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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. 19 • Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Summer of the Ride Food Drive Scheduled The Hertel North Park WNY for much needed Youth Baseball and Soft- support. ball League is hosting We can’t do it alone a food drive and you can on Saturday, help. Please May 9th from dropp of your 12 pm until 2 can goods, pm. The drop non perish- off location ables or make will be at 475 a monetery Beard Ave- contribution. nue, Buffalo, Restaurant NY. gift cards and No one check will should go be accepted. hungry Make checks during the COVID-19 payable to FeedMore pandemic. With school WNY. closures, job disruptions We hope to see you and health risks, many there to support this Western New Yorkers worthy cause. are turning to FeedMore The Summer of the Ride gives the community two ways to celebrate the 25th anniversary — ride with us or ride their own way between August 1 and 21, 2020. The Ride for Roswell, climate and concerns to celebrate throughout presented by the West about how long the need the month of July; get- Support Local Herr Automotive Group, for caution will last, the ting on bikes to ride Au- introduced the Summer usual single-day format gust 1–21; and a closing of the Ride, a re-imag- will be replaced with ceremony August 21. It Restaurants ined event offering mul- summer-long engage- will also offer many new tiple riding options be- ment opportunities offer- kinds of rider rewards tween August 1 and 21. ing many different ways for reaching fundraising during these uncertain times The Ride is traditional- for riders to participate, milestones. See Page Six for a ist of some local restaurants ly held on a Saturday in fundraise and connect “From the beginning, late June following the with others. this has been about providing delivery or take out. Celebration of Hope, an The Summer of the Ride coming together to save evening ceremony the will consist of the light- lives from cancer. With night before paying trib- ing of the torch on June the Summer of the Ride, ute to the cancer commu- 27; fundraising challeng- we’ll have a lot of great nity. Due to the current es, engagement and ways Continued on page three. Reimagined Programming for Community ERIE COUNTY Safety, Sharing Gardens in New Ways DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH The Gardens Buffa- week of July will be Live conversations lo Niagara (GBN) board packed with events that with and tips from gar- ECDOH, COVID-19 Information Line: (716) 858-2929 – is excited to announce a visitors from the Buffa- den experts 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. new online experience lo Niagara region–and Online giveaways, showcasing the region’s around the world–can games, and shopping ex- Erie County Department of Health, COVID-19: gardens. Buffalo Garden experience from home on periences Views: Sharing in July, a social media, and where Stories from garden- http://www.erie.gov/covid19 month-long celebration, appropriate, in person. ers across the region will feature a variety of Here are just a few of the GBN is committed to Erie County online map of confirmed cases: activities suited for these ideas in development. connecting our communi- www.erie.gov/covidmap difficult times. Self-guided walking ty through garden shar- GBN’s programs have and driving tours of front ing and has worked hard helped build Buffalo’s yard gardens to develop a summer New York State Department of Health Hotline: reputation as an urban Video tours of back- filled with activities that (888) 364-3065 gardening capital. Each yards in bloom THURSDAY, MAY 7 FRIDAY, MAY 8 SATURDAY, MAY 9 SUNDAY, MAY 10 MONDAY, MAY 11 TUESDAY, MAY 12 WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 PM Showers Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Showers Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny High 50° High 40° High 41° High 46° High 46° High 49° High 54° Low 33° Low 29° Low 33° Low 35° Low 35° Low 37° Low 41° PAGE 2 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 19 WEEK OF THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020 official status here. Mogilny was eventual- ly granted asylum and settled in Buffalo and began his career as a Sa- bre. He wore the number 89 in recognition of his place in the draft and the With the NFL seaon on Hold . year he defected. In his third season he scored 39 we are looking back at Buffalo Sabres games. goals and 84 points in 67 On May 5th 1989, Al- to Buffalo. games. The next season, exander Mogilny defect- At the time the U.S. 1992-1993, he scored 76 ed from the Soviet Union and Soviet Union were goals in 77 games, and to play for the Buffalo still embroiled in a Cold 127 points while playing Sabres. The 20 year old War and relations were with Pat LaFontaine, Mogilny had played for not cordial. The Soviet who had 148 points with the Soviet national team players on the Red Army 53 goals and 95 assists. and their Red Army hock- team were also soldiers In the meantime the ey club where his forward in the military, Mogiilny Soviet Union dissolved line with Sergei Fedorov was a second lieutenant but the old Soviet Union and Pavel Bure was one and his defection was mentality lived on with of the best in the world. considered desertion from an attitude that if one Mogilny was in his third the Army. A Soviet mil- was successful then an- year with the Central itary court charged him other wanted a piece of Red Army team and had with desertion. Mogilny that success and your played on both the 1988 was reviled as a traitor. failure to share could cost Soviet Olympic team and A military prosecu- you dearly, even your life. the national junior team. tor was quoted as saying This became known as the Mogilny had been se- that if he was convicted, Russian Mafia. But there lected 89th overall by the the Soviet Union would was no Mafia, it was real- Sabres in the 1988 NHL demand his extradition ly just a way of life there, Entry Draft after he to serve his sentence, the way things were done. had been selected at the Desertion by an officer And it followed Mogilny RAFFLE best forward at the 1988 during peace time carried to Buffalo in 1994. Sergei World Juniors tourna- a maximum sentence of Fomitchev was a friend ment. He was voted the seven years at hard labor. who had helped Mogil- TICKETS! world’s best junior player Soviet Coach Viktor Tik- ny defect lived with him • Design Your Own! by NHL scouts in a poll honov called the defec- in Buffalo for a time. He conducted by The Hockey tion “disgusting.” tried to extort $150,000 • Choose from 43 different News. Sabres GM Meehan, from Mogilny who sought ticket options! Mogilny met Sabres of- also an attorney, said, help from the FBI. Fo- ficials GM Gerry Meehan “I’m not surprised they mitchev was jailed and • Fast Turnaround! and Don Luce, the Sa- are upset. 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