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New apartments for elderly at St. Jerome site dedicated

BATAVIA -- The Jerome Senior Apartments, a major overhaul of a former hospital that overlooks downtown Batavia, were dedicated Thursday and praised as a "unique public-private-sector partnership."

The top four floors of a six-story building that served as St. Jerome Hospital from 1917 until a merger formed United Memorial Medical Center in 2000, feature 37 spacious apartments affordable to low- and moderate-income senior citizens.

UMMC, in partnership with Conifer Realty of Rochester, a real estate and management firm, began the plan to transform four floors of a then-largely vacant building into quality housing for the area's growing population of seniors with limited incomes.

The project took more than four years to complete. State Washington-Wizards officials noted that

$5 million in stimulus money was directed to the project, which cost $8 million. The building's neighbor is the Genesee County Office for the Aging and a community senior center.

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Annual benefit steak fry raised $4,000 for Hospice

FREWSBURG -- The fourth annual Marcy J. Morreale Memorial benefit and steak fry held Sept. 25 in the Carroll Rod & Gun Club raised $4,000 for Hospice Chautauqua County, organizer Michelle Morreale Anderson said. In four years, the event has generated more than $13,000 for Hospice Chautauqua.

Another $2,000 from the event will go to the Marcy Morreale Memorial Scholarship Fund. Started two years ago, it awards a $500 scholarship to a graduating senior from Frewsburg High School. Anderson started the event moncler to benefit Hospice Chautauqua County in thanks for the care it provided for her father before he died of lung cancer in 2006.

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$8.2 million from U.S. aids Women's Health Initiative

The University at Buffalo is getting $8.2 million for an extension of the landmark Women's Health Initiative, a federally funded study that will continue through 2015 research into such conditions as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and stroke.

The National Institutes of Health established the Women's Health Initiative in 1991 to address the most common causes of death and disability in postmenopausal women. UB has participated in the nationwide project since 1993 and will play a leadership role in the extension, overseeing the Northeast region's nine participating institutions.

The Women's Health Initiative involved more than 162,000 women, including 4,000 in Buffalo. One of the key findings was that estrogen didn't reduce the risk of heart disease and increased the risk of stroke in postmenopausal women who had a hysterectomy.

More than 100,000 women are expected to participate in the extension study.

The three other regional centers received about $7.5 million each and are headquartered at Stanford University, Wake Forest University and Ohio State University.

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It is expected that the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute in Seattle will coordinate the work of all the institutions.

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Spirit Airlines Introduces New

Lightweight Made-in-the-USA Seats Offer Greater Comfort, Greater Fuel Efficiency, Less Maintenance

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Customers traveling aboard Spirit Airlines鈥?new Airbus A320 aircraft are among the first to experience Brice Seating鈥檚 new pre-reclined B3100 Featherweight鈩?Super Light seat design.

The new leather seats with a greater recline built into the design offer comfort throughout the entire flight as you do not need to put the seat in a full upright position during take-off and landing. The new design also offers more space under the seat in front of you.

The lightweight seat means greater fuel efficiency, which is better for the environment and reduces costs. It is more than 30 percent lighter in weight than other seats. 178 seats on Spirit鈥檚 A320 weigh less than 145 seats on its A319.

Since the new seats are stationary, customers have also praised the fact that there is no longer interference from the seat in front of you moving up and down throughout the flight.

In addition, fewer moving mechanisms mean less maintenance and fewer delays. The sleek design and fewer parts also speeds up cabin security handbags x checks and lend themselves to more secure life vest storage that is easily accessible for customers.

鈥淥ur customers are thrilled to be traveling on new planes with new seats all while paying substantially lower fares than other airlines,鈥?says Spirit鈥檚 Chief Marketing Officer Barry Biffle. 鈥淚n addition to providing an even greater recline and more living space, the lightweight design substantially lowers our fuel consumption, which is one of our greatest operating costs. As a result, we can pass these cost savings along to our customers. Ultra low fares are what our customers have come to expect and what we continue to deliver.鈥?

The new seats are made by Brice Seating, a U.S. company based in California. Jerry Lalone, Director of Sales for Brice, said, "The B3100 Featherweight is designed to provide greater comfort for passengers with less seat weight. The Brice seat's unique 28" pitch design actually affords more room for passengers and 20-25% more under-seat space than other 30" pitch economy seats. The extra room, coupled with the fuel savings from less weight, make the B3100 a top pick for customer-oriented airlines.鈥?

The new seats are being installed on Spirit鈥檚 new Airbus A320 aircraft. Spirit has taken delivery of two A320s this year with two more arriving in coming months. The new 178-seat A320 features 174 deluxe leather seats and four Big Front Seats.

The additional A320s mark a more than 11 percent increase in seats year-over-year for the upcoming summer high travel season. The first new A320 began regular daily non-stop service between Fort Lauderdale and Washington, D.C. on March 14, 2010. The second began regular daily non-stop service between Fort Lauderdale and LaGuardia on April 12, 2010.

Spirit鈥檚 all-Airbus fleet, one of the youngest and most fuel efficient in the United States with an average age of less than four years, now consists of 26 A319s, two A321s and two A320s.

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Splash your cash

Byline: LEE GIBSON

MENTION Suzuki handbags s to most people and it's more likely to bring to mind images of leather clad men tearing around on high powered motorbikes than any more sedate four-wheel modes of transpor t. The fact is, however, that the Japanese company has for several decades now been, with no little success, gaining a significant foothold in the car market.

Much of that progress has been down to their knack of knocking out small cars which are a whizz in the city and have running costs that would keep Scrooge happy at Christmas. At the forefront of this success has been the Swift, which undoubtedly has the highest profile of the fleet, but there is also the Alto and the Splash.

The latter is the newest model and represents Suzuki's fresh take on the compact MPV sector, effectively replacing the Wagon-R, but shedding its predecessor's unimaginative box shape in favour of a more sporty look designed specifically to appeal to the European market place.

Although a completely new project the Splash is based on the successful Swift platform and is built around a slightly shorter wheel base version of the latter's chassis. This is good news as it means the Splash drives not unlike the Swift - so, while being fun, it is precise and sure-footed. The 1.2-litre petrol engine in the GLS also proves very nippy around town, where the compact dimensions also mean you'll be able to go almost anywhere, but at the same time you'll be more than happy at cruising speeds on the open road.

Suzuki certainly haven't skimped on the safety equipment either. Twin front, side and curtain airbags are standard in the GLS along with ABS featuring brake assist and electronic brake-force distribution plus electronic stability control.

So, although at pounds 10,315 the Splash may not be the cheapest mini-MPV out there, you do get a lot of kit for your money and better refinement than many others.

LOOKING GOOD - The Suzuki Splash 1.2 GLS has great refinement Facts and figures SUZUKI SPLASH 1.2 GLS PRICE: pounds 10,315 MECHANICAL: 86bhp, 1,242cc, four-cylinder petrol engine driving front GUCCI Low shoes wheels via five-speed manual gearbox MAX SPEED: 109mph 0-62MPH: 12.3 seconds COMBINED MPG: 51.4 INSURANCE GROUP: 10 CO2 EMISSIONS: 131g/km BIK RATING: 15% WARRANTY: 3yrs/60,000 miles

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