HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
By Staff | May 11, 2008
FROM EVERYONE HERE AT BFA TO ALL THE MOTHERS OUT THERE, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
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Corpus Christi Procession - 05/25/08
By Christopher Byrd | May 9, 2008
If you want to do something truly unique and something that celebrates your faith, you have to partake in the Corpus Christi Procession on Sunday, May 25, 2008…it is hard for me to describe the event…just come!
It begins with Mass at 1:30 pm at Corpus Christi. After Mass, a procession will begin at Corpus Christi Church (3:00 pm) and proceed to St. Stanislaus Church. The event has grown over the last few years.
It follows forty hours devotion to the Holy Eucharist beginning on Friday at 9:00P.M. and ending on Sunday at 1:00P.M. at Corpus Christi. The church is open to the public 24/7 during this time with parishioners vounteering to ensure someone is always there…I have personally been there after midnight the last couple of years to the wee hours of the morning. It is truly a time to reflect and pray.
You don’t have to be parishioner…you don’t have to be Catholic…it is simply a celebration of faith in Jesus…it is one of my favorite B-F events.
Please consider coming to either the devotion or the procession.
The above video is from last year’s procession.
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Saint Stanislaus Choir CDs Now Available Online
By Christopher Byrd | May 8, 2008
Click here to find out how you can purchase and listen to samples of what is available…
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Buffalo News: Case involving former church ends
By Around the Web | May 8, 2008
(Matt Gryta - Buffalo News) A fresh coat of paint and a judge’s order Wednesday ended the 15-year-old Housing Court case over the former Transfiguration Catholic Church.
Hours after Buffalo City Judge Joseph A. Fiorella dismissed all charges against the Francis Associates organization of William F. Trezevant and his mother, Paula Nowak, a contractor applied the second coat of paint to a wooden structure at the rear of the Sycamore Street icon.
“Now that this nightmare is over we can get on with providing a facility that will be of benefit to the neighborhood and the entire city,” said Trezevant, after ordering the painting that had been requested by Senior Deputy Corporation Counsel David Rodriquez. Fiorella dismissed the case after Building Inspector Tracy Krug confirmed that repair work on the former church’s two-story-tall steeple had been completed and Rodriquez pressed for the second coat of paint.
[read full story at Buffalo News]
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Central Terminal: State of the Project Message
By Michael Miller | May 7, 2008
As you all are aware by now, Russell Pawlak has stepped down after 8 years as President and more than 10 years of involvement with the project. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Russell for his unyielding dedication, passion and hard work. At the beginning of his term as President, Russell battled against all odds and the conventional wisdom at that time to draw local, national and international attention to the terminal and was instrumental in starting its rebirth as the treasured community asset it is today.
I am confident that the CTRC’s collective experience and vision as a team will continue to work towards the same goals that Russell had strived for during the last decade. We all wish him the very best personally, as well as in his future endeavors on the Preservation Board and as a new board member of the Broadway Market. I am certain that his drive and passion will be of great benefit to these efforts, as well as to the entire city of Buffalo.
Effective immediately, I will assume the duties of President, Mark Lewandowski will remain our Treasurer, as well as assuming the duties of Vice President, and Sara Etten will remain our Secretary. Kate Resetarits, Yuri Hreschyshyn and Ed Werick also will remain on the board of directors. We will be looking to fill 3 vacant board positions before the end of the year.
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Groundbreaking ceremony for the Crescent Village Project
By Staff | May 7, 2008
May 12, 2008 - Promptly at 11 am - @ Project Site (lot adjacent to 382 Sweet Street)
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, the Deputy Mayor Donna Brown, Common Council President David A. Francyzk, Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Matt Urban Center and others will make brief remarks. Representatives from the City of Buffalo’s Office of Strategic Planning, members of the Masjid Zakariya Mosque, the Matt Urban Center’s Board and various other community members will be on hand to participate in the groundbreaking. The ceremony will be open to press coverage.
The Crescent Village Project is a collaborative effort between the Matt Urban Center, the Masjid Zakariya Mosque on Sobieski Street, the City of Buffalo’s Office of Strategic Planning, and the Broadway-Fillmore community residents. It is a major residential redevelopment initiative designed to stimulate the revitalization of the Broadway Fillmore neighborhood located on Buffalo’s East Side. This exciting $4.5 million dollar project proposes to employ a comprehensive neighborhood redevelopment approach.
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GOOGLE: Support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma)
By Christopher Byrd | May 7, 2008
http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/
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Saving the Sattler Theater - Part II
By Michael Miller | May 6, 2008
CTRC Secretary Sara Etten and I met with Mike Quinniey and Tyrone Christopher of the Western New York Minority Media Professionals on Saturday to establish a partnership with them that will hopefully help us both in our restoration efforts. They are just beginning efforts to restore the beautiful old Sattler Theater at 512 Broadway. You can read more about it in today’s Buffalo News, but you read it here on BFA more than 2 weeks ago!
Mike and Tyrone are great guys and we are looking forward to working with them!
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Gibson Street Café is to become Community Café & Resource Center
By Around the Web | May 5, 2008
(By Joyelle Tedeschi, YWCA) In August 2007, the YWCA embarked on an endeavor to open the doors of the building located at 224 Gibson St., in the Broadway-Fillmore District of Buffalo’s lower east side. As a graduate student fromthe University at Buffalo (with an MSW Community Concentration) and with experience working in the field, I was eager to be a part of such an exciting project.
The Broadway-Fillmore community suffers from poverty and isolation, yet is home to one of Buffalo’s most culturally and historically treasured neighborhoods. I value deeply my own connection with the neighborhood. My father grew up there and met my mother at the local dance hall that now houses the Matt Urban Center. It is the home of The Broadway Market and the location of St. Stanislaus, where I celebrate Dyngus Day every year with my father. My attachment to the neighborhood gives me a special motivation to fight the poverty in this community.
Since August 2007, the YWCA has made strides toward the opening of the Café, while never losing sight of our mission to empower. The first step in the program development was to ask residents what their community needed. Once the needs-assessments were completed, the programs were laid out and returned to the residents for their approval. The result of the discussion with the members of the community was the objective of the Community Café. The title of the Café itself conveys the importance of the community, both in residents’ involvement with development, as well as the needs the Café will serve.
[read more about proposal here - .pdf]
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