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Nationally recognized training program takes root in Syracuse

SU cancels rapper Objectionable lyrics force Florida rhymer Ace Hood from Orange Madness

By Ken Jackson Movers and shakers would

be nothing without builders. So it’s important that Up-state New York Chapter of National Association of Mi-nority Contractors (NAMC) and the SUNY Educational Opportunity Center recently presented their first Con-struction Training Open House in Syracuse

By Russ TarbyOn Sunday, Oct. 13 – the same day that the Syra-

cuse Post-Standard editorialized against the booking of Florida rapper Ace Hood at Syracuse University basketball’s Orange Madness on Oct. 18 – the uni-versity’s athletic department announced that Hood’s appearance had been cancelled.

A 25-year-old Syracuse man named Shoquinn Ben-ton was stabbed at last year’s Orange Madness event at

the Carrier Dome. Other fights had also erupted in the Dome concourse during the 2012 event, police said.

Benton refused to cooperate with police, said Syra-cuse police Sgt. Tom Connellan. “He’s not telling us what the fight was about,” the police spokesman said at the time.

In its high-circulation Sunday paper, The Post-Standard critiqued Hood for rapping

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Derrick Dorsey seeks dialog on the School BoardBy Walt Shepperd

Born in Syracuse, raised in Pioneer Homes, Derrick Dorsey recalls a moment in 9th grade at Corcoran High School when his math teacher pulled him aside. “He knew I was a leader and knew that I could make a difference in the classroom setting. It took him five minutes to do

that. It was a life changing experience for me.” Now 45, Dorsey points to the encounter as a driving force in his campaign as a Democrat for a seat on the Syracuse Board of Education. “What I’d like to do is create that environ-ment in our school district,” he notes, “a thriving school district which encompasses teachers, educators meeting

with parents, meeting with community leaders, meeting with administrators.”

At the time of that jolt of inspiration, Dorsey remem-bers, he was thinking about getting a job at Carrier like his dad. “I wasn’t thinking college at that point,” he says. “But after that I was thinking college. I was kind of hoping

through my athletic ability that I would receive a scholarship of some nature. But at that point I was also thinking that I could receive something through academics.” Both converged at SUNY Fredonia, where he garnered All-American honors in track and field. He feels he has been making a difference in this community for the past 20 years, currently as director of the Inter-Faith Works Community Wide Dialog on End-ing Racism.

Dorsey believes that dialog belongs in the city school district curriculum. “Bullet five on Superintendent Contreras’s strategic plan is en-gaging community organizations and agencies, looking for those resources in the community that could help advancing the school district’s agenda: Great Expectations. In the community

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Opinion

Ken JacksonThe Hall Monitor

Heavy MentalPerhaps the Homicide

rate would decrease if there was more emphasis on mental health

We’ve witnessed a ter-rible crime on the corner of South Avenue and Valley Drive in which a trip to the store ends in death of a man who was sim-ply minding his own business. The way the news reports make it sound, it appears to be pearl-clutching time for the people of Syracuse. “Oh, my! How could this have happened?” Leaders stage press conferences to show their concern for the victim. Vigils are conducted to condemn the perpetrators while the root causes of our disintegration remain long and deep and unaddressed.

At Sabatino’s Pizza near the corner of South Salina Street and Ballantyne Road, a store owner’s gunned down at his place of business. The 38-year-old clerk was killed af-ter being shot in the back. On South Geddes Street after an armed robbery, a Chinese take-out restaurant has installed three-inch-thick barriers to protect the facility.

I’ve heard white political leaders lament, “The black community should be outraged.” Oh, really? Well the com-munity is not only outraged, but it’s at a loss about what to do. The Justice Center was designed with another wing in mind, while mental health care funding in the United States has been decreased by more than 50 percent.

We don’t have to accept conditions that make these violent acts possible. And I’m tired of being yelled at by activists carrying candles. There has to be an assault on violent crime and mental health treatment issues that impact our collective quality of life.

In the meantime city residents, especially seniors and junior-seniors, have to live with this reign of terror that makes it difficult to go to a store or retail establishment.

This is about our ability as a community to handle mental health issues. Yes, I said it, mental health. Despite our growth as a central location for medical services, Syracuse leaves the metal health of our most vulnerable out of our discussions and reasoning.

Local hospitals post billboards that advertise our fine health delivery system, Upstate University Hospital declares “Knowing Changes Everything.” St. Joseph’s promises “A Higher Level of Care,” and Crouse Hospital says simply, “Your Care, Our Hands.”

