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0:00of low vision or have another print disability which makes reading holding a book or turning a page difficult or impossible. The content is copyrighted by the respective publishers. For more information please visit us on the web at nfradioreading.org. Oh, this is Marchis Lover and for the next hour I'll be reading from the current issues of the Lockport Union Southern Journal on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service. So our first issue is from Saturday, August 29th. And I guess there was a moratorium that was implemented to prevent the rain overload. So the Niagara County sewer district is voted in favor of a six month moratorium on any new development that exceeds 2500 gallons a day of sewage output. The decision made once a was to help curtail over loading of the county sewer plant after an extraordinary rainstorm earlier this month.

1:00Mark Crocker, Town of Lockport Supervisor and Chairman of the sewer district's board of directors was a loan vote against the measure. Vice Chairman Don McSwing of the town of Wefield was absent. Crocker said he voted against the moratorium because the overflow incident earlier this month was not caused by homes. It wasn't through the normal day-to-day sources of waste water, he said. That's when we got five inches plus rain. Crocker said, Syrian sewers are meant to carry household water. Will storm water sewers carry rain flow and snow melt? Crocker said the word was informed that normal daily sanitary sewer flow is 6 million to 7 million gallons. But from August 2nd to the 3rd, the sewer district received 60 million gallons showing the amount of rainwater that bypass the proper storm water sewers. The moratorium impacts the towns of the Lockport, Niagara, Luceton, Wefield, Cambria, and

2:00Pendleton. With sewer lines running to the treatment plant on Williams Road and Niagara Falls, the moratorium doesn't allow any loading from municipalities putting large housing tracks in, said Matt Foe, Town of Cambria Supervisor and member of the sewer district board. Any large housing development that requires a sewer can echo forward. We're just concerned that the infrastructure is at the risk to these high storm water events. So, another news. Three people in the dog were exposed to rabbit bats in North Taiwan to three people in the dog were evaluated after encountering a rabbit bat in North Taiwan to on August 20th. Well, the Niagara County Department of Health says the incident occurred on Taiwan

3:01to Creek Road. The bat was submitted to the State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center at Wednesday, and positive results were confirmed on Thursday. A dog involved in the incident is up to date with its rabies vaccination and received a booster shot as a precaution. Three household members were referred to the nursing division for evaluation. However, opposed to exposure, I was not recommended. Bats, raccoons, gulps, et foxes are all common wildlife carriers of rabies virus. A rabbit animal could shed the virus through direct contact even before symptoms appear. Rabies can only be confirmed by submitting a laboratory sample. So you probably heard about this, but Trump signs the order, renaming Lake Ontario. So once that he presented the title, Trump said that he's renaming Lake Ontario to be known as the Lake America and the United States as the Escalacis War, Trade War with Canada. The Republican President cited an executive order directing the Interior Department to update

4:03the Lake's name and the US geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow along, however. Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as a US announced it was imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks, broke the country's after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been kneeling America's northern neighbor since he returned to the White House last year, suggesting the ally with whom the US wants to have more relations should instead be absorbed as the 51st state. Okay now let's get on to the next issue, which is Tuesday, September 1st. And we have some articles to read from this one. And it looks like somebody did some of the reading on this one already, sort of this skip ahead. We're going to go to the next issue. Let's go to Thursday, September 3rd. So tornado hit all caught. They had severe weather.

5:05A tornado reportedly may have been made landfired near all caught just before 7pm Wednesday this last week. The National Weather Service in Buffalo confirmed that at Water Spout reported on Lake Interior near the village, it's a transition into land and it's being tracked. The Niagara County Sheriff's Office said they received a report of a tornado crossing the property on Johnson Creek Road. So a storm chaser posted video and social media of what he described as a tornado in the vicinity of the intersection of 78, 18 and all caught. Video shows heavy rain and debris being swirled in the air. So Niagara County Sheriff Michael Follensetti said 9-11 dispatchers were flooded with cause reporting trees down, lines down, and property damage. He said he was not aware of any power outages. So there was a final lap after 36 years, the Alcabeech Car Show.

6:05It's last for the father and son. Alcabeech Car Show at Cruel Park, which has become a tradition for families, will be coming to an end Saturday after 36 years of enormous popularity. My father and I have been involved in running this show for 31 years at Joe Hansoski Jr. It's my dad's pride and joy. With both Hansoski's moving into new chapters of their lives, Joe Jr. said he has been feeling inquiries from interested organizers. There's no club involved with it anymore, Hansoski said. We want to make sure that if somebody is going to do it, they're going to keep it for 37 years. This is one of the largest car shows on the side of the state. Some of the people have already expressed interest on car shows and cruise nights. Hansoski said nearly 10,000 people will attend the free event in an Alcabee. You get a thousand plus cars through the park, he said. Exhibitors at the show paid $18 per vehicle, which proceeds going to Ronald McDonald's House this year.

