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Ribbon Cut On New Carnival-Themed Eatery

by LAURA GLESBY

Neon candied apples, plump corn dogs, flaky fried Oreos, and carousel jingles await customers of a new Whitney Avenue restaurant, where co-owner Victoria Stree to hopes to offer a time-traveling portal to childhood comforts and delights.

That restaurant is called Fest Faves, which opened at 15 Whitney Ave. earlier this fall and which celebrated an official ribbon cut ting Monday morning.

Streeto and her husband, Eric Balcerzak, have made a hobby out of visiting carni vals for the past decade “mainly for the food,” she said on Monday. They de cided to open a carnival-themed restaurant on Whitney Avenue as an escape from the stressors of a new Covid-19 normal.

Two months after its opening, Fest Faves has become a joyful and nostalgic other world within a strip of downtown com merce, brought to life through neon lights, vivid red, and an aroma of fresh popcorn that fills the storefront.

On the morning of Halloween on Mon day, Fest Faves was filled with eerie dolls and images of possessed clowns in honor of the holiday, recasting the happy-go-lucky

carnival atmosphere in a twisted, horrorinspired overtone.

Balcerzak, Streeto, and a host of local leaders and financiers gathered for what Mayor Justin Elicker called “the creepiest and spookiest and possibly sweetest ribbon cutting” he could remember.

Justin Elicker, a self-professed major Halloween fan, celebrates the restaurant’s opening.

“Coming out of a pandemic, who doesn’t love guilty pleasures?” said Tony Rossley, vice president at Liberty Bank, which is working with the new business.

In its short life so far, Fest Faves has had slow days and busy days, said Streeto. The most popular offerings include her favor ite Buffalo chicken eggrolls, which pack in “a little bit of heat, a little bit of crisp.”

Eric Balcerzak and Victoria Streeto.

The restaurant has already garnered some regular customers. A trio of Housing Au thority employees, whom Streeto affection ately calls the “Cheetah girls” after their frequent Cheetah-print outfits, said they visit Fest Faves nearly every day for sweet treats (they recommend the fried Oreos and churros) and the friendly environment. They cheered enthusiastically at Monday’s

ribbon cutting, where they stopped by to show their support.

“I was born and raised on Coney Island,” said Lynn Brunache. The carnival theme reminds of her home.

A professional dancer trained in disci plines ranging from tap to ballet, Streeto has worked as a dance instructor in New Haven Public Schools and at Neighbor hood Music School for 14 years. She’s also connected to New Haven through her fam ily of Italian-American restaurateurs, who include a chef at the New Haven Lawn Club and Ristorante Faustini (her father) and a baker at the classic Libby’s Italian Pastry Shop (her uncle).

“It started out with my wooden spoon and my dad and my mom,” said Streeto. “I was the dancing chef.”

Streeto’s family also figures in the memo ries of childhood carnival visits that she’s channeled into the restaurant: she recalled riding roller-coasters with her cousins while “trying to scream as loud as pos sible.”

The new restaurant reflects her approach to everything she sets out to do, she added: “it’s over the top.”

Independent Ticket Stakes Middle Ground

by PAUL BASS

With the Democrats on abortion. In be tween the Republicans and Democrats on state “rainy day” finances and on afford able housing.

Those are among the positions a guber natorial candidate is taking as a third party repositions itself from right-of-Republi can to the political center That party is the Independent Party. 2022 Edition.

The party has for decades advanced a conservative agenda. Its slate advanced a pro-life-dominated platform in the 1990s. The party moved to cross-endors ing the Republican candidate in the past two elections. It had come to serve as the right-wing version of the left-leaning Working Families Party, which crossendorses mostly Democrats who back its issues agenda.

This year the Independent Party has fielded a broader array of its own candi dates in a quest to carve a new identity in the center of statewide elections. In a frac tious process that landed in court, the party spurned GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski for a team of its own.

The team at the top of the ticket gu bernatorial candidate Rob Hotaling and lieutenant governor candidate Chip Beck et discussed their agenda during an in terview on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program. Hotaling’s description of the party’s place on the political spec trum: “Moderation. Centrism. Taking the

best ideas of both sides. We believe we represent the party of the middle-class, the working folks.”

Hotaling, a Liberian-American busi nessman who currently works at Web ster Bank, switched from Democrat to Republican before abandoning the latter party last year. Becket, a veterinarian and second-generation produce farmer, used to serve as Republican leader in Glaston bury before jumping the party ship as well in 2021.

Both cited the same reason: The party’s embrace of Donald Trump’s efforts to deny and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The experience motivated them to offer voters a choice more in line with the val ues they say their former party has aban doned.

Hotaling cited his family’s experience fleeing his native Liberia in 1980 in re sponse to an anti-democratic coup.

“We came here after a military coup. I tell the story, about the fragility of democracy: It was one of the most stable countries, for over a hundred years. A group of angry young men, essentially, said, ‘We’re going to get together and overthrow the govern ment.’ It was peaceful before that.

“Folks took the leadership and brought them to the beach and executed them on the beach.

“So that’s the thing. It’s scary. Some people say, ‘That would never happen in America.’ I’m not trying to draw a direct parallel to Jan. 6. But my main point is

this: We shouldn’t think that these things are such foreign concepts. People get an gry enough, they get violent enough, and partisanship is leading that.

“[The GOP] used to be a party of prin ciple. I used to agree with the fiscal poli cies. I can’t say I agree a lot with the social issues. But when you literally have elected officials who support undemocratic posi tions and undermine democracy, and you believe in principle, how can you legiti mately sit there? People double-downed and didn’t take Sept. 6 seriously. I asked myself: Is this what represents me?” The answer: No.

Becket arrived at the same answer in 2021.

“When 147 Congressmen decided to support” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate the 2020 presidential results, “I realized a majority of Congressmen on the Repub lican side didn’t believe in elections.” He watched other Republicans nationwide fall in line with the election-denial band wagon. “I said, ‘I’m not going to associate with these people.’ … I left the party.”

In the “Dateline” interview, Hotaling de scribed himself as firmly pro-choice, in favor of Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont’s

efforts to support women seeking abor tions here.

He parted with both Lamont and Ste fanowski over the use of state surplus funds. Stefanowski has criticized the gov ernor for not tapping the $6 billion budget surplus to offer another $2 billion in tax cuts. He specifically criticized Lamont’s refusal to tap the state’s $3 billion “rainy day fund” for future emergencies. Lamont argues that the state needs to keep that money in the rainy day fund and use sur plus dollars to continue paying off un funded pension liabilities because a reces sion is looming, and the state will need the money. Stefanowski argues that the “rainy day” has arrived.

Hotaling called for taking a smaller amount of the surplus 15 percent to offer direct aid to vulnerable groups like seniors who’ll need help paying heating bills this winter; and to invest more in ear ly childhood education and public educa tion in general to address the achievement gap. (He also called for more regional teacher training and curriculum, a new formula for educational cost-sharing, and mandating financial literacy for high school and college graduation.)

Hotaling called for fully funding the Payment in Lieu of Taxes program (PI LOT) and eliminating business property taxes and motor vehicle taxes to boost small business development. The latter two measures would cost $1.5 billion a year. Where would the state find that money?

LAURA GLESBY PHOTO

Fest Faves' owners, employees, and town supporters snip the opening ribbon.

PAUL BASS PHOTO Independent Party gubernatorial candidate Rob Hotaling (at right) and running mate Chip Becket at WNHH FM.

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Q House Halloween Lets Kids Be Kids

by LISA REISMAN

Under the setting sun, a group of young people line danced in loose precision to the beat of V.I.C.’s “Wobble.” A line with witches, ghosts, and dinosaurs stretched from the field to the gymnasium, where trick-and-treat festivities awaited. Facepainted zombies, pirates, and superheroes chased each other in the cool autumn air, squealing with delight.

That was the scene Friday evening towards the end of the Halloween Festival staged by Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. (LEAP) at Dixwell’s “Q” House community center at 197 Dixwell Ave. As the festivities neared conclusion, LEAP Executive Director Henry Fernandez surveyed the grounds with a seeming air of satisfaction.

“When you think of what kids missed during Covid, the academic part is really important, but it’s also the social part that was missing, and this was a perfect opportunity to have kids enjoying themselves and just having fun,” Fernandez said.

For the Q House, there’s been a rich tradition around Halloween, according to Kenneth Notarino-Jeffrey, interim children’s program director at LEAP, which co-hosted the event.

“It really addressed the issue with safe trick or treating,” he said. “We as a community organization are giving kids an opportunity to have some of the activities that give them that traditional Halloween experience, and outside of that providing other programming as well.

That included the rhythm and acrobatics of Capoeira Esperanca CT, which practices a dance-infused martial art from Brazil, and a bomba performance by Proyecto Cimarron, a group dedicated to preserving Puerto Rican culture and advancing social justice.

There was a room dedicated to arts and crafts, another showing the movies “Hocus Pocus” and “Halloweentown. There was a book giveaway in the teen lounge and Covid and flu vaccines available in the fitness room.

“This isn’t just for people participating in LEAP’s programming,” said Tina Sapiente, LEAP’s deputy chief of staff. “This is for everyone.”

Over at one of the tents on the nearby field, Juanita Harris watched her young granddaughters watching other kids get their faces painted. Both were dressed as princesses.

“It’s nice for them to experience Halloween,” she said, as guests sipped cocoa and apple cider in the mild late afternoon light.

Inside the gymnasium, Renee Brown and Nakima Reece, clad as witches, were settled behind a table with a bowl of Halloween candies.

“Whatever they do, I’m here,” said Brown, the owner of Trachouse Salon on State Street who worked at LEAP for

seven years. “This kind of event is so important for the kids.”

At a table beside the two were Paul and Katie Hawkins.

“We live in the neighborhood and we’re part of Orchard Street Block Watch,” Paul Hawkins said. “This is about keeping kids safe and keeping them off the streets, and keeping them positive with a nice Halloween experience.”

Then there was the elaborately decorated table of the New Haven Heat, a traveling basketball team that reportedly boasts the top 8th grade team in the state.

“We gave up practice time to do this,” said Teri Durant, one of the player’s mothers. The team normally practices on the Q House courts on Fridays. “But it’s worth it.”

Richard Whitaker, the New Haven Heat coach, agreed. “We were asked if we’d like to volunteer, and this is a great cause, so we’re here.”

Zora the Pirate.

In the hallway crammed with rabbits, fairies, and a few spidermen, someone was shooting a photo of a little girl dressed as Zora the Pirate Genie. She asked the girl her first name.

“Zora the Pirate,” the girl said.

