Past events:

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Professional & Business Women of Polonia

invite you to their

2009 Scholarship Fundraiser

Actors Anonymous Theatre Company Presents…

The King & Queen’s Royal Feast

Join us for a most entertaining evening!

Tickets are $38 per person.

Checks should be made payable to PBW of Polonia.

Contact Terry Tucholski (716-668-2259) or Chris Kibler (716-491-8835) for seating availability. After verifying seating availability, mail order form and payment to: Terry Tucholski, 24 Losson Garden Dr. #3, Cheektowaga, NY

Place your order soon! Seating is limited! RSVP by: 4/8/09

You are invited to attend the Royal Engagement Party of the fair Princess, as she is forced to enter into an arranged marriage being orchestrated by her father, the King. During the evening, you will feast with the Royal Family “Medieval” style on Soup, Roasted Chicken, Potatoes, Royal Vegetables, Bread, and Dessert. While you dine you will be entertained by a Court Jester, Minstrels, Dukes and Duchesses, and many others.

Enjoy fun and merriment as you play an important role in the decision of who wins the hand of the Princess during this interactive dinner theatre event. “Royal” and “peasant” attire is welcomed!

DATE: Saturday, April 18, 2009  TIME: 6:00p.m.

COST: $38 per person (dinner included) - Cash bar

WHERE: Magruders Banquet Facility, 4995 Broadway, Depew, NY 14043

THE VISIT OF FATHER LUCIAN KROLIKOWSKI IN BUFFALO

Father Lucian Krolikowski OFMConv is coming to Buffalo. Hundreds and thousands of people in our region and beyond remember him as a member of editorial staff of the Franciscans’ radio, the Rosary Hour, as well as homilist, confessor, and a dear friend of many people who love and respect him. Many have also read his bestselling book “A Stolen Childhood”, a story of the Polish orphans during and after World War II.

Father Lucian comes to meet with Western New York Polonia and participate in a promotion of his newest book, “Memoirs of the Siberia Prisoner and a Displaced Person”. In the book, he narrates his life story, including his 34 years in Buffalo.

The meeting and the promotion of the book will take place in the Polish Saturday School on Saturday, April 18th 2009, at 12:30 PM in St. John Gualbert Parish School, 83 Gualbert Avenue, Cheektowaga NY 14211.

Copies of “Memoirs of the Siberia Prisoner and a Displaced Person” will be available for purchase. The author will sign his book.

The main sponsor of the meeting and the promoter is the Polish Saturday School. All Polish organizations and parishes are invited to co-sponsor the event. Please invite all members of our communities to this important event. Admission is FREE.

For further information please contact: Mira Szramel, Principal of the Polish Saturday School at 903-3239.

WIZYTA OJCA LUCJANA KROLIKOWSKIEGO W BUFFALO

Ojciec Lucjan Krolikowski OFMConv odwiedzi wkrotce Buffalo. Setki i tysiace ludzi z naszej okolicy, a takze poza nia, pamietaja go jako czlonka zespolu franciszkanskiego radia Godziny Rozancowej, a takze jako kaznodzieje, spowiednika i drogiego przyjaciela dazonego przez wielu ludzi miloscia i szacunkiem. Ojcien Lucjan jest takze znany przez wielu jako autor znakomitej ksiazki “Skradzione dziecinstwo”, opowiesci o losach polskich sierot w czasie II wojny swiatowej oraz po jej zakonczeniu.

Ojciec Lucjan przybedzie do Buffalo, aby spotkac sie z Polonia i uczestniczyc w promocji swojej najnowszej ksiazki “Pamietnik Sybiraka i tulacza”, w ktorej opowiada o swoim zyciu, a w tym o 34 latach pobytu i pracy w Buffalo.

Spotkanie i promocja odbeda sie w Polskiej Szkole Sobotniej im Msgr. J Adamskiego w sobote 18 kwietnia o godzinie 12:30 w sali szkoly parafii Sw. Jana Gwalberta, 83 Gualbert Avenue, Cheektowaga, NY 14211.

