Broadway Fillmore Alive (BFA) is excited to announce the addition of Kate Mockler as a writer here at BFA. For the last few month’s, I have put a call out to get more people involved with Broadway Fillmore Alive. A number of people have offered to help. Look for some more exciting projects by BFA in the coming months with folks who will become part of Team Alive.
Back to Kate. She inquired about writing for BFA. Her coming on board will help expand the content you see here and increase BFA’s coverage of neighborhood. It all fits into our mission.
Our mission is to work together with community groups, businesses, residents, churches and other organizations to help promote, preserve and revitalize the Broadway-Fillmore area.
When BFA was started in late 2005 by Mike Miller, Michele Johnson and me, our goal was to start promoting the neighborhood as a sum of all its parts. Through the power of internet, we wanted to open a window into the neighborhood showing people that it was far from dead and was ALIVE. BFA really took off from there. Kate Mockler will now add to this vision.
This is from Kate about her:
I’m very excited to be writing for Broadway Fillmore Alive! I’m a long-time admirer of the blog and a Western New York native. I am a newlywed living on Buffalo’s west side with my husband and my cat. For two and a half years, I served as a reporter for the Amherst Bee, where I wrote stories on everything from the Parrothead Fan Club to the new zoning codes and beyond. I have also written for Western New York Heritage Magazine and worked in history museums. I have a passion for uncovering the hidden, and for seeking out the stories that make people think differently about their world. I look forward to exploring the Broadway Fillmore area!
Over the next week or two, you will start seeing stories from her on the internet pages of BFA. She is going to fit in well here and help tell the story of why Broadway-Fillmore is still alive.
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Let’s get a pilot community paper going. I have contacts at Canisius and we could make the pitch to create a monthly community paper – going to bi-weekly. I’m betting we could get some interns from one of the colleges to help with writing and formatting, with the college getting printing done. We could put calls out to roaming reporters (teens) who could write positive articles about the neighborhood. All this stems from a community meeting at the Urban Center where a woman lamented that “there is no sense of community” in the neighborhood. A community newspaper would be a good start. We could get the councilman office to write a monthly update, an article from the Block Club, Market, and other ethic community pieces.
Let’s get together to discuss. This idea was brought up to the SFBC and was well received.
Carl
Chris,
I know how hard you work at this and the neighborhood. This is wonderful news. Good luck Kate!
Thanks Maria! 🙂