Our delivery systems for mental health issues have no billboards, no fancy slogans and no official house in which to reside. Children who are in emotional crises will find no treatment facility anywhere in Central New York. If you’re lucky you can “shuffle off” to Buffalo. But if you stay in Syracuse, that same child or young adult will go directly to jail where he or she will remain untreated.

If you’re an adult and have no insurance you may have an opportunity to see a psychiatrist or physiologist as medical emergency. After the allotted five minutes for diagnosis and treatment the patient may be sent on their way with a bag of meds. As a society we treat animals better.

Syracuse has done a decent job applying the salve of economic development to provide “some honey and some jam to sweeten up the sour places.” Moving a suburban employer into the West End is great, but if

there are no opportunities for city residents to become employed it becomes as Sarah Palin would say, “Putting lipstick on a pig.”

The well-healed are rushing to fill newly created high-end living spaces downtown. Businesses are moving into the West End and everything’s coming up roses and daffodils.

The sad fact is Syracuse’s urban core is poor. Official figures from 2012 U.S. Census has the city’s unemploy-ment rate at 14 percent. Among the city’s minorities, it’s easily double that number. More than 54 percent of children in Syracuse are mired in poverty; 38.2 percent of adults are officially designated as poor; 30 percent of our all residents -- regardless of race -- receive food stamps. Compare these numbers with other metropolitan areas across the state and the nation. In each category most places are better off than Syracuse by double.

The family median income for Syracuse is $36,850 while in Onondaga County income is at $64,324. I could run numbers for many columns, the point is that we’re poor and have failed a generation of young people.

In Syracuse, countless African-American leaders lobbied on behalf of Destiny USA. We were all treated to hyperbolic high-tech multi-media presentations, causing many to be-lieve that economic development would become the urban community’s savior.

In the minds of the connected, those who have steady incomes shake their collective well-coiffed heads in disbelief.

Jobs for young urban male residents are non-existent. Our neighborhood centers have become the last refuge to “get your hustle on” by hawking everything from drugs to pirated copies of first-run movies.

Imagine being hopeless, having no job, no money and no prospect of getting any relief. Over the years black elected leaders have told young African-Americans that there would be jobs. In fact some went as far as promis-ing employment. The only jobs created, however, are for those bureaucrats who reinforce the notion that there’s no hope. African-American millennial s no longer buy the party line. If you mention an elected leader in their midst, you may get cursed out.

The fabric of our community and nation is being torn apart by things that can easily be addressed. We will ex-pand a jail before trying to deal with the number of people experiencing mental breakdowns.

We shuttle children with emotional disabilities across the state while we celebrate advancement in treatment of diseases affecting children at the Golisano Children’s Hospital.

Our ability to create employment that pays a living wage has produced few signs of success. Low-income jobs pay such minimal wages that the employed qualify for Food Stamps, Medicaid and Child Health Plus.

Here’s an idea:If all of the corner stores, retail businesses and service-

providers within the urban community set a date in November should close their doors in protest that day saying, “This will no longer be tolerated.” By shuttering our shops for 24 hours, we could all insist on the importance of life. It’s that kind of concerted action that we need to end this reign of terror. Otherwise the mur5der and mayhem will continue to threaten our ability to live in what Martin Luther King Jr. once called “the Beloved Community.”

The program provides a training facility complete with instructors offering area contractors pre-trained individuals capable of entering the construction-related workforce. The Upstate New York chapter is part of a national organization designed to support and enhance the abilities of minority contractors.

President of Upstate New York Chapter of NAMC, Otis Jennings explains, “When we started dreaming of this initiative there were two things that we thought were critically important: making Empire State Association of Minority Contractors a 501 (c) (3) organization and have a relationship with National Association of Minority Contractors because they represent the minority initia-tive on a national level. We were able to secure that. We have that from Albany to Buffalo, and there’s a downstate chapter in New York City.

“The second piece that was critically important to develop a relationship with national training model to have a certification that is not only portable, but real from an accredited construction management school that offers more than 50 different types of skills as far as the construction field is concerned, and we hooked up with the University of Florida. So when these men graduate from this program they not only going to have a journeymen labor status, they’re going to have certifi-cations in forklifting, operating heavy equipment and laser leveling technology, just to mention a few of their skills.” The National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) Student Certification, of which Jennings is the local administrator, is recognized by the Department of Labor in all 50 states.

NCCER student certifications include: OSHA 10 Hour Course, Construction Essentials, Craft Labor Level 1 and 2, Laser Leveling and Forklift Operation.

Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) partnered with the Central New York chapter of NAMC to as-sist in creating skill-specific resumes. There’s also a relationship with Huber-Breuer, Syracuse Housing Authority and Syracuse Community Health Center to utilize these graduates in their future building plans. Mark Harris is NAMC’s lead instructor. Harris has 25-plus years as a journeyman mason.

