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Thirty years ago — 1993 A contest to design a statue depicting President Abraham Lincoln’s meeting with Grace Bedell, a Westfield resident, has been announced by the Lincoln-Bedell Statue Committee. The committee is asking all artists entering this contest to consider any poses or posturing that will represent the historic meeting between the two. Estimates of over $100,000 have been made for the statue which will be cast in bronze. The site of the old Grand Theater at Main and Portage streets is where the statue will be placed. Forty years ago — 1983 The Great Lakes Color ...

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Thirty years ago — 1993 The congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church in Silver Creek hosted a farewell dinner for the Rev. David Batchelder and his family after the Sunday morning worship service. This was the pastor’s first parish following his graduation from Concordia Theological Seminary. Forty years ago — 1983 David S. Coulson, son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Coulson, 1516 Silver Lane, Silver Creek is one of about 15,000 young men and women across the country honored as semi-finalists in the 1984 National Merit Scholarship Competition. He is the only student in Chautauqua ...

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Thirty years ago — 1993 Plans to locally manufacture a new type of high-commercial oven were unveiled at a press conference in Sheridan. Ty Cross of South Roberts Road said he and his partner, Terry Velenti of Tonawanda, have named their device the Cornerstone Rotary Oven and hope to start building them somewhere in the Sheridan area as soon as financing can be found. Designed by Mr. Velenti, the Cornerstone takes up only 24 square feet of floor space and can cook as many as 300 large pizzas per hour using a 12-shelf rotary system inside the oven. The cost is $8,000, but the oven is ...

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Thirty years ago — 1993 The 11 contestants vying this year for the title of Miss Festival of Grapes are: Joy Van Slyke, Jessica Wojcinski, J’Neene Ortolano, Jena Gullo, Denelle Newcomb, Mirella Del Sorbo, Misty Sullivan, Megan Muck, Cathryn White, Rebecca Castricone and Jennifer Hutchinson. Forty years ago — 1983 Thomas Kolassa, an alumnus of Fredonia High School, is enrolled in the Ohio University Raabe College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Services. His parents are Mrs. Alan Mazany and Thomas Kolassa, both of Fredonia. Fifty years ago — 1973 The City Street Department ...

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Thirty years ago — 1993 A new Movie World, a larger version of the current Movie World, is under construction on Vineyard Drive in Dunkirk next to the former Ames building. It is expected to be completed some time in November. The new store, which will measure 7,040 square feet, will feature an expanded children’s playground and between 15,000 to 16,000 movie selections. Forty years ago — 1983 A total of 11 computers and a printer greeted returning Ripley Central School students. Voters in the school district approved the use of an excess of funds from the 1982-83 school year ...

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Thirty years ago — 1993 The Dunkirk Common Council has agreed to hold a public meeting to hear comments on whether the city needs a second taxi-cab service. Salvatore Colletti of Jamestown, the owner of Rainbow Cab. Co., which would operate from 10695 Bennett Road in the town of Dunkirk, told the council he feels a second cab company is needed in the city and has already invested $20,000 in the fledgling company. Ronald Kubera, owner of the city’s only existing cab company, argued that there is barely enough business for even his company. Forty years ago — 1983 The Dunkirk ...