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Hunger Free America AmeriCorps reaches out to Cuba Cultural Center By KATE DAY SAGER
CUBA — Within 10 days of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the Cuba Cultural Center saw food bank and other requests skyrocket. In a continuing effort to help the Cultural Center, officials with Hunger Free America's nationwide AmeriCorps VISTA program recently visited the facility to provide support to connect with federal and state resources. “Our numbers have stayed up and we were almost out of food very quickly,” said Suzanne Krull, executive director of the Cultural Center, who noted requests rose 70% in March. “But we were able to cobble together (food and supplies) thanks to some funding that came in from the Western New York Covid Relief Fund and Allegany County Covid Relief Fund.” While the Cultural Center primarily serves residents in Allegany County it also helps Cattaraugus County residents who live on the border and don’t have access to a local food pantry. “We work in collaboration with all the other pantries and the Allegany County Food Coalition, and ACCORD is among those,” she added. Krull noted the federal government’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and the Nourish New York initiative have been helping the Cultural
File photo A pipeline crew from Otis Eastern Services of Wellsville works on a project.
Wellsville pipeline contractor Otis Eastern acquired by Atlanta corporation By JIM ECKSTROM
WELLSVILLE — Pipeline contractor Otis Eastern Service of Wellsville will be acquired by Artera Services of Atlanta, a large provider of infrastructure services to natural gas and electric industries, in a deal announced Wednesday. Otis Eastern has been in operation since 1936 as a contractor of pipelines Volunteer, Sonny Smith, gathers up prepackaged for midstream and utility food supplies for recipients who visited the Cuba companies throughout the Cultural Center Tuesday. Officials at the Cultural Northeast and AppalaCenter said they’ve seen a 70% increase in those chian regions. The comneeding food since the pandemic struck in March. pany employs about 600 “Joel has been doCenter since June. Both and serves customers in ing amazing work for funding sources, howevseven states, with heavy decades, long before I er, are expected to wrap activity in Pennsylvania’s was in this hunger and up at the end of August. Marcellus shale region. anti-poverty work,” Krull “Some of them may Otis Eastern is the concontinue to the end of the said. “Hunger Free Amertractor on the Northern ica has just done amazing year, but we’re still waitAccess Pipeline, which is work and have sponsored ing for the final word,” meant to carry natural gas the Vista volunteers that Krull added. from a collection point we have had for three or She said agencies such in McKean County up four years now.” as Hunger Free America to a disbursement point She said the Cultural AmeriCorps, under the in Niagara County. The Center, adhering to safety direction of CEO Joel project has been stalled measures required during Berg, have been a big by regulatory and legal help. See CUBA on page 2...
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issues in New York state. In a press release about the deal, Artera said Otis Eastern’s day-to-day operations will continue to be run by Casey Joyce, its president and CEO. Otis Eastern will maintain its headquarters in Wellsville, the buyer indicated. Artera called the deal a “highly strategic fit,” expanding and strengthening Artera’s position in pipeline and infrastructure services. “This combination with Otis Eastern provides Artera an opportunity to expand our geographic territory and sustain the existing long-term relationships with their customers,” said Brian Palmer, CEO of Artera Services. “Otis Eastern is a highly complementary fit with a shared commitment to safety and to high-quality, reliable services to its customer base, with a focus on recurring maintenance and repair work on existing infra-
structure.” Joyce, who will work closely with Palmer, said the agreement is a “great opportunity” to grow Otis Eastern’s business. “Our company values align with Artera’s culture, and we are looking forward to what is next for our business,” Joyce said. “Our employees and customers will receive the same high-quality service they have come to expect now, and after the integration process.” Simmons Energy, a division of Piper Sandler, served as the exclusive financial advisor to Artera, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is serving as legal counsel to Artera. Artera, headquartered in Atlanta, reports $2 billion in revenues with work in 34 states. Artera employs more than 8,500 people throughout the United States and “has a focus on maintenance, replacement and upgrade of
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Alfred State recognizes retirees
ALFRED — Alfred State College would like to recognize its faculty and staff members who have recently retired. The list of retirees includes Colleen Argentieri, Joanne Bailey, Robert Bretzin, Barbara Brockway, Donald Catino, Linda Chase, Tammy Conrad, Constance Ehmann, Marsha
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Allegany County DoH announces September clinic schedule
BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health has set its July and August clinics. Immunization clinics will be available in Belmont by appointment from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 8 and Sept. 14. Reproductive health clinics will be available from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Belmont on Sept. 18 and in Alfred from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 and Sept. 24. Pregnancy testing and pap clinic is available at all reproductive health
clinics by appointment. • Appointments for immunization and reproductive health clinics can be made at (585) 2689250. • For cancer services programs, call (877) 778-6857 or 607-324-8812. • For WIC program, call (585) 593-2533. Flu vaccines are by appointment only in Belmont from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 and 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WIC program will be conducting all WIC appointments via telephone. If you have an upcoming appointment, someone from the WIC office will call you approximately one week prior to your appointment. If you have not heard from WIC, call the WIC office at (585) 593-2533 and leave a message with a valid telephone number. The ACDOH WIC Program continues to welcome new applicants.
