Canine & Co., 5952 Transit Road, Depew, will host a Dog ' N Suds Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3.

Baths will be $10 and $15, and appointments may be made by calling 681-0063.

The day will include a basket raffle, activities for children, food and dog contests. Area rescues also will be available with canines for adoption.

Proceeds will benefit NYS Citizens Against Puppy Mills.

For more information, visit www.citizensagainstpuppymills.org.

The popular monthly 4th Friday Poetry Series at the nonprofit Dog Ears Bookstore, located at 688 Abbott Road in South Buffalo, resumes at 7 p.m. Friday, May 25. Guest readers will include Elaine Chamberlain and George Grace.

Chamberlain taught English, creative writing and art and has done volunteer nursing in southern Mexico. She likes to write about growing up in Seattle, about the Mayan people who were her patients in Chiapas, and about travel on the cheap. She has traveled aboard chicken buses in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Bolivia; biked and ferried in Nova Scotia; and traveled by train, canal boat and bicycle rickshaw in India and Nepal. Last year she retired after 20 years as a mental health counselor. Her current passion is the art of collage and diorama. 

Local effort ranked 4th in nation in 2011

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), in conjunction with United Way of Greater Niagara, AFL-CIO and the U.S. Postal Service, will conduct its annual food drive this Saturday, May 12, 2012.  This is the largest single-day food drive in the nation. 

Over the last 19 years, the NALC has collected over 1 billion pounds of food through this effort.  In 2011, Western New York Branch collected 1.4 million pounds of food, ranking fourth in the nation.  The Greater Niagara community played an important role in the local effort, collecting approximately 150,000 pounds of food.  Twenty-nine local agencies benefit from this event, which provides food for needy individuals and families throughout Niagara County.