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. 6 • Thursday, February 6, 2020 Ride for Roswell Celebrates 25th Anniversary Memories

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The Celebration of Hope takes place on Friday, June 26th and brings to- Those were the days. Snapshot of four men gether Roswell Park patients, survivors, doctors, nurses and supporters spending a relaxing afternoon chatting on to kick off Ride Weekend. some corner in North Buffalo, probably in the The Ride for Roswell, Roswell Park Compre- roots event that attracted late 70’s. presented by the West hensive Cancer Center, 1,000 riders and raised Herr Automotive Group, including clinical trials $100,000 in 1996, and Discounted Tickets Available launched registration for and immunotherapy since then have raised In recognition of the reservations by calling this summer’s 25th an- studies. more than $53 million unwavering support from 716.856.3858. niversary event, taking “Our riders and vol- for cutting-edge research the county’s residents Please note that Mar- place on Saturday, June unteers can look forward and patient care at Ros- during the 25-year res- tin House members resid- 27. Online registration is to some memorable mo- well Park. Every person toration project, Frank ing in Erie County do re- available at RideforRos- ments as we celebrate who has ridden or volun- Lloyd Wright’s Martin ceive free one-hour tours well.org. the first 25 years of the teered during the last 25 House invites the resi- throughout the year but Funds raised through Ride,” says the event’s years has made an im- dents of Erie County to are invited to use the pro- the Ride benefit innova- founder, Mitch Flynn. pact. We’ve raised signifi- enjoy 50% off one and mo code for the discount tive cancer research at “We started as a grass- Continued on page six. two-hour tour tickets on a two-hour tour. during the month of Feb- Please be prepared to ruary. show ID upon check in at Theatre of Youth Performs:The Outsiders To purchase tickets the Visitors Center. Based on the popu- The Outsiders (rec- through the eyes of young online, choose a tour Visit the tour descrip- lar book by S.E. Hinton, ommended for ages 12+) Ponyboy. Territorial bat- date in February and use tion page to select either The Outsiders is on stage is adapted by Christop- tles between the have- promo code ERIE. The the one or two-hour tour March 14 – April 5, at er Sergel; from the book it-made rich kids — the discount applies to the option. Theatre of Youth, 203 by S.E. Hinton and pro- Socs — and Ponyboy’s adult, senior, and student We look forward to Allen Street, Buffalo. duced by special arrange- tough, underprivileged rate. You can also make seeing you in February. Tickets, starting at “greaser” family $15, are available and friends are just online at www.the- a part of life. But atreofyouth.org or even in the midst of by calling 716-884- urban gang warfare, 4400, ext. 304. Per- somehow Ponyboy formances are Sat- can’t forget a short urdays and Sundays poem that speaks to at 2 pm at the historic, ment with Dramatic their fragile young lives. handicapped accessible, Publishing, Woodstock, This poignant and he- Allendale Theatre, 203 Illinois. This production roic story of belonging, Allen Street, Buffalo, NY is directed by Chris Kel- friendship, and main- 14201. Audiences will ly. taining hope in the face enjoy a Talk-Back and The Outsiders is a of struggle is a powerful photo opportunity with searing story of real kids reminder of what young the cast after all perfor- in real situations with people encounter. mances. real consequences seen Continued on page six. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin house.

