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Miguel Rodriguez Sahi Chowdhury Shantina Addison Shondra Aytch Lindsay Niccs

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2023 ROCHESTER JUNETEENTH AWARDEES NAMED

The Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission has officially announced the 2023 Rochester Juneteenth Festival and day-off activities for Saturday, June 17 at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at 353 Court Street in downtown Rochester from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.

This year's festival theme is Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop and a Lifetime of Freedom through the Diaspora of African American Culture. The celebration will kick-off with a parade at the intersection of Chestnut Street and Court Street, ending at Strong National Museum of Play.

Festival attendees can expect an engaging and fun, family centered experience featuring a variety of vendors, performances by local artists, dance groups, poets and other entertainment. Cultural cuisine across the unique and rich diaspora of African-Americans will be available for purchase. A number of community members will be recognized for their contributions to Rochester-area neighborhoods.

Several students will be awarded scholarships for college. Dignitaries from across the region will bring greetings from the main stage and a national recording artist will be announced in the coming weeks.

The 2023 Juneteenth award recipients include:

Chad Grimes – Black Business ROC; Khadija Yawn – ROC Royal; Ashley Cross – The Hub 585; Devon Reynolds – Brothers & Sisters Unisex Salon; Rob Campbell – 585 Viral; Sirena Cotton – ROC The Peace; Reverend Derrill Blue – Memorial AME Zion Church;Karen Iglesia & Gerard Iglesia – Primetime 585;Tysharda Thomas, Cassandra Bradley, Niner Davis, Christina White, Sylvia Ryndock (Greater Rochester Association of Realtors Black Caucus); Bishop Fred Johnson Sr. – First Genesis Baptist Church;Dr. Reverend Dulaine Cook-Green – CONEA; Tyrone Reaves – Young Adult Manufacturing Training Empowerment Program (YAMPTEP);Marquita Rugless – ROC Events;Khadijah Tillman – Sankofa Family Counseling Services;Luvon Sheppard – Joy Gallery;Minister Franklin D.R. Florence – Community Leader & Activist.

Sponsorship opportunities, volunteer roles, and student scholarships are currently available. Visit www.RochesterJuneteenth.com for details and updates about the 2023 Rochester Juneteenth Festival.

Community Forum to Focus on Plans for State Bond-Funded Local Environmental Projects

ROCHESTER - Community residents will have an opportunity to learn, at an upcoming public forum, how local government officials plan to use state environmental bond act money to fund projects aimed at clean water, clean air and green jobs.

Sponsored by the Rochester Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the forum will be from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on May 4 at First Genesis Baptist Church, 292 Hudson Avenue. Rochester and Monroe County lawmakers will be participating. The event is free.

Last November, New York voters approved an Environmental Bonds Act that authorized the state to spend $4.2 billion to safeguard clean air and water, preserve farmland and natural space and update infrastructure systems. Examples of possible projects under the act include replacing dangerous lead pipes, fixing roads, upgrading sewer systems, expanding clean energy and retrofitting buildings.

The purpose of the public forum is not only to inform the community about the Environmental Bonds Act, but to "facilitate conversation with local lawmakers to ensure bond funds are properly allocated and jobs are made available to the community," said Dr. Shirley Green, president of the Rochester Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Free water test kits will be distributed at the forum as long as supplies last.

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring. A cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.

African Proverb

Rochester Juneteenth Festival Awardees, Committee Members and Supporters.

AREA BRIEFS SIGN OF THE TIMES

"CITY HALL IS FAILING US ALL" Declares Our City Action Buffalo Billboards. Local Political Action Group Has Launched a Citywide Campaign that Has Not Gone Unnoticed.

Bright yellow, eye catching, bold billboards address issues in communities that Our City Action Buffalo notes “should be prioritized by our local government."

MAYOR BROWN SWORN IN AS 2ND VP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOCIATION:

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (pictured above left) traveled to Washington recently to attend the ninth annual African American Mayors Association Conference where he was sworn in as the new second vice president. In an interview with WGRZ Channel 2 he said he had a chance to meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris and that they were both very concerned about Buffalo and the healing process in the wake of the May 14 massacre. He noted that vice president Harris also talked about potholes and providing resources to cities such as Buffalo to focus on local roads. Infrastructure investment and affordable housing were among other topics discussed during the conference whose theme was “Our Mayors Our Cities: The Catalyst for Equitable and Inclusive Growth.”

Dr. Barbara Nevergold is Guest Speaker at Afro-American Historical Association’s Annual Family History Dinner

The first sign can be found on the corner of Delaware and West Chippewa where readers are encouraged to go to ABETTERBUFFALOISPOSSIBLE.COM to find information on how you can help bring about change.

Leighton Jones, Our city Action Communications Coordinator told the News , “ Every issue point that we talk about we tell (individuals) how you can change that.”

“The primary aim of the campaign is to keep injustices at the forefront of the conversation. Our children are struggling with poverty, our residents are struggling to stay housed, our water is laden with lead, our fire trucks are falling apart.”

“We want to educate people on what the actual state of the city is " Jones said.

The campaign reminds citizens that the City of Buffalo will soon vote on their annual budget and that "we have a say in how the city spends our money in our city."

The campaign rollout will be found in the following locations:

*Abbott Road and Potters Road: the city’s broken fire trucks.

*Grant Street and Bird Avenue: lead in drinking water.

*Delaware Ave. and Hinman Ave: Black neighborhoods without grocery stores.

*Bailey and Hastings Avenues: unaffordable rental housing.

*Main Street and Masten Ave: Buffalert listing problems with city services.

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MEN OF COLOR: General Alexandre Dumas

Makeda Holley-Johnson Named COO of Winston-Salem Urban League

A leader in the French Revolution, Alexandre or Alex Dumas, was born ThomasAlexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in 1762 in the French colony of SaintDomingue (today’s Haiti) to an enslaved Black mother and a White French colonizer. As an adult he dropped his father’s name and used only his mother’s surname (Dumas). He was the first person of color in the French military to become a top general in the French Revolution. General Dumas was the highest-ranking Black officer in a Western army until Colin Powell two centuries later. Unlike modern generals, and many in his day too, he led from the front of the action.

Dr. Nevergold

The Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier 44th Annual Family History Dinner will be held on Thursday, May 4 at 6 p.m. at Emerson School of Hospitality 86 West Chippewa Street, in the 2nd Floor Main Dining Room. This year's feature speaker is Dr. Barbara Nevergold. Her presentation will provide a portrait of African American Churches in Buffalo between 1830 to 1850. The 2023 William Wells Brown Award for the preservation of African American History will also be presented at the Dinner. Due to limited seating, advance paid reservations are required. Reservations can be made by sending payment of $30 per person to AAHANFP.O. Box 63, Buffalo, NY 14207.

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Buffalo native Makeda Holley-Johnson, Ed.S was named the Chief Operating Officer of the Winston-Salem Urban League under the leadership of President/CEO James Perry, J.D. Mrs. Johnson has been affiliated with the Urban League movement for over 8 years working at both Buffalo Urban League and most recently with Urban League of Central Carolinas. In this new role she has been tasked with building the strategic programming of the affiliate for the geographic footprint while building sustained growth. Makeda has been an educator for over 15 years working both in the classroom and as an administrator in both public and charter schools.

Born to parents Sharon and Kenneth Holley (founders/proprietors of Zawadi Books) , Makeda is a product of the Buffalo community. She is a graduate of Buffalo State College (B.S), University of New England (M.S.Ed) and Gardner-Webb University (Add-On Admin. Licensure/Ed.S). She is currently completing her Doctoral degree with the following dissertation: Dreams And Nightmares: The Unintended Implications On African-American Educational Leaders Of Color In North Carolina. Makeda has also been selected as a member of the highly selective Emerging Leaders cohort of the National Urban League, a six month leadership development program for the 2023 year. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Makeda HolleyJohnson

Before he was 32, Alex Dumas was commanding over 50,000 White troops as General-in-Chief of France's Army of the Alps. France's first Black general, he once fought an entire Austrian cavalry squadron by himself — and emerged practically unscathed. The fight took place during Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign of 17961797.Despite his incredible story, he was largely erased from history – deliberately. Napoleon always viewed Dumas with jealousy and suspicion. Dumas was imprisoned by Neapolitan monarchists in Italy and thrown into a dungeon for two years during which time he fell gravely ill. By the time Dumas was released, France had

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HEALTH MATTERS

Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Partners with FeedMore WNY Providing Fresh Fruits & Vegetables to Our Community

Westminster Community Charter School families and surrounding community members now have increased access to fresh produce, thanks to a new partnership between Buffalo Promise Neighborhood and FeedMore WNY. Every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., FeedMore WNY will bring its Farm Market truck to the Westminster Community Charter School loop located at 24 Westminster Avenue in Buffalo. FeedMore WNY’s Farm Market offers affordable, fresh fruits and vegetables sourced from local farms and distributors, as well as vegetables and herbs grown in FeedMore WNY’s hydroponic container farms. Cash, credit, SNAP, and Double Up Food Bucks are accepted at the Farm Market. As the weather improves, Buffalo Promise Neighborhood will invite other partners and providers to come out and table at this weekly event.

