2021 Annual Bill Briggs-Tim Grace Memorial Football Party

The Annual Bill Briggs-Tim Grace Memorial Football Party to benefit youth programming in Chautauqua County will be held Sunday, October 16.

The Greater Jamestown AM Rotary is hosting the event at Ellicottville Brewing Company in Bemus Point.

Doors will open at 3:00 p.m. with kickoff at 4:25 p.m. Tickets are $45 and include food and drink and the chance to win $1,000 in cash prizes. You do not need to be present to win.

Greater Jamestown AM Rotary purchases coats each year through the Salvation Army’s “Bundle Them Up” program and sponsors the Royal Family Kids Camp at Mission Meadows. With the money raised, Rotary has purchased equipment to implement the First Tee Community Golf Program in collaboration with the YMCA at Ring School, and helped purchase 1,800 backpacks with The Chautauqua Center for students K-12 in Chautauqua County earlier this year.

To purchase tickets please contact any Greater Jamestown AM Rotarian or call 716-485-3933.

The former Surf Club in Bemus Point (image from wwwPanoramio.com)

JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown Post-Journal is reporting Thursday that the Ellicottville Brewing Company will be setting up a new location in Bemus Point at the former Surf Club.

According to the report, last year Ellicottville Brewing purchased the former Surf Club, which has remained unused since 2011. The village has now sent out a legal notice for a Planning Board hearing that will focus on a new sign for the building. The signage issue has been deferred to a county planning board because the building is located on a county road. If approved by the county, the village will then take up a similar measure.

If all goes according to plan, the new restaurant – which will likely be similar to the satellite operation in Fredonia – will open later this year, likely in the late spring or early summer.