Entries for August 2008

Have you made plans to attend today’s Labor Day Festival at Bergman Park? For the past 28 years, the City of Jamestown Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department has sponsored this event, which allows the community to join together for a day of musical entertainment, fun with friends and ends with an awe-inspiring display of fireworks...

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation awards grants to a large number of not-for-profit organizations. In each case, grant making is an effort to fulfill our respective missions. Community Service Funds were not established to meet any specific purpose, but to allow the Foundation’s Board to direct grants to events, projects or programs in the area. Such was the case when the Board approved a recent grant to the Roger Tory Peterson Institute...

Our area is endowed with a rich sense of tradition. On any given weekend, one can find local festivals, sporting events, and family gatherings throughout the county. The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, through their Community Service Funds has the opportunity to support these local events. Community Service Funds assist with the current and future needs of our area. This type of grant is unrestricted in nature - meaning that these funds may be used to benefit a wide variety of charitable projects or needs with the approval of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. This is by far the most flexible and powerful tool available to the Foundation to address the needs of the community...

The 2008 Summer Olympics are upon us. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, this international, multi-sport event is being held in Beijing.  As we look forward to witnessing the amazing feats of athletes from all over the world, and even follow with interest local hopeful Jean Stuczynski competing in the women’s pole vault event, thoughts come to mind of a fund that was established at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation just for local Olympic hopefuls..., People's Republic of China, until August 24, 2008. 

It’s summertime and local organizations are offering wonderful activities. In Jamestown, there are concerts in Allen Park, summer recreation programs in many of the playgrounds, baseball at the Babe Ruth World Series and downtown events all summer long. These activities and many more are, in part, made possible by the generous donors to the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation...