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    .News » Local Share Email this articlePrint this articlePoloncarz Warns Of New Telephone ScamBy WKBW News
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    February 27, 2011

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    BUFFALO, NY—( RELEASE ) Today, Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz warned of a telephone phishing scam currently targeting Erie County residents and even county employees.

    Identity thieves are contacting potential victims to warn them that their bank account was supposedly compromised. Unlike typical phishing scams that use email, this one is initiated by a phone call, currently to the victim’s mobile phone from a (732) area code.

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    Upon answering the call, an automated voice message announces that the victim’s “Western New York Credit Union debit card has been deactivated” and to “reactivate or speak with security, please press #1 now.”

    The goal is to get the victim to call back a phone number and enter their bank account information.

    “The scam works by warning you that your debit card has been deactivated and then urging you to provide your account information so that it can be reactivated,” said Poloncarz. “People may fall for this scam because the automated message refers to the financial institution as being the ‘Western New York Credit Union’ and there in fact exists a highly respected local credit union with a similar name - WNY Federal Credit Union. This morning I spoke to Marie Betti, the local president of the WNY Federal Credit Union, to express my concerns and she confirmed the calls were not being sent out by their organization and they are warning their depositors to not fall for the scam. Considering the calls are being received by many county residents, regardless of whether they are a member of a credit union, it is important that all residents be aware of this scam and be vigilant to these scam artists.”

    Poloncarz then warned, “As soon as you are asked for any sensitive personal information, that’s when you should be suspicious and just hang up. Your bank or credit card company WILL NEVER call you and ask for your account information. It’s a scam. With this information, scammers can assume your identity and empty your bank accounts.”

    Erie County residents are advised to report such solicitations to the Erie County Comptroller’s Whistleblower Hotline at (716) 858-7722, the New York State Attorney General’s office at (800) 771-7755 or the Federal Trade Commission at (877) 382-4357.

    Poloncarz noted a number of telephone scam tips, including:

    · Never provide your personal or account information or password in response to an unsolicited request. If you did not initiate the communication, you should not provide any information;

    · Contact the company yourself. Ask the caller for their name, department and phone extension and then contact the company at the number you know to be correct to determine if the call is legitimate; and,

    · Review account statements regularly to ensure all charges are correct. If your account statement is late in arriving, call to find out why. If you have Internet account access, periodically review activity online to catch suspicious activity.

    If you believe you have given personal information to an illegitimate source, you should contact your financial institution and credit reporting agencies immediately and monitor your credit files and account statements closely.
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    .News » Local Share Email this articlePrint this articleLackawanna Police Chief Defends Deadly Shooting By OfficerBy Laura Gray
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    February 25, 2011

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    Lackawanna, NY (WKBW) -- Police say a suspected drug dealer tried to run over a police officer last night during an undercover drug bust, and left an officer with no choice but to fire back. "When I got the cell phone call, of course my heart dropped. I immediately jumped in vehicle responded to the scene." says Chief James Michel.
    When Chief Michel arrived at this gas station on Abbott Road shortly after 6 last night, he found two officers injured and a suspect dead in the backseat of a minivan. The Erie County Sheriff's Department and Lackawanna Police had been conducting a drug bust, Michel says, and when they went to place a driver under arrest, "He drove into the police vehicle injuring two of my officers. One of my officers was partially trapped between the police and suspect vehicle." The officer fired his weapon. "In my 31 years in this department, this is the first time has had to use deadly physical force to take a life."
    Chief Michel says a quarter ounce of crack cocaine was found in the minivan. Mayor Norm Polanski says the incident remains under investigation, but he stands by the officers decision to fire his weapon. "I consider these young men to be like my sons." He tells us, "I know the officers involved have outstanding records, so I'm certain everything will have been done right."
    Both officers are out of the hospital Friday they will remain off the streets until the investigation is complete. Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita would not release the names of the suspects or what they have been charged with.
    Lackawanna Police tell us none of the suspects were from the City of Lackawanna, and all of them have lengthy criminal records with prior drug arrests.
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    at members of the 15-member advisory committeeBy Matt Spina

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    The Erie County Legislature is turning to a 15-member advisory committee to guide its once-a-decade reapportionment process.