Nearly 165,000 individuals (including 50,240 children) in FeedMore WNY’s four-county service area are food insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to enough nutritious food to lead a healthy, active life. A diet rich in vegetables and fruits can help lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, prevent some types of cancer, lower risk of eye and digestive problems and have a positive effect on blood sugar. Additionally, our diets often lack important vitamins and minerals contained in fresh produce needed to keep us active and healthy. FeedMore WNY’s newest Farm Market location at Westminster Community Charter School will help improve nutritious food access to students and staff, their families, and the surrounding neighborhood.

A full list of Farm Market locations is available at www.feedmorewny.org/programs-services/farm-market/

YMCA Healthy Kids Day®

YMCA Buffalo Niagara is hosting its Healthy Kids Day® on Saturday, April 29 from 11a.m. – 2p.m., at the William-Emslie YMCA, 585 William St. and the Kenmore Ken-Ton Family YMCA, 535 Belmont Ave.. For specific activities at these and other locations visit www.YMCABN.org/healthy-kids-day

May 5th Full Moon

Eclipse Is Ushering in Major Self-Help Energy

It’s considered a symbolic time for rebirth, renewal and manifestation; the perfect time to recharge. This month's lunar eclipse in Scorpio calls upon you to put emphasis on yourself while paying attention to your emotional, mental, and physical state. This blood moon symbolizes it is time to let go and heal.

•Acknowledge any negativity or beliefs blocking you;

•Let go of anything standing in the way of growth;

•Rediscover joy within yourself and find strength in adversity;

•Live with faith and courage, regardless of life’s ups and downs.

The spiritual energy of the blood moon is one of transformation and connection to divine source energy, allowing us to manifest our goals into reality.

•The Eclipse is an opportunity to set new intentions and manifest greater power and abundance in our lives.

•It serves as a reminder to practice stillness and open up our intuition.

•We can also use this time to examine our fears, blocks, and limiting beliefs and consciously move through them.

•As we do this, we can embody more unconditional love toward ourselves and others.

Overall, this Moon is a symbol of profound transformation, one that gives us the courage to go within and reach higher realms of awareness, examine our fears, blocks, and limiting beliefs and consciously move through them.

•As we do this, we can em-

Getting To the Root of It All!

Avid gardeners and community builders Samantha White and Renata Toney are co-chairs of the sixth annual East Side Garden Walk (ESGW). Mark your calendars for the annual free, self-guided garden tour Saturday and Sunday, July 22 and 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You’re welcome to participate! Registration is now open; there is no charge to enter. The deadline to sign up is May 15.

“The Walk continues to grow and this year we want another robust showing of homes. The event has evolved into an experience for people from all communities to reconnect and share stories about their love of this city and nature,” said Samantha White a staff attorney at the WNY Law Center and an attorney of counsel at The Law Office of Stephanie Adams. “Presenting the event takes a year-round investment of time from dedicated volunteers.”

Over the past couple of decades, scientists have published a wealth of research about the benefits of contact with nature. Spending time in green spaces lowers blood pressure and salivary cortisol levels, both associated with reduced stress and anxiety. It also lowers heart rate and improves concentration, memory recall, and overall mood.

“Gardening is good for our minds, bodies, and spirits and brings me joy at different levels,” said Renata Toney, a vice president at Visit Buffalo Niagara. “During the Walk, I share what I know on tours in my garden but the unexpected was how much expertise fellow gardeners exchange with me. The event generates positive community-wide awareness of gardening and the East Side. I’m looking forward to this year’s event, we’re all ready for some fresh air.”

There is no charge to enter East Side Garden Walk. Your garden does not need to be perfect; no one’s garden ever is. If you have a garden in the footprint of East Side Garden Walk, you’re welcome to participate. Register today at www.gardensbuffaloniagara.com/esgw.

Locust Street Art Offering Low-Cost Spring Workshops!

Now that the sun is beginning to come out, it's the perfect time to finally learn a new medium. Locust Street Art is offering a variety of workshops for teens and adults outside of their regular session from now through June.

INTRO TO POTTERY WHEEL

Thursdays-Workshop for Adults Now thru June 15; 7-9pm

Saturdays-Workshop ]

Ages 10-12 thru - June 17;| 10am-12pm $90 for each workshop

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PRODUCTION CLUB

Thursdays - Workshop for Adults thru June 22; 7-9pm

Saturdays Workshop for Ages 10-12 April 22 - June 24, | 10am-12pm $90 for each workshop

2D ART PHOTOGRAPHY

TWO DATES

SaturdayApril 22 10:30am - 12:30pm

Saturday May 20 10:30am - 12:30pm $35 for each date

FIGURE DRAWING

Bi weekly 6 - 8pm

April 22, May 6, May 20,

June 3

Ages 18+ $20 for each date

GEL PRINTMAKING

Saturday, April 29 | 14+

6 - 7:30pm $32

PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY

Saturday, April 29th 5:30 - 7:30pm

Saturday, May 27 5:30 - 7:30pm $35 for each date

Ages 14+

INTRO TO PRINT MAKING

Wednesdays May 10-24 (Three Wednesdays) | 6 - 8 pm $52

Ages 14+

FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

Wednesday May 10, 17, 24 | 6:30-8:30 $73

NERIKOMI CLAY

Adult Class Thursday May 18| 7-9pm

Kids Class Ages 10-14 Saturday May 27 | 5:30 - 7:30pm 43 for each one session workshop

Enrollment has limited spots available at locuststreetart.org.

co-chairs l/r Renata Toney and Samantha White

FAITH & FAMILY

The Humboldt Parkway Baptist Church Annual Spring Revival

The Humboldt Parkway Baptist Church Annual Spring Revival will take place Tuesday, May 2 to Thursday, May 4 beginning at 7 p.m. nightly. The Evangelist will be Reverend James C. Blackburn Jr. Pastor of The Greater Hope Baptist Church. Please come out and bring your family and friends to be revived and renewed! Humboldt Parkway Baptist Church is located at 790 Humboldt Parkway, Reverend Jason C. Keith is the Pastor.

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God’s Ministry Healing & Deliverance Conference

This is God’s Ministry healing and deliverance conference will be Friday- Sunday April 28-30, at Harvest House Church, 1782 Seneca St. Host and speaker will be Elder Nee Nee Harvey, of This is God’s Ministry, on Friday the 28th at 6p.m. Sister Rhonda Mingo of Family and Friends Prayer line Ministry will be the speaker on Saturday the 29 at 12p.m. Pastor Wanda Strong-Howard of Prayer in the Park Ministry will be speaking Sunday the 30 at 12p.m. Looking for singers, keyboard, and piano players, also vendors. For information contact Elder Nee Nee 716-994-7059.

Nazarene Messianic Party to Present Lectures

The Nazarene Messianic Party will present a series of lectures at the Merriweather Library on Jefferson Avenue on “The Historical Jesus: Early Christians Revolutionary Liberation Movement for the Oppressed.” The sessions will be held from 2:30-4;30 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, May 7, and May 14. The first session was held April 23.

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Buffalo Teachers Federation, School Board, Approve New Contract

The Board of Education and the Buffalo Teachers Federation (union) have unanimously approved a four-year $243.7 million contract. The contract will give Buffalo teachers the second -highest starting salary in the region. The contract was approved by the Board on Friday and ratified by the teachers union on Monday.

Union President Phil Rumore, who announced his retirement last week after 42 years at the helm of the teacher’s union, cast the final vote of his career when teachers ratified the contact on Monday.

Teachers had been working without a contract since 2019.

Schools Superintendent Dr. Tanja Williams released the following statement: “This is a great news for our teachers and the Buffalo Public School District,” This landmark agreement not only makes our teachers some of the most highly compensated in the region, but it was done in a way that will preserve the District's strong financial position for years to come. The agreement also prioritizes our students and families by permitting much needed reform with bell times and the hiring of athletic coaches. As established by this vote, all 11 contractual agreements have been successfully ratified by the District’s employees, which further demonstrates our commitment to respecting, retaining, and recruiting a highly qualified workforce for the Buffalo Public Schools.”

Under the agreement Buffalo Public Schools teachers will receive a 21% raise over the next three and a half years and a 10% signing bonus.

Ad 1 Additionally, teachers would raise quicker up the salary ladder under the new deal. Also after June 30,2026, new hires would no longer be eligible for retiree health care.

Among one of the pressing issues that involved the children was inadequate bus routing; leaving countless children in the cold waiting for a bus to get to school and/or getting home after school late in the evening after dark.

The three-bell scheduled, previously proposed and rejected, has been tweaked, and is scheduled to be implemented. But the stipulation is that the program and any changes must be prepared and every school notified by June 1.

There are many people in the community reserving celebrating that issue given past struggles to resolve the problem and the fast looming June 1 readiness deadline which the Board of Education is required to meet in order for it to be implemented in time for the next school year. There is also the issue of unacceptable poor/abysmal reading and math proficiency cores especially among Black and Brown children in the district.

Dr. Williams

Sharing Our View: 25th Anniversary Exhibition at Burchfield Penney

In 1998, guest curator John Baker and Burchfield Penney staff organized the exhibition Sharing Our View to showcase the diverse range of Black visual artists working in Buffalo.

The exhibition and corresponding workshops with artists promoted community engagement and accessibility to the arts for youth.

On view through May 28, Sharing Our View: 25th Anniversary celebrates an intergenerational legacy of Black artists who continue to create meaningful connections through art across Buffalo’s diverse communities.

