Yearly Archives: 2010

Holiday Angel Program Seeks Helpers

AIDS Community Resources is looking for “Holiday Angels” for an AIDS Community Resources client and their family. Holiday Angels provide needed items like clothing, shoes or personal care items as holiday gifts. A list of needed items is provided; you can supply as many or as few as your wish. All gifts should be wrapped and labeled; financial donations are …

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Community Forum Addresses Youth Violence

Fiery String of Speakers Advocates for Changes In Their Communities Derrick Thomas, 22, stood on the shadowy stage in The Gravity on Pearl Street, and told the adult community members in the room, “You are the parents; make your kids listen.”

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Tree-lighting Will Go On Despite City Cuts to Holiday Budget

Leaders on the South Side are making it possible for yearly event to be held at 5:45 p.m. Dec. 6 When the South Side heard that the city had cut its tree-lighting funds, the community didn’t let it ruin their holiday plans. A group of organizers and volunteers banded together to make sure the 12-year tree-lighting tradition continued. With an …

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Group Prosperity Through Networking

Tuesday, Nov. 30, Syracuse Housing Authority hosted its first Section 3 Networking Reception. The event was held at the South Side Innovation Center in Syracuse. The main goal of the evening was to bring various minority contractors together in order to create familiarity and exchange business specialties. In this sharing, it is hoped that minority contractors will begin to acquire …

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Learning by Design

South Side students create and display new stained-glass windows for Dunbar Center She hopes her children — and maybe even her grandchildren — will be able to see her artwork someday. That’s because 100 years from now, 12-year-old Uniyah Chatman’s stained-glass window could still be hanging in the Dunbar Center.

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Letters to the Editor

I am writing for REACH CNY in response to “Words of Wisdom: Catholic Charities aims to educate Hispanic girls on teen pregnancy.”

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Call it Your Home

The Syracuse Housing Authority aims to increase homeownership with 50 new homes This upcoming spring, the Syracuse Housing Authority will begin yearlong construction of 50 homes for low-income families on the South Side. The program aims to increase homeownership in the city while also filling its many vacant lots.

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'Hoods Heading to Heaven'

Bell Grove dance troupe puts on a play to fight street influence Friday, Dec. 3 You’ll eventually find your way back home. This is 40-year-old Nicole Hudson’s message to young people on the streets. It’s a lesson she says she had to learn the hard way. She grew up in a religious family. But around age 20, she began straying …

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Hanslip's Jerk Hut

In tough economic times, his restaurant manages to survive Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Irvin “Bongo” Hanslip learned the value of hard work from his parents. “My parents were only rich in culture, poor in finance,” said Hanslip, 63, whose parents were both farmers. “By seeing how they provided for us, so we could have a better education, it give …

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A Helping Hand

Valley Worship Center food pantry is a portrait of hunger in Syracuse When Brenda Taylor thinks of the starving and the hungry, it’s not another country on the other side of the globe that comes to mind. She thinks of herself and her neighbors.

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