People who enjoy the excitement of a daily prize drawing may want to take part in the fifth annual Sassy Baggs & Beyond “Bingo” fundraising event to benefit people with disabilities. Typically for the Blingo event, more than 120 people gather at The Resource Center for a night of bingo, with designer handbags as prizes. That wasn’t possible this year bec
Area high school students can put their artistic talents to use by participating in a contest to design the logo for the 2021 Laurel Memorial Run and Walk. The person who designs the winning entry will receive a $100 gift card to a business of their choosing. Laurel Run was started in 1997 by Wayne and Elaine Hotelling of Silver Creek. The annual event is na
The 11th annual Step Up for Autism will take place, but with a few changes because of the pandemic. The usual 1.5-mile awareness walk and related activities at The Resource Center’s Dunham Avenue building in Celoron will not be held this year. Instead, people are encouraged to do a virtual walk on their own. And because it’s a virtual event, people who prefe
Filling the Gap, Inc., has announced its 2020 grants, awarding a record $107,680 to support people with disabilities. Filling the Gap is a Jamestown-based not-for-profit that works with The Resource Center and other organizations to support Chautauqua County residents who are poor, distressed and underprivileged, especially people with disabilities. Each yea
Pictured from left are Dan Hocking, co-owner of ACME The Appliance Store; Steven Rodgers, who was able to attend a Buffalo Bills game thanks to the WOW Fund; and Marcos Figueroa, who was the driving force in creating the WOW Fund. The pandemic has forced the cancellation of this year’s Mark Pacheco WOW Fund Lip Sync Battle fund-raiser, but area residents sti
“Perseverance” has always been a word associated with the Laurel Memorial Run and Walk. This year is no exception. Nearly 40 years ago, perseverance is what planted in Wayne Hotelling’s mind the idea of having Laurel Run. While driving through Canada on a family vacation in the early 1980s, Wayne noticed a man with a prosthetic leg, running along the highway
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