUDUBON
JAMESTOWN, NY — You have a number of opportunities this summer to observe ornithologists band birds at Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) as part of the MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) program. On Saturday mornings, June 11, 25, and July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2022, you can drop in anytime between 6 a.m. and noon to learn exactly how this is done. You can come on your own or bring the kids with you to view this amazing process, and experienced participants might suggest you come earlier rather than later. If the weather is too harsh for the safety of the birds, the nets will not be open and an alternate date will be chosen. The bird scientists capture migrating and resident birds in “mist” nets, so-called because they are so fine they are almost like mist. You can watch how they fit them with identification bands, measure and weigh and then release them to go on with their lives. You might even be selected to help release a bird. Data gathered during these MAPS sessions help bird scientists understand more about bird species in our region and beyond. Since 1989, more than 1,200 MAPS stations spread across nearly every state and Canadian province have collected over two million bird capture records. For more information about the national MAPS program, visit birdpop.org/pages/ maps.php. While not necessary to enjoy the demonstrations, you may want to bring bird guides
and binoculars if you have them. Remember to dress for the weather and bring face coverings. Bug spray would be a good idea as well.
DUNKIRK, NY - The Dunkirk Public Library is pleased to present the following events taking place throughout the month of June 2022. Additional details can be obtained by stopping by in person, visiting both www.dunkirklibrary.org/ and our Facebook page, or by calling the circulation desk at 716-366-2511. We look forward to seeing you!
Plan to listen closely to the scientists and follow their instructions carefully, as safety of the birds is the priority. Come to the pavilion on the west side of the Audubon property at 1600 Riverside Road, just east of Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. Look for a “Bird Banding” sign at the entrance closer to Route 62. Drive in and park on the grass along the edge of the trees. Or park at the Nature Center parking lot and walk to trail over to the banding site, especially if it has been raining. Leading the work is Emily Thomas Perlock, who has banded over 4,000 birds since learning how to band in 2005. Perlock worked as a wildlife biologist for the United States Forest Service and is now an instructor in Wildlife Technology at Penn State DuBois. She holds a Master Banding permit and is a certified bird bander by the North American Banding Council. She established a banding program at The Arboretum at Penn State and has participated in banding programs for Audubon and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Perlock holds an Associate’s degree in Wildlife Technology from Penn State DuBois and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Penn State. ACNC offers these demonstrations to the public free of charge, but donations are greatly appreciated and can
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Photo Submitted You have several opportunities on Saturdays in June and July to observe MAPS bird banding scientists in action at Audubon Community Nature Center. This photograph of flycatchers, “Two Birds on Perch,” by Olean, New York, photographer Paul G. Beretta, was an adult winner in an Audubon Nature Photography Contest. For information on submitting to and voting for the 2022 Photo Contest, visit GoGoPhotoContest.com/ACNCPhotoContest. be made through “Upcoming Programs” at AudubonCNC. org. Reservations are not required. No dogs, please. You can visit Audubon’s 600-acre nature preserve and see Liberty, the non-releasable Bald Eagle, enjoy the native tree arboretum, gardens, picnic area, natural play space and hike the six miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free. The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, the 2021 Nature Photography Contest winners, and a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit. Nature Center members and
SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. Building admission is also free every Sunday for non-Nature Center members. Face coverings are strongly recommended for inside the Nature Center building. To learn more about Audubon and its many programs, call (716) 569-2345, find Audubon Community Nature Center on Facebook, or visit AudubonCNC.org. Entries to the 2022 Nature Photography Contest and votes for the Community Choice winners can be made at GoGoPhotoContest.com/ ACNCPhotoContest.