Daniel Byas, dressed as Batman, said he was still planning to go trick or treating Monday night but this was an opportunity for “more candy,” as he put it.

In the upstairs hallway outside the dance studio, Summer Choate, director of training and curriculum, was observing a group of women line dancing to the hypnotic beat of T.K. Soul’s “The Zydeco Bounce.”

“The more things we can provide where people can just be together with their families and having fun, the better, especially after we’ve all been isolated the past couple years,” she said. “It’s really great for your mental health, your spirit.”

In the next room, Briana Gaines, assistant site coordinator, was helping kids and adults take their turns posing on the 360 photo booth.

“It’s good to do all this because it can open the community to what we do here, especially for education,” said senior counselor Raveen Jones, alluding to LEAP’s mission of providing academic and social enrichment and mentoring after school and during the summer for New Haven children and teens.

By then, afternoon had become evening. The party went on. A boy in a Scream mask posed for a picture, then rushed off with someone clad in a New Haven Steelers uniform. The line dancing continued, its lively beat seeming to further lift the spirits of the crowd.

“This is what it’s all about,” Fernandez said. “Letting kids be kids.”

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“Radiant” Church Honors Its Pastors

by ALLAN APPEL

Josue Ortiz sounded the shofar, but it wasn’t the Jewish Day of Atonement. He wasn’t even in a synagogue.

The site was the Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob, the Radiant Star of Jacob Church in Fair Haven, where the spirit and service of long-time pastors Javier and Shari Diaz were trumpeted, along with the help of an official certificate presented by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Sunday morning more than 200 in-person worshippers, and many more catching the stream online from all over the area and the world, gathered at the church at 185 Chapel St. for the annual service of pastoral appreciation at the 52-year old bilingual church, which is affiliated with the Assemblies of God.

In addition to a food pantry, a diaper bank, and community walks where congregants check in on their neighbors, what makes the church unique, said Assistant Pastor Ariel Perez, is that in all that half century there have been only three leaders –founder Armando Hernandez, then Eliseo Aponte, and now Javier Diaz. All have shared leadership with their wives also functioning as co-pastors.

“We call him hijo de la casa, or son of the house,” said Perez speaking of Diaz because he, like many in the multi-gener-

ational congregational membership, quite literally grew up at the church.

As the long rectangular sanctuary filled with pulsating inspirational Christian rock performed by eight singers and a driving drum and guitar ensemble, people greeted each other with embraces and Dios te bendiga, or “God bless you,” and a sense of family was everywhere evident.

“Even if they don’t know you, they are like family,” said Josue Ortiz, who has been attending for 13 years, bringing with him this day three kids, his wife, and mother-in-law along with an impressive shofar.

“What the Hebrews used at the walls of Jericho,” he said. Ortiz brings it every time he comes (he did not know political dignitaries were also attending), he said, and the purpose was to punctuate his sense of praise and to personalize his worship. It must be held up high as it’s played, he said, “just like this, with the voice of the human player at the mouthpiece that points down, and at the other raised end the ear of God,” he explained.

“A church is not a building. We’re the church,” Ortiz said as he went in to take his seat. “I feel like I’m at home.”

Members of the church youth group, Co-Op High School dancer Alondra Rodriguez and her friend Wilbur Cross 16-year-old Alina Alicea, were equally

enthusiastic as they served as unofficial greeters in the church’s light-filled lobby.

“I’m from New York,” said Alina (where she attended other churches) and this never feels forced. “I come Sunday, Friday, Thursday. I was going through a rough time emotionally and it really helped to be with others, just being in their presence.”

The young women described how they in part fulfill the church’s theme for the year, which is repairing breaches, by holding services outside to appeal to neighbors, by going on walks knocking on neighbors’ doors by way of checking in, and by participating in the long-running food pantry and diaper bank that the church operates.

In his brief remarks to the congregation and presentation of the official certificate, Blumenthal echoed the theme of family: “No one more exemplifies public service than your senior pastor who is there every day for you. He takes strength from his beautiful family. Because the family is everything.”

Although there was nothing explicitly political about the visit, in answer to a reporter’s question whether he had concerns about the Latino vote, he replied, “I go for every vote.”

In his remarks Blumenthal had pointed out, to applause, that post-hurricane he had visited Puerto Rico. “I have fought for Puerto Rico (in part) because it has no representation in Congress and I consider myself a representative for Puerto Rico.”

Earlier in the morning the senator had visited Shiloh Baptist Church in Bridgeport; he had been invited there to help mark that church’s sixty-third year.

In the lobby, Blumenthal noted both what he termed the remarkable growth in church membership and the spiritual fervor.

“They truly live this mission.”

Then he left for his next engagement accompanied by his deputy state director, former New Haven Alder Joey Rodriguez, and Democratic Party staffer Audrey Tyson, who had helped coordinate the event.

Church youth group members Alina Alicea (l) and Alondra Rodriguez.

Fuse Theatre Of CT Gets Ready For A “New World”

by BRIAN SLATTERY

At a recent rehearsal at Picasso Parties in West Haven, the company of Fuse The atre of CT was going through “The River Won’t Flow,” one of the songs from com poser Jason Robert Brown’s musical the ater piece Songs for a New World, which Fuse is preparing for a run at Bregamos Community Theater from Nov. 18 through Nov. 20. “The River Won’t Flow” centers on Brian Meltzer and Ty Scurry, who play panhandlers jostling for control of a street corner while trading sentiments about how their luck has run out. It’s a fun song about a serious subject, and the company wanted to make sure they got the balance of humor and heartache right.

With director Noah Golden guiding the conversation, offering ideas about every thing from staging to general movement, the cast Amber Emerson, Tiessa Hills, Susan Kulp, Brian Meltzer, Kelsey Mulli gan, and Ty Scurry got down to the busi ness of filling in the details, trading notes and ideas about how to interact with one another on a character by character level to serve the message of the song. The scene took shape. Moments of locked-down co ordination and moments staged to look like chaos but actually were not came into focus. The cast ran the number, ran it again, until they had it: a scene that delivered comedy without losing sight of the humanity inside the reality of the song and the situation.

“The River Won’t Flow” is emblematic of the pieces in Songs for a New World, writ ten by Jason Robert Brown at the beginning of his career. It was the first show of his that made it to a stage, with an Off-Broad way run in 1995. An album of the songs was made and began circulating after the show’s run ended, and it developed a cult following that continued even as Brown hit it big with a subsequent musical, The Last

Five Years, and won a Tony for Parade in 1999. The songs in Songs for a New World run the emotional gamut, by turns funny and sad, optimistic and despairing; they are set pieces individually, yet come together as a cohesive whole, even as they allow ample room for interpretation.

It thus made a lot of sense to be the next show for Fuse to take on as its fifth pro duction since forming in 2019, for multiple reasons, according to director Golden.

“This is a show that, personally, I’ve loved since high school and I’ve known for a long time,” Golden said. “It’s show that I’ve always wanted to do. It’s great music and universal stories, and I love how mal leable it can be. It’s such an open canvas of a show,” so “it’s really fun on the cre ative side to figure out, because each song is a different story, what all those stories are and how you represent those on stage.”

Golden and the cast were also eager to take on Songs for the challenges that it presents.

“The hardest thing about this show is mak ing it a show and not a concert,” Golden said. “How do you create a framework, and create a narrative to connect everything and make it feel like it’s all part of one piece?”

To address that question, Golden leaned into Fuse’s strengths and constraints as a small theater company, beginning with picking Songs for a New World in the first place. “We’re new, we’ve only been around a couple years, and we wanted a show that could be done really simply and without needing a lot of excess props and set piec es something well within the budget of what we can do and really showcasing the amazing talent” of the cast.

Fuse also doesn’t have a physical theater; “we’re a nomadic theater company,” Gold en said. It performed its last production, All Together Now, at the Gateway Christian Fellowship church in West Haven. “But we want to be in different spaces,” Gold

en added.

Thus Bregamos. Golden grew up in the area and “had heard their name forever,” he said. “I knew a couple people who had done events there,” and contacted the the ater. Bregamos agreed to take on Fuse, and Golden said he has loved working there. “It’s a great space,” Golden continued, “small” and “intimate” “and they have an upright piano there.” With the space Bre gamos offers, rather than creating an elabo rate umbrella concept for the songs say, that the people in the show are all waiting in an airport somewhere Golden headed toward “stripping everything down, telling the stories as honestly and creatively as we can, with the piano onstage,” and using the cast to create percussion when needed. “It’s been really fun figuring out what those mo

ments are,” Golden said. Developing the show as the rehearsal for “The River Won’t Flow” suggest ed has turned out to be a very collabora tive process among director and cast. “This is my first time directing a full show,” said Golden, who has directed one-acts and been assistant director on larger produc tions in the area. “First of all, it has been a great experience,” but “one of the things I said to them at the beginning was that my job is to build the framework,” and let the cast develop many of the details from there.

“All of these performers have so much experience, knowledge, and talent,” Gold en said; he wanted to “give them the space to do their work” and “collaborate on what the specifics are.” That process has turned out to be, in short, a lot of fun. Everyone in

the cast, Golden said, “wants to work and have fun and play together, and they leave their egos at the door. We’re all just here to build something, which is also what this show is about.”

Fuse has even made space for a larger cast. Songs for a New World calls for four sing ers, but Fuse’s production has six people in it, a result of the strengths of the people who auditioned when Fuse put out its call for performers. “Six felt like we could ex pand it enough without breaking the seal of it being intimate and small.” Golden said. “It also allowed us to shake up who sings what a little bit, because we had to move a couple things around. Some songs are sung a little bit differently, by different people” than the original script calls for.

“If you’ve never seen Songs for a New World, then it’ll be a great experience and you’ll have a great time,” Golden said. For those that do know the show, “there’ll be some tweaks that make it feel fresh, make it feel like ours. I think that’s a real goal of Fuse’s we’re a company that wants to do material that we can put our spin on. We’re not necessarily interested in doing big musicals that everyone does and ev eryone knows. There’s nothing wrong with doing shows that are big and popular. But there are more shows out there, and we like the idea of doing shows that more off the beaten path.”

So Songs mirrors the journey Fuse itself is on. “We meet people at this crossroads in their life, but it’s also about building a com munity,” Golden said. At the beginning of the show, “they’re disparate pieces, and by the end they’re all singing together.”

Fuse Theatre of CT’s production of Songs for a New World runs at Bregamos Com munity Theater, 491 Blatchley Ave., from Nov. 18 through Nov. 20. Visit Fuse’s web site for tickets and more information.

Word On The Street: Keep On Truckin’

by PAUL BASS

Haven

Alfonse Purcell took a bus from Farren Avenue across town to Whalley Avenue early Monday in search of independence, in the form of four wheels he could call his own.

