West Seneca
The town’s Emergency Operations Center debuts Tuesday in the Ebenezer Building at 900 Mill Road.A ribbon cutting and open house begins at 5:30 p.m.
John Gullo, the town’s disaster coordinator, will manage the center, which will serve as the primary location for decision-making and planning, and a hub for communications and dispatch, as well as storage for equipment and supplies. Emergency operations had been conducted out of an old garage.
It also will house the Community Emergency Response Team, and be used as a meeting place for emergency personnel, and for emergency response and preparedness training.
The building, a former elementary school, is owned by the West Seneca School District, and also houses some district staff and departments.
This week:
• The West Seneca School Board is holding a special meeting at 5 p.m. Monday in room 200 at West Elementary School, 1397 Orchard Park Road.
• A Town Board meeting begins at 7 p.m. Monday in Council Chambers in Town Hall, 1250 Union Road.
• The Union Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps will appear at the West Seneca Public Library, 1300 Union Road, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The program includes a lecture/demonstration on Civil War field music. Reserve a seat by calling 674-2928.
• Main Street Marketplace will be held from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the grassy hill at Main Street and Union Road – adjacent to Town Hall. In case of wet weather, vendors will be on the hockey rink parking lot behind Town Hall.
• “The Whole Wide World,” a 1996 drama/love story, is the free movie at 7 p.m. Thursday at Burchfield Nature & Art Center, 2001 Union Road. The movie has a PG rating.