Challenger Community News August 24,2016

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Celebrate Jefferson Avenue Unity Day! PG. 3 INTERNATIONAL

Blacks in London Host First Ever Transatlantic Slave Trade Memorial PG. 4

Keeping The Funk Alive!

Buffalo will Host Two-Day Rick James “Funk Fest” Celebration August 26 & 27 PG. 8 INSIDE ROCHESTER

Rochester Author Releases New Novel

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Women In the Spotlight PG. 2

Going Global Empowerment PG. 7 Weekend!

CAPTAIN DENNIS MUHAMMAD BRINGS “10,000 FEARLESS PEACE KEEPERS “ MESSAGE TO BUFFALO PG. 3

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Rochester Board of Education Public Hearing The Rochester Board of Education will conduct a public hearing regarding the Contract for Excellence on Thursday, August 25th, at 6p.m. in Conference Room 3A of the Central Office Building, which is located at 131 West Broad Street.

The Contract for Excellence is based on New York State law requiring school districts to develop a plan to improve academic achievement, particularly for students with the greatest educational needs.

The District’s 2016-17 plan for the Contract for Excellence can be found on the website at: www.rcsdk12. org/c4e. Public comment will be submitted to the State in a transcript along with the plan.

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Rochester Author/Publisher Releases Scathing Don’t Miss Sankofa Theatre & Jazz Fest!

Novel About Teacher’s Double Life ROCHESTER, NY - The scathing novel Always Want More is back. This story of a teacher’s double life has created an appetite among readers everywhere. The second edition of Always Want More was released in June.

Sankofa Evening of Theatre & Jazz Fest 2016 PRESENTED BY: MMB Theatre 1 Project FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Curtis K. Rivers SYNOPSIS: One full-length play and seven one-act plays.

This is the ninth year of this annual theatre festival.

Originally released in 2014, the second edition includes a page titled "What Can I Do?" that suggests ways readers can contribute to urban education. A page titled "Want More of Always Want More?" provides information for book clubs and readers interested in engaging with the author.

WEEK ONE PERFORMANCES/SHOW TIMES: The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. A reception follows the opening night performance, with award-winning playwright Anne L. Thompson-Scretching in attendance for her play Four Men On A Couch.

Always Want More chronicles Tracy Mitchell’s journey as a Admission that evening for both the show and first-year teacher in an inner-city school district and the delireception is $18 in advance and $20 at the door. ciously dangerous balancing act she walks between her profesGroup rates available for parties of five or more.

Banke Awopetu-McCullough sional and personal life. When the two worlds collide she is Additional performances of Thompson-Scretching's left with a decision. Will her desire to reach children classified full-length play Four Men On A Couch, a comedy/drama, as "hopeless" be enough to keep her from a forbidden life with her soulmate? are at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, Aug. 27 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug 27.

“Always Want More is a teacher’s story,” states author Banke Awopetu-McCullough. “Teaching Admission is $16 in advance and $20 at the door.Group was my whole world when I was writing it and honestly I think I resented that a bit. I always imag- rates for five or more are available through Mood Makers Books. ined that teaching would be a passing career and when it required so much I was little rebellious.

I imagined another life,one more exciting and dangerous.

WEEK TWO PERFORMANCES/SHOW TIMES: “The character of Tracy arose from that.,” she continues. “I wrote what I wanted to read—some- The festival continues at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, thing soulful; rooted in Blackness that was sexy, stirring, and fast paced. By writing this story I Continued Page 9 was able to explore all that I felt in the classroom—power, obligation, pride, duty, disappointment.

It was cathartic.”

Teaching by day and writing at night, it took McCullough three years to complete her debut novel.

It took an additional three years of trying to secure a book deal before she established her own publishing company, Concrete Rose Publications (whose name is inspired

by Tupac Shakur’s “The Rose that Grew From Concrete”).

Always Want More can be purchased on banketheauthor. com, amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and 30 other online retailers.

ABOUT BANKE AWOPETU-MCCULLOUGH Banke Awopetu-McCullough is an adjunct professor at Monroe Community College.

Ms. McCullough and her husband reside in Rochester, New York. Visit her online at banketheauthor.com.

ABOUT CONCRETE ROSE PUBLICATIONS Concrete Rose Publications tells beautifully painful stories that entertain, enlighten, and empower. It is our belief that carefullycrafted art can uplift entire communities.

Visit concreterosepublications.com.

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AREA BRIEFS

Former Buffalo Resident Dennis Muhammad brings his “10,000 Fearless PeaceKeepers” Message to Buffalo this weekend

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Samuel Herbert, host (left) and Dr. Cash.

he founder of The Peacekeepers and former security guard for the Hon. Louis Farrakhan, Captain Dennis Muhammad, will bring his Peacekeepers initiative to Buffalo on Saturday, August 27 at the Rafi Green Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore from 1-4 p.m. and again on Sunday, August 28, at Muhammad Mosque #23,

1325 Main Street near Riley from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. The community is urged to attend.

The timing for his visit could not have been better.

As reported in Tuesdays Buffalo News, the number of homicides in Buffalo rose to 29 so far this year following the weekend killings of a woman and a man. There have been five homicides so

School Superintendent Dr. Cariol Horne Cash to Address Community Cariol Horne is Umoja’s on Upcoming Talk Show

Woman of the Year

Cariol Horne will be honored as Umoja’s Woman of the Year on Sunday, September 11 from 6-10 p.m. at Musicians Big 6 at Fox and E. North, hosted by Bro. Sam Radford.

Featured will be live music by Oasis and Sabu Adeyola and a dinner buffet catered by Umoja. Tickets may be purchased at Bus Stop Liquor, 11 Grider St. or call Bro. Peoples at 8923462.

Superintendent of Buffalo Public Schools Dr. Kriner Cash will appear on WUFO Radio 1080 AM’s “The Truth Nothing But The Truth So Help Us God” Wednesday August 31 from 1:30 to 2 p.m.

The show is hosted by Samuel A. Herbert. Dr. Cash will update the community on the upcoming new school year and take questions from the listening audience. Be sure to tune in! Photo Raven Mozee

Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Griot Storytelling Project The Michigan Street African American Heritage Coridor is looking for stories about life in the Michigan Street Heritage Corridor. Won’t you share your memories of places you visited, people you’ve met, or events that took place along Michigan Avenue, Broadway, William Street and blocks nearby? Perhaps you enjoyed the Little Harlem, the Moonglow, grew up around the Michigan Street YMCA, or attended a church on Michigan Avenue. Perhaps you grew up in the Fruit Belt, or around Ferry and Michigan. Maybe you have mem- Billboard at the corner of ories from childhood days on the Broadway and Michigan in streets near First Shiloh Baptist the Heritage Corridor.

Church. If so then you have a corridor story to tell and we would like you to share your stories with us so that we may preserve our community history.

If you are interested in sharing a story go to: www.michiganstreetbuffalo.org or write to: The African American Heritage Corridor, 111 Genesee Street Suite 401, Buffalo NY 14203 716 259-8888

Celebrate Jefferson Avenue Unity Day & Arts Festival!

