The Buffalo News - Business Today
On the Record / December 15, 2009
In the Buffalo News, the “On the Record”/December 15th, 2009, column reports that the Allstate Minority and Women
Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the UB School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial
Leadership and the UB Center for Urban Studies, has named its “Protégé of the Year” as well as honoring a host of others.
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The Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the UB Center for Urban Studies, named Marie Battaglia Protege of the Year. She received a $1,500 prize for the honor. Battaglia is president of Battaglia and Associates, a firm that prepares grants for government agencies, foundations and corporations. Other honorees: Jane Baker, owner of Baker’s Polish Pottery at the Blacksmith Shop, Collins Center, was awarded the second-place prize of $1,000, and Corrin Matthews, owner of WNY Hypnosis, Buffalo, was awarded the third-place prize, receiving $500. Twenty participants completed the program after entering as proteges. Participants were: Michelle Bennett Stieglitz, Urban Community Health Organization, Buffalo; Eva- Marie Edukonis, Blue Eye Creative, Buffalo; Christine Elliott, Christine’s Educational Development Child Care, Buffalo; Sara Emhof, Indaba Leaders, Buffalo; Kathleen Flynn, Grateful Aspirations, Lockport; Marti Gorman, Buffalo Heritage Unlimited, Buffalo; Kenyana Hollis, HollisCo. Group, Cheektowaga; Penelope Lanich, Pawprints by Penny, Buffalo; and Dewitt Lee III, Submission Concepts, Buffalo; Benay Legree-Robinson, Adrienne’s Ultimate Catering Company, Buffalo; Christine Nowak-Wittmann, Inspired Design Fine Jewelry, Grand Island; Mary Rapp, Ad Stuff Promotional Products, Amherst; Raymon Reed, Walking on Water Ministries, Farmersville Station; Kim Sauer, Sit ’n’Stay Pet Services, Hamburg; Diane Serra, Caramici’s, Buffalo; Laythanette Shine, Sunshine Solutions DTS, Getzville; and Mary Thomas- Scott, M. Thomas Scott&Associates,
Grand Island.
The Buffalo News - Sports
December 16, 2009
Lancaster girl hopes for great skate at nationals (excerpt)
By Amy Moritz
News Sports Reporter
In the Buffalo News, Sports Section/December 16th, 2009, from an article on Jordan Bauth, Suzanne Bauth's daughter.
Suzanne Bauth is an account executive at Ad Stuff Promotional Products.
In a way, it's been like waiting for an early Christmas morning. It was back in October when 12-year-old Jordan Bauth won the North Atlantic Regional Figure Skating title. Since then, Bauth has eagerly been anticipating the Junior National Figure Skating Championships, which begin Wednesday in Strongville, Ohio.
"It's certainly exciting but it feels like forever since regionals," said Bauth, a student at Lancaster
Middle School. "I'm just really excited and can't wait to go."
The goal is simple for Bauth, who competes in the intermediate division: She wants to skate the
best she can.
That's how she approached the regional competition, and that turned out stunningly well for her.
"I was just really shocked at how well I skated," she said. "Then I found out I was first and I just couldn't believe it. Then in finals my goal was really just to skate as best as I could and I did and then I was really surprised at how I ended up. There wasn't really any pressure, I just wanted to skate the best that I could."
For Bauth, skating is part of the family business. She learned from her mother, Suzanne, who started skating herself at age 12 and traveled with professional ice shows from 1982 to '85. Back home and raising a family, Suzanne started to teach skating and Jordan would tag along to the rink. By age 4, Jordan wanted to try the sport herself.
"She would come when I was working at the rink and she would sit in the penalty box, bundled in her snowsuit," Suzanne said. "She would color and watch the other kids skate and she kept wanting to do it. My husband said to just let her try it. She'll probably fall once and not want to do it again. She started and
kept falling but she loved it. She never wanted to get off the ice."
The rink is still one of Bauth's favorite places. Ask her to name the coldest rink in which she's skated and she can't answer the question. The rink is the rink. It's the place she would most like to be.
