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- By Ellie Baranyai Luba Donnell
- Have you seen our new SIGN at Lake Rd and Circuit Drive Thanks to Tom Wilson for letting CLABA keep our sign on his Car
- Additionally, one more thanks to the Crawford County Convention Visitors Bureau and Kevin Parsons for the design and finding a
- Our annual Independence Day weekend celebration includes a Boat Parade around the lake on Saturday July 5th starting at 2:00 pm by
- Craft Show Women’s Fair
- Cruise In Cruise In at the Lake
- Mark Your Calendar Cruise In at the Lake 2014 Saturday August 9th
- Post 6773 John Krol Post - Union City, PA
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to CLABA before March 15th of the publishing year. CLABA would like to acknowledge and thank the staff and management of The Area Shopper for their help in the preparation and printing of this year’s Canadohta Breeze. Area Shopper - Printing President’s Message Welcome to beautiful Canadohta Lake. This is the busiest time of year for the Canadohta Lake Area Business Association (CLABA) and all the businesses are ready to help you enjoy the 2014 summer season. We have planned some new events this year and would like you to know about them. Our 1st ever Yard Sale and Flea Market at Our Lady of Fatima Church is May 24th 8 am to 3 pm. CLABA is accepting donations of articles to sell to raise additional fireworks money. Anyone can buy a table site and sell their own items, so pass it on to your friends. It is an easy access location for a yard sale! Another new event for the lake is a Scavenger Hunt on July 26th starting at 11 am. Registration will be at the Original PUTT-R-GOLF on Lake Rd. It should be a fun day searching all around Canadohta Lake for some unique finds and exploring our community. One more new event for this year will be Canadohta “Wine by the Lake”. We are trying to arrange some wineries to come on September 13th 1-5 pm to the Frog Pond pavilions and for a nominal fee you will be able to purchase a wrist band and try out some local wines. This is still in the early planning stages and more info will follow, as soon as things are finalized. Be sure to check our website or Facebook page for updates. WOW! Have you seen our new SIGN ! Thanks to Tom Wilson for letting CLABA keep our sign on his Car Wash & Laundromat property. A special thanks to Dan Lemmon, Bill Easterlin, Joe Ramsey, and Joe Kelly for installing it. Additionally, one more thanks to the Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau and Kevin Parsons for the design and finding a printer for an affordable purchase of the sign! We have needed it for quite some time and it sure is a welcoming sight for Canadohta Lake. Please check our website canadohtalake.org and “Like” our Facebook page Canadohta Lake Area Business Association for information and schedules for 2014. We are an organization of volunteers and try to do our best to serve the lake community while operating our own businesses. I would like to recognize our new slate of officers for 2014-2016. We are available to help answer any lake related questions you may have. Anita J Lemmon, President-Homeland Real Estate Services 814-392-4116 Billie Jo Easterlin, Vice President-Howard Hanna Real Estate 724-331-2341 Cynthia Ramsey, Treasurer-Humes Ford of Corry 412-215-3574 Tina Butler, Secretary-Butler’s Lake View Cottages 814-392-2614 Have fun, enjoy, and we hope to see you at the lake! Anita J Lemmon CLABA President
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Page 3 The Carefree Days of Summer By Ellie Baranyai Luba Donnell So many of us as chil- dren were counting the days until school was out and we could go to the lake for more than just a weekend. We spent our days with friends, hanging out, walking around, swimming in the lake, or out in a boat. Liv- ing at the lake even if just for the summer, gave us so much free- dom. I spent most of my time on the northeast side of the lake, but we would go where the mood took us. As children we would walk along the lake shore, looking for shells and neat stones. We visited with peo- ple as we walked by their cottages; most everyone was friend- ly and talked to or waved at us. There was a map that used to hang in the township building that showed the walkway that went all the way around the lake. (I have one from the Crawford County Planning Commission 1976) We were told about the walkway by lake residents, but no one seemed to know exactly how wide it was, stories are it was between three (3) and twelve (12) feet wide. All the cottages had names back then, there is a map (one hangs at the Park) that has all the cottages around the lake on it listed by their cottage name. We had sandy beach access to lake in so many places; I now wonder what hap- pened to all the sandy shores that were there when I was a child. There were sandy beach access areas around the