Celebrating both past and present, the exhibition features the artists in the original show as well as several contemporary artists who build meaningful connections through their own artwork, arts education, and community engagement practices.

Featured artists include the exceptional talents of XIII, Monet Alyssa, John Baker, Kobie Barber, Patricia Carter, James Cooper III, William Y. Cooper, Doretha Edwards, Aitina Fared-Cooke, Bree Gilliam, Wilhelmina Godfrey, Jay Hawkins Sr, LeRoi Johnson, Shanel Kerekes, Iris Kirkwood, Jalen Law, James G Pappas, Betty Pitts Foster, Jeanette Shropshire, William E. West Sr., Princessa S. Williams.

Additionally, John Baker, cofounder and current president of the WNY Urban Arts Collective, has facilitated a collaborative mural project that like the original program, connects students with local artists and cultural leaders to encourage them to tell their own stories through the visual arts.

Collectively, the exhibition and mural project brings together generations of artists to inspire connection, conversation, education, and understanding.

Sharing Our View: 25th Anniversary is presented through the generosity of Dr. Grant Golden & Ms. Deborah Goldman. For their continued support, we also gratefully acknowledge our generous Burchfield Penney members. Visit burchfieldpenneyarts.org for more info and be sure to follow @WNY Urban Arts Collective on social

Chevalier: A Triumphant Tale of Black Excellence

By Keenan “HIGz” Higgins

The phenomenal tale of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is brought to life thanks to a stellar performance in the titular role by rising Young Black Hollywood sensation Kelvin Harrison Jr. (It Comes at Night ; Luce). The 28-year-old actor is bold in his portrayal of the OG Black Renaissance Man, who was not only a champion fencer but also an exceptionally talented violinist and composer. Harrison Jr. embodies all three aspects of Chevalier’s personality with precision and prowess, never overacting yet still managing to capture the highenergy emotion that comes with being the biracial son of a white settler and enslaved Senegalese woman. Racial identity plays a huge role in the trials and

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Pictured abovet, WNY Urban arts Collective members John Baker (left) and James Cooper III (right ) with Burchfield curator Tiffany Gaines (center).

Some of the BPS students from McKinley, City Honors and Performing Arts who collaborated with the artists for the exhibition

CHANGEMAKERS 30 UNDER 30 AWARDS

CELEBRATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO!

With more than 250 people in attendance to celebrate and honor 30 dynamic individuals and their impact in the community and areas of work, the Change Makers 30 Under 30 11th annual event was truly a night to remember.

Chairwoman of Erie County Legislature April Baskin, who was also the title sponsor, opened the event encouraging the honorees to never downplay their youthful excellence. “ It’s because of your age and all that you have accomplished that each and every one of you will continue to be the change makers in your communities, " she told them. “You have started your journeys in your youth and we are all pleased to watch you continue to change our world.”

The sparkling event host of the night was the ever engaging Go Getta Adri V. There was a special tribute to the late influential dancer and visual artist Jimmy “Rook” Hawkins with a powerfully energetic Krump dance performance by his beloved sister Yanava Hawkins and three male dancers from Rook’s dance crew.

In addition to the 30 honorees , there were special awards presented. The Shannon D. Smith Award of Courage to Zaire Goodman , survivor of the Tops shooting massacre in Buffalo; the Changemakers Humanitarian Award to Sha’Kyra Aughtry, who saved the life of a man during the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022; and the Changemakers Icon Award to Celebrity Chef Darian Bryan, past recipient of the Changemakers Class of 2015.

Founder and executive producer Jamil Crews told the Challenger, "Buffalo is rich with talent that sometimes may go overlooked. So it's always an honor to be able to recognize professionals of color and provide a platform for their talents to be showcased. This year was particularly special considering all our city has endured over the last year. It was time to get back to celebrating the next generation of leaders in our city, and I am grateful for the vision God has given me to do just that."

The night also featured showstopping performances by WNY artists , Rod Bonner, Kenyada Avis, and Curtis Lovell. The event ended with Crews introducing the youngest changemaker in the history of the event , his one year old son Syer!

Pictured gracing our front page are the phenomenal 2023 honorees:

Business and Entrepreneurship presented by The Exchange at Beverly Gray

Kaylene Adams Age: 24, Owner The Beautique Lab,Makeup and Esthetics

DeVonte Davis Age: 28, Realtor/Salesperson eXp Realty

Jesana Gadley Age: 24, Community Engagement & Strategy / Lead Tech Academy M&T Bank

Lauren Jackson Age:30, CoOwner and Manager The Hair Hive

Suheiri Rodriguez Age: 29, Owner/Founder NY Candle Cafe and La Casa De Mama

Michael Walizada Age: 26, Vice President of Multicultural Banking M&T Bank

Community Engagement

Presented by M& T Bank

Sahi Chowdhury Age: 24, Fillmore District Office Council Assistant

Amiyah King Age: 25, Entrepreneur, Marketing Specialist, Ms. Buffalo 2022

Tesha Parker Age: 30, Executive Director of Rooted in Love President of Vision Consulting WNY

Devon Patterson Age: 26, Director of Community Engagement, Open Buffalo

Zakiyyah Missert Age: 29, Program Director BestSelf Behavioral Health

Dakarai Singletary Age: 28, Founder/President Candles In The S.U.N.

Education presented by Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

Shantina Addison Age: 29, Associate Director of Recruitment and Communications University at Buffalo

Ian James Age: 27, Director of Student-Athlete Success and Community Engagement, Daemen University

Jelicia Jimenez Age: 29, Community School Navigator, SAY YES Buffalo , CoFounder & Development Director, Black Boys Read Too

Eann Robinson Age: 29, Assistant Director of Academic Advising Initiatives School of Public Health and Health Profession, UB , CEO/CoFounder, Ear Quality

Miguel Rodriguez Age: 20,

Director of Community Standards and Student Advocacy, Daemen University

Jonvier Whittington, RN

MSN Age: 26, Clinical Assistant Professor D’Youville University

Media /Arts/Entertainment presented by Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Schondra Aytch Age: 28, Blogger, Writer & Digital Creator, Sneakvibin’

I’Jaz Ja’ciel Age: 29, Investigative Reporter/Multimedia Journalist Investigative Post

Wayne Jones Age: 30, President of Drill Teams United of Western New York

Lindsay Niccs Age: 30, Singer/Songwriter

Ashante Wilson Age: 28, Art & Music Instructor/Graphic Designer Buffalo Public & Charter Schools

Sports /Health & Wellness

Temara Cross Age: 23, Clinical Medical Assistant Primary Care of Western New York

Jamien Eutsey Age: 23, Youth Sport Management Program Manager Breaking Barriers Buffalo

Dominique Johnson Age: 30, Director of Wellness and Community Engagement, Coaching For The Culture, Assistant Director of Higher Education Opportunity Program D’Youville University

Teaira Leslie Age: 29, Owner & Operator/Personal Trainer, Waist Talk Fitness

Lazairick Waller Age: 28, Certified Personal Trainer and Massage Therapist (LMT) Gym Owner of Absolute Health and Wellness

Jevon F. Whittington Age: 23, Registered Nurse, Oncologic Operating Room Nurse Roswell Park Cancer Institute

John F. Whittington III Age: 23, Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse, ECMC

To learn more about this event and more visit their website at changemakers30under30.com

30 Under 30 Founder Jamil Crews

Herbert Announces Write-In Campaign After Failing to Make the Ballot in Fillmore District Race

Samuel Herbert did not make the ballot to run in the June 27th Primary race for Fillmore District Councilmember, which takes place June 27. But he said “there’s more than one way to skin a cat,” and plans to do the next best thing - kick off his campaign to run as a write-in candidate in the November General election. He last ran for Fillmore in 2019.

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SHE’S ON THE BALLOT!

Board of Elections Rules in Favor of India Walton’s Petitions! Candidate Says She looks forward to “Focusing on the issues” and working With Residents to Get “Masten on the Move!”

India Walton is officially on the ballot in the race for the Masten District council seat.

Soon after she turned in her petitions two community activists filed objections with the Erie County Board of Elections claiming she was not eligible to run because she had not lived in the district long enough. On Tuesday the Deputy elections commissioner ruled that those objections were "invalid." The elections officials could not however, certify her as being on the ballot in November for the working Families Party, who has endorsed her.

No worries says Ms. Walton who said she plans to win the June Primary.

“I am pleased with the validation of our petitions for Masten District Common Council, “ India told The Challenger. “The commissioners at the Erie County Board of Elections were fair in ensuring voters will have a choice on June 27th. I look forward to focusing on the issues and I’m excited to continue speaking with residents about how we will get Masten Back on the Move! "

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Hotly Contested Race-

Masten promises to be one of the most hotly contested races in the June Primary between Ms. Walton, Zeneta Everhart, the endorsed Democratic candidate and the most recent person to enter the race, Murray Holman of the Sheriff's Department and the Stop the Violence Coalition.

The current Councilmember Ulysees O. Wingo, Sr. announced earlier that he would not be seeking re-election this year.

Her Bold Move Political Action Committee Endorses Eve Shippens for North District Council

Eve Shippens, Buffalo teacher and candidate for Buffalo North District Common Council, has been endorsed by Her Bold Move, a political action committee focused on shattering the glass ceiling in politics. North District has never had female representation on the Common Council.

