Category: Activities

Volunteers needed for Guild’s annual community project with Riverkeeper

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What: Buffalo Newspaper Guild’s annual cleanup event. When: 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 21. Please arrive shortly before 9:45 a.m. Where: Ohio Street Boat Launch, 421 Ohio St., near Father Conway Park on South Street. Register: BNWaterKeeper.org/cleanup A litter cleanup of the small park at the Ohio Street Boat Launch on Saturday, April 21 … Continue reading Volunteers needed for Guild’s annual community project with Riverkeeper

Guild members march in Labor Day Parade

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Guild members and their families and pets participated in the annual WNY AFL-CIO Labor Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. They marched through South Buffalo, then joined their fellow union members in a picnic at Cazenovia Park. News Photographer Sharon Cantillon shot the parade and Reporter Mark Sommer covered the event for the News.

Guild members support organizing drive at Lakeland Ledger

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For decades, the state of Florida has been entirely free of union newspapers. That changed in August, when the staff of the Lakeland Ledger voted overwhelmingly to join The Newspaper Guild-CWA after the paper was acquired by GateHouse Media last year. As part of the organizing drive at the Ledger, Guild locals from across the … Continue reading Guild members support organizing drive at Lakeland Ledger

Volunteers needed for cleanup: Guild’s annual community project with Riverkeeper

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A litter cleanup of the small park at the Ohio Street Boat Launch on Saturday, April 23 will mark the fifth year of a Guild initiative to aid the Spring Shoreline Cleanup coordinated by Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper. The annual effort is conducted in memory of our late friend, reporter and Guild leader John “Jay” Bonfatti. … Continue reading Volunteers needed for cleanup: Guild’s annual community project with Riverkeeper