AP photo U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has not made a stop in Dunkirk-Fredonia since 2016. During a blustery, bone-chilling February morning last year, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer was joined by about a half-dozen north county veterans as he called for additional health-care assistance for those who may have been touched by Agent Orange during their service to the United States in Vietnam. As winds whipped across Memorial Park right off Lake Erie in Dunkirk, elected officials who joined him also spoke briefly in doing their best to keep the event moving. Real-feel temperatures were somewhere between zero and the teens. But Schumer, who makes a concerted effort to visit all 62 state counties each year, did not disappoint in his appearance and message weeks before the COVID pandemic hit.