AIDS Community Resources is looking for “Holiday Angels” for an AIDS Community Resources client and their family. Holiday Angels provide needed items like clothing, shoes or personal care items as holiday gifts. A list of needed items is provided; you can supply as many or as few as your wish. All gifts should be wrapped and labeled; financial donations are …

Fiery String of Speakers Advocates for Changes In Their Communities Derrick Thomas, 22, stood on the shadowy stage in The Gravity on Pearl Street, and told the adult community members in the room, “You are the parents; make your kids listen.”

Leaders on the South Side are making it possible for yearly event to be held at 5:45 p.m. Dec. 6 When the South Side heard that the city had cut its tree-lighting funds, the community didn’t let it ruin their holiday plans. A group of organizers and volunteers banded together to make sure the 12-year tree-lighting tradition continued. With an …

Tuesday, Nov. 30, Syracuse Housing Authority hosted its first Section 3 Networking Reception. The event was held at the South Side Innovation Center in Syracuse. The main goal of the evening was to bring various minority contractors together in order to create familiarity and exchange business specialties. In this sharing, it is hoped that minority contractors will begin to acquire …

South Side students create and display new stained-glass windows for Dunbar Center She hopes her children — and maybe even her grandchildren — will be able to see her artwork someday. That’s because 100 years from now, 12-year-old Uniyah Chatman’s stained-glass window could still be hanging in the Dunbar Center.

I am writing for REACH CNY in response to “Words of Wisdom: Catholic Charities aims to educate Hispanic girls on teen pregnancy.”