1/17/2008 - It feels like a winter wonderland again in Chautauqua County
and — for now — I think that is a good thing. I did love the warmth last week, but it felt so eerie to look at the thermometer and see 63 degrees, and then to look at the calendar and see January. It just wasn't right. I'm sure I'll be sick of snow again shortly but for now, I almost welcome it.
Let's embrace winter for now; and in a week or two, let's start complaining about it again.
WINTER FUN!
Here are a few fun things you could do to embrace the season:
• Free open skating is at Steele Hall from Friday through Monday from 7:30 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. If you don't have your own skates, it's $3 to rent a pair, and free for students, faculty and staff.
Best of all, you'll get to say hi to my little sis, one of our fine citizens who dutifully mans the ice, doling out skates or blowing her whistle at the mischievous kids who upset the order of the rink. She comes armed with a red mesh vest emblazoned with the title "Rink Guard" and a shiny new whistle, and tells me, "I don't take no nonsense." Apparently most kids completely disregard the authority and operate in sheer disorder on Fridays and Saturdays. Kids today, I tell you!
• Every weekend in January and February (through Feb. 24) from 1 to 3 p.m., go for a sleigh ride through Chautauqua Institution. Purchase tickets at the Chautauqua Bookstore; adults are $3 and kids under 12 are $2. If there's no snow, they use wheels instead.
• Hit the slopes! Cockaigne in Cherry Creek and Peek'n Peak in Findley Lake are in full swing, and they usually have something going on. This weekend at Peek'n Peak they're having a Jeep Terrain Park Challenge Grassroots Qualifier Event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, slope-style with rails, boxes and big air. Call 355-4141 or visit www.pknpk.com for more info.
WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND
This weekend at the Badd Kitty Club … just kidding! How funny that Dunkirk/Fredonia is now complete with its own swingers club and strip club — or, at least, it was nearly complete, until the zoning board got involved. Wasn't the controversy over Club 35 getting old? We need a new business establishment to get into an uproar over! It keeps the town abuzz with quality gossip.
Anyway, this weekend:
• Live music by Bogus Otis at 41 West from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., voted best classic rock band in the WNY People's Choice Music Awards. There's Bud Light and wing specials during all Sabres games; the Sabres play the Atlanta Thrashers Friday, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday and the Phoenix Coyotes Monday.
• Admission to participating Jamestown establishments is free as part of Open Door Jamestown on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out the Jamestown Audubon Center and Sanctuary, Fenton History Center, Robert H. Jackson Center, JSB Ice Arena, Lucy-Desi Museum and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. At the ice arena on Saturday, the WWE Raw Live event will be held at 7 p.m.; call 484-2624 for more info.
Let's embrace winter for now; and in a week or two, let's start complaining about it again.
WINTER FUN!
Here are a few fun things you could do to embrace the season:
• Free open skating is at Steele Hall from Friday through Monday from 7:30 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. If you don't have your own skates, it's $3 to rent a pair, and free for students, faculty and staff.
Best of all, you'll get to say hi to my little sis, one of our fine citizens who dutifully mans the ice, doling out skates or blowing her whistle at the mischievous kids who upset the order of the rink. She comes armed with a red mesh vest emblazoned with the title "Rink Guard" and a shiny new whistle, and tells me, "I don't take no nonsense." Apparently most kids completely disregard the authority and operate in sheer disorder on Fridays and Saturdays. Kids today, I tell you!
• Every weekend in January and February (through Feb. 24) from 1 to 3 p.m., go for a sleigh ride through Chautauqua Institution. Purchase tickets at the Chautauqua Bookstore; adults are $3 and kids under 12 are $2. If there's no snow, they use wheels instead.
• Hit the slopes! Cockaigne in Cherry Creek and Peek'n Peak in Findley Lake are in full swing, and they usually have something going on. This weekend at Peek'n Peak they're having a Jeep Terrain Park Challenge Grassroots Qualifier Event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, slope-style with rails, boxes and big air. Call 355-4141 or visit www.pknpk.com for more info.
WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND
This weekend at the Badd Kitty Club … just kidding! How funny that Dunkirk/Fredonia is now complete with its own swingers club and strip club — or, at least, it was nearly complete, until the zoning board got involved. Wasn't the controversy over Club 35 getting old? We need a new business establishment to get into an uproar over! It keeps the town abuzz with quality gossip.
Anyway, this weekend:
• Live music by Bogus Otis at 41 West from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., voted best classic rock band in the WNY People's Choice Music Awards. There's Bud Light and wing specials during all Sabres games; the Sabres play the Atlanta Thrashers Friday, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday and the Phoenix Coyotes Monday.
• Admission to participating Jamestown establishments is free as part of Open Door Jamestown on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out the Jamestown Audubon Center and Sanctuary, Fenton History Center, Robert H. Jackson Center, JSB Ice Arena, Lucy-Desi Museum and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. At the ice arena on Saturday, the WWE Raw Live event will be held at 7 p.m.; call 484-2624 for more info.
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