Egzemplarze ksiazki “Pamietnik Sybiraka i tulacza” beda do zakupienia z dedykacja i autografem autora.

Glownym sponsorem i pomotorem spotkania jest Polska Szkola Sobotnia. Zapraszamy wszytkie polskie organizacje i parafie do uczestnictwa, zapraszamy takze czlonkow naszych wspolnot oraz w ogole wszystkich zainteresowanych do uczestnictwa w tym waznym wydarzeniu.

O dalszy kontakt: Mira Szramel, Dyrektor Polskiej Szkoly Sobotniej, numer telefonu: 903-3239.  

PRESS RELEASE:

The Polish American Congress, WNY Division will hold its annual Swieconka celebration on April 25, 2009.  The event will take place at St. Stan's Social Center 389 Peckham St, Buffalo, NY, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Three Polonian Activists will be honored for their many years of service to our Polish-American Community. 

Mr. Henry Maziarczyk - former President Club Polanie
Mr. Janusz Nieduzak - Commander SPK Veterans Post #3
Mrs. Wanda Slawinska - Polish Cultural Center Foundation

We invite the Polish-American Community to attend our Swieconka on April 25, 2009.  We look forward to sharing the Oplatek with you. More information to follow.

CBS Television has just announced that the production entitled “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler” will premiere on Sunday, April 19 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler” is based up the true story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s who is credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II. During the war Irena Sendler was able to move women in and out of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses working for the Warsaw’s Health Department. With the ruse of containing the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Ms. Sendler and her fellow “nurses” were actually sneaking children out (with the consent of the Jewish parents) of the Ghetto by sedating them and hiding them inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a way of saving them from deportation to death camps. Once the children were snuck out they were given new identities and placed with Polish families or in convents to protect them. Ms. Sendler kept a record of all the children’s birth names and where they were placed hidden so once the war was over the children could be reunited with their families. Unfortunately in 1943 Ms. Sendler’s deception was discovered and she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo resulting with her feet being broken. She was scheduled to be executed but on the day of her execution she was rescued by “Zegota”, the same underground network that she worked with to save the Jewish children. By the end of the war all of the 2,500 children that she smuggled out were never betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.

Lira Ensemble: A Polish Christmas

Mainstage Theatre

Sunday, November 30 at 2:30pm

Adults: $50, $45, $40, $30, $25
Children 16 & under: ½ price

The Lira Ensemble of Chicago - known for its performances of Polish music, song and dance - brings its NEW holiday concert to the UB Center for the Arts Mainstage, opening the holiday season with beautiful Polish carols, music of Frederic Chopin and other Polish master composers, and Polish folk songs and dances performed in colorful, authentic folk costumes:

A Polish Christmas is an extremely popular and highly praised Polish-American holiday event which presents different Polish music and dance each year. This year, it offers musical masterworks by Polish composers Frederic Chopin, Stanislaw Moniuszko, Henryk Wieniawski, and Witold Lutoslawski. The second act of “A Polish Christmas” features gorgeous Polish carols and Polish folk songs and dances from central Poland, from the Polish mountains, the Krakow (Cracow) region and from the Kaszubian region of Northern Poland - all performed in a variety of authentic folk garb from these regions.

The concert is performed by the Lira Singers, Lira Dancers and Lira Symphony of the Lira Ensemble - the nation’s only professional performing arts company specializing in Polish music, song and dance. Lira is headquartered at Loyola University Chicago as artist-in-residence.

The entire concert is narrated in English by Lira’s artistic director and general manager, Lucyna Migala, who adds a bit of information about Polish and Polish-American history and traditions and demonstrates some Polish customs.

The performance is conducted by Paul Dijkstra, music director of the Lira Symphony and is choreographed by Iwona Puc, director of the Lira Dancers.

