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Fall Festival begins today at Peek'n Peak Resort

 

 

By VALERIE MYERS, Erie Times-News
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FINDLEY LAKE, N.Y. -- There's a touch of winter at the 25th annual Fall Festival at Peek'n Peak Resort and Spa.

On the opening day of the festival Saturday, skiers and snowboarders glided down a high jump, landed on cylindrical and rectangular rails, twisted and landed again in snow shaved from the ice at local ice arenas, sometimes on their feet and sometimes not.

To a teen, they shook it off and went back for more.

The Rail Jam is a highlight of Fall Festival, which also includes live music, horse-drawn wagon and lift rides, and crafts. The festival continues today and next weekend.

Kyle DeLong, 16, of Perry, Ohio, skied down the jump, lost his balance in a twist, and went down. He shook it off, stepped out of his skis and climbed back up the jump for another go.

"I'm ready to get skiing," he said.

After this winter, DeLong and others won't have to wait to ski. The resort has bought a BagJump, a giant cushion for skiers, snowboarders and bikers to land on all year. It will be inflated and ready to use in December, said Nick Scott Jr., vice president of Scott Enterprises, which owns the resort.

"We brought in an AcroBag (in February), and it was so exciting and so much fun for so many people that we went out and bought our own bag," Scott said.

The resort is also expanding its terrain park for snow acrobats by one-third.

Beyond the snow sports, it's still fall at the festival. Lifts provide bird's-eye views of the foliage, and a cannon fires pumpkins into bits of squash behind the main lodge. "It's hilarious," said Tammy Price, of Saegertown, watching with her husband, Mitch.

Michaela Bann, 14, and sister Makenzie, 13, of Fairview Township, enjoyed a Segway ride more.

"You just do this, this and that," Michaela Bann said, leaning. "It's not that hard."

VALERIE MYERS can be reached at 878-1913 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmyers.

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Renovated rooms mark Peak's 1st year

 

 

 

 

Renovated rooms mark Peak's 1st year under new Erie-based owners

 

By ED PALATTELLA, Erie Times-News
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FINDLEY LAKE., N.Y. -- The new owners of Peek'n Peak Resort and Spa are preparing for their second ski season by emphasizing how the resort has changed on the inside.

Scott Enterprises Inc., which bought the Peak in U.S. Bankruptcy Court a year ago, has spent $2 million renovating all 108 rooms in the Peak's Tudor-style lodge.

The rooms had not been updated in years, and their disrepair had led business groups to stop using the Peak, said Nick Scott Sr., president of the Erie-based Scott Enterprises.

Since the completion of the renovations in July, bookings have been up, with the rooms selling out recently, Scott said.

"It was a remarkable transformation," he said. "It is like walking into a brand-new room, but it still has the unique charm that the Peak is known for."

The Peak holds its Fall Fest and Beer & Wine Festival later this month.

See Sunday's Erie Times-News and GoErie.com for more coverage.

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Colors of Chautauqua Learning Festival Explores Local Landscape

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Celebrate the Colors of Chautauqua

Celebrate the Colors of Chautauqua A Fall Learning Festival, October 5-21, 2012 New this fall, the Colors of Chautauqua learning festival continues the Chautauqua tradition of lifelong learning with over 40 workshops in culinary, creative and cultural arts. Visitors as well as residents can register for classes and learn kitchen and gardening techniques, take lessons in painting, photography, sculpture and crafts, join guided walking tours, discover ways to research family history, and expand their knowledge of local foods, wine, and beer. The schedule runs two weeks during the peak of fall colors from October 5-21, 2012. Classes are held in both indoor and outdoor classrooms across Chautauqua County.

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9th Annual Beer and Wine Festival

 

November 9-10, 2012, 3:30 to 7:30 PM, Yodeler Lodge
Holiday Valley Resort, the Ellicottville Brewing Company and Southern Tier Brewery will host the 9th Annual Beer and Wine Festival at Holiday Valley’s Yodeler Lodge on Saturday, November 10, 2012 from 3:30 to 7:30 PM. Guests will be able to sample over 100 hand-crafted beers from over 30 of the best New York State and American craft breweries and wines from New York, Southern Ontario and Ellicottville vintners. Once again there will be live music by Big Leg Emma!
Brewers include: Sierra Nevada, Magic Hat, Great Lakes, Erie Brewing, Saranac, Southern Tier, Ellicottville Brewing, John Harvard's, Ithaca, Roerhbac, Woodchuck, Custom Beer Crafters, Butter Nutts, Original Sin Cider, Harpoon, Voodoo, Smutty Nose, Long Trail, Hebrew and Otter Creek...plus many more! Wineries include several of New York's award winners like Miles and Fulkerson plus Heron Hill, Fox Run, Merritt and the Winery of Ellicottville.
Tickets for the 2012 event are available on line now and by September 21 at Wegmans.
Price is $45 presale and each ticket includes a $5 food voucher! The presale rate is available until November 2. Ticket sales will be limited so be sure to purchase your ticket early. If there are tickets available after November 2 the price is $55.