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sey has a disappointing six goals in 49 games but leads the team with a plus 12 rating. The long awaited trade of Rasmus Risto- lainen for a top six goal scoring forward is just a fantasy. If any other NHL team saw his val- Sam Reinhart Calls Out ue as that high he would already be gone. There His Teammates is no other expendable After scoring the Sa- expect Botterill to un- player who will bring bres only goal in a 6-1 load all of his unrestrict- anything but a 3rd - 5th loss to the Colorado Av- ed Free agents (UFA’S) round draft choice, which alanche, Sam Reinhart for draft picks by the is basically nothing since called out his team- trade deadline, if anyone those late picks almost mates. “I think it’s all will take them. That list never develop into NHL coming down to the play- includes Michael Frolik, players. The only players FREE PIZZA: J. 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loaned his vehicle to a Blotter friend (suspect) and sus- NORTH PARK THEATRE The pect has refused to return STARTS FRIDAY Felonies vehicle. Complainant THE FAN CONNECTION states that when he spoke THE FAN CONNECTION From “D” District with suspect, suspect Fri 2/7, Sat 2/8, Sun 2/9, Mon 2/10, Tue 2/11, Wed 2/12, Thur 2/13 told complainant that he WEATHERING WITH YOU then did get out of car and Fri 2/7, Sat 2/8, Sun 2/9, Mon 2/10, Tue 2/11, Wed 2/12, Thur 2/13 North Buffalo doesn’t know where the PARASITE February 1, 2020 did punch complainant’s vehicle is. Fri 2/7, Sun 2/9, Mon 2/10, Tue 2/11, Wed 2/12, Thur 2/13 Woodbridge Avenue – car hood and passenger COLOR OUT OF SPACE Complainant states un- door, denting the same. West Side Fri 2/7, Mon 2/10, Tue 2/11 known suspect(s) did Damage approximately January 31, 2020 BALTO Sat 2/8, Sun 2/9 enter vehicle without per- $300.00 THE DOORS: BREAK ON THRU – A CELEBRATION OF RAY MANZAREK Elmwood Avenue – Defen- Wed 2/12 mission. 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Video Traymore Avenue – Com- report that a small gray surveillance is available. 21 CENTURY 21 Balesteri, Inc. 21 plainant states suspect vehicle did fire 10 rounds Total amount $88.77. did try forcibly to take into the home causing money from her by at- damage to multiple win- January 30, 2020 PROPERTY EVALUATION tempting to grab money dows. 10 9mm casings Dearborn Street – Com- from her hand. were recovered on hunt plainant reports that CERTIFICATE next door and submitted. unknown suspects, who January 31, 2020 were seen by a neigh- This Certificate entitles you to an evaluation of Main Street – Com- January 31, 2020 bor, did kick in the inside your property by a CENTURY 21 Balesteri, Inc. plainant states due to Ontario Street – Officers front door causing greater Real Estate professional. agreement, vehicle was recovered vehicle. Owner than $250.00 in damages. Contact us and we will show you how much supposed to be returned was notified and said ve- While inside the house your properly is worth in todays Marketplace. with keys and has yet to hicle was transported to suspects did take proper- be returned. Vehicle is be- Dart Street impound. ty with no right to do so. ISSUED BY: ______Home Seller & Buyer Specialist ing operated by unknown female who is not the January 31, 2020 January 30, 2020 Balesteri, Inc. renter. Skillen Street – Com- CENTURY 21 Thompson Street – Detec- 1705 Hertel Ave. ┃ Buffalo, NY 14216 plainant (collision shop) tives while surveillance Phone: 837-7000 ┃ Email: [email protected] January 31, 2020 states after the suspect on complainant’s house If your property is currently listed with a realtor, please disregard this offer, it is not Villa Avenue – Com- was fired, he did return observed defendant ap- our intention to solicit realtors. 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Complainant defendant’s pant coin and leave in a different ve- state that unknown per- pocket. Detective submit- hicle. Witness states there son did take his wallet ted the heroin. may be video footage of which contained NYS li- the incident. Vehicle was cense, M&T Bank card, recovered and released to $40 cash, Summit Credit the owner who states that Union bank card, Capital Answers to Senior Trivia items were taken from One credit card which un- Buffalo Rocket Issue 5 the vehicle without per- known person did use at mission. Owner of vehicle 7-11 location and charged was issued ticket for leav- $17.00. Complainant can- JANUARY 30, 2020 ing running vehicle unat- celed accounts. tended. January 31, 2020 Trivia January 30, 2020 Wyandotte Street – Com- Hertel Avenue – Buffa- plainant reports vehicle lo Police undercover was was stolen out of Ham- 1) Kansas City vs propositioned by defen- burg. Vehicle was locat- 2) Four dant while in the City of ed with homeless female Buffalo. The defendant sleeping in vehicle who 3) None agreed to have intercourse stated a male did pick with undercover for $100 her up in said vehicle and 4) 90, 91, 92, 93 US currency. Detective took her to above location, gave Miranda and 710.30. got out and said he would 5) Defendant is 7 months be back (never returned.) 6) Giants, Redskins, Cowboys twice pregnant. Vehicle had heavy front end damage. Vehicle was 7) Scott Norwood January 30, 2020 impounded to Dart Street. Great Arrow – Com- Hamburg PD notified. 8) Wide right plainant reports unknown suspect did cut him off in January 31, 2020 9) his vehicle causing com- Woodell Street – Com- 10) Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, LA, Atlanta plaint to stop. Suspect plainant reports that he Answers on page seven. PAGE 4 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 6 WEEK OF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020

