Chicken dinner benefits team
The Fleming No. 1 Fire Department is hosting a chicken dinner from 11 a.m. until they're gone Feb. 17, at the firehouse on West Lake Road in Fleming.
The dinner will benefit the department's ladder truck drive and the Auburn football team. Dinners are $7.50 and $4 for halves.
Maj. Donald Groff deployed overseas
Air Force Maj. Donald Groff is currently deployed overseas at a forward-operating location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Groff, an emergency management officer, is regularly assigned to the 174th Fighter Wing, Hancock Field, Syracuse. The major has served for 24 years.
His wife, Kathleen, is the daughter of Al and Mary Kott of Franklin Street Road, Auburn.
In 1975, Groff graduated from Auburn High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 1979 from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio. He earned an associate degree in 1992 from Cayuga Community College.
Westminster to air civil rights movie
Westminster Church will show “Ghosts of Mississippi” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, as the February selection of the church's monthly “Faith and Film” series. The movie is free and open to the public.
“Ghosts of Mississippi” stars Alec Baldwin, James Woods and Whoopi Goldberg. It tells the true story of the murder of civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, in 1963, and the trial of his killer 30 years later.
Westminster Church is located at 17 William St. in downtown Auburn. Call 253-3331 or visit www.westminsterauburn.org for more information.
Trip to NYC open for next month
The Community Preservation Committee is sponsoring a bus trip to New York City leaving Willard Memorial Chapel March 30 and returning April 1. The trip highlights the chapel's Tiffany heritage and includes fun theater entertainment and great food.
The bus departs at 7 a.m. Lunch in midtown Manhattan will be followed by a tour of the Henry Luce Center for the Study of American Culture at the New York Historical Society. The Luce Center has hundreds of historical objects including Tiffany lamps, toys, textiles, military and archaeological items. Next, visitors will take a tour of the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judica at Temple Emanu-El, which contains Tiffany windows. Dinner will be at Carmine's prior to the show, “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be visited on day two to view the exhibition “Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall - An Artist's Country Estate.” The exhibition displays items from Tiffany's personal collection. Then that evening, visitors will go to the “Top of the Rock” for a view of the New York skyline.
The third day includes a tour of the United Nations and free time on Fifth Avenue. Mass is available at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Visitors will head home at 2 p.m. and arrive to Auburn between 9 and 9:30 p.m.
Costs is $569 per person based on double occupancy, $469 per person based on quad occupancy, which includes a $25 donation to the Community Preservation Committee.
For reservations, call 252-0339.
- From staff reports
The dinner will benefit the department's ladder truck drive and the Auburn football team. Dinners are $7.50 and $4 for halves.
Maj. Donald Groff deployed overseas
Air Force Maj. Donald Groff is currently deployed overseas at a forward-operating location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Groff, an emergency management officer, is regularly assigned to the 174th Fighter Wing, Hancock Field, Syracuse. The major has served for 24 years.
His wife, Kathleen, is the daughter of Al and Mary Kott of Franklin Street Road, Auburn.
In 1975, Groff graduated from Auburn High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 1979 from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio. He earned an associate degree in 1992 from Cayuga Community College.
Westminster to air civil rights movie
Westminster Church will show “Ghosts of Mississippi” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, as the February selection of the church's monthly “Faith and Film” series. The movie is free and open to the public.
“Ghosts of Mississippi” stars Alec Baldwin, James Woods and Whoopi Goldberg. It tells the true story of the murder of civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, in 1963, and the trial of his killer 30 years later.
Westminster Church is located at 17 William St. in downtown Auburn. Call 253-3331 or visit www.westminsterauburn.org for more information.
Trip to NYC open for next month
The Community Preservation Committee is sponsoring a bus trip to New York City leaving Willard Memorial Chapel March 30 and returning April 1. The trip highlights the chapel's Tiffany heritage and includes fun theater entertainment and great food.
The bus departs at 7 a.m. Lunch in midtown Manhattan will be followed by a tour of the Henry Luce Center for the Study of American Culture at the New York Historical Society. The Luce Center has hundreds of historical objects including Tiffany lamps, toys, textiles, military and archaeological items. Next, visitors will take a tour of the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judica at Temple Emanu-El, which contains Tiffany windows. Dinner will be at Carmine's prior to the show, “The Drowsy Chaperone.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be visited on day two to view the exhibition “Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall - An Artist's Country Estate.” The exhibition displays items from Tiffany's personal collection. Then that evening, visitors will go to the “Top of the Rock” for a view of the New York skyline.
The third day includes a tour of the United Nations and free time on Fifth Avenue. Mass is available at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Visitors will head home at 2 p.m. and arrive to Auburn between 9 and 9:30 p.m.
Costs is $569 per person based on double occupancy, $469 per person based on quad occupancy, which includes a $25 donation to the Community Preservation Committee.
For reservations, call 252-0339.
- From staff reports
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