If you have grown some vegetables that you’re proud of, you can make sure they get the recognition that they deserve by entering them in the flower show to be held by the Kenmore Garden Club next weekend. Anyone can enter; you don’t have to be a member of the club. The vegetable that you want to enter must have been grown by you. You can enter any vegetable. If the vegetable is large, such as regular tomatoes, you will…...

by Connie Oswald Stofko Dave Mischler, president of the  Western New York Gas & Steam Engine Association, and his wife, Nancy, were among the last people to ride on the SS Canadiana, the boat that ferried passengers between Buffalo and the Crystal Beach Amusement Park in Ontario. The couple was in high school when they took a moonlight cruise in 1956, the last year of the Canadiana’s operation here. The huge steam engine that once powered the boat will be…...

Two new series of classes, Horticulture V and VI, are being added to the existing series of horticulture classes at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Ave., Buffalo. Art classes are scheduled, too. For more information, call 827-1584, ext. 292. Horticulture classes You don’t have to take the classes in order, so you can take these new classes even if you haven’t completed Horticulture I-IV. You can sign up for just a single class, too. The…...

by Connie Oswald Stofko I will present “45 Gardening Tips in 45 Minutes” at the meeting of the Barker Garden Club at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, in the Barker Public Library, 8706 Main St., Barker. I will share 45 tips that I have come across while writing for BuffaloNiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York. I have to average one tip per minute, so it’s fun to see if I can squeeze them all in! Whether you’re…...