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Pictured above is the Queen Bee from the 2018 Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts.

Delaware District Council Member Joel P. Feroleto and the North Buffalo Commu-nity Center will host a STAR exemption outreach program on Thursday, September 12, 2019. The program will start at 10:00 am and run until 12:00 pm. The outreach is for renewal applications only. Applicants should bring both their appli-

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cation and their 2018 income information. Any new applicants must apply in person at Buffalo City Hall in Room 105. The North Buffalo Community Center is located at 203 Sand-ers Road and can be reached by calling (716) 874-6133. Any ques-tions may be answered by Council Member Joel P. Feroleto’s office staff at (716) 851-5155.

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This weekend, August 24th and 25th, The Twen-tieth Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts will transform El-mwood Avenue into a vi-brant artistic crossroads, celebrating our commu-nity’s creativity. This family-oriented event, highlighting our region’s artistic and cultural trea-sures, featuring 4 stages with over 70 performers, an Artist Market with 170 world-class artists (80% local), Kidsfest with

Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts

5 hands on activity tents, Cultural and Environ-mental Rows with over Fifty not for profit orga-nizations, the Festival Café, the Merchant Show-case on the sidewalk plus the After Hours Concert on the St. James Stage. This concert will begin at 6:15 pm Saturday fea-turing two World-Class bands, Grüvology and Allasane Sarr and N’Di-as. Local beers and foods from around the world will be available. All

this will take place rain or shine from 10 AM to 6 PM on Saturday, August 24th and from 10AM to 5 PM on Sunday, August 25th, 2019. All festivities are free and open to the public. The Festival was Buffalos first to recycle, compost and use sustain-able energy. So come and discover the appeal that has made this festival one of the most fun and talk-ed-about events in Buffa-lo.

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The United Way Cel-ebrates its 27th Annu-al Day of Caring With 103 Companies and over 3,200 Employees Volun-teering throughout WNY. Local agencies have benefitted from more than 463,000 volun-teer hours since 1992 in WNY’s largest single-day volunteer event. Thousands of WNY employees took part in a

27th Annual Day of Caringkick-off event on Wednes-day, for the 27th Annual Day of Caring, Western New York’s largest com-munity service event before heading out for a day of volunteer work throughout the region. Volunteers dedicat-ed their time to paint-ing, gardening, cleaning, chaperoning, reading to children and many more! Since its inception in

1992, more than 121,500 volunteers have partic-ipated in Day of Car-ing, donating more than 463,000 volunteer hours valued at over $8.65 mil-lion. Companies and unions shared their time, talent and sweat equity to assist 124 local agen-cies with 155 projects throughout Western New York.

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Buffalo Bills It was stunning to watch former rugby star Christian Wade break into the open field for a 65 yard touch-down run against the Indi-anapolis Colts at New Era Field. His speed on that run topped out at at 21 M.P. H. showing his rare potential on his first touch of the ball in pre-season game action. “It was a dream come true,” the former rugby star from England said. Wade is attempting an ambitious switch from rugby to football Ameri-can style in the NFL after spending eight years in the Englands Premiership Rug-by league with the London Wasps via the International Player Pathway Program which is an NFL initiative that “aims to provide elite international athletes the opportunity to compete at the NFL level, improve their skills, and ultimately earn a spot on an NFL ros-ter,” according to the NFL’s website. Wade demonstrat-ed his skills at a pro day on March 20 alongside NFL veterans and 2019 draft hopefuls at the IMG Acade-my in Florida and was allo-cated to the Bills less than a month later. Wade has been keeping himself busy off the field studying video into the late night hours studying f on the position’s latest breed, specifically devouring tape on Alvin Kamara, Chris-tian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill and Tarik Cohen. “Those players, who are tradition-ally smaller but can run plays, run fast with shorter routes, how they move off the ball and move defenders to get open,” Wade explains. “They’re the players I’ve been introduced to on film

and I try to emulate how they get open. If you don’t know the plays, how and where to line up, what your assignment is, they won’t put you on the field. The playbook is everything; you have to continuously up-date and add to your knowl-edge, reminding yourself of plays.” In spite of his brilliant run he was immediately critiqued by his coaches for bobbling the handoff

which he took rugby style rather than football style. “I did it in an unorthodox way,” Wade conceded. “The way I took the hand-off, I got in trouble for that. Ini-tially I handled from the right pocket, the way I was taking the ball, but when I realized I would cut back, I went back to taking the ball like it was a rugby ball.” In the next game against the Carolina Panthers Wade took the field in the fourth quarter and caught a pass from former UB quar-terback Tyree Jackson and took the catch 48 yards 48 yards, nearly scoring for the second straight wee before

being hauled down at the two yard line. But again his rugby instincts failed him. Instead of taking the ball wide for what looked like a sure score he cut back tot he middle. In rugby running the ball in from the middle of the field gives the ball better placement for the ex-tra point attempt. With finals cut is creep-ing up Wade is a long shot to make the team. Remem-ber that the players he is facing late in preseason games are not even going to be in the league when the regular season starts. If he is cut then every team in the league gets a chance to claim him on waivers. If no claim is made, which seems unlikely, then he could be placed on the Bills ten man practice roster where he can spend the season learn-

ing the nuances of the NFL game. There is an exempt 11th spot allowed for the Pathway Program playes which does not count to-ward the teams rosetr. Next season with Lesean McCoy and Frank Gore’s contracts expired, a roster spot is more likely. Other teams around the league are making note of Wade in the event that the Bills head coach Sean Mc-Dermott does not include him on the teams 53 man roster by the August 31st deadline. Maybe the Bills should shut Wade down so as to stop drawing attention from other teams.

