Catholic Health is hosting a couple special Facebook Live Way to Wellness events on knee pain and stroke awareness this month. “A Joint Effort: How Surgery & Therapy Shape Recovery,” will take place on Tuesday, April 19, from Noon-1 p.m., featuring Dr. John Karpie from Trinity Medical Orthopaedics, Dr. Michael Ostempowski from Excelsior Orthopaedics, and […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Dr. Dana Radatz, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Niagara University, received an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice during its annual Scholarship and Awards Luncheon on April 8. Radatz was honored for the significant contributions she has made to […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — Mike Vaccaro’s name was added to the Jandoli School Wall of Distinguished Graduates last week, an overdue honor that brought many people who spoke about him to tears. “I have a theory – the terms journalist and writer aren’t synonyms,” said ESPN’s Chris LaPlaca, ’79, himself an honoree on the wall. “A […]
Notre Dame Academy has found a way to mix Christian service with the more secular side of Easter, coloring eggs. The pre-K 3 students of the South Buffalo regional school colored 10 dozen eggs to donate to the Our Lady of Charity food program. Our Lady of Charity Parish started a dinner program five years […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — On April 9, 1865, Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee met in the village of Appomattox Court House to negotiate the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The fateful meeting in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean was the beginning of the end of the American […]
HAMBURG — Donald Lando has been named Hilbert College’s inaugural vice president of Hilbert College Global, the school’s online division, President Michael S. Brophy, Ph.D., announced. Lando will lead the enrollment, marketing and partnership efforts for Hilbert College Global, which includes all existing graduate and online programs, the growing dual enrollment program, and new educational […]
In an ongoing show of support for the people of Ukraine, Bishop Michael W. Fisher and a contingent of diocesan officials visited and toured the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center in Buffalo April 7. On a tour lead by cultural center president Emil Bandriwsky, and board member Bohdan Cherniawski and local Ukrainian activist Dianna Derhak, Bishop […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher has appointed Father Czeslaw M. Krysa as the administrator of St. Bernard Parish in Buffalo in addition to his role as rector of St. Casimir Church. This was effective April 2. The provincial superior of the Vincentian Fathers has informed us that Father Aiden R. Rooney, CM, will be leaving the […]
The Parish Pastoral Council of Blessed Sacrament Church in Buffalo is pleased to announce that the previously canceled lecture by Sister Margaret Carney, OSF, “Women in a Wounded Church,” has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 30, at 1 p.m. This is the fourth lecture in the Catherine M. and Paul W. Beltz Lecture Series of […]
Sister Patricia Healy, a longtime teacher, died April 6, 2022, at Stella Niagara Health Center. The former Sister M. Doreen was 92. The daughter of William and Mary Ann (McMahon) Healy was born March 14, 1930, in Buffalo. She attended Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart and Rosary Hill College (now Daemen) in Amherst, before […]