the pandemic, provides pre-packaged food boxes to recipients who now must schedule appointments to pick up their supplies. “We do two to three distributions a month, and we serve between 250 and 320 families at each of those distributions,” she said. “So there’s a lot of manpower that goes into preparing for the food distribution” and other related tasks. Nicole Aber, director of communications for Hunger Free America, provided additional information on the agency, noting it focuses on advocacy and outreach for federallyfunded nutrition programs
such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as food stamps and WIC. “The last few months, we have been advocating heavily for the Senate to pass a relief bill that includes a 15% increase in SNAP benefits as well as an expansion of the Pandemic-EBT program,” she said. “We are in close contact with the offices of Senators (Chuck) Schumer and (Kirsten) Gillibrand, so the more that we can get the word out about how much these increases in food aid are
needed, the better.” Berg, of Brooklyn, said his agency and AmeriCorps are similar to the domestic Peace Corps, and have helped organizations in Buffalo, Rochester and Columbus, Ohio, as well. The agency has helped the Cultural Center create leadership classes for low-income people and assisted the agency in acquiring local donations. “You just see a whole lot of poverty in the land,” Berg said. “In Cincinnati, almost at every corner there were people panhandling and on the highway off-ramps. Cuba and Allegany County have had a lot of poverty for a long, long time … much like
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Over the years, Joyce has held leadership roles with numerous industry and labor groups, including the Pipeline Contractors Association, the National Pipeline Policy Committee, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has also lent his time and talents to various political, educational, medical and charitable causes. In November, Joyce was honored as Catholic Charities’ Wellsville Food Pantry and Outreach at 67 E. Pearl St. was named the Joyce Family Food Pantry
and Outreach. Joyce gave $450,000 in total to Catholic Charities’ 2019 Appeal, the largest personal and corporate donation in the Appeal’s 95-year history in the Diocese of Buffalo. Casey Joyce, after graduating from Cornell University in 2009 with a degree in industrial and labor relations, worked his way up through the ranks, serving multiple roles with ever-increasing responsibilities. During his tenure with Otis Eastern, he has served as a project engineer, estimator, project manager, construction manager and general superintendent.
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elsewhere, a bad situation has gotten worse.” He said individuals who need additional information on the SNAP or WIC programs are welcome to call the National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3HUNGRY or (866) 348-6479 from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Krull added that donations are always needed and appreciated, especially during this challenging time. For more information, call the Cultural Center call (585)209-0052 or send donations to the Cuba Cultural Center, 38 E. Main St., Cuba, NY 14727.
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Borrello calls for freeze of NY's farming mandates
ALBANY — As New York’s Farm Laborers Wage Board holds hearings on the 60-hour overtime threshold for farmworkers, state Sen. George Borrello joined colleagues and farmers in calling for freezing the threshold at its current level to enable more fact-finding on its impact. Borrello, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has introduced legislation (Senate Bill 8944) that would delay the board’s recommendation until 2024. The measure would also require the board to consider additional factors in its decisionmaking, including wage and overtime rates in neighboring states, the impact that COVID-19 has had on the agricultural industry, total compensation, including other benefits such as housing and insurance and the supply and demand of farm employees. Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, R-Tonawanda, said New York is just eight months into implementation of mandates that included the new overtime threshold, “during one of the worst seasons farmers have seen, and already a wage board is contemplating making even more harmful changes to hours employees can work.” Especially in light of COVID-19, Ortt said new mandates must be
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delayed so that more insight can be gained on how seasons and conditions change from year to year. Borrello said farms in the state have not yet completed even a single growing season under the mandates that took effect on Jan. 1. “(Farmers) are still grappling with the changes and trying different strategies to comply with the 60-hour threshold while trying to keep their operations afloat,” Borrello said. “It is incomprehensible that they are already being confronted with the possibility that the threshold will be lowered even further.” While repeal of the
farm mandates is the ultimate goal, Borrello said, the effort right now is to prevent further mandates and bring “common sense to this issue by delaying any decision on the 60-hour threshold until 2024.” Passed in 2019, the Farm Workers Fair Labor Practices Act granted year-round and seasonal farm employees many of the same labor rights and benefits as workers in other industries, included collective bargaining, housing protections, enhanced worker’s compensation protection and overtime pay of one and a half times an employee’s regular wages after 60 hours of
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work per week and/or if they choose to work on a designated day of rest. The bill also mandated that the state labor commissioner establish a farmworkers’ wage board to examine the overtime pay threshold and consider whether it should be lowered even further. The current threemember board includes former New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, Buffalo Urban League President Brenda McDuffie and New York Farm Bureau President David Fisher. Despite the insistence of farmers that the measure could put them out of business with a projected increase of
wage expenses by 44%, the bill passed in the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Senate. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law July 17, 2019, in New York City. Dale Hemminger, primary owner of Hemdale Farms and Greenhouses in Seneca Castle, expressed the frustration that he and many of his peers in the farming community are experiencing as they rearrange their operations to comply with the law and the resistance they are encountering from farm workers to the changes. “Every day my son and managers are juggling plans, schedules
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Photo provided Congressional candidate Tracy Mitrano speaks Thursday at the opening of Allegany County’s Democratic headquarters in Wellsville.
