Walk for Nuclear Free Future set for this morning

GOWANDA – Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca and Seneca Nation members will join Water Walkerz, a local grassroots group, for the annual Water Walk for a Nuclear Free Future on Saturday, April 19. The walk will begin at 10 a.m. near the Aldrich Street bridge in Gowanda. Walkers will follow Route 438, stopping for lunch at the Stanley “Sully” Huff Cultural Center, 12857 Route 438, on the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory, before continuing on to Sunset Bay at the mouth of Cattaraugus Creek.

The walk is held to bring healing to the waters, the land, the people and all creation impacted by nuclear fuel waste created from the West Valley Demonstration Project, which operated as the only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in the United States. Contaminated discharges from the West Valley site continue to flow into Buttermilk Creek, Cattaraugus Creek and Lake Erie, impacting the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory and all who live downstream and downwind.

Willowbrook Park Cemetery meeting Tuesday

The monthly meeting of Willowbrook Park Cemetery will be held on Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at the Mackowiak Funeral Home on Doughty Street in Dunkirk..

Planning Committee for Cardinal Mindszenty Class of 1965 to meet

The Planning Committee for the Cardinal Mindszenty Class of 1965 60th Class Reunion will meet on Wednesday, May 14 at noon at Buddy Brewsters. All area classmates are invited to attend. It will be kind of a mini-reunion. Please make your reservation by calling 716-410-0049.

The Reunion is set for Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15-16. If any CMHS friends from 1965 have any ideas or suggestions for the committee, please call the number above.