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Teen/YA Events: Adventures on the Caribbean – 6/3/22 & 6/17/22 from 2:45 pm until 5:00 pm. Set sail with our pirate-themed Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This is an “after hours” event; be sure to Adult Programs: Adult Book Club – 6/2/22 at arrive on time as doors close at 5:30 pm – Club members gather 3:00 pm. in the downstairs Meeting Children & Family ActiviRoom on the first Thursday of each month. June’s meeting ties: Story Time – Tuesdays and will be a follow up to our awesome visit with Wendy Corsi Thursdays from 11:00 am until Staub as well as a review of Neil 11:30 am. Visit the Children’s Room for a live read-aloud, Gaiman’s Stardust. Local Author Summer Spot- take-home craft, and snack. light – 6/9/22 at 5:00 pm - Join Thank you, City of Dunkirk, Isaiah Rashad II in the library for helping to provide the treats! DPL Kids Carnival – 6/30/22 Reading Room as he shares insights into his latest publica- from 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm. tion by using true stories and Celebrate the start of Summer real-life experience to examine Reading with games, prizes, how one's past choices can shape and fun in the library parking one's present behavior in in the lot. workforce. All Ages: Trowel Talks – 6/16/22 at 5:00 Treasure Map Scavenger pm – “Small Scale Composting for the Home” presented by Ste- Hunt – Can you follow the phen Rees. Come experience clues, answer the questions, and a comprehensive presentation find all twelve hidden locations covering the basics of home throughout the library? Corcomposting which includes: rectly completed submissions Why Compost?, How Compost will be entered into an end of is Created, Suggested Practical summer prize drawing. CCLS Summer Road Trip – Methods, Do's and Don'ts, plus a Q & A session. Mr. Rees is a How many of our thirty-eight Cornell Cooperative Extension libraries can you visit? Pick up - Chautauqua County Master a passport from the circulation Gardener Volunteer who has desk and get traveling to earn practiced composting to en- rewards all summer long. hance the soils of his Dunkirk Dunkirk Public Library; 536 home for over 25 years. Annual Library Trustee Elec- Central Avenue, Dunkirk, NY tion – 6/21/22 from Noon until 14048; 716-366-2511 Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8:00 pm – Come cast a vote for the individual(s) who will help 10:00 am until 7:00 pm; Friday: direct the course of your public 10:00 am until 3:00 pm; Saturday: Closed in the summer; library. Technology Classes – On- Sunday: Closed year-round
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JUNE 10, 2022
FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS 25TH BACH & BEYOND FESTIVAL FREDONIA, NY— The Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival celebrates its 25th year when it returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center June 10-12. Under Artistic Director Grant Cooper, this year’s series of three concerts will feature a world première, incredible soloists and a few faces that are new to the Festival.
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Friday’s concert also features two works by Johann Christian Bach, the son of J.S. Bach, and an oboe concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams that features oboist Cheryl Bishkoff as soloist. Bishkoff, along with Cooper, are the two Festival constants, having participated in every one of the past 24 (soon to be 25) Bach & BeWhile the music of Jo- yond festivals. hann Sebastian Bach is Saturday’s concert is the foundation of the Festival, performances also an evening of concertos, often feature music by opening with J.S. Bach’s Concerto, other familiar compos- Harpsichord ers such as Vivaldi and BWV 1056 with keyMozart. The “Beyond” in boardist Alan Giambatthe Festival’s name refers tista. The program also to the inclusion of works features two young artists of other lesser-known at the beginning of their (and some present-day) careers: Adrian Wittmer composers who are artis- will perform Vivaldi’s tically linked to the more Bassoon Concerto in C major; and Collin Parkfamiliar superstars. er-Szekely will perform “This year’s festival Mozart’s Piano Concerto opens with the world K. 414. Wittmer, 19, is première of a work by con- a Williamsville resident temporary composer By- attending Eastland School ron Adams,” notes Opera of Music, and is a winner House Executive Director of the 2021 Eastern Music Rick Davis. “That work, Festival Concerto ComMonteverdiana, is in es- petition. As winner, he sence an homage to Mon- performed the Vivaldi teverdi, and as Adams concerto with the EMF orhimself says a reinterpre- chestra. tation or ‘a reimagining of Parker-Szekely, 15, is
a resident of Abington, PA, and is the grandson of Dr. James & Marcia Merrins, of Fredonia. Studying both piano and cello through the Settlement Music School, he is the 2021 overall winner of the Philadelphia International Music Festival Concerto Competition and 2022 winner of the Triumph Music Festival Concerto Competition. He plays in several chamber trios and small ensembles. Sunday’s concert features works by Arcangelo Corelli, and Vivaldi/ Kolneder, and concludes with a work by 20th century composer Ernest Bloch. In addition to accomplished area musicians, Cooper brings to the Festival top musicians from throughout North America and abroad who are specialists in and passionate about Baroque performance. Many are Festival veterans; but several are new to this year’s festival, including Violinists Cara Garofalo, of Pittsburgh, and Yaniv Gutman, an Israel native currently living in West Virginia, as well as Cellists Jolyon Pegis, of Plano, TX, and
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Photo caption The Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival celebrates its 25th year when it returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center June 10-12. Under Artistic Director Grant Cooper, this year’s series of three concerts will feature a world première, incredible soloists and a few faces that are new to the Festival.
