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Reporters’ Notebook: Sept. 15, 2025 – Both sides now

Reporters' Notebook: Sept. 15, 2025 – Both sides now

OLAF FUB SEZ: According to French author François de la Rochfoucauld, born on this date in 1613, “Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”
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STOP BY – Fall-themed items are offered when the Kenmore Mercy Hospital Auxiliary sells its handcrafted items from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the hospital atrium. Proceeds benefit hospital programs.
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STEPPING IN – Wings Flights of Hope founder Joe DeMarco is flying a patient today, so speaking in his place for Chapter 439, National Active and Retired Federal Employees, is his mission coordinator, Jaime Mullen. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. in the Harlem Road Community Center, 4255 Harlem Road, Amherst. More info at narfe.org/chapter439.
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IN THE KNOW – Susan Buttaccio, manager of Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s special collections, is guest in the free online Imagine Greater Buffalo lecture series at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Zoom link is us02web.zoom.us/j/84421693110.
Karen Wielinski talks about her book, “One on the Ground, the Unthinkable Crash of Continental Flight 3407 into the Wielinski Home” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Cazenovia Neighborhood Library, 155 Cazenovia St. Call 716-821-0564 to reserve a seat.
Tom Shifferli from the Steel Plant Museum explores the rise and fall of the local steel industry at 7 p.m. Tuesday at a meeting of the Tonawanda-Kenmore Historical Society in its museum, 100 Knoche Road, Town of Tonawanda.
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GROWING PAINS – Master gardeners from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County and Jamestown city arborist Dan Stone share their expertise at “Evening in the Garden” from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the CCE Chautauqua Demonstration Garden on James Avenue in Jamestown, near Jamestown Community College’s Science Building. No RSVP required. For more info, call 716-664-8502 or visit cce.cornell/edu/Chautauqua.
Master gardener Peggy Koppman talks about how to keep soil healthy in a Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County class at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Delaware Park’s Parkside Lodge, 84 Parkside Ave. $15. Register at erie.cce.cornell.edu/events. For more info, call 716-652-5400, Ext. 176.
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KEEP THEM SAFE – Chautauqua County continues its series of free rabies vaccination clinics for dogs, cats and ferrets from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Town of Ripley Highway Department, 50 Ross St., Ripley. Preregistration necessary. Visit HealthyCHQ.com/rabies.
Erie County hosts a free drive-thru rabies vaccination clinic for dogs, cats and ferrets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at SUNY Erie Community College South Campus, 4041 Southwestern Blvd., Orchard Park. Preregister at erie.gov/rabiesvaccine.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Michael Andriaccio, Tom Prohaska, Jorge Guitart, Ellen Errigo, A. J. Epenesa, Lisa Fucina, David Feltz, Jackie Lyons, Dee Tomasello, Tom Buczkowski, Luke Chambers, Lisa Keating, Gregory Bosworth, Mark Herle, Lisa Keating, Sarah M. Musilli and Nicolas Curry.
AND TUESDAY – Lavera Johnson, Bobbie Rein, Jon Harris, Tammy Bialek-Lehrer, Michael Vallely, Sue Grzankowski, Luanne Chambers, Joanie Amodeo, Gerri Andolina, Lori Staniszewski, Nicole Toepfer, Shelly Weinstock, Sarah Bonk, Rex Blattenberger, Judy Andrews and John McGavis.
To submit birthdays and other items of interest to Reporters’ Notebook, please email olaffub@buffnews.com or send a letter to Reporters’ Notebook, Buffalo News, Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240. Note: Letters sent to our old address at One News Plaza are no longer being forwarded. They’ll just be returned to you.
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