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APRIL 11 - 17, 2014
Your Hometown Newspaper Serving Ellicottville, Great Valley, Little Valley, Mansfield, Olean, Salamanca, Springville and Surrounding Communities
By Eva Potter
This weekend, visitors to Ellicottville can look forward to the first annual Enchanted Mountain Music Festival, to be held Friday through Sunday, April 11–13, at Holiday Valley. Nightly concerts, daily singing and instrument workshops, jamming, along with the good vibes of Holiday Valley and Ellicottville, make this a relaxing, must-attend event. Performers, amateur and professional players, and acoustic music lovers will come together in a beautiful, intimate setting to enjoy some of the finest bluegrass and Americana music in the United States today. Bands include Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line, Creek Bend, and Paris Texas with Dee Specker, who will blow you away with their original music, harmony singing and instrumental talents. The weekend kicks off this afternoon, April 11, at 4 p.m. with unplugged workshops and continues through Sunday morning with more workshops, concerts and jamming sessions. All concerts and workshops take place at the gorgeous Holiday Valley Lodge and the Tamarack Club. An all-weekend ticket (Friday through Sunday), including concerts and workshops, is only $75 ($50 for students). Tickets for individual concerts on Friday or Saturday are $25. An allday Saturday pass is $50 and includes morning workshops, afternoon and evening concerts. Tickets to the Sunday concert are $15. Kids age 12 and under attend the festival free! You can buy tickets online at www.holidayvalley.com (click Events tab and then click Enchanted Mountain Music Festival). This premiering festival was pulled together by Rick Manning, organizer of the annual Winter Village Music See Mountain Music Fest page 7
New Bluegrass and Roots Music Festival This Weekend
Calendar of Events April 11-13 Enchanted Mountain Music Festival Holiday Valley April 11-13 Greater Olean Area Home Show April 25 Arbor Day Celebration Tree City USA Nannen Arboretum April 26-27 Franklinville’s 2014 WNY Maple Festival May 2 Sky High Scheduled to Open Holiday Valley May 3 Downtown Springville Art Crawl
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May 17-18 Routes to Art Tamarack Lodge May 30 - June 1 Geobash Allegany State Park June 6-8 Cycling Weekend Holiday Valley June 7 Relay for Life Ellicottville Central School
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June 8 Dirty Duathlon Holiday Valley June 14 Mudslide Obstacle Trail Run Holiday Valley July 4-6 Summer Music Festival Ellicottville & Holiday Valley
Hit the Slopes in the Morning, Golf in the Afternoon? Is it possible that you can ski, board and golf all in the same day this weekend? It just might be. It rarely happens, but the front nine at the Double Black Diamond golf course at Holiday Valley just might be opening this week. If you’re ready to hit the links, be sure to check www.holidayvalley.com or call (716) 699-2345 before you come.
Jay Leno, Tom Cotter to Headline 2014 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival Additionally, this year’s Lucille Ball Comedy Festival will feature the return of Emmy Awardwinning Lucie Arnaz, a “Comics to Watch” showcase hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea featuring some of the hottest rising comedians in the industry, three nights of Late-Night Comedy in the Tropicana Room with a live album recording co-produced by Rooftop Comedy, renowned “I Love Lucy” impersonators from Universal Studios, Lucille Ball’s five-time Emmy-award-winning costume designer Ret Turner, hometown bus tours, cemetery tours, Chautauqua Lake cruises, comedy workshops, an attempt to break the world record for most people stomping grapes in one location and JAMESTOWN — The Lucy Desi Center for more. Comedy has announced that comedians Jay Leno Presale tickets for the Lucille Ball Comedy and Tom Cotter will headline the 2014 Lucille Festival will begin going on sale to museum Ball Comedy Festival, Aug. 6-10. See Ball Comedy Fest Lineup page 8
EVL Relay for Life Needs Teams, Leaders, Sponsors By Jann Wiswall
Over the next two months, visitors and residents of Ellicottville will begin to notice a plethora of purple ribbons adorning the trees along the village streets and shop windows decorated with purple gifts, clothing and signage. All that purple is telling you that the community is gearing up for the annual Relay for Life fundraiser that
will take place on June 7 on the track at Ellicottville Central School. Over the past dozen or more years, the Ellicottville event has drawn hundreds of cancer survivors, caregivers, family members, friends and supporters together to celebrate those who are living with cancer, honor those who lost their lives to the disease and raise awareness about the
By Alicia Dziak
With 2014 being an Olympic year, success on the slopes has been on the forefront. With two topnotch ski resorts, dedicated coaches and so much young talent, it’s easy to see why amazing skiers come out of Ellicottville.
Maggie and Tina Ryan
One of those skiers is 15-year-old Maggie Ryan, a sophomore at Pittsford Sutherland High School, near Rochester, who has been skiing at HoliMont for years. “HoliMont is where I learned to ski and I was taught by both my mom and my dad,” Maggie said. “I ski at HoliMont every weekend in the winter besides the weekends I am traveling for competitions.” Five years ago, Maggie joined HoliMont’s FLITE team, where she discovered her niche in moguls. “Maggie’s skiing has developed in so many ways through FLITE Team,” said Maggie’s mother, Tina Ryan. “Being lifelong members at HoliMont, our kids learned to ski there. Maggie started in HoliSports at age five and went through every level of the program. At age 10, she started FLITE Team when one of the coaches ‘discovered her’ in one of the other See Maggie Ryan’s Succesful Season page 4
See Relay for Life page 8
Routes to Art Preview Reception April 25 A Great Evening of Art, Conversation, Inspiration By Jann Wiswall
We know you already have the annual Routes to Art Open Studio Tour on your May calendars, but if you want to get a sneak peek, be sure to make plans to attend the Preview Reception at Jamestown Community College in Olean’s Center Gallery on April 25. From 6-8 p.m., you’ll enjoy beverages and hors d’oeuvres while getting a look at the work of all the artists participating in the May open studio tour. Plus, this is your opportunity to meet many of the artists, learn about their art, plan
Amazing Skiers Come Out of Ellicottville
HoliMont FLITE Team Member Maggie Ryan Celebrates Successful Season
fight against cancer. It also has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the American Cancer Society (ACS). Last year, the event raised more than $35,000, which will help ACS “invest in groundbreaking research in every type of cancer and provide free information and services to cancer patients and their caregivers.”
See RTA Preview Reception page 3
How Can You Help? April is National Volunteer Month By Alicia Dziak
Need a surefire way to beat the cabin fever that has set in this winter? Try volunteering! With so many local opportunities to spread the love, finding a place to spend your free time and make a difference is easy and fun. Do you like to spend time outdoors and enjoy all the parks and trails this area has to offer? Consider volunteering somewhere that can help
you enjoy them even more. The Western New York Mountain Biking Association (WNYMBA) holds regular volunteer workdays to build and maintain local biking trails. For more information, visit www. wnymba.org. In addition, the new Ellicottville-Great Valley Trail, an all-season recreation trail for hikers and other non-motorized vehicles, is in the See How You Can Help page 3