Maxie Maxwell came to Rochester from Buffalo in 1937 for a two weeks’ stay at Bardou's, off Lyell Avenue. He never left. He turned producer here, then worked for a gasket company and then Yawman and Erby, the BuffaloRochester Challenger Newsweekly and the Public Defender's Office.
His trip to Mexico put him in a position as Spanish interpreter.
In politics, he succeeded J. Roy King, Sr. as Third Ward Republican leader. As an Elk, he has served three Grand Exalted Rulers, first as Grand Photographer and then as Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler.
Although George Radney’s name has been synonymous with the Buffalo-Rochester Challenger for many years, he is quick to give credit to Maxi Maxwell for bringing The Challenger to the Lilac City.
-The Maxwell Story-
When he was on the playbills of the entertainment centers around the country and in Mexico, Maxie Maxwell never thought he would settle down in Rochester, New York as a promoter, newspaper columnist, photographer, secret society officer and special investigator.
A native of Brooklyn, New York—he had to fight his way to tough Peter Stuyvesant High School—Maxie started show business, "right after I finished high school. Then I went to Howard University for a while."
Maxie Maxwell was a "fast Russian eccentric dancer," teaming with partner, Netty Perry. A Mexican magazine said he was "humoresque in his work" and "the fastest and flashiest dancer" they had ever interviewed.
He performed under many names, "Netty Perry and Shieks," "Kid Maxie and Perry," "Three Dancing Tots" and "Maxie Maxwell, Singing and Dancing Juvenile."
He played at the Hippodrome, RKO Keith and Lafayette Theatres in New York City; the Booker T. Washington in Philadelphia, and the Sunset in Chicago. There were stops in North Dakota, Buffalo, Rochester, New Jersey and Mexico. There are not too many places on the map where he hasn't left his mark. He met his wife, Emelia who is from Panama City, in Mexico. They were married in New Jersey and have a daughter, Barbara who is a nurse.
Maxie has been billed with Louis Armstrong, Florence Mills, Bert Williams, Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle and matinee idol, Ralph Cooper. "We got big salaries, $450 to $500 for an act. Some acts paid $150."
Transportation in the early days was mostly by train, crisscrossing the country and rocking to the music. "I bought my first car in Buffalo, a used Buick. Traded it in for a new green Hudson. I have bought new cars ever since," he said.
"My theatre costumes were made up in New York City by Brooks Brothers. Also had to make up my patent leather shoes for $54 a pair. Used to call them 'gator shoes, an oldfashioned shoe worn in the south with elastic on the side so you could slip your feet in easy."
(Credit: ABOUT…TIME Magazine, Sept. 1984 issue, “Rochester Roots/Routes series” by Adolph Dupree )
The Clarissa Street annual Reunion takes place in one of the most culturally rich neighborhoods of Rochester. The event celebrates a neighborhood known for producing renowned jazz musicians in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's. The Clarissa Street Reunion, held annually since 1996, is a wonderful celebration of the memories and the relationships that were formed in the neighborhood.
The 25th annual Clarissa Street Reunion takes place Saturday, August 19 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Clarissa Street from Troup St. to Samuel McCree Way. There will be a variety of vendors, exhibits and entertainment. Join the festivities as family, neighbors and friends gather to enjoy presentations from two stages: Jazz and R &B (Clarissa & Troup) and Gospel, Poetry and Song (Clarissa & Adams).
There will be no parking on CLARISSA STREET from 7a.m. until 10p.m. on Saturday, August 19th. Vehicles on Clarissa Street after 7:00 a.m. are subject to towing by the Rochester Police Department.
The Clarissa Street Legacy sincerely appreciates your participation and hopes that you enjoy the reunion this year!
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, sponsor or donate contact The Carissa Street Legacy at: 585.454.9354 or info@clarissastreetlegacy. com SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS!
With sights set firmly on the upcoming November 7, 2023 General Election, Overseer Michael Chapman embarks on a campaign as an Independent under the banner of "Community One." His distinguished 30-year legacy as a community leader and trailblazer has instigated positive transformations throughout the city of Buffalo; consistently prioritizing the well-being of citizens over political affiliations.
“Michael Chapman's decision to run for Ellicott District Council Member, is not merely about the ballot,” a press statement from his campaign reads. “It is also a call to action imploring every resident to lend their voice, time, and unwavering support to enact real change.”
JERRY LIVINGSTON. A special "Healing By The Water at Broderick Park" August 17 from 5-8 p.m. at the foot of Ferry will honor legendary bass player Jerry Livingston. Also performing will be the Gayles Family Singers. Jerry made contributions to seminal works by Rick James. He appeared on five of James' albums and was a member of his Stone City Band - alongside performances with Miki Howard, Stephanie Mills, Thelma Houston, the Mary Jane Girls and dozens more. Healing By the Water continues every Thursday now thru September featuring Denzel Ward next week August 24, The Caribbean band August 31 and the final act of the summer on September 7, "The Beating of the Drums." Come out and enjoy good people, good vendors, good food and healing vibes! See you there!
On Saturday, August 19 a Wills & Estate Orientation will be held at the Schiller Park Senior Center where Eastside seniors learn about eligibility.
Paul Robeson Theatre Artistic
Director Verneice Turner has announced a special gathering at the Theatre on Sunday, August 20 at 2 p.m. That’s when the community will get a chance to welcome and hear from director/actor Edward “Ed” Smith , who will speak prior to the 4 pm reading of "Butterflies" featuring James Cichocki and Ms. Turner. “Butterflies", written by Steven Elliott Jackson, was conceived by Richard A. Lambert .
There will also be a reading on Sat. August 19th at 7pm. Both events are free. Donations are welcomed.
Edward G. “Ed” Smith, who helped found and name the Paul Robeson Theatre, is a celebrated, award winning director who helped establish Black theatre in Buffalo.
Ed has directed over 150 plays including seven of the ten August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays. Currently retired, he resides in Dallas, Texas.
Community Advisers and Board Members of Community One LLC are hosting a press conference on Saturday, August 19 at 10a.m at the Rev. Dr. Bennett W. Smith Sr. Family Life Center, 833 Michigan Ave. to present the Ellicott District’s Comprehensive Community Development Model.
According to Community One LLC, this Model has already turned around the Fruit Belt Community and can be expanded to Ellicott West Buffalo. Community One LLC is bringing the Buffalo Black Billion Initiation to Ellicott East Buffalo, and inviting Ellicott West Buffalo to share in what God is blessing us with; our expectations are that this Faith Based Initiative will continue to bring prosperity to Ellicott District and impact the entire city
Organizers invite the community to “Come out and hear this exciting, encouraging and inspirational Press Conference of hope.”
Michael Chapman has been repeatedly recognized for his accomplishments in the Ellicott District. He has earned a Governor’s Award for Family and Community as well as a National Faith and Medicine award from Howard University Medical School for helping to create the first hospice and faith-based collaboration is the country.
Chapman has achieved success as an accomplished master developer for the Fruit Belt Community. He is credited with being a community leader who has a competent organizational structure, is family oriented, and has the most financial and economic resources of any candidate. As CEO of Buffalo Black Billion, Michael is working to secure $2 billion in development funds for the Ellicott District.
Michael been a leading voice in securing subsidies for various housing projects in the Ellicott District, including the following over the last 21 years.
•$800,000 each for five single-family homes
•$6.3 million for 28 townhomes
•$16.3 million for 49 townhomes
•$30 million for St. John Towers renovation
•$57 million for McCarley Gardens renovation
•Founded the Erma D Robinson Child Care Program
•President & CEO largest African American Institution in Western New York
Mr. Chapman would also like to thank the Ellicott District Community for the support that helped secure his position on the ballot as the independent candidate.
McCarley Gardens Fun Day at 818 Michigan Ave
Following the press conference, at 11a.m. on the same day (August 19), the inaugural McCarley Gardens Fun Day at 818 Michigan Ave will take place. This joyous event will be a celebration of the transformative renovation of McCarley Gardens, a cornerstone of the historical Fruit Belt neighborhood.
Saturday August 19 and Sunday August 20 occupying the entire Martin Luther King Park TAKING IT TO THE STREETS is back with a full two days of performances and activities that start 11a.m. throughout the entire day until park closing time.
Black Panther Party (BPP), New Afrikan, and Black Liberation Army (BLA) political prisoners were victims of the COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s-1970s when the FBI sought to destroy the Black Liberation Movement. Following are a few examples of those currently incarcerated.
•Ed Poindexter was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 on charges of killing an Omaha policeman. A leader of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, he was convicted on the testimony of a teenage boy who had been threatened with an electric chair if he did not blame the crime on Poindexter and Mondo We Langa (who died in prison). Amnesty International defends them as “prisoners of con-science.” Poindexter is the longest-held political prisoner of the Black Liberation Movement.
•Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly H. Rap Brown, was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for the murder of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy and other criminal charges. AlAmin was Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party’s Minister of Justice. His position in the Black Liberation Movement spurred decades of
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From the Archives of Bro. Ishma'el Jamal
How do the colors of Your Fruits and Vegetables Relate to Your Heal ing?
-Red Colored Foods-
Red is the vitamin A or beta-carotene foods and the rule is the redder the better. Red is for warmth, energy, strength, courage, vitality, and helps us get in touch with our basic life-force energy.
Depression can be lessened with, extra red plant foods.
Red is the vitamin A or beta-carotene foods and the rule is the redder the better. Red is for warmth, energy, strength, courage, vitality, and helps us get in touch with our basic life-force energy. Depression can be lessened with extra red plant foods. This color is thought to maintain a healthy heart, aid memory function, lower the risk of some cancers, and promote urinary tract health.
Red colored food helps boost energy, helps combat tiredness, and as it strengthens the blood, is used in the treatment of anemia and helps fight infection. Red fruits and vegetables can re-generate depleted energy and build up the immune system. The red food pigments, such as Lycopene, ·are a powerful antioxidant that combats the toxins that trigger some cancers.
-Examples of Red Foods-
Peppers ( Capsicum) . Red peppers are an excellent source of phytochemicals and vitamin A, potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin K, folic acid, and iron. A single sweet pepper contains four times the amount of vitamin C as oranges.
Red onions contain vitamin C, iron, calcium, folic acid, and add fiber to your diet. Onions thin the blood, lower cholesterol, and offer some protection against stomach cancer.
Other red colored vegetables include Aduki beans, kidney beans, radishes, red cabbage, red chilies, red lentils, and red potatoes.
-Red Colored Fruits-
Cherries, cranberries, raspberries, red apples, red currants, red grapes, red plums, rhubarb, strawberries, watermelon
*SPECIAL NOTE THE HEALING POWER OF APPLES
As the old saying goes,” An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Apples are true a healing food. The fruit acids in apples help cleanse the liver. Apples starve out bacteria, yeast, mold other funguses and viruses from the intestinal tract and liver. Apples are also good for: lung strength, heart health, asthma, bone health, a weight loss, your immune system and gut health and it is a diabetes friendly fruit. Apples are high in Vitamin C.
Red Colored Herbs: Cayenne, Hibiscus
-Orange Colored Foods-
Orange is the color of balance, energy, and unity. This color is linked to our emotions and is the color of joy. Orange is a good relationship color for putting your life back together after divorce, grieving or shock.
Orange improves blood circulation and digestion, stimulates the appetite, and is associated with the assimilation of food. Orange foods are high in anti-oxidants that help to destroy toxic cells and repair some cellular damage.
This color lowers the risk of some types of cancers, improves vision, maintain a healthy heart, and contribute to a healthy immune system. Orange colored foods contain varying amounts of antioxidants such as vitamin C as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids.
Carrots: An excellent source of phytochemicals and vitamin A. One single carrot contains enough beta-carotene to provide the body's requirements for the day. Beta-carotene converts to vitamin A, which plays a key role in preventing respiratory and skin complaints. They are a good source of vitamins Bl, C, D, E, and K, and potassium. Eating carrots lowers blood pressure, improves night vision, may help to protect against cancer, heart disease and stroke, and helps protect against food poisoning.
-Orange colored fruit- Apricots, cantaloupe, mangoes, nectarines, orange, peaches Orange colored Herbs: Ginger ..NEXT UP GREEN FOODS
(The late Bro.Isma'el Jamal is founder of the Institute of Ancient Wisdom and the Institute of Self Healing.)
The 3rd annual Afrochick’s Yoga In The Garden class series at the Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House, 125 Jewett Parkway, continues. Remaining classes include Chakra Yoga Flow Thursday, August 17 at 6 p.m.; energy opening yoga flow with special guest Danielle Byrd of Long Life Yoga. Kids Yoga wraps up the series Thursday, August 31. Kids yoga includes activities, games and meditation for kids ages 4 and older (parents and guardians free). Classes are $25 each.
During the month of August stone fruits like apricots, mangoes, nectarines, peaches, and plums are at their peak as well as blueberries raspberries, blackberries, strawberries apples, kiwi, figs and melons of all variety. Enjoy!
With the love and support of nearly fifty family members and friends, Dr. Kenneth Gayles celebrated fifty years in practice as a physician in Buffalo this past Saturday, August 12th.
By Nanette D. Massey
NaTania B Parker
NaTania B Parker Foundation Inc is back again with their second bi-annual Superstar Saturday!!! The goal of this foundation is to provide both mental health and monetary resources to current and aspiring students of the arts. This isn’t your typical backpack giveaway. Bags will be stuffed with supplies for a well-rounded student artist. We’re here to make sure our children can perform well both on stage and in the classroom! Bridging the gap between arts and academia is truly the passion of President and Founder NaTania B. Parker. Any monetary donations or donation of services you are able to provide would be well used and greatly appreciated. Bring your scholar with you to pick up their bag so we can meet them! The event will be Saturday August 26th, 2023, 11am-3pm at 1339 Jefferson ave, Buffalo NY 14208. For more information you can call/text 716-903-4328 or email nataniabparker@gmail.com
Dr. Gayles is the eighth of seventeen siblings born to the late Edward and Lula Gayles, and first became known throughout the community as one of the Gayles Family Singers. He finished his undergraduate studies in biology at S.U.N.Y Buffalo in 1969, and graduated from UB’s Medical School in 1973.
With five other African Americans, Dr. Gayles’ class was the first in the history of UB’s medical school to have more than a single Black student at one time. He recalled approaching their teachers as a group of seniors, challenging their white teachers’ ability to impart anything relevant to them and for their potential patients in the field of psychiatry. How could these professors know anything of what is to be considered normal and healthy in the black psyche with so little empirical data available? These were doctors who’d gone to medical school when the “natural inferiority of Blacks” was still being taught as a matter of scientific fact. As a result, they were allowed to go and complete their requisite psychiatry studies in a monthlong course taught at the historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C.
While at UB, he served as president of the Student National Medical Association and won several awards and acknowledgements for outstanding achievement. He completed two years of internal medicine study at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, then returned to Buffalo to finish his training in internal medicine and cardiology. Dr. Gayles is a board certified cardiologist and internist and was the first African American invasive cardiologist in Western New York. . He was Clinical Coordinator of Medicine at Buffalo’s Deaconess Hospital from 1983 to 1985. He has also been affili-
ated with Sheehan Memorial Hospital, GBUAHN, the Buffalo Community High Blood Pressure Program, and returned to UB yet again to teach in the medical school. His current practice is located at the Lula L. Gayles Professional Center at 840 Humboldt Parkway on Buffalo’s east side.
Back at the Humboldt Parkway office after dinner, Dr. Gayles’ oldest brother, Henry Gayles III, played the autoharp while the rest of the brood accompanied him on tambourines, drums, and other noise makers before releasing fifty balloons into the sky. About the afternoon’s celebration, Dr. Gayles said it was “unbelievable. It’s just a huge honor to be recognized for simply doing the job and being able to keep moving. I just hope I leave the world better, and help someone along the way.”
Young Tabernacle Holiness Church, located at 623 Best Street @ 33E, is having a liquidation sale on Friday, August 18 at 2 p.m. and Saturday August 19 at 10 a.m. Items include office furniture, pianos (Baby Grand and Upright Hammond Organ, Kitchen items and more. for more information call rev. Ruyvette Townsend at (716)228-4763 or email ruyvette@yahoo.com or Pastor . Jean Young at (16)316-4883.
Covenant Truth Center
Lover Never Fails , Pastor Marilyn Skyes, will hold a book bag give away Saturday, August 26 at 160 Kingsley St. from 11 a.m. to. 4 p.m. or while supplies last. Hand sanitizer and masks also available.
The Curie Jackson Scholarship was established in 2015 by the Jackson family in honor of their father Curie Jackson. This year the committee is pleased to announce two individuals will receive a $1000 scholar and six individuals will receive a stipend award of $-500All of the awardees have demonstrated excellence in their course of studies.
This year's awardees are:
Justin Blue, a graduate of Cheektowaga Central High School. Justin will attend Buffalo State University, pursuing a degree in sports management.
George L. Davis, Ill, a graduate of Davis Academy of Excellence {Homeschool). George Erie Community College, pursuing a degree in computer science. Recipients of a $500 stipend award are David Douglas, Michael Francis, Xavier Lamar, Mykiel Lee, Philip Marcello and Dakari Sawyer. More than $63,000 has been awarded to deserving students in Western New York.
A scholarship awards program will be held on August 26 from 3 until 5 pm at the Frank E. Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Avenue. Rev. Charles Hudson is the pastor of Calvary C.M.E. Church.
AUGUST
•HEALING BY THE WATER Broderick Park Summer Freedom Celebration Music, Food, Vendors July 7-September 7, Foot of Ferry near Niagara St. FREE
•JEFFERSON AVENUE FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE, EVERY FRIDAY now thru Aug.25 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Jefferson & E.Utica. For info Buffalo Funk Fest Foundation facebook page.
•UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY DAY August 26 hosted by Back to Basic and TOP Enterprises Inc. Saturday, Aug. 26 from 12noon to 5p.m. on Jefferson between Best & North Street.
•ROCHESTER CLARISSA STREET REUNION, Saturday, August 19, 10 a.m..4 p.m. Clarissa Street from Troup St. to Samuel McCree Way. 585.454.9354 or info@clarissastreetlegacy.com
•SUMMER GOSPEL EXPLOSIOM HOSTED BY THE NEW KINGS OF HARMONY, 4.p.m. Sunday, August 20, Greater Royal Church, 1335 Clinton Street, Buffalo Adults $15, Children $5 @ the door. For info: (716)322-5329
Services were held August 5 at St. John Baptist church for John Allen Johnson, outstanding and beloved leader in Buffalo’s Black community.
John served his community well in a number of outstanding capacities.
A graduate of Benedict College, an historical Black Institution, he earned a Master’s degree at Buffalo State College. He started out as a teacher at School 37; directed the Concentrated Employment Program, a manpower training program for inner-City residents in 1968; was appointed the county’s first Black department head as Commissioner of the county’s Department of Youth Services; served as Special Assistant and principal advisor to Jack Kemp in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Buffalo office; Commissioner of the State Office of Child and Family Services; and for many years in the 1970s and 1980s was president of the Board of Directors of the Community Action Organization and chaired the local drive for the United Negro College Fund. He was also a leader in establishing the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor.
John was the recipient of numerous awards, served on many boards including the Aloma D. Johnson Charter School, named in honor of his beloved and equally amazing wife the late Aloma D. Johnson who pre ceded him in death.
He was a life member of the NAACP, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and a trustee emeritus of St. John Baptist church and was recently named an elder.
He was 81 years old at the time of his transition. He is survived by two accomplished daughters, Ingrid R. (Maurice) Knight of Baton, LA and Ivy R. Johnson of Buffalo ; grandchildren Nigel Van "Sammi" Jacobs and Giselle Aloma McKenzie Jacobs; a host of godchildren, cousins, nieces, nephews a multitude of friends and a grateful community. May his beautiful soul rest forever in the Eternal Fields of Peace.
•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.
•BEAU FLEUVE MUSIC & ARTS CELEBRATION WEEKEND starting Thursday August 24 to the main event Sunday August 27 at the Buffalo Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive. Info at www.BeauFleuveMusicArts.com
SEPTEMBER
•“HONORING OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY HEROES AND SHEROES” PARADE & MINI STAND DOWN, Sat. Sept. 2 kickoff 2 p.m. Jefferson between Riley and Dodge. aavaccbuffalo21@gmail.com or 716-563-2536.
•51ST ANNUAL BLACK ACHIEVERS AWARDS DINNER, Saturday, Sept.30 Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, For more info visit www.buffaloblackachievers.org
Buffalo Center for Health Equity Igniting Hope Conference on September 29th-30th 2023 Igniting Hope Conference Friday, September 29 at 12:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sept.30 at 1:30 p.m
2023 CHILDREN’S GARDEN FESTIVAL Sunday, October 8 from 2 - 5 pm in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park,
•WUFO HEALTH, WEALTH & EDUCATION EXPO, Sat Oct.. 28, 4-9 p.m. Acqua, 2192 Niagara St. Visit www. power96.5radio.com
It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Mary McGhee on Tuesday, June 13th.
Mary was a Senior PROS Counselor at Endeavor Health Services also worked part-time at Haven House.
A strong advocate for her clients, “Ms. Mary” was not afraid to challenge individuals to be better versions of themselves, while offering guidance and support. She was nominated multiple times for the Buffalo Psychiatric Center’s Recipient Associate Managers Award, which recognizes excellence in the field of mental health.
Mary was well known for her style, shoe collection and love for Kobe Bryant.
Those who knew her, know how important family and other loved ones were to her.
Mary, affectionately known as Cricket, leaves to mourn a host of family, loved ones and coworkers.
As per Mary’s wishes, services held were private.
•44TH ANNUAL HISPANIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS CELEBRATION, Acqua, 2192 Niagara St. 10 a.m. For more info. visit www.hispanicwomenleague.org
Get ready for another Celebratory experience that is sure to elevate the culture and the community as Beau Fleuve Music & Arts Celebration brings that vibe again this August. With a fresh line up of artists, the event is sure to please everyone - both lovers of music and the arts and those curious about the Beau Fleuve experience.
Founder Lindsey Taylor curates his 7th annual celebration with the help of his dynamic team and for the third year, is presenting it on the historic grounds of Buffalo Central Terminal 495 Paderewski Drive August 27 from 2-9p.m.
The annual event draws in a multi-diverse audience from WNY and beyond and has a history of performers who have made it to national fame like Danielle Ponder, Benny the Butcher, Zuri Appleby, Joy the Drummer, Jae Skeese and Drea D'Nur to name a few.
This year’s festivities won’t miss a beat! From 50 years of celebrating Hip Hop the headlining acts will be the legendary remix king DJ Ted Smooth, and for the late 90’s and 2000’s legendary Billboard hit producer DJ Mannie Fresh. There’s also an anticipated celebratory exclusive with multi-talented artist Edreys Wajed who will be taking the stage.
“We are celebrating the body of work of this great pioneer and master of art in Edreys Wajed from his Hip Hop Legacy of Billy Drease Williams. For one night only you can see him return to the stage for performance of some of his songs from his album A.M.Y (After Many Years) " said Taylor.
In other words Buffalo Central Terminal is the place to be on August 27!
Event goers will also get a balanced dose of diverse music that Buffalo and WNY have to offer with performances by singer Matt Wilson, (from American Idol season 21), emerging Hip Hop Goddess Che Noir, the unstoppable rhythms of Inner City Bedlam, Dom Brown, Jon Jon, DPonDrums Jam Session Neo Soul singer Kota Savia, CD Rose, Farrow, Super American, Evolution and more.
The DJ’s will be holding it down all day including DJ P, DJ Ruption, DJ Avee & Friends among others and the Live Mixtape with ToneBoi. For the first time this year you’ll also have a chance to catch that head nodding Beat Battle experience hosted by Buffalo’s one and only Backpack Mafia.
“The Backpack Mafia Beat Battle blends into this great melting pot that we have at Beau Fleuve continuing to bridge the gap of all genres and cultures,” said Taylor.
For visual art lovers there will be art installations curated by CAFÉ by Billie Essco, Liberty Paint Splash Set curated by Mandela Huff, Denim Wall curated by Nekea Brown and Welcome curated by Vinny Alejandro as well as 20 exhibiting community artists.
Also as part of the updated experience this year, there will be Kidz Biz inside the Vendors Village, Pull Up and Pitch Small Business Pitch Competition, Family Fun Zone, Silent Lounge as well as a Canna Lounge. The ladies from Heal Hot Girl Podcast will also be chopping it up to kick off Happy Hour from 2-3pm.
From food trucks, photo areas, fan favorite silent disco, back yard games and plenty of interactive activities it’s a full day of fun for the community and all ages to explore and enjoy.
“This year was about elevation, we have some really great sponsoring partners, the venues we are partnering with to host events from Kavinoky Theatre, Westin Buffalo, Buffalo AKG, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo Central Terminal, Explore & More, Dobson Field on D’Youville Campus and the West Side Row Club,” said Taylor. “It feels great to feel and hear from the community the real impact and nostalgic experiences that not only our celebration provides but all of our year-round community programming and lead up activations.”
The celebration weekend lead up events include the Laugh Alil Comedy Show featuring national touring comedian and member of Kevin Harts Red Cup Boys Spank Horton at Kavinoky Theatre on August 24 (a ticketed event) ; the VIP Happy Hour Reception honoring various community stakeholders in the field of Music, Art, Education and Community 5-8pm at Deco Buffalo on August 25; and the Beau Fleuve Soft Ball Classic at Dobson Field (D’Youville) starting at 6pm on August 26 . Early Bird Tickets for August 27 main event $10 until August 26, “Herd” Family/Group tickets buy 3, Get 1 Free are $30 purchase. Limited tickets at the gate. Follow on social media @beaufleuvemusicarts
Newly published Buffalo author Valerie Johnson, mom of two, graduate of SLB Author's Academy, has released a credit repair self help book, Self Improvement Credit Repair Manual. This 12 chapter book is on sale on three platforms near you!
The comprehensive 72 page book is a step by step financial guide to credit repair and is available to the public and private sector for $18.99 on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and I Universe.com. Valerie recently hosted a ssuccessful meet the Authors at the Frank E Merriweather library with other SLB Author's Academy graduates. She has also been invited to the 2023 Miami Book Fair this November. . Ms. Johnson plans to sponsor an in person September 2023 book signing home in Buffalo, NY. Details soon. $1.00 of each book sale will be donated to WNY Covid Research in memory of her son Eric Johnson. Get a copy of your book today at Amazon com, Barnes &Nobles and I Universe.com.
