Provided photo, Congressman Chris Collins’ Office  – Brittany Bearss of Medina is congratulated by Congressman Chris Collins for her honorable mention in the 2016 Congressional Art Competition. Collins met with students Saturday during a reception at GCC in Batavia. Another Medina student, Grace Flores, was unable to attend the reception.

Two Medina students were among four honorees in the 2016 Congressional Art Contest for the 27th Congressional District.

Grace Flores of Medina High School won the runner up in the contest, behind only Angelina Miconi of Batavia High School, the first place winner. The honorable mentions went to Brittany Bearss of Medina High School and Alexis Mele of Clarence High School.
“The Congressional Art Competition is the perfect opportunity to see firsthand the qualities of creativity and originality that our local high school artists demonstrate in their artwork,” Collins said.

This year’s Congressional Art Competition displayed the artwork of 85 high school students in the Roz Steiner Art Gallery at Genesee Community College. The 2016 winner, Angelina Miconi, will receive a round trip flight to Washington, D.C. and will join hundreds of high school artists nationwide to see their artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

Collins extended his appreciation to Genesee Community College and President James Sunser, the art competition judges, Roz Steiner Art Gallery Director Mary Jo Whitman and Photography & Art Instructor Joe Ziolkowski, and all of the teachers, parents, and students who participated in this year’s Congressional Art Competition.

Provided photo – Sue Birch, director of environmental services at Medina Memorial Hospital, reviews an infection control monitoring report to validate cleanliness.

Press Release, Medina Memorial Hospital

MEDINA – Infections acquired in health-care settings are the most frequent adverse event in health care. Even those facilities that follow recommended infection control and antibiotic use practices are at risk if they receive patients who carry these germs from other facilities or enter the hospital with an already existing infection.

Late last year, a local public report, based on hospital acquired infection data collected from October 2013 through September 2014 (data that was a year old) showed Medina Memorial Hospital to have a higher than normal number of hospital acquired infections.

This generated an intensive performance improvement in 2014 to review and identify the source of the high numbers. Our efforts have resulted in the implementation of cutting-edge processes.

One key finding was that patients entering the hospital with an existing infection were not always being identified. This resulted in the infections being reported as a hospital acquired infections, even though they were not.

The hospital’s entire infection control protocol was reviewed. This includes the use of standardized protocols, performing blood cultures on admission to identify and begin treatment of exiting infections, following correct hand-washing procedures, cleaning of equipment such as blood pressure cuffs etc. between patients, the types of disinfectant being used, staff and patient education, and ongoing monitoring.

A cleaning verification system was also added to the infection surveillance program to verify the effectiveness of cleaning. Surfaces can be swabbed and measured by a device that measures any germs present and verify that optimal levels of cleanliness are met.

“This is a wonderful device to be added to our infection control surveillance,” said Karrie Mikits, RN, director of infection control. “Patient health depends on the cleanliness of the healthcare environment. This system can quickly and easily evaluate the effectiveness of cleaning materials and chemicals, and measure the effectiveness of standardized cleaning protocols. The software application that is part of the system allows us to track cleaning verification results, quickly identify problem areas, compare multiple facilities or areas, and generate reports for management and record keeping. We get objective measurement of surface cleanliness with on-the-spot feedback on cleaning effectiveness. We can even swab hands to determine the effectiveness of hand washing.”

This aggressive infection control protocol has produced exceptional outcomes. For the most recent reporting period this year, the highest level of improvement possible has been achieved – there were zero hospital acquired infections.

In the reporting period before this, after the aggressive approach to infection control was first initiated, there was a 71.4% improvement in hospital acquired infections.

This time we are at zero, demonstrating that our dedicated staff are continuing to work diligently every day to provide the best possible patient experience in all aspects of their stay with us.

Renderings courtesy Medina Architectural & Historic Review Board Zambistro is planning an addition to 408 Main St., as well as facade changes allowing for expanded outdoor seating.

Tim Hungerford is planning facade improvements at 414-416 Main St. Hungerford lives in a loft apartment at the building with his wife. He is renovating the first floor for retail space.

MEDINA – Two building owners near each other on Main Street will tackle facade restoration projects.

Michael Zambito, owner of Zambistro at 408 Main St., is also planning for an addition to the building. His plans for facade restoration and an addition were approved Tuesday by the Village of Medina Architectural & Historic Review Board.

