Light-up Gasport

 

The 17th annual Light up Gasport & Christmas Party hosted by the Gasport Beautification Committee

Free Fun for the Whole Family!

When: Sunday, December 12, 2021

Place: Gasport Firehall

Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Festivities will include: Santa Claus, Music, Caroling, Lighting of the Community Christmas Tree, Basket Raffle, Apple Cider and Sleigh rides.

Each child leaves with a gift!

If the community would like to support this popular event there are multiple ways to do so: Volunteering the day of the event; a basket raffle item; toys for the kids; or a monetary donation. Interested parties should contact Margie Granzow at 716.628.7273.

Lift bridge out of service

 

Lift bridge update:

The Canal Corporation has identified the problem with the Gasport lift bridge as being a hydraulic issue. They have contractors on site and hope to have the bridge back in service in the next 7 to 14 days.

Commuters and first responders, plan your travels accordingly.

Mitten Tree

When you’re out and about shopping for Christmas, please extend your giving beyond your family. Please buy a gift for a needy child in Royalton and Hartland.

This is the fifteenth year for the awesome Mitten Tree program that is run by the Gasport Lions Club.

Here’s how it works…

A tree is located out front of the Gasport post office, another is outside the Middleport post office, and there are some mittens available at the front desk of the Royalton Town Hall. Take a mitten and give a gift that is appropriate to the age/gender of the child noted on the mitten. Attach the mitten to the unwrapped gift and drop it off at Drum Oil or the Royalton-Hartland Elementary School.

The Lions Club will distribute the gifts in time for the holidays. They typically serve around 125 children.

Please participate and make Christmas a little better for a child – maybe even your neighbor – who is in need. That’s what the holiday is all about.

The deadline to drop-off your gifts is Friday, December 10th. 

Hunters breakfast in Wolcottsville

 

Food pantry distribution

If you know of a family in need in the towns of Royalton or Hartland, the Gasport Food Pantry's monthly distribution is this Saturday (note that it's a week ahead of schedule because of Thanksgiving) 

 

 

Whispering River highlighted on Spectrum News

 https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2021/11/17/local-rescue-in-gasport-saves-donkeys-from-kill-pens?fbclid=IwAR0cmk3_K0YmsnBDu4kfeU33NmWoy0rD0fy5IUnWgfE_hOln1f4MXL6vT2A

Tri-Town to pay volunteers

 

Date: 11/16/21

Re: Staffing

It is no secret that nationally healthcare in all forms has been facing an unprecedented challenge these past few years.

Tri-Town is no exception. Tri-Town has served Gasport, Middleport, Terrys Corners and Hartland since 1968. It is our mission to continue our service well into the future as your local EMS provider.

At our last company meeting we have approved an initiative aimed at growing our responder roster and remaining a viable local solution to EMS needs.

While we will remain a not-for-profit volunteer organization; starting January 1, 2022 we will be offering a "paid-per-call" initiative.

We see it within our roster where members have dual income households, and some are holding 2 jobs to help make ends meet. With 3-4 hour calls becoming the "norm", we feel if we offer an incentive it could assist in EMS providers willing to help the "local issue" while earning a stipend to help their families.

Over the past several years we have seen a growing number of calls going to Buffalo and Rochester, where a call may exceed 4 hours.

This stipend program is aimed to assist in growing our local responder base and keeping a local EMS resource viable.

All current and future members are automatically enrolled in this "paid-on-call" initiative, and have the option to "opt-out" of payment. For those who are enrolled in the "paid-per-call" initiative, you will be paid as a vendor and will receive a tax document at the end of the year to claim on your annual tax filings.

To be part of this, you must be a member of our company and pulling 12 hours per month on our schedule. You will still earn "pay-per-call" while on the schedule, but as a minimum benchmark you must pull duty hours in addition to any "off-duty" calls you may want to respond on.

The pay schedule is as follows:

Drivers: $40.00 per call

EMT-Basic: $45.00 per call

AEMT: $50.00 per call

EMT-CC/Medic: $60.00 per call

If interested, you may apply now or anytime in the future. We have increased our new member committee to incorporate all Line Officers and several Board nenbers to tackle what we hope is a surge in applications.