UPDATE: SUDAN

The chaos engulfing the Sudanese capital of Khartoum became significantly more threatening Tuesday when one of the warring factions seized control of a national health lab that contains biological material, where measles, cholera and polio samples are held according to a U.N. official creating a huge biological risk.''

•Thousands of Americans, Europeans and Africans were already fleeing Sudan as a new, three-day truce that came into effect late Monday did little to ease the violence overtaking the nation of 46 million.

•Explosions and gunfire echoed across Khartoum despite the cease-fire negotiated by the United States and Saudi Arabia, the latest of several declared but mostly ignored since the recent fighting broke out April 15.

•More than 450 people have been killed and over 4,000 wounded in less than two weeks. The fighting comes less than three years after a rickety peace deal was supposed to end a war that began 20 years ago when the Sudan Liberation Movement attacked Sudanese military forces in Sudan's western Darfur region.

ZAWADI BOOKS/PROFILE The Second: Race and Guns In A Fatally Unequal America

In The Second, historian and New York Times award-winning bestselling author of White Rage, Dr. Carol Anderson , powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.

On an edition of Democracy Now! Dr. Anderson breaks it down:

There’s Still Time to Join the Dorothy Collier Book Club!

There’s still time to join the Dorothy Collier Community Center Book Club which is currently reading The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. For more information or if you prefer to participate via Zoom call.

You can purchase the book at Zawadi Books located @ 1382 Jefferson Ave, Bookstore Hours: Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, 12-4 p.m. Bookstore Phone 716.903.6740.

“The Second Amendment emerged really fully out of a concern about Black people, out of a fear of Black people .This what the role of the militia was and so yes we hear things about domestic tyranny they really weren’t good at that; we heard about the about the militia being able to fend off the foreign invasion, they really weren’t good at that; but what they were good at that was putting down slave revolts. And so when you're having the debates about 2nd amendment you’re having the battle over the ratification of the constitution.

The second amendment was the bribe to the South to not scuttle the constitution of the United States , in order to have control of that militia to keep the enslaved in check.”

The Second is now available at Zawadi Books, 1382 Jefferson Avenue (across from Jim Bell Cleaners) . Zawadi is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 12 noon to 4 p.m. For more information call (716)903-6740 or email holleykennethQyahoo.com

39th Annual Conference of ASCAC

The 39th Annual Conference of The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) will take place VIA ZOOM April 28-May 6. The theme: Examining African Oral and Written Traditions and the. Power of Memory. For more information and to register go to www. tiinyurl.com/ascac2023registration. Visit www.ascac.org

“Representation matters - that’s why I’m running to be the first woman to represent the North District on Buffalo’s Common Council! Shippens has also been endorsed by the New York Working Families Party, and 314 Action, an organization that supports STEM candidates. She is the main challenger in the race for North District Common Council, running against a 24-year incumbent for a seat on the currently all-male council.

Eve Shippens

•The U.N. Population Fund has said the fighting threatens 24,000 women expected to give birth in the coming weeks.

•Fighting continued Tuesday in Omdurman, across the Nile River from Khartoum.

India Walton

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been restored to segregated turmoil and dictatorship under Napoleon. General Dumas died in 1806 at the age of 43 and despite his high military rank, Napoleon refused his admission into the French Legion of Honor. He even had Dumas replaced by a blonde, White man in a painting of the French capture of Cairo’s Great Mosque. General Dumas’ pension was withheld by a vengeful Napoleon. His young son Alexandre Dumas Jr. grew up in poverty

At the time of his death Dumas' son was only threeyears old. However he grew up to become a prolific author who wrote some of the most well known French books in the world with over 500 works, among his most famous, the 3 Musketeers and the Count of Monte Cristo. His father's story, which was central to many of his plots, was a sort of poetic revenge on Napoleon.

When Alexandre Dumas' novels achieved success, his African heritage was widely attacked and mocked.

The only monument to honor his father, General Dumas, was a statue of him erected in Paris in 1912. It was destroyed by the German Nazi occupation forces in 1940 in Paris during the Second World War and never replaced.

Alexandre Dumas and his son - outstanding Men of Color!

The life of General Alex Dumas is told in the remarkable bestseller “The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo” by Tom Reiss. It tells the story of the French revolution’s politics on race and racism,and contains useful concise narratives of the French revolution (from 1789) and the Haitian revolution that branched out from and intertwined with it (from 1791), plus highlights on their impacts in many other parts of Europe and the world.

Modern Day Reconstruction and Tennessee's Expulsion of Black Lawmakers

By Jon Jeter

The temporary expulsion of two Black Tennessee legislators was a reminder of why even a tiny semblance of Black political independence is feared and hated. The expressions of support from traitorous Democratic Party leadership were reminders of why a true independence struggle must continue.

In September of 1868, white lawmakers in Georgia expelled all 33 African American legislators elected to the state’s General Assembly. It was, to be sure, a bipartisan affair, with 15 moderate Republicans joining the more conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives, while in the Senate, four Republicans voted for expulsion; in both chambers, a total of 38 Republicans abstained.

The federal government would ultimately intervene and the expelled lawmakers were reinstated to the 197-member body in January of 1870. Among their first official acts after they’d been re-seated was to vote solidly in favor of a resolution authorizing back pay to the very delegates who had unlawfully replaced them in the General Assembly.

…In their short time as elected officeholders, Georgia’s African American legislators had already established themselves as the state’s most progressive, and class conscious politicians, voting to fully fund public education, dole out $30 million in low-interest loans to poor farmers, lower property taxes, slash interest rates paid to the state’s wealthy creditors (thereby saving taxpayers’ money) and, perhaps most astonishingly, oppose proposals to bar former Confederates from holding public office.

The freed people were not the least bit interested in retribution; their interest lay in building a Beloved Community for themselves and their neighbors.

-The Two Justins-

The ordeal of 33 Georgia lawmakers 155 years ago anticipated the purge and reinstatement earlier this month of two Black delegates, Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, from Tennessee’s House of Representatives, putatively for violating the body’s rules of decorum by participating in a raucous–albeit peaceful–anti-gun rally on the chamber floor. A vote to expel a third lawmaker, Gloria Johnson, fell short; she is white.

“That is racial,” a Black Democrat from Nashville, 31-year-old Angelo Tate, told NPR following the expulsions. “It makes us feel like our choice and our voice is not valued and we seem to be moving backwards politically.”

Said Rachel Tate, 30, another African American who identifies as a Democrat: “White men don’t care what we think,” Tate said. “They took our representative away from us.“It’s like our vote doesn’t matter.”

You can indeed draw a straight, unbroken line between the ouster of duly elected lawmakers from Southern legislatures in the 19th and 21st centuries, and the clear racial animus that motivated both. Yet it is important to keep in mind that the expulsions occurred within a broader political context which can best be summarized by Fred Hampton’s profane prophecy: “It’s a class struggle, Goddammit!”

What white lawmakers in both instances feared is not merely “Negro rule”--as it was often described in the Reconstruction era– but the outbreak of democracy that it portends.

Since the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans have consistently been America’s fiercest class warriors, and most progressive political actors.

From Radical Reconstruction to the New Deal, the New Left to Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, a radical Black polity is the sine qua non of America’s most democratizing social movements, and the vanguard of all pluralist revolutions.

In Tennessee, the two Justins, as they are now known, were removed from office for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after the slaughter of six people, including three 9-year-old children, in a Christian school in Nashville. That the rally included schoolchildren and protesters of all races represented a clear and present danger to Tennessee’s Republicans, and their corporate bosses at the National Rifle Association. From the House floor, Justin Jones raised the specter of fascism in denouncing his expulsion: “We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy.”

Both in their 20s, Jones and Pearson have a history of community activism, having come

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dear editor

Eliminate the Humboldt Freeway

Dear Editor:

The state should abandon the horrible idea of capping Rt. 33 in the City of Buffalo. Capping the freeway would be like "putting lipstick on a pig." This costly plan will not restore Olmsted's beautiful parkway, it will not eliminate fumes and, worst of all, will not stop commuters from whizzing through Buffalo's East Side at 60 MPH without ever setting foot, nor spending a dollar, on the East Side. Take a walk or drive down Genesee, Broadway, Sycamore or William streets; there are few stores. Why? Because the streets are devoid of vehicular traffic.

Eliminate the Rt. 33 freeway and The Broadway Market's volume of customers would double if traffic is redirected down Broadway instead of whizzing by on a freeway.

I fully understand the fears of commuters if the Rt. 33 freeway is eliminated. But that freeway should have never been built; and why should the residents of the East Side sacrifice their neighborhood for the convenience of commuters who do not live in, nor invest in, the neighborhood?

The state should take bold, transformational action to fully restore Olmsted's Humboldt Parkway and the East Side by eliminating the freeway. This is our one chance to reverse a horrible decision.

Steve Lakomy, Allentown

Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson on their return to the Tennessee State House!

“Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger.”

-Tao Te Ching

Dumas Jr.

NOTICE

The bond resolution, a copy of which is published herewith, has been adopted by the Erie County Legislature on April 13, 2023, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such bond resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the County of Erie, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this Notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the publication of this Notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution of New York.