The changes in the facade will expand outdoor seating and patio space for the restaurant.

“It’s a big move for him,” Board Chairman Chris Busch said about Zambito.

Busch praised the restaurant owner for making a big investment in the downtown, a project in sync with the character of the historic business district.

Just a few buildings from Zambistro, Tim Hungerford also is planning significant restoration work to the facade at 414-416 Main St. Hungerford lives in a loft apartment at the building. He is working to make the first floor attractive retail space.

The Architectural & Historic Review Board approved the project on Tuesday.

Photo by Tom Rivers – Main Street in Medina is pictured in this photo from March 2013. A state grant offers 75 percent of the funds for building projects in the downtown business district.

MEDINA – Building owners in downtown Medina have until April 29 to apply for grant funds through the NY Main Street program.

Medina in December was approved for a $335,000 grant. Those funds can go towards 75 percent of a building improvement project.

Kathy Blackburn is managing the grant for the Orleans County Chamber of Commerce, which applied for the funds for the Medina businesses. Blackburn expects building owners will submit applications the far exceed the $335,000.

A committee will decide which projects are approved for funding. That is the same committee that has been handling facade improvement grants for Medina. The group will use a scoring system for weighing the grant applications. The committee expects to pick the grant recipients next month, Blackburn said.

Strong interest from the building owners could prompt another application for a Main Street grant once the current one is complete, she said. The Chamber held an informational meeting on the grant Tuesday morning at City Hall, and about 35-40 people attended, Blackburn said.

Building owners can receive up to $50,000 in grant funds for building improvements. Some of the eligible projects include facade improvements, masonry, windows, doors, signs, awnings, interior work, plumbing, electrical, walls/floors/doors, roof, foundation and structural work.

The grant doesn’t fund additions, demolitions, landscaping and parking and residential projects with no commercial units.

The grant includes $15,000 for streetscape improvements. Blackburn said the committee is considering historic-looking garbage receptacles and new planters.

For more on the grant, click here.

Photos courtesy of Owen Toale

MEDINA – Michael Sidari, the new mayor of Medina, is sworn in Monday evening while his wife Brenda holds the family Bible. Sidari served two years on the Village Board before being elected mayor on March 15. He was unopposed and succeeds Andrew Meier.

Sidari is an active member of the Medina Fire Department. He is retired as the food service administrator for the Orleans Correctional Facility in Albion.

Two village trustees were also sworn in on Monday, including Marguerite Sherman and Tim Elliott.

Sherman, a special education teacher at Medina, was sworn in for her second two-year term. Elliott, co-owner of the new Brushstrokes Studios in Medina, served on the Village Planning Board.

Sidari and the Village Board made several appointments on Monday during the annual organizational meeting, including:

Naming Owen Toale as deputy mayor;

Appointing Deborah L. Padoleski to clerk-treasurer and Jada A. Burgess to deputy clerk-treasurer for two-year terms;

Naming Marguerite Sherman as fair housing officer for one year;

Naming Deborah L. Padoleski as registrar and Jada A. Burgess as deputy registrar for two-year terms;

Appointing Jamie Wagner and LuAnn Howe to three-year appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeals;

Naming Christopher Busch to a five-year term on the Planning Board with Mary Lewis as an alternate;

Appointing Shirley Whittleton and Kathleen Blackburn to three-year terms on the Boxwood Cemetery Commission;

Naming Nicole Goyette and Jamie Wagner to three-year appointments to the Tree Board;

Naming James Hancock to a two-year appointment to the Tourism Committee;

Appointing Christopher Busch to a five-year term to the Minimum Standards Appeals Board;

Village trustees were appointed to the following committees or assignments by Mayor Sidari: Fire/Code – Toale, Elliott; Police/DPW – Sherman, Todd Bensley; Employee Relations – Bensley/Toale; Clerk-Treasurer – Sidari; Town of Ridgeway Liaison – Elliott; Town of Shelby Liaison – Sherman; MBA Liaison – Bensley; Orleans County Liaison – Toale; Boxwood Cemetery – Bensley; Joint Recreation – Toale, Elliott; Tourism Committee – Sherman.

