TONAWANDA — The board of directors at Cardinal O’Hara High School welcomed six new members at its January meeting at the school. Michael P. Rizzo, ‘80, board president and owner of the MPR Restaurant Group, introduced the new members to the existing board members. Rizzo is on the board of Brighton Place Library and the […]
TONAWANDA — Two seniors from Cardinal O’Hara High School scrambled their way to second place in the Lake Ere-Niagara Regional Science Olympiad Tournament on Feb. 4 at Buffalo State College. The team of Wilson Hendershot and Jacob Joldos competed against teams from 18 area high schools in the “Scrambler” event. For this event, the students […]
Students attending Catholic schools in the Buffalo area were treated to a long holiday weekend beginning Friday, October 7. But as for their teachers, it remained a working day, off site. The Diocese of Buffalo’s education department hosted a staff development day at St. Amelia Parish in the Town of Tonawanda. The all-day session began […]
TONAWANDA — People around the KenTon area and City of Tonawanda met faculty and staff from Cardinal O’Hara High School on Sept. 30 when the O’Hara group took part in a scavenger hunt on O’Hara Quest Day. Eight teams of four were given clues that led them to 12 destinations with points given when the […]
Tonawanda — Joleen Dimitroff, new principal at Cardinal O’Hara High School, did double duty Sept. 15 when she not only made pierogi, but served them for the priests at the O’Hara Residence adjacent to the school. She also provided sauerkraut and sausages for the dinner. Dimitroff, who just started at the Tonawanda school in September, […]
TONAWANDA — Cardinal O’Hara High School celebrated its 58th commencement exercises on May 26 in the school’s Performing Arts Center. In her graduation address to the seniors, Sharon Patch ’03 said she was thankful for Cardinal O’Hara that set her on the path for success. Patch, director of government affairs for Delaware North, is also […]
TONAWANDA — Dove Award-winning Christian singer songwriter Mitch McVicker will perform a concert at Blessed Sacrament Church’s Cotter Hall on Wednesday, April 27., beginning at 7:30 p.m. With the recording of his 12th album, “A Shrugging of the Shoulders,” McVicker gives a nod to his past as he stretches forward. McVicker’s vocational musical journey began […]
The eighth-grade Spanish class at St. Amelia School in Tonawanda has taken on an educational service project to help a fellow student in Guatemala. The students are selling unique handmade leather bracelets through their school and neighborhood. The money raised will go to pay for the high school education of Melvin, a teen facing severe poverty in […]
TONAWANDA — St. Amelia School is pleased to announce that staff and students will be welcoming a new principal, Kathryn McIntyre, when they return to school on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. McIntyre comes to St. Amelia as an experienced classroom teacher and administrator in Catholic education. She received her bachelor of arts degree in History […]
Sister M. Beatrice Venditti, who served the community as a Franciscan Sister for 75 years, died Nov 3, 2021. She was 91. Sister Beatrice’s life began Feb. 19, 1930, when she was born Margaret Venditti in Elma, the seventh of eight children of John and Wilma Venditti. Margaret was baptized at Annunciation Parish in Elma […]
