Reporters’ Notebook: May 19, 2023 – What’s cooking

OLAF FUB SEZ: According to author and film director Nora Ephron, born on this date in 1941, “What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

FUN OUTDOORS – Hammerl Amusements opens its Celebrate Spring Carnival from 5 to 9 p.m. today in the parking lot at Eastern Hills Mall, Main Street and Transit Road, Clarence. All-day ride passes are $25. Get $5 off tonight with the coupon on Hammerl’s Facebook page. The carnival, which also has games and food vendors, continues from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday and returns for Memorial Day weekend.

Streets Soprano presents a festival and block party from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday on Northland Avenue with food, beverages, games and live entertainment by Emily Rodriguez and the Elevated Drill and Dance Team.

LET US PRAY – St. Stanislaus Church leads a rosary procession to pray for peace and for deceased family and friends at 6 p.m. today around the Marian Mausoleum at St. Stanislaus Cemetery, 700 Pine Ridge Heritage Blvd., Cheektowaga.

Calvary Episcopal Church, 20 Milton St. in Williamsville, holds a pet memorial service at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Anyone who has lost a pet is invited to bring a picture or memento. For more info, call 716-633-7800.

TUNED UP – Pianist Chris Sierzchula visits the Casual Concert series at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, 695 Elmwood Ave., to perform mazurkas by Scriabin, Debussy and others. Free-will offering.

Musical interludes, including a performance by Elizabeth Clay on the 1927 Tellers-Kent organ, accompany an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Blessed Trinity Church, 317 Leroy Ave., as part of the New York Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites Open House program. For more info, visit blessedtrinitybuffalo.org and nylandmarks.org.

The Friends of Vienna present the Ekstasis duo – cellist Natasha Farny and pianist Eliran Avni – at 3:30 p.m. Sunday…

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