Buffalo Rocket COMMUNITY 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. XLV ISSUE No. 13 • Thursday, March 27, 2014 Junior League Awards One For The Record Funds To MAP The Massachusetts capital budget of $650,000 Avenue Project (MAP) is by September 2014. proud to announce that The new Center will the Junior League of Buf- enhance MAP’s mission falo has awarded MAP’s by allowing the organiza- Community Food Training tion to provide food and & Resource Center as the nutrition-related informa- recipient of 2013 Junior tion, resources and train- League/Buffalo News Deco- ing to 15,000 people annu- rators’ Show House Funds. ally, and increase access to The new Community healthy, affordable food. Food Training & Resource The new Center will cre- Center will provide food ate a welcoming and func- and agriculture-based tional teaching kitchen for education, resources and cooking classes, nutrition volunteer opportunities to education and cooperative Buffalo residents, schools, food prep clubs. community gardeners and It will create new meet- City plans to collect any remaining snow left after this past winter to pro- organizations. ing and training space for duce the world's largest snowpile. The Center will include partners working on local City officials are making lots in the effort to get rid "and we will go street to a new indoor and outdoor food systems development plans to collect any snow of what ever snow if still street until we collect ev- training space, a teaching and will increase oppor- left from the 2014 winter around. ery flake." kitchen, a resource library, tunities for greater com- to create the world's larg- "This pile of snow will The snow pile could improved cold storage and munity involvement in est snowpile ever recorded. definitely break the record reach a height of 150 feet tool storage space, and of- food-based research and Trucks and high-lifts are for the largest mound re- when completed. fices, all located at MAP’s advocacy. It will also create already in the process of corded," explains Giusta P. Completion date for the urban farm at 389 Massa- a much needed home base collecting snow mounds Rank, executive planner of project should be by Tues- chusetts Avenue. MAP has for MAP’s innovative Grow- left at curbs and parking the snow collecting project, day, April 1st deadline. a goal to raise the entire Continued on page three. Mummies of the World: West Side Ponytail Softball/ The Exhibition Opens at Museum of Science Baseball League Sign Up Nationally recognized place all over the globe, from revealing how the scientific Parents, if you‘re corner of Lafayette and Mummies of the World: The the hot desert sands of South study of mummies provides thinking of having your Grant. Time: 2:00 pm un- Exhibition will open at the America to remote European a window into the lives of til 4:00 pm. Includes full Buffalo Museum of Science child play sports this ancient people, offering uniform, insurance, tro- on Saturday, April 12, 2014 unprecedented insights into summer, the West Side phy, individual and team making its first stop ever to past cultures, civilizations Play Area has leagues New York. The blockbuster and will showcase brand- that play at LaSalle pictures, nine games plus exhibit, having visited 9 cities new galleries exploring the Park. playoffs. and viewed by over 1 million study of mummies linked The West Side Ponytail The leagues also need visitors across the United to discoveries in modern Softball League for girls volunteer coaches and States, is presenting a new, medicine. has three divisions: 8- umpires (umpires paid never before seen collection This astonishing collection 10, 11-13 and 14-18 year $20.00/game). of mummies and related of mummies and related old. The West Side Boys Coaches are needed to artifacts for the upcoming bogs. artifacts includes the Vac Baseball League also has teach and guide the youth Buffalo engagement. Through Declared as “magical Mummies, a mummified family three divisions: 8-10, 11- in the sport. Call Tovie modern science, Mummies and mythical” by the New from Hungary believed to have 13 and 14-16 year olds. Asarese at 885-7692 for of the World demonstrates York Times, the exhibition died from tuberculosis; the Registration will be held more information or vis- that mummification – both presents a collection of rare Baron von Holz, a German Saturday, March 29th at it our website at: www. through natural processes and mummies that spans eons of nobleman found tucked Our Lady of Hope Hall, westsideplayarea.com. intentional practices – has taken time and transcends history Continued on page four. THURSDAY, MARCH 27 FRIDAY, MARCH 28 SATURDAY, MARCH 29 SUNDAY, MARCH 30 MONDAY, MARCH 31 TUESDAY, APRIL 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL2 Partly Cloudy- Rain Rain/Snow Partly CLoudy Cloudy Sunny Partly Cloudy High 47° High 48° High 37° High 42° High 51° High 85° High 40° Low 40° Low 32° Low 27° Low 31° Low 36° Low 70° Low 34° PAGE 2 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 13 WEEK OF THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014 The Adventures of... and Ogden Street! Brydges - Uh, yeah, FILE WITH US, FILE TODAY! Rocket Man that’s the guy. It was OK, we made more money on by Doug Smith destroying the booths than we were taking in in tolls, but yeah, that’s A Bridge Too Carl the guy who made us look bad. Rhodes - A Bridge Too Carl Rock- If you missed it, here’s And he lives on Grand et Man was not surprised the transcript: Island? Don’t they have to learn that the South Rhodes - Hey, Rex, how any standards at all over Grand Island Bridge was much work do they need there? actually in pretty good going to Grand Island? Brydges - No, he shape when the Thruway Brydges - Looks like a doesn’t, and there’s not Authority decided to “fix few nights with routine even enough Republi- it” two summers ago. paving. cans there for two tables Recent revelations re- Rhodes - Sure that’s of pinochle, but they love minded him of the Friday all? I’ve got an old class- him. morning in September mate in Pennsylvania Rhodes - Pinochle? as he tried to lift off for a wants to experiment with Nobody over there plays Free Movie Passes to North Park Theatre: Phil M. Buff, 1428 Hertel Ave. baseball excursion to New some new methods. bridge? Jersey and found traffic Brydges -- How would Brydges - Nobody can backed up all the way to that affect the cost and even SAY bridge without Niagara Falls. duration? saying (copulative exple- Elegance Overnight the contrac- Rhodes - Ten times as tive) first. tors had attempted to much, 10 times as long, Rhodes - And these Optique lower a segment of new but it’s not my money, and people voted for Paladi- pavement into a hole in who lives on Grand Island no? SHERIDAN-DELAWARE PLAZA 1754 Sheridan Drive • Buffalo, the bridge, only to have anyway, a buncha cows? Brydges - Yup. More NY 14223 874-4600 it roll around the rim and Brydges - Dunno, but in than two to one. out like a last-second Syr- the last election they gave Rhodes - Sounds like acuse shot. Nobody moved Carl Paladino the biggest somebody needs a les- Eye Exams Contacts Eye Glasses for a day. Couples with vote margin he got any- son. 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