Lackawanna

than a half away.

Fingers crossed, right? So in Lackawanna on 9-11, there's an instance of Islamophobia being documented.

Deborah Dahl wanted to show off the sign she had painted and put on her friend Alex David's red Ford pickup.

So she and David parked across the street from the Lackawanna Islamic Community Center on Abbott Road.

It was September 11th, the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.

The date was not a coincidence.

On the other side of the truck, visible to patrons in the bar behind where the truck was parked, black and red paint that read, Outlaw, Sharia Law, and Ban Burqas.

Dahl, who's 65, and David, 64, said they were delivering flags that day to commemorate 9-11.

Um, October 16th, 1905, St. Josaphat's Church is established in Cheektowaga, New York.

October 20th, 1919, dedication of Dompolski Hall in Lackawanna.

This building would serve as a me-meeting place for Polish organizations in this city, noted as a center for steel production in Western New York.

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I can't tell you how many weddings and card parties and showers, uh, that I attended at Dompolski Hall in my hometown of Lackawanna, New York.

Many.

Um, and some weddings back then, uh, and I'll mention my, uh, my cousin, Helen, uh, Tarnowski, Helen Niziel Tarnowski Briggs, um, for her wedding, first there was breakfast.

All right.

It's on Abbott and Lackawanna.

All right.

You gotta go there.

Then Williamsville Central School District, Darren Brown Hall, two hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.

Lackawanna City School District, Nadia Nasher, two hundred fifty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Next we have West Seneca Central School District, Lisa Kruger, two hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and six dollars.

Next, Kent Town Union Free School District, Sabatino Samato, two hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.

New York Beer Project in Lockport had 455 events.

The Eagle House on Main Street in Williamsville had 400 events.

Jay's White Elephant on Abbott in Lackawanna had 350 events.

Chefs on Seneca Street in downtown Buffalo, 325.

The response has been really well received.

But again, when I go there talking to people at the doors, whether it's in Buffalo, Chickawaga, or in Lackawanna, it turns into a governor's race, even though I'm running for state senate.

I have no problem talking about myself, but I have to try to talk to people regarding the governor's race because we're trying to get Bruce Blakeman in as governor because Kathy Hochul is universally identified as being terrible.

And so it's a very easy conversation at the door to swing conversation and get people talking.

Yosef Mazur was a well-known and well-respected artist in Buffalo, born here in 1897 on Buffalo's east side crafting breathtaking pieces out of stained glass, wood, or canvas.

Joseph Franczak, a close friend of Mazur's, was a brilliant architect, designing St. Barbara's Roman Catholic Church in Lackawanna, New York, to help serve the growing Polish Catholic population of Buffalo at the turn of the last century.

But when St. Barbara's was demolished in 2012, two masterpieces made by these men were almost lost to time.

Inside the chapel at Corpus Christi stands a two-piece wooden altar carved by Franczak.

Above the altar is perched a massive mural of two angels standing on either side of a crucified Jesus holding chalices created by Mazur.

Quote, this mural is exactly the way it was at St. Barbara's in the sanctuary, says Henry Świątek himself, a well-respected and admired artist who specializes in restoring religious pieces like those found in many of Buffalo's Polish churches.

Before St. Barbara's was raised, the altar had been disassembled, which made it much easier to transport from Lackawanna to the chapel, he says.

Quote, the carving and the design is quite unique because it's actually done in an Art Deco style, and it was designed by Franczak, end quote.

Church celebrates 25th anniversary.

The Fillmore Community Church family invites you to come celebrate our 25 years of ministry with a banquet on Saturday, April 11th at 4 p.m. at J. White's Elephant Banquet Hall at 1404 Abbott Road in Lackawanna, New York.

Join us as we celebrate this amazing milestone under pastoral lead-- leadership of Reverend Brian D. Robinson as we join together to recognize and acknowledge FCC's history and how God's word does not change.

Gather with us at 821 Fillmore Avenue, 10 a.m. to hear a faithful God and preserving people.

Yeah.

I, I'm, I'm in, in that way from Lackawanna.

See? I've lived in-

But I grew up in West Seneca