Elizabeth Simkin, of Ithaca. Also, participating in his second festival is Liviu Dobrota, a Romania native, now living in Syracuse. The Festival’s concerts are scheduled for Fri., June 10, and Sat., June 11, at 8 p.m., and Sun., June 12, at 3 p.m. Special 30-minute pre-concert discussions will begin an hour before each concert in the theatre. Admission to the pre-concert discussions is free to concert ticket holders. Complete concert programs are listed on the Opera House web site at www.fredopera.org. Tickets may be purchased
in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday through Friday, 12-4:30 p.m. They also may be purchased anytime online at www.fredopera.org. The Bach & Beyond Festival is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Founding Festival Benefactors are (the late) Carol & Jim Boltz. Festival Sponsors are Minda Rae Amiran and Evans & Evans, LLP Law Offices. Concert Sponsors are Dr. James and Marcia Mer-
rins, Anne Patterson and Martin Shaffer, and Cindy and Barbara Yochym. Support also comes from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County.
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center with a mission to “present the performing arts for the benefit of our community and region … providing access to artistic diversity … and high quality programming at an affordable price.” It is located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.
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PARTNERSHIPS IS A THEME IN MHA SPRING NEWSLETTER JAMESTOWN, NY — Partnerships is a theme running through the latest newsletter of the Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County (MHA). In his executive director’s message, Steven Cobb talks about significant developments in Dunkirk. The ribbon-cutting in March for the Safe Point Lighthouse marks an important step in addressing the opioid crisis locally, and the MHAis excited to be partnering with the Chautauqua County Department of Mental Hygiene to provide peer coach specialist services at their Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.
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The Mental Health Association’s (MHA) spring newsletter notes Saturday, June 11, as the Jamestown Pride Festival and opening of the Jamestown Public Market downtown. MHA’s Steven Cobb (left) and Sean Jones look forward to being at the Market 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to sell you Father Bernard’s Blessed Biscuits for your favorite pooch. Father Bernard’s is a social enterprise partnership between the MHA and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that aims to get people in recovery back into the workforce.
Other newsletter stories describe partnering with the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County and being part of the Chautauqua County OD2A sion and vision statements (Overdose Data to Action) under new president Kimberly Lombard and recogTeam. nize former longtime presThe MHA is partici- ident Ian Eastman as the pating in the Chautauqua recipient of a 2022 Buffalo Region and Northern Chau- Business First IDEA (Inclutauqua Community Foun- sion Diversity Equity Awaredation’s 24-hour online ness) Award in healthcare. fundraising event Give Big In partnership with DwCHQ on Thursday, June 9. Give Big has special impor- yer Chautauqua, a new Vettance for the MHA because erans Support group is a rethe money it raises can di- cent addition to the groups rectly assist the participants that meet at the MHA every it serves. Donations at Give- week. MHA staffer and U.S. BigCHQ.org can be used for Air Force veteran Jill Marsh emergency housing, food, is facilitator for the Wednestransportation and some- day, 11 a.m. to noon meettimes even a small treat to ings, and all veterans are celebrate achievements or welcome to participate. provide a needed lift. A few of the other more The newsletter’s cover sto- than four dozen MHA groups ries look at the board’s work are Movement is Medicine, in updating the MHA’s mis- Recoveryoga, Family Support, Writing Through Re-
covery, Fun Friday, PTSD, Suicide Prevention and Continued Encouragement, Southern Tier Queer Peers, Food Relationship Support and Alcoholics Anonymous. Other MHA connections cited include with cut paper artist Lindsey Erickson, Strong Starts Chautauqua and the Chautauqua County Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
With programs in both Jamestown and Dunkirk, the Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County is a peer recovery center offering support groups and individual coaching for people looking to improve their lives, deepen wellness, thrive in recovery, or support those on a recovery path. Peers use their personal stories to help people find recovery in their own lives in their own way.