It’s been known over the years as only the Jefferson Avenue Arts Festival, but organizers this year have added “unity” to its name! “We are hoping to build unity through the arts,” said 50 Women With A Vision representative and one of the festival organizers Valeria Cray. There will be art, music, dance, food, kids activities and more! it all takes place on Sunday, August 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Historic Jefferson Avenue between E. Utica and E. Ferry Street. See you there!

far this month, the News report notes, and 26 of the 29 homicide victims w e r e shot. The m o s t shootings of any month so far in 2016 happened in July – a total of 37 persons.

Muhammad said reducing urban murder rates is only part of a broader goal. “We try to put hope into those who have lost hope,” he said in a national interview.

“When people ask me if the Peacekeepers is effective, I have to ask them: How do you measure hope?”

Speaking on Jim Anderson’s show Monday on WUFO Radio, he charged that Black men have not been responsible and met up to their “God given obligation as men” to protect their women and communities, and make our neighborhoods decent places to live.

Captain Dennis, a former Buffalo resident, after having been trained by the Nation of Islam for over 30 years, founded the Peacekeepers Global Initiative.

It is described as a community action plan to promote peace, love and unity in communities plagued by crime and gun violence.

DA Candidates to Debate Criminal Justice Issues Candidates running for Erie County District Attorney will share their criminal justice philosophies and plans for running the office in a debate at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, in the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Participating will be acting District Attorney Michael J. Flaherty Jr., endorsed Democrat John J. Flynn Jr. and former Assistant District Attorney Mark A. Sacha.

Ahosi

Fearless Black Female Warriors Throughout History Part I The Ahosi or Mino allfemale military regime were Fon people living in the Kingdom of Dahmoney.

They referred to themselves as Ahosi – meaning “king’s wives” – or Mino – meaning “our mothers” in the Fon language. The women were fierce. They had no qualms about decapitating soldiers in the midst of a fight. In fact, they became known for it. Beheadings did not end on the battlegrounds. Those unlucky enough to be taken captive suffered the same fate.

In 1851 Seh-Dong-HongBeh, a mighty leader of the Ahosi, led an army of 6,000 against the Egba’s Abeokuta fortress in Nigeria. Though the Mino were ferocious fighters, their spears and bows were no failed against the Egba’s European cannons. Only 1,200 Mino survived as a result.

Still, Europeans themselves could not out do the Ahosi.

King Behanzin – the 11th ruler of Dahomey – sent the Mino with male soldiers to take down the French in 1890 during the First FrancoDahomean War. Teaming the women and men together showed the equality between genders in government rule.

It was women’s skill in combat that led the French to lose several battles against the Fon. Continued Page 11

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White Lives Matter’ Group Protests Outside Houston NAACP

Blacks in London Host First-Ever Memorial Service for Victims of Transatlantic Slave Trade

By Ricky Riley

On Aug. 22, a group of organizers held the first memorial to enslaved Africans at Trafalgar Square in London, England.

According to organizers, many Englishmen hardly acknowledge the day that brings awareness to the Transatlantic Slave trade.

This is the first-ever memorial service for International Slavery Remembrance Day,” one organizer states. “This day passes by largely unnoticed, and most people are unaware that the day exists.”

Echoing those sentiments, British rapper and activist Akala says it has always been a problem when Black people remember their history.

“When Black people remember their victim-hood at the hand of the British empire, apparently they should get over it and it is all in the past,” he explains. ” Even though the legacy is still here …”

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated Aug. 23 International Slavery Remembrance Day to recognize the Haitian Revolution.That revolution which shocked and put European colonial powers on high alert, began Aug. 22, 1791, but continued the following day.Furthermore, UNESCO cited the revolution as the spark that ignited abolition in the western world.

Organizers of the memorial expressed hopes that the awareness grows.

Black Writers Rally To Save Langston Hughes’ Home

A Black artist collective is trying to raise money to keep the space occupied by literary giant Langston Hughes and turn it into a cultural space and museum.

Hughes was one of the great leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. His home still stands on 127th Street in Harlem today.

Hughes used the top floor of the home as his workroom from 1947 to his death in 1967; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The current owner, who remains anonymous, listed the unoccupied dwelling for $1 million (which still has his typewriter on a shelf) a few years ago, but it did not sell.

CNN Money reports that in a rapidly gentrifying New York, the home is now worth over $3 million.

Now that it’s on the market, writer Renee Watson has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise $150,000 to rent the home and turn it into a cultural center.

To donate to the fund, please go to the I, Too, Arts Collective Indigogo page.

Twenty members of a “White lives matter” group protested outside the NAACP in Houston’s 3rd Ward last week calling out what they said was the civil rights organization’s failure to speak out against proBlack organizations like Black Lives Matter, SFGate reports.

“We came out here to protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking out against the atrocities that organizations like Black Lives Matter and other proBlack organizations have caused the attack and killing of White police officers, the burning down of cities and things of that nature,” protester Ken Reed told the news site. “If they’re going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold their people accountable.”

Members of the “White lives matter” group carried Confederate flags and held assault rifles, as well as “White lives matter” signs.

Legendary Journalist, Black Press Columnist George Curry Remembered as Champion of Civil Rights (TriceEdneyWire) - Renowned civil rights and Black political journalist George E. Curry, the dean of Black press columnists because of his riveting weekly commentary in Black newspapers across the country, is being remembered this week as a legend.

Curry died suddenly of heart failure on Saturday, August 20. He was 69.

The funeral will be held Saturday, August 27, at 11 a.m. at the Weeping Mary Baptist Church, 2701 20th Street, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Rev. Al Sharpton will give the eulogy.

A viewing on Saturday will be from 8:30-11 am.

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Assembly’s Comprehensive Housing Plan Addresses Diverse Needs

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he New York State Assembly is often referred to as the “People’s House” - and for good reason. Every day, we work to ensure that New York families have access to the things that they need most: a living wage, a quality education and housing that offers security and stability.

Housing is fundamental to our health and daily lives, and for many New Yorkers, it is their greatest monthly expense. The number of New Yorkers who must devote a majority of income toward rent continues to rise: in 2012, it was reported that more than three million households in our state paid at or above the affordability threshold of 30 percent of household income for housing. Even worse, more than half of those households spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing. It is clear that an affordable housing crisis exists CRYSTAL in New York State.

PEOPLESAs part of the enacted state budget, the STOKES Assembly championed a $2 billion housing plan to meet the diverse needs of New Yorkers all across the state. These funds are subject to a Memorandum of Understanding between the Assembly, the Senate, and the Governor that will define how this money will be spent. For the Assembly Majority, the priorities couldn’t be more clear.

Our plan would invest in much-needed public housing capital repairs, the revitalization of Mitchell-Lama properties, an expansion of affordable housing opportunities for seniors and vulnerable populations, as well as other programs and initiatives.

Creating New Affordable Housing An unacceptable number of New Yorkers are spending too much of their income on housing, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to afford food, utilities, and other necessary household goods. Without the creation of new affordable housing units, New Yorkers will be facing higher housing costs, which can lead to the displacement of existing residents and an increase in the number of households for whom housing is no longer affordable. The creation and preservation of affordable

housing will help to solve the housing crisis and homelessness epidemic, and ensure that all New Yorkers have access to quality and safe housing. Significant to achieving this goal in the long-term is the preservation of our existing housing stock, be it publicly or privately owned.