WELLSVILLE — Wind, rain and construction barricades couldn’t keep the Allegany County Democratic Committee from officially opening its 2020 election headquarters last week. ACDC Chair Michael McCormick welcomed guests, saying “this headquarters in beautiful historic downtown Wellsville will serve us and the electorate well as we head into this incredibly important election. Our goal is 100% turnout among registered Democratic voters.” County Democrats are on the ballot in several town and village contests. McCormick specifically mentioned the Democrat-
ic candidate for the area’s Assembly seat, Ross Scott, and the Democratic candidate for the state Senate seat, Frank Puglisi. Scott, for more than 20 years, he has been a country lawyer dealing mostly with the lives, rights and problems of rural people. For the preceding 30 years, he had a career as a software engineer, communications engineer and high-technology consultant at all levels of government in areas of energy, environment, national security and foreign affairs. Scott named specific areas of focus for his campaign to unseat Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, R-Gowanda. He
advocates maintaining strict standards for storage and disposal of nuclear waste at the state’s three power plants and at the West Valley Demonstration Project. And his scientific background in epidemiology informs his position on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He welcomes inquiries from voters by phone at 607-478-8000 or by email at Ross.Scott.for.Assembly@gmail.com The Democratic candidate for the state’s 23rd Congressional District, Tracy Mitrano, was introduced next. McCormick called her the “greatest candidate. She ran a beautiful campaign
in 2018 and polling shows Tracy has an exceptionally good chance to win her election.” Mitrano thanked the people of Wellsville and Allegany County who have supported her campaigns against the Republican incumbent, Rep. Tom Reed. “In August of 2017, I predicted it would take two cycles to win this congressional seat,” she said. “Allegany County has been helping right at the forefront. You’re an amazing community. I am grateful for every moment, every dollar, and every ounce of sweat you’ve given to this effort.” She mentioned polling
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showing voter preference for presidential candidate Joe Biden is neck and neck with Trump in the district, far different from the 15-point Republican advantage in 2016. “This shows how Trump’s utter incompetence to establish a federal plan to get out ahead of this virus has played out, among his other failures,” Mitrano said. “My opponent is Donald Trump’s honor-
ary reelection campaign chair for New York state. Do I need to explain any further about the connection of these two peas in a pod?” The Alegany County Democratic election headquarters is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day at 94 N. Main St. The phone number is (585) 610-4321, find them on Fcaebook and Twitter or email info@alleganycountydemocrats.org.
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Once individuals finish their required training, they must take a written exam that tests their knowledge of federal real estate laws and general principles as well as the laws specific to the state in which they want to become licensed. Only after passing this exam do individuals become recognized real estate agents. Investopedia notes that achieving agent status is the starting point for most real estate professionals.
Real estate agent According to Realtor. com, real estate agents are professionally licensed individuals who can help both buyers and sellers. Agents also may help property owners rent their homes. The amount of training real estate agents need to earn their licenses varies by state.
Real estate broker Real estate brokers are those professionals who have continued their education past the agent level and obtained a broker’s license. Each state has its own requirements in regard to becoming a licensed broker, but education and examinations are necessary regardless
of where a person lives. Realtor.com notes that the extra coursework to earn a broker’s license focuses on various topics, including ethics, contracts, taxes, and insurance. Agents may learn about these topics as well, but coursework for prospective brokers goes into more depth than it does at the agent level. Brokers also will study and learn about legal issues in regard to real estate. The legal issues brokers may learn about include brokerage operations, real estate investments, construction, and property management. Requirements vary, but Realtor.com notes that brokers often must work as licensed real estate agents for no less than three years before they can earn their broker’s license. There is more than one
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