Auxiliary to hold annual meeting

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold its Annual Meeting on Tuesday. The meeting will be held in the Bistro at Westfield Memorial Hospital at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served .

The keynote speaker will be Julian Pierce from Park Place Acupuncture. A business meeting will follow and will include Annual Reports from the president, secretary and treasurer. Five directors will also be elected.

Reservations are limited, so please RSVP to Linda Proper at 716-785-0367. All members are encouraged to attend.

Coalition meeting aims to halt logging

GOWANDA — The Zoar Valley Coalition will present a public forum on the united effort to stop the logging of Zoar Valley by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the CT/NY Chapter of the National Audubon Society.

The event will take place at the American Legion Post 409 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The DEC has marked trees and scheduled timber sales of hundreds of acres of public land in Zoar Valley. In 2006, the DEC issued a preservation plan for Zoar Valley after overwhelming public support was expressed for Zoar Valley to be a protected wilderness. For the DEC to now reverse the plan for Zoar Valley to a logging plan is a grievous breach of the public trust.

Audubon wants to cut down mature forests in Zoar Valley to make non-forested areas for birds. Audubon also wants to build a 10′ high wall of dead tree material surrounding 92 deforested acres in order to keep deer out, but this experimental dead tree berm will create a fire hazard, an eyesore, and a barrier for all wildlife.

This is the first of three forums sponsored by the Zoar Valley Coalition. Speakers will discuss these unpopular and unsustainable ideas and how the public can join the effort to stop the logging of Zoar Valley.

Speakers named for Sunday service

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple St. in Fredonia, holds a Sunday Worship Service at 11 a.m., both at their physical location and on Zoom. For those wishing to join us virtually, please visit https://tinyurl.com/caluucnc. Click on “Worship Service” on the date you are attending and scroll down for the Zoom link. For those attending the in-person service, please follow the driveway and park in the lower lot behind the building. Handicapped parking is located between the two buildings and directly behind the second building.

The theme for September is Invitation. On Sunday, members Val Colt and Sharon Piehler will reflect on their unsettling experience and lessons learned attending the Unitarian Universalist Association’s annual General Assembly.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua strives to be a vibrant, welcoming, multigenerational, diverse community enlivened by the power of radical love. For more information about us, visit the website at www.uucnc.org, like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uucnc, or call at 716-679-7944.