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 . 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.

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1. Anthony Masiello 1994-2006 James Griffin 1978-1994 Stanley Makowski 1973-1977 Frank Sedita 1966-1973 Chester Kowal 1962-1965 Frank Sedita 1958-1961 Steven Pankow 1954-1957

2. Offerman Stadium - Opened in 1924 closed in 1960 and demolished that same year. Known as Bison Stadium 1924-1935. In 1961, the Bisons played at a renovated football stadium, Civic Stadium and re-named it War Memorial.

3. One Seneca Center 529 Ft. City Hall 398 Ft. Rand Building 392 Ft., Did you Main Place Tower 350 Ft. Liberty Building 345 Ft. M&T Building 317 Ft. know... Electric Tower 294 Ft.

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