7:07Wow, that was pretty interesting. So, tributes were left at the Vietnam movie wall and they're going to be preserved. So the Blackpore Public Arts Council announced Tuesday that all personal items and mantos and tributes, that's at the base of the movie wall during its recent display at the Keenan Center, as part of the, I was there, unknown stories of Vietnam exhibit, have been carefully collected and will be permanently preserved and put on display, along with a large map of Vietnam bearing the hundreds of pins that 90 in the areas where local veterans were stationed during the war. The movie wall left Lockport on Monday for its next destination, but left a lasting impact on the heart of minds of all who experienced the power of the memorial. Throughout the event, visitors left deeply personal items, including photos, notes, flags, flowers, painted rocks, personalized markers, college pendants and POW bracelets at the

8:12base of the wall, as distinct tokens of remembrance. Every item left at the wall represents a profound story of love, grief and honor, said exhibit curator, Mary Brennan Taylor. We trust these items, we treat these items with the utmost respect. They are not discarded, they are historical artifacts, they're chronicle, our community's connection to those who serve. So Apple, in Chicago, apples, relabeled like Ontario and so like America for US users of its map, map app, following competitor Google's days after President Donald Trump ordered a new name for the body of water amid his escalating trade war with Canada. So as of Wednesday morning, Apple maps displayed like America for US users looking at the like the sits between the state of New York and Canada's Ontario province.

9:13So he captivated millions of TV and other news and TV. Now Archbishop Fulton Sheen is one step closer to St. Hood. In Prairie, Illinois, Bonnie Engelstorm believes the long deceased TV priest helped save for son's life after he was born in 2010 without a pulse. The Catholic Church agreed to clearing the boys' resurrection, a miracle, after angstrom and others sought the heavenly prayers of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen who died in 1979. The determination made Sheen a towering presence in 20th century Catholicism with a pioneering broadcast of radio and TV eligible for beautification. Now after years of delays to his formal beautification, angstrom and many others from around Sheen's hometown of Peoria are eagerly preparing for service on September 24th, they will designate the late prelate as blessed Fulton Sheen, once subway from St. Hood.

10:16We will be at the beautification and we're super excited to angstrom of nearby Washington, Illinois, where son James Fulton, who is now a healthy teenager, will carry a relic of Sheen at the ceremony. The whole family will accompany him, which is special because in a lot of ways, the whole family has walked with him through this whole process angstrom said. The whole family will accompany him, so tens of thousands are expected to join them. Two large for Peoria, where his tomb is worldwide drawn for pilgrims, Sheen's main beautification ceremony is to be in the Elder Crossed State Line in St. Louis. Smaller events will be held in Sheen's hometown. Pope Leo, a native, Illinoisan like Sheen, a green lighted for beautification in February after years of delays, published in the 1950s, Sheen entered millions of American living rooms with this show, Life is Worth Living. Dressed in a Casack cap, it's called Cap, he stood at a chalkboard and delivered moral

11:20and religious lessons without a nearly Catholic focus. The show completed favorably against entertainers Milton Burrell and Frank Sinatra and other networks. In an Emmy-acceptance speech, Sheen Thight is Raiders, Gospel scribes Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He was probably the best and in many ways the first televangelist in the United States, a 7-month senior Jason Gray, Executive Director of the Archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen Foundation, which advocates for his sainthood. Shees devotees from far beyond Peoria are also hoping to attend the beautification. He's the TV saint, a separatist Stephen of Edmonton, Alberta, and a July visit to Sheen's tomb with her husband. I've heard about him since I was a young kid, his message is very revelant to today. The foundation of the diocese are working on a major high-tech expansion of the Sheen Museum, which already displays his books, holy objects, and other memorabilia.

12:24Sheen plays in Peoria, proclaims a foundation newsletter, headline, encouraging pilgrims to visit. As it takes off on the old expression, will it play in Peoria? Which circles the trace to the city's reputed role as a middle American proving ground on the Baudville Circuit. John Kelly is Sidney Cousler, who recalls how his parents in my regime say his beautification demonstrates the potential for anyone to become holy. Being a hometown boy, he's a regular guy. He didn't walk on water, Kelly said. So we have a dear Annie, you know, Annie Lane. So dear Annie, my wife who was 62 has always been insecure about her weight. Even though I never once cared for her, cared or thought she needed to change anything. Well, a few months ago, she decided that her own to start a GLP one medication for weight loss. It's like ozumptych and stuff. If she's doing it under a doctor's supervision, she's thrilled with the results so far.

