Merge Teams Up with Green Options Buffalo to build Buffalo’s Bicycle Culture

BUFFALO, NY – Merge Restaurant and Green Options Buffalo will host a free bicycle-related film series, called Wheel to Reel, in the restaurant’s parking lot at Edward and Delaware Avenue starting on each Wednesday during the month of July.

The Wheel to Reel bicycle film series was created in an effort to celebrate the strong and ever growing bicycle community in Buffalo promoting healthy, environmentally sustainable, and community friendly transportation.  

“At Merge we are bringing people together in a place where they can share meals, drinks, art and ideas,” stated Sarah Schneider, owner and manager of Merge.

Activities will begin at 7pm with DJ Cutler, been bag toss and a craft tent. Each film will begin at dusk (around 9:00pm).  The event is free but seating is limited, movie goers are encouraged to bring their own blanket and/or chair.

Local artist used 2012 Ford Focus as his blank canvas

BUFFALO, NY – This weekend, local artist Blair Rusin used a new vehicle as his blank canvas, transforming it into a hand-painted, mobile masterpiece during the Allen West Festival. Parked on the corner of Allen and College streets, the exhibit featured a 2012 Ford Focus completely coated in white primer, including the windows, that later became a colorful work of art. The Western New York Ford Dealers supplied the vehicle in the hopes that this first-time festival exhibit would excite car fans and festival-goers alike.

“When have you ever seen anyone hand-paint an entire car?” said Chuck Basil, chairman of the WNY Ford Dealers. “This dramatic visual is sure to draw people in and get them asking about the newly designed Focus. It’s a beautiful vehicle and it gets 40 miles per gallon.”

WNY Ford Dealers award 2011 Ford F-150 with EcoBoost™ to John Domres of Buffalo

BUFFALO, NY – Friday, John E. Domres, Jr. of Buffalo beat a one in 12 chance to drive away in a brand-new 2011 Ford F-150 pickup truck with EcoBoost™, courtesy of the Western New York Ford Dealers.

At the WYRK NAPA Auto Parts Taste of Country, a dozen contestants dressed in exclusive Ford-branded cowboy hats and t-shirts anxiously stood on Coca-Cola Field hoping that WYRK's Clay Moden and Dale Mussen would not call their names. A reverse-style lottery eliminated contestants when their names were announced, leaving only Mr. Domres and one other contestant left standing. Each then received a key to the truck. Both pressed the alarm button on their key and it was Mr. Domres who won the showdown as the alarm sounded on the red candy-colored grand prize.