ON STAGE:
Jimmy Hawkins, Jr.
January 1, 1990August 18, 2022
The Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Collective will present a Free Celestial Jazz Wellness Series event on Friday, August 18 at 7 p.m., Elim Christian Fellowship, 70 Chalmers Avenue featuring the Immanuel Wilkins Quartet and Cosmic Echoes presented by Sehrea N’Dayu. For more information go to PMLJAZZ.COM
*The Spinners, Friday, August 18, 7:30 p.m. Erie County Fair a Free with paid gate admission.
* Laugh Alil Comedy Show featuring national touring comedian and member of Kevin Hart's Red Cup Boys Spank Horton at Kavinoky Theatre 7p.m. on August 24. Tickets $22- $35 on tickettailor.com
“The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one.”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Til We Meet Again
Peace, be still… Mama Gey
On August 18th Jefferson Ave. gains another business launching and this one bring more mobility into the community via bikes! Holistic Cycles located at 1353 Jefferson officially opens their doors to the public for a grand opening from 5:30 to 8:30p.m. a great addition to this weeks Friday Night Live experience . There will be free bike giveaway raffle, free back to school book bags and more! The shop will sell bikes, bike equipment , repair bikes and more! Holistic Cycles is run by Colored Girls Bike Too. See you at the opening!
The Wakanda Alliance Annual Sneaker Drive Giveaway is Saturday August 26 from 12p.m. -5p.m. at King Urban Life Center 938 Genesee. They are still collecting new and lightly worn sneakers for the youth. Drop off stations are: Doris Records 286 E. Ferry, King Urban Life Center 938 Genesee, Ground Control 569 Elmwood, Lincoln Memorial Church 641 Masten and Bridge Studios 604 Hertel. There will be a cleaning session at King Urban August 19 if you want to assist the team in getting the shoes ready. The Giveaway is August 26 and donations are distributed on a first come first serve basis. No registration needed.
The Buffalo Bills defensive unit has plenty of pressure on them especially with Head Coach taking over the Defensive Coordinator duties. I’m wondering if Al Holcomb is up in the coaching box assisting McDermott with play calling and what schemes they are using against specific opponents.
McDermott said after the Bills 23-19 win over the Colts in preseason game, “Were working through the communication piece and talk about getting on same cadence and when I’m going to be in certain spots and having information needed at each time.”
Also wondering how Head Coach Sean McDermott will improve upon his situational football decisions when they arise at critical times of a football game. It’s becoming obvious he will be relying on Senior Defensive Assistant Al Holcomb to give him the situation and then determine what defensive scheme to call in a matter of seconds. This will be a work in progress throughout the season and hopefully improve upon Head Coach McDermott’s disastrous Situational Football record (decisions) for the upcoming season.
The Bills defensive front- with the addition of Poona Ford, a low to the ground run stuffing nose guard, along with DaQuan Jones, Ed Oliver, Tim Settle leaves often injured Jordan Phillips as odd man out and will most likely be cut. Bills edge rushers Von Miller, Leonard Floyd, Greg Rosseau and AJ Espenesa are the starters but with Von Miller not due back until around Thanksgiving time I see veteran Shane Ray and Kingsley Jonathan making the roster. Bills Defensive Line Coach Eric Washington said of Poona Ford, “He’s a smart football player who recognizes offensive schemes, him and Leonard Floyd bring mental stability to the defensive unit.”
They are strong students of the game and both recognize situations and will make the needed adjustments. If Shane Ray can stay healthy, he would be an added boost to the defensive unit. He has not played much since 2018 and the former number one draft pick of Denver Broncos won a Super Bowl 50 with Von Miller in 2016.
Bills linebackers have an interesting battle with Tyrel Dodson (Middle), Matt Milano (Outside), Taron Johnson will start but don’t be surprised to see rookie Dorian Williams (Outside), and veteran Travin Howard getting significant playing time throughout the season. The Bills heart and soul is the secondary with Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer along with addition of veteran safety Taylor Rapp and Damar Hamlin make for a strong back end. The corners Tre ‘Davious White, Dane Jackson, Christian Benford, and Kaiir Elam will also be on the field during 4 and 5 receiver sets.
Dane Jackson said after Indianapolis Colts pre-season game,” It was a special moment to see Damar (Hamlin)back on the field ,it almost brought a tear to my eyes. It will be a competition between the corner-backs throughout the season.” This veteran unit will be the reason the Bills win the division or not in 2023. Hopefully injuries will not be a factor this season and the return of Von Miller late in the season can only bode well for defensive unit. Follow me on Twitter@georgeradman, FaceBook: George Radney & Real Deal Sports Show, RADIO: WLGZ HD2 The Beat 105.5 FM Every Saturday Morning 8am – 9am; YouTube: Real Deal Sports Show.
Signature Cuts Back To School Free Haircut Event
Sunday August 27 free haircuts from 11am – 2pm for ages 5-13. There will also be balloon artists from 11am -12pm , face painting 11am -2pm characters from 11:30 – 1:30pm and hotdogs and drinks.
5th Annual Johnnie B. Wiley Backpack Giveaway at 1100 Jefferson Avenue from 10am-2pm on August 19.
A Back To School Free Giveaway and Community Fun Day will be held on Saturday August 26 from 2 noon – 3 p.m. at Zion Church, 179 E. Ferry St. Free food, school supplies, school clothing, hair cuts, bounce houses, face painting & more. Lavelle Gamblin, Sr. is pastor.
Back to School Backpack Giveaway at Buffalo
Central Terminal
Fillmore District Council
Member Mitch Nowakowski host 4th annual Back to School giveaway for the families of the Fillmore District & City of Buffalo along with U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins, Erie County Legislator Howard Johnson Saturday, August 19 from 10:30a.m. 12:30p.m. at Buffalo Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive.
Back to School Bookbag Give Away
Covenant Truth Center Lover
Never Fails , Pastor Marilyn Skyes, will hold a bookbag give away Saturday, August 26 at 160 Kingsley St., from 11 a.m. to. 4 p.m. or while supplies last. Hand sanitizer and masks also available.
Back to School Day at Broadway Market
Saturday August 26 from noon to 4pm with Skiddles the Clown , Balloon Animals, Facepainting Backpack Giveaway and arts for learning WNY children’s activities Jazzline performance
Niagara Falls Summer's Out Event Free Back Packs and More!
The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad will host first ever Summer's Out! Event Saturday August 19 from 12 noon to7p.m. at Gluck Park in Niagara Falls. Free gathering featuring free back to school giveaway. There will also be free food and activities
Scott and his talented crew at Masters Touch, located at 1283 E. Delavan Avenue, stand by their slogan: “A Great Place! Great Cuts!” Indeed, it's a great place for all your grooming needs! Freeman, who has been barbering for 27 years, started out when he was just 20 years old and says he wouldn’t trade it for the world! Pictured above (seated) is proprietor Freeman Scott; standing (L-R) Denzel Velez, Freeman D. Scott (his son), Sheldrick Valentine and Terrance Jones. Scott also conducts a Barber’s Training Course. The next session begins in September in conjunction with the Martha Mitchell Community Center, and will be conducted at the Center. It’s Freeman’s second version of the class. Denzel is a fine product of the first class. For more information about the Training Course or to book your next appointment, give them a call at (716)570-7234. (A special thanks and shout out to Masters Touch, long time Challenger supporters!) Challenger Photo
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bogus charges and detainments until he was convicted despite contradicting evidence overlooked by his jury. To learn more about Black Panther Party (BPP), New Afrikan, and Black Liberation Army political prisoners, see the documentary films The FBI’s War on Black America: COINTELPRO, Cointelpro 101, or visit the Prison Activist Resource Center or the Jericho Movement.
The following public notice was received from the Fruit Belt Community Land Trust Inc. announcing the postponement of the trust’s annual meeting from July 2023 to July 2024.
FB Community Land Trust Inc.: RESOLUTION July 31, 2023.
Whereas, FB Community Land Trust Inc. shall continue to operate and provide services to its community;
Whereas, the authority to contract with funding sources shall be needed in order for FB Community Land Trust Inc. ; to continue its operation;
Whereas The FB Community Land Trust Inc. shall postpone the Annual Meeting from July 2023 to July 2024.
Due to the challenges and obstructions to have a bona fide membership list, access to vital records including funders, financials, emails, FB Community Land Trust Web site and other documents.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Board of Directors of FB Community Land Trust Inc.; hereby approves, on July 31, 2023.
Board of Directors
FB Community Land Trust Inc.