Located in East Syracuse, the training center in-corporates classroom instruction including blueprint reading and mathematics training among other skill-building initiatives that are crucial to succeeding in the construction industry.

At the open house, NAMC showcased skills in-cluded demonstrations in the following areas; Scaf-fold Building and Dismantling, Cement Mixing and Finishing, Laser Level, Carpentry, Masonry, Bidding and Estimating.

NAMC trainers immersed program participants in detailed training modules including, but not limited to, building scaffolding, mixing and pouring concrete, using a tape measure, and they know construction math. Graduates also must be capable of reading blueprints. These were some of the skills that they’re able to acquire with this training model.

Co-founder of NAMC Stanley Dean explains the importance of mathematics. Without this, it’s difficult to work in construction, so for two weeks, every day we worked on math. If you can grasp this, it’s endless what you can do. The final result was a class moving from simple fractions to algebra. That is what I’m most proud of.”

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Health NewsTips for Medicare open enrollment

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Adults who are age 65 or older or are disabled will have the option to keep or switch their Medicare Advantage plans for 2014.

Me d i c a r e’s o p e n e n r o l l m e n t p e r i -od runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7. You can “age in” to Medicare throughout the year. “Eligible individuals should first review any premium or benefit changes to their current plans for 2014,” said Michael Burke, senior vice president, Govern-ment Programs, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

“Even if they’re happy with their current plan, major benefit or premium changes might indicate that another Medicare option might best fit their needs,” he added.

Individuals should also consider the following: · Which “star” rating did the health plan

receive? The Centers for Medicare & Med-icaid Services rate the quality of Medicare Advantage plans on a scale of one to five, with five stars representing the highest quality. · Does your doctor, pharmacist or hospital contract with the health plan? It can be costly to see a doc-tor, pharmacy or hospital that’s not in a health plan’s network.

· Lower premium vs. higher premium. Would you rather pay a higher monthly premium, but pay less when you go to the doctor? Or would a lower monthly premium with higher costs for services work best?

· Consider a $0 premium plan. You’re paying $0 a month, but still receiving comprehensive benefits.

“Medicare is not part of the new health insurance exchanges,” Burke added. “The exchanges are for individuals who are not eligible for Medicare and need health coverage.”

For Medicare help, call 1-888-529-0019 or find a Medicare informational seminar near you at xcel-lusmedicare.com/seminar.

Medicare Advantage plans are a type of Medi-care health plan offered by health insurers that contract with the federal government to provide hospital and medical coverage to eligible indi-viduals.

Join Syracuse Community health Center In Spreading the WordChildhood Obesity is Preventable by Encouraging Healthy Habits

During the past four decades, obe-sity rates have soared among all age groups, increasing more than fourfold among children ages six to 11. More than 23 million children and teenag-ers (31.8 percent) ages two to 19 are obese or overweight, a statistic that health and medical experts consider an epidemic.

The growing rate of childhood obe-sity in our country is alarming. Sup-porters of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month and the health care providers at Syracuse Community Health Center recognize the serious threat obesity poses to the health of our children and the importance of decreasing its prevalence not only in Syracuse and Central New York, but across the entire United States.

Obese young people have an 80-per-cent chance of becoming obese adults and are more likely than children of normal weight to become overweight

or obese adults. As a result, they are more at risk for associated adult health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, stroke and several types of cancer and os-teoarthritis.

The financial implications add up to a sobering $14 billion per year in direct health care costs alone, ac-cording to the American College of Sports Medicine. Americans spend approximately nine percent of their total medical costs on obesity-related illnesses. Additionally, there are psy-chosocial consequences that can hin-der academic and social functioning and persist into adulthood.

These severe consequences under-score the critical importance of chil-

dren and teens to participate in physi-cal activity and to engage in healthy eating habits. The good news is child-hood obesity is entirely preventable. It’s up to all of us to encourage healthy habits. This message is brought to you by Syracuse Community Health Center, your Health Care Home of Choice. Make an appointment today with our Pediatrics Department today to learn more about childhood obesity prevention at 315-476-7921.

Mayor Urges Syracuse Residents to Sign Up For Affordable Care Act Coverage System plagued with signup glitches

Mayor Stephanie A. Miner urged City residents to enroll in the new healthcare marketplace available now. The New York State of Health, the healthcare ex-change set up in the State of New York as part of the Affordable Care Act, begins open enrollment today. Coverage can begin as early as January 1, 2014.

However, the website has been plagued with problems and long waits.