13:28I'm happy she's happy, but I can't shake the feeling that they're the guinea pig for a drug that's still fairly new. What is there any long-term side effects nobody's caught yet? I mentioned this to her once and she brushed it off. Am I overthinking this? Second guessing husband. So Annie Lane says dear second guessing husband, your caution is reasonable. Newer drugs can carry unknown that only surface with time and waiting wanting more certainty before your wife commits is vigilant, not paranoid. But this was her call, made with a doctor watching her numbers. You said your piece wants as you heard it and chose to go ahead anyway. Repeating the concerns won't give her new information. It'll just start to sound like doubt in her judgment. Well, other news. The appeals court rules the First Amendment applies to recording law enforcement activity in public. So the second circuit US court of appeals has ruled that citizens living in its jurisdiction,

14:31which includes Niagara Falls, now have a clearly established First Amendment rights to record law enforcement activity in public. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the appeals court whose jurisdiction covers the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, means that nine of the nation's 11 appeals courts have now found the citizens have a constitutional right to record police activity from areas accessible to the public. The case, Messino versus Benoy, stems from the activities of the self-described First Amendment auditing a hobbyist and waterberry Connecticut. Keith Massimuno has been recording videos of the exterior of the Waterbury Police Department for roughly six and a half minutes when he was approached by two police officers. The video shows that the exterior of the police station and its surroundings neighborhood. The appeals court noted that at all times, Messino remained at a public sidewalk. So when the police officers asked Messimuno what he was doing, he replied that he, a journalist,

15:36was getting content for a story and refused to answer any other questions. So the officers told Messimuno that he was not allowed to videotape the police station and asked him for identification. When Messimuno refused to provide the officer for identification, they placed him under a rest and an obstruction charge. The charge was later dismissed, but Messino sued the police officers for violating his first and fourth amendment rights. A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Messimuno left a clearly established right to record the police station. The appeals court agreed with that conclusion, but then ruled that Messimuno had a first amendment right to record public visible areas of police station from a public side. That conclusion fell from a broader first amendment principle. The Constitution protects the right to record law enforcement, activity, and public. You are listening to a reading of articles and features from the Blackport Union Sun and

16:38Journal of the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service. So we're going to go into the next issue, which is Saturday and Sunday December 5th and 6th. And as the dreams take shape. Today's ribbon cutting and celebration. And for the 64,200 square foot Keenan Civic Arena, is a completion of a plan that started as an idea and a Keenan Board of Directors beating early 10 years ago. Today residents can get their first look inside the 16.5 million dollar facility. It will provide the athletic arts and learning space for flurry of new programs. A musical celebration begins at 11. With Dave Turner performing followed by the strictly hip at 130. That was probably on Saturday. I hope you made it. So they had a tornado in the all-cott. Well, Niagara County workers responded to tornado damage at Crollpark in all-cott on

17:43Thursday. Where does this at least were uprooted the night before? The feet were out of the town of Newfades, Deputy Supervisor, said the south side of Crollpark received the most damage. This is the Silverance Tall Pines. He said clean up have regressed well and weak. And events in all-cott were expected to go. Go ahead. The plan that we have for this weekend with our car show and jazz trailer. So the tornado damage were surveyed by the County Emergency Services. The Niagara County Emergency Services director Schultz and Deputy Fire Coordinator Dan Leven. Ronsight and all-cott on Thursday assisting the National Weather Service of Buffalo with this damage survey following once they even need severe weather last week. The National Weather Service has confirmed the all-cott tornado was the EF-1. The estimated peak wins of 105 miles per hour. The length of approximately 0.67 miles and maximum width of approximately 70 yards.

18:47Beginning at 6.07 pm Wednesday night. The survey documented significant tree damage beginning near Main Street. The Coutunean south, southeast through the Great Lake Seaway Trail in Crollpark. And then Crollpark lot of trees were taken. So they had tornado and all-cott. Well Lake Ontario water spout near our call that reportedly made landfall. It's what the tornado was. So for Mill and Mary Clark who lived on a via street near Crollpark when they stormed cause them more than 100-year-old tree to fall in their house's roof. We went out to run some errands just nearby and we could see the storm coming, Bill Clark said. If you started back home, my family went off with an alarm. They were right after that a girl across the street called us. Oh, there's a tree in your house. The four-story tall tree landed on the northwest corner of the house, which decided from anticspace, his spare bedrooms and an office space. Two baths of rain also caused plenty of water damage in those respective rooms.

19:50It's livable, Clark said, and that the rest of the house and its utilities were untouched. We don't have to evaluate, evacuate or anything. Videos of social media showed felt trees near the Alcog coastline and the tornado clouds approaching the lakeside hamlet after 6 p.m. last Wednesday. And Niagara County was under severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings Wednesday evening. So Keith, Jacelle, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service Buffalo office, said that Wednesday's storm was a supercell that moved southeast over Niagara County, western portions of Orleans County and continue into parts of Genesee County. These types of storms have very strong rotating updrafts, which are required for tornadoes to form. Another tornado touched south southeast of Medina, that caused home damage and brought flooding to the area. Last reported Niagara County tornado, landing happened on August 28th, 1994 near Lockport. Since records started being kept in 1950,

20:51only four tornadoes have touched down within the county. So there was a pickup that slammed into the Rainbow Bridge. The Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls was close to traffic into Canada Friday afternoon. After a pickup truck crashed into the duty-free America shop, Niagara Falls police said the Massachusetts driver of the pickup was heading onto the bridge about 135 p.m. Friday when he was directed to change lanes and accelerated the pickup into the duty-free shop. According to reports, in addition to the driver, another adult and children were in the vehicle and they were not injured. An employee of the store suffered injuries from the crash and was taken to Erie County Medical Center. The bridge was closed to Canada about traffic, so shortly after 4 p.m. that was Friday. So September is National Senior Center Month. It says another news.

