BENTLEY Photo Courtesy of Due to Inclement Weather, but He Is, As TREE CARE Always, Optimistic About This Year

www.JamestownGazette.com /JamestownGazette FREE @JtownGazette WEEKLY Your Community • Your Credit Union Jamestown Area Community Federal Credit Union Chautauqua Marketing Solutions, Inc. The People’s Paper. Vol. 5 • No. 33 | Week of August 17, 2015 ebrati Ce75l Years ng 915 E. Second St., Jamestown Celtic Festival Returns for 10th Year 483-1650 • jacfcu.org Article Contributed by Federally insured by NCUA Chuck Abraham We take tree care seriously... It’s that time of year again! Time to grab your kilt, your caber and a pint of Smithwick’s and get y our Celt on at the 10th Annual Jamestown Regional Celtic Festival and Gathering of Clans on August 21 and 22 at Lakeside Park in Fully Insured Professional Service Mayville, hosted by the 96th Highlanders Pipes and Drums. BENTLEY Photo Courtesy of www.96thhighlanders.com due to inclement weather, but he is, as TREE CARE always, optimistic about this year. Tree Removal Stump Removal “We had people from Alaska, California, Tree Trimming Lot Clearing Florida and all over the Midwest come Tree Planting Skid Steer Services last year,” he said. “It’s grown every year. Logging Log Loads We knew it could be big, but we didn’t Site Clean-Up (for Split your own firewood) know how big. And it’s still growing.” Call for a free no obligation estimate (716) 736-3963 / (814) 725-1650 The fact that the 96th Highlanders host this popular event makes Celtic Festival Save unique in and of itself, Clark said. $25 Photo Courtesy of www.96thhighlanders.com “We may be one of the only pipe bands Got With who have our own festival,” Clark Coupon The festival has grown steadily every added. “We host it, we sponsor it and There will be 25 clans at this year’s year, according to Clark. He recalled Mice? we raise money for it. It’s basically Ehrlich event. According to festival organizer 2007’s festival, when there were ours. Highlander magazine, which is Doug Clark, Celtic clans have been only four clans, two Celtic bands, six distributed all over the world, put our ad Pest Control around for centuries. vendors and a beer tent. The Scottish on their back cover. It’s a really big event. Guaranteed Results “Many clans go back to the early 1500s,” Heavy Athletic Event was also held at Free Estimates We’re really proud of it. It really puts Free Estimates Clark said. “They began in the age of Jamestown Community College that FREE Chautauqua County on the map.” 800-331-BUGSESTIMATES lords and nobles in the British Isles. Clan year as a demo event, he said. Clark had MacNeil goes back hundreds of years.” a $6,000 budget for the entire event The Scottish Heavy Athletic competition is the most popular draw, Clark said. The Clark’s own involvement with the 96th which attracted 800 spectators in 2007. events started with Scottish and Irish Highlanders goes back to more than This year’s event is slated to welcome farmers using whatever they had on 15 years ago. The festival began in 2005 25 clans, eight pipe bands, nine hand with which to stage a competition. based on an idea that occurred to Clark Celtic bands, 32 heavy athletes, and and former Jamestown Police Chief approximately 30 vendors. Clark now This year’s Scottish Heavies will have William MacLaughlin. has a $40,000 budget and is expecting five divisions: Men’s Open, Women’s, Masters, Senior Masters and Professional, “We were up in Amherst because we used greater attendance at this year’s Celtic according to Clark, who added that the to go to the festival there,” Clark said, Festival. 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Join Me in the Kitchen Scientists tell us that nobody on Planet style, great local bands playing everything Earth is more removed from anybody else from American music to old Scottish and QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS than a 23rd cousin. Now that’s an extended Irish ballads, and traditional sports like Write to us at: family! Just imagine the family reunion nothing else ever played on U.S. grass – PO Box 92 Jamestown, New York 14702 party we could have. Somebody better be except at other Celtic Festivals and around the world wherever Celts can gather. in the kitchen cooking. OFFICE: 716-484-7930 Wikipedia, the fountain of all human And it’s all family friendly. The word for FAX: 716-338-1599 knowledge – sort of – says a family is the day is Ceilidh, pronounced kay’-lee, and it means, roughly translated from any Contact US... any group of people affiliated by birth, News- marriage or nurture. one of the Celtic languages, “Welcome to [email protected] the family gathering, and it’s a most hearty Information- [email protected] What a shock that was for Archie Bunker welcome, too.” Events- [email protected] and Sammy Davis Jr. in the “All in the Family” episode as iconic of the 1970s as And wherever Celts gather, there may also ONLINE: www.jamestowngazette.com Lucy stomping grapes or getting loopier be a wee drop or two of foaming brew on and loopier on just one more spoonful of tap to fill a mug with cheer. AD DEADLINES: Friday at 12:00 pm Vitameatavegamin. The Jamestown Gazette invites one and all [email protected] What’s going on in your family today? I to the 10th Annual Jamestown Regional DISTRIBUTION: mean your

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