Robert M. Graber Clerk of the County Legislature

RESOLUTION NO. 47, 2023 BOND RESOLUTION DATED APRIL 13, 2023 BOND RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE COUNTY OF ERIE, NEW YORK (THE “COUNTY”), AUTHORIZING VARIOUS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECTS THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE COUNTY’S 2023 CAPITAL BUDGET (COLLECTIVELY, THE “PROJECTS”), STATING THE TOTAL ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF THE PROJECTS TO BE $46,459,500, APPROPRIATING SUCH AMOUNT THEREFOR (INCLUDING THE EXPENDITURE OF $8,647,330 OF STATE AND FEDERAL AID) AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF UP TO $37,812,170 OF BONDS OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS OF THE COUNTY (COLLECTIVELY, THE “OBLIGATIONS”) TO FINANCE THE BALANCE OF SUCH APPROPRIATION; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING ANY AMOUNTS RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND/OR THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR ANY OTHER SOURCE FOR THE PROJECTS TO BE EXPENDED TOWARDS THE COST OF CERTAIN OF THE PROJECTS AS INDICATED HEREIN, OR TOWARDS THE REDEMPTION OF ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS ISSUED THEREFOR, OR TO BE BUDGETED AS AN OFFSET TO THE TAXES FOR PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON THE OBLIGATIONS.

(Introduced) April 13, 2023

(Adopted) April 13, 2023

WHEREAS, the County Legislature (the “Legislature”) of the County of Erie (the “County”), a municipal corporation of the State of New York (the “State”) has been in the process of planning various capital improvements projects (collectively, the “Projects”) that are listed on the schedule/listing of such Projects that is attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof (the “Schedule”); and

WHEREAS, such planning has been undertaken, together with appropriate environmental compliance determination proceedings under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, by the County’s Energy and Environment Committee (the “Committee”) and/or the County’s Department of Environment & Planning (the “Department”), and has included such administrative actions as are necessary or required by the State or any federal agency with respect to assessing the potential environmental impacts of the Projects and ensuring the safety and security of persons and property in the County with respect to the Projects; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature, in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee and the Department, has determined: (A) that the Projects are in the public interest of the County and should be undertaken, (B) that there should be expended toward certain of the Projects $8,647,330 of State and Federal aid, as noted on the Schedule; and (C) that there should be issued up to $37,812,170 of bonds, notes, or other obligations of the County (collectively, the “Obligations”), to finance the balance of the estimated maximum cost of the Projects;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT

RESOLVED, by the Legislature (by the favorable vote of not less than two-thirds of all the members of the Legislature) as follows:

SECTION 1. The County is hereby authorized to undertake the Projects that are listed in column A of the Schedule, each as more fully described in column I of the schedule. To the extent that the details set forth in this resolution are inconsistent with any details set forth in the duly adopted 2023 Capital Budget of the County (the “Budget”), the Budget shall be deemed to be, and hereby is, amended. For each of the specific objects or purposes, classes of objects or purposes and combinations of objects or purposes, as specified in column B of the Schedule, the respective estimated maximum costs, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof, are set forth in column C of the Schedule, and the respective amounts are hereby appropriated therefor in accordance with the Budget.

SECTION 2. The plan of financing for the Projects includes the expenditure of $8,647,330 in State and Federal aid that has been or is expected to be received for certain of the Projects (as detailed on the Schedule), and, along with the issuance of up to $37,812,170 of Obligations to finance the balance of the aggregate estimated maximum cost of the Projects, and the levy and collection of taxes on all the taxable real property in the County to pay the principal of such Obligations and the interest thereon as the same shall become due and payable. Any amounts received by the County from the United States of America and/or from the State of New York or other sources for the Projects are hereby authorized to be expended towards the cost of the Projects or the redemption of any Obligations issued therefor, or to be budgeted as an offset to the taxes for payment of the principal of and interest on such Obligations.

SECTION 3. The respective periods of probable usefulness for the specific objects or purposes, classes of objects or purposes and combinations of objects or purposes for which the $37,812,170 of Obligations herein authorized are to be issued, within the limitations of §11.00 of the Local Finance Law, constituting Chapter 33-a of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York (the “Law”), are set forth in column G of the Schedule. Obligations (including, without limitation, serial bonds of the County) in the respective principal amounts set forth in column D of the Schedule are hereby authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Law to finance the various objects or purposes that are listed on the Schedule.

SECTION 4. The temporary use of available funds of the County, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized and (to the extent that such use has already occurred) is hereby ratified, pursuant to Section 165.10 of the Local Finance Law, for the purpose or purposes described in this resolution. The County intends to finance, and the County Comptroller, as the chief fiscal officer of the County (the “Comptroller”) is hereby authorized to advance, such amounts as are necessary to pay the costs of the respective specific objects or purposes, classes of objects or purposes and combinations of objects or purposes described in Section 1 hereof, prior to the issuance of the Obligations, out of any available funds of the County on an interim basis. The County reasonably expects to reimburse any such expenditures (to the extent made after the date hereof or within 60 days prior to the earlier of (A) the date hereof or (B) any earlier expression by the County of its intent to reimburse expenditures for the applicable Project(s) or any earlier iteration thereof) with the proceeds of the Obligations, to the extent consistent with the financing plan for such Project(s) as stated herein. This resolution shall constitute the declaration (or reaffirmation) of the County’s “official intent” to reimburse the expenditures authorized in this resolution with the proceeds of the Obligations, as required by United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2.

SECTION 5. Each of the Obligations shall contain the recital of validity prescribed by §52.00 of the Law and the Obligations shall be general obligations of the County, payable as to both principal and interest by general tax upon all the taxable real property within the County without limitation as to rate or amount (subject to certain statutory limitations imposed by Chapter 97 of the 2011 Laws of New York). The faith and credit of the County are hereby irrevocably pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Obligations as the same respectively become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year in the County budget sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Obligations becoming due and payable in such year and, to the extent not paid from other sources or charges, there shall annually be levied on all the taxable real property of the County a tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such Obligations.

SECTION 6. Subject to the provisions of this Resolution and of the Law, and pursuant to the provisions of §21.00 relative to the issuance of bonds having substantially level or declining annual debt service, §30.00 relative to the authorization of the issuance of bond anticipation notes or the renewals thereof, and of §§50.00, 56.00 to 60.00, 62.00, 62.10, 63.00, 164.00 and 168.00 of the Law, the powers and duties of the Legislature relative to authorizing the issuance of Obligations in the form of notes, or the renewals thereof, relative to providing for substantially level or declining annual debt service, relative to prescribing the terms, form and contents and as to the procedures for the sale and issuance of the Obligations, and relative to executing any agreements for credit enhancement, are hereby delegated to the Comptroller. Without in any way limiting the scope of the foregoing delegation of powers, the Legislature, to the extent permitted by Section 58.00(f) of the Local Finance Law, is hereby specifically authorized to accept bids for the Obligations that are submitted in electronic format. In the absence or unavailability of the Comptroller, the Deputy County Comptroller is hereby specifically authorized to exercise the powers delegated to the Comptroller in this resolution.

SECTION 7. When this resolution takes effect, the Clerk of the Legislature shall cause the same (or a summary thereof) to be published, together with a notice in substantially the form prescribed by Section 81.00 of the Law, in the Buffalo Challenger and the Lancaster Bee, which are newspapers having general circulation in the County and published in the County. The validity of the Obligations may thereafter be contested only if the Obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which the County is not authorized to expend money, or the provisions of law which should have been complied with at the date of the publication of this resolution (or a summary thereof) are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within 20 days after the date of such publication, or if the Obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the State of New York.

SECTION 8. Prior to the issuance of any Obligations, the County (acting through the Committee and the Department and, to the extent necessary or appropriate, the Legislature) has or will have complied (to the extent not accomplished already) with any applicable provisions prescribed in Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law, all regulations promulgated thereunder by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and all applicable federal laws and regulations in connection with the environmental quality review process relating to the Projects (collectively, the “Environmental Compliance Proceedings”). In the event that any of such Environmental Compliance Proceedings are not completed, or require amendment or modification subsequent to the date of adoption of this resolution, the Legislature will re-adopt, amend or modify this resolution prior to the issuance of the relevant Obligations, to the extent required and acting upon the advice of counsel. It is hereby determined by the Legislature, on the basis of the Environmental Compliance Proceedings and the findings of the Committee and/or the Department, that to the extent that the Environmental Compliance Proceedings may apply to the Projects, the Projects (when assessed either individually or in the aggregate) will not result in a significant adverse impact on the environment.

SECTION 9. The County intends to issue the Obligations to finance a portion of the aggregate cost of the Projects. The Comptroller is hereby authorized to covenant, in the name and on behalf of the County and for the benefit of the holders and beneficial owners of the Obligations, that the County will not make any use of the proceeds of the Obligations, or any funds reasonably expected to be used to pay the principal of or interest on the Obligations or any other funds of the County, and will not make any use of the facilities to be financed with the proceeds of the Obligations that would cause the interest on the Obligations to become subject to federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or subject the County to any penalties under Section 148 of the Code, and that the County will not take any action or omit to take any action with respect to the Obligations, the proceeds thereof or any facilities to be financed thereby if such action or omission would cause the interest on the Obligations to become subject to federal income taxation under the Code or subject the County to any penalties under Section 148 of the Code.