"A Polish Christmas" is co-sponsored by the POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL, the Michigan Division of the Polish American Congress, the Polish Union of America, and the Am Pol Eagle. National sponsors are the Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and the Polish National Alliance of North America. Financial support is provided by the Alphawood Foundation, the Pauls Foundation, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, all of Chicago.

 OFFICAL RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY AT THE KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM

The Spirit of Compassion

Herbert Hoover and America's Help to Poland in its Hour of Need

 L-R in photo - Judge Michael Pietruszka - Board Member PAC, Mary Lou, Michel Zachowicz, VP PAC, Dr. Peter Gessner

Exhibit on display through September 30, 2008 - Tuesday thru Saturday 11 am to 4 pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum at 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo NY 14201 Admission is free! In front of the Hoover displays 

L-R photo - Judge Michael Pietruszka, Bernadine (Dina) Szymanski, Mira Szramel - Board Members PAC - Michael Zachowicz VP PAC
  

NEWS FROM MIRA SZRAMEL & POLISH SATURDAY SCHOOL ON ONCOMING EVENTS: 

• Jaselka in Polish Saturday School will take place on December 14 at 2 pm. Admission $3.00 (door prize). Dinner plate available for $5 This Christmas play will be performed by students from the Polish Saturday School. There will be also a visit from St. Nicolas. For more information please call 681-6739

• New Years Eve Party $65 per person with live music by "True Color" from Rochester. Dinner & breakfast. Reservation and further information at 681-6739 

 NEWS FROM ST STANISLAUS BISHOP & MARTYR CHURCH "The Mother Church of Polonia":

Epiphany of Our Lord Concert.

In observance of the conclusion of the Christmas-Epiphany season, all are invited to a concert in historic St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Church, 123 Townsend Street, Buffalo on the Feast of the Epiphany, Sunday, January 4 at 4:30pm, featuring Soprano Soloist, Brittany Mruczek. During the concert, Bishop Edward M. Grosz will bless and distribute to all attendees containers of blessed water. Free-will offering. The Feast of the Epiphany highlights the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, the Baptism of Jesus in the waters of the Jordan River, and the changing of water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana.

SPK – Post 33 will hold the Polish traditional Christmas “Oplatek” which will be held on Sunday, January 11 at St. Stanislaus Social Center 389 Peckham Street, Buffalo NY.

The event will start at 1:30 pm with an artistic program under direction of Dr. Thomas Witakowski. Christmas dinner will follow.

Reservations by January 2nd with check $20 per person payable to the SPK Post 33.

Please call Mrs. Zofia Miernik at  895-0372 or Krystina Nieduzak at 824-3888.

Passerby, tell the world that we were faithful from the beginning to the very end in the struggle for freedom, peace and justice for all mankind.

Keeping its commitment to the local Veterans Organizations the Polish American Congress, WNY Division has cleaned up, planted flowers and set Polish & American flags at the Polish Veterans Plot at St. Stan's Cemetery. This project was done in the time the annual Memorial Day celebration. Close to 200 Polish Army / Air Force / Navy Veterans who served and fought on all fronts during World War II rest at the Cemetery.

Richard B Solecki, PAC President, SWAP Post 1 Commander Stanley Przystal, SPK 33 Commander Janusz Nieduzak

“The Spirit of Compassion,” a just opened major exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo, illustrates Herbert Hoover’s special relationship with the people of Poland.

Its primary focus is on the extraordinary humanitarian effort Hoover mounted to bring relief to the people of Poland in the wake of World War I. After more than a century of occupation by its three autocratic neighbors and four years of having been a principal WWI battleground, the devastated country had just regained its independence.

The exhibit, originally curated by Dr. Zbigniew Stanczyk of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is open from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. daily except on Mondays. It features many historic photographs, documents in facsimile, posters and a number of maps. It is scheduled to remain open through Sept. 30, 2008.