lake where you could take a quick dip to cool off (or be thrown in if you said you didn’t want to get wet.) Elmwood Park (The Free Beach) had benches in the park, and bathrooms across the road, Marcresan (The Pay Beach) had a life guard, diving platform with four diving boards, a slide, and bathrooms, Eisen- trout’s had a big beach with a restaurant/ tavern (bathrooms) and an outside snack stand, Ruggles Park had a big sandy beach area, Idlewild Park was a decent size too. There were smaller beaches at Dingman’s (now Higby’s), and Weed’s Cottage Court (later Clark’s) there was a beach down by the canals at the North End (now called the North Inlet), the South End (now called South Shore). Many others small neighborhood beaches at the access points to the lake, like Circuit Dr, Lakeview Dr. that had a bench (always wondered why just one), and Maple St. I’m sure there were many more, if anyone recalls them, please add them to the “Canadohta Lake History” page on FaceBook. Elmwood Park was established by George Stager in 1921, Ruggles Park opened in 1920, Kings Landing in 1923 and Hawthorne Beach in 1924.
Canadohta Lake is one of eight lakes located in Crawford County. Washington Lake was the first name given to our lake, by Colo- nel Crawford, during the Revolutionary War (our county is his namesake “Craw- ford”). He named the lake after his friend George Washington. The name was later changed in the 1860’s to Oil Creek Lake. In 1894 the Canadohta Club changed the name to Canadohta Lake after Chief Can- adaughta of the Corn- planter Indians, Tribe of the Six Nations. It is rumored he is bur- ied at the lake by the South Shore. T.B. Kennedy pur- chased 203 acres of land surrounding the lake from the govern- ment and leased it to the Philadelphia Oil Co in 1865. They drilled to depths of 1000 feet but produced no trace of oil. The Titusville and Union City Railroads started operating here in 1860. In the win- ter they would cut ice from the lake and take it back to Titusville. In 1882-1883 an amuse- ment park was built on the South shore of the lake by Ben Emer- son and Pat Coleman of Union City. The park included a ho- tel, shooting gallery, dance hall, bowling alley, billiard hall, and a steamboat for lake excursions. The Boats the “Gem” the “Pearl” were both destroyed by boiler explosions or fire. The huge sweep oars used to steer the Gem in shallow waters were on display in the Canadohta Lake Park Beach House. Not sure when the cur- rent owners took over and made it the Frog Pond what happened to them. Maybe the previous owners took them and all the other memorabilia, or possi- bly they were eventu- ally sold or stored. Kennedy later sold all his property around the lake and the ho- tel; it was purchased by 40 oil men from Titusville who formed the Canadohta Club in 1900. An annex was added by the hotel, rid- ing stables were built, and a golf course was laid out across the area where the roller rink now stands. The Col- lins Dance Hall fea- tured celebrities such as: Guy Lambardo, Rudy Vallee, Ozzie Nelson and others back in the 1930’s. It is now the Canadohta Roller Rink. A small tract of land on the eastern shore was owned by Orin Taylor and sold to Ben Ruggles. Ben con- tinued to use the lake for fishing and boat- ing; he was arrested, convicted and fined for trespassing. Ben Ruggles appealed the Continued Page 9
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Thanks to Tom Wilson for letting CLABA keep our sign on his Car Wash & Laundromat property. A special thanks to Dan Lemmon, Bill Easterlin, Joe Kelly, and Joe Ramsey for installing it. Additionally, one more thanks to the Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau and Kevin Parsons for the design and finding a printer for an affordable purchase of the sign! We have needed it for quite some time and it sure is a welcoming sight for Canadohta Lake. CANADOHTA LAKE BOAT PARADE
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Page 6 8th ANNUAL CANA-DOO WOP WEEKEND Craft Show & Women’s Fair Our ever popular Arts & Craft show returns to the Frog Pond Pavilions Saturday August 9th from 10:00-4:00. This year’s event features returning and new crafters so stop down for a day of shop- ping and visiting your friends and neighbors at this yearly event. Applications are available by email- ing us at canadohtalake@gmail.com or check our website canadohtalake.org
The annual Cruise In by the Lake is scheduled for Saturday, August 9th from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Rain or Shine) Erie’s DJ Bill Mason will be playing the familiar oldies but goodies. Spend the afternoon at the Canadohta Lake Roller Rink enjoying the vintage autos, trucks and motorcycles. Stop at the Chinese Auction or try your luck at the 50-50 drawing. Bring some chairs and enjoy the music and the classic vehicles. Please call Tina Butler (814) 739-9327 for more information.