SECTION 10. For the benefit of the holders and beneficial owners from time to time of the Obligations, the County agrees, in accordance with and as an obligated person with respect to the Obligations under Rule 15c2-12 promulgated by the Securities Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”), to provide or cause to be provided such financial information and operating data, financial statements and notices, in such manner, as may be required for purposes of the Rule. In order to describe and specify certain terms of the County’s continuing disclosure agreement for that purpose, and thereby to implement that agreement, including provisions for enforcement, amendment and termination thereof, the Comptroller is authorized and directed to sign and deliver, in the name and on behalf of the County, the commitment authorized by subsection 6(c) of the Rule (the “Commitment”) to be placed on file with the Clerk to the Legislature, which shall constitute the continuing disclosure agreement made by the County for the benefit of holders and beneficial owners of the Obligations in accordance with the Rule, with any changes or amendments that are not inconsistent with this Resolution and not substantially adverse to the County and that are approved by the Comptroller on behalf of the County, all of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the signing of the Commitment or amendments thereto. The agreement formed, collectively, by this paragraph and the Commitment, shall constitute the County’s continuing disclosure agreement for purposes of the Rule, and its performance shall be subject to the availability of funds and their annual appropriation to meet costs the County would be required to incur to perform thereunder. The County Comptroller is further authorized and directed to establish procedures in order to ensure compliance by the County with its various continuing disclosure agreements, including the timely provision of information and notices. Prior to making any filing in accordance with the agreement or providing notice of the occurrence of any material event, the Comptroller shall consult with, as appropriate, the County Attorney and the County’s bond counsel, the County’s municipal advisor, or another qualified independent special counsel to the County. The Comptroller, acting in the name and on behalf of the County, shall be entitled to rely upon any legal advice provided by the County Attorney or such bond counsel or other special counsel in determining whether a filing should be made.

SECTION 11. The Comptroller is hereby specifically authorized to act, on the advice of bond counsel at the time of the issuance of the Obligations, to designate such Obligations, if applicable, as “qualified tax-exempt obligations” in accordance with Section 265(b)(3) of the Code.

SECTION 12. The Comptroller is further authorized to call in and redeem any outstanding Obligations that were issued pursuant to this bond resolution(at such times and in such amounts and maturities as may be deemed appropriate after consultation with the County officials and the County’s municipal advisor), to approval any related notice of redemption, and to take such actions and execute such documents as may be necessary to effectuate any such call(s) for redemption pursuant to Section 53.00 of the Law, with the understanding that no such call(s) for redemption will be made unless such notice of redemption shall have first been filed with the Clerk of the Legislature.

MAY

•East Side Bike Ride, MLK Park@ THE MLK Head, Meet: 9:30 a.m.- Ride 10 a.m. JOIN US!

•Slow Roll Buffalo kicks off Monday May 1 Starting from Niagara Square. Meet 6pm Ride 6:30pm. Every Monday through October. More info visit slowrollbuffalo.org

•Spring Service Days . The Tool Library and Norfolk Ave Block Club #1 - Spring Service Days 2023. William L. Gaiter Parkway Spring Cleanup and Tree Stewardship, Saturday, May 20th. Meet at 10am @ the corner of Norfolk Ave and E. Delavan Ave. (1016 E. Delavan). For info call: 716-510-1745 or visit https://thetoollibrary.org/service/

•Mother’s Day Gala sponsored by Friends of Jerry Livingston. Saturday, May 14 2:30 pm at Buffalo Airport Hotel, 4600 Genesee Street . Contact Diane Livingston for tickets at 716 2703244.

JUNE

•Jefferson Avenue Friday Night Live, EVERY FRIDAY EVENING starting June 2 and continuing until August 25 from 5;30 to 9 p.m. Jefferson & E.Utica Street Shopping Plaza. FREE!

DJ's, food trucks, family entertainment, dancing and more (Vendors & food trucks will sell food and goods). To become a sponsor or for more info on how to participate go to the Buffalo Funk Fest Foundation facebook page.

•The University United Festival Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11 Now accepting vendor applications. Deadline May 22. (716) 245-8332 or via email at mread@buffalony.gov

•Juneteenth Festival all day Saturday June 17 & Sunday June 18, MLK Park www.juneteenthofbuffalo.com, (716)891-891.FREE

•Family Fishing Day June 24 & 25, 10 a.m.-3p.m. Broderick Park, Foot of Ferry Underground Railroad)

•NAACP 2023 Medger Evers Awards Dinner, Saturday , June 24, Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. Awards nomination deadline Friday April 28 via email. For more information email naacp@buffalonaacp.org or call (716)884-7242.

•Niagara Falls Juneteenth Community Fair & Arts Festival, 1201 Pine Avenue Saturday June 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Info@theNACC.org or call (716)282-7530.

JULY

•HEALING BY THE WATER Broderick Park Summer Freedom Celebration Music, Food, Vendors July 7-September 7, Foot of Ferry near Niagara St. FREE

• 28th Annual Pappy Martin Legacy- Masten Jazz Festival, July 23 and July 30 from 2pm8pm, MLK Park (Buffalo Museum of Science – Side Lawn) 1001 Humboldt Parkway

Sunday, July 23: 6pm: Headliner: Buster Williams Quartet / Opener: Various Acts

Monday, July 24: 1pm: Musicians' Masterclass Workshop led by Nasar Abadey

AUGUST

•Westy’s Sycamore Family & Friends Annual Reunion August 4 Meet & Greet, 419 Monroe 6-9pm; August 5 Reunion Cookout MLK Park Noon-8PM For Info: (716)783-0099; (716)602-8119; (716)892-8311; (716)247-0258 FREE

•Pan Afrikan Festival Saturday, August 5, hosted by A.B.O.V.E. @ Highland Bowl, 1137 South Ave. Rochester, 11am - 8 p.m. Visit PANAFFESTIVAL.ORG

•35th Annual Taking it to the Streets FREE August 19th & 20th, 11am-park closing MLK Park. For shelters/participate/vend/sponsor call 716-507-1931/716-400-6749.

SEPTEMBER

• “Honoring Our African American Military Heroes and Sheroes” Parade ” & Mini Stand Down, Saturday, September 2 hosted by Debbera M. Ransom and The African American Veterans Arts and Culture Corporation, kickoff 2 p.m. Jefferson between Riley and Dodge For more info email: aavaccbuffalo21@gmail.com or call 716-563-2536.

To List Your Upcoming event email editorial@thechallengernews.com

RISE UP RIGHT HIGHLIGHTS IN SPORTS

Let's Rise Up.

Buffalo Sabres Hockey

The Buffalo Sabres season has ended again without a playoff berth but there were plenty of positives to take from this season. The Sabres ended the season with a winning record of 42-33-7.

Buffalo Bisons Baseball

Forget what you heard, anyone who has been watching Bisons Baseball knows that they don't need to be heard they need to play like "The Herd". Hopefully that wasn't offensive but I don't want to hear no excuses on why this team shouldn't be a playoff team this season and in order to make that happen you have to start off the season right and the Bisons just haven't done that to begin this season. The Bisons currently carry the weight of a 8-12 record after the first 20 games of the season.

NBA News

The Philadelphia 76ers have swept the Brooklyn Nets 4 games to none as they will advance to the second round after a 96-88 victory in Brooklyn last Saturday.

The Phoenix Suns have taken a commanding 3-1 series lead with a 112-100 victory in LA over the Los Angeles Clippers. The Miami Heat is definitely in turn up mode as they took a 2-1 lead in the series against the Milwaukee Bucks with a 121-99 victory in Miami.

The Los Angeles Lakers have taken a resounding 2-1 series lead over the Memphis Grizzlies as they captured Game 3 by the score of 111-101.

The New York Knicks are one win away from moving on to the second round as they defeated the Cleveland cavaliers and game 4 by the score of 102-93.

The Golden State Warriors kept hope alive with a wild 126-125 escape of the Sacramento Kings. The Warriors tied the series at two games a piece.

The Boston Celtics have taken a 3-1 lead as they defeated the Atlanta Hawks 129-121.

The Minnesota Timberwolves survived being swept by the Denver Nuggets by defeating the Nuggets in overtime 114108 in OT.

Buffalo Bills News

This is around the time of year where Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott have made excellent strides in making decisions that will bring the Buffalo Bills closer to that elusive Lombardi Trophy. But will the Bills finally get to the promised land this season. What moves will be made to solidify that position? It all starts next week during the NFL Draft. My good brother and journalism and mentor from Power 96.5 FM Radio "Coach" Muki Hawkins has persuaded me into believing that the Bills will move down the draft board by trading the 27th overall pick for more picks in the draft and with their first pick grabbing National Championship winning Georgia Bulldogs tight end Darnell Washington. The Buffalo Bills have been known to draft defense first in recent years. But what will the Buffalo Bills actually do? For more Buffalo Bills news, Rise Up Right with your Challenger Community News Sports Journalist Andre "The Torch" Robinson.

Follow me on Facebook @Andre Robinson or D'Andre Torch Robinson. Tune into the WUFO sports report every Sunday at 6pm, and every Monday and Wednesday night at 10pm.