Improving Existing Public Housing New York State has a longstanding tradition of providing public housing to those New Yorkers who need it most. Today, approximately eight percent of New York City’s rental units are managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and nearly half a million of the city’s residents live in these units. Many of these properties are aging and are in desperate need of repair, and the Assembly plan allocates funds to make these much needed capital improvements.

Addressing Homelessness and New York’s Most Vulnerable Populations New York’s most vulnerable populations are in need of funding as well. Investments in supportive housing are the most effective way to end homelessness for those who need it most, such as individuals coping with mental illness, trauma or abuse, substance use disorder or other chronic illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Numerous studies on the costs and benefits of public housing have reached the same conclusion: leaving these vulnerable individuals and families homeless is extremely costly to taxpayers and providing them with supportive housing saves more than enough money to pay for the housing, while also providing savings to taxpayers Investing in supportive housing is a common sense solution that is not only fiscally responsible, but is an investment that provides people an opportunity to turn their lives around.

The Assembly Majority supports the inclusion of of funding for the construction and operation of at least 6,000 new supportive housing units statewide, and secured the release of the first years’ worth of funding to begin the creation of these units. Our plan includes $30 million to create supportive housing for the homeless in upstate New York.

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HEALTH MATTERS

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7th Annual Gina Davis Walking 4 Hope On August 27Jes Breathe will host its 7th Annual Gina Davis Walking 4 Hope at MLK Park from 9a.m. -3pm.

There will be free mammograms from noon to 3p.m. and HIV testing from 9a.m.-3p.m. A Representative from NYS Emergency Preparedness Department will conduct Emergency Preparedness Training at 1p.m.

The 2.9 mile Motorcade will begin at 10 a.m. led by the Buffalo Police Department, at Best and Herman Street. Each vehicle represents a specific type of cancer. This year’s Slow Roll and Jes Roll bike clubs will ride their bicycles in the parade. There will also be testimonies from cancer survivors. Come out and enjoy this fun family oriented event!

For more information call 1-855-537-4073.

The Health Benefits of Apple Cider Apple cider vinegar works best as a preventative tonic, but it can be used as a traditional home remedy for certain conditions as well.

1. It restores PH balance in your body Your pH balance is the ratio between acidity and alkalinity.

The modern Western diet is, unfortunately, very acidic, and as a result pushes our pH levels too far toward the acidic end of the spectrum. High acidity in the body has been linked to chronic fatigue, upset stomach, and a smorgasbord of other health problems. Drinking some apple cider vinegar can help restore your body’s alkaline levels and bring your pH levels into a healthy range.

2. Apple cider vinegar is a pre-biotic One of the greatest things about drinking apple cider vinegar is that you will benefit from its natural pre-biotic properties.

This means that consuming it will help replenish your gut with beneficial bacteria that will improve your digestion. This is especially beneficial for those who may have damaged their gut biome with antibiotics.

3. It has natural anti-inflammatory properties Apple cider vinegar has antioxidants which combat harmful free radicals in the body. This can help relieve inflammation and the plethora of health issues linked to it.

4. It prevents kidney stones Kidney stones can be excruciatingly painful. Apple cider vinegar’s alkaline properties can help reduce the acidity in blood and urine, which leads to crystallization. This leads to the formation kidney stones.

5. It may help you lose weight Apple cider vinegar helps curb your appetite, so you feel full longer and don’t experience the urge to overeat. It also raises your metabolism so you won’t put on weight easily. However, it’s not an instant cure for obesity. Drinking some vinegar isn’t going to make you lose 20 pounds overnight. It should be included as part of a healthy lifestyle and diet focused on losing weight.

How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar for Health The simplest way to use it is to simply mix it with water and drink up. Blend 1-2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with an 8-oz glass of water and enjoy. It should have a somewhat tart taste.

2016 Recovery Day

Cazenovia Recovery Systems, Inc. is celebrating the achievements of those who have recovered from addictions and encouraging those on the path to recovery at the fifth annual Recovery Day on Friday, August 26, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., at Main-Transit Fire Department Pavilion, 6777 Main St., Williamsville, NY. The free event, which combines education and recreation, will feature several area agencies presenting information on behavioral health recovery services.

Families and friends of those in recovery programs are welcome.

Debra Cannon, site supervisor of CaDebra Cannon zenovia Manor, a Buffalo residence for men in recovery, is helping to plan Recovery Day. The not-for-profit Cazenovia Recovery was founded in Buffalo in 1980

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FAITH & FAMILY

Grace Tabernacle Reunion Choir to Present Gospel Concert Grace Tabernacle Reunion Choir will present a Gospel Concert - “Celebrate the King” on Saturday August 27 at 7pm at Bethesda world Harvest International Church 1365 Main Street , Doors open at 6p.m.

Free admission.

The City-Wide Revival Choir in Concert at Friendship Baptist The City-Wide Revival Choir will be in concert at the Friendship Baptist Church, 402 Clinton, on Saturday August 27,2016 at 3:00 pm. Everyone is invited to attend this musical extravaganza.

The program is sponsored by the Baptist Minister’s Conference of Buffalo and Vicinity. Rev. Mark Blue is conference president, Bessie Patterson is director of music and Rev. Edward Jackson is the pastor. Please come to celebrate, lifting up the name of Jesus with this most inspiring choir! “To God be the glory!”

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Eva Noles Scholarship Book Fair Eva M. Noles was a registered nurse, a nursing educator, and a former Director of Nursing at Buffalo, New York’s worldrenowned Roswell Park Cancer Institute. She was the first African-American nurse to train in Buffalo.

On August 31, 2016 at Roswell Park Cancer Ins. The Eva Noles Scholarship Book Fair will take place at Roswell in the park on Carlton Street in Buffalo, NY from 11 – 2 pm. There will be many authors of Western NY selling their books, a Story Teller’s tent, and the Roswell Farmer’s Market selling delicious fruit and vegetables.

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“I am so pleased to endorse my friend and law partner John Flynn for Erie County District Attorney.”

From left: Lucinda Cross Otiti , Juliet Hall , and Kianga “KiKi Kitty Milele.

6th Annual Women In The Spotlight Going Global Event This Weekend!

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alling all professionals and women in business! A weekend of inspiration and empowerment awaits you at the Women In the Spotlight Goinglobal event August 26 and 27.

The weekend will kick off Friday, August 26 with a Meet & Greet at MMW Style Studio hosted by Nia Badger. The main event will take place on Saturday, August 27 featuring a half day conference hosted by Adri V. “The Go Getta” at the Buffalo Marriott Harbor Center, 95 Main Street.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m. and the event takes place from 10 a.m.-3p.m. with a “Her Story Workshop “ by Kianga “Kiki Kitty” Milele, a 22-year veteran in the fashion industry . Her impresive list of credentials includes Star Branding - Nicki Minaj Collection for K-Mart along with her work with Shark Tank’s Daymond John.

The “Activate Your Dreams Workshop” will be conductded by Lucinda Cross, the President of Activate World Wide, best-selling author, internationally known speaker, spokesperson and energetic teacher of personal and professional development.

The Keynote Speaker is Juliet M.Hall, Chick-fil-A Senior Manager of Community Affairs - Community & Corporate Partnerships. She has a diverse business, creative and service background that includes consulting owner/operators of million-dollar businesses, leading teams on international projects, creating remarkable experiences through storytelling, and serving people and communities.