21:51The important role senior centers play in helping older adults remain active, independent, informed and connected to their communities. This year's national theme, happier birthdays happen here, celebrates the friendship's opportunities as support to help people not only live longer but live well. The message is especially meaningful at the Dale Association is we probably celebrate 75 years of friendship, service and community. Senior centers are much more than places to pass the time. They are welcoming community hubs where older adults can discover new interests, taste physically active, receive helpful information, and a little meaningful friendships, according to the National Council on Aging. More than 11,000 seniors centers serve over 1 million older adults every day across the United States. Research also shows that older adults who participate in senior center programs report higher levels of health,

22:54more social interaction, a greater overall life satisfaction than those who do not participate. Approximately 75 percent of participants visit their senior center one to three times a week, demonstrating how quickly these centers can become an important part of a person's routine. At the Dale Association, there is truly something for everyone. Our members enjoy fitness and wellness classes, educational presentations, health programs, nutrition slunches, arts and crafts, games, cards, social groups, support groups, live entertainment and special celebrations. We also offer day trips, seasonal outings, volunteer opportunities, and programs designed to help older adults save, form, and health, safety, Medicare, community resources, and other issues that affect their daily lives. Some people visit the Dale to exercise or learn something new. Others come to enjoy lunch, play a favorite game, share their talents,

23:57or spend time with friends. Many arrive for the first time knowing no one is soon discover a warm welcoming community where they feel comfortable and included. The sense of belonging matters, strong social connections can support better physical health, emotional wellbeing, and overall quality of life as we age. Senior centers provide a place where people can remain engaged, develop a sense of purpose, and know that they are not alone. So then, another news, there is an inspirational meeting for the Baker Alliance. The Baker Alliance kicked off this year with an inspirational meeting. The past president, Chris Sillusta, explaining why it is a great day to be a lion. That was followed by the induction of three new members. So Sillusta started by explaining his first experience with Baker Alliance. He said in 1985, we had a horrific house fire. The next morning, a group of men with boards and plywood and tools showed up.

24:58They boarded up windows, covered holes, and knew some of them, but that all. Who are you? I asked. Where the Baker Alliance was the answer. I wanted to know more about lions, but at the time, I was on the Niagara County Cornell Cooperative Extension Board and it was for age. When that was done, I joined the lions. He then talked about the core of the lions as Helen Keller's Knights of the Blind. The lions motto, we serve, was illustrated through a variety of community events such as carnivals, horseshoes, and the corn fest. Wow. So let's see what we have else going on here. We have a Saturday in Sunday, no, Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13. There's a fall festival from 11 to 5. There's free admission and free parking. There's 20 plus vendors, bills, game, watch, party, five plus food trucks, hair tensile stations, bounce houses, petting zoo, kangaroos,

26:00crepe of arrows and otters. There's a Kelly's Country Store in Grand Island. And then on Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13, there's a Clarence Arts and Craft Show from 10 to 4. It's free admission and basket raffles to benefit the arts and crafts and our community. There's a Clarence Sound Park Clubhouse on Main Street and Clarence. So there's too many geese. I don't know about you, but the Canadian geese, yeah. Sometimes good ideas eventually go bad. Back in the 1930s and 40s, there were no year-round geese in Western New York. The only geese we had were the Canadian geese migrating through the fall and the few private captive flocks. Then the great idea came up to catch some of these migrating geese in the spring and clip their feathered wings. So they had to remain here during the summer. While the theory was that they and their gong would become attached to this area and remain here and then reproduce here in the future years, establishing a resident population.

27:02Well, they worked a little too well. Now we have too many resident geese. We now have an early September season just for them before the migrating geese pass through. And I have seen lots of geese lately. In fact, I had to wait for something across the road. It took me about 10 minutes waiting while all these geese just walk right in front of your car and like nothing happens to get to the other side to have some better grass. So what's the problem with too many geese? In my younger years, I was a serious goose hunter and figured the more birds the better, but now my thoughts have changed. They have really gotten overpopulated and have become a nuisance as they have invaded our park's cities, lawns, and any place that can find water. Their feces have become a serious problem in those areas and in some areas they could contaminate the water. They also become a serious problem for farmers as they cause damage to crops, especially in the early summer, where crops are just beginning to pop out of the ground. And like deer, they have learned where the safe havens are during the hunting season,

28:03making it hard for hunters to reduce their numbers. In the meantime, the regular and other migrating geese have been seeing a decline in and reproduction. To protect those northern migrating geese and early September goose hunt was set up to make it easier for hunters to reduce our resident goose numbers without hurting the northern birds when they fly through our area. The season began on September 1 and runs until the 25th of the month. Rules and limits have also been changed from the normal ones. This early season allows 15 birds to be taken per day compared to only three per day during the regular season. During all other waterfowl seasons, shotguns will be plugged to limit them to three shots, but on flood guns, limited seven shots, are allowed during the early season. Shooting times are also modified for this early season by allowing shooting until one half hour after sunset as compared to regular waterfowl hours ending at sunset. Electric game calls, which are much more efficient at attracting geese to most hunters,

