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The photos are from the HOPE Center’s Mother’s Day Celebration that was held on Friday, May 11th.

Mom’s got their hair and nails done for free and children go to make/pick something out for Mom from the center’s craft/boutique corner.

Great work by great people!

A L I V E!

Video comes courtesy of Artvoice TV.

Nice job Hannah Hampton!

The Matt Urban Hope Center is hosting a community meeting on May 16th at 5pm at the Matt Urban Hope Center (385 Paderewski, Buffalo) to discuss relocating the Hope Center to the closed Public School 57 (on Sears St).

The move would allow the Hope Center to expand their services to the community to include a vocational training element, a shelter for women and children, the Urban Diner and a health clinic.

The Matt Urban Hope Center is a great organization that provides a wide variety of services for the neighborhood.

Please join them on 06/30/2012 @ 8pm for HOPEfest!!!

Tickets are $5.00 and are available at the door, or pre-sale, by calling call 893-7222 ext. 302.

+ music + food + cash bar + basket and 50/50 raffles + door prize

Visit the center on Facebook—> http://www.facebook.com/pages/HOPE-Center/247572050724

Please join the Broadway Market on Saturday May 12, 2012 at the Broadway Market as they celebrate Mom!

We will have some special vendors on hand along with our traditional vendors!

The Carol McLaughlin Jazz Ensemble will take the Market Stage from 11am to 2pm!!!

Music, food, flowers and MOM!!!

http://broadwaymarket.org

(Janice Stevens – Wilson Street Urban Farm) What an interesting spring we have  had.   Two weeks of 70 -80 degree weather, then a major freeze.  Then warm again, then snow.  I’m placing faith in the idea that this latest warming trend is going to last – at least that we won’t get any more snow or temperatures in the teens!

This week has seen a flurry of activity on the farm.  Tomatoes and peppers were started in the house weeks ago and they were desperately wanting to be transplanted into 4″ blocks outside, so Mark and Jerusha made  380 4 inch blocks and lined them up on boards in the hoop house ready for transplants.  Sad, leggy tomatoes have been placed in their blocks and should be happy again soon.  Alex planted some of her peppers in the hoop house ground as well as putting some in blocks.    Cabbage and Swiss chard were planted in their outside boxes.  Herbs were transplanted into pots and barrels around the yard.

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A few months ago, I posted a piece called “Demolishing Polonia: It is only a matter of time” about the Lumen Bearing Co. complex on Sycamore and Lathrop.  Well, its time has come to be demolished.

As the photos illustrate, everything is in place for the demo to begin.

It is sad.  With a little TLC, the place could have survived time and the wrecking ball.  But after years of neglect, it will go the way like a lot places in the neighborhood.

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Out of sight, out of mind.

A majority of publicity the Broadway Market receives is at Easter time.  No big news to you, right?

The whole Easter experience has become such a huge Buffalo tradition that hardly any advertising is needed during this time.  People come, local media does a ton of stories and the spotlight is on 999 Broadway. The problem is attracting people the rest of the year.

Some vendors in the market do their own advertising and that is great.  But the Broadway Market needs some innovation to help keep the it in the public’s eye year-round.  An easy way to do this would be to pool the resources of existing market vendors.  Vendors should be active partners in the trying to make the place a year-round destination.

The Broadway Market could create a program where vendors participate in an advertising plan that would be mutually beneficial to the market as whole.  Think weekly or monthly ads promoting specials.  Whether it be print, radio or TV, the market would be selling itself to the public.  People need to be reminded that the Broadway Market is open for business and what it has to offer.

Easy…

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From  Adam Mickiewicz Library & Dramatic Circle’s Facebook Page:

We’ll be open on Thursday, May 3 for our annual celebration of Polish Constitution Day ! Doors open at 7 p.m.

There are many celebrations around the world on this day. In Chicago there is a parade and many parties, in Poland, it’s a State Holiday.

For more on the similarities between the Polish Constitution of May 3rd and the U.S. Constitution, read Judge Carl Bucki’s article at: http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/constitution.html