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“Keeping The Funk Alive!”

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Rick James Funk Fest Weekend August 26 & 27!

or Marnetta Malcolm, its been all about keeping the memory of Buffalo’s beloved “King of Punk Funk” alive over the years .

This weekend marks the 12th annual “Rick James Funk Fest” musical celebration in remembrance of James, and for the first time its being held for two days instead of one – Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27 in LaSalle Park Marnetta, promoter and planner, said the decision to extend the Funk Fest was driven solely by audience demand.

“The people wanted it ,” she said, adding that she is hopeful it will remain a two-day affair. “If not we’ll just go back to one,” she added pragmatically. At the end of the day, whether its one day or two, the Funk Fest she assured, will continue.

Also new this year, there will be fundraising efforts in the park. A scooter valued at $2,500 donated by Dink Williams of Butler Automotive, will be raffled off.

Tickets for the scooter raffle are $10 and are available at Doris Records, 286 E. Ferry Street. In addition, beer will be sold on the grounds, sponsored by Labatts “There will be tons of vendors throughout the park,” noted Marnetta, whose expertise is in marketing, promotion and sales. Food Trucks will also be on hand.

Admission to Funk Fest of course, is free.

“I have to stress however, that this year there will be no tents or grills allowed in the park,” said Marnetta. “Feel free to bring your chairs, blankest and coolers.”

Both days/nights will feature DJ Pappa Trini, a health fair sponsored by Wellcare, an after party at Mike’s Lounge, 1343 Jefferson and great entertainment.

On Friday Funk Fest will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. hosted by MC Tracey Cardwell. Entertainment will be provided by Denzel Ward and Cool Platinum.

On Saturday the festival will run from 3 until 10 p.m. hosted by MC Joyce Wilson-Nixon. The entertainment lineup includes Delivered , Gloria Caver, Andrew Pleasant Jr., E. Life 7, Delvin Payton & The Lyfe, Unity Band and the Old School B Boys.

Saturday’s headliner is an All Star Tribute To Rick James featuring former band Members It promises to be a great end-of-summer event.

Praising Rick’s family, Marnetta said “the Johnson/ Sims family is always involved in making this event extra special.”

Her efforts and the efforts of her crew, she said, are done “out of love.”

“We do it for everybody. It’s a city wide celebration. Rick loved everyone. To him music was music.”

She acknowledged The Challenger for its support over the years and expressed very special thanks and appreciation to this years sponsors: LPCIMINELLI , Mayor Byron Brown, Council President Darius Pridgen, Masten District Council Member Ulysees Wingo, University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt, Erie County Legislature Barbara Miller Williams, Wellcare, Labatt’s, The African American Cultural Center, Ron Walker M-V-P, Dink Wiggins – Butler Automotive, Carmen Sims, Camellia Food, Community Health Care Of Buffalo, Casny, Geneva Auto, CAO, Brian K. Lewis, Toni Dubose’s Farmer’s Insurance, The Challenger, Richard Blanc, AM 1400 Solid Gold Soul and 1080 AM WUFO. BUFFALO LOVE… Musician and singer James Ambrose Johnson, better known as Rick James, was born on February 1, 1948, in Buffalo, New York. The third of eight children, Rick was raised in a strict Catholic household by his single mother. With music in his blood (his uncle was Melvin Franklin, bass vocalist of The Temptations), James pursued a music career from an early age.

James went to work for Motown in the 1970s and got the chance to record an album, “Come and Get It,” which was released in 1978 and produced the hit “You and I.” He followed with “Bustin’ out of L Seven,” which had hits with the single “Bustin’ Out” and “Mary Jane,” and another popular LP, “Fire it Up.” That album catapulted him to stardom. Famous for his wild brand of danceable funk music and his trademark braids, James was often referred to as The King of Punk-Funk His struggle with drug abuse was no secret. He suffered a mild stroke in 1997 that ended his career. Rick James died after suffering pulmonary and cardiac failure in his sleep at his home in Burbank, California, on August 6, 2004.

In “Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James,”he gives mad credit to Buffalo’s culture of soul music for his rise. Writes Rick: “In those days Buffalo was still alive. The Bethlehem Steel mill was going 24/7. There were jobs in the Black community. There was music. And not just rhythm and blues. There was jazz, sophisticated modern jazz, that Mom heard and loved. She gave that love to me. She’d sneak me into clubs to hear Miles Davis when John Coltrane was his sideman.

I got to hear Wes Montgomery play guitar and Jimmy Smith rip up the Hammond B-3 organ. I got to hear cats like Arthur Prysock sing ‘Misty’ and doo-woppers like the Moonglows sing ‘Sincerely’... Outside the music, the world was boring. But inside the music, the world was magic.”

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Party Over Here

Marsha McWilson & Daughter of BB King to Perform at Niagara Falls Blues Festival Niagara Falls own Marsha McWilson & Friends will perform at the 9th annual Niagara Falls Blues Festival – “The Power of The Blues” – during the event’s Sunday Gospel Brunch on September 18 from noon – 8 p.m. at Old Falls Street, 3rd and Main Street in Niagara Falls, New York. Marsha will be singing Gospel at noon . She will be joined by special guest, Bluz Queen Claudette King, daughter of the late, great B.B. King who will perform along with her during a tribute to Etta James at 5 p.m. Claudette King will also perform songs from her new album “We’re Onto Something.” Admission is free.

Free Latin Dance Lessons Free Latin Dance Night is held every Thursday at Blu Nightclub at 7 p.m. where dance lessons are conducted

by Jerome. There is dancing all night with DJ’s Nino and Henry from LVP. No cover.

Free parking. Blu is located in the Evanstown Plaza, 424

Foxy Brown

Senior Center Dinner & Dance The Schiller Park Senior Center, 2057 will host a Senior Dinner & Dance for seniors age 60 and over featuring Buffalo’s own Foxie Brown and the Blues Boys (Old School Music) on Friday, August 26 from 3 – 7 p.m. Tickets are just $6 and should be purchased by August 12. For more information call 895-2727 or see Louise Fronczak, Activities Director at the center. See you there!

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SANKOFA THEATRE & JAZZ continued with My People Perish, a one-act play, by Jahaka Mindstorm.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, there are three one-act productions: Spectrum by DC Taylor; Now and Then by Grace Flores; and Snitch by Karen Culley.

And at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 the one-act plays are Enough Is Enough by Jacquetta A. Harris; Dancer: The Cholly Atkins Story by Michael Avent; and Far from Grace by Laura A. Thomas.

Nightly admission is $12 in advance and $16 at the door.

Group rates for five or more are available through Mood Makers Books.

PERFORMANCE VENUE: Multi-use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC)in the Neighborhood of the Arts, 142 Anderson St., Rochester, 14607 ONLINE TICKET SITE / FESTIVAL DETAILS: www. muccc.org.N-PERSON TICKET SITE & INFORMATION: Mood Makers Books, Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St., (585) 271-7010

Sabu Adeyola

SABU'S OASIS to Perform at the Historic Lewiston Jazz Festival

Congratulations to Althea of Hair To Go Natural on Her 20th AnniverLegendary bassist and sary Celebration held August 14 At The Shea’s Smith Theatre. It Was composer Sabu Adeyola is A lovely, Class Act! Peace & Love and continued success! scheduled to perform with his musical ensemble at the Lewiston Jazz Festival on Saturday August 27 from 2:45-4:45p.m. With him for this engagement are: Marchelle, Grammy nominated vocalist whose recent CD "Dig Dis' is receiving rave reviews.