The city’s racial divide left black professionals, entrepreneurs, and workers to fend for themselves,” Dillaway writes. “Politically, the African American community remained outside the patronage systems of the Italian, Irish, and Polish mayors. Other isolating factors included segregated schools and the inability to move into white neighborhoods.” In the 1960s, in one episode of unity, Blacks and whites joined in an effort to boost Buffalo’s economy by building the University at Buffalo’s promised second campus on the city’s downtown waterfront. In Dillaway’s account, an unnamed banker helped nix the project out of fear that the university would attract “New York radicals and people of color” to the city. The second campus was eventually built in the nearby town of Amherst. I don’t know whether this was the same banker next to whom I sat on a flight from New York to Buffalo; I was going to ask him how he had acquired one of the world’s finest modern art collections, but he downed a double vodka and went to sleep. It was 10 AM. It was my wife’s research for her book about Louise Blanchard Bethune, the first American woman to work as a professional architect, that showed me another side of the city. Her conversation with the late Robert Coles, an esteemed Black architect, helped me appreciate Buffalo’s contribution to American architecture. You could rope off everything from High Street to the waterfront and declare it a national landmark. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux in 1868; Bethune’s masterpiece, the Hotel Lafayette, opened downtown in the early twentieth century; the city hall is an Art Deco masterpiece by George J. Dietel, John J. Wade, and Sullivan W. Jones; buildings designed by Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham grace the city’s skyline. Buffalo boasts two homes by Frank Lloyd Wright. Despite protests, his Larkin building was demolished in 1950, a cultural crime. A building where Abraham Lincoln attended church services still stands downtown. Even the Willert Park Courts, now slated for demolition, were singled out by the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their WPA bas-reliefs. Accompanying Carla to see some of the houses Bethune designed in the city, I was reluctant to leave the car. If you dared to enter these neighborhoods in the 1950s, you’d be assaulted by the residents. I realized how segregated our life in Buffalo had been.
The Buffalo I knew no longer exists. Since the 1950s, the city’s economy and population have suffered a steep decline. The manufacturing industries waned: many observers said that Buffalo would never recover when commerce brought by the Erie Canal shifted to the St. Lawrence Seaway and big steel abandoned the city, taking thousands of jobs. In the 1950s and 1960s, the construction of the Kensington Expressway cleaved neighborhoods in the city’s predominantly Black East Side.
In a bizarre variation of the “great replacement” theory professed by the Tops shooter, the city’s business elite has long seemed intent on transferring Buffalo’s population and infrastructure to white suburbs like Amherst. Of the $179 million the Brown administration invested in the East Side between 2006 and 2016, a third went to demolitions—more than any other activity. They never built the affordable housing they had planned; the once thriving commercial center off Jefferson Avenue now resembles farmland. “Some very powerful people apparently want Buffalo to die,” a Black observer told Dillaway. “The university goes out to a flood plain. The medical school follows, breaking its promises. The Chamber of Commerce wants to run the stadium out of the city. And now the state and county want to strip a badly needed hospital from us.”
In 1990 researchers at the University at Buffalo published what they called “the most comprehensive study ever conducted of Buffalo’s black community.” Thirty-one years later, the authors of a follow-up report found that problems on the East Side—rent gouging, “substandard rental housing,” poor sidewalk infrastructure, low wages, high unemployment, demolition on residential lots—persist and in some cases are getting worse.
The study concluded that city leaders “never developed a comprehensive action plan based on the root problems facing Black Buffalo” outlined in the 1990 report.
On my last visit to Buffalo in 2015, I noticed Carl Paladino’s campaign signs for reelection to the school board on Main
Street. Paladino, a Republican real-estate developer, thought that e-mails depicting President Obama as a pimp and Michelle Obama as a prostitute were funny; his joke about Obama’s inauguration was a photo of “African tribesmen” dancing. Such trashy humor would embarrass Tucker Carlson, but Paladino is a powerful player in Buffalo. Even after the fracas over his racist remarks and subsequent removal by the State Education Department, he “remains a well-connected member of the local establishment,” Stephen T. Watson and Charlie Specht recently wrote in The Buffalo News. In 2021 the Erie County Republican Committee gave him its Jack Kemp Leadership Award, which might be considered an insult to Kemp, a moderate Republican who sought coalitions with Black leaders. In an interview the same year, Paladino praised Adolf Hitler as “the kind of leader we need today.” It was Paladino who suggested that Brown run as a write-in candidate after he was defeated in the primary by the Black socialist India Walton.
Paladino’s crude form of racism persists in Buffalo, Watson and Specht write, from Confederate flags in the suburbs to the persistent effects of redlining. Timothy McVeigh, the terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing, lived in the Buffalo suburbs. Like the Tops assassin, he was obsessed with race-mixing and guided by a white nationalist manifesto, the novel The Turner Diaries, which argues that whites must arm themselves to stave off a Black uprising manipulated by Jews. It ends with the genocide of Blacks and Jews by white guerillas.
Is there hope for Buffalo? Based on the testimonies I heard in the aftermath of the Tops shooting, the Black church is still strong. The church I attended growing up, St. Luke, was a chapter of the AME Zion Church, that of Harriet Tubman. Known as “the Freedom Church,” AME Zion broke away from the white Methodist church between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries because of discrimination. Many members of my younger brothers’ generation couldn’t wait around for Buffalo to get it together. Having found Northern racism intractable, they became part of a reverse migration to the South. They lead prosperous lives in Tennessee, the state my stepfather and mother couldn’t wait to escape. Celes Tisdale, who I’ve known since we grew up together in Willert Park Courts, moved south in 2017. An English professor for many years, he’s proudest of the time he spent teaching at Attica Prison in the 1970s.
In 2017 he moved to Augusta, Georgia, a town that at one time Blacks associated with lynchings and the Klan. But he’d seen Buffalo become, in his view, one of the poorest and most racist cities in the nation, where people are confined to ethnic enclaves: Irish, Polish, German, Italian, and Black. This year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Atlanta has become a destination for Black Bay Area residents who’ve been priced out of the city by techies. The South is hardly the new promised land, but some southern cities like Atlanta have at least found that a diverse leadership is good for business. That might be good advice to the elite that runs Buffalo.
On July 5 I spoke with Al-Nisa Banks, who with her daughters publishes one of western New York’s most distinctive newspapers, The Buffalo Challenger, founded in 1963. I asked her to name some of the powerful Buffalo players who succeeded the Eighteen. She mentioned the real estate developer Douglas Jemal, who, according to a Buffalo News report, “burst onto Buffalo’s development scene more than four years ago with the purchase of the then-vacant One Seneca tower.” Since then, his projects have included “the former Buffalo Police headquarters, the Hyatt Regency Buffalo and a proposal to build a ninestory building on a vacant lot encircled by a highway offramp.” In 2006, Jemal was convicted of wire fraud. President Trump gave him a full pardon.
Buffalo has been counted out before, but its heart is still beating. Like my mother, who lived for years with a pacemaker in her chest, the city just needs a jolt from time to time. Explaining her optimism about Buffalo’s future, Continued Page
Fentanyl laced with xylazine, also known as “tranq” or the “zombie drug,” is a growing problem across the countryincluding New York State.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), xylazine, a horse tranquilizer, is increasingly being mixed with fentanyl, making fentanyl even more dangerous.
"Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier," The US Drug Enforcement Administration stated in a Public Safety Alert.
According to the FDA, xylazine is not approved for human consumption. It can cause dangerously low blood pressure, a decrease in breathing rate and heart rate, and damage to tissue that can lead to skin wounds, large sores and ulcers when consumed by people, authorities say.
By mixing tranq with fentanyl they can create more of a heroin-like high or more of an oxycodone-like high; a high that lasts longer and that’s really what they’re trying to do, according to the DEA.
“You do a shot, and you just crumble where you’re at. When you wake up, you can’t move,” a user told the New Jersey Monitor. “A horse weighs 700 to 800 pounds. We weigh 150 pounds, 200 pounds, if that. If they’re giving this to horses to put them down, what is it doing to a person that’s 150 pounds?”
xylazine has been linked to gruesome, lingering sores that, left untreated, can raise the risk of amputation and even death. Xylazine also complicates the overdose response because it’s a non-opioid sedative that doesn’t respond to naloxone, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses.
And because xylazine is a legal drug repurposed for illegal use, regulations haven’t caught up with it yet, making it tough for law enforcement to stem the supply.
In April the Biden-Harris administration declared Fentanyl Combined with tranq an “emerging drug threat.”
Spectrum News reported last week that a New York lawmaker is sponsoring legislation directing the Department of Health to conduct a one-year study utilizing emergency rooms to identify and quantify xylazine overdoses.
Banks cited an emerging group of young Black leaders, including Walton, who won the Democratic primary for mayor only to lose to Brown thanks to the same coalition of affluent and working-class Whites that defeated Arthur Eve and elected Griffin in 1977. Banks remains hopeful that Walton may one day consider a political comeback. She also mentioned Buffalo’s poet laureate, Jillian Hanesworth, and the activist Myles Carter, who ran for sheriff of Erie County in 2021 after making the news the previous year for being tackled by the police during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Mayor Brown called him a “major instigator” and an “agitator.”
