Building Principals [Leaders, Business, and Communities] on Core Values

For Niagara Falls and the Niagara River Greenway region to rise, the following must be implemented as a mission statement by our local politicians:


Building Principles on Core Values
The Code, created and maintained by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS), sets out principles and guidelines built on core values. Fundamental values like advocacy, honesty, loyalty, professional development and objectivity structure ethical practice and interaction with clients and the public.

Translating values into principles of ethical practice, the Code advises professionals to:

• Protect and advance the free flow of accurate and truthful information.
• Foster informed decision making through open communication.
• Protect confidential and private information.
• Promote healthy and fair competition among professionals.
• Avoid conflicts of interest.
• Work to strengthen the public’s trust in the profession.

Parkway removal bid gains Canadian support

Parkway removal bid gains Canadian support

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Community Rally Bugle Call - HAD E NUFF!

Are you tired of
being ignored?
being the dumping ground for toxic waste?
politicians being bought by special interests?
If so, please attend a community rally...

What: Join your neighbors at a community rally to protest. Bring a friend.
Where: Niagara Falls Storage Site Facility,
1397 Pletcher Rd, Lewiston, NY
When: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time: 10:30 AM
Why: HAD E NUFF!
Additional information HERE.

Thought of the Day

Things Frank Croisdale Missed
While Living On The Niagara Frontier

I'd like to see Croisdale walk west on a DeVeaux street, come to the parkway, climb over a fence, run across the parkway...then go back & do it again on the next street, and the next, and the next...I'd like to see Croisdale, his fingers hooked in the chain link fence, peering into the State Park's Maintenance garage area on the gorge rim...I'd like to see him staring at the "princess" on the "other side of the border" when he recognizes her for the gaudy whore that she is...I'd like to see him sitting on Tesla's lap for a photo op...etc. I'd like to see his name on the Niagara Heritage Partnership petition for gorge parkway removal...then I'd know Niagara was rising... --Bob Baxter, Niagara Heritage Partnership

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Leadership Defined. Has it Faded Into Myth In Niagara County?

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. They are much like eagles...They don't flock, you find them one at a time." -Mac Anderson

Leadership is a complicated topic, because there are probably as many definitions as there are leaders in the world. That's because a leader is a person with many roles...CEO, soldier, coach, entrepreneur, department head, politician, teacher, minister...as well as parent, spouse, and other personal roles. That's what this movie is about...the most important leadership lessons that we could find. Just click HERE to watch this three minute inspirational movie about leadership.

Stay Motivated,
Motivation in a Minute
A Simple Truths Company
P.S.- Forward this to your family, friends, co-workers, and anyone else who is a leader!

http://www.theleadershipmovie.com/miami?cm_mmc=MIAMI-_-NL-_-05.15.2010-_-TEOLmov

Local Urban Myth: Eleven Foot Sturgeon Caught In 18 Mile Creek, Olcott, NY

18  Mile Creek (north of the Burt Dam), Olcott,  New  York

This is a darn  interesting picture and story even if you aren't  into fishing, But please show it to  anyone you know that likes to  fish. FYI:  This sturgeon  is still alive, just worn out from the  fight. As the sports fishermen  they are, they turned him loose after the  photo.


This Sturgeon was caught  on the 18 Mile Creek (north of the Burt Dam),  Olcott, New York two  weeks ago.
It weighed out at over  1,000 lbs and measured out at  11'1". It  was 56" around the girth and took over 6 and a  half hours, and 4 dozen beers, for the 4 guys  taking turns at the reeling it  in.


Any Sturgeon OVER about  five feet has to be released unharmed and cannot  be removed from the  water.They are brood /  breeding stock and probably older than most of  us.  
 

Reuters: Green Spaces Creates Higher Quality of Life.

"All natural environments were beneficial, including parks in towns or cities, they said, but green areas with water appeared to have a more positive effect." You can read the entire article HERE.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6401Y620100502

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Your Vote Counts!

Hello Friends, Family and Global Blog Readers

Will you consider helping a Niagara Falls not-for-profit? It's free. There's no obligation.

Could you vote for Wild Ones Niagara? (Link to entity HERE)

And, then, would you help spread the word, and ask 

everyone in your contact list to vote? The link to vote is HERE.

They'd like to apply the funds for a Wild Ones Niagara native plant / butterfly / hummingbird / pollinator project

during National Pollinator Week (end of June)

Thanks, so much. 

http://humanitycalls.org/HumanityCalls/OrganizationProfileView.action?id=146

Archive Review - October 2009

The October, 2009 entries are HERE.

