The Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY is presenting a Valentine’s Dinner & Dance! This night of romance, fine food, music and fun will take place on Friday, February 11th from 7pm to 12:30 am at the PCC Grand Ballroom.
Tickets are $59 per person for singles and $54 per person for couples. Those reserving a table of 6 or more are $49 per person.
The evening includes a Rose, Music & Entertainment by Legendary DJ Ric Mitchell, a Four Course Dinner, Dancing, Late Night Buffet, Cash Bar, and Couple Photos by Chris Milian Photography.
Reservations are required in advance and tickets must be purchased by Tuesday, February 8th. Please phone (518) 456-3995 or contact Charles Newton. Cash, Check, and Major Credit Cards accepted.
Attend IWJ’s National Conference in Chicago June 19-21. Join in celebrating 15 years of fighting for workers’ rights and help plan IWJ’s future at IWJ’s 2011 National Conference at DePaul University in Chicago.
IWJ’s national conferences are unique in bringing together religious, community, labor and business leaders; faculty and students; low-wage workers, government professionals and members of the legal community under one roof to connect and discuss ways to reclaim justice for people. Click here for more Information and to register.
Invited speakers include:
Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO
Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church and President of the Healing of the Nations Foundation
Those attending are also invited to IWJ’s 15th Anniversary Gala, Monday June 20th from 6-9pm. Ticket costs are included with your registration.
The Music Scholarship Program was instituted on August 8, 1964 by the Sixth General Convention of the National United Choirs of the Polish National Catholic Church held in Carnegie, PA. The program was implemented at the Seventh General Convention, held in Cleveland, OH, on August 6, 1966, when the first awards were presented. The XII General Synod of the PNCC established the last Sunday in January as “Music Scholarship Sunday.”
The Music Scholarship program was instituted and tailored to develop musicians within the Polish National Catholic Church. The program was further expanded to establish a Chair of Music at the Savonarola Theological Seminary of our Church in Scranton, PA, and to also make scholarships available in other areas of music to enrich the musical life of the Church.
The Scholarship Program awards are divided into 2 categories: general scholarships and endowed scholarships.
General Scholarships
The Bishop Francis Hodur Award
The Bishop Francis Bonczak Awards
The Bishop Francis Bonczak Youth Awards
Church Music Award for Clergymen
The Bishop Thaddeus Zielinski Awards
Junior Incentive Awards
Endowed Scholarships
The Polish National Union Award
The Adam P. Pikulski Award
The Cecelia Shumlas Award
The Bishop Walter A. Slowakiewicz Award
The Emil Swantkowski Award
The George J. Balcar Award
The Bishop Eugeniusz W. Magyar Awards
The Edward and Frances Bialoglowicz Award
The Deadline to apply for any of these Scholarships is April 1st. Applications for any of these awards may be received from the Music Scholarship Administrator by writing to:
Mrs. Cathy Bilinski, Administrator
4051 Washington Crescent
Troy, MI 48085
Is your congregation helping unemployed workers? IWJ’s new Faith Advocates for Jobs campaign plans to organize 1,000 local congregation-based or interfaith support committees to assist the unemployed and their families in communities across the country. Want to get your congregation or group involved? Contact Rev. Paul Sherry, the campaign’s coordinator, at 202-525-3055.
“The Way Back” just opened last Friday across the United States. The film, directed by award-wining director Peter Weir, is loosely based on the book called “The Long Walk” about a Polish Army officer who escapes from a Soviet camp in Siberia during WWII with a group of prisoners. Those who survive the journey end up making their way to freedom through the dessert and the Himalayas.
The film Stars Colin Ferrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.
This is the first widely distributed film that shows the Polish WWII story from the side of the Soviet occupation and persecution. Those of you who are familiar with the Kresy-Siberia Group, will be pleased to know that they advised Peter Weir in the making of the film.
Anne Applebaum, a Washington Post Reporter who recently wrote the book “Gulag”, and is married to Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski, wrote in her review of the film: “…The Way Back” is a unique and groundbreaking film: It represents Hollywood’s first attempt to portray the Soviet Gulag, in meticulously researched detail.” Another review can be found here, and two in Polish here and here.
In the Buffalo, NY area, the film is being shown in Regal Cinemas (Galleria, Orchard Park, Williamsville and Elmwood).
The Polish Community Center invites all to its Traditional Polish Wigilia – Vigil Supper and “Tribute to Volunteers” honoring those who have given of their time and talents on Saturday, January 15th starting at 6pm.
The eveing will include a sharing of “Opłatek” (Oblation Wafer), the customs and traditions of Christmas, singing of Kolędy And Carols, and familiar Polish Cuisine.