Purcell checked out the trucks for sale outside Dynamic Auto at 271 Whalley. He discovered he wants to reemerge from re tirement. But he needs a vehicle to do so.

“I need something to work,” he said dur ing a conversation on the “Word on the Street” segment of WNHH FM’s “Love Babz LoveTalk” program. “I want to clean basements. I do painting. Sheetrock. Move garbage.” He does landscaping, too, as evidenced, he said, by the tulips outside his home.

Purcell came here from Jamaica in 1995 in search of “opportunity.” He

belonged to a construction union for 17 years. He worked until taking early re tirement at 61 years old.

Two years later, he finds the money doesn’t stretch as far as he needs it to. And he enjoys working. Though he doesn’t enjoy answering to a boss who tells him when he has to work.

“I don’t have money for independence,” he said. “I don’t want to be pushed around. I want to be independent.

“I don’t want a boss anymore. I want to be my own boss.

He checked out a lot in West Haven the other day. He had his eye on a truck. It had 150,000 miles on it. They were ask ing $5,300. “Too high for that amount of money.”

He’d like a Chevy or a Ford, he said. Something in the $3,500 range.

Yale Baby School team Kathryn Armstrong, Lia Koski, and Ari Letrou volunteer for first year at Trunk or Treat.

PAUL BASS PHOTO Alfonse Purcell on the Chevy hunt.

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Edgewood Park Transformed By Halloween Haunted Ride

by MAYA MCFADDEN

The light at the end of a spooky spiderand cobweb-filled tunnel at Edgewood Park was a hefty bag of Halloween treats. That was the scene Monday evening in Edgewood Park, where 2,000 candy bags were distributed for the city’s Youth and Recreation department’s annual “Trunk or Treat” celebration.

This year’s drive-through event was hosted along Edgewood Park’s walking trail. Families drove and walked through the celebration, avoiding tricks and col lecting treats.

Most parents emphasized the helpfulness of the alternative Halloween celebration as a safer option for kids to get dressed up and enjoy the holiday without having to go trick-or-treating door to door, in fear of them picking up tampered with candy.

Young New Haveners drove and walked up while dressed as firefighters, Sonic the Hedgehog, Michael Myers, Bat Girl, and Mario as they passed through the Trunk or Treat event.

Hundreds of cars lined Edgewood Av enue Monday as early as 4 p.m. for the event, which began at 5. The drive-up line stretched beyond Yale Avenue as families waited to wheel through the trail.

When cars arrived at the end of the trail, families were greeted by volunteers like Shubert Theatre Education Director Kelly Wuzzardo, also known Monday night as Pooh Bear.

The Youth and Recreation Department got support from partners like the Ara bic Temple No. 40 and Arabic Court No. 95, which joined the event for a sixth year running.

Volunteers Dru Elliott, Michelle Streeter, Deirdre Brown, and Lashaya Patterson dressed as a scarecrow and unicorn to wish families driving on the trail a happy Halloween. Support was also provided by Yale Baby School and more than 200 first-year students at Southern Connecti cut State University (SCSU).

While driving past, kids yelled out to those dressed in costumes:

“Hi Pooh!”

“I love you Minney Mouse!”

Yeitza walked over to Edgewood park with Venom and an Anime character, better known as her son Nazeer, 7, and daughter Jalexys, 11.

The family joined the trunk or treat event for the first time Monday for a celebration of Halloween and Yeitza’s birthday. Nazeer looked forward to getting his fa vorite candy, Skittles, and Jalexys’s favor ite, Hershey’s.

Yeitza said she stopped bringing her kids trick or treating in the neighborhood doorto-door at the start of the Covid pandemic. They now celebrate Halloween at cityhosted events like Monday’s because “it seems safer,” Yeitza said.

Six-year-old Riley came equipped with a red baseball bat and dressed as a “good Harley Quinn” for the Monday event. Her mother Robin Graham parked in the park

City Youth and Rec Director Gwendolyn Busch Williams said the Halloween cele bration over the past two years has worked best as a drive-thru event.

While the shift to a drive-thru event was initially due to the Covid pandemic, Wil liams said this year’s continued on that path because the celebration is able to re main fun for youth while cleaner and safer for the families.

The event was sponsored by CrossPoint Federal Credit Union which joined the Monday event to greet youth in costumes.

The New Haven Police and Fire Depart ments also volunteered at the Monday event.

Williams said the department prepared 1,500 candy bags for youth while SCSU brought an additional 500. Nearly all the bags were distributed Monday with about two dozen left, which Busch said her team plans to donate to schools.

Ricky Barrett heard about the Monday event while listening to WYBC-FM this week and decided to attend since it was happening just across the street from his house.

Barrett walked over to the event with his five-year-old daughter dressed as a rain bow unicorn.

Barrett said he enjoyed that the event was “regulated” and in the middle of his neighborhood.

“It’s good that you know what you’re getting it not and not walking into some thing unknown,” he said.

Mother, Sapphire, and son, Kevin, made their first stop Monday to Edgewood park to get some candy they could trust before going door knocking in East Haven, Sap phire said.

Due to safety concerns Sapphire said she only takes her son, who wore a matching skeleton costume, trick or treating for the experience, but after collecting the candy from going to neighbors’ doors she dis poses of it.

“This is candy I can trust for him to eat. I don’t trust anything else unless I buy it,” Sapphire said.

“I got candy, mom,” eight-year-old An gel said to her mother Mercury as youth specialist Ron Huggins topped off her al ready full bag of candy with more treats. The mother-daughter duo have a Hallow een agreement that Mercury will eat the chocolate and Angel will eat the gummy candy they collect.

For the past two years Mercury has brought her daughter to the Youth and Rec celebration.

On Monday, Angel wore a prom queen costume finished with a sash and tutu. “This is so much safer and more conve nient,” Mercury said. “And they always make us feel so comfortable to just walk up.”

With so much candy collected, Angel told this reporter that she plans to make a candy basket for her teacher using some of her collected treats.

ing lot and they walked down the trail to avoid the car traffic.

Graham also stopped taking her daughter door knocking for the holiday to be safer during the pandemic. Over the past two

years, Riley and Robin hosted Halloween parties with the family that would involve a more homey version of door knocking. The family youth would knock at bed room and bathroom doors in the house to

trick or treat.

After securing the treats Monday, the duo headed home to continue their holiday tradition of painting pumpkins and snack ing on baked pumpkin seeds.

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOS Sandra and her four kids stop by Trunk or Treat for second year.

Volunteers line trail and prep to greet families driving through.

New York to Pay $25 Million to Two Men Falsely Convicted of Killing Malcolm X

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

In 1965, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were wrongfully convicted of kill ing Malcolm X and spent over 20 years behind bars after being wrongfully con victed.

Even though the February 21, 1965 mur der of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ball room in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan was one of the most report ed on assassinations of the 1960s, the trial of his assailants was botched because of racism, expediency and political consid erations.

The documentary Who Killed Malcolm X, which premiered on Netflix in 2020, revealed in detail that there was some thing wrong with the convictions. The investigative journalism of Washington, D.C. journalist Abdur-Rahman Muham mad spent decades combing through documents and analyzing evidence from Malcolm X’s murder. He also tracked down those who knew what had really happened. Muhammad is a journalist, tour guide and historian, documentary film makers revealed what he studied over 20 years investigating Malcolm X’s murder. What was revealed was that Talmadge

Hager, a convicted assassin of Malcolm X, stated that the two men convicted with him were in fact innocent. Hagan, who is now 81, (over the years he has changed his name to Talmadge X Hayer and then Mujahid Abdul Halim) was granted parole and released from prison in 2010.

In 2021, Hagan expressed support that the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam would be overturned which matched his original claims that they were not involved in the murder of Malcolm X. Decades earlier, the late journalist Les Payne and his daughter Tamara Payne, in

their book, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X,” asserted that Mal colm X’s killers were members of the Nation of Islam’s Newark, New Jersey mosque. The book claimed that William 25X (also known as William Bradley) fired a shotgun at Malcolm X and were

joined by Leon Davis and Thomas Hagen. Both Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, were exonerated last year. When the allegations were tossed out as the result of a two-year investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Lawsuits were filed against the City of New York by Aziz and the family of Is lam. The settlements arrive three months after the suits were filed in the U.S. Dis trict Court in Brooklyn.

The case of the wrongful convictions on such a notorious high-profile murder prompts many to ask how many other false convictions could be out there. Sev eral studies have been conducted that note that Black men are falsely accused at a much higher level than other groups for crimes.

In 2020, The Innocence Project released the report, “From Emmett Till to Pervis Payne — Black Men in America Are Still Killed for Crimes They Didn’t Commit.”

Lauren Victoria Burke is an indepen dent journalist and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is a political analyst who appears regularly on #RolandMar tinUnfiltered. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke

Why Are Black COVID Patients Less Likely to Get Antiviral Paxlovid?

by Jason Henderson, BlackDoctor.org

Black and Hispanic patients are less like ly to be given antiviral drugs such as Pax lovid to help battle a bout of COVID-19 than white patients are, a new government report shows.

In a study of more than 700,000 pa tients with COVID-19, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Black patients were 36% less likely to be prescribed Paxlovid than white patients, while Hispanics were 30% less likely to get the drug.

“Multiple factors likely contributed to lower Paxlovid treatment among racial and ethnic minority groups,” says re searcher Tegan Boehmer, acting lead of the CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative.

Paxlovid is an antiviral pill that can be taken to help keep high-risk patients from getting so sick that they need to be hos pitalized.

Why the disparity?

The reasons likely include minority pa tients having less access to COVID-19 treatments, negative experiences with healthcare providers that erode trust, and less awareness of treatment options, Boehmer shares.

“It’s also possible that racism or unrec ognized biases among health care provid ers could affect prescribing practices,” she adds.

Disparities in Paxlovid treatment for

Black and Hispanic patients were gener ally greater among patients at higher risk for severe COVID, including those aged 50 and older and those with weakened im mune systems, Boehmer notes. “It is criti cal that all eligible persons receive recom mended treatments,” she stresses.

Quick and early access to effective COVID treatments is important to pro tect people at most risk for severe illness, Boehmer says, but racial and ethnic mi nority populations are receiving COVID treatments less often.

“Raising awareness of available CO VID-19 treatments among patients and health care professionals can help address disparities in treatment,” Boehmer adds.

Dr. Debbie Salas-Lopez, senior vice president for Community and Population Health at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y., says these disparities in care were what health professionals saw during the pandemic.