    The Legislature's Republican and Democratic leaders have each appointed six members, and the County Legislature chairwoman has appointed one. The other two are the county's Republican and Democratic elections commissioners or their designees.

    Appointed by Republican Minority Leader John J. Mills, R-Orchard Park:

    * Emilio Colaiacovo of Kenmore, an attorney and partner at the Bouvier Partnership LLP, is involved in several civic and professional groups, including the Erie County Bar Association. A significant portion of his practice is in election law.

    * Jorge S. de Rosas of Buffalo, a former assistant U.S. attorney and Erie County assistant district attorney, works for the law firm Wolfgang & Weinmann, LLP.

    * Jonathan S. Hickey of Clarence is an attorney and a founding member of the law firm of Burden, Gulisano and Hickey, LLC. He served on the Clarence environmental quality review committee and is involved with the Volunteer Lawyers Project providing pro bono legal services.

    * Bryan Wittmeyer of Hamburg is a physical therapist at Greater Buffalo Physical Therapy. He has been an active member of Hamburg's community development and senior services advisory boards.

    * Brian R. Biggie of Buffalo is an associate attorney at the firm Goldberg and Segalla, LLP. He was a candidate for State Assembly last year and founded Buffalo Christmas Wishes, a gift-giving campaign for local children.

    * Martha Lamparelli of Buffalo led the committee that studied downsizing and recommended an 11-member Legislature. Mills asked her to fill the seat that the Legislature minority leader can occupy on the redistricting commission.

    Appointed by Legislature Chairwoman Barbara Miller-Williams:

    * Adam W. Perry, a partner with the Hodgson Russ LLP law firm who is a commissioner on the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and a member of Buffalo's Citizen Planning Council since 2009. He will serve as chairman of the commission.

    Appointed by Majority Leader Maria R. Whyte:

    * Diane M. Terranova of Lancaster, who served on the County Legislature for several months in 2009 when appointed to fill a vacancy. She is a full-time clerk and deputy registrar in the Lancaster town clerk's office.

    * Jonathan D. Rivera of Buffalo, manager of an HSBC Bank branch and a former field representative for Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo.

    * Jesse W. Martin Jr. of Buffalo, an adviser with SVB Wealth Management.

    * The Rev. Jeff E. Carter of Getzville, pastor of Ephesus Ministries on Grider Street, a retired chaplain from the state's Attica Correctional Facility and the former executive director of the Pastoral and Church Ministries Program at Houghton College.

    * Daniel M. Boody, business manager and secretary treasurer for District Council 4, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades of America and Canada.

    * Jeremy C. Toth of Buffalo, a lawyer and adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo who has served as chief of staff to State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, D-Buffalo, and former State Sen. Marc Coppola, D-Buffalo. He will serve as Whyte's designee.

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    Downsizing of Legislature complicates redistrictingBy Matt Spina

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    The Erie County Legislature is in angst over redistricting, the once-a-decade process to design new legislative districts based on census shifts.

    This time, it's complicated again by the Legislature's continued downsizing. Voters last year overwhelmingly approved a proposal to shrink the Legislature from 15 members to 11, with those 11 seats to be decided in elections this November from 11 newly designed districts.

    "In the best of years, reapportionment is difficult. Simply put, not everyone can be happy with the new boundaries," said Democratic Majority Leader Maria R. Whyte of Buffalo. "This year we have to grapple with downsizing, as well."

    Incumbents and challengers will want to start passing petitions to gather minor-party backing this spring, said Republican Minority Leader John J. Mills of Orchard Park. But the commission still awaits census data, and with the possibility of a court challenge, no one expects district boundaries to be final by spring.

    "All those endorsements are up for grabs, and I think there is a lot of anxiety going on as far as what districts people are going to represent," Mills said. "There are four people who will have no district, so to speak."

    The Legislature itself need not draw the boundaries. The County Charter requires creation of a 15-member advisory commission — 11 citizens joining the county's Republican and Democratic elections commissioners and the Legislature's majority and minority leaders — though both Whyte and Mills have designated others to serve in their stead.