It reveals aspects of Hoover’s character and achievements, eclipsed in the popular narrative by the later linking of his presidency with the Great Depression. It documents the massive scale of the relief effort mounted in Poland by the American Relief Administration Hoover headed, an effort that, in the period between 1919 and 1922, provided a daily meal to over 1.3 million children, and furbished each of them with a winter coat and a pair of shoes. And, in 1919, it also involved organizing medical help to stem a typhus epidemic that began to ravage the country.

While still a student, Hoover had met the great concert pianist, composer, and fervent Polish patriot Ignacy Paderewski. An enduring friendship developed between the two men. It gained an additional dimension when, in 1919, Paderewski became, with Hoover’s backing, the renascent Poland’s first prime minister.

There were many expressions of gratefulness for the help Poland received, among them a Monument of Gratitude to the United States erected in the center of Warsaw on Hoover Square. It featured a fountain in the middle of which, as shown on one of the exhibit’s historic photographs, stood two women back to back, representing the U.S. and Poland, respectively, each holding infants on her shoulders. The exhibit’s historic photographs also show Warsaw’s huge annual celebrations of America’s Independence Day, July 4th which, in his honor, was referred to as “Hoover Day.”

Come World War II, Hoover resumed his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the starving children of Poland, both during the early years of World War II, while American neutrality made this feasible, and in the war’s wake.

First shown at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the exhibit toured four other major Polish cities: Poznan, Lodz, Krakow and Katowice. It was also shown in New York City and Philadelphia before coming to Buffalo, where it was brought by the action of the Western New York Division of the Polish American Congress with the support of several other Polonian organizations.

The Buffalo showing of the exhibit is being curated by Peter K. Gessner with the help of Michael Zachowicz, vice president of the WNY Division of the Polish American Congress.

Polish American Congress

WNY Division Presents

The Spirit of Compassion

Herbert Hoover and America’s Help to Poland in its Hour of Need

An exhibition of photos, documents, posters and banners from Poland’s National Archives and those of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

DATE:           

June 14, 2008 through September 30, 2008

TIME:           

Tuesday thru Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  

PLACE:          

Karpeles Manuscript Museum

435 Porter Avenue

Buffalo, New York 14201

(100 yards west of Kleinhans Music Hall)

GRAND OPENING DATE: July 12th 2008

SPONSORS: 

• Polish American Congress, WNY Division
• Roman Catholic Union of America
• Permanent Chair of Polish Cultures at Canisius College
• Karpeles Manuscript Museum
• Chopin Singing Society
• Kosciuszko Foundation’s WNY Chapter
• Polish Cultural Foundation
• Polish Union of America

In 1919, Herbert Hoover, having visited

Poland in the wake of WWI, reported to the Polish Convention meeting in Buffalo, that: “Between three and four million of Poles had died of starvation and disease.  … The Russians had ruthlessly destroyed thousands of square miles in an effort to create a desert that might retard the advance of the German armies.  … The Germans also systematically abstracted at the point of the bayonet every resource of Poland. This together with the destruction of her farms and the looting of every bit of agricultural machinery, left millions of Poles at the Armistice threatened with starvation.”

The exhibit’s hundreds of historical photographs, documents and maps detail the truly massive relief effort

Hoover mounted and managed an effort that earned him and America the lifelong gratitude of the Poles.

The City of Krakow issued a proclamation calling him “a man to whom hundreds of thousands of our country’s people owe their survival.”  And Warsaw erected a statue in his honor.  Prior to coming to Buffalo, the exhibit was shown in Warsaw’s Royal Castle, in Krakow, Katowice, Poznan, Lodz, Stanford, New York City and Philadelphia.

“The Spirit of Compassion,” a just opened major exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo, illustrates Herbert Hoover’s special relationship with the people of Poland.