Photos by Tom Rivers

MEDINA – Tamara Huzair, 14, of Waterport sings during Friday night’s debut International Music Festival at Medina Theatre. The event was organized by the World Life Institute Center for the Performing Arts.

Tamara’s father Bilal is president of WLI. She joined her siblings – Ayman, 22; Salma, 17; and Qasim, 12 – in performing with the group Dounya, which means “world.”

Anand Ramanujam plays the Tabla, a drum from India, during Friday’s concert. Anand Ramanujam is a Tabla artist who grew up, trained and taught in India. For more about him, visit www.aanandham.com.

This photo was taken from back stage and shows performers with The Jade Monkeys, a band from Toronto. The local band, The Who Dats, also performed on Friday.

Ayman Huzair sings during the concert.

This photo was taken from the sound booth. The Huzair family sings a song dedicated to the late Vincent Cardone, who worked to develop the Medina Theatre.

The World Life Institute also recognized three local journalists for their efforts in covering community news. WLI gave awards to Virginia Kropf of The Daily News in Batavia, Tom Rivers of the Orleans Hub, and Bob Confer who writes for the Greater Niagara Newspapers, the New American magazine, as well as the East Niagara Post.

WLI today at 1:30 p.m. will celebrate the opening of The Colonade, the former Masonic Temple in Medina. WLI will use the site at 229 West Center St. for arts and cultural programming, and other events.

MEDINA – Members of the World Life Institute raise the American flag this afternoon outside The Colonnade, the former Medina Masonic Temple at 229 West Center St.

The Colonnade is the world-wide headquarters for World Life Institute, which runs humanitarian and educational programs in several countries.

World Life has been active in Orleans County for more than two decades. It built a school on Stillwater Road in Carlton about 20 years ago. That site is used for ESL classes, a pottery program for farmworkers, and other educational efforts, including Project Life, where children from war-torn countries spend summers with local host families and learn English, and take art and other classes.

Sisters Tamara, left, and Salma Huzair of Waterport sing the national anthem during a dedication program this afternoon. Their father, Bilal Huzair, is the current World Life president. Idris Salih, back right, was among about 50 people to attend the opening celebration.

World Life members stand at attention after raising the American flag. Chad Scott, left, and Ameen Ghani, right, both served in the military with Scott enlisted from 1999 to 2003 while Ghani served from 1964 to 1967.

Chris Wilson, center, is World Life’s communication director and international director of the Project Life program. The program is in its 20th year and has hosted about 135 children from war-torn Bosnia, Afghanistan and Chechnya. Some children also came one summer from Sri Lanka following a devastating tsunami. All of the children have lost at least one parent to war or tragedy.

World Life wants to push its humanitarian mission, Wilson said, and the new center in Medina will give it a headquarters for educational, humanitarian and cultural work.

The building was used by the Mormon church before the Masons acquired the site about a dozen years ago. Declining membership in the Masonic Lodge convinced the organization’s leaders to sell the building.

World Life added the new sign on Friday, just in time for today’s celebration.

“This is a very special building with a very special history,” Chris Wilson said. “We will continue the tradition of working to improve the human condition.”

Wilson addresses the group gathered for today’s dedication program. World Life wants to use the site for academic programs, and lectures open to the community.

The organization is developing the World Life College with classes in languages, religious studies, emergency preparedness and other subjects. World Life also wants to help high school students with college preparation and entrance exams.

Dr. Asaf Durakovic, director of World Life Institute, helped start the organization about 20 years ago. World Life has grown to an international scope. Durakovic shared a blessing for the headquarters today. He is next to Al Kropf, a member of the Medina Masonic Lodge.

Virginia Kropf, a long-time reporter for The Daily News in Batavia, shares remarks today during the opening ceremonies for The Colonnade. Kropf said Medina has a rich history, and World Life Institute is part of a new chapter. She also shared about becoming an airplane pilot at age 56.

“This building is being put to good use,” Kropf told the group. “We look forward to seeing what you’re going to do with it in Medina.”

Chris Wilson is in back at right, next to Amir Hassan Joosub, who is opening a new World Life site in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Julianne Hazen discusses plans for the World Life College. She is an educator who focuses on contemporary Sufism in America, Britain, and the Balkans. She said World Life will work to bring more educational opportunities to the Medina community, including civic and ESL classes and other programs.

