🌱 How West Seneca parishes are stepping up as a neighbor’s church shrinks

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• How West Seneca parishes are stepping up as a neighbor’s church shrinks

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 56 and low of 42 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 61, low: 45.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy, a little rain, with a high of 59 and low of 46 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• 'It's not closing': Buffalo Diocese cutting back Masses at St. John Vianney amid financial woes (wkbw.com) — Parishioners from West Seneca churches like Fourteen Holy Helpers, St. John XXIII, and Queen of Heaven are being encouraged to help absorb worshippers as St. John Vianney in Orchard Park sharply cuts back daily Masses due to finances. The Buffalo Diocese stresses the parish isn’t officially closing, but parishioners fear the reduced schedule and ongoing Vatican review could signal a long-term struggle for their church community.
   

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📸 Around West Seneca

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🗓 Upcoming Events in West Seneca

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday May 21

• West Seneca Farmers' Market
  West Seneca Farmers Market, 1250 Union Rd, West Seneca
  4:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday April 23

• Drafts at the NFL Draft
  West Seneca Chamber-Commerce , 1300 Union Rd , Buffalo
  7:00 pm

Wednesday April 29

• Women In Business Breakfast
  West Seneca Chamber-Commerce , 1300 Union Rd , Buffalo
  8:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• MS - Seniors in Our Schools Day, 8:45 a.m., MS Cafeteria
  East Aurora UFSD East Aurora, NY 14052
  8:45 am
• Police Oversight - Council Committee Meeting
  Buffalo, NY Calendar , 13Th Floor City Hall , Buffalo
  11:00 am
• Iroquois Varsity Baseball @ Lancaster
  Lancaster High School , 1 Forton Dr , Lancaster
  5:00 pm
• Typography of Women In-Person
  Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Auditorium,
  5:30 pm
• CAS Literacy Night
  Charlotte Avenue Elementary School Hamburg, NY 14075
  6:00 pm
• SEPTSA Meeting, 6:30 p.m., HS Library
  East Aurora UFSD East Aurora, NY 14052
  6:30 pm

Thursday April 23

• DMS Jazz Band
  Depew Middle School Depew, NY 14043
  7:00 am
• Judge Morgan - Criminal Court 10:00AM
  Hamburg, NY Calendar Hamburg, NY 14075
  10:00 am
• Movie Series In-Person
  Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Auditorium,
  2:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• ISO used Milwaukee style stackable tool chest with wheels.
  Doesn't have to be Milwaukee but that style.Doesn't have to be great, but usable. Thank you in advance! (Nextdoor West Seneca West)

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🗞 Nearby News

Lackawanna

• The Market at Graycliff (stepoutbuffalo.com)
• Buffalo Sabre's Playoffs Watch Party (stepoutbuffalo.com)

Cheektowaga

• 'Sean did not deserve this': Loved ones of slain Cheektowaga man seek justice (wkbw.com)
• What you need to know if you're traveling to Boston for the Buffalo Sabres playoff game (wkbw.com)
• How Buffalo Residents Can Boost Health And Finance This May (wblk.com)

Orchard Park

• The North Buffalo Golf Sim Bar Where the Chicken Parm Sandwich & Weck Sliders Do All the Talking (stepoutbuffalo.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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