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. XLIX ISSUE No. 20• Thursday, May 17, 2018 Pan-Am Weekend Are You Ready? Celebrate the 117th an- Exposition is on view. Do- niversary of ‘The Pan’ with cent Led Tours of both three full days of activities. Buildings, kids activities A Buffalo Double Decker in the Museum along with Bus will provide free rides Food Trucks. There will be between the History Mu- a Pop-up artifact display seum and the Resource with souvenirs and a Pan- Center. Park at the muse- Am talk by Executive Di- um, 1 Museum Court, get rector Melissa Brown, and the shuttle to the Resource the Victorian Dancers of Center at 459 Forest Ave. the Buffalo Niagara Heri- Friday will feature free tage Village will perform. museum admission from Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 5 pm, free admis- will feature free admis- sion to the Resource Cen- sion to both the museum ter, 10 am - 8 pm, where and the resource center. Spirit of the City: Imag- For more information visit ining the Pan-American www.buffalohistory.org CAPTION..... Buffalo’s Outer Harbor welcomes the Galbani Italian Heritage Festival to its new home. We made it through Church, 146 W. Utica Ride for Roswell: another long, hard winter Street. An annual celebra- June 23rd. Several dif- tion of the city’s Greek her- and now it is time to start ferent routes available for The Pan-Am days will be be celebrated at the Hiso- thinking about the sum- itage, culture and food. participating riders. One of mer. All of the festivals 61st Annual Allen- the nation‘s largest cycling ry Musuem and Resource Center. and annual events make town Art Festival: June events. Buffalo such a great place 9th - 10th. Over 400 ex- Taste of Buffalo: July to live and spend time out- hibitors converge on Allen- 7th - 8th, Niagara Square. Memories doors. Here is just a sam- town every June. This is the largest two-day From the Buffalo Rocket archives pling of some of the major J.P. Morgan Corpo- food festival in the Unit- festivals in and around rate Challenge: June ed States, featuring over See this week‘s photo on page 8 Buffalo. 14th. 3.5 mile race around 200 dishes served by more Buffalo Greek Fest: Delaware Park. This than 50 restaurants. June 1st - 3rd, Annun- year‘s beneficiary is Olm- Galbani Italian Heri- New Trees For Elmwood ciation Greek Orthodox sted Parks Conservancy. Continued on page six. The Elmwood Village Association (EVA) helped to bring 11 new street trees 2nd Annual Vet Fest Planned to Elmwood Ave., using a For the second year and sharing of communi- portion of their awarded in a row West Side Black ty services while raising Buffalo Main Streets Ini- Rock Riverside NHS, West awareness of their plight tiative Target Area grant Side Youth Development of homelessness, health funding. Coalition- Buffalo State concerns, and general need Donations to the EVA’s College, WellCare, Grant for information. There will Spring Appeal will help Amherst Business Associa- be free haircuts, medical the organization’s volun- tion & West Side Business information, a backpack, teer Street Team maintain & Taxpayers Association Vet Fest tee shirt, and so the beds for and water have teamed up to bring er we can make a differ- much more. There will be the freshly-planted street information and services ence in the lives of all our door prizes given away at trees. to our area veterans. On veterans, and to say thank the event. This is open to The EVA is always ac- May 19th, from 11 am-2 you for your service to our all veterans, those who cepting new volunteers to pm at the AmVets Post 13, country! are still serving or in the their Streetscape Team. If 25 Review Place, Buffalo, It will be a fun filled day reserves. For further in- interested, please call the Vet Fest will take place to of music from the Buffalo formation, please contact office at 881-0707 or email help serve those who have Dolls and Ann Philippone, Debbie at dlombardo@wsn- Melissa@elmwoodvillage. New trees are planted served our country. Togeth- food from local restaurants, hs.org or 885-2344 ext.16 org. along the Elmwood strip. THURSDAY, MAY 17 FRIDAY, MAY 18 SATURDAY, MAY 19 SUNDAY, MAY 20 MONDAY, MAY 21 TUESDAY, MAY 22 WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy PM Light Rain Cloudy Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy High 75° High 65° High 69° High 65° High 67° High 71° High 74° Low 49° Low 54° Low 58° Low 55° Low 51° Low 53° Low 57° PAGE 2 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 20 WEEK OF THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 season. 