“The issue of equity and distribution of Paxlovid is similar to what we saw in the distribution of the vaccine,” she adds. “You have to think about access to pri mary care pharmacies, particularly in eco nomically disadvantaged communities.”

Community hesitancy also plays a role, Salas-Lopez notes. “These are new vac cines, new treatments, so the familiar ity isn’t there with all of our community members, but in particular, our communi ty members who have experienced a lack of trust in the health care system.

“In addition, guidelines for testing and

vaccines and medications for treatment can quickly change, making it difficult for providers and community members to stay abreast of all the changes — your head spins,” she says.

Structural racism may also play a role, Salas-Lopez adds.

One weakness of the study, she notes, is that the researchers didn’t account for pre scriptions given directly at walk-in clinics and drug stores, which gave out thousands of doses of Paxlovid and might have al tered the results.

Salas-Lopez says that it’s partly the re sponsibility of healthcare systems to end these disparities.

At her health care system, they created a health equity task force to identify the weak spots in health care in their commu nity. They then began outreach programs to close these gaps.

“Health systems have to work hard to ad dress the issue of inequity,” Salas-Lopez said. “It takes a mission and a vision to do that, and then action.”

How to protect yourself

“Staying up to date with COVID-19 vac cines, including updated boosters, is the best way to protect against severe illness and hospitalization,” she says. “If you become infected, contact your health care professional as soon as possible to find out if you are eligible for treatment.”

photo: 1965, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam

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Small-Biz Bucks Fall From Haven(ly)

by PAUL BASS

Entisar Elamin was chopping parsley Monday for a batch of baba ganoush when a parade of official visitors popped in with their own recipe — for helping other women like her make it in the Connecticut economy.

Elamin, a refugee from Sudan, was at work in the kitchen of Havenly Treats within the cavernous strip of storefronts across from Criterion Cinemas on Temple Street.

Havenly Treats, a nonprofit, is more than a restaurant. It runs training programs for refugees like Elamin to learn skills and land jobs or create new businesses of their own.

The visitors were a delegation of state economic development officials led by Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz (who was already a fan of Havenly’s baklava). They held a press conference at Havenly to announce a heap of new assistance for small businesses: A five-year, $46.6 million grant program aimed at enterprises run by Black, Hispanic, women and immigrant entrepreneurs.

The money goes to nonprofits like the Connecticut Women’s Business Development Council (WBDC) and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven,

which is receiving a $7.2 million slice. Those nonprofits then distribute the grant money to individual small businesses to help them grow, meet technology needs, and train new people.

At the press conference, Bysiewicz noted that 80 percent of the federal pandemic relief dollars distributed through the Paycheck Protection Program ended up going to male-owned businesses; 80 percent went to white-owned businesses. This new state program is aimed at giving women, entrepreneurs of color, veterans and individuals with disabilities the same kind of help in rebuilding from the pandemic.

The money comes at a busy time for business-starting: 1,100 new small businesses are launching each month in the state, the highest rate since 2007, noted state Department of Economic and Community Development Deputy Commissioner Alexandra Daum. “We haven’t seen those rates since 2007. It’s also a double-edged sword”: Many are firsttime entrepreneurs, including immigrants and refugees, who can use extra help navigating the challenges to success.

Havenly was one of those pandemicera start-ups. It emerged from a network of refugee women who pooled their culinary talents. Last year Havenly received

a $9,000 “Equity Match” grant from an earlier phase of this state small-business effort. It used the money to develop a gift box series containing various combinations of vegan baklava, date bites, jam, and other pastries, a lifeline at a time when the pandemic had cut in-person business.

Before the press conference, officials toured the facilities. They visited a new classroom where three “cohorts” a year of refugee women start taking classes in English, digital and financial literacy, and wellness, along with dance and housing and labor protections. The women then proceed to four months of training in the restaurant’s kitchen.

Havenly Co-Executive Director Jane Dowd and Fellowship Director Nusaibah Shatta told the visitors that the women emerge from the program to food-prep jobs at the cafeterias at Yale New Haven Hospital and University fo New Haven, other local jobs, or businesses they start on their own. Dowd said later that Havenly plans to apply for some of the new money announced Monday.

Mayor Justin Elicker contrasted the state’s continued support for businesses run by women, immigrants, and people of color with efforts by “other states” to “fight against diversity and workers’ rights.”

Bysiewicz with Havenly Fellowship Director Nusaiban Shaha and Co-Executive Director Nieda Abbas.

Don’t Give Up On Black-Brown Unity

by MICHAEL A. JEFFERSON

(Opinion) In October 2021 three high powered Latino politicians — President of the Los Angeles City Council Nury Martinez and council members Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo — gathered to have a little chat.

The conversation centered around “redistricting” (i.e. redrawing of council district boundaries) — or, more specifically, how to game the redistricting process in Los Angeles.

The goal was to protect and enhance Latino political power in the city and, ostensibly, to weaken Black political power.

The three Democrats were joined by fellow Democrat Ron Herrera, who is the president of the LA County Federation of Labor.

The private discussion took place in a meeting room in the headquarters of a local labor organization. According to reports, the meeting lasted an hour. Unbeknownst to the small gang of four, the conversation was recorded. To say the content of the dialogue was “ugly” is an understatement.

Martinez, the first Latina to hold the post of president of the council, was heard on the recording saying that another council member – Mike Bonin, who is gay and white — handled his young adopted son, who is Black, as if he was an “accessory.” Martinez then said the child “parece changito,” or that the child was “like a little monkey.”

Martinez then referenced an incident involving the same child on a float at the 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, stating that Bonin failed to control his child and the float nearly tipped over. “They’re raising him like a little white kid,” Martinez said in the recording. “I was like, this kid needs a beat-down. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.” She also said of her colleague, “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.”

Martinez also went after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, stating, “He’s with the Blacks.” She wasn’t finished.

In discussing the largely Latino area of Koreatown in Los Angeles, she and Cedillo can be heard mocking Oaxacans from the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.

Martinez calls them “little short dark people… I don’t know what village they came out of. “ At one point she calls them “Tan feos,” meaning “they’re ugly.” A male voice in the recording refers to them as “Indios,” which is, reportedly, a racist term used regularly in Mexico.

The recording of the conversation was uploaded to Reddit. According to Reddit, the account of the user who posted the recording has been suspended, but the recording has since gone viral. The identity of the individual(s) responsible for the illegal recording (California does not permit a person to record another without consent) has not been determined.

The fallout has been devastating for all

involved. Martinez has resigned from her leadership post as well as her seat on the Council. Herrera has also resigned. As of this writing De Leon and Cedillo have refused calls to resign. However, Cedillo will be leaving office in December. He was defeated earlier in the year in a primary election by a young progressive candidate, Eunisses Hernandez. Needless to say, the relationship between Black and Latino leaders in Los Angeles is now strained.

Many Blacks, including myself, are not surprised by the content of the conversation. Many of us have long recognized the racism emanating from the Latino community. In fact, through our interactions with Afro-Latinos we have become familiar with accounts of racism/colorism within the Latino community.

While the content of the dialogue was quite disturbing, at least the proverbial cat is now “out of the bag.” The question for Black leadership and the Black community is: Where do we go from here?

Given the racial dynamics between us, do we continue to nurture a political alliance with the Latino community?

Here’s what I think.

Growing up in public housing and attending public school in the Northeast Bronx, I gained an appreciation for diversity, a love for humanity. While most of my childhood friends were Black, a significant number were Latino. The few white friends I had in elementary and junior high school were mostly Jewish. When I left the public school system after eighth grade and enrolled at Cardinal Spellman High School, at the time a predominantly white school, my circle of friends became even more diverse.

However, as I grew into adulthood I felt a special camaraderie with those in the La-

tino community. Maybe it had something to do with our shared experiences. Our communities were in many respects (i.e. socially, economically, politically) similarly situated. For full disclosure, my parents divorced when I was young and my father remarried a Puerto Rican woman. Three of my siblings are Afro-Latino. I’m sure that had something to do with my allegiance.

When I attended college and led the Black Student Union (BSU), one of my primary goals was to cultivate a political alliance with the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS). I also sought an alliance with white progressive students who were members of Students for Peace (SFP). Interestingly enough, the leadership of OLAS was far less enthusiastic about an alliance with the BSU than I would have thought.

When I graduated from college and made my initial foray into the bare-knuckle politics of New Haven, my interactions with members of the Latino community broadened. It was then I made a startling discovery: Latino leaders in the city were not as interested in forming an alliance with Black leadership as they were with establishing relations with the whites who ran the city.

To be sure, I was told by several Black political figures it was ”a waste of time” to covet such a union. Latino leaders were simply not interested.

Around the same time, a Black friend of mine who ran for political office in a heavily populated Latino community where he grew up told me: “Don’t sleep on the racism in the Latino community.” I was hurt, disappointed and, honestly, offended by what I perceived as an act of betrayal. My friend and I were in our early twenties. Still, I wasn’t deterred. I refused to abandon the quest to make Black and Brown unity a reality. The pursuit made so much sense. A no-brainer. Think about it: Two similarly situated, non-white communities sharing both logistical and human resources. It had all the makings of a powerful political alliance.

It didn’t take long for me to realize I was being naïve. Even my Latino peers showed little interest in launching a Black and Brown political union. To this day, as we see in Los Angeles, there appears to be more of an inclination among Latino leadership to compete against the Black community for power rather than combining forces for the good of both communities.

Many American Blacks like myself have grown accustomed to being shunned by individuals from other marginalized groups, including Asian ethnic groups and Black ethnic groups from throughout the African diaspora (i.e. Caribbeans, Africans). It appears the quest and desire to fully assimilate (i.e. to be white adjacent) and/or be accepted by America’s dominant culture trumps the logic of developing a formidable social, economic and political alliance.

Michael Jefferson.

7-Eleven ribbon cutting ceremony at West Haven's newly opened 24 hour 7-Eleven gas, restaurant and convenience store, located at 480 Sawmill Road.

by Michael P. Walsh, City of West Haven

Mayor Nancy R. Rossi cut a red ribbon Oct. 27 to mark the grand opening of New England’s first 7-Eleven restaurant com plex in West Haven. Rossi, sporting a pair of oversize scissors, was accompanied by a delegation of 7-Eleven developers and managers and city and state leaders to celebrate the new 5,635-square-foot complex, anchored by a gas station and two counter-service restaurants, on West Haven’s bustling Sawmill Road retail cor ridor, just off Interstate 95’s Exit 42.

Rossi, standing in front of the complex’s main entrance with developer Jed Hayes of project co-developer and landlord Sul livan Hayes of Farmington, issued a may oral citation welcoming the 7-Eleven res taurant concept to 480 Sawmill Road, the former site of a Staples office supply store.