MEDINA – Downtown building owners in Medina are invited to an 8 a.m. meeting on Tuesday at City Hall to learn about the $335,000 Main Street grant approved last December for Medina.

The Orleans County Chamber of Commerce is administering the funds. Building owners can receive up to $50,000 in matching grant funds for building improvements.

Some of the eligible projects include facade improvements, masonry, windows, doors, signs, awnings, interior work, plumbing, electrical, walls/floors/doors, roof, foundation and structural work.

Chamber officials say the grant gives building owner an opportunity to improve their property while also contributing to the revitalization of Medina.

A committee of community members will review proposals from building owners to determine which ones are approved for the grant.

The meeting Tuesday is in the main meeting room at City Hall, 600 Main St.

Photos courtesy of Medina Central School – Fourth grade woodwind students show Mrs. M from the Cleveland Institute of Music the answer to her question as part of the new distance learning effort at Medina.

Press Release, Medina Central School

MEDINA – The Medina Central School District has installed a Polycom Video Conferencing System in the middle school library. This allows for the school to conduct distance learning “field trips” over the Internet using a high definition camera and microphone set.

Band students took advantage of this opportunity and participated in sessions with the Cleveland Institute of Music. The Cleveland Institute of Music set up a fictitious television talk show called “Classical Instrument Montage” where Wise Middle School students were the studio audience.

“It was an impressive program,” said 4th and 5th grade band teacher Jeanette Sheliga. “The students were highly engaged asking and answering questions along with making music with the host. The program included a live performance as well as integrated pictures and videos teaching them about the history of the instruments of the orchestra.”

Fourth grade brass players practice buzzing with the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Brian Richards, Medina’s manager of Network and Information Systems, explains that, “The district’s Office 365 subscription gives each staff member a Skype account. We have recently purchased a portable classroom sized Video Conference Camera for use with Skype conference calls, allowing virtual field trips in any classroom in the district. The use of these systems provides us with educationally enriched virtual field trips, without ever having to leave the classroom.”

Fifth grade students Skype with scientist Dr. Lowman.

Percussion students in grades 4 – 6 perform a requested rhythm.

Wise’s 5th grade class also took advantage of the new distance learning capabilities. The 5th graders completed their ELA module about the biodiversity of the rainforest.

Part of this module included reading the book called ‘The Most Beautiful Roof in the World,’ written by Kathryn Lasky. Lasky’s book focused around the scientific work of Dr. Meg Lowman while she researched various rainforest canopies. On March 15th, 2016, the 5th grade students had the opportunity to Skype directly with Dr. Lowman.

Throughout the module, students created questions for Dr. Lowman coming up with over 100 of them and narrowing them down to about 25. Students were able to pick Dr. Lowman’s brain about the rainforests that she has been to, her books, her life, and many other interesting things.

Fifth grade teacher, Jason Klein, said “Students really enjoyed the whole process and are looking forward to other distance learning opportunities in the future.”

Photos by Tom Rivers

MEDINA – Jody Geary, an employee with Bovard Studio, Inc. in Iowa, works on one of 16 stained glass windows at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church of Medina. Geary is putting in aluminum framing to allow for ventilation of the window.

Geary said without ventilation heat is trapped between the window and a protective cover. That heat corrodes lead.

Some of the window sills also have rotted wood that will be replaced.

Bovard Studio arrived in Medina on Tuesday to start working on 16 windows at St. Peter, 1355 West Ave. Bovard has four crews working around the country. The crew in Medina will finish the job next week. They were in Wichita Falls, Texas, before coming to Medina. The next job is near Chicago.

Alfredo Reyna is supervisor of the three-man crew in Medina. The windows are all receiving onsite restoration, including a coating of a mixture of linseed oil, turpentine and Portland cement, which fills some gaps in the lead.

The glass will be polished and a Plexiglass protective cover will be replaced with 4-inch plate glass. The new cover will allow more light, making the windows brighter when viewed inside the church.

This window will be brighter after restoration work to be completed next week.

For more on Bovard Studio, click here.

Photos by Tom Rivers – Matt Mundion, left, was the grand champion for the Medina’s Parade of Lights for the third straight year in November. He donated the $1,000 grand prize back to the parade committee. He is pictured this morning with Jim Hancock, parade chairman (center), and David Miller, a member of the committee.

