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Community address to air on local TV

President John B. Simpson’s annual address to the community will air on local television stations, beginning Sunday.

A 30-minute, edited program will air at noon on Sunday on Time Warner Channel 22 and at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday on ThinkBright TV, Time Warner Channel 21, digital broadcast channel 43.3.

It will be rebroadcast weekly at noon on Sundays on Time Warner Channel 22, beginning Oct. 12.

During the address, originally delivered on Sept. 24 in historic Asbury Hall in Buffalo, Simpson presented a progress report on UB 2020 and identified the next steps to ensure that UB 2020 becomes a reality.

RIA to hold seminar

“It Takes a Village to Resolve an Addiction…and Certain Kinds of Villagers” will be the topic of the Oct. 3 lecture in the Research Institute on Addictions’ (RIA) fall seminar series.

The lecture, to begin at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the RIA building at 1021 Main St. on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, will be given by Barbara S. McCrady, professor of psychology and director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.

McCrady’s research has focused on treatment, social environment and specific problems of women related to substance abuse disorders.

For more information about the seminar, contact RIA at 887-2566.

EAP sponsors caregiver sessions

The Employee Assistance Program is sponsoring two seminars for faculty and staff who are serving as caregivers to an older adult or other family member.

“Powerful Tools for Caregivers” is designed to give caregivers the tools they need to take care of themselves physically, emotionally and financially.

Co-sponsored by the School of Public Health and Health Professions and the Erie County Department of Senior Services, the program is presented at various locations in the greater Buffalo area in six weekly sessions.

A program to be held in 142 Crofts Hall, North Campus, will begin on Monday.

For additional information, visit Health Information & Outreach. To register, call 858-2177 or email caregiver@erie.gov.

The program is funded by a grant from the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York.

The cost is $25, which includes a copy of “The Caregiver Helpbook.” The cost is covered for all Independent Health and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Western New York health insurance members.

EAP also is offering sessions designed to help caregivers deal with the legal documents that must be in place to assure that assets, health care requests, etc., are in order.

Among the topics to be addressed are the importance of having an updated will, the health care proxy and guardianship.

Sessions, which will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be held on the South Campus on Tuesday and on the North Campus on Oct. 24.

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Hard to speak at UUP meeting

Deborah Hard, administrator of UB’s Employee Assistance Program, will be the speaker at the Fall Membership Dinner Meeting of the Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions, the union representing UB faculty and professional staff members.

The meeting will be held Oct. 15 at Banchetti Banquet Facility and Grove, 550 North French Road, Amherst. A cash bar will be open from 5-6 p.m.; dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting.

The cost of dinner is free to UUP members.

Anyone interested in attending should reserve a spot by contacting Chris Black at 645-2013 or cmblack@buffalo.edu by Oct. 6.

‘On the Town’ to be performed

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the musical comedy “On the Town” Oct. 22-26 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.

Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

With music by Leonard Bernstein—composer of “West Side Story”— and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolf Green, who also wrote “Singin' in the Rain,” “On the Town” tells the story of three sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City.

Nathan R. Matthews, director of music theatre, will direct the production; Nancy Townsend, a clinical assistant professor of music theatre, will music-direct; and Tracy Navarro will choreograph the cast of UB students.

Tickets are $17.50 for the general public and $9.50 for students and seniors, and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including ticketmaster.com.