Therefore you will need patient. There are facilitators designated to assist New York State residents with the Affordable Health Care maze. The phone response is quick and you will get a person who will respond to your Affordable Health Care related questions.

“The Affordable Care Act has been transformative in how we deliver healthcare and offer access to insur-ance,” said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner. “The new marketplace, set up under the New York State Depart-

ment of Health, will make it easier for individuals and employers to purchase affordable healthcare. This is a major step in getting over one million New Yorkers the healthcare services they need and deserve.”

Individuals can go to nystateof-health.ny.gov or call 1-855-355-8777 to learn more information and begin the enrollment process. More information about the Affordable Care Act and the new health insurance exchanges can be found at healthcare.gov.

“in the most explicit terms about gun violence, gang life and rape. His lyrics are strong stuff for grownups and they certainly are unsuitable for children. His message is not the one we should be sending to young people in a community reeling from senseless, random violence and a near-record number of homicides.”

Indeed, Hood’s rap lyrics are filled with references to pistols and Porsches and revel in demeaning char-acterizations of women. He uses plenty of N-words, MF-words, B-words and P-words.

Born Antoine McColister in Port St. Lucie and raised in Deerfield Beach in Broward County, Fla., Hood pre-viously recorded for Def Jam. The 25-year-old rapper’s presently signed to We The Best Music Group and Cash Money Records.

His song “Top of the World,” from his debut studio

album “Gutta,” was featured in the basketball simulation game, NBA 2K10. He has released four studio albums, including “Trials & Tribulations” and “Blood, Sweat & Tears.”

SU apparently agreed with those who objected to the Hood booking.

In an Oct. 13 email to the media, the university’s director of athletic communications, Pete Moore, wrote, “To ensure that Orange Madness is truly a family experi-ence, the artist Ace Hood will not be part of the event.

“After a review of the overall program, we share concerns about the appropriateness of the act. Although he is popular with many, we respectfully have decided to not include this performance in the Orange Madness festivities.”

This year Orange Madness takes place at 8 p.m. Fri-

day, Oct. 18, with entertainment by Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy as well as scrimmages by SU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams along with a slam dunk contest.

Like many rap artists, Hood has endured com-plaints about controversial lyrics, but he has also been applauded for enlivening his studio productions with old-school boom-bap backbeats as well as the sound of gamelan orchestra chimes from Bali. David Jeffries of the AllMusic website praised Hood’s “Bugatti,” a track from “Trials & Tribulations,” for “kicking the swagger into overdrive.”

Hood has an estimated net worth of $5 million, according to bornrich.com. He has collaborated with artists such DJ Khaled, Trey Songz, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne.


wide dialog we partner up city and suburban schools at the high school level to talk about four key concepts: institutional and structural racism, stereotypes, white privilege and allies. Allies to me is the most important. How do you step in and interrupt the racial joke, interrupt bullying, not meeting with violence, but meeting with tools in your tool box that defuse the situation?”

He realizes, however, that to experience such an intervention, youth must be reached in the school setting, and more than 50 percent of Syracuse students drop out before graduation. “Parent engagement,” he maintains will impact the drop-out rate. “Parent involvement. I know Monique Wright-Williams is doing some great things with Parent University. It’s creative ideas like that that will allow us to engage parents to realize that they are not adversaries, but teammates of the educators. I co-chair the Code of Conduct Committee for the district and suspension rates is something we’re looking into. What are the things in terms of intervention, before we get to the consequence of them losing instruction time? Are there tools educators need in their tool box to help them with classroom management.”

Dorsey believes he would bring a skill to the Board that doesn’t exist now. “It’s the skill of dialog,” he says, “and that’s what I do for a living. And that is everyone is valued, everyone is allowed a voice, and everyone gets an opportunity to not only be heard, but hear. Without setting up ground rules it’s using the process of dialog to make effective change, and using the process of dialog to address conflict. After what he calls several intimate conversations with George Weiss, the founder of Say Yes, Dorsey feels, “The program takes the hopelessness out of academia for people who look like me. Growing up in Pioneer Homes I knew I didn’t have the resources to go on to college. Not by my parents paying for it. But if I had something in place that said if you can get accepted to an institution on your own merit, that we’re going to pay for your education, that’s hope.”

Dorsey also points to physical needs. “We need classes that are wire ready, wifi ready. We need smart boards in every classroom. There is no reason for us to say we have great expectations for all of our students when we don’t have the resources to level the play-ing field.” He feels a county-wide school district creating wide spread diversity could foster the sharing of resources and level the playing field, but politically would be a huge challenge. “You would ask a lot of people to give up what they have and a lot of school districts are satisfied with what they have.”

Reprinted with permission from the Syracuse New Times. Walt Shepperd was named Writer of the Year three times by the New York Press Association.