“We are delighted that 7-Eleven has se lected West Haven’s Sawmill Road for its flagship dual-restaurant concept store,” said Rossi, reading the citation to the gathering of officials, moments before snipping the ribbon. “Our city’s business community continues to thrive and lead because we have great businesses and great owners.”

Hayes said, “We are so excited to open this first 7-Eleven dual-restaurant concept store in New England and are delighted to bring it to West Haven.”

The Staples site, formerly owned by West Haven Mall LLV, was demolished in 2021 after sitting vacant since 2006. The 3-acre

property was purchased by Saw Mill WH LLC for $3.6 million in June 2021.

Sullivan Hayes chose West Haven’s Saw mill Road for a 7-Eleven development be cause of the area’s dense population and high visibility from I-95. “Overall, the site really makes for the perfect convenience store location,” Hayes said. “It sits right along I-95 at an off -ramp with visibility

to over 125,000 vehicles per day.” Home to the Slurpee-brand of carbonated slushies, the 24- hour convenience store has 20 pumps that dispense 7-Elevenbrand fuel and two in-store restaurants that are owned and operated by 7-Eleven Inc. of Dallas: Laredo Taco Co., an authentic Mexican quick service eatery, and Raise the Roost Chicken & Biscuits. “This evo

lution store is the first location of its kind in the country to have both new restaurant concepts in a single location,” Hayes said.

Listening from L-R are store manager Keith Callahan, City Planning & Zoning Commissioner Steven R. Mullins, Region al Manager Vipin Sachdeva and Mayor Nancy R. Rossi.

Federal Court Halts Biden’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness for Now

By Brandon Patterson

A federal appellate judge on October 21 temporarily blocked the Biden Admin istration from cancelling student debt in response to a lawsuit filed by six conser vative states alleging they could be hurt financially by the plan.

The court blocked the plan after the states appealed a lower court’s decision to throw out their suit due to failure to show they would be hurt by it. The court ruling does not prevent the administration from operating the debt forgiveness ap plication or prevent people from applying, the White House said. But no debt can be waived until the court issues a final deci sion. It is not clear how long the temporary decision will last.

The administration had intended to start cancelling loans as soon as October 23, court records show, according to USA Today. The plan, announced in August, would cancel $10,000 in debt for eligible applicants and $20,000 for Pell Grant re cipients.

“Plaintiffs will suffer no irreparable in jury from the provision of much-needed relief to millions of Americans, but the public interest would be greatly harmed

by its denial,” the Biden Administration said in legal filings, adding that, if the court disagrees, any injunction should only apply to the states that filed the law suit, where about 2.8 million people are eligible for forgiveness, according to USA

Today. Those states include Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina.

Conservatives have attacked the debt forgiveness plan as expensive overreach of executive authority since the plan was

announced. In this case, the six states ar gued that the debt forgiveness plan could incentivize student loan borrowers with loans serviced by the states, which aren’t eligible for debt forgiveness, to swap those loans for federal loans that are eli gible, costing the states money, according to USA Today.

The administration, however, says the Department of Education already changed its loan regulations to disallow the swaps, according to USA Today, rendering the is sue moot. The states also argue, however, that the administration has no authority to cancel the debt at all. The administration has held that a 2003 law allows the execu tive branch to reduce or erase student loan debt.

The case is just one of many lawsuits over Biden’s debt cancellation plan. At least six different parties have challenged the plan in court. In most cases, however, the lawsuits have been quickly dismissed, according to USA Today.

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Black-Brown

On its face the collective rebuff is whol ly irrational. To allow one’s group to be alienated from potential allies not only invites needless animosity between mar ginalized groups, it also preserves the sta tus quo. What exactly is the projected end game for these groups and/or individuals?

If the logic behind this “let’s go it alone” scheme is to attain a more elevated posi tion in the mythical racial caste system of American society then it is a terribly flawed strategy.

So that we’re clear, the racial caste system in America is a two-tiered structure. White people occupy the upper tier, and then there is everyone else. And make no mis take about it, many (i.e. tens of millions) in the dominant culture are determined to keep it as such. Any attempt to alter the historical arrangement will be met with unyielding resistance.

I’ve always believed the logical approach – the smart move, so to speak is for all marginalized groups (Black, Brown, Asian, etc.) as well as marginalized whites and whites of good will to create a formi dable anti-racist movement that can fun damentally challenge and subsequently transform the country’s existing social, political and economic order. A successful outcome means everyone gets to eat!

Those who choose to embrace identity politics and who fail to understand the need to unite based on a shared social, po litical and economic reality are destined to fail. They will fail because neo-tribalism spawns failure. It is a recipe for disaster. Neo-tribalism has a polarizing influence that blinds its members to their own so cial, political and economic reality. Often times it steers its adherents to betray their own self-interest. And while it may serve the interest of a small powerful clique in the larger group dynamic, the lives of the rank and file at best remain unchanged.

In spite of Nury Martinez, her co-con spirators and like minded individuals, Black leadership and Black communities throughout this country must refrain from any action that further erodes whatever semblance of unity presently exists be tween Black, Brown and other marginal ized communities. Regardless of our quar rels, trepidations and cultural differences, it still makes sense to unite.

Know this: The world is getting smaller, and America is a rapidly evolving society. A creeping fascism is on the horizon. Any marginalized group that believes it can ad vance an effective national or even region al agenda (i.e. social, political, economic) independent of other similarly situated groups will quickly discover the quest to be an effort in futility.

Intelligent and capable leaders from marginalized communities have long un derstood this truth and have for better or worse, sought alliances across the board. We should remain committed to such a strategy. The stakes are way too high to reject it.

A Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2022

During National Native American Heri tage Month, we celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and rededicate ourselves to honoring Tribal sovereignty, promoting Tribal self-determination, and upholding the United States’ solemn trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Na tions.

America has not always delivered on its promise of equal dignity and respect for Native Americans. For centuries, broken treaties, dispossession of ancestral lands, and policies of assimilation and termina tion sought to decimate Native popula tions and their ways of life. But despite this painful history, Indigenous peoples, their governments, and their communi ties have persevered and flourished. As teachers and scholars, scientists and doc tors, writers and artists, business leaders and elected officials, heroes in uniform, and so much more, they have made im measurable contributions to our country’s progress.

We must do more to ensure that Native Americans have every opportunity to suc ceed and that their expertise informs our Federal policy-making. That is why my Administration is engaging in meaning ful consultation with Tribal leaders, par ticularly when it comes to treaty rights, reserved rights, management and stew ardship of Federal lands, consideration of Indigenous Knowledge, and other policies that affect Native peoples. That is also why I appointed Secretary Deb Haaland to be the first-ever Native American Cabinet Secretary, and why more than 50 Native Americans now serve in significant roles across the executive branch.

Meanwhile, we are creating new jobs in Native American communities and bolstering infrastructure in Tribal areas.

My Administration’s American Rescue plan made the largest-ever investment in Indian Country to help Tribal Nations combat the COVID-19 pandemic and to support Tribal economic recovery. My Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law secured more than $13 billion exclu sively for Native communities to deliver high-speed internet to Tribal lands, build safer roads and bridges, modernize sanita tion systems, and provide clean drinking water — all while putting people to work. Through the Inflation Reduction Act, we are lowering the price of health care cov erage and capping drug costs for Indige

nous families. We are empowering Tribes to fight drought, improve fisheries, and transition to clean energy as part of the most significant climate investment this Nation has ever made. Those investments include climate adaptation planning and community-led relocation efforts, funding a Tribal Electrification Program to provide power to unelectrified homes, making En vironmental Justice Block Grants avail able to help alleviate legacy pollution, bolstering conservation programs across the country, and restoring protections for treasured lands that Indigenous peoples have tirelessly stewarded, such as Bears

We are also helping Native communities heal from intergenerational trauma caused by past policies. Last year, the Depart ment of the Interior launched the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to shed light on the harmful history of forced cultural assimilation at these academic institutions. We are investing in Tribal language revitalization, protecting Tribal voting rights, and working with Tribal partners to tackle the crisis of missing or murdered Indigenous people.

As we look ahead, my Administration

will continue to write a new and better chapter in the story of our Nation-to-Na tion relationships. We will defend Tribal sovereignty, self-government, self-deter mination, and the homelands of Tribal Na tions. We will support Tribal economies, recognizing that Tribal governments pro vide a vast array of physical infrastruc ture, social services, and good-paying jobs that benefit their citizens and surrounding communities. We will keep fighting for better health care, child care, education, and housing in Tribal communities. We will always honor the profound impact Native Americans continue to have in shaping our Nation and bringing us closer to the more perfect Union we know we can and must be.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the author ity vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2022 as National Na tive American Heritage Month. I urge all Americans, as well as their elected repre sentatives at the Federal, State, and local levels, to observe this month with appro priate programs, ceremonies, and activi ties, and to celebrate November 25, 2022, as Native American Heritage Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand this thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord two thou sand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

Georgia Is Ground Zero for Democracy

Walker, a familiar former athlete who has become a far-right extremist. De pending on who gains a Senate majority, the rest of the Biden-Harris administra tion agenda is either on track or dead on arrival in Congress.

could have health care.

By Ben Jealous

Like so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind.

As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black ministers who are working nonstop to get out the vote across the state. And with good reason, because there’s just no other way to say it — Georgia is ground zero for the fu ture of our democracy in this midterm election.

Control of the Senate could hinge on whether Rev. Raphael Warnock can keep his Senate seat or is defeated by Herschel

The governor’s race features an incum bent MAGA diehard, Brian Kemp, ver sus Stacey Abrams. I have written about Abrams and our decades-long friend ship before. No one is more committed to civil rights and greater opportunity for Georgians than Abrams. Reelecting Kemp would be a disaster: not just for Georgians, but for a country in which MAGA schemers are looking to capture as many states as possible to advance their reactionary agenda.

Kemp’s record is appalling. In a state with a large share of uninsured Black Americans, including high numbers of Black children, Kemp has refused to ex pand Medicaid so that more Georgians

He signed a law making it easier for just about anybody, including dangerous white supremacists, to carry concealed weapons. His administration has cut state contracts with Black businesses and is responsible for denying unemploy ment claims for twice as many Black workers as white workers.

Kemp recently signed an anti-choice law so extreme that women who have miscarriages could be arrested. Women who terminate pregnancies could be charged with murder.

The MAGA folks in Georgia know the coalition of Black voters and young vot ers who made history in 2020 won’t vote for this agenda. Those voters changed the course of the nation when they went for Joe Biden and Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

The MAGA Far Right went crazy, and they made Georgia the home of some

of the worst voter-suppression laws in the country since the original Jim Crow.