Sunni Ali, saxophonist most well known for his decades of touring with Gil ScottHeron. *Ed Chilungu, pianist extraordndaire who also appeared at the Al Tinney Jazz Festival with Sabu in 2011. *Ron Witherspoon, percussionist who has been an integral part of Oasis for many years. *Damone 'Miracle' Jackson, drummer who has made quite a name for himself as an up and coming musician destined for greatness in the world of music.

Those who have followed Sabu"'s career know that his music is intended to be much more than mere entertainment. He describes it as "inner-attainment" meaning that he aspires to teach, enlighten and educate through the medium of music. All are invited to a historic presentation of African-American Classical Music. Don’t Miss this one!

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“Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger.”

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Black Achievers 2016 Scholars Named Black Achievers, Inc., along with Uni-land Development Company and Belmont Management Co., Inc., recently awarded $2,000 in scholarships to two 2016 high school graduates. Black Achievers, Inc. Board Member Robert L. Robinson Ni-Vante Beckwith and Diamond Garner presented Ni-Vante Beckwith with a $1,000 scholarship during the-South Park High School graduation ceremony. Dr. Catherine Collins, a member of the NYS Board of Regents and Chairperson for the Erma D. Robinson Educational Incentive Award, presented Diamond Garner with a $1,000 scholarship during the graduation ceremony for the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.

The Erma D. Robinson Educational Incentive Award fund annually provides scholarships to graduating seniors from area high schools. The scholarship fund is one of the projects financed by Black Achievers, Inc. with proceeds from the annual Black Achievers Awards Banquet and contributions from cosponsors Uniland Development Company and Belmont Management Co., Inc. Black Achievers, Inc. will be hosting the 44th Annual Black Achievers Awards Banquet. The primary purpose for the awards event is to honor outstanding individuals and show the community the variety and quality of achievements of African Americans in Western New York. Images are powerful in our society, and this event highlights inspiring stories of personal, professional and community achievements. Over the past 44 years, Black Achievers, Inc. has honored more than 2,500 outstanding individuals.

This year the Black Achievers Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, October 8 at the Adam’s Mark Buffalo, 120 Church Street. A reception will be held at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:00 p.m.

Black Achievers Board Members include: Herbert L. Bellamy,Jr.- CEO, Robert L. Robinson II, Darlene B. McCune, Minnie Clemons,

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SOLO Launches 8th Annual Operation School Supplies & Discount Haircuts for Back to School!

SOLO Productions, Incorporated will kick off the 2016 backto-school season with its 8th annual Operation School Supplies Campaign On Wednesday August 31 beginning at 11a.m.

SOLO Productions will give away book bags full of supplies at SOLO Unisex Salon, located at 3081 Main Street in Buffalo.

Students ages 18 and under will also be able to receive discounted haircuts for $5 between the hours of 11am-8pm. Free food and giveaways will also be provided.

Operation School Supplies provides needed supplies to lowincome families across the City of Buffalo. For many of these families, back to school season is also a reminder that they may not be able to afford the basic supplies- including pens, pencils, notebooks, backpacks and art supplies their kids will need to be prepared when school starts. Without these school supplies, students are put at a significant disadvantage when it comes to learning and concentrating in the classroom.

SOLO believes that no student should be at a disadvantage because they lack basic school supplies. We hope that the community responds to Operation School Supplies by donating the necessary items that kids need every day to do well in school.

The cost of a notebook or package of pencils may not seem like much, but to a student, who can’t afford them, it gets them from one school day to the next- and that’s priceless.

If you would like to make a donation to Operation School Supplies they will be accepted through August 25. Please contact Tony at 499-7656.

Eva Doyle’s Back to School Rally The 7th Annual Back-ToSchool Rally will be held on

“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to

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262-8140 | www.rcsdk12.org/prek *Every city 4-year-old is eligible for free Pre-K classes. Space for 3-year-olds is limited and restrictions apply.

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Saturday, August 27 from 3 - 5 p.m. at the Merriweather Library located at 1324 Jefferson Avenue. The program is free and all students are invited to attend. The program will include academic games in math, geography, social studies, Language Arts, and Black History. Prizes will be awarded for correct answers.

Yo Yo the Clown will be in attendance. Free school supplies and book bags will be distributed at the end of the program compliments of the Metro Alliance of Black School Educators. Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the program. For information call 847-6010. Retired Teacher

Eva M. Doyle is the program founder.

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Challenger Community News • www.thechallengernews.com • August 24, 2016

Answering Addiction With Humanity: When the Addict Has a White Face...

By EKOW N. YANKAH

W

hen crack hit America in the mid-1980s, for AfricanAmericans, to borrow from Ta-Nehisi Coates, civilization fell. Crack embodied instant and fatal addiction; we saw endless images of thin, ravaged bodies, always Black, as though from a famined land. And always those desperate, cracked lips. Our hearts broke learning the words “crack baby.”

But mostly, crack meant shocking violence, terrifying gangs and hollowed-out inner cities. For those living in crack-plagued areas, the devastation was all too real. Children learned which ways home were safe and which gang to join to avoid beatings, or worse.

Even for those of us African-Americans living at a relatively safe distance, there were soul-deadening costs. City centers, and by extension Black neighborhoods, were seen in the national imagination as lawless landscapes. We were warned of a new wave of “super predators,” young, faceless Black men wearing bandannas and sagging jeans. The addicted, those who preyed on them and those caught by class, geography and especially race were swept together. At the edges of my 12-year-old mind was the ominous sense that no matter how far crack was from my actual life, I was somehow associated with the scourge.

Once again, African-Americans were cast as pathological, an indistinguishable and unsympathetic mass. The plight of Black America was evidence of its collective moral failure — of welfare mothers and rock-slinging thugs — and a reason to cut off all help. Blacks would just have to pull themselves out of the crack epidemic. Until then, the only answer lay in cordoning off the wreckage with militarized policing.

The dormant carrier of this ill-defined disease, harboring a mix of criminality and violence, was the young Black male. By my high school years there was no doubting the danger strangers saw radiating off me. When I was in college in the early 1990s, my short dreadlocks meant older women would cross the street to avoid me.

Thirty years later, America is again seeing an epidemic of drug addiction, particularly heroin. The surge is so great that for the first time in generations, mortality among young White adults

BLACK HISTORY continued Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante (Ashanti) in what is modern Ghana. She was an exceptionally brave fighter who, in March 1900, raised and led an army of thousands against the British colonial forces in Ghana and their efforts to subjugate the Asante and seize the Golden Stool, the Asante nation’s spiritual symbol of unity and sovereignty.

Yaa Asantewaa mobilized the Asante troops and for three months laid siege to the British fort of Kumasi. The British colonizers had to bring in several thousand troops and artillery to break the siege, exiling Queen Yaa Asantewaa and 15 of her closest advisers to the Seychelles. She lived in exile until her death in October 1921. Yaa Asantewaa’s War, as it is presently known in Ghana, was one of the last major wars on the continent of Africa to be led by a woman.