Zeal Talk Report with JGILLZ Former NFL MVP Rejected Ahead of Free Agency

by Jalen McGill Part 2- Conclusion

Some are saying that in reference to Lamar Jackson, the NFL owners are colluding in an effort to narrow the margin that NFL quarterbacks can make moving forward. This is due to the massive deal Deshaun Watson (quarterback of the Cleveland Browns) received last year when getting traded from the Houston Texans. Watson was the first player in NFL history to get a fully guaranteed contract that guaranteed him 231 million dollars over 5 years. Others are stating this is a negotiation tactic from franchises, in efforts to drive down the market for Lamar Jackson. Either way, nobody saw this coming. A former NFL MVP who is only going to be 27 by the start of next season, left in the dust without any team looking to pay him his just due.

Lamar Jackson has bet on himself since he was a kid. He’s always had doubters and haters try to minimize his talents and abilities. Each time Lamar has been able to rise to the challenge and stand firm on his principles. These principles that Lamar stand on is his love for God. Lamar has been re-ported saying how much of a role faith plays in his life. He’s constantly talking about how God continues to guide his decision making.

Let’s continue to pray for Lamar Jackson. ! Instagram: Zeal Talk Upstate Facebook: Zeal Talk Upstate Website: www.zealtalkupstate.com

CHEVALIER continued

with throughout the film. From the cold welcome on his arrival in France as a child to being fetishized by famed French ballerina Marie-Madeleine Guimard as a young adult, even considering his heartbreaking fallout with Queen Marie Antoinette, the color of his skin was always a deciding factor in how he was treated by those around him. However, his irreplaceable talent as a musician and Black visionary overall is where the dichotomy of being both Black and gifted is ultimately understood.

In short, they loved him as a form of harmless entertainment but despised him the minute he wanted more for himself as a Black man.

There’s also a beautiful story in how Chevalier discovers his roots, which occurs after one gut-wrenching climax that makes him question all the love he’s ever received by those fairskinned patron of Paris who once celebrated his existence. It’s through his mother Nanon, who becomes a link between him and his African housekeepers, that he truly discovers his Caribbean roots and uses it to find a source of power from within.

The film’s ending will leave you with enough open-ended questions to do some research on your own in regards to who Chevalier is, which we can assure you is well-worth the history lesson.

Along with Kelvin Harrison Jr., the cast is rounded out by an ensemble lineup of veteran and rising stars, including Samara Weaving as Marie-Josephine de Montalembert, Lucy Boynton as Marie Antoinette, Marton Csokas as Marc René – Marquis de Montalembert, Alex Fitzalan as Louis Philippe II – Duke of Orléans, singer/actress Minnie Driver as Marie-Madeleine Guimard and Ronke Adekoluejo as the aforementioned Nanon.

EMPLOYMENT

Senior Pastor Opening

The Macedonia Baptist Church, Buffalo, NY is prayerfully seeking a Senior Pastor called by God, ordained and dedicated to the ministry of Jesus Christ. A resume may be submitted by emailing to info@macedoniabuffalo.com or mailing to Macedonia Baptist Church, 237 East North St., Buffalo, NY 14204. Resume deadline June 1st.

Administrative Review Specialist

Work with a member of the QA/ CC team Assisting w/monitoring, adjustment & correction Of claims & other claim related data. HS diploma And 3 years’ experience required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc, 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC

HCBS/CORE Peer Support Specialist

Assist individuals w/behavioral health issues, Eliminate functional deficits & barriers to improve Integration in their family, community or culture. HS diploma & 4 yrs exp required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc, 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC

Independent Living Specialist

Coordinate independent living skills, evaluation & Training for persons w/disabilities. Asso deg req. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc, 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC

TERRENCE D. McKELVEY

Attorney at Law

181 Franklin Street Suite #301 Buffalo, New York 14202

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF ERIE

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE TO FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1, V.

TIMOTHY JAMES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT JAMES, JR, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 10, 2022, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Erie, wherein WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE TO FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 is the Plaintiff and TIMOTHY JAMES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT JAMES, JR, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the “CLOSING ROOM” OF THE ERIE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE, LOCATED ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF 92 FRANKLIN STREET, CITY OF BUFFALO, STATE OF NEW YORK 14202, on May 12, 2023 at 10:00AM, premises known as 100 BAKOS BOULEVARD, BUFFALO, NY 14211: Section 101.16, Block 1, Lot 34: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO, COUNTY OF ERIE AND STATE OF NEW YORK

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 806180/2018. Jennifer Ann Runfola, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.

April 13, 20, 27 May 4

LEGAL

Erie County Department of Senior Services is seeking proposal statements from qualified entities interested in providing home delivered nutrition services under the Erie County Elderly Nutrition Services (ECENS) program (RFP # 2023-031VF). The Department will have a Q & A session on Tuesday May 9, 2023, from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Please check the Erie County Purchasing Department website, https://www3.erie.gov/purchasing/requests-proposals-constructionbids , for more information. Final sealed proposals are due no later than May 26, 2023, at 4:00 pm EST.

LEGAL NOTICE Bid

Charter Communications –Amherst, NY

Bids will be received by RP Oak Hill Building Co., Inc. for the Charter Communications – Amherst, NY Project on 5/2/2023 at 2:00pm. Please fax bids (716-822-4367) or email (bids@rpoakhill.com) prior to 2:00 pm. The scope of work includes selective demolition, carpentry, millwork, doors/frames/hardware, glass, flooring, painting, specialties, M/E/P/ FP, etc. The contract documents may be examined at Construction Exchange. This project is open shop. ***W/M/DBE & SDVOB participation is encouraged.

PROBATE CITATION

File No. 2022-433

SURROGATE'S COURT - ERIE COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

By the Grace of God Free and Independent

TO: REGINALD D. GIBBS, CHERYL GIBBS, KEVIN LAMONT GIBBS, WILLIE DEVON GIBBS, ROBERT WHITING, JENNIFER G. FLANNERY - Erie County Public Administrator and to any and all persons who are or claim to be heirs at law, next of kin, distributees of decedent named below, if any such there be, all of whom and all of whose names, ages, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the Petitioner(s) and cannot after due diligence used be ascertained, HON.

LETITIA JAMES – Attorney General of the State of New York.

A petition having been duly filed by DARIEN D. LIST, who is domiciled at 76 Clonmore Drive, Scarborough, Ontario Canada M1N 1X8.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, Erie County, at 92 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Buffalo, New York, on May 23, 2023, at 9:30 o'clock in the fore- noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of WILLIE GIBBS JR. lately domiciled at 154 Smallwood Dr., Amherst New York 14226, admitting to probate a Will dated May 8, 2020 (a Codicil dated none) a copy of which is attached as the Will of WILLIE GIBBS JR. , deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: DARIEN D. LIST.

Hon. Judge Acea M. Mosey Surrogate

Dated, Attested and Sealed:

April 7, 2023

Linda M. Wiedrick

Chief Clerk

Attorney for Petitioner:

Daria L Pratcher, Esq.

Law Office of Daria L. Pratcher

Address and Telephone No. of Attorney:

37 Franklin Street, Suite 1000, Buffalo, New York 14202

(716)541-8574

Attorney Email Address: dlpratcher@dlpratcherlawoffice.com

[NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

April 13, 20, 27, May 4

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

VILLAGE OF SPRINGVILLE

ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK FRANKLIN STREET WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT

CONTRACT NO. 1 – GENERAL CONSTRUCTION

Sealed Bids for the construction of the Franklin Street Water Main Replacement Contract No. 1 will be received by Village of Springville, at the Village Hall, 5 West Main Street, Springville, New York 14141, until 11:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at which time the Bids received will be publicly opened and read.

Bids will be received for Contract No. 1 – General Construction. Work under this contract generally consists of approximately 2,000 feet of 12-inch water main replacement, appurtenances, various new water service installation and various hydrant installations.

Bidding Documents may be obtained in portable document format (PDF) by emailing the Issuing Office at nwilliard@bartonandloguidice.com. The date that the Bidding Documents are transmitted by the Issuing Office will be considered the prospective Bidder’s date of receipt of the Bidding Documents. Partial sets of Bidding Documents will not be available from the Issuing Office. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial sets of Bidding Documents, including Addenda if any, obtained from sources other than the Issuing Office.

Each Bid must be submitted on the prescribed Bid Form and accompanied by Bid security, as prescribed in the Instructions to Bidders. The Successful Bidder will be required to furnish the additional bond(s) prescribed in the Bidding Documents. In order to perform public work, the Successful Bidder and Subcontractors prior to contract award shall hold or obtain such license as required by State statutes, and Federal and local Laws and Regulations. Bids will not be accepted from Bidders that have been barred from competing on public works under General Municipal Law 5A-103-b.

Purchases made by the Village of Springville are not subject to any Federal, State or local sales tax. Bidders shall not include in their bid sales and compensating use taxes on the cost of materials. Exemption certificates will be executed upon request. For information concerning the proposed Work, contact Noah Williard, Barton & Loguidice, D.P.C., nwilliard@bartonandloguidice.com.

The Village of Springville strongly encourages Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises and Section 3 Firms to submit a bid. The Owner’s right is reserved to reject all Bids or any Bid not conforming to the intent and purpose of the Bidding Documents.

This contract will be funded wholly or partially with federal funds, and as such, is subject to all federal rules and regulations pertinent thereto, including, but not limited to, federal policy of encouraging the participation of minority and women business enterprises as sources of suppliers, equipment, construction and services.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Dated this 27th day of April, 2023.

