“It’s a very humbling thing to be honored in the city of your birth,” said fire and police chaplain Patrick Bradley.
He’s also the communications director for Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center as well as a former journalist and Niagara County reporter with the Niagara Gazette.
“I’ve had a very blessed life,” said Bradley, who joined the Niagara Falls City Council on Tuesday to accept a proclamation honoring his service to the city.
“Every once in a while I get to provide support to these men and women, and they are the ones who should be receiving your applause this day,” Bradley said of the first responders he [...]
For a year and a half, The Islamic Cultural Center of Niagara Falls has been operating in the former Suzanne’s Fine Dining in Wheatfield.
Inside, not much has changed physically. The main room is now empty and the carpets were replaced but all the lighting fixtures remain.
Dr. Mohammad Agwa, president and Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Niagara Falls, received his Ph.D in comparative religions from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, the oldest university in the world.
Now that Ramadan is finished, and with it the series of dinners, prayers and gatherings led by Dr. [...]
