Looking for Loans
Though there is plenty of opportunity on the South Side, businesses struggle to get loans A generation ago, South Salina Street bustled with business, serving as the city’s main corridor for commerce.
Shoe Store Steps Up
Fitting people with proper shoes has been the mission for this South Salina Street store Amatullah Yamini and her husband, Hassan, owners of Salina Shoe Salon, Inc., witnessed a man walking to the bus in shoes so grungy that the heels flopped with every step. The couple invited him into their shop, fitted him with [...]
After losing sight, Donna Reese adapts and brings her message to others
Donna Reese said she used to have problems with both her night vision and her peripheral vision, but she didn’t think about it much. Then, one night, driving home from work, she found she had trouble seeing. Reese, former president of Syracuse’s chapter of the NAACP, blamed it on simply being tired.
Stay-Home Students
Workshops and networks help parents decide whether to teach their children at home As local students gear up to go back to school, a growing number won’t make it past their front doors. Instead, they will receive their education right at home. Homeschooling is the education of children under their parents’ general care and replaces [...]
Next Journalism Workshop on Video
The Stand’s September 2010 Workshop will cover how to make a video piece. The full-day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, with a short classroom session followed by an opportunity for participants to venture out into the South Side to make a short video and put their new skills to the test.
Mary Nelson’s Ninth annual Youth Day BBQ
A community comes together as thousands of children and families come out to be entertained, eat and receive school supplies. The smell of barbecue, the sound of music filled the air and tons of school supplies stretched across tables located in the Key Bank parking lot, as families filled the corner of South Salina Street [...]
Train to be a Volunteer Literacy Tutor
Fact: 1:5 adults in Onondaga County and 1:4 adults in the City of Syracuse have functional literacy needs. Starting in October, a Six-Week Training Workshop on Adult Basic Literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday mornings at ProLiteracy, 1320 Jamesville Ave., Syracuse. The training begins [...]
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Health
Community Dialog Sparks Ideas for a Health-Based Approach to Drug Policy
A community dialog on local policy around drug use and related health issues, hosted by Syracuse University’s College of Human Ecology, in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), the Drug Policy Alliance and Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment (FREE), was held Monday, Aug. 2, at Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center.
Hometown News
Mary Nelson’s 9th annual Youth Day BBQ is Aug. 21
The 9th annual Youth Day BBQ will be held at the corner of South Salina Street and Wood Avenue from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, with a parade for youths beginning at 11 a.m. Local students from Pre-K to college will receive donated school supplies they need. Volunteers will hand out backpacks filled with school supplies to each youth that attends the event, and other items needed for school.
Admission is free and food and entertainment will be provided.
In 2009, this annual event had record numbers, being highly attended by local youths and their families. Nelson holds this event to help tell the youth that the alternative to violence is their education.
Voices
Cleaning the Scene
After crimes, local business moves in to help restore people’s homes
As a longtime police detective, Virgil Hutchinson has spent countless hours investigating crime scenes. While his current police work keeps him confined to his desk for most of the day, Hutchinson spends even more time at crime scenes handling his second job: trauma scene cleanup.
Youth
Graduating Senior Believes Art is Power
Corcoran High School graduating senior Lennard Streat dreams of using his artistic talent to give back to the community.
The 17-year-old is willing to donate the time and material to paint a mural in the South Side of Syracuse as a form a neighborhood revitalization.
“Art is something people take lightly, but it impacts them in a big way,” Streat said.
