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Interfaith Brief 1st Story
Interfaith Brief 1st Story
Interfaith Brief 1st Story
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Former Jordan-Elbridge School
District Treasurer Anthony Scro
can’t return to his job yet. A-5
Facebook
terfaithworkscny.org or
449-3552.
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at the SSO box office, Ave. He’s aiming to open by Valen-
week after a burst water pipe photos and comments. Like
www.Syracuse tine’s Day, he said.
crippled their operations, a most Facebook pages, viewers
Symphony.org and The pipe provided water to the Some Marshall Street merchants must ask to be the page’s
424-8200. Students with a landlord in the heart of the building’s sprinkler system. Potamia- said they’ve hardly noticed any differ-
Syracuse University commercial dis- friend, and must be accepted,
valid ID can buy tickets for nos said it hasn’t been determined why ence in trade. before they can see its con-
$5. trict and his tenants are picking up the it failed.
pieces of their businesses. ‘‘Most of our clients are students tents.
The break, discovered the morning here,’’ said Kaleigh O’Brien, manager Someone with access to the
Party for a Cure Archimedes Potamianos met with of Jan. 21, came at a lousy time for of Some Girls Boutique at 145 Mar- page has allowed police to see
engineers, contractors and insurance
set for Sharkey’s adjusters Friday at the two-story build-
merchants and restaurant owners, as
33,700 basketball fans descended on
shall St. ‘‘Everyone is, like, in walking it, said Camillus Police Sgt.
distance anyway.’’ Joe Farella. The page con-
A benefit to raise money ing he owns at 171-177 Marshall St. the Hill the next day for SU’s clash
for local ovarian cancer re- Others have noticed. Peter Mavriki- tained pictures of West
They were to decide how best to clear with Villanova. Genesee students and com-
search and awareness will out and rebuild the foundation dis, whose restaurant, Acropolis Pizza
be held from noon to 7 p.m. As a safety measure, the Syracuse House, is next to J. Michael, said his ments, he said. There was no
wrecked when water from the pipe nudity, Farella said.
today at Sharkey’s Eclectic pushed in a 20-foot section of wall and Department of Public Works barricad- trade is down 50 percent since the bar-
Sports Lounge in Liver- flooded the basement 9 feet deep with ed the brick sidewalk in front of the riers went up. ‘‘There’s conversation
pool. water, mud and debris. stricken building. going back and forth regarding
Party for a Cure 2011, Another set of sawhorse barriers ‘‘I don’t understand why they each picture. I think a lot of
which is sponsored by He hopes to begin removing debris stretched down the middle of Marshall closed the whole street,’’ he said. kids think it’s funny,’’ he said.
Hope for Heather, Ovarian on Monday, he said. Street for about two-thirds of the Potamianos owns The Student Stor- However, there may be oth-
Cancer of CNY, Sharkey’s A salvage company began helping J. block, from Panda West restaurant to age Co. and other businesses with ers who are offended or don’t
and TJ Sheehan Distribut- Michael Shoes, Potamianos’ longtime Starbucks Coffee Co. headquarters in the basement, and his know their picture is posted on
ing, will feature an after- tenant at 173 Marshall St., dig through That eliminated nearly all the park- tenants took the worst hit. the page, Farella said. In that
noon of music, food and the wreckage and resurrect the scores ing spaces on a block containing at case, they are victims, and the
raffles. of shoes and boots that store owner The tenants include Halo Tattoo; the
least 20 going businesses. But it also person or persons who created
A buffet lunch and a free John Vavalo had stored in the base- Unique Tea House, which is building a
kept cars off the side of the street that the page could be criminally
soda or draft beer is in- ment. new restaurant on the second floor;
showed evidence of being destabi- charged with aggravated ha-
cluded in the gate donation and Starbucks.
As they worked, Vavalo signed pa- lized, Public Works Commissioner rassment for each victim, he
of $20, or $15 for those said.
pers that will temporarily move J. Mi- Pete O’Connor said. SHOE, PAGE A-4
under 21. There will also be
several raffles for purchase, KIDS, PAGE A-4
including multiple 50/50
raffles.
African drumming
Saturday at library New rule allows Jake had eliminated from considera- been eliminated,’’ Madison
A free performance of tion anyone who had died wrote.
African drumming will be Miller to be considered for more than five years earlier. Miller, who had gone to Al-
presented 3 p.m. Saturday firefighters memorial. The selection committee for bany in August to lobby for his
in Onondaga Free Library, the memorial has rescinded father’s inclusion on the me-
4840 W. Seneca Turnpike, By Glenn Coin that rule. That means Tobias morial, said Friday he was
Onondaga Hill. The per- Staff writer Miller, the father of Jake Mill- gratified by the change. As-
former is Biboti Ouikahilo, The father of a Madison er, of the town of Hamilton, semblyman Bill Magee and
director of Syracuse’s Wa- County man will likely be en- will be eligible for the memo- state Sen. David Valesky lob-
cheva Cultural Arts. Ouika- shrined on the state’s firefight- rial when the selection com- bied on Miller’s behalf, and
hilo is a native of the Ivory er monument mittee meets in April. the Dutchess County firefight-
Coast. after all. Jake Miller and the fire- er’s group filed legal action.
David Lassman / The Post-Standard, 2010
— Staff and news service reports fighters association in Dut- ‘‘It took a lot of time, a lot
Tobias chess County fought last year of pushing and a lot of shov- JAKE MILLER, of the town of Hamilton, has successfully lob-
bied to have his father’s name added to the fallen firefight-
Correction Miller, who
died after
after the committee rejected ing,’’ Miller said. ‘‘It looks
er’s memorial in Albany. His father died in 1950. He’s hold-
Tobias Miller and another like we’re there, finally.’’
A report Thursday con- fighting a ing his father’s cap at the local firefighters monument in
tained an incorrect title for local firefighter, Cornelius The wall was created in
fire in Firefighters Memorial Park in Syracuse.
Onondaga Community Col- Robert Fogg, who died in 1999. Before the five-year rule
lege executive Jim Sunser, a Poughkeep- 1928. was instituted in early 2010,
finalist for president at Corn- sie in 1950, Miller learned on Thursday the state had enshrined fire- bias Miller, their names would fighters who have died in the
ing Community College. Sun- was denied a about the change in an e-mail fighters who had died as long be installed on the wall at a
ser is the vice president for Miller line of duty.
continuing and extended place on the from State Fire Administrator ago as the 1800s. ceremony in October, Jake
learning, not the director of Fallen Firefighters Memorial Floyd Madison. If the committee accepts the Miller said. The memorial has Contact Glenn Coin at
continuing education, at OCC. in Albany last year. A new rule ‘‘The five-year rule has applications for Fogg and To- more than 2,300 names of fire- gcoin@syracuse.com or 470-3251.