Buffalo Criterion, 1985-01-02

              wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation the buffalo criterion rochester vol 60 - no 1 ■ — wednesday january 28 1985 ■ out-of-town 25c niagara region hoyt announces 3.2 million grant for buff state's social services training project buffalo state college wtji be the recipient of a 3.2 million grant from the new york state dept-.-of social services dss for the college's statewide social services training project sstpi assembly man william b hoyt has announced sstp is the largest training contractor of state dss and is providing training for all 58 counties and new york city the continuation and expan sion of this state grant will provide 60 area jobs this year an additional 15 over last year's program for the provision of in-ser vice training for social services staff across new york state the project is recogniz ed as a top rate high quality effective program throughout the state and i am delighted that continu ation and increases in its funding have been approv ed - buffalo is indeed fortunate to host such a reputable project assemblyman hoyt stat ed social services training project sstpi is a contin uing education in-service training project of the social work program at state university college at buffalo the project in existence since 1978 is directed by dr david p wegenast associate pro fessor of social work activities of the project are directed toward the provi sion of off-campus job related in-service training for social agencies state wide including the 58 county department of so cial services private social service and health care agencies staff of the new york city dept of human resources and staff of the new york state dept of social services the grant was awarded to sucb by the division of administration office of human resource develop ment new york state dept new york state dept of social services this year the state dept of social services awarded a total of 11 million in grants for in-service train ing sucb the largest recipient in the state received a total of 3,188 968 this funding will sup port training for child welfare workers foster parents child protective service workers manage ment personnel medicaid eligibility workers staff of home health care agencies and staff of adult care homes u.l nysdss to implement adoption project project to focus on recruitment & minority adoptive parents the buffalo urban league inc has contract ed with new york depart ment of social services nysdss in the imple mentation of a community alliances for adoption project this demonstration pro ject funded by nysdss is designed to promote effective recruitment of minority adoptive parents and to decrease inter agency barriers often en i countered in the process of otuopiiiig tew yirr-a uuu waiting children according to leroy r coles president/ceo of the buffalo urban league the unique feature of the community alliances for adoption based on the one church/one child con cept will be the participa tion of religious leadership in reaching out to the community recruitment efforts will focus on buffalo's black commu nity recruitment efforts will focus on buffalo's black community primari ly its church population caap with sites in buffalo and brooklyn new york came about due to the disproportionately laree number of minority children 6 among new york states 3,000 who are waiting to be adopted many of the children have physical and emotional handicaps there are siblings that need to be placed together many individuals who are interested in adopting minority children do not adopt due to lack of education regarding the need for adoptive parents and apprehensions about dealing with the social service system in order to adopt patricia lester project director said that capp aims to facilitate the matching of 25 adoptive parents and 25 targeted adoptable children this group will primarily be school aged children as that is the group most over represented among the population pihanctal 1 as sistance is available for these children most of the children qualify for a subsidy and are also covered by medi caid low income fami lies single parents as well as employed individ uals can apply to adopt these children the project is seeking persons who wish to provide love nurturance and perman ance to a minority child capp will be located at faith baptist church 626 humboldt parkway buf falo interested applicants should contact buffalo urban league ms pa tricia lester project di rector at 854-7625 the buffalo urban league inc is a civil rights social service agency servicing buffalo and erie county for over 58 years charles 1 price is chairman of the board of directors charles carr professor of law sunyab is chairman of the caap advisory committee home coming service to be held the buffalo youth and young adult choral socie ty will hold their annual home coming service on sun jan 20 at 3:30 p.m at holy temple church of god in christ 572 clinton st near madison st rev lee allen spight is pastor > youth president is george davis in democracy triumps in grenada i spent a week in grenada during the first election there since 1976 in a day remarkably free of tension or violence gren adians overwhelmingly elected herbert blaize as prime minister his party the new national party nnp won fourteen of the fifteen seats in parliament in an election that were both free and fair this great triumph is > evidence that the oolitical pessimism that followed the tragic events of octo ber 1983 has been over come when we were there