Sheridan VFW Auxiliary meets

SHERIDAN — The Sheridan VFW Auxiliary met Monday at the VFW Post 6390. The recent bake sale was reported on. There may be another one on March 7 at 4 p.m.

This date coincides with the flea market held at the club. The main topic of the evening was Valentine Bingo, which will be at the Post in the dining room on Sunday at 2 p.m. There will be many great prizes which are all Valentine themed. Each of our members will be tasked with various jobs during the event. We will be serving light refreshments during an intermission. Drinks may be purchased at the bar during this event.

If you have a highlighter, bingo dauber or the like please bring it with you. There will be some available. The next meeting will be March 10 at 6:30 at the post. As always new members are welcome. If you are a direct relative of someone who has served overseas in a war zone please think about joining us.

Green Tie Affair coming soon

Ticket and table sponsorships are selling out fast for Chautauqua County 4-H’s Green Tie Affair event. The 2025 4-H Green Tie Affair will be on Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel in Celoron. The event begins at 3 p.m. with the basket raffle and bake sale. Dinner will follow at 5 with the pie auction immediately following dinner.

The pie auction will be hosted by Dakota Peterson of Peterson Auction and will feature approximately 15 pies. New this year, we will have two gluten-free pies! A blueberry gluten-free pie will be donated by Om Nohm Gluten Free Bakery of Fredonia and Dan Smith, a friend of 4-H, will be providing a second gluten free pie. Also on the pie list are a Dutch Apple pie, Strawberry Rhubarb, and Cherry pie. More flavors will be available, and a complete pie list will be available prior to the event.

Individual tickets are available for $25 a person presale. Table sponsorships include 10 tickets to the event, a page of tickets for the basket raffle, advertising on placemats (if a business card is provided), name on a “thank you” banner at the event, and advertisement in the local press.

To purchase tickets or sponsor a table, individuals should contact the Cornell Cooperative Extension Office by dropping in to the JCC Carnahan Center M-F 8:30-4:30, calling (716) 664-9502 ext. 212 or emailing chautauqua4h@cornell.edu.

Monthly Sunday

breakfast this week

Forest Lodge 166 F&AM will be holding its monthly Sunday Family Breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This all-you-can-eat breakfast will consist of eggs made to order, pancakes or French Toast, sausages, fruit cocktail, juice, milk, coffee, and tea.

Adults and teenagers 13 and up $12, children 5-12, $6 and those under 5 are free. This breakfast is open to the public, and everyone is welcome and cordially invited to attend — all you can eat is eat-in-only. Anyone with interests in, or has questions about FreeMasonry will be given a tour of the building at the asking. Forest Lodge is located at 321 E. Main St., Fredonia.

Spaghetti dinner

set for Feb. 19

The Blessed Mary Angela Holy Name Society will hold a spaghetti dinner on Wednesday Feb. 19 at the Parish Social Center at 324 Townsend St. in Dunkirk. This will be a drive-through pick up only dinner. The Holy Name Society would like to thank everyone for their past support and to show their appreciation they are rolling back the prices. The donation is only $10.

Blessed Mary Angela Parish is slated to close in February 2026 with St. Hedwig closing this June. The society is raising funds to help the parish move and preserve religious and historical items at both St. Hedwig and Hyacinth churches.

The dinner will include tossed salad, pasta, sauce, two homemade meatballs and bread with butter. Tickets can be purchased after weekend masses, the Central office at the Holy Trinity on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, Li’l Gingers Deli on Central Avenue and Big Rick’s One Stop on Lake Shore Drive East.

Congregation to

gather on Sunday

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple St. in Fredonia, holds a Sunday Worship Service at 11 a.m., both at their physical location and on Zoom. For those wishing to join us virtually, please visit https://tinyurl.com/caluucnc. Click on “Worship Service” on the date you are attending and scroll down for the Zoom link. For those attending the in-person service, please follow the driveway and park in the lower lot behind the building. Handicapped parking is located between the two buildings and directly behind the second building.

The theme for February is Inclusion for the Sunday worship service. The talk will be Kilgore’s Creed: Kurt Vonnegut’s Prophetic Lessons on Technology, Humanity, and Hope in Dark Times, with guest speaker Dr. Christina Jarvis.

Drawing on intensive study of Kurt Vonnegut’s career and his manuscripts at the Lilly Library, this talk explores key lessons from Vonnegut’s final novel, Timequake — especially Kilgore’s Creed, which would do “as much to save life on Earth as Einstein’s E equals mc squared had done to end it two generations earlier.” Published in 1997 and intended as the final chapter of his writing career, the novel explores the idea of a “timequake,” a sudden glitch in the time-space continuum, which makes “everybody and everything do exactly what they’d done during a past decade, for a good or ill, a second time.” Notably, the timequake begins and ends on February 13, the same day Vonnegut survived the Firebombing of Dresden as a POW during World War II. In addition to offering prescient critiques of automation and isolating digital technologies and joyous celebrations of writing and the arts, Timequake reminds us that even the darkest moments in history can be reborn.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua strives to be a vibrant, welcoming, multigenerational, diverse community enlivened by the power of radical love. For more information about us, visit our website at www.uucnc.org call at 716-679-7944.