Buffalo RocketCOMMUNITY NEWS Distributing to North Buffalo, West Side and Riverside • Established in 1969 www.buffalorocket.com Publishers of North Buffalo Rocket, West Side Times & Riverside Times Vol. LI ISSUE No. 34 • Thursday, August 20, 2020 125th Annual Memories YMCA Turkey Trot Going Virtual From the Buffalo Rocket archives Tunmore Oldsmobile, Delaware Ave. between Villa and Sanders. Since 1896 runners have competed in the cross country race that has become today’s Turkey Trot. The race attracts serious runners, amateurs, and team competitors alike. The Turkey Trot is an 8k footrace which traditionally be- gins on Delaware Avenue, and continues into downtown Buffalo. YMCA Buffalo Niagara is Thursday, November 26 and families who would oth- excited to announce that it through Sunday, November erwise be unable to afford will celebrate its 125th an- 29. vital YMCA programs and Erie County Department Of Health nual Turkey Trot virtually. Presented by ADPRO services. In 2019, Turkey Online registration opens Sports, the YMCA Tur- Trot participants helped Tips To Prevent Mosquito Bites at 11:00 am on Tuesday, key Trot is a time-honored raise more than $300,000 The Erie County De- ly one in five people who September 8, 2020. Regis- Thanksgiving Day tradition in financial assistance for partment of Health (EC- are infected will develop tered participants have the and the oldest consecutively families in need throughout DOH) is reminding county a mild fever with other option to run, jog, or walk run footrace in North Amer- Western New York. Please residents to stay vigilant flu-like symptoms. Fewer an 8k (4.97 miles) anytime ica. Proceeds raised from visit YMCATurkeyTrot.org in eliminating mosquito than 1% of infected peo- between Thanksgiving Day, the event benefit children for more information. breeding grounds and pre- ple will develop a serious, venting mosquito bites as sometimes fatal, neurolog- the summer season ends. ical illness. Routine surveillance of Recent cases of West New Mural Honoring John E. Brent mosquito pools in Erie Nile Virus in Erie Coun- The Albright-Knox’s Pub- by twenty-foot murals in- City of Buffalo. County has identified ty are relatively rare, lic Art Initiative recently stalled at the Buffalo Ni- For this project, Cooper West Nile virus (WNV) with two reported cases installed a new mural by agara Medical Campus collaborated with Chris- present in the mosquito in 2018, one in 2017, 12 in Buffalo-based artist James near the intersection of tine Parker, a local histo- population this month. 2012 and three in 2011. Cooper III, depicting rian and authority This is consistent with ECDOH recommends John E. Brent, Buf- on the life and leg- testing in previous sum- minimizing exposure falo’s first African acy of John Brent. mers. WNV is a mosqui- to mosquitoes by limit- American architect, Parker curated an to-borne illness that in- ing outdoor activities at at the Buffalo Zoo. exhibition at the fected mosquitos transmit dusk and dawn, covering Cooper produces Burchfield Pen- to humans through a bite. as much skin as possible colorful and evoca- ney Art Center, There are no medications when outside, and using tive abstract works Through These to treat or vaccines to pre- an effective insect repel- for traditional and public High Street and Michigan Gates: Buffalo’s First Af- vent WNV infection. For- lant that contains 25-30% settings. Most recogniz- Avenue. Cooper has also rican American Architect, tunately, the majority of DEET on exposed skin. ably in our landscape, he worked with John Bak- John E. Brent (October individuals infected with These tactics also protect worked with William Coo- er and other local artists 9, 2015–March 27, 2016), WNV will not have any against other insect-borne per (no relation) to pro- to produce murals for the detailing Brent’s contri- symptoms. Approximate- Continued on page six. duce two large fifty-foot Buffalo Sabres and the Continued on page six. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 MONDAY, AUGUST 24 TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 Sunny Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Thunderstorms Thunderstorms High 78° High 83° High 86° High 83° High 82° High 83° High 79° Low 65° Low 66° Low 69° Low 68° Low 68° Low 66° Low 65° PAGE 2 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 34 WEEK OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2020 moment came during the 1987 Canad Cup tourna- ment where he scored a goal and two assists in the decisive third game of the finals against the Soviet Union. 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