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The pictures speak for themselves. This is Seneca Parkside in South Buffalo:

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Angel Food Ministries

Angel Food Ministries, a non-profit, non-denominational organization, began in 1994 as a small outreach ministry serving a rural community in Georgia. The goal was to help neighbors who needed a hand up in a tough economic time. Today, Angel Food Ministries can be found in over 4,500 communities in 35 States and helps feed over 2.5 million families a year. Angel Food partners with churches and community organizations throughout the country to help distribute food to those in need.

Angel Food Ministry: Not a “hand out” but a Hand UP

If you would like more information please contact the church.

Cazenovia Park Baptist Church
520 North Legion Dr. Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: 716-822-7925
Email: Info@cazchurch.com
Church Website: http://www.cazchurch.com

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WHEN: Saturday April 12th, @ 2:00

WHERE: Cazenovia Park @ The “bowl” (behind the casino)

WHO: New York State Champion South Buffalo Rugby Club VS Gotham Knights

INFO: The South Buffalo Rugby Club won the New York State Championship last fall with a 19-12 victory over the previously unbeaten and 5 time defending Champs Syracuse Chargers. This was clubs 10th the anniversary year and first championship. The April 12th winner will move on to the Northeast Finals April 26th.

The top 2 finishers then qualify for the National Round of 8 in Austin Texas. Followed by the National Championship game, Sat. May 31st, in Glendale Colorado. The Gotham club hails from Manhattan and is representing the Metropolitan NY rugby union.

-The South Buffalo Rugby Club was established in 1997 and is active in volunteer work and community activities throughout
South Buffalo.

-We also have the Saints, our high school team, competing in the
NYS Rugby Conference West Division.

-We are always interested in new sponsors and players.

Visit us @ SBRFC.com

Come on out to root our boys and enjoy spring in Caz!

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Lily’s Loft

A CTM project created by the youth for the youth

The main mission of LILY’s LOFT- a project started by the teens of Christ Theatre Ministry (CTM) - is to help other teens by making the prom experience a joyful one.

Our goal is to help supply young women with formal dance attire without cost.

Prom season is fast approaching and we need your help to make this event a success. We are looking for slightly used or new Prom dresses.

Please consider our request, as your generosity will help give deserving young women, who may be less fortunate due to cost restrictions, a chance to participate in a magical evening.

If you are a young woman in need of a prom dress please join us on:

SUNDAY, APRIL 6th
from 6 - 8pm
at HARVEST HOUSE

1782 Seneca Street, South Buffalo, NY 14210

Dress donations will be accepted through April 1st at:

Harvest House
1782 Seneca St, Buffalo, NY 14210
http://www.harvesthouse.ws/
Mon - Fri from 9 am - 4 pm
Sat from 9 am- Noon

Chique Boutique
1069 Abbott Rd, Buffalo, NY 14220

http://www.chiqueboutique.net/
Tue - Fri from Noon - 7 pm
Sat from 11 am- 6 pm
Sun from 11 am- 3 pm

To schedule a pick up of your donation please call Lynn Schmitt at 716.827.5809.

Please bag and label all dresses to the attention of CTM and include donor’s full name and address. Contributions will be recognized in the South Buffalo News.

For more information about Lily’s Loft please visit: http://www.myspace.com/lilysloft

or email: LiliesLoft@yahoo.com .

For more information about Christ Theatre Ministry please contact Ellen O’Rourke, Director, at 716.824.2443 or email Christ.theatre.ministry@gmail.com .

This is a Christ Theatre Ministry project created by the youth for the youth with help from Chique Boutique of South Buffalo. With your generosity, we hope to make this an annual event.

The Cazenovia Street Area Block Club will be holding it’s 4th annual Spring Clean Up.

Please join us 10 am on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Grace Lutheran Church (174 Cazenovia St) for distribution of garbage bags, seeds & recycling information.

The clean up is a quick pick up along Cazenovia from Seneca St. to Abbott Rd.

Rain/snow date: 5/3/08
For more informantion, visit the Cazenovia Street Block Club website here.

As posted a few weeks ago, new cameras have been installed at certain intersections.

By: CindyK. I almost wasn’t going to submit this post, but after reading the blogspot on Buffalo Rising, I thought some things needed to be addressed where Seneca Street is concerned.

While it’s being hailed as good news in South Buffalo, what appears to be really is not. The article in yesterday’s Buffalo News only confirms the obligations of our elected leaders have to the City of Buffalo’s infrastructure. Should there have been a grandstand of what our elected officials say they are going to do? No. After all of this time, all I can really say is: Just get it done already!

Streetlights:

Road conditions:

From a previous post, note the dated paperwork of this “project”. 2000, 2004, 2005, and my blog post from 2007.

Yesterday morning I wrote to the author of the article: (in part, here is what I said)

I was informed of [yesterday’s] press conference after the fact. I’m also a picture-taking blogger who has been out-spoken about the conditions of Seneca Street for more than a year.

I wrote a post following the story on channel 4 [yesterday], in the post you can see the dated documents of this “development” project as far back as 2000, and Seneca Street has only gotten worse.

The dated documentation goes back to the $2 million promise from (then) Congressman Quinn while Mark Schroeder was just a County Legislator, and Brian Higgins was our representing Assemblyman. (Then) Mayor Anthony Masiello in 2004 came to Seneca Street with all the same “leaders” pitching the same project, the results… Seneca Street only got worse. Today it’s 2008 and you can change the names of the “leaders” or their titles as “lawmakers”, but the dates in which these so-called “revivals” come every 2 years… when someone is running for re-election. In the meantime, Seneca Street gets progressively worse.

I’m sorry to say, in my opinion, not all “Neighborhood leaders” are paid via a goverment job.

In the post that I wrote on the internet, there’s a link to pictures that I took of the actual street… pot hole after pot hole. I tell everyone that Seneca Street has more patchwork than a granny quilt, and it’s so very true.

The loss of business is everywhere, but the infrastructure is much more important. Motorists have all but stopped coming down Seneca Street because they feel like they are driving on the moon.

In the article though, one thing stood out:

Other planned or recently completed improvements include upgraded crosswalks, sidewalk repairs and new landscaping.

The new sidewalks being talked about was from the grant to fix Cazenovia Street last year.

Any new sidewalks for Seneca Street came in 2004 when (former councilman) Jimmy Griffin pledged the City of Buffalo would fix any broken sidewalks. And he followed it through.

As per the blogspot on BRO, it’s nothing short of praising our politicians for a job (not) well done. For those of us who live our lives in South Buffalo, we see it everyday…the good & the bad, the changes (if any), the broken promises, the political press grandstands, the political elections and we see a street being neglected by a touting albeit rehashed version a “redevelopment” from last year, and the year before, and the year before and the year before that even.

As I began this post, what appears to be is really not, because after years of waiting, the people of South Buffalo are at the point of “seeing is beleiving” because we’ve been promised all of this before and nothing was delivered. It’s time for these politicians to put their (our) money where their mouths are, otherwise we should look to elect new people, quality people to take their place in office. Seven years is a long time in waiting for their words to materialize into something good for a change.

I wrote the post yesterday “at the end of the day” because the end result is all we really want and need for Seneca Street. Not political grandstands, not shaking the Mayor’s hand, not politicians being hailed as “neighborhood leaders” when the hardworking citizens have done more for this community, as per.. the proof is in the pictures.