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From left are Kathy Peterson of Rural Ministry, Mayor Michael VandeVelde, Rob Dorman of the agency.
WESTFIELD On April 10, the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry held one of it’s Nourish New York distribution days at the Westfield American Legion.
About 20 helpful citizens turned out to help unload trucks, stuff bags and boxes with food to hand out.
The Chautauqua County Rural Ministry is an interfaith human service agency. They have been awarded a grant through New York state to help local businesses recover from the pandemic.
It’s a program that gets food from restaurants and markets that have been hit hard by the pandemic and put it in the hands of people that need it. Westfield Mayor Michael VandeVelde said, “It was an honor to help CCRM when they were here in Westfield. Thanks go out to CCRM’s director Kathy Peterson and CCRM’s Rob Dorman and all the people that came to help.”
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Daniel O’Rourke died on March 15, 2021, at the Chautauqua County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Dunkirk.
Dan was born on Dec. 31, 1931, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He was the son of the late John and Rose (Kielty) O’Rourke. Dan was ordained a Catholic priest in the Franciscan Order in 1959. After he left the Franciscans, he married his wife Marie in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 18, 1971. He then worked as executive director of the Human Rights Department for the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. His principal functions there were to investigate mediate and arbitrate complaints of discrimination and to educate the public to the presence and effects of prejudice.
Jan 30, 2021
Eighth District Service Corporation out of Buffalo, along with Chautauqua County Dental Society donated $1,250 to Chautauqua County Rural Ministry food programs. Pictured are Dr. Julie Mills of the Northern Chautauqua Dental Group, Kathleen G. Peterson, Chautauqua County Rural Ministry executive director, and Susan Soja of the Northern Chautauqua Dental Group.
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Sen. George Borrello and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz distribute food to local residents earlier this month in Queens.
State Sen. George Borrello was taking a page from U.S. Rep. Tom Reed’s playbook. In order to make things happen, do it collaboratively and for the greater good.
In this instance, it was a perfect and unlikely match. Republican and upstate representative Borrello teamed with a downstate Democrat in Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz to work on a measure that would establish a permanent program for distributing surplus agricultural products to food banks, similar to the Nourish New York model.