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Support the Ride for Roswell, help to find a cure
      According to the American Cancer Society Web site, approximately 1.4 million people are expected to be diagnosed with some form of cancer in 2007. This year, as many as 559,650 Americans are expected to die from the disease. That's more than 1,500 people a day.
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Spindle items
      + WHEELIE BINS - I recently read one of the most bizarre stories ever written, courtesy of the Oxford Mail, a daily newspaper published in the city that is home to the oldest English speaking university in the world. The article reported the city council had confirmed that microchips had been installed in each of the city's garbage totes distributed last November.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago June 1, 1882 This is a free country and we are glad to welcome strangers to our shores, come from where they will, provided they intend to make good and law-abiding citizens. But when a number of young bloods come across the border and act as has recently been the case here, they had better stay at home.
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Weather museum would add to region's cultural institutions
      Mark me down as the latest to join a growing list of supporters for the idea of creating a weather museum in the city of Buffalo.
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Cor rections
      Two separate events were grouped together in the BeeHealthy column in the May 23-24 editions of Bee Group Newspapers. Vascular Interventional Associates will offer free peripheral arterial disease screening from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 30 at Buffalo General Hospital, 100 High St., Buffalo. For information, call 859-2138.
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The American soldier serves for all of us
      As Western New Yorkers enjoy the long-awaited unofficial start to summer this Memorial Day week, with its annual traditions of picnics, barbecues and parades, we also pause to remember and honor those who fought and died for our freedom.
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