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May 20, 2010

---NIAGARA--- Niagara Gazette The Niagara Gazette Thu May 20, 2010, 10:48 PM EDT

NIAGARA FALLS — CHEERS

• RELAY FOR LIFE: Last week, about 600 people participated in the second annual Relay for Life at Niagara Falls’ Sal Maglie Stadium. The event is a national fundraiser put on by the American Cancer Society in an effort to raise money for treatment and a cure cancer. Relay for Life has raised more than $3 billion nationally since the first Relay in 1985. While the funds raised at the Niagara Falls relay haven’t been determined. The walk already is a success — $22,000 was raised before it even started, as a result of online donations and funds raised from team members participating in the relay.

• ROAD WORK AHEAD: Pretty soon 72nd Street will be a smooth drive. On Monday, the Niagara Falls City Council approved hiring Accadia Site Contracting to reconstruct the road. While we’ve been put off that the project has taken so long to come to fruition, Councilman Robert Anderson summed it all up when he said “this is long overdue.” Mayor Paul Dyster hopes the road will completed by the end of this construction season.

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• ROAD WORK IS HERE: Don’t get us wrong, we’d never complain that roads are getting fixed in the city — still, is anybody else out terrified of those manholes rising out of the stripped-down Pine Avenue roadway? We realize you’re supposed to drive right over them but we’re swerving around them everytime, which can make things a bit tricky on Pine.

• SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS: Niagara-Wheatfield school board member Sam Monin is right to be mad, but not at all those eligible voters that didn’t show up for Tuesday’s school board election and budget vote. You can hardly blame voters for staying away, they were expected to show up and vote on a budget that didn’t contain a tax increase and the election of two candidates for two open seats. Now we have no issue with a budget holding the line on taxes, but two candidates for two open seats? As Monin states, Niagara-Wheatfield is a pretty big district and to just have two people step up to the plate is a little disheartening. “Schools are only as effective as the people who pay the bills and the people that serve on the board,” Monin said Wednesday — we wholeheartedly agree.

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