events

DO YOU HAVE CABIN FEVER? Here's just the cure for you! Come to the Holy Family School Brew Fest from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 17 in Le Roy.

We'll have Beer, wine and local restaurant food samplings, a live band, 50/50s, door prizes and basket raffles. The school is located at 46 Lake St.

Tickets are $20, call 768-7390 or email hfsbrewfest@yahoo.com.
 

A Thursday Nite Golf League is planned for May 6 through Sept. 16 at the Batavia Country Club, located at 2909 Batavia-Byron Road in Batavia.

A registration meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 22 at T.F. Brown's restaurant, 214 E. Main St. downtown.

Cost is $75 per player or $150 per team. Plus $20 weekly is payable to the Batavia Country Club. There will be four chances per week to win a 50/50 cash raffle.

To join or for more information, contact Jeremy Hunt at 356-1504, or at <jhunt34@yahoo.com>.

Genesee Community College, 1 College Road, will host an free open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 17.

Interested participants will have a chance to take a full campus tour and learn about all that the college has to offer. The event will include brief presentations by representatives from Admissions, Financial Aid and College Village.

Please contact Admissions at 345-6800 for more details.

Somebody somewhere once said that parents with grown children should seek revenge by spending the inheritance before checking out. Just something Bill Hume Sr. might want to consider after his son, Junior, gets through with him Saturday night.

The old guy is gonna be roasted but good. And as Genesee County highway supervisor, he darn well oughtta be.

The Batavia City Church's "T.A.G." Youth Ministry will host a spaghetti dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Generation Center, 15 Center St. (right next to the church).

Tickets are $5 per person and must be purchased ahead of time. All proceeds benefit Haiti relief efforts.

For more information, please contact the City Church at 343-6895.

The April "Reel Discussion" starts at 5:30 p.m. -- a half-hour earlier than usual due to the movie's length -- at the Richmond Memorial Library, 19 Ross St. It will end around 8:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public, Reel Discussions treats people to a feature film from the library's DVD collection. Attendees discuss the movie afterwards.

The Batavia Board of Education will hold a regular meeting in the Board Office Conference Room, 39 Washington Ave., beginning at 8 p.m., Monday, April 26. All are welcome to attend.

At 7 p.m., an hour prior to the public meeting, the board will meet in closed session.

For more information, please contact the board office at 343-2480, ext. 1000.

The Batavia Board of Education will hold a special meeting in the John Kennedy Elementary School cafeteria, 166 Vine St., beginning at 8 p.m., Monday, April 12. All are welcome to attend.

At 7 p.m., an hour prior to the public meeting, the board will meet in closed session.

For more information, please contact the board office at 343-2480, ext. 1000.

There will be a Dyngus Day celebration today beginning at 5 p.m. at the Polish Falcons Nest #493 in Batavia.

There will be polish food served from 5 to 7 p.m. Dinner typically costs $5-8 and includes smoked polish sausage, hard-boiled eggs, pirogi and more. This is one of the rare times that the bar is open to public.

A DJ will play music from 7 to 11 p.m., including polish tunes, rock and whatever else people like.

Genesee Community College will host a dual conservation presentation featuring the Seneca White Deer and the local bird-banding efforts by Tom Klotzbach, a senior telecommunications manager for SunGard Higher Education.

Klotzbach will present his research and historical information from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13 in Room T119 at the Batavia Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

He has studied the white deer herd of the Seneca Army Depot for several years and has recently become a licensed bird-bander.

The public is invited to attend a free community forum on Violence in Genesee County.

It will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28 at the YWCA, located at 301 North St. in Batavia.

Hear professional and personal experiences from school professionals, District Attorney Lawrence Friedman and local individuals touched by violence. Learn about nonviolent conflict resolution and the possibility and hope offered by this approach.

The Richmond Memorial Library, 19 Ross St., invites people to a reception on Friday, April 16 honoring RSVP (Retired Seniors Volunteer Placement) of Genesee County.

The reception starts at 3:30 p.m. and will be held in the library's Gallery Room. The presentation of the award will be at 4 p.m.

Please contact the library at 343-9550 with any questions.

The Richmond Memorial Library, 19 Ross St., will hold a tea party for preschoolers and their parents at 11 a.m. Friday, April 16.

The tea party is being held in celebration of National Library Week and will include crafts, refreshments and gift bags. Parents and kids should put on their fanciest clothes for the occasion.

Registration is required and can be done at any time. Please contact the library at 343-9550, ext. 4, for more information.

Joan Murray -- author, poet, editor and playwright -- will do a dramatic poetry reading at GCC's Batavia Campus from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 22.

The reading will take place in the Stuart Steiner Theater, followed by a book-signing. Copies of Murray's work will be available for purchase. 

Genesee Community College invites people to celebrate Earth Day at EcoFest, which is free and open to the public.

This event will be held at the Batavia campus on 1 College Road, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, april 17. Features will include stage shows, a live wildlife show, street cleanup, a book drive, an electronics recycling drive and an "old sneakers" drive.

Please contact Donna Rae Sutherland at 343-0055, ext. 6616, for more information.

Girls age 7 and up get a chance to celebrate being a girl with crafts, outdoor activities and other projects at the Richmond Library.

The library's "American Girl" program, based on the popular children's book series, will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on April 10, 17 and 24.

Here are the names of the sessions:

4/10 - "Meet Julie"

4/17 - "Meet Lanie"

4/24 - "American Girls & their pets"

Please contact the library at 343-9550, ext. 4 for more information.

The half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be on display from June 24-28 on the grounds of the Batavia VA Medical Center, 222 Richmond Ave.

Volunteers are needed to man information tables, help visitors locate the names of loved ones and assist with daily site clean-up. Vietnam veterans are particularly encouraged to volunteer for this special event.

Those interested in volunteering may call Bill Davis at (585)297-0055 or
e-mail thewall2010@yahoo.com.

 

Genesee County AmeriCorps will host a planting project at Batavia's DeWitt Recreation Area, 119 Cedar St., on April 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Around 50 volunteers are needed.

The goal of this project is to remove invasive plant species from the park and to raise plants designed to reduce soil erosion, provide the wildlife with food and shelter, and give visitors something more aesthetically pleasing to look at.

Supplies and water will be available, but volunteers are encouraged to bring their own water as well.

Rochester's Eastman Wind Ensemble will perform in the Stuart Steiner Theatre Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. on May 1 at the GCC Batavia campus. Only one performance is scheduled for this highly anticipated, world renowned musical ensemble.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, seniors (55+) and GCC faculty/students. Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended, by contacting the Genesee Center for the Arts Box Office, (585) 343-0055, ext. 6814, or boxoffice@genesee.edu. <http://boxoffice@genesee.edu>.