The Salamanca Press ■ March 14-20, 2013 Local News ■ B3 Seneca Casinos Singer Evans added to Seneca Allegany Casino lineup to offer job fairs SALAMANCA – Seneca Casinos has announced Country Music Association, Broadcast Music new acts to its spring entertainment lineup, includ- Incorporated and the Gospel Music Association. ing country music superstar Sara Evans returning to Evans’ latest album, Stronger, reached No. 1 on the Seneca Allegany Casino’s is June 5 the Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel on Sunday, country music charts, and a follow-up album is cur- April 28 at 5 p.m. rently in the works. Tickets for the 5 p.m. show start As all three Seneca Casinos in Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel Other acts coming to the 440-seat Bear’s Den at $20 and are on sale now. Western New York continue to grow will host its seventh annual Spring Showroom at Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in One of Western New York’s most exciting con- and the expanded Seneca Buffalo Job Fair on Wednesday, March 20, May is Steve Earle, Steve Augeri, David Bromberg cert series returns for 2013 when Seneca Casinos Creek Casino prepares for a fall from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at Seneca Quartet and Classic Albums Live presents: Led announces “Summer Rush” on Tuesday, April 2. 2013 opening, Seneca Gaming Niagara Events Center in Niagara Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II. The June through Labor Day celebration will Corporation will provide multiple Falls. Recruiters will be available to Evans will take the stage at Seneca Allegany include some of the very best names in entertain- job fairs this spring to increase its meet with job-seekers for various Events Center in Salamanca with a country-style ment, outdoor special events and blockbuster pro- team member base. full- and part-time positions. grace that only she can deliver. Since her 1997 motions on the gaming floor. Some of last year’s From now through March 31, Also at the Seneca Niagara Events debut, Evans has charted five No. 1 singles, includ- notable performers included Stevie Nicks, Larry the Seneca Gaming Corporation is host- Center on Wednesday, April 24 will ing “No Place That Far,” “Born to Fly,” “A Little Cable Guy and Meat Loaf. ing a “Virtual Job Fair” online for be a Dealer Job Fair, with two ses- Bit Stronger,” “A Real Fine Place to Start” and Tickets for all shows are available at Seneca hundreds of new opportunities with sions available at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. “Suds in the Bucket.” She has earned top honors Casino box offices, ticketmaster.com, all the soon-to-be expanded Seneca Recruiters will offer successful inter- from a host of music organizations, including Ticketmaster locations or by phone at (800) 745- Buffalo Creek Casino. Interested viewers the opportunity to enroll in Billboard, the Academy of Country Music, the 3000. applicants should visit www.seneca- free blackjack training classes toward casinos.com and click on “Seneca + earning an operating license. Buffalo: The Real Deal” to submit a Experienced table games dealers are resume and cover letter. also encouraged to attend the fair. Upcoming opportunities at Seneca Finally, Seneca Allegany Casino St. Bona rededicates Friedsam Library to Buffalo Creek Casino include: table & Hotel will host its Summer Job game dealers and management; Fair on Wednesday, June 5 from count team supervisors and clerks; 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at Seneca Allegany commemorate landmark’s 75th anniversary cage shift supervisors and cage Events Center in Salamanca. cashiers; slot supervisors and slot Recruiters will be available to meet Photo submitted attendants; slot technicians; market- with job-seekers for dozens of full- Sr. Margaret Carney, ing representatives; beverage bar- and part-time positions. Seneca O.S.F., St. tenders, bar backs and servers; snack Allegany Casino & Hotel recently Bonaventure bar attendants, restaurant servers and expanded its hotel tower and University president, management; culinary chefs and opened more than 200 new rooms talks about the cooks; security officers and supervi- for guests, resulting in dozens of sors; valet attendants, and; mainte- new employment opportunities importance of the nance and environmental services. throughout the property. library as other In addition, Seneca Gaming For all job fairs, prospective speakers listen. Also Corporation will host the Seneca employees are encouraged to bring pictured (from left) Buffalo Creek Casino Expansion copies of a resume, dress profession- are Fr. Robert Karris, Career Fair on Saturday, March 16 ally and be prepared for on-the-spot O.F.M., Bill Heaney, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the interviews, as some positions will Dr. Michael Fischer, Burt Flickinger Athletic Center, provide immediate offers for hiring. and Fr. Francis Di located at 21 Oak St. in Buffalo on Team members of Seneca Gaming Spigno. the Erie Community College City Corporation receive generous bene- Campus. This fair will provide fits, such as access to a free Team ST. BONAVENTURE – For all The program to rededicate the Friedsam Memorial Library opportunities for candidates to Dining Room and Fitness Center, the students and scholars who’ve library included brief talks by replaced Alumni Hall, which had learn about the various positions both open 24 hours a day. The pro- opened the heavy wooden doors to library director Paul Spaeth; housed the college’s library for available, and participants are gressive company has many addi- enter Friedsam Memorial Library Dr. Michael Fischer, provost and more than 50 years but had encouraged to submit materials