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TUESDAY, JULY 14 Dunkirk and Fredonia Fire Department Retirees breakfast Central Station Restaurant, 332 Central Ave., Dunkirk, 9 a.m. Reg Lenna Center for the Arts presents: Memory Cafe Flower-Potting with Brigiotta’s Third floor media arts room, entrance at 108 E. Third St., Jamestown, 12 to 1:30 p.m. Elevator accessible. Free respite, arts program for those with forgetfulness, cognitive decline, families, caregivers. Music, crafts, light refreshments. Free picnic-style lunch prior to potting flowers - choice of annuals, geraniums, gerbera daisies, more. Register at 716 ...

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Revitalize Dunkirk trail event The Revitalize Dunkirk Trail committee is seeking volunteers to put wood chips on the Point Gratiot trail on July 22 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring work gloves and a shovel. Genealogical Society meeting Wednesday CASSADAGA — The Chautauqua County Genealogical Society will meet Wednesday at the Cassadaga American Legion Post 1280 at 228 Maple Ave. The business meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the speaker will begin at 7. The public is invited to attend. Cindy Washington Riggle is the speaker for the evening. She was ...

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MONDAY, JULY 13 United Senior Citizens meeting Falcon Club, 341 Lake Shore Drive E., Dunkirk, 12 p.m. Membership dues $5 per year. For lunch reservations, send $16 check made out to United Senior Citizens to Evonne Hennebery, PO Box 706, Dunkirk, NY 14048 the previous Thursday. Dunkirk Public Library presents: Building Healthy Habits #1 536 Central Ave., 2 to 3 p.m. Call 716 366-2511. Sinclairville Free Library presents: Unearth a Story: The Street Beneath My Feet 15 Main St., 5 to 6 p.m. Presenter: Sarah Hatfield, 4-H Youth Development Educator. Based on Charlotte Guillan’s ...

4-H meat animal sale takes place July 24

Two hundred and thirty-six children raised animals through Chautauqua County 4-H this past year. Some of their animals will be up for sale at the 62nd 4-H Meat Animal Sale on Friday, July 24, at noon at the Warren K. Brown Show Arena at the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds in Dunkirk. The sale will be hosted by the Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Program. 4-H members across the county have been working hard since October to raise top-quality animals for the annual sale. This year 25 beef steers, 59 hogs, 13 goats, 20 lambs, and 42 pairs of chicken will be available for ...

Area libraries list coming events

Weekly events are planned at local libraries. Check each library’s website for details — Monday: Velociraptors going into PreK to going into second grade at Barker Library, 7 Day St., Fredonia, 10:30 a.m. OR Tuesday at 2 p.m. — Tuesday: Velociraptors going into PreK to going into second grade at Barker Library, 7 Day St., Fredonia, OR Monday at 10:30 a.m.; Storytime, craft at Dunkirk Library, 536 Central Ave., 11 a.m.; Mahjong Club at Anderson-Lee Library, 43 Main St., Silver Creek at 1 p.m. — Wednesday: Paleontologists going into third grade going into eighth grade at ...

‘8 Great Wednesdays’ off to a rousing start

Two Wednesdays in, Festivals Fredonia's summer concert series is doing exactly what it set out to do: bringing the village center back to life. The "8 Great Wednesdays in the Park" opened July 1 with Country Night, drawing lawn chairs and blankets across Barker Common well before showtime. Line-dancing instructor Connie Glasier led a 5:30pm warm-up, Michael Key opened with the Star-Spangled Banner, and then Everette Lee & the Underground Stampede took the stage at 6:30. The momentum carried into week two, when Americana Night brought Unknown Legends to the bandshell on July 8 — one ...