Summer Learning Camp – Bob McCarthy Foundation

Again, this year, the Bob McCarthy Foundation has sponsored a Summer Learning Camp for ECS students.  Over the past six weeks, twenty-four of our community’s bright young learners attended sessions with Mrs. Leah Farnum at the Ellicottville Memorial Library.  While in...

New Moon Rising

Save the date August 24, 2024 for the rising of Celtic Moon.  The Bob McCarthy Foundation is re-imagining Tuscan Moon, aka Voodoo Moon & Another Day in Paradise, for 2024.  This event has been Ellicottville’s premier end of summer party poolside at the Cabana Bar...

Sherman J Wilkens 2023 – An inspiration

Sherman the man, the myth and the legend, a loved member of our small community passed in Buffalo at the age of 81. Sherman can be remembered as the only person in town that wore shorts year-round. Obviously impervious to the cold which must have come from his hockey...

Hope to See you There!

Hope to see you at Bob McCarthy’s Irish Christmas at EBC on Friday, December 9th at 6:00 PM. Held at Ellicottville Brewing Company’s new beer hall, the 16th annual tradition has proceeds going to the Bob McCarthy Foundation’s programs. A special brew...

Bob McCarthy’s Irish Christmas 2022

As the trees turn bare and the days grow shorter, the town of Ellicottville shifts into winter mode. Boots are broken out, summer tires are replaced, and calendars begin to fill with a plethora of lovely holiday traditions unique to the area. Bob McCarthy’s Irish...