29:06using handle calls are also allowed this early season but not in the regular season. You are listening to reading articles and features from the Lockport Union Southern Journal and on your front here, Radio Reading Service. Let's see what's going on. A good speech is a terrible thing to waste and that's Mary Hunt. She's at every day cheap skate. She says, I wasn't invited to give a graduation speech to spring. Still, I was prepared and since a good speech is a terrible thing to waste, I offer to you now. Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2023, you did it. You worked hard and you stuck it out even when you wanted to quit. You persevered and for that I offered my sincere congratulations. Okay, we're not going to read this whole speech. And in her drinking is her drinking my business. This is dear Annie Lane. Remember we read about her last time. So dear Annie, I'm 74 and just moved in with my younger sister.

30:06So it's time for her to come here. I've noticed she's drinking more than I remember her drinking before. Close to a bottle of wine nearly every night. She otherwise seems fine. She's still doing her gardening, cooking meals for herself and meeting up with friends. But still, this can't be good for her. I'm hesitant to critique how she lives when she's otherwise seems fine, especially when it's something she's doing at her own home. Do I say something or is it not in my business? So he says, newly moved in. And Annie says, dear newly moved in, it's not of your business. It's your sisters and protecting protecting her health is worth an uncomfortable conversation, raised gently. I noticed you've been drinking more and I wanted to check in. You don't need to monitor her from here on out. Just make sure she knows you notice and that you care. Another dear Annie. Dear Annie, seven years ago, my husband died from Parkinson's. It was a long and nasty way to die and to say the least heartbreaking for BMR of children.

31:07Throughout the ordeal, my senior ladies group was a source of comfort and stability. They all knew what my husband was going through and for one hour a week, I absorbed the love of two friends and it gave me strength. Now a newer member of the group's husband has been diagnosed with Parkinson's. My hair goes after her. She wasn't here during my husband's long journey, so she may not know how he died. Is it possible to offer her support without sharing too many specifics? I don't want to compare her husband to mine. Every case is unique and he may well have a very different experience. The Parkinson's Foundation, where wonderful sources of information and support, I plan to refer her to both. They also help connect me with a local support group that was so good for me. Is there anything else I could do to guide her towards the support she needs? And Annie says, you know firsthand what helped you most. Having people around who cared. You don't need to tell this woman every detail of your husband's illness to offer her the same

32:08comfort. So if they tell her you've walked this road before, now are there if she ever wants to talk. Then let her decide how much she wants to know and when pointing her toward the organizations and support groups that helped you as a wonderful start to. Beyond that, just keep showing up for her. You know better than most how much that means. Okay, in other news, there's an ode to the remote control, the tiny backs that let you channel your desires. So, Krontan and Hudson, if the TV remote hasn't been invented, channels, surfers and coach potatoes would have to argue about something else. Come to think of it, those surfers and potatoes may not even exist. Maybe difficult for anyone under 40 to understand, well there was a time when changing the channel, may getting up, walking over to the television set, and turning a dial. Scientists at CNF Electronics recognized a problem that needed to be solved fairly quickly. So the first TV remote called Lazybone was put in the market in 1950. It wasn't wireless

33:12and people tripped. The first wireless remote, the flashmatic, five years later, looked disturbing like a gun and used light signals. The TV wasn't discriminating, and on Sundays, sunny days, false signals could cause spontaneous channel changes. The next year's Zena Space Command was introduced using sound waves. And those early metals, the press of a button produced a clicking noise, hence the term, quicker. We're also using infrared signals emerged in the 1980s, when with the dawn of cables, multi-channel at universe, the device became indispensable. Losing the remote and the couch cushions, became a frantic and event as Lazybone is today, Sunday, but it called a TV critic for MPIR's fresh error. And a professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, remote influence of TV was programmed to consume the flow of a network schedule were essential. How do you preview a viewer from changing channels?

34:17How do you prevent a viewer from changing channels? CBS Saturday Night Schedule in the 1970s from all of the family, through to the Carol Burnett Show, was a masterpiece in program flow. And the C1s considered Thursday nights must see TV. The early days of cable produced the surfer, who aimlessly pressed the remote to scan channels. They had put a premium on flashy. You had to catch the eye. Remotes have downsides, they amplify selflessness, they produce uncontrollably, uncontrollably until you don't know which to use, batteries diet in an opportune moments. Now that appliances can listen, maybe your remote is fade away, until the end is back to searching for whatever you love the clicker. And the refrigerator while you're getting a snack in the bathroom, well pause as it were until you find it. In the meantime, we'll leave you with this. The flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the remote control is the next most important. It's almost as important as sex.