Our annual Street Dance will be held at Happi Jax on Lake Road from 7:00-10:00 pm. This event grows every year and is great to bring the whole family to for a night of fun, dancing and listening to your favorite songs played by our DJ for the evening.
The Cruise In date is moving to the second Satur- day in August this year. The 7th annual Cruise In by the Lake is scheduled for Saturday, August 9th from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Rain or Shine) Erie’s DJ Bill Mason will be playing the familiar oldies but goodies as he does each Saturday at Lake Erie Speedway and the weekly Erie Bayfront car cruises. Spend the afternoon at the Canadohta Lake Roller Rink enjoying the vintage autos, trucks and motor- cycles. Stop at the Chinese Auction or try your luck at the 50-50 drawing. The vehicle donation is $3.00 and includes a commemorative magnet to the first 100 vehicles. Bring some chairs and enjoy the music and the classic vehicles. The cruise in benefits the annual fireworks at the lake. Donations to the Chi- nese Auction are welcomed. Please call Tina Butler (814) 739-9327 for information or donation pick up. Canadohta Lake
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Page 7 Bicycling Safety at the Lake Even while on vacation and enjoying your bike rides at the lake there are still rules of the road to obey. So here are some basics to review and share with your family and friends. Every bicyclist is responsi- ble for his or her personal safety and welfare while remaining alert and mind- ful of the conditions of the roads or trails. • Always wear a helmet: Pennsylvania law requires all cyclists under age 12 to wear an approved bicycle helmet.
• Obey traffic laws: Un- der Pennsylvania law you are a considered a vehicle when you ride a bike. Ride on the right side of the road. Obey stop signs and red lights and never ride against the flow of traffic. • Be predictable: Ride in a straight line, with at least one hand on the handle- bars. Check to be sure your path is clear and change di- rections without swerving. Use hand signals to indi- cate when you are turning. • Make yourself visi- ble: Wear bright cycling clothes. Put reflectors on your wheels and on the front and rear of your bike. At night use a head- light and an active red light and reflector on the rear of your bike. Pennsylvania Bicycling Laws In Pennsylvania, a bicycle is considered a vehicle, and you must obey all of the laws that apply to oth- er vehicles. There is also a set of rules that apply specifically to bicycles. If you ride in violation of the traffic laws, you greatly in- crease your risk of a crash, and will likely be found at fault in the event of an ac- cident.
General • You cannot have more people on the bike than the bike is designed to carry but an adult can transport a child in a secure child car- rier or trailer. • You can ride a bicycle ei- ther on the shoulder or the roadway itself, depending on traffic speed, condition of the road and other safety factors. • Like all road users, slow- er vehicles should keep to the right. Bicyclists may ride in the left lane of a one-way street that has multiple lanes. However, this does not apply to free- ways. • You cannot carry any packages or other items that prevent you from keeping at least one hand on the handlebars. Equipment • If you use your bike be- tween sunset and sunrise, it must be equipped with a front lamp, rear and side reflectors that are visible from at least 500 feet. This is both to help other mo- torists see you and also to illuminate your path. • Your bike must be equipped with brakes that will stop the bike 15 feet from an initial speed of 15 mph on dry, level pave- ment.
