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Oct. 20

Twenty years ago — 1997

A $289,000 project to construct a bike path along the lakefront in the city of Dunkirk will move ahead following action by the common council. Council members authorized Mayor Margaret Wuerstle to sign a contract with H. Olsen & Sons Contractors of Forestville for the construction of Phase IV of the project. Funding for the project includes a $153,127 grant from the New York State Department of Transportation’s Intermodal Surface Transportation Enhancement Act program. The balance will come from the city’s Community Development Block Grant funds and $55,000 set aside in a capital projects account.

Thirty years ago — 1987

On Sunday, Oct. 4, the Hamlet United Methodist Church and its pastor, the Rev. Walter Warriner, celebrated 175 years of Methodism — since the Methodists formed their first society in 1812. The Methodists formed their first society at Wright’s Corners in the town of Villenova, with the Rev. Dunham as pastor. According to Villenova Town Historian Barbara Wise, religious classes were held in the homes of early Christian settlers as early as 1810. In 1839, the first church building was erected. On April 14, 1914, the Baptist church building built in the year 1891 was dedicated as a Methodist church. Today it is called the Hamlet United Methodist Church and is located in Villenova.

Forty years ago — 1977

Chautauqua County is now using its in-house computer to take some of the agony out of what used to be a laborious mechanical process. Having a revised tentative budget ready in the past would have required five or six employees working three or four days to produce a document which may still have errors. Now a completely revised budget is possible within minutes.

Fifty years ago — 1967

The Dunkirk-Fredonia Council for Exceptional Children recently turned over proceeds to its annual barbecue to help instruct 34 brain-injured youngsters at St. Joseph’s School for Exceptional Children. The school, now in its 30th year, accepts children of all religious denominations. Children attend from 22 different cities. The school is staffed by six sisters of St. Joseph and one secular children. All the students are residents who return home for the weekend.

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