Discovery: Bees Use Flower Petals for Nest

Here's a cool story about bees that use flower petals to make nests. You can read the NPR story HERE.

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Rare Bird Alert

Thursday, May 6, 2010

 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200.

 Highlights of reports received April 29 through May 6 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WARBLERS, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and WILLET.

 Spring migration is approaching full speed and covering the entire region. At least 22 warblers species were reported this week. A few of the favored locations include Tifft Nature Preserve, Times Beach and Forest Lawn in Buffalo, Amherst State Park, Goat Island in Niagara Falls and Point Gratiot and Saint Columbans in Chautauqua County. Also, backyards and night skies.

 Warbler highlights included a reported WORM-EATING WARBLER April 30 and May 1 on Plaza Drive near Cayuga Drive in the Town of Niagara. At Forest Lawn, ORANGE-CR. WARBLER on the ridge May 1 and GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER east of the lake on the 5th. Other warblers - BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S. WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, PALM WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and HOODED WARBLER, with more still to come or be reported.

 Also, widely reported songbirds - LEAST FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN, WINTER WREN, MARSH WREN, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER, HERMIT THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, GRAY CATBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, CEDAR WAXWING, SCARLET TANAGER, EASTERN TOWHEE, FOX SPARROW, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, BOBOLINK and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. The night of May 5, SWAINSON'S THRUSHES were heard migrating over the Town of Tonawanda before a rainstorm.

 In the marshes at Tifft Nature Preserve this week - BLUE-
 WINGED TEAL, WOOD DUCK, HOODED MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK, AMERICAN BITTERN, LEAST BITTERN, GREEN HERON, BL.-CR. NIGHT-
 HERON, VIRGINIA RAIL, SORA and COMMON MOORHEN, plus MERLIN, CASPIAN TERN and RUSTY BLACKBIRD in the Preserve.

 May 1, almost two weeks early, a WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Johnson Creek Road and Somerset-Hartland Townline, with GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. May 2, on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, 4 WILLETS, a shorebird known for it's brief stopovers, at Harborview Road, west of Port Colborne.

 Also May 2, 11 BLACK TERNS at one of their few or only breeding sites in the region - Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge.

 Other reports - a calling NOR. SAW-WHET OWL in the Cattaraugus County Town of Hinsdale, and a RED-HEADED WDPKR. in a yard on Deer Trail Road in Cheektowaga.

 Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, May 13. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
 

The Benefits and Impacts of Removing Urban Roads

http://www.wildonesniagara.org/advocacy.html
Case Study Summary: Benefits and Impacts of Road Removal
City Parks Closing Roads for Parks
Parking In Parks
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Conservation: An Investment That Pays
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Looking For Niagara Author To Read May 6, 2010

RAIDERS OF NIAGARA PRESENTS
E.R. Baxter III and Mark Lloyd

Baxter, a Niagara County Community College Professor Emeritus of English, has been a fellow of a New York State Creative Public Service Award for Fiction and a recipient of a Just Buffalo Award for Fiction.Previous publications include Looking for Niagara (Slipstream Press); chapbooks: A Good War And Other Poems; Hunger; and What I Want. Additional work has appeared in New Madrid, Stone Canoe, and in Underbeat Journal #2. A novel, Captain Hooter at Niagara, awaits publication by Michigan State University Press.Baxter is also a founding member of Niagara Heritage Partnership (www.niagaraheritage.org). E.R. Baxter will be reading an excerpt from his creative nonfiction book manuscript, American Digression.

Mark Lloyd recently published a chapbook: Warm Blooded Mornings, which will be available for purchase at Talking Leaves. Several of Lloyd’s poems have appeared in Artvoice.

Born in Lockport, NY, Mark began his love of writing for theatre by listening to old time radio dramas and comedies. In May of 2006 he won a Writing Award from the Theatre Association of New York State for his work "Hollywood Dreams—A Monologue," produced by The Amherst Players, and in 2009 won an award for Directing Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn, produced by the Towne Players.July 2010. He is the Events Coordinator for an Art Festival at the Historic Tonawanda Castle where he will direct his one act play “Asleep In the Snowy Forest.” August 2010 he will direct and write his first dinner theater production: Dating Is a Drag at the same location.

Thursday, 6 May 2010 @ 7:00 PM
TALKING LEAVES BOOKSTORE
3158 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
Free Admission – Public Welcome

Stop the Walls Above Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, Canada: The new high-rises will cast shadows on parts of Queen Victoria Park and Goat Island and will interfere with Niagara's trademark rainbow and the spectacle of the setting sun’s light on the Horseshoe Falls. More information and an online petition can be found HERE.

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