SPORTS NOTE: Skip Kemick writes us, “My wife Sheree and I are
snow birds and live in Arizona City, Ariz., in the winter and
return to the Bradford area for the summer.”

“We attended the UPB baseball game in Chandler yesterday and
thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We saw many people from Bradford
including Mike Perkins, Jim Colestro, his wife and their daughter
Jackie. Also Brian Larson.

“The games were great as the Brett Butler coached team is very
very good. They were behind 4-0 in the first game and came back to
win 13-4. They also defeated Aurora (15th ranked in nation) the
night before.

“We had to leave during the second game but they were leading
6-0. We are planning to attend a couple of more games this
week.

“Also, as we were watching I glanced to my left and spotted
Brian Stavisky (Notre Dame cap and all). I introduced myself and
told him of my connection to his father Dan, Port Allegany athletic
director. We had a short conversation and he mentioned he was here
for spring training and may end up on the Sacramento triple A team
this year.

“He is a very nice young man and that speaks well of the entire
Big 30 area.

“Just to let people know the UPB baseball team is also a great
bunch of kids and that speaks well of Brett Butler and Jim Colestro
and their management skills.”

BACK ALREADY: Jackie Ours saw two robins in her yard on West
Eldred Road for the first time on Saturday.

WINTER WOES: We had started working on that list of “good things
about winter” in late January. Too bad we didn’t finish it at that
time because, honestly, those beautiful shiny icicles we so admired
a few weeks ago have suddenly come to resemble prison bars. Forgive
our whining but below-zero temperatures have worn out their welcome
when March arrives.

LAST ONE: In answer to a reader’s inquiry, Jim Piscitelli of
Bradford tells us he’s fairly certain the last trolley ran in
Bradford in the early 1930s.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “The America I loved still exists, if not in the
White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of
Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at
the front desks of our public libraries,” said author Kurt
Vonnegut, 2004.