One of those even made it illegal to give snacks and water to voters waiting in long lines. All of that was for one rea son: to stop people, mostly Black people, from voting in the next big election.

And that election is now.

We can’t stand by and let that happen. Black voters have the power to decide the election in Georgia, which will prob ably decide the future of our country in some ways we can predict and others we can’t. This is especially true for Black men, who still don’t vote in the high per centages Black women do. Black men in Georgia have to come out to the polls this year.

It doesn’t surprise me that once again, Georgia is so central to Black American history. It has been that way for as long

as we’ve had a history. Every time I visit, I’m moved by it. That sense of a momen tous past is everywhere, mixed with the New South energy that makes the state such a unique place. Meeting with Geor gians this time, I could feel the deep commitment to moving the state forward instead of back. That fills me with hope.

The eyes of the country – and even the world – are on Georgia this fall, and I believe Georgia will make us proud.

Ben Jealous serves as president of Peo ple For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Penn sylvania. A New York Times best-selling author, his next book “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free” will be published by Harper Collins in January 2023.

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Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Black American Authors Change the Narrative at The World’s Largest International Book Fair

INDIANA—Viewed as a cultural and literary hub of the region, the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is known as the “gateway to audiences who love the written word.” With the exceptional guidance of agents from T. Jones Media, twelve American authors have been ushered into this gateway.

SIBF is an 11-day international book fair held annually in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is the world’s largest public book fair attracting 2.4 million readers. Industry experts, book buyers, booksellers, and professionals from 1,420 national and international publishing houses attend the annual fair to connect with a lively and motivated community.

“These authors are making history by bringing the largest collection of titles by Black Americans to Sharjah and into the Black Book Collective”, said Delroy Simms, co-CEO. The Black Book Collective (BBC) is the leading exhibitor of African and African diaspora literature. By participating in the BBC, these authors will raise their profile as diverse and forward-thinking authors. T. Jones Media is an Indiana-based publishing consultancy with more than 200 titles in catalog.

“We are taking a giant leap into the international publishing market by not only exhibiting at the world’s largest book fair, but also navigating the world of translation rights for authors. To be part of such a lively event is nothing short of amazing. I’m excited to be able to represent the work of Black American authors at such an incredible event,” said Traneisha Jones, business

strategist and CEO of T. Jones Media.

From Nov 2-13, 2022, these authors–who have been historically underrepresented in the international publishing landscape–will debut on the world stage where publishers and agents of the Sharjah Book Authority will consider their books for translation in any language.

The authors are:

• Michele Aikens, of Flossmoor, IL, is an executive business coach and author of Consider the Possibilities, a self-help book on navigating challenges with insight. http://www.itspossible.today

• Nicole Brewer, of Atlanta, GA, is a teacher, freelance travel writer and author of An ABC Guide to Children’s Games

Around the World, a children’s book on exploring new lands and learning about kids from fascinating cultures. http:// www.ilove2globetrot.com

• Angela Camon of Ray City, GA, is a pastor and author of This Thing Called Love, Why I Waited, and A Birthday Miracle. http://www.angelacamonministries.com

• Traneisha Jones, of Highland, IN, is an international business strategist and author of Damn Fear, an inspirational guide to overcoming fear in every facet of life. http://www.damnfear.com

• Gregory A. Lee, of Chicago, IL is an illustrator and author of The Harlem Renaissance Activity Book, a children’s book on the Roaring 20’s and the dynamic people who impacted that time period and beyond. http://www.directdesignstudio. weebly.com

• Dawn Owens, of Houston, TX, is the founder of The Corporate Couch and author of Light After A Layoff: Seven Spiritual Keys to Strengthen Resilience in the Midst of A Job Loss, Career Transition or Professional Setback. http://www.owenspublishingcompany.com

• LaTonya Richardson, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is a university instructor and

author of Bayou Stew: An Al-the-Gator Tale, a children’s book about two unlikely friends,. https://www.larichmedia.com

• Shelia Smith, of Aiea, Hawaii, is a licensed registered nurse and author of Simply Faith, a Christian living guide to faith. https://www.simplyfaith.co

• Theresa Bean-Turner, of Chicago, IL, is a pastor and author of Lamarra’s Well, a historical fiction novel about the Biblical story of the woman at the well. http:// www.lamarraswell.com

• Deidre White, of Chicago, IL, is a GIS researcher and author of Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Chicago Children: Assessing Exposure and Risks for Lead Poison, an academic study.

• Lori Wilcox, of Chicago Heights, IL, is a combat war veteran, entrepreneur, and author of Broken and Left for Dead, a memoir. http://www.loriwilcoxway.com

• Emily D. Woolcock, MD, of Maryland, is a renowned orthopedic surgeon and author of My Doctor Looks Like ME, a children’s book. http://www.mydoctorlookslikeme.com

A total of 16 titles from these authors will be included in the Black Book Collective exhibit at the Sharjah International Book Fair, November 2-13, 2022, in Sharjah, UAE. The BBC is the leading exhibitor of African and African diaspora literature. By participating in the BBC, T. Jones Media authors will raise their profile as diverse and forward-thinking authors and help shape the trajectory of Black American narratives in international spaces.

Migos rapper, “Takeoff” passes away at 28

By BlackDoctor.org

Takeoff, one-third of the hip-hop trio Migos, was shot and killed in Houston, a representative for the city’s police de partment has confirmed to Variety. He was 28.

The rapper was shot and killed at a bowling alley in downtown Houston where he and Quavo, his uncle and Migos bandmate, were playing dice at around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

Officers told KPRC Houston that a crowd of approximately 40 or 50 people was at the scene when the shooting took place and there was a man with a gun shot wound to the head or neck. Takeoff was pronounced dead at the scene, while Quavo was unharmed. Two other people were shot and taken to the hospital.

Takeoff, whose real name is Kirsnik Khari Ball, was born in Lawrenceville, Ga., in 1994. In 2008 he began rapping with Quavo (Quavious Keyate Marshall) and his cousin Offset (Kiari Kendrell Cephus). Originally called Polo Club, the trio changed their name to Migos and released their first mixtape, “Juug Sea son,” in 2011.

Their breakout hit, “Versace,” vaulted them to stardom in 2013 and landed a re mix from Drake. Since then, Migos has

hip-hop trio Migos

become one of the most successful hiphop acts in recent years and one of the most successful rap groups of all time, with some 20 platinum and gold singles and albums certified by the RIAA, in cluding their Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee.” Their signature sound — short,

staccato lyrics from one answered by the other two with a word or verbal sound effect — has been often imitated. Mi gos’ other Top 10 hits include “Stir Fry,” “MotorSport” with Cardi B and “Walk It Talk It” with Drake.

While there was no official word on

Kanye West’s Donda Academy Closes Following Rapper’s Controversial Remarks

By A.R. Shaw | Atlanta Daily World

Kanye West continues to face backlash for his views following controversial re marks. His Donda Academy recently an nounced that it will close for the 2022-23 school year.

Donda Academy, an unaccredited Chris tian school in Simi Valley, California, has about 100 students and tuition is $15,000 a year per student. Before students could enroll, parents had to sign a non-dislosure agreement. Students wore school uni forms designed by Balenciaga and the Yeezy brand.

The school began to be impacted by Kanye’s words and actions.

During the controversial interview with “Drink Champs,” Kanye said, I can say anti-Semitic s—- and Adidas cannot drop me.” Along with his controversial remarks on “Drink Champs,” he also tweeted, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEO PLE.”

Kanye would apologize days later during an interview with Piers Morgan by saying, “I will say I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the ‘Death Con’ — the confusion that I caused,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West told Piers Morgan on his TalkTV show. “I feel like I caused hurt and confusion. And I’m sorry for the families

of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I have been through, and that I used my platform, where you say hurt people hurt people, and I was hurt.”

After several companies discontinued their relationship with Kanye, Donda Academy’s basketball team was removed from a tournament. On Oct. 26, the school’s principal, Jason Angell, report edly emailed students’ parents, “Our lead

ership team will be working diligently to assist all families during this transition, ensuring that every scholar has what they need to succeed in their next community in a prompt and gracious manner.”

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the group splitting, in recent years Offset has been working solo while Takeoff and Quavo had been working together as a duo. Last month, the pair released a duo album, “Built for Infinity Links.”

Takeoff released one solo album, 2018’s “The Last Rocket,” which debuted at

No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

Just last week Takeoff and Quavo on Revolt TV’s “Drink Champs” for an interview. Responding graciously to a compliment, he said, “Give me my flow ers, I don’t want ’em when I ain’t here.”

As we mourn the loss of life, we cannot continue to overlook the problem at hand which is the issue of gun violence in the black community. Making a change starts with talking to our children and making a difference for the next genera tion.

Here are a few suggestions that may help you have this meaningful discussion.

Give children honest answers and in formation. Children will usually know, or eventually find out if you’re “making things up.” It may affect their ability to trust you or your reassurances in the fu ture.

Use words and concepts children can understand. Gear your explanations to the child’s age, language, and develop mental level.

Be prepared to repeat information and explanations several times. Some infor mation may be hard for them to accept or understand. Asking the same question over and over may also be a way for a child to ask for reassurance.

Howard University College of Medicine Appoints First Ever Black Woman Dean in 154 Years

By BlackNews.com

Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, M.D., FACS, FAAP has made history as the first Black woman dean of the Howard University College of Medicine in the institution’s 154-year history.

“I am truly honored and humbled to lead the outstanding Howard University Col lege of Medicine,” said Dixon, according to The Dig. “The responsibility of educat ing the nation’s next generation of leaders in medicine is an enormous responsibility that I take very seriously. I am excited to engender allies and friends to join me in the journey of moving Howard forward.”

In 2021, Dixon became the first wom an chair of the Department of Surgery at Howard University. Just a year later on October 3, Dixon was officially ap pointed dean of the university’s College of Medicine, succeeding Hugh Mighty, MD, MBA, FACOG, who previously held the position since 2015.

Now, Dixon is one of the 11 women serv ing as academic deans at Howard Univer sity.

Prior to joining Howard University, Dixon was a surgeon-in-chief and division chief of pediatric surgery, and professor of pediatric surgery and surgical oncology at the University of North Carolina (UNC)

Children’s Hospital. Moreover, among Dixon’s historic achievements were being the first Black woman in the US to become a boardcertified pediatric surgeon in 2004 and the first surgeon in the world to ever perform a high-risk surgery that saved the life of a teen with a rare form of abdominal cancer in 2006.