    The commission will meet for the first time at 10:30 a.m. Monday on the fourth floor of Old County Hall.

    On paper, Democrats will control the Legislature during redistricting. Nine Democrats — rarely united — hold sway against five Republicans and one Independent in the 15-member house.

    However, a coalition made up of the five Republicans, the Independent and three Democrats retained control at the start of this year, with Democrat Barbara Miller-Williams of Buffalo as chairwoman.

    Plus, Republican County Executive Chris Collins can veto any plan, meaning the Legislature then would have to muster a two-thirds majority to override his veto — difficult for almost any piece of legislation these days and even more unlikely when considering the coalition usually sides with Collins.

    Erie County's population has declined, and there are more and more people in the suburbs. Now roughly 30 percent of its residents live in Buffalo, but six legislative districts, or 40 percent of the representatives, include some or all of the city.

    Does that mean that representation will further shift toward those Republican-leaning suburban towns?

    Republicans welcome that chance.

    Christopher M. Grant serves as Collins' chief of staff and political strategist, and he will be involved behind the scenes in drawing the new boundaries.

    "Any time you are downsizing the County Legislature, and reflecting a historic shift of population from urban to suburban, it is only natural that some urban legislators face the potential of being in races against each other," he said in an interview conducted before voters approved the downsizing referendum but when its passage was a foregone conclusion.

    Asked to predict the makeup of an 11-member Legislature at mid-decade, Grant said, "I think there is a potential to have at least four Republicans and as many as six in an 11-member body."

    A little-known state law appears to work in the Republicans' favor: Several suburban and rural towns, including several that tend to vote Republican, are not to be divided among legislative districts.

    Let's say the census determines that Erie County's receding population landed at 900,000 in 2010. Each of the 11 new districts would ideally contain 81,800 residents.

    But a section of New York's Municipal Home Rule Law prohibits the designers of those new district maps from cutting up any town that doesn't have at least 90,000 residents — the size of a standard legislative district plus a 10 percent buffer.

    Towns with fewer than 90,000 residents would have to belong to one district. Buffalo and only a couple of towns could be broken up: Amherst and possibly Cheektowaga, which are broken up now. Republican strategists figure that the rule will help them further shift political power from Buffalo to the suburbs.

    But it's not an absolute rule. County legislative districts already break up towns that should not have been broken up when boundaries were drawn early in the last decade. Hamburg, for example, is split between two legislative districts.

    The Municipal Home Rule Law lists the rule against dividing smaller towns with a number of other values to be employed in redistricting, and those values are listed in order of importance. The rule protecting smaller towns from being carved up is second on a list of four. So there's an implication that it's no mandate.

    "Those factors are in descending order of importance. I don't think that anybody can say they are mandatory factors," Dennis E. Ward, the Democratic elections commissioner, said in 2010.

    As a lawyer, in 2002, Ward helped contest a Republican-inspired redistricting plan for the County Legislature. He said that Republicans have controlled reapportionment in three separate decades, and each time, Democrats controlled the Legislature soon after.

    In the most recent instance, in the last decade, reapportionment also included downsizing — from 17 legislators to the present 15. By the middle of the decade, Democrats were firmly in control, 12-3.

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    Post Hmmmm......

    I see only one person from the south-towns, Mr. Wittmeyer from Hamburg.

    Did I miss something ---Who knows Lackawanna on the new committee? OR, maybe we won't be re-district-ed, reapportioned or cut up in any way or through.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andreahaxton View Post
    I see only one person from the south-towns, Mr. Wittmeyer from Hamburg.

    Did I miss something ---Who knows Lackawanna on the new committee? OR, maybe we won't be re-district-ed, reapportioned or cut up in any way or through.
    Maybe Dan Kozub will be out of his job?
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    I know this is off topic, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU to whomever was responsible for filling the potholes on Ridge Road (especially that one around Monarch!!!)

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    Demolition began this week on St. Barbara Catholic Church on Ridge Road in Lackawanna. The church was built in 1930 primarily for Polish immigrants who worked in the city's steel mills.
    Sharon Cantillon /Buffalo News Saying goodbye to St. Barbara
    Former parishioners watch, reminisce as Lackawanna church faces wrecking ballBy Jay Rey

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    The gaping hole torn into the back of St. Barbara Church in Lackawanna left a little hole in the hearts of those who stopped by Friday.