Member, guests, and friends are welcome. Reservations are recommended. Tickets are $12, Volunteers are free. Please call 518-456-3995 to make reservations.
The PCC is located at 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY 12205.
The 19th Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra will be held on Sunday, January 9th. This year, the Orchestra will be raising money to buy medical equipment for children with urological and nephrological diseases
Sylwester Prokurat, Assistant Professor, Ph. D explains the need:
We would like to be able to detect diseases of the urinary tract earlier, because this enables early treatment and urological intervention. The reason why it is so important is that an early diagnosis may have a considerable impact on the patient’s future life.
When a developmental defect of the urinary tract is detected in a little patient, additional diagnostics is necessary, including bladder functioning tests. Since very often such defects are spotted in newborn babies, it is crucial to provide early treatment with the help of precise urological devices.
Another significant problem connected with kidney patients is the growing number of cases of severe kidney damage. As medicine progresses and new difficult yet necessary procedures are being introduced such as bone marrow transplant, liver transplant or heart transplant, the number of patients with acute kidney insufficiency is growing.
It is extremely important that the doctor has the access to so-called continuous hemofiltration methods, instead of having to send a patient to another clinic, sometimes hundreds kilometers away, where it is possible to eliminate toxins. Today, so-called intensive nephrology also includes early kidney support treatment or continuous hemofiltration treatment, aimed at stabilizing the patient, controlling the amount of water in his or her organism, supporting treatment of sepsis (especially within the first 24 hours), and eliminating toxins in cases of mushroom and drug poisonings.
In all those cases time and accessibility of treatment play a decisive role. Modern continuous hemofiltration devices give doctors a wide range of possible treatments, including plasmapheresis (therapeutic plasma transfusion) used in cases of poisoning. These methods are recommended and used in all European countries.
That is why it is very important now that specialists from the fields of nephrology, urology and intensive care work together in order to:
Improve early diagnostics of urinary tract and provide efficient treatment;
Prevent severe kidney damage in cases of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in patients in intensive care units;
Keep high standard of continuous hemofiltration treatment in children with acute kidney disease;
Diagnose and treat hypertension in children.
Finale Centers have been set up in the United States at:
Stamford, CT
Polska Sobotnia Szkoła
360 Washington Blvd.
Contact: Kazimiera Ferenc, 203-940-2185
Pomona, NY
Polskie Radio NEW YORK
1551 RT – 202
Contact: Marcin Filipowski, 845-354-2000
Chicago, IL
Copernicus Foundation
5216 W. Lawrence Ave.
Contact: Gregg Kobelinski, 773-777-8898
January is National Polka Month! Join in at Buffalo’s Broadway Market as they celebrate with live music from some of Buffalo’s best Polka bands. The New Direction Band will be performing live polka on Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Broadway Market offers some of the best local produce, meats and baked goods around. Start the New Year off right with the New Direction Band and the Broadway Market. Visit the Market website for a full list of January’s Polka events.
For additional information contact the Broadway Market at 716-893-0705. The market is located at 999 Broadway and is open everyday, except Sunday, from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Parking is available in the parking ramp attached to the market.
Semester of Service 2011 launches on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 17, 2011). This year, Youth Service America (YSA) Grants will provide approximately $500,000 to nearly 500 schools and organizations to lead Semester of Service projects.
Semester of Service projects address meaningful community problems and their root causes – problems such as childhood obesity, hunger & homelessness, illiteracy, natural disasters, and environmental degradation. Semester of Service incorporates the practice of sustained service over a period of significant “duration and intensity” (typically at least 70 hours over several weeks or months), in order to provide enough time for students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to understand and impact challenging community problems.
YSA encourages educators and service organizations to participate by launching and culminating efforts for a Semester of Service on significant national days of service:
The King Day of Service (January 17, 2011)
Global Youth Service Day (April 15-17, 2011
9/11 Day of Service (September 11, 2011)
The King Day of Service (January 16, 2012)
In a successful Semester of Service, students follow the IPARD/C stages of the service-learning process:
Investigation
Preparation & Planning
Action
Reflection
Demonstration/Celebration
Educators wishing to plan a Semester of Service may obtain resources through YSA including:
YSA provides a variety of grants (applications available), planning tools, training, and technical assistance to help Semester of Service participants plan, lead, and implement high-impact service-learning programs.
The Music Scholarship Program was instituted on August 8, 1964 by the Sixth General Convention of the National United Choirs of the Polish National Catholic Church held in Carnegie, PA. The program was implemented at the Seventh General Convention, held in Cleveland, OH, on August 6, 1966, when the first awards were presented. The XII General Synod of the PNCC established the last Sunday in January as “Music Scholarship Sunday.”