tional healthy initiatives, such as since 1938, an Allegany man who vice president for Academic become too small to handle the online via the Virtual Job Fair. diabetes prevention and smoking never attended the college crystal- Affairs; a state Senate proclama- size of the collection. As Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino cessation programs, as well as a lized in a few words the impor- tion read by Bill Heaney, repre- The books were transferred expands, more opportunities to work newly-opened health office with ser- tance of the St. Bonaventure senting state Sen. Catharine from Alumni Hall to Friedsam at the two Seneca resort properties – vices offered free-of-charge and no University landmark. Young; a blessing by Fr. Francis by a “book brigade.” Led by col- Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in need for co-payments or insurance. “‘You know, Sister, have you Di Spigno, O.F.M., executive lege President Thomas Niagara Falls and Seneca Allegany ever looked at the steps of the director of University Ministries; Plassmann, O.F.M., the seminar- Casino & Hotel in Salamanca – will library? They’re worn away. and prayers by Fr. Robert Karris, ians and the student body passed become available. Think of the thousands of people O.F.M., and Br. Ed Coughlin, vice the books hand to hand, forming who have crossed on those steps president for Franciscan Mission. a human chain. and all that they have done in this Fischer talked about all the Today, the library has more world,’” said Sr. Margaret Carney, advances the university has seen than 375,000 titles, and more than O.S.F., now the university’s presi- in its lifetime, from wireless com- 35,000 periodical titles in print or dent but then just a faculty mem- puting and the elimination of the digital form. Friedsam, which has JCC announces dean’s ber as she recalled the encounter card catalog, to allowing drinks, two computer labs, also houses with her landlord. “albeit in covered containers.” the university’s Archives, as well “‘Think of how many people “I can well imagine that if we as several special art, poetry and have entered this place and all that continue to plan for and steward journalism collections. list students they’ve learned.’ I never crossed this treasure appropriately, it will The most impressive collection the threshold of the library again continue to be all that was envi- is located in the Holy Name ■ JAMESTOWN – Students named to Salamanca: Jeremiah Bova, without thinking of those words,” sioned when it was first created, Library for the Franciscan the Fall 2012 part-time student dean’s Joshua Clayson, Autumn Crouse, she said. while continuing to adapt appropri- Institute, a new wing of Friedsam list at Jamestown Community College Lauren Dry, William Hunt, She told several tales about the ately to the needs of new students that protects the university’s col- earned at least a 3.5 average, equal to a Cortney Johnson, Jessicca Light, library’s significance during the and faculty in the decades and cen- lection of rare books. The collec- B-plus or better, in 6-11 credit hours of Floyd McKenzie, Julianne Studd, 75th anniversary celebration held turies to come,” Fischer said. tion is described by the National letter-graded work. Melissa Weatherwax Thursday morning in the library’s About 75 people attended the Endowment for the Humanities as ■ South Dayton: Shelly Harris, main reading room, including her ceremony, which was followed by “a unique national asset of great Students named to the dean’s list Amber Riggs wide-eyed wonder seeing the a light reception and tours of the value to American humanistic from the area include: ■ West Valley: Joshua Bialecki, ■ manuscript of the iconic book new Holy Name Library for the scholarship.” Conewango Valley: Samantha Abby Dallas, Marcus Enser, “The Seven Storey Mountain” on Franciscan Institute, home to Holy Name Library includes Emley, Ashley Hornburg, Corona Kristine Fisher, Alexander Fuller, a school trip to St. Bonaventure as St. Bonaventure’s remarkable col- the most important collection of Junaid Javed Peter Gabel, Kristy Kowalski, Lisa Reed, a teenager. The library’s legendary lection of rare books. Franciscana in North America, ■ Dayton: David Lindberg Erik Stephan ■ 34-year director, Fr. Irenaeus The library opened on March 7, more than 9,000 rare books and Ellicottville: John Bohn, Herscher, O.F.M., took the time to 1938, and was built from money manuscripts dating from the 12th Breanna Coolidge These additional students were show them Thomas Merton’s trea- donated by the foundation of Col. century up to and including the ■ Gowanda: Dalton Dailey given full-time dean’s list certificates ■ sured work. Michael Friedsam, who became seminal journals of renowned Great Valley: Evan Rinko, for Fall 2012 coursework: “We went back to our respec- president of New York City’s B. monastic Thomas Merton, who Carrie Roblee, Liza Wienk ■ Randolph: Joseph McIntyre, ■ tive high schools, and when we Altman Co. in 1913. Friedsam had taught English at St. Bonaventure Limestone: Mikeena Dowen, Alexis Terrette could share that we had seen that the majority of his fortune set in the early 1940s. Brent Wedge ■ Salamanca: Miranda Sipko ■ manuscript, we were on the level aside to form a foundation that Little Valley: Samantha Brooks, with our classmates who got tick- donated money to institutions that Kayla Doberstein ■ ets to the Elvis concert,” she said promoted the betterment of youth Otto: Chantel Abramowski with a smile. and the human condition. ■ Randolph: Jackson Andrews, Allison Beach, Kyle Brown, Lindsey Chase, Hilary Clinger, Adam Ditcher, Santana France, Destiny Gates, Andrew Grover, Zachary Jackson, Alexis Lecceadone, Noah Loomis, Alexandra Myers