http://www.niagara-gazette.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307120159.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307120159.html Check your clocks. Did you “fall back” today? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_306000255.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_306000255.html Vandy Van Deusen was surprised that he could still be surprised.Van Deusen, who has been volunteering for United Way agencies since the mid-70s took a tour recently of all 16 agencies that receive funding from the agency and was pleasantly reminded that his nearly 40 years of volunteering reaches deep and wide into the region. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:58:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_305235927.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_305235927.html I was the one who came up with the idea for the French toast dessert. The chef leading our team looked at me, nodded and said, “great idea!”I hope you can imagine how exhilarating that felt. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_305235805.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_305235805.html Bruce Engelhart really just wants to sing to people. He says it makes him feel blessed to do so.But, according to those who have watched him work a room of senior citizens, strumming on his guitar and singing tunes like “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” or “God Bless America,” he has quite an impact on his audiences as well. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:13:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111404.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111404.html If you remember the O.J. Juicer, “Machine Gun Kelly” Bills poster, Thurman Thomas sports drink or Flutie Flakes, then you need to get to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society sooner rather than later. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:11:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111223.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111223.html Released in time for the World Series and for Christmas, “Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress” offers several hundred pictures — photos, engravings, drawings, panoramic views of long-gone ballparks and an assortment of ephemera — the majority of which have never been published elsewhere. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:10:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111032.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111032.html I don’t know precisely why, but 5 years sounds so much older than 4. Maybe it’s that I can no longer call him a toddler, or a preschooler, or any one of those terms that sounds so much less intimidating that simply “boy.” Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110815.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110815.html A recent comparison shopping trip by a Canadian newspaper found several deals to be had on this side of the border. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_300110429.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_300110429.html Every local native knows North Tonawanda’s lumber-rich past and that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer attended Kenmore West High School.But how many Tonawandans know that one of college football’s pioneers hailed from the region, or that a saint once walked through Kenmore? Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:45:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_300014553.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_300014553.html It’s not like he had never done such a thing before. In fact, as a professor of English, he often had asked his writing students to do just that. Look at a picture and find the words to tell me what you see.But this was different. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:58:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_295125908.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/local_story_295125908.html Like the bass player in a rock band or stuntman, a TV news producer has to have a certain mindset in order to pursue a career in the background. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:57:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125738.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125738.html Who knew symbologists led such interesting lives? Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125604.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125604.html About a decade ago, Bill Cosby hosted a show called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” On it, he would ask young children questions, to which they would offer cute and/or silly responses.I was in college when the show aired, and thus I never got the attraction to children ... well, talking.After spending some time with Penny and Rigby the past couple weeks, I am no longer skeptical about the power of a child’s word. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:54:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125442.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125442.html Little do many British apple-lovers know that they have a Niagara County company’s labor to thank for their fruit. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125207.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125207.html For nearly as long as there have been motion pictures, there have been people scaring themselves with said motion pictures.