Its primary focus is on the extraordinary humanitarian effort Hoover mounted to bring relief to the people of Poland in the wake of World War I. After more than a century of occupation by its three autocratic neighbors and four years of having been a principal WWI battleground, the devastated country had just regained its independence.

The exhibit, originally curated by Dr. Zbigniew Stanczyk of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is open from 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. daily except on Mondays. It features many historic photographs, documents in facsimile, posters and a number of maps. It is scheduled to remain open through Sept. 30, 2008.

It reveals aspects of Hoover’s character and achievements, eclipsed in the popular narrative by the later linking of his presidency with the Great Depression. It documents the massive scale of the relief effort mounted in Poland by the American Relief Administration Hoover headed, an effort that, in the period between 1919 and 1922, provided a daily meal to over 1.3 million children, and furbished each of them with a winter coat and a pair of shoes. And, in 1919, it also involved organizing medical help to stem a typhus epidemic that began to ravage the country.

While still a student, Hoover had met the great concert pianist, composer, and fervent Polish patriot Ignacy Paderewski. An enduring friendship developed between the two men. It gained an additional dimension when, in 1919, Paderewski became, with Hoover’s backing, the renascent Poland’s first prime minister.

There were many expressions of gratefulness for the help Poland received, among them a Monument of Gratitude to the United States erected in the center of Warsaw on Hoover Square. It featured a fountain in the middle of which, as shown on one of the exhibit’s historic photographs, stood two women back to back, representing the U.S. and Poland, respectively, each holding infants on her shoulders. The exhibit’s historic photographs also show Warsaw’s huge annual celebrations of America’s Independence Day, July 4th which, in his honor, was referred to as “Hoover Day.”

Come World War II, Hoover resumed his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the starving children of Poland, both during the early years of World War II, while American neutrality made this feasible, and in the war’s wake.

First shown at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the exhibit toured four other major Polish cities: Poznan, Lodz, Krakow and Katowice. It was also shown in New York City and Philadelphia before coming to Buffalo, where it was brought by the action of the Western New York Division of the Polish American Congress with the support of several other Polonian organizations.

The Buffalo showing of the exhibit is being curated by Peter K. Gessner with the help of Michael Zachowicz, vice president of the WNY Division of the Polish American Congress.

Polish American Congress

WNY Division Presents

The Spirit of Compassion

Herbert Hoover and America’s Help to Poland in its Hour of Need

An exhibition of photos, documents, posters and banners from Poland’s National Archives and those of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

DATE:           

June 14, 2008 through September 30, 2008

TIME:           

Tuesday thru Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  

PLACE:          

Karpeles Manuscript Museum

435 Porter Avenue

Buffalo, New York 14201

(100 yards west of Kleinhans Music Hall)

GRAND OPENING DATE: July 12th 2008

SPONSORS: 

• Polish American Congress, WNY Division
• Roman Catholic Union of America
• Permanent Chair of Polish Cultures at Canisius College
• Karpeles Manuscript Museum
• Chopin Singing Society
• Kosciuszko Foundation’s WNY Chapter
• Polish Cultural Foundation
• Polish Union of America

In 1919, Herbert Hoover, having visited

Poland in the wake of WWI, reported to the Polish Convention meeting in Buffalo, that: “Between three and four million of Poles had died of starvation and disease.  … The Russians had ruthlessly destroyed thousands of square miles in an effort to create a desert that might retard the advance of the German armies.  … The Germans also systematically abstracted at the point of the bayonet every resource of Poland. This together with the destruction of her farms and the looting of every bit of agricultural machinery, left millions of Poles at the Armistice threatened with starvation.”

The exhibit’s hundreds of historical photographs, documents and maps detail the truly massive relief effort

Hoover mounted and managed an effort that earned him and America the lifelong gratitude of the Poles.

The City of Krakow issued a proclamation calling him “a man to whom hundreds of thousands of our country’s people owe their survival.”  And Warsaw erected a statue in his honor.  Prior to coming to Buffalo, the exhibit was shown in Warsaw’s Royal Castle, in Krakow, Katowice, Poznan, Lodz, Stanford, New York City and Philadelphia.

