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Benatovich To Deliver Networking Day Keynote Address

OLEAN — Lana Benatovich, president of the National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York, will deliver the keynote address, “Leading for Today, Planning for Tomorrow,” at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation’s sixth annual Nonprofit Networking Day. The event will take place Friday. “We’re very excited to have Benatovich deliver this year’s keynote,” said CRCF Executive Director Karen Buchheit. “She’s long been a leader and innovator in the nonprofit world, and I know that she’ll enlighten and inspire all those in attendance.” Nonprofit ...

Perfect Timing

This year has flown by in what seems a quick manner, moreso than those before it. We’ve only got two months left in 2016, and yet it doesn’t feel like we’re that far in. It’s already the beginning of November, and before you know it, we’ll be eating Thanksgiving turkey. Then, we’ll be singing Christmas carols and running around trying to finish our shopping. In another whirlwind, we’ll find ourselves counting down the last few seconds of the year as we watch the ball drop. I’ve been thinking about time and how it seems to fast forward even quicker each year. When ...

Preserving Your Memories

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! We’ve been talking about strategies for getting photos off your camera and onto your computer and ways to categorize and label them so they’re easy to find later on down the road. And, now that you’ve started unloading the thousands ...

Chamber Of Commerce Awards Walter Reisner With L.O.U.I.E. Award

OLEAN  — Looking back on his career, Walter Reisner has accomplished much for the community. Through his vision, Reisner built up a company often credited with saving the lives of area residents when minutes mattered most. He’s also been a leader in the local medical community, having worked tirelessly to make sure the best equipment and practices are available to first responders at a moment’s need. In addition, Reisner has continued a legacy of giving started by his parents, the late Dr. Lewis C. and Doris Reisner. The Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce awarded ...

Fredonia Opera House To Celebrate Anniversary Of Shakespeare’s Death

FREDONIA — In a year full of celebrations commemorating the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present two live via satellite productions from the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. The second of the two productions is The Merchant of Venice, which will be presented Saturday, Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most poetically dazzling and morally ambivalent plays. In some of its most highly charged scenes, the bard dramatizes the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and ...

Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover … Don’t Judge A Person By Their Hair Color

"Oh the times, they are a-changin'."That statement was part the lyrics from a 1964 song by Bob Dylan which, like most Dylan songs, became very popular during a decade when our country was undergoing transformations in music with the British Invasion, war protests with our involvement in Vietnam, the country going through the "Hippie" Generation, and the tragic assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Indeed the times, they were a-changin' in the 1960s.And here we are living in the 21st century, in the ...