The first week in June marks National CPR Awareness Week and the American Heart Association’s Buffalo Niagara Heart Ball is continuing the theme at the 32nd annual black-tie event held Friday, June 14th at the Hyatt. The evening will celebrate a local bystander who successfully saved a life by acting fast and performing CPR. Sponsors also have the opportunity to provide CPR Anytime kits for everyone at their table to take with them. The kits facilitate familiarization with the skills of CPR and come complete with a DVD and manikin.

Buffalo is also one of five cities across the country recently chosen to receive 1,000 Hands-Only CPR training kits funded by the American Heart Association. “The more people who are trained in CPR, the more lifesavers we will have in communities who can act as first responders when citizens go into cardiac arrest,” said Dr. Glenna Bett, American Heart Association Advisory Board President for the Buffalo Niagara Division.

Amherst, NY - Questions are being raised in the wake of an  accident on Wednesday evening in Amherst about follow through on proposed building barrier laws to prevent more car into building accidents.

In the case of Wednesday's accident,  there were minor injuries as a car driven by an elderly couple struck the new hotel - retail building project under construction by Ellicott Development at the intersection of Main and Forest.

Following some fatal and otherwise serious car into building crashes in 2011 and 2012, Amherst council pushed for new construction plans to have re-inforced barriers called bollards to be installed between buildings and the parking lot or street if they are close by. 

AMHERST, NY- Rain or shine, thousands of Western New Yorkers will be walking with a purpose Saturday as they take part in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. It's an opportunity to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research, celebrate survivors, and pay tribute to those who have lost their battle.

Deanne Tripi of Amherst has been part of the Race for the Cure since its inception.

"I would run just a single person without a team and every year I was so inspired to see all the women wearing pink t-shirts which symbolized survivors," said Tripi.

She never imagined the cause would hit so close to home. Deanne's sister, Claudia Tripi Sanger, was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer at the age of 42.

Claudia was a wife and mother of three children, one with special needs. As her disease progressed, Deanne formed a Race for the Cure team called Claudia's Crew to keep her sister's spirits up.