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BOWLING FUNDRAISER ON JUNE 12 TO BENEFIT THE RIDE FOR ROSWELL Team RPCS and Russell J. Salvatore join forces for tournament, tribute bowl and an afternoon of family fun bowling at Tonawanda Bowling Center
BUFFALO, NY -Team RPCS – Roswell Park Cessation Services – needed to be creative to raise funds toward the Ride for Roswell the past two years. With the COVID-19 pandemic lessening in severity, the small but mighty team will revive a successful event from 2019: the 2nd Annual Russell J. Salvatore Bowling Open. Team RPCS and legendary restaurateur Russell J. Salvatore (pictured) present a day of bowling activities on Sunday, June 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Tonawanda Bowling Center, located at 574 Young Street. Door prizes, a 50/50 drawing, gift card drawings, silent auctions and more than 50 raffle baskets with gifts generously donated from Western New York’s top establishments are also part of the day’s events. All details plus downloadable posters are available at h t t p s : // t i n y u r l . c o m / RPCS2022. Mr. Salvatore will once again roll a ceremonial “first ball” to kick off the events. The day begins at 11 a.m. with a tribute bowl called the 57-Frame Game, in honor of two people who share a special bond. Mary Hayward (pictured),
The Reclamation of an Artist: The Works of Madeline Keenan
entry fee is $50. Team RPCS will also collect baby items, adult self-care items and nonperishable foods for the Jefferson Avenue community affected by recent tragic events. Anyone who donates five items will receive a free sheet of basket raffle tickets (valued at $5).
a longtime Team RPCS member, passed away in May 2021 at age 57 after a brave fight against ovarian cancer. She is one of two “Bills Mafia Sisters,” as dubbed by Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl linebacker Lorenzo Alexander, who wore the number 57 on his jersey. Contestants of the 57-Frame Game will bowl 57 frames in honor of a loved one affected by cancer; the person who raises the most funds receives dinner for two at Russell’s Steaks, Chops & More and an overnight stay at Salvatore’s Grand Hotel.
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Due to popular demand, the tournament will include a separate third division for youth bowlers under the age of 18. Winners will receive prize money directly into their SMART scholarship funds Following the 57-Frame through the United States Game from 1 to 3 p.m. is a Bowling Congress. The Family and Friends Bowl. This event is open to all and costs $20 per person or $110 for a group of six, including two hours of open bowling, shoe rental, pizza, pretzels, chips and
The 1st Annual Russell J. Salvatore Bowling Open in April 2019 raised $8,000 toward the Ride for Roswell. Anyone interested in participating in any capacity for 2022 – whether through bowling, volunteering and/or sponsoring – should contact Patricia Bax at 716284-6576 or huddles1025@ roadrunner.com. RPCS provides evidencebased, best-practice tobacco cessation services to employees of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, the New York State Smokers’ Quitline, health plans and employersponsored programs. More information is available at https://rpcs.roswellpark. org.
Nearly a month prior to the commencement ceremony of the 2022 class of SUNY Fredonia, senior student Madeline Keenan exhibited artworks from her series You Can Only Find it Once it's Lost and I Am, both of which convey her connection to the environment and how it has contributed towards her growth as an artist. Throughout the last four years, Madeline has been working towards her dual degree in drawing and ainting and ceramics, a time filled with projects, papers, and guided assignments. Somewhere along this period, the artist claimed that"my brushstrokes were overthought and my colors unengaging or expected." A room where she once created her art soon became discouraging. However, just as Keenan was prepared to give up, she found comfort in creating landscapes and realized that not everything she made would be something she liked. In acknowledging this, she moved past what she viewed as failures and came to create images of what was around her and eventually merged her self-portraits with these said environments. Through her artworks included in this exhibit, this idea is made evident as there is clear progress implied and observed through her color use and the scenes she chooses to depict. While landscapes have historically been a common theme in art, not many hold the same significance to them as Keenan does. With similar visuals as modern surrealist artist Antonio Mora, she fuses her self-portraits with images that signify a turning point in her adulthood in her I Am series. During the last four years of her undergraduate studies, she has deconstructed the idea of who she is and has allowed her paintings to illustrate this with titles such as I am Anxious and I am Hopeful. Keenan emphasizes the feelings that
her surroundings give her and how this continues to inspire and motivate her. The scenes that she recreates have had a large impact on who she has become, both as an artist and an individual, which she attempts to imply with this series. Remarkably, within her You Can Only Find it Once it's Lost series, which was the precursor to I Am, the meaning of what landscapes are for her begins to develop. In what started as a single painting of a landscape at the beach, she rediscovered what drew her to making art. While she was unsure of where she was going wrong, it ultimately came down to the unrecognizable works she created in which she saw a lack of herself. In discussion, Keenan said, "When I paint landscapes, it isn't necessarily about the environment. For me it's about the feeling a place gave me. In the sense that I can be fully engulfed by the nature or the architecture around me. That's how I choose where to paint." Only when she began to fall in love with her surroundings could she include these feelings in her art, which she wanted others to see as well. Overall, the art in this exhibit seems to relay a story of an artist finding herself amidst a period of internal struggle. Through the produced works, shifts are evident through the color palette applied and as she moves from solely landscapes to fusing her environment with her portraits. I would highly recommend seeing these paintings in person, as this is the only way to entirely grasp the significance of what Keenan depicts and how this chronologically influences the outcome of her works which are hung in the same location. This exhibit was on display until June 7, 2022, at the Darwin R. Barker Library. By stopping by, the spectator will be able to observe as the artist repictures and reinterprets who she's become.
