Church planning Saturday dinner

St. John’s Church, 733 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, will hold a Swiss Steak dinner on Saturday, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The dinner includes dessert. Meals are eat-in or take-out.

Those who wish can eat in the church’s fellowship hall or meals may be picked up from the church’s parking lot entrance on Eagle Street. Tickets are $13 each. Please order tickets early; reservations are strongly suggested! Tickets can be ordered by calling the church office at 716-366-0710, giving the number of requested tickets.

Pay for tickets at the door. Cash or checks payable to St. John’s Church are accepted.

Family Breakfast set for Sunday

Forest Lodge 166 F&AM will be holding its monthly Sunday Family Breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday. This all-you-can-eat breakfast will consist of eggs made to order, pancakes or French toast, sausages, fruit cocktail, juice, milk, coffee and tea. Adults and teenagers 13 and up are $12, children, 5-12, $6 with youth under 5 free.

This breakfast is open to the public and everyone is welcome and cordially invited to attend. Anyone with interests in, or has questions about Free Masonry will be given a tour of the building at the asking. Forest Lodge is located at 321 E.Main St. (Rte 20), Fredonia.

Pair to lead Sunday service

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple Street 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 October is Cultivating Compassion. Join us for “How the Light Gets In,” with Rev. Frances Manly and Doug Yeomans

We all know our world is not perfect, not on any level. Even we ourselves are not perfect, no matter how hard we try. So, imperfection is simply a fact of life — but is it a feature or a bug? Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem” suggests that it’s actually a feature: “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.”

Manly is Minister Emerita of the First UU Church of Niagara in Niagara Falls. She is currently an active member of the UU Church of Buffalo, where she serves on the Worship Associates Ministry Team, facilitates a memoir writing group, and preaches occasionally. She and Doug Yeomans have been collaborating on music-centered services since 2010, presenting them at her home church in Buffalo and at other Unitarian Universalist churches throughout Western New York.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Yeomans is a member of the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame since 2004 and was recently inducted into the East Aurora Music Hall of Fame. He plays a hybrid style including blues, bluegrass, rock and roll, and country with influences from jazz and beyond. He performs regularly throughout Western New York in venues ranging from churches to clubs, has toured nationally with Broadway shows, and composed and performed the music for “A Lesson Before Dying” at the Studio Arena Theatre.

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 our website at www.uucnc.org, like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uucnc, or give us a call at 716-679-7944. We invite you to join us!

State provides foliage update

Peak foliage for the 2025 season is expected to make its first significant appearance this weekend in the Hudson Valley, Central New York, Capital-Saratoga and Greater Niagara regions, in addition to continuing through the Finger Lakes, Thousand Islands-Seaway, Catskills and Chautauqua-Allegheny regions. This is according to the field reports from volunteer observers for the Empire State Development Division of Tourism’s I LOVE NY program.

Locations with peak foliage will include Ticonderoga in the Adirondacks; Voorheesville, Rotterdam and East Nassau in the Capital-Saratoga region; Forestburgh, East Durham and Round Top in the Catskills; Norwich, Herkimer, Middleburgh and Cazenovia in Central New York; Chautauqua in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region; Elmira, Moravia, Marathon, Waterloo and Trumansburg in the Finger Lakes; Batavia, East Aurora and Castile in the Greater Niagara region; Valatie, Cornwall, New Paltz and Highland in the Hudson Valley; and Alexandria Bay and Williamstown in the Thousand Islands-Seaway region.

For this week’s full I LOVE NY Fall Foliage Report, please visit www.iloveny.com/foliage.