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This year’s parade theme is “Caravan of Kindness.” It’s a phrase that calls to mind un-derstanding, coopera-tion, and generosity—all things that are as just important in creating outstanding music and dance as they are in building an ethical and meaningful life. Among our performers this year, you will see people from different generations, cultures, and walks of life who are all united in their commitment to cre-ative expression. Wheth-er they are part of a band or a dance company, a storytelling collective or improv troop, they rely on trust and collaboration to build something that is more than the sum of its parts. Even those who stand on the stage alone did not get there alone. We invite you to enjoy this community of cre-ativity and kindness—and hope you’ll carry for-ward the same spirit and values into your life well after the festival. Since whatever we dwell on grows, at Kids-fest, we want to dwell on kindness, and our theme for 2019 is the Caravan of Kindness. A caravan is a group of people travelling together on a journey. For our children’s parade, we will literally be travelling together down Elmwood Avenue. In a looser sense, we’re also all fellow trav-elers with all people on this planet that we share.

What better caravan is there to travel in than one of kindness?As you enter Kidsfest, you can spin the Wheel of Kindness, which will suggest an act of kind-ness to carry out. The activities within Kidsfest provide ample opportuni-ties to express kindness in many ways: sharing, exchanging, thanking, smiling, collaborating, recycling, helping and more. In between you can polish, print, punch (holes in paper that is!), bead, shape, glue, drill, saw and draw your way through Kidsfest. Take in a workshop or perfor-mance at our world class performance tent, then join us for our Caravan of Kindness Parade on Sunday at 4PM. Line up begins at the M&T parking lot at Elmwood and Breckenridge. Kids and their parents, kids-at-heart and any and all kind energies are invited to join the caravan, pro-viding their colors and spreading their kindness all the way to the St. James stage. The musi-cal groove of the famous 12/8 Path Band will ac-company us, as well as the spectacular theatri-cal artistry of Antonio Cruz Zavaleta, Kyla Keg-ler and Franklin La Voie. Did you know that Kidsfest plants a tree in the Elmwood Village ev-ery year? A big thank you to Cyd Cox and Anthony Brown for donating, dec-orating and planting our

tree. Thank you to Diane Meldrum and Craig Gor-don for acting as Masters of Ceremonies in our Per-formance Tent. Thank you to Aurora Waldorf School, Nardin Montes-sori Academy and Locust Street Art for their volun-teer service. Thank you to Cousin Kelly for pro-viding his artful wooden sculpture wonderland. Thank you to all the staff, volunteers, and donors for all their goodwill. And thank you to you, festival participants, for adding your kindness to our col-lective caravan. Kidsfest link here https://elm-woodartfest.org/kidsfest/

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1967 Volkswagen.

One of the perks in owning a newspaper is the ability to read it be-fore anyone else. Over the years it was kind of cool to see the classified ads before they were printed. Some may call it an unfair advantage as I did buy some of the items before they made the pa-per. Why not? The seller wanted to sell the item and the price was set, and if I was willing to pay what they were asking, everyone was happy. And the seller saved the price of placing the ad. I recall one ad I took years ago. A young lady was moving out of town and wanted to sell her 1967 Volkswagen for $400. I did not hesitate to buy it. At the time I was driving back and forth to Angola in a 1975 Chevy station wagon and get-

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ting about 10 miles to the gallon. This little red “punchbug” got 40 MPG. No brainer. It was one of the best deals that ever came through the door. It was a stick shift, which would have made it dif-ficult to sell to most peo-ple as that is a different way to drive. Most autos now have automatic shift which is much easier. I would say most drivers today would have a prob-lem driving a stick shift. I loved the car and drove it for years. Saved a lot of money. There is a downside to driving an economy car. Usually they are smaller and the loser if you unfortunately are in-volved in an automobile crash. I have firsthand knowledge of this kind of occurrence. My little beetle was no match for