35:20That's from the late scene of scientists Eugene Polly, which together with colleague Robert Eller, were considered the pioneer of wireless remote technology. Polly may have been feeling pride of ownership, but again, there's no former upper hand in a relationship and who has control of the clicker. So another news, here's how the summer backs office blew up and Hollywood got its mojo back in New York. Hollywood is just wrapped up its best summer in a decade and its biggest five shift since the pandemic. After years of new normal ticket sales and regular spells of unease, the summer backs office rallied to $4.61 billion in domestic ticket sales between May 1st and August 31st according to RUMTRAC. This just miles ahead of last year, is a 26.1% increase for 25, but better than every summer, other than 2013, and accounting for inflation and higher ticket prices is less of a record season.

36:22Emissions are still way down from pre-pandemic levels, but 2026 was still the summer Hollywood got its mojo back. Let us partly thanks to some unusual suspects, Spray2Man, Toy Story, and others, much of what's driven the reassurance has been refreshingly new. Jen Z. audiences have filled theators, love what you film such as obsession have turned into blockbusters, but has been filmmakers even more than intellectual property that have Lordmover Goers, even once dead movies have come back to life. And we're going to move on to our last issue, which is from Tuesday, September 8th. So a lot of it is benefiting from the pre-k expansion. Niagara County parents will have even more opportunity to get their kids into pre-kindergarten programs to school year. Governor Kathy Huckle announced last week the 402 public school districts would receive expanded pre-k seats, providing thousands of

37:26families with the option of free childcare. Among the 58 Western New York school districts listed to receive these seats, including Iri, Shatakwa, Kateraugas, and Allegheny counties, six are located in Niagara County. They are the Western Porter, Lockport, Niagara Falls, Niagara Weefield, and North Tanoanda, and Wilson. I want to make sure people consider New York state the best place in America to raise the families at Huckle during her announcement of the expansion and South Huntington on Island. Niagara Falls Superintendent Stan O'Jun said its universal pre-k program serve about 500 students in 26 classrooms without a wait list, which includes pre-k for three and four year olds, the Head Start program, and early Head Start for those between six weeks and three years old. Huckle's plan could not change the size of their program, but it would strengthen their ability to sustain these services. So as a result, we've been able to provide a more

38:28robust program to food social workers and special area teachers, which I had said. And in other news, there's tourism seems to be declining. So Niagara County has officially seen less tourism spending in 2025 than the year before. Now, true to the fears of some operators through the decline does not seem as bad as expected. A new state commission study for tourism economics showed that visitors spent 1.105 million in the county in 25, a 5% decline of 60 billion from the year before. Well, the year still had the second most tourism spending this decade, and the third year in a row with more than $1 billion in spending. It was the only county of the five county greater Niagara region seen at decline. I'm happy to still see us in the $1.1 billion range since John Fursi, President and CEO of a destination Niagara. We were concerned

39:31it would drop further. So period attributed declined to economic concerns from the traveling public and federal government actions throughout 25, including President Trump's chair of supposed on the majority of imported goods and derogatory remarks to organita. And in other news, the cleanup is continuing. The superfund work at Ups and Park in its final stage, the environmental protection agency, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers are now focused on removing contaminated sediment from a team I'll Creek North of Clinton Street to Harvard Street. Backhose can be seen loading soil and detracts that move along the creek to upload a staging area near Mill Road, Kelly Gaffney, the EPA's remedial project manager at the superfund site. Said previous work along the section of the creek demolished six homes on Water Street with high levels of contamination and created area access roads along the banks.

40:34Last month, the EPA and Army Corps developed a staging area for shipping soil at the site from the former Flint Tog plant on the west side of Mill Street. The annual supervisor for the EPA, AIS Western New York remediation section, said that truck loads of soil that could be seen moving away. Exchange clubs, American flag and other news is to honor the 9-11 victims. The healing field, a display of 1,500 full-size American flags, will be placed at Grandwick River Park in North China, one, about Eury County Sunrise Exchange Club from Friday through Sunday as a tribute of gratitude and resemblance. The third annual event theme is remember and never forget and is a tribute to those who lost their lives and families that are forever impacted on the 25th anniversary of September 11. So, in other news, there's Zeneca Niagara Resort hosting a pet adoption event.

41:40So Zeneca Niagara Resort Casino is giving local animal lovers a chance to find this special forever friend, is hosting Berlin on forever, a free pet adoption and shelter donation event. From one to five PM on Friday, a side-of-the-resource four-street entrance overlooking Zeneca Square. Several local animal shelters and animal rescues will be on hand with many cute and colleague-friar friends who are looking for loving homes. The events free and open to the public. Our buddy, not-for-rever pet adoption event is going to be a fun celebration where local animal lovers can meet their next pet and support the appointment work. Our region's animal shelters and rescue do every day since Timothy. Vice President of Operations, Zeneca Niagara Resort Casino. We're excited to see some perfect matches being made throughout the day. Participating shelters and restuse include buddy's second chance rescue, Buffalo animal shelter,