Friday Night Brew Masters Dinner

Join us for the 5th Annual Beer & Food Pairing Event Nov 9th .The evening will feature the unbelievable flavor combinations of nationally recognized craft beers and classic seasonally focused cuisine. This year’s event will be an informal and intimate Brew Master Meet & Greet. This unique opportunity will allow you to meet Brewers from Popular Micro Breweries. Our food station selections have been specifically designed to pair beautifully with the nuances of the craft beer flavors as they serve as a complement and counterpoint for these selections. Brewers will be on hand to discuss each beer with you and explain the pairing decisions.
The Brewer Meet & Greet Dinner Extravaganza will be held at Tannenbaum Lodge, Holiday Valley at 6pm on Nov 9th with hors d’ oeuvres beginning at 6:00 PM and stations opening at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $65 per person. Join us for a night of good people, good beer, and good food.
Complimentary shuttle service will be provided from the Inn at Holiday Valley, Tamarack Club, Alpine Meadows, Wildflower and Snow Pine Village. Space is limited and reservations are required. Call 716-699-2345 to make your reservation OR purchase on line.





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Pumpkinville Opens This Weekend! Sept 15th

Pumpkinville, one of Ellicottville’s favorite family excursions opens for the season September 15th thru October 31. If you have not had the pleasure of a visit to Pumpkinville you must make it a priority this year. Kids of all ages (yes that means adult kids too) enjoy everything from the great pumpkin patch, the authentic 120 year old antique cider mill , hayrides, the petting farm to the crafts and freshly made PUMPKIN doughnuts. The best part is that admission is always free!!





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Mike Bleech: Chautauqua Lake is now Major League Fishing

Following a visit that soon will be televised, Chautauqua Lake has become one of the lakes deemed worthy to be part of a new type of competitive bass fishing designed specifically to be viewer-friendly.


It is called Major League Fishing.


Major League Fishing involves two dozen of the more familiar names in competitive bass fishing, the likes of Gary Klein, Kevin VanDam, Shaw Grigsby, Michael Iaconelli, Denny Brauer and Mike McClelland. They team with the Outdoor Channel to bring a revolutionary change in the way people can look at competitive bass fishing.


"In order for us to grow our sport, we've got to get outside the outdoor group," Gary Klein, operating executive of Major League Fishing, said Aug. 29 from the porch of the Athenaeum at Chautauqua Institution.


Fishing, Klein said, has never been called a sport. He wants that to change by the way this new venture is presented. Major League Fishing is intended to be entertaining to people who do not necessarily fish.


"We're trying to create a sport out of fishing," Klein said.


Accomplishing this necessitated a change from the old format of boats blasting off at the tournament start, classically with fog lifting off the water in the background, then competitors weighing in their catches at the end of the event, hopefully with a cheering crowd to liven things up.


The problem is, there is not much for spectators to see in between. Fishing tournaments in various forms were planned for the entertainment of participants. Other than watching blast off and weigh in, people who did not take part as competitors did not have much of an idea of what was happening. Organizers of Major League Fishing realized that a new format was needed in order to reach an audience.


Hence, the changes Major League Fishing brings.


"We're a made-for-TV product," Klein said.


With Major League Fishing, the television audience is in the boat with every competitor. Viewers follow the bass anglers through their high points and their low points. The intensity of competitive bass fishing, something most people have never imagined, is seen in a personalized way. The format reveals the anguish, anxiety, excitement and emotions the public has never understood about fishing competition.


So how did those big-name bass anglers fare at Chautauqua Lake?


For that, you will have to wait until the event is televised. Based on some of the experiences of others at the time of the event, it should be exciting. For details go to the websites www.outdoorchannel.com or www.majorleaguefishing.com.




MIKE BLEECH can be reached by e-mail at mikeb73@verizon.net. Read more of his columns at NWPAoutdoors.com.





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Chautauqua Lake Major League Fishing

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N.Y. — The nationally televised Major League Fishing program has picked Chautauqua Lake as the destination for this season's tournament, bringing in the world's top 24 professional bass anglers for a week of competition.

The unique rules and format of this tournament are designed to give viewers an inside view into professional fishing: to see the whole process the pros use to catch fish in a lake they have never been to.
The series will also showcase Chautauqua County in the national limelight for 13 weeks this winter.
"It's only this lake. Its only this community, as we play out our story for this event. So that's a real difference in the amount of exposure that a community receives and we're really proud of that," said Don Rucks, Major League Fishing Commissioner.
The tournament will air this winter on the Outdoor Channel and the finale will be a two-hour special, February 9th, on NBC.
www.majorleaguefishing.com


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Glacial Bulldozer Leaves Lakes Behind

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