Grammy Award Winning Artist Kanye West Brings ‘Sunday Service’ to New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. (Photo by: atlantadailyworld.com)

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE ELM CITYCOMMUNITIES, HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEWHAVEN (ECC/HANH) MOVING TO WORK (MTW) FY2022 ANNUAL REPORT

Section V (B) of the Authority's Moving to Work Agreement {the "Agreement") requires that before the Agency can file its Approved Annual Moving to Work Plan & Report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (the "HUD") that it must conduct a public hearing, consider comments from the public on the proposed amend ments, obtain approval from the Board Of Commissioners, and submit the amendments to HUD.

Housing Authority the City of Bridgeport Request for Proposal (RFP) Project-Based Voucher Solicitation Number: 221-HCV-22-S

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

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Copies of the Moving To Work (MTW) FY2022 Report, will be made available on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 on the agency website www.elmcitycommunities.org or via Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities or via Facebook www.facebook.com/ElmCityCommunities.

NOTICIA

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is seeking proposals from developers and owners of New Construction, substan tial rehabilitation projects, or existing units that desire to enter into an Agreement for a Housing Assistance Payment (AHAP) Contract for Project Base Vouchers (PBVs) for Contract Units under PCC’s Project Based Voucher Program. Under this Request for Proposals, PCC will make available PBVs for units that will house extremely low and very low income households. A complete set of RFP documents can be obtained on October 24, 2022, by emailing your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed, or hand delivered to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement,150 Highland Ave, Bridge port, CT 06604. This RFP will remain Open until Completion of PBV.

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510

MINORITY CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY – Eagleville Green, Mansfield, CT SO

LICITATION OF SBE/MBE CONTRACTORS: Enterprise Builders, Inc., an Affirma tive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, seeks certified SBE/MBE Subcontractors and/ or suppliers and local business enterprises to bid applicable sections of work/equipment/ supplies for the following construction project: Eagleville Green: This project consists of an renovation to an existing single-family house consisting of one unit and new construc tion of seven new buildings consisting of 41 units in total and associated sitework. Bid Date and Time: 11/04/22 @ 3:00pm. Electronic Plans and specifications can be obtained at no charge by contacting the Estimating Department at Enterprise Builders at (860) 466-5188 or by email to bids@enterbuilders.com. Project is Tax Exempt and Federal Residential rate for the single-family rehab and there is no wage rate for the new con struction portion of this job. This project is subject to state set-aside and contract compli ance requirements. EBI encourages the participation of certified SBE/MBE contractors. EBI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guilford Housing Authority is currently accepting applica tions for single person and two person households for apartment waitlist at Guilford Court and Boston Terrace in Guilford, CT. Applicants must be age 62 and over or on 100% social security or federal disability and over the age of 18. Applications may be obtained by call the application line at 203-453-6262 EXT 107. Applications will be accepted until November 23, 2022 at 4PM. Credit, police, landlord checks are procured by the Authority. Smoking is prohibited in the units.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Opportunity Housing

bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the

Hartford, CT

You are invited to provide written comments addressed to: ECC/HANH, Moving To Work FY2022 Annual Report, Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 or via email to: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org.

Pursuant to said Section V (B), a public hearing where public comments will be accept ed and recorded is scheduled for Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 3:00pm via RingCen tral: https://v.ringcentral.com/join/975943490?pw=2e34ff6769797e68e96a95bb953d0d81 Meeting ID: 975943490

Password: yozWY5m3ib

Or dial: +12679304000 United States (Philadelphia, PA) Access Code / Meeting ID: 975943490 Dial-in password: 9699956342

Any individual requiring a Reasonable Accommodation to participate in the hearing may call the Reasonable Accommodation Manager (203) 498-8800, ext. 1507 or at the TDD Number (203) 497-8434.

AVISO DE AUDIÊNCIA PÚBLICA PARA THE ELM CITYCOMMUNITIES, AUTORIDADE DE HABITAÇÃO DE NEWHAVEN (ECC/HANH) MUDANÇA PARA O TRABALHO (MTW) RELATÓRIO ANUAL DE 2022

Invitation to Bid: 2nd Notice

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

A Seção V (B) do Contrato de Mudança para Trabalho da Autoridade {o "Contrato") ex ige que, antes que aAgência possa apresentar seu Plano Anual de Mudança para Trabalho e Relatório Aprovado para o Departamento de Habitação e Desenvolvimento Urbano dos EUA (o "HUD"), que deve conduzir uma audiência pública, considerar os comentários do público sobre as emendas propostas, obter a aprovação do Conselho de Comissários e submeter as emendas ao HUD.

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castin-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Cópias do relatório Moving To Work (MTW) FY2022 serão disponibilizadas na terçafeira, 1º de novembro de 2022, no site da agência www.elmcitycommunities.org ou via Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities ou via Facebook www.facebook.com/ElmCityCommunities.

Você está convidado a fornecer comentários por escrito endereçados a: ECC/HANH, Moving To Work FY2022 Annual Report, Attn: Evelise Ribeiro, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 ou via e-mail para: eribeiro@elmcitycommunities.org.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

De acordo com a referida Seção V (B), uma audiência pública onde os comentários públicos serão aceitos e registrados está agendada para terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2022, às 15h, via RingCentral: https://v.ringcentral.com/join/975943490? pw=2e34ff67 69797e68e96a95bb953d0d81

ID da reunião: 975943490

Senha: yozWY5m3ib

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes

Ou disque: +12679304000 Estados Unidos (Filadélfia, PA) Código de acesso/ID da reunião: 975943490 Senha de discagem: 9699956342

Qualquer indivíduo que necessite de uma Acomodação Razoável para participar da audiência pode ligar para o Gerente de Acomodação Razoável (203) 498-8800, ramal. 1507 ou no TDD Número (203) 497-8434.

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

Construction

NOTICE

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT

We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

Contact: Tom Dunay Phone: 860- 243-2300

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call (860) 6211720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

LEGAL NOTICE INVITATION TO BID AETNA DINER RESTORATION – PHASE 1

TEMPORARY ROOFING & SELECTIVE DEMOLITION/ABATEMENT

Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V Drug Free Workforce

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PVC FENCE PRODUCTION

Enterprise Builders Inc. (“EBI”), acting as Construction Manager, will receive qualified subcontractor proposals for the work associated with the project known as Aetna Diner Restoration – Phase 1 Temporary Roofing & Selective Demolition/Abatement (the “Project”). Bids shall be received via e-mail at bids@enterbuilders.com, on or before 3:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Bid bonds and Payment & Performance Bonds are not required.

The Work includes the interior selective demolition, asbestos abatement and temporary roofing of the historic diner building located at 267 Farmington Ave. in Hartford, CT. A mandatory prebid meeting for demo/hazmat and roofing subcontractors is scheduled for 10:00 am on Friday, October 21, 2022.

Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300

NOTICIA

Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply

Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Large CT Fence Company looking for an individual for our PVC Fence Production Shop. Experience preferred but will train the right person. Must be familiar with carpentry hand & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. Use of CNC Router machine a plus but not required, will train the right person. This is an in-shop production position. Duties include building fence panels, posts, gates and more. Must have a valid CT driver’s license & be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com. AA/EOE-MF

Drawings can be downloaded free of charge via iSqFt. Please reach out to the EBI contact below to request an invitation to bid. Documents may also be viewed at EBI’s office, 46 Shepard Drive, Newington, CT (8:00 am – 5:00 pm M-F).

This project is tax exempt. Project funding sources may require this project to be subject to State and local set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Union Company seeks:

Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, clean driving record, capable of operating heavy equipment; be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Construction

Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V Drug Free Workforce

For RFI’s and all other correspondence, please reach out to the following EBI contacts: Bryan Addy baddy@enterbuilders.com (860) 466–5120 and Matt Barone mbarone@ enterbuilders.com

The Owner and EBI reserve the rights to accept any, all, or any part of bids; to reject any, all, or any part of bids; to waive any non-material deficiencies in bid responses, to waive minor inconsistencies; and to award the bid that in its judgment will be in the best interests of the Owner.

EBI is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. Section 3, Veteran-owned and Small/Minority/Women’s business Enterprises are encouraged to participate.

Invitation to Bid: 2nd Notice

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units)

The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Labor Relations Specialist. Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions for this position are available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/ CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 220815&R2=5256MP&R3=001

LAROSA GROUPS IS GROWING

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

LaRosa Earth Group LLC, a Site/Excavation Company is currently looking to add the following full-time positions to our Team:

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castin-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Site Work Foreman:

Immediate opening for an experienced foreman for site work company. Good communication and organization skills a must. Must be able to read blueprints, perform site layout, operate equipment, schedule and supervise construction crews. CDL and P6 or P7 License preferred.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016

Equipment Operators:

Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

Immediate openings for Equipment Operators for winter work for site work company. Applicants must be able to operate excavators, dozers, skid steer, earth rollers, etc. Must be able to read blueprints and have knowledge of required daily equipment maintenance. CDL preferred.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER

Construction Laborers:

Laborers needed for immediate start for winter work for local site work company. Responsible for movement of earth materials, cleaning and removal of job site debris. Must be able to lift, carry and use hand tools.

For all positions listed above please fax resume to 203-630-1998, email to HR@LaRosaBG.com or apply in person at LaRosa Earth Group, 163 Research Parkway, Meriden, CT AA/EOE.

WATER TREATMENT

NOTICE

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE

LEGAL NOTICE INVITATION TO BID AETNA DINER RESTORATION – PHASE 2 MEP DESIGN/BUILD REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Enterprise Builders Inc. (“EBI”), acting as Construction Manager, will receive subcontractor qualifications and fee proposals for the MEP design/build work associated with the project known as Aetna Diner Restoration – Phase 2 (the “Project”). Responses shall be received via e-mail at bids@enterbuilders.com, on or before 3:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, October 27, 2022.

The Phase 2 work includes the complete interior and exterior renovation of the 5,300 sf historic diner building located at 267 Farmington Ave. in Hartford, CT. The project is currently in the design development phase.

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Please reach out to the EBI contact below to request a copy of the RFP documents.

NOTICIA

This project is tax exempt. Project funding sources may require this project to be subject to State and local set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

For RFI’s and all other correspondence, please reach out to the following EBI contacts: Bryan Addy baddy@enterbuilders.com (860) 466–5120 and Matt Barone mbarone@ enterbuilders.com

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

LEVEL I WATER TREATMENT PUMPING OPERATOR - The Town of Wallingford’s Water Division is seeking qualified candidates to maintain and operate the Town’s water treatment plants, pumping stations, storage tanks, and ground well facilities. Must process a High School Diploma or G.E.D with one (1) year of experience involving the operation or maintenance of equipment. In water supply and treatment; or a technical high school diploma with a demonstrated career and technical education related to electronics technology, electrical, H.V.A.C or water supply and treatment activities and operations or completion of a program in water management. Applicants must have or be able to obtain within 12 months a State of Connecticut Department of Public Health Class 1 or higher Water Treatment Plant Operator certification and completion of a program in water management. Wages: $27.49 - $33.40 hourly, plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone # 203-294-2080, Fax # 203-294-2084. The closing date will be November 8, 2022. EOE

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510

The Owner and EBI reserve the rights to accept any, all, or any part of bids; to reject any, all, or any part of bids; to waive any non-material deficiencies in bid responses, to waive minor inconsistencies; and to award the bid that in its judgment will be in the best interests of the Owner.

