Presented by the Master Gardeners from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County. 

Saturday, May 9th, 2009, from 9am to 12pm.  Join us under the big tent at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 401 North Main Street, Warsaw, NY..  There are demonstrations of Gourd Growing & Painting, Gladioli Growing & Arranging, a watercolor artist, Flower Pounding, and Garden Garnishes.

We will have free soil testing (ph), expert advice from Master Gardeners with over 160 years combined experience in plant science from hostas to growing potatoes, from shade plants to heirloom tomato plants, and from blueberries to pear trees. 

The Master Gardeners will have baked goods & coffee for sale along with perennials, annuals, herbs to numerous to count, Martha Washington Geraniums, many colors of ivy and other geraniums, lots of vegetable plants, hanging plants, and even Yukon Gold Seed Potatoes.  All for sale at low prices.  We sold 20 hanging baskets of Fuschia in the first hour last year.  Please call (585)-786-2251 for more information.

Many thanks go to the Arts Council for Wyoming County for sponsoring this event.  Without their help and the donations of countless others, the funding for the CCE and Master Gardener Educational programs would be severely limited.  We in Wyoming and Genesee Counties are lucky to have the Cornell Cooperative Extension's help and resources available to all gardeners, farmers, and lovers of flowers in our area.

Check out http://www.townofattica.net/gardenday.htm for additional details.

 We don't do a lot on Warsaw here at The Batavian, but I must congratulate one of the most classy athletes I've covered in my years of local sports journalism.

Warsaw's Ian Paddock pinned Spencerport's Roy Daniels in just 50 seconds in the second round of the Teike-Bernabi Tournament, making some serious history.

The three-time state champion tied the state's all-time record for wins. He jumped one ahead of Webster Schroeder's Gregor Gillespie - another stud grappler - for career wins at  No. 239. That is the largest amount of victories anybody has had in Section 5.

"It's a pretty good feeling, and it's a nice record to hold because there were a bunch of good wrestlers before me who held the mark," Paddock told the Democrat & Chronicle. 

Paddock has gone 25-0 so far this year, was 53-1 last year and has compiled an insanely impressive 239-6 record seventh-grade.

Ian broke the school record of 235 earlier in the year, a mark that was originally set by his brother Paul.

Ian will be wrestling for Division I powerhouse Ohio State next year on a full ride.

He is continuing his run in the Teike-Bernabi Tournament at Spencerport today. Paddock will be honored in a ceremony before the final round today.

The former Warsaw Cinema officially re-opened Saturday as The Stage, Warsaw's new center for the performing arts, according to the Daily News. There was sadly no mention in the otherwise great article about upcoming performances or even if there was a performance during the open house Saturday. We're told that the group Western New York Performance Center Inc. bought the place earlier this year

with the aim of creating a space for music, stage productions, educational programming, and independent film.

That sounds great. I'm all for more culture, in whatever form we can get it, and this place sounds like it will be a great addition to the area. Has anyone yet been down? It's a little outside Genesee County, but I may have to go check it out, get some video footage.

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Renovations are about finished on the Warsaw Cinema, which has been brought back to life over the past several months, according to the Daily News. Parts of the original have been preserved, including the "orginal, Roman-style murals," writes Matt Surtel.

The theater will mark its rebirth with an open house (November 15) from 1 to 5 p.m. That will be followed by a 7 p.m. reception, along with performances by a yet-to-be-announced Western Swing band, and the Jim Tudini Big Band from Buffalo.

Not really too much in the way of Genesee County news in today's paper: a couple feature stories about happenings in Oakfield and a couple other small blurbs of topical interest.

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Noblehurst Farms of Pavilion just bought Le Roy Lake for $500,000, according to the Daily News. Water from the lake will be used to irrigate crops on the 2,200-acre farm. Reporter Scott DeSmit tells us:

Lake Le Roy had been the source for village water until 2004, when Le Roy hooked up with Monroe County Water Authority to provide water to residents. The property, a 70-acre lake, 40 acres of land and a caretaker's house, had been listed for $3.8 million in 2004.

Village trustees even tried to sell the property on eBay! But no one was interested. From $3.8 million, the price dropped several times, until it was set at just under $1 million. But still, no takers. Not until Noblehurst picked it up for a fraction of the initial cost. Village trustees said they plan to use the money to "reduce debt."

In today's sports section, there's an interesting story by Christ Metcalf about a wrestler from Warsaw who is in high demand from college coaches. The profile of the wrestler, Ian Paddock, spans the whole front page and another half page inside.

In other news:

• Robert Morales, 52, of 113 Bank St., was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 years in state prison after pleading guilty to a second-degree assault charge and admitting that he stabbed a man in the arm during an argument earlier this year.
• Batavia's 25th anniversary of National Night Out drew about 100 people to St. Anthony's Parish Center last night. Genesee Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (GCASA) sponsored the event. GCASA Prevention Educator Kevin Keenan told reporter Scott DeSmit: "Parents need to find out who their child's friends are, where they're going, what they're doing."
• Tom Rivers packs produce in the latest installment of his farm labor series.

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