COUNTYEXECUTIVE CHRIS COLLINS PRESENTS PROCLAMMATION TO POLISH COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP……..

On May 28, 2008 Erie County Executive Chris Collins presented Richard B. Solecki President of the WNY Division of the Polish American Congress, a proclamation in recognition of the May 3^rd Polish Constitution and Polish Heritage Month. Members of the Polish American Congress Board and Local Polish Veterans participated in the ceremony. 

Fox Television and depiction of truth

A FOX television Nov. 14, 2008 episode of "Back to You" slandered Poles and those with Polish Roots. A Polish character with a butchered Polish name was being pressured to join a bowling team because he was told it is in his "Polish blood like kielbasa and collaborating with the Nazis".

This was not a slip of the tongue slur. It was slander written by highly paid scriptwriters, passed by highly paid editors and approved by highly paid directors and programmers.

This was slander written to get a laugh at the expense of all with Polish blood and to get favorable viewing ratings and in the end a profit from more and more expensive commercials. It is a fact, commercials become more costly if there is a bigger viewing audience.

Innocent Poland on Sept 1, 1939 was attacked by the full might of German military machine. Nobody came actively to Poland's defense. On Sept 17, the Soviets attacked Poland with a stab in the back.

Unable to fight any longer, Poles gave up... sort of. Instead facing total annihilation, Poles formed the biggest underground army the world has ever known. This army sabotaged German installations and harassed German forces to the degree that thousands of German troops were forced to stay behind the lines to protect rear installations.

Then followed the elimination of Polish intelligentsia. The German used death camps such as the one at Dachau while the Soviets committed the most heinous of crimes by murdering some 22,000 in the Katyn Forests while forcibly moving more than a million Poles into Siberia. At this time, Zegota was formed to save Jews whose fate was sealed at the Wannsee conference. And, all this was going on despite the fact that only in Poland of all German occupied lands was it a crime punishable by immediate death if Jews were given any help. Not only did the individual face death but his family and neighbors as well. Irene Sendler of Zegota is now being hailed as a special heroine said to have help save some 2,500 Jewish children.

By confronting Germany and Soviet Russia in battle, the French and British were given time to muster their forces. Polish pilots saved Britain and the Battle of the English Skies. Polish mathematicians gave the Allies the most potent weapon of the war, solving the German code machine Enigma. And, it was the Poles who captured Monte Cassino and opened the way for Allies troops to move onto Rome.

At every step of the way, Polish troops distinguished themselves on the battlefield with courage as did those who suffered at home under the murderous rule of the Germans and Soviets. And, Polish American were no less courageous in combat. It is a Polish American Lt. Col. Matt Urbanowicz Urban who is the most decorated combat veteran in American history. Fighter pilot Col. Francis Gabreski is the WWII top ace.

In view of the courage displayed by those with Polish blood, I with the following resolution ask the Western New York Chapter of the Polish American Congress to petition the Mother Polish American Congress in Chicago to start a lawsuit against FOX Television for the slander committed in the Nov. 14 episode of "Back to You."

Be it resolved:

WHEREAS FOX Television deliberately wrote into its Nov. 14 episode slander relative to Polish and Polish American courage, and

WHEREAS this deliberate slander injured Poles and Polish Americans mentally and socially and,

WHEREAS Poles have had endure the harm written at their expense so as FOX Television could improve its ratings which could then be translated into higher monetary returns from advertisers,

THEREFORE we petition the Polish American Congress to enter into a class action lawsuit seeking slander damages of at least $5000,000,000. In addition, leave room for a suit demanding punitive damages to be determined by jury if necessary.

Also, we petition that FOX TV in prime television time issue an on air spoken apology and promote a showing of "Without Pity or Mercy" directed by Wiktor Meller (Hubbard Broadcasting 1990.)

