Thirty years ago — 1993

“Bring us your blues, your greens, your lemon-yellows yearning to be applied …” That could well be the motto to be hung over the door of the Dunkirk Recycling Center on Lucas Avenue as the new experimental city-county paint exchange program gets under way on April 17. Chautauqua County and city of Dunkirk have agreed to collect odd lots of paint left over from public and private users at the recycling center so that others — governments or private citizens — can pick through the cans and find a use for the leftovers.

Forty years ago — 1983

Recent winners in the Quik-Stop Food Mart 1st Anniversary Celebration included Bonnie Ricotta, Paul Gee, Denise Matekovich, Ed Tofil and Tony Kucmierz, all gift certificate winners. The grand prize of an AM/FM Stereo Cassette Recorder was awarded to Carl Yacklon of Serval Street, Dunkirk. Quik-Stop is located at 327 Lake Shore Drive East in Dunkirk.