By Ronn Chesmonde

Mr. and Mrs. Randall Paul of Orchard Park are proud to announce the engagement of their son Don Paul to long-time WIVB co-worker and fellow weatherman Mike Cejka.

This happy couple has weathered many storms.

Mr. Paul has been employed since 1982 as the Senior weatherman at the local CBS affiliate where he has blathered on for years about wind speed, hyper-cyclonic cloud cover and the possibility for intense wind shear.  He met Mr. Cjeka when they were paired together in the late 1980’s for a Channel 4 special report on lake effect snow that was pounding the Southtowns.  “We did some pounding of our own later that night,” recalls Mr. Paul.

Mr. Cjeka, who is employed as the junior weather man at WIVB, has become very comfortable delivering the news.  However, he was less enthusiastic to discover what it is like to be on the other side of a news story when he trespassed on private property in Niagara County and then ran a stop sign while fleeing from police, who drew their weapons and handcuffed him.

Cjeka maintains that he finds it “romantic, not illegal” to use the light of the moon to look under the tarped, private property of others and he claims that “jealous police have been out to get me for years.”

Although no wedding date has been set, local news fans predict that this relationship has a “70% chance of torrential storms with unusually high levels of liquid precipitation.”