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Thoughts on donuts and DiCamillo’s
Between Frankie’s, Tops, Wegman’s, DiCamillo’s and Lewiston’s Village Bake Shoppe, Niagara Falls donut game is the only food lane where Niagara Falls doesn’t match Williamsville/Clarence.
I need a donut as a tender, sweet, sumptuous treat, not a sugar-encrusted chunk of bread.
Give me Paula’s or Clarence Country Donuts, sour cream glazed please. Heck, I’d even settle for a Dash’s cinnamon roll.
As for DiCamillo’s, I love it, especially soup, pasta, arborio rice and arancini. There are always arancini in our freezer and I love bringing people there for the first time just for the olfactory experience.
Another mea culpa
It was the late John Celestino, not Chris Voccio who cold-heartedly, and unceremoniously bum-rushed Don Glynn out the door at the Gazette. Apologies to Chris. He gets the Tonawanda NEWS gun notch but he didn’t take out Glynn.
I have never written much about Celestino because he mastered the up-tight white guy vibe and did not like how I wrote about, and related to the Black community in Niagara Falls.
We had issues but it was about his naivete and ignorance.The truth was he was scared of people he didn’t understand. I wish he had lived long enough to open his eyes. To quote Brene Brown, “it’s hard to hate up close, move in.”
The price of eggs
A friend in Russia sent home an image of eggs for sale in a grocery there. The pictured package, converting Rubles to dollars makes it about $1.14 US for a dozen.
There was a time when Bush’s Legs were a thing in Moscow. It was 1992 or so. The US was flooding Russia with dark meat poultry. Hey, it beats spam. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/09/russia.iantraynor
Milstein translates to ‘nothing’
In the more than 30 years of the Milstein Group owning, boarding up, mowing and paying taxes on 140 or so acres of prime real estate it has actually built nothing and demolished much.
To quote the mayor from Youtube,
“It is amazing that there are still public officials and political party people who still think it makes sense to deal with, talk with, bargain with the Milstein Group.
“It is also remarkable they will do anything for that donation that the Milstein group might give them.
“So you have to ask yourself the question, who are they committed to? And even if they try to convince you that well they are doing it because they can take those contributions and use it for the benefit of the city, that’s baloney because nothing comes for free
“So if in fact those donations happen there is a string attached. You know it, I know it. So I just hope that as we continue to stay the course and work toward removing this group from our community that these elected officials and political party people all come to the realization that this group is just not good for the community. It has deprived a generation of entertainment and development opportunities.”
Of course naysayers can spin that on the Mayor who has done a great job providing American Rescue Plan funds for his constituencies, managing city finances and replacing the streetlights but hasn’t done much to embrace the tech boom or attract the sort of investment New York has received in places like Rochester, Utica, Poughkeepsie and Binghamton. It is easy to look good when Congress gifts you $56 million.
Democratic candidates
Last week, Trumplican Donte Richardson trolled Chris Borgatti’s Facebook post calling for candidates, garnering wide attention for an otherwise mundane post.
The strategy for Richardson and the MAGA Republicans, backfired. Democrats have 6 people set to interview for endorsements tonight for Falls council seats and as well as others who were unknown to the committee who came forward for County Legislature races as well as seats in North Tonawanda, Lockport and other towns.
Some politically active Democrats who wanted to attend the endorsement interviews were not invited because they are no longer on the committee because they failed to get as few as 8 signatures to secure a seat.
The Buffalo News
Getting an oil change at Northtown Subaru, I saw a customer reading a printed edition of the NY Times and struck up a conversation.
“I’m done with the Buffalo News if you want it,” he said. “There is nothing in it.”
I accepted his offer. Tuesday’s paper was 16-pages, two sections with a box on the lower left explaining Buffalonews.com is continuously updated but a “technical outage” is creating serious production issues.