member that. It is now WIVB-TV. The Courier was a Northwest weak daily but had a tre- mendous Sunday paper Buffalo Beat which kept it alive. The Buffalo Evening News by Joe Bortz was the stronger as far as circulation and adver- tising, except for Sunday. Buffalo Snooze Strange that the morning The recent headline in Okay, now I got the paper was not the main Buffalo is the selling of the story straight. 30 other stream but it was not. Buffalo News to Lee En- Berkshire Hathaway dai- I delivered the Courier terprises for 140 million. lies are included which when I was a youngster Not sure who this Lee En- makes it sound a little and know about selling terprises is but I have a more palatable. BH even subscriptions. Not many bridge in Brooklyn I could has an interest in Lee En- daily customers but Sun- sell them. Heck, Jeff terprises. Just hope the days was overwhelming. Bezos paid 150 million for new people return the Even had to ask my dad the Washington Post and publication into a news- to help me sometimes, as that is a lot more paper paper again. I may even it was so big with lots of than the News. I am sure subscribe. Sunday only subscribers. Young Andrew Cuomo talks to radio reporter there is more to it than Back before television Not so much the news from WBEN. meets the eye but I would took over the way daily content but the ads and tributed to the pages of now. Wonder if there will not think the News, who news is presented, your inserts. As a kid you could the Rocket. Back then be any editorial changes has been a loser for years, only source of daily infor- only carry maybe six Sun- we had a circulation of and content influence in is worth that much mon- mation was in the news- day papers as to a dozen 25,000 combined with the their reporting. The News ey. Maybe they will buy paper. We had two dailies dailies. Back then the West Side Times and the has been a bias paper for the Buffalo Rocket for a in Buffalo, the Courier Buffalo Evening News Riverside Times. many years. I recall that measly $50,000. No big Express and the Buffa- did not have a Sunday I recall the News was my buddy Mayor Jimmy profit here either but it is lo Evening News. The edition. The Courier was owned by a local family, Griffin could do nothing not losing at the rate the Courier was the morn- too powerful and long es- the Butlers, who lived right according to the news is. Things may have ing daily and the News tablished. Eventually the right here on Delaware. News. They were so one changed as I have not came out later in the day. Courier and some say be- Maybe that was a factor sided, it becomes appar- subscribed to the News Hence it was called the cause of the union, folded in the success of the News ent, but he just kept on for over three years. I see Buffalo Evening News. much to the dismay of the over the Courier back winning. Just that we it sometimes in Doctor’s BEN! When they went to community. Some of the then, as they were very in- look for good honest re- offices or restaurants. radio they had to add the columnists came to the volved in the community. porting from reporters Seemed awfully thin with W to make their station Rocket soon afterwards Did a lot for Western New with no twist. Columnists very little substance. Not WBEN. Enter TV and it mostly for exposure. Writ- York and it showed in the could say what they want. like it used to be in its was WBEN-TV. Not that ers like Jim Baker, Doug writings and knowledge That way you could read heyday. long ago so we should re- Smith, Ray Herman, con- of the area. the ones you agree with With the Courier fold- as long as they have both ing, the News took over sides represented. Maybe publishing on Sunday that is why no one reads ® morning, followed by it this column. I own the pa- becoming the morning per so it does not matter Personal friend of the Gecko. paper. With that they what the editor thinks. geico.com/buffalo-north dropped the Evening and Birthday: February became just the Buffalo 7th - Joe Bortz/Dave Gal- News which is what it is lagher. Timothy C. Lynch | 716-832-3253 Senior 1330 Niagara Falls Blvd | Tonawanda ? ??? TRIVIA ?? Name ten of Frank Sinatra’s popular songs.

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into Social Security via over the years the ratio of Fund. That will contin- FICA payroll taxes will workers to beneficiaries ue, according to the most have already been spent has declined from 16.5 to recent Social Security to pay benefits to those al- 1 in 1950 to less than 3 to Trustees’ Report, until the ready collecting Social Se- 1 today, so there are far Trust Fund is depleted in curity. With no surviving fewer workers paying for about 2035, at which time Seniority dependents, there are no beneficiaries who are liv- Social Security will only benefits to be paid from ing much longer. Starting be able to pay out about your lifetime work record. in 2019, Social Security 80% of benefits due - un- True you will have paid a will pay out more in ben- less Congress acts soon to Ask Rusty – What Happens to My great deal over your work- efits than it received from resolve the issue. And the ing career, but the system FICA payroll taxes, which solutions are well known; Social Security If I Die at Age 62? is designed so that when means the excess paid out what’s lacking in Congress Dear Rusty: I have are currently receiving you retire your benefits in benefits will come from is a serious bipartisan ef- worked my entire life benefits. Any excess col- will be paid for by those the reserves in the Trust fort to fix the problem. and contributed to Social lected which is not paid who are still working and Security. I have been sin- out in benefits is depos- paying into the