You may apply on our website.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Philip Richardson

Chief

Tri-Town Ambulance

PRichardson2084@outlook.com

November dinner for Solid Rock

 

Food drive at the middle school has huge impact

 

WIVB looks at Graestone Manor

 https://www.wivb.com/news/top-stories/looking-for-a-scare-hit-the-haunted-history-trail-of-new-york-state/?fbclid=IwAR02C3lFLHOJLmx2DNB5uKsosJGNwaXPlq4so7SUDHfPeM9zeRwywu3WiNk

Sunrise Cafe craft show

 

Thanksgiving Eve at Becker Farms

 

Scouting For Food has impact

A hearty "THANK YOU!" to Pack 18! They collected more than 1,600 items in their Scouting For Food drive. The cans and boxes are crucial for keeping the Gasport food pantry stocked and community members fed in this era of great economic concern with the pandemic, inflation, and supply chain issues. What service by the scouts! Thank you, too, to all the donors who provided goods to them.

Scouting For Food

 

 

Over the past weekend, Pack 18 issued these hangtags for their annual Scouting For Food Drive. This weekend, they'll be back to collect any non-perishable foods that you set out.

Please help the scouts with this endeavor. Not only does this teach them critical lessons about community, it will help keep the food pantry stocked in this wild era of inflation and supply chain issues.

People truly need your donations, now more than ever: Because of escalating costs for consumers, 30% of families have skipped meals to save money. Let's help them and let's help the food pantry (they face the same escalating costs that we all do).

Thank you to the Scouts!

Thank you to YOU!

Roy-Hart music fundraiser

 

Download the form here as a PDF:

https://www.royhart.org/cms/lib/NY01913927/Centricity/Domain/4/Music%20Fundraiser%202021.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2UnfRKVG6XM59w_10oBr8zxtRln5cspYJPW1rT1Kfo84c4pAPmUV58SRs

Bazaar and turkey dinner

 

Hartland race is undecided

 

The race for the town of Hartland council seats is up in the air. Based on the chart below, most everyone thought the election was decided because it was assumed the two write-ins split the vote of 572.

The Board of Elections has indicated that the 572 are not write-in votes per se....they are BALLOTS that have write-ins. Theoretically, they could have two write-ins each (because it was a "pick two" situation).

This won't be decided until counts of the write-ins begin on the 15th.

Roy-Hart weights SRO

Talks regarding a full-time school resource officer position (SRO) are being held by the Royalton-Hartland School District, but it won't be until next year before anything is final.

https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/roy-hart-weighing-options-when-it-comes-to-school-resource-officer/article_e0019ebe-03e1-5bd1-8409-ac32a1ed514f.html?fbclid=IwAR2NJ2kov4eRkn8aG0r_qAlbvKjQj79Lguh2H6ht7bwazuA1dLgbovyjyXI

Recent Gasport themed articles from the Lockport US&J

 Town justice candidates lock horns in Hartland race: https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/town-justice-candidates-lock-horns-in-hartland/article_2ca40262-36b5-11ec-819c-cb128e30bc3b.html?fbclid=IwAR3JPiODUCWODr_GBTefmyIgkA83QiXjhfyGGmEWVH1PdsjvMbFYwNo19V4

 

Hartland keeps tax rate steady: https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/hartland-keeps-tax-rate-steady/article_acb5afd8-20ee-5350-b891-c1d0fa6c3095.html?fbclid=IwAR1oZTXQLgivy-heKvX1HvkYMrncCBeLqTUCeMwhptlDzjcwOekIiqdp9Z0

 

 Solar center pitch drives contest in Hartland: https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/solar-center-pitch-drives-contests-in-hartland/article_b180d0af-49e9-5396-806f-49952ccd54f6.html?fbclid=IwAR3sepj-de0nNWZ7O4zDLSxdpMWNxpruGO8B8ZRD9KWDsh0SYBhTvpdEmxY

 

 

Local boy diagnosed with cancer

Young Jack Waterman has been diagnosed with a form of kidney cancer. A GoFundMe has been set up for his family to help with the medical expenses. His parents, Cortlyn and Jamie, are deeply involved in the community -- Cortlyn is an aide at the Roy-Hart elementary school and Jamie is a little league coach. As you will see on the GoFundMe, the support for them has been incredible since their friend made the page 3 days ago.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/7a2ph-help-jack-fight-cancer?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR12qh91qByvhspfb7D3r8G0nr_gjyUtSdLR0Lrt44DGhsnoKaT1yTWV-QA