You’re invited to Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service’s Summer Bash Celebrating Disability Pride Month on July 19, 2025!

Join us on Saturday, July 19, from 1 PM to 6 PM under the outdoor pavilion at Buffalo River Grove (formerly Fontana’s Grove), 2299 Clinton Street, near our Harlem Road studios on the West Seneca/Cheektowaga border.

Admission only $40 for Buffalo Music Hall of Fame party band The Boys of Summer from 2 PM to 5 PM, outdoor games, a picnic buffet of Mineo & Sapio Italian sausage with peppers and onions, Sahlen’s hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, watermelon, corn on the cob, salt potatoes, Perry’s ice cream sandwiches, beer, soda pop, and coffee. Enjoy an additional cash bar and raffles, with a Buffalo Bills Package Grand Prize. Informational materials from area organizations serving people with disabilities will be on display.

Buy tickets at this link: https://nfrrs.givecloud.co/summer-bash-2025

It’s not too late to support this most important fundraiser of the season!

• Are you an organization serving the disability community? Mail us your informational materials and we’ll display them on our resource tables.
• Mail us a check for a sponsorship of $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or more.
• Donate a product or gift card that can be raffled.

Donors will be recognized in all event promotions and receive complimentary tickets at the $250 level and above.

Sponsorship checks and raffle donations may be mailed to Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, 1199 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14227, or we will be happy to pick them up at your business. For pick-up arrangements or questions, please contact Community Engagement Coordinator Marian Hetherly at 716-821-5555 extension 3 or marian@nfradioreading.org.

Thank you to our sponsors: Mineo & Sapio for donating the sausage for the event, TSG Management Group – McDonald’s for donating Buy One-Get One sandwich coupons good at any of their restaurants (first 200 attendees), Perry’s Ice Cream for donating ice cream sandwiches, Voya Financial for donating $500, Univera Healthcare for donating $500, and West Herr Auto Group for donating $250.

        

We are very appreciative of the many raffle prizes donated from area businesses and cultural organizations:

• Anderson’s Frozen Custard – $45 in gift cards
• Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens – family membership (2 adults and their children)
• Buffalo Museum of Science – 4 guest admission passes ($76 value)
• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – pair of tickets
• Buffalo Sabres – pair of tickets
• D’Youville Kavinoky Theatre – 2 season passes ($400 value)
• Marco’s Italian Restaurant – $25 gift certificate
• Nino’s Pizza – $25 gift certificate
• One Pie Pizza Co. – $25 gift card
• Paula’s Donuts – coupons for 3 dozen donuts
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site – 2 general admissions
• The Polish Villa – $25 gift certificate

All proceeds will support Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, a 24/7 nonprofit radio station whose team of volunteers read nearly 80 national and local newspapers, magazines, and best-selling books for our neighbors across the Western New York-Rochester-Southern Ontario region who are blind or living with another vision, mobility, or learning disability that makes reading a challenge, such as macular degeneration, Parkinson’s disease, paralysis, brain or spinal injury, muscular dystrophy, dyslexia, or autism. We do this to help ensure everyone has equal access to the news and knowledge they need to live and thrive as informed, engaged, and independent members of their community.

Thank you for supporting our work during Disability Pride Month!