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Shelter renamed Anita s Stevens-Swan Humane Society in honor of major donor
The Stevens-Swan Humane Society has been renamed in honor of a Utica animal advocate whose donations helped keep the shelter afloat.
Posted: Jun 22, 2021 6:21 PM
Updated: Jun 22, 2021 6:25 PM
Posted By: WKTV
UTICA, N.Y. – The Stevens-Swan Humane Society has been renamed in honor of a Utica animal advocate whose donations helped keep the shelter afloat.
When the shelter was suffering financially, Anita Vitullo donated $2 million to start a fund for SSHA through The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties. After the generous gift, the SSHA board of directors approved a resolution to rename the organization Anita’s Stevens-Swan Humane Society.
Black artists will take center stage at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute art museum this summer, with a pair of exhibitions launching Saturday, June 19.
The exhibitions don’t just explore works by Black artists, but the historical marginalization they face from the established world of art galleries, museums and private collectors.
Emma Amos: Color Odyssey is a major retrospective on the eponymous artist, whose career spanned nearly six decades. Amos combined her interest in painting, printmaking, weaving and collage in mixed media works exploring what it meant to be a woman and artist of color during civil rights and feminist movements.
Call & Response: Collecting African American Art will explore the museum’s effort to diversify its collection over the past 30 years. Works from the permanent collection by artists like Jean-Michael Basquiat and Carrie Mae Weems will be displayed and interpreted by eight community commentators via a multimedia app.
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It s being called the Mohawk Valley COVID Community Navigator Program, including The Center (formerly the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees), Mohawk Valley Frontiers, Mohawk Valley Latino Association, Hope Chapel AME Zion Church, the Rome NAACP and the Utica/Oneida County NAACP.
The outreach effort is being funded by the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties through the Ron and Shelia Cuccaro Family Fund.
“We feel strongly that those who have suffered the effects of COVID-19 disproportionately deserve our community’s very best efforts to ensure that they get information and access to the vaccination,” said Ron Cuccaro in a statement from the Community Foundation announcing the effort. “Sheila and I are thrilled that The Center and all of the community partners are engaged in this important work, and it’s great to see the impact we can have when we all work together.”
A pilot partnership between the Utica Police Department and the Neighborhood Center s Mobile Crisis Assessment Team to respond to mental health calls has officially launched.
Officials made the announcement Thursday morning at Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Park on South Street in Utica. Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri noted the park has been the site of several past mental health calls. It s always been more reactive than proactive, he said of law enforcement s response to such calls.
The year-long pilot program, which officially began April 26, tasks a Utica police officer and an MCAT social worker with responding to mental health calls.