Buffalo, NY – Limited tickets are available for Wines in the Wild, a wildly popular fundraiser that benefits the Buffalo Zoo’s Adopt an Animal program. This summertime favorite will take place on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. (rain or shine) at the Buffalo Zoo. Both the Zoo’s Pro Zoo Board and Women’s Board are planning a wonderful evening for this year’s event, sponsored by Bank of America, 2Find Your Home, Volkswagen of Orchard Park, 97 Rock, Classic Hits 104.1, Fox 29, MyTV and Buffalo Spree.

For only $40 pre-sale (sold through July 24) or $50 at the door, your ticket includes a variety of food and dessert items, wines and beers, as well as some great services provided by specialty vendors. Other highlights include a basket auction, silent auction and visits with some of the Zoo’s animal ambassadors. Guests MUST be at least 21 years or older.

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. 

BUFFALO, NY - A Buffalo man, accused of murdering his former boss, has pled guilty.

Jonathan Lewicki, 48, pled guilty Tuesday as jury selection was underway in his trial. 

Lewicki was charged with murdering West Seneca businessman Conrad Pinker.

Pinker, 79, was found stabbed to death last July in his home on Laurelton Drive. He owned The Garden Spot located at the intersection of Harlem Road and William Street.

Lewicki faces 18 years to life in prison when he is sentenced next month.