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Honors Juneteenth With CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY Audubon Free Admission Monday June 20 MASTER GARDENERS KICK OFF THE 2022 SERIES: EVENING IN THE GARDEN
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demonstration gardens coBY MARK SULLENBERGER, chair, Wickie Stapleton anMASTER GARDENER nounces the first session will JAMESTOWN, NY — Cor- commence on June 15, 2022, nell Cooperative Extension of at 6PM. Other sessions on July Chautauqua County Master 20, 2022, at 6PM and on AuGardeners Program is invit- gust 17th, 2022, at 6PM. These ing the public to share some sessions are open to the public, time at their new demonstra- and we ask all participants to tion gardens for an evening of come ready with their queslearning and asking questions tions. on a noteworthy garden topic. The demonstration garden Our demonstration gardens are where the master garden- is located at the JCC-Commuers test garden techniques nity Gardens located by the proven by the Cornell Coop- JCC-Physical Education Comerative Extension and Cornell plex right behind the tennis University Life Sciences and courts. Parking is located Agriculture. The public can nearby right off Curtis St. The learn about many of these Chautauqua County Master cultivation and time saving Gardener Volunteers are part processes that make for a more of the Cornell Cooperative successful home and commu- Extension providing instrucnity garden. Our 2022 trial, tion, assistance to community “Cultural Roots of the Amer- gardeners and the gardening icas”, will feature vegetables public. The Master Gardener with connections to cultures from Central America, South Program is one of many America, The Caribbean, and programs offered by CorIndigenous People of New nell Cooperative ExYork. tension of Chautauqua County (CCE-Chautauqua). The sessions cover a vari- CCE-Chautauqua is a subety of gardening topics and governmental involve direct how to meth- ordinate agency with an educational ods in our demo garden. The mission that operates under
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JAMESTOWN, NY — To honor our country’s newest nationally recognized holiday, building admission at Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC) is free for all visitors on Monday, June 20, 2022. Juneteenth, the observance of June 19 as the African American Emancipation Day, originated in Galveston, Texas, in 1865. The long-standing tradition commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. Since Juneteenth falls on a Sunday this year, when building admission is always free for everyone, Audubon’s observance is extended to Monday, June 20, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The three-story Nature Center building houses interactive displays, a collection of live animals including the Hellbender exhibit, the 2021 Nature Photography Contest winners, and the Blue Heron Gift Shop. Jamestown, New York, was a well-known stop on the Underground Railroad that assisted many enslaved individuals on their way to freedom. ACNC invites you to honor this day by spending some time reflecting on the past, celebrating the present, and acknowledging the work that
In honor of Juneteenth, the newest nationally recognized holiday in the United States, admission to the Audubon Community Nature Center building is free on Monday, June 20, 2022. still has to be done to ensure equity for all. Other holidays that Audubon recognizes with free admission are Memorial Day, Indigenous People’s Day (October 11), and Veterans Day (November 11). Face coverings are strongly recommended while visiting inside the Nature Center building. Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, one-quarter mile east of Route 62 between Jamestown, N.Y., and Warren, Pa. You can visit the 600acre nature preserve and see Liberty, the non-releasable Bald Eagle, enjoy the native tree arboretum, gardens, picnic area, natural play space
and hike the six miles of trails dawn until dusk daily for free. Visitors are welcome to the nature center building Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., and Sundays, 1 - 4:30 p.m. Nature Center members and SNAP/EBT cardholders have free building admission daily. To learn more about Audubon and its many programs, call (716) 569-2345, find Audubon Community Nature Center on Facebook, or visit AudubonCNC.org. Entries to the 2022 Nature Photography Contest and votes for the Community Choice winners can be made at GoGoPhotoContest. com/ACNCPhotoContest.