Also, this resolution be sent to all Polish Americans in the United States Congress asking their written support of this resolution.

Sincerely,

Edward S. Wiater

DICK SOLECKI RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT

Officers and Directors of the WNY Division of the Polish American Congress took their oath of office from Judge Carl Bucki on Saturday, April 5, 2008 in the Marion Hall at St. Stanislaus Parish in Buffalo.

The event started at 5:30 p.m. with Joseph Macielag, former PAC President as Master of Ceremonies, and blessing of the "Swieconka" was done by Father Bocianowski, followed by the dinner and then chairperson Adeline Wujcikowski gave the welcoming address.

Sworn into office were the following: President Richard B. Solecki, Vice President Michael Zachowicz, Treasurer Andrew Kucharski, and Secretary Adeline Wujcikowski. Board of Directors: Bernadine (Dina) Szymanski, Mira Szramel, Judge Michael Pietruszka, Edward Reska, Rick Mazella, and National Director Joseph Macielag.

Richard B. Solecki, President of the Polish American Congress, WNY Division addressed the audience. For the last four years Richard Solecki has served as President and he is to be commended for all that he has done and continues to do on behalf of the Polish American Community.

The WNY Division of the Polish American Congress celebrated the Easter season and held its annual Swieconka on April 5.

Mira Szramel, Principal of the Polish Saturday School and active member of the PAC and Pulaski Association, was presented the Bronislaus Durewicz Service Award

Awards were also presented to Christine Jozwiak and Konstancy Witczak. Christine Jozwiak organized fundraising efforts for an orphanage in Poland, and is very active as First Lady in the Polish Union of America, Polish Heritage Festival and Lions Club.

K.C. Witczak is President of the Holy Mother of the Rosary Cathedral Seniors and is active in numerous community organizations.

Short synopsis of the three honored members:

March 14, 2008 

POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS, WNY DIVISION ELECT NEW BOARD MEMBERS/NATIONAL DIRECTORS

On March 6, 2008 the Polish American Congress held its general meeting/election at St. Stanislaus Marian Hall.  It was during the meeting that the ballots were counted.

Richard B. Solecki, President of the Polish American Congress announces results of the election.

Newly formed PAC Board of Directors/National Directors –

Board Members

Richard B. Solecki - President

Michael Zachowicz - Vice President

Andrew Kucharski - Treasurer

Adeline Wujcikowski - Secretary

Most Rev. Edward M. Grosz, D.D. - Chaplain

Mira Szramel - Board Member

Bernadine (Dina) Szymanski - Board Member

Judge Michael F. Pietruszka - Board Member

Edward Reska - Board Member

Rick Mazella - Board Member

Joseph Macielag - National Directors

Richard B. Solecki - National Directors

Congratulations to all!

March 9, 2008

Dear Members and Friends:

We extend a cordial invitation to you, your family and friends to attend the Polish American Congress, WNY Division Swieconka, Installation and Awards Dinner, Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM. This traditional celebration will take place at St Stanislaus Marian Hall.

We ask you, your family and friends to join us in celebrating this Polish Christian tradition brought forth by our forefathers from Poland. As we share Blessed Food may we also pray and ask God to bring love, peace and unity to the world.

In the past we have honored several individuals for their contributions, devotion to the organization and the upkeep of our culture and traditions. These deserving individuals will be honored at the April 5th dinner.

Tickets for the dinner at $25.00 per person. Table reservations for eight (8). A full course dinner will be served at 6:00 pm SHARP. Kindly make your reservation by or before May 26, 2008, by emailing us at "Contract Us" botton on the top of this page or you may call Adeline Wujcikowski, 827-1722 or Renee Harzewski 835-94

Respectfully,4. We hope you will join us for the "Swieconka, Installation and Awards Dinner.

Richard Solecki    Adeline Wujcikowski

President             Secretary