150 Years
100 Years
Gus Kickbush, who runs a restaurant at Seneca Junction, made this explanation this morning and said that he was informed no one was injured and that no material damage resulted from the blast.
Causes are listed as follows: chimney fires, 19; overheated furnaces, 10; short circuits, 5; unknown, 3; gas stoves under water tanks, 4; rubber hose connections on gas stoves, 7; stoves too close to wall, 6; defective chimneys, 2; sparks from chimneys, 4, overheated wood stoves, 6; grass fires, 8; bon fires, 5; back-firing automobiles, 3; gas explosions, 2; spontaneous combustions, 5; clothes over stoves, 2; false alarms, 7; electric flat irons, 2; out of town calls, 3.
50 Years
The structure was put together by Billy, Bob and Gary Crandall and Diane and Mark smith, with technical advice from adults Roger Crandall and Dick and Pat Smith.
The igloo began spontaneously Saturday (Dec. 28) when Mark Smith rolled snowballs for a snow fort. The one-sided fort evolved into a four-side fortress, which kept rising as the young builders added layer after layer.
● Jan. 6, 1975: (SALAMANCA —) “It turned out lovely,” said Avery Jimerson, who initiated Saturday’s (Jan. 4) Baby Pow-Wow 195 at the Haley Building as an Indian celebration of the New Year.
Several hundred persons attended the event, which began in the early afternoon with craftsmen setting up booths in the gym. A dinner of turkey, ham, vegetables and Indian beans was served. Seneca Nation President Robert Hoag addressed the crowd shortly before dancing began. He noted that he was especially pleased to see the building used for a community gathering.
25 Years
● Jan. 3, 2000: SALAMANCA — Over a dozen Democrats and two city Republicans were sworn into elected offices during a ceremony at the Dudley Motor Inn on Saturday, New Year’s Day. The joint swearing-in of two brothers to supervisor positions in neighboring towns and the double oath taken by mayor and county legislator Carmen Vecchiarella highlighted the morning. Cattaraugus County Judge Larry M. Himelein administered the oaths of office.
● Jan. 5, 2000: LITTLE VALLEY — School Superintendent Louis McIntosh Jr. announced Tuesday (Jan. 4) that the official name for the merged Cattaraugus and Little Valley school districts will be the Cattaraugus-Little Valley School District. With the name change will come a new mascot and new school colors. Gone will be the orange and black of the Little Valley Panthers and the red and white of the Cattaraugus Big Red with its Indian head mascot.
● Jan. 8, 2000: ELLICOTTVILLE — Local yards may be snow-free, but there’s plenty of the white stuff on the slopes in Ellicottville. “We have lots of snow,” said Jane Eshbaugh, director of Marketing at Holiday Valley. “It’s hard to imagine, especially if you live in Salamanca or even Great Valley, that we have good skiing conditions when there’s not a lot of snow on the ground.”
10 Years
● Jan. 8, 2015: SALAMANCA — The members of the Salamanca city government took their oaths of office Thursday (Jan. 1), administered by Judge William Gabler, in a small ceremony with family and community members in attendance at the courtroom of the Ronald J. Yehl Municipal Building. First up was the new city leader, Mayor Ronald Ball, who was joined by his mother, Diane Ball, and his son Bryce, 7.
“The first time I became alderman (of Ward 1) Bryce was just 2 and I was holding him. Then he was 5 and now he’s 7 and helped me out” by holding the Bible, said Mayor Ball.
● Jan. 8, 2015: SALAMANCA — Arianna Lux, a Salamanca high schooler who was severely injured after being hit by a falling tree Nov. 24 on her way home from school, has been moved to The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh.
According to Arianna’s mother, Toni Lux, Arianna was moved to the Pittsburgh center last week for further rehabilitative treatment, but there is little in the way of new information at this time.
“(Arianna) had a traumatic brain injury and there are multiple things she has to do here and needs assistance with,” said Lux.