    Demolition began this week at St. Barbara, the first church to face the wrecking ball as a result of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo's multiyear effort to shut down more than 70 worship sites across eight counties.

    It was hard for John Kwasniewski to watch.

    Kwasniewski was baptized at St. Barbara. He had his first communion and confirmation at St. Barbara. He was married at St. Barbara.

    "When you see it coming down, it's like losing someone in your family," said Kwasniewski, 69, who lives in the neighborhood. "It's like going to a wake."

    Former parishioners, like Kwasniewski and his wife, Patricia, have been stopping by the demolition site throughout the week to catch their final glimpses of St. Barbara and reminisce about what had once been the heart of a neighborhood.

    The imposing yellow-brick church on Ridge Road, between Center and Franklin streets, was built in 1930 for a parish that consisted of Polish immigrants who worked in the Lackawanna steel mills.

    Constructed as a modern improvisation on the old Romanesque style, St. Barbara could seat as many as 1,000 people and in its heyday its pews were filled.

    The old ladies in the neighborhood walked to St. Barbara each morning for Mass, Kwasniewski said, as did the kids, before they crossed the street to St. Barbara School, which is gone now.

    During the summer, people from all over came to the St. Barbara lawn fete to have a beer and listen to Polish bands.

    St. Barbara was closed in 2008 as part of the diocese's downsizing, and merged with St. Hyacinth and St. Michael the Archangel in Lackawanna and Our Lady of Grace in Woodlawn under the name Queen of Angels.

    "A lot of people had hard feelings when they closed the church and there's still a lot of animosity," said Rich Kozak, 67. "A lot of people won't come around to watch, because it's hard for them to see it coming down."

    Elise Haremski and her brother, Edmund, were at the church on Friday, too. "It's a shame," said Elise Haremski, a graduate student studying historic preservation in South Carolina.

    "People aren't going to church, they are moving to the suburbs. I get it. They have to close churches," Haremski said. "But I think there are alternative uses for it."

    The diocese has been able to sell 55 of the closed churches for reuse, but St. Barbara was considered a difficult sell because of its size and location.

    It would have cost an estimated $3 million just to stabilize the building, diocesan officials have said.

    "Little sad to see it go," said David Lapa, 50, of Lackawanna.

    Lapa has stopped by every day since work started, and has snapped approximately 150 pictures during various stages of the demolition.

    Lapa's aunt was married at St. Barbara and called him from Texas when she heard about the church being razed.
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    Post Yes the building has major issues BUT, the high ASSESSMENT for a COMMERCIAL property

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    Taxes on the building is what per year? Very roughly appr. $10,000/yr?
    St. Barbara's closed when---about 3 years ago? It was OK to be in then.

    I know when it shut the City assessed them at appr. $800,000 and a neighborhood group of Parishioner's fought them to lower it, maybe to $1/2 mil......

    Follow the money my good friend always tells me......follow the money!
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    Richard A. Pytak, retired teacher, administrator
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    Richard A. Pytak of Lackawanna, a retired educator, died Friday in Fox Run at Orchard Park nursing facility. He was 79.

    Born in Lackawanna, he was a graduate of Lackawanna High School and Canisius College. In the late 1950s, Mr. Pytak served in the Army as a translator and was primarily stationed in Stuttgart, Germany.

    He was a longtime educator who taught at Lincoln High School and Hoover Junior High School in Lackawanna. Mr. Pytak also taught at the Gowanda Correctional Facility. He served as assistant principal of Hoover Junior High School and assistant superintendent in the Lackawanna School District. He retired in the mid-1990s.

    Mr. Pytak was a member of Matthew Glab Post 1477, American Legion, and was active in Our Lady of Victory Parish, where he was a longtime member of the church choir.

    He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Alice Pientka; two sons, Richard and David; and two daughters, Mary Hageman and Linda Mendola.