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St. Joseph’s Hosts Free Seminars on Weight Loss Surgery

SYRACUSE – St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center will host a free infor-mational session on “Weight Loss Surgery: When is it the Best Option?” on Tuesday, November 12, at 6 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Medical Officer Center, Suite 809-810, located at 104 Union Avenue in Syracuse. Free parking is available in the Medical Office Center parking garage.

William Graber, MD, FACS, a board-certified surgeon specializing in weight loss surgery, will explain what qualifies as obesity, how obesity affects health, when surgery is the best option and review what can be expected after surgery.

Space is limited. To register, call St. Joseph’s at 315-744-1244 or e-mail communityprograms@ sjhsyr.org.

St. Joseph’s is designated as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Two surgeons -- Dr. Graber and Dr. Dmitri Baranov, who practice at St. Joseph’s – also have earned the ASMBS Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designation.

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center is a non-profit, 431-bed hospital and health care system in Syracuse, New York, providing services to patients in 16 counties in Central New York State. Through prevention programs and the latest diagnostic treatment procedures, St. Joseph’s works with patients to achieve optimum long-term health. A 14-time winner of the National Research Corporation Consumer Choice award, St. Joseph’s is affiliated with Franciscan Companies and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis.


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An epic mystery that has captivated and stunned audiences around the globe. After their mother’s death, twins Janine and Simon, guided by letters the mother has left each, travel to the Middle East to untangle family roots entwined in a war ravaged past. A play of raw power and poetic resonance, the Syracuse Stage production marks the return of director Marcela Lorca (Caroline, or Change).

Wajdi Mouawad is a multi-award winning Leba-nese-Canadian writer, actor and director.

At age six, he and his family fled from Beirut in 1975 as a result of the Lebanese Civil War.

Drawing upon that experience and inspired by

Greek tragedies as well as Kafka, he wrote Scorched. A film version, Incen-dies, was Canada’s official selection for the 2011 Academy Awards.

Scorched is recommended for ma-ture audiences due to adult language and violent situations.

Single tickets: $30 - $52. Children (under 18): $18. Under 40: $35 all tickets, all performances. SU students: $18 all performances. Senior discounts availables all performances except Fri. and Sat. evenings. Rush tickets available day of performance only: $22 - $27

general public and $18 with valid student ID, subject to availability.

Discounts available for groups of 10 or more (call 315-443-9844).

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Scorched: A Syracuse Stage production

In this inspirational forum, you will learn the following from a profes-sionally diverse panel of entrepreneurial men do-ing extraordinary things

and making a difference: • What these men are

passionate about and what motivates them to achieve

• The struggles they

have overcome to get to where they are now

• The importance of faith and building a solid spiritual foundation as a cornerstone in their lives

• How they manage their money and finances and much more!

MEET & GREET IN THE ART GALLERY TO FOLLOW DIALOGUE

Come learn, laugh and enjoy a lovely af-ternoon prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling, CEPF

Moderator/Facilita-tor Author of “How To Save Money & Organize Your Finances: Tales of an Urban Consumer”

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“We pressure fry our chicken so the meat cooks from the inside out keeping all the mois-ture in,” said store manager Ward Alsarafandi. “It gives you that crispy layer from the frying, coming out golden and good tasting.”

While broasted chicken is their claim to fame, turkey can also be broasted. For the Thanksgiv-ing holiday broasted turkeys will be available by pre-order.

One of the signature menu items at Broaster Chicken are boiled peanuts. “One of the own-ers was visiting down South and was introduced to boiled peanuts,” Alsarafandi said. “He loved them and said we have to have them here.”

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Community NewsThe Syracuse City School District Afterschool Program has an Immediate Need for Volunteers

The Syracuse City School District is asking for volunteers to work with After School Programs in 10 schools. The program operates thru May 15, 2014 (excluding days when school is not in session) Monday through Thursday, 2-3 pm or 3-4 pm.

Volunteers will help with snack time supervision but are welcome to stay longer to help out with classroom activities.

Volunteers are needed in the following schools: From 2 - 3 pm: Dr. Weeks (K-5), HW Smith (K-5) 3 - 4 pm: Dr. King (K-5), Ed Smith (K-5), Franklin (K-5), HW Smith (6-8) Hughes (1-5), Huntington (K-8), LeMoyne (K-5) Lincoln (6-8), Meachem (K-5), Roberts (K-5) Salem Hyde (K-6), Webster (K– 5)

For More Information or To Sign Up For These or other Volunteer Opportunities Contact: Joe Lancaster SCSD Volunteer Liaison 315.435.4295 or [email protected]

The iZone Concept Seeks to support 7 low performing Schools

The iZone will focus on seven targeted schools in the west and southwest sides of Syracuse. The schools include Bellevue Elementary, Porter Elementary, Seymour Elemen-tary, Danforth Middle, Frazer K-8, Van Duyn Elementary and Westside Academy at Blodgett Middle. These schools will have more flexible operating conditions and increased autonomy as well as one additional hour of academic pro-gramming for all students.