The Waterport Float heads down Park Avenue in the 2015 parade. Organizers want homeowners to enliven the street with decorations for this year’s parade.

Mundion won top prize at the Nov. 28 parade with “Medina Express,” a float with four units.

MEDINA – Matt Mundion has been grand champion of the Parade of Lights in Medina the last three years. He refuses to keep the grand prize money for having the top float, donating it back to parade committee to try to entice more participants and build a better festival.

Mundion won in 2014 and gave the $500 grand prize back. That allowed organizers to boost the grand prize to $1,000 in 2015. Mundion declined to accept the bigger grand prize again.

That is allowing the committee to keep the top prize at $1,000 for 2016 and also add $500 more to the fireworks show.

The committee gives away another $1,800 in prizes to other float winners. This year’s parade on Nov. 26 will include additional prizes for homeowners on Park Avenue who decorate their property for the parade.

Jim Hancock, the parade chairman, wants to make Park Avenue brighter and more colorful for the parade, and also have more people on that street, rather than so many packed in the downtown.

The committee is going to give a $100 first prize and $50 second place to the best-decorated homes on Park Avenue.

Mundion owns a contracting business and he brainstorms with his employees and friends for float ideas. He turns his Orient Street shop into a work zone about a week before the parade, creating elaborate floats. Last year he built a train.

He has entered six of the seven parades thus far.

“Initially it was for the advertisement,” he said. “But I like to see the kids faces when we round the corner on Main Street. They’re floored.”

Mundion said the only drawback about being in the parade is he can’t see the other floats as the slowly creep along the parade route.

“I’m thinking I will do it one more year and then retire from the parade because I want to be able to watch it,” he said this morning when he gave the $1,000 grand prize back to the committee.

Hancock thanked the many organizations, businesses and service groups that participate in the parade each year. There are about 45 to 50 altogether. The Medina Business Association also deserves praise for spearheading the Olde Tyme Christmas festival in Medina, Hancock said.

“It’s becoming a family tradition,” he said. “People come from out of town for Thanksgiving and then stay for the parade. It’s a perfect ending to a lovely day.”

For more on Olde Tyme Christmas, click here.

Photo by Tom Rivers – Medina Mayor Andrew Meier smiles during Monday’s Village Board meeting, his last meeting as mayor. Michael Sidari starts as new mayor on Friday.

MEDINA – Andrew Meier was praised for his efforts in leading the Village of Medina government the past 4 ½ years on Monday, his last meeting as Medina mayor before Michael Sidari takes over on Friday.

Meier, a local attorney and business owner, opted not to seek re-election last month. He was sometimes at odds with board members, particularly with a push to dissolve village government. Village residents rejected dissolution on Jan. 20, 2015 with a 949 to 527 vote, one of the biggest turnouts at village polls in recent memory.

“Our relationship was sometimes a bit rocky but I admire the way he has dedicated himself and worked for the village, and kept us on the straight and narrow,” said Owen Toale, a village trustee.

Meier, 36, has worked to renovate the R.H. Newell Company building on West Center Street, a building that is now home to a cafe, meadery, law offices, a boutique hotel and outdoor performance venue.

“Medina is a place that people want to visit and a lot of that is due to you,” Trustee Marguerite Sherman told Meier.

Sherman and Sidari were both elected as write-in trustees about two years ago. Both wanted to keep the village government intact. Meier saw village dissolution as a way to reduce taxes and streamline services.

“There’s always been respect,” Sherman said. “We haven’t agreed on everything but we worked together as a team. Your heart is with our community and maintaining the historic aspect of our village.”

Sidari and Trustee Todd Bensley also said Meier has been dedicated to the village, and welcomed other board members feedback.

“I always appreciate what Andrew’s done for the community,” Bensley said. “I never questioned that he wanted what was best for the village.”

Meier said he will stay involved in the community.

“We’ve accomplished a great deal,” Meier told the board members on Monday. “We don’t get down to pettiness.”

The village is experiencing a rebirth of its business district, while also targeting vacant houses and buildings. It tackled a solar energy project at the sewer plant, and is working with the Genesee County Economic Development Corporation to run sewer lines to the STAMP site in the Town of Alabama.

Medina also is home to the new Pride Pak vegetable processing plant under construction on Route 31.