NCCF To Hold 36th Annual Meeting DUNKIRK, NY — The Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation (NCCF) invites the public to attend the 36th Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 21st at 4 p.m. at the BOCES LoGuidice Center at 9520 Fredonia-Stockton Road in Fredonia. Join us in celebrating our 2021 accomplishments. During the meeting, the elections for new Board and Voting Members will take place. Following the business meeting, we will award the George B. Weaver Jr. Footprints Award to Steve and Mary Rees of Dunkirk. This award honors those who have left footprints in the community for oth-
ers to follow in the areas of philanthropy and service. The meeting will conclude with a catered reception. We encouraged the public to attend the meeting and stay to mingle! If you are interested in attending, please contact the NCCF at 366-4892 or nccf@nccfoundation. org. RSVPs are requested but not required. Since its incorporation in 1986, the NCCF has invested more than $17 million in northern Chautauqua County through strategic grantmaking, targeted scholarships, and leadership and community collaborations. The NCCF is a tax-exempt
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Local photography competition at the Darwin R. Barker Museum and the Darwin R. Barker Library Community members are invited to submit photographs to be entered into a photography competition at the Darwin R. Barker Museum and the Darwin R. Barker Library. Interested photographers may submit one photograph (of any topic appropriate for a public space) by June 25th by dropping off their photograph at the circulation desk of the Darwin R. Barker Library or sending an email including name, phone number, and age of the photographer to barke rh i s t or ic a l mu s e u m @
gmail.com. Image dimensions must not exceed 8.5” x 11”. One entry per contestant. Framing and matting optional. Entered photographs will be on display in the Darwin R. Barker Library through the month of July, during which time community members may view and vote on their favorites. There are two categories: adult and youth. The photograph with the most votes in each category will be featured in The Darwin R. Barker Museum’s new exhibit Fredonia in Focus: The
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CHAUTAUQUA GROWN – WHAT’S IN SEASON AND WHO HAS IT? BY CASANDRA SKAL – AGRICUL- so you can use your freshly rants that are committed TURE PROGRAM COORDINATOR picked asparagus today! to purchasing local foods, which opens new markets JAMESTOWN, NY – Cornell The local farmer’s mar- for area farmers. There is Cooperative Extension of kets are starting up all also a complete directory of Chautauqua County’s Agri- over the county showca- Farmers Markets and Wiculture Program is exci- sing many of the producers neries located in Chautauted to announce that their listed on our Chautauqua qua County. Chautauqua Grown pro- Grown website. You can gram is currently being up- also find information abChautauqua Grown is dated. Chautauqua Grown out the upcoming farmer’s looking to be all inclusive is the source for all things markets online by visiting, and expand our listed prolocal foods in Chautauqua h t t p ://c h a u t a u q u a .c c e . ducers, if you have a farm, County, including a direc- cor nell.edu/chautauqua- farm stand, or business tory of farms, restaurants, grown/farmers-markets- that sells or grows food farmers markets, wine- and-chautauqua-produce- products locally and would ries, and much more, and auction. like to be listed in our lois available online by visical food guide, please reach ting www.cce.cornell.edu/ Chautauqua County is out to our new Agriculture chautauqua. home to over 1,500 farms, Program Coordinator, Casand more than 100 are sel- sandra Skal at 716-665-9502 Produce that is in season ling their products directly Ext 202 or email at cks83@ right now is asparagus, to consumers, through cornell.edu. beet greens, kale, lettuce, farm stores, roadside The Agricultural Proparsnips, radishes, rhu- stands, and farmers mar- gram is one of many probarb, scallions, spinach, kets. Chautauqua Grown grams offered by Cornell and turnip greens! Some helps to connect consumers Cooperative Extension of of our local farms offer U- to farmers by providing a Chautauqua County (CCEPick opportunities, be sure comprehensive listing of Chautauqua). CCE-Chauto check out their Facebook all types of farms that offer tauqua is a subordinate gopages, which are linked in fresh fruits and vegetables, the above website. You can meat products, honey, maalso find a delicious recipe ple syrup, and much more! for “Asparagus and Chi- Chautauqua Grown also cken Pasta” on our website features a listing of restau-
vernmental agency with an educational mission that operates under a form of organization and administration approved by Cornell University as agent for the State of New York. It is taxexempt under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The association is part of the national cooperative extension system, an educational partnership between County, State, and Federal governments. As New York’s land grant university Cornell administers the system in this state. Each Cornell Cooperative Extension association is an independent employer that is governed by an elected Board of Directors with general oversight from Cornell. All associations work to meet the needs of the counties in which they are located as well as state and national goals. For more information,
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