Buffalo is at a crossroads. Which path will it take? That of Millard Fillmore, the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo, who signed the Fugitive Slave Act and ran for president in 1856 as a member of the Know-Nothing Party, an early version of the Proud Boys? Or the path provided by A. J. Smitherman, who lost everything on behalf of human rights?
Ishmael Reed, a graduate of Buffalo’s East High School, 1956, is a prolific writer, poet and novelist. Nationally renowned, he is the recipient of many outstanding awards and honors including a 1998 MacArthur Genius Grant. He has also been nominated for a Pulitzer and two National Book Awards. He wrote “The Buffalo I Knew” in the wake of the Tops Massacre. It was initially published in The New York Review. Reed and his wife, Carla Blank, live in Oakland, California.He knows Buffalo well.
From the South Bronx's streets to the City of Good Neighbors, the journey has been transformative. Born and raised in a borough known paradoxically as New York's food distribution hub and the epicenter of the city's worst food-related health outcomes, the contradictions of urban life are all too familiar to me. Now, in my role as Ecological Justice Coordinator at Open Buffalo, I find parallels in the complexities of Buffalo’s transit and mobility challenges.
Buffalo's East Side, much like the South Bronx, has experienced decades of systemic and private disinvestment, creating urban deserts of opportunity and connectivity. Our city, despite its bustling charm, has but one public rail line running North to South along Main Street. While bus lines attempt to fill in the gaps, our transit authority's fleet is stretched thin, often leaving commuters stranded for up to an hour. In neighborhoods with limited economic opportunities and where personal vehicles are unaffordable, this issue further marginalizes communities, barring them from job-rich areas of the city.
Sidewalk infrastructure is another critical concern. A large percentage of East Side sidewalks and streets are in disrepair. Overgrown foliage, broken sidewalks, and dilapidated roadways make physical mobility a risky endeavor, particularly for those with disabilities. The absence of micro-mobility considerations compounds the issue, rendering biking and walking dangerous and inaccessible for many.
But, as I see it, these challenges aren't endpoints; they're starting lines. In my role at Open Buffalo, I am part of a concerted effort to bring about sweeping improvements. Our vision is ambitious, yet grounded. We believe in a Buffalo where clean, affordable mobility options are the norm, not the exception. Where green job opportunities flourish, our Eco-Center rises as a beacon of resilience and ecological consciousness in the East Side.
Together with a group of 25 neighborhood leaders, we're working to shape a greener, more equitable transportation landscape on the East Side. We are advocating for the implementation of e-bikes, bike lanes, bike sharing systems, sidewalk repairs, crosswalk enhancements, and electric vehicle subsidies. Our efforts are aimed at reducing emissions, enhancing air quality, and improving pedestrian safety. We are dedicated to the cause of climate education and advocacy for marginalized communities, ensuring they have the resources and knowledge to adapt and thrive.
As we embark on this journey, our gaze is fixed on a vision of Buffalo that stands as a testament to sustainability, inclusivity, and opportunity. But realizing this vision requires collective effort. It means inviting voices from all walks of life to the table – community leaders, policy makers, transit experts, and every Buffalonian who dreams of a greener city.
It also requires the recognition that equitable transit isn’t just about moving people from point A to point B. It's about dismantling barriers and building bridges – to jobs, education, healthcare, and each other. It's about turning urban deserts into oases of opportunity. It's about ensuring that every Buffalonian, irrespective of their neighborhood, has an equal shot at success.
ElBatey Puerto Rican Center, a well-known Arts & Cultural organization in Buffalo's Puerto Rican community, recently sponsored their 2nd annual Taino Celebration at Columbus Park (Niagara & Porter). The event celebrates the heritage and roots of the Taino people who lived in the Caribbean before the invasion of Christopher Columbus.
This event included food, stories, and artifacts depicting how it was before Columbus. The attendance and participation of the community, primarily parents and their children were terrific.
It was the kind of program waiting for local media to cover it, but none came, as is always the case, unless you’re politically connected and have a direct pipeline to the publishers.
El Batey Puerto Rican Center is an organization ahead of all the others in Buffalo’s local Puerto Rican community – second to none. It sponsors the best arts, culture, music, and Puerto Rican History programs.
El Batey is a genuine grassroots organization in the Puerto Rican community. We now have Arts, Culture, Music, and History, created, and developed by El Batey Puerto Rican Center, thanks to the founder and executive director, Beatriz Flores.
Look them up, as you can find them online or on social media, and learn about all the excellent work they are sponsoring for our children and young people.
Alberto O. Cappas is the local community monthly newspaper publisher, Buffalo Latino Village (buffalolatinovillage. com).
LLC
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held in the Office of the Erie County Personnel Commissioner, Edward A. Rath County Office Building, 6th Floor Conference Room, 95 Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York, 14202, on Friday, September 1, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. on the matters of amending the Appendices of the Rules for the Classified Civil Service of the County of Erie and the Towns, Villages, Special Districts and School Districts within the County. These amendments deal with the reclassification of certain competitive class positions within the Departments of Senior Services and Social Services into the non-competitive class as part of the Hiring Emergency Limited Placement (HELP) Program, as well as changes to the probationary term lengths for specific titles within the Departments of Social Services and Probation.
Such proposed changes are available for inspection at the Department of Personnel, County of Erie, Edward A. Rath County Office Building, Room 604, 95 Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
BRIAN BRAY
COMMISSIONER OF PERSONNEL
•Date: July 18, 2023
August 10, 17, 24
LEGAL NOTICE
TO UPDATE THE ERIE COUNTY AGRICULTURE AND FARMLAND PROTECTION PLAN
Notice is hereby given that the County of Erie is seeking proposals from Agricultural and Land Use Planning, and/or other appropriate Consulting firms (consultant) to develop an update to the Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan.
The request for proposals is available at www.erie.gov. Proposals must be physically submitted to the below contact by September 19, 2023.
Mark Rountree, Chief Planner
Erie County Department of Environment and Planning
95 Franklin Street, Room 1010 Buffalo, NY 14202
LEGAL NOTICE
NFTA PROCUREMENT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL/BID
230057 - ERIE-NIAGARA COMPREHENSIVE ROADWAY SAFETY ACTION PLAN
Go to NFTA's Website to register as a supplier and for instructions to download the Procurement Document at https://www.nfta.com/departments/ procurement.
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of RFP for Community Engagement Coordinator
To learn more, visit: https://ow.ly/8jI550Pu8wO
LEGAL NOTICE Bid
NOTICE TO BIDDERS ADA RAMP & SIDEWALK INSTALLATION AND REPAIR Project No. 2016059C
The Proposal documents can be viewed and ordered through the following web site on or after Wednesday, August 16, 2023: www.avalonplanroom.com in the Public Bid Section. If you do not have Internet access or have questions on ordering from the site, please contact Avalon Document Services at (716) 995-7777. Drawings and specifications can be picked up at Avalon Document printing at 40 LaRiviere Dr., Suite 150, Buffalo, NY 14202, upon the non-refundable payment made by credit card or by a check made payable to Avalon Document Services.
The Town of Amherst reserves the right to extend this bid to other municipalities and qualifying divisions as set forth under New York State General Municipal Law (NYGML).
Proposals shall be made and received upon the following conditions. Each proposal must be accompanied by the deposit of a certified check, payable to the Town of Amherst, for a sum equal to five percentum (5%) of the total amount of the Bid, or a bond with sufficient sureties in a penal sum equal to five percentum (5%) of such total bid amount, conditioned that if the proposal is accepted, that he will execute within fifteen (15) days from the date of the acceptance of the proposal, a suitable security bond in the amount of the Contract, conditioned for the faithful and prompt performance and completion of the Work specified in the Contract.
Upon acceptance of his Bid, if the successful bidder fails to enter into a Contract pursuant to the requirements of the Contract Documents, or fails to give the further security prescribed in this Notice, with the same time limited therein, then the check/ bond deposited as aforesaid and the monies standing to the credit of the same, shall be forfeited to the Town as liquidated damages, or the payment of the bond enforced for the benefit of the Town. The Town of Amherst reserves the right to waive informalities in or to reject any and all bids.
By the Order of the Town Board of Amherst, Erie County, New York
LEGAL NOTICE
NFTA PROCUREMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 230046 – PLANT STRUCTURESBNIA
Go to NFTA's Website to register as a supplier and for instructions to download the Procurement Document at https://www.nfta.com/departments/ procurement.
LEGAL NOTICE
NFTA PROCUREMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 230052 – SNOWPLOWING SERVICES
Go to NFTA's Website to register as a supplier and for instructions to download the Procurement Document at https://www.nfta.com/departments/ procurement.