Village of Springville Liz Melock, Administrator

LEGAL NOTICE Bid

NFTA PROCUREMENT INVITATION TO BID

230029 – FOOD, BEVERAGE AND CONCESSION SERVICES

Download documents at https:// www.nfta.com/departments/procurement

LEGAL NOTICE

COUNTY OF ERIE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

95 FRANKLIN STREET BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202

County of Erie, New York APPLICATION RELEASE

The Erie County Department of Social Services is seeking applications from qualified hotels/motels to provide shelter to homeless clients applying for or in receipt of Temporary Assistance benefits in Erie County when no other suitable public or private housing is available. The application can be found on the ECDSS Vendor Application at https://www3. erie.gov/socialservices/ or by contacting Carrie Godfrey at Carrie.Godfrey@erie.gov, 716-858-6086.

All correspondence, communications and/or contact with the County in regard to any aspect of this application shall be with the ECDSS contact person listed above. Prospective proponents, or their representatives, shall not make contact with or communicate with any representatives of the County, including employees and consultants, other than the designated person in regard to any aspect of this application.

Applications will be accepted on an on-going basis to meet client needs.

Erie County reserves the right to reject any and all applications and waive any informality.

Marie A. Cannon, Commissioner of

THE TWO JUSTINS continued fom page 13 of age during the Black Lives Matter movement. Both men are well-spoken– reminiscent of the generation of civil rights leaders whose oratory was shaped by the Black church–and led the protest for stricter gun control legislation after a high school shooting last month in Nashville left six people dead, three of them students. The New York Times wrote of the two men: Mr. Pearson and Mr. Jones, whose districts include parts of Memphis and Nashville, are a generational break from the current political norm, and a throwback in many ways to the tactics and styles of civil rights leaders from the 1960s and ’70s. Their style is in communion with a tradition of African American activism in which civic and spiritual life intertwine, and political reprimand from the opposition is worn like a badge of honor.

Such uncompromising advocacy on behalf of their constituencies has not only put them at odds with Republicans but is almost certain to clash with the older generation of Democrats, especially Blacks, whose politics have been shaped by the party’s rightward shift under the Clinton administration in an unimaginative effort to compete with the GOP for disaffected white voters.

Feigning support for the two young Democrats buys the (Democratiac) party stalwarts time to bring Pearson and Johnson into the fold, and gradually discipline their demands for policies that benefit the working class, of all races. This strategy approximates, more or less, the Democrats’ corruption of the Black Lives Matter movement, rendering the organization ineffective as an advocate for the African American community, similar to the Black misleadership class in Congress and city halls across the country.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Case Management Database System

April 27th, 2023

The Buffalo & Erie County Workforce Investment Board, Inc. is accepting proposals for a qualified Applicant to develop a cloud-based case management database system. Proposals clearly labeled RFP for Case Management Database System must be received at info@ becwib.org no later than 2:00p.m. on May 19th, 2023 in order to be considered. Those interested in submitting a proposal may download the RFP at https://workforcebuffalo.org/ (posted in the hamburger menu under News). Funding for this RFP was made possible by the County of Erie (EEO/AAE).

LLC's

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY

Fijas Fitness LLC. Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept. of State: 1/26/2023. Office of the LLC: 636 W Delavan Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222 Erie County. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at 636 W Delavan Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222.

Purpose of LLC: Provide coaching for runners and fitness plans. No specific duration attached to LLC.

April 20,27,May 4, 11, 18,25

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY

Soul Natured, LLC filed Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State New York (SSNY) on 3/30/2023. Office is in Erie County. SSNY is the designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail any copy of process to 48 Christian Dr, Buffalo, NY 14225. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

April 20,27,May 4, 11, 18,25

Whether or not the Justins can withstand the inevitable overtures from corporate Democrats is anyone’s guess. But their politics to date is redolent of the transcendent class consciousness that animated Black radicals such as Fred Hampton, Huey P. Newton, Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X .. Excerpted from the article by Jon Jeter BlackAgendaReport.com)

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 23-29,) aims to raise awareness about issues that affect victims and to remind the public about resources to help those who have been impacted by crime. For more information on the Erie County District Attorney’s Office Victim/Witness Services Bureau, call 716-858-4640 or visithttps://www4.erie.gov/ da/victimwitness-services-bureau. For more information on the BE-SAFE Domestic Violence Advocacy Program a call 716-858-4630 or visitwww.erie.gov/besafe.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY

Designs at Noon by Shelanise LLC filed Articles of Organization with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/21/23. Office location: Erie County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 331 Jersey St Apt 9, Buffalo, NY 14201. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

April 20,27,May 4, 11, 18,25

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY

Our Family Ice Cream LLC. Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept. of State: 02/10/2023. Office of the LLC: 52 Floss Ave Buffalo NY 14211 office), Erie County

The NYSS has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of the process to the LLC at 52 Floss Ave Buffalo NY 14211. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. No specific duration attached to LLC.

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Spring Bulk Trash Pickup Schedule

Remaining Bulk trash will be picked up in the week of April 16; Niagara District, week of April 23; Masten District, week of April 30; Lovejoy District, week of May 7; South District, week of May 21; Delaware District, week of June 4; North District week of June 11; and University District, week of June 25. Bulk trash piles must be no more than 12 feet long 3 feet wide and 3 feet high. Electronic items, such as TV monitors and computers, construction debris and tires are banned. Call 311 for dates and times.

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A Belated Salute to Our Vietnam Veterans

March 29 was National Vietnam War Veterans Day. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of that war.

Approximately 300,000 African Americans served in the Vietnam War. In 1965, African Americans filled 31% of the ground combat battalions in Vietnam, while the percentage of African Americans as a minority in the general population was only 12%. In 1965, African Americans suffered 24% of the U.S. Army's fatal casualties.

African American troops were disproportionately sent to the front lines. They were also punished more harshly and more frequently than White troops. A Defense Department study released in 1972 found that Black troops received 34.3% of court-martials, 25.5% of nonjudicial punishments, and comprised 58% of prisoners at Long Bình Jail, a military prison. Vets overthrew the guards and destroyed many of the buildings. In 1970, the Marine Corps alone reported 1,060 violent racial incidents.

The Vietnam War was the first American war in which its troops were fully integrated, a development that was supposed to turn the page on a history of institutional racism in the military. But many Black soldiers were immediately faced with discrimination and racism during basic training, which typically took place in the Jim Crow south. “ These structures persisted overseas, even if Black and White soldiers had to fight side-by-side. Upon their return to the US many Black Vets were denied support by Veterans Affairs.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SAT. APRIL 29

University District Senior Dinner Dance 5-8p.m. Gloria J. Parks Community Center 3242 Main St., hosted by Council Member Rasheed N.C. Wyatt

The Princess and I Daddy Daughter Dance, Main-Transit Firehall, 6777 Main St. Williamsville; $55 Princess & Escort, All ages. Tickets at Doris Records & Eventbrite. For info (716)578-2068

MMB REALTY FREE Home Ownership Seminar Workshop 11am - 1pm Doris Jones Family Resource Center 3001 19th Street Niagara Falls. www.mmbrealtygroup.com

Food Giveaway to Honor Memory of Evangelical Missionary Pearl Young 266 Leroy Avenue (a vacant lot ) 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Retirement Party for Business Owner Jacqueline Knowles 5-9 p.m. Ukrainian Cultural Center, 562 Genesee Street. For info. or to RSVP call (715)222-0739.

NYS Pistol Permit/Concealed Carry Course

SAT. APRIL 29

YMCA Buffalo Niagara Healthy Kids Day® 11a.m. –2p.m William-Emslie Y 585 William St. and Kenmore Ken-Ton Y 535 Belmont Ave. www.YMCABN.org/healthykids-day

Michigan Street Community Bike Expo w/bike repairs by GObike 11a.m.-3.

Garnell Whitfield, Tops Markets Director of Corporate Communications Guests on "The Truth"

Garnell Whitfield and Tops Markets Director of Corporate Communications and Public Relations

Kathleen Sautter will be guests on this Saturday’s April 29 edition of “The Truth and Nothing But The Truth” radio show on WUFO 96.5FM from 1-2 p.m. “The Truth,” hosted by Samuel A. Herbert, airs from 1-2 pm.

The Month of May Pistol Permit/CCW Course is now open. Go to the following link for details

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A $150 deposit is due by Saturday, April 29. Inquire about Military/Law Enforcement/First Responder Specials. Follow No Paces Safety Club LLC Day Successful completion of this class will allow you to apply for a Concealed Carry Permit (CCW).

Bennett H.S. Football Champions, Coaches and Cheerleaders Honored in Albany

Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and State Senator Tim Kennedy welcomed the Bennett High School New York State NYSPHSAA Class AA championship football team, coaches and cheerleaders to the state capitol in Albany on Tuesday, April 18th. The team was recognized for its accomplishments and overcoming adversity. They were able to visit the Senate and Assembly Chambers, tour the State Capitol Building and were treated to a catered lunch. The visit comes after Bennett won the NYSPHSAA Class AA championship Dec. 4, 2022 at Syracuse University. The Tigers (7-6) went undefeated despite having to forfeit four division wins after a Section VI ruling which many felt was unfair.