42:40Buffalo underdogs, Niagara County SPCA, and Rescue Buffalo. Attorneys can meet a number of cats and dogs and find the perfect pet to add to their life. In addition to the animals looking for a home, Attorneys can also take photos of dogs who have served as the official Buffalo Sabers Team Dog for 4 PM. The dogs that the event served as the Sabers official team dog over the past few seasons of pre-need training to serve as a service dog for local veterans, local DJ and radio personality. Nicholas Pickless will help the parity at Monsieur Bumpen and several local food trucks will have a white selection of off-worn increases available. There you go. So if you need a pet or if you'd like a cute little dog ear kitty, take a look. So and then there's the Bullets and Board. Roy Hart Board is to meet the Royal 10 Harleton Central School District Board of Education. We'll be holding a regular meeting at 6 PM

43:42on Wednesday, the High School Media Center. Let's see. There's a cutter in line dancing classes and the 9-11 ceremony was to be held in an Albion. Arlene County of Hoeser remembered service on the 25th anniversary of the line 11 attacks. The public's welcome encouraged to attend. It'll take place at 6 PM and Friday 9-11 Memorial at the O'Lean's County Court Square, one South Main Street, Nalbian. The event will include county EMS personnel, local law enforcement agencies, volunteer buyer companies and local veterans organizations. The ceremony will include remarks from a legislative chairman Lynn Johnson. I'm a memorial address from senior corner sketch mitt who spent an extended ground time period. It ground zero is part of the federal

44:43mortuary response recovery team at a reading of the timeline of events by Arlene County OEM director Justin Nilehoff. So another news. There was a driver who was detained after fleeing Niagara Falls Boulevard crash. Well, a 48 year old man was taken into custody early Sunday morning after fleeing the scene of fiery crash in Niagara Falls Boulevard. So around 12, 10 AM Sunday emergency crews responded to this 1,300 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard and we feel for reports that the vehicle had been struck, had struck the train bridge and was on fire. It was further reported by witnesses that the driver had fled the scene, eastbound on Niagara Falls Boulevard. Responding Niagara Falls County Sheriff's stuff, the news are able to locate the man nearby and detain him. The vehicle, a Jeep compass, was traveling east on the Boulevard when it struck the median

45:43cement barrier for the train bridge before getting to crowds road weight into a guardrail. There was a small fire but it was a stings by deputies using a fire extinguisher. The driver is reported facing DWI and other charges. And in brief, Niagara History Center celebrating America's 250th. So the Niagara History Center at 250 Niagara Street in Lockport is hosting the day of family activities to celebrate America's 250th birthday from 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturday. Families are invited to come to the history center anytime during those hours to learn and experience 250 years of Niagara County history through meeting famous people, tying their hands at by trying their hands at bygone activities and making crafts from different periods of time. Children will also reveal a smoke token token at each of the steps. So let's see in other news. But first, you are listening to a reading of articles and features from the Lockport Union

46:48Sun and Journal of the Niagara Front here, Radio Reading Service. So in Las Vegas, appeals from the American Tourism Association seem to be everywhere Josh Lohan looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaim to state or cities of for Canada, online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of the border. As a Vancouver resident, marketing executive himself, the one said he understands the concilatory overtures. The number of Canadians traveling to the United States plunged after President Donald Trump retreated to office for remarks about making Canada the 51st date. An acrimony is straight war between the two countries now is threatening to reinforce the informal boycott, just as it appears to be easing slightly. As such, a big ask right now, Lohan 45 said of the US Tourism Industries' attempts to rule Canadians like him back before

47:51new President occupies the White House. It's just a wasted effort. Relations between the US and Canadian governments have deteriorated sharply since their trade negotiations complied at collapse last month. Trump imposed in poor taxes for up to 50% on a range of Canadian products. Canada's government responded in kind. So Trump ordered the US government to change the name of border spanning Lake Ontario to Lake America. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Kerney dismissed insults from members of Trump's cabinet as childish and undignified. The bilateral ripped his ass-sapced state and local tourism officials and popular destinations like Graceland from trying to persuade Canadian visitors to return. New York State launched a New York loves candidate promotion this summer, offering discounts at hotels, restaurants and attractions. Some downtown Las Vegas hotels are treating the Canadian dollar as equivalent to the US dollar to give Canadian visitors more value for their money.

48:54Las Vegas Tourism officials went to Canada last month to meet with travel advisors, tour operators and airline representatives. We're here to make sure you know that we care about Canada's Seafill president of the Las Vegas Convention of Visitors Authority said while in Vancouver. The outrishes happening at the national level 2 brand USA, the US Tourism Industry Marketing Organization is bringing this travel week trade event series to Canada for the first time in October, expanding and rebranding an earlier program known as Canadian Connect. So another news, midterm elections head into the home stretch. Well, I'm partly mean. Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the democratic nominee for US State Senate Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to solve workers they need to go to the polls this fall to raise the minimum wage, expand family medical leave,

49:59and show support for one another. Labor Day has never been about just a holiday Jackson told several hundred union members and his other remain labor council event Monday in Portland. Today here with the people, I find alongside with for years. I want to make a pledge about exactly what I'm going to do in the United States Senate. Jackson became the nominee in a special convention in July. It's trying to whip up support into a short period of time as the attempts to unseat longtime Republican senators Susan Collins and a race democratic's view as critical to winning Senate control. He was among the Canadians in key November races who spent Labor Day weekends dumping at festivals union halls and forays as the midterms enter the final weeks with control of the House and Senate on the line. Labor Day marks the beginning of the busy stretch of campaign season. This year's campaign already has been combative busy and extensive and they are expected to get even more so as large numbers of voters tune in ahead of the November