The iZone is being funded through the federally funded School Improvement Grants (SIG). Last year Syracuse was awarded over $31 million in SIG grants to support the initiative and help transform these seven low performing schools.



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Laborers Recruit ApprenticesThe Construction and General Laborers’ Local Union #633 will conduct a recruitment

from September 18, 2013 through August 20, 2014 for ten (10) skilled construction craft laborer apprentices, State Labor Commissioner Peter M. Rivera announced recently.

Applications may be obtained at Local Union #633, 7051 Fly Road, East Syracuse, NY from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. the 3rd Wednesday of each month, excluding legal holidays, during the recruitment period.

The Committee requires that applicants:•Must be at least 18 years old.•Must have a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (G.E.D.), or five

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ment application. The work includes: •Regularly working at heights up to 150 feet•Regularly working within confined areas•Performing the required duties of a laborer. This may include, but may not be limited

to, lifting 50 lbs. or more.•Must be willing to submit to a drug test upon acceptance into the apprenticeship

program.•Must be willing to join Local Union #633.•Must have a valid driver’s license to operate the sponsor’s work vehicles.For further information, applicants should contact their nearest New York State De-

partment of Labor office or Local Union #633 at (315) 471-1591.Apprentice programs registered with the Department of Labor must meet standards

established by the Commissioner. Under state law, sponsors of programs cannot dis-criminate against applicants because of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, dis-ability or marital status. Women and minorities are encouraged to submit applications for apprenticeship programs. Sponsors of programs are required to adopt affirmative action plans for the recruitment of women and minorities.

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Community NewsPresident Obama Visits Henninger High School

On Thursday, August 22nd President Barack Obama delivered remarks at Henninger High School. The President discussed the importance of ensuring that every American has the opportunity to achieve a quality education by reducing cost and improving the value of higher education for middle-class students and their families.

The auditorium was filled to capacity with an enthusiastic crowd. This trip was part of the president’s road show promoting his education initiatives. However, Syria and other issues pushed Obama’s agenda from the headlines.

According to Superintendent Sharon L. Contreras, “It is a tremendous honor

that the President of the United States has included the Syracuse City School Dis-trict on his bus tour through New York and Pennsylvania. We are both proud and humbled that Henninger High School will be one of the sites at which President Obama will discuss the importance of ensuring that every American has the op-portunity to achieve a quality education by reducing cost and improving the value of higher education for middle-class students and their families. The Syracuse City School District is committed to making sure that every student receives a high quality education that prepares them for success in college and career, allowing them to live the American dream.”

Photo by Ken JacKsonPresident Barack Obama speaks at Henninger High School.


Southwest Community Center Director Reaches out to CommunitySharon Owens succeeded Jesse Dowdell in May

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By Walt ShepperdA new coat of paint was only the surface indication of the rebranding at the

Southwest Community Center being forged by the agency’s new executive director. Distribution of an annual report, and the announcement that it was the first such document produced by the center since its founding in 1975, made clear that business there would be conducted in a very different manner.

After growing up in Geneva and graduating from Syracuse University in 1985, Owens—who succeeded Jesse Dowdell in May — went to work in youth program-ming at the Dunbar Center. Three years later, she became teen center coordinator at Southwest.

“It felt like I had come full circle,” she says of her new position. “Intelligent Young Minds, established back then, is still a program at the center. Some of the adults I run into now came through that program.”

She also runs into mothers she counseled at Early Head Start, where she did ad-ministrative work, as well. Told Walt Dixie needed a consultant at Jubilee Homes, after six months she settled in as deputy director. In 2010, when Mayor Stephanie Miner began forming a new administration, someone—Owens still doesn’t know who—recommended her for deputy commissioner of the newly formed Department of Neighborhood and Business Development. Miner appointed her to the Southwest board of directors.

“Jesse started talking about retirement about two years ago,” Owens recalls. “Of course, nobody believed him. He had been here so long. The job was posted in Janu-ary of this year. I knew it would be a good fit for me. Through my career I had amassed a global approach to community service. At the city {Miner’s administration}, it was the icing on the cake, because I was able to develop relations citywide and understand government processes.”