Helmets • Anyone under the age of 12 must wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. This applies to anyone operat- ing the bicycle, riding as a passenger or riding in an attached restraining seat or trailer. The Pennsylvania Department of Transporta- tion strongly recommends that all bicyclists wear hel- mets whenever they ride. .
• To signal a left turn, ex- tend the left hand and arm horizontally. • To signal a right turn, extend the right hand and arm horizontally, or extend your left hand and arm up- ward. • To signal a stop or de- crease in speed, extend the left hand and arm down- ward.
Through the generosity of a donation by the VFW Post 6773 the Canadohta Lake Fireworks Fund re- ceived a $1,000 donation to enhance the program for our Union City/Canadohta Community fireworks dis- play on July 5th 2014. The fireworks program depends on donations and fund raisers to continue this yearly event. We also deeply thank and appreci- ate John Stranahan for pro- viding his property every year for the home base for this wonderful pyrotech- nic display by R&R Fire- works. (This article by Carl Blakeslee appeared in the October 19, 1972, issue of the Union City Times) John Krol Post Named in 1945 By Carl Blakeslee Service Commander John Krol Post 6773 The V.F.W. was started immediately after the Span- ish American War, which was in 1898. At first, there were three different or- ganizations formed, men who fought in Cuba, Puer- to Rico, and the Philippine Islands. After a short time the three organizations were con- solidated into one organi- zation and became known as the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Post I was formed in Den- ver, Colorado. Soon after this formation, a department was orga- nized in Pennsylvania. Robert Woodside was the first department command- er of Pennsylvania. Their membership was quite lim- ited until after WWI and then many new posts were formed. But still the membership was not so extensive but what the annual conven- tion could be held in such places as Erie, Scranton, Pittsburgh and many other towns of this size. After WWII, the VFW gained its greatest strength – many new posts were activated. Raymond Cal- fisch and his brother, with the aid of Alfred Chesley, Robert Jones and others secured enough names on a charter being 55 in all. These early meetings were held upstairs over the Ritz Restaurant. It was difficult to pick a name for the post, which was traditionally named for the first hometown man killed in action in the most recent war. There was an uncertainty of death dates. Reed Liley was undoubt- edly the first death because he died onboard ship on December 7, 1941, but was not confirmed until six months after the close of the war.
On July 12, 1944, many boys from Union City were killed in the St. Lo, France, drive. Maxwell Hites, Alex Gvatasky, Donald Lord, David Smith, all of Com- pany A, 112thInfantry, and John Krol and Russell Davis. All of these names were all placed in a hat and the name of John Krol was drawn, thus giving the name to the newly activat- ed post, which was March 22, 1946, Post 6773. Chester Zerbe, who was State Commander at this time, installed the new of- ficers: Robert Toner, Com- mander; Alfred Chesley, Senior Vice Commander; and Raymond Caflisch, Junior Vice Commander. These men became com- manders in turn. Now it was important that they have large club rooms, and a place for en- tertainment. They bought the bowling alleys which were located on the sec- ond floor of the Clayton Block. This building was owned by Ralph Mineo. The VFW also rented the third floor and proceeded to sell the bowling alleys activities to the second and third floors. In April, 1960, when it was found that the property at 23 East High Street was for sale, the lot was pur- chased and a home built by VFW members. Canadohta Lake
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Page 9 case and the famous ruling by Judge Prath- er was handed down: “Canadohta Lake is a navigable body of wa- ter therefore it is held in trust for the people of the Commonwealth and cannot be closed.” The lawsuit opened the lake back up to the public, and denied the Canadohta Club pri- vate use of the lake. The Canadohta Club was dissolved in 1911. C.N. Payne a member held the mortgage on the property and pur- chased it for $10,000. The hotel was trans- ferred through differ-
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