51:04third general election. The first daywide male battle bell is already went out in North Carolina on Friday. Aside the Jackson event in Portland, Doug Bourne, a 64-year-old union's sick chan from Westbrook, said Jackson's background is a logger and his longtime support of organized labor reasons to support him. So here's another feature and it's a mystery of Chief Joseph Brandt's spring. While Chief Joseph Brandt's spring is a place of mystery and let legal uncertainty. Once an operating spring in the middle of a large historic Native American settlement, on both sides of Ridge Road, Route 104 heading west into the loose in the 1770s, it has been called the Loyal Confederate Valley. It is now a boost pile of rocks buried in the

52:05brush and leaves. Joseph Brandt was an officer and Loyal supporter of the British during the Revolutionary War. The American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783. While the land along Ridge Road serves as its base for raids and areas of British needed to maintain control. So this spring is all that remains of Chief Brandt's farm and the encampment area of his mostly Mohawk of all the wars, who thought the Mohawk Valley in such a New York. The land is now a housing development with one exception. It is reported that around 1805, the Holland Land Company, designates the land around the spring as a park or reservation with a right of way for public access. Perhaps one of the smallest reservations in existence it measures roughly 295 by 193 by 173 feet. It is triangular and siss on his shelf on the escarpment. So the Brandt farm has been described as about 50 acres and operated roughly from 1779

53:08to 1785 on Ridge Road, now Route 104. The settlement included a vigorous spring and Anglican log church, Brandt's black house, a smaller drillings for his followers. Ownership of the property in the 1770s during the war with the British and before the Holland Land Company secured it remains undetermined. This is also a period of thawidity in land ownership claims. Native Americans were pushed off their land, treaties were violated and controlled the land which aged quickly. Although it is confusing, consultative historians believe the land rights were included in a treaty with the Senacas however. And those unsettled times this is not clear and the area was controlled by the British. It is believed Grant obtained the right to use the settlement land through his many British connections. So as the Holland Land Company later gained control and surveyed the land, a small section was set aside as a reservation and designated as Brandt Spring. Well early 1800s the Mule Cook bought the Mlilan which

54:15included the farmland in the spring. It is interesting that the spring which at their time was vigorous and supplied the area of water is listed in later property records as preservation and is a part of nearby property dees to the right away which included access for a pipe that ran north down to Red Road. Well with the housing subdivision carved around it, Mance clearly showed the spring area at a right of way through the subdivision however it is not currently defined in the land records as a distinct piece of property to serving historic status. The definition of reservation and the early information is unclear. Did the Holland Land Company's designation of the spring as a reservation have historical or legal significance to say special status still exists. The spring area is clearly defined in the report of the town Lewis did in Plain Board, did it 1997 by McIntyre Surveying and Engineering Company,

55:16Niagara Falls, New York and the section titled Four Seasons of Divisions. Phase 1 approval. The report was prepared for the development of the subdivision bordering brand spring and in summary the report states that during a land transition in the early 19th century the Holland Land Company preserved a permanent public right of way to the spring site. I am not uncomfortable disclosing the spring's locations for several reasons until all the concerned parties decide on the status of the spring and find a way protective from harm but still preserving it and allowing appropriate visitors locations to remain unknown. There's no protection for the site now except that it is difficult to reach and somewhat hard to find. For a spring can use a rational view of its historic site. So another news. Field prices are record they were day high in the US. It's never been more expensive in the US to fill up the tank. It take one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend.

56:20Well the average price of gas was $4.14 a gallon heading into the holiday nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of 382 from 2012 according to AAA Motor Club. Nicole Collins planned to hear from Philadelphia to South Carolina to visit friends. I'm sorry I had to fill it off you just healthcare line to visit friends. She said her family has spent most of the summer close to home and now taking their typical weekend trips because driving has gotten so expensive. Gas is pretty high right now and doesn't help that we also have a baby so we also have to pay for that. I call and said outside of gas station at Claremont Delwear. We're right there gas was $4.19 a gallon. Prices shut up after the US and Israel attacked Iran in February and have not settled down since crude oil traffic through the key straight of Hormuz has plunged and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway. Everything points

57:27to the Iran war and the straight of Hormuz said Tom Sennag a professor energy finance to Texas Christian University. Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered a few specifics and one of the nation's drivers might see relief at the gas pump. Analogy and the prices are higher now than Labor Day 2025. Yes they're higher today but we're doing everything we can to push them down rates and Sunday and ABCs this week. The national average for regular gas prices is still well below the record of $5.2 a gallon set in June of 22. But diesel is different story. It had a national average of $5.85 a gallon on Friday. Trucks and other freight delivery systems. She's a lot of diesel and that increased transportation cost is being passed on to consumers whether they're grocery store or through package delivery services. And I think that would be it for today and you've been listening to a reading of articles and

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