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has risen. But the national attitude toward drug addiction is utterly different. Even Republican presidential candidates are eschewing the perennial tough-on-drugs speeches and opening up about struggles within their own families.

More important, police chiefs in the cities most affected by heroin are responding not by invoking military metaphors, weapons and tactics but by ensuring that police officers save lives and get people into rehab. As one former narcotics officer described his change of heart on addiction, “These are people and they have a purpose in life and we can’t as law enforcement look at them any other way.” In his inability to name the change that allowed this epiphany, his words also capture our cringe-worthy self-denial. Suddenly, police officers understand crime as a sign of underlying addiction requiring coordinated assistance, rather than a scourge to be eradicated.

It is hard to describe the bittersweet sting that many AfricanAmericans feel witnessing this national embrace of addicts. It is heartening to see the eclipse of the generations-long failed war on drugs. But Black Americans are also knowingly weary and embittered by the absence of such enlightened thinking when those in our own families were similarly wounded. When the face of addiction had dark skin, this nation’s police did not see sons and daughters, sister and brothers. They saw “brothas,” young thugs to be locked up, rather than “people with a purpose in life.”

To be clear, no one laments the violence that the “crack bomb” set off in inner cities more than African-Americans. But while shootings, beatings and robberies cannot be tolerated anywhere, the heroin epidemic shows that how we respond to the crimes accompanying addiction depends on how much we care about the victims of crime and those in the grip of addiction.

White heroin addicts get overdose treatment, rehabilitation and reincorporation, a system that will be there for them again and again and again. Black drug users got jail cells and “Just Say No.” It would be cruel and perverse to seek equal abandonment of those now struggling with addiction as payback for the failures of the ’80s. Nor do I write in mere hopes of inducing cheap racial guilt. The hope, however vain, is that we learn from our meanest moments.

Even today, as Black communities face pressing problems of addiction and chronic unemployment and the discrimination in hiring that helps to perpetuate it, many are dedicated to ignoring racial prejudice. Faced with searing examples of unconscionable police violence against unarmed black men, of concocted justifications laid bare by video, too many still speak of isolated cases and overblown racial hysteria. With condescending finger-wagging, others recite the deplorable statistics of violence within poor minority neighborhoods as though racist policing were an antidote or excuse. Both responses ignore that each spectacular moment of unjustified police violence represents countless instances of institutionalized racial control across generations.

No sane community faced with addiction and crime would invite or acquiesce to brutal policing as their fate, and no moral community would impose it as a primary response. We do not have to wait until a problem has a White face to answer with humanity.

Ekow N. Yankah is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, New York City

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Remembering The Death of Robert Leroy-Wayne Jackson Dear Editor: On October 22, 1976, Robert Leroy-Wayne Jackson, a 19-year-old African American, reportedly jumped from the top of City Hall, landing face to the sky, piercing his back, his body impaled on the flagpole above the main entrance. The media said it was suicide. But many in the community, including his family and those who knew him, still do not believe it. There is still an air of mystery and the rumor that he was pushed which resulted in his gruesome death, but there is little public information. In 2014 it was reported that whatever records the police had were unable to be found. Will the truth ever be known?

-J. Smith

30th Annual Gospelfest at MLK Park and Canalside A Huge Success Dear Editor: The 2016 Annual Gospelfest was a huge success at Martin Luther King Park on Saturday and then on Sunday at Canalside; two days of lifting up the name of Jesus in song and praise “outside under the open sky!” My thanks to Liz Conrad for introducing me to Ryan Coate, the General Manager at Canalside, who invited me to bring the Gospelfest to that venue.

Thanks to all who came out to help make this a most memorable event! Some participants at Canalside included, Bishop Darius Pridgen and the True Bethel Full Gospel Church, Bishop Michael Badger and the Bethesda World Harvest Church, Psalmist Kathy Bowman and Antioch Holiness Church, and Rev. Mark Blue and the Baptist Minister’s Conference’s Citywide Revival Choir. The special guest was National Recording Artist Jonathan Nelson.

Our hats off to Ryan Coate and his staff, especially Sarah Larkin, the Event Manager, for a job well done!

Both days of Gospelfest were made possible by the following sponsors: M&T Bank, Mayor Byron Brown, Councilman Ulysees Wingo, Legislator Barbara Miller-Williams, Legislator Betty Jean Grant, Councilman Darius Pridgen, District Attorney Michael J. Flaherty Jr., Lombardo Funeral Home, GBUAHN, African American Cultural Center, ECMC Medical Center, NYS Senator Tim Kennedy, UNYTS, Buffalo Teachers Federation Inc., Wegman’s Food, John Elmore Esq., John J. Flynn Esq., Healthcare Education Project of 1199 SEIU, Councilman Rasheed Wyatt and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes.

-Bessie Patterson

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Dear Editor: How is it possible that PGT Holdings was able to purchase 339 High St. from the city auction last October when there's been a moratorium on all city owned properties in the Fruit Belt since last spring?! Is it because they are one of the private investors for the Board of Directors of the medical campus? And most of us know Council Member Pridgen sits on that board.!

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Percy Bryant Continues To Follow His Dreams

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Percy Bryant, a graduate of East High School in Buffalo, will continue to follow his dream of playing basketball, as he enters college this fall on a full athletic scholarship.

Percy has signed to play with NJCAA Division 1 Hills-

borough Community College in Tampa, FL. He started playing basketball at a young age, choosing to pursue that instead of football, despite being skilled at both.

His love for the game of basketball won out and since then he has earned a number of accolades

in regards to his stellar skills on the court. He scored over 1,000 points in his high school career, earning a place among some of Buffalo's best players.

He helped his team earn backto-back championships helping put East High School on

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the map as one of the teams to beat in the area. After graduation he attended MACK Prep in Charlotte, NC where he and his team went up against players from all over the world.

With hard work, and dedication, Percy continues to excel and hopes to keep reaching his goals. In this next chapter of his life, Percy will continue to chase after his dreams and no doubt continue to achieve great success!

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids are invited by the board of Trustees of the Village of North Collins, Erie County, New York, for the preparation and installation of 3,161 feet of sidewalk in various locations in the Village of North Collins, and the removal of related debris.

Copies of the specifications for this sidewalk project are on file in the Village Clerk’s office, 10543 Main Street, North Collins, NY where they may be examined and copies obtained during the usual business hours 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday through Friday. Complete printed bid packets are available from the Village Clerk, 10543 Main Street, North Collins, NY 14111 for a non-refundable cost of $22. Bidders can print their own packets which are available at our website: www.villageofnorthcollins.org.

This contract will be funded wholly or partially with Federal funds, and as such, is subject to all Federal rules and regulations pertinent thereto, including, but not limited to, federal policy of encouraging the participation of minority and women business enterprises as sources of suppliers, equipment, construction, and services.

Such sealed bids will be received at the Village’s Office in the Village Hall, 10543 Main Street, North Collins, NY until 4:00 pm on the 30th day of August, 2016. Sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 4:00 pm on August 30, 2016.

All Bids should be marked“North Collins Community Development Sidewalk Construction Bid 2016.”