Her first priority is an assessment of the role of the center in the immediate neighbor-hood and the larger community it serves.When Jesse Dowdell first took the job, he closed the center for an extensive cleanup.What’s the first thing you did?

The first thing I did was come in here May 1, put my bag down, and started a series of 12-hour days to see all the components of the agency, the traffic flow here, how things run, the relation between programs here and agencies that run them like and Parks and Rec and Onondaga County Library. My commitment to the board was a 100-day assess-ment: Where we are, what we need to change and what’s working. Is there any expansion contemplated in that assessment?

It is a community center for multifaceted purposes. My vision—coming from a very different career road, community service—now needs to incorporate the business aspect, as well. We’re gearing up to go to a fast-track summer program, closing the doors for youth programming so we can prepare the staff and orient parents.You started working with youth here almost three decades ago. how are they different now?

My generation was told it was the worst generation the previous generation had ever seen. Every generation deals with a different dynamic in this society. There’s more violence now, more guns, stronger and more abundant drugs available. So we have to create new approaches, but I think some old-school things still work. If a young person feels protected and cared about, and you build the trust factor, that will always work, like what you do at the Media Unit {writer Walt Shepperd is the executive director of the teen program}, and what Rufus Morris does at the School of the Arts.

Adults sometimes say all the kids want to do is rap and sing and dance. Well, if that’s what they want to do, how do we take that and use it to teach social skills and learning principles? Let’s use what they like to engage as mental health tools. How do you express how you’re feeling? How do you express what’s in your mind without feeling like you’re being psychoanalyzed? For young people, poetry is an amazing way for doing that.Can the Southwest Community Center work with the gangs?

I have to do it with partners. I have to do it with programs like Truce. Obviously, I

have to do it with {Police Chief Frank Fowler}, and I’ve met with the chief. I have to do it by being accountable ourselves for programming here. You have to give out excellence to expect excellence. I can’t do it in isolation. One thing that is my mantra is, we are the experts when it comes to our population and our community. But we are not the experts for every service that we need. So I’ve got to develop those partnerships. In the 1980s, I remember the building being chuck-full of agencies: Huntington, Bishop Foery, PEACE Inc. I want to recapture that.Whatever happened to the emphasis on aIDS?

We still have the FACES program, but it has taken a financial hit because the fund-ing came from the state. As the state has retrenched and prioritized its funding, we’re still here, we’re still engaged in the community for AIDS. The other thing about the agency is I’m embarking on a rebranding of the organization, the Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility. We’ve got a $4 million budget, and probably 60 percent of that is the family planning program. We’ve taken severe hits over the last three years. A lot of state money went away. A large majority of our funding was state funding.

I want to begin to emphasize the amazing reproductive health component of the agency, and support it and get that information out. That program operates three clinics, two in the city and one in North Syracuse. The other major aspect of this organization is this facility. I’m beginning to use new language, change of language, change of mind, change of expectations. Really referring to Southwest Community Center as Southwest Community Center campus. The campus. What is a campus? A campus is a community, where you learn, live, work and play.

So what’s the epicenter? What’s going on inside the walls of this building? The outer ring? What’s going on in the footprint of this building? Then bringing in the even larger outer ring of the community surrounding the building, really encompassing the influ-ence of the neighborhood on the center and the influence of the center on the neighbor-hood.With such severe funding cuts, and such increasing competition, do you reach a point where traditional foundations and state and county funds are no longer available?

We have to go to private industry. The good-hearted nature of everyday folks who would like to contribute is limited as they are just trying to make it. Looking to

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Community NewsNational News….Overheard Red Lobster waitress gets $10k tip after racist receipt goes viral

The customer isn’t always right. Sometimes the customer is completely, horribly

wrong, as Toni Jenkins learned waiting tables at a Red Lobster in Franklin, Tenn., when she got back a receipt with no tip and the n-word as the total.

“I was just stunned that it happened,” Jenkins, 19, said.

“It’s not something that you think in our generation would actually take place,” she told ABC News.

After she posted the receipt to her Facebook page on Sept. 10, Matthew Hanson of AddictingInfo.org sprang into action, setting up a “Tips for Toni” online fund raiser that’s collected $10,749.00. The proceeds were presented to a surprised and touched Jenkins on Sept. 30. “I felt so blessed and so honored that so many people came together on my behalf to give this to me,” Jenkins said. A good tip for all of us: Don’t lose faith in people

Church NewsHow Should a Christian Respond to Hatred and Hostility?Question.org Answers to tough Questions About God and Life

Seeking to follow Christ will often lead to being wrongfully criticized and hated. Jesus said to His followers, “I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you” (John 15:19). And the Bible says that “everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). So how are we to respond to hatred, hostility, and persecution when it’s directed at us?