LEGAL NOTICE BID
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
ERIE COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT NO. 3
SOUTHTOWNS ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
PHASE 1 EXPANSIONCONTRACT 74C
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed proposals for the above referenced contracts will be received by the Commissioner of the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning (ECDEP) on September 21, 2023 until 2:00 P.M., local time, at 95 Franklin Street, Room 1034, Buffalo, New York, 14202, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud in Room 1004.
The Project includes construction of a new final effluent pump station, chlorine contact tank, and electrical substation, improvements to the existing dechlorination system, overflow retention facility effluent piping, and outfall piping in Lake Erie, including process/mechanical, demolition, abatement of asbestos and lead-based paint, concrete, masonry, metals, thermal and moisture protection, doors and windows, painting, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, electrical, civil, utility, instrumentation and controls, and appurtenant Work.
Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend a pre-bid meeting scheduled for August 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM at the Southtowns Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility, S-3690 Lake Shore Road, Hamburg, NY 14219.
Additional information and bid documents can be found at: www3.erie. gov/dsm
By Order of: Joseph Fiegl, P.E., BCEE Deputy Commissioner
Dated: August 9, 2023LEGAL
NOTICE BID
Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud immediately after the specified closing time.
Contract Documents are available at Construction Exchange, or via email by contacting. The BMHA reserves the right to reject any bid which fails to conform to the essential items required by the contract documents, and to reject any and/or all bids submitted.
LEGAL NOTICE
NFTA PROCUREMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
230018 – SNOWPLOWING, SALTING AND SNOW REMOVAL SERVICES
230039 – BUS TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS FOR MTC AND NFTC
Go to NFTA's Website to register as a supplier and for instructions to download the Procurement Document at https://www.nfta.com/departments/procurement.
LEGAL NOTICE
NDEX NO. 801008/2020
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
Mortgaged Premises: 184 ROEBLING AVENUE BUFFALO, NY 14215
District: Section: 90.73
Block: 4 Lot: 12 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ERIE
NEW RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, LLC
Plaintiff, vs. DOROTHY N. BISHOP, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF EDWARD BISHOP; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF EDWARD BISHOP, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE,
"JOHN DOE #1" through "JOHN DOE #12," the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants
To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff's Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ERIE County is designated as
NOTICE
Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.
Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
Dated: July 18, 2023
RAS BORISKIN, LLC
Attorney for Plaintiff OLUWATOBI ADEDOKUN, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675
LEGAL NOTICE
New EMS Support Facility (Ambulance HQ)
Project No. 2023-999-01
The County of Erie is seeking qualification statements and proposals from interested firms to provide Professional Architecture/Engineering services for New Health EMS Support Facility (Ambulance HQ). Qualification statements and proposals for the above project must be received by the County’s Commissioner of Public Works in Suite 1400 of the Rath County Office Building, 95 Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York 14202 until 2:00 PM local time on Friday, September 15, 2023. More detailed information and RFQ/RFP submission instructions may be found at: www.erie.gov/dpw/
Join us in our efforts to provide access to healthier food options for local Buffalo neighborhoods.
The HCSI Educator will be a member of the HCSI team: assisting with interactive community engagement and trainings; delivering programming in Buffalo neighborhoods; facilitating youth activities that promote healthy children and communities; organizing program marketing and awareness through focus groups, surveys, media, newsletters, and social media; and, assisting the HCSI Coordinator with opportunities to grow the program.
Please apply at https:// erie.cce.cornell.edu/jobs by August 17th.
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY SECOND CHANCE CREATIONS LLC filed Articles of Organization with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/21/23. Office location: Erie County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 31 LOXLEY RD, CHEEKTOWAGA, NY 14225 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY CFP DELIVERY SERVICES LLC filed Articles of Organization with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/26/23. Office location: Erie County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 156 MILLICENT, BUFFALO, NY, 14215. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE Certificate of assumed name Minnesota Statues, chapter 333
ASSUEMED NAME: STEVEN MACKIE and all derivatives registered at the office of Minnesota Secretary of State work item 1403383800027. Original File Number 1043383800027
File date 8/8/2023
Name Holder: Steven Mackie BENEFICIARY/Authorized RepresentativeActive/ in good standing
The gentlest thing in the world
Overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance Enters where there is no space. This shows the value of nonaction
Teaching without words, Performing without actions:
That is the Master’s way.
"A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not."
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Region 1 Program Assistant
Ability to communicate effectively & Manage a large volume of calls. Gather All required documents for the purpose of reporting. HS diploma & 1 yr exp preferred.MResume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org
EEOC
Open Doors Transition Specialist
Assist individuals w/re-entry from institutional Settings to the community. Asso deg & 3yrs exp req. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Maintenance
Responsible for maintain a clean & Safe environment for staff & consumers. Ability to perform heavy lifting required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Program Assistant
Responsible for answering phone calls & performing general office duties. HS diploma and 6 months admin exp req. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Consumer Administrator
Coordinate, monitor and lead in the enrollment & sustaining consumers as members of the TC program. HS diploma & three years’ experience required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Person Centered Counselor
Provide direct support to Veterans in assessing & budgeting to meet determined needs. Associate degree & budgeting experience required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Education & Outreach
Training & Coaching Specialist
Contact nursing homes & do presentations on Section Q/ Open doors. Bachelor’s degree & experience in public speaking required. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
NY Connects Independent Living Outreach Specialist
Help connect aging or disabled individuals and their Families to support groups and streamline access to Public benefits and application assistance. Asso. degree and human services exp. req. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Health Homes Care Coordinator
Help enroll consumers in a Health Home. Help decrease costs of consumers being Served in a Health Home.
Bachelor’s & 5 yrs exp. Req.
Resume and Cover letter to WNYIL Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Peer Support Specialist: Renewal Center
Service guests of the living space in overcoming Immediate and emotional crisis. HS diploma & 4 yrs exp req.Cover letter & resume to WNYIL, Inc. 3108 Main St Buffalo NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Registered Nurse (PT) Offering services to support those in crisis Who may otherwise utilize Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Dept services. Must possess a valid RN certification. Resume and Cover letter to WNYIL Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Accounts Payable Specialist I Responsible for posting & maintaining accounts Payable date & pay vendor invoices on time. HS diploma and 1 yr exp in basic accounting req. Resume and Cover letter to WNYIL Inc 3108 Main St Buffalo NY 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
Youth Peer Advocate (PT)
Provide peer support in person & online. Coordinate independent living skills, evaluations & training for transition-age youth w/disabilities. HS diploma or equivalent req. Exp w/ any or all Forms of disabilities required. $18-$20/hr. Resume and cover letter to WNYIL, Inc 3108 Main St. Buffalo, NY, 14214 employment@wnyil.org EEOC
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
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Mobile Outreach Counselor II/Buffalo, NY
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking an Outreach Counselor II. This position will be part of the Emergency Outreach and Trauma Response team, responsible for providing on-site crisis intervention and assessments to individuals in crisis or who are experiencing emergency mental health situations, as well as providing trauma response services for individuals having experienced a traumatic event. Master’s degree and licensure in Social Work (LMSW or LCSW), or Master’s degree and licensure in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC), or Master’s degree and permit in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC-P), preferred. Plus one year of supervised experience (pre- or postgraduate) providing services to individuals in a mental health setting. Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination required. Pay Rate Range: $24.28 – 28.43 Hourly. Annual Increases and full benefits offered. LCSW supervision and hours available for any eligible LMSW candidates
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) Case Manager. The CIT Crisis Case Manager of Emergency Mental Health Response Services is responsible for providing crisiscase-management services to individuals with mental illness that have frequent interactions with law enforcement and have difficulty remaining stable in the community. Bachelor’s Degree in social work, psychology, or other human service related field. Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination required. Pay Rate Range: $20.37 - $23.86 Hourly. Annual increases and full benefits offered.
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a PT Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program Coordinator. This position is responsible for assisting in the operation of the SAFE Program, ensuring traumainformed, patient-centered, forensic services, 24/7, for patients in hospitals contracted with Crisis Services. The Coordinator participates in conducting SAFE Team training and continuing education, as well as facilitates quality improvement efforts to maintain Team excellence. Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree from an accredited college and/or university in Nursing. Current NYS RN Licensure, SAFE Certification by NYS DOH, obtain within 6 months of training. Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination required. Salary Range: $50,000$60,000.
Sexual Assault Case Manager/Buffalo NY
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a Sexual Assault Case Manager. The Sexual Assault Case Manager will provide crisis intervention, case management, advocacy and follow-up services to victims of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse; provide comprehensive services in partnership with police, district attorney, and/or community-based agencies serving victims of sexual violence. This position is co-located at the Buffalo Police Department Special Victim’s Unit. Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree from an accredited college and/or university in human service field, public health, social work or education. Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination required. Pay Rate Range: $20.37 - $23.86 Hourly. Annual increases and full benefits offered.