EBI is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. Section 3, Veteran-owned and Small/Minority/Women’s business Enterprises are encouraged to participate.

Property Appraiser

Assists the Town Assessor in all phases of the property appraisal function; Applicants must have an A.S. degree in economics, business, finance, real estate or related field plus 3 years of real estate or appraisal experience or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying experience substituting on a year-for-year basis. Must have a valid driver’s license. Salary: $33.97 - $42.66 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492, Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone (203) 294-2080. Fax: (203) 294-2084. The closing date will be that date the 50th application form/resume is received, or November 14, 2022 whichever occurs first. EOE

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Planning Analyst and a Fiscal Secretary (Secretary 2).

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Budget Specialist. Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions for this position are available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/ CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 221014&R2=0944MP&R3=001

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

MINORITY CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY – UCHC4 Main Building Laboratory Renovation, Farmington, CT SOLICITATION OF SBE/MBE CONTRACTORS: Enterprise Builders, Inc., an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, seeks certified SBE/MBE Subcontractors and/or suppliers and local business enterprises to bid applicable sections of work/equipment/supplies for the following construction project: UCHC4 Main Building Laboratory Renovation. This project consists of an interior renovation of a 9,500 sf which will be renovated to create a new state of the art laboratory space for research use. The renovation will require working within an occupied building, floors above and below the 2nd floor will be occupied during construction Bid Date and Time: 11/14/2022 @ 2:00pm. Electronic Plans and specifications can be obtained at no charge by contacting the Estimating Department at Enterprise Builders at (860) 466-5188 or by email to bids@enterbuilders.com. Project is Tax Exempt and will require prevailing wage rates. This project is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. EBI encourages the participation of certified SBE/MBE contractors. EBI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport Request for Proposal (RFP) Strategic Planning for Capital Funds Solicitation Number: 220-EO-22-S

Demolition, Site-work, Cast-

Vinyl Siding,

Residential Casework,

Fire Protection.

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is seeking consulting firms to develop a strategic plan for capital improvements of public housing in the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Solicitation package will be available on October 24, 2022, to obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A pre-proposal conference will be held via conference call on November 7, 2022, @ 2:00 p.m. Although attendance is not mandatory, submitting a bid for the project without attending conference is not in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than November 14, 2022 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed, or hand delivered by November 30, 2022 @ 3:00 PM, to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Late proposals will not be accepted.

Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions are available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/ bulpreview.asp?R1=221019&R2=6297AR&R3=001 and https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/ bulpreview.asp?R1=221020&R2=7539CL&R3=001

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the

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Health Disparities and Diabetes in the Black Community

By BlackDoctor.com

Diabetes is a devastating disease that im pacts millions of Americans. It, unfortu nately, heavily impacts the African Ameri can community at a rate that is hard to ignore. Just why is diabetes so prevalent in this community, and is there anything that can be done to address this problem? Fully understanding this issue and its scope can help this community fight back against worsening diabetes cases.

Why Black People Are at Higher Risk for Diabetes

The reasons why African Americans are at a higher risk for this disease include a complex interplay between various socio economic factors. These influences can vary depending on which sector of the community is affected but are consistent throughout many parts of the nation.

Factors Contributing to a Higher Inci dence of Diabetes in African Americans

In a study on diabetes, it was found that African American individuals had a signif icantly higher risk of diabetes than white people, at a rate of about 66 more cases per 1,000 people. This study examined how biological and socioeconomic factors influenced this risk, as well as psychoso cial concerns. The many factors that influ enced this problem included:

Obesity – The study leader stated that obesity was “driving” the higher risk in black people. They were surprised by this result because, over the last 20 years, there was a “narrative” that something else was at play besides obesity. However, the study found that this was not the case.

Poverty – Poorer neighborhoods often have less access to healthy and high-qual ity foods, and fast food restaurants are far more common in African American com munities than elsewhere. This can lead to excessive processed food that leads to dan gerous weight gain.

Health Care Accessibility – In this study, it was also found that African American communities were often poorly served by healthcare facilities. This often leads to slow diagnosis times and a lack of resourc es for people who did develop diabetes.

What Percentage of African Americans Have Diabetes?

The American Diabetes Association or ADA reported that the percentage of nonHispanic African Americans with diabetes was 11.7 percent. That’s nearly double the rates in non-Hispanic white individuals. Furthermore, African Americans were at a higher risk of more severe diabetes com plications. These included a 46 percent higher rate of diabetic retinopathy and a 2.6 times higher rate of end-stage renal disease caused by diabetes.

Why is Type 2 Diabetes More Common in African Americans?

Type 2 diabetes is more common in Af rican Americans because of a higher rate of obesity among this population. Type 2

is primarily triggered by obesity and the APA reports that the African American community includes a 48 percent obe sity rate compared to 32.6 percent among white people. That higher obesity risk makes this condition far more likely to develop.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is defined as a chronic health condition that impacts your pancreas and how it operates. Your pancreas creates insulin to break down the sugar or glu cose you ingest when eating carbohydrate foods. The pancreas in a person with dia betes no longer produces insulin or pro duces it at a much lower level. This causes a dangerous increase in sugar in your blood that can damage your body. Just a few things caused by diabetes include:

• Heart disease, including a higher risk of strokes

• Loss of vision or complete blindness

• Kidney disease or kidney failure

• Neuropathy or dead tissue in your ex tremities

These health problems develop slowly and can be either significantly decreased or stopped with diabetes treatment. Catch ing early symptoms of diabetes is also important because it can help those in the African American community know when they need care or special attention.

Common Symptoms of Diabetes

There are many symptoms that may in dicate diabetes. These can vary heavily depending on the person and the severity of your condition. If you or someone you love is worried about diabetes, it is essen tial to pay attention to symptoms like:

• Excessive thirst and frequent urination

• Unexplained weight loss or weight fluc tuations

• Exhaustion and weakness, even with rest

• Mood changes and surprising irritabil ity

• Blurred vision or other vision problems

• Slow-healing sores on the body

• Infections throughout the gums, skin, and other sensitive areas

• Coldness in many extremities caused by poor circulation

Three Types of Diabetes

Diabetes is not a singular disease but three separate conditions that produce similar symptoms. Each has varying in tensity levels, but all three are potentially dangerous if not caught early and treated. The three diabetes types to watch for in clude:

Type 1 – Type 1 diabetes occurs early in a person’s life when their immune sys tem attacks their pancreas. This disease is not preventable and occurs in 5-10% of all cases. It also cannot be reversed, as type 2 diabetes may be in some situations.

Type 2 – Type 2 diabetes may occur at any point and is usually triggered by ex cessive weight gain and diet. It is prevent able and can be reversed by controlling weight gain and exercising more regu larly. It affects 90 to 95 percent of people who have diabetes.

Gestational Diabetes – Gestational dia betes develops in women who are preg nant and disappears after they give birth. However, some women may have linger ing diabetes symptoms and may be at a higher risk of developing type two diabe tes after pregnancy.

What Causes Diabetes?

Diabetes occurs for many reasons. Type 1 may occur if a child has a genetic pre disposition toward diabetes, including a family history of diabetes. Its triggering cause is mysterious and not always easy to predict beyond that connection to fam ily history.

Type 2 is almost always caused by poor diet and minimal exercise, especially weight gain. The pancreas starts to mal function because of high sugar levels, which puts a larger demand on it than nor mal. This can cause the pancreas to slow its function and may even stop it from working.

Gestational diabetes occurs because of the higher demand for insulin placed on a woman’s body due to the baby. As the baby develops, its body needs insulin. The mother may, therefore, eat more food and synthesize higher levels of insulin to pro vide for the baby, tiring the pancreas.

Type 2 remains the most common type in the African American community due to socioeconomic factors like highly pro cessed diets, fast food, minimal chances for exercise, and poor access to healthcare facilities. Treatment can help minimize or even reverse type 2 and gestational diabe tes.

Common Diabetes Treatments

Diabetes treatments center on providing the body with enough insulin to process glucose. You typically take insulin supple ments several times a day after checking your blood sugar levels. High levels re quire larger doses to help reduce the se verity of this disease on the body.

Insulin doses, whether through syringes,

pens, or pumps, are the only way to treat type 1 diabetes. An Artificial pancreas or automated insulin delivery system helps those with very severe type 1 diabetes. Those with type 2 also receive insulin doses but may also get other types of care.

For example, lifestyle changes can de crease symptoms and even stop type 2 dia betes entirely. These changes should occur quickly in the disease to give the body time to recover. Medications may help balance a person’s pancreas health and nurse it back to a more robust operation.

Gestational diabetes often includes regu lar physical activity, careful glucose man agement, changes in diet, and temporary insulin shots. These shots help take some pressure off the pancreas and help make it easier for pregnant women to prevent long-term risk for type 2 diabetes.

Promoting Diabetes Prevention in the Black Community

Diabetes prevention is a critical way of minimizing this disease’s impact and can help keep minimize long-term complica tions. Within the black community, this can include promoting activities like:

• Losing weight by getting more exercise and eating a better diet

• Managing stress, which can contribute to excessive eating behaviors

• Quitting smoking tobacco, an addiction that impacts nearly 15 percent of all Afri can Americans

• Improving access to healthcare facili ties, including providing better commu nity resources

• Teaching healthier habits to African American children in school, such as the importance of balanced diets

Finding Support and Resources for Diabetes

Here are a few resources that African Americans with diabetes can use to learn more about their condition or get help from professional organizations:

• American Diabetes Month – November 2022 – Every November, people can reach out to various healthcare organizations to learn more about how to prevent and man age diabetes.

• The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists’ Tools and Resourc es – This organization includes several resources and tools that help people live with diabetes more easily.

• The Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes’ Resources for African Ameri cans with Diabetes – African Americans with diabetes can use this site to learn more about this condition.

Taking Care of Your Health

If you or someone you love is an Afri can American with a high risk of diabetes, download the Evidation App or sign-up for Evidation online. This app helps to track your health and provides helpful resources that can help improve overall health.