Chances are you probably won’t be awake at 1:04 a.m. Friday, June 21, when the sun will be directly overhead of the Tropic of Cancer, marking the official start of Summer 2013. But back here in Western New York, Buffalo Citybration will be making a major announcement about our summer season at 5:04 p.m. Thursday, June 20, giving us an eight-hour head start on the season that festival-loving Buffalonians love most!

Erie County Legislator John J. Mills reminds residents that the county is hosting a Hazardous Waste Drop-off Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 15 at Erie Community College South Campus. Please enter from Big Tree Road - Route 20A via Abbott Road.

A signing event for “Most Likely to Survive,” a recently released book detailing West Seneca resident Matthew Faulkner’s miraculous recovery from traumatic brain injury, will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at the Impact Artists Gallery, Tri-Main Building, Suite 545, 2495 Main St., Buffalo. The event is part of the Fine Art Healing & Health Exhibit which runs through June 29.

Written by West Seneca native Joe Kirchmyer and Faulkner, the book details Faulkner’s automobile accident on March 2, 2009, that left him in a deep coma for two months with almost no chance of survival. Against all odds, he would walk out of ECMC 103 days later and across the stage at high school graduation just two weeks after that. Faulkner graduated, on time, from Canisius College in May of this year.