Crisis Counseling Specialist I/Buffalo NY
Full-Time – M-F 9am-5pm
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a Crisis Counseling Specialist I. The Crisis Counseling Specialist I will provide crisis phone counseling including lethality assessment, supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24-hour crisis phone counseling (including lethality assessment), supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24 hour hotline, Chautauqua County 24 hour hotline, 988 Line, and all other dedicated lines in the Crisis Counseling Program. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and/or university in human service field, social work or relevant field. Pay Rate Range: $20.37 - $23.86/Hourly. Annual increases and full benefits offered.
Crisis Counseling Specialist I/Buffalo NY
Part-Time – Tuesday-Saturday 12am-8am
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a Crisis Counseling Specialist I. The Crisis Counseling Specialist I will provide crisis phone counseling including lethality assessment, supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24-hour crisis phone counseling (including lethality assessment), supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24 hour hotline, Chautauqua County 24 hour hotline, 988 Line, and all other dedicated lines in the Crisis Counseling Program. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and/or university in human service field, social work or relevant field. Pay Rate Range: $20.37 - $23.86/Hourly. Annual increases and full benefits offered.
Crisis Counseling Specialist I/Buffalo NY
Full-Time – Sunday-Thursday 3pm-11pm
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a Crisis Counseling Specialist I. The Crisis Counseling Specialist I will provide crisis phone counseling including lethality assessment, supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24-hour crisis phone counseling (including lethality assessment), supportive counseling, and information and referral to individuals who contact Crisis Services 24 hour hotline, Chautauqua County 24 hour hotline, 988 Line, and all other dedicated lines in the Crisis Counseling Program. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and/or university in human service field, social work or relevant field. Pay Rate Range: $20.37 - $23.86/Hourly. Annual increases and full benefits offered.
HR Director/Buffalo NY
Crisis Services, a nonprofit organization, is seeking a HR Director. This position is responsible for providing strategic oversight, operational direction and support for the Human Resource responsibilities and initiatives of Crisis Services including a generalist focus that includes but is not limited to recruitment and hiring, new hire orientation/onboarding, performance management, maintenance of time and attendance system, employee relations, union relations, maintenance of employee data and overall Human Resource compliance. Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or Business Administration required; Human Resource certification preferred. Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000.
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THURS. AUG. 17
THURSDAY FOOD TRUCK AT NORTHLAND TRAINING CENTER! 683 Northland, FREE ENTRY, 5-7 PM artisan vendors, live music & poetry, bounce. Houses & art, community resources free Northland Workforce Training Center tours.
SAT. AUG. 19
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS, MLK PARK ALL DAY.
McCarley Gardens Fun Day at 818 Michigan Ave 11 A.M.
Community Day 12 noon to 4 p.m. in the lot adjacent to C-District Police Station, 693 E. Ferry St. FREE! Call (716)851-4412
Kids day and backpack giveaway VENDORS MARKET PLACE AT THE WILEY STADIUM, Jefferson Avenue day-long event.
The Islamic Cultural Center of Niagara Falls Open House 2- 5 p.m., 2843 Niagara Falls Bd., Niagara Falls. (716)3100970 or (716)957-3758
SUN. AUG. 20 TAKING IT TO THE STREETS, MLK PARK ALL DAY.
MON. AUG. 21 Hustle for Health 12pm at Gloria Parks: 3242 Main St., Buffalo. FREE for ages 55+ Visit www.HustleforHealth. com
TUES. AUG. 22 Free Line Dance Class, Dorothy Collier Community Center, 118 E. Utica, BEGINNER 11a.m.-12p.m.; ADVANCED 12-1 p.m. (716)882-0602.
WED. AUG. 23 Hustle for Health 11a.m., Gloria Parks, 3242 Main St. FREE 55+ Visit www.HustleForHealth.com
THURS. AUG. 24 THURSDAY FOOD TRUCK AT NORTHLAND TRAINING CENTER! 683 Northland, FREE ENTRY, 5-7 PM artisan vendors, live music & poetry, bounce. Houses & art, community resources free Northland Workforce Training Center tours.
FRI. AUG. 25
Annual Back To School Program hosted by Dr. Eva M. Doyle for students at all grade levels. Black History theme, Merriweather Library 1 - 3 p.m. FREE BOOKS and more. (716) 847-6010.
SAT. AUG. 26
Unity In The Community Family Fun Day hosted by Back to Basic and TOP Enterprises Inc.12noon to 5p.m. on Jefferson between Best & North Street. Book bags, clothing, food giveaways, games, prizes , free raffles.
Every Monday 4-6 p.m., Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave. “Where we learn About Our Glorious Past & Present African Family.” (716)400-8644 Bro. Shango or kmtflix@gmail.com
“When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.”
-African ProverbBULK TRASH MUST BE PLACED OUT ON THE SUNDAY LISTED FOR YOUR DISTRICT
MASTEN – August 20
LOVEJOY – August 27
SOUTH – September 10
DELAWARE – September 17
NORTH – September 24
UNIVERSITY – October 1
Bulk Trash Limited To 12 Ft long, 3 ft high, 3 ft wide. NO TV’S, COMPUTER OR CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS ALLOWED. The 2023 Tire Drop-Off schedule now thru September at 9197 Broadway, from 7 am – 3 pm (Broadway Garage). Limit of 4 Tires Drop Off Per Household
Days/Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Hedley Place NY 14208
schedule an appointment!
Future Hope Pre-Apprenticeship & Recovery Program, Inc.
This is an opportunity for those who have been incarcerated & returning citizens.
Now Accepting Applications: Program Days/Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Office: 60 Hedley Place
Buffalo NY 14208
331 - 3730
This is an opportunity for those who have been incarcerated & returning citizens.
And REGISTRATION
Challenger Community News •August 17,
Call to schedule an appointment! (716) 331 - 3730
Now Accepting Applications: Program Days/Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Office: 60 Hedley Place • Buffalo NY 14208
Quarterly Every Three Months designed to develop and enhance skills in the building trades.
Call to Schedule an Appointment! (716) 331-3730
APPLICATIONS And REGISTRATION Sessions are Quarterly Every Three Months
APPLICATIONS & REGISTRATION
Sessions are Quarterly Every Three Months
A Pre-Apprenticeship program designed to develop and enhance workforce development skills in the building trades.
A Pre-Apprenticeship program designed to develop and enhance workforce development skills in the building trades.
information contact:
In Accordance with:
Division of Apprentice Standard Training
Under provisions of Department of Labor within General Laws
In Accordance with:
Program Information:
Division of Apprentice Standard Training
Participants will be trained and educated in: Basic Carpentry
Under provisions of Department of Labor within General Laws
Program Information:
Participants will be trained and educated in:
Roofing
• Basic Carpentry
• Painting
HiSet Prep (as needed) Offering Recovery Coaching
• Taping
• Roofing
• Drywall
For more information contact:
Future Hope Pre-Apprenticeship & Recovery Program, Inc.
• HiSet Prep (as needed)
Office: (716) 331 - 3730
Email: rm@fhap.info
• Offering Recovery Coaching
This is an opportunity for those who have been incarcerated & returning citizens.
www.futurehopeapprenticeship.org
Now Accepting Applications: Program Days/Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
716) 331 - 3730 rm@fhap.info www.futurehopeapprenticeship.org
Pastor Emanuel L. Hutcherson, Founder & CEO / Stan Martin, Director of Buffalo Office
For more information contact:
Office: (716) 331-3730 Email: rm@fhap.info
www.futurehopeapprenticeship.
Office: 60 Hedley Place Buffalo NY 14208
Pastor Emanuel L Hutcherson, Founder & CEO / Stan Martin, Director of Buffalo Office
Call to schedule an appointment!
Future Hope Pre-Apprenticeship & Recovery program, employees, and volunteers do not discriminate based on race, color national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, or based on income derived from a public assistance program.
Future Hope Pre-Apprenticeship & Recovery program, employees and volunteers do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, or based on income derived from a public assistance program.
(716) 331 - 3730
CEO / Stan Martin, Director of Buffalo Office
APPLICATIONS And REGISTRATION Sessions are Quarterly Every Three Months
A Pre-Apprenticeship program designed to develop and enhance workforce development skills in the building trades.
and volunteers do not discriminate based on race, color, national expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, public assistance program.
In Accordance with:
Division of Apprentice Standard Training
Under provisions of Department of Labor within General Laws
Program Information:
Participants will be trained and educated in:
● Basic Carpentry
● Painting
● Taping
● Roofing
● Drywall
● HiSet Prep (as needed)
● Offering Recovery Coaching
For more information contact:
Office: (716) 331 - 3730
Email: rm@fhap.info
www.futurehopeapprenticeship.org
Future Hope Pre-Apprenticeship & Recovery program, employees, and volunteers do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, or based on income derived from a public assistance program.
TWO MORE FRIDAYS LEFT! It's been an awesome Summer, thanks to Marnetta Malcolm and her sponsors for the uplifting Friday Night Live event on Jefferson Avenue every weekend! So if you haven't had a chance to get down to experience it, you still have two Fridays left! August 18 & 25. The party kicks off at 5:30! See you there! Challenger Photos
