Challenger Community News • t hec hallengernews.com •September 30, 2021
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Community Leader Clifford Bell to Receive Coveted 2021 Red Jacket Award The Board of Managers of The Buffalo History Museum has named community leader Clifford Bell as recipient of its annual Red Jacket Award. The award, given annually “in recognition of quiet, continued, unbroken devotion to civic progress,” will be presented at the Red Jacket Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 7. Affectionately known as “Brother Bell,” Clifford Bell "Brother" Bell will celebrate his 92-yearsyoung birthday on November 28. He is being honored for having “contributed to the Western New York Community as an activist, entrepreneur, public servant, author, business advisor, and mentor.” He is a member of the Lutheran Church of Our Savior. Two additional awards will also be presented. Lillion Batchelor and Shonnie Finnegan will each receive the Owen B. Augspurger Award which recognizes individuals devoted to the preservation of local heritage. The Colored Musicians Club will receive the Daniel B. Niederlander Award for outstanding programming as a local cultural organization. Tickets are available at buffalohistory.org
Applications Being Accepted for Apprenticeship Program with Opportunities in All Trades ! The Independent Contractors Guild of Western New York and Craft Technical Institute recently announced the expansion of training and employment opportunities in all trades through their registered apprenticeship program. The Program has had a 100% completion rate and a 97% job placement rate over the past two years. Applications are now being accepted for fall classes in HVAC, Carpentry, Heavy Equipment Operation, Demolition, Paving, Cement Masonry and more. If you are interested in the apprenticeship program or if you are a business interested in advanced customized training call Craft Technical Institute, drop by the 243 Manhattan Avenue location or call 716 464-3442 for more info.
Police Oversight Meeting Notice The Buffalo Common Council will be holding a Police Oversight Committee Meeting inside the City Hall Council Chamber Wednesday, October 6 at 11a.m. To review the items under discussion for this and all Council meetings, visit the Council’s meeting portal at buffalony. iqm2.com. If the public would like to comment on any of these items, please feel free to use any of the following methods: councilstaff@city-buffalo.com (email), 716- 851 - 5105 (telephone) or postal mail (City Clerk, 65 Niagara Sq., Rm, 1308, Buffalo, NY 14202). For questions contact Taisha St. Jean t (716) 851-5161 or email at tstjean@buffalony.gov.
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Democratic Party Officially Endorses Beaty for Sheriff
Kimberly L . Beaty is Poised to Become the Next Sheriff of Erie County: Vows to Reverse "16 Years of Republican Mismanagement"
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he Erie County Democratic Party has officially endorsed Sheriff’s Candidate Kimberly L. Beaty for the November 2 General Election, with Beaty vowing to reverse 16 years of Republican mismanagement that has led to dozens of needless inmate deaths and steeped the local jail system in scandal. "I decided to run for Sheriff because I know that we need a new path forward for law enforcement in Erie County," her campaign literature reads. "For many years, the Sheriff’s Office has Kimberly L. Beaty been plagued by scandal and controversy, losing the trust and confidence of the community it is sworn to protect." Officer Beaty, who won the Sheriff’s race in the Democratic Primary in June, is poised to make history in November as the first African American and first woman to serve as Sheriff of Erie County and in the State of New York. The most experienced, qualified candidate in the race, she is a strong advocate for community policing, crisis intervention, and professional, responsible leadership. “Law enforcement has been my career, and more than that, it has been my calling,” said Beaty, who is the former Deputy Commissioner of Operations and Homeland Security for the Buffalo Police Department and current Public Safety Director for Canisius College. She will face John C. Garcia, the Republican primary winner in November. Also in the race is Karen Healy-Case, who lost the Republican primary to Garcia, but still holds the Conservative Party Line, and Ted DiNoto, a Republican running on the Public Service Party line. " My Republican and Conservative opponents want to follow in his (Sheriff Tim Howard) footsteps, which makes our victory on Tuesday, Nov. 2 even more important,” Beaty said. To follow her campaign, go to www.kimberlybeatyforsheriff.com, and follow her social media pages on Instagram (@kbeaty4sheriff) Facebook (@kimberlybeatyforsheriff) and Twitter (@ForBeaty).
Houghton College to Inaugurate Sixth President, Dr. Wayne D. Lewis, Jr.
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oughton College will host an inauguration celebration on Friday, October 1 for the College’s sixth president, Dr. Wayne D. Lewis, Jr. Lewis will guide Houghton College’s ongoing mission to provide a high-quality Christian college education to students of all backgrounds through classroom locations in Houghton and Buffalo, N.Y., and online. With 20 years of experience in education, higher education leadership is a calling for Lewis. Before becoming Inaugural Dean of the School of Education Dr. Wayne D. Lewis, Jr. at Belmont University, Lewis served as the Commissioner of Education for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, overseeing an agency with over 1,100 employees and a $5 billion annual budget while also a faculty member at the University of Kentucky. While there, he launched Go Teach KY to increase and diversify the public school teacher workforce, led doctoral programs and master’s and education specialist degree projects, and served as the founding faculty director of the University of Kentucky’s Black and Latino Male Student Success Initiative. Congratulations Dr. Lewis!
Shirley Chisholm
"Unbought and Unbossed” Shirley\Chisholm, a brilliant, passionate womanpolitician, born and raised in Brooklyn, became the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968. After serving four years Chisholm announced her run for the presidency, making her the first Black candidate for president from a major party, and the first female candidate to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination. During her run for president, three separate assassination attempts were made on her life. Her campaign slogan was "Unbought and Unbossed." A former nursery school teacher and couragous leader, she was a champion of women, minorities and the poor. The Honorable Rep. Chisholm died in Florida on January 1,2005 at the age of 80. In 2015, she was awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. She is entombed in Forest Lawn Cemetary in Buffalo next to her husband, former state Assemblyman Arthur Hardwick. Chisholm lived for several years in Amherst after marrying Hardwick, a Buffalo liquor store owner who became the first Black member of the New York Assembly. “Our history did not begin in chains. It will not end in chains.”