in december of 1983 and january of 1984 most people had lost their political will and did not want elections many said they no longer trusted politicians this is understandable because since gaining in dependence in 1974 the people of grenada experi enced first the authoritari an often brutal regime of eric gairy and they the totalitarian program of the people's revolutionary government headed by maurice bishop among the few institu tions that resisted the erosion and eventual elim ination of democracy were the free trade unions whose members faced harassment intimidation and sometimes imprison ment both the seamen and waterfront workers union and the taxi asso from the a philip randolph institute ciations two key trade unions had members im prisoned in richmond hill prison therefore it is not surprising thai the free trade unions emerged eager to play a crucial role in overcoming the people's apprehension apathy and uncertainty the commit tee of trade union coun cil's executive commit tee sponsored an island wide non-partisan get oiit-tetp vote cernreaign it included door-to-door dis tribution of campaign ma terials bearing a single message vote dec 3 buttons bumper stick ers and leaflets explain ing the voting process union members fanned across the island even to remote rural villages to urge grenadians to parti cipate with both eric gairy's grenada united labor party and the marxist maurice bishop patriotic movement failing to gain sufficient support to form a real opposition the ctuca can continue to play a role in promoting public discussion and un derstanding of issues the free trade union movement which is the institution's most sensitive to the economic and social needs of society will lobby the newly-formed govern ment on a wide range of governmental policies and legislation initiatives deal ing with economic politi cal and social issues of major concern to workers grenadian trade union leaders told us that al though the united states played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere which made the return of democracy possible the american government still has major responsibilities to this caribbean island according to them the united states must assist the country's economic development with an eye toward full employment continue support for gren ada's security and remain a constant and reliable alii the present transition to democratic rule in gren ada provides the united states with a unique opportunity the country does not suffer from the entrenched social prob lems plaguing other cari bbean nations a modest amount of economic assis tance and private invest ment can literally trans form the socioeconomic conditions of this small country of 110,000 and ensure the survival and strengthening of the new democratic system this would have positive effects around the car ibbean and demonstrate that the united states is not only committed to containing communism but also is fully devoted to sustaining democracies in need rehearsal planned all former members of the buffalo choral society are asked to attend the rehersal for the home coming sunday on mon jan 7th and mon jan 14th at the guilford hall 279 guilford st near genesee st at 7:30 p.m sharp abrams warns consumers of term paper mills announces outreach program in e c whatever the subject from anthropology to zoo logy there are people who are ready to ghostwrite term papers for high school and college stu dents in new york state attorney general rob ert abrams warns con sumers that state law bars these term paper mills from doing business with persons enrolled in schools in new york state consumers who have any type of consumer oriented problems or ques tions should be aware of attorney general robert abrams consumer out reach program which meets as follows in the buffalo area the program is held on the third thursday of the month at the 1490 senior citizen center 1490 jef ferson aye from 2 to 5 p.m the next scheduled visit will be held on thurs jan 17th at which time consumer frauds repre sentative gerald j strom berg will be present to discuss and offer advice on any type of consumer complaint attorney general abrams said when students hire others to do their work for them it seriously under cuts the integrity of our educational system such actions violate the trust and good faith of the instructors the other stu dents the schools and the public mr abrams said that a term paper mill collegiate research systems pub lished a 300-page cata logue offering up to 5,000 papers on a variety of topics his office under took an investigation and found that this operation sold as much as 2,000 worth of papers during the first two months they operated legal action on the part of his office has effectively shut this opera tion down in new york state the consumer outreach program is presented monthly as a public service of the new york state attorney general's office marine midland leads in lending to small businesses for the third consecu tive year marine midland bank n a made more loans to small businesses in conjunction with the small business adminis tration sba than any other bank in the u s recently released sba figures for the 1984 federal fiscal year which ended sept 30 show that marine made sba-guaranteed loans for more than 34 million last year the highest total among banks and the second highest among all sba lenders most important to the local community is the fact that 10 million of ma rine's total loans were made right here in wes tern new york well over 40 percent of this