Author: Bill Zimmermann

Bill runs Seven Seas Sailing school, and is a staunch waterfront activist. He is also heavily involved with preserving, maintaining, and promoting the South Buffalo Lighthouse. When Bill first started writing for Buffalo Rising, he wrote an article a day for 365 days - each article coincided with a significant historic event that happened in Buffalo on that same day.

Just a quick invite to pop over to the CPO Club at foot of Porter (next to Buffalo Yacht Club at the foot of Porter) right now– tonight. You couldn’t be more welcomed than to just stop by…free parking too. Mary Dolce (former owner Dolci’s Bakery) asked BRO to put the word out that the party is a rather spontaneous outcome of today’s ceremonies. She’s led a great team to put on a weekend celebration for our Veterans. Ceremonies have been going on last night and today– but there’s loads of food (free) on the table– cheap drinks– and great…

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Zimmermann: Rienas. Thirty (30) minutes. * PBA will tear down 90-plus west side homes if the small legals forces cannot stop them * PBA will improve diesel emissions in future years to then create a healthier west side, but not before things get measurably worse. * PBA accepts no competition, Ambassador Bridge or otherwise– promotes a booklet denouncing ANBG. * PBA will sue aggitators in Fort Erie where free speech laws are more constrained * PBA is buying land near IRR, and has its reasons–reasons for everything * PBA admits to diesel harm on children, but points finger also at…

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In the case of 60 Minute’s correspondent Morley Safer, two things qualify to make him an On This Day From Buffalo story: 1) he’s from our close-regional Toronto, and 2) he’s proudly owned some pretty fabulous Buffalo real estate in his time. You’ve got to like 60 Minutes’ Morley Safer. As Veterans’ Day approaches, He’s the guy in the old CBS tapes of the Vietnam War who Uncle Walter Cronkite pointed out was at the front lines, and saw the real damage of lives lost day by day. Morley Safer took his cameras and entered the village war zones and…

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The Amherst Saxophone Quartet is an internationally renowned four-member sax ensemble who has recorded vintage pop, ragtime and early jazz numbers for over three decades. Today’s November 6th nationally syndicated Composer News Daily series cites the “Quartet for Saxophones,” by the Canadian composer Anita “A.D.” Perry, as “a work written for the Amherst Saxophone Quartet of Buffalo, New York The Amherst Saxophone Quartet has a 30-year history of commissioning and performing new music, and a number of compact disc recordings to their credit, include one of Perry’s quartet.” There would be no saxophone, however, were it not for the birth…

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Substantial numbers of kids, and mothers, siblings and grandparents have fallen sick over recent decades on the Buffalo west side due to the 24-7, four-mile back idling diesel truck flow, and the southwestery flow diesel particlulates that visit upon the topographical flow of the village known as the West Side. This entire area is a veritable baseball mit catching a constant flow of diesel particulates. Not enough people seem to want to acknowledge this. Maybe it will take community and health class-action law suits in order to gain attention. Here’s the science no one in mainstream media is telling Buffalo:…

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It was On This Day, November 4, 1825, that New York’s Governor Clinton poured the water of Lake Erie into that of the Atlantic Ocean and he said: “May the God of the heavens and earth smile most propitiously on this work and render it subservient to the best interests of the human race.” Buffalo’s Judge Wilkeson was there with the Buffalo Committee and returned to Buffalo Canal Terminus with a keg of the water of the Atlantic for a similar ceremony. One reporter named Johnson wrote: “On their arrival (at Buffalo) there was a final ceremony, which reminds one…

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Last Friday, November 2, Ed Arditti from Windsor, Ontario, wrote a piece called “Singing The Blue Water Bridge Blues” that appeared on his website called WindsorCityBlog… http://windsorcityon.blogspot.com/ To better understand our private, governmental, political and “public authority” conflicts of interest with regard to the Peace Bridge, let’s hop over to hear the current discussions in Windsor, and see if it sheds some light for us here. Ed introduces his blog site saying “Here are some musings about the state of events in Windsor from the perspective of an interested observer of local politics. Sometimes we just have to help out!…

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Paul Dyster is the quintessential WNY homebrewer, and he’s also running for Mayor of Niagara Falls. Wouldn’t be cool if he made Beer run over the Falls instead of water? On This Day across America—the first Saturday of November—we celebrate Teach a Friend Homebrew Day. To see all the events visit: www.beertown.org/events/teach/index.html Locally, there’s Paul Dyster’s Niagara Tradition Home Beer & Wine Supplies, a family owned & operated business, which since 1992 has provided home brewers wine, mead, and cider makers, which they promise is “with quality ingredients& equipment at fair prices, and information& education to help ensure their success…

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Judy Einach and PoliticsNY.net have granted their permission to reprint her interview with PBA General Manager Ron Rienas. The job of this series is to present every side. If ever I get to head up a group like the NRA, Amway, West Valley, or the Tobacco Lobby, I’d want Ron Rienas as my general manager in a heart beat, and Judy Einach as my publicist. They’re good. The Public Bridge Authority By Judy Einach Part 2: Answering Specific Criticism More from my conversation with Ron Rienas, General Manager of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority JE: Folks associated…

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Here’s the latest design sent to BRO from the Seneca Gaming Corporation. The other views that we’ve posted spurred some interesting comments (from this post)… here are a few: TownLine: This building is atrocious. Alone on its own island, rejecting the urban nature of everything around it. The metallic facade, boy they just took the worst part of the Burchfield penny design and put it on an even more rediculous facade. It is concerning when they just show one angle – you assume this is the best they got, can’t wait to see the rest. impressingagent: i drove by the…

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