Enduring wrongful hatred is something that God both requires and rewards. In Matthew 5:44 Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” And in Luke 6:22-23 He said, “Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.”

Christians should avoid unnecessary conflict (Matthew 5:9; Romans 12:18; 14:19), but there will be times when conflict can’t be avoided (Matthew 10:34; 1 Peter 2:19-21; 3:13-17; 4:12-16). Jesus said that His followers would be hated and persecuted (Luke 21:17; John 15:18-21). Merely seeking truth and living by the light exposes darkness in the lives of others and incites hatred (John 15:22). An obedient life forces people in rebellion to face their sinfulness and need of redemption (Isaiah 30:9; John 9:39; Romans 2:8).

The Bible clearly articulates the proper Christian response to hostility. For example, when we are cursed, we are to return a blessing in return (Luke 6:28; Romans 12:14). When we are forced to do something we don’t want to do, we are to go the extra mile (Matthew 5:41). If we “suffer for doing good” we are to “endure it” (1 Peter 2:20). These responses are hard to do, but they demonstrate that something supernatural is motivating us, something that transcends mere human nature (Matthew 5:46-47).1

When we return good for evil, we follow the example of Christ (1 Peter 2:20-23). Our enemies will be taken off guard, even stunned. They expect (and probably desire) an angry response. Our anger would be natural, and would confirm their sense of control. But a gentle response would be unnatural, even incomprehensible.

Jesus offers no guarantee that a humble response will soften our enemy’s heart. Although our enemy might be puzzled, a truly evil person may be angered further. He might renew his attacks with even more tenacity. But there is also a chance that our foe may be disarmed, intrigued, and drawn to faith.

It’s no wonder that the apostle Paul exhorted Christians to:Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to

do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head” (Romans 12:16-20).

One reason is that we seldom know for sure why we are being hated. It flatters us to believe that it is entirely a matter of being “persecuted for righteousness sake” (Matthew 5:10). But realistically, the good that we do is often mixed with selfishness, jealousy, pride, and self-protection. If we are honest, we realize that there are times when our enemies are rightly putting their finger on something ugly in us, and are angered by our sin.

Still another reason we should be willing to be good to our enemies is that we ourselves have benefited from God’s grace and are indebted to God’s love (Matthew 18:23-35). God offered us mercy, even when we unfairly hated Him. We who have experienced the miracle of God’s unconditional love should be the first to strive for peace, resisting the impulse to condemn (Matthew 5:22; Romans 12:10).

Upcoming I-81 meetingsThe New York State Dept. of

Transportation (NYSDOT) has scheduled several neighborhood meetings later this month to pro-vide information and hear your comments regarding the future of the I-81 viaduct through the city of Syracuse. The following meetings have been scheduled:

Northside meetingTuesday, October 22, 6:30-8pmDr. Weeks Elementary School

Cafeteria, 710 Hawley Avenue, Syracuse Downtown area meeting

Wednesday, October 23, 5:30-7-pm, Everson Museum, 401 Harrison Street, Syracuse

Westside meetingTuesday, October 29, 6:30-8pm,

Fowler High School, 227 Magnolia Street, Syracuse eastern Communities meeting

Wednesday, October 30, 7-8:30pm. Town of Dewitt Com-munity Room, 148 Sanders Creek Parkway, East Syracuse

We encourage you to make every effort to attend one or more of these important meetings, as well as the Re-gional Scoping Meeting on Wednesday, November 13 from 3-8pm at the OnCen-ter. I’ll send out additional information as it becomes available.

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my board, bringing on people who can do long-range strategic planning and identify funding sources that are not so dependent on public funds. We have to. The word collaboration has gotten watered down in recent years, but we’re looking at some strategic alliances so that we can survive.What did Jesse Dowdell leave you with that you are really pleased with?

I’m real pleased with staff here who are really com-mitted. What Jesse has left here is a camaraderie with the community. One of the first things I did was draft a letter for people who live, work or play in the vicinity of this building, saying who I am. I’m looking to be a good neighbor to you, how can you contribute? We’re looking for volunteers, people who have ideas, people who have resources: monetary, in-kind, equipment, supplies.What connection do you see for Southwest Commu-nity Center with the larger Syracuse community?

You have to combat perception.When I met with the staff I said, “We are combating

perception.” When there are 10 young people outside in front of this building, not doing anything other than nor-mal teen stuff, it’s the perception of anyone coming up or down the street. Part of that perception is real. A priority of mine is assuring people that they are safe here.

Reprinted with permission from the Syracuse New Times. Walt Shepperd was named Writer of the Year three times by the New York Press Association.

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