area's total sba loan volume the number of loans made by marine midland was three times that of the next-ranking local bank marine received the sba's 1984 gold medal award for its top lender position in western new york the award was presented to charles m mitschow regional presi dent marine midland bank by franklin j sciortino regional man ager small business ad ministration at special ceremonies at marine midland center according to mr mits chow the 266 loans marine made under the sba program demon strate the bank's commit ment to providing entre preneurs with the working capital they need to start small businesses with the working capital they need to start small businesses or expand existing ones he added working with small businesses through sba-guaranteed loans and direct lending efforts continues to be a major part of marine's business strategy and an integral aspect of the bank's role in the commu nities it serves throughout new york state marine midland bank n a is the 13th largest u s commercial bank youth graduate airman melvin d gosa jr son of patricia l and melvin d goss of 528 e amherst st buffalo n v has graduated from air force basic training at lackland air force base texas during the six weeks of training the airman studied the air force mission organization and customs and received special training in human relations in addition airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree through the community college of the air force his wife katrice is the daughter of emma ben nett of 160 harvard buffalo airman bernard stap ples son of winnie r staples of 3 maryner towers buffalo n v * has graduated from air force basic training at lackland air force base texas during the six weeks of training the airman studied the air force mission organization and customs and received special training in human relations in addition airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree through the community college of the air force v eye on history tee shirts available the eye on history tee shirts are now avail able at bells supermarket located on east ferry st you can order these shirts _ the customer service wndoiv eye on history lee shirts are also avail able at tmk community mart located at 280 east ferry at the comer of jefferson avenue or you can call 896-1318 after 6 p.m to order the tee shirts include drawings of dr martin luther king jr community activist joe easley succumbs funeral services for the late joseph louis easley were held monday dec 31 at 1 p.m from the new hope baptist church 543 richmond aye dr paul f thompson pastor officiated mr easley was born on august 28 1935 in lackawanna n y he was the 16th of seventeen children bom to the union of the late richard and mrs ida street easley along with his other brothers and sisters mr easley grew up in a christian home he attended the public school of lackawanna at i the lackawanna high ' school he distinguished himself as an outstanding football player and athlete following his gradua tion joe attending florida a & m university in tallahassie a football injury forced him to leave florida a & m university and return to buffalo he continued his education at the university of buffalo returning home to the niagara frontier joe be came very active in the civic social educational and economic life of the community among his many in volvements and achieve ments are the hi-light ers social club the bell brothers cleaners a fire man with the city of buffalo a candidate for councilman of the masten district vice president of the buffalo negro scholar ship foundation presi dent of the buffalo naacp first vice presi dent of the new york state conference of naacp . branches owner and oper f ator of mom's fish and ' ships part-time project director of the niagara frontier housing develop ment corp ford founda tion scholarship recipient of a national housing institute scholarship founder and president ol the joseph e easley and associates ltd a buffalo new york housing devel opment corp chairman of the board of assiento development other achievements are a lecturer at the university of buffalo law school chairman of the national housing association specialists for ten years chief executive officer of the community housing corp in st paul minne sota a 32nd degree mason in st john's lodge no 16 pha and noble in hadji temple and with his wife orstella proprietor of rams beauty salon mr easley received i many honors during the course of his lifetime on nov 13 1981 he was accorded a city-wide tes timonial illness forced mr eas ley and his family to return to buffalo in april 1981 although he fought a good fight joe never recovered from his ill ness he entered into life eternal at 5:50 a.m on dec 27 1984 surviving mr easley are his devoted wife mrs orstella easley a daughter monica five sisters mrs eugenia swygert mrs mary e thomas mrs helen wal ter gourdin mrs rosalie riggins of st paul minnesota and mrs pearl james lewis a brother richard easley jr a host of nieces and nephews a mother-in-law mrs mary wiley a god-mother mrs esther patillo five sisters in-law mrs ozelle l g fleming mrs catherine sandy mcqueen ms essie wiley mrs viola lee mccant mrs aud rey charles hemphill and four brothers-in-law johnnie wiley joe louise wiley edward reola wiley and michell shelia wiley and other relatives and friends the buffalo memorial chapels inc was in charge of arrangements interment was in elmlawn cemetery joseph l easley kj serving working leading in w ny inner cities i since 1923 price only 20 per copy