Meier said the village is in good hands with Sidari, the Village Board and the village department heads.

He credited many of the recent improvements in Medina to dedicated residents, business owners and village employees – “to all of you we owe our success as a community,” he said.

Polish culture celebrated on Dyngus Day

Photos by Tom Rivers

MEDINA – Polish culture was celebrated on Monday with Dyngus Day parties throughout Western New York, including one at the Sacred Heart Club in Medina. In the top photo, Lyndsay Oliver-Farewell of Medina and her daughter Kendall wait for their turn to eat at the celebration.

Lyndsay has been coming to the annual Dyngus Day party for about 20 years.

Mike Hartway gets pierogis ready for the crowd of nearly 200 people, the biggest turnout in years for Dyngus Day. The Sacred Heart Club served up lots of Polish food.

Kathy Hartway checks on sweet and sour cabbage, left, and “Poor Man’s Pierogis.” About a dozen people did prep work on Saturday for the big meal, with eight people devoted in the kitchen on Monday.

Stuffed cabbage was a hit with the crowd on Monday.

Carrie Smith of Waterport holds pussywillows, which are popular on Dyngus Day as an early budding plant. In Dyngus Day tradition, boys would chase girls and flirt with them by touching their legs with twigs or pussywillows.

Lorraine Bukiewicz was crowned as queen for Dyngus Day. She is pictured with children, from left: Mike Bukiewicz, Barb Bukiewicz, John Bukiewicz and Ellen Goheen.

Lorraine met her husband, Leo, at the jukebox at the Sacred Heart Club in the early 1940s. The couple raised 10 children at a home three houses from the Sacred Heart Club.

“It was a nice surpirse,” Lorraine, 91, said about being crowned queen.

Photo by Tom Rivers – The Company F Memorial Committee has this sign out at Rotary Park in Medina, trying to build support for a $90,000 campaign for a bronze statue and other improvements to the memorial at the former Armory in Medina, now the Orleans County YMCA on Pearl Street.

Rendering courtesy of Company F Memorial Committee – A fund-raising effort has started for a bronze statue of a soldier on top of an existing stone monument by the Orleans County YMCA.

Courtesy Medina Sandstone Society – Company F prepares to leave Medina Oct. 24, 1940 for training at Fort McClellan and active duty in WWII.

MEDINA – A group working on raising funds for a bronze statue of a soldier at the former Armory in Medina has reached $20,000 of a $90,000 goal.

The Company F Memorial Committee will accept bids until Friday for the project. A 7-foot-high statue of a soldier will go on top of an existing stone base that is 6 feet, 10 inches in height.

In October 2008, the stone monument was dedicated with plaques listing soldiers who trained at the Medina Armory and fought wars on behalf of the United States. The new fund-raising campaign includes repair two of the panels that were damaged due to vandalism, and making some name corrections and additions, said Bill Menz, the committee chairman. A new 30-foot-high flag pole will also be included.

The Committee has sent out 300 letters to community members, and placed brochures throughout the county. Donations are coming in, including recent checks for $1,000 from the Knights of Columbus Council 651 in Medina (in memory of Michael Mazur) and $1,100 from the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 204 in Medina.

Menz and the committee want to recognize the sacrifice of local soldiers and their families. The Medina Armory opened in 1901 for Company F, which formed in 1891. It trained at a different location prior to the Armory. In 1977, the National Guard left the Medina Armory, a site on Pearl Street. The site has been used as a YMCA for more than three decades.

Menz was one of the soldiers to train in the Armory. That was for 18 months when he was in the National Guard in the 1950s. He served on active duty in Greenland. He attained the rank of a corporal E-4.

The monument currently includes 550 names of local soldiers who fought in wars on behalf of the United States. The soldiers enlisted and trained at the Medina Armory for conflicts from 1898 to 1945 including the Spanish-American War, Mexican-American, World War I and World War II.

In 2006, a group of Medina veterans, their family members and representatives from the Medina Sandstone Society embarked on a project to provide a permanent tribute to the 550 soldiers from Orleans County and the surrounding area who joined Company F.

After two years of planning, fund-raising and building the monument, it was dedicated on Oct. 14, 2008.

Any donations for the statue can be mailed to Company F Monument, P.O. Box 522, Medina NY, 14103. For more information on the latest efforts to improve the memorial, click here.