• Niagara County Community College will begin offering credit-free courses in January, 2003. The program is designed for people who want to improve or learn a new skill. For more information, log onto NCCC's website at www.niagaracc.suny.edu or call the school at 614-6470.
  
• Avis Townsend, a resident of Appleton, is having his short story, "Burning Memories of Dad's Easy Chair" published in "Forget Me Knots... from the Front Porch", a new anthology compiled by Helen Kay Polaski.
  
• Donations to the Sister Mary Loretto Memorial Community Soup Kitchen can be made at any First Niagara Bank branch location, or mailed to First Niagara Bank, Attn: Soup Kitchen, 55 East Ave., Lockport, NY 14094.

Quote of the Week...

"The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned to cook."

- ANDY ROONEY