Article: SOLVAY STUDENTS GIVE BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITY; SOLVAY HISTORY ETCHED IN BLOCKS; VILLAGE SCENES DISCOVERED AT HIGH SCHOOL.(Neighbors West)

Byline: Sara Errington Staff writer

The Solvay High School Art Club recently gave the village a long-lost piece of history, presenting six prints to the village board.

The prints were made using linoleum blocks that art teacher Kristie Hayes discovered in a supply room.

A few of the blocks have dates on them from the 1940s.

Carved into the blocks were images of Solvay: St. Cecilia's Church, Solvay Process, Hazard Street Middle School, Solvay Public Library and a church on Freeman Avenue that no longer stands.

Another block, bearing the likeness of Ernest Solvay, whom the village is named after, was Art Club President Dustin ...

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