Panel discussion at Hoag will focus on immigration’s impact locally
Provided photo: Bob Golden and Annette Finch hold artwork representing the migrant family.
ALBION – Albion’s Community Coalition for Justice, led by Robert Golden and assisted by Karen Watt, is planning a discussion at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Hoag Library to explore the topic “Does Immigration Help Orleans County?”
Golden has put together a panel of local people from the farming community, law enforcement, religious and service agencies, who will give presentations. There will be an opportunity for questions and comments.
The Community Coalition for Justice includes the Hoag Library, Albion Betterment Committee, Pullman Universalist Church’s People Embracing Diversity and the Social Justice Committee.
Golden recently served on the Buffalo Diocese Peace and Justice Committee and as chair of its Immigrant/Refugee Committee. He is retired as probation director in Orleans County.
Watt, an Albion fruit grower, has served for many years on the board of directors for Oak Orchard Health, was a district director for the New York Farm Bureau, and is currently on the board for the National Center for Farmworker Health, where she was a past board chair.