Attention is called to all bidders that section 103-a and 103-d of the General Municipal Law are incorporated in these specifications by reference and that all bids and contracts made and entered into for the preparation, installation, and removal of sidewalks must comply with said section 103-a and 103-d of the General Municipal Law and contain the non-collusive bidding certifications.

The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids submitted to them.

Jan Hutchinson Village Clerk/Treasurer 8/16/16

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Challenger Community News • www.thechallengrnews.com • August 24, 2016 NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed proposals for the Erie County Sewer District Nos. 2, 3 & 8, Contract No. 76 will be received by the Commissioner of the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning on September 14, 2016 until 2:00 P.M., local time, at 95 Franklin Street, Room 1034, Buffalo, New York, 14202, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud in Room 1004.

The proposed sanitary sewer rehabilitation project is located in Erie County Sewer District (ECSD) Nos. 2, 3 & 8 in the Towns/Villages of East Aurora, Evans, Hamburg, and Orchard Park, NY. The work includes cured-in-place pipe lining and associated/appurtenant services for approximately 8,780 lineal feet of existing 8-inch diameter, 1,095 lineal feet of existing 10-inch diameter, 1,306 lineal feet of existing 12-inch diameter, 2,755 lineal feet of existing 15-inch diameter, and 169 lineal feet of existing 18-inch diameter sanitary sewers, spot repairs that may be required for the 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch and 15-inch diameter sanitary sewers at unknown locations to remove or repair obstructions to allow the cured-in-place pipe lining, establishment of all active lateral connections, bypass pumping, maintenance and protection of traffic, restoration and all other related work as indicated in the Specifications, Contract Documents and Plans. All work shall be performed within existing easements and public highway rights-of-way.

Specifications, Contract Documents and Plans are on file and may be examined and purchased at the office of the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning, 10th Floor, Room 1034, 95 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202.

The deposit for each set of contract documents shall be $100.00 in the form of two checks or money orders, each in the amount of one-half the deposit, and made payable to the Erie County Comptroller. Any bidder requesting a set of plans and specifications mailed to their office must arrange for a pre-paid delivery service or mail carrier.

The envelope containing the bid must be sealed, addressed to the Erie County Commissioner of Environment and Planning and must be clearly and correctly designated as “Erie County Sewer District Nos. 2, 3 & 8, Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining, Contract No. 76”. Bidders submitting a bid for more than one contract must do so in separately sealed envelopes for each contract. Any envelope containing more than one bid will be considered an improper bid and not opened. Any bids not delivered in person shall be mailed to the Erie County Commissioner of Environment and Planning, 95 Franklin Street, Room 1034, Buffalo, New York 14202, and received prior to the time set for the bid opening.

Any bidder returning such plans and specifications in good condition within thirty (30) days following the award of the contract or the rejection of bids will be refunded the full amount of the deposit. Nonbidders will be refunded one-half the deposit. Any bidder requesting more than one (1) set of plans and specifications may purchase the excess, but it is understood that they are not returnable. No refund will be made for documents returned after the thirty-day period.

Erie County Sewer District Nos. 2, 3 & 8 are an exempt organization under the Tax Law, and is exempt from payment of Sales and Compensating Use Taxes which are to be incorporated into the

project and which are to be separately sold by the Contractors to the Owner prior to incorporation into the project, pursuant to the provisions of the contract. These taxes are not to be included in the bid. Sales tax will be due on all materials purchased by a Contractor which are either “consumable” or rental property used by the Contractor in connection with the construction or repair.

Each proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the Erie County Comptroller or by a bid bond having a surety thereon from a surety company acceptable to the County Attorney, in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the total base bid, as surety for execution of the contract.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish Payment and Performance Bond, each in an amount equal to 100 percent of the contract award.

Attention of the bidder is called particularly to requirements with respect to conditions of employment to be observed, minimum wages rates to be paid under the contract, Affirmative Action requirements for Equal Employment Opportunity, along with the Minority Business Enterprise Utilization Commitment.

Bidders are also advised that Part “A” of the Erie county Minority Business Enterprise/Women’s Business Enterprise Utilization Report be submitted with the bid or no later than three (3) business days after the bid opening.

The attention of the bidder is called particularly to the provisions of Erie County Local Law No. 2-2006, known as the “Erie County Workforce Development and Diversification New York State Certified Worker Training Program”, to have in place and provide written proof at the time of bid, a New York State Certified Worker Training Program, either intentional to the Contractor or Subcontractor and/or through an organization servicing several Contractors or Subcontractors, appropriate for the type and scope of work to be performed. In the alternative, Rules and Regulations pertaining to Local Law No. 2-2006 allows the Bidder to provide a statement as to the inapplicability, lack of career opportunities, and/or that the magnitude of the contract would make apprentices impractical. Bidders shall also provide affirmation of its commitment toward acceptable achievement or progress toward the County of Erie workforce development and diversification goal of thirty percent minority and female participation combined in project personnel including trades people, trainees, journeymen, apprentices and supervisor staff.

The attention of the bidder is called to the provisions of Article 5A of the General Municipal Law which requires the bidder to execute a certificate of non-collusion and to conform with the other provisions of Article 5A outlined in the specifications. A form for such certificate accompanies the bid form. Unless it is property executed, the bid will not be accepted.

The right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities in, or to make any award to other than the low bidder, should it be deemed to be in the best interest of Erie County Sewer District Nos. 2, 3 & 8 and in accordance with Law, are herewith reserved.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within 45 days after the date set for the opening thereof, but may withdraw same anytime prior to the scheduled time for opening bids.

BY ORDER OF: Joseph L. Fiegl, P.E. Deputy Commissioner Department of Environment and Planning Dated: 8/19/16

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LEGAL NOTICE Supplemental Summons STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ERIE SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 803048/2016 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff, -vs- ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE TRACIE FUHRMAN, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE INTERNAL, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, CACH, LLC, and JOHN DOE,

Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Dennis E. Ward, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 1st of August, 2016, at Buffalo, New York.

Tax I.D. No. 54.29-1-11 All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Tonawanda, County of Erie and State of New York, being part of Lot Number 26, Township 12, Range 8 of the Holland Land Company’s Survey and further distinguished as the north 1 foot of Subdivision Lot Number 3 and the south 45 feet of Subdivision Lot Number 4, as shown on map entitled “Palumbo Parker Park, Part 1” filed in Erie County Clerk’s Office under Cover Number 1833, situate on the west side of Parker Boulevard and being 46 feet front and rear by 150 feet in depth.

Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record.

These premises are also known as 2354 Parker Boulevard, Tonawanda, NY 14150.

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Part-time Parent Engagement Liaisons with Say Yes Buffalo Selected candidates for this unique part time position will be responsible for the oversight of Buffalo Public School Parent Center activities and will organize and facilitate services, programs and workshops to support parent engagement and education.

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Evening and Weekend Housekeeper Custodian position. All interested persons may apply within the Church Office between 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 Monday - Friday.

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OAHIIO Independent Living Specialist Req’d experience: Located in Niagara County. Preferred personal and/or professional experience with disabilities.

Knowledge of needs and systems within Native communities. Resumes to HR, WNYIL, 3108 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214.

OAHIIO Administrative Assistant Req’d experience: Located in Niagara County. General office experience 2 + years.

Knowledge of needs and systems within Native communities. Resumes to HR, WNYIL, 3108 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214.