5. Should the team look THE KENMORE CLUB Sabres Hockey to trade Sam Rhinehart? 1530 Kenmore Avenue • 875-5780 He had 44 good games (20 Party & Banquet Rooms goals 39 points) and 38 bad SPORTS games (11 points). Which Full Catering Service Available is the real Sam? His trade by George Kuhn value will never be higher. BOWLING ALLEYS AVAILABLE 6. Developing Jack FOR LEAGUES & PARTIES Eichel – He has become a Sabres off Season Moves point per game producer but has a lot of room for im- provement. His -25 ranked Knights of Columbus Key To Improvement 775th out of 802 players PROGRESSIVE last season. He needs to Played every While the fans base is lin) and an offensive spe- learn that you don’t win by Wednesday at 1:00 pm excited about the immi- cialist. At age 24 he will get scoring goals, you win by Friday at 7:30 pm nent arrival of Rasmus a roster spot in Buffalo. outscoring your opponent. Sunday at 7:00 pm Dahlin as the NHL’s next 3. Locker room must It will be difficult for this superstar in waiting, the change – All of the unre- franchise to move forward FREE PIZZA: Zeckhauer 36 Wingate Ave., 14216 Sabres are still in need stricted free agents must when the franchise play- of substantial changes to go; Jacob Joesefson has er in one of the leagues make the team a playoff already signed to play in worst performers at even contender. Sweden, Jordan Nolan strength. 1. Team Speed – Other and Josh Gorges are at the His faceoff winning per- than Jack Eichel the Sa- end of their careers. Jus- centage is 41.7 which is bres lack skilled forwards tin Falk may be aggressive unacceptable for a third with high end speed. Jus- but is too slow. Chad John- year pro. Teammate Ryan tin Bailey and Nick Bap- son had a poor season in O’Reilly is the leagues best tiste push the pace with goal. Nathan Pouliot may faceoff man. Why isn’t this their skating but primarliy have played himself out of skill being taught to Eichel? in a straight line. They do the league. Get the losing Despite his considerable of- not have the lateral move- culture out of locker room. fensive skills, he has scored ment to weave through Players like Zemgux Gir- only one shootout goal in defensive players nor do gensons and Adam Lars- his career and the team they show an NHL scoring son have been part of the doesn’t use him as a prima- touch. Ryan O’Reilly, Kyle losing culture and don’t ry shooter in tie games. He Okposo and Sam Reinhart contribute much here. A needs to commit himself FREE MOVIE PASSES: J. King, 166 Commonwealth Ave. 14216 are slow afoot but O’Reilly new start in another orga- to mastering faceoffs and and Rhinehart overcome nization is best for them playing solid two way hock- their slow speed by produc- and the Sabres. ey with defense being the ing points. They need help 4. Prospects – It’s now or priority. from the draft. never for some young play- Be a guest of the Buffalo Rocket to a 2. Defensive Depth – ers in Rochester. Hudson Dahlin will push every- Fasching is big and slow. Buffalo Bisons Baseball Game one down the depth chart He was a healthy scratch To win passes to a Bisons game, mail your where they belong. Ras- in Rochester in the playoffs name, address, and phone number to: mus Ristolainen and Maro at age 22. Nick Baptiste Scandella would make a hasn’t shown much. Jus- The Buffalo Rocket good second pair, Brendan tin Bailey was their best P.O. Box 271 Guhle and Casey Nelson playoff player but has not Buffalo, NY 14207 slot in as the third pair. shown that he belongs in Zach Bogosian would make the NHL. William Nyland- a good veteran mentor to er looks lost. Linus Ull- THIS WEEKS WINNER: LAWRENCE MURAK pair with Dahlin while mark gave up 16 goals in LOOK IN NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE OF THE ROCKET TO he learns the NHL game. three straight playoff loss- GALLAGHER SEE IF YOU ARE A WINNER! That leaves Jake McCabe es with a poor 0.800 save % as an extra. Newcomer but played reasonably well PRINTING, INC. Lawrence Pilut is the top and was beaten by a lot of defenseman in the Swed- open shots. 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