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BEAT ON THE STREET:.......PAGE 13 January 28th - February 3rd, 2021 Volume 16 ~ Issue 4 A FREE Weekly Publication Serving Ellicottville and Surrounding Communities Visit our website at: www.thevillagerny.com FREE CHQ-CATT CO’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Area Events Weather In Our Region Exploring Your DNA AMERICAN HEART MONTH February 1st - February 28th History of Western New York’s Infamous Snowstorms Many Resources at Your Fingertips in Our Region Across the United States BLACK HISTORY MONTH February 1st - February 28th Across the United States RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS February 17th - February 22nd Across the United States ALLEGANY STATE PARK Open Daily • 24 Hours Allegany State Park, Salamanca NANNEN ARBORETUM Open Daily • Till Dusk Town of Ellicottville, Ellicottville EVL VILLAGE PARK This very weekend, 44 years ago (1977), January 28 through February Barbara Jimerson, Picking Beans 1943 photo contributed to The Open Daily • Till Dusk 1, a freakish, 200-year storm-to-remember took place, beginning Iroquois Genealogy Society of Irving by Julie Jimerson. Village of Ellicottville, Ellicottville with a customary Thursday evening storm warning with high winds for Western New York and Southern Ontario. BY JESSICA MIlleR themselves made a journey to LETCHWORTH STATE PARK western New York, the stories Open Daily • Till Dusk BY CAROL FISHER We have a proud history of Everybody’s family has a history. of ancestors leave an indelible Letchworth State Park, Castille being survivors, particularly Regardless of whether one’s imprint on the generations of the Just as we have learned to weather-survivors. Granted, ancestors have always lived here, present and future. LONG POINT STATE PARK overcome obstacles and live our we are blessed not to have to if somehow a great grandparent Some families have the blessing Open Daily • Till Dusk lives in 2020, we hardy souls in endure out-of-control forest- or two found themselves living of knowledge of their cultures 4459 NY-430, Bemus Point NYS, and particularly in WNY, here from a trip across state or EE AGE SEE “HERITAGE” PAGE 10 SCOBY DAM PARK have always learned to adjust. S “WEATHER” P 8 international borders, or if one Open Daily, Till Dusk Scoby Hill Road, Springville Strengthening Body Strengthens Mind Warrior Fitness & Wellness GRIFFIS SCULPTURE PARK Keeping Your Body Healthy Improves Mental Health New Multi-Use Gym and Wellness Center in EVL Open Daily, Till Dusk Mill Valley Rd, East Otto MIDWAY STATE PARK Open Mon-Fri • 8-4:30pm 4859 NY-430, Bemus Point KINZUA BRIDGE STATE PARK Open Daily • 8-4pm 296 Viaduct Rd, Mt Jewett ROCK CITY PARK Open Daily • 9-5pm 505 NY-16, Olean For more information on NY Parks visit parks.ny.gov Both Kim Duke (left) of Core Performance Health and Fitness and Warrior Fitness & Wellness owner, Brad Poole in the Blue Room of Advertise All Your Laura Solly of Laura Solly Yoga (right) believe mental and physical his gym. Upcoming Attractions & health is combined. Events Here BY SHelbY TotH through unprecedented stress, both BY CHAD NEAL himself. He also made a lot for the Call: 716-699-2058 mentally and physically. We still charity running all over Cattaraugus Email: [email protected] It goes without saying that need to mask up, and we must take Another addition to Ellicottville’s County this past year. And his dream www.thevillagerny.com this pandemic has been hard on precautions and respect each other many amenities is Warrior Fitness of showing and helping others everyone. Our bodies have gone to help our communities. But it & Wellness, LLC. Just on the become warriors has come true. A may be time to start working out outskirts of the Village, Warrior visit to Warrior Fitness and Wellness again. Fitness is located off of Rockwell found Bradley Poole ready to show “There is a saying that you are Ave. on Park Ave. In the 90s the growth that has happened since one workout away from a better the building was the Function they opened on January 4th of this Sneak Peek mood- and it is so true,” Kim Snowboard Company, but now year. Inside this Issue... Duke, owner of Core Performance Bradley Poole has turned it into a Upon entering many reminders Health and Fitness said. “During multi-use gym and wellness center. are there to have patrons and visitors the pandemic, working out got a Poole is known as a warrior around wear their masks and follow the Did You Know: Snowmaking.. Pg. 12 little tougher due to motivation, Ellicottville for his fundraisers for SEE “FIT” PAGE 14 SEE “GYM” PAGE 14 First Known Snowmaking Machine Dates Back to 1934 cystic fibrosis, which he is