NPR says it all

As you may or may not know but will - I have a huge heart for my refugee friends. When I heard that NPR was doing a radio episode I was quite excited. Take a chance to listen to the broadcast and learn more about the city I have called home for 58 years and where my family has lived since 1820 themselves coming as immigrants from Wales (1800) and Germany (1850)

CULTURE COMPLICATES REFUGEE CARE

TRAFFIC SAFETY CLASS FOR REFUGEES

TABERNACLE BAPTIST WELCOMES BURMESE AND KAREN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA ARTZ - who visited Utica and while here photographed many of the families who came here as refugees.

Amina Osman, A Somali woman resettled in USA, in a supermarket in Utica, New York


State of the Re:Union
Utica, NY – City with a Warm Heart
A couple of decades ago, Utica, New York, was dying, by even its residents diagnosis: a popular bumper sticker in the ‘90s read “Last One Out of Utica, Please Turn Out the Lights.” Once a bustling textile city perched on the edge of the Erie Canal, Utica lost its mills in the mid-20th century, and has been losing population ever since. But something has changed in recent years, with a surprising influx of refugees to this part of snowy, cold upstate New York—the newcomers have given Utica hope for a second chance.