system. gle my entire life with no ited into a special Trust Of course, it’s a game of children. What happens Fund and held in reserve averages and Social Se- to all that money I have for the future. My hope is curity says the “average” contributed to Social Se- that understanding this longevity for a male to- curity if I die at age 62? will dispel a far too widely day is about 84. So, un- Signed: Curious Worker held myth that the mon- less you’re already in poor Dear Curious: From ey you pay into the Social health, chances are pretty its inception in 1935, So- Security program from good you will live beyond cial Security has always your paycheck is deposit- age 62. Chances are also been a “pay as you go” ed into a personal account pretty good that if you do, Now Accepting Applications program where current for you - it is not. Rath- you’ll get back much more workers contribute mon- er that money is used to in benefits than you have NowStudios Accepting-4 bedrooms Applications ey from which current pay benefits to all those contributed. In fact, if you Studios-4 bedrooms beneficiaries are paid. who are already collect- start collecting benefits at Contact us at: That’s the way it has ing Social Security. And your full retirement age Contact us at: worked since the first the extra money in the you will get back bene- 10 Durham Court Buffalo NY 14214 Social Security payroll Trust Fund is invested fits at least equal to what 10 Durham Court Buffalo NY 14214 withholding occurred in in special interest-bear- you contributed within 716-883-3343 1937 and the first Social ing bonds which contrib- about 5 years (we’ve stud- 716-883-3343 Security benefit was paid ute further to the Trust ied this carefully). Which Rent is based on Income in 1940. And it works the Fund’s reserves (more brings us back to the same way today. about the Trust Fund in a Trust Fund. Social Security FICA minute). The Social Security payroll taxes collected If you were to pass Trust Fund held about from current workers are away at, or before, age 62, $2.9 trillion in reserves used to pay all those who all the money you paid at the end of 2018. But

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Season is sponsored by would prefer to be the only spoiled canine in The 47th Season at ries told in the theatre; Wegmans, Independent a home where she can give and receive atten- TOY brings plays with the plays in our 47th Sea- Health (Wellness Se- tion and be part of her human pack. If you are important and timely son speak to youth about ries), Hamister Family looking to add a great dog to your home and life, messages, said Artis- growing up and finding Foundation (Education) please consider Gladys to be that addition. She tic Director Meg Quinn. their place in the world.” The Buffalo News (Me- is sponsored with training so what a great way “Every play this season This will mark Quinn’s dia) and National Fuel to develop that bond and she can show you how creates an ‘aha moment,’ 27th year as Artistic Di- (sensory performanc- smart she really is.... ID# 43551240 moments when a charac- rector. es). 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I want to invite ev- To participate, riders routes from start lines at eryone to make a differ- aged 18 and over are re- UB’s North Campus and ence for our 25th anni- quired to reach the fund- Roswell Park on Satur- versary by registering to raising minimum of $200 day, June 27. ride, becoming a virtual ($500 for the Canada More than 10,000 rid- rider, volunteering, or route) by Ride Day; rid- ers and volunteers of donating to someone you ers aged 17 and under all ages are expected to know who rides.” have a fundraising mini- take part in this year’s The Ride offers routes mum of $50 for all routes. Ride. Since the first Ride ranging from 3 to 100 In addition to riders, for Roswell was held miles, including an in- more than 2,000 volun- in 1996, the event has ternational trip through teers are needed to sup- raised more than $53 Canada and multiple port the event. Volunteer million for cancer re- start times for the most signup is now available search and patient-care popular routes. On many for the most critical vol- programs at Roswell route options, partici- unteer positions. The Park.The funds raised pants riding different dis- Ride also offers a virtu- through the Ride for Ros- tances can depart from al rider option for those well have helped Roswell the start line at the same who are volunteering Park researchers inves- time, making scheduling or cannot be present on tigate new treatment op- easier for families and June 27 but want to sup- tions; facilitated clinical team members looking to port Roswell Park. trials for both common start together. Ride Weekend kicks and rare types of can- The 2020 routes and off on Friday, June 26, cers; supported the costs start times include: with the Peloton, a 12- of important medical River routes (start at mile route that is re- testing not covered by in- the University at Buffa- served for a qualifying surance; and made pos- lo’s North Campus) group of top fundrais- sible quality-of-life pro- 3-mile Family Route: ers who raise $2,500 or grams that help patients 10:30, 10-mile: 9:30 & 11 more. The Peloton riders remember that cancer a.m., 20-mile: 7, 8, 9, 10 will travel in two-by-two doesn’t define them and & 11 a.m., 30-mile: 7, 8, formation from Roswell assist with non-medical 9, 10 & 11 a.m. Park to UB’s North Cam- needs. Country routes (start pus and join the Celebra- In addition, Ride Spir- at UB’s North Campus) tion of Hope, a moving it Week will take place 34-mile: 7:30 and 8:30 and inspirational com- March 23-27, with the

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