fighting Restoring a Street Car 1887 was a Very Fine Year CHQ. Co.’s Car #93 Finds New Life EVL’s 1887 Building’s Unfinished Story In 1934, Warner Bros. technical director Louis Geib conjured a cold and wet blizzard on a sunny back lot in Burbank, California. His invention—the first known snowmaking machine.... Jim Mitchener (left) and Bob Johnston (right) pos- Business Spotlight: ing with car #93. They took the lead as the trolley Photo of Ellicottville’s 1887 building from The Station Bistro... Pg. 6 car was stripped to the bones and rebuilt from the www.historicpath.com. West Valley Establishment Offers Fine Food & Entertainment bottom up. Steps along the way of the total recon- struction are chronicled on jamestowntrolley.org. BY CARol FISHER We are all tired of spending so much time in one place. We are aching BY JUDY SHUleR to go out, watch a movie, hear some music and have a break in the 1887 was quite an historic and interesting year: Our pandemic monotony. History buff Bob Johnston is not a fan of the easy. A treasured red brick corner schoolhouse building was project that first captured his imagination 26 years ago erected that year. Grover Cleveland was President, EVL Chamber Spotlight: Reflections... Pg. 9 is just now approaching completion. Nikola Tesla started experimenting with X-Rays and SEE “CAR” PAGE 15 SEE “1887” PAGE 15 EVL VILLAGE PARK: OPEN DAILY, TILL DUSK : VILLAGE OF ELLICOTTVILLE, ELLICOTTVILLE Page 2 ~ The Villager ~ January 28 - February 3, 2021 January 28 - February 3, 2021 ~ The Villager ~ Page 3 Publisher’s Word Town Planning Board Meeting January Meeting Tackles Multiple Projects 34 Washington St., “Is there a Shadow of Spring?” Ellicottville NY This coming Tuesday, February so too, he has a condo right here BY SHelbY TotH, Plan Amendment was also Existing lines are in place from 716-699-4695 2, our favorite furry predictor in Ellicottville. How’s that for an STAFF WRIteR met with positive feedback a previous project that was is going to tell us his opinion insider source! Though everyone is from the Planning Board, and never completed, and Slotman www.howardhanna.com on whether or not we are going functioning on a limited basis right The January meeting of the the public hearing is set for will have to approve changes to have to bundle up for the now, everyone is still busy including Town Planning Board was February 22. in these utilities. Another next six weeks. As the story our ski resorts. Holiday Valley has held in person, a change of Two pre-application major note is that this project goes, if our beloved groundhog, sold out the past few weekends and Where do you want to be in pace from the “new normal” conferences were discussed at would be reviewed as a motel, Tina J. Dillon Punxsutawney Phil, emerges our storefronts are reporting record of Zoom conference calls. The the Planning Board meeting as it would not meet standards Lic. Real Estate Sales Person the New Year?’ from his burrow on this day and numbers! It just goes to show with Planning Board covered four next, each proposing an to be a housing subdivision. Call/Text me today, I will sees his shadow due to clear the right attitude and persistence, orders of new business, with interesting new development The final project on the Cell: 716.474.5646 weather, he will retreat to his den you can do whatever you set your two having public hearings set to the Ellicottville area. agenda for the night, another help you get there! and winter will persist for six more weeks; but if he does mind out to do, so make it a good for the February 22 meeting. First up was “Tiny Home pre-application conference, www.tinadillon.net not see his shadow because of cloudiness, spring will one! Speaking of good thoughts, I’d The first item on the agenda Village”, a proposed collection was for a solar farm out on arrive early. like to hear yours! Please send your was the Elk Creek Subdivision of small rental chalets on Rt. Sommerville Valley Rd. The Email: [email protected] I for one am all for the snow, that’s why we live in this ideas and inquiries into us, we are off Maples Road. There 242 W. These proposed units project, pitched by Borrego enchanted part of WNY after all isn’t it?! Our dear friend always looking for your input and are already a few houses in were interchangeably referred Solar, would span 22 acres of and Punxsutawney Phil Handler, Bill Deely believes article ideas. Until next week, JCZ place at the location, and the to as cottages, tiny homes, and a 95-acre property, and be a applicant hopes to create 11 chalets during the meeting, 5-megawatt farm. new lots for Phase B of the but in the eyes of the Town, The Planning Board was very project.