City lists holiday schedule

Dunkirk City Hall will be closed on Wednesday for Christmas Eve and Thursday for Christmas Day.

As per the 2025 Curbside Collection Schedule, Rubbish in the Wednesday collection zone (District C) will be picked up as per usual schedule, Wednesday. Rubbish in the Thursday collection zone (District A) will be picked up on Friday. Rubbish in the Friday collection zone (District D) will be picked up on Saturday.

Copies of the Curbside Collection Schedule, which are valid until Feb. 28 are still available in the City Clerk’s Office, City Treasurer’s Office & Public Works Department as well as the City’s website www.cityofdunkirkny.gov.

Congregation

bids 2025 farewell

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), 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 December is Choosing Hope. On Sunday, a Fire Communion Service with Rev. Ron Skowronski and Cheryl Ritch will be presented.

Participants will spend the last Sunday morning of the year together, saying farewell to 2025 and welcoming 2026, with time for quiet contemplation, lighting candles of hope, a fire communion ritual, and a homily by Skowronski.

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 or call 716-679-7944.