    A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:30 a. m. Monday in Our Lady of Victory Basilica, 767 Ridge Road, Lackawanna.
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    I am very sorry.......

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    Richard A. Pytak of Lackawanna, a retired educator, died Friday in Fox Run at Orchard Park nursing facility. He was 79.

    Born in Lackawanna, he was a graduate of Lackawanna High School and Canisius College. In the late 1950s, Mr. Pytak served in the Army as a translator and was primarily stationed in Stuttgart, Germany.

    He was a longtime educator who taught at Lincoln High School and Hoover Junior High School in Lackawanna. Mr. Pytak also taught at the Gowanda Correctional Facility. He served as assistant principal of Hoover Junior High School and assistant superintendent in the Lackawanna School District. He retired in the mid-1990s.

    Mr. Pytak was a member of Matthew Glab Post 1477, American Legion, and was active in Our Lady of Victory Parish, where he was a longtime member of the church choir.

    He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Alice Pientka; two sons, Richard and David; and two daughters, Mary Hageman and Linda Mendola.

    A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:30 a. m. Monday in Our Lady of Victory Basilica, 767 Ridge Road, Lackawanna.


    My Grandson"s kindergarten-teacher at Truman is Mr. Pytlak. i am very sorry!

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    Post Move on!

    Literal----get off the obituaries, OK?

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    I know, but it is news. Many people do not look at the Buffalo News.
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    Updated: March 8, 2011, 6:29 AM


    Lackawanna lawmakers Monday squabbled over whether to postpone action on legislation that would let the city borrow $5 million to resurface crumbling streets in all four wards of the city and pay for long-overdue repairs to the city’s three firehouses.

    In the end, the City Council voted, 3-2, to “receive and file” the bond ordinance, which was tantamount to acknowledging receipt of the legislation without any plans to take future action on the request.

    Second Ward Councilman Geoffrey M. Szymanski, who, along with 4th Ward Councilman Joseph J. Schiavi, voted against the receive-and-file move on the bond, argued that “tabling” or postponing action on it instead would avoid the specter of the city having to start the bonding process from scratch.

    “If we start over, we might as well just scratch any form of road repair for this year,” Szymanski said at the Council’s work session before its regular bimonthly meeting. “We’re already in March. Municipalities are putting their orders in for their streets. If we start over, that’s another month and a half [or delay].”

    Council President Charles Jaworski insisted that the city could not go forward with the process for borrowing the money until specific repair projects and their estimated costs are itemized in the bond ordinance. “I’m not going to vote on [a bond ordinance] when I don’t know where . . . the money is [going],” he said. “Right now, this doesn’t even name one street [scheduled for resurfacing].”

    It is in the city’s best interest, he said, to receive and file the bond ordinance and obtain “hard numbers and get a list of the streets” in need of repair from Public Works Commissioner Thomas N. Love.

    Meanwhile, two city firefighters at Monday’s meeting expressed concern that years of neglect have hurt the three firehouses. Firefighter James J. Fino said that Love, who did not attend the meeting, estimated that it would cost $1.3 million to make external repairs to them.

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    Post The Comptroller put "The Bond" on the agenda? Hmmm--what's up with this?

    " It is in the city’s best interest, he said, to receive and file the bond ordinance and obtain “hard numbers and get a list of the streets” in need of repair from Public Works Commissioner Thomas N. Love.

    Meanwhile, two city firefighters at Monday’s meeting expressed concern that years of neglect have hurt the three firehouses. Firefighter James J. Fino said that Love, who did not attend the meeting, estimated that it would cost $1.3 million to make external repairs to them. "

    March 7, 2011 Lackawanna City Council Agenda:

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    7. City Comptroller – seeks Council approval of bond ordinance for resurfacing of streets and repairs to fire houses.

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    Mr. Jaworski is Council President---talk about Love's favorite word, "grandstanding!", he could have held it till it was firmed up and ready for a vote, he had no problem keeping many of my proactive agenda items from the public.

    Firefighters---I feel very sad for you all, that you have to keep coming to meetings and beg them for a safe building. Again, Polanski and Company have been in office since 2000---what have they really done to preserve and improve OUR City property and services? What does OSHA say?

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