LEGAL NOTICE Bids COUNTY OF ERIE ERIE COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY 2015 MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS PHASE I – MENTAL HEALTH RENOVATION PROJECT NO. JH-16-01 Sealed bids for General Construction work for the above project will be received by the County’s Commissioner of Public Works in Suite 1400 of the Rath County Office Building, 95 Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York 14202 until 10:30 AM local time on September 14, 2016 at which time they will be opened and read aloud. MBE/WBE requirements may apply to this project. Addition-al information must be found at: www.erie.gov/ dpw/

Assistant Professor The Business Department at Buffalo State, State University of New York, seeks candidates for the position of Assistant Professor.

For a full job description and to apply: https://jobs.buffalostate.edu.

Buffalo State is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and committed to respect for diversity and individual differences.

Charter School of Inquiry (CSI) LEGAL NOTICE Bids

NFTA Procurement Invitation to Bid

4618 REGIONAL TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATIONS PROGRAM Download Bids from www.nfta.com

JOBS

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A new and innovative K-6 charter school that uses inquiry as its instructional methodology and integrates African and African-American history and culture throughout the curriculum.

Looking for exceptional talent to become part of a team that collaborates to ensure children’s success.

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Main Amherst Fillmore Farmers Market Now Open

NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY NUMBERS SUN 8/14

MON 8/15

TUES 8/16

WED 8/17

THURS 8/18

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quick money $$$$ THE NUMBER BOOK 189-809-444 886-980-422 322-522-355 800-592-390 394-833-924 127-909-418 927-313-466 124-550-525 583-269-508

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09/01/2015 Evening 09/01/2015 Midday 08/31/2015 Evening 08/31/2015 Midday 08/30/2015 Evening 08/30/2015 Midday 08/29/2015 Evening 08/29/2015 Midday 08/28/2015 Evening 08/28/2015 Midday 08/27/2015 Evening 08/27/2015 Midday 08/26/2015 Evening 08/26/2015 Midday 08/25/2015 Evening 08/25/2015 Midday 08/24/2015 Evening 08/24/2015 Midday

2015

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A new Farmers Market geared towards the underserved East Side community is now open every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of International Wine and Spirits at the intersection of Main Street, Amherst Street and Fillmore Avenue.The Main Amherst Fillmore Market is looking to add food and non-food vendors, although raw food is their primary desire. For more information interested vendors I can email mafmarketbuffalo@gmail.com

ATTORNEYS

DOG TRAINING

Terrence D. McKelvey Attorney at Law 181 Franklin St. Suite 101 (716) 847-2606

Dogman’s K -9 Obedience Training

Law Office of Daria L. Pratcher, PC “Everything Real Estate” 523 Main Street (716)541-8574

ELECTRICIAL

Attorney FritzGerald Tondreau

1963 Fillmore Avenue (716) 807-8163

Empire Electric (716) 634-0330

FLORISTS

1-888-400-6811/ 716-222-9119 TondreauLaw.com

Maureen’s Flower Market 441 Ellicott St. * 852-4600

AUTO

HAIR SUPPLY

Ben’s Downtown Tire

Main Hair & Beauty Supply 3067 Main St. (716) 862-4247

1133 Kensington Ave. /1610 Genesee

50 Sycamore (cor. Elm) (716) 856-1066 or 894-1483

Colston Enterprises 716 E. Ferry (Near Fillmore) (716) 894-3910

AUTO SALES Paddock James Talford (JT), Sales (716)261-1096/908-9926 3232 Delaware Ave.

HOME IMPROVEMENT Free Lead Assessment & Roof Assessment All Home Improvements Free Estimates Call 716 908-3439

HOME/PROPERTY INSPECTION Majadi Enterprises Inc.

BAIL BONDS GIST BAIL BONDS

A-1 Bail Bonds 855-2514 or 854-2128

CELL PHONES Ansar Cellular Communications & Fragrance Store 1371 Fillmore @ E. Utica (716) 884-2373

For Directory 881-1051

(716) 316-7776

majadienterprise@aol.com

TAILORS Ann Rhod’s Tailoring 3185 Bailey Ave. (716) 838-5633

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES MEREA WORLD Transportation Service City To City State To State Safe & Dependable • Specializing in Round Trip & Over Night Trips Text or call 716 939-8892

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Wednesday August 24

Saturday August 27

Saturday August 27

ECC Open House: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; 555 Ellicott St., 6458875

Captain Dennis Muhammad: “10,000 Fearless Peacekeepers”: Rafi Green Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore Ave. @ Glenwood; (716)3323773 ext.202.

New Zion & Memorial Family and Friends Weekend: free food, fun, and fellowship 9a.m. - 4p.m. 318 High Street, 883-2250 for more info.

Dorie Miller Rifle and Pistol Club Regular Meeting: Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave., 5:30 p.m.

Khametic Ascendants: 9-10 a.m. & 12:30 a.m. (after midnight), Channel 20.

The Durham Central City Baby Café: every Wed. and Thurs. 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. 200 E. Eagle. Dinner free! 885-6348.

Hustle for Health Seniors line dance fitness class with Phyllis Caver at Gloria J Parks Community Center 3242 Main St, Buffalo. Every Wednesday 11am - 12pm Call 716 832 1010 visit www.HustleForHealth.com FREE Thursday August 25 DA Candidates Debate: 7 p.m.

Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Free event sponsored by the Buffalo Association of Black Journalists, the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the SUNY Buffalo State Communications Department.

SEE YOU AT THE EVENTS!

Jes Breathe 7th Annual Gina Davis Walking 4 Hope: MLK Park 9a.m. -3pm. Free mammograms from noon to 3p.m.

Annual FREE Back-ToSchool Rally: 3- 5 p.m. at the Merriweather Library located at 1324 Jefferson. Games , prizes, Yo Yo the Clown , free school supplies and book bags 847-6010. Eva M. Doyle, program founder.

Annual Community Awareness Day: 11a.m., 24 Memorial Drive, free.

The Hip Hop Connection: 12 noon, Trend Up (inside the Market Arcade), 617 Main Street, Free Admission : Performances, live art demonstrations, fashion vendors/show.

Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Uptown Healthy Lifestyle Market: Fresh Fruits & Vegetables, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. corner of 3248 Bailey & Dartmouth Avenue.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Grace Tabernacle reunion Choir “Celebrate the King” Gospel Concert 7pm at Bethesda world Harvest International Church 1365 Main Street , Doors Open at 6pm Free Admission Sunday August 28 Captain Dennis Muhammad: “10,000 Fearless Peacekeepers” continues: Muhammad Mosque #23, 1325 Main near Riley; 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

New Zion & Memorial Family and Friends Weekend: free food, fun, and fellowship 5 p.m. 318 High Street 8832250 for more info.

Schiller Park Senior Center Dinner & Dance: Featuring Foxie Brown & The Blues Boys; $6, Schiller Senior Center 2057 Genesee; $6; ages 60 & over; 895-2727.

Monday August 29 Hustle for Health Seniors: NEW Line Dance Fitness class with Miss Phyllis at Gloria J Parks Community Center 3242 Main St, noon - 1pm Fun & age 60+ call 832-1010 visit www.HustleForHealth. com

SEE YOU AT THE EVENTS!

Fruit Belt Residents get

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