a full-size sedan and for-tunately for me, it was a glancing blow and not a full-scale tee bone. I was on my way home from the RocMar bowling alleys on a Friday night. We bowled the late shift and after having a sand-wich it was about 2 AM in the morning. Not a lot of traffic but most that were out, seemed to have been imbibing in alcohol-ic beverages. Route five heading west was rela-tively quiet at this time of the night. I had slowed down to make my right turn on to Kennedy Road when suddenly a car came speeding over the hill and without slowing down ran right into me and kept on going. Like I said it was a glancing blow but enough to send me spinning across the whole road to the other side. Fortunately for me no traffic in the other di-rection. Stunned me for a moment but when I real-ized what had happened, I wanted to chase this person. The passenger side rear fender was rubbing against to rear wheel, but the little bug was still running. I took after the driver of the car that hit

me. No cars in front of me and I had this little mo-tor giving its all. I caught the culprit. Cut him off and forced him to pull over. Then I did a dumb thing. I got out of the car and started walking back toward the other vehicle. He promptly stepped on the gas and tried to run me down. I jumped to safety and for a second time laid there glad to still be alive. Needless to say, I was angry. I did get a glimpse of him through the wind-shield, he appeared to be Native American. The reservation was just down the road, so the hunt was on. Drove around for hours but never found the vehicle. I spotted a State Troop-er in the Irving dinner having a doughnut, so I went in to report what had happened. Gave him a description of the car that hit me, and he filled out a formal complaint. He did contact me the next day and told me they found the car, but the owner claimed it was sto-len the night before. They

claimed they were not driving it. Had to accept that and after coming to my senses realized I was just lucky to still be here. If he had hit me a couple of feet further up toward the front of the car, a matter of inches, I would have suffered more serious injury. Then to chase him down, knowing he was not a friendly guy, getting out of my car to confront him? What was I thinking, or wasn’t think-ing? Still had enough sense and ability to jump to safety, knowing he did not like me. Looking back, thanks to my guardian angel, or whoever was looking after me, I was lucky to have come out of that night with just a cou-ple of scrapes and bruis-es. Next day I separated the rear fender from the tire on my Volkswagen and it remained drivable. Continued to drive it for a couple of years after that. Loved the car. It was a good buy, even if was al-most my goodbye. In case you are wondering, this is a true story like all my columns.

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The Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League season has ended for most of the 900 boys and girls that signed up to play this summer. As many as 57 teams competed week-ly since early May for the right to claim first place in a division and win a championship on the dia-monds of Shoshone Park. All that’s left is to receive a trophy from their coach and display it properly at home. Let’s get you out to the diamonds and relive the celebrations. Six divisions of house baseball and softball teams will be at a ban-quet held early next month in North Buffalo to honor children in the little league of Shoshone Park after winning in the instructional divisions. They are: Rookie Boys, Rookie Girls, Second Mi-nor Boys, Minor Girls, Major Boys and Major Girls. For most, a gold-en statue of a baseball or softball player atop a wooded base that you can hold in your hand is their first award for excellence in sports. Congratula-tions. In Rookie Boys, the Mariners won the cham-pionship of the ten team division after winning two straight games over the top ceded Red Sox, 13-11 and 14-7. The Mar-iners needed to win both games after the Red Sox gave them their first loss in the playoffs, 11-7. Both teams played outstanding

Championship Victories!on the field and brought their bats to homeplate. For many, this division is the most fun to watch. The Rookie Girls Di-vision was very similar in that two teams, the Angels and the Devils battled all season long to see which team could win first place. Against five other teams, both squads defeated teams like Ra-vens and Rebels, Sham-rocks or Diamonds to get to the playoffs. In two ex-citing semi-final games played just days apart, each team won against each other to set up a third and deciding game. The Devils won game one, 15-9. Followed by an An-gel victory six days later, 17-15. Four days later, the Devils prevailed 5-1 to win the Championship for two very good teams. The winning hit came off the bat of Lawson Ter-hune of the Devils, who was celebrating her sev-enth birthday that day. “I just gave myself a gift,” she said afterward. The Marlins won the Championship in Second Minor Boys with an 8-5 victory over the Brewers. Pavel Schneidermann, Justin Daniels, Archer Palgutt, Jensen Leon and Isaiah Cormack were just five of the teams best hit-ters who led the way this season. Playing against a tough Brewers team, both teams got hot for the playoffs, knocking off the Dodgers and Padres. The team scored seven runs in

the first inning and held on to victory. In Major Girls, the top team in the division was the Astros. They put to-gether 12 straight wins during the regular season and looked like the team to beat for the Rockies and Dodgers. Well, they did, on July 25th when the Rockies were ready and beat them, 13-8. Then after the Astros won over the Dodgers, the Rockies returned a week later and won the Championship in an upset, 16-8. In MInor Girls, Iizzy Gannon of the Indians singled in teammate Izzy Hornung in the bottom of the seventh inning with the score tied at 2-2 that gave the Indians their sec-ond Championship in as many years over the Ori-oles in a hard fought 3-2 victory. Katie Kooshoian of the Orioles tied up the game at 2 in the fifth with a homerun after the Indians had grabbed an early lead. Alana Waiki-ki, Amelia Cline, Chloe Claeys and Mackenzie Gunnarson also played well for the Indians in an exciting game in extra in-nings.

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