The University of Rochester Medical Center will provide free prostate cancer screenings for uninsured men on Wednesday, September 23. Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men after skin cancer and causes more than 27,500 deaths annually.
The screenings will be held at Brown Square Health Center, 322 Lake Avenue, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. But the screenings are by appointment only. Call 275-2838.
Asbury First United Methodist Church will host “Why Don’t We Vote?” a panel discussion at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 21. Timothy Kneeland, professor of history at Nazareth College, will moderate panelists Andrea Cain, interim CEO at the Community Place of Greater Rochester, and George Moses, director of Northeast Area Development.
They will discuss the barriers to voting — past and present — and how to overcome them. The event will be held at Asbury First United, 1050 East Avenue. BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
Regional Transit Service will hold an information session on vanpooling from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Monday, September 21, to discuss the findings and recommendations from the Rochester Area Vanpool Feasibility Study.
This session will provide the opportunity for those interested to speak with members of the vanpool study consulting team and RTS, to learn more about the recommendations, and to provide feedback.
The study explored the feasibility of a regional vanpool program that links commuters who live near one another and travel to similar destinations in the Rochester area.
The session will be held at the Central Library’s Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Avenue. BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2015.
Also: Thursday, September 24, 2015-‐ March for Climate Justice at Liberty Pole in Rochester, NY @ 4:30 p.m.
Press Release: Rochester’s Community of Faith will rally for the National “Week of Moral Action for Climate Justice” For more info: http://rochesterenvironment.com/PDF%20file…
Climate Justice?! Do you realize that we have bigger fish to fry, that we have an education crisis locally, poverty, drugs, crime and that internationally there are humans being burned alive, drowned for their belief, limbs cut off for non-compliance, culture destroyed, refugees by the hundreds of thousands,….I could go on but I get this eerie feeling that this has less of a priority than “climate justice”. You have to be “different” to march for climate justice while the world is in upheaval.
The biggest personal carbon foot print belongs to the biggest proponent of this climate issue. (any guesses?) Do you realize that while I am not about to march for this cause, that I do more to conserve what we have been blessed with than most who are wrapped up in this climate change? Live what you believe. A Dutch translation says, “just be normal, that’s crazy enough”.