OLAF FUB SEZ: According to journalist and social critic H.L. Mencken, born on this date in 1880, “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”
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CLEAN MACHINE — Take your dirty vehicle out to the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, 180 Thompson St., North Tonawanda, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. today and get more than a car wash. The occasion includes live music from Beats Me and Jimmy Pirate. Hot dogs and soft drinks will be available. Crafts by People Inc., which is co- sponsoring the fundraiser, will be available. Proceeds benefit the children’s gallery at the museum.
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SALE ITEMS — The Elma Fire Company Auxiliary will hold a fall flea market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the fire hall, 2945 Bowen Road.
Unity Church, 1243 Delaware Ave., will hold a silent auction and 50/50 split raffle from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m Saturday. Proceeds benefit Farm Sanctuary.
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EATING AROUND — The Village of Lancaster Citizens Party will hold a steak roast from 6 to 9 p.m. today in the Elks Lodge, 13 Legion Parkway. Tickets, $20, include dinner, beer, wine and pop.
*The Amherst Lions Club will be selling hot dogs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday outside Valu Home Center at 3275 Sheridan Drive. Proceeds will benefit the Lions Diagnostic Imaging Center in the Ross Eye Institute in Buffalo.
*St. Stephen’s Tamburitzans and Dancers will host a chicken and lamb barbecue from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday in St. Stephen’s Serbian Orthodox Church, Abbott and Weber roads, Lackawanna, Chicken dinners are $8, lamb is $10, both meats are $12. Djuro Klipa will provide music for listening and dancing from 7 to 11 p.m.
*Habitat for Humanity’s 16th annual chicken barbecue takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1080 Main St. near North Street. Dinners are $8 for adults, $4 for children. To reserve tickets, call Sue Fayle at 882-4348.
*St. Philip the Apostle Church, 950 Losson Road, Cheektowaga, holds a chicken barbecue by Wendel Farms from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in the parish center. Tickets are $8, $7.50 presale after weekend Masses.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Christine Zanghi, Chesley McNeil, Tom Borrelli, Janet Meiselman, Justine Welch, Oneal Fields, Elizabeth Harris, Jane Brennan, Raymond Hampton, Ray Pilarski, Gloria Marino, Gene Drebot, John Mickler, Sister Mary Catherine Raczkowski, Ray Wrazen, Donna Kokotajlo, Tom Amodeo, Keith Halt, Sue Bifaro, Peter Gerace, Matthew Pfeifer, Jean Riley, Keenan Toohey, Katen Damstetter, Julie Schictel, Suzanne Mackey, Dan Paul, Leona Grogg.
SATURDAY — Chandler Hamilton Edbauer, Ken Madell, Matthew Crist, Anna Marie Cellino, Steve Watson, Peter Ulrich, Chelsea Ulrich, Michael Herr, Sharon Hodur, Sister Mary John Lawicki, Karen Drebot, Sister Mary Edwardine Machnica, Gary Weiss, Michelle Giblin, Janet Bettinger, Jack McGrady, Colleen Kruzicki, Tiffany Pulci, Devonia Santucci, Mike Sabo, Joey Stein, Cheryl Nicotera.
AND SUNDAY — Elizabeth Hanson, Mary Jo Sheldon, Mitch Flynn, Nadia Pizarro, Tysheka Long, Nancy Naples, Pat Nicotera, Timmy Sands, Stephanie Snyder, Brandon Tobias Panek, Sister Mary Marcelette Bogonieski, Frani Walters, Billy Wasielewski, Donna Clark